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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: His family was French Acadian, long isolated in the Mississippi Delta region. After public school, he was graduated by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Followed two years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted...
...college fraternity life was quietly taking form in three genteel Eastern institutions. Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter society (1776), had already become nonsecret and purely honorary, with half a dozen chapters. Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. produced the next three: Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, between 1825 and 1827. A Kappa Alpha branch was formed at Williams College, a Sigma Phi branch at Hamilton College. The earnest youths who founded these orders adopted Phi Beta Kappa's early mottoes, secret rituals, badges, grips...
Fifth U. S. fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi, founded at Hamilton in 1832, carried westward a year later to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. Organizer of A. D. was a pious Hamilton student named Samuel Eells, preacher's son, who died at 32 after having been for three years a law-partner of Salmon Portland Chase, later a Lincolnian Supreme Court Justice. At Hamilton there is now a Samuel Eells Memorial Hall and at nearby Westmoreland, his birthplace, a memorial boulder. To these places last week went some 500 of the 10,997 living Alpha Delts, to celebrate...
...Alpha Delta Phi's colors are emerald green and white, its gems the emerald and the pearl, its flower the lily of the valley. Proud is A. D. to count among many another dead and living famed member the following: Theodore Roosevelt.Charles Francis Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Owen Wister. Stephen Vincent Benet...
...shrewd landowner who left an estate of $1,000,000; that a poem "On Christmas Day" which he was supposed to have composed was copied from an old book. A George Washington story known to few persons remained to be made current by Editor Charles Edward Thomas of The Delta, publication of Sigma Nu fraternity. This, made public last week, was how George Washington was baptized...