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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college secret society, the Delta Kappa, consisting only of women, has been organized at Albion (Mich.) College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/2/1883 | See Source »

...peruse the secret crib...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREI UND EIN. | 5/2/1883 | See Source »

...authorship of the very clever novel, "Guerndale," which appeared last fall, has become an open secret at last, and although no authoritative announcement has been made concerning it, there is no longer any doubt that its author, who masqueraded under the nom de plume of "J. S. of Dale," is Mr. Frederick J. Stimson, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1876 and now a practising lawyer in this city. "Sly Ballades in Harvard China," also published anonymously last year, turns out to be by Mr. E. S. Martin, the editor of Life, to which position the cleverness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/1/1883 | See Source »

...fight between the secret society men and the conservative faction of the Land League Convention at Philadelphia is very bitter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1883 | See Source »

...Secret societies are an anomalous feature in American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites of old kept in view to remind them of death and the grave. On being informed that these ornaments, with their strange devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE CUSTOMS. | 4/26/1883 | See Source »

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