Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hill to the village. Of the students rooming in town above a hundred and ten live in society houses. These houses are owned by the Amherst chapters of the various Greek letter fraternities. Seven in number, they differ greatly in age, architecture, size, situation, convenience and elegance. Besides the secret lodge-room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen students. They are really college homes; and, forming as they do, the recognized centres of society life, they are of the utmost importance as giving to the social life of the college its distinctive...
...twenty or thirty years ago, class spirtit such as exists to-day in many colleges, is a thing of the past at Amherst. And this change is due to the growth of Greek-letter societies, which have come to occupy first place in the loyalty of the students. Amherst secret societies are not to be confounded with class societies, for they are different in every respect. At Amherst a man joins a society in his freshman year, and continues his connection with it during the four years. Many attempts have been made to establish class societies; but their term...
...college societies in Trinity differ greatly from those of Harvard. There are four fraternities represented by chapters- the Psi Upsilon, the Alpha Delta Phi, the Delta Psi, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon. There is also a local society called the I. K. A. All these are secret, and three have club houses near the college. That of the Delta Psi is very beautiful, being built of granite and having a graceful stone tower...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes east on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...every Yale man knows this is the whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...