Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alpha Phi Society, a ladies' secret fraternity organization in Syracuse University, has recently formed the Eta chapter in Boston University. We read that during the past week three graduate members from Syracuse, one from Schenectady, one from the faculty of Wellesley College, and one from Boston "met nine enterprising and enthusiastic ladies of Boston University, and initiated them into the enchanting mysticism of the order." The Alpha Phi Society was organized...
...about eight o'clock, the students began to come in and to take their seats. At the ends of the tables occupied by the various "Corps" sat their officers. (The "Corps," we may remark, correspond in a way to the Societies, secret or open, in American colleges, but are in every respect very different organizations.) These officers were conspicuous, in full evening dress, with sashes of various colored ribbon, white gauntlets, swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers...
...meeting of the Union Thursday evening to discuss the interference of the Harvard faculty in athletics was one of the most interesting of the year. The question for debate read, Resolved, "That the interference of the Harvrd faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper...
...Senior Societies at Yale" is the subject of a vigorous protest to the Nation from a member of the class of '84 of that institution. The writer claims that the Yale papers are all under the control of the secret societies...
...numerous pins which decorate the waistcoats of our Yale friends. And now the cry of reform is raised by an undergraduate of that college. While we do not doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms...