. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. his year that members of the Fraternity rented andoccupied a cottage, the property of the famous Latin professor,Gildersleeve, which thereby became the first fraternity house ofKappa Sigma, and apparently the first fraternity house in theSouth. George Leiper Thomas and Edmund Law Rogers livedin it. With them was Robert S. McCormick (the present Am-bassador to France, and a brother of William Grigsby McCor-mick) , who had been very intimate with the founders of the yearbefor
. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. his year that members of the Fraternity rented andoccupied a cottage, the property of the famous Latin professor,Gildersleeve, which thereby became the first fraternity house ofKappa Sigma, and apparently the first fraternity house in theSouth. George Leiper Thomas and Edmund Law Rogers livedin it. With them was Robert S. McCormick (the present Am-bassador to France, and a brother of William Grigsby McCor-mick) , who had been very intimate with the founders of the yearbefore but who himself became a member of Sigma Chi. Heretook place one act of the thrilling series of events known since inthe Fraternity as The Defense of Miles Arnold, which servedto test the oaths of the new brotherhood and the feeling of mu-tual confidence among the students of the University. To say that political and social conditions in the South were atthis time unsettled is to use as mild language as if one were tocall Paradise enjoyable or the lower regions temperately warm. 9i > > -Q CO I 5f >i§ t 3. 24 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK The negro was on the front seat of the band-wagon, as abrother has put it; and the white citizen who confronted a coloredman in any court had every presumption against him. The hot-blooded Southerners of the University went armed, and frequent-ly indulged in nocturnal pistol-practice, by way of warning to allwhom it might concern that they were prepared to take mattersinto their own hands whenever necessary. Miles Arnold waswhat those nourished on icicles are accustomed to call a fire-eater; though of no overbearing disposition he had the temperwhich went with his nicknames of the Count and the littleSpaniard, and he was never unarmed. On a bitter day in Feb-ruary, 1871, he had been several miles from Charlottesville,across the Rivanna river, to call on a young lady. When he wasabout to leave her home, she, after the hospitable fashion of th
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