Christian Cynosure . he Hobart Col-lege chapter-house. They tasked their youngassociate to do a thing which should havebeen very simple and void of danger but forthe existence of the canal, which was un-known* to all concerned. 1 have never been a member of any collegefraternity, and therefore I speak impartially 242 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. December, 1899. when I say that such societies are very val-uable to a college, and perform untold servicefor the faculty in keeping the young fellowsup to their work. Of course there must be some ceremonyincident to initiation, but this is commonlyharmless and
Christian Cynosure . he Hobart Col-lege chapter-house. They tasked their youngassociate to do a thing which should havebeen very simple and void of danger but forthe existence of the canal, which was un-known* to all concerned. 1 have never been a member of any collegefraternity, and therefore I speak impartially 242 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. December, 1899. when I say that such societies are very val-uable to a college, and perform untold servicefor the faculty in keeping the young fellowsup to their work. Of course there must be some ceremonyincident to initiation, but this is commonlyharmless and cannot be confounded withhazing. This distressing accident is to be deeplydeplored, but I cannot see why the frater-nity should be held in any way responsiblefor it, and I hope college societies will notsuffer in consequence of it.—The World,New York, Oct. 31, 1899. To Protect the Lodge. Charles H. Blood, District Attorney forTompkins County and a member of the Cor-nell Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Society, J&Cr. —From The came here to-day from Ithaca to be presentshould any criminal action be taken againstDickinson. Mr. Blood is much distressed bythe tragedy, not only because of the loss ofyoung Berkeley, but for the prejudicial in-fluence it may have upon the college of the college faculty and trustees aremembers of the Cornell Chapter of theKappa Alpha, and naturally they are anx-ious to protect it. Dickinsons Strtement. We left Ithaca at 1:48 p. m., and arrivedat Geneva at 3:28 oclock. From the GenevaLehigh Valley station we went down therailroad track to the first bridge and thenturned into the highway at the right. Wethen went easterly to a short distance fromthe outlet bridge. Berkeley left me about150 yards from the bridge. He went acrossthe fields to leave a note on the railroadTbridge. I wrote the note. It had no mean-ing. I waited for him in the road and didnot see him fall into the canal. I saw a man wave a handkerchief, and shout, but did not
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