Greek letter men of Philadelphia . Theodore DimonCarl Pivany Nachod. DELTA KAPPA EPSILON As with a man or a nation, so with a fraternity. In the short space allotedto this sketch, it is not the whole story of Delta Kappa Epsilon, not eventhe title of all the chapters in its chronicles that will be mentioned. A littleover half a century ago our fraternity was founded. It had its beginning atYale in 1844, and during the interval of fifty-four years it has grown to anorganization that picks the best men from thirty-five of the leading collegesand universities of the United States. The oldest of t
Greek letter men of Philadelphia . Theodore DimonCarl Pivany Nachod. DELTA KAPPA EPSILON As with a man or a nation, so with a fraternity. In the short space allotedto this sketch, it is not the whole story of Delta Kappa Epsilon, not eventhe title of all the chapters in its chronicles that will be mentioned. A littleover half a century ago our fraternity was founded. It had its beginning atYale in 1844, and during the interval of fifty-four years it has grown to anorganization that picks the best men from thirty-five of the leading collegesand universities of the United States. The oldest of them cannot yet be an oldman, and yet the list is crowded with names the country knows and this time the conditions of student association have so changed thatthe glory of those early days, of which the witnesses yet survive, seems likeprehistoric fable. In the imagination of each succeeding class the sun will bsalways shining on that log cabin in the Ohio forest, and the ivy will be everthick and green about the temple at Yale, to which Mecca so many
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