Author: Newman Miller

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780331534580

Excerpt from The Sigma Chi Quarterly, 1897-1898, Vol. 17: A Journal of College and Fraternity Life and Literature, Devoted to the Interests of the Sigma Chi Fraternity Welcome peeped through the door cracks and key holes and was every where ia the air, either painted on banners, yelled or simply exuded from heart-pores and detected as one breathed it in with the lungs of his soul. After dinner some of the men went out to see the wonder fully fine illuminations at the Centennial grounds, and others began to scale the vine-clad hills of Cherry Street seeking glacial formations and the Eidelweissnit where it blooms in its icy beds of mint. Those of us who had traveled long spent the first night in evening up with Messrs. Pullman and Morpheus, and in gathering strength for the coming days. Wednesday morning the Twenty-third Grand Chapter of Sigma Chi met in earnest for business with pleasure carrying only a twelve-hour handicap and likely to pass business at any time. Of the deliberations of the Convention, which were really deliberative, I am not to tell. There was a great deal of social by-product to the Convention proper detached groups of non-delegates lounged on big sofas and talked old times at school, and it was all very pleasant and warming to heart cockles. There was some electioneering, a few inter-roasts on speech making efforts, some whispered plannings for night-fall, some sneakings off to the Hermitage Club, and over and through it all the constant pat ter - as of side-arms in action - of Judge Ferris' gentle gibes and call ings-down for everybody in sight of that terribly serious mask he wears in front of his wonderfully unserious soul. But it was a business Con vention, mind you, the best we ever held. More delegates and specta tors gave more attention to every detail as it arose than was ever given before and you may read in the Bulletin of all that it so thoroughly accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.