1872] Delta Up si Ion 



" Ai/ccua vTTo0T]K7) " "right foundation" was held 

 to have no importance beyond the expression of an 

 ideal, although the Greek initials of other fraternities 

 supposedly covered some secret. As a group, Delta 

 Upsilon was opposed to secrecy as well as to carousing, 

 and condemned the nocturnal tricks which were so 

 prominent a feature of college life in those days of 

 prescribed courses, when studies and professors were 

 regarded as enemies by the "reluctant student." 



My relations with the local chapter were extremely 

 helpful. With scarcely an exception the members 

 were youths of fine personality and wholesome 

 influence. We stood at that time as the center of 

 the "independent" or "non-fraternity" group; rep- 

 resenting this element, I was elected class president 

 at the end of my junior year. In many institutions 

 Delta Upsilon had been rather the rallying point for 

 students intending to be clergymen or professors. 

 At Cornell it took a scientific turn, and we three 

 botanists joined it, as I have said, because of our 

 liking for others of our kind. 1 



Comstock, "John Henry" we called him, who had a The 

 good deal of skill in the ringing of bells, first paid his way as Comstocks 

 Master of the Chimes and later as assistant to Dr. Wilder in 

 Zoology. In his tireless enthusiasm for Entomology, he gave 

 special lessons to a group of three or four, Copeland and my- 

 self among the number. Afterwards thirteen of us sent a 

 petition to the faculty asking that those private lessons be 

 recognized as university work. Our request being granted, 

 Comstock was made instructor in Entomology, from which 

 position he rose in time to be professor. He became, more- 

 over, the recognized leader in his branch, and under him al- 



1 In this work the author has considered it desirable to set in small 

 type several sections mainly of technical or personal interest. These are 

 distinguished from extracts or quotations in the same type by a short line 

 at the beginning and the end. 



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