Greek Letter Men of Central New York, South (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Maxwell, Will J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Greek Letter Men of Central New York, South Three Greek letters scrawled on a climax stone of the Pyramid of Cheops, in a breath, rolled away from the eyes of a beholder the intervening half of a world, and set him, once more a youth, at the feet of Alma Mater. Time and distance were forgotten as the name of his college fraternity, written there by some globe-girdler like himself, recalled the hopes and ambitions that were his when, for four bright years, those letters shone upon his breast. Was it strange that he should stoop and add to the script the name of his particular chapter? How lightly he descended from that Egyptian elevation, his whole body rejuvenated by the spirit of boyhood which, with the sight of the letters, was wafted into his soul. While Old World guides may proffer aid and point out scenes that were aged when Joseph was discovered by Pharoah´s daughter, his thoughts are away in New World fields and he sees his name as it first was borne in the college book. Though he may not have arisen as did a freshman, three times, the first night after the appearance of the catalogue, to see how his name looked in print, he was every whit as joyous. Starred, now, are some of the names that then were read with his, and the four quarters of the globe represent the habitations of those surviving. The fraternity man who has given any thought to the origin of the various orders with their mystic names takes no little pride in the reflection that the same hand which framed the Declaration of Independence may have aided in the founding of the first Greek-letter society, since it was at William and Mary College that Phi Beta Kappa first appeared, and his true American heart beats just a bit exultantly at the thought that the year was 1776. 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.
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