The G.D.Fiji Galesburg, Illinois We're started but we need your help. Put your shoulder with ours and push too, and when you come back for the Knox Diamond Jubilee in 1912, you can stay at our house and all. your house. say the least. Gamma Delta, at 446 N. Cedar Street, when time and money permit. ) One Thing More You're right brother, you can't make a man study any more than you can make the pro There has been enough said about our ac verbial steed drink after you have induced him Associate Editors thing more. When one of the old brothers asked a professor what kind of fellows we ^at he does a little better than is his wont. Number i EDITORIAL The main reason for our issuing this paper again is to let our alumni know that we haven't cashed in our checks yet, but are still on the job. When you first left Old Knox and Gam ma Deuteron as an alumnus, you were inter ested in the boys you left behind you. have scattered to the four winds You and have were he replied, "They're gentlemen." Isn't that enough? We want scholarship and we get it. We play athletics and we get there. We "fuss" around a little at times and enjoy it. But as a gentleman. That is our aim. It is high but we try to live up to the reputation we have, and we think we are doing it. Since you have for the welfare of your fraternity brothers. But we think you still have a place in your heart for the Fiji boys, and it is our purpose to fan that little spark of fraternal love into a blaze that will never fade until you have passed beyond the portal. .CSO At 4:30 on December 11, 1909, was held the ^nual meeting of the corporation of Gamma Deuteron of Phi Gamma Delta, to transact proposition. year, the election of officers and trustees fol lowed. The new officers are: busy. Take a spare moment or two and drop Officers. •secretary and Treasurer—F. M. Robertson. t'l tL ^"Sersoll, Maynard Swanson. ft. ftake 1 the place of the o" three the advisory retiring board memncrprez-ill T* _i__ . t j i_ _ a aVio The New House henuJl?"®?"wasa member also voted the eau of the chapter be of thethat board. Did you ever sit down and dream of things that you hoped to realize some day? Did you r.no "tember while *• .®^chthe year corporation the chapter chooses chooses three new members. could aljsolutcly call our own, but we're done with dreaming. School Standing We're beginning to do things to make our dreams come true. We're out after something tangible like mortar and bricks and wood work, instead of the hazy who., a position to know exactly ° 1 ideals of the fraternity were in smoke dreams that are here one moment and tiinif gone the next. We're alive to the proposition as we never were before and we're going to have that w house in short order. wpr be far below what it was when you were ? in school. We have a scholarship committee this year cornposed of the Every one of us has his shoulder to the wheel and we're all pushing. Callihan to the rest of our brothers. The Bunch '10. R. Maynard Swanson, "Donk", 487 E. Losey street, Galesburg. T. Harvey McClure, "Prep", Pleasantville J. Ralston Hayden, "Skinney", Keokuk, la. D. Leland Swanson, "Swan", 157 N. Cham- bers street, Galesburg. Earle Read Bridge, "Fats", 1590 W. Main Street, Galesburg. street, Quincy, 111. Tressler W. Callihan, "Cally", Fountain Green, Illinois. '11. W. Leslie Latimer, "Less", 694 N. Bateman street, Galesburg. Silas Willard, "Si", 4824 Davenport street, Omaha. Reuben J. Erickson, "Rube", 587 N. Broad street, Galesburg. Harold Ingersoll, "Ingy", 675 N. Academy Street, Galesburg. We've dreamed about a new house, one that wc him as Brother Zens L. Smith, "Pratt", 1407 Hampshire Trustees. Charles F. Junod, Dr. A. M. Harvey, Judge fnn o D- Stevenson, F. M. Robert- ber^ are« R. K. D. D. Stevenson, N. W. W. Willard Stevenson, N. Willard and and ever dream about some great project that you wished would materialize? Did you? We have the best seniors Old Knox ever turned loose upon an expectant country. He is Tressler W. Station, N. Y. President—Charles F. Junod. Vice-Presidents—Dr. A. M. Harvey, Judge Philip S. Post, R. D. Stevenson. the other brothers are that you know of. We're know all about you. The New Senior Our membership roll has been embellished '•b'® year by adding to it the name of one of Bro. Charles F. Junod acted as At ^ a discussion ^ hoiise fund readfor andtheapproved. After of thewas plans ensuing interested in you and we want to awake your We know you've got it, but it's been cooped up for so long that you've almost forgotten it is there. Get busy and let us ternity had on the said roll. the necessary business relative to the house It is a law that you can't make a man take an interest in what's going on unless he has some work to do. We can't arouse your concern if you sit around and remain idle. You must get interest in us. "juiuia Delta was represented by six men, which was six times as many as any other fra Callihan, of Fountain Green, Illinois, and it is '-^^"'man and the report of the treasurer on doing, what luck the wheel of fortune has dis bursed to you. After you have told us all about yourself put in a few pages about how Here is a little fact that might interest you Last year on the honor roll Phi perhaps. with a just feeling of pride that we introduce The Corporation Meeting But we need your help and your cooperation. us a line. Tell us where you are, what you are up to the water trough. However, you can see through all our work and play we try to al ways keep the fact before us that the man is the man who on all occasions conducts himself been immersed in the cares of business you have doubtless lost some of the keen interest too. amount to tivities around "Old Knox," but there is one Volume 3 started on your life's work. doesn't much." Editor George H. Thompson. Ray S. Sauter This stands forth a remarkable record to "Yes," you say, "that .^SEi Published by the Gamma Deuteron Chapter of Phi W. Leslie Latimer ) tee is composed of Smith, Hayden and McClure. In his his three years of work Bro. Smith had 44 A's, 42 A-'s, making 86 credits in .U P' take this oppor- 'ts present ideal in this three seniors who stood highest in their college course. This commit Murray M. Baker, "Doc", Minooka, Illinois. Hugh H. McCuHoch, "Mac", 1022 N. 22nd street, S. Omaha, Neb. '12. Raymond P, Anderson, "Pat", 608 N. 41st street, Omaha, Neb. Harry H. Hayes, "Unch", Brimfield, Illinois. Ray Sauter, "Stick", 1100 N. Cedar street, Galesburg. George Henry Thompson, "Tommy", 125 N. Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111. \r\nHugh McCulloch, Varsity basket ball, man '13. Vernon Gates, "Vern", 1687 E. Main street, Galesburg. Kenneth Andrews, "Ken", 913 Bateman street, Galesburg. ager basket ball team, member of baseball squad, Gnothautii football. Leslie Latimer, honor student. "Pat" Anderson, Varsity baseball, captain Frank A, Adams, "Adam", Galva, Illinois. and quarter back Gnothautii team, glee club Duncan soloist. M. Rowles, "Dunk", 214 N. 6th street. La Crosse, Wisconsin. Howard P. Gates, "Sleepy", 208 N. 6th street. La Crosse, Wisconsin. H. H. Hayes, class basket ball. Varsity sec ond basket ball, track team, Adelphi football team. Frank L. White, "Eve", Galva, Illinois. Ray Sauter, leader college band, track team, glee club, Knox-Beloit debate, assistant in physics laboratory, Gnothautii team. Those Freshmen When the rushing days are over, almost every chapter of every fraternity in every col lege, slaps itself a resounding crack on the spinal column and congratulates itself upon securing such a fine bunch of freshmen. We did the same this year, but unlike many other fraternities, we do it regularly about once a week. We do it because we feel that we are in perpetrating such a performance. We didn't take in as many new men this 1A / A ^ _J_ La a ma year as some of our rivals did, but it wasn't The Informal Gambol Gamma Deuteron turned out in full force on the evening of December 10th, and held a terpsichorean festival at Central Hall. That we had a good time goes without saying, and we only wish that you could have been with us to help us celebrate. of the party is due to Much of the success Bro. Pat Anderson, who so ably took charge of the onerous man agerial duties. We were mighty glad to have three visiting because we couldn't get the numbers. It was brothers from Illinois Wesleyan and one from into close enough relationship. the following tripped the light fantastic at the Charles Junod brought back to life the high ideals and noble purposes of our earlier mem bers and thrilled us all with the story of the hardships and trials that beset our predeces sors, and the loyalty and fealty with which thev clung to the standards of Phi Gamma Delta through it all. Many a member, as he sat around that banquet table, felt a peculiar lump rise in his throat as he heard of the up hill fight of our precursors and how_ they won out to the glory and honor of their beloved fraternity The message "Charlie" brought us was worth going miles to hear, and every one has a clearer vision of his fraternal duty, and a deeper regard for ourlistened fraternity privileges and pleasures for having to him. ^ Besides our three brothers from Alpha Deuteron and the one from Lambda Nu that ^so attended our dance, Bro. John S Seely of Chi Iota, was with us and brought us a cheery word from our brothers m Champaign. The Oratorical Contest Tt isn't always the best policy to paint haloes around your own cranium or sing your own nraLes from the house tops, but rememthat it is through this sheet that we are en Nebraska with us. Besides our active chapter, abled to acquaint you with what we are do- and we say this with an expanded chest and ^1? nose.theThey have already provena that they have requisites from which dance: W. H. Kelly, S. H. Kinney and Chal Marquis of Alpha Deuteron; H. M. Prouty of Lambda Nu; H. P. Ladd, R. E. Chase, W. B. Hague, C. Balls Ewart, and R. C. Ingersoll of '"rhis being the case, incline thine ear oh, brother while we whisper to you that Knox true member Gamma Deuteron. because our ideals and the men couldn't get got the six best men As it was we in the freshman class, of Phi Gamma Delta can be moulded, and under the careful tutelage of the older men they are fast becoming Fijis in the strictest and truest sense of the word. team" back on Varsity member of Gnothautii football .Swanson, captain and center Varsity football team, glee club. Hayden, Senior Slass play com mittee, honor student, glee club soloist. Y. M. C.glee A., member of Gnothautii..President team, manager quarter back Varsity team, teani 'To school glee club, manager track representative of Illinois rp contest, honor student, member " team, editor Gale. yelflea^r'^rfrv'^.^®"'^'^'' Junior class, college ch h member oft Gnothautii captain Cross Country club, team. Ingersoll, right end Varsity team, football manager 1910. M'l- noise will be exploded on April into Cedar Fork and join us. FiJis in School Activities Maynard Swanson is manager of the Senior team ^ Gnothautii football ^cClure, quarter Our big 22nd and it's up to you to throw your cares Yes, we'll all wear dress suits, even our turbulent Si has promised to don a stiff shirt for three or four hours, and step off a few with us. What more could be said except that "Balls" will be here and we'll have a regular old time Fiji frolic? You comel tVii State Oratorical contest last Novem- w" "Good for Knox," you say, but that isn't 11 The man who succeeded m getting a halfison on the contest wears number 14 shoes, " sfx-feet-five tall, of Swedish ascent, pos- a remarkable ability to gas all day and to the name of Reuben J. Enckson, ''IflTthe superscription-Phi Gamma Delta. "^ He won the victory cleanly and surely, not hv any accident in regard to the judges de- %ion but he won it ike he has won every fher 'honor he has taken—by hard work and ° rerlastingly hammering away at what he iintU he gets it. We're proud that the The Ghost Walked The Illinois Hotel was the scene of our ond annual pig dinner on December 11th every one agrees that we had some time. see the freshmen, not two hours old in sec and To Phi Gamma Delta, osculate the portion of the pig farthest away from the trough, was in itself a sight worth the price of a meal ticket. And the feed—ambrosia and nectar were below par compared with that juicy sucking pig and its appurtenances. But the real banquet came after the dishes had been cleared away, and the air was blue and hazy with the smoke of many cigars, in which the future greatness of Gamma Deuteron was clearly seen. Bro. Robertson, ex-'05, our new section chief, fulfilled the po sition of toastmaster in most able form, and gave us many new ideas about fraternity life. After toasts by some of our active men and the visiting brothers, the ghost walked. toast throbbing with In a fraternity spirit, Bro. man who next spring reMe.sents Illinois in the " fTr Qtate contest, is a Phi Gam, and we may remark that this same brother graces the hon or roll each year. Famous Books Around the House The Call of the Wild—Hub-a-bub-a-bub-a. To Have and to Hold—Dune and his pipe. The Silver Horde—The manager's pocket '^A'^Certain Rich Man—Harry Hayes. Encyclopedia Brittanica—Murray Baker. Three VVeeks—Christmas Vacation. Job—Prep McClure. Lgyie—Zens Smith. Les Miserables—The laundry agent. The Silent Places—The Attic. The Crisis—Exam week. Paradise Lost—Capt. Swanson. Tale of Two Cities—See Frank Adams. Ten Nights in a Bar-room*—Fats Bridge. \r\nFred D. Savage, '06, and Everett F. Kitchen, Paid in Full—The T account. Peck's Bad Boy—H. Gates. The Servant in the House—Mary. The Port of Missing Men I—Whiting Hall. The Jungle—Biology Lab. The Port of Missing Men II—The Gaiety. ♦Galesburg is a dry town. .esa Alumni was a very creditable affair. the contigirous perspective. "Fats". Bridge, ex-'07, ex-'08, ex-'09, is com pleting a course in Kiio.x. Shy Gamble has accepted a position with the Herald-Transcript paper in Peoria. We would also add that Shy has done gone went and done it. Congrats, Shy! the way of a paddle, he can manage to cover 75 yards in 7 flat. We had a very pleasant visit from Walt An derson, '01, this fall during rushing season, and he did some good work with our pledges. Dr. F. H. Slayton, '08, of Wichita, Kansas, dropped in to see us for a short time on his way to the Sunflower State. Frank Robertson, ex-'OS, has been made sec tion chief for phule XI. Lee Savage, '06, has left his native haunts and is now working for the Packard Auto Co. in Detroit. C. B. Ewart, '09, is working with N. W. Har ris & Co., in Chicago. Robert Woolsey, '09, took advantage of the .eSD "Sleepy" Gates wears a number ten shoe and when he lets one of them drop there is gener ally something doing. Brother Pat Anderson is at his home in Omaha with a very bad attack of typhoid fever. At the last report he was a little better but very weak. We surely miss Pat and he has our best wishes for a rapid increase in his Yes, we had a rough house the other night, and it was the best ever, according to the old est inhabitant. Some lay the blame to "Stick" and others to "Tommy," but it was really just a spontaneous combustion of youthful ex uberance. It was in this fracas that "Doc" coined his immortal phrase, "Just keep right on, , just keep right on." We have spent some very pleasant evenings this fall, for "Stick" has bounteously supplied us on Saturday nights with cider and cheese, the one to counteract the effects of the other. Victor V. Lytle, '09, is organist of St. Mary s "Prep" McClure has turned minstrel and Ask "Adam" how to scramble like an egg. be back in school. General Sherman has likened war to hell, but \yar hasn't a look in when H. Gates plunks his little "number ten" on the floor and at tempts to sing "Lonesome," while Rowles, by of one finger, persuades the "Cubanola Glide to come out of the groan box. The mystery of who put the hydrogen hydroxide in Baker's bed has not yet been ^Ived. Anyone vyho feels that he has any Pinkerton instinct in his make-up, is requested to please report to Doctor Scratch. haven't a pet dog or a pet cat around the house, but Adams' violin makes up for both of them. tie knows. every once in a while gets off a quick one on church in Omaha. S. E. McHard, '09, is taking a business course in William and Vashti College, prepar atory to wrestling with Blackstone and t e State Bar Association. . R. C. Lyon, '09, is holding down a oosition in Joliet, Illinois. His address is 503 Elmwood Ralph Chase, '05, is farming near Knoxville, Illinois. the brothers. Convicts Answered, Balls!" It is reported among us that one of our sophomores is engaged. Although he denies the charge, still he colors a deep crimson when reminded of the fact that his pin is missing. For the last four weeks "Doc" Baker has ^ been defying all the Fijis to put him in the tub. We hope to be able to report next time that Europe during the winter. Robert McClure, '08, is thrmigh ried last summer in London, to Edith Dod , From the ability the freshmen have shown in base running in the back yard, we predict A A A at Knox. that they will all make the varsity nine next in Montana. It is reported that he has taken , . we have given him the water cure. Ray Junod, '06, has a responsible position with the J. W. Butler Paper Company of Chi year. "fudge Philip S. Post,. '87. was a and no dessert?" Prof. Henry W. Read, 75, took ftpper wflh piji spirit has lost none of its freshness. S. R. Van Sant, '70. was elected head of th G. A. R. at the mid-summer encampment Salt Lake City. , Arthur H. Bridge, ex-71, is attending schoo >• m years past was to put the house on a bus iness Imsis, but thanks to the man in posses sion of the house manager's toga this year, ^we know, as the senator from Missouri said, we know where we are at." An itemized account is kept and the financial relations of the fraternity to outside sources IS made known every two weeks. Many needed retorms m regatd to economy have been nitiated, and unless something unforeseen hapnot going to have a 17^^^ us in the face at the close of the tli.'c good ® the praise for this work is Bro.deserves T. H. McClure. Grand chorus at the dinner table Monday noon—"What! three dollars and a half a week circle. Germany this winter, having sold h,s iucrat.ve home the rest of this school year. But our "Stick" Sauter is becoming quite a ladies' man. He's had three dates since school began. The pastor of the East Main Street Congre gational church asked Baker to teach a Sun day School class. What could he have meant? On the night of December 4th we had pur freshmen give a vaudeville stunt. drawing no conclusions. We leave He was forced to leave school on ac count of sickness and will perhaps remain at the time when he will be back among us. , Athletics absence of Bro. Zens Smith from our mystic best wishes attend him and we hope for a very speedy recovery, and are looking forward to at Fargo College, Fargo, North Dakota. Wm G. Hague, ex-'lO, is cultivating the soi " n' "cZft fIZZ. vs. I, _ One of the hardest things we have had to do It is with genuine regret that we report the the committee of the Illinois Manufacture Association, that called on President Taft. the bunch three weeks ago. iolly fellow as he always was, and The House Manager Our far famed duet, Bridge and Anderson, are still on the job, and the corridors resound nightly with the mellows strains of "And the unto himself a wife. practice in Brimfield. When Hayes has a little impetus behind in strength and health, and we hope he will soon Interior Snap Shots Harvard scholarship he won last year and is now in the east taking post-graduate work at Harvard. , Arthur Gibson, ex-'OS, their own jokes and we must all allow that it '07, are traveling through the west getting ac quainted with the atmosphere and taking in They made up their as an initiation own songs and wm Int; • . ' anyway you see fit, but we 1^ Lr w^if^ ^ question. How about athtn nVi . wViPn -f were right there when it comes prowess the same as we're on deck to shining in the literary field. T thLm r! f '5 ^°otball three Phi Gams, among V nit^ their K's. This we than any other frater- Jn hcicV t'v. 1 ? ' ' W e are represented If a r •' one man on the five, and ®T^pohs are also under the wing •n 1be Fijis for at least backbone the track team will five ofofthem will make the team beyond a peradventure; and we \r\nmight also add that the business end of this enterprise will be taken care of by Bro. Fatty Bridge. Bro. Harold Ingersoll was elected 1910 foot ball inanager at a meeting of the Athletic As sociation last week. He lacked two votes of having as many as the other two candidates combined, and this is but a silen-t testimony of how the Phi Gams stand around school. Our baseball prospects are good for McCulloch and McClure should make a place on the varsity nine. Bro. Pat Anderson was one of the mainstays of the team last year and if he 25 S ' r*5 o ^hle to be back in school this spring, he will undoubtedly keep the second sack warm and relieve the pitcher at various times. .es& One Day at Knox The edit9r was sitting with an out-of-town game this 1°^"' '^^''^^ing a football fo^L •' senses were awakened to the n prominent part the Fijis took in the SCbv .1 following fS ™s wafblSugit "uru ^ conversation: quSjohm "Who's ^"it-Cjassy^ P.''' I answered. littleGtttn," left end?" „^ates, a Phi Gam." quarter back?" "Wh^c ^ Gam." asked as the^ studlfn'^t John between halves. Paraded over the field G^'inter, a Phi Gam," I admitted rWjltiU'a Fhi &•" a'lir&J the lady?^" looking cuss there with nighf""' ,• .ftPi Miss McCall Ie„„ Knox's,o oldest and truest friends—M," tj® Latin class, Mice n stroke of paralysif'S' is V McCall. M g teaching her ?'Gcken with a hed at 386 N p^.^'n^e been con- hope for1 {•"ght side IS comn1»f her Knox ^ A iaE® recovery, asThere her Paralyzed. -^In loshig teachers, and the student efficient their best friends. have lost one of '*» f;? ;k • •iflt.- ii*