when this system is applied to students not of the university grade proper.

What we want to-day is a better consensus in regard to the college course proper. If this be attained the scholars will adapt themselves to it, and the universities will be strengthened through the ability and knowledge which may be safely expected to characterize the graduate of a well-regulated college.

The subject is too large a one to permit of a full discussion in any short magazine article. Probably no man has given a better exposition of strong views in regard to the college curriculum than has Jacob P. Cox, of Cincinnati, in his article on the "Future in College Work," in October, 1889. In a portion of his discussion he examines the results of experience in regard to "The classes of studies peculiarly valuable to disciples of the mind." From the list he leaves out moral and "religious training" and "cultivation of the tastes" as not being included in the real work of the college student. I think that Gen. Cox starts the most natural method of discussion of this subject, and he starts it in the proper place-the college curriculum. College presidents need not take upon themselves the discussion of the future of American universities now, inasmuch as at this very time all their experience and all their knowledge may well be concentrated upon the discussion of the main question "How to protect the college curriculum from the attacks made. upon it from above and below."

The Theta Chapter of Psi Upsilon.

ΤΗ THIS, the original chapter of the fraternity, was founded at Union College, in 1833. Its founders were men of principle, as is attested by the official documents which they then framed for the government of the Brotherhood and by its subsequent career. The fraternity's members have occupied all kinds of desirable positions in life without regretting their endorsement of the principles upon which it is estabfished. The chapter has had its fluctuations of prosperity and relative adversity, as is true of all similar organizations. In the main, it has flourished. The chapter's founders were all worthy men, and the majority of them have attained positions which reflect honor upon them or their memory. The Hon. Sterling G. Hadley's may be cited as a single, 'but pointed, illustration of this. The scholarship of the founders is somewhat indicated by the fact that the majority of them won membership in Phi Beta Kappa. More than a fourth of the chapter's members 'have won the same honor and received it. The chapter is, in no sense, a political body. It seeks and values its fraternal associations, and not offices. Still, offices are not the chapter's "sour grapes"; one of its members, Chester A. Arthur, has been President of the United States, and was an upright officer and gentleman. A loyal member of the chapter, Alexander H. Rice, has been Governor of "The Bay State"; four members of it have served in Congress; another, Frederick W. Seward, was Acting-Secretary of State during a part of his father's term as National Secretary; among its members may be mentioned the Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter, grandson of President Nott, Bishop Abram N.

GROUP OF PSI UPSILON AT UNION COLLEGE.

11-A. M. Lewald, '93. 12-H. W. Fox, '93. 13-H. N. Van Voast, '93. 14-A B. Van Voast, '90. 15-H. D. Cordovez, '93. 16-H. A. Van Alstyne, '93. 17-R. H. Thatcher, '93.

6-C. W. Trumbull, '92. 7-C. W. Hills, '92. 8-T. H. Robertson, '91. 9-P. C. Meserve, '92. to-G. F. Mosher, '92. 1-G. H. Clute, '90 2-G. H. Miller, '94. 3-N. I. Veeder, '94. 4-F. W. Upde Graff, '94. 5-H. Glen, '93.

Littlejohn, Dr. Maunsell Van Rensselaer, President of Hobart College the Hon. Hooper C. Van Vorst, the Hon. S. W. Jackson and Prof. I. B. Price. Most of these men have held positions which have made them known to the nation. Prof. Price, though not so widely known, was of as strong and pure character as any of his associates. The noted members did not first achieve fame and then receive election to the chapter. They were undergraduates, in Union College, during their early manhood, and were elected to membership in the chapter at that time. All the men, just mentioned, were members of Phi Beta Kappa. All of them were loyal to the Theta Chapter of Psi Upsilon, and all who survive, still are. Of President Arthur it has been truly written: "No man was more devoted to the interests of our fraternity, and no one offered a truer type of the genuine Psi Upsilon than he ardent advocate of the principles and objects of our Brotherhood." He many times gathered the accessible Psi U's about him, at the White House, when that was his home. Gov. Rice has written: "Every member of the Brotherhood will take laudable pride in the honorable position which the society holds. Our friendships strike at the very root of. our spiritual being. Within the Brotherhood are facilities and inducements to mental discipline and culture, of such value that men, in riper years, looking back upon them, have balanced the consideration of these with the more formal exercises of the college course."

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The Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter has written: "More than five thousand initiated graduates have gone out into the world, worthily filling all the positions and dignities of life. In all walks of society and in every part of the land they have made illustrious and honorable the name of Psi Upsilon." The list of the notables who have belonged to this chapter has not been exhausted in the foregoing enumeration. In the legal profession alone might be cited, the Hon. Jas. S. Johnson, the Hon. John U. Pettit, the Hon. Isaac Dayton, the Hon. Benjamin F. Dunning, the Hon. George Richards, the Hon. Barnard F. Schermerhorn, the Hon. Alfred A. Abbott, the Hon. Henry M. Lewis, the Hon. John W. McKim, the Hon. Daniel Hall, the Hon. John T. Wentworth, the Hon. George G. Parker, the Hon. Daniel Waterbury, the Hon. Almon G. Case, the Hon. Lyman K. Bass, the Hon. Oscar H. Curtis, the Hon. Thos. C. Whiteside, the Hon. Moss K. Booth, the Hon. Daniel W. Noyes, the Hon. Napoleon B. Knight, the Hon. Jas. H. Austin, the Hon. Edward D. Ronan, the Hon. Archibald L. Van Ness, the Hon. Augustine H. Giddings, the Hon. John Wilder, the Hon. Geo. H. Chambers, and many others. In other professions and walks of life might be cited the Hon. Curtis C. Bean, Jacob H. Linville, engineer, railroad president and inventor; the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, Marshall Calkins, M. D., the Hon. William Taylor, the Hon. Abiel W. Palmer, Edward H. Ripley, the Financier; the Hon. Pascal H. Owens, and a host of others, all of whose names reflect honor and credit upon the Theta Chapter.

The chapter deprecates the attempt to advance it, relatively, by the disparagement of its rivals. The real value of such an organization is best judged with reference to the principles it advocates, whose exemplification will surely be visible in the lives of its members.

The now active Theta Chapter is content with the position which it is aware of occupying and which is awarded to it by its fellow organizations. It does not cherish a spirit of rivalry with them, though it always tries to secure its own rights, in which endeavor it has, thus far, been fairly successful. Prof. Price, when welcoming delegates and visitors. to the semi-centennial celebration of its establishment, ranked the fraternity among those "which show by their membership that their foundations are in purity, and by their labors that they seek only peace and good will among men." Such is the position which this chapter endeavors to occupy.

The chapter's interest now centres in its chapter house, which is in process of construction, it being the first of the kind in connection with Union College. The building is not nearly complete, having been commenced but a few weeks before this season's cold weather prevented its continuance; this wintry obstacle is the only one, however, which the work of building has suffered, and it is the design to have an edifice, worthy of the Brotherhood, completed by Alumni Day, 1891. A cut of the building, as it will be when completed, is annexed.

C. M. CULVER.