Identifier: palmofalphatauom1818alph (find matches)
Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ors and of the sweethearts be-come more set; they might not be tapped, and their ambition notbe realized. The excitement is high until the last man for eachsociety has been tapped, when some forty-five go to dinner feel-ing bigger and prouder than any equal number of men in thisworld. The rest, disappointed, go home, the better able to standsome future disappointment. And so Tap Day closer the selec-tion of society men at Yale, and a fitting close it is. 246 SOME FRATERNITY CUSTOMS AT YALE. Omega Lamda Chi night, joyous, undignified, free and easy—a Freshman just entering college without a care, no thought ofto-morrow; Calcium Light night, gay, joyful grand—a Juniorimpressed with the grandeur of this life, but jolly and not think-ing of its realities; Tap Day, serious, dignified—a Senior withthoughts of the realities of this life, its serious as well as its joy-ous side— a man flitted to go out into the world to serve hiscountry and his God. R. C. Stoll in Kappa Alpha Journal.
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HON. CLIFTON R. BRECKINRIDGE. BRO. BRECKINRIDGES RETURN. IN recent years, no Alpha Tail has come more prominently be-fore the public than Hon. Clifton R. Breckinridge, of PineBluff, Ark., who, after long and honorable ^service in the Houseof Representatives, was appointed by President Cleveland am-bassador to Russia in 1894. Bro. Breckinridges return from hisimportant post was celebrated in an elaborate manner, and we re-gret that delay in obtaining particulars has caused notice of theoccasion to be thus tardily made in the Palm, as the data herepresented were received too late for use in our last number. It will be remembered that our distinguished brother wasamong the first initiates of old Virginia Beta chapter and his al-legiance to the Maltese Cross is therefore of long standing.While at Washington in attendance on the 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st and52nd congresses, he was always considered one of the activemembers of the District of Columbia Alumni Association. Onthis account, our Wa

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