At the dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi, Rev. E. E. Hale, to illustrate his point that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear, James promised me that he would give up writing poetry and go to work." What would our professor in English say to the suggestive simile made by one speaker on the same occasion, when the latter expressed the hope that in the future millennium the Greek letter societies would all lie down together, and Alpha Delta Phi should lead them.

A curious paralellism to this expression occurs in the last Yale Courant, which cries out: "The day seems rapidly approaching when the HERALD and and the News shall lie down together, and the little Crimson shall lead them." ("Little" Crimson because of the recent article on "Yaleism.")