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Gay Shall He Live Until He Died
The Old College Medley
Come All Ye Good Alpha Delts Tune Up Your Throats
Would you know . . . these quotes
Fight Alpha Delta, Fight, Fight, Fight!
100
Sammy (and Candi) was born on this date.
What is Saturday May 18, 1810 (1989)?
100
The Alpha Delta Phi was founded in 1832 at this college.
What is Hamilton College?
100
In A Gay, Gallant Ship: we call all "these" and spread all "those," the roaring gale defy!
What are hands and sail(s)?
100
When a motion to allow female members to attend the 1985 convention business sessions was defeated 33 to 15, he called it the "worst default in years."
Who is A. Paul Neshamkin, Columbia '63?
100
In 1968, this was the first chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi to initiate women. (in 1986 it co-sponsored a resolution with the Washington Chapter aimed to forcibly end coeducation)
What is the California Chapter at Berkley?
200
As a young boy, Sammy read these 3 books on Sundays, which began on Saturday at sundown.
What are: the Bible, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and Pilgrim's Progress?
200
These are the 4 colleges where there are active undergraduate Alpha Delta Phi Society chapters.
What are Standford, Columbia, Wesleyan, and Brown?
200
In There's Beauty: this is what "the unseen beauty symboled there" does (by far!)
What is "outshines them both"?
200
Furious with coeducational membership in Alpha Delta Phi, Edmund J. Frazer, Wisconsin '37, wrote a letter stating this.
What is "Dear Brothers: Coeducational membership in Alpha Delta Phi? My God! No!! This would end us, and we would deserve extinction. What the hell is this? Did our founder work and die for this? NO. I will be OUT if this ever takes place. I have advised many people as a PR consultant. This proposal is SUICIDE! You may quote me."?
200
Under this informal compromise, women were local members who could not: participate in part of the initiation ceremony, see the signs and symbols, hold constitutional office, or vote on new members.
What is the Brown Compromise?
300
Sammy died in this man's house, on this date.
What is the house of S.W. Pomeroy, on Sunday March 13, 1842.
300
These are the two undergraduate affiliate chapters of the Alpha Delta Phi Society.
What are the Granite Affiliate Chapter (UNH) and the Harvard Affiliate Chapter?
300
In Come Troll a Stave and Drink a Measure: these line the sky, during storm or pleasant weather! (although they are much easier to see during pleasant weather)
What are our star and crescent?
300
This first fraternity, now an honor society to which many Alpha Delts belong, has the motto "Philosophy, the Guide (or Helmsman) of Life."
What is Phi Beta Kappa?
300
Under this formal compromise, women could be inducted as full members of the individual chapters and participate in the full initiation ceremony; however, they were associate members of the fraternity and could not hold constitutional office.
What is the Trinity Compromise?
400
This future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the Treasury hired Sammy, giving him an opportunity to display his legal attainments and remarkable eloquence.
Who is Salmon Portland Chase?
400
Despite not having an active undergraduate chapter, the Society President (Craig Cheslog) and the Expansion Chair (Thom Clark) are members of this school's very active alumni chapter.
What is Bowdoin College?
400
This is the first verse of the Xaipe. (bonus points if sung as a team)
What is: Xaipe Alpha Delta Phi! Ace ai-oh-nah thallahn. Owk-sah-noi-oh doonamai, Kath hapantah neekahn?
400
This mildly alliteratively phrase was the rallying cry of Asa Dunbar during the Bread and Butter Rebellion.
What is "Behold, our butter stinketh!"?
400
In 1992, the Alpha Delta Phi split into two separate, but equally important groups. While chapters of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity must be all-male; chapters of the Alpha Delta Phi Society are governed by this.
What is home rule?
500
When Sammy was put off a boat at a wharf in Dunkirk, two young boys, actuated apparently by this this, gave him water and the rest of his calomel, and waited to see him die. (note: he rallied instead)
What is actuated apparently by "morbid curiosity"?
500
Expansion to this university was significant because it was the first fraternity west of the Allegheny Mountains and assured that fraternities would be national in character and not merely a New England phenomenon.
What is Miami University (Ohio)?
500
This song literally means "many hands one heart." Its less-than-kosher rewrite means something just as clever, although maybe a little dirty.
What is Manus Multae, Cor Unum?
500
One British writer, commenting on American College sports at the turn of the century, made this observation.
What is "Harvard may secretly rejoice when it can put a winning team on the field who names suggest the Mayflower, but it would rather put on a team that can beat Yale."?
500
This very generous wine connoisseur, and Middletown '59 alumnus, was the first president of the Alpha Delta Phi Society.
Who is Robert McKelvey?