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...threatened calamity, but, whatever may be the result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins of a peculiar form. Under its cloak of innocent breast-pins the society is nevertheless - as the World has discovered - endeavoring to make itself the ruling power of the nation, and its dangerous character can be readily perceived under the light of alleged publicity which the World has thrown upon...
...every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...
Fraternity badges in Germany consist of narrow ribbons worn across the breast...
...owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other noticeable ornaments within the space of a few inches on their breast, and leave the nether parts to take care of themselves. It should not be forgotten that in nine postures out of ten assumed by the body at rest or in motion, the extremities are the most noticeable, and should be cared for accordingly. How many more flaring neckties...
...means do not play the first game at New Haven. Do not be mastered by the superstition so common here, that any one in blue stockings, with a large "Y" on his breast, is invincible. '85 has a great opportunity before her to make a reputation, and we all hope she will make the most of it. May she prove that Harvard is not always to be defeated in her freshman games with Yale...