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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of the country knows him and is familiar withhis jovial laugh and manly face, and whenever possible for himto attend, he can be found at an A. T. O. smoker, and beforethe evening has progressed very far, all present will be foundgrouped around him, to hear reminiscences of college days, AlphaTau Omega always playing a prominent part. Success to him. A TOAST TO ALPHA TAU. (Part of a poem, a la Kipling, by Bro. Francis Elliott Shoupe, of TennesseeOmega, who will be remembered by many as the author of the clever Congresspoem, read at Cleveland last year, delivered at Sewanee, Tenn., August 7th,1897, at the reception given by the chapter in honor of the twentieth anniver-sary of its founding.) So heres to the old Alpha Taus, the young Alpha Taus, The Alpha Taus yet to be—To those who are dead—to those unborn, To the whole fraternitee—For were on the path and we wont get off Till the old Worlds burnt for its sin,Then well go into Heaven and start up againAnd rope the best Angels in.
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WALTER EMERSON FAISON. BRO. WALTER E. FAISON. WALTER E. Faison, who died at Wilmington, N. C., Septem-ber 22nd, was born in Clinton, N. C, forty-two years ago.He entered Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1872 and was in-itiated into the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, having for his clubmates such men as Walter H. Page, now Associate Editor of theAtlantic Monthly, Hon. P. Mc L. Simmons, lately a Member ofCongress of the U. S., B. P. Long, Ex-Worthy Grand Keeper ofExchequer of this fraternity, and others of similar high charac-1ter and attainments. Leaving Trinity, he became a student atthe Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1878 ;as First Captain. He spent the next three years at the LawSchool of the University of Virginia, where he stood eminent ina large class by reason of his solid acquirements. After practicing law both in Norfolk, Va., and at his homein Clinton, N. C, he entered the service of the State Departmentin 1886. The law examination in which Mr. Paison

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