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work for dear old Gamma. We are Alice Harvey, Antoinette Webb,
Mary Russell, Letta Stearns, Mary Cousins, Marion Jordan, Estelle
Beaupre, Louis Bartlett, Asenath Russell, Rachel Winship, Arline
Brown, and Margaret Holyoke. This year we intend to work harder
than ever for our fraternity, and we are delighted to have with us
to encourage and help us Helen Worster, " N e l l " Averill and "Rita"
Bickford all of 1912.

We had great hopes of having our own house for this year, but
alas! our hopes were not to be realized. Still we have not given up
the idea and are looking forward to the time when we Gamma girls
can have our own home, where we may welcome our sisters and
friends of A O I I .

At last we are able to sympathize with our sister chapters, and
for the first time we are to experience the trials of Pan-Hellenics and
rivalry of a sister fraternity. No longer can Gamma rest in peace
and quiet, for here at Maine a new sorority is springing into exist-
ence and growing strong rapidly. We are watching over it care-
fully and protectingly, ready to help, encourage, and advise. Yet,
at the same time, we watch anxiously and somewhat jealously, for
we can no longer wait quietly and take our time in choosing our
new members. We too, must now, worry, worry, worry, and rush,
rush, rush, with might and main.

Although it is somewhat early in the year for many college honors
to have been bestowed still one or two have already fallen to A O I I
girls. Estelle Beaupre has recently been elected as secretary of
the junior class, and Antoinette Webb is president of Y. W. C. A.

How we do enjoy hearing about convention and "stunts" and all
our sisters! Omicron's " A . B. C." certainly did please the girls
of Gamma chapter, and how we wish we might all have been present.

In closing, we wish to all our sister chapters a most happy and
successful year.

EPS1LON, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Agnes M. Dobbins, '13. Merle M. Mosier, '14.
Grace Elna Merrick, '13. Charlotte T. Sherman, '14.
Ethel L. Cornell, '14. Natalie B. Thompson, '14.
Laura C. Fish, '14. Anna Pearl Bowman, '15.
Clara W. Keopka, '14. Clara A. Graeffe, '15.
Ruby C. Madsen, '14. Gertrude G. Mosier, '15.

I t is in a chaotic state of trunks and packing cases and books and

friends and freshmen that a chapter letter is attempted now; for

we have not yet recovered from the excitement of our return.

Cornell has started on its long non-rushing season, and though

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it is much too soon to see the working out of the system, we are
viewing it with interest. Last year our rules were very strict, and
our intercourse with the new girls so limited as to make all relations
very strained. But now, non-rushing and "getting naturally ac-
quainted" mean a rather frenzied attempt to "get naturally ac-
quainted" from eight o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock at
night, seven days a week—instead of from two until six four days
a week, as it was last year. However, it is probable that the frenzy
will cool off very shortly—it is certainly to be hoped. The new
freshman class is very attractive and there seem to be many fine
girls with whom we should like to "get naturally acquainted".

Epsilon's first gathering was at our dear friend and adviser's, Mrs.
Schmidt's—where we went for tea, and as usual, enjoyed ourselves
so much that we had to hurry up the hill to get home in time for
dinner.

With best wishes for a most successful year to all our chapters
and to all our sisters, Epsilon settles down to the steady grind of
studious and student activities.

RHO, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Pauline Pearson, '13. Marguerite Simonds, '14.

Edna Betts, '13. Edith Meers, '14.

"Vera Riebel, '13. Frances McNair, '15.

Arie ^Kenner, '14. Jean Richardson, '15.

Coila Anderson, '14. Estelle Martin, '15.

Geraldine Kindig, '14. Stella Duringer, '15.

Julia Fuller, '14. Florence Ayers, '15.

Ruby Rapp, '14. Mabel Gastfield, '16.

Fourteen girls returned to Rho this fall to begin a week of stren-

uous rushing, for although sophomore pledging rules are now in

force, we must work all the harder for upperclassmen and we are

glad to introduce to our sisters, two splendid girls, Marguerite

Simonds, '14, from Lake Forest College, 111., and Florence Ayers,

'15, from Chicago University.

We will greatly miss Helen Shipman this year, but we know the

Alpha girls have welcomed her for we already hear glowing ac-

counts of her work and fun at Barnard.

Barbara Minard and Edith Shultz are attending Illinois Univer-

sity, where we know they will have a pleasant year with Iota.

As the school year is yet young, we have little news to report but

we have come back to school, ready to do our best for A O I I .

We wish to say how fortunate we feel we were in being able to

have convention in Evanston and to meet our sisters. Rho wishes

you all a happy and prosperous year.

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LAMBDA, LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY

College opened this semester on August twenty-eighth and found
Lambda, with nineteen girls back, settled in a new house. Yes,
the house of which you have no doubt grown tired of hearing, is at
last a reality, and very proud we are of it, too. We all returned
on the twenty-second of August and spent the week before regis-
tration in getting moved and settled. We simply can't tell how
much it means to us to be in a modern, well-built house, with room
enough for all, and our greatest thanks are due to the girls of the
building committee who gave up practically an entire summer toward
making this possible.

The first days in our new house were busy with curtains, sofa
cushions, table linen, and the like, and registration day found us all
in readiness for rushing season. Rushing season lasted four weeks
this year, with bidding day set for September twenty-eighth. A t a
called meeting of Pan-Hellenic on Tuesday, September twenty-
fourth, however, it was decided to spring bidding day, and accord-
ingly the bids were issued verbally that night. We consider our-
selves very fortunate in getting five splendid girls, an acceptance
for each invitation given. The new girls who are to be initiated
October fourteenth are Rowena Bush, Redlands. Marion Boal of San
Diego; Hazel Hartnell, also of San Diego; Corinne Bullard, Los
Angeles; and Muriel Turner of Palo Alto. Rushing season has
been very satisfactory to all concerned this year, yet everyone has
a feeling of relief that it is over and the attention can be directed
elsewhere.

At present we have cards out for a reception to be given on the
afternoon and evening of October fifth, and a big formal dance
November fifteenth, a week after the California-Stanford football
game. We have great plans laid for both affairs, and hope they
will prove a success. Last Saturday night, September twenty-eighth
we gave a very informal though successful dance for our new
pledges. We were glad to have three of the Sigma girls here for
the occasion, Dorothy Clark, Ruth Carson, and Olive Freuler.

One of our girls, Eileen Everett, has quite distinguished her-
self by being placed on the Quad board, the committee which edits
the year book of the junior class. She has in charge the depart-
ment dealing with sororities. She is also a member of the cabinet
of Y. W. C. A. and of numerous other committees in that depart-
ment of college activity. Louise Curtice has been appointed on the
Junior Opera Committee.

Just a few notes now as to what the university is doing. The

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annual rush, or tying contest, between the sophomores and fresh-
men took place this year on August twenty-ninth, the freshmen win-
ning for the first time in the history of the university. On Septem-
ber twentieth the juniors held a "jolly-up", a big informal dance
where all juniors gets acquainted, and reported an exceptionally
good time. A university jolly-up is set for the night of our dance,
November fifteenth, much to our regret, and a sophomore jolly-up
for October f i f t h . The custom was started three years ago, and the
jolly-ups are becoming more popular every year.

On the evening of September twenty-third, just after house-meet-
ing the annual "night-shirt peerade" occurred. I n this the men from
Eucina H a l l come forth, arrayed in garments not usually seen in
public, and parade through the campus, making night hideous with
howls, cowbells, and horns. Woe to the poor girl who is caught una-
ware in the melee!

There are many interesting things which might be mentioned,
but your patience is probably already well tried. Lambda sends
the best of wishes to all sister chapters for a progressive and a suc-
cesful year.

IOTA. UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

(No letter.)

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK ALUMNAE

Mildred Schlesinger was the only New York alumna lucky enough
to be able to go to convention. I t is so hard for those of us who
are in school or business to get away in June. Our last meeting
was devoted to sending messages to girls we had met in Boston two
years ago, and envying Mildred's good fortune. We feel that last
year was one of the most successful our chapter has had. Although
we have not accomplished any very definite work, we have kept in
touch with a larger number of "grads" than ever before. That means
more To D R A G M A subscriptions, more moral support for the active
chapter, and jollier times for ourselves. Again at the beginning of a
new year, for the college way of reckoning still clings to one, we
urge all alumna? living, even temporarily in New York to send their
addresses to Louise Sillcox, 527 West 121 Street, New York City.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNAE

The first meeting of the year was held at Sigma chapter house
in Berkeley the first Saturday in September. Five girls, Elaine Stan-
dish, Blanche Ahlers, Irene Flanagan, Marion Crosett and Daisy
Mansfield Shaw were initiated and we are to have five more at the
October meeting.

We feel that we are now a thoroughly organized body and hope
to be able to plan something beyond the business part of the meetings.

Our delegate, Florence Weeks, gave an interesting account of the
convention and answered numerous questions that were asked of
her.

The October meeting of the alumna? chapter was held at the active
chapter house in Berkeley and seemed to us all a most vital meeting.
The past few years have seen us grow to the number of thirty-five
and the organization now complete, we have turned our thoughts to-
ward making a stand along certain ideals. A definite programme was
carried out and Mrs. Summer of Alpha chapter told us most admir-
ably of our duties and privileges as alumna?. I believe Mrs. Ester-
ley begged leave to print it and we hope you will all find as great an
inspiration in it as we did. Helen Henry spoke earnestly on the
interest the alumna; should take in the active chapter, and Rose
Gardner told us of the great good an organized body could be in
carrying out some benevolent work for the world about us, with a sug-
gestion that while we busy our fingers with such work, we listen to
some arranged programme on current events, recent dramas, music etc.

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So enthusiastic did we become over the discussions and ideas pre-
sented, that we voted on monthly meetings throughout the year.
We hold these meetings the first Saturday of every month and extend
a cordial invitation to all visiting alumnae.

BOSTON ALUMNAE

Our chapter resumes its regular meetings on September 28 with
many new plans for the coming year. As we do not meet during
the summer there is nothing new to record since our last chapter
letter. This is to be the first time most of us have seen each other
since the convention, and we are anxious to hear all about it from
our girls who were there.

Two weddings have occurred this summer. Gertrude Bartlett was
married on June 25, to Rodney M . Wilson, and Frida Ungar on
July 30, to Ray D . Farnsworth.

PROVIDENCE ALUMNAE

I t is too early for this year's news, because our regular meetings
have not begun yet. The last meeting was held at the home of Mrs.
Handy in Manville at which Mrs. Drury of Fitchburg, Mass., and
Mrs. Winters, of Berkeley, who seldom have an opportunity to attend
a fraternity meeting, were the guests of honor. Plans for the con-
vention were discussed. Nothing of special importance has hap-
pened to any of the girls. They have been spending the summer ill
various places.

With best wishes to all for a happy successful year, our chapter

sends its greeting.

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NEWS OF THE ALUMNAE

Pi

Emily Feret who has been teaching in Baton Rouge, La., will be
in New Orleans for the winter.

Clevie Dupre McNeese has recently moved to Baton Rouge, La.,
where she will reside in the future. She was down for the open-
ing of college and we hope she will make such trips often.

Innes Morris will again be an active much to the delight of Pi
chapter. She expects to take a course in domestic science so will
be at college daily.

Rochelle Cachet spent the summer in North Carolina and has now
returned to Melville, La., where she has resumed her teaching.

Mary Thomas Whittington has recently moved into her new home
in Alexandria, La., where several of the actives helped in her house-
warming.

Sue Gillean and Cora Spearing spent some time with Dorothy
Safford at her summer home in Mississippi.

Lily Dupre will teach in Lutcher, La., and Pi chapter is hoping
for a visit from her soon.

Dagmar Renshaw has returned to the city after spending several
weeks at a nearby summer resort.

Blythe White spent several several weeks visiting in Texas.

OMICRON

B. Armstrong is teaching domestic science in Jackson, Tenn.
Martha Lou Jones is teaching in Memphis.
Berenice Taylor and Janie Peavy are teaching Domestic Science
in Texas.
Blossom Swift is spending this year at home.
Roberta and Harriette Williams of Chattanooga, attended the
convention.
Lucretia Jordan is visiting one of our patronesses, Mrs. McCargo.
Laura Swift Mayo has returned to the university to study French.
Mrs. Jack Newman (Mattie Ayres I I ) has been visiting her
parents, President and Mrs. Ayres, on the university campus.
Alice Hayes is teaching Domestic Science in Nashville.

SIGMA

Reverend Willsie Martin of the Methodist Episcopal church of
Alameda, Cal., has been recently transferred to the Methodist church
of Boise, Idaho. Consequently the Sigma alumna living around the

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bay are mourning the departure of Muriel Eastman Martin. Espe-
cially does the staff of To Dragma feel her absence for she has
felt obliged to resign as literary editor, a position she was admirably
qualified to fill.

LAMBDA

Edith Moore, '07, is in Berlin, studying German.
Lucy and Alice Shinn spent a most enjoyable vacation at Cisco.
Katherine Barnes is still in New York. We are sorry to hear
of her illness and hope that she has fully recovered from diphtheria.
Cards are out for the wedding of Hazel Cook in October.
Lela Morrison, ex-'09, was married in June to Roger Rice.

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BIRTHS

PI

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Whaley (Edna Reed), a boy
on August 15, 1912.

OMICRON

In July, to Mrs. George Wythe Tompkins, of Tom's Creek, Va.,
a son, George Wythe, Jr.

RHO

Merva Dolsen Hennings announces the birth of a son.

ENGAGEMENTS
Pi

The engagement of Dagmar Renshaw, '12, to Mr. Edward Le
Breton, has been announced. The wedding will take place some
time this fall.

WEDDINGS

LAMBDA

Lambda of Alpha Omicron Pi announces the marriage of Eva
Dickover, '08, to Abe Leroy Ferguson at Santa Barbara, California,
August twentieth, and of Hazel Cooke to Robert Woodward at
Hotel Fairmont, San Francisco, October fifteenth.

RHO

Virginia Walker, '11, of Waterloo, Iowa, will be married October
9, 1912, to Dr. Wm. H . Weirich, of Jacksonville, 111.

Rho announces the wedding of Mae Barlow, '11, to Mr. Earl
Yokum, to take place October 9, 1912. Mr. Yokum is a graduate of
Illinois University and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater-
nity.

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NEWS OF THE COLLEGE AND GREEK LETTER WORLD

Exchanges please send magazines to:
Miss Dorothy Safford, 1306 Webster St., New Orleans.
Mrs. Carrie Green Campbell, 715 Court St., Port Huron, Mich.
Miss Kate B. Foster, 2717 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Cal.
Mrs. Ward Esterley, 244 Alvarado Road, Berkeley, Cal.

We acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following magazines:

The 1912 Cerebrum.
March. Alpha Tau Omega Palm.
April. Arrow of Pi Beta Phi; Trident of Delta Delta Delta.
May. Delta, of Sigma N u ; Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal; Phi Chi
Quarterly; The Beta Sigma Omicron; The Key, of Kappa Kappa
Gamma; The Aglaia, of Phi M u ; Sigma Kappa Triangle; Alpha
Gamma Delta Quarterly; Eleusis, of Chi Omega.
June. Alpha Phi Quarterly; The Lamp, of Delta Zeta; The
Anchora, of Delta Gamma; The Trident, of Delta Delta Delta;
The Adelphean, of Alpha Delta Phi; The Triangle, of Sigma
Sigma Sigma; The Alpha Xi Delta;.The Crescent, of Gamma Phi
Beta.
July. The Lyre, of Alpha Chi Omega.
August. The Phi Chi Quarterly.
September. The Alpha Phi Quarterly.

New chapters have been installed as follows:
Kappa Delta at Trinity College, Durham, N . C.
Pi Beta Phi, at Washington State College, Pullman, Washington.
Alpha Delta Phi, at University of Kansas.

At the third Interfraternity Conference, the subject of Frater-
nity Inspection was discussed at length and printed in the Alpha
Tau Omega Palm. I t is in part as follows:

I have never been a traveling secretary in the sense in which that word is
used by Chi P s i ; that is, one who for the time being is giving his entire time
to the work of visiting the chapters of his fraternity. In my own case I am
free to say that I do not believe in a traveling secretary who shall give
his entire time to the work. That comes perhaps from lack of experience.
I question whether on the whole it is wise for one man to go repeatedly to
chapters, engaging in the peculiar work which a traveling secretary must
undertake. Personally, I have felt that if if is possible for an official of the
fraternity who is regularly employed in some other occupation to find time
to devote to that work, he will in the long run accomplish more than if he

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is in the position of an agent for some organization, whose occasional presence
is recognized as a sort of formal affair.

From my own experience as general secretary of the Beta Theta Pi Frater-
nity, I would say that under our plan of administration the fraternity is
divided into fourteen districts, over each of which is placed an executive officer
called a district chief. The selection of these chiefs has fallen to me, and I
have made every effort to get men of high character. I have succeeded in get-
ting professors in several universities to accept that" position, men of acknowl-
edged standing, and upon those men has devolved the particular work of
espionage, i f such a word might be used here; that is, of inquiry into the
actual conditions within the chapter life, how the chapter stands in regard
to questions of temperance and morality, what its scholarship is and all such
things as that. For myself I felt quite positive that the work which I
should do ought to be that of inspiration rather than that of inspection. And
so, while I have made a good many inquiries among the some fifty-two chapters
which I have visited during the last year in order that I might understand
the situation in the chapter life, and while I have observed very carefully the
condition of the college from the point of view of its equipment, its library
collections, its financial resources, the personnel of the faculty as I saw the
faculty, the general character of the student body as it was my privilege
to see the student body on numerous occasions in chapel, I have considered
my main work to be to hold up the ideals of the fraternity, to urge the boys,
by the most direct appeal I could make to try to use the fraternity for better
manhood, to impress upon the older members of the chapters the importance
of care over the younger members, to show not only the pleasures, the delights,
and the joys of fraternity life but its positive dangers, and to try in every
way I could to project the fraternity which I thus represented out into the
college world as a positive force for good.—Mr. F . W. Shepardson, Beta Theta
Pi.

I want to say that the matter of visitation has proved possibly the most
helpful of any one policy of the fraternity, for the reason that it has unified
the interests of the fraternity. It has made for uniformity in the carrying
on of the ritual, and in our fraternity where this system has been carried on
for so many years, the matter of fear on the part of the boys that we come
to conduct a rigid examination or to criticise, I think was dissipated a long
time ago. The president goes to the charges and announces when he will be
there, and they prepare for a good time together, and they have a good time.
I f possible, an arrangement is made so that he can attend during initiation
services, and make his suggestions and criticisms at that time. It is his
business to go over all the books and records, and get a report in detail of
the conditions of the chapter. I f there is any lack of harmony in any one
of the charges it is his business to talk it over with the boys, get the boys
together, find out just where the difficulty lies, talk the matter over with them,
then meet the local alumni, talk with the alumni, meet with the president
and faculty and talk with them, and solve the problem that seems to be
worrying that particular chapter at that particular time. I might say, also,
that aside from these personal visitations, the president of each chapter must
write a personal letter to the president of the Grand Lodge once a month, report-
ing in detail all the conditions, and particularly i f there is anything that is
not going exactly right, so that the president keeps informed concerning thp

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condition of each chapter. I can say without any reservation that this system
which has been carried on so long has proved most helpful in every particular,
and I don't know of any just criticism that can be made against the system of
having one of the officers of the fraternity make visitations at least once a
year, and more often i f possible.—Mr. F . E . Compton, Theta Delta Chi.

Interest in the alumni will be greatly increased i f the active chapter can
turn back to their records and see the different phases of college activities
that their men were engaged in while in college. It will stimulate an interest
in the history of the chapter, and make the active members see that the
chapter had a membership that was interested enough in their fraternity to
keep a record of the chapter's life.

This record may be kept in many ways, of course, in addition to the
record of all meetings of the chapter, and should be as interesting as possible
to those who are to follow. The following should be recorded. A chapter's
social events, initiation banquets, individual pictures of members in their
favorite line of athletics, accounts of contests that the chapter as a whole, or
some of the individual members take part in, and short sketches of the chapter
or members, that will be interesting to all who are taken into the Fraternity.
By having this record the active members will feel that they belong to a
Fraternity that is proud of its history, and this applies no matter how young
the chapter may be. Everyone likes to say that he is proud of his ancestry, and
this will be the case with the members of a fraternity who have something
to turn back to, and they will be able to see the things that the chapter did
when this or that particular man was in college. Many times there are young
men who go to college recommended to the fraternity by some older j>erson who
has been an active member of the chapter, and there is certain to be an interest
by this younger man in what his older friend did while in college, and in the
things that the chapter did during that time. In looking back and reading
accounts of old members and events with which the fraternity was connected,
the younger members will learn thoroughly the history of the chapter, and
this will make them more interested and enthusiastic in their fraternity. They
will feel that they must do their best to keep up the standard of the fraternity,
since their record, in turn, will be handed down to future generations of
college students who are to become members of their chapter.—Willis Smith in
Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal.

Acoth is the name of a sorority founded in February, 1910, at the University
of Nebraska. It is a sorority for Eastern Star girls, and corresponds to the
Masonic College Fraternity of Acacia. I n March of this year it held its
first National Convention with the Alpha chapter in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Besides the Mother chapter at Nebraska, chapters are located at the Univer-
sities of Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. A new chapter is about to be estab-
lished at the University of Oklahoma.—Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal.

Connecticut is to have a new woman's college. It will be called Connecticut
College for Women and will be located on the Thames, at New London. Over
$1,185,000 has been subscribed towards its maintenance, and the site was se-
cured by donation.—Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal.

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THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
The organization commonly known as the A. C . A. is the only national
unprofessional organization of American college women having for its aim
purely educational work. I t was organized in 1882 by 17 women, graduates
of 8 colleges. In 1910 it had over 4,300 active members, graduates of 24
colleges and grouped in 47 branches all over the United States. The work
of the association is done through these various branches and through certain
standing and special committees.

Membership in the association is open to holders of non-professional degrees,
graduates of one of the twenty-three approved colleges or universities. Col-
leges or universities are approved for membership according as they are recog-
nized by the Carnegie Foundation and as they conform to the following ad-
ditional qualifications:

1. There shall be a reasonable recognition of women in the faculties and
in the student body, and proper provision for the intellectual and social
needs of women students.

2. Much weight shall be given to the fact where women are on the Board
of Trustees, especially in women's colleges.

3. In the consideration of a co-educational institution great weight shall
be given to the fact that such institution has a dean or adviser of women,
above the rank of instructor, giving instruction and counted a regular
member of the faculty.

4. Women on the faculty shall receive approximately the same salaries as
men of the same rank.

5. No co-educational institution shall be considered in which there is not
special provision, through halls of residence or in other buildings, for the
social life of the women students.

Any institution found to conform to these requirements shall be recom-
mended to the association for corporate membership when fifty of its alumna:
make formal application to be enrolled as members.—Alpha Gamma Delta
Quarterly.

Adopted November 2, 1912.

Any college woman who is eligible ought to be glad to join the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae for the sake of keeping in touch with college women;
for the social opportunities; and for the sake of broadening her outlook. I f
she is not naturally interested in the subjects discussed, she ought, for her
own sake, to join and become interested, or at least well informed. By joining
such an organization she becomes a force, because no matter how keen her
sympathies may be in any movement for social betterment, if she be not part of
some organization of influence her emotions count for practically nothing.—
Alpha Phi Quarterly.

"Many of our active chapters and alumnae clubs undertake some altruistic
work each year. In an age of chapter house building the actual sums expended
may sometimes be small but the spirit gives fair promise for the future. The
chapter at the University of Vermont maintains a rest-room in Burlington
where farmer's wives may stop after shopping; the girls at Carlisle hold
mission and Bible classes at the Indian School and they also dress dolls for
Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth; the girls at the University of Toronto dress
dolls for the Children's Hospital. A number of other chapters express their

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Christmas good will in similar ways. The New York Alphas of Syracuse
maintain a committee which calls at the Old Ladies' Home, and at the request
of the matron, they have given several musicals there. The chapter and
alumnae of Nebraska University have furnished one of the rest rooms in the
new city Y . W. C . A . building. Two alumnae clubs maintain a room in the
hospitals of their respective cities."—Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.

The authorities of the University of Mississippi have decreed the abolish-
ment of fraternities, and on June 1 the chapters of seven national fraternities
and two national sororities will be required to withdraw. Fortunately, Alpha
T a u Omega, never having had a chapter at the institution, is not affected by
the ruling.

The action of the university trustees is the final curtain upon a long and
bitter fight. For many years the State Legislature has been requested to enact
prohibitory laws, but none were passed. Last year an anti-fraternity lacked
only one vote upon final passage. The trustees then adopted the abolition
resolution independent of and without express legislative sanction.

The case against the fraternities consists of the usual charges; to wit,
exclusiveness, aristocratic tendencies, social domination, political control and
kindred offenses. The fraternities have persistently and indignantly denied
the charges, and intimate that the action of the trustees was dictated by pre-
judice and base political considerations.

O f course the Palm cannot undertake to decide a case of irreconcilable
evidence. But there is only one tenable position for the true friends of the
Greek-letter system to assume. I f the charges are true the trustees are
abundantly justified in their action. I f untrue, their action was cowardly. But,
until the best evidence is procurable, the Palm will not join the chorus of
condemnation. A fraternity that has any pretensions to high ideals and true
principles cannot endorse the action of Greeks, whatever may be their name
or their professions, who have made the system an object of strife and pro-
hibitory legislation by the exclusion of worthy men, by endeavoring to dom-
inate the political and social life of an institution, by seeking to injure other
ligitimate student activities, or by failing to recognize the spirit of democracy
in their relations with their fellows on the campus. Without passing upon
the question of the guilt or innocence of the fraternities, it does seem to us
that if the charges were true it would have been alike discreditable to the
institution and to respectable fraternities elsewhere to have allowed the situa-
tion to continue.—Alpha T a u Omega Palm.

We didn't know there was this much money in the world, and we are glad

to read that all the fortunes are not being wasted. Here is printed a list of the

colleges in the United States which have received $100,000 or more during 1911:

Columbia University $2,535,000 George Peabody College for
Harvard University 1,745,000 Teachers 500,000
Princeton University 1,707,000 461,000
Johns Hopkins University 1.205,000 Washington University 402,000
University of Chicago 1,385,000 University of Wooster 385,000
Yale Universitv 1,134,000 Trinity College 330,000
New York University 928.000 Cornell University 300,000
Dartmouth College 804,000 Vanderbilt University 300,000
Coe University 800,000 Georgia School of Technology.. 293,000
Bryn Mawr College 750,000 Northwestern University 287,000
Tuskegee Institute 750,000 Hampton Institute 283,000
Western Reserve University . . 719,000 Swarthmore College 270.000
University of Pennsylvania 512,000 Yassar College 259,000
Amherst College 500,000 Radcliffe College 256,000
University of Nevada

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Berea College 250,000 Vanderbilt University 150,000
Barnard College 236,000 Bethany College 145,000
Teachers' College 233,000
American University 225,000 Eureka College 125,000
University of Vermont 225,000 Throop Polytechnic Institute . . 124,000
Shorter College 225,000
William Jewell College 217,000 Syracuse University 122,000
Ohio Wesleyan University 197,000 Elmira College 120,000
\\ imams College 183,000 Grinnell College 115 000
lames Millikin University 169,000 .Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
University of Pittsburgh 168,000
Mt. Holyoke College 168,000 nology 107,000
Dakota Wesleyan University 164,000 Bowdoin College 105,000
Marietta College 158,000 Western College for Women . . 100,000
Illinois University 150,000
.. Southern Baptist Theological Sem- 100,000
inary
Davidson College 100,000

Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
T H E LOST BID

W h y is i t that we all look upon the "lost b i d " as such a skeleton i n the
f r a t e r n i t y closet, a thing to be hidden. We extend an invitation of membership
only to those whom we think are worthy of the honor and whom we desire as
sisters in the bond. I f f o r any reason the g i r l whom we have invited finds that
the members of another f r a t e r n i t y are more congenial, or that she cannot j o i n
any society, have we lowered our standards or ideals any because we have de-
sired a girl who was worthy in every way?

I t would indeed be foolish to proclaim our loss to the multitude and yet this
wrong attitude toward the "lost b i d " w i l l harm any fraternity. We are too
often inclined to take this aspect in making our final decision. I f there exists
a chapter of any f r a t e r n i t y that has never lost a bid i t is in such an inactive
and sluggish condition that it w i l l die in the end. Wholesome competition is
good f o r all of us; there is no gain where there has been no r i s k . — G L A D Y S
D O U G H E R T Y , in Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

Internal Improvement—What is i t ? I t would be entertaining to hear the
inventor of the phrase "internal improvement" differentiate i t f r o m improve-
ment. " I n t e r n a l " contributes the cloudy uncertainty to our slogan; i t is the
qualification which has baffled the undergraduate; i t suggests the patent
medicine. O f course the objective originated in the mouths of opponents o f
extension who say that what they want is not extension but internal improve-
ment. As a matter of logic internal improvement signifies nothing more than
improvement signifies, nothing less than n a r r o w i n g the gap between the present
standard and the ideal standard of excellence.

There is nothing antagonistic between internal improvement and extension,
as some seem to think. Both may co-exist at once. I f we eliminate a weak
chapter in Montana we improve the f r a t e r n i t y . I f we charter a strong chapter
in Delaware we improve the f r a t e r n i t y . I f we do so both together we doubly
improve the fraternity. Yet the reason is evident why those who stand f o r i m -
provement cry a halt on extension; they fear lest effort in that direction w i l l
scatter our attention, that we shall overlook the shortcomings o f -the present
chapters in our satisfaction w i t h the new. There is something to be said f o r
this view. There is something to be said f o r any view, but this particular stand-
point advocates a policy or organized inertia; it suggests that we sit by and
watch other great national fraternities swoop upon promising petitioners who
would have knocked at our own doors. I n that respect i t is directly opposed to
improvement. A n d i t leaves wholly out of account the entirely sane possibility
that an alert executive council can easily have two strings to its bow, can
strengthen the foundations of a permanent structure while i t also plans needed
additions.—Leon Fraser, Columbia, ' n , in Phi Kappa Psi Shield. Quoted by
Delta of Sigma N u .

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Sorority examinations were never intended to be a thorn i n the flesh f o r the
college g i r l , by adding more burdens to her well filled schedule. Their object
is in part to show the chapters how much they know about their sorority, the
more we know about our sorority, the more we w i l l love her principles and
teachings, and by reason of our broader knowledge and views, we are better
able to f u l f i l l our great mission i n the world as sorority women.

Let us all be f a m i l i a r w i t h the foundation principles of our sorority, not
merely to be able to write a good examination paper, but that we may know
what we profess.—Alpha Xi Delta.

The scholarship of the undergraduate chapter is more and more becoming
a matter of concern to the f r a t e r n i t y at large and i n many of the Greek-letter
societies plans which enlist the sympathetic co-operation of the undergraduates
themselves have been put into successful operation. What we need is a f r a n k
realization o f the fact that the fraternity's highest service to its younger mem-
bers is to foster i n them ideals of good scholarship and then through the
instrumentality of the chapters themselves strengthen where encouragement or
discipline is needed.—The Delia Upsilon Quarterly. Quoted by The Eleusis
of Chi Omega.

MY CREED Quarterly.)
Howard Arnold Walter
I would be true, f o r there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, f o r there are those who care;
I would be strong, f o r there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, f o r there is much to dare;
I would be f r i e n d of all—the foe—the friendless;
I would be giving and forget the g i f t ;
I would be humble, f o r I know my weakness;
I would look up—and laugh—and love, and l i f t .

—(Copied f r o m the Alpha Gamma Delta
Quoted by the Aglaia o f Phi M u .

Each chapter of Alpha X i Delta celebrated the Alpha X i Delta
Founder's Day. A worthy custom which all should follow. Each
chapter celebrated in its own way. One had an afternoon tea with
the patronesses as guests of honor. Others had musicales, banquets,
luncheons or initiations.

FROM A SENIOR

What has my sorority meant to me? I wonder how many girls who are
about to graduate i n June and sever forever the ties of college l i f e have
stopped to think seriously and ask themselves this question: "Has my sorority
fitted me the better to cope with the trials of l i f e ? " "Has i t made me a better
woman—a stronger character—a more magnetic personality?" I am really
wondering just what my sorority has meant to me. I love A l p h a X i Delta,
and why? Doubtless i t has fixed my social position in college; i t has given
me an acquaintance with women and girls whom i t is an inspiration to k n o w ;
it has broadened my view, although i t has identified me w i t h one particular
bunch of girls. Yes, and it has done more—it has been a constant reminder

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that the principles o f its creed are eternal and that I am striving ever upward
to their realization.

Girls who are freshmen, do not wait until you are seniors to ask yourselves
the question I am asking. Do it now and make your sorority mean all it may
possibly be to you. A n d to this question add another: "What do I mean to
my sorority? A m I aiding in making it an honored organization among my
classmates and instructors? A m I giving it prestige and dignity—raising its
standard of scholarship and developing its worthy possibilities?" "Or am I
enjoying its privileges, wearing its emblem, and giving nothing in return?" It
is a serious question, girls—one we can not afford to overlook, and yet a per-
fectly fair question. I t is a divine attribute that where little is given little is
expected, and it is equally true that those who receive many talents must render
up an increase.

Your sorority is offering you much. T o be able to receive its g i f t s you like-
wise must render up a cheerful, free offering on its shrine—an offer o f glad
and w i l l i n g service, o f scholarship, attainment, and of character.—Alpha Xi
D^ta. A . L . D . ' 1 2 , Xi.

PAN-HELLENISM

"When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war."
Thus history tells us of the days o f yore;
But now Greeks meet and smoke the pipe of peace,
And counsel take against the foes of Greece.
— D e l t a Upsilon Quarterly,—
Quoted by Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta.

The Arrow o f Pi Beta Phi has a series of very instructive articles upon
Home Economics and an interesting account of the settlement school which
Pi Beta Phi has founded. This splendid and praiseworthy work is an example
of what each sorority should attempt and should accomplish—for the true
sisterhood w i l l look beyond its own circle and w i l l find its greatness i n the help
it brings to others. We quote from the article:

I t is not by the old education, not by establishing a "college," that we wish
to help these children, these farmers and hunters and these lonely, d r u d g i n g
mothers. The old education, by which is meant knowledge acquired altogether
f r o m books, is too apt to make the young people dissatisfied w i t h l i f e in the'
mountains and to lead them away f r o m home, leaving the life there impover-
ished rather than improved. What we wish to do is to join in the effort to
show them how to use their own resources, to develop industries suitable to
their environment, and to lead more happy, healthful lives. We want to help,
as f a r as we can, to educate the mountain boys and girls back to their homes
instead of away f r o m them.—Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta.

I t is suggested that alumnae stimulate scholarship among the active chapters
by putting up three cups for competition:

1. A Phi Beta Kappa cup, offered by alumnae who are members o f Phi
Beta Kappa. T o be inscribed each year w i t h the name of a chapter getting
one or more Phi Beta Kappa keys, and with the names of the girls w i n n i n g
the keys. T o go finally to any chapter getting keys three years, not necessarily
consecutive.

2. H i g h average scholarship cup. T o be offered by alumnae of some one

TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 65

active chapter, or by some alumnae association. T o go each year to the chapter
having the highest average scholarship in the f r a t e r n i t y , and to be the property
finally of the chapter having this honor three years, not necessarily consecutive.

3. H i g h individual average cup (or medal). T o be offered each year by
some one alumnae association ; to go to the active Alpha Gamma Delta g i r l
having the highest average i n the national fraternity that year. May be
restricted by the donors to upper classmen.—Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly.

G R E E K GODDESSES.

One would think that with badges, coats of arms, seals, colors and official
flowers, fraternities and sororities were sufficiently well equipped w i t h em-
blems, but there seems to be quite a fondness among sororities to adopt, i n
addition, a patron goddess. A X12 has chosen the Greek goddess Hera, the
sister-wife of Zeus, who corresponds to the Roman Juno. "She was the great-
est and most p o w e r f u l of the goddesses; she was also the chosen guardian o f
women and their aid i n seasons of distress." X 0 has chosen Demeter—the
Roman Ceres—because "she is the personification of beneficence—always g i v i n g
and helping. Further than this, Demeter represents a noble type of woman-
hood—she sanctifies the home. Moreover, her motherhood is the most beautiful
part o f the myths connected with her." The feasts of Demeter are worked
into the scheme of X f t ' s festivals and r i t u a l . A A A has adopted the god
Poseidon (Neptune) and his emblems have been extensively used i n their r i t u a l .
Her publications, Trident, Triton and Trireme, all suggest Poseidon and his
realm. K K T has* chosen Athene. H e r call, " H i a Korai Athenes," and the
insignia, the o w l , point to close relations w i t h the goddess of wisdom. The
patron goddess of Z T A is Themis, the goddess of Justice, Law and Order.
The word Themis appears in Greek upon the pin of Z T A , and the balance,
sword, and carpenter's square, emblems o f the goddess, are prominent among
the insignia. B 2 O has chosen Hestia, "because she was goddess of the
domestic and political hearth and stands for a beautiful and virtuous woman-
hood, and our service to the sorority is supposed to correspond to that of the
vestal virgins." A 2 A has chosen Athene and the sorority's magazine, The
Aegis, is named after the famous breastplate of this goddess.—Alpha T a u
Omega Palm.

One of the most poignant and depreciating criticisms of college faculties
concerning the f r a t e r n i t y system, is that a f r a t e r n i t y may be very active in its
own affairs, but i t takes no part, as a unit, i n the affairs o f the college. Be-
cause of its organization a fraternity is a strong factor of usefulness. T h i s
strength and usefulness should be a constructive force in all college affairs.
How frequently have you attended a large all-college function or a program
given in the college auditorium by some eminent musician or reader and found
the "Greeks" noticeable f o r their absence. Perhaps two or more individual chap-
ters were holding i n f o r m a l dances or frolics upon that night. Is i t right that f r a -
ternity l i f e should have the narrowing effect, of so occupying the minds o f its
local members that they have no time for College Spirit? College loyalty should
stand pre-eminent i n the heart of every student, and college loyalty does not
alone mean rooting at a football game, but i t just as surely means a whole
hearted and junified support of all-college functions. Furthermore i t does not
mean that a chapter is justified in having a counter attraction on the afternoon
or evenings of these same functions. By virtue of our unity we must support

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the big worth while things in college life.—Quarterly of Alpha Gamma Delta.—
Quoted by Beta Sigma Omicron.

One of the hardest battles w i t h which the alumni has to contend is that of
"Absorption." W i l l she allow herself to be so completely absorbed by the every-
day affairs of life that the beautiful dreams of her college days will amount
to so many day dreams and no realities. When once a g i r l has returned to her
home, city, village or country, there are few who w i l l sympathize with her
desires to remain the educated woman, not wishing to allow the wheels o f l i f e
to completely absorb that which she has spent years gaining. Once a g i r l re-
marked that, i f she wished to retain her knowledge she would do i t at the
sacrifice o f her home friends—a college g i r l has an advantage that very few
women ever acquire, she can adapt herself to any crowd or circumstances.—
Triangle of 2 2 2 .

To Dragma

of

Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity

ffiabl? of (Eontenta

From the Grand President Dorothy Noble Safford 73
77
Concerning Secrecy Dorothy Noble Safford 78
80
The History of the University of Minnesota Antonia Marquis 28
84
Minnesota Traditions Bertha Marie Brocket 86
87
Literary and Honor Societies, Clubs, etc Henrietta Myrl Wkeeler 92
94
The History of Tau Chapter Bertha Marie Brecket 98
106
Roll of Tau Active Chapter 110

Data on Pledging Margaret Henderson Dudley 114
115
Pledging and Scholarship Exchange 117
120
Dormitory L i f e as an Asset to a Chapter Mamie Hurt Baskerville 121
123
H i g h School Fraternities John Calvin Hanna 124
125
The Situation at Barnard Newspaper clippings 127

The Development of the First Massachusetts Schools Leslie Harper 13°
130
Woman's Day Activities: 131
131
The Pre-Panama Exposition at Stanford University Alice Skinn 132
133
Women's Day at the University of California Rose Gardner *34
*46
Barnard's Greek Games Margaret Kutner 5I I
J54
The Rose and the R i n g Unsigned *54
x54
May Day at Randolph Macon Katherine Gordon *56
*57
A t the University of Minnesota..- Edith Golds-worthy

The Women's League at Northwestern Unsigned

The November Bazaar Helen C. Wooster

Pi Chapter Celebrates Founders' Day An Alumna

Editorials:

The Century Investigation

To "The-Might-IIave-Beens" Dorothy Noble Safford

Banta's Greek Exchange

The New Alumnae Editors

Business Management Ira Henderson

Phi Beta Kappas in Alpha Omicron Pi

Active Chapter Letters

Alumnae Chapter Letters

News of the Alumnae

Births

Engagements

Weddings '• •

In Memoriam

Fraternity Expansion