1911 November - To Dragma

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bursting with pride over six splendid freshmen: Jacqueline Wood,
Lucille Curtice, Esta Warren, Emily Poindexter, Ruth Berg, and
Alma Eton. And just to prove that one good thing brings another,
Mrs. Allen, our dean of women, has taken ten shares of stock in
the new house which raises the amount to twelve thousand two
hundred dollars. Lambda cordially invites you all to a house warm-
ing next January.

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IOTA. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Seniors Juniors

Susan Alice Hash Ruth Leone Davison
Pearl Iola Rapp Mabel Claire Wallace
Hazel Ellen Alkire Helen Woodrow Whitney
Nelle Tanner Erskine
Louise Minnie Nierstheimer Sophomores
Edna Oral Hunter
Mary Etta Wills
Etta Mabel Lantz

This is our very first rushing season as Alpha Omicrons, but
it is with the utmost confidence and cheerfulness that we begin it,
for we know what we have behind us. Rushing at Illinois is very
difficult this year as there are so few freshman girls. The local
Pan-Hellenic rules are very strict, and it is a difficult matter to
keep from breaking them. This, however, is a good thing as it
preserves the honor of everyone.

Pearl Rapp, one of our seniors, is secretary of Pan-Hellenic this
year, and next year we take the presidency.

Last year Pan-Hellenic did away with driving during rushing
season, but at their, first meeting held this year they thought i t advis-
able to permit it again on Saturdays only.

We have started the year of 1911-12 with fourteen girls. Last
year we had only three seniors, all of whom are now teaching.
This year we have six seniors, and although I myself am a senior,
I think they will miss us a little next year. According to mathe-
matics they should miss us twice as much, shouldn't they?

I must tell you how rapidly Illinois is growing. Last year
Governor Deneen signed three bills giving Illinois an appropriation
of $3,489,300 for the next two years. The most pronounced features
of the appropriations lie in the liberal amount of funds given for
the extension of the agricultural college—the ambition being to
make it one of the best agricultural colleges in the United States.
Over a half million dollars have been appropriated for new buildings.
Lincoln Hall, our new building for advanced undergraduates, is
now ready for use. President James says it is one of the finest
educational buildings in the United States—so we are quite proud
of it. I t has a handsome white marble stairway that makes one
long to linger in admiration on his way to classes.

As it is early in the year there is not much to tell you, but we do
hope that we may do many things this year to add to the glory
of Alpha O.

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK ALUMNAE
An informal reception to the 1911 girls of N u and Alpha took
the place of our last regular meeting. Hopes and plans for the
coming college year were discussed at great length. I t was decided to
have monthly instead of bi-monthly meetings, and to hold all regular
meetings at the Alpha chapter room instead of members' houses, as
we have been accustomed to do. I f the interest which everyone
showed in the coming convention can be kept up through the
year, New York Alumnae will have a large delegation at the Grand
Council meeting in 1912. Those of us who went to Boston last
year are firm believers in the wonders that general meetings of
fraternity members can accomplish in strengthening the bonds of
interest between widely separated chapters and individuals.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNAE

During the interval from May to August, the San Francisco
Alumnae Chapter had no formal meetings, for, during college vaca-
tion, all fraternity activity ceases. But some of the girls held
informal meetings, two of which deserve to be reported.

One day during July, the Alumnae Alpha Omicrons who were in
Berkeley had a picnic on the Campus. We had with us then two
of the girls that we see but seldom—Flora Miller and Gertrude
Davis Arnold. We made plans for a rush party to be given by
the Alumnae Chapter to the girls who were being rushed by Sigma.
The result was that we gave a card party on the Tuesday preceding
registration, and invited the eight or nine girls that Sigma was
then rushing, and all of the active chapter who could come. The
party served two purposes: it helped Sigma in rushing and it enabled
us to know the girls who were being considered as possible Alpha
Omicrons. Esther Boardman, long a stranger, made us a brief visit
that day.

The long vacation of the chapter came to an end about the
middle of August when the first regular meeting of the year was
held at the chapter house in Berkeley. Sigma had recently moved
into a very attractive new home, and the old girls who had not
yet seen the house made a tour of inspection that afternoon. The
meeting was well attended, and when the business had been tran-
sacted, the meeting was adjourned, and the girls had a good time
together. Grace McPherron, who lives in Los Angeles, was visiting
in Berkeley, and so was able to be with us.

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Our second regular meeting was held on the last Saturday of
September at the home of Genevieve Kimball Bingaman in Oakland.
I t was a purely social meeting, so no business was transacted.

BOSTON ALUMNAE

I t is too early at this time to tell what our chapter expects to
accomplish the coming year. We are to hold our first meeting
September 30 at the Delft Tea Room and at that time our plans for
the coming year w i l l be discussed.

A t that meeting we expect to have with us Misses Helen and
Evelyn Bancroft, (Sigma), who are again in Boston on their return
from abroad, and Miss Gammon, (Gamma) ; also our own Mrs.
Mary Ingalls Lambert, '00, whom we have missed from our ranks
for over a year, as she has been abroad during this time.

Since our last meeting two weddings have been celebrated, Maybelle
Taylor, '05, to Harold H . Bodge, '05 on June 17, and Gertrude
Symmes, '05, to Curtis W. Nash, '06, on August 23.

LINCOLN ALUMNAE

No letter.

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BIRTHS

THETA

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCormick (nee
Jessie Leavell).

DELTA

To Mrs. John Bryne (Blanche Bruce, '03) a daughter in June,
1911.

ZETA

To Mrs. Ernest Warner (Ethel Perkins, '10) a son. Our deepest
sympathies are extended to the mother for the loss of her child a day
after birth.

PI

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lewis Eustis, a boy, August 2, 1911.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McLellan, a boy, August 22, 1911.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cox, a boy, June 14, 1911.

ENGAGEMENTS

KAPPA

Kappa chapter wishes to announce the engagement of Margaret
Bullitt, ex*'tl| to Prentiss O'Rear of Frankfort, Ky., brother of one
of Kappa's children Helen O'Rear Sanfley. The wedding is to take
place in November.

PI

Dr. and Mrs. John R. Thomas announce the engagement of their
daughter, Mary Reeder to Mr. George Purnell Whittington of
Alexandria, Louisiana. The wedding will take place on October
25th, 1911.

GAMMA

The engagement of Sarah E. Brown '08 to Mr. George Roy
Sweetser '09 is announced.

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WEDDINGS

SIGMA

Edith Wherry was married in Newark, N . J., to Dr. Harold
Muckleston of Montreal, Canada. The ceremony was performed by
her father. Dr. Muckleston was formerly an instructor in Greek
at Stanford University. He is now a practicing physician in Mon-
treal. Her address is 116 University Street, Montreal.

Mary Davis was married to Mr. Robert Waring, U . C. '02,
on Thursday, September 21, at the home of her father, in Altadena.
California. Mrs. Waring will reside in Sacramento.

THETA

Mary Duncan, '07, and Rev. Arthur Gates were married September
26, and are now living at Richmond, Ind.

Inez Gardner and Mr. Richard Sculey were married in June, and
now reside in Boston, Mass.

ALPHA

On Wednesday, June 7, Eleanor New, '12, was married to James
A. Morison. Mr. and Mrs. Morison are living in Brooklyn.

EPSILON

Catharine Moore Allen, '10, and Harry Sharpe, '09, were married
September 2nd, at the bride's home, Hamburg, N . Y.

DELTA

On May 24, 1911, in Exeter, N . H . , Elinor Osborne Collins,
ex-'12, to John W. Durgin, Harvard, '11.

Mabelle W. Taylor, '05, was married to Harold Bodge, a Tufts
man, '05, on June 17, 1911, at Hudson, Massachusetts. As Mabelle
is living near the " H i l l " we can see her often.

GAMMA

Gamma has received the announcement of the marriage of Alice
Belle Farnsworth '08 to Dr. George A. Phillips of West Sullivan.

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t
Jtt IHniumam

Nina Eimfe Suak
On ilonbag ttigfjt 3utir 5, Nina lamia* lluak. Alalia
'11, in dtaarptf, i&iaamtru

"The garden of our college days
One blossom bore, serene, apart;
And but the chosen few might gaze
Upon the sweetness of her heart,
And but the chosen few might know
The joys that in her bosom dwelt
For love and hope and courage grew
Where Alpha's flower bloomed well."
(Adapted from Stella-Stern Perry.)

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NEWS OF THE ALUMNAE

ALPHA

Katharine Van Home, Alpha, '00, is to teach in Greenwich this
winter.

Jessie Cochran, Alpha '09, and Margaret Yates, Alpha '08, spent
the summer in Europe. Margaret Yates has moved to 611 West
112 Street.

Mrs. William Thomson (Alice Smith), Alpha '05, expects to
move to Buffalo this f a l l . '

Mrs. David Wilson (Helen Van Deursen), is living in Amsterdam,
New York.

Cecilia Sillcox, Alpha '08, is in Boston this winter, as Instructor
in Chemistry at Simmons College. Her address is 35 Intervale
Street, Roxbury, Mass.

Lillian Schoedler, Alpha '11, is doing editorial work for the
Pictorial Review.

Mildred Schlesinger, Alpha '09, has returned to Columbia as
Research Assistant in Chemistry.

Florence Sanville and Margaret Sumner were in New York at
commencement time. Alpha was so glad to have them for even a
little while.

Jessie Wallace Hughan received the degree of Doctor of Philoso-
phy last June. Cecilia Sillcox and Mildred Schlesinger received
their masters degrees. Hester Rusk, '12, received the Hermann
Botanical Prize. As Hester was only a junior last year, the chapter
is doubly proud of her success.

PI

Sue Gillean who studied at Harvard last year and received an
M . A. in June is again a member of the Newcomb faculty.

Nell Bres Eustis has recently moved into a charming home of her
own and is devoting her time to Ernest. Jr.

Rochelle Tachet will be at home this winter after spending the
past year in the west.

Mary Pearce formerly of British Honduras but now of Florida
spent the early weeks of college in New Orleans as the guest of Innes
Morris and Dorothy Safford.

Emily Freret is casting glory on herself and Alpha by her work
for the Tulane Medical College. Besides illustrating a book for one
of the professors, she had a number of drawings in the Louisiana
Health Exhibit.

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Cora Spearing traveled in the west during the early Summer and
later, with Innes Morris and Marguerite Cope, visited Blythe White.

Alice Ivy visited in St. Louis in June and* afterwards spent some
time in Virginia.

Edith and Lily Dupre studied at Johns Hopkins during the sum-
mer and stopped in town a few days on their way home.

Josie Crippen King's new home is an attractive bungalow up town
where Pi girls are always welcome.

May Parkerson will live across the lake in future so the chapter
will not see as much of her as formerly.

Mary Thomas pays frequent visits to New Orleans since leaving
college and assures the girls that her new home will be theirs also.

OMICRON

Mattie Ayres Newman ( P i ) , who for the past month has been
visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Brown Ayres, University Campus,
has just returned to her home in Little Rock, Ark.

Laura .Swift Mayo is teaching History and Modern Languages at
Madisonville, Tennessee.

Alice N . Hayes has a position in the Domestic Science Department
of the Johnson City Public Schools.

Ada Donaldson (Kappa) occupies the chair of Science in Miss
Melvins School for Girls in Knoxville.

Ailsie Kyle Powel (Omicron) is studying at Columbia, N . Y.

Harriet Greve spent the summer months in study at Columbia.

Myrtle Cumming (Lou Thompkins) is now in Memphis, having

been called there by the recent death of her father. ,*

Lucretia Howe Jordan is teaching in a Private School for Girls
in Asheville, N . C.

Janie Mayo spent most of the summer in Memphis, haying gone to
be present at Myrtle Cunningham's .wedding.

Many of you have probably heard of Queenie McConnel's mar-
riage. She is now Mrs. Owensby—her home is in California.

KAPPA

Kappa was delighted to have with her for a short visit Lillian
Donovan Chapman, ex-'08.

SIGMA

Rose Schmidt is in Boston studying at Miss NoyesJ School of
Expression.

Minette Stoddard and her sister' have returned from Washington,
and are at home in Merced.

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Mabel Robertson, of Salem, Oregon, was visiting her friends i n

Berkeley this summer.
Florence Weeks, '09, has just been elected head of the physical

training department of the Fremont High School, Oakland.

Geneva Watson, ex-'11, is learning Kindergarten in the Sacra-

mento schools.
Mae Knight is in the music department at Long Beach, California.
Helen Henry, who is Registrar at Mills College, has a month's

leave of absence, and is spending it in Southern California and
Arizona.

Harriet Fish Baker is convalescing from an operation for appen-

dicitis.

Virginia Judy Esterly has had charge of the Baroness von
Meyerinck School of Music, during the absence of the Baroness,
this summer.

Helen and Evelyn Bancroft are on their way home from Europe.
At present they are spending a few months in the East.

Isa Henderson has left for Chicago where she will take advanced
work in kindergarten and story telling. Her address for the present
will be 700 Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, care Miss Mari R. Hofer.
During the summer session at the University of California she
assisted Miss Hofer, who was one of the instructors.

Kate Foster visited the Lambda chapter during rushing week.

THETA

Grace Norris, '11, is teaching at Fulton, Ind.
Jennie Farmer, '11, is teaching at Anderson, Ind.
Ethel Gillett '10, has accepted a position in the Y. W. C. A.
work at Marshallton, Iowa.

GAMMA

The University of Pennsylvania has awarded a fellowship in
mathematics to Miss Lennie P. Copeland '04. Miss Copeland is
the only woman who has won a fellowship in mathematics.

Miss Florence Brown '11 and Miss Irene Cousins '11 have been
engaged as teachers in the public schools of Old Town. Miss
Cousins is at the head of the English department in the Old Town
High School.

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EXCHANGES

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Mrs. Ward Esterley, 244 Alvarado Road, Berkeley, Calif.
We wish to acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following
magazines:

April ign—Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly.
The Trident of Delta Delta Delta.
The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.
The Beta Theta Pi.

May ipu—The Eleusis of Chi Omega.
Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity.
The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
The Chi Zeta Chi Medical Record.
The Alpha Xi Delta.
The Kappa Alpha Theta.
The Aglaia of Phi Mu.

June ign—The Adelphean of Alpha Delta Phi.
The Alpha Phi Quarterly.
The Beta Theta Pi.
The Lamp of Delta Zeta.
The Trident of Delta Delta Delta.
The Alpha Tau Omega Palm.
The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta.
The Adelphean of Alpha Delta Phi.

July jgu—The Phi Chi Fraternity Quarterly.
The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.
The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.

August IQII—The Sigma Kappa Triangle.
September IQII—The Alpha Phi Quarterly.

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NEWS OF T H E C O L L E G E AND GREEK LETTER WORLD

Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity announces the installation of
Beta Psi Chapter in University of Toronto at Toronto, Ontario
on May 24, 1911.

The Alpha Phi Fraternity announces the establishment of Pi
Chapter at the North Dakota University, Grand Forks, North
Dakota on June 15, 1911.

Kappa Delta announces the establishment of Alpha Gamma Chap-
ter as Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 3, 1911.

Alpha Chi Omega announces the establishment of Sigma Chapter
at the University of Iowa, on June 13, 1911.

Delta Delta Delta announces the absorption of the two College
Chapters of Sigma Sigma Sigma, the latter having become a normal
Fraternity. The chapter at Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, Virginia, was initiated into Alpha X i Chapter on May
30, and the chapter at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas,
was initiated into Theta Epsilon Chapter in September, 1911.

Delta Delta Delta announces the establishment of Delta Beta
Chapter at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, on May 27, 1911.

Delta Delta Delta announces the establishment of Alpha Alpha
Chapter at Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New York, on June 10, 1911.

Kappa Sigma has installed its Gamma X i Chapter at Dennison
University, Granville, Ohio.

Kappa Alpha Theta has published its magazine for 25 years.

The University of Chicago has received a g i f t of $10,000,000
from John D. Rockefeller.

Mrs. Russell Sage has given $300,000 to be used for another
dormitory at Cornell.

The following Conventions were held this spring and summer •

Third Convention of Alpha Gamma Delta at Athens, Ohio, May 4-6.

Fourth Biennial Convention of Alpha Delta Phi at Atlanta, Ga. June 15-17.
Fourth Annual Convention of Phi Mu at Atlanta, Ga. June 20-24.

Seventy-second General Convention of Beta Theta Pi at Niagara Falls,

July 4-7-
Thirty-seventh annual Convention of Sigma Kappa at West Newton, Mass.

July 11-14.

Alpha Tau Omega now has 60 chapters, 49 of which have chapter
houses. The remaining 11 chapters have meeting halls for their
regular meetings. 14 of the 49 own their homes and the value of
this property is estimated to be $200,000.

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A Pan-Hellenic was organized in Portland, Ore. in the winter
of 1905 by representatives from Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa
Gamma and Alpha Phi. There are now ten sororities represented
with a membership of eighty. Meetings are held monthly and are
purely social in nature. Sometimes a luncheon or tea is given and
once a year a large card party is held. Officers are elected by accla-
mation. One year sewing was done for the Baby Home and
another year a subscription was raised for furniture for the new
Y. VV. C. A. building.

T o DRAGMA is indebted to The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi for the fol-
lowing interesting items:

As a punishment for flunking, the students at the University of Colorado
must wear small blue caps, with green buttons.

The faculty of Dickinson College have decided to give college credit for
work done in intersociety and intercollegiate debates.

The faculty of the University of Michigan is considering the matter of
giving credit for work on students' publications.

At the University of Minnesota a prize of ten dollars is being offered
to the student who made the most money during last summer vacation.

To advertise the university, all members of the freshman rhetoric classes
at Kansas are required to write articles concerning the institution to the home
newspapers.

There are occasional instances where the faculty makes it easy for a chap-
ter to acquire a house. At Lafayette College the trustees have agreed when a
chapter has raised, in cash and approved subscriptions, one-half the cost of the
proposed house, to assign it a lot on the campus, at a nominal rental, and
loan at interest the other half of the cost.—Garnet and White of Alpha Chi
Rho. Quoted by Alpha Phi.

I n Yale Phi Beta Kappa elects to membership those who have an average
standing of 330 on the work during the junior and senior years, 400 being
the maximum.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

The establishment of a national dramatic fraternity is being considered at
the University of Nebraska.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

A new woman's college in Connecticut:

New London, Conn.—The establishing of a woman's college in this city was
assured by the announcement last night that an endowment fund of $134."
824.41 has been raised by voluntary subscription. The largest single gift was
$25,000 from Morton F . Plant. In order to secure the college the city fur-
nished a site and an endowment of $100,000.—Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Smith College is to publish a weekly paper. This is the first attempt, a
monthly being the only previous undertaking in the line of publications.—Key
of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Delta Upsilon has the largest number of Rhodes scholars at Oxford Uni-
versity with a total of twenty-two. Of these Harvard has furnished four.—
Alpha T a u Omega Palm.

The following newly elected governors are fraternity men: Woodrow Wilson,
New Jersey, Phi Kappa P s i ; Herbert S. Hadley, Missouri, Phi Kappa Psi;

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John A. Dix, New York, Theta Delta C h i ; Lee Cruce, Oklahoma, Beta
Theta P i ; Simeon E . Baldwin, Connecticut, Alpha Sigma Phi.—Alpha T a u
Omega Palm.

T h e Chi Zeta Chi furnishes the f o l l o w i n g n e w s :

The Phi Alpha Phi Fraternity of the University of Tennessee is petitioning
the Phi Delta Theta.

Sigma Phi Epsilon has established a chapter in the University of California.

Pi Kappa Alpha has "crossed the Rubicon" and entered the University of
Cincinnati.

Sigma Chi has revived its chapter at George Washington.

Rumor says that local bodies in the University of Tennessee are petitioning
Sigma Nu and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Kappa Sigma, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
have re-entered Union University, Tennessee.

Delta Sigma Nu at Wooster is petitioning Delta Delta Delta.

A local at James Milliken (111.) is petitioning Kappa Sigma.

A local at Colorado College is petitioning Beta Theta Pi.

The Sigma Delta fraternity at Toronto is petitioning Theta Delta Chi.

A local at Western Reserve is petitioning Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Delta Rho Gamma at Ohio Wesleyan is petitioning Chi Phi.

Phi Kappa Psi is being petitioned from Pennsylvania State College.

Delta Upsilon is considering petitions from Pennsylvania State College,
University of Utah, Franklin and Marshall, Iowa State College and University
of Indiana.

The Gamma Delta Epsilon society at Dartmouth is petitioning Zeta Psi.

A local at Leland Stanford is preparing to petition Alpha T a u Omega.—
Alpha T a u Omega Palm.

After an agitation of several years a rule abolishing all fraternities was
passed a year ago in the University of Mississippi, by action of the University
authorities, which was, however, practically forced by the legislature. Their
existence was not terminated at that time, but they are not allowed to take in any
new members, and one year from this June they are directed to go out of
existence, during which period they are to wind up their affairs. A l l the fra-
ternities represented at Mississippi have had conferences regarding the matter,
but, owing to the want of definite organization among the graduates, little
headway was made until recently, by way of a sustained, organized effort,
to combat the political and college authorities, and to preserve the life of the
fraternities. The General Secretary has recently visited Mississippi, and reports
that it is the best opinion, both at the University and throughout the State,
that the existence of the fraternities depends upon the outcome of the present
political campaign.—Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly, quoted by Alpha Phi
Quarterly.

According to the resolution which the State Legislature passed in 1909,
the charge is made against fraternities and sororities that they are social
organizations which tend to foster class distinction and an anti-democratic
influence in the student life of the University of Wisconsin. Since democracy
is to be the watch-word of the University of Wisconsin, and since fraternities
and sororities seem to militate against such democracy, they should, therefore,

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be investigated, with a view to remedying such conditions and to offering a
substitute for these Greek-letter organizations that will promote greater democ-
racy among the students of the university.

As a result of this resolution, the President of the university appointed
a committee of seven members of the faculty to conduct such an investigation.
The committee consisted of both fraternity and non-fraternity members. A
thorough investigation was made last spring, and a complete report was ren-
dered this fall to the faculty; it being the understanding that some of the
recommendations will take effect for the college year 1911-12, and all of them
for the year 1912-13. The new regulations proposed are as follows:

1. That the pledging of high school students by the fraternities be dis-

continued.

2. That no freshmen be permitted to lodge or board in a fraternity house.

3. That no student be initiated into a fraternity until the beginning of the

sophomore year.

4. That no student be initiated into a fraternity while on probation.—

Alpha Phi Quarterly.
How far does the spirit of Fraternity go? This is a query occuring to many

a mind. I t may embrace, and theoretically does embrace, all the young women
whom we touch. Does it? Does it rather limit itself to one's own fraternity
and even to one local chapter of that single fraternity? Does it show itself
in viewing a girl for the purpose of deciding whether she be the girl for
fraternity membership, and, i f so, in having toward her the comrade heart?
Does it mean a flavor of scorn toward all things fraternal that are not of
one's own fraternity? Is it true, as one 'Eklekta article states, that "in a fra-
ternity ten to one the chances are in favor of the snob?" At least it is worth
answering one's own query as to just how broad one's own spirit of Frater-
nity is—that beautiful, wonderfu], all embracing, self-forgetting thing which
we call the SPIRIT of FRATERNITY.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

To our recent graduates, as well as to our many alumnae who have not
availed themselves of the privileges, we would enter a plea for the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae. The membership in itself is an honor for a diploma
of a college of qualified rank is necessary for admission. The association
stands for social intercourse among college graduates and for improvement
along many lines. I t is accomplishing things worth while and should enlist
the hearty co-operation of Alpha Phi graduates.—Alpha Phi Quarterly.

The National Pan-Hellenic Conference will be held in Evanston Friday
and Saturday, November third and fourth, instead of in Chicago as hereto-
fore. This change will allow the delegates to meet and socialize fully with
their active chapters at Northwestern University.

The National Pan-Hellenic Conference was founded by Alpha Phi in 1901.
It will mark its tenth anniversary this November by ceasing to be merely an
advisory body and taking on the power of limited legislation to make its own
laws and to penalize local Pan-Hellenic offenders, thus diminishing the
unthinking as well as the flagrant violations.—Alpha Phi Quarterly.

The oldest woman's fraternity is Alpha Delta Phi, which existed at Georgia
Wesleyan as a local under the name of The Adelphean Society until about
1905, when it assumed the name of one of our oldest and most honored men's
fraternities and extended to other schools. During the last five years twelve
charters have been granted, but only nine chapters survived. The greatest

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gain during the last ten years has been made by Chi Omega—seventeen chapters.
Every fraternity has shown a gain and the total number of active chapters
is twice what it was in 1900. Six fraternities—Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron
Pi, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha X i Delta, Delta Zeta and Alpha Gamma Delta,
have been founded within the last eighteen years. The chapters of Delta
Gamma at Mt. Union and Kappa Alpha Theta at Albion have become defunct.
The chapters of Pi Beta Phi at Iowa State College and Leland Stanford have
been revived.—Alpha Tau Omega Palm.

Especially are those college interests which lie outside the realm of fra-
ternity life in danger of being submerged. We often meet girls who are so
engrossed in fraternity life that they feel it a bore to go to those gatherings
where they meet the student body at large, and then we meet others who go
but feel it their duty to criticize everything which they do not find to their
taste, and then wonder why no college organization but the fraternity succeeds.
The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma, quoted by Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta.

Limit your chapter membership. The best sorority I have known had but
ten members. Never allow your expenses to grow to such an extent that you
need members to pay the bills. Ruination of a chapter can be accomplished in
no surer way.—Lamp of Delta Zeta.

Very often a good girl is lost to the fraternity, not because she would not
accept an invitation to membership, but because the chapter is not united in
its efforts to get her. Some girls rush one person, and others another. When
the time comes to vote both candidates may be blackballed simply because
not all the others know them. Above all, be united in rushing, for i f the
chapter is divided some one will make a mistake when it cannot be remedied.
Pennsylvania Beta urges that each member of Pi Beta Phi take the most
careful pains to become acquainted with every freshman that is being rushed
in her chapter. Only in this way can the girl in the question and the frater-
nity too get a fair deal.—Pennsylvania Beta of Pi Beta Phi in Arrow.

Fraternities need girls that can and will make their college days count for
something for themselves, their friends, and their college. So many girls who
are "nice"' and "sweet" come to college, and we take them into our fraternity:
we love them—for who would not?—and we enjoy associating with them, but
can you not imagine how much more valuable they would be to their sorority
as well as to their college i f they really tried to do something that would be
of public value? We do not mean to slight the importance of intellectual
accomplishments, for a student-body readily bows down to the student and
to the person on mental ability, but we do wish to say that while we want your
intellectual ability and covet your good grades, we also want you to have a
measure of public spirit. We are captivated by sweet little butterflies, but
can't you also change for the better and be a sensible as well as a loveable
college girl?

Our sororities need and want reasonable sensible girls, girls with strength
and girls with individuality and force of character—enthusiastic, wholesome,
wholesouled college girls.—Adelphean of Alpha Delta Phi.

One of the hard things to be grasped by the members of an active chapter
is the fact that it is only a small, though very vital, part of a comprehensive
organism. And harder yet is it to perceive any justice in the frequent criti-
cisms of alumnae and grand officers regarding the worth of widely differing
chapters. Why is it that apparent prosperity and success are often con-
demned as selfish, while a struggling chapter is named with commendation ?

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To find an answer wc are bound to judge ourselves calmly from their inner
temple rather than from the house-tops, and the catechizing must be searching.

Does a chapter do its duty to the fraternity most fully by offering it a
large chapter roll of attractive girls, or by nourishing a small group of sisters,
who realize the meaning of fraternalism, and attempt to live up to it? As
inestimable as is the value of an attractive alumna, i f she become while still in
college the pivot of discord and ill-feeling, does she outweigh the feeling of
entire co-operation and congeniality which should be the heritage of every
fraternity girl especially during her active chapter life ? Have you tried to choose
your chapter with regard to members and "pull," in order to hear thoughtless
outsiders say "it is the best fraternity in school" or with the hope of entire fel-
lowship, unity of purpose, and consistent advance toward the fraternity ideal?—
Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha.

The fact that a girl belongs to a fraternity should keep her from becoming
estranged from the university or college life. I t is true that the girl who
takes an interest in outside things is much more capable of being of use to
her fraternity in the college world, and will represent the organization more
creditably after her college course is over. However, we are not making a
plea for more college spirit for the good of the fraternity. While all loyal
Kappas love the fraternity and want to promote its interests, this plea places
fraternity ahead of college—a place it has never pretended to hold. But when
we say that fraternity girls above all others should be interested in college
activities, it is because the very fact that they have bound themselves together
for mutual helpfulness should enable each girl to be of service not merely to
her fraternity sisters, but to the college as a whole. The fraternity is an
organization to bring together the highest type of college women; to help,
and certainly not to interfere with or usurp, the college life. The fraternity is
only a means to aid a girl to get the most from her college life, and is not to
take its place.—Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

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