The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi - April-1905

Fraternit}! Directory

FOUNDERS OF FRATERNITY

Maggie Campbell " ". Monmouth, III.

Libbie Brooks-Gaddis Avon , III

Ada Bruen-Grier ........................•..••........... Belleview, PL

Clara Brownlee-Hutchinson Monmouth, Ill.

Emma Brownlee-Kilgore

Fanni e Whitenack Libby

Monmouth, III

Red Wing, Mon. Rosa Moore 207 W. 55th SL, New YorK City

Jennie Nicol (deceased)

Ina Smith Soule .......

Monmouth, Ill.

Jenni e Horne-Turnbull 2546 N. 32 St., Philadelphia, PL Fannie Thompson (deceased). Nancy Black-Wallace Glenosborne, Pa.

GRAND COUNCIL

PnsIDENT-Elitabeth Gamble, 49 Alexandrine Ave., West. Detroit, Mich.

VICE PRESIDENT-Mrs. Mav C. Reynolds, Fostoria, O. SECRETARy-Mary Bartol-Theiss (Mrs. Lewis E. Theiss), 64 W. Iogtb St., New York City.

TREAsuRER-M artha N. Kimball, Box V, Leadville, Colo. EDITOR-Florence Porter Robinson, 543 Marshaft St, Milwaukee, Wis,

HISTORIAN

Susan W. Lewis, s60s Madison Ave.. Chicago, Ill.

CATALOGUER

Mary Bartol -Theiss, 64 W Iogth St., New York City

CORRE8PONOING SECRETARIE8

AL PHA.. PROVJ.Jl'CR

PR.ESlDENT-Anna Morris Jackson, 215 E. 15th St., New York City

VERMONT ALPHA-Middlebury Coll .!ge, Bertha C. Duncan, Middlebury, Vt.

VUM ONT BETA-University of Vermont, Emma Bean, 411 Main St., Burlington, VI.

CoLUWBIA ALPHA-George Washington University, Adele R Taylor, 2705 P. St., Washington, D. C.

ALPHA-Swarthmore College, Elizabeth E. Johnson, Swarthmore. Pa.

PENN SYLVANIA BETA-Bucknell University, Florence L. Bacon, Lewisburg. Pa.

PENNSYLVANIA GAMMA-Dickinson College, Gertrude H eller, Carlisle, Pa.

OHIO ALPHA-Ohio University, Mary Treudley, Athens, Ohio.

OUIO BETA-Oh io State University, Katherine Bancroft, 58t Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

NEW YORK ALPHA-Syracuse Unive r sity, Lillian May Neff, 112 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.

NEW YORK BETA-Barnard College, Amalie Althaus, 2770 Briggs Ave., New York City.

MAS SACHUSETTS ALPHA-Boston Unive r sity, M. Lilli an Home, 12 S ome rset St , Boston, Ma ss.

M.uYLAND ALPHA-Woman's College of Baltimore, Irene T. Fenton, 2223 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.

BETA PROVINCE

Pusm'''T-Elda Smith, 710 S. 6th St., Springfield, III.

ILLINOI S BETA-Lombard College, Delia Conger, 381 N. Prairie St., Galesburg , III.

ILLI NOIS DELTA-Knox College, Clara Lindley, Whiting Hall , Galesburg, III.

ILLINOIS EpSILON-Northwestern Univer sity, Marie Hammond, 225 Kedzie Ave., Evanston, III.

ILLI NOIS ZETA-Univers ity of Illin ois , Kate Mann, 209 E Green St., Champaign, Ill.

INDIANA ALPH A-Fr anklin College, Grace Bryan, Franklin, Ind.

I NDIANA BETA-University of Indiana, Grace Graybill. Bloomington, INDIANA GAMMA-University of Indianapoli s, Lulu B . Kellar, Butler lege Residence, Indi ana polis, Ind.

MICHIGAN ALPHA-Hillsdale College, Evelyn Gates. Hillsdale, Mich .

MICHIGAN BETA-Univer s ity of Michigan, Rhea Tyler, 406 Packard St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

GAII KA PROl' IN'CE

PUSlDENT-Sue Stone, Co lumbia, Mo.

IOWA ALPHA-Iowa Wesleyan University, Stella Guthrie, Ml Pleasant, Iowa.

IOWA BETA-Simpson Coll ege-Ruth Baker, Indianola, la

IOWA ZETA-Iowa Stat e University, Sadie Holiday, Iowa City, Ia.

WISCONSIN ALPHA-University of Wi sconsin, Helen Rosen stengel , Madison, Wis.

MI SSOURJ ALPBA-University of Mi sso uri, Betty Williams, Columbia, Mo. DELTA PROVINCE

PllESlDENT-Anne Stuart, 1906 D St., Lincoln, Neb.

L OUISIANA ALPHA-Newcomb College, Genevieve L Jackson, nJ8 Wash ington Ave., New Orleans, La .

KANSA S ALPHA-Kansas University, Lesley Hill. Lawrence, Kan sas

NEBRA SK A BETA-University of Nebraska, Kate Heacock, 307 N. 24th St, Lincoln, Neb.

TEXAS ALPHA-University of T exas, Fay Kincaid, Pi Beta Phi Lodge, Guadaloupe St, Austin, TexaL

CoLORADO ALPHA-University of Colorado, Clara Morse, Boulder. Colo.

CoLORADO BETA-Denver University, Lena Harper, 1512 Fillmore St., Denver, C lo.

CAUFORNIA ALPHA-Stanford University, Eugenia Miller, Stanford University, Cal.

CALIFOR NIA BETA-University of California, Clara Cooper, 242B College Ave , Berkeley, Cal.

Alumnae Association Directory

PItESlDENT-Mrs May C. Reynolds, Fo s toria, Ohio. ALUMNAE EDITOR-Iva A. Welch, 416 N Living ston St., Madison, Wis

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SECIlETARY-M Ida Hodge, 70 BeII Rock St., Malden, Mass. NEW .YoRK-Leora Sherwood, 1514 S State St., Syracuse, N. Y. PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE-Grace S, Wooda r d, Hambu rg, N. Y DI STilICT OF CoLUMBIA, MARYLAND AND SoUTHEAST-Edna L. Stone, 1618 R. I. Ave ., Wa s hingt o n, D. C. OSlO-Mrs R. S. Belknap, J20 Bank St., Painesville, O VERMoNT---Mary E. Colburn, Union Village, Vt. MAS SAC HUSETTs-E li zabe th A. Coates, 857 Bridge St ., Lowell, Mass

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SECRETARy-Katharin e Stevenson, 2J19 Co1lege Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. I NDIANA-Fannie Mine r , 519 E Walnut St , Indianapolis, Ind. ILLI No Is-Fannie Hurff, 257 S. Academy St. , Galesbu rg, Ill. MI CHIGAN-M r s. Bertha My e r s Kempton, North Adam s, Mich

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SECRETARy-Maude Mill e r , 217 N 13t h St. , St. Jo se ph , Mo MIS souRI-Mr s. V K. Tuggle, 3028 Harri so n St., Kansas City, Mo. IOWA-Mr s. Olive W. Curtis, Ames, I owa.

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SECRETARy-Mr s. Ida Smith-Griffith, Lawrence, Kan. KANSA s-Els ie Evans, 7<>4 S ou th Fourth St. , Leavenworth, Kan. NEBRASKA-Mrs. Henry Eames. 1837 E. St, Lincoln, Neb TEXAs-Flora Clark IJ84 SO. Pearl St ., Denver, Colo. CoLORADO-Mary Clark Traylor, 1384 S o. Pearl St., Denver Colo CALI FORNIA -Elizabeth Kenned y, Fre sn o, Cal. ARIZONA-Mrs. T. K. Marshall, Tu cson, Arizona.

ALUMNAE CLUB SECRETARIES

BOSTON, MA ss.-Winifred Hill, 19 Highgate St., Allston, Mass. BURLIN GTON, VT.-Mary Gregory. NEW YORK CITy-Martha Th omas, 157 Glenwood Ave., Yonkers . SYRA CUSE, N. Y -Mrs. Olive R. 'Waite, 1302 Madison St. WA SH INGTON, D C.-Lola M Evans, 2227 13th St., N. W. PHILADELPHIA , PA .-B ess Wells, Moo re st own, N. J. COLUMBUS. O.-Mrs F. D. Co nn elley, 1507 Michigan Ave. ATHEN S, O.-Mazie Earhart. FRANKLIN, IND.-Gladys MjJJ e r . INDIANA POLIS, IND.-Fann ie Miner, 519 E. Walnut St. CHICAGO, Iu..- Katharine lS. Miller, 155 Warren Ave. GALESBU RG, ILL.-Martha Arnold. DETROIT, Ml c n .-Eleanor Towar, 26 Pitch e r St. HILL SDALE. MI CH.- Mr s. Eli zabeth Stewart. CRESTON, lA .-G rac e Har s h. DES M OINES, IA.-E lla J . Cummins, 424 28th 51. MT. PLEASANT, IA .-M . Blanche Swan. I NDIANOLA, TA.-Flora Sigl e r AMES, lA -Lola A. Placeway KANSAS CITY, Tayl o r , 303 1 Waba sh Ave. ST LoUIS , Mo.- A. Fred Becker, 3112 Cass Ave ST JOSEPH. Mo.-Mrs Je ss ie L. Gaynor. The Gayno r Studio LIN COLN , Nf.B.-Mrs. Oliver Everett, 322 S. 14th St. LAWREN CE, KAN .-Lena Mar sh BOULDER, CoLO.-Mrs. Edith McClure, 2227 8th St.

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NO.3

Th e In stallation of California Alpha

On the evening of F eb ruar y eleventh, California Alpha of Pi Beta Phi was r eestablis hed at Sta nfo rd Unive rsity. The chapter had fir st been estab lished in 1893 but th e charter wa s r elinquished in 1898.

Th e initiation was conducted by Miss Helen B. Sutliff, past grand president, assisted by Miss Harriette Miles and Mrs. Effie Jun e Scott-Franklin of Kansas Alp ha, Mrs Frances Rand- Smith of the forme r chapter of Ca liforn ia Alpha, Mrs. Augusta Smallstig-Van Ki rk of Indiana Gamma, th e whole ac tive chapter of Califo rni a Beta an d a number of its alumna e.

Th e initiation ceremonies, whi ch were held in the chapter house were foll o wed by a banquet at the University Inn, with covers laid fo r thirty-fiv e. Here a jolly hou r was spe nt in toast making and si nging coll ege and fraternity songs.

Th e girls a re fort unat e in having for patronesses Mrs. Effie Franklin , Kansas Alpha , Mrs. Frances Smith, Califo rnia Alpha, Mrs. Rowe, Colorado Alpha , Mrs. Clyde A. Duniway, Mrs. E. D. Adams , Mrs . Thomas Hayes and Mrs. George Gale.

Stanford Unioersit"t!

The Leland Stanford Junior U niversity was found ed in 1885 by Senator Stanford and hi s wif e in memory of th eir son, who died in Marc h, 1884. Th e cornerstone was laid May fourteenth, 1887, and the University was opened to s tud ents -October first, 1891. After the death of Senator Stanford in 1893 and until 1896

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the estate was tied up in litigation , which was finally settled in fav o r of Mrs. Stanford. Since then th e construction o f buildings as provided in the o ri gina l plans of Senator Stanford have been carried fo rward as rapidly as possible, the so-called "S tone age" o f the quadrangle having been passed in 1904, when the last keystone of the la st arch was put in place.

The principal feature of the architectu re is the inn er quadran g le, an open court S86 feet lon g by 246 feet wide, s urrounded by a continuous arcade of twelve buildings. The general effect is o f the o ld Spanish Moo rish style . Th e buildings are constructed of buff sandstone, rough-hewn , and with the low redtiled roofs are very picture sq ue in th e ir setting of green trees and green rolling hills.

The inn er quadrangle is sur r ounded by an outer row of buildin gs, which includes the memorial arch, the pr esent library, the assembly hall , the history, geology, natural sciences and engineering buildings, and various others.

The fine museum building will con tain , when the addition now being built is completed, about fifty large rooms, and th e many collections of curios are perhaps the most varied and valuable in California. A large gymnasium is being erected at a cost of half a million dollars and is designed to be as complete as architectural science can make it. A second library building is soon to be constructed at a probable expense of a million dollars, and in it is to be stored the most comprehensive library in the west.

The Memorial church was built at a cost o f over half a million dollars and its series of art-glass windows, its carven work and sculpture , its mosaics and paintings, and its g reat pipe organ are worthy of this n otable structure which ha s been pronounced by competent critics to be the masterpiece of architec ture o f this age. The Memorial Arch is the largest in the world save one-the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

The ' wealth and magnificence of the buildings but poorly express the love, the devotion and sacrifice that Senator and Mrs. Stanford have put into the consummation of their g r eat ideal. -California Alpha.

"Barnard Colfeg z

Col u mb ia U ni ve r si t y is sit ua t ed o n Mo rnin gs ide H eigh ts, far a bove th e b usy sec ti on o f Ma nh atta n , a nd in o ne o f th e mos t beautiful an d p ic tur esqu e pa rt s o f all Te w Y o rk It is th e ideal pla ce fo r a coll ege , in a g rea t ci t y, ye t far aw ay fr om th e no ise and c r owded s treets , a n d ove rl ook in g R ive r s ide D r ive, a nd t he broad Hu dson . The U niv ers it y g r oun ds, w ith th e excep ti on o f th e athl eti c fi elds , whi ch li e t o th e so uth , s tret ch from O ne- hundred an d S ix t ee nth Str ee t t o O ne- hundr ed and Tw ent y- fir s t St ree t an d fr om Amste rd am A venu e t o Cla r emo nt , two lo ng bl ocks. Ba rn a rd Coll ege is o n th e la nd near es t th e ri ve r, an d from it s w in do ws may be see n th e sho r es o f Ne w J er sey to th e no rth and so uth , th e great bend in t he ri ve r t o th e no rth , an d , t o ward ev enin g, th e li g hts of th e city, far bel o w.

B arn a r d has pro ved, by it s ra pid deve lop me nt , th a t th er e was great nee d fo r a w o man' s co ll ege in Ne w Yo rk , and th e hi st ory o f it s fe w yea rs s hows how i t has fitt ed itse lf e ve r mo re and m o re fo r th e be st se rvi ce . Th e ri g ht co ll ege in th e ri g ht place, it will in th e futur e beco me even mor e o f a fact o r in th e co llege w o rl d t ha n it is today, fo r e very yea r marks man y improveme nt s, an in c re ase o f stud e nt s, be tte r faci liti es and be tte r o rg ani zed co ll eg e life.

In 1889 se ven stud ent s, mee tin g in a coupl e of priv at e house s o n Madiso n Ave nu e, att end in g lec tur es in the big front bedr oo ms, fo r med th e nu cle us o f Barn a r d Co llege. Thu s , in a humble wa y th e w ork bega n, with an enr ollm ent o f se ven ; in 1904 th e enrollment wa s four hundred eighty-five. In 1893 , the first class to graduat e, boa st ed eight A. B.' s ; thi s last yea r th ere w ere eighty. Thu s th e coll ege is gro wing , with each yea r adding more names t o its roll.

It wa s in J 89 7 that Barnard mo ved t o its prese nt home on Broadway and 1I9th str ee t, where it occupies three halls, Brinckerhoff, Milbank and Fisk e. The se are built adjoining, and form three sides of a hollow square, with every room light

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and well-ventilated. The buildings are beautiful, with true modern, yet classic, simplicity, and the court, with its smooth lawn and well-arranged shrubbery and flower s, adds its share to the artistic side.

Fiske was given to be u se d as a hall of science, but as the rooms were not needed during the fir st few years when the college was small, it was then used as a d ormitory. The girls had the most delightful of times in Fiske, and almost regretted the growth of the coll ege that made necessa ry the rem odeling of the building. In 1902 it was fitted up for working purposes and now contains some of the finest class-rooms, the faculty r oom, and the Dean's offices.

In '903 the latest addition to the enlargement of our college came in the gift of land, extending for three blocks to the south of Barnard, and a block in width. It is on this land that the longed-for Barnard dormitory will some day be built, together with other buildings , needed as the college grows. Part of the land has been fitted up as a campus and athletic field, known as Milbank Quadrangle It was there that Fi eld Day was celebrated and there that the first class-tree was planted.

Barnard girls have at present no regular college dormitory of their own, although Whittier Hall fills the need to a certain extent. This hall is exclusively for women, and two floors are set apart fo r the use of Barnard students. About one hundred are accommodated, and th ey have a very delightful social life of their ow n.

Barnard is well endowed, financially independent of the University, and the present dean, Miss Laura Drake Gill, is a woman of remarkable executive ability, administering the affairs of the college in a tboroughly businesslike way, which gIeatly adds to its possibilities and hopes for the future.

The connection of Barnard with Columbia University has often been misunderstood, and Barnard wrongly thought to be either "co-ed" or -an annex. On the contrary, it is a separate corporation , enjoying, however, the many advantages . which feeling and community of interests with a great university bring

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about. A larger numbe r of courses and better specia li st wo rk are in thi s wa y ope n to th e Ba rn ard student. All clas ses for the fir st three yea r s a r e e ntir ely sepa rat e from instruction a t Columbia, and almost all in the senior yea r , although a certain number of Unive r sit y courses are then open t o th e Barnard gi rl s.

By the agreemen t o f January " ,goo, Barnard is an integral part of th e U nive rs ity, just as Co lumbia College is, but has its own dean , fac ult y and trustees. The president of th e U nive r si t y appoints th e dean, who has a sea t and vote in the University Council. Th e Unive r sity g rants a ll deg r ees, whic h stand for the same r eco rd of good sch o larship and broad cu lture as the Columbia Co llege degree , a nd the Univers it y is ope n in its g raduate courses to both men and wom en.

Another advantage which Barnard attains through connection with the Unive r sity is th e use o f th e magnificently eq uipp ed Columbia Library, the gi ft of our form e r President, Se th Low. Th e building, with its beau tiful architecture , broad low dome and imposing is one of which a n y university might we ll be pro ud. It con tain s more th an 3So,(X)() bound vo lum es, innume rable pamphl e t s and magazines, and twenty-one special stud y rooms for advanced students.

Through its connect ion with th e University, Barnard is also able to co-ope r a t e wi th T eache r 's College, which offe r s thorough courses in educatio n a n d g rant s the degree of B. S. fo r th os e wh o intend to t eac h in eleme ntar y or secondary schools. By a special arra ngeme nt, Barna rd gi rls may take courses there in the junior and sen ior years, h ich count both t owa rd th ei r college de g ree and their t eacher's diploma, and Bryson Library and R ead ing Room, in Teacher ' s Co ll ege, fill ed especially with books on ed u cation , is ope n to Barnard stud ents , wheth e r they are takin g courses th e re o r not.

Earl Hall is o ne o f the newest buildings on the campus. It was designed to advance the spi ritual life of the Unive rsit y, and associations such as the Y. M. C. A., the Phillips Brooks Guild and the Y. W. C. A. of Barnard meet in its rooms. The lower floor is fitted up exclusively for the women of the University,

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and it is there that the Y. W C. A. serves tea informally to members and their friends one afternoon each week, and gives its annual welcome to newcomers.

A high standard of work is insisted upon at Barna r d, and she ranks foremost among American colleges today. The term work and the examinations, and finally the degree itself, is ide ntical in rank wit h th ose of Columbia. The honors to be obtained are in the form of severa l competitive scholar ships, the Sophomore, Juni or and Senior Honors , awarded to eligibl e students for extra work in ce rtain subjects, and the Genera l Honors , g rant ed at th e end of the Senior yea r for highest general schola r ship There are besides a much coveted prize in mathematics, one in botany, and a chapte r of Phi Beta Kappa.

As Barna rd is a city college, and more than half of its members r eturn at night to their homes in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City , or neighboring smaller towns such as Yonkers and New Rochelle, the social life is necessarily different from that in a strictly dormitory college. Almost all socia l affairs are given therefore in the afternoon. Of course the Junior BaH, given usually in February, the Senior Dance and occas ional fraternity and class affairs are held in the even ing. At such times the girls who liv e at a distance come to college in the morning with th eir in evitable sui t-cases, and spread the good times a little farth er into the night by rooming together eithe r in Whittier Hall or near-by apartments.

The freshman coming to Barnard has a hearty welcome. She is entertained by the Y. W. C. A. and by each of the upper classes. The Sophomore entertainment is generally in the shape of "Myste rie s," a dreaded but delightful sort of hazing, but is later in the yea r followed by another sort of welcome, usuall y a play or cotillo n These parties are held in the oollege theatre, where the stage may be taken down and the Hoor easily cleared for dancing.

Under th e direction of th e Undergraduate Association, the selfgoverning student body, three teas and a play are given each year. This college play is the event of the year, in which all the

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girls take an interes t and the classes rival each other in supplying th e largest number o f parts.

The o rgan iza tions at Barnard are numerous. Among th e philanthropic are the Ba rnar d C hapt er of the Coll ege Settlement Association, the C. S. M. A., and th e Christian Association, which se nds delegates to Silve r Bay eac h summ e r. The musical genius o f th e colle ge finds exp re ss ion in th e Barnard Chorus, and the Glee and Mand o lin Clubs. More social are th e Southern Club , th e Deutscher Kreis and La Societe Th e fratern iti es, seven in number , are, in the o rd e r o f th ei r introduction: Kappa Kappa Gamma , Alpha Om icro n Pi, Ka ppa Alpha Th eta , Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi , Delta Delta D elta and Pi Beta P hi

The Athletic Association has two branches fo r basket-ball and t enni s . It was un de r its direction that our first Field Day wa s celebrated-April 18, 1904, the anniv ersary of our gift of Milbank Field.

To t ell o f the Barnard U ni on is t o ann ounce a wo rk almost wh o ll y in the future , fo r it ha s been organized only s ince the la st of this year, but its futur e is so assu re d, and it promises so much toward concentrating the energi es o f Barnard that it would be sca r ce ly fair to leave it o ut. The" U nio n i s to be fo r med with the lite rar y soc iety kn o wn as the Barnard Bear, and the Debating C lub a a nucleu s It will give a musical , literary and debating program every two weeks during the college year, and will publish a li te rar y supplement to our college newspaper, the Barnard Bulletin

Thi s ends with a so rt of glance into the future, but it must be so with a college growing so rapidly as Barnard. Her history lies before her; th e past has been preparation and achievement t oo, but in the future will come her greatest development.

-Florence Eddy Hubbard, New York Beta, I904.

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The Cl?apter Letter

It is with some misgiving that I offer this word to the ARROW and to our Pi Beta Phis. In the first place, I have not been asked to write it. In the second, what would be only gentles t suggestion on my part may be somewhat misunderstood .

The editorial regarding January chapter letters encourages me, however, and perhaps the fact that earlie r personal experience in writing chapte r letters for the ARROW has brought me to a full realization of the many difficulties that a corresponding secretary must overcome to produce an inte resting and desirable letter.

I am writing from the standpoint of the alumna, far from her college home; in touch with college and fraternity friends only through occasional letters, a chance visit from some traveller from home-and the ARROW.

New duties and fri ends lead and force one to new and pleasant interests, but never to the exclusion of o ld-time memories, associations and friends With this bit of exp lan a ti on, may I frankly say I am disappointed in some of the chapter l ette r s, and perhaps in alumnae-notes too.

I hope I am not misunderstood when I add my belief th at many of the letters, if given a little more time and thought would be much improved. I recently heard a lecturer beva ilin g the valuable time lost in Umaking conversation." Have any letters used up both time and space saying what we know must be true of all college and fraternity girls? Look in your last ARROW

I remember that one of the rules a much-beloved English profess o r Once gave us for themes was, "Write your th eme, then omit the first sentence."

Perhaps we might expand the rule, "Write your letter, then see how much of it is trit e and how much vital." Letter writing is is an art, natural or acquired. Let o ur chapter leiters show it at its best.

-An Alum"".

THE CHAPTER LETTER I53

The editorial in the January ARROW concerning material for a chapter letter, has set us all a-thinking. We all know that"brag and gush" are out of place in either life or letter, and yet a good many of us forget this truth when writing our chapter letters. We have often sighed, 110 if we only knew better the girls to whom we are writing !" But how, let me ask, are we to know each other when we hide our real selves behind a chronical of social events, hurriedly written by one or two members? Is this the way to keep our chapters in close and vital connection with one another? Let each girl take a personal interest in the letter, have it read and criticised in meeting, and the ARROW will be improved and the way of the corresponding secretary made easier.

When we turn to the chapter letters, we do not expect to find each one a literary gem,-the ARROW is not a literary magazine. But we do expect to find some item that will be of special interest to us as Pi Phis ; to be given some glimpse into the college life of our sister chapters; some hint as to the ways in which they have been helped in their efforts to reach the highest aspirations of our Pi Beta Phi, and some suggestions that will aid us in becoming truer fraternity women. We must not forget, or seemingly overlook, the fact that "Our hea rts are bound together by the wine and silver blue." If this last thought , and all that it means to us , is always kept in our minds, we shall not have cause so often to turn in disappointment from man y o f our chapter letters.

-Iowa Alpha

. Thanks to the editorial in the January ARROW a subject for an article has not been hard t o find . We so often become tir ed o f the endless discussions of "Pledge Pin," HPatroness' Pin," and HRushing,"-not that a11 these are not beneficial but they are such time-worn SUbjects. Can anything be more interesting than the "Substance and Spirit of the Chapter Letter?"

Separated as our chapters are and having but one direct communication yearly, we often feel that we are entire strangers to distant chapters. We think of them, of course, as Pi Beta Phis,

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as our own fraternity sisters wo rking towards the same ends and bound by the same ti es, but in addition to thi s, we have a halfstrange, half-mysterious feeling toward them We read their chapter letters, enjoy hearing abollt their college and fraternity functions, and ye t when we hav e fini shed we feel a lack of something. We want mo re insight into th e ir rea l fraternity life. We want new ideas and suggestions whi ch th ey hav e worked out and which will no doubt help us.

Each chapter has its own characteristics, its me thods and ways 0' doing things which to it seem only a matter o f course but which would be new to others. Frequently the help gained from a few suggestions offered by one chapter would mean a great deal t o another chapter. Let us have more real help in our letter s; m o rc ideas from one chapter to another. Let us, too , have th e real fraternal spirit; let us lay aside all "brag and gush" and show only our true selves. Let us , above all, interes t OUT alumnae; never forget that to them we owe so much and it is our duty to keep them posted and intere sted.

-Penllsylva1lia Beta.

"What s hould the chapter letter contain?" This question stares th e corresponding secretary in the face, but she modifies it to, "Why should th e chapter letter exist?" There would be obvious ben efits t o be derived from the se letters if the y would actually express the spirit and work of th e chapter. But they seldom really do this. They are chronicles of soc ial eve nts , padded out with a few items o f news or righte ous boasts and sometimes even with the a "we-cannot-tell-you-how-long-it-seems-dear-girls h variety of 1iterature.

Every chapte r is distinctly marked by certain characteristics. If the y cou ld be brought out in the lett er they would interest every other chapter. It is not n ecessary that the studious chapter quote Greek or Latin or that the society-loving girls write lists of the objectionable "p ink teas." The chapter letter as written by the corresponding secretary can never be the voice o f the chapter as a composite whole , but it is the spirit rather than the actual

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r ep rese ntatio n which we want. What do we mean by "P i Phi style," if n ot the cha ra cteristic attitude o f the gi rl s as a whole?

Eve ry yea r the problem of ru shing confronts us. A t th e conventi o n la st yea r we heard of innumerable good rushing sugg e stions. If two heads are better than one , how much thirty-four chapter letters o ught to accomplish in furni shing success ful ideas f o r ru shi n g, a nd , indeed, fo r any kind of chapter activity. T o be sure someo ne will say, "we cannot put any cha pte r suggestions in th e lette r s because aU the frat e rniti es see the m." The se lfishness o f this attitude is aU too apparent. O ur frat e rnity d oes not aim fo r sec recy in aU things. AU the women's frat e rniti es would be aided in the same prop o rti.o ns as we are .

Th e chapter le tter should be th e happ y balance,-<Jh so hard to attain I-betwe en what inte rests us and what may interest other chapte r s . It sh o uld bring th e chapters into closer harmony and f e Jl owship by presenting a true picture o f th e spi r it and the work carried o n It should aid oth e r s by any helpful suggestions th e chapter may have t o offe r.

-Wisconsin Alpha.

The Late P ledge DO}!

In answer to T exas Alpha 's pl ea fo r a late pledge da y, Maryland Alpha wishes to t e U he r ex pe ri e nce of la st yea r The seven frat e rniti es of the coJlege are governed by a Pan-HeUenic Association, and last year th e association agreed t o try a late pledge day, but not a lo ng rushillg season. One o bj ect wa s t o do away with vi o lent rushin g and take a gi rl into the frat e rnit y only afte r w e had made a fri en d of her. So true friendship was to be our k ey -n ote last year. Pan-HeUenic made a long li s t o f rul es, a1l of th em res tri ct ions aga in st ru s hing, a nd placed pledge day the twelfth of March . These rul es were published in o ne of last year's ARROWS. So every frat e rnit y girl bega n he r coUege term las t yea r , convinced that th is was an id ea l plan, and that a ll the evi ls of ru shin g would vanish into th e past. The theory proved more ideal than practical. Every fra ternity in coUege suffered

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from th e change. Th e influences exe rted upon the freshmen in the long season are n ot good. They form cliques among themselves, as is natural, but the subject Hf raternity" is usually their topic of conversation and as we, who are the only' ones who know truly what that word implies, are not allowed to mention it to any, they form their own conclusions, and th ey are mostly extravagant and abnormal ideas of our life and actions. They cannot see the reason o r advantage for our many rest rictions and many of them talk with their non-fraternity friends who, of course, tell them they are happier out of a fraternity, and the freshman often decides that she too can be happier as a non-fraternity girl.

Often the cliques of freshmen will not separate and the fraternity who is willing to descend from he r ideal, will ask the whole clique in orde r to get the one or two good g irl s in it.

These are rather minor objections when you conside r th e time which must be devoted to rushing. Vie were allowed to rush F ri day evenings and Saturdays and to give one large function before pledge day. This in itself did n ot take much time , but th e thought and worry w hi ch naturally goes with such proceedin gs cannot be over looked. Ou r minds were always more or less oc cupi ed with the s ubject and our studies, as a natural consequence, suffered.

The freshmen, as we were afterwards told, became tired of our pr olonged attentions, and wished the question settled long be fore it was .

It will take rears of practice before a fraternity in competition with five o r six other national fraternities can calmly let the freshmen alone , to gravitate naturally to those whose tastes are most nearly their own It is not natural that we sh ould take the matter so calmly , and we almost feel ourselves hoping that we may never become so indifferent!

With only a hundred freshmen and seve n fraternities at our college, we cannot appo rti on the eligible material among us. Even with a long season two or three fraternities asked the same girls on pledge day.

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greater mistakes than she ever did with a six weeks hard rush. Our calmness and judgment seemed wrecked by the prolonged stress and strain of what it was hoped would develop into a natural solution of the problem .

This year we went back to our early pledge day-November the twelfth, but still kept a number of Pan-Hellenic restrictions , without which the adoption of an early pledge day would have more evils than were manifested by the long season.

The advantages of an early pledge day, with restrictions, cannot be slighted by an enthu siastic fraternity girl. The "home life" of the chapter is not lost to the freshman. She, therefore, has the time and inclination to develop studious habits and class and college spirit. She takes a broader view of life and her interest is not self-centered, but guided by an influence which will form and mould her for the r esponsibilities of the years to come.

-Irene T,,/a Fm/o".

T lze Cjzap ter P resident

It goes w ithout saying that the office of chapte r president is no sinecure. To ful1ill its duties acceptably demands a great deal of time, thought and native ability. It is with this apologetic preface that I venture to criticise the usual method of conducting a fraternity meeting.

The freshman in college does not, and is not expected to know parliamentary procedure. Yet when she leaves college and is called on unexpectedly to take the chair at some public meeting it is sad for her to find that she lacks assurance, hesitates and blunders; it is humiliating to confess absolute ignorance of the accepted methods by which formal gatherings are regulated the world over The college training should give tact in presiding, firmness in ruling and policy in using one's knowledge of forms to gain one's point. It is remarkable how easily a skilful parliamentarian can hold control of affairs, can manipulate the indifferent, can defeat his opponents, merely by his conducting the Aaa.ow-4

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ordinary business of the meeting. Only constant practice makes one skilful. It may be mentioned in passing that to expose one's ignorance of such forms brings ridicule on the unfortunate.

For most coll ege girls the fraternity meeting is the only place wherein to learn how a club should be conducted It is their one chance How many chapter presidents are doing their duty by the chapters who elected them to that office? How many of them give time to outside study in order that they may decide disputed points fairly? How many of them can rul e a meeting with an unrufil ed dignity? Of course it tak es time and practice . To be a good parliamentarian requires as much effort as to be a good logician.

The chapter president has in her own hands the making of her chapter in this respect. She is training the fr eshmen. She is setting a standard for them If they cannot speak without a giggle, if they do not hesitate to interrupt one another, if audible asides are made, if three different motions are before th e house at the sa me time, I consider it the fault of the chapter president. It may seem that a meeting conducted according to stric t parliamentary procedure would be too formal, too stiff and forbidding. I advocate , however, at least fifteen minutes of such formality for the discipline it gives, and then in informal discussion the meeting may be as sweetly ill ogical and ingenuous as it chooses.

Texas Alpha.

What a Frat ernit ]! Girl Think s

V e rmont Alpha , in th e J a nuar y ARROW made " A Reply " to

How lor mar IndioiduQi Opinion Guve r n Us?

"A Se rio ll s Questio n" in th e Novem be r numbe r. May we ask on e mo rc qu es tion?

Granted that th e gi rl under co n sideration is an admi rable gi rl in eve ry respect , but, for an un exp lainabl e reason, one m embe r o f t he chapter finds her uncongenial , is that fr aternity girl s h owing her n oblest self by cas tin g he r ball o t for the ne w come r thus sacri fi ci ng he r individual opi nion, o r by cas tin g he r ball o t against h e r a nd so fulfilling he r promi ses concerni ng new membe rs?

Penllsyl v ania Gamma.

We, o f Ver mo n t Beta, aft e r waiting nearly ha lf th e yea r for our fr es hm en, heartily end o r se the Pan-Hellenic rul es and the long ru shing-season. Whil e it ha s see med long to 'Pa n -Helle n ic wa it fo r o ur g irl s, we f ee l suitabl y rewarded. We have come to kn ow the fr eshmen t horo ughly a n d th ey h ave had th e same oppo rtunit y t o kn ow us G irl s have changed places so mew h at s in ce we looked upon th em in th e autumn Th e lo ng seaso n ha s gi ven us oppo rtun ity to find o ut th e tru e, quiet gi rl , whil e we could r igh tl y place the brilliant , showy girl. The "nls hees," too, h ave had tim e to kn o w what the y are doing. Be fo re th e half-yea r had passed th ey had fo und th eir own level.

The friendliness betwee n the frat e rniti es seems t o have increas ed with the ne w rul es Each chapter ha s eq ual opportunity and mu st stand or fall on it s own me r it s . W e have see n , however, that th e rushing seaso n, if ab u sed, may have a harmful effect on th e new girl, as well as on the c hapt e r . The gir l may go to o ne extreme a nd " ru sh " the frat e rnit y, or t o the other and

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have nothing t o do with it. Where several desirable girls who would have joined a fraternity when they first came to coll ege, refus e to join any chapter later on, s urel y there is something wrong. Probably it is the effect of th e lo ng, st r en uous rushing. Th e gir ls have been wea ri ed by the strain, and look upon wha t th ey have seen as if it were th e esse nce of fra t ernit y life It seems to us that th e lon g ru shin g season ca ll s for no extra effort. '!'he girls can be made to feel that there is something beyond pink teas and spreads in fraternity life. The chance of disillusionment which might come after a few short, hurri ed weeks of ru shing is gone We have found that just to be ourselves is enough and that the true, earnest "rushee" ca n eas ily make her choice.

Vertllonl Bela.

Th e r e are three summ er c.onferences of the Young Women's Ch ri st ian Associa ti on he ld at Lake Geneva, and at Silve r Bay,

T Jre Co n ferences of t he Ch r is/ian A ss ociation

Lake Geo rg e. These gat h eri ngs afford an unp aralle led opportun ity for meeting other coll ege women in intimate f ellow ship, for listening to exceptional leade r s, and time to reHect on the deep spiritua l r ealities of life. A well-known educator recently said he kn ew o f no greate r aid to acquiring poise, than attendance at one of these gat h eri ngs. In the summe r of '904, Massachusetts Alpha's two delegates to Silver Bay found time during the t en busy days to enjoy a spread wit h Pi Phi sisters from Vermont Alpha and Beta , Dickinson, Barnard, Swarthmore, and Hillsdale. Realizing the privileges o f attend ing such gatherings, and what they have meant to us, we feel that we should u se ou r influ ence in spreading notice of the conference and take pains especially to hel p the younger girls to r ea lize its value. In this way, I believe, we may materially strengthe n ourselves and make a stronger type of fraternity girl.

M assach"setls Alpha.

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We all feel the need of a r egulatio n pledge pin. The 1. C. is not well enough known and the monogram is not origina l enough. \Vh en a girl is pledged. for a lo nger or a shorter 'Pin tim e. she feels that a r egu lati o n pin would bring he r closer to the frat e rnit y. Could not some of our own artistic girls be making up some design so that something definite could be done at n ex t convention? The pin ought to be one that would be easy to recognize everywhere as belonging to Pi Beta Phi . Perhaps it would be a good idea if the chapters would each buy several to be used while the girls were pledged and then r eturned to the ehapter.

Illinois Zeta.

It is very apt to be the case in colleges where the dormitory system is not used and where the fraternity rooms are not in

To Insure Alfendancc th e college building that the girls become just a little bit lax in attenda nce. and allow a very slight excuse to keep them away from fraternity meeting. The imposition of a fine does not seem to r emedy thi s ev il. and I wish th e other chapters would think this over . Might there not be stricter attention paid to attendance if the chapters were all required to send in to the Grand Council a r eco rd of the attendance at each meeting. which should count in the standi ng of the individual chapter? Columbia Alpha would like to hear the suggestions of the other chapters.

Columbia Alpha.

Among the fraternity girls of the Unive r sity of California the question of the position of their fraternity pin to that of their The College or Ihe Fralerni/f Pin?

college particularly. and to those of other organizati ons that they may belong to has been often discussed. We all agree that the high school fraternity pin and the pin o f any litera ry or dramatic society should be placed below that of o ur fraternity. But what about the blue and gold pennant of our dear Alma Mater? We Califo rnian s are so proud of our state and its fine university. that

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most of us feel that it is no disrespect to place the pennant above the arrow. OUT love for OUT university does not lesse n our love for Pi Phi , but our pride at California may bias our feelings on this subject and we should like t o know ho w ou r Pi Phi sisters feel about it

California Bela.

It has been suggested by Massachusetts Alpha that the provvince convention be revived . Th ere are doubtless many chapters

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that ec ho thi s sentimen t. A province convention would be a m eans by which we could not only become acquainted with ot her Pi Phi's than those of our own chapter, but it would give us an opportunity to compare notes, thus gaining help and giving help, to other chapters. We would be brought into the direct intimate relatio nship which we desire and which on ly acquaintance and interest in o ne an 4 other can produce. More g irl s could be present at such a gathering than can attend the national convention, and a more general id ea of the extent and possibilities of Pi Beta Phi could be gained. We would r ealize more fully that we are part of a strong and respected wh o le and that eac h part must work to preserve the strength and keep the respect which we have now. Many of th e girls have never met a Pi Phi outside of their own chapter and their own state, SO that a province convention where Pi Phis of seve ra l chapters gathered, would be both broadening and inspiring.

Vermoll/ Alpha.

"F rat ernity means less to girls than to boys" is a statement occasionally made by fraternity men , and only those who have

Don iI/tfuu £Us? faced such an accusation know how deeply this wounds th e loyal fraternity girl. What grounds have the men for sayi n g s uch a thing? Are we girls to blame for their getting this erroneous idea? Do we show less regard for the seriousness of our frate r -

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nity life than we r ean y fee l? Do we seem to drift t o ward the friv olo u s? P erh a ps , we do sometim es mak e thoughtl ess remark s w h ic h m ig ht lead t o such conclu sion s. W e sh oul d guard again st thi s. I t see ms t o me that thi s is an im portant matter and on e wo rth y o f o ur a ttenti o n. Of cour se we kn o w that frat ernit y means mo re to us th an w e ca n tell , but le t us avoid do ing or sa yin g a n y thin g whi ch m ig ht lea d o ne t o think o therwi se I ndialta Gamma .

Pr e ju d ice ! H ave no t most o f us found thi s a word which gives us as in di vi d ua l cha pt er s no littl e rean y ser io us troubl e H ere is a g irl who seems to be in eve ry wa y a Prejudice g irl o f th e fr a t e rnit y sta mp,-of broad min d and sympa thi es , a good stu de n t , with a char m o f perso nal ity th a t ma kes u s p roud t o be he r fri end s, a nd who i s the possesso r o f th at in de finit e somet hin g whi ch makes us co v e t he r fo r th e soc iety o f t he G r eeks . Yet, wh en th e di e is finan y ca st , he r ca use p r oves to be a lost o ne, and onl y th e ge n u in e s ig h o f r egret can t en how deep is t he d isap po intm ent o f those wh o fee l that some poss ibly g rou nd less prej ud ice has st ood not o nl y in our o wn li g ht , but has ma rr ed th e co nege lif e o f a g irl r ea n y worth ha vin g.

D o no t m isun de rsta nd us, and think th at we ar e questi o nin g fo r on e mo ment th e in vio la bl e ri gh t o f every g irl t o su sta in her o wn r easo nable a nd ch er is hed op inions , but let us pl ead, a nd th at m os t si nce r ely, th a t we g ua rd aga in st grow ing n a rro w by blinding o ur se lves to all but o ur ow n conse rvat ive, yes, le t us admit it, ev e n somet im es obst inate deci sions and des ires. W e can ill affo rd t o d is r egard entirely the fac t th at th e wen-bred , r es pectable girl ha s a ri g ht t o be conside r ed , and that g enerou s ly as wen as wi sely ; an d we should not fail to acquaint o urselves with th e truth that wh en we deliberately negl ect or igno re the eligibl e girl becau se o f some fooli sh , ill-d efined pre judice, we not onl y co mpro mise th e girl in qu estion, but ofte n thereby do ourselves a s a chapte r , a d ecided injury.

Ohio Alpha

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Vermont Alpha suggested some time ago that the different chapters exchange college pennants. We girls at Northwestern University have been thinking about it but we don't exactly see how it could be managed. If College Pennants

. we exchanged with two coJ1eges a year it would take at least sixteen years to get around. It might be a good idea to have a rule that each senior as she leaves coJ1ege should buy a pennant and these pennants could be sent to the other chapters. Let us talk this over and offer any suggestion that would be better.

Illinois Epsilon.

Alumnae Department

T h e Pkiladelph ia A lumn ae C lub

"The February meeting of the Philadelphia Club of Pi Beta Phi was held on the eighteenth , with thirteen members present. There are about thirty-five members of Pi Beta Phi living in or near Philadelphia, many of whom are too busy to often attend the meetings.

The May meeting wiJ1 be, as usual, a social gathering, this year a picnic up the Wissahickon Creek.

Will all Pi Beta Phis living near Philadelphia, not al r eady members of the club, kindly send their names and addresses to the president, Miss M. C. Johnson, The Aldine Hotel, Philadelphia.

& ichigan cAlph a cAlu m nae Club

The Michigan Alpha Alumnae Club was organized last October for the purpose of helping the Hmsdale College chapter in any ways possible and also for the purpose of holding together

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the members of that chapter in some mutual interest after graduation.

Our work so far has been along the first line as the girls needed help in settling their n ew chapter house; and in rushing also, it was a great pleasure to us to r enew old times by giving a pre>gressive dinner in honor of the chapter.

Th e re are several alumnae living in Hillsdale county and when they return to their homes in the summer we expect to have a membership of at least fourteen. Each member is expected to become a member of the National Alumnae Association.

If there are now, or ever should be, any Phi Phis in Hillsdale county who have not joined this club, they may be assured tha t a cordial welcome awaits them , whenever they care to claim it, for we are all loyal Pi Beta Phis.

'The "Boslo n cAlum nae Club

It has been the purpose of the Boston Alumnae Club of Pi Beta Phi since its organization to cement more closely those helpful friendships begun during college days, to learn to know the new and younger alumnae as they join us year by year, to we lcome and if possible to make one with us each and every Pi Phi who comes to us a stranger but a sister from some other chapter, and to aid the active chapter in Boston whenever and in whatever way it is possible. The second Saturday of each month we have met th r oughout the year, sometimes in the Chapter Room, 15 Pinckney Street, Boston, sometimes with a Pi Phi whose home is not far distant. During the past year we have endeavored to make our interests larger, and with our increasing membership we have been able to do more in a material way than former ly. Very few of those who have been identified with the active chapter in Boston have failed to show their interest and sympathy in some way or another. Each year increases the number of those whose work calls them to distant homes but many of these "be long" to the club and help us financially by the payment of dues . Of the others there are few who do not attend several

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meetings during the year and in July and August we have a large attendance.

Owing to our location our meetings are necessarily of a social Early in the past yea r we had a banquet, to which we invit ed the active chapter, and ou r plan for th e spring reunion of this year i s for a banquet on the evening o f March thirt y-fir st. [0 July we were invited to a Hba rn party" by our Malden members, who first en te rtain ed us with a farce but made us entertain them afterward in racing for potatoes. In August we went to Wollaston and in September had a cookey s hine in Newtonville at the h ome of Edith Swift who was soon to return to Rome, Italy. Last year we had a Valentine Lunch in Malden and th i s yea r in Wollaston. Two meetings during the yea r have been "Sewing-Be es" for Oll f engaged girls. Several times we have met informally to say "Auf ,,yiedersehen" or "Bon Voyage" to those going from ou r midst westward, southward, and ac ross the water

In these littl e ways we are tr ying in "t he wine and blue" to make ou r inAu ence h elpfu l. But we do not mean to be sel£centered in ou r int e rests and we very much wish Vermont Alpha and Beta were near enoug h so that their alumnae could join us actively in our work. We are very glad to welcome among us Geneva Carpenter of Vermont Beta and we wish that many other chapters might be r epresented as well. If we have failed through ignorance to extend a welcome to a Phi Phi among us we hope we shall be informed of the fact soon.

The Boston Club sends greetings to every active and alumnae chapter throughou t the lan d.

WINIFRED G. HILL.

The SI. 'Yoseph c/llumnae Club

The S t. Joseph Alumnae Club was organized at the home of Maud Miller on Friday evening, December eighteenth. The f ollowing office rs were elected: Mrs. J essie L. Gaynor, President; Sue Ashmun, Vice President; Mrs C. C. Delton , Treasurer,

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and Maud Miller , Secretary. The club is t o meet the last Friday o f each month, and its ob j ect is to promote fraternity interest among the Pi Phis in St. J oseph, and to do all we can t o the advantage of o ur c hapte r s and the Alumnae Association Every member o f the club is a member of the Alumnae Association, and receives th e ARROW , so we keep fairly well posted o n Pi Phi dom and are al so planning to di sc uss, at our meetings, matters of gene ral int erest found in th e othe r fraternity magazines. At present we are plannin g a Founders Day ce lebra ti on. To this especia ll y, as well as t o ou r o th e r club meetings, we shall be very happy to welcome any Pi Phis who are in the city at the time.

'rite :JV:.ew York <:Alumnae Club

Th e New Y o rk A lumna e Club o f Pi Beta Phi, through the kindnes s of the Ba rnard Coll ege Ch apte r, m ee t s at the frat e rnity rooms o f New York Beta, 2881 B road way, th e second Saturday of each month at three o'clock. We g ladl y welcome to th ese meetings any Pi Phi coming to th e city be he r stay sh o rt or lo ng

Is it the Pi Beta Phi name plate on t he door which works t he tran s fo rmation ? Once inside we are co ll ege girls again, with less regard for the rul es la id down by Mr. Roberts ( until ca ll ed to o rd er by the President) than when we were "old gi rl s" in a diffe rent way and we re responsible for th e dign it y of an active chapt e r. We have th e Presiden t o f Alpha Province fo r ou r pre sid ent and amo ng th e s ixt y o r more members there is the Grand Secretary, Mrs. M ary Bartol Thei ss, to whom we apply for information o n all fraternity matt e r s. S he is as well info rmed on the " Greek " of th e present as, from th e littl e sk e t ch in the January ARROW, yo u can see she is o n the Greek of the past. Ou r list o f members is constantly c hanging ; fo r example Mi ss Adelia Humphry of Kan sas Alpha ha s bee n with u s all winter but sailed Saturday for a spring in Englan d. Wh e re she made one we "turn down an empty g lass."

We are especially fortunate in having the atmosph e r e of an

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active chapter about us and we exchange "hostilities" occasionally, the next extra being a cookie-shine on Sain t Patrick's Day to which we have invited the girls of New York Beta. The invitations are cut from brown pap er, ro und with a hole in the middle, with the announcement of the "shine" written in rhyme.

ELMINA WILSON.

'The Galesburg Club

In the first place our club is not a mere social club, a lthough we delight in coming rogether and having a joll y little gossip. Our primary purpose, however , is philanthropical work. Last spring we joined with all the Pi Phis of Knox a nd Lombard and furnished a room at the hospital. We raised enough money to buy all the necessary furniture We had seve ral little thimble bees and made gowns hemmed towls and napkins, and embroidered the monogram II B <I> on many of the things. Some of us donated pictures, some book-cases, and others books, and we mean to add more now and then. We propose to support this room, and for this purpose we pay a small fee at each meeting. This goes into our Hospital Fund upon which we are to draw whenever anything is needed in "Ou r Room."

Aside from this we have done little. We have had no soci al gatherings unless ou r regular meetings be called such. At th ese we always serve refres hments and aim to have a merry time. We are now planning for the banquet which all the Galesburg Pi Phis are to give Founders Day.

MARTHA ARNOLD.

Illinois Epsilon eI1lumnae

The Illinois Epsilon Alumnae Club was organized October sixth, '903, for the purpose of establishing closer intercourse between the alumnae , and between them and the active chapter. The meetings are held bi-weekly at the homes of members and continu e through the summer. Last yea r there were ten active members and twenty-one no n-active ones. During the summe r

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the active chapter joined in the meetings and the Michiga n Beta girls in Chicago attended once. Last November the club sent out two hundred notices of the Thanksgiving luncheon and ur ged the establishment of a Chicago Club. The wo rk in connection with the active chapter has been ver y enjoyable indeed. This has proven a very successfu l means of pleasantly prolonging the joys of college life.

NELLIE REGINA O'BRIEN.

'T1te Clzicago <:Alumnae Club 0/ Pi "l3ela Plzi

An alumnae club numbering seventy membe r s has lat ely bee n o r ganized in Chicago. The office r s are as follows: President, Marjorie Lucille Fitch. Illinois Epsilon ; V ice P r es ide nt , M r s. J. M. Colli n s, Kansas A lph a; Recording Secretary, Pea rl Cum. mings, Michigan Beta; Corresponding Secretary, Katharine Belle Mill er , I owa Beta; Treas ure r , Mrs. W. C. Mc D owell , I owa A lpha The execut ive comm itte includes, in addition to th ese o ffic ers, Anna McMahan, Indiana Alpha; Clara Som mers, Illin ois Zeta, and Mabel Flinn, Illinois Beta . Th e purpose of the club is to draw together in a socia l way all members o f the frat erni t y in Chicago and within a radius o f seventy-five miles. The corr espondi ng sec r eta ry will be glad to h ave th e nam es and add resses of those within this distance who have not yet bee n notified of the club organization

KATHARINE BELLE MIL' ER.

'The Indianapolis <:Alumnae Club

Th e Indianapolis Alumnae Club ha s held very enjoyabl e and p rofitable meetings on the third Wednesday of each month this winter. We have thirt y-s ix names on ou r r oll , and most of these are active and loyal Pi Phis. Our membe r ship is made up mostly o f Indiana Pi Phis, but we are proud to number among us two Michigan Beta girls, one from I owa, and o ne from Illi,

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nois . Within the past six months we have had increased membership and also increa sed int e re s t and e nthusia sm among both old and ne w members.

Our officers , as elected la s t fall , are: President, Mrs Ethel Rob e rts Loop , Indiana Gamma; Vice-President, Mrs. Frank Martin, Indiana Alpha; Secretary, Miss Fannie Miner , Indiana Gamma; Treasurer, Mrs. Bertha Hol1and Branson, Indiana Beta.

The March meeting is to be with Mr s Je ss ie Summers , an I. C. The first part of our meeting is devoted to such business a s is necessar y, and the rest o f the time to entertainment and r e fre shments provided by the hos t ess and he r two assistants. Ou r meetings are very informal, and for that reason we all enjoy them , and look forward with pleasure to the next one.

W e se nd our best wishes and hearty greetings to all our sisters. FANNI£ MINER.

"Delroil c.I1lum nae

W e have a business meeting e very month fo llowed by a social ' Igood time/ ' but we have no regular line of wo rk , literary o r otherwise , that we are pursuing. After the bu s iness meeting is over , there is enthusiastic Pi Phi talk. The lates t news from the active girls of the different chapters represent ed is discussed, and Pi Phi songs are sung . We hav e been fo rtunate in acquiring several new membe rs thi s year. Mrs. Frank Burr has come to Detroit fr om Columbu s and so is with us. L enore Smith and Madge Sibley who graduated in June, nineteen four, from the University o f Michigan, have al so joined our ranks. Evelyn Bryant who was one o f our number several years ago has been married quite recently to Mr Percy Martin and so has returned to Detroit and will be with u s again. We have lost members, too. Marie Von Borries has returned to her home in Louisville, Kentucky, after being with us over two years. Ma rga r et Cousin has become Mrs. Peter D. Robertson and moved to Kalamazoo. Howeve r we have had a very prosperous year and

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in Washington, and was present at th e alumnae meeting in February.

Catherine McIlhenny, Columbia Alpha, '04, is visiting relatives in Mississippi.

Lora Townsend , Illinoi s Beta, is staying in Washington with Mrs. Prince.

Nora Stabler-Worth, Pennsylvania Alpha, '03 , visited he r mother in Washington during Inauguration.

Alta Kauffmann-Winter, Iowa Alpha, is living in Washington.

Edna Innes , Pennsylvania Beta , was in Washington for the Inaugurati o n.

PENNSYLVANIA BETA

Blanche Bane, '04, has accepted the position as assistant to Dr. C. R. B1ackall, editor of the American Baptist Publication Society at Philadelphia.

Ca rri e Halfpenny, '02, and Lillian Foust '00, of Milton ca lled on th ei r chapter in March.

Lila M. Long , '03, of William spo rt spent a few days during Janu ary with fri ends in town.

Born to Mr. and Mrs W. C. Gretzinger on March seve nth a son. Mrs. Gret zinge r has been one of OUT patronesses for several years.

Elvie Coleman, '03, ha s been teaching in the hi g h sc hool at her home in Reynoldsville, Pa.

PENNSVLVANIA GAM MA

May Hull , '03, attended the Dickinson-Franklin and Marshall Basket Ball game at Carlisle and spent Sunday with the chapter.

Bessie Craighead, '01, lately paid us a short visit.

Edith Super, '02, has ent e red the Pottsville Hospital as a nurse.

Georgia M . Cranston, '06, has been obliged to return home, because of illness . ....,......

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OHIO ALPHA

Flora Connor ha s ent ered training as a nurse in the Grant Hospital at Columbus.

Florence Clayton attended the Pi Beta Phi dance in Columbus on February third.

E li zabeth Musgrave is at home this t erm in Clarksburg, W. Va.

OHIO BETA

Maud McAlpine is visiting Isabel Hamilton, Los Angeles, California.

Edith Clarke-Burr, who has been the guest of Columbus relatives has returned to her home in Detroit.

Florence Clayton of Ohio Alpha made a short visit wi th Katharine Potter.

Anne Nichols-Dresbach and infan t son of Fayetteville, Arkansas are visiting relative s in Chillicothe, Ohio.

NEW YORK ALPHA

Lunette Havens, '04, has resigned h e r position in Andes, N. Y., and is now teaching in Chittenango high school, only a few miles from Syracuse

Estelle Ga Nun, '06, has been obliged to leave college on accoun t of the illness of he r fathe r

Angeline Mayne, ex -'07, recently spent a few days in Syracuse.

NEW YORK BETA

Ida E. Lewis, '04, one of th e charter members of New Yo rk Beta, leaves early in April fo r Denver, where she w ill visit he r mother at Pa rk Hill.

May Gardiner, 1896, of Kansas Alpha, is living in the chapter rooms of New York Beta, and is doing post-graduate work at Columbia University.

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MASSACHUSETTS ALPHA

OUT vacation reunion , which we were planning when the la st issue of the ARROW came out, proved even m O r e s uccessful than we had hoped. A large number of our alumnae, married and single, representing all the classes since OllT founding , we re present and enjoyed the afternoon as only Pi Phis met after separation can. Afterward about twenty , of whom six were charter members, went to supper together and th en to an informal coll ege reunion.

On New Year's da y, Vera Ke rr , in her Ohio home, was married to Mr. Robert Wood Ke ss ler of 22 West St., Annapolis, Maryland, and to the helpful friendship o f any Pi Phis in that vicinity we wish to commend her.

On February eleventh, Avice Williams gave a Valentine lunch t o the Alum nae Club at her home in Wollaston, and so p leasan t a tim e did we have that we dicided t o accep t Ida Hodge's invitation for another "Home meeting."

Another alumna has left Massachusetts. On March sixth Elizabeth Coats and he r family started fo r Phoenix, A riz ona, where they expect to live. If there a r e any Pi Phis in Arizona we hope you will give our Massachusetts' secre t ary a hearty welcome.

MARYLAND ALPHA

Pauline de Iesi, ex_JOI J has been visiting in Baltimo re. Rhoda Watkins of Columbia Alpha spent a day with Mary land Alpha Her visit was much e njoyed.

May Reah of Ohio Alpha stopped at Baltimore on her way home from abroad.

Maryland Alpha has enj oyed t he visits of some of her alumnae this month. Marion Boyer, ex-'os of Williamsport, Penn., Olive Mast, '03, Coatesville, Pen n ., Irene Rappalee--Keyworth, ex-'OJ o f York, Penn., and Ina F ranc e--Nesbe th, ex- 'os, of Port Deposit, Md.

Sarah E. Rupp , '02, is doing graduate work at Bryn Mawr.

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ILLINOIS BETA

Nelle Turner, ex-'ol, was married to Mr. Albert Benten Pratt, December fourteenth .

The engagement of Edna Uh ler, ex-'03, t o Mr. William F. Gilman, o f Burlington, Iowa, has been announced. The wedding will take place next October.

IL LINOIS DELTA

Louise Seacord ex-'oS, now of Nationa l Park Seminary, Washington, D. C. is visiting her mother , Mrs Cora Seacord on N. Cherry St.

Charlotte Ayres has announced her engagement to Mr. William Tobey, Beta Theta Pi, of Park City, Utah

ILLINOIS ZETA

Nettie Baker-Johnstone visited in C hamp a ign this winter. Born to Delia Stern-Stipes, March first, a son.

Edna Daniels, '03, ha s been visiting in Champ aign.

Born to Laura Busey-Fulton, January 20, a son . Mabel Griffiths of Lombard, has been visiting in Champaign. Alice Mann, will visit at the Pi Phi House this spring

ILLINOIS EPSILON

Josie Collyer, ex-'06, has been visitmg in Minneapolis and at the Pi Phi House at Madison during the past month.

Gertrude Baldwin, '03, has taken a position with the Interstate School of Correspondence.

INDIANA ALPHA

Anna McMahan, one of our charter members, is teaching in Chicago, and at a recent meeting of a ll the Pi Phis in that city, she was elected a member of the executive comm ittee.

Mr. Newsom and his wife, Ona Payne-Newsom, another of our founders, are spending the winter in Tucson, Arizona.

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Lillian Payne of Chicago has been spending the winte r in California.

A daughter was born to Mary Van Nuys-Fisher in January,

Ethel and Bertha Mill e r and Gertrude Decker-Hendricks are in Columbia Univer sit y , Th e alumnae in New York city have shown them many kindnesses.

The engageme nt has been announced of Jeanette Louise Lemon, '03, of Bedford, to Arthu r Eugene Bestor, o f Chicago University.

Nell Kemp , ex-'06, who is attending Chicago University r ecently won first place in the contest in oratory.

Mary Hall , '03 , who has been teaching in the Anderson Schools, has been compelled to resign on account of nervous break-down.

Elsie Grace Stubbs, '04, is teaching Latin and English in the Dunkirk High School.

INDIANA BETA

Jane B lakely, ' 06, is spe ndi ng the winter in Nebraska for the benefit o f her health,

Ida Stultz was recently married to Mr, Wirt Neal. They are livin g in Wolcott, Indiana.

Ava Hammersley was married this week to Mr, Wadsworth.

Dell Miller has been seriously ill with typhoid fever at her home in Montmorenci, but is much better now.

Grace Aldrich visited us for a week this term.

INDIANA GAMMA

Jessamine Armstrong, of Kokomo visited us in January.

Ethel Woody and Edith Abbott are teaching at Russiaville, Indiana.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ross W Mercer (Sophia Smith), of Lynn, Mass ., a daughter.

Ethel Curryer is spending the winter months at Palm Beach, Florida.

Margaret Garretson of Pendleton came to Indianapolis to attend

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th e annual dance of Delta T au Delta, and s pent several da ys with us ,

K a t e R eaga n, ex-'oj" is 'studying music thi s year at her home in Mooresville, Ind,

Pearl McElroy is taking a course of st ud y in Chicago, preparatory t o becoming a Y. W, C. A. sec retar y.

Fanni e Miner was awarded a Gold Medal at the World's Fair in SI. Louis ia st summer on her exhibit of needle point-laces, He r wo rk was in th e Indiana booth in the manufacturers' building, and comp et ed with the World' s work of that class.

Ethel W ood y; ex-'06 and Edith Abbott, '03, are teaching in Russiavill e, Ind , this w int er Mi ss Abbott is assi s tant principal in th e High School.

MICHIGAN ALPHA

Juli a A. Soule, ex-'o2, ha s been visiting her sister, Leila, fo r several weeks. Th e active chapter have so much enjoyed het being with them.

Luna K. French, a member of our chapter in '00-'0 I , will gnduate from W ellesley College this yea r.

W e kee p hea ring of more and more o f Ollr girls, who a r e eJ{p-ecting to be back at commencement time. We are looking fo rwa'M eagerly to that happ y reunion.

Worer has ju s t come of the death of Jose phine Graham-Holl inge r, ont! of our charter members.

MICHIGAN BETA

Elsa Tritsch ell e r was ma rr ied December te nth to Mr . Seth Harri son Ely

Th e marriage o f Evelyn Bryant and Mr. Percy Martin, took place in February.

IOWA BETA

On December 28, 1904, at New Virginia , Iowa, Blanche Van Scoy was married to Dr William H. Story. They will make their borne in Crystal, N. D .

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Myrtle Reid, '03, who has bee n in Arizona for her health, is reported much improved , and is now with her mother in Pueblo, Colo.

Nina Hohenshelt, '03 , spent the month of January at home as the PeJla schools were closed on account of sickness.

Mertie Anderson-H ende r son and baby vi s ited in January at the parental home in Seaward, Nebr

:Maude Anderson, whose home is now in Fort Collins, Colo., visited r elative s and fri ends in Indian o la during the latter part of October.

IOWA ZeTA

Ethel Bond is teaching at Charter Oak.

Dorothy Wickersham is teaching this year in Spokane, Washington .

Jessie Pontius is a teacher at Omaha, Nebraska, this year.

Bertha Alexander, '04, has been visiting the girls of the chapter for several weeks.

Dorothy Dakin has returned from a three months' tour in Europe.

Sadie Kemmerer, '03 has been visiting at the University.

Leda Pinkham, 1900, is teaching in the Presbyterian CoJlege at Wichita, Kansas.

WISCONSIN ALPHA

Margaret Hutton-Abels mourns the loss of her son, Herman Lucas, aged eleven months.

Genevieve Smith, ex-'98. is about to leave Berlin, to continue her study of music in Paris.

Katherine Harmon, ex-'o7, has been visiting here for several weeks.

Ada Welsh, '04, and Marian O'Neill, ex-'07, where here to attend the Junior Prom

Marie Hinckley-Mabbett , '02, has left for her new home in Chicago, after a long visit with her parents in Milwaukee.

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KANSAS ALP HA

Mary J ea nn ette Spencer was married December tw ent y-eig hth t o Eugene Ware, Jr., o f Topeka.

Among ou r recent visitors are Cec il Leland of E ldorado, Anna Lanter o f O la th e, Kittie P lumb of Empo ria , Mabe l Mc L aug hlin of Hiawatha, M r s. Alpha Brumage of Be lo it , and Ma r y Kellogg of Empo ria.

Mr. a nd M rs George H ood announce the birth of a daughter.

Aimee Rudiger was married Feb ruar y twenty-second t o Mr. O ti s Pe rkins , Phi Gamma Delta.

I da Dunham-Brooks, who has been visiting in Kansas city, ha s r eturn ed to her home in Mi nn eapolis.

Edit h Riffle-Barrows of Kansas city is spending a few weeks in Law re nce .

Edith Snow, who has been in South Africa fo r ove r a year, is on her way home.

O li ve liundry-Poindexter, announces the birth o f a so n , Ri chard G undr y

NEBRA S KA BETA

Lennie S tuart will soo n re turn from a delightful trip to o ld Mexico .

Mr. and Mrs. Ja mes Pearsell , (Bess ie Turn er ,) will sail fo r this country after ha ving spe nt th e winter in Rome.

Bo rn to M r s. and Mrs. Fred Funke On December seco nd , 1904 , a boy.

The. engageme nt of E li zabeth Marshall t o Mr. F rede ri ck Jackson of New Hav en, Connecticut, ha s been announced.

TEXAS ALPHA

The engageme nt o f Jami e A rm strong, 'o r, to Mr. John Bennet of San Antonio, Texas, has been announced.

Miss Brinton o f Illino is Delta is spend ing the winter in Austin, for the be nefit of her mother 's health.

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Ma rgaret Kyle, student's secretary of th e Y. W. C. A., has been in Austin for the past week, in the interest of the association.

Lula Rose-Kibbe o f Brownsville, Texas, will visit he r mother in Austi n soon.

Flora Bart ho lomew o f Palestine, has been appointed a lumna e secretary o f Texas.

Ne ll Harris went home las t month on account of illness. She will retur n next term.

COLORAOO ALPH A

Inez Plumb and Nelle Morrison , Kansas A lp ha , made us a day's visit recently.

Fanny Plummer-Morto n is travelling in Mexico t hi s winter.

Juli a McKJinley-Denio visited the Boulde r girls, not long ago.

Grace Whitmore-Rowe has r eturn ed from Ca lifo rnia , and will leave sho rtly fo r Chicago, where she will make her future home.

Leone Enos was ma rri ed Januar y fourth t o Dr. Loren Osca r Lando n. Th ey will liv e in Vernon, T exas

The engagem ent o f Mina Killgore to Mr. Orville Whitaker has been announced .

CAL IFORN IA BETA

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Poindexter, welcomed a little son into th ei r home o n Feb ru ary twenty-third. Mrs. Poi ndexte r , known as O liv e Gundry, before her marriage, presents the second California Be ta baby to hi s admiring aunts. He is nam ed for his grandfather, Richard Gundry Po ind exte r.

Maude Schaeffer who wa s graduated fr o m the University in January is now teaching in Fresno.

Dai sy Ryone is vi si ting friends in Los Angel es.

Florence Fiske is making an extensive tour o f the state and writes of a most enjoyable tim e, sightseeing

Louise Purce , Beth Officer , Ella May Lambert and Stella Hinkey, our new Stanford Pi Phi sophomores, came up to attend the

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dance which the California "Naughty Six of '07" gave their frat e rnit y siste r s on February thirteenth, in honor of S t. Valentin e.

Florence Vaughn and Lena Harper are not in college this term.

NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA PERSONALS

'Mrs . Everett, Neb ra ska Beta, is spending the winter In New York city.

Adelia A. Humphrey , Kansas , '9 5 , sa iled in March for England . where she will spend the summer with relatives. She expects to return to Butte, Mont., in the fall.

May Gardiner, Kansas, '97, is living at the chapte r apartment of New York Beta, at 2881 Broadway, New York city. She is studying at Columbia U niv ersity for her Master's degree.

Gertrude Hill -Spr inger, Kansas , '00, has changed her address and is now living in Claremont Hall, 2881 Broadway, New York city.

Edward Otis Perkin s, Kansas, '02, Phi Gamma D elta , and Aimee Marie Ruediger, were married at the brid e's home, "Grandview Farm," near Lawrence , February 22. The at home cards read Elliot Avenue, Lawrence, after April Is·-The Phi Gamma Delta for March.

Louise V. Winfield , Syracuse , '96 , spent a week in New York r ecently. While here she paid a visit to the Barnard chapter. Eva Earll-Furlong has moved to New York city. Her address is 114 East 19th street. Her hu sband, Charles Wellington Furlong, is an illustrator for Harper's.

Ida E. Lewis, Barnard, '04, ha s gone to l\1ontc1air, Denver, Colo., where she expect s to spend the spring.

Blanche A. Bane, Bucknell , '04, has had several of her articles accepted by Lippincott's. She has lately been made assistant editor to Dr. C. R Blackall, the chief editor for the Young People's publication of the Pe nn sylvania Baptist Publication Society in Philadelphia.

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Eliza J. Martin, Bucknell, '00, is studying Pedagogy, European Hi st o r y and Philosophy at the U niver sity of J ena , Germany.

Frida y eveni ng, March 17, the New Y o rk Alumnae club gave a cook ie-shine in the c hapt er rooms. The guests o f honor were th e members o f New Y o r k Beta . The tw enty-one gi rl s who sat dow n to th e cook ie shin e were rep resentat ives of seve n chapte rs. Th ey were: I rene Adam s, Bessie Bee rs, Maude Kl e in, Fl o rence Hubbard , '04. Bessie Lewis, Ida L ewis, '04 . Lizz e tt e Metcalf, '04 , Mary Maurtha, Virginia Ralph, Martha Th omas, '04, o f New Yo rk Beta; Gertrude Hill -Sp rin ge r , ' 00, and May Gardn er , '97 , o f Kansas Alpha , E lmina \ Vi lson, '92, and Ada Wilso n, '94, of Iowa Gamma; Nadine Hartshorn-Williamson, o f California Alpha ; Su s ie Whiteman, '02, of Ve rm ont B eta; Mary Barto l-Th eiss o f P en nsy lvania Beta; Eth el Cl os e, Mary A Gutelius, '04, Clara Boyle and Anna M . Jacks on o f Penn sylvan ia Alpha.

In Memoriam

F'RANCES RANDO LPH M I LL ER

Th e last is sue o f the ARROW chronicled the death o f Evely n Srrrith-Clippenger, and now we mo urn for Frances RandolphMill er. Both were active members o f Michigan Alpha at the same time and it see ms s trange ind eed, th at t wo so cl ose ly r elated by frat erni ty ti es, should be called to rest so nearly t ogeth er . Mrs Miller received her deg r ee fr om Hillsdale Co llege in 1892 , and spent several years in teaching and doing post-graduat e work, at the same time pur suing th e study of mu sic. She was married in 1901 to Mr. Frederick W. Miller, Alpha T au Omega, who is a member of the fa cul ty in K euka College, N. Y . Her impai r ed health demanded a change, and so a yea r was spe nt i n Mi nn esota, but la st summe r they r eturn ed t o Keuka , since which time she was confined to her home, until Christmas day when the Good Fath er t ook her home. In college she

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was h eld in h ig h esteem by her friends and showed great personal power and hi g h int ellec tual ability. Th e fo ll ow ing from a New York paper shows the high regard in w h ich she was held in th ese late r years: "She was a woman o f wo nd e rful bea ut y of character and charm of conve r sation and li ved full y and swee tly and nob ly in her th irty-t hr ee yea rs. She had a r a r e capac ity f o r the e n joymen t of eve ryt h ing beauti ful and de li g htful in life and art an d literature and nature, and th ose who have kn ow n h e r feel that her life was not the fragrance o f wasted oi ntm ent ."

B. M. K.

BERTR I CE RANDALL

Bertrice Randall, '02, died Janu a ry first, at h e r h ome in Oneida, N. Y., of scarlet feve r . Th e fo llowing resolutions were adopted by New York Alpha:

WHEREAS, our H eavenl y Father has r e mov ed fr om o ur midst OUT dear siste r, Bertrice Randall, who wa s a loya l me mber of Our chapter and fraternity, a nd

WHEREAS, we mourn the loss of o ne who held th e love and respect o f all, th e r efore be it

Resol v ed) That as an expression of o ur so rrow, we drape OUT pins for a period of thirt y days. And be it furth e r

Resolv ed , That we send a copy of these r esol uti on s to the 'bereaved family, t o th e ARROW and to th e college pa p ers

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How big our c hapte r family is growing! It wa s o nl y last sp rin g tha t New York Beta came into being, and now comes California Alpha t o crowd her Ollt o f he r prerogatives as th e you nges t chapter. It is now more than six years since th e form e r c hapt e r at Leland S tanford surrendered it s charter afte r a plucky but un equa l stru gg le fo r chapter prosperity. Since th e n th e f,.ternity has r e fu sed to con side r any petitions fo r reestabli shm e nt until th e tim e should be fully ripe and th e conditions as n ear ly ideal as poss ible. That time ha s now come, and th e new California Alpha sta rt s out und e r the happies t a u spices and with th e best wishes o f th e ent ire frat e rnit y. The applicants h ave shown th em se lves mos t untiring in e ff o rt, most pati ent in waiting, most willing and eage r to meet every demand and eve ry condition placed upon them. We congratulate th em as well as ourselves, that th ey are now enjoying th e fruit s o f th eir striving .

IN OUR exc han ge column we gladly r ep rint from th e Kappa

Alpha Theta a "P lea for Definiteness in Inter-S o r o rit y Confe re n ce Procedur e" b y Ednah H. Wickson, th e president o f the frat e rnit y. A pl ea for definiteness ha s been mu c h needed and we gladl y give it s uc h addi ti o na l pUblicity as t he pages of the ARROW afford.

Th e Inter-Soror ity Confe re n ce is some thin g new in fr aterni ty annals, and it is no wonder that starting o ut witho ut rule or precedent it should hav e n o definite idea of its own powers and functi ons. One thing, ho weve r, seems clear a t the outset. Whatever ma y be th e functi o ns of th e Conference, they a r e certainly not l eg islative. To allow th e majority v o te of t e n o r twelve irregularly chosen delegates, o nl y one o f whom is a member of a given frate rnit y, to make rul es fo r th e guidance of that fraternity is too manifes tly ab su rd to need comment. To s uggest, to

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advise, to recomme nd , to create a wholesome sentime nt ,-all these are within the privince of the Conference, but neve r to legislate.

Less absurd but equa ll y impractical would it be to ent rust the making of Pan-He ll e ni c ru les to the g r and counci ls of the several fraternities. Their functions are to enforce, not to initiate, are executive and administrative, not legislative. While most frat e rniti es allow their councils large disc r etionary power, it would hardly answer to le t them do for the fraternities co ll ectively what they are not permitted to do for their own.

Miss Wickson says that " insistence should be made upon the point th e vote be passed up on by the chapters of the sororiti es, not by the vote o f delegates at nat ional conventions." To this we do not wholly assent. It seems to u s that there are a good many general questions such as the existence of an InterSorority Conferen ce, (something, we believe th at has never been fo r mally authorized) the establishment of a Pan-Hellenic association in eac h college and the method of electi ng delegates, which may if more convenient, be settled by co nvent io n action. Certain ly matte r s o f equal moment are decided by conventions, in fact that is la rgely what conventions are fo r.

As r egards the more specific regu lati ons, those which concern th e individual c hapt e r rather th an the fraternity as a whole, o ur opinion is that neither Confere nce nor Counci l, neith er convention nor the majority vote of chapters should decide. S uch questions, for examp le as the tim e and manner of pledging, the methods of ru shing and r est ricti ons upon it are too largely matters of loca l concern to be thus disposed o f. Regulations adapted t o the large state university would be quite unsuited t o th e sma ll denominati ona l college , those of the dormitory college ill-adapted to the one where chapte r houses a r e the rule. Suppose, as Miss Wickson advocates, suc h a question as the time o f p ledging be decided by the majority vote of the chapters, it is quite conceivable that a co lle ge would find it self bou nd by a rule that every one of the eight o r ten chap t e rs there represented had voted against. The only way in which such a chapte r vote would become quite fair

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would be to hav e it unanimo us . U nluckily unanimous votes are not easy to obtain in one fraternity and in nea rl y a do zen they would be practically impossible. I'nter-So ro rit y legislation wou ld be in a state of perpetua l deadlock.

The on ly plan wh ic h is bot h fair and feasible, it seems t o us, is th e following: Matters o f gene r a l im portance, such as the appointment of Confe re nce delegates, t o be d eci d ed either by conventi ons o r by vote of the majority of chapters as each fraternity may deem ,best. Matte r s of local interest, where chapters are un eq ua ll y benefited o r injured by th e proposed legis lation to be d ecided fo r eac h co llege by the ,ma";"'<J"s vote of chapters in that college. It will be objected that this establishes a different set o f regulations fo r each coll ege True , but the colleges themselves are di fferent. The much qu ot ed peculiarity of conditions at Wisconsin is a case in point. G rant ed that the frat ern ity situati o n at Wi sconsi n is unique, th o ugh it hardly seems probable , th en it is hard ly eq uitable t o fo rce frat erniti es there t o accept rul es made by those who do not understand the conditions. One of th e Co nfe rence m ot ions begin s: "I na smuc h as Inter -Soro rity regu lat ion s affect us all alike." S uch regulations do affect all fr aternities alike, but unfortunately not all chapters o f the same frat ernit y.

No frat ern ity attempts to fix too minutely th e de tail s o f chapte r management, those are left to each chapte r to settle in its bylaws. It is thi s same principle, local fr eedom under ce ntra l control , that we personally should be glad to see carried into PanH ell enic legislat ion.

S I NCE th er e ha s bee n a littl e mi sund ers tanding on the subject it see ms well to announce thu s publicly th at all subscriptions to the ARROW, whether active o r alumnae, expire with th e July number, irre s pec tive of the time when they were rece ived. Amon g the active members, whose subsc ripti on is included in their regular frat ernity due s, this is pretty well unde r stood . The alumnae , howev e r, hav e not quite grasp ed the arrangement, and

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letters like this are frequently r ece ived: "Enclosed please find one year's subscription to the ARROW to begin with the April numbe r. " Now subscriptions beginning with April are not for the year but for two issue s only. If the Grand Treasurer had a corps o f assistants and the ARROW a large clerica l force to keep track of expirations and send noti ce for renewals, such a plan might be practicable. As it is, it is quite ou t of the question. At th e beginning of the year, postals are sent out to all alumnae inviting th e m to join,---or rejoin-the Alumnae Association. It is understood in thi s, as in ot her associations, that the dues are for the club yea r, which may be considered as coincident with the college yea r. If alumnae are prom pt in joining, they enjoy th e privileges o f the association, including th e ARROW, fo r the whole time; if they are late, th ey r ece ive them fo r so much of the year as is left. In the case of the ARROW, so lo ng as there is a supply of back numbers on hand, we are glad to date subscriptions back to the beginning of the year , and she who joins the Alumnae Association in April may receive copies for the preceding November and Janu ary. We cannot guarantee thi s, however, since it is imposs ibl e to predict at th e beginning o f the year what the frat e rnit y membership, and particularly what the alumnae membership will be. The issue f o r last January, for example, is already quite ex hausted and no further subsc ripti ons, whether active or alumnae. can be filled. We make this detailed explanation in order that tardy alumnae s ubscribe rs , who ar,e really getting the ARROW at less than cost, may not fe e l themselves defrauded if thr o ugh their own ove r sight they fail to r ece ive the full year's ben e fit from their alumnae dues.

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ANOTHER page is printed a publisher's announcement of the forthcoming sixt h edition o f Baird's "American College Fraternities." This manual , ever since its first appearance, has been the standard authority in all fraternity matters. The present edition now in pr ess, has been fully revised and brought down to date, and is a real necessity to everyone who wishes to keep informed along fraternity lines. Chapters are strongly urged to subscribe for it at once.

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ALPHA PROV INCE

VERMONT ALPHA-MIDDLEBURY COLLEC E

(C HARTERED 1893 )

Doubtless by thi s time every Pi Phi has heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that ano thc1'1 examination h as come a nd gone. P e r so nally we arc h earty beli evers in the se, but look forward t o th e m, n eve rth eless, with fe a r and t rembling.

In sp ite o f the long, h ard winter up h e re in Ve rm o nt, thi s term h as seemed a ve ry s h o rt one Probably th at i s because we have all been so v ery b usy. The CDUCgC work has been somewhat broken up by that dread disease which comes fr om n o one kno\\;s where, " L a Grippe." At first it seemed, among the s tud e nts, to be co nfined for the m os t part to membe r s of o ur frat e rnity, and so we called it t he " Pi Phi Grip," but a g ood many o thers see m to ha ve s tolen it fr om u s.

However, this did not prevent our all going to th e annual college banquet o n Was hington 's birthday It was h eld in Brandon this year, almo s t all th e s tud en t s and faculty bei ng presen t

Marc h seven th the men of th e college gave a play for the ben efit of th e AthletiC ASSOCIation. Th e entire cast was filled by th e men, an d the parts w e r e well t a ken, th e r eprese nt at ion of the female c h aracte r s being es pecially amusing.

But n ow I must come t o stric tl y Pi Phi doings . Early in th e t e rm our seven fr es hmen gave a r eception at the Pharetra to all the wome n of the fr eshm a n class. It was a ve r y success ful affair, and w e upper c1assmen thin k r eflec t ed g r ea t credit upon the hostesses. O n e of tpe prett iest affairs ever gi ven in th e Pharetra was the violet luncheon and dance given by some o f the girls t o a f e w of th eir friends.

Ina Cove, '06, and Edith Heaxt, 'oS, have been o b liged to leave C"oll ege o n a ccount of ill h ealth W e hope t o have th e m both with u s n ext term.

Two o f our girl s ha ve announced th ei r engagements: Fl o rence Giddings, 'oS, to Don S . Gate s, D artmouth , 'aS; Edith H eaxt, 'oS, t o George Ryder, W esleyan, '99.

BERTHA CHANDLER DU NCAN.

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VERMONT BETA-UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

(CHARTEllED 1898)

Vermont Beta once again se nd s greeting s to h e r siste r chapters Our initiati on is finally over, and we received two of the best girl s in the f r eshman class, so we think. The initiation took place at our r ooms February sevent ee nth , the initiate s being Estelle Louise Metcalf, of Willi s t o n, and Maud e Fletcher, of South Hero . Several o f our alumnae were p r esent, but we regr e tted exceedingly the absence of our s is ters from Middlebury chapter this year. We had ou r ban quet th e following afternoon at the Van Ness House

The annual "kake walk " took place February tw e nty- secon d We always look forward with the greatest pleasure to this event, and the participat o rs "did th emse lves proud."

We have just reco ve red fr o m th e strenuous life all students have at midyear time Every one wears an anxious face until she is s ur e about h e r mark s. The best of luck to all othe r Pi Phi girls in their examinations EMMA BEAN.

COLUM BIA

WA S HIN GTON UNIVERSITY

(CHARTERED I88g)

At th e very beginning of my letter I want to i,ntroduce to you the two pledges who just now are very prominent in our thoughts. They are Mary Birch and Helen Evans, th e Jatter the sis t e r of Lola Evans, who is one o f our most enthusiastic alumnae. By th e time the ARROW reaches you they will be as true and loya l Pi Phis as any of u s, for initiation will come very soon. The additio n of these girls brings our number up to se venteen, a larger chapter than ever before.

Our annual dance came the second of March and was one of the most successfu l Columbia Alpha has ever had . It was given at the Normandie, which ha s as pretty a dancing fl oor as one cou ld wish. A number o f the alumnae we r e present in addition to th e chapter girls and pledges, and as always, it gave us great pleasure to have th em with u s.

With the except ion of the dance, since th e last letter was written we have been rather Quiet socially. Examinations, those n ecessary e \Til s th at afflict us all, took much of our time and si n ce then we have been trying at least to make a good start on the new term's work. The mo st important univ e rsity event h as been the celebration o f Washington's birthday. In th e morning th e winter convocation of th e university, which is hereafter to be held annually on the twenty-second of February, took place. The official announcement of the change o f name was mad e Th e new co lo r s, buff and blue, were fo rmally adopted, and th e new flag and seal were unveiled, in

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the midst of a great demonstration of enthusiasm by the student body. It was one of the most impressive and inspiring meetings in our history, and strengthened in each one of us the feeling that the time is by no means far di stant when George Wa shington will stand in the front rank of American universities. The afternoon of the twenty- seco nd was devoted to a large rec eption given by the Columbian W ome n in the University library in honor of our pre s ident, Dr. Needham. Pi Beta Phi was well represented on the musical program which entertained th e gue sts, for Frances Bethune sang, and the Girls' Glee Club, of which many members are Pi Phi s, gave several numbers The eventful day closed with a dance in the evening,

There has been much activity in fraternity circles here of late. On March second \Vashington City Rho chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsil o n was reinstalled in the university. The chapter has existed for seve ral year s in the form of a local, made up largely of Sigma Alpha Epsilon mm from other colleges, so it has been well under s tood for some tim e that the charter would be granted. There are rumors that another of th e big fraternities will also enter here some time in the near future, but of that perhaps you may hear more later.

On th e seventeenth of February Eps ilon chapter of Sigma Chi entertained our girls at an informal dance, which was a very pleasant affair. It was given at the chapter house, and afforded the boys many opportunities for the display o f their kindness as hos t s The Deuteron Charge of Theta Delta Chi has also entertained lately their ho spitality taKing th e form of a rtception to their friends in George Wa s hington and in the city in general as a house warming for their own new home. The house was beautifully decorated with palms and fraternity banners, and the s pirit of fraternity good fellowship was so all pervading that the guests enjoyed the affair to tht full. Several of our girls were among those assisting, and stayed for the dance, which followed the more formal part of the evening.

The executive committee of the \Va shington City Alumnae club is planning a delightful affair to be giv en very soo n. It is to be held at the re s idence of Edna Stone of Maryland Alpha, and representatives from the other fraternities in George Washington have been invited, together with many prominent Washington people. The feature of the evening will be a talk by, Mr. Walter Wellman, whom we all consider one of ou r best friends, since h e has two daughters in Pi Beta Phi, one in Wisconsin Alpha, and one among our Columbia Alpha alumnae These monthly alumnae meetinll5, which I mentioned in the last letter, have proved a really wonderful influence in strengthening the bond between chapter and alumnae, until we fe el a!; if now the relation very nearly approaches the ideal.

Since the last Au.ow we hav e had severa l pleasant visits from out-oftown Pi Phis. I Nelle Burt, who was with us two years ago, has been here on two different occasions. Her visits are always times of rej oicin g with

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us, and th ere is no one more certain of a warm welcome. Then Edna lnn es of Pennsylvania Beta has been staying in town, and we had the pleasure of having her attend one of the chapter meetings. \V e were sorry that it chanced to be the one devoted to the preparation fo r the fraternity examination, which mu st have made it rather dull for her, but we hope some time to hav e an opportunity of showing h er that o ur meetings are very different u s ually. Two Pennsylvania Beta pledges, Dana Bower and Hazel Knapp, were also here for the inauguration, and we enjoyed meeting them so much even for the very short visit they paid us.

The in augu ration has made Washington very gay of late, so much so that it seems odd to have it sett le back tOto its ordinary Quiet, which it has done \Cry Quick ly It seemed t o us that there mu s t have been many Pi Phis in th e crowds of visitors at that time, and we looked diligently for arrows, but failed to see any.

With best wishes for the success and happiness of the sis ter chapters, and with a soecial greeting to California Alpha,

ADELE RIA TAYLOR.

PENK5YLVANI .O\ BETA-BUCKNELL UN IV ERSITY

(CHARTERED

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Greetings from Pennsylvania Beta to her s iste r chapters.

Since our la st letter the weeks h ave flown full of pleasure and work. This, to o, is the socia l season at Bucknell, and it has been a pleasant one. Several large functions have been most successful and enjoyable, but for r ea l enjoyment we girls are partial to our own little info rmal "spreads" eaten in good "fellowship" and ended with fraternity songs . The Girls' Dramatic Club have lately played Schiller's "Mary Stuart," in which several Pi Phi s took leading parts with great success.

We want to introduce to you ou r new patroness, Mr s. F. G. Ball entine, a mos t charming woman whom we wish you might know personally. Her husband is an instructor in the Latin department of our college.

Helen Tiffany, one o f our pledge s, has been obliged to leave college for the remainder of this year on account of a seve r e illness. But next year we hope to have her back and introduce her to "Billy."

Our fir s t meeting was an especially merry one, when Grace RobertsPerrine, 'oJ, was first welcomed back to Lewi sburg by the fraternity as a who le Several other alumnae we re present and everyone voted it a most del ightful evening.

W/e wish you a ll a most pleasant Easter.

FLORENCE L. BAroN.

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PENNSYLVANIA GAMMA-DI CKINSON COLLEGE

(CBAKTEIlED 1903 )

It is with a great d eal of pleasure that we again send ou r letter to the ARRow, for it is a certain omen th at we s hall hear about the o th e r chapters in a ve ry s hort time.

After th e Franklin- Mar shall ba sket ball game the Phi Kappa Sigma frat e rnity gave a card party in their r oo ms t o the Pi Beta Phis in honor of two of th eir fr atern ity brother s on the F.-11. t eam, and of May Hull , 'oJ. whose brother wa s captain o f the team.

On the Saturday preceding Valentine's day, Kathleen Gooding entertained the chapt e r at lunch eon. Her h ome was decorated in keeping with th e day and th e guests, and arrows and hearts, the wine and the blue, were everywh ere in ev id en ce.

The (o llowing Tuesd ay eve ning four girl s entertained the chapter in our rooms.

A de lightful evening was spe nt at the n ew home of Mr s. Prettyman, o ne of our pa tronesses, wh o m we s t o rm ed with a "kitchen s hower " H e r unulll'rabl e s urpri se added wonderfully t o o ur merrim ent.

Mrs . E vans, a lso a patroness, ent e rta ined a porti on o f th e chapte r, togeth e r with some members o f the Phi Ka ppa Psi fra t ernity, of which Mr Eva ns is an alunm u s.

On the night of the tw ent y- fir s t of February, we gave our midyea r reception t o fri ends in collegiate ci rcles. Lo u Sheetz, '01 ; Bessie Cra igh ead, ' 01 ; Gertrude Super, '02; Lu cy Treverton , ' 02, and Ca th e rin e Keefe r , ex-'04, were pre se nt . Our guests of hon o r, howeve r, were Netta M . H o ffman, ex'00, Sara Ma rvel-C oles, '00, of the Law School, Helen Fooks Wright, '03 , and Florence Ral s t o n, '07. The following morni ng theso f ou r girl s were initiated into Pi Beta Phi. Th e initiatio n and cookie-shin e h ave ne ve r been surpassed in th e hi s t ory o f th e chapter. Netta H o ffman and Mr s. Coles were two of the found er s of o ur loca l fraternity and it was w ith unbounded pleasur e th at ,we were able t o confer th e joys of Pi Beta Phi upon them. Mrs . Coles is a graduate o f the Dickin son School of Law and a member of the Phil adelp hia bar. H e len Wri g ht was one of the petitioners to Pi Beta Phi, but, teaching in Wilmingto n Confe rence Academy, ha s not found it po ssible to return to Carlisle while college was in sess io n until thi s year Fl o renc e Ral ston is a tow n girl whom we a r e proud to introduce t o you as an active s is ter, a girl who se ste rling worth has won all our h ea rts. Before we write another letter for th e ARROW we s hall have recei ve d th e chapter letters and to th ese we look fo rward with a great deal of pl eas ure.

GERTR UDE HELLER.

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OHIO. ALPHA-()RIO UNIVERSITY

(CBARTERED 1889)

It hardly seems possible th at three whole month s have slipped by since we wrote our la s t fraternity letter, and yet as we look back upon thi s time and see what ha s been accomplished in various ways, we feel that the time ha s not been spe nt altogethe r in "vain and foolish" things , but that these three winter months have indeed counted fo r some th ing worth while.

This term has been a busy time for us, with our college w o rk, fraternity duties and fraternity examination. '''/e decided to have our examination the fir s t week in February. so that it might be over and safely out of the way before we had to begin work on ou r co llege examinations. The college exa ms come now in a couple o f weeks and these will end the wo rk o f our winter term . Of course, as is natural, we look forward to them with "fear and tr emb ling," and wi ll be very glad when we can feel that they are behind us

This t erm, we have adopted th e plan of holding ou r m ee tings at the ho mes of the different girl s instead o f our hall, so that we might have the use of a piano. We have found this very he lpful and success ful , because we have learned so many mo r e o f ou r so ngs Then too, the girls do not feel like hurrying away so Quickly after the meeting is over and we have a little time in which t o ge t bette r acquainted.

In addition to our regular meetings, diffe r ent girl s have taken turns in entertaining th e chapte r . At o ne time we were to hav e had a sleigh ride. hut the sno w melted a little too soon; so in s tead we a ssem bl ed at the ho me of one o f th e girls where we had a dainty lunch and s pent th e evening in a mo st enjoyable way. for we found that a mu sical tr eat had been prepared f o r us. On Washington's birthday our two pledges ente rt ained us by giving a progres sive dinner. Twelve girl s sat down at the three tables which had been prepared, and we did hne a most delightful time : We felt that ou r pledges d ese rved a great deal oi prai se for the way in which they entertained us

The non - fraternity men have introduced a new custom this winter by giving a banquet , known as the " Barbarian Banquet." They hope to make th is a yearly affair. Of course all fraternity girls were excluded, as well as the men From the report s, it see m s to have been quite a success, and it was re sponded to most heartily by a large number of no n -f ra t e rnity men

Our beautiful new coll ege library, which has been in construction for seve ral mo nth s, is now almost fini s hed, and we hope to g et into it in a very s ho rt time.

We are anxiously looking forward to ou r spring t erm, and we hope that it will bring to all Pi Phi s the plea s ures and happiness which we anticipate M.uy TUUDLEY.

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OHIO BETA-QHIO STATE UNrvElSlTY

(CHAUEllD 1894)

Ohio Beta can sca rcely realize that the winter months and gayeties are ove r with , and th a t Lent and s pring examinati ons are hard upon us. But we are a lmost willing to welcome dread exams thi s term, fo r the sake of warm weath er and the splendor of OU f campus in it s new green overcoat. So we bustle about class rooms and th e library. ca t ching up back reading and hurrying through delinquent papers, glad to be aHve in spite of our troubles

We look back upon a most pleasant winter. There have been parties ga. lo re thi s la st month. Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Tau Omega have given dances and other parties, not to speak of OllT o wn Formal th e first week in February, and the Junior Pro m. La s t Friday another "prom" was he ld in the Armory, th e "Co-ed," liberally attend ed by the girl s of Ohio State. The girl s went in costume, dress suits. Chinese coolies, French dolls. yellow kid s, cowboys and so forth, were mu ch in evidence at thi s annual frolic. It was pronounced the besO t of its kind fo r many years.

We must tell you o f ou r chap t er r oom . It is brand new , sta rted this month , and we are unu s ually proud o f it. As we have but one out-of-town girl, a fraternity house has always been out o f the question for Ohio Beta, and we have been in the habit of holding our meetings at the various homes in r o tation But o f late we have beco me quite dissatisfied with this practice and with the manner in which our documents and archives have been scatt ered about town and h a ' "e decided we need some part ic ular bome for Pi Phi. We we have rented a room ju s t off the campus and are busy at prese nt decorating it with all the stray pennants and fraternity pictures and surplus furniture we can lay our hand s on. We find it great fun and are very proud of our room.

With best wi s he s for our si ster chapters.

KATHD..lNE BANOOFT

NEW YOR.K ALPHA-SYRA CUSE UNnRSlTY

(CHAHEUD 1895)

New York Alpha greets her sisters again just a s she is beginning to dr ea m o f s pring and summer and even to ufeel it in the air. "

Our frat exams are over and for a time we feel at peace with the world so great is the relief when we no longer have them to dread

We are very happy just now over a new rug and table for our sitting room. The alumnae and active chapter joined together in this Christmas ..-

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present for the chapter hou se. So enthusiastic aTe we ove r th e success of our efforts toward refurni s hing the house, th at we h ave s t arted a fund towa rd the purchase of a n ew rug for OUT re ception r oom.

\Ve have not entertained much during the winter February e leventh the alumnae of New York Alpha entertained in honor of the active chap ter, and m ade us all feel s ure that they had n o t lo s t their ski ll in entertai ning since they left college

We gave a party February twent y- seco nd to the m en of the fre shman cla ss, whi ch certainly see med a success.

]n a few weeks we are pl anning to give a faculty recepti o n, as the o ne la st year prove d so enjoyable

Syracuse Unive r s ity i s very enthusiastic ove r athletics, and h opes to make a fine record this year.

The chancellor recently announced in chapel that o ne o f the bes t friends of the University has offered t o build a fine stadium. He al s o hinted that a new gymna s ium and library would not be long in arriving .

Good wi s hes to all s ister chapter s LILLIAN M...\v NEFF.

NEW YORK BETA-BARNARD COLLEGE

A new and interesting fraternity expe ri ence has come to N ew York Beta since our last letter. We took ou r fir st fraternity examination on the seventeenth of February, and , I suppose because we are suc h a young chapter, found it very hard, indeed . However, we came through fairly well, and are determined, like loyal Pi Phis, that the next one shall find us in perfect trim. Our midyear "e xam s," too, are saft:ly o\'er, and we are very proud of ou r freshman s is ter s, who did very well.

SociaJly ou r chapte r is at present engaged in returning the many friendly turns done us by th e other fraterniti es. Considering that we are the seventh one t o come into Barnard, we have been treated with exceptional courtesy and good will, and are glad to be able to show ou r appreciation by infanna l "at ho mes" in our pretty rooms After we have fini shed with our duty to th e other fraternities, we intend to do some more rushing; so with ou r next letter we may be able to present to you some more Pi Phi sisters AMALIE ALTHAUS.

MASSACHUSETTS ALPHA-BOSTON UNIVERSITY

(CHARTERED 1896)

In the la s t issue o f the ARROW it was sugge s ted that the different chapt ers give th eir ideas of what sh ou ld be put into a model chapter letter. We girl s here in Bost o n like to know what our siste r s all o\' er the country are

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d o ing ; in othe r word s, we like newsy letters. We are anxious t o lea rn all the ways in which chapte r life may be improved and fraternity ideals lived up to, and if th e girls would give th eir opi nion s on subj eel s s uch as "th es e we think it would be beneficial t o all. Items of intere s t about the college a r e n eeded, also, for it is by widening ou r outlook in thi s way that we become truly. libe r ally educated women.

Since the la s t ARROW ca me t o u s we ha ve all been very busy wi th the m id-year examinations and n ow are just settled down to our second semes· ter' s wo rk. There are a great many soc ial affair s a t Bost on University during the sp r ing, beginni ng with the Juni o r week and ending with commencement, so we expect to have every minute occupied as only a college girl's minutes can be.

Our n ew Provi nce presiden t , Anna Morris Jackson , is t o visit us soo n and we are all looking forward with plea sant expectation t o greet ing h er and welcoming h er among u s.

If any of ou r we s tern s is ters are t o be in Boston thi s spring we s in cere ly hope th at they will call on the Pi Phis at Boston U n ive r si ty.

M. LILLIAN HORNE.

MARYLAND ALPHA-WOMAN's COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE

(CH ARTERED 1897 )

The tw o mo nth s after o ur Chr istmas h o l iday is a lw a ys a bu sy time at the W o man 's College o f Baltimore. January is s pent in hard s tudy preparing for th e final exami nati o n s which a r e h eld the la st few day s o f the month. During th ese days th ere a r e no recitations; th e mornings are given up entirely t o the examinations. But now that tim e has passed, and th oug h we a r e s till studying, our work is mo r e t han it was with the prospect o f an exam. ahead.

In th e mid s t of ou r usual work, the college life has been vcry gay The faculty gave us a great tr eat in J anuary by in "i ting Bl iss Perry to lectu re t o u s. His subjects were "Robe rt Louis Ste venso n" and " P at ri otic Poetry." He is always popular with the st ud ent s, no matter upon what s ubj ect h t" lectures

Our Glee and Mandoli n club conce rt wa s gi"en February the eighteenth , and was quite a success. The club s are n ow p r epa ring for their second concert, which will be given Commencemen t week, in h on o r of the se ni ors .

The championship ba ske t b all game is always an exci t ing eve nt. Thi s yt ar it wa s played between th e ju ni o r s and the freshmen, and re sult ed in a victory for th e junio r s, an ho n o r which th ey ha ve h ad fo r two years.

During th ese eventful tim es Maryland Alpha has n ot been idle Two of our patr on esses, Mr s. Fitzgerald and Mr s. Lind ley, have entertained u s at their home s and ou r sophomores and fr es hmen ent ertained th e upper c1ass-

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men and alumnae on February th e twenty-fourth by giving the little play, "Left in Cha rge." It was given at the home of one of our freshmen, Louise Van Sant, and as the evening's program was enti rely a surprise to all in\,ited guests, you can imagine the enthusiasm and interest with which we saw our younger siste r s transformed into suc h characters as henpecked husbands and "sporty" young men. The evening was a grand success and we girls voted our hos t esses among th e best we have known.

At present the chapter is bu sy r e hear si ng, a play to be given Alumnae Day

We have had visits from seve ral of our out of town alumnae thi s month, and onc Saturday we were pleased to have a vi s it (rom Rh oda Watkins, a Columbia Alpha Pi Phi . We are so nea r that chapter that we hope we may become bette r acquaiti. ted with them in the future.

Our Easter vaca ti on this year will be earlier than in m os t colleges. As Easter is so late, our faculty has decided to divide the time between Christnlas and Easte r and give us two weeks in March. This th ough tfulness on their part is appreciated by all th e studen t s.

With best wishes to all chapters from Maryland Alpha.

IUNE TULA FENTON.

BETA PROVINCE

ILLINOIS

BETA-LOMBARD COLLEGE (CHARTERED ,872)

We are glad o f the chance t o h ea r what is being done at ot her colleges and universities and wish that we had something new and wonderful to r elate. But affairs at Lombard are in about the same condition as they WHe a year ago, except that there are seve r al new professors and a fe w minor changes ha ve taken place.

Wk: have new h eads t o the music and modem languages departments and Profe sso r Appleman o f Dickinson College is ou r athletic instructor. We are still without a president, but h ope to ha ve one before the year is out.

A few weeks ago HEsmeralda" was given by our dramatic club. It was Quite a success, and as Pi Phi s had the leading parts, we take much of the credit to ou rs e lv es, if you'l! excuse the egotism.

Remembering th e criticism o f the edi tor, we a r e not going to tell of our good times, execpt to say th at we have had many of them . But now we are giving all our own time getting ready (or a Founders Day banquet which we are planning to have with Illin ois Delta and our town alumnae.

With best wishes for all Pi Phi s.

DKLIA CoNG!&.

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ILLINOIS DELTA-KNOX COLLEGE

(C

HART ERED 1884 )

S ince the chapter letter college life has been very st renu ous . The 5cmester "exams" have come and gone and no o n c was dangerou sly injured by them. JUdging from th e m idnig ht oi l tha t was consumed fo r so me nights previous, several evident ly expected th at result , but honors instead o f failures r ewa r ded th ei r effo rt s.

O n February seven t eenth we gave ou r annua l party. A n ew scheme of decoration was followed thi s year and to u s. it see med the mo st effective that we h ave ever used. Fro m th e cei ling wefe suspende d large Japane se parasols canopying cosy corne r s a t in t erva ls around th e room, while the lights we r e softened by gl obes made o f Japan ese lan te rn s. P an els o f many colored Japan ese crepe p aper a d orned th e wall s, and at th e top of each pan el was a large ci rcular fan making a very pretty effe ct A novel feature wa s th e ice c r eam which was in th e for m o f our o wn wine carnations.

Like the old c r ow who a lways thinks he r own baby crows th e blacke st, it is natural for the student s of o ld Kn ox t o be proud of h er. and we have had especial re aso n fo r th a t sentiment lately. In the oratorical contest held by the HamiltOn club in Chi cago in January, the repr esen tative fr om Kn mc wo n fir s t pla ce over th e four university contestants wh o were h is opponent s. The next day th ere wa s great r ej oici ng in Galesburg, while th e chairs from two college r ecitatio n room s furni shed lig ht and warmth fo r the occasion.

W e a re planning to celeb r ate Founder's Day wi th our chapter, Illin ois B eta, at Lombard University Our plan s a re n ot comp leted as yet, but we are looking forward to a very pleasant time.

T o morrow eve ning we are to ha ve a cook ie·shine, and th er e is n o need to t ell a Pi Phi girl what pleasure we expect to have there.

The girl s of Wh iting Hall gave a n entertainment thi s m onth t o rai se fund s to purch as e a new fireplace and other mu ch need ed furni s hing s for th e r eadi ng r oom. A num ber of th e Pi Phi girls assisted with th e en t e r· tainment and we wer e glad to be represented as the entertainment was a great success The Pi Phi girls hav e al so bee n well r eprtscnt ed at th e f ootball dance, Juni o r prom , and oth er soci al funct io n s of the college. Alto gether we feel that o ur chapter is in a very prosperou s condition

CLAIA LINDLEY

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ILLINOIS ZETA-UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

(CHARTERED 1895)

Illin o is Zeta h as been enjoying an unu s ually prosperous winter, thanks to ou r good housekeeper. We have had, s uch good time s t ogethe r I Every e,'ening aft e r dinner we clu ster arou nd the piano and s ing ou r Pi Phi and other songs. Right at present we are enter taining our patron esses o n the ih s tallment plan-two with their husband s every Sunday, and we are enjoying it so much.

The interfraternity council has been having seve ral meetings lately, and with the aid of some faculty member s ha s been working out some rules for n e xt year. The girls all feel the need of some re strict io ns and alterations in ou r ru shing contract. A month full o f rushing is t oo much to give up r ig ht at the beginning of the college year.

With s pring we begin to think of Founder's Day and our annual celebrat ion Thi s yea r we arc going to observe Found er's Day by giving a dinner for all the h ouse and t ow n girls The a nnual will not be as elabo rate as formerly. Next will come the harde s t part of the year, when some go, 110t t o come back, for college days like everything el se, mu s t come to an end. \ Ve lose ve ry few girls tbi s year, however, and we a r e already making plan s for next year.

KATE BONNELL MANN.

ILLINOIS EPSILON-NORTHWESTERN UN IVER SITY

(CHARTERED 1il94)

\Ve are just now on the eve o f the fraternity exammation and in a few week s we s hall have learned all we can about Pi Beta Phi. We ha ve put off taking it until almost the last minute so that it would not conflict with our semes te r exams. But they are oyer now and we feel relieved for a while.

This year we did n ot give a Christmas party as we usually do, but postponed it until all the girls were back at college and then sent out invitations to the alumnae for a "fr at shower." Most of them r esponded and we had ;'\ very nice time together, s inging songs and listening to several of our girls read We r eceived a nice lot o f presents also that were "ju st what we needed," and now we can do our hou sekeeping better. Wh en the meeting broke up we all said that it was one of the most enjoyable times of th e year.

I ",·itati ons are now out for our annual formal dance which is going to take place the eighteenth o f March . All the fraternities this year have bf:en giving their dances out of Evanston, at the Casino in Ravinia.

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On March eleventl1 the Pan - Hellenic Association is to give a dance at th e Evanston Automobile Club Hou se, at which all the sorority girls will bt present. This party is to be given in order to get the girls better acquainted with one another, and o n e of the rules which may bring this about i s tha t a girl is n o t allowed t o dance with anyone f r om h e r frat e rnity. Thi s dan ce has occasioned Quite a good deal of talk among the men, and they say they are goi ng to give a dance and 11 0 t invite th e girls The town pap e rs put it a littl e more s tr ongly and say that the girls at Nort hwe s tern have at last asserted th ei r inde penden ce (rom th e men and are g oi ng to give a dance t o whi ch n o men are invited because they aTe entirely unneces sary. That was n o t our idea at all, but th e millennium will come before th e new s paper s s top inven t ing s tories to fill up space.

Illin o is Epsilon send s h er best wishe s to all the other chapters' and especially to the new one at Stanford University.

MAR[E HAM MOND.

I ND IANA ALPHA-FRANKLIN COLLEGE

(CHARTERED 1888)

Although our editor su gg es ts th at there is danger of making our chapter letters too much elaborate chronicles of social events, we have had so many pleasant times this term that we want to mention a few of the things we hav e enjoyed most.

One of ou r alumnae, Margaret Fos ter, invited us to her home in Indianapoli s fo r a six o'clock dinner one Saturday in January. Wr-; had a jolly trolley r ide togeth er, g o in g and return ing fr o m the city, as well as the delightful time in Margaret's home.

On the fourteenth of February one of our patrones ses open ed her hou se for us to give our Valentine party. We su rely owe a vote of thank s t o our patron esses who do so many kind things fo r u s. OUf chapter will be very glad when we can have a s pecial pin for them.

W e have also had another Pi Phi chu rch wedding thi s term. Martha Mari e John so n and Charles Brewer Lagrange, a Phi Delta Theta, of our own college, were marri ed on the sixteenth of February. We had a kitchen shower for Marie on the last night she visited chapter meeting before her wedding.

Indiana Gamma and our own chapter are so near together that it has often seemed to us a shame that do not know each other better. So we asked the Butler girls to spend a day with us a few weeks ago Butler ha s no recitations on Mondays, so they came on that day and had a chance to visit our college buildings and chape l exercises. W e had a spread at the chapter house in the afternoon, n o one being invited but our own active girls so that we might have a better opportunity to become acquai nted

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About twa weeks later, at the time of the Indiana State Oratorical Contest, the Butler girls invited u s to go to th e city o n an early car and meet them at another spread at the h ome of one of their active girls in the city. Since ou r last writing Professor E. B. Bryan o f Indi ana University ha s been chosen to take the place of Dr. W. T . StOlt, whose re si gnation as pres ident of our college is t o take effec t in June Besides having occupied chairs at hutle r Co ll ege a nd at.' Indiana University he has had cha rge of th e work of training teachers in the Philippine Islands. H e is also one of th e popular institute workers of our sta t e. Our college will surely continue t o grow and improve under hi s management.

GRACE BRYAN

JNDIANA BETA-INDIANA UNIVD.SITY

(CHAllTEIlED 1893)

Anothe r term is almost gone and we have all lived through it peacefully and happily. \Ve have tw o new girls this t erm, Dorothy Pleasants and Marcella Ja cobi. Marcella r eturn ed late in the fall from Germany, where she has been st udying the pa st two years.

'We have had o n e large party this term, an open meeting given February fourth. We e nt ert ained Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, and Sigma Chi from eight to ten o'clock, and Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Theta from ten to tw el ve o 'clock. Two members from each sorority were present, severa l t ow n girls and a number of out-of-to wn guests.

We hav e given three smaller parties in honor of guests of some of our girls

One of ou r town alumnae, Mrs. Anna Cravens Rote, g ave a cookie-shine for us two weeks ago, which we all enjoyed immensely.

\ Ve are looking forward with unusual delight to the twenty-eighth o f April, fan thi s year our State Reunion is to be held here. We are very anxi o us that the alutIUlae all over the state shall be with us, as well as many representatives fr om the other two chapte r s. We certainly would welcome Pi Phi-s from "all ove r everywhere" if they could only come.

In two weeks we are all going home for a ten days' vacation and we expect to come back with renewed energy for a joyous spring term

GRACE GRAYBnL

INDIANA GAMMA-UNIVERSITY OF tNDIANAPOLlS

(CHARTEIlED 1897 )

Time has passed so quickly this t erm that it hardly seems possible that spring is here, and before another quarter has gone we will bid each othe r farewell for the su mmer vacation.

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Our freshmen are becoming accustomed t o fraternity work and pleasure and growing each day more loyal and true to Pi. Beta Phi and ber high ideals.

Two of OUf girls who were compelled to leave college this term will be welcomed back into the chapter (or the spring term.

The annual recepti on and dance of Della Tau Delta at the Columbia Club on March third brought back seve ral on Qur girls for a short vi si t with Pi Phi sisters.

\V e gave our ter", dance February se venteenth at the home of one of our Indianapolis girls; it was an informal affair. but proved to be successful and most enjoyable.

Since our las t letter we have become very well acquainted with our s ist ers at Franklin, who entertained us most cordially January twenty-first. \V e left Indianapolis on an early car one morning, so th at we could visi t college with the Indiana Alpha girl s. A ft e r dinner we wen I to th e chapter house and had an informal enthusiastic Pi Phi meeting At six o'clock we enjoyed a spread such as only Pi Phis know how to give, and later the college men came to share the good time. Reluctantly we left the merry party, hoping to meet soon again. Ou r hope was reali zed, for in less than two week s, the evening of the State Oratorical Contest, the Franklin girls wcre with us. In that contest th e representative of our co ll ege won second place. Cer tainl)" we would like t o have had first, but second h ono r s are much better than none at all

Soon after this, our stu dent s celebrated Founder's Day with appropriate exercises. In the play that wa s given two Pi Phis had leading parts.

Formerly our April letter has told of the state r eu ni on, but a change has been mad e thi s year. In s tead of meeting in Indianapolis in February, we are going to Bl oomington April twenty-eighth, to celebrate Founder's Day with Indiana Beta .

With bes t wishes fo r a bappy s pring time,

LULU B. KELLAR.

(CBARTERED 1887)

Again we send gre eti ng to our sis ter Pi Phis, and this time we are gladly hailing a new chapter in our rank s. Welcome to California Alpha I

Since we last met thr ou gh the ARROW, the Michigan Alpha girls have been bu s ily passing through a medley of oratorical contests, lecture course entertainments, sleighing parties , mid-year examinations, fraternity ditto, and all sorts of things outside of our r egula r college work. We have just had a series of religious meetings under the auspices of the Christian Associations, which have meant gr ea t spiritual uplift to us all.

MICHIGAN ALPHA-HILLSDALE COLLEGE

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Vinnie Walrath Chase, Be ss Wood Pridieux and Clara Seil er are now proud wearers of the arrow, and by the time this paper is in your hands we shall have two more to introduce t o you-Ethel Bishop and Ella Ke rman The first tw o have been pledges for a long time so th a t we are especially glad that they can n ow be active, while the othe r three are very promi sing freshmen.

Our socia l functions as a fraternity, aside from these initiations, have been few thi s year. Mrs. Edmunds, one of our patrone sses, gave LIS a plea sant little fi ve o'clock tea one afternoon, the Kappas entertained us very nicely with a sleighing party o ne evening, and Clara S ei ler with a m ost delightful dinner.

Time has passed so quickly with us all that it is so hard to realize that spri ng vacat ion is so near, and then th e spring term will soon be over, and comme n cement with Quinqu ennial Reunion will be up on us . Great preparations are being made for th ese reuni ons in Hill sdale this year \V e wish you all the best of s uccess and the be st of good times.

EVELYN D. GATES.

MICHIGAN BETA-UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (CHARTER£D (888)

In this "betwixt and between" tim e of the year it seems so hard for us t o settle down to college work. H oweve r, our examina ti ons are over and we are now well launched on our second semester.

Gertha Willi ams, who for the first part of the year was detained at home on account of ill health, has returned to us again thi s semes t er.

Tuesday, February fourteenth, we had our cu stomary valent ine box and the rhymes and jingles created a great deal of merriment among the girl s.

On March the fourth we held ou r second initiation for our little pledge, Annie Kenaga. After th e ceremony we had a delightful sprea d .

The Sophomore Prom h as just come off, and the Freshman Banquet t.:obe held some tim e before the Easter vacation will end th e list of formal winter parties. The u sua l st ruggle between th e sop h omo re s and freshmen h as begun, and each day new victims of hair-cutting appear on th e campus.

A f ew evenings ago Mrs. Stanley, one of our alumnae. entertained us at suppe r , given in honor of the wife of Professor D'Ooge, who with her husband sails for Greece this month. During the course of the even ing Mrs. D'Ooge was presented with a bag filled with little gifts which the girls thought might be of u se to her on her voyage.

Ju st at present we are looking f orwa rd to a county fair to b e given by the college some time during the la st o f April. It is th e second event of it s kind to take place here, and like the one in 1902 it is to be given under the auspices of the \Vomen 's League and the Athletic Association.

RHEA L TYLER.

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IOWA AL P HA-I OWA WESLEYAN UNIVER S ITY

(C HARTERED 1868)

The se cl osi ng wee ks o f th e winler t e rm find I ow a Alpha very busy. Ju st at present eve ryo n e is serious ly eng aged in t he pur s uit o f knowl edge, fo r the term 's examinations are drawing nigh. Th e present college yea r has b ee n o ne of pr os per ity fo r ou r chapter; not th at ou r standing as relat ed to the o th e r fr a tern ities ha s changed in a grea t d egree, but we feel that th e college is stead ily g row ing and that we are growi ng with it. The chapter has n eve r been in a morc harm onious conditi on, and to find a band o f s ist e rs mo re frat ernal would b e almost impo ss ibl e.

A great many things h ave happened to us s inc e we last met each oth e r in the ARRow, so ma ny in fac t that it i s impo ss i ble to tell y o u about them a ll. But fir s t o f all we are plea se d to introdu ce at this happy Ea st e r -tide four new membe r s to our sisters: May Sto ddard and Clara M unz, who were init iated the first of th e term, and El s ie Benjamin and Grace Elliot. whom we welcomed t o the rank s o f the wine and blue on ly la st night. What a. plea s ant initiation it wa s and ho w we did wi s h that so m e o f you might hav e been with u s ! The r oo ms were beautifully decorated with the wine and blue, and our loyal ty to Pi B e ta Phi wa s proven without a doubt a s we sang with enthusiasm fr a ternity so ng s. and es pecially the one.

'·Come. every g ood s is t e r , now draw your chair up. Vive la d ea r Pi Phi."

The winter term has see med r ema rkabl y s ho rt an d yet we have managed t o crowd a large amount of fun a nd plea s ure into it. But it would take t oo lo ng to write of all our g ood tim es tog e th e r. Suffice it merely to m enti o n th e jolly bob ride wh e n th e sn o w w as tw o feet deep, the "cookies hines" and spread s and other affair s of a most info rmal nature. But even with all the se. g ood tim es, w e h ave been enjoying the Quiet chapter life whi c h mean s so much t o u s and gi ves u s a clearer vi s ion of the true m eaning o f o ur fraternity life and spirit.

I owa Alpha send s heartiest and be st wi s hes for a happy Eas t e r - tid e.

STELLA GUTHRIF..

IOWA BETA-SIMPSON COLLEGE

(CBARTEltED 1874)

The time has come again when I owa Beta is to tell all h e r si s ters what she has been d o ing of late. Time is slipping away so rapidly that we feel Auow -:i

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our good times are far from too many, fo r ve ry soon we s hall lose our fo ur seniors fr om the acti\' e life of the chapler.

The first of the term we pledged Vera lngram and Nannie White, an d we are very happy t o announce t o the Pi Phi world that 'Si nce February twcnty-third they ha ve worn the arrow-the day of their initiation-and that evening we had th e usual cookie-shine and g ood time.

Delta Delta Delta en t e r tained the tw o boys ' fraternities, Kappa Tau Psi and Alpha l ata Phi, and Pi Beta Phi at their chapter hou s e the twentyfo urth of January.

Phi Beta Phi and Dclta Delta Delta had a Pan-Hellenic informal at the h ome of th e latter on the eleven th of Februa r y, and a ve r y pleasant afterlloon was passed.

February thirteenth we entertained th e Tri Deltas at the home of one of our alumnae-it was a child's pa rt y and eve ry one from th e sen ior to the fre s hman returned t o her childish ways, and it is needle ss to say we had a n exceptio n ally jolly t ime.

Six of the girls from th e active chapter attended th e Pan-Hellenic ba nQuet at Des M oines January twenty-fifth, and we had a most delightful tim e. \Ve met many Pi Phis, as the number of th ose present exceeded that of any othe r sorority.

All the girls are studying hard for Pi Phi examination that is to be t ake n March eleventh, and we are all ve ry busy with ou r college work, for th e term is near it s end and examinations will soon be upon us.

With best wi s he s and greeting from Iowa Beta fo r the co ming term to all Pi Phis,

RUTH ETHERTON BAKER.

IOWA ZETA-IOWA STATE UNIV£JI:SITY

(CHARTERED J882)

Sinc e Christmas 'we girls have been mainly occupied in planning and working for our regular biennial party, for e,"ery year at le:\st one o f the so rorities o f the Unive r sity entertains the faculty and friends with a large rec e ption and dance at the Armory.

Reluctantly almost, the Pi Phis gave up the regular Thmsday "'cookies hine" and combined work and fraternity bu s iness at th e Saturday "frat. meeting " At th e hospitable home of ou r pre s iden t nineteen girls worked many night s and Saturday a ft ernoon s converting r eams of white tissue paper into great white hollyhocks , so called. We cut, we fashiontd and we wired thousands and thou sa nd s of the flowers

The old Armory, which fo r a great manY I years has been the scene of the univer s ity parties, is a great, long, bare r oom, but th e busy hand s of th e girls and their loyal friends converted it into a fairy land on th e night

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of February seventeenth. A light blue background of bunting formed a high vaulted ceiling completely concealing the high rafters and covering th e low balconie s on either si de of the room, and the walls below the balconies. Much lower, rope s of the white hollyhocks w e re strung from balcony to balcony. about a foot apart, forming a very dainty low ceiling across th e e ntire hall . A t ouch of green leaves added much character to the general whiteness in the double fe stooni ng, which was looped gracefully along th e balconies and again along the low walls. Portiere s of the flowers haH concealed the orchestra occupying th e stage at one end of the hall. Then, too, the general effect was \Oaried by garlands and wreaths encircling gilded a rr ows.

Abov e th e flower scheme and standing out against the light blue, our monogram Pi Beta Phi was outlined in wine co lored incandescent light s. \Vith the other lightSi turned low, the shimmeri ng red light shown d own upon the field of flowers, tinting them with eve ry shade, from a deep red t o a s had owy pink. The effect was so charming that we did not regret our labor s.

Twenty-five Pi Phis rec eived about four hundred guest s. Our patronesses were Mr s. Shambaugh, Mrs. Ball, Raymond of I owa City, and Mrs. Weld of Cedar Rapids. Included in this li st were ou r two pledge s, who have si nce become real Pi Phis. Maud Delw egc of Des Moines is a splendid girl and o f whom Pi Phi may feel very proud. The other, Edith Ball , is the daughter of Mr s. Estella Ball , a charter member of Iowa Zela. For mo nth s Edith ha s been ;'shadowed" by every so rority alike, and was Quoted as "the girl of the year." So Pi Phi was indeed happy when s h e pledged, and the two girls, a ttractive an d full of en thu sias m, were finally initiated.

With "frat exam." over we shall be much relieved, for sure ly everybody dreads any examination. We were \'e r y disappointed and sor ry that Alice Edwards was compelled to go home the week before ou r party on account of illness . She will probably not return this se m ester.

M.ay all the Phis enjoy t o the fullest ex tent th e r em:t ining days of thi s splendid school year.

SADrE HOLlDAY

WISCO!'JSIN ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

(CHARTERED 1894)

Before settling d ow n to actual work after the Christmas holidays, we ent e rt ained at a formal dinner at the chapter hou se. Several of the girls who are away teaching this year were able to be here for it.

Since our la st letter we have b ee n fortunate in pledging Florence Titus. She has entered so completely into our chapter life that we can see already

how s tr ong a girl s he. will be for u s. R ose \Vtellman has left the University for h er home in Wa shington, D. C. She was ve ry active in our fraternity work and her going h as caused the chapter a seve re loss.

Our se me s ter examina t ions were fo llowed immediately by the "P r om." Four of our "old girls" were h ere with us to participate in the gaiety. One of our girls took a lead ing part in th e annua l play of the Haresfoot Dr amatic Club at about thi s time. Another took part in the play given by the Red Domino and Ed win Booth Dramatic C lubs.

HELEN ROSEN STENCEL.

Mr SSOU RI ALPHA-UNIVERS ITY OF MI SSOU RI

(CHARTERED 1899)

The first of this semes ter we initiated Mabel Lee Turpin of Nevada, Mo., and Edna Thomas of Kan sas City, Mo. Miss Thomas entered the Univer s ity the seco nd semester, but Mi ss Turpin we rushed and pledged in the fall.

On Monday, Mar ch the fifth, Mrs. Walter Williams rec eived in honor of her sister, Roberta Houx of Warrensburg, and her friend, Mi ss Cranner of Denver, Col. Mrs. Williams is a Pi Phi fr o m the old! chapter at Leland Stanfo rd, and Mi ss Houx wa s a member of our chapte r here about 1wo years ago.

Gus s ie Terre ll, our senior thi s year, was called home the fir st of February by the d ea th of her mother We are glad to say, however, that s he is back wi th us to fini s h out the year , Thi s ha s not been th e only sadness among our girl s thi s year, a s Erma Bonchelle, a town girl who was active l ast year, lost her m ot her also during th e Chri s tma s holiday s.

The twenty-fifth of March, Nebraska is to play ba sket balI with Missouri here at Columbia. There are two Pi Phi s on the Nebraska team, Pearl Archibald and lni s Everett. They will be ou r guests whilQ in Co lumbia so we a r e looki ng forward with much plea sure to their visit.

One of ou r charter members. Mary Iglehart King, h as been in town the last few days with her s is ter, Mi ss Kitty Smith, a Pi Phi patroness, who ha s been ve ry ill.

Virginia Lip scomb, one of ou r active tow n girls, entertained Tu esday, February the twenty-firs t. Th e game of the afternoon was Sherlock Holme s.

Florence Dorsey, whO\ was with us until Christmas, has heen traveling for the la st two mo nths in Florida and Cuba.

BETTY WUUAMS.

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(CHARTERED IB9I)

We can hardly realize that there are only ten more weeks bdore vacation. To a few of us, the goal, toward which we have been working fo r four years is almost in s ight, and the year seems to have fairly flown by.

Just a few days after th e last chapter Jetter was sent, Louisiana Alpha pledged Lea Calloway, whom we may now introduce as a new, but loyal, Pi Phi She is the fifth addition to the chapter this year, and we are delighted t o have her as one of us. We also have another patroness-Miss H allonqui s t-who is a great addition and a loya l fri end to the ch apter.

In th e Carnival festivities which are just over, seve ral of our girls wefe queens and maids. Helen Rainey wa s Queen of Comu s and she also received th e bouquet at the Carnival German for being the mo st popular debutante. Stella Hayward was Queen of Oberon; Celeste Janvier was Maid of Twelfth Night; Alba Beauregard and Paulin e Cu rran , Maids t o the Queen of Cami\!a l, and Mary Vaught was Maid o f Prote us By the dawn of A s h Wedne sday, all s igns of Carnival, except a few Aag s, h a d disappeared, and we of the active chapt e r are glad to welcome back our four active members who are debutantes-for we have seen too little of them during the Mardi Gras excitement.

On March sixteenth, the inauguration of President Craighead of Tulane took place, and it was the event of th e college year . Craighead was invited to fill the vacancy caused by President Alderman's leaving Tulane to be the president of the University of Virginia. In his inaugural address, the n ew president mentioned the fact that if the suit concerning the money left t o thi s college is decided in our favor which is almost certain-Newcomb will be the most heavily endowed woman's college in the world.

We are also rej oicing ove r the fact that ou r Alumnae dub ha s been f o rm ed. A large number of alumnae are active in the club, while others are only honorary. They are as enthusiastic as the active chapter members, and we are very glad that the club has been firmly established.

But we can 't expect to have good lu ck always. Virginia Handley has decid ed to leave college about the fir st of April and we are very sorry to lose her, especially as she does not expect to return next year Louis iana Alpha se nds best wishes to all other Pi Phi s GENEVIEVE JACKSON.

KANSAS ALI'HA- U NIVER S ITY OF KAN S A S

(C HARTERED 1873)

The seaso n from, th e Chri s tm as ho lidays to the beginning of Lent was fill ed thi s year, as u s ual, with a r o und of spring partie s given by the different frat e rnitie s. Our n ew F rat ernal Aid hall has made th em especially enjoyable, fo r it enable s us to e ntertain more people and ha s almost ent irely d o ne a way with the worry and la bo r o f d eco rating for the occasion. The Pi Phi party was the night after ex aminati o n week, and with th e a ss is tan ce of ou r patrone sses we e n te rt ai ned about three hundred of ou r fri e nd s.

All ou r pl eas ure has no t been confined to parties, h owe vcr. We are very IJroud and happy ove r the e lec ti o n of onc o f o ur seni ors , Eva Olin, t o Phi Beta Kappa . The Dramati c Club recently gave its annual play thi s yea r , William Gillette's "AlI th e Comforts of H o me ." It wa s th e best performance that the club ha s give n fo r se veral yea r s, and tw o o f ou r girls, Clara Ca rr and Nina Fell, t ook leading part s.

The Young Women' s Chri s tian Assoc iat ion is planning to give a county fair later in the season, whi ch pro mi ses t o be one o f th e mos t popular (:vcnt s of thc year. Many fraternity girls arc to t ake pa rt and th e Pi Phis will be well repre se nted As s pring opens w e begin to tum again t o athletics. Th e track t eam i s working hard and the ba se ball team is practi cing nearly eve r y afternoon. We are also trying som ething n ew in lacrosse which promi ses to be very successfu l.

The Pan-Hellenic A ssoc iati on pa s sed so me rul es thi s year that are tending to improve ce rtain welt es tab li s hed cus to m s here Th e fraternity gi rl s have agreed to refu s e invitati on s to week night parti es and inv itati ons to dinn e r at men 's fr a ternity h o u ses unles s a chaperone is prov ided. Although w e have been laug h ed a t by a few, w e ar c uph e ld by th ose whose 6pinions we \·al ue a nd we feel that this s tep is go ing t o assu r e a much needed r efo rm

Wtth bes t w is h es f o r a h appy and profitable sp r ing, LESLEY HILL.

NEBRASKA BETA-UN(v£RSITY OF NEBRASKA (CHARTERED 1895)

It see m s su c h a yery s h o rt time s in ce ou r la s t letter t o the ARROW, but when we look back over th e past thr ee months we can count up numerous matter s of inte re s t whi ch make li S glad that we are Pi Phis and that we can claim the wine and blu e.

We init ia ted Evelyn Franklin a nd Alli e Arn o ld just before Chri stmas

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vacation, and we are glad and proud that they are n o w enthusiastic sisters. Our chapter is quite large but we feel is st r onger than it eve r has been before. We are sorry to have lost Alice Carson and also Sarah Hutchins, who was called home on account of the sickness of her mother.

There are at present tcn girls in the chapter house, and such jolly tim es as we have had this semester I Of the things which have been most enjoyable our birthday parties are not lO be forgotten, for every time a hou s e girl has a birthday we celebrate in some novel manner. Usually it is a dinner with several guests, at which the well known birthday cake is the mo s t prominent feature. Each girl take s a candle and of course you all know what the s ign is when th e first one bums out. At other times we h ave given Hdress up" parties and have appeared in fancy costumes. So ou r chapter house life has been pleasant and harmony rules there.

As usual \\e have given several informals on Saturday night at the house, which have been jolly a nd s uccessful. These dances we have found t o be OJ. splendid way of entertaining at little expense and trouble and at the same time with fun for all.

In our la s t letter we spoke of the "Annual County Fair" given by the Y W. C. A. It was a great success and nearly all the sororities t ook part in it. \Ve Pi Phis gave a very novel entertainmen t and took in at our "side show" more money than any other " attraction on th e grounds." It was a little pantomime, "'A Bachelor' s Revery," in which a dozen girls and one man took part.

We consider ourselves very fortunate in having had a short v isit from Mrs. Jessie L. Gaynor, whom we have all read about in our la st letter. Mrs. Eames ente rta ined for us in her honor at a delightful luncheon, after which we attended the song recital gi\ en by her. We were indeed pleased with Mrs. Gaynor's charming recital, and wc arc proud of 1'0 delightful a Pi Phi sister.

Perhaps o ur mo s t en jo yable e\'ent wa s the celebration of ou r tenth anni· versaryon J anua ry twenty·fifth. It was intended to be a "t in wedding," but the presents were everything from a glass punch bowl to a tin stew pan. Our most prized gift was a large arrow made of tin I

Another university function which is eycry yea r becoming of more in· fluence is "the Glee club concert" which was attended by all students and faculty. The fraternities and sororities eac h occupied it s row of seats, and the faculty and patrons the boxes.

Our hopes are n o w all turned to "Founde r' s Day" and the glorious cele· brati on it brings. April tw enty·seventh is t o be the date of our banquet when we expect Pi Phis fr om over the state as guests. The following night we give our large dance of th e year, and fo r the se two events we are most anxious.

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entirely clear, and the freshmen tremble at th e th ou ght of the C hapler Roll, which seems "most awfu l " to leam by heart.

Before closing le t me mention several honors of OUT chapter. For the pu s t year the presidency of th e U ni versity Y. W. C. A. has been held by one of OtlT g irl s and thi s month another Pi Phi t akes the office, which is a vc ry re spo nsible and important one in our institution. Tw o Pi Phi s also play on the Var s ity Girls' Basket Ball Team, which is to play it s firs t game with the Haskell Indi a n s Frid ay, March t e nth. Th e team will soon start o n it s trip, first to Minnesota, th en to Kansa s a nd Mi sso uri.

W e enjoyed a s h o rt visit from Lillian Payne of Indiana Alpha. Nebraska Beta wishes you all mu ch success and happines s.

KATE HEACOCK.

TEXAS ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

(CHART£IW) 1902)

entering into a detailed account of ou r chap t e r life for the past te rm, we o f Texas Alpha wi s h to introduce ou r new pledge to ou r Pi Ph i sis t ers. Mary Hillard, one of our most promising freshmen, has just consented to join us. Thus, after h e r init iati o n, ou r ,li s t of freshmen w ill numbe r eleven. W e are very proud of ou r success thi s year, but in addition to th e pleasure o f having our n ew s i s ter s with u s and the joy of victory, we older girls fee l sec ur e in leavi ng so many s trong g i rl s to fill our places when we leave.

In compari so n with the excitement of the rushing season, thi s te r m has been a very quiet one. The most pleasant entertainment that we have to report is a Valentine tea with which ou r fre s hmen s urpri sed u s. For t h e occas io n o ne of the girls' rooms was darkened and light ed with Japanese lanterns, and flowers were the only decorations. The afternoon was delightfully passed in attempting to write valentines to one another and i n singing Pi Phi songs. It wa s a most enjoyable party, fo r , besides the college Pi Phis, it was a gathering of all ou r Austin alum na e, and Miss Brint on of Illin ois Delta was also with us.

Margaret Kyle, Pennsylvania Alpha, secretary of the Y. W C. A., has been spending the pas t week with u s. Mi ss Kyle visited the University las t spr ing in the interest of the association, therefore we knew what pleasu re to anticipate in her coming again thi s yea r . It was our intention to have her organize' a Bible cla ss for u s in th e chapter house, but on the Su n d ay appointed she was ill and could not he lp us

Our middle term examinations begin next week". Then afte r t wo a nd a h alf sh or t months we shall have to see our seniors pass ou t of our colleg e life.

FAY KINCA

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COLORADO AL P HA- UN I VERS ITY OF COLORADO

(CHARTERLD ( 884)

Following s ugg esti on s, Co lo rad o Alpha discussed in me eti ng o n e night " Th e Substance and Spirit o f the C h apte r Letter," and we found it a pr e tty h ard thin g to decide ju s t wh a t thing s would be of int er es t t o ou r s iste r Pi Phis. It is easy to say th at i t s houldn ' t be hard to writ e a le tt e r to o th e r college girl s whe n we all have so much in commo n, b u t wh e n it come s t o r ea lly doi ng it we don ' t find it s uch a n ea sy ma tt er. The big parties and dances and r eceptions that occupy so much of ou r time and mea n so much to us probab ly d o n ' t int e r est OllT s isters a t all. We all like t o know that Pi Phis everywhe r e a r e th e popu la r girls in co llege and are the ones who go to th ese functi on s, but d on ' t we take it more o r less f o r gra nt ed a nyway? Anything whi ch i s o f nati o nal interest t o th e fraternity o r univer s it ies, anything w hi c h we or ou r college does which we think might gi ve he lpful hint s t o others, a nyth ing in connecti on with Pi Phi s from other chapters-these the girls of Colorado Alpha th ink might be int e resting topics in chap t e r le tter s .

All frate rnity girl s h e r e a r e at pres ent g r eat ly int e re st ed in the PanH elle ni c As soc iati on . Thu s far the mee tings wh ich a r e h el d eve ry month h a\'e de\'eloped nothing of g r eat import a n ce as no ag r eemen t can be r eac hed, but we hope befo r e the begi nnin g o f th e fa ll t e rm to h ave so me d efinite time set fo r a pledge day The uni versi ty this year ha s a n ew dean of wo men who h as accomplished much in the d eve lopmen t of stud e nt society h e r e. Ju s t at prese nt th e r e is a movem e nt on foo t to o rganize a self-government association f o r the wo men of the university, and it is me e ti ng with great approva l o n all side s.

The Y W C. A. gives its Coun ty Fair next week and each fra t e rnity takes a boot h t o dec o r ate and furni sh as it may ch oose. Thi s year Pi Phi is t o ha ve th e candy f ac t o ry Of course th e objec t is to make mo re m o n ey than anyone e lse, and we a re g o ing t o tr y t o get trad e by m aki ng th e candy in the diff e r ent frat e rnity colors

W e fe e l that we are entitl ed t o boas t j u s t a little th is t ime because fr o m th e whole graduating cla ss there were only tw o girls who mad e Phi Beta Kappa, and Cor a Terwillige r, one of OU T seni o r s, was o n e of them

Lastly, we want t o in tr o du ce to Pi Ph idom ou r n ew in itiate, Eunice Th ompson And h e r e's to eac h a nd every Pi Phi fr o m the girls of Colorad o Alpha.

CLARA MOR S E,

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COLORADO BETA-DENVE.R UN I VERSITY

(CHARTERED 1885)

The second tcrm of our schoo l yea r is at its close a nd eve ry one is preparing for exami na ti ons next week. Yet there is always some thing pl easant to lo ok forward to, for th e week afte r is o ur spring vacation when the girl s h ope to get toge th e r as many days as possible and ha ve so me good t imes.

\ Ve ha ve two new ini t iates to introduce t o you-Es th er Work and Inez Byers-who are going to be s taun c h and e nthu siastic Pi Phis.

In our la st letter we told you of our new "Bunga low" which at that t ime was just completed. Since then through the help of ou r friend s , wh o ha n made us seve ral presents, we h ave furni s hed the house comf o rtably though n ot elabo r ately. Vie shall keep on doing a little at a time till we have the co siest placc imaginab le, we hope.

\ Ve enj oy ha\' ing th e house much. Ou r meetings are held there, and as it i:;n't fa r fr om the univer s ity n carly all thc girl s manage to get over once a day at lea s t.

\ Ve had a housewa rming December thi rty-fi r s t and invited all th e alumnae in town Then th e end of J anua ry we were "at home" to the faculty of t h e unive r s ity and their wives.

On the c\'cning of February four t ee nth we were delightfully e ntert a ined a t a valentine party given in our h o n o r by Sigma A lph a E ps il o n.

LEN A M. HAR PER.

C. \LH·ORXI A AL P HA-STA:o.'FORO UNIVERS ITY

(CHARTI2a: o 1893 ; RE-ESTADLl S IJEO 19(5)

S ,'J/ ior-E dna 1'.lary Reeve s.

J L eo nore Timm o n s , Ruth Angeline \Vat e rhou se, Alice Sido ni e Ha ye s, Eugenia Romaine Miller

SopI101Ilor"'s-Ella Mae Lambert , Loui se P earce, Stella Viola Henkin g , Laura Ruth Adkin s on. Elizabeth Logan Office r FrcslrmclI-A lice Hermine Gabel.

Th e girl s of Ca lifornia Alpha send gree tings t o th e o ther chapters, and wi s h t o thank them for th eir kind letter s and remcmbranc es of tne past m ont h .

Alhough we have all been li\-ing t ogethe r for over a yea r , ou r frat e rnity life is just beginning, and we are afraid we have not much to ofte r t o ou r more fortu n ate olde r sis ters '

Everyone has been most kind to u s, and plans fo r several social e\' ents

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in our honor we r e made, but owing to the s udden d ea th of o ur founder, Mr s. Jane Lathrop Stanford, all gayeties have been postponed.

\"I e are all getting r eady for next year's ru shing season , and hav e begun t o conside r about build ing th is SUQlme r, as we intend to own our h ouse be · fo re another year goe s by. W e already have one pledge, Bonnie Carter, who will enter college next September

The g ir ls are all very much int e re ste d in studen t affair s. One is o n the "Quad" board, th e annual publi s h ed by the Jun io r class, another t ook part in th e late production of "The Rivals;' while s till another is to si ng o ne of the leading parts in the J unior ope r a, which comes off in April. We h ave tw o m embers in the English Club, a literary o rgani zation, and ou r only Senior r ep r esents us o n the "P r om ." committee.

\ Ve have b ee n , ' ery fortu n ate in having with us all winter Mi ss Hel en Sutl iff and Mi ss H ar ri ette Mil es, both o f Kansas Alpha. Besides them, we ha ve severa l faculty wo men who are Pi Beta Phis, and we count among our girls a Pi Phi' s daughter.

The gin s all join in best wi s. hes and a long life to th e only fraternity, EUGENIA R. M ILLER.

CAL IFORNIA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

(CHA RTERED (900)

Th e most important event of this term was th e r e in s tallation of Califo rnia A lph a on February eleventh at Stanford U niv ersity. We were a ll fill ed with enthu s iasm o ver th e prospect of h aving Pi Phi s once m o re at our s iste r uni ve r s ity, and end eavore d to mak e th e occ a s ion o n e long t o be r e membered in the h ea rt o f eve ry Pi Phi present. H elen B. Sutliff of Kan sas Alpha, ex-G rand Presiden t, had charge o f the ce rem onies. .A:mong th e prominent a lumnae assi s ting her we r e Harriette M iles, K an sas Alpha; Mr s. Frances Smith-Rand , Califo rnia Alpha, and Mrs . Franklin, o f Co lor ado Alpha Tweh'e active members of California Beta and four alumnae j oined th em in happy we lcome of the initiate s. At the large banquet which f ollowed Mis s Miles presided as toa st mistres s. The lo n g table was beautifully decorated in our fraternity colors, and thirty - tw o Pi Phi s. th e larges t number which ha s ever congrega ted in Ca lifornia, ga\' e h on o r to "dea r ol d Pi Phi and the wine and si lver blue ." Th e "baby" chapte r ha s won the gr eates t admiration and enthu siasm from its eld e r s is t er s.

On S1. Valentin e's eve th e sophomores ente r ta in ed at dancing fo r their Pi Phi sis t e r s. Greens and lo ng festoons o f bright r e d h ea rt s were used in decoration and all enjoyed a jolly eve ning. A s fr es hmen. the class of '07 re so lved t o make merry each yea r in h on o r of th e great sai nt

On F ebrua r y tw enty- fourth th e Pry tanean S ocie ty, a wo man's honor society, presented th e " Mik ado" at the MacDo nough Th ta t e r , Oakland, f o r

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the benefit of the Students' Hospital Fund. The ope ra met with great Success financially and artis tically and was sung to a brilliant and crowded house, the cause being one of much interest to the student body. Pi Phi was represented in the cast.

The University Assembly took place la s t Friday. This dance is always looked forward to with much delight as it is th e most important of the college year. There were many charming little dinner partie s given befo r e the dance.

All California is once mOTe in sp ring attire-hills and meadows are covered with a carpet of green, fruit tre es are laden with blo ssoms and buds are peeping forth from vine and flower. We welcome bright days and wish our Eastern sisters as much joy in the spring time as we of the Pacific slope.

'We ask you all to join u s in a hearty welcome to California Alpha. CLARA LoUISE CooPER.

ExcJcanges

Since the issu e of the January ARROW the fo llowing exchanges have been received and are hereby acknowledged: For December-The Shielii o f Theta Delta Chi.

For January-The Crescellt of Gamma Phi Beta, The Raillbow of Delta Tau Delta, The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, The Anchora of Delta Gamma, The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

For February-The Phi Gamma D elta, The Kappa Alpha Jour1101, The Alpha Phi Quarterly, The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, The Alpha Xi Delta, The Eleusis of Chi Omega, The Sigma Chi Quarterly, The Beta Theta Pi . For Ma r ch-The Kappa Alpha Theta, The Delta Upsilon Quarterly.

From th e Kappa Alpha Theta we gladly present the following. In its main features, we most heartily end orse it, although we differ with the author in a few rather important particulars.

A PLEA FOR DEFINITENESS IN INTER-SORORITY CONFERENCE PROCEDURE.

Verily the Conference has accomplished what no onc society was willing or able to attempt alone. The securing by Int er-Soro rity act ion of a ruling forbidding the pledging of preparatory studen ts confirms us in the enthusiastic trust we have felt for the Conference since its inception. Realizing the progress represented by this all-impor tant step, together with what it implies of inter-sorority confidence and good will, no harm C3n be done by a frank criticism of the business procedure of the Conf erence. Having accomplished great things, no mere discrepancies can discourage us. Th e right spirit is abundantly present, and proper method s will necessarily follow . Let us conside r, therefore, the nece ss ity and initial plan for a definite busin ess procedure. The Conference has convened three times in the la st three years. What agreement ha s it adopted? In the minutes of the Third Confe rence we find: "The Conference wi shes to emphasize all the agreements now included in the Inter-So rority Compact which is bind-

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ir.g up on all the chapters of all the so r orities repre sen ted in the compact 1. There s hall be a Pan · H ellenic Association in every institution where two or morc National S o rorities exist; each association shall be r ep resented by the chapter fir s t established there; and shall consis t of onc alumna and one acti\ c member o f each so r o rity It sha ll be presided over in r o tati o n by each chapter in the o rd e r of its establishme nt. Any chapter v io lating the Pan Hellenic agreement shall be r epo rted to its Grand Pr e sident by the Pan H ellenic Assoc iation to whi ch it belongs. 2. No student shall be a s ked to join a so rority before s he has matriculated , matriculation being defined as the day of enrollment as a student in the Uni\ ersity o r College."

Now, number I is a combined s tatement of seve ral m ot ions passed by the vote of the delegates in th e Conference. Number 2 is the combined statem en t o f t wo motions pas s ed by a majority vote of all the chapters of all the so roriti es. Th e dilemma is apparent: What body is ve st ed with the power o f making law s which sha ll be considered a part of the compact? I s the Confe r e n ce th e legi s lative bo dy, o r is leg is lative authority ves t ed in th e majo rity vote o f all the chapters of the so r o rities represented in the Conference? C lea rly we cannot advance far until th is poin t i s settled.

I am co nfid ent that it is far fr om th e dcsire of th e Con fcrence to leg islat e for th e chapters. Th e intere s t s of the chapters are too complicated, too varying for any delegate at the Conference to ca s t her "yea" o r "nay" fo r any motion however insignificant it m<ty see n ; for it is often tho se seemingly trivial rulings that are fraught with deep significance to some group o f member s. It is readily conceivable that a motion lost in Conf e r ence by the vo te of d elegates might be carried by a vote in the chapters, and vice versa.

'vVe suggest a s a basic agreement the fo llowing m oti o n to be s ubmitted at th e next Conference: That th e Int e r - So r o rity Confe r ence adopt a compact, eve ry article of which shall ha ve been incorporated into the compact only afte r having been presented in the form of a motion at a session of th e Confe r ence, and s ub sequently passed by a majority vote o f all the chapters o f the so rorities r epre se nted in the Conference.

Insistence shou ld be made upon the point that the motion be pa 'ised up on by the chapters of the so roriti es, not by the vo te of delegates at National Conventions. The impo rt ance o f the m o ti o n s warrants a full di scussion in each chapter and the vote taken in the chapters will naturally express what the chapte r s' expe r ience in th e local Pan Hellenics has prove d advisable. Thi s proce dure will n o t necessitate a delay o f ov(' r two m onth s from the time of the meeting o f Conference to the time of ratification by the ch ap ter s. The presmt custom should be preserved: Th e secretary of the Conference having submittd to the chapters the mo-

tion s s uggested in the Conference, s ha ll co ll ect th e votes and a nnoun ce the r esul t s t o the council s a nd chapters of the so r o r ities, the last named being r espon sib le for th eir p r ope r observance. I wish t o emphasize the p o int th a t any motion prese nted a t , n o t n ecessar ily passed by the Conference, shall be s ubmitt ed to the chapters.

Thus it is evident th at I place th e legis lative function wholly wi t h the college chap t er s where, I believe, it be longs. Docs it see m th a t th e fi el d o f effo rt for the Conference is th e r eby cu rtail ed? In n o way Rather, the great changes for which we are hoping cannot be realized without this body. It is the means of holding before th e women ' s fraternities r esul ts possible only through associated effort, a nd of fo rmulating motions su gg esti ng defini t e legi s lation t owa rd tho se ends. It seems advisable that the Conference pro vi d e that all subjec t s t o come before that body, as far as possible be submitte d t o th e d elegates for their thoughtful co n side rati o n at lea st two months before the Confe r ence convenes.

Conce rn ing the special dispensation which th e last Con ference sou ght t o grant th e Wi sco n s in ch apte r s by passing a motion relative t o them, I would state that, because wholly irregular, its pa ssage has no effect upon th e ru ling agai n s t p ledging, as pa ssed by th e chapters. No body has the powe r to r epeal o r a nn ul a law, save the body that made it. Therefore the d elegates at th e Conference had no power to alte r a law passed by the chapters. To g r ant special privilege to Wisconsin, the majo rity vote of all th e chapters of the sorori ties must sa nction it. Those who expect much f r o m the meeting s of the Co n ference ca nn o t h elp but admire the !lpirit back of t he motio n which was lo st at the last meeting; it read s : ' In asmuch as Inter-Sorority regulations affect us all alike, the Third Conference r efuses to make any exceptions, whatever loca l conditions m ay e r ist in any particular co l lege." Her e is the germ of all successful action - "affects us all alike." The motion desiring to secu r e specia l di spen sat ion for Wisconsin was made with the explanation that conditions there are unique. Sub s equent examination ha s shown that they a r e duplicated ill many of ou r colleges. Provid ed we could grant the argument o n the grou nd s upon which it was pre se nted, it n evertheless loses a ll fo r ce when we remember th at whatever the ru lings, they affect u s a ll alike. F o r the sake of preserving in t oto the all-importa nt ruling so far enac t ed, let us do all in ou r powe r t o g et a clear understanding of the difficulty of filrth er advance, if retrogad e s t eps b e taken

By frank discussio n s throug h our magazine St what may we n o t do to furth er the good wo r k of Inter-Sorority Confe r ences? We qelieve that throu g h th e m the fuller r ea li za ti on o f the tru e meaning of fraternity is re ached, and th a t they ca n be, moreover, a means of so e radicating the evils claimed again s t the system, that even the inimical will be forced to conced e the frat ernity an important factor in the socia l we ll-being o f our · college s.

EONAH HARM ON WICK SON , C,.o"d p,.esiden/

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Mr. Jam es H. Canfield , formerly president of Ohio State Univers ity and now librarian of Colu mbia, contributes an article on "Fraternities" to th e Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma, his daughter's frat e rnity. The a rticl e is adopted fr om o n e in th e writer's little book "T he College Student and His Problems," and is so fair, yet fri end ly, that the ARROW is sorry not to b e able to quote it entire.

Of course the id eal condition would be to have the college world an absolute unit, knowing nothing of cliques or factions or "circles" of any sort, recognizing community of int erest in all th ings, each sharing in common pro sperity because contributing to it, each solic itous as to th e welfare of the othe r, each member of thi s democratic community a direct a nd po s itive ble ssing to each other member But it happens th a t the world i s all a nd Quite o th e rwi se; C hri stian n ations contend with pagan and with each o ther as well; there is strife of creeds in the churches, and of parties in the politica l world; cla s s makes war upon class in social life, and distincti ons of r ank o r wealth or association 3re everywhere manifest-and th e college is in the world and of the world. It is no indolent optimis m, th e r efore, which as to your final d ec is io n bids you accept the fraternity, if you are so inclined afte r th is year of ca reful ob s ervation, and make the best of it.

From a practical r ecognition of bot h opportunity and r espo n sib ility ma y come very des irable results. It is no sma ll th ing that you have something t o say as to the general policy of th e o rgani za ti on, or as to the detai l s of i ts execution; th a t you a r e charged with some spec ial duties in this common life, th a t you h ave your sha r e of the common expenses. To get the full benefit of th ese a ssociations, you ought t o take fraternity life far more se ri o u s ly th an many take it t oday. Th ere s hould always be a very definite purpose to make this pay the largest possible returns upon your investment of time and money. With generous rivalry, you should ins ist that you r associates make eve ry ellort to keep well at the front in the class room, on the athletic field , and in all student undertakings. You should study carefully to make your fraternity one of the very be s t in the country, your chapter the leader of the fraternity. Under your guidance, it shou ld become and remain a model organization. In all this you must give freely of your time and ta lents; but the return s are imm edi a te and large. The experience in executive work, the record in successful administration, the development of power and capacity o n yo ur own part-all tbis is exceedingly valuable.

The n ew editor of the Cadl/celts treats th e high school fraternity with the levity which it deserves, and which is perhaps the only

th ing that will bring home to the mind o f young America turned Greek how funn y it i s With its defiance o f parental authority an d sch ool di scip lin e, with its injuncti on s a nd court decisions, it wo uld else almost convince us that it was t o be taken se ri ous ly.

If the adolescen t "f raternity" and "soro r ity" people, who a r e "j ust g oing ove r Fool Hill, " as somebody ha s put it, could be m ade to realize what a s et of little sillies they are-but n o, that is bey ond h OVe. It see ms that we mu s t wait th e pass ing o f th e fad , tru sting that some new game or h orne occupation like ping-pong or pyrography may soo n take its p lace in the fo cus of the yo uthful mind' s attention. Had t he blessings of "f rat e rni ty" been extended to schools when Plupy Shu t e, the immortal diarist,. wa s young, we might ha ve had among his record s some thing like this:

february 5 186- brite and fair , there is a new thing amung the boys in sch oo l it is a frattimity a fr att e mity is sum thing you belong and cant te ll about Fatty belongs to it and 'Wh a ck and some o th er felle r s. me and Bean y says we wont join it jf th ey do ask u s we think th ey are mean not to ask u s i dont ca r e. it is th e s igmer ze t e r wh itch i s hebrew. th e boys in it h as t o fite for eec h other Beany says he can lick any too of them and i can too.

february 10 186- co ld as time. i have joined the sigmer zete r gosh it i s the grat es t thing i eve r dremt of we have secret s which we cant tell on pane o f deth Whack askd m e t o join and B oog was askd too Boog was sca red when they t ook him in i wasent. they all said let B ea ny join but i said n o i d o nt think B eany will make a good frattirnity man and i blackbaled him we must k eep th e frattimity select. when anybody is fiting a frattirnity man i mean a s igm er zeter man and he is about to get licked he can holler help a sigmer zettr in distres and all th e ot hers ha s to h elp him li ck th e other feller.

february 12 186- Beany he found out i blackbaled him and he cougt me away from th e s igmer zete r boy s and we had a fit e i have promisd t o let Beany joi n gosh the initiati on fee i s to doleTS i dident no bow to g et th e mo ney but Bea ny says he noes wh e re there is a emty house and we w il go t omor r ow nite an d get some o f the gasfixchers whitch aint n o u se t o anybody it bei ng emty and se ll them t o get the to dolers for me an d Beany two. th e r e i s anoth er frattirnity it is d k e it hasent any chap tter at ou r sc h oo l it is n ot hing t o s igm er zeter i would not speak to a d k e if i met him in the rode

In Plupy' s day there was in existence a certain f o rce now pa sse d known a s parental auth o rity, and the foll o wing wo uld have been the story of the close of hi s frat ernity' s ca r ee r; m ore's the p ity that we cannot Aaw'tl" -G

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look fo r this sufficien t, s imple and proper r emedy t o b e applied to the exi s ting conditions:

february 27 186- th e s igmer ze te r is broke up it was thi s way me and B eany so ld th e gasfixchers an d got four doleT s fo r ou r initiation fees and father found out about the frattirinty a n d made me tell all about it and he went and saw Whack' s fath er a nd B ea n y ' s ana all th e other boy's father 's and th ey all came a nd eech o ne ga ve us a licking i meal') hi s own father gave him a licking , i mean ga ve eech boy a licking rite befo re the sc hoo l. i ha ve to wo rk to pay fo r the ga sfixchers i gess i would be t o bisy to g o to sigmer ze ter any m o re if it wasent broke up

A con tributi on fr om its Mu chapte r to th e Alpha Pi Q1Iarte rlY states very cl early ju st what society ha s a ri g ht t o e xpect of th e frat e rnit y woman, what is the prec ise training which she and on ly she rec eives .

The fr a ternity is no t a n in s titut ion of con s t a nt d eli ght, nor of unfailing harmo ny Ne ith er is the world itself Bo th are co mpos ed o f persons wh ose nature s are di stin c t, o ften s tr o ng- willed, o ft en se lfi sh When people join a fraternity they a re no t tran s form e'd int o sai nts. Individual natures o f different co lo rs do not always blend . It is no t eas y to fo rce one' s will to gi ve way before that of another, even fo r the greater good. P erso nal fee ling s a r e s trong, and th ere is no harder ta sk than " to renounce when th a t shall be n ecessa ry and not be embittered." Ye t contact with other natur es, while it doe s no t always accom pli s h that greatest of tasks, t end s neve rth eless t o pro du ce a br oa der point of vi ew, a more active sympathy, a kindli er toleratio n of the standard s o f ot her mind s. This is the res ult it l ends to pro duce; thi s the o pportunity it afford s. Wh ether the opportunity s ha ll be embraced re s t s not with the fraternity, not with the c hapt er, not e\' _" w ith th e frat e rnity member, as s uch, but rath e r with the individual in every practica l walk of life in college, in bu sin ess, in the home . o r in socie ty.

Thi s is what we ha ve a par ti cu la r right t o expec:t of th e fraternity woman-an int elligent, se ri o us applicati o n of the training afforded by th is conta ct with co nfli cting natures. If th e fr a t e rnity is t o be o f a ny value in th e development o f ou r influence a s wom en of cult ur e and education. it must be for breadth of sympa th y a nd int eres t s. It must eliminat e the a ll-t oo-com m o n tendency to a w eak sen tim entality, and must develop in it s pla ce a more rugged str engh , a more se rene cheerfulne ss , a heal thi er attitude to life If the fraternity woman shall have attained this end , s he will hav e demonstra ted beyond Que sti on the right of her fraterni ty t o surviv e as an im portant element in th e furtheranc e of a g ood education

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The Gamma Phi Beta Sorority takes plea sure in announcing that th e lift; chapt e r o f the Sorority was installed in th e L eland Stanford, Jr., U niversi ty at Stanford, California, o n Monda y, January th e ninth , nin e tee n hundred and fiv e.

The Alpha Xi D elta So ro rit y ann o unce s th e installation of Th eta o f Alpha X i D elta at Wi sco nsin University, Mad iso n , Wisconsin, Janua ry s ixth , nin e teen five .

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THE PUBLISHERS of th e forth com in g Six th Edition of BA

IRD 'S OF AMERICAN CO LLEGE FRA TERNITIES

de s ir e to anticipate it s publi ca tion by a few words regarding the auth o r and hi s g r eat wo rk in th e int e r es t o f Co ll ege Fraternities.

William Raimond Bai r d occ upi es a position in th e anna ls of College F rate rniti es absolutely unique. A g raduat e of Stevens In s titut e of Te chn o logy a nd of Co lumbia U ni ve rsity, a lawy e r by pro fessio n. hi s home in New York City, Mr . Baird, enjoy ing a lucrative practice not onl y in hi s home city but throughout the United States, has dev o ted hi s best energies to the upbuilding and betterm ent o f that American In stituti on w h ic h t o- da y takes seco nd place to n one in the educa ted wo rld o f the U nited States. F o r the Co ll ege Fraternity, a peculia r Ame ri can product , long since took its pos it ion in the educati o nal life o f the U nited States and Can ada as an In s tituti o n Scoffed at o r look ed upon with aversio n by th ose in authority , in 'it s ea rlier da ys, it had in it s incipiency thos e essentia ls which have s ince marked it s life and g rowt h , cha racte ristics which educa ti ona l fa ctors h ave been si nce fo rced t o r egard as making to ward the eleva ti on a n d improvement of Coll ege and P os t-graduate life in America And no man in the United States ha s d one more towar d th e upbuilding o f a few scatt e r ed and half

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organized ass oc iation s of College m e n into gr eat and powerful organizations than has William Raimond Baird. Each College Fraternity has always been peculiarly sensitive r egarding the characteristics of its own membe rship, its ideals, principl es and life, as distingush ed from the others. Mr. Baird has alwa ys r ecogn iz e d and r espected thes e manifestations of Fraternity life as essential to the unique field which each occupies in th e College w o rld. He ha s never sought to intrud e upon that priva cy whi c h every F ra te rnit y ho ld s to be esse nti a l to its existence. At the same time, he ha s collected a va s t store of informati on which he ri g htl y claim s to be th e common property of all who are interested in Coll ege and Fraternity life. H e has the only collection o f Fraternity publications fr om the o rigin o f the fir s t soc ie t y in the U nit ed Sta t es t o the present tim e. H e has watch ed and r eco rded th e growth of eac h fr om th e beg inning. H e ha s always bee n willing to lend a hand, eve n t o his own p e rsonal loss, in the pros ecu ti o n o f th e duties o f hi s profess ion . In vi e w o f th e uniqu e position Mr. Baird occ upie s in th e hea rts of all Coll ege Frat ernit y men, the publishers think th emse lv es f o rtun ate in b ei ng abl e t o announce the f orth s,o ming Sixth Editi on o f Ame r ican College Fraternities, which will be repl ete with infor matio n o f interest t o all mem be r s o f College Frate rniti es . It will co ntain Hi sto ri es o f eac h o f the Men's Gene ral F rat erni ti es , th e Women's Ge ne ral Fraterniti es, th e Local Societies, Wom en's Local Societies , Professional Fraternities, H o no rary Frat erniti es and Miscellaneous Societi es; a Directory o f College s and Chapters, Stat istica l Ta bles o f great inte r est, a rti cles s h owi ng th e geographical distribution of C hap t e r s, Nomenclature, In signia, a Complete Bibliography of Frat ernity publications, info rmation concer ni ng C hapter H ouse ow ne rship. In s hort, the Sixth Edition will be a comple te Cyclopedia o f Fraternity info rm a ti on.

It w ill be bo und in be fittin g covers o f blue, white and g ol d , and will be sold a t $2.00 pe r copy, postage prepaid.

Address of Editor: Wm . Raimond Baird, 63 W. 83rd Street, New York City .

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