The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi - January-1903

THE cARROW.

Official Publication of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity. and Publi.hed by the Wi.con.in Alpha Ohapte., UniverSity Of WL.conftn, MadiMm.

(Entered at. the XadisoQ, W18., poet.office a. IeOOnd-olaae matter.)

PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER, JANUARY, APRIL AND JULY.

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TABL.E OF OONTENTS.

GREETING, OLD 1. C. DAYS AT LOMBARD, THE REPORT OF THE INTER-FRATERNITY CONFERENOE, FRATERNITY FRIENDSHIP, . SEGREGATION OJ!' NORTHWESTERN, WHAT A FRATERNITY GIlIL THINKSA Question of Desirability, . Our Attitude Towards New Fraternities, The Place of the Freshmen, The Pledge Pin,' Where to Wear the Fraternity Pin, Telling Secrets, "What is Worth While," Alumnae Meeting, . Differences, Our Song Book, Judging Others by Ibe Fraternity Standard, ALUMNAB DEPARTMENT-

The Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, . Pi Phis in Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Phi Reunion in Chicago, The Kansas City Reunion, PERSONALS, EDITORIALS, CHAPTER LETTERSAlpha Province, Beta Province, Gamma Province, Delta Province, EXOHANGES, . COLLEGE NOTES, .

Editor-in-Chief-FLORlmCB PORTER RoBINSON, 543 Marshall St., Milwaukee, Wis.

DUOCUT P&JlITDfG 00., IUJ)ISOlf, ,..11.

Fraternity Directory

GRAND COUNCIL

PRESIDENT-Elizabeth Gamble, 23 P arsons Sto, Detroit, Mich.

VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY FOR THE ALUMNAE-Fanny K. Read, Rich land, Mich.

SECRETARy-Mary Barto l, R ockford College. Rockford, III.

TREAsuRER-Martha Nutter Kimball, Leadville, Col.

Anow EDITOR-Florence Porter Robinson, 543 Marshall St , Milwaukee, Wis.

HISTORIAN

Susan \V. Lewi s, 5605 Madi so n Ave., Chicago, Ill.

CATALOGUER

Mary Bartol, Rockford, III.

Alumnae Association Directory

COUNCIL

P RESIDENT-Fanny K Read, Richland, Mich.

VICE PREStDENT-M. Eloise Schuyler, Centre Hall , Pa .

SECRETARy-Anna S. Hazelton. 1215 9th St. N W., Washington, D C.

TREASURER-Mrs . Bertha Myers Kempton, North Adams, Mich.

ALUM NAE EDITOR-Iva A. Wel s h, 406 N . Henry St., :Madison, Wis. J

CIRCLE SECRETARIES

FOUNDER s-Mrs. May C. Reynolds, \Vashington St., Hartford City, Ind.

ALPHA C1RCLE-(New York and New England) Leora Sherwood, 1514 S. State St., Syracu se, N Y.

BETA CacLE-(Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware) Grace S ard. 41 Boyl s ton St , Bradford , Pa.

GAMMA ClRCLE-(District of Columbia, Maryland and the Southeast) Blanche 235 E. Lafayette Ave., Baltimore, Md

DELTA CIRCLE-(O hio) Mrs R S Belknap, 414 S. State St., Painesville, O.

EpSILON CJRc LE-(Michigan , Wiscon si n, Minnesota) Margaret Cousin, S4 Rosedale Place, Detroit, Mich

ZETA CIRCLE-(Indiana) Katherine Stevenson, 2JI9 Coll ege Ave., Indianapoli s, Ind

THETA CIRCLE-(Illinois) Elda Smith, 710 S. 6th St., Springfield, III.

IOTA CIRcLE-(lowa, Mi sso uri, Loui s iana) Gertrude Bayless, bia, Mo.

KApPA CIRCLE-(Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas) Ida Dunham, 3510 rell Ave , Kansas City, Mo

LAMBDA CIRCLE-(Rocky Mountain States),

M u CIRCLE-(Paciflc Coast States) Eva Bramlet, 1015 P St., Fresno, Cal.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIE S

ALPHA PROV IN CE

PUSIDENT-Sadie B. \Villiams, Clayton, N. Y.

V.!.I.MONT ALPHA-Middlebury College, Jessie M Prentis, Middlebury, VL VERMONT BETA-University of Vermont, Mary E. Colburn, 112 Loomis St , Burlington, Vt.

-, CoLU¥BIA ALpHA-Columbian Univer s ity, Nellie 1(. BUft, 1106 L. St. N

. W., Wa shington , D. C.

PENNSYLVANIA ALPHA-Swarthm o re College, May Gutelius, Swarthmore.

I Pa .

PENNSYLVANIA BETA-Bucknell

Blanche B a ne, Lewi sburg, Pa.

OHIO ALPHA-Ohio University, Bayard Ullom, Athen s, Ohio.

OHIO 'BETA-Ohio State University, Maud McAlpine, J2J W. 7th Ave., Columbus. Ohio.

( NEW YOlK ALPHA-Syracuse University, Frances M. Bull, 112 Waverly l. Place, Syracuse, N Y

'I MASSAC HUSEn s ALPHA-Boston Univers ity, Mildred F . Babcock, 12 Som. , er se t St., Boston, Mass.

VMARYLAND ALPBA-The Woman's College of Baltimore, Zaidee Metzger, The Woman's College, Baltimore, Md.

B ETA l'RO VIN CE

J PRESIDENT-Ethel Curryer, 1320 College Ave., Indianapolis, I nd.

1 ILLINOIS BETA-Lombard University, Nellie Needham, Lombard Hall, Galesburg, Ill.

\I I LLINOI S DELTA-Knox College, Della Hurff, 257 S. Academy St ., Gales-

tvburg, III.

ILLINOIS EpSILON-Northwe s tern University , Carrie Mason, HOI Ayers Place, Evanston, III

1J ILLINOIS ZETA-University of Illinois, Ethel Forbes, Urbana, Ill.

1INDIANA ALpHA-FraRklin College, Bertha F letcher, Franklin, Ind.

I NDlAN A BETA-University of Indiana, Alice Albertson, Bloomin gto n , Ind INDIANA GAluu-Gertrude Cronbach, 835 N Alabama St., Indianapolis, Ind.

MICHIGAN ALPHA"-Hillsdale Co ll ege, Madge Vandeburg, Hillsdale, Mic h MICHIGAN' BETA-University of Michigan , Edith Hurst, 406 Packard St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

GAMMA PROVl NCE

P.lESlDENT-Maud Miller, 409 S. 12th St., St. Joseph, Mo

]OWt ALPHA-Iowa Wesleyan Uni versity, Julia Shankland, Mt. Pleasant, I la.

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'\I IOWA BETA-Simpso n College, Nellie V ale, Indianola, ]a

IOWA ZETA!....lo\V3 State Univers ity, May B. Allstrand, Iowa City, la . Y. MISSOUR.I ALPHA-University of Missouri , Claribel Denton, Colu m bia, Mo . • WISID SIN ALPBA!....Univers ity of Wiscon s in, Amelia Askew, 20 W Wiison St., Madi so n , \Vis

DELTA

pJlE5[DENT-Ida Smith Griffith, 1,326 Ha skell A\' t. , Lawrence, Kas.

jLoUISIANA ALPHA-Newcomb College, Tulane University, Pauline Curran, 1432 8th St., New Orleans, La.

KANSAS ALpHA-Kan sas University, Mary Dudley, Pi Beta Phi Lodg e, ,J Lawrence, Kas

'1INo:RASKA BETA-Uninrsity of Nebra ska , Elizabet h Ma r s hall, I6n C S t.,

1. Lincoln , N.b.

TEXAS ALPHA-Un ive r s ity of Texas, Ada Garrison , 2600 Whitis Ave., Austin, Tex

ALPHA-Uni\' cr s ity of Colorado, Lulu Wangelin , Boulder, Colo . CoLORADO BETA-Denver Univer s ity, Martha L Crook, 1627 Lincoln Ave ., Denver, Co lo ' l....LCALIF6INB. BETA-University of California. Dora Bramlet, 2428 CoHere Ave., Berkeley Cal

VOL. XIX

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JANUARY, 1903

Greeting

NO.2

Dear Girls :

Accept a New Year's greeting through the Arrow, which we look u pon as a lov e letter from o ur daughters. When your founders think back t o ' 67 and the beginni n g of I. c., and then o f the vigoro us growth of Pi Beta P hi today, we are p roud of your achievemen t s, and feel sure you hel p to move the wor ld o n , o r at least you r piece of it. May the n ew year bring mo re of j oy th a n sorrow to each Pi P hi. May each one of yo u s trive to live so that eve ry ni gh t shows the r eco r d of a completed day. May you be women of c harac ter, stro nge r and more beautiful than your founders , is the New Yea r's wish of

Monmouth, Ill inois .

EMMA BROWNLEE KILGORE.

Old I. C. Days at Lombard

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Novembe r seventh, 187 2, so me of the Monmouth girls came over to Ga lesbu r g and initiated twelve of ou r Lomba r d girls in to the mysteries of " I. C ." It being a sec ret o rganizati on th ey wished to keep the wh o le matter quiet until they cou ld appea r wi th their pins. But twelve new pins at on ce! The supply was not eq ual to the demand , and ou r g irl s had to wait until they were manufactured ;Neeks g r ew in to months befo r e the pin s we r e fo rthco min g. In th e meantime the secret leaked out. A few got hold of it and, fo r a joke, two girls hunted the town ove r for arrow pins. Finally they found some blac k ones, about three inches

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long, at a millin e r y store. The se they loo k to a hardware store and had chain s and gilding put o n. They appeared n ex t m o ming in chapel wearing th e pins. Of course constenlation reigned among the " 1. C." girls. Others were curious to know why th ey \\fere wearing such pins, but th ey kept th eir sec r e t and had their fun to themselves. How well I remember the day the g irl s d id appear with th e ir new pins. Tt was at a socia l. The se twelve girls all ca m e together with th ei r twelve n ew pin s sh in ing so brightly. Th ey kept their original numbe r for abo ut ten m o nths, then I and a particular friend were the first to j oi n their rank s. S oon we began making preparations for ou r anniversary. \Y c were to have a feast,-a turkey dinner and every thin g that goes with it ,-and m o rc , too. OUf president s u ggested th at we have some pickled tripe,-the dinner would n ot be complete without it. \V e wlio were not acquainted with the dish, s upposing it to be some great delica cy , said, I' Certainly." The t OO h'S o f that dish satisfied most of us; but for yea r s afterward, at every anniver sa r y dinner, we had a dish of pickled tripe as a so rt of memorial of ou r first anniv e r sa ry feast. 1 think it was generally left unta sted. Our chapter was then called I o ta. I kept in t o u ch with the g irl s and the work for a good many years, although family cares prevented me from doing much active work. In'86 and '87 my niece was with me. " ' hen she became a Pi Phi I was Aunt to all the chapter, which at that time includ ed the first Grand 1. R. J afterwards moved to Cal ifo rnia. A fter living in th e state about t e n years, at a meeting of the \\ "o man's Club, we mad e the discovery that there were four "I. C.'s " prese nt, or rather two I. C.'s and two Pi Beta Phis. 'VeIl. what a reuni o n we did have! O ne was from Minnesota U niv e rsity, anothe r fr o m I ow a, and two of u s from Illinois. Two years ago I attended a Pi Beta Phi banquet in Los A n geles. It was a TaTe tr eat Sur e ly ,f 't is a tie that binds," R . C. IV. L.

CONFE R ENCE

The Report of the I nter-Frat ernil)! Conference

CJJAPTEn OISCUSS I OX

A T .\ RECE:\T meeting of Ill ino is Delta the questions which were brou g- ht up at th e Inter-fraternity Confe ren ce this summer held at Chicago, lliinois, were discpssed according to the plan suggested in the Arrow with th ese results:

I. A re the recommendati o ns of the delegates broa d eno ug h to meet the needs of your chap ter?

Afte r a discussion of the severa l motions which were made the decisio n was, that if they were a cce pted, they would meet all the needs of our c hapt e r.

2. Would these or s imilar r egu lati on s wo rk hard s hip to your chapter?

For Illinois Delta it seems that the se regul atio n s would do more harm than good. In a school where there are perhaps five o r six rival fraternities, it wou ld see m that some suc h plan we re ne cessary in orde r that th e plan o f " ru s hin g," as it is now carried on , may be done away with. F o r o ur ow n c hapt er such rules would be quit e unnecessa ry, a s we hav e but o ne rival o rg anizati o n .

For o ne o r two yea rs o ur c hapt e r had a treaty with her rival whi ch included a numbe r of th ese regu lati o ns , and afte r a fair trial it was decided that ou r c hapter and all it s int e re sts wou ld Aourish better without suc h a treaty. Th e refo re, this year we hav e made no ne , and o ur chapte r is more prosperous than he retof o re , and ther e is a better fee ling be tween us and o ur rivals . Of co urse some of these r eg ul atio n s co uld be adopted by o ur cha pter and do liS good.

3 . Are the time and met hod of extending invitations the best that ca n be selected.

This, o f cours e, mea n s a specia l day for ex tendin g an invitation, and Illin ois Delta as yet has seen n o good results from having a se t day. Thi s was on e o f th e regulations included in the treaty mentioned, and was the chief point of ob j ection. As a rule a girl who is co n s idered for membership by us has bee n a friend

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perhap s of one of ou r gi rl s, and th e great es t ca re is take n in a sce rtaining whether o r no t she is a des irable gir l. vV h en o nce it is dec ided that a girl is des irabl e, it seems rather a loss of time t o wait four or five mo nth s be for e she ca n be even pl edged, and s urely o ne ca n dec ide in less time w h ether o r not that girl w in co m e lip t o t his sta ndard . As to the m ethod of exte ndin g invitations, JIlin ois Delta has bee n following the p lan sug gested and finds it quit e sati s fa ctory. A lt h oug h a s yet we have n ot adopted th e plan of se ttin g a leng th o f tim e in w h ich the dec is ion mll st be made , our g irl s all feel that thi s is the bette r plan and think th e ten-day limi t suffic ie nt .

4. Would s uch leng th e nin g of the t ime befo re invitations sim ply prol o ng the peri od of getti ng ac quain te d and the o bj ecti o nable soci al f eatu r es belon g ing to it ?

If a de finite tim e must be Il amed for invitati o ns it seems to u s that to lengt h en t ha t tim e woulci most surely pr olong th e objectionable feat ur es and coul d n o t be d o n e e ith e r in ju s tice to the c hapter or to the g irl s w ho were the o bjec ts o f o ur interest.

5. D oes the defin iti on o f " ru s hing" m ee t you r approval?

T o u s "rus hin g" doe s n ot includ e discu s si o n of fraternity matters. It is simp ly a soc ial t e rm an d includ es on ly that. We do not consider that we ar e ru s hing a gi rl if we chance to say a n ythin g abo ut Pi Beta P h i-somet h in g o f it s me rit s or hi story-for that we take f or gra nted ou r friends lik e to h ear abo ut. But when an invitati o n to any social affair is give n to a girl in the name of the fraternity we co n cede that we are ru s hin g tha t g irl , and the girl ge n e rall y t hin ks so, too. F o r th e discussion o f frate rnit y matter s to be pro hibit e d until th e day of the fo rm a l bid means that the g irl will kn o w n othing at all a bo u t the fr ate rnit y s he is a s ked to join until , say , thirt y minute s before she is a s k ed to j oi n. Th e n it is a ll thru st upon h er at on ce and sh e cannot g ra sp what you mea n , w he reas . if during the p reced in g weeks a nd m o nths o ne gi rl and an ot her had said eve r so little abollt the frat e rnit y, she co ul d by degrees come to see what th e f r ate rni ty reall y meant an d wo uld s urel y think it was a mo re se ri ous thing than othe r w ise. Th erefo re. if th is is includ ed in " ru s hin g"--<Iis-

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cussion o f frat e rnity matters-we do n o t agree that it should be p r o hibi ted until the day of the fo nnal bid.

6. The gi rl s in ou r rival organ;zation are girls who ca n be trusted,-girls who have a se nse o f hon or, and who would, in case su ch regulations we r e adopted, keep th em to th e best o f th eir ability.

Ill inois Delta.

T h e report of t h e int e r-f rat e rnit y confe re nc e, held to discuss rushing and pledging, is of pec uliar interest to Illinois Zeta. A n a tt e mpt s imilar to th e o n e proposed in th e Jul y A rro w, ha s been m;ade by the fiv e women s fraternities at the U ni versity of Illinois, to regulate the loca l conditi o n s govern in g t h e very questions with w hi ch the report is con ce rn ed The opi ni on of Illinois Zeta coincides with that o f the delegates on some o f the points under discussion; but ce rt ain cha nges in the p roposed regu lati ons wo uld have t o be made if o ur chapter were to profit by th e ir enf o rcem ent.

O n e yea r's experience with an inte r-f rate rnit y contract wh ic h settled upon the Tuesday before Thanksgiving as the ea rli es t date for pledging, r esu lt ed in th e chan g in g of the date to th e fifth .Tu esday a ft e r the beginning of sc hool. Thi s was for two reasons: fir st, th e sup po rt of a large chapte r -hou se, devol ving upon the few "ho u se-g irls " who re turn ed in th e fall, was a finan cia l st rain whi c h it seemed un w i se to pro lo ng after the first month, especia ll y when n ew members would be g lad to s hare it; and second , the lo nge r period, in o ur expe ri e n ce, ce rtainly prolonged the objecti onable featur es of ru shin g to th e detriment both of the n ew girls and of the c hapt er. This year, a one month 's contra ct ha s se rved satisfactorily, and after our previous expe rien ce, we would hesitate to try a longer period. We th o ro u g hl y approve of the offic ial issue of invitati ons, however, and the ten days' limit to th e answe r. We a ccept the de finiti o n o f "rushing," and would agree to prohibit discu ss io n o f frat e rniti es o r fraternity matters with any eligible gi rl be fo r e the day of the fo rmal bid. We do n ot co nsid e r, however, that it would be either t o o ur advanta ge o r t o that of the n e w gir l to prohibit entertaining by chapters, except during the ti me between th e issue and the a n swer of the invitation . Our o wn

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expe ri ence ha s fo und a preventive against undignified ru s hing during this pe ri o d , which is a prov ision that no di scu ssi o n of fraternity matte r s be held at any o th e r time than one state d in th e invitati o n, except when desired by the g irl who ha s been asked. Our chapter di sa pproves o f publi c initiati on s, and agrees t o the pr o p osed m et hod of r epo rtin g chapte r violati o n of rules As to th e attitude of the ot h e r chapters, a lth ou g h it ha s see m ed imp oss ible to sec ure o urs e lves aga in st occas io nal infrin ge me nts on th e part o f individuals, we believe that there is no c hapt e r whi c h a s a chapter would counte nance any violation of an ag ree m ent once entered int o . Illinois Zeta.

Th e recolTIJncndations mad e by th e delegates at the fraternit y conference la st su mm e r are no t broad e noug h to mee t th e need s of Missouri Alpha.

Such r eg ulati o n s fo r a pledging day w ou ld ce rta inl y work h a rdship to Ollf c hapte r. Th e re are compa rative ly few g irl s here in the U niver s it y and st ill less fr ate rnit y mat e rial so ou r chapte r is necessa ril y s mall. At th e beginnin g o f the yea r , we co uld not po ssib ly keep up a chapter hOll se, until we had tak en in som e ne w girls. For in s tanc e, we had s ix old gi rl s back thi s fall and seve ral of th em live d in town. How cou ld we get a lo n g w ith so f e w girls especially as we had a c hap te r h o u se on o ur hand s? Of course, we think e v e ry invitation s hould be o fficial but w e prefer giving it personally . Very o ft en th e r e is a frat e rnit y talk to be given which can 't be sent thro ug h the mail very we ll. Th e n you have a better chance of pledging the gi rl. We d o n ot ask a g irl until we know he r and s he knows us. By that time s he ha s made up he r mind o ne way o r the ot he r so that there is no n eed o f extending a fo rmal invit at io n . We hav e tri ed bot h plans ,-of extending the invitati o n and o f ha v in g the answer given immediately, th e latt e r way we found mu ch more successful.

Lengthening the tim e be fore invitations would m ake rushing s eason too lo ng and would distract our mi nd s from our lesson s, besid es it would make ru shi ng a conti nual wor ry n ot o nl y to u s hut to the " ru shes" as w e ll .

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The definition of ru shi ng does meet ou r appro val. Missouri Alpha would rather not have an y pledging day, as she think s the chap ter would get along better without one. MissollTi Alpha.

rn compliance with the suggestions in the July Arrow, Kansas Alpha se nd s the foIlO\,;ng report:

We accept the definition of rushing as a ll right.

Vife do no t approve of havin g a limited time in which ru shing (as defined above ) is fo rbidd e n , t e rminating in a pledge day. Our reasons are severa l:

I. The ru shin g here is not a mad, frantic sc rambl e .

2. The chapter would in the case of a pledge day be deprived of the usefulness of members for three months.

3. We would not lm ow the girls any bett e r aft e r this lime , because active s tudents do not hav e an opportunity to kn o w ten or twelve girls outs id e of the c hapt e r.

4. Not se eing the candidate in the presence of the entire c hapter, we could form no id ea as to whether s he wa s favorably inclined toward us or not. 'V e do not care to waste an invitation.

5. We fear that such a pledge would only result in strai ned relati o ns with the other fraternities , where now there is a very fri e ndl y feelin g. This would arise from different interpretations of th e definiti o n of ru s hin g, and crit ici sms would be numberless.

Kansas A lpha thinks that no modification would be satisfacto ry he re where customs are so well established; that none would succeed unless fraternities and so ro riti es would unite; that this is a qu est io n which each univ ersity and co lle ge sho uld decide fo r it self.

Kallsas Alplta

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It certainly see ms as if s o me radical reform in rushing methods is n ecessa ry, but what and how is a difficulb Qu es tion to answer. What is best in a large univer s ity does not at all meet the demands of the sma ller colleges where one meets all the gi rl s in the first week of sch ool and learns to know them in the class room as well as socially.

At the beginning of the schoo l yea r the faculty submitted to a Pan-Hellenic meeting some fraternity regulations based u pon the

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motions made by th e Inter-Fraternity Conferen ce though differing in a slight degree.

Two months see ms to us long enough to wait befor e extending invitati on s a s it on ly pro lo ngs the period o f gett in g acquainted and the objecti onable social features attach ed to rushin g .

We n ow hav e T h a n ksgiving day a s co lo r day and that of course brings th e initiati on a nd th e accompan yi n g festivities close to the Chri stmas h oliday s and in to the busiest part of the term .

Having tried reg ulat ions s imilar to th ese, we spea k from experie n ce and think it make s frate rnit y affairs decidedl y public in a sma ll college . Michigan Alpha.

The girls of Indiana Gamma we r e pl ea sed t o r ead in the July Arrow the r eport of the In ter-F r aternity Confe ren ce . Right hea rtil y did they ente r into a cont ra ct, as sugges ted, and right faithfully have they ca rried it out. R es ults show that they are n ow r eady to declare in favor of th e long contract plan.

Had invitations to fraternity membership been g iven at the openin g o f ou r co ll ege yea r, we are assured tha t comb ina ti ons wo ul d ha ve bee n formed whi c h wo uld hav e proven anything but pleasant As it is, although the seco nd Friday in D ece mb e r has not yet arrived, we f eel very sa fe in say ing that when it does co m e, and the invitati o n s are sent Ollt, the n ew g irls will be sure to "cast their lots in pleasant places ."

We did n ot approve o f t h e defi niti on of ru shi n g, as g iv en, and accordingly we have had some ve r y happy parties . But o ur chief ru shin g has been merel y getti ng acquainted wit h the n ew girls in a quiet way. Some very close fr ie nds hi ps have thus been formed. which we know cou ld not have been , had o ur "season" been a sho rt one.

Ou r term exa min at ion s co m e the third week in December, and for that rea son we think the Thank sg iving vacation wo uld be a better t ime fo r the in v it ations to be sent out. It is, o f course, n ext to imposs ib le fo r the new girls to be dec iding fraternity questi ons and prepa rin g fo r exami nat ions the sa me week.

It is in our contract to allow on ly three days for answe rs to be

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given. ' Vith a rushing season of two months, surely each one can be ready with her answer within three days . In specia l cases, of cou rse. more time may be allowed.

Indiana Gamma h o pes that at t he next de legates' co nfe r ence some decided action will be taken, whereby all women's fraternities wi ll be bo un d to give no invitations ea rli er than the Thanksgiving vacatio n.

In diana Gamma .

Illinois Beta heartil), agrees that the best thing for Pi Beta Phi and a ll Greek letter fraternities is to overcome the ev il s of rushing.

In OUT own particular case we have fewer reasons for fe e lin g the evi ls of the rushing season than in the larger colleges there are more representatives in th e fi eld . Still eve n here as everywhe r e there is a tende n cy t o hurr y. The g r eates t h ope for the best future s uccess of o ur fraternity is to g iv e eve ry chapte r tim e to know the new gi rl s thoroughly, and the bewildered new girl time t o co nside r and c hoose. If she is what we wan t and we make ourse l ves what o ur ideals would make us, th ere will be no doubt of o ur findin g o ne an ot her if we wait until th e fir s t mad rush is ove r. It is rea lly rema rkable tha t so few mi s tak es are made when we conside r ex isting condit io n s at th e opening o f many of our coll eges.

For o ur particular c hapt e r there see m to be object ions to some points in the resolutions. In th e first place the date for pledging is t oo late. Co ll ege ope n s September first and the fi r st te rm' s work closes at Thanksgiving It would seem far better t o have th e pledge day previous to this first vacation but n ot too n ear as it is a time of especially hard work for the student s ow in g t o examinations.

We would prefer the resol uti on to put th e pledge day two months from date of matriculation. Th e method of iss uin g in v.itati o n s we approve of.

Th e term " ru s hin g" we do not co n sider to mean what is given in the de finiti on of Resolution IV. It wo uld be almost impos s ible ito avoid discussing fra ter nity matters in any form wi th new girls.

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Such d i sc lIs s i o n shou ld o f course gua rd aga in st any attempt to bia s a n ew g irl' s op ini on . If all entertaining by the chapter is ruled out, how can the object desired, namely: gett in g acquainted with th e girls, be accomplished? It would o nl y be postponed. A certai n amou nt, fo r instance, two soc ia l eve nt s, sh ou ld be all owed, and each fraternity give n the privilege of the same numbe r and n o mbre.

The g reat sec ret of SlI ccess in this whole pla n is the hono rable, upri g ht adherence to the spi rit as we ll as the le tte r of the la w. Illin o is Beta has as a rival A lpha Xi Delta , a fraternity of three chapters. U nl ess they we re willing to ab id e by the same rul es we sho ul d o f co urse be at a disadvantag e.

lllill ois Bela.

At a late fraternity meet in g, the report of the Inter-Fraternity Co n fe re nce, held at Chi cago last in regard to form in rushin g, was discussed.

Th e plan of d isc uss io n was in accordance with the s uggestions in our edito rial of the Jul y A rr ow, a n d the c h apter decided, that while it deplored the present ru s hin g c o nditions and bel ieved that th e me th od proposed mi g ht be applica b le to some colleges, yet it felt that s u ch an agreement could hardl y be ente r ed int o o r liv ed up to in A nn A rbor . Such a plan was tried he re, we believe, so me yea r s ago, and fail ed thr o ug h th e c hapt e r s n o t keeping the spi rit as we ll a the lette r of the regu lat ions.

There ha s been no int e r- frat e rnity meeting here to discuss th e subject, con sequentl y we do not kn ow th e opi ni o ns of the o th e r chapte rs

M ichigall Bela .

Oh io Beta is unanimous in her vo te against the proposed rushing regulations . \ Vhile the existing cond iti ons are n ot perhaps the most des irab le, still to thi s chapte r such regulati ons would o nl y work disaster, The defini tion of rushing meets our approval. But th e lengthe nin g of time befo re in\'itations wou ld only prolong th e agonizing strain, Then, too, there are certai n chapte rs in our college which we fear would not keep the spirit and letter of such regulations. Ohio Bela.

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A lpha held a very interesting discussion over the int er-f ra te rni ty co nfe ren ce, and the idea s and o pini o ns sugges ted.

We feel t hat a pledge day as late as December wo uld work u s ill ra t h e r than good, in tha t it w o uld simply prolong th e period o f rushing and all th e o bj ec ti onable f eature s be longing t o it.

A nd if ru s hin g is prohibited, as in th e re co mmendation s, ther e wo uld be 11 0 c han ce to become a cquainted with the n ew girls. There is no dormitory lif e at B os to n Unive rsi ty and therefore we are at coll ege o nl y a part o f each da y Entertaining by the chap te r is quite necessa ry.

O UT c ha pte r also be l ieves it is quite important to talk of fraternity matte rs with the n ew st ud e nt s, else how will the s tud e nt who k n ows n ot h in g of fratemity life before coming to college understa nd us .

The majority of OU T members fav o r sending th e invitati on s to ente r th e frat e rnit y officia ll y and by mail , a f ew di sag reein g o n th e g ro und that it is an l.mneccssary formality and adds n o thing , and that wrong impress io n s might be strengthened before a member co uld ta lk with the candidate.

A lp ha fee ls that the oth e r r eg ulati o n s a r e pe rfectly ju s t and fair, and is willing to to them. Th e o nl y two points wh ich we des ire changed are as to ru s hing and pl edgeday .

Massachusetts A lpha.

Af t e r ca refull y reading and di scus sin g th e r epor t of the PanHellenic convent ion of July la st Colo rad o Alpha girls came to th e following conclu s ion s: We fee l indeed that th e ru shi n g at th e fir st of th e year is in eve r y way humiliating and undignified, and if any nati o nal cod e o f law s co uld be made s tri ct ly governing fraternit y ru shin g we wo uld be on ly too happy to endorse and obey them. But we cannot agree in eve ry deta il wit h the mo ti o ns as they n ow stand.

We f ee l that the second Friday in Dec e mber is littl e t oo late for ou r advantage, in stead . Thanksgiving would s uit u s mu c h better . In tfi e fir s t case th e re wo uld n o t be tim e enough to initiat e

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before h olidays, and examinations follow the holidays, and thus we cou ld not initiate during the first seme s te r which we believe is much the preferable way.

We heartily approve of not pledging before matriculation. But we cannot but object to the motion made that the invitations be sent by mail. We would earnestly beg to be allowed to present the invitation in person as our experience in this matter has been of such a nature as to warrant liS in firmly objecting to the mailing of invitations. It has always been OttT custo m, however, and we strictly observe it today, to give written in vitations to our candidates.

Ten days given to the candidate to decide is sufficient , but we would wish to be allowed to use our own methods in nlshing, that is, we would not be willing to be confi n ed to ten days' entertaining but would wish to enterta in occasionally-persona ll y or as a fraternity , up to the time of the formal invitation, othe r wise what would be the gain of postponing the invitation day. We feel that if the day was set for pledging-it must be for the fraternity's good-to allow the girls to g e t better acquainted; and if entertaining were prohibited every one must know that it would be impossible for all the gi rl s to meet the new e li gible s. If this were prohibited it would simply mean to us the putting off of the rushing from the first of the year to a later date, when it would be harde r than before because of the heavy work in college and the necessity of doing a great deal of entertaining in ten days' time. We do not feel that the lengthening of the time before the invitations would prolong the pe ri od of getting acquainted and the object ionable features be longing t o it , that is, if entertaining during the interim were permissible; instead it would give us more time to be sane, to get well acquainted with the girls whom we would ask and to be wholly satisfied, when we • asked her, that we wanted her. As for talking of fraternity matters, WI! believe that could well be left until "bid-day" and the ten days of grace. We firmly believe that if such a code governing rushing be nationally established and fully und erstood, that all the fraternities and sororities in our University would keep the spirit as well as the letter of the regulations , if adopted. e a/arada A /1>"0.

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Sin ce rushing season is over and th e girls we have won ar e now a part of OU T circle, we ha ve all wished more than eve r that an inte r-f ratern ity pledge in r ega rd t o ru shi n g might be adopted. It is someti mes imposs ible to make such an agreement between local c hapt e rs because the unanim ous app rova l of t h e m embe r ship cann ot be obtained.

Cons id e rin g the injustice do ne t o a girl who join s th e fir st fraternity ex tending an in vitation and aft e rwards learns with reg ret o f o th e rs, and con sidering the in clination of some c hapte rs to be morc conservat iv e tha n others, which th ey mu s t sacr ifi ce, we have sometimes most dep lored the strained relati o ns existing be tween friend s in riv a l fr ate rniti es. Th ese frie ndl y re latio ns, ,,,-hen o nce so n ea rl y broken, are often n ot r es um ed a nd the attit ud e of th e organizations to one .another becomes more and morc a se ri ous qu es ti o n.

We are very a nxi o us that the solu t ion o f the difficulty proposed by t h e conve nti on la st May be appro ved by all th e fraternities . / o'wa Be ta .

In th e \ ¥oma n' s Coll ege th ere a re rep rese nted se ven fraterniti es-s ix nati ona l and one loca l. Th e gove rnment o f these fraterniti es in regard to ru s hin g, pledging, and matters o f ge ne ra l intere s t , is in the hands o f a Pan - H e ll e ni c a ssoc iati o n , which is composed of two delegates from each frat e mit y. The rules for th e ne x t year's rushing and pled g in g hav e already been made. Th ey confo rm very n ea rl y to the mot io n s in th e r epo rt o f the Inte r-Frat e rnity Conf e renc e.

Maryland A lpha has discussed t hi s r epo rt and ha s co me t o the following conclusions in re ga rd t o it: The suggestio ns of th e delegates are broad en ough for the present n eeds o f our c hapter W e feel that the ml es which hav e gove rned fraternities in this college in f o rmer years co uld be very mu ch improved . The regulatio ns recom mended by the me mbers o f the con fer e n ce appear to be very beneficial, and in so far as we n ow kn ow, could be tri ed by our chapte r without an y harm.

Heretofore, o ur pledge day ha s been in Octobe r . However, Pan-Hell enic ha s decided that next year no on e shall be pledged

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to an y fraternity until a date appointed tw o weeks before the Easter vacation. There have been many evils connected with the short ru shing season. We are sure that the system, which will go into effect next year, cannot fail to be much better than the one we have at present. It will be so regulated and governed by Pan-Hellenic that many of the socia l ev ils can be avoided. It means a greater care and a nic e r discrimanation in regard to the se lect io n of th e girls, whom we wish to join OUf frat e rnity, and not simply an extension of the time of getting acquainted.

vVe approve the recommendation that all invitations to enter a fraternit y be offic ial and sent by mail. However, we do not think it necessa ry that a candidate have ten days in which to make her decision, unless she asks for it. Upon her request this tim e shall certainly be granted t o her.

The definition of ru shi ng, as offered in the recommendations, does not meet with Ollf approval. In every year it has been found that some of the fraternities of the college have broken the rules laid dOlVn for t hem by Pan-Hellenic. It is very probable that if the suggestions of the Inter-Fraternity Confere n ce were adopted as rul es, they wou ld be dis r egarded by some of the fraternities in the college. Yet, we feel that refo rms are very ne cessary. and that these, if adopted. might prove to be beneficial both to our chapte r and to the fraternity life as a whole in this college. Marylm,d Alpha.

During the summer months , whe n we were all wide ly scattered, many were the l ette rs exchanged discussing the pros and cons of the results of the Inter-Fraternity Conference, as published in the July Arrow l\'ow that we are together again, we have had more time to cons id e r, and to get the composite opinion of the chapte r concenling the various motions made.

Th ere were severa l motions that did not affect Pen nsylvan ia Beta. We are the on ly chapte r who wait until Jun e to initiate. The laws laid down by the faculty concerning fraternity initiations are very stric t , and no o ne may become a member of any fraternity until he or she has had one yea r in college, or its equivalent, nine coll ege studies. Therefore we are not permitted

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to f'ledge a member un t it the end of her fr es hman yea r , that is , n o pledge may be signed, or n o pledge pin worn. But, instead , the girl desi r ed is fo rmall y as/:rc/ t o become a mc mLer, with the understanding, for form's sa ke , that she may change her decision at any tim e, o r that we may w ithdraw our invitation. Consequ ently O LIT pledge day is not until the end of Jun e, and immediately precedes initi ation. Any by-law made setting a pledge day before the end of th e fre s hman yea r could have n o effec t 0 11 u s, as the faculty has made the rule ab ove Hated to affe c t eve ry fraternity he re

The second m.o ti on, that all invitati on s to enter a fraternity be official, and be sent by mail , met with disapproval. The way , t o ll S, does not seem at all desirable. An invitation, sent through the mail, to a freshman who , ill all probability, ha s just come from ho me and who is somewhat bewildered by all the attention s h own her, would lack much of the impre ss iv ene ss a verbal invitation ha s. \ Vords that are sym path e ti c when spoken fa ce t o face are cold and dista nt when they appear on paper .

The third motion, con cerni n g tim e given to a ca ndidate in which to make her decision, was approved of by all.

Regarding th e ru sh in g regula tio n s, there is much to be said o n both sides . The definitio n of rushing seems to be a good on e; whether o r n ot it should be prohibited till after t he day of the formal bid is a mooted questi on This does n ot affect us, since we hav e the rtlle the faculty has made re g arding formal pledging. l\1oreover, P i Beta Ph i being the only woman's fraternity here, there neces sarily can be n o " undignified scra mblin g" for desirable girls. Yet, if th e re were rival fraternitie s, we are inclined to favor ru s hin g before the gi rl is asked. To Ctlt out o ur frat e rnit y entertaining would be to cu t out one of the pleasantest soc ial features of our co ll ege Ii fe: and when it is clearly under s tood that we ask a girl because we want her, and n ot merely to swell our number o r to ge t her fr om a rival fraternity, rushing seems to u s to be a very pr etty courtesy to the freshman.

This is the fe e lin g of Pennsylvania Beta r egarding the Conference. We shall be glad when we get o ur A rr ows, so that we may see what our siste r chapte rs think.

Pelll/sylvallia Bela .

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I. The r eco mm endati on s of the delegate s a re fully broad en o ug h to me et the demands o f ollr chapter.

2. If these regulati o ns w e re unifo rm fo r all fraternities they would not work hardship.

3. W e think th e time of ex tendi ng invi tation s is rather l ongl Th e method of extendi n g invit a ti on s is approved by u s.

4. Vie c ertainl y think that le ngth enin g the time bef o re invitati ons t o a s late as the second Friday in December would o nl y prol ong the ob j ect io nabl e features of gett in g acquainted with the fre shmen

5 . We do n o t app rove of the definition of ru s hing, and see no objection s to e nt e rt a ining desirable girls be for e th e day of the fo rmal bid.

6. \ Vc f ea r that o ther fr ate rn ities m igh t 11 0 t conform to the regu lat io n s . ' erlllont Be/a.

In respon se to th e reques t that each chapte r cont ri bute to th e Arrow a statement o f opi nion in reg ard to the report drawn up by th e delegates from all the nati on al frat e rnit ies. we shall try to give as n ea rl y as possib le the position of Pen nsy lvania Alpha on the points menti oned. Some of them happen to be very vital ones to LI S as th e inte r- fraternity pledge which we n ow have at Swarthmo re co rrespo n ds in ma ny respects to this repo rt .

A ns w e rin g these que s tions in the o rd e r proposed we would say, fi rst. that the recol111l1e nd at i o ns do not entir e l y l1l'eet the needs o f our chapter.

Second , the regul ations would not work hards hip to ou r chapte r, but we bt: Iieve that eve n if rus hin g as defined in Clau se .IV were discount enanced . the re wo uld s till be ru shin g o f an undi gnifi ed and injurious sort.

Third. lI'e should approve of the time and me th o d of extend ing in v itat ions.

Fourth: Xot if the ag r eement against rushing had been made to prevent the se "objecti o nable soc ial feature s."

Fifth: Xo; the defin iti on does n o t cove r the individual ru shin g II' hi ch

Sixth: is ofte n ca rri ed to excess. 1\' 0, ou r rival s 1I'0uid k eep their agreements loy all y . P ellllsylvallja Alpha

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In regard to the questions in the last Arrow, which we were to discuss and answer, we would say that the conditions in our college are so unique that for the most part the questions do not apply to us in any way. Until two years ago, we did not know what it was to ha ve a rival fraternity to contend with, and when finall y a local was organized, we found it quite impossible to co-operate with them in ouy way .

Unde r the existing conditions, quick action on our part is essential to the lif e of our chapter and without the rushing season at the beginning of the year we should be handicapped and seriously affected. We rea liz e, however, the desirability o f an inter-fraternity understanding or agreement for chapte r s in colleges where there is more than one national fraternity or a local willing to abide by suc h an agreement.

Coillmbia Alpha.

As s uggested by OUf edi to r, in one of OUf recent chapter meetin gs we discussed the questions voted upon in the Pan-Hellenic Conference. We decided that the recommendations of the delegates are not broad enough to meet the needs of our chapter, seeming more applicable to chapte rs in a sma ll college or dormitory school.

We feel that the regulati o ns against sub-fre shmen pledging would work hard ship to u s as we depend in some measure upon sub-freshman pledging of studen ts in the City High School or the schools. We have had ample oppo rtunity to become acquainted with these girls and to thoroughly know them This plan would also delay the pledging of near relatives of the girls until some time in their freshman year, when they would have missed so many of the pleasures of fraternity life. We agree that th e bids shou ld be sent by mail, as the objectionable features of "forcing pledges" \\'ould thus be avoided.

The Syracuse chapter feels that the rushing and pledging should be carried o n ea rli e r in the co llege year fo r an interruption at the first of the year is more easily gotten along with than one lat er on. The longer the period of rushing , so much the longe r is the period of inter-fraternity distrust.

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We would suggest that there be a week or two for ru shing before the bids are given and then 110 rushing afterward. Bids should not stand open for ten days; a girl should have realized her desires even before the bid.

We feel that rushing can never be defined. Vie do not feet that any chapter of any fraternity here would disregard the letter of the agreement, but we fear , owing to the vagueness of the definition of rushing, that the spirit might be set as;de. New York Alpha.

Fratemil,!! Friendship

F RATERNITY friendship is the best gift of a college course," wrote an Arrow correspondent recently, and the statement mad e in such evident good faith leads us to ask just what is fraternity friendship? We all know the subtle friendship that we feel at the solemn initiation ceremonies or durin g the sad June spread, that we whisper in the g low of the firelight or in the grey shadows of the early twilight, and we know, too , that this is a very different thing from practical friendship seen in the sober light of day. The initiates with wet eyes and clasped hands vow to be true until death to one an other and to the ideals of fraternity; and bless their little heart s ! they mean it every w o rd. But as the days go by they realize, more's the pity , that they are but huma n, that the roses of chapter life have thorns quite as painful as those of ordinary varieties and that even into as sacred a thing as fraternity friendship the petty heartach es and jeal o usies of every -day life will come . "The senior had a spread last night and invited all the girls on the upper floor except me," says the sensitive sophomore with a quivering lip . "I asked th e junior to let me copy her Angl o -Saxon today. and she said she hadn't it," the senio r ;s heard to remark. Trivial little things, tbread-like cracks in the perfect vase of friendship , cracks so tiny that we can hardly distinguish them now, but that sooner or later will strip the highly l'llished surface of sentiment from the plain foundation. It is

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then that fraternity friendship must show of what material it is fashioned; and whether it is wrought in metal or moulded in frail clay is the question each girl must decide for herself. There is, too, the friendship you feel for some girl outside the fraternity, someone who is more thoroughly congenial perhaps than many in the fraternity, the girl with whom you could have formed a lifelong friendship, but-you belong to another fraternity. "In true friendship," says the wise alumna, "fraternity can make no diffe rencc, and if you arc allowing it to do so you are abusing the ideals of the fraternity." Vcry pretty in thcory, my sage counsellor, but you are forgetting many things; for instance, the vague, unnatura l barriers opposed during the rushing season and at all times more or less perceptible.

The conception of fraternity friendship is all that it shou ld be, but in practice is it very different fr o m o ther friendships, and does it not often prevent many we should have formed under other circumstances?

Fraternity friendship otlght to be the noblest gift of our college course, and I ask YOll senio rs and alumnae, Do we make it so? Vermont Beta.

Segregation at Norlliwestern

'[ HERE seems to be a fal se impres sio n that we have segregation here at Northwestern, and we hasten to correct the idea. A rumor arose during the week of the inaugural ceremonies of President James that he would be inAuenced by the action taken by the faculty of Chicago U niversity in ad opt in g seg regati on for the freshmen and sophomores there. Btlt so far as we know no steps have been taken in this direction as yet, and no changes from: the customs of the past few years have been made. Men and women recite in th e same classes, have the sa me professors and advisors and enjoy equal privi leges in the li brary and laborator ies . They are not allowed to room in tile same houses. There are four dormitories for women, the large st accommodating about

one hundred g irl s. In tw o o f the se Halls the ge neral h ou sewo rk is carried on by th e wo men th e m se lves, thus le sse n ing t h e expenses of each woman

Th e so r o ritie s are n o t a ll owed hOll ses, beca u se a few yea r s ago one so r o rit y abused th e privilege , but each chapte r ha s it s ow n r ooms o n th e top fl oo r o f Willa r d Hall , the larges t women ' s dormitory . The frat e rniti es hav e t h e ir chap ter h ouses ; and w ith the ex ce pti on o f th ese and one s mall dormitory! the me n live in boardin g h ou ses

The qu es ti o n of seg r egatio n is se ldom b r o u g ht up amo n g the students , wit h r efer en ce to it s ad o pti on h e r e as to w h et her it would be a good thing o r n ot, whether, if tri e d, it wo uld b e s u ccessfu l ; a nd is discussed but littl e except in th e n ews pape r s and out s id e wo rld. Pe r so nall y I do not think the syste m would be welcomed h e re by th e s tud e nts.

JIIillois Ep siloll .

What a Fratemil}! Girl Thinks

Whether it is be nefi c ial to a fraternity t o e lec t as memhe r s girl s who int end t o r e main in coll ege but on e yea r , is a t opic f o r mu c h

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di sc u ss ion in o ur chapte r There are stron g arguments on eac h sid e o f this subjec t. Con geniality is. of cou r se, our fir st consid e rati on But aside fr om thi s there are other que stion s of es pec ial impo rtance, parti cularly if th e cand idate be from a part of the co untr y where th e r e is n o woman ' s co ll ege with frate rnit y chapte r s If a gi rl be cons idered all that is good and fine in the co mmunity in which she l ives, the fact that s h e is a Pi Beta Phi will strengthen th e standing of the fraternity in h e r s tat e, a nd s h e s h o uld 11 0 1 be excluded from members hip simply beeallse she inten ds t o r ema in at college on ly o n e o r t wo years. Some contend that a girl can n ot love and learn t o apprec iat e h er fra te rnit y in so s ho rt a time as

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she w o uld were s he an activ e me mbe r during a complete co ll ege course, and that fo r this reason me mbe rship should not be conferr ed u pon her. F o r du rin g her f our yea r s of college life a g irl a cquires a great affection for h e r frat e rnit y, a nd thr o ug h long a ssociation with it s li f e and working , takes it s interests deeply to h eart . A me mber in o ne year ca nn ot lea rn to feel this s ame lo ve and in te r est and so weake n s the st re n gt h of h e r cha pt e r by h e r half-h ea rt ed h e lp But we have learned from expe ri en ce that often a girl ma y, in a very short tim e, learn to apprec iate and e nj oy he r fraternity life s o much that s he is influenced to return to co ll ege, contra ry to he r o ri g inal in te nti o n s. A nd so we think that stich a membership brings us more good than harm.

L OllisiQIIQ Alp ha.

Wh e n a n ew fraternity is sta rted in o ur co ll ege it is often composed not onl y of freshmen but a lso members of the o ld e r classes,

Our Allifude Towards new Fralernilie s who have viewed fraternity life frol11 th e ou ts id e and have known many bit te r moment s. Th ey a r e looking forward to t h ei r fr a ternit y life with a j oy which w e , w ho have not kn ow n w hat it is to be an o ut s id er, may not realize .

Pe rh a ps we think th e new frat e rnit y does n ot com e up to ou r standard n o r th e standard o f th e o th e r fraternitie s o f o ur college, fo r if it had there would, perhaps , hav e been n o occa s io n for it s ex istence. But l et u s be ve ry ca re ful that we d o n ot take o ne little bit fr 0111 th ei r h app in ess by a s light o r care less w o rd , but give them a hearty welcome am ong the Greeks.

M. B. W. , Co l orado ·B ela. r

The fr es hmen have t o make th e ir OW I1 pla ce in the frat e rnity. It should be the ob ject o f eac h of the older mem be r s to make them

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fee l that they a re an integral part o f the c hapter, and t o he lp them to find t he ir pla ce. Y o u can n o mo re give them a definite pos iti on tha n yo u can learn their lesso ns f o r th e m . So durin g the fr es hman year each

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one shou ld take an active interest in the relati on of the new members to the rest o f the chapte r. Cal; fomia Beta.

1l1inoi s Beta wishes to express her app rova l of Michigan Beta chapt e r conce rnin g the pledge pin . the opinion of We have two pledges that for certain rea sons ca nn ot be initiated Tqe Pledge Pin a t once and they would much p refer a pledge pin that wou ld be recognized by a stranger as a badge o f loya lt y to Pi Beta P h i 1. C does n ot mean that to the average observe r a n d it is onl y rea son ab le that these pledge s s h ould find another pin mo re sat isfac to ry .

Brla .

Of t he tangible symbols o f P i Beta Ph i , there is not o n e so dear to e ve ry memhe r of the fr::l.ternit)' as the frat ernity pin. \OVhile Wllere 10 Wea r the Fralanilf Pit,

the g irl is in co ll ege. th e arrow s h e wea rs te ll s h e r littl e wo rld ju st where s h e stand s. S h e values it among her most c he ri shed possession s. It become s almost a part o f her se lf ; the ideals which it stands for become more truly her ideals.

If possib le, th e arrow mea ns even m o re to the Pi Beta P hi ou t of coll ege. Wh ereve r she is she has with her a shining little remind e r o f some of the happi est hou rs o f h e r l ife; m o reove r, it is often he r s hibboleth to a plea sa nt acquaintance, o r to a friendship valu e d in after years .

Should not a pin w hi ch means so much to each o ne o f us have a pla ce of its OWl1 ,-a place prominent enough so th at all may see it ? Every co ll ege girl ha s numberless littl e pins to fa sten th e stock or bodice. The arrow should stand alone , where it cannot be mistaken for a trin ket which ha s no meaning.

E. S. H ., .1!;chigall Bela.

WHrlT A FRATERXITY GIRL TH INKS

"T o te ll sec ret s shows a lack o f self-control," said the professor in soc io logy last week. Two Pi Beta Phis exchanged glances and :lite r class the y tri e d the coat o n variolls of Telling Secrets tl'e c o ll ege f rate rnitie s and fOllnd it fit so me of them very we ll.

.Ko self-respecting fraternity girl would think f o r a moment of reveali ng fraternity sec rets o r di sc uss in g fraternity matt e rs with n on-frat girls, but there is a temptati on t o talk with girls of o ther fraternities and to re vea l mo re o f th e inner life o f the fraternity than is \Vi s e and best.

To prac tice self-control in thi s matte r is w o rthy o f effort and • in fraternity li fe mOTC tha n e lsew here we ca n wisely fo llow Pope's advice:

"Be si lent always, when you doubt YOUT sense, A nd speak, tho' s ure, with seemi ng diffidence."

Marylalld Alpha.

" What Is Worth While" is a littl e book, a co py of which sh ould be in every chapter roo m. It i s not writt en for th e fraternity gi rl espec iall y , but in its sentiment it seems peculiarly (Jl!ile" fitte d to help u s in our frat e rnity life . The substance o f the book is g iv en in the closing lines , wh ic h exp re ss the id ea l toward which we are all s triving: "Letting go the unworth y thing s that meet li S, pr eten se, worry, di scontent and se lf-seeking , a nd taking loya l h old o f time, work, present happiness, love, duty, fri e ndship, sorrow, and faith, let u s so live in all true womanliness as to be an inspiration, strength and blessing to tho se whose lives are touched by OUTS."

.11assachllsells Alpha.

We are in college onl y four yea r s, and then w h en we fe e l that we are just beginning to li ve, we graduate and all is over. To

Alumnae Meeting s th e Pi Beta Phi not the least of the losses which come at commencement time is the loss of that active chapter life which mean s so much to the enthusiastic fraternity girl. When we are relegated to the class of alumna e, we ma y s till remain loyal P i Phis, but we cannot be

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bound by that close tie which exists in the chapter. Girls, we must not lose int e rest in the alumnae. \ Ve ca nn ot afford to let them drift away from us.

Illin o is Beta ha s triecl a plan for keeping up the interest of those who have left LIS, which has proved to be very successful. Once every month all the a lunma e are invited to attend a regular meeting followed by a sho rt program, a cookie-shi ne , and a HPi Phi sin g,H The o ld and new girls meet. co n ve rse, and become interested in o ne another, and the alumnae always want to come again. Truly, it is wo rth the while. \\ 'e mu st not wilfully lose OUf aiunmae members.

E . M. c., 1I/ino;s Beta

If eve r yo u hav e any sma ll differences in the chapter, which are somet im es a lm ost imposs ible to avoid, keep them 'h'ithin the chapter. Somet imes you may disagree about one of the Differences fu shees,-so me may lik e her and some ma y n ot. Her name will be brought up in fraternity meeting and a hot discussion will ensue, in wh ich perhaps some sharp things may be saId. Avoid this if possible, of cou r se, but by all means keep it to yourselves . It is n o matter of the outside world's, and the o utside world is not reall y int e rested; but it may ca u se talk and notoriety, which a Pi Phi always wishes to avoid. The little difference will be heal ed the quicker for being kept quiet, and will be entirely f orgotten in a sh ort while. And above all things, always be perfectly frank with your Pi Phi s isters. You love them and they love you too we ll to misunderstand yo u if you are frank with them.

A. H. G., Tuas Alpha.

\iVhat would a Pi Phi initiati on o r "cook ie-shi n e" be if it did not conclude with a rousing Pi Phi song? What wou ld an initiation be if "G oblinato Spookioso" were n ot sllng OUT Song Book for the benefit of the initiat e? What would a 'cookie-shine" be jf it were n o t interrupted occasionally by "Oh, can't you sit over a little, I'll suffocate; how you

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do squeeze," or "Cookies, cook ies, the cookies now pass if you please?" The Pi Ph i songs are surely a blessing, for they add just the necessary touch to the occasion and if we were forced to give them up now, they would be very much missed. It also adds much to our meetings to begin them by singing a so ng or tw o, for it seems to get you int o the spirit of Pi Phi. If you feel just a littl e cross or impatient with sOl11e o ne when you come to meeting just si ng a verse of "Little Coaty," and before you know it you will be smiling and happy. So now "Come ye maidens, gay and cheery , Gather one and all , O f singing songs we'll ne'er grow weary Down in OUf Pi Phi hall."

lIIill oi s Delta.

Usually during the summer vacation we meet many new girls. form new acquaintances with them, and in so doing come in COI1-

J d · 0 h tact with new c hara cters and personalities. These u grng I ers.

bf the Fro/ernify acqu3l1ltances end. perhaps, with the summe r , and Standard fl' bell I ret we 0 ten (e nve so me e ne llt , as we as p casure , from them. Should we while choosing a friend ask ourselves this question? Would this g irl , if at college, be a Pi Phi; would she be rushed by ou r fraternity? And if for some of the various littl e rea sons we shou ld decide n ot, would it be right to avoid her and draw off to ou rse lv es?

While I think it an excellent plan to choose our friends by compa ring them to the fraternity sta ndard, still there are cases, perhaps each o ne o f u s could recall one, where friendships with non-fratenlity gi rl s have been fraught with benefits to both parties. For by using our influence we might not only make the girl happier and better, but also be fulfilling the duty of every true fraternity girl, that of helping othe rs. And in so doing we are ofte ntim es strengthening our ow n characters and developing within ou rselves a high e r and noble r womanhood.

111. 1I1cC., Co illmbia Alplra

A lumn ae D epartm ent

THE PH I !lETA KAPPA FRATERNITY

In about fifty of the colleges an d universities of thi s co untry, t he little go ld key, which is the badge of this o ldes t of the college frat e rniti es , is one of the mos t coveted ho no rs that g raduation can bring, T o most un de r-g rad u ates it is simp ly a ma rk of achieve· ment, a di s tinction fr om the rank an d file, and desired as such, but wh en , at the ann u al meeting, he is welcomed with th e g rip o f the soc iety, and l earns what a good ly company he ha s joined, t he honor transcends that o f m e re co mpetitive sc h o larship, and a broade r view is opened to h im. To be lon g to the same soc iety with Lo ngfel low , E mer son , H olmes, Bryant, Everett, J. Q. Adams, Jas. R . Lowell, John L. Motley, Justin Winsor, William D. Whitn ey , Phi ll ips Brooks, and sti ll living Bishop Potter, T. W. Higginson , Ambassador Ch oa te, Elihu Root, Seth Low, E. E. Hale and Th eodo r e Roosevelt, surely in su c h company the best one ha s is all t oo p oo r, and modesty mu st tak e the place of youth ful co nce it and exultation . P hi Beta Kappa , now uniqu e amo ng G r eek lette r socie ties, both in aim and method , was found ed at William and Mary College, William sb ur g, Virginia, D ecembe r 8,1776 It was at first mere ly a soc ia l and literary society, lik e all o ther co ll ege fraternitie s, and its fr e qu ellt meetings were devoted to programs, in which at leas t four members always appeared and which a l ways included a d eba t e, half prepa red and half extempo rar y. Some o f these old debating topics hav e come down t o us : Whether Brutus was justifiable in \..;lling Caesa r ; Whethe r the execution o f Charles I. was ju sti fiable; Wh et h e r a general assessment for the support of reli g io us es tab l ishments is repugnant to th e principles o f a republican gove rnmen t; The justice of Af ri can slavery; \ Vhet her any f o rm of government is m ore favorab le to public virtue than a cOJn-

monwea lth The pol iti ca l unres t of th e re volu t iona ry period is ev id ent in all the se t opics, and d oubtl ess man y of th ese ard e nt young debaters f ound oppo r tunit ies o f testing the practica l worth of their theories in the s tirring tim es w hich followed.

The o ri gi n al found e rs were John H eat h , Th o ma s Smith, Richard Booke r , A rmi stead Smi th , a nd J o hn J on es, n on e o f th em o th e rwi se especially known to fame ; bu t o f th e fifty me mbers of this Ph i Beta Kappa soc iety, befo r e it disso l ved in 178 1, n ea rl y all were in the continenta l army, se v ent een we re in the sta te legis latu re ( mos t o f th e m fo r morc tha n o ne te rm ), e ig ht were members of th e co nvent io n that rat ifi ed the federa l con s tituti on, five w e re members o f the nati o nal house o f representative s and t wo of the senat e; the soc iety wa s also we ll rep resen ted in the s tat e conventi o n o f 1788, and th e legis lature o f 1783-87. Many of th e m ac hi e ved a nat io nal r ep u tat io n-Mad iso n, Lee, Bush rod Washington , and Joh n Marshall , to name but a few .

The life o f th is fir st c hapt e r was b ri ef. When th e Britis h fleet, with the traitor A rn o ld o n boa r d, appeared off th e coast, t he th en members sea led up th e society's reco rds a nd intru s ted them to th e coll ege stewa rd '\mtil the de s irab le eve nt o f the soc iety's re s urrection/' and it was no t until 1849 that any attemp t was made to rev i ve it . when th e la s t pres id e nt. 1\1 r. Short, afte r an act i ve publi c ca ree r of fo re ign emissa ry and dipl omat ist , at the advanced age of ninety-two, aga in s aw gat he red arou n d him a chapte r of the socie ty that h ad be en th e s timu lu s of hi s yo uth. Th e c hapt e r wa s aga in broken up by th e C ivil War o f 1861, and the Virginia Histo r ical S oc iet y t ook care of th e r ecords until its fi nal r ev iva l in 1895

Before its fir st dis solu tion , howe ve r, th e membe rs, believing that " It is r epugna nt to th e liberal prin cip les of societies that th ey sh ou ld be confin ed t o any particula r pla ce, m en o r desc ript ion of men , but that th ey sh ould be ex ten ded to t h e wise and virtuous o f every degree and o f whatever count ry, " commissioned Elisha Parmale , a Harvard graduate of 1779, who h ad co me to William and Mary f o r graduate wo rk , t o organize chapte rs of the society at Harvard and Yale. Acco rdin g ly, on his way h ome from Virginia, he established th e Yal e c hapt e r in 1780, and the Harvard ch ap t e r

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immediately after. The original chapter called itself Alpha, and planned to give the names of Epsilon to Harvard and Zeta to Yale (Be ta , Gamma and Delta having already served for Virginia branches , of which no further traces exist), but before the charters were is sued it was decided to make the first chapter established in each state the "Alpha" of that state, with the privilege of granting charters, the concurrence of all the Alphas being necessary to exte nd the society t o any new state, and this system of government was in fo rce for over one hundred years . In 1787 the Alphas of Massachusetts and Connecticut, being then by the decease of the William and Mary chapter the sole representatives of the society, agreed to establish a cha pter at Dartmouth, and for thirty years these three chapters constituted the society . It was during thi s period that a 1110st important change was made in the policy and character of the o rgani zatio n. At the time of the Morga n anti-masonry agitation in th e early part of the nineteenth century , which was especially strong in New England, the Harvard chapter abandoned th e oa th of secrecy at the urgency of John Q. Adams, Judge Story and other inAtlential members. Filled with the missionary zeal of n ew converts, they sent Edward Everett to the Yale chapter to persuade them to a similar course, which he accomplished after considerable oppos iti on. Dartmouth also agreed not to emp ha size the oat h of secrecy even if it was not given up altogether, and thI S po li cy has been fo llowed e ver since, a "becoming retice nce" being recomme nd ed, but no binding vows req u ired.

In 1817 th e Alphas united in g ranting a charter to Union Co llege in New York, and some years after to Bowdoin and Brown. Then there was a n interval of fift ee n years before any further expa ns ion was attempted. It is in this fir s t half of the nineteenth ce ntury that the soc iety enjoyed its period of greatest influence, be in g in fa ct for fifty yea r s the on ly orga nization in thi s country which could pretend to be devoted to literature and philosophy. The annual poems and orations w ere by men, many of whom are now famous, and the Phi Beta Kappa program was the literary event o f the yea r Harvard lead s with J oh n Q. Adams ( 1788), Edward Everett and Emerson, each with a poem and two orations ..

Story, Parsons, Peabody, Sumner, Bellows, Beecher, Cu rti s, Woolsey, Wendell Phillips, and poems by Allston, Bryant, Emerso n , Holm es, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Stedman and Stoddard. These were not all graduates of Harvard, though most of them we re, and the Harvard li st contains beside, George Bancroft, W. H. Prescott, J. L. Motley, Jared Sparks, John Fiske , J. R. Lowell, Phillips Brooks, and of those still living, E. E. Hale, Charles Eliot Norton, T. W. Higginson, Charles F. Thwing and Theodore Roosevelt.

Yale has also quite a long list, but not so many widely known names as Harvard. Bowdoin ha s Jacob and J ohn S . C . Abbott, Longfellow, Hawth o rn e and Frank.lin Pierce; and Brown boasts o f H o race George William Curtis and P r esident Jas. B. Angell, and Dartm outh , Daniel \Vebster, Rufus Choate, Salmon P. Chase and George Ticknor .

The period of th e society's rapid expansion began in 1845 , and in the next fifteen years more new chapters were chartered than in the sixty- nine years preceding. Since the war the increa se has been s teady and prog ressive, and at present there are fiftythree chapters on the ro ll, more than half of them having been o rgan iz ed in the la st fiftee n years.

Until 1881, the old method of giving each Alp ha the privil ege o f granting charters within the boundaries of its own state prevailed. In that year the Harvard chapter celebrated its hundredth anniversary by inviting the other chapte r s to send delegates to its exercises and to empowe r them to const itute themselves a convention rep rese nting the society. of the chapters accepted the invita tion , and after much discussion of the society's condition and prospects, they agreed that the chapte rs would be brought in to closer touch by a permanent representative body and a definite constitution. These delegates took no fonnal action but agreed to me et again in the fall, when they could present the views of their respective chapters on the measures pro ., posed . Acco rd ingly in October of that year delegates from s ixteen chapters met in Kew York city and resolved to recommend the adopt ion of a national counci l to their chapters. A third meeting was held a yea r later, w hen the present constitution was

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adopted by a un animo ll s vote. It provides for the gove rn ment of the society by a senate of twent y members, o ne-·half of them to be elected triennially, to act as the gove rnin g body of th e society in the int eri m of co nv entio ns, and a tri ennial convention, each c hapt e r "being e nti tled to thr ee delegates . Th e progress and growth o f th e soc iety si nce thi s thoro ugh re-organizati o n of its method s of government, has bee n rapi d and steady . It now numbers fifty-three c hap te rs, ove r 10,600 l iving membe rs, w ith a roll of over tw o hundr ed "di st in g ui s hed dead," and many m ore undi s tin g ui s hed. 'fhe fir st two o r three "natio nal coun c ils " se ttl ed severa l impo rtan t questions, notably the grade of in st itu t ion s to which chapt e rs should be granted and th e prop o rtion of each class that ma y be e le cted . It was ge nerall y ag re ed to limit th e g ranting of new cha rt e rs to instituti o ns hav ing a regular co urse for the degree of Bac hel or o f A r ts, and a special effo r t ha s bee n mad e to k ee p the sta ndard a s high as possible. It was also co n side red exped ien t that not mo re than o ne -four th o f any g raduat in g class should be elected to the soc iety; this wa s not to int e rfe re with the estab li she d c ustoms of olde r c hapte rs, and in fact most o f the chapte rs hav e fo und it desi rabl e to limit the still further.

Th e ge n era l conditi on o f e li gib ility to m embership in the society is good moral c hara cte r and hi gh sc h ola r ship. At fi r;t the oldfa shi o ned id ea prevail ed tbat Hhigh sc h o larship" could not be f o un d in any course but that leadin g to the deg ree of Bachelor o f A rts, but w i th the rece nt activity in scientific research, a strong protest was made, which led to a broadening of the soc iety's policy in that respec t , th o ugh eve n now probably nine-tenths of the yearly e lecti o n s are from th e Arts' cour se, the proportion varying, of cou rse, in different institutions . The chapte rs al so vary in th eir time of e lection , a n d in the proporti o n of each class that they el ec t. The o ld e r chapters at first rese rv ed their o ri gina l right of electing o ne- third of the class , but rarely exen.:ised i t, and as a matt e r of fa c t Harvard elects onl y a bollt on e-thi rtieth , Yal e and Cornell o n e-eighth, Da rl!m out h one-sixth, Columb ia , Syracll se, 't\' illiams and Northwestern o ne- fi fth. and Kansas U niversit y o nl y elect t en, n o matt e r what the size of the class . Almost all

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the chapters elect at the end of the senior year, but a few still cling to the older method. Yale is the only chapter that elects any considerable number at the end of the sophomo re year, though two other chapters elect a few men at that point. Three chapters elect at the end of th e juni o r yea r , fifteen elect on e- half at the end of the juni or year and th e othe r one -half at graduation, and thirtythree elect only seni o r s, and mostly after the final examinations.

Ph i Beta Kappa is therefore a graduate society in most in sti tutions, and having no undergraduate voti ng body, the election is almost entirely in the han ds of the faculty members. In a few places the resident members participate in or confinn the elections. For the same reason literary meetings during the year are almost wholly confined to those chapters having undergraduate membership, and the whole tendency of the society is away from the original idea of a literary and social fraternity. Most chapters, h owever, have annual meetings for initiation, with addresses by resident professors, or, in the larger places, by some noted speake r outside the college.

The origina l badge of the soc iety was a squa re si l ver medal bearing the ini tia ls "S. P." (t h e ea rl y name of the society s ignifying Soc ietas Philosophiae), and on the other side t h e C re e k initial s that later were adopted as the officia l title of the orga nization . Some chapters st ill use the silver medal , giv ing one to each 1I1ltl ate. Early in the society's northern career the present badge was adopted, a rectangular go ld en key bearing the Creek initials of the society, the date of its founding, and an index finger poi nting to a group of stars, whose signification is variously given; on the other s ide is engraved S. P., the name of the college and of th e own e r, with his date o f election.

Pi Beta Phi comes in contact with the Phi Beta Kappa society in elev en in stitutions,-Middlebury College and the Vermont State University, Boston University, Syracuse, No rthweste rn , and the state universities of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Ca li forn ia; and it is safe to say that with th e high standard of sc hola rsh ip that the arrow stands for, she gets her full proportion of members in all these halls o f lea rning. Nay, it might almost seem that the littl e gold chain on our be loved badge

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was express ly designed to hold the golden key that s ignifie s " good moral character and excellent sc h o lars hip:'

MIRIAM E. PnINDI.r.,

lI/illois Epsi l oll.

Pi Pi?is In Phi Bela Kappa

VERMONT ALPIJA-M IDDLEBURY COLLECE

18g4

Bertha E. Ran s low, Vt .

During h e r college course Miss Ranslow specia liz ed in Latin and Greek, rece ivi ng second yea r honors in these bran che s. Since. graduation she ha s taught at Glaston bu ry, Co nn. , as assistant in th e Free Academy, at Swanton, Vt ., as preceptress o f the high sc h ool, at Kings MI., N . C., in Lincoln Acad emy, and is n ow in the high sch oo l at Middlebury.

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Annis M. Sturgis, Ce ntrev ill e, Ma ss .

l\Iiss Sturgis spec iali zed in Latin and Creek and re ce iv ed special h onors for her work. Since g ra duation s h e ha s taught in th e sc hool at West Ti sbury, Mass.

18g6

Mar y O. Pollard , Middlebury, VI.

Mi ss Pollard 's specia lti es were the cla ss ics and chemistry . Juni or honors were given her for her work. She has taught at Middleton , VI., Middleb ury , Vt., and is n ow at She rburn e,

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Fl o rence C. Allen , Hud son , N. Y.

Miss Allen g raduat ed in th e classical course and has since been a teacher of Latin at Hudson, l\. Y.

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1900

Florence Andrews, Holland Patent, l\. Y.

While in college Andrews did special work in the sciences, especially botany, in which she received high est honors. She is now science teacher at H o ll and Patent, T Y.

Clara B. Andrews, Elba, N. Y.

The sciences were specia li zed in while in college; junior hon o rs recei ved for the excellent work. i\liss Andrews has been ing at \Varrcnsbur y . N". Y., but is at bomc this year .

Rena 1. Bisbee, Cllilfonl, "lass .

Since leav ing college l\{iss Bisbee has devoted herself to musi c. She is n ow studying pianoforte, o rgan and harmony under Mr. B. J. Lang of Boston, also is o rganist and cho ri ster in the Episcopal ch ur ch at Milford.

Sara V. Mann, Rockland, 1\-Iass.

l\Iiss :Manl1 is tea chi ng French and history at Rockland, Mass.

190 '

Char lo tte M. Johnson, Wayland, Mass.

Highest honors in Latin and c hem istry and honors in English were given Miss Johnson while in college. She is now teaching the sciences in \¥a yland, Mass.

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Eliza 1\1. Farman , Hillsboro Bridge, N. H.

Farman specialized in French and Gennan, receiving ho nors in the latt e r. The summer of 1900 she spent in Paris preparing herself for teaching Fren ch in Annie Wright Seminary at Ta coma, Wash. She is n ow teaching at Hillsboro Bridge, N. H.

Ada A. Hurlburt, Stamford , Conn.

After two years spent in teaching , 1\1is5 Hurlburt continued for one year her s tud y of French and German abroad . She is again t eac hing.

1900

Edith L. Carpenter, R oc hes ter , N. H.

Afte r graduati on Miss Carpente r took up th e study of ste nography and is n ow engaged in t hat wor k.

19o1

Ivah W Ga le, White River, Vt

M iss Gale rece i ved spec ia l honors for he r w ork ill Germa n. S he i s now teaching at White River Junction .

Kathe rin e K. Gebha r d t , Va ll ey View Shelburne, Vt . Special honors were also given Miss Gebhardt for her work in Germ an . She is at he r home in S he lburn e, Vt.

19o2

Ge n eva Ca r pente r , Brookfie ld, VI.

:Miss Carpenter expects to join the ra n ks of the teache rs, but is home thi s year.

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Frances Darlington, Pa.

Darlingt on's specia l work was done in ancient languages. Afte r teaching severa l years, she is now at home.

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Mary E. Seaman, [112 Bushwick Ave., B rook l y n.

M iss Seaman won the Lucretia fell ows hip after graduation , whi ch entitled her to a yea r of study abroad. T h is she spent at Newnham College, Cambridge, E n g. She is n ow teaching.

19o2

Lucy Ba n c ro ft, Wilmin gto n , Del. Bancroft had G reek and Latin for her major work. She is now at home.

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NEW YORK ALPHA-SYRACUSE UNIVERSl'fY

'896

Louise V. Winfield , [21 W . Castle St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Miss Winfield graduated with high honors in [896, having specialized in Latin and history . With the exception of o ne year of teaching at Jordan. N. Y., she has been at her home.

[897

Clara· G. Hook",a)" W. Gray St., Elmira, N. Y.

Miss Hookway specialized in Latin and is now teaching that bran ch at Elmira.

1902

May Van Doren, Phoenix, N . Y.

Miss Van Doren t ook a portion of her college work at Wellesley college, finishing at Syracllse University, where she spec iali zed in mathematics .

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Martha P. Luther, 3 l\ixon St., D o rchester, Mass.

Miss Luther specialized in the languages and is now teaching French, Greek and English at Ayer, Mass.

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Helen D. Barrett, 12 Myrtle St , Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Miss Barrett specialized in Latin, writing her thesis in that courst;. She ha s taught one year and is at home this year .

1902

Edith M. Bean, Claremont, N. H.

Miss Bean is teaching at Claremont.

Elizabeth R. Halligan, Shelburne Falls, Mass.

During h er se ni or year Miss Halligan held the "Hu ntin gto n" scholars hip , which is granted to the one having highest rank the previous year. She is at home this year.

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UN IVJ.:nSl 'I'Y

18g7

E. Pri ndl e, Va . E Prindle (A. B ), was elected to Ph i Beta Kappa, Ju n e, 18g6, at North"'cstern Un iv ersity, Evanston, III. She laught E n g lish and hi story in high schoo l for a yea r and a half, took a yea r of decorative designi ng at th e Chicago Art Institute, and three months in the Ch icago Schoo l of Illu stration She is now stayi ng at h ome, Grove Farm, lVl ancheste r, Virginia.

:vIrs. Hila V. Knapp (Mrs. H. E.), 218 Lunt Ave., C hi cago, III. In 18g6 ;\ Ir s. Knapp received a certificate from the No rthw es tern U niv ers it y Music Schoo l, a nd in 18g7 finished her coll ege cour se. H e r hu sba nd is pr o fe ssor o f violin and e n se mble mu s ic at No rthw es tern, and her work, since leaving co ll ege, has bee n along th ese line s . She is n ow study in g pian o at ::\orthwcstem .

18gB

Mary 1. Heynolds, 563 O rchard St., Chicago.

Whil e in college Miss Reyn olds specialized in English and Latin and is now teach in g these bran ches in th e Lake View high school.

1899

L . Fitch, 1803 Barry Ave., Chicago.

Miss Fitch graduated in 1899, and in 1901 received the degree of Ph. M from Chicago Univ ersity Her graduate work was alo ng the lin es of Germanic and Romance lan g ua ges. Sh e n ow holds a f e ll ows hip in Germanics in Chi cago.

Elfreida Hochbaum, We ll s College , A ur ora, N. Y. Since leavi ng coll ege Miss Hochbaum ta u ght o n e yea r in the sc hoo ls of A ur ora, Ill. , st udi ed Germanics in th e U niversity of Leip zig for one year , then pursued the same st ud ies as fell ow in Come ll Unive r sity for o n e year, re ce iving the degree of Ph. D. She now has the chair of Germa n in Wells College, Au rora, N. Y. Florence Reyno lds, 2564 Lakewood Ave ., Edgewate r, Chicago.

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Miss Reynolds' maior wo r k was German and her min o r , philosop hy and French . Afte r spendi n g a year traveling in the wes t and Honolulu, she is now at home.

Elda L Sm ith, 710 S. 6t h St., Springfie ld , Ill.

Miss Smith specialized in Latin and mathematics. She aided her mathematics professor by r cadi ng all the proof for a n e w geometry in which he was interested, and he in ack-now ledgrne nt o f the wo rk mentioned her name in the preface. She is n ow teaching mat hematics in the Spri ngfield high school.

Abbie F. William s, 731 M o rse Ave ., Chicago.

Williams received her master's degree in 1902 and since has bee n teaching Eng lis h a n d hi sto ry in t h e Joli e t town ship high schoo l.

IOWA ZU1' A-UNIV'ERSJ1'V 01: IOWA

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Mrs. May H e nr y B luhm (M rs. Co nr ad), 1143 B roadw a y, Bould e r, Co lo.

1I1 r s Bluhm was initiated into Pi Beta Ph i at Co lo ra do U niv e rsi t y, but graduated fr om I owa Un iversity. Later sh e r et urn ed to Co lorado as assistant professor of Genllan in the univer s ity and at th e same time studied for he r master's deg ree, whic h was rece iv ed in 1899. Her thesis was entitled "Some P hases of Poe tical Omam.ent in th e De Rerum Natura of Lucretius ." M rs. Bluhm is now the wife o f a Presbyterian mini s te r and has two sma ll daughters to ca r e for.

Kate B. Reed, Spoka n e, Was h . M iss Reed gradua t ed fro m I owa U niv ers ity in 1885, but there bei ng no chapter of Phi Beta Kappa there at that time , her membe r sh ip in that fraternit), did n ot begin until 18g6. She also r eceived he r Master's degree at Iowa, and is now teaching at Spokane.

!\Irs . Zoe Willi ams Seevers, 12 12-28th S t. , Des Ia. Mrs. Seeve r s a lso graduated be fo r e Ph i Beta Kappa was sta rt ed at 1. S U., but was elected to in 18g6. Since

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graduati o n she has spent seve ral yea rs teaching in the Des Moines high school, but is now assistant in Latin in Drake U niv e rs it y, from which sh e h opes to rece iv e h er Master's degree in Jun e.

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Ethel May Bond, Sioux City, Ia . Vvhil e in coll ege !\Iiss Bond specialized in Latin and German and is now teaching.

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Julia E . Rogers, Ithaca, N. Y.

Mi ss Roge r s g raduat ed f ro m r. S. U. in 18<)2, but was n ot elected to Phi Beta Kappa until the sp ring of 1902. A f te r teachin g a few yea r s sh e entered Corn ell U niv ers it y as a g raduate st udent of h o rti cultur e a nd ag ri cu ltur e, taking h e r d eg ree of M. S. in a griculture in Jun e, 1902. She was instructor in t h e s umm e r schoo l o f Nature Study, h eld in Cornell U niv ersity in 1900. H e r work as a n in st itute lec turer bega n in I owa. For two yea rs she has given n atu re study l ect ures in various city and co unt y in stitut es in Pennsylvania, and in 19D2 gave t hree co ur ses in th e summe r schoo l at Chauta u q ua, N. Y . M iss Rogers ha s ju st written a book e n tit led, "Among Green Tr ees." S he is n ow engaged in giving correspondence courses in nature st ud y.

MISSO UR I AI,PIIA-UN IV ERS ITY OF MISSOURI

A m a nda F. Becker, St. Le ui s, Mo

Miss Becker g raduated in 190 1, a n d the foll ow in g yea r s tudi ed f o r h er Master's degree wh il e acting a s ass is tant professor in math emat ics . Afte r r eceivi n g the degree of A. M .. sh e was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, this chapte r havin g been es t ab li s hed very r ecently She n ow has a mathemat ica l fe ll owship at B ryn Mawr.

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Mrs. Lu c ret ia Hin ck ley McM ill an (M rs. J. W .), South McAlest e r, Ind ian Territory.

Phi Beta Kappa at Wisconsin date s fr o m 1899, and Mrs. Mc-

Millan wa s o n e o f the first t o be initiated. In coll ege she spec ialize d in ethics and ancient lan guages, and fo r tw o years tau ght at A sh land and Milwaukee.

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Livia Este ll e Seiler. Miss Sei ler s peciali zed in La ti n a nd Ge rman, and after g raduatin g taught German one year in the high sc h oo l at Wis. Sh e died of t yp hoid fe,' er o n Oc t obe r 5, [901.

KANSAS AlPllA- UNIVERSI'J'Y OF KANSAS

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Mrs. Ge rtru de B. Blackwelder , M o rga n Park, Ill. O ld li teratu r e a n d myths have claimed ;\[rs Blackw e ld e r's specia l atte ntion, both whi l e in co ll ege and si nce, go in g in to it so extensively as to now be considered an authority on th ose s ubjects. Educational work, ca rri ed on principa ll y through wo m e n' s clubs, s u ch as P ·.lblic School Decoration, Schoo l Extensi on , and espec ia ll y Vacation Sc hoo l ' i\To rk in Chi cago , ha s claimed he r leis ure mome nt s for seve ra l yea rs. She is s till an activ e t11ember o f the Illin o is Co n sume rs' L eag ue, and spe ak s frequ entl y befo r e club s on th e work o f that league At present she. is pre s id ent o f the Chica go Political Equa lit y League, mem be r of the Board o f Ed ucation o f Morgan Park and presiden t of the Publi c Sc h ool A rt League. Mrs . Blackwe ld e r g raduat ed fr om Kan sas U niv e r s it y in 1874.

Mrs. Effie Scott Fra nklin (M rs. E . C.), Lawrence , Kan. Ge r man was Mrs. Scott's spec ial branch. A ft er t eac hin g three' years s h e st udi ed at Co rn ell and in Germany , a nd th en f or tw o years wa s o n e o f th e fa c ult y o f Kansas Unive r sit y. JIf r s. Franklin was married in 1897.

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M rs. Fl o rence Pa rrott Barbe r, Lawren ce, Ka n.

After t eac hin g in seco ndary sch ools for two years and s pe nding a summ e r in stud y at Go ttingen , M rs. Barber wa s ass is tant pro fesso r o f Ge rm a n in the Kansa s University fo r fo ur years, until h e r marri age mad e h e r a full pro fe sso r in another lin e.

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Mrs. Lucinda Smith Buchan.

Anglo-Saxon, O ld English and advanced work in English composition claimed Mrs . Buchan's special attention while in college, and after teaching two yea rs she was called to the University to have charge o f the freshman English. In [898 she was married to Captain Frederick BlIchan, s pending the short period of her marri ed fif e in Manila. She died Apri l [7, 1899.

Mrs. E[hel B Hami lton (M r s. J. K.), 23[7 Scottwood Ave , Toledo, O .

Mrs. Hamilton received her Master's degree in 1885 , but tion to Phi Beta Kappa came in [895 . F o r some time she was connected with the "Boston Society for the Eucouragement of Study at Home as Preparation f o r the IV!. A. Degree," acting as one of the teachers a part o f the time. Mrs. Hamilton attended th e College de France f or a time, and has contribut ed to the Chicago Int e r-Ocea n, Harper's Bazar and other journals.

Mrs. Clara F. Sterling ( Mrs. M. W.), Lawrence, Kan. Although married , 1\1[ r5. Sterling ha s continued he r st udi es and in I90 [ received her l\1aster's deg ree at Kansas Unive rsit y.

Mr s M ina 11. Wilco x ( Mrs. A. M.), Lawrence , Kan

Mrs. Wilcox graduated in [ 88[ and was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa for graduate w ork done at T ours, France.

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Grace Brewster, H e lena , l\ IIont.

lVl iss Brewster received he r Maste r' s degree at Cornell University in 1899. The f o ll ow ing yea r was spent in the study of modern lan guages in France and Germany. Sh e is now teachin g these branches at Helena, Mont.

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Anna 11. Shire, L eavenwo rth , Ka n.

Miss Shire began her st udy of history in college, co ntinued it at Cornell Unive rsity and later in Eu ropea n trave1. She is now teaching.

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JIlrs. l\la rtha Snow B row n (M r s. W . H.). Lawrence , Kall.

As :Mrs. B row n was married a lmost illun edia tely foll o wing he r graduati on , domestic science ha s been her post-g raduat e worJ..,4 , Her home for a f e w year s was in S ali sbury, South A frica.

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M inni e L. Leach , L eavenworth, Kan.

?o"li ss Leach made work in E nglis h her spec ialty and is now tea c hing the se bra nches a t Jun c tion City, Ka n.

Elea n o r Lawren ce, Ka n.

Germa n ?o.lisc; s pecialty . She i s no w teaching at H iawatha, Ka n.

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Mr s . L o r e n Le sli e H e r), er, 11 20 E. 22d St., Kansas Ci ty, He r yer specialized in Lat in a n d Engl ish, bu t is n ow st ud y, in g do me s ti c scie nce .

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Bertha Quainlan ce, I owa Ci ty , la.

After g rad uation l\fis s Quaintance was given an honorary sc ho larship in Eng li sh , that being the co urse in whi ch h e r maj o r wo rk was done . She is now registra r at the U ni ve rsity o f Iowa.

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G lad ys Henry, 1117 H. St., Lin coln Neb . Miss Henry took th e scie ntifi c co ur se, s pecializing in chemistry. Later sh e did po st -g r ad uat e wo rk in zoo logy, at the same time acting as assista nt in this bran ch and chemistry in the Un ive rs ity . She is n ow teac hin g the sc i en ces at Kearne y, Neb.

'Pi 'Phi Reunion in Ch icago

On Friday, Novembe r twenty-eighth, there took place the seco nd annual r eun ion of Pi Phis in Chicago. This year they met at Kins ley's re staurant, and after a short informal reception, they sat down at one long table , to lunch together informally. After luncheon, plans were inau gurated for establishing an alumnae club in C hi cago .

Among those present were Roberta Akers and Caroline White from Un iv ersity of Ca lifornia; Lucie M. Murdoch from Ohi o University; Pauline Houghton from \Vi sconsin University; Grace Robertson, Florence Com ing s and her sister, and Julia Heath from Michigan University; Mrs. Horace Bingham from Swarthmore College; Marietta Busey from University of Illinois; Ethelwyn Grier, Bess Philbrook, Ethe l Van Cise, Mila Pa r ke, and Ruth Parke from Lombard College; Myra Cox, who studied both at Illinoi s Unive rsity and at Wisconsin Unive rs ity; Fannie E . Sabin, from both Michigan U nive r si ty and Chicago Univers ity; Nelle O'Brien, from both Northwestern University and Chicago University; Margaret Hubbard Florence Reynolds, Alice Doland, Mae Doland, Lenore Negus, Lucy Derickson, Emma Doland, Carrie Elberta Smith, I sabel Everett, Hedwig Mueller, Gertrude Baldwin, and Elda Smith from Xorthwestem University.

The Kansas Cill! Reunion

The annual relmion of Kappa and Iota Alumnae Circles held at Kansas City on Thanksgiving makes that day one of the dearest of the yea r to the Pi Phis of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. To the aiumnae of near by universities it brings a happy meeting with th eir active chapters, the renewal of old friendships and that gay and intimate gossip of fraternity happenings so dear to every loyal girl; to those whose chapter homes are distant it brings sweet and sacred memories of othe r days and far away scenes-memories which are only the more precious for their touch of sadness.

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The third alumnae banquet held at the Hotel Baltimore was a most delightful affair. Thirty-five women , loya l to the wine and b lue, working toward the same ideals although representing five diffe rent and scattered chapters, met there to learn that they hac! long been friends united in sympathy and heart. The arrangements and appointm ents were perfect in every respect in co nse'" quence of the tirele ss energy of Miss Dunham of Kansas Alpha, Miss Bayless of Missouri Alpha and Mrs. Walls of the Kansas City Alulnnae Association The lovely decorations of dark wine colored carnations, the dainty arrow shaped souvenirs, the songs, the toasts, the ye ll s, and withal the excellent breakfast left n ot hing to be desired. The hearty cordiality and good fellowship o f Pi Beta Phi reigned sup reme, nor was the deeper meaning of o ur frat ernity life forgotten. O ne g lan ce at those IlcQu ntenances in which did meet sweet records, promises as sweet" was proof sufficient that the pure and love ly thoughts of our creed were deeply eng raven on eac h heart. Pennsylvania Beta, Kansas Alpha, Missouri Alpha, California Alpha, and Iowa Alpha were repr esented at the rcunion .

On Friday morning the c ircles were the g ue sts of the Kansas City Alumna e Club, at the h ome of Mrs. King. Thi s old fashioned cookie-shine, with its c harming informa lity, was a fitting ending of these happ y two days dedicated t o siste rhood , loyalty . and enthusiasm.

Personals

VERMON 'r BETA

Kate Rus se ll, '99, is tea ch ing in WeBs River, Vermont. Mary Gregory, '99, Kath e ryn Gebhart, '01, E thel Stevens , '02, and Nlay Conro, '02 , attended the initiation November nineteenth. Charlotte Hale, '01, and Lang. ex-'os. recently visited friends in town.

PENNSYl..VANIA ALPHA

Elizabeth M. Ba il y, one of the charter members of Pennsylvania Alpha, was married to Dr. Benajah Butcher Powell of Moorestow n , New Jersey, November nineteenth . Lauretta T. Smedley, '96, and iIIr. J o hn F. Dutton , of New York city, we re married Octobe r twenty-first.

Nell Fuller, '01, has returned after s pending the slimmer in few York.

The engagement of Bess Harris to lIIr . J oh n V. Wood has been announced.

The marriage of Bertha Hoove r to Fred P. J ohnston, Beta Theta Pi, occur red Octobe r tenth. They will liv e at Columbus, Ohio.

OHIO BJ::TA

Blan che Btltler. '01. became ,Irs. Robert ,[arriott on Thanksgiving day. Mr. and Mrs. will re s ide in California.

Dallas Lisle, who has been spending the fall in Columbus, has returned to her home in Ashland, Kentucky.

Dorothy Louise , daughter of Professor and Chas. Burket, of Ral eigh , North Carolina, was born in October, 1902. 'f rs. Burk4:'t was formerly Laura \\'eiseman .

PERSONALS

Th e A lumna e Club will have as its guest at the next sp r ead, Miss Rheinman , of C hi cago, who has lat ely moved t o this city.

ILLI NO IS BE TA

A daughter was bo rn recent ly t o lI'1r s El izabe th Du r st on-S immons, '90, at \ ¥oodhull, Illin ois.

Laura G rubb, '88, was married November fift ee nth to Mr. Mercer at h e r h o m e in Liberty , Illinoi s.

1\Vannie Me r Buck, 'or, has regain ed her hea lth and ret urn ed to take he r pos iti o n as teac he r in the training sc h ool in Ga l esb urg.

Mrs. Hatti e G rub b II ale of Stought on, Wis ., visit ed her alma mater and Illin o is Beta in ·ovember.

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1\1ay Logem an , '00, is teaching thi s ye ar in th e hi g h sch oo l at Marquette , M ichi ga n .

Abbie \ifJll iams, '01, has accepted a pos iti on in th e J oli e t , Ill., Hi g h Sch oo l.

Minnie Starr, ' 00, wh o g raduat ed from the Cumn ock Sch ool of O ratory, is t eachin g in A lbany College, O reg on.

Elfrieda Hochbaum, '99 , P h. D. , i s professor o f Gennan in W e ll s Coll ege, New York. Her engagement t o Mr. Paul Pope , in st ru c tor in Ge rnlan at Cornell U nivers it y, ha s ju s t been anno un ced.

Ali ce D o land , '00 , returned this s ummer from a two yea rs' cour se of s tudy in the university a t Be rlin. Sh e is in Ocont o, Wi sconsi n , this winte r, teaching in th e high school.

Lu cil e Fitch , ' 99, r ece ived a fellowship in th e Ge r ma n department at the Unive rs ity o f C hica go, wher e s h e ha s been doing graduate work.

Ella McNulty, ex-'os, has not been able t o e nte r college thi s year o n account of ill h ealth.

Grace Doland is t eac hing el ocution at Fayette, Mis so uri.

Mi riam and Ed ith Prindle have removed with their family from Evanston to Elm Grove, Man ches t e r, Virginia .

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Il.LINOIS lETA

Grac e Osbo rn e Edwa rd s is librari a n of the Mic higan City library.

Bo rn , Octobe r th i rt ee nth, ninet een hundred t wo, to Mr. and Mrs. A lbert Stem, Champaign, a son . Mrs. Stem is better known to P i P hi s a s A m elia Darling Alpiner.

Elizabeth Gibbs, wh o is t eaching mu s ic in Newton, New J e rsey , ha s mad e a rran ge ment s to continu e h e r musical studie s in New York city.

L e na Stocking is st ud y ing kindergartening in Chicago.

lVIT S. Laura B u sey Fu lton of Syca m o.re, Ill ino is, s pent so me weeks t h is fall v is itin g h e r mot h e r in U rbana.

On Novembe r thirt eenth, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs Leslie A. Weaver of Champa ig n. Mrs. Weaver was fo rm e rl y Eunice Sheldon

Blanche Lindsay was married Jun e thirtieth, at her ho me in On ar ga, t o M r Harvey Wood Mr. and Mrs Wood are at pre sent k eep in g h o use in J oli e!.

The njarri age of LOll Herdman and Mr . Bertram O . Yo un g, a rece nt g r aduate f rom Harvard Law School, t ook place in September, at Oklahoma City, w h e re t h ey are now li vi n g

IOWA ALPHA

Mrs. Charles Snider, I owa All>ha, h as lef t Mt . P leasant to make her home in Co un ci l B lu ffs.

Miss Mary Brenholt z is n ow in Cu ste r City, South Dakota, t eac hin g sc h ool.

IVIi ss Ethel Ausba uge r, Iowa Alp ha, was married in Novembe r to M r Edw in J o hn so n.

M iss Edna Hough, Iowa Alpha, has bee n lately married to E t ha n Alle n Ba nnett.

Th e e n gagement of Miss No rma Courts, Iowa A lph a '02 , to Mr. Gle nn Adney :-1itche ll ha s been pub licl y an n ou n ced.

PERSONALS

IOWA UeTA

Mrs. Effie Busselle Henderson visited in Indianola the fir st of December and attended meetings of both the a ct ive and alumnae chapters.

Daisy Dent and Mrs. Helen Hiheldoffer-Gilb e rt visited Indianola friends during the term.

Eva Anderson spent seve ral weeks w'tth friends in Texas.

The Indianola A lumna e Club celeb rated Hallowe'en with a cookie-shine.

"farian Cooke, '02, who is teaching in Cutler, wilt spend the ho liday s wit h college friend s.

WISCONSIN ALPHA

1\1r5. Maud Huntle y J enks is n ow in the Philippines , with her hu sband, who has a gO,vernment position.

Bertha Bramhall wa s married Christmas clay to Franklin Cass of Michigan City, Indiana.

MISSOURI ALPHA

!\1ary I g leha rt , President J esse's private secretary. and one of Missouri Alp ha 's cha r ter members , is now Mrs. M. S. King. She will soon be at home in Pate rson, New Jer sey .

Mrs. Elizabeth Houx Williams of Califomia Alpha has been living in Columbia for more than a year. A son was born to h er in June .

Grace Williams of Illin o is Delta is instru cto r of French and Italian in the Missouri State University this year.

Maud Rippey is spending the winter in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Florence ·Lay of Warsaw visited the girls in the chapter h ouse not long since.

Gertrude Bayless ha s taken her sister to Phoenix, A ri zona, for the winter.

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LOUISIANA ALPHA

Th e engagement ha s been announced o f Louise Rainey, '02, to Mr . Henry Hardie , th e marriage t o ta k e place January seventh.

Th e en gage ment ha s been a nn oun ce d o f Anna Shafter Lovell , '00, to Mr . J. N. Bliss of C row ley, Loui s ia na, the marriage to take place there in the spring.

Hilda v on Meysenburg, who was pledged to Lo ui s iana Alpha and' was to have been initi ated this fall, is now with h e r parent s, Baron and Baroness von Meysenburg, at 28 Silbermann Strasse, Dresden , Ge rman y, and would be pleased t o see any Pi Phi who may be trav eli ng abroad and stops at Dr esde n.

R osa Russ, S pecia l '02-'03, is spe ndin g th e w int e r in Texa s and ha s seve ral times bee n pleasan tl y entertai n ed by T exas A lp ha .

K A NSAS ALPHA

Helen Webbe r Peai r s o f Los Angeles, Cal i fo rni a, has been visiting fri end s in Lawre nce.

Gertr u de Hill has left for Boston w h e r e sh e has accepted a position on one o f the best new spa pers.

Mrs . Zil lah Smith Wilcox, '99, v isited friends fo r a few weeks . Sh e has r etumed t o her h ome at Muscota h.

Claud ia Pendleton and A lma Poeh ler , '06, have sai l ed fo r Italy where they will spend some time.

M rs. Bates A ll en ( Lucy Collinson ) is living in Cleboume, Texa s.

M r s . Herbert A rm str on g (Be ll e Roberts) , Kansas Alpha , spe nt the summe r in Eu r ope with he r mother, M r s . Colon el Roberts o f La wrcnce.

Ada Closson , Neb ra ska Be ta , is sop rano so loist with a con cert compa n y from Chicago.

Mary Chase Chamberlain, Kansas A lpha, Illin ois Zeta , is th e juvenile libra rian in th e T opeka (Ka n s.) Fr ee P ubli c Library.

Birdena C rand a ll , Ka nsas A lph a, who ha s been ab road for the last eight een months, returned to New York in August, where she was marri ed to :\fr George Payne of F o rt Worth , T exas.

PERSONALS

Mr. and Mrs. Ned Ketnu ( ell Blakely) are spending the winter in Colorado for the benefit of Mr. Ketne r 's health .

NEBRASKA BtTA

Anna Lytle, '99, is teaching music this yea r in Greenwood, Nebraska.

Anna Stewart returns to Chicago to resume her study under Madame Zeisler.

Grace Andrews is teaching history at Berkeley, California.

Lois Burrus is t eac hing in the Blind Asylum at Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Gladys Henery is teaching at Kearney, Nebraska.

Bessie Turner has just r etu rn ed from a Chicago hospital whe r e she has been very ill with typh oid fever.

Jeannette Thorpe has announced her engagement.

COLORAOO ALPHA

Married, November fifteenth, nineteen hundred two, Nan n ie F. Earhart to Mr. Newton Ross Co leman, both of Denver. Afte r an e;"tended trip in the east they will return to Denve r and make it their home .

On the evening of November nineteenth, Kathryn De Lodds Burr was married at her h ome in Denver to Mr. Cha rles F. Te ll e r , of Syracuse , New York. Syracuse will be their home. Many Pi Phis will remember Miss Burr as delegate from Colo rado A lpha at the last convention at Syracuse.

Ruth Bishop, '00, is teaching at the Bryant School in Den ve r this yea r.

Mabel Ashley is teaching school in Ouray, Colorado.

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Edito. ials

TlIE report of the Inter-Fraternity conference regarding rushing, which was published in July, ha s called out plenty of chapte r discussion and informal repo rt s have' been received frQrn more than half the chapte r s. On reading these over, one is struck chiefly with the diversity of opi ni on expressed. Scarcely a chap t e r approved of all the recommendations as they stood, a few would r eject them altogether, while in the majority of cases, part were concurred in and part strongly objected to. In only one particular did there seem to be anything like unity of opinion, and that only by implication. Everybody seemed to unite in the feeling that grave evils in the rushing system do exist. Wnether these evils can be remedied, and if so, by what means, are questions which this discussion seems at first to bring no nearer a solution.

A nd yet one point is made tolerably clear. The difficulties in the way of adopting a uniform code of rushing regulati ons are not between frat e rnity and fraternity, but between different chapte r s of the same fraternity. These difficulties are due to the fact that local conditions,-the number of rivals, the attitude of the faculty, the college ca lendar,-vary so much as between college and college, that neither the recommendations of the conference n or any other set of regulations could help work;ng some hardship to numerous chapters.

We suspect that if the othe r fraternities were to call out expressions of opinion from their several chapters, there would be less disagreement between the reports of different chapters in the same college than in those of the same fraternity in diffe r ent colleges.

Will not the solution of this and othe r inter-fraternity problems have to be out along the line of "local option?" That is, might not the ,";sest course of the general fraternity

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be not to urge a unifornl rushing code upon reluctant chapters, but to encou ra ge each of them to make s uch treaty regulation s with its rivals as suited its own condit io n s and then to use every effort to hold th e chapte r s lit e rall y t o their ag reements. The littl e a rticles sent in are of course mere expressions of chapte r opinion and entire ly unofficia1. They do se rv e an important purpose. ho weve r, beca use thty indicate how mu ch time it is worth while to g i ve this subject at co n vention, and what direction conv enti on act ion on this subj ect may profitably tak e.

PERHA PS very few of our number realize that all of Pi Ph i government is not contained in the const itu ti o n , but that we have besides a considerab le body of what, for want of a better name, we may call statute law. This consists chiefly of can· vention actioll, but includ es a lso th e votes of chapte rs in the interim o f conventions and the rulings of the Grand Council. So long as this does not conAi ct w ith the constitution , it is equally b in ding with It, althoug h it may of course be repealed o r nwditied by s ubsequent co nv e nti o n action or by con st ituti o nal amendment. A good many of u s ove rl ook this fa ct and h o ld th e impression that our ri g ht s and' duties e nd w ith what is prescribed by the const ituti o n . O ne chapte r once \\1ent so f ar as to refuse o utri g ht to perform a ce rtain duty because there was no menti on of it mad e in the co n stit uti on .

A re the chapters wholly to blanre for t hi s ign o ran ce? Is there n ot rea l need of comp ilin g and publishing th e working la ws of the fraternity, sifting them out of convention minutes and putting them in shape for easy reference? Ignorance of the law, they say, excuses nobody, but certain ly it is a fo rgi vable offe n se when the law is secreted in the reports of bygone convent io ns, many of wh ich th e yo un ger chapte r s do n ot possess. By all means let us have our "statute law" put in s ha pe, and that ri g ht ea rly

AGAIN it is the e dit or's pa inful duty to " poke up" the corresponding sec retari es, man y o f whom seem to hav e been imperfectly instructed by th ei r predec esso r s . P lease, then, d ea r victims, obse rv e the following rules:

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I. Write on but one sice of the paper.

2. Head the letter wit h nam e of chapter and college.

3. Sena all matter to reach the ed itor on the tenth of the month preceding date of publication.

4. Send the names and addresses of all girls initiated since publi ca tion of th e last ARROW

S. No tify the editor of any change of address of old members

6. Note carefully the editor's address. Letters which must be advertisea or forward ed may be too late for publication.

7. Send or have the trea surer send the subscription for the chapter ARROW files.

8. Sena alumnae pe rso nals. They are not required, but t o tlie alumnae tfiey form about the most interesting feature of the magazine .

So sha ll you r eap great harvest of prai se and editors and reader s shall ri se up and call you bles se d.

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ALPHA PROVINCE

VERM ONT ALPHA-MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

Another bu sy term o f college is nearing it s close and we are all hard at work preparing for th e in evi tabl e exam inati ons.

At the time of OUT la s t le tter I be lieve we were shor tly to hav e ou r intiat ion, which occurred October twenty-fourth. A merry banquet th e follow ing evening again .'xprcssed OUT joy in th e addition of new member s "to the band of Pi Phis." We were so fortunate as to have several of ou r alumnae and siste rs fr om Vermont B e ta with us at both initiation and banquet.

Since rushing, we h ave done VCTy little enter taining. Some of the girls gave a Hallowe'en party in the Ph aretra , and Maude Smith entertained u s at her ho me one eyening in honor of a si ster o f one of our members. Lena Bixby, one of our seniors, al so entertained the women of her class Satur-

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day afternoon, Decembe r s i x th They took their needlework and spent a yery enjoyable afternoon

Mr s Crane , onc o f our patron esses, gave us a mars hmallow toast, and we had our u s ual good time when invited to her h o me.

We were very glad to have our Province Pre s ident, Miss Williams, with u s and we feel that h er visit wa s a help and inspiration to us

Lena Roseman Den io invited s ix of us to her home in Bri s tol to spend the Thank sgiving re cess. A very delightful lime was given to th em.

Anna Deuel, '02, who i s teaching in Manche s ter, spent Thank sgiving in Middlebury.

Verm ont Alpha send s wi s hes fo r a Merry Christmas and Happy N ew Year to every Pi Phi

VERMONT BETA-UNIVERSITY OF VERM ON T

Very little ha s happen ed to Vermont Beta out of the u s ual ord e r of thing s since our Ja s t letter to the Arrow . Wednesday, November ninet ee nth, our initiation took pla ce at ou r rooms and the banquet at the Vall Ness afterwards. Four of our alumnae and fo ur of ou r s isters fr om Verm ont Alpha were with us at that tim e and it is needless to sa y we had a very pleasant time

About a week previ ous to in itiation, we we re favored with a vi s il from Miss 'William s, our Province Pre s ident, who se s tay with u s proved very helplul.

On Hallowe'en, the ladi es of th e faculty ente rt ained the s tudent s at the gymnasium. which was ta s te fully decorated, and the entertainment very appropriate and enjoyable.

One of the plea santes t ennts o f th e year for us is the visit to Vermont Alpha at its initiati on and having so me of them with u s at ours. Were it not for this we shou ld be almost enti r ely out of touch with our Pi Phi sister s Thi s year four of our seni o r s were fo rtunate enough to be pre sent. By the time the Arrow goes to press it will be time to wi s h all our sis· te rs a Happy New Year.

MAllY E. COLB U RN

COLUM BIA ALPHA-<:OL U MBIAN UNIVERSITY

S o many things have happened to Columbia Alpha s ince our N ove mber lett er that it seems as if we hardly knew , in t elting about them, where to begin .

A s a result of the ru s hing sea so n we took everything by sto rm We pledged s ix girl s, and as one of our number exp re ss ed it, "We have the cream of the college." You cannot imagine five h appier girts than we were the night we pinned the wine and blue on our last pledl'e.

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On the night o f November eig hth , we initiated into Pi Beta Phi, beside Edith Giles, whom we had a lready pledged when we last wrote yOll, C le lla Stevens, Nina Raymond, Adele Taylor, Ruth Young, and Lulu Stovall. Needless to say, among th ese we have th e prettiest, th e wittie s t and the wisest that Columbian affords.

OUf new room is now furnished and we entertai n ed there for the first time Saturday, December sixth, by giving a tea to our patronesse s Saturday morning we had a sort of hOllse warming, but on account of our not all being able to come at the same time, the "house" was warmed by degrees. Every now and then during the forenoon on e might have seen a girl alight from th e car on H street, with h er arms full o f sofa pillows, school pennants and brie-a -b rae, and casting a hurried glance up and down th e street, make a rush for th e McLean building in which our room is located.

At two o ' clock that afternoon the decorations were completed. But, alas! the girl who was to bring spoo n s had not put in an appearance. What was to be done? We rushed frantically up and down the halls in se arch of we knew not what, whcn in th e mid st of thi s confusion , our fir st gue s t arrived. Suddenly assuming all our dignity as ho s tes ses we resolved to make the best of it and we re forced finally to sen'e refrcshment s to our guest with the on e spoo n the hou se afforded.

Luckily for u s the delin q uent arrived a few minute s later, relieving the si tuati on. But for this anxiety a nd embarrassment, which after all was only another one of the many experiences of a college girl , the affair went off charmingly. It is ever tlllls with young housekeeper s, but "all's well that ends well."

NELLIE K. BURT

PEN NSYLVANIA ALPHA

Swarthmore college h as se ttled down under it s new regime \Ve ha ve ina ugur ated our Pres ident with all the pomp and ceremony common to suc h occurrence s. The fifteenth of November was a memorable day in the hi s tor y of our college and indeed in the hi s tory of the great educationa l institutions of the east. Representatives from all the great universities, college s, and preparatory sc hool s of our own country, as well from seve ral uninr s ities abroad, were pre se nt, and their gown s with their many colored hoods and different sleeves bespoke a gathering a s learned perhaps a s any e\fer a ssembled in the east.

A lso ou r chapter has experienced great changes. Three years ago the women's fraternit ies were threatened with expulsion from Swarthmore. After a noble appea l, sufferance was given us on condition that we han no rushing and do no bidding unti l May fir s t. This was accep ted , but, as there were no specific statements as to what constituted ru shing we have

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ofttimes lapsed into a state very like to rushing and ha"e disagreed one with another as to ju s t what we might do.

This year things tended to become as bad as ever, so Pi Phi called a Pan-Hellenic meeting, and as a result, after many earnest discussions a pledge was drawn up which has been signed by each fraternity girl of Swarthmore, which utterly discountenances any fOfm of rushing and tries to e lim inate even the spirit of contest, encouraging th e idea of allowing a girl t o drift toward tb e group to which she would naturally be drawn. This was done the latter part of October and so far has proved entirely successfu l. \Ve all find th a t we have more lime to devote to all the work of th e college and we are forming healthy friend ships with the new girls. 'Ve have settled upon March first as our new pledge day.

On December fifth we had with us Mrs. Car rie Chap man Catt, who gave a lect ure on "The Procession of Justice." \Vc were all delighted to meet this \"Cry prominent a s well a s yery charming Pi Phi.

MAR Y AMELIA GUTELIUS

OH IO ALPIIA--oIJIO UNIVERSITY

It i s such a s hort time si nce we were di scovering, di scussing and bidding our new girls and now all is over and they are really Pi Phis, just as loyal a s we are ourse lves. Our ne w girls are Elizabeth Musgrave and Mary Trendley, who were initiated October tenth. After the initiation we had a "cookie-shine," which might properly be called a part of the initiation Although the fraternities ha ye not entertained mllch this fall, we have had some mighty good times just among ourse lves, for eve ry two weeks two of th e girls entertain the rest of the c hapter.

The n ex t subject to speak of is the Int e r -Fraternity Conference. 'rVe are scarce ly able t o di sc ll ss this matter, since we have n o nati ona l ri vals and have never experienced ru s hing in it s most violent form. The recommendati ons all seem \·ery wise, and if properly ca rried out, the pre sen t conditions would cer tainl y be much imp ro\' ed. Th ey would, we think, fully meet the needs of our chapter, and in no way would they harm The tim e and method o f ex t ending invitations s ee m to be as good as an y th at can be selec ted ; they certainly see m fair both to the chapter and to the candidate.

The lengthening of the time before invitations seems to be an excel1ent recommendation , and wou ld not. we think. simply cali se a delay, but would enable us to see the girls both in and ou t of th e class room, and we could better judge whether they will be good studen t s, butterflies, or a mixture of the two, and they a lso will be able to more co rr ec tly judge li S. We want th e girls who will really "wear." and they can s eldom be selected on short acquaintance, for h ow often after a few months' acquaintance the impression we have of a person entirely changes.

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We th oroughly appro\'e of the definition of rushing, and the di sco ntinuance of public initiation ceremonies seems to b e a \'ery wise change. for they do not seem appropriate as a part of the girls' initiation, but morc properly should belbng exclusive ly to the boys' fraternities.

\Vith fear and joy o n account of the approachings exams. and hoiida)'s, Ohio Alpha closes.

J ANE BAYARD ULLOll.

OHIO DETA--oHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

In th e first place we want you all to meet our dear freshmen and so we intro duce to you our four initiate s, Katherine Bancroft, Martha Jon es. Laura and Mary Leonard , and there is a fifth , Vera McAlpine, who is pledged OUT initiation wa s followed by a banquet at a down t ow n hotel at which there were twenty-five loyal wearers of the wine and bluc.

It is a lways suc h a plea su re to meet Pi Phi s from our sister chapters and in November Ohio Beta was fav o red by a visit from Vi,·ian Brenizer of Texas Alpha, ou r baby chapter. We are only so rry th at s he did not stay longer and that we saw so little of her.

'Ve have had an unu sual number of sp rea d s thi s year and they ha,·e enn become so popular that they have been introduced into the meetings. We ha,·e tried a n ew plan and now meet at five in the afternoon, with the s pread at six. The u sual oli,·es, pickl es, cakes and sandwiche s are accompanied by salad, dessert and ho t co ffee which all tastes pretty good to hungry girls who have s pent the afternoon "rooting" at a football game

Speaking of foo tball , it seems to me that we ha'·e been unusually enthu siastic this seaso n. Vie even helped s well the crowds that went t o Michigan and Delaware. We happened to meet some of ollr sis ters at Ann Arbor and we re ,·ery much pleased to make their acquaintance.

There have been several fraternity dances at all of which Ohio Beta ha s been well repr ese nted, and of course there will be more, for which we li ve in hopes Oh yes, and la s t night most of us attended the fir s t military hop of the season. The se events are the m os t popular o f all our college affairs.

I sabelle Hamilton is traveling in the west and we hope th at upon her re turn she may bring new s dire ctly from some o f ou r western s i s ters. Wednesday evening, November twelfth , Ohio Beta entertained her fre shmen with a r eception at the home o r Carrie Holloway. We believe it wa s a success, for even the h os t esses enjoyed it and we an regret that it is a thing of the pa st in s tead of one of the futur e. But we are planning for our annual formal dance to come sometime in the mon th o f January-but that is next term and it is best not to anticipate.

So farewell, Pi Phis all, and that good fortune bless each one is the wish of your sisters in Columbus.

MAUD A. McALPINE.

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NEW YORK ALPHA-SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Since the last issue of the Ar r ow we have done ha r dly anything which is writable; but before the next Arrow appears we shall have had our Christmas party. at which the freshmen entertain the fraternity; shall have attended a lun cheon given in our honor by one of our patronesses; and best of all shall have enjoyed OUf mid-year vacation, followed by those terrible finals.

We were greatly pleased last week to r eceive invitations for the wedding of one of our alumnae girl s, Jes s ie Banett She i s to be married Chri s tmas eve.

Next yea r we hope to have another building added to the group on our campus, as the Chancello r has promised a new dormitory. This will afford great convenience fo r the students. (or many who now have to secure rooms in the city far from the college will be accommodated on the campus.

Winter here has begun with ten below zero weather, cau s ing ru s he s for coal and wood equal to some of our memorable under-class men ru she s. FRANCES M. Bul.L.

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l LUNOIS BETA-LOMBARD UNIVERSITY

We hoped, when we were mourning the abs ence of the last year's friends in our November letter, that it would be th e last time a letter must be s h adowed by sadness. All hopes cannot be r ealized and aga in we are saddened by the loss from among us o f onc of the circle-Ethel Van Ci sewho · was compelled by her ill health to give up her college duties and pleasures and return to her home in Denyer, Colorado.

We have lost an earnest and enthusiastic s iste r but it is a great comfort to think that the tie still bind s u s together in spite of the many miles that separate us.

JIIinois Beta has spent a Quiet two months since our l a s t greetings, if social events indicate activity. We have entertained very little but the many happy gatherings among ourselves have made the time pass quickly and happily.

Two new pledges h ave joined us si nce we la st introduced you to ou r little circle. Edna Uhler was pledged October thirteenth and Faith Nash, daughter of our college President, donned the co lors NO\'ember twentieth. Both are true and loyal girls-e\'ery inch Pi Phis. One of the happiest

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feature s of the latt e r date was the donning of the colors a second time by Ruth Na s h who was compelled to withdraw in '98 becau se of h er moth e r' s desire. Ruth ha s ever bee n a mos t loya l Pi Phi at h ea rt and every member rej o ices to re ceive her among u s again.

Two initiati o n s ha ve been held. Th e fir s t wa s October eighteenth when the dear o ld goat came fo rth to work o ff hi s s uperflu o u s feeling s o n Ida Ritter E as t t o whom we gayc you an introduction la s t time as a pl edge.

December s ixth Edna Uhler, Delia Co nger, and Faith Na sh learned the my steries of Pi B e ta Phi and were in vited "to walk into our dungeon." Many o f the girls said after thi s initiati o n that it see med a s if we never felt so h a pp y. harm o ni o us and united before; but it is th e same old s t o ry we rep ea t each time.

Cookie·shines were enjoyed after eac h initiation. D ece mbe r s ixth we had seve r a l of ou r alum n ae and fo ur of the s is ter s from Illin o is Delta to add t o the plea s ure of the evening.

On e thin g that Illin o is B e ta h as espec ia lly enjoyed is getting acqua inted mor e intimately with some of the a lumn ae. The idea wa s fir st su gge ste d by giving a cookie-shine for a visiting sis ler , Mr s. Hattie Hale, October s ixt eenth. The eve ning pa sse d so plea sa ntly that we originated a plan fo r ha ving a joint meeting in the evening once a month with the alumnae.

We advise all chapters to try it. Y ou may be surprised to find h ow intere s ted YOllr alumnae are in you and ho w thoroughly th e y can enjoy a cookie-shine, Pi Phi so ngs and genuine good tim e. Th ey certainly help and enco urage yo u by their pre sence

May every Pi Phi in every chapter ha\'e a happy time during the coming two month s ulltil we meet again by Uth e petrifi ed pe n and ink conversation" o f another chapter lette r .

NELLIE J. NEEDFl .UI.

ILLINOIS DELT ,\ -KXOX COLLEGE

It see m s s u c h a sh o rt time s ince th e la st le tter to th e Arrow wa s s ent and yet si n ce th e n Illinoi s Delta ha s accomplished a great deal. P e rhap s th ose o ut s id e o f the c hapt e r cann o t see what we have been d o ing , but the hour or two spe nt t oge th er eac h week at our meeting s are a d e light to all, and a t the se meetings we see and talk with all th e giri s.-planning some n e w work fo r ou r chapte r a nd thinking o f some way in which we ca n improve o ur ow n chapter and thu s h e lp Pi Be ta Phi Our good time s a r e not all spent by ou r se lves th oug h we have had some informal d o ings t o which we h a\'e admitted ou r friends. La st Saturday evening we ga\'e a little dan c ing party to which o ur me n friends were invited. After the dance we went to o n e of the r es taurant s where we were se rv ed with light rdr eshment s. Th ese little info rm a l aff airs are very much enjoye d and serve to t ake away the monotony o f o ur st udy life, for o f course we are al1

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busy at our college work. \V e have also gi\' cn a cookie-shine la tely at which a general good time was had in Pi Phi fashion, and you all know what that means.

Before you read this letter you will have enjoyed a Merry Christmas and welcomed in a new year, and we girls of Illin ois Delta most s incerely hope that it may prove a ncy Happy New Year to all Pi Phis.

DEl.LA H URFf',

ILLINOIS EPSILON-NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

As th e exci t ement and hurry of th e rushing season have passed away. th e difficulties of new studies and six week s' examinations present themsekes in an emphatic manner which it is impos sible t o O\' crlook. Yet in spite of the attention demanded by school work, J11in ois Eps ilon still has time for "frat spreads" and long chats at the meetings, t o say nothing of the invitations coming from other sou rce s.

One of ou r patronesses, Mrs. Baillo!, entertained us royally one evening at her home. Her kitchen was completely O\'errun with Pi Phi girls and fudges , while the other rooms were also filled with giris and fun.

The reunion of Pi Phis held in Chicago was enjoyed by many of the Il1ino is Ep silon girls. All went who could, but sevem l were unable to go for va ri ouc; good r easons. There were pre sent at the luncheon, md it was a rare treat to meet so many from other colleges. Good natured ri valry was show n by the girls of the varioll s college s giving their so-ca lled yells, although it could scarcely ha ve been called yelling, became of the Quietness with which it was done.

Tw o of ou r giris , Helen Hatfi eld and Margaret Hammond, have bcen quite ill, bllt they now are able to be at clas ses again, mucb to our sa ti sfaction.

We werc very sorry to lose one of ou r freshmen, Faith Hoyt, until aft er Christma s. Because of sickness she went home to gain st rength and we are hoping to see he r well again after vacation.

Illinoi s Epsilon se nd s wishes for th e very happie s t of New Years to all her sister chapters.

CARRIE MA SON

ILLINOI S ZETA-UNIVERSITY Of' ILLINOIS

The Pi Phi s at the University of Illinois have so far passed a "ery happy year. With our ten recent initiates, all but one of whom are pledges this year, we are starting into chapter work with a large enough membership, and a sufficient amount of enthusiasm to assure us, we think, continued pros perity. We have had such enjoyable initiation s thi s £all. We ha ve taken special pains to make them interesting; and one "ery solem n, but,

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to us, ridiculous, mock·ceremony. will never be forgotten, I imagine, by six of OUT new girls.

Although nearly every Friday and Saturday night since the beginning of school ha s been taken up by informal parties of the different fraternities, the formal socia l season ha s just begun with the " Junior Prom." as the opening eve nt. This year it was an unusually delightful paTty. and seemed especially pleasant fo r the Pi Phi s who were there through the fact that Myra Cox, lIlinoi s Zeta, and Roberta Akers, California Beta, came from , Chicago to attend it

Mu s icall y, the UniveTSity of Illinoi s has begun what promi ses to be a very success ful season. Max Heinrich, the baritone, has given a mos t del ig htful program here, and our own glee and mandolin clubs have given their first concert for the year

I could not tell much of what the Pi Phi s hav e been interested in this fall. be s ides their work, and n o t mention the subject of football. I am su re that al\ Pi Phis must be anxious to have their teams win, the more so especially if they have friends among the players. Although so me rather unfortunate accidents are perhaps re spon s ible for the fact that Illinois has n ot won Quite all th e games she has played, the fina l impression left by the 80 to o. which was the sco r e of th e Iowa game played here on Thanksgiving day, makes us feel very well satisfied.

By th e Lim e of publication, a new year will have come in with new joys and r espo n sibi litie s, so it is fitting that Illinois Zeta s hould send its heartie st New Year's greetings to all of the other chapters of dear old Pi Phi. ETHEL C. S. FORBES.

INDL"NA ALPllA-F1L\NKLI:S' COLLEGE.

H ow Quickly the month s roll away! We have been so busy thi s fall term that it seems impossible to us that again we se nd greeting to our fraternity sisters with the story of our chapter life for the pa st month s.

Two weddings are chronicled by Indiana Alpha. Ada Magaw was married to Oti s Wooley, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and th e "a t home" cards for Mr and Mrs \>Villiam Stout have been received from Chicago. Mrs Stout was E, a Marten, one o f last year's active girls, and the groom another member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

One of the most import an t events of this term was the house shower," which was a succe ss in every way Among ou r lovely gifts is a beautiful mahogany davenp o rt from our mother s. It is certainly a great addition to our "fraternity room."

Hallowe'en night rightfully belonged to the other fraternity, Alpha Gamma Alpha, but we initiated our las t pledge, Mary Lacy, that night, and this was followed by the usual H a llowe'en spread and games, and there was a lair sprinkling of men, "the faithful few ."

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\Ve had planned for a party before the girls went home for the holiday s, but a number of other affairs and term examination s caused u s to decide to wait until the new term opened, and as our " birthday" comcs in Janua ry and th e Valentine Party is o ur s by right and ou r State Reunion occurs in Febru a ry, we thought it best to save our f orces.

Indi a na Alpha se nd s be st wishes, and hopes that the yea r 1903 may be the mos t succes s ful and happiest Pi Beta Phi ha s eve r known .

M. BERTHA FLETCHER

INDIANA BETA-UNIVERS ITY OF I NDI ANA

Thi s term has been a very prosperous one for Indiana Beta After we th oug ht th e spiking was closed we were fortunate enou gh to put our colors o n t wo more girls, who a r e now en thu s iast ic Pi Phi s , Cla r a B e ll of Knights t o wn , Indi ana, and :Mahel Milligan of Attica, In d iana

\ Ve have on ly tw o weeks more of thi s te rm and everyo ne is interested jus t n ow in r eviewi ng for exam in atio n s. Thi s t erm we h ave been entertaining the fraternitie s in rotati o n and have had ,"c r y p leasan t times at the se evenings.

The subsc ript ion s for the st ude nt s' building a re com ing in generously and th e prospects a re promi s ing fo r an early beginning o f ou r mu c h needed and much des ired building.

Foundati on Day wi ll b e ce lebrated January twent y-eig hth. On that day ou r n ew S cience Hall will be dedicated and ou r new Pre si dent, Dr. William Lowe Bryan, will be inau g urated.

Indiana Beta send s greetings to a ll loyal Pi Phis.

ALIa ALBERTSON.

I ND I ANA GA MMA-UNrvERSITY Of' INDI ANAPOLIS

Our fir s t term is almo s t ove r , a term full of fun, work and good. fellows h ip Never have ou r prospec t s been brighter The girls, ind i v idually as well a s a chapte r, fee l that th ey have n o t worked in vain and that Pi Beta Phi h as establis hed it se lf firmly and s urely in our co llege life

As yet we ha ve n o new girls to introduce to -Pi Phi, but in our n ex t letter Indian a Gamma h opes to pre sent some girls of who m not only we but all o ur thirty sister ch ap t e r s s hall be p rou d. We ha ve aimed to make our Tu s hing like what the catalogue claim s the Engli s h literature courses are, "intensive r ath er than exte n s ive."

We gave one large r eception a nd dance at the h o me o f OU T patroness, Mrs. Alfred P otts, which eclipsed all previou s entertainmen ts . B o th we and our gues ts felt that the " Home, Sweet H ome" came all too soon. We were so happy to ha ve with u s so me of OUT Frankl in sisters and to become bett er acquainted with them.

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We have given a few little informal parties when" we could be a s jolly as we pleased and enjoy our selves thoroughly

One of our alumna e entertained li S rec e ntly " , jtlt a musicale at h e r home and we s pent a plea sa nt afternoon with OUf alumnae and patrone sses.

Lulu Kellar , who wa s in co llege la s t year, ha s paid u s several s hort vi s it s so we d o not feel as if we had Quite lost her .

By the tim e thi s letter appears in the Arrow we will have or h ave n o t, as th e case may be, s truggled through our final examinations. But as yet we are looking forward to them with a di s may calmed only by the thought of Chri stma s fun and r es t

Indi ana Gamma se nd s be s t of Christma s greeting s , and h o pes th a t th e year of 1903 may b e a h ap py o nc to all Pi Phi s.

GERTR U DE CRONBACH

MI C HIGAN

ALI'J-IA-HH

L S DALE COLLEGE

Mi c h iga n Alpha ha s had a \'e ry delightful fall.

According to th e resolutions adopted at th e o pening of the sc hool, th ere was no ru s hing until after the fir s t Tues day o f Novembe r , and we had an opportunity to b ecome well acquainted with a ll of th e e ligi blc girl s. After the ru s hing season ope n ed we s pent sc\'Cra J eve nin gs plca s..1. l1tl y, e ntertainly Ollr fr ie nd s O n e en ning we h eld a recepti o n at th e hom e of Mrs. Stewart, our patro n ess, and lat er. a cookie-shine at our rooms.

One S a turday e,' ening we initiated May Lewi s, H a rri e t 'W ood, and Enlyn Gate s, and afte r th e initiation ceremony enjoyed a dainty banqu e t at the home of Ana Closson Green.

\V e hav e a lso thr ee ne w pledglings, Elizabeth Dudl ey, \ Vinnifred \ Vhalcy, and "era D ec k e r , whom we hope to initiat e soo n

At Th a nk sgiving ti me we h a d with liS Ju lia Soule, o f Grand H a \' en, and Mr s. Kempt on , both members of Mi chigan Alpha; and Ada Closson, of Nebra s ka Beta . The evening wa s plea sa ntly pa ssed with s inging Pi Phi songs and talking o f frat e rnity plea s ure s.

Wh e n thi s le tt er r eaches yo u a n ot h er t e rm' s work wi ll h ave been begu n, and Mi c higan Alpha wi s h es that a ll may ha ve had a ple asant vacation.

BLANCHE BRADLEY.

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C HIG.-\N BETA-UNIVERSITY OF M IC HI GAN

A s I hav e been thinking over th e events whi c h ha\·e made th e past tw o mo nth s s uc h bright and busy o n es fo r 'Mi chiga n Beta. th e thought came t o me,-how com pl e t ely we have been "shut in fro m all the world witho ut!" Th e November Arrow, published so early in the coll ege year, can give but th e year' s prospects, and no t it s r ea l happenings; and I am sure we shall hail with unu sual interes t the Arr ow for th e new year whi c h will tell us how th e tim e is r ea lly passing fo r ou r siste r chapters

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Let me tell you some of the things we have been doing. First, even before initiation, we gave a large reception at OUf fraternity house In October the Alpha Phi fraternity held its national convention in Ann Arbor; a number of pleasant afternoon receptions were given in their honor, and ours rounded up the li st. We were pleased to have Mi ss Gamble with us that afternoon

We held initiation Saturday, November eighth. A number of the alumnae visited us then, and the reunion did us all a world o f good. About forty members were present, altogether. Besides the five girls whom I introduced to you in the last Arrow letter, we initiated Elsa F. Tritscheller, of Chillicothe, Ohio.

The lull which followed initiation was welcome to all of the girls, for not until then could we really settle down to college work. Evidently the r eaction was great; for we are all .surpri s ing ourselves and each othe r. One of the sen io r s remarked the other day that s he could not remember when the girls had been so bu sy with college work. It was by no means "al l work and no play;" but we were all glad when Thanksgiving rolled around and gave us all a needed rest.

This week the Comedy Club gives a farce, and Je s s ie Helsell, one of ou r girls, will take part. This will probably end social gayeties until after the holidays.

EDITJ:I HuasT.

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IOWA ALPHA-IOWA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

The girl s of Iowa Alpha, together with all the students of Iowa Wesleya n University, are rejoicing over the success attending the President, Dr. Hancher , in his work of raising money for the $65,000 debt which has hung so menacingly over us. Twenty-three thousand of the amount has been rai sed in Mt. Plea sa nt alone and after such noble generosi ty on the part of her citizens we feel sure that the re st will come ea si ly from the Methodists and friends of the institution who reside in the conference district. Every student voice is ready to greet the time of freedom with proud hurrahs

On one of November's moonlight night s the Iowa Alpha girIs escorted solemnly, Kate 'L. Beatty, to the home of Laura Kirby, who lives a mile and a haH from the city limit s, where we initiated our victim and welcomed her most warmly into our midst.

A.uow6

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Th e re h ave been but few soc ial events thi s term, si nc e each soc iety is limited to tw o social fun ctions during the year.

However we have enjoyed severa l eve nt s of general s tud ent interest. One of the se was the Thanksgiving banquet, h e ld in th e la rge dining r oom of the girls ' dormitory, Elizabeth Her shey Hall. Tables were arranged in th e shape of a cross at either end of the r oom, and seated altogether about onc hundr ed and twenty. Spirit a nd e nthu s ia sm were added to th e occasion by a victory in a game of football w hi c h wa s played against Parsons College Thanksgiving afternoon. The humor and o riginality o f th e toast s was th e most e nj oya bl e feature o f the evening, and th e la s t sou nd of Th a nk sgiv ing day h eard at I owa \V es le ya n was the ec h o of th e fa vo rite SODg-

li lt' s a way we have at o ld W es leyan

To drive all care away."

While we of I owa Alpha are d ep ri ved o f the joy o f li vi ng in a h o u se all our ow n, yet we find much to e nj oy here in H e r shey Hall , w h e re togeth e r with all the girl s we often h old high carnival.

One Saturday even in g was made especia lly enjoyable by a masquerade in the gymnasium. Every fa miliar c har ac ter wa s r e presen ted , from "Topsy" to " ]osiah Allen ' s Wife." Fudges and welsh-rarebit were se rved at sid e tables during th e evening an d many Ra sh lights were taken that the memory of the affai r might be perpetuated.

F o r u s a t I. W . U. is but one more week of grace and then come "exams" and th e a ttending tri a ls and tribulations. Pi Phis eve rywhere under stand th ese tr oub les and I owa Alpha girls would drown th e dread o f it in wis hing on e and all a Happy New Year.

J ULIA SHANKLAND

I OWA BETA-S IMPSON COLLEGE

Th e w ee k s h ave passed so sw iftl y since th e Arrow la s t vi s ited u s that only anticipation of ou r Chri stmas vaca tion and prospects o f the u sua l term "exa ms" f o r ce upon us th e r ea li zatio n that th e work of another t e rm is alm os t completed.

Although we ha ve tried to stu dy faithfully we h ave enjo y ed several g e nuine Pi Phi g ood times. With the friendly aid of ghosts and broomarmed witches we celebrated Hallowe'en and enjoyed o r tried t o appreciate the fate s which th ey assigned to their victims. Th e ghost stor ies, t o which we li stened u nde r th e s ur veilla n ce o f th e grinning jack-o'-lanterns , eluded the ente rtainment. A week later Mrs. Daniel R obinson and daughters, who are two of our new sis ter s. gave a most d elightful rec ep ti on to the Pi Phis of the city.

We ha ve been very glad to have with us during th e term , Ethel D u nning, of Iowa Zeta, who has been mos t enthusiastic and helpful t o us. \Ve also

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enjoyed meeting Mi ss Farlow, of I owa Alpha. who visited one of ou r girls in Novembe r

Five years ago, the last o f the chapters of men' s frat e rnitie s in Simpson ceased to be, and in NO\'embe r , for the first time si nce, a local fraternity , K appa Theta Psi, wa s formed. \Ve welcome new fraternities in Simp so n and wi s h fo r them tha t th ey may live long and pro sper.

The past yea r has been o n e o f con s iderable improvement to ou r co ll ege and we are proud of th e success of her r epresen tatives. O ur football team has won di s t inction and glory during th e e nti re seaso n . Co n se rvatory t alent ha s pre sented the <'Bohem ian Gir l" thre e tim es very s ucce ss fully a nd n ow we are preparing for interco llegiate COll l es t s. Our n ew Con se r va t o ry of 1o.'fu s ic w ill be ope ned to th e public thi s week and the library will be moved to more commodious rOOI11S, before the first o f th e year.

W e wi s h for Pi Phi s everyw h e r e a happy and successfu l New Yea r.

N ELLlE L. VAL E.

I OWA ZETA-IOWA STATE UN IV ERS ITY

\ Ve ha ve had plea sa nt and happy weeks s in ce the time o f our last letter to th e Arrow, but quiet o n es becaus e we hav e all bee n busy. Each of our girl s thi s semeste r seems to be trying to do t he amoun t o f wo rk which would ordinarily keep t wo girl s occup ied; but th e one fact of h av ing eve rything to do a t o nce lend s a cha rm t o ou r life as much as anything else, and fo r th e pre se nt we are Qu ite co nt en t with th e informal s pread s of ev e ry ot h e r wee k. A !ter the excitement of ru shing it is su ch satisfaction to sett le down in our Pi Phi circle, sec ure in friendship and prid e of ou r n ew girls.

Octobe r t wenty-fifth wa s th e date of ini tiation and we initiated in to th e mysterie s of Pi Phid om Mattie B1 0cke of Atlantic, I owa, pledged s ince th e la s t Arrow letter, and Verne Stockdale and Agnes Rem ley. The initiati on w as h eld at the hom e of Edna Boerner, on e o f ou r tow n girls and was foll owed by a banqu e t at w hi c h were a goodly n umbe r o f t ow n alumnae and others fr o m Ollt of tow n . Dorothy Shult z, '99, o f Burlingto n , and Leda Pinckham, '99, who ha s but ju s t r etu rn ed f r o m abroad, were with u s at the t ime.

W e have been especia ll y favo r ed with vis it s from alumnae this year Matie Ma x w ell of Dul uth, Minn. , spent a few days with us before th e Th anksgiving recess and D o r o thy W ickers ham, one of ou r la s t year' s girl s . has but ju st left after a s h o rt s t ay.

B eta Theta Pi gave the fir s t formal armory party the twenty-fifth o f October, on th e eve of the memo r a ble I owa-Minn eso ta game , ente rt aining visiting brethren fr o m Minn eso ta Sigma Nu entertain ed the faculty and th ei r friend s, December fourth, at a recepti on in th e ir new home on Co llege s tre e t.

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Phi Delta Theta, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma and Sigma Nu have given informal dances the la st month, and withal the social life of the wIi"ersity has been by no means dull. We are now looking forward to the Christmas vacation and the plea s ure of being again at home. Yet we know we shall be just as ready to come back again and take up the life which means so much to us all.

'W ith love and holiday greetings to si s ter chapters.

MAyBELLE ALLSTRAND.

MISSOURI ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Since ou r la st chapter letter, Missouri Alpha has had a great deal of plea s ure along with her studies.

In Octo ber we gave a house -wa rming, opening OUf chapter hou se to our friends. It wa s an autumn r ecep tion and the house was decorated in autumn leaves and dark red carnations. Ice, sandwiche s and chocolate were served.

The annual reuni on at Kansas City of the Kansas, Nebraska, and Mi ssouri Pi Phi s wa s a decided success. An in formal reception was held in the parlors of the Baltimore and dir ect ly following the reception was the breakfast, which was se rved in the Japanese r oom.

On Friday, Mrs. B. S. King gave us a very enjoyable cookie-shine. Miss Grace William s, a Pi Phi from Knox College, is an instructor in French in the University of Mis sou ri now and we are very glad to ha ve h er with us.

The University girls gave a reception to ou r foot ball t eam last Friday night. We are loyal to the team even though we ha\'e not been so victorious this year as we had hoped.

Florence Lay, who was here in college la st year, visited us P i Phis a short time ago.

Late ly we ha ve initiated two girls, Betty \ViJliam s o f St. J osep h and Olive William s of Carthage. Every other week we ha ve a social meeting at the chapter hou se, in order to get the active girls, pledges and alunmae together. We have all sorts of entertainments and also have \'ery jolly times,

CLARABEL DENTON.

WISCONSIN ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

The very first thing that \Visconsin Alpha is going to do is to introduce to all Pi Phid om a new Pi Phi, Helen Rose n stenge l; a new pledge, Madge Burnham, and a new patrones s, Mrs. William Mar shall. Wi sco nsin Alpha always seems to ha\'e the singular good fortune of being able to introduce new people to other chapters.

November sixteenth we entertained for our new girls and visiting

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fri ends. and last but not leas t for Lucia D ewey fr om Illin ois Delta. We have also been entertained by ou r patronesses and by Mrs. F B John son Mrs. Smith, ou r chape r on and "chapter m other," gave a dinner (o r Pi Beta Phi and Psi Upsi lo n at th e chapter house, and Mrs. Ro sens t eng el en· t ert a in ed ou r girl s and th e Phi Kappa P s is at her home

We enjoyed a vi s it from Florence Robinson la st November, while th e Arrow was being published. "Robby" ha s alway s been o ur gua.rd ian angel and we mi ss he r g r ea tly . Her absence ta k es away a good dea l from wh at we th ough t was th e importance of OUT chapte r It gives the girls suc h a feeling of inti macy and importance t o know onc of the "powe r s behind the t hron c" well .

We su ffe red a se vere shock recently through the death of Mr s. Juliu s Olson, one of our p a tr onesses. As a woman she wa s almos t pe rf ec t, and we cannot help feel ing that her mem o ry will always help to elevate and uplift our fraternity life .

The university league is planning to h a ve an ice fete, which is t o be fo r mally opened January seve nth a nd is to continue s ix weeks. The lowe r campu s will be flooded and the rink will be encl osed with can vas. It is a great novelty an d the s t udents are looking forward to it with great en · thu siasm.

Wi scon sin Alpha wishes you a ll a H a pp y New Yea r , with a ll th e s ue · cess and h a ppin ess po ss ib le.

MrLLlE ASKEW.

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LOUISIANA ALP H A- NE W COM B COLLEGE

The college t e rm just pa ssed ha s bee n on e o f the mos t eventful in the hi sto ry of our ch apter. In the first place, we made an exce llent beginnin g by initiating n o less than nine girls, which is th e greatest number we h ave ever take n in a t one ti me. Their n ames are: Edith Bayne Aike n , Alba T. Beaurega rd, Eli zabe th N. Dillard, Viola May Mu rp hy, Adai r Monroe T aylor, Mary Bayne Vaught, Harri ette Waters, all of New Orleans, and Gene · vieve L . Ja ckso n of Birmingham a nd Helen Mae Collin s of C ha rl es ton. W Va Besi d es th ese brand new members we are pl ea sed t o claim n o w Mi ss L ampto n , o n ce of Maryl and Alpha, who is taking a s peci a l cou r se at Newcomb a nd h as alr eady proved h erself a va luabl e additi on t o ou r ch apter .

Excitemen t r UIl S high over th e pe r s is t ent ru mors th a t two n e w fraternities are soo n to be represented h ere. Th e annual in c rea se of s tudents at Newcomb is very marked, and there is no r eason w h y th e three frate mi-

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ties already \cstabli s hed, as well as two ot h ers, should not find plenty of good material. However, we have been looking to the future and have already pledged five s ub-fre s hmen, 50 we feel that it will not be difficult to maintain our usual s tandard.

Basket ball is rec eiv ing a V3St amount of attention at pre se nt, and the se ni o r class t eam ha s determined to win the cu p offe r ed by Mi ss Bacf, the instructor of gymnastics. They h,we al r eady hcat cn the i\ormal Art team by an overwhelming sco r e and arc soo n to meet the jl1lli o r clas s and alumnae teams, when they hope to establish, beyond a dOl lbt , th eir supe riority. Two of the be s t player s are Pi Phi s, and we call but feel proud of their achievements.

The biennial conclave of Kappa Sigma. held thi s year ill New Orleans, ?'as highly s ucc ess ful from e\' ery point of view. They e ntertained at a large theatre party, to which representati\'es from every fraternity at Tulane and Newcomb were invited.

Louisiana Alpha wishes each indi\'idual member of h e r sis ter chapter s a pleasant pa ss age over the sea of e'(aminations mon to engulf us all , and a very happy Chri s tma s- tide

PAULINE CURRAN.

KANSAS ALPJlA-K o\NS \S

li:iIVERSITY.

The Pi Phi's mind has been kept of late. Be sides many questions relating to Ollr own chapter, foremost among them that of large membership, we ha ve considered ca r efully th e broader matter of ru s hing by women 's fraternities in general. Such qu es tions as the se are very good for a chapter to ha\' e to bring before it and we would be s tr onge r if we ha d them o ftener. Wheth e r we all come to the same co nclu s io n o r whether our conclu .. io n affects directly ou r frate rnities' method s, we ha ve had to t hink and we ha ve h ad an oppor t u nity to hear other s' o pini ons. It is ce rta inly well to know just what we are thinking colleclively and indi vidually as we go along-and whil e we are in clo se contact in SO many ways I am not s ure that we understand one another's idea s on some of the se important questions quite as well as we th ink we do.

Having laid by the heavier ones, howenr, Kan sas Alpha is entering, she hopes. upon a re st that will last until time for the sp ring party-a little sp ace in which we will have nothing t o do but be glail we are Pi Phi s. and think that of all the g ood and beautiful things th e Greek world left to thi s age, Pi Beta Phi is th e be ., t l\IARY

DUDLEV

NEBRASKA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.

After a very successful ru shing season , and a splendid IIlltiatlOn of eleven girls, we ha ve se ttled down to the steady routine of college work. After the Christmas rec ess, we expect once more to take up the social

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sidt'o Minnie Morril, who has been away from us so long on account of poor health , has r e turned much improved , and will give a dancing pa.fty for Pi Phi , and we have also planned a se ri es of sma ller parties.

Nebra ska is very proud of her foo t ball team, as th ey hav e n ot been sco red agai n s t thi s year. Now that the foot ball season is over, our intere s t s have turned to basket ball, and as a number o f Pi Phi girls play, two being on the t ea m, the excitement is great, ind eed.

When the Kansa s foot ball team came to play against Nebra ska they brought with them a large d elega ti on of enthu s ia st ic " r ooter s," and the Nebraska Pi Phis were made ve ry glad by a visi t f r om nine Kan sa s Alpha girls.

Wh en Nebra s ka wo n, and Kan sas failed e\'en to score, we wefe very sympath etic wit h ou r siste r s and consoled them the best we cou ld at a banqu et a t th e Lin co ln H o t e l. Neve r did a jollier cr owd s urr ou nd a ba nQuet table , and ou r v is ito r s entertained u s with Pi Phi so ng s n ew t o u s. After drinking th e health o f Jeann ette Thorpe, one o f o ur dear girl s who is to be marri ed thi s mo nth and go so far away from u s, we left th e hotel an d went t o th e h ome of A nn e Stuart, where we had a jolly good visit in r egu la r Pi Phi fashion until t ime for th e girls to go to the train We were so rry to see them g o fo r, even in th e sh or t time th ey were here, a nd all the excitement, they won a warm place in the h ear t s of th e Nebraska girls.

I think that littl e vi sit fr o m the Kan sas Alpha girls did u s m uch good and mad e the name of Pi Beta Phi dea r er than ever before. W e on ly wish it could be poss ible to mee t other chapters mo re frequ ently .

N ebraska B eta is ve ry sorry that afte r all s he could send no r ep r esentati ve to th e r eu n io n at Kan sas City o n Thanksgiving. I a m sure that a good time wa s enj o yed by all who could go.

Wi s hing you all a Merry Ch ri stmas a nd a H appy New Year fr om Nebraska B eta.

ELIZABETH MAR S HALL.

TEXAS ALPlIA-UNIVERS ITY OF TEXAS

Sin ce the uni ve r sity opened, Texas Alpha ha s been very bu sy. According to o ur agreement with Kappa K appa Gamma, we d o not pl edge till January, and SO o ur ru sh ing season is pro lon ge d W e a r e also doing ou r best to mak e Pi Beta Phi s hine in th e class-room, which of it se lf is enough to keep u s busy .

Soon after the opening we gave a tea at J am ie Armstrong's t o about twenty-five of the fre shman girl s. This was a d el ig htful little affair, to the Pi Phi s any way Sinc e th en we hav e given one ru shing party in the (orm of a wagonette ride o n Hall owe'en night out to th e country h o me of an aunt of o ne o f our girl s. We foun d a camp-fire waiting fo r us , and hanging over it, in true gypsy fashi o n , a pot of so up. We r oas ted apples,

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toas ted mar shmallow s. bobbed for apple s, and told ghost s tories until about half pa st nine, when we s tarted home, waking the echoes with songs and yell!.

During the la s t part of Octobe r the Beta Theta Pi s entertained at their chapter hou se with an afternoon reception in hon o r o f the Pi Beta Phi s and the Kappa Kappa Gamma s. Thi s was a very delightful a ffair and we all felt ve ry mu ch ind ebt ed to our h os t s. The hou s e was be a utifully decorated with palm s, bamboo and chrysanthemum s, and in the d oo r - way betw een the h all and parlors hung an a rr ow and a key ma de of white chrysanthemum s and sm ila x A large number o f peo ple call ed and enjoyed the ho spitality of the Beta s.

The wife of the governor of Texa s is one of th e patronesses of Te x a s Alpha , and ha s alway s manifested a great int e r es t in ou r welfare. On Tue sday, Nove mb er t we nty-fifth, Mr s. Sayers h eld o n e of h er r eg ular "A t Home s" at the man sio n, and the Pi Beta Phis in a body were in th e r eceiving party. \V e ha ve all fallen in lo ve with Mr s. Sayer s, and we r egret very much to have her go.

But d o not imagin e that Te xas Alpha d oes n o thin g exce pt in a soc ial lin e. At th e e lecti on o f board of editors of our Annu a l, one o f o ur girl s, Flora Bartholome w, wa s elected one o f the editors. This is considered quite an honor here, and we are very proud of Flora . W e ar e very anxious for January to come so we can find out what girl s we are going to get There are a number that we want, but of course we can't t ell you about them till we get th em. We hope that in our n ex t l etter we can introduce t o you a bevy of fre shman girls th at we think cannot be beaten.

We have met and had with u s for a few day s a me mbe r o f Lo ui s iana Alpha Ro sa R uss. W e e n joyed every minute of her s tay with u s and envy Loui s iana A lpha for being able to claim h er. It mean s so mu ch to meet Pi Phis from the o ut s ide

Soon after Chri stma s we hope to ha ve a chapter h ouse. Of the eleven men ' s fraterniti es here, two own chapter hou ses and fi ve r ent them . S o if all thing s are fa vo rable, th e Pi Beta Phi s will have a h ouse.

Te xas Alpha sends best wi shes fo r a ve ry Me rry Ch ri st ma s ADA H . GARRI SON.

COWRAOO ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF COWRADO

Thi s semeste r ha s been a very active one. bot h socia ll y and o th e r wise. This yea r mark ed th e twenty-fifth annive r sary of the found ing of th e univers it y, and it was ve ry s uitably commemorated by a celeb r a t ion on the thir teenth, fou rt eenth and fifte en th of Novembe r . C lasses were di s mi ssed for th e occasion. On the even ing of Novembe r thirteenth th e r e was a concert given by three artists, Madame Suzanne Adams o f the Grau Opera

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Company, th e celebrated solo is t, Mr. Sterne, wh o is so f amous with his violoncello, and Mr Langs, a ma st e r at the piano. Th e uni ve r sity wa s very proud t o f u rni s h Mr Langs, wh o this year was elect ed th e h ead of the Colorado School o f Mu s ic. On the evening of November fou rt een th there was a "co llege parade," in which all th e cla sses of all departments had float s and process ion s.

Again we have the sta te championship at foo t ba ll. We a lso played the Nebraska team thi s year, with a score of 5 to 0 in th e ir favo r .

Our frat ernity life ha s been a \'C ry busy o ne thi s semeste r . On H al · lo we'en we gave a dance to th e faculty. ou r patronesses a nd friend s. W e ha ve been ente rt aini ng th e men's fr ate rniti es in th e o r de r of found at ion

We gave two o f the parties in November t o Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon , two in December to Beta Theta Pi and Alpha T au Delta , and h ave tw o yet t o g ive Sigma N u a nd Ph i Delta Theta. On Decembe r six th Mrs. H O Dodge, one of ou r patrone sses, ente r tained in our h onor at her beau t i ful home 0 11 Mapleton Hi l l. Th e gi rl s of Delta Gamma entertained the Kappas and Pi Phi s a t their lodge on th e eve n ing of November eighth.

We have two n ew pledges, Elizabeth Brown and Cora Terwilliger, of B e lv id ere, Wiscon s in.

Colorado Alpha sen d s greetings t o all Pi Phis and wishes th em all a ve ry Happy New Year! LULU \VA NCELIN.

CALIFORNIA DET A- UN I VER.SITY OF CALI FORNIA

Sin ce our la s t lett er we have initi a ted three fre shm en , B erth a Cr aw fo rd, E s tell e Wil so n an d B lanc he Cameron; and we ha ve t wo new pl edge s t o introdu ce °to you, Dai sy French and J ess ie Nason.

Our entertaining thi s term h as been limited to t wo reception s. \ Ve gave one eve ning r ec epti on t o th e faculty, and a week lat er gave an "A t Hom e" in the aft ernoo n. This was follow ed in th e evening by an inf o rm al dan ce

We have had seve ral very pl easant vi s it s from I sa d ore Van G ild er of Colorado Alpha, who st ud ying at Stanfo rd thi s year. Th e r e is anot her Pi Phi in Berkeley, Miss Baily, from Minn esota.

Six o f us spent Thank sgiving day at th e home of o n e o f our fre s hm en , Bertha Crawford , in Alameda , and we h ad as thoroughly good a time as only Pi Phis ca n have. The day a ft er Th ank sgiving was juni o r day, the day of the la s t college affair o f thi s t e rm . Th e far ce was giv en in the afternoon in th e Grand Opera Hou se in San Franci sco, and in th e eve n ing the prom wa s held in the gymnasium .

Now we are beginning to think of the <Iexa m s," and after tho se , the holidays Califo rni a Beta send s best wi shes fo r a M e rry Christma s t o all Pi Phi s DoRA S UMLET.

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Exchanges

The fonowing exc han ges have r each ed us since the issue of the la st ARROW : The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, October, Novembe r , and December; the Beta Theta Pi, for October and Kovember; the Shield of Theta Delta Chi for September, the Caducelts for Octobe r, the Sigma Chi Quarterly for August, the Scroll for October, the Phi Galllllla Delta for November and December, tfle Delta U psiloJ> Qllarterly for December, the Frater of Psi Omega for November, the Allchora for November, the Key for October , the Eteltsis for October, and the Alpha Phi Quarterly for August and November.

Ths extract from the Beta Theta Pi shows a tendency on the part of tlie faculty of smaller in stitut io ns to take a hand in solving a problem which in many of the larger coll eges is being handled hy the students themselves.

We notice that at a number of in s titutions re s trictions are being placed upon ;'Tu s hing" by college authorities; and in the Bel o it chapter letter there will be found the elaborate system of rules now in force at th,!-t college. At Lehigh so me res tricti on s are refe rred to in the ir letter, and at Iowa \Ve sleyan, Bucknell, Purdue, University of the South, and Amherst some check s hav e been placed upon the wild sc ramble for members on t!:Ie part of the fraternities. At lea s t two of ou r chapters, viz., those at the Virginia Military In s titute and \Va s hington & Lee, sur rendered their charters rather than their self-re spec t in thi s ha sty fight for member s, and we are glad to see that the colleges are becoming alive to the danger.

The Frat er of Psi Omega is a welcome guest that comes to ou r table for tfi e first time. It is published by one of the large dental fraternities , and is an exceeding ly creditable publication The only evidence that it is the orga n of a profession whose known object is to make men miserabl e, is the poem from which we quote:

The whose plump, cherry lips Have tempted many craving beaux,

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I \ ' e wrung with pain by my fi erce whips, I nflamed her eyes a nd swelled he r nose, And jaws, until she fea r ed to pa ss The mirror, where o f late s he stood, Proud of her fac e, a nd th ought it was The perfect bloom of angel hood.

I' ve checked the s inging of swee t psalms, And too, th e fervent r ising prayer, While cursing gives good people Qualms , I've forced some wou ld -be saints to swea r; But now, like Nero, I'm in dr ead ! M y end is near! \Vith weapons come nngeful foes ! but when I' m dead A golden crown will cap my tomb.

Alph a P hi ce lebrates h e r thirti e th annive rsar y by a so rt of symposium o f articles from h e r surviving f o und er s Passing over the co ntribu t ion s o f tw o women of nati on a l rep utati on , !\{rs. Rob e rt ] . Burdette and Mrs. Martha Foote Crowe, we quote fr o m a less kn ow n founder t h e following sen s ibl e words : It has been my privilege t o ha ve spe nt the p as t thr ee years in Syracu se and the A lph a Phi c h apte r h as co me under my es p e ci a l noti ce, and as the growth o f an orga ni za t io n m ea n s th e growth of each ind ivid u al member, I w ill give yOll so m e of m y pe r so n a l ob se r va ti o n s of the Alpha Phi o f to-day.

Fir s t. Th e girls of to-day arc more developed th at the girls of '72. The yca r s o f phy s ical traini n g in the gymnasium and the prope r use food products-now so generally fo ll owed-ha ve given them a s t ronge r physique, a more summetri cal appearance and a greater degree of health a nd e ndur a nc e.

Second. The imprO\' ed scient ific methods of rea so ning and greate r fa ci liti es for studying have made them marvel s in th e way of acqui ring knowledge; th ey a r e much the s uperior s of thei r founders in th is r espect.

Third \Vhil e Alpha Phi has grow n brighter, h andsome r , more int e llectual, s h e has grown spi ritually a n d r eligion s l y stronge r After all said, thi s is th e true t es t of Al pha Phi growth. Th e high s tandard of s piritua l exce llen ce w hi c h has eve r been maintained in Alp h a Phi is fel t eve rywh e re in the personal c harac t e r o f on r alumnae, hath at h o me and outside in daily life

Still w e are no t sa ti sfi ed. While we want m o re c hapte r s, we wan t greater unity a mo ng it s members; whi le we want wo m en of ch ara c t e r typ e, we want the s is t e rly bond s till str o ng e r . Thi s i s a world whe r e we look fo r

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practical, helpful r esults, and as we grow in numbers we s hould think of establi shing a fund to aid struggling sisters in time of need, and a teachers' bure.au should be organized and method s planned for helping our sisters to get started in their work. The needs o f life arc many and modern chivalry gives a woman half a man's pay for doing a whole man's work. Certainly we have grown numerically s tronger; the ten name s first enrolled, have grown and multipli ed a hundredfold.

Th e following from the Delta Upsil o n QlIarterly needs no COI11ment, but a recommendation to all office r s to r ead and digest.

This i s for all chapter officers, present o r prospective. As yOlt are so will your chapter b e. Are you active, eames t, up to date? Or are you d ozing away the chapter's opportunities as well as your own? Do not invite future regret by neglecting your present duties.

The Presidrtl'.- The duty of the Pre s ident is t o pre :, ide-that d oes n't mean only at bu siness meetings. Do you know, Mr. President, th at your corresponding sec retary has acknowledged the cont ributi o n to the chapter fund sen t by that enthusiastic alumnus to the man who us ed to hold that office, o r hm' e th ey between them failed to attend to it ? You should know. Do you know that the chapter le tt e r has been written, and that it includ es n o t only the late s t new s of th e chapter, but the hon ors won just after the last lett c r was and the nam es of the brothers initiated three months ago, too late for mention in the la st iss ue of The Quarterly? YOll should know Do you know that the other office r s are d oi ng their duty? That the entertainment committee (if you have one, and you s hould ) is making the alumni mee ting s entertaining; that the historian is keeping up the record s ; that the librarian is prese rving The Quarterly for binding; that the rushing committee is really ru s hing? Do you know thes\! and many other th ings about the working of the chapter? You don 't ? Th en why are you holding the office of presid e nt and hampering the chapter? You sh o uld know.

Tile Vice-Prtsidl'IIt.-This office is a snap for th e lazy, isn't it? It' s an insult to a really active, enthusiastic member-only if you take it that way. But the office should really be the s t epping stone to the presidency. Are Are yOlt taking it Illal way' It s h ould be th e sc hool for presidents. Ar e you studyi ng your lessons? Don't think that the chapt er must move you up anyway-they may mOH you so high you will fall over the edge. But work hand in glove with the president. Be on hanr! t o Tun the meetings when h e must be away. It s hould be considered a disgrace to a chapter to ha ve to put in the corresponding sec retary or hi st or ian to pre s ide. Borrow some of the president's work; help ou t th e chapter editor; check up the hi sto rian ; work with the ru sh com mitteeyou should be chairman of that body on hand on alumnia night to get

acquainted with the men who are standing by the chapter. Do these things and you will s how th e chapter that the education you have acquired in the office of vice-pres ident has made you the logical candidate for the higher office.

The Recordi"g Sccrclary.-It seems foolish to have to take note s of a chapte r bu s iness meeting, then put th em in shape to be read and approved. and finally transcribe them in the minute book, n ow doesn't it? But would it seem at all absurd to conduc t a sc ientific inv es tigati on, taking notes of the work 35 you progress, then arrange the n o te s and record the re su lts of your obse r vatio n s on, say, wireless telegraphy? And yet one is as important a s th e o th er-relatively. It is highly important that the chapter records should be accurate. Reference has often to be made to this account o f the c hapt er ' s doings. The re sults of business tran sac ti om, whether it be the deci sio n to inves t in a lot for a prospective chapter hou se or the proposal , election or rejection of a candidate, should be brieRy but accurately recorded . It is good experience to se rv e as recording sec retary and "experience is the germ of power." If you are a good secretary for your chapler you may yet be Secretary of State-not that the duties are s imilar, but because the Qualifications are the same. The main requirement is abilfty, the n ext indu s try and the third thoroughness. and all thr ee are capab le of development. All training is worth while. Tile Corrrspolldjllg S ec rclar.v.-Such a bore, lett er writing! Is it? Th e n choose quickly-gel over the idea or re s ign. F o r your own good the better choice would be to hold the office and do your full duty. Su c h an opportunity as it presents to acquire conc ise, bu siness-like method of conducting correspondence. Think of th e millions of letter s that are written every year, and how few o f them, comparatively, are brief, well worded, to the point, sayi ng just what should be sa id and no more. Now is your chance to learn the trick. Use your wits; see how few words you can use in saying all you mean-but be sure to say it all. And, abo'-e all, be promptDon't think when th e treasurer gi,'c s you a letter which enclosed a check that he has acknowledged it. He probably hasn't. At most he has sen t a receipl It is up to you to write to the generous old chap who ha s been thinking of hi s challter days and sen d s the check in memory of them You tell him how it is appreciated and that the chapter bought a new bookcase with it; and in the capacity of a plain , active member see that the bookcase is bought and the check isn't "blow n in."

Tilt Hisl o ruHI .-How many graduates ha ve there been from your chapter? Two hundred? One man can fill the office. Eight hundred? Better have an assistant. It is not easy to keep track of them all, and yet that is what mu s t be done. You mu s t know where they are. Don't try to remember it all Write it down Do it systematically. Have a record book. Give the name, class, course and chapter number of each member.

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Give his pedigree, offices, honors. If he is a graduate keep his address Up to date. You may want to "touch" him. Note his marriage; lhe birth of future member s of Delta Upsilon or of the sororities; put down the politica l offices he ha s filled; the business he ha s gone into; the articles he has written. You may be called upon for his biography some t ime-and the Decennial catalogue is always in sight; be ready for that. Oh, there's a lot of work for the hi sto rian. The office is no sinecure for a lazy man to t ry t o fill. and it is n't a "minor office" unless you are a millor man. Don't be that. Be a miner and dig out the facts.

Tile Librariall.-Such a mess as that la s t man left the library in I Then straighten it out. Any copies of The Quarterly mi ss ing? Complete the files and have them bound. You can get two years in one volume and do it for a dollar or a dollar and a half. It make s intere sting reading for the graduates to look O\' er the old chapter letter s, and you can refer new officers to the articles in Volume XIX on their dutie s and pleasures if you have the volume handy. Text books help out a chapter library, too. J[ the graduates leave them with the chapter they call be rented to new members. The income would pay for binding The Quarterly. Try it. Do you know that Delta Up s il o n has a library ? 'Vhat do you suppose it consists of? Not Dickens and Scott and Thackeray, but books, pamphlets, magazine articles, etc., by members of the fraternity. How many contributions have you made to the Fraternity library? Is your chapter so ng book there, or chapter hi s tory? Do you publish an annual circular to your alumni? Is that there? All this is part of your work. Get a grip on it.

Th e Chapter l::.ditor.-It would not do to forg e t the chapter editor, the man who is the link between the chapter and the fraternity-between the undergraduates and the alumni. Your o pportunitie s are, perhap s, greater than those of any other officer of the chapter. You ha\' e your chapter letter to write. Make it as interesting as possible; inform the alumni of the doings of the chapter; record the honors won by its member s; tell the latest co ll ege news; gi,' e interesting facts concerning the fraternities; but avoid boastfulness. Tell what you have done not what you are going to do. Do not say that your chapter has "upheld the high standard of Delta Upsilon." T he record s in your letter s hould show that. Be enthusiastic, but not bombastic. Do not refe r to "the brothers of our si s ter chapters," or "our lady friends." Be ca r eful in spelling the names of your chapte r members: seve ral bad slips have appeared lately. It may be it's the handw r iting. Then print the names, There is another duty of the chapter editor that seems to have been neglected , Is your chapter letter your only interest in The Quarterly? How about the rest of the magazine? You should see that your chapter is r epr esented in the general reading matter. There should be a depart-

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ment of short thought s by chapter members. See that some member contributes a dozen lines o r so giving the chapter's view s on so me important topic. Discuss the convention, theAn"u a l, The Quart e rly, the r itual, the chapter policy, exten sion, co nserva ti s m, size of chapt e rs, pan -Helleni s m, inter -fraternity rivalry and courtesy. the Olympian Game s, and a hundr ed othe r s ubjects of intere s t t o the chapters and to the alumni . Get to work, and s ho w what you can d o.

The alumnae meeting at the convention of Kappa Kappa Gamma mu st have been most interesting and profitable, judging by the program of th eir ro und table talk s.

J. "The Co ll ege 'Woma n in Lit e rary Clubs."

2 " The College W'oman in Practi ca l Life."

3. " Our Alumnae A ssoc iation ."

4- " The Province and th e P ossibi liti es o f th e Alumnae As sociati on."

5. " What Sh o uld be th e C h a ra ct e r of Alumnae Association Meetings."

6. "Alumnae Help for Chapte r s."

7. "The Frat e rnity' s P olicy o f Exten s ion. "

8. "How can th e Frate rnity be Sure t o ha ve Offi ce r s Capable a nd \.y e ll Info rmed ?"

9. " Should Officer s be Chosen for a Peri o d of F o ur Years."

10 "T he Alumnae and the Key ."

II. "The Relation of Alumnae to the E s tabli shment of Chapte r Hou ses."

12 " Should not Sec. 4. Art. IV, of the Con s titution be Cha n ged?"

13 . "The Endowment of a Kappa Table at W ood 's h o ll ."

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Through the effort s of Miss Jayne and Miss Sharp at the recent national convention of the Collegiate Alumnae at Washington, the women graduates of Illin o is U niversity are now eligible to me mbership in the association. The association consists of the women graduates of twenty-three leading colleges of literature, science and arts and has twenty-four branches scattered over the United States, at such important points as Washingto n, Buffalo, St. Paul , St. Louis, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and San Francisco.

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Broad ly speaking, the aim of the national association is to bring the women of the different co ll eges into contact. The branches have va ri ous aims.

A group of girls at Minnesota are petitioning for a new so rorit y, making seven in all.

An important move is on f oo t at California to establish a committee of students which sha ll confer with a committee from the faculty in dealing with cases of breach of discipline on the part of the studen t s.

The women of Leland Stanford have published a "Jordan Calendar" illuminated with th e sententious sayings of their presid ent. Indiana students have already raised $23 ,000 of the $30,000 necessary to secure an equal amount from John D. Rockefeller, to bui ld a "Students' Building."

Ch icago ha s a new women's gymnasium . The universities of Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Stanford "Women's Leagues."

A project is on foot at Wisconsin for the erection of a new University building to be ca lled the "Women's Buliding." As planned it wil1 be a woman 's club-house, with all the furnishings for an up-t o-date building of its kind. Already the women of the University have raised quite a sum. Last year, while the State Federation o f Women's Clubs was in session as guests of the Women's L eague, much interest was shown by the members toward the women of the University. This interest has grown during the year and something may result from the convention now being held in Muskegon. The question tlf estab li sh in g a scholar ship in the University of Michigan to be open only to women is being very favo rabl y discussed. If such a scholarship is establ ished it will probably be called the Mrs. Stone scholarship in memory of Stone, the mother of women 's clubs in Michigan , and who advised the entrance of the first woman into our Un iversity.

The Un iversity of California will publish a new monthly periodica l this year entitled "The University of California Magazine." It will contain stories, sketches, poems, etc.

Stanfo rd will have a new $500,000 gymnasium .

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On November eighteenth , nin eteen hundred tw o, the co mer stone of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building was laid at the University o f California.

To arouse more college sp irit Stanfo rd students are to meet o nc e a week for an hour, to si ng coll ege songs and listen to ad· dresses by pop ular speaker s.

A St. Lo ui s woman has left $9<>,000 for the endowment of a chair o f dramatic art in Washington U nive rsit y.

Wi sconsi n U nive r sity is go ing t o erect an "A ll University Clubhouse," and $25,000 has already been sub sc ribed for the purpose.

University of Color ado at Boulder ce leb rated its quarto-centennial on Novembe r fifteenth. Th e principal feature was an addr ess by P r esident Sc hurmann of Co rnell.

The "Wo man 's League" of th e Un iv e r s ity of Co lorado occupies an important pla ce in t h e college life of the women o f that university. This yea r th ey are co nsid e rin g plans for raising a sc holarship fund in the interest of gi rl s wh o wish an education and are with o ut means for obta in ing it. They rece ntl y j o ined the Colorad o State Federation of Wom en' s Clubs.

The women of the Un iv ers it y of Illin ois have a n ew gym nasium. U ni vers it y of Illinois will publish a new lit e rary maga zine called ti The Illinois Magazine."

The gi rl s at M inn esota formed " Th e Gi rl s' Megapho ne Brigade, " for this last football season

In hi s inaugural address, President Jam es o f the No rthw este rn University said he beli eves that co-ed ucati on will be the typical fo rm of ed ucation in the future .

The onl y women's college in Western As ia and Southeastern Europe is the Ame rican college fo r women in Constantinople. It was found ed in 1871.

The girls at the U nivers it y of Indiana take s uch an interest in oratory t hat they purchase sha res in the Orato rical Association.

President Harper ha s so far succeede d in hi s pet sc heme of segregati on that he reaft er th e men and women of the two under cla sses of llie University of Chicago will recite in separate class rooms . A-.ow&

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