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Founded at the College of Charleston, Charleston, S. C., December,.to, 1904. Incorporated under the laws of the State of South Carolina.

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Eminent Supreme Archon JOHN D. CARROLL Lexington, S. C. Deputy Eminent Supreme Archon ROY J. HEFFNER U. S. Army Eminent Supreme Grapier JOHN L. HENDERSON Burlington, N. C Eminent Supreme Thesaurophulax J LAWTON ELLIS, JR. 1225 Houstis Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. Eminent Supreme Historian BOBO BURNETT U. S. Army Eminent Supreme Journalist WADE S. BOLT U. S. Army Eminent Supreme Councilor JULIAN WALKER Jessup, Ga. Eminent Supreme Chaplain J B BELK Columbia, S. C. Eminent Supreme Th. CECIL A. CARLISLE Birmingham, Ala. SUPREME COUNCIL LELAND G. LANDERS, Lincoln, Neb. A. A. Kitor,G, Charleston, S. C. THE STAR AND LAMP Editor-in-chief

WADE S. BOLT U. S. Army

Business Manager

J Coznv Byxo Columbia, S. C.

Associate Editor

R C. WIGGINS Durham, N. C.

Exchange Editor.

j L METCALF Fort Wayne, Ind.

Alumni Editor

To be appointed

Acting Eminent Supreme Historian J J BURNF.1"F Spartanburg, S. C. Acting Editor-in-chief GEORGE W. BRUNSON Columbia, S. C.

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Tontruth PAGE Our Magazine Four Years of West Point in Three Months THE STAR AND LAMP in the Trenches Chapter Service Flags Eta's Liberty Loan Nu Buys Liberty Bonds Practical Patriotism Instructions for Ordering Pi Kappa Phi Jewelry Editorials— An Apologetic Semi-farewell Pi Kappa Phi and the War An Explanation With Our Alumni Marriages Exchanges Chapter Letters Advertisements

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Published four times a year, in the months of September, December, March, and June, at 450-454 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis., by George Banta, official printer to the fraternity. Subscription price, $2.00 a year; single copies, 50 cents.

Application has been made for entry as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Menasha. Wis.

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'tar aub iCamp Official Journal of the Pi Kapba Phi Fraternity SEPTEMBER, 1917

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OUR MAGAZINE

Do you fellows ever feel that THE STAR AND LAMP is not as good as it should be? Don't you feel that we ought to have a larger and more fully illustrated magazine?

With the present small subscription list among the alumni, we are getting out as good a magazine as we can afford. If we are to have a better publication we.must have more subscriptions from our alumni.

With this end in view, the management on TILE STAR AND LAMP has been sending out a series of circular letters asking for subscriptions. The results have been far beyond what we had expected. In fact, we have already increased our subscription list to over three times its former size.

There are still hundreds of loyal alumni who would be glad to assist us in this work if they only knew about it. We can't send them letters because they have moved from place to place and we do not know where to write them. Here is where the chapters can help us out.

At an early date we are going to put on a subscription campaign among the chapters, and will award to the chapter having the highest standing at its close, the handsomest bronze coat-ofarms that ever adorned the walls of a meeting-room. On the bottom will be placed a silver plate suitably inscribed. The chapter that wins this trophy will have something of which it may well be proud.

Details will be mailed out within a short time, together with suggestions as to how to proceed.

The importance of having a large subscription list among the alumni cannot be overestimated. A fraternity derives much of its strength from its alumni, and the more the alumni are kept in touch with things the more services they will render.

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Through the pages of THE STAR AND LAMP are the needs of the fraternity made known, and with a live, well-informed bunch of alumni to assist, our future betterment and growth will take care of itself.

FOUR YEARS OF WEST POINT IN THREE MONTHS To those that are familiar with the training at West Point the above title will seem very much exaggerated indeed, and, I admit that in many respects it is. But when Congress authorized the War Department to establish the reserve officers' training camps, the instructions were to give the candidates four years of West Point in three months. This seemed impossible at first, because the training at West Point is about as thorough as anything can be, and so the authorities were at a loss as to how they were going to carry out such orders. This question was debated for some time and finally it was decided to put in a course of training that would tax every ounce of energy and effort in a man that would be consistent with good health, and then set a standard that every man must attain in order to receive a commission in the Reserve Army.

The first series of camps opened the fourteenth of May, and continued for three months. During this time every effort possible was made to meet the requirements of the War Department. The candidates were instructed in every mode of modern warfare known to Army instructors and the results were remarkable. In three months the Army had increased its number of officers by several thousand and the problem of furnishing a sufficient number of officers for the new Army was beginning to be solved. However, this did not satisfy the authorities at Washington. They realized that the United States was in the greatest war that she had ever participated in, and in order to be successful an even larger number of officers must be trained, and so a second series of camps was opened.

This time everybody had profited by the mistakes of the first camps and when the second series of camps opened in August, a far more elaborate course of training was entered into. Instructors from the British and French armies were procured and conditions as they are on the battle fronts of Europe were presented to .the candidates. For the infantry an elaborate

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system of trenches was constructed and the study of trench warfare was entered into as nearly like they are on the battle fronts as was possible with safety. The men were required to stay in the trenches and defend them from attack for two and three days each week. The attackers were trained to throw bombs and hand grenades, use bayonet, and follow a barrage fire. In the Artillery everything in modern warfare was taught.

The men were put on the guns the first week in camp and instructed in the different duties of the gun squad, organization of a battery, methods of training gunners, nomenclature of gun, care of material, care of horses, riding, using range finding instruments, B. C. telescopes, map drawing and reading, road sketches, position sketching, scouting, mounted drill, firing the guns, sensing shots, and everything else that is necessary to make an efficient officer.

In order to give the men every advantage possible and increase their efficiency and broaden them in military subjects, textbooks were issued to every man, and two hours each night were devoted to their study. All arms of the service were given a thorough study, and the men were examined every week on the ground that they had covered. In this way it is remarkable to note the results of such a short course of training. The men have worked sixteen hours per day and now as the time approaches for the camp to close, those men are little short of experts in the most important things, and are well enough up on the other details needed in the present war to train the new men who are being drafted in the new Army.

At the training camps, everything practiced is taught for three months, the other things were obtained while the men were in college. Of course, the training at the colleges does not equal that received at West Point, but do you not think that 1,440 hours of intensive practical training at a training camp is as much as a cadet gets at West Point?

J. T. HUGGINS, Zeta.

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THE STAR AND LAMP IN.THE TRENCHES Eta Chapter is going to follow her brave brothers into the

trenches with THE STAR AND LAMP as much as it is possible to do so. Trench life will be the severest test, mentally, physically, and spiritually that these men will ever meet. Shall the Fraternity lose this opportunity—this unmatched opportunity—of cheering their hearts when the effort expended will bring such unprecedented returns in appreciation and love? An extreme need of these men is reading matter. Numbers of them have written me: Send me THE STAR AND LAMP, write to me, tell me anything about anybody, and all about the chapter. Shall this need, spoken or silent, not be met by the organization which seeks to mean so much in their lives? No! The need must be met. Doubtless there are many men to whom their Fraternity does not mean as much as it should. This is a splendid opportunity to right this wrong. This is a splendid opportunity for getting alumni waked up and interested. Shall that which is a great need for them and an opportunity for us at the same time be neglected?

If every chapter will secure a list of their men in the service and keep in touch with them, sending letters, college publications, and above all, THE STAR AND LAMP, Muth good will be accomplished with little trouble, and the return in appreciation, interest, and love will far, far more than warrant the thoughtfulness.

EUGENE H. SANDERS, Eta. ETA'S LIBERTY LOAN Of the second Liberty Loan the active membership of Eta subscribed to three bonds. In addition to these three Eta has taken three others which she is asking her alumni to pay for.

These bonds will be a nucleus fund for the building of a chapter-house at Emory University in Atlanta. Emory College will very shortly be moved to the university campus in Atlanta, and the need of a chapter-house there then should to a large extent be met before that time comes. This is a time for all alumni to show their true spirit in backing the faith which the active members have thus shown in them.

EUGENE H. SANDERS, Eta.

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NU BUYS LIBERTY BONDS .

We note in the Daily Nebraskan of the University of Nebraska that a number of the student organizations participated in subscribing to the last Liberty Loan. Nu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi ranks well to the front, haying subscribed for $600 worth of bonds.

NEBRASKA Nu CHAPTER, 1917

PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM cut"It cannot be too often repeated or too strongly urged, that the winto essential y absolutel is res ting down of unnecessary expenditu

The whole ning the war. All doctrine to the contrary is bad doctrine.

Governthe which money not is nation must come to recognize that it requires ent Governm the what that war, the prosecute to ment needs which goods and is goods and services! Money is the yardstick by services that are and goods the only is it but , services are measured dollars. effective. The last Congress appropriated twenty-one billion pauses one if is dollars billion ne twenty-o what One can better appreciate the year from nt Governme this of res expenditu total the, that think to x 1791 to January 1, 1917, covering a period of#one hundred and twenty-si of item other every and wars past our of cost the years, including Government expense, was only a little more than twenty-six billion dollars—but five billions more than was appropriated by the last Congress alone. But even if the treasury were to provide the huge sum of twenty-one billions, we should remember that the sum will be effective only as a measure of the goods and services that can be bought. that can be pro"Now, there are limits to the goods and services#20 buy let us say, to needs nt Governme The period. given duced in a twenty billions worth of goods and services. To supply these urgent needs the entire power of the country is required. It follows, there-

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fore, that the person who buys an unnecessary thing, howeve r small its cost, and however well he is able to pay for it, is not helping the Government by going on with "Business as usual," but is upon the contrary competing with the Government for goods and services. The article he purchases may be of a character altogether differen t from the things the Government requires, but labor must be used in producing it, whatever it is; and labor that is used to produce the needless thing is labor taken away from the great task of produci ng necessary goods."

The above quotation from Mr. Julian Street's article in the Saturday Evening Post emphasizes tfie necessity for cuttin g out all unnecessary expenditures. ,This applies to the man in college as well as to those in other walks of life. For instance, why not make those old clothes or shoes last a while longer and thus effect a saving to yourself as well as to the Government .

In this connection it is well to remember that it will be the college men who must replace the losses in trained leader s as the war progresses, and to manage the affairs of the countr y after peace has been restored. Hence it follows that patrio tism as well as personal ambition demands that the college student apply himself to his studies in order that he may be prepared to fulfill his duty to his country, and to take advantage of the opportunities which will follow.

J. C. B., Iota.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING PI KAPPA PHI JEWELRY The official fraternity jewelers are Hoover and Smith of Philadelphia and Burr-Patterson and Company of Detroi t.

All Pi Kappa Phi jewelry must be ordered from the official jewelers.

The official badge is made only by Burr-Patterson and Company and sells for three dollars.

The official badge as well as all other badges must be ordered through the E. S. T. Special order blanks are furnished the chapters for this purpose.

Members who are not actively connected with a chapter may order through the Grapter of their original chapter or through the E. S. T. In the latter case, the name of the chapte r must be given.

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All badges will be sent C. 0. D. unless cash accompanies the order. Checks should be made payable to the jeweler.

Every initiate must be given one of the official badges at the time of initiation or as soon thereafter as possible.

Badges will be engraved on the back with a serial numbe r and the initials and chapter of the owner. A record of this data shall be kept on file in the office of the E. S. T. Pledge pins, novelties, and other jewelry must be ordered direct from the jewelers. These orders should not be sent to the E. S. T. The official recognition pin can be secured only from the Eminent Supreme Historian. The cost of the recognition pin is one dollar and fifty cents.

J. LAWTON ELLIS, JR. E. S. T.

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EDITORIALS AN APOLOGETIC SEMI-FAREWELL In the last issue of THE STAR AND LAMP, the Editor gave a short notice of his answer to the call of the colors. There is no personal craving of glory within his heart, nor has he yet proven praiseworthy by deed of daring or valor. But there was a lack of self-satisfaction and a sense of duty unperformed until he wore the proof-mark of service, an official uniform.

In his case the capacity of service is minor, first-class musician in the United States Navy, and so far his bit has been of little note.

Do not feel that there was lack of consideration for the Fraternity when he vacated his office of Editor. Every point was weighed in the balance. "Country first" is the proper motto for each and all of us.

A worthy and able man has been chosen to act as Editor pro tem, and will fulfill his duties in a most satisfactory manner, we know. That man is Brother Brunson of Zeta. Give him your loyal and enthusiastic support.

While not able to give the minute details attention, the former pilot of the fraternity journal is heart and soul for its success and will devote all his spare time to cooperate with Brother Brunson.

If life is spared to him, he will be glad to return to and labor for and among you. If death comes, it will be only the passing out of a spirit that was ever loyal but often lacking ability in physical performance.

At any time that the chapters or members may feel disposed to write him, a letter will be duly appreciated and never neglected.

Most loyally and fraternally, WADE S. BOLT. Band, Naval Great Lakes Great Lakes, Ill.

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PI KAPPA PHI AND THE WAR

BY WADE S. BOLT The call to the colors has thinned the ranks of the student body in every college in the Union and with this condition we find a like depreciation in the fields of fraternity work. Each year in the progress of the war will disclose more impressive evidence of the condition stated. Pi Kappa Phi is confronted with and mtIst prepare for and against the odds to be met.

Let each chapter hold at least more dearly than ever the interest of the organization. Spare no effort to obtain members and choose, more surely than in the past, men of character, moral stamina, and good judgment. It is the older student and more experienced man of the chapter who stands to be called first and the duties of chapter management and control must fall to and upon younger shoulders. Thus,,the greater necessity for men of ability and initiative. Many of us will be called upon to pay the extreme sacrifice ere the combat has ceased, and let none of us die knowing that we departed from our duties by leaving a weakened link in a strongly developed chain of chapters. *

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AN EXPLANATION The unsettled conditions brought about by our entry into the printer war has delayed THE STAR AND LAMP from going to the Naval the in at an earlier date. Brother Bolt, who enlisted d perstatione be to Corps at the outbreak of the war, expected publica the se manently at one camp and from this point supervi zeal g untirin tion of the magazine, to which he has devoted his and energy for several years. Temporary attachment and frequent transfers made it manifest that he would be unable to continue as active Editor of THE STAR AND LAMP. About the first of November, when it was apparent that Brother Bolt would not be able to continue as Editor, the Eminent Supreme Archon appointed the writer to get out the present issue, which he has attempted to do to the best of his ability.

Not being familiar with the best methods of collecting material the Acting Editor experienced a serious handicap in obtaining material for the issue. All of the former editorial staff have either joined the Army or are now so situated that

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they were unable to render any assistance . A great part of the present issue is due to the untiring aid given to the writer by the efficient and energetic Business Mana ger of TIIE STAR ANI) LAMP. The fraternity is to be congratulate d upon having such a capable, resourceful, and energetic man as Brother Byrd for Business Manager of the magazine. With the valuable assistance rendered by Brother Byrd and the other contributors, the writer has tried to present to the Fraternity an issue that will be presentable.

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WITH OUR ALUMNI We are trying to increase our Alumni Department as much as possible as this is the one part of the magazine that holds much interest for the man who has left college. We will appreciate assistance in making this one of the best departments of THE STAR AND LAMP.—EDITOR .

Bro. D. Hamer (Sigma) atBro. Leon Dodson (Delta) is tended the first training camp, a second lieutenant at Camp but was forced to resign after Jackson. two weeks' training on account Bro. J. T. Huggins (Zeta) is of defective eyes. A regiment second lieutenant of the Field of home guards has been organ- Artillery stationed at Camp ized in South Carolina and "John Gordon .

D." is now first lieutenant of the Bro. R. G. Nimocks (Iota) Spartanburg company, having received his commission from won a lieutenancy at Fort McPherson, resigned it to enter the the governor.

Bro. E. P. Passailaigue (Sig- Aviation Corps, where he exma), a former member of the pects to receive a commission, House of Representatives, is now and to cap the climax got captain of infantry stationed at married. Some record.

Bro. William Melvin (Zeta) Camp Jackson, having won his commission at the second training • is vice-consul to Hull. England, having sailed last June. camp.

Bro. Jim Hamer (Sigma) is a Brother Busbee (Sigma) is also a captain of infantry at member of the volunteer hospital unit stationed at Camp Camp Jackson.

Bro. Clarence A. Monroe Sevier.

(Zeta) won a lieutenancy at the Bro. Bobo Burnett (Zeta), training camp, and is stationed who held the office of E. S. at Camp Jackson. During his Historian, Bro. Hamp White spare time Brother Monroe has (Sigma), and Bro. Guy Maxwell succeeded in securing a number (Sigma), members of Co. B, 1st of subscriptions to THE STAR South Carolina Engineers, are AND LAMP, which goes to show "Somewhere in France ." that he is as live a Pi Kappa as Bro. Jack Moody, Bro. Heryou'll find anywhere. bert Langford, and Bro. Arthur Bro. R. F. Brownlee (Epsilon) Humphries, all of Zeta, are of Anderson, S. C., is a second members of the Quartermaster lieutenant at Camp Jackson.

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THE STAR AND LAMP Bro. Thomas Humphries (Zeta) was commissioned second lieutenant recently, having attended the training camp at Ft. Oglethorpe.

Bro. "Sub" Murray (Eta) is now in the U. S. Navy.

Bro. J. Chester Reeves (Alpha) has volunteered in a hospital unit and is expecting to be called at any time. Brother Reeves is an enthusiastic booster of THE STAR AND LAMP, and we are looking forward to some more literary gems from him in the next issue.

Bro. J. J. Calnan (Iota) is with the Southern Wheel Co. in St. Louis. Brother Calnan holds a responsible position in the Engineering Department.

Bros. J. V. Thomas and T. H. Mize, both of Iota, are also with the Southern Wheel Co. in St. Louis.

Bros. J. L. Metcalf and T. Lawton Ellis, Jr., our E. S. T., are both with the General Electric Co. in Fort Wayne. Ind. Bro. Roy J. Heffner (Gamma) is in the Aviation Corps in California. Brother Heffner enlisted some time ago, and has now been appointed as instructor to the new men. After the success with which he fulfilled the duties of deputy E. S. A., we feel confident in predicting great things for him in the future.

Bro. H. H. Durant (Iota) is instructor at the Georgia School of Technology. (We didn't expect this.)

Bro. E. P. Courier (Iota) is in the Army somewhere.

Bro. C. E. Byrd (Delta) is with the Union National Bank of Columbia, S. C. Brother W. D. Crawford is still with Seibles of Columbia.

Bros. W. H. and Eddie Monckton (Sigma) are connected with their father in the mercantile business at Columbia, S. C. Bro. Robert E. Allen (Delta) is somewhere "over there" with a volunteer ambulance unit.

Bro. Henry G. Harper, Jr. (Kappa), is in Charlotte, N. C., in business.

Bro. Geo. W.'Brunson (Zeta) is with the People's Bank of Columbia, S. C. Bro. Edw. L. Thomas (Iota) is with the Tooms County Bank, Lyons, Ga. Bro. J. Cozby Byrd (Iota) is with Wilson and Sompayrac, Architects, in Columbia, S. C. Bro. R. E. Breen (Iota) is married, so we hear it rumored, and is living in Jessup, Ga. Bro. A. H. Blantoh (Epsilon) is conducting a n. insurance agency in Rockhill, S. C. Bro. M. R. Carrigan (Delta) is attending school at P. C. of S. C. in Clinton, S. C. Bro. W. H. Currie (Kappa) is in Carthage, N. C. Bro. E. K. Kane (Xi) is sergeant major stationed at Camp Hancock, Ga. Bro. C. K. Dillingham (Sigma) is at Manville, N. J. Bro. C. W. Dillingham (Iota) is in Baltimore, Md. Bro. I. N. Edwards (Sigma) is professor of English at Lander College, Greenwood, S. C. Bro. R. F. Fletcher (Zeta) is running an oil mill in McColl, S. C.

WITH OUR ALUMNI Bro. R. F. Fain (Eta) is in the Navy.

Bro. J. L. Henderson (Kappa) is in the drug business at Burlington, N. C: Bro. F. Nelson Henning is in Kansas City, Mo. Bro. Fred S. Jones (Delta) is in business in Columbia, S. C. Bro. Edw. L. Kellas (Gamma) is with the Farmers' National Bank at Fresno, Cal. Bro. A. A. Kroeg (Alpha) is practicing law in Charleston, S. C. Bro. J. R. Langford (Zeta) is in Prosperity, S. C. Brother Langford was forced to resign his school on account of his health.

Bro. L. Harry Mixson (Alpha) is conducting a seed business in Charleston, S. C. Brother Mixson is as live a Pi Kappa as you will find anywhere. Not satisfied with taking a life subscription to the magazine, he insisted on its running an advertisement for him in its columns.

Bro. R. E. Moody (Zeta) is professor of mathematics at Chester, S. C. Bro. Jas. T. Monroe (Zeta) is in the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Marion, S. C. Bro. Fred Nichols (Zeta) is one of the leading planters of the Pee Dee section, and is located at Nichols, S. C. Bro. J. W. Perdew (Kappa) is in Wilmington, N. C. Bro. W. A. Odgers (Nu) is principal of a school in Rangoon, Burma, Asia.

Bro. R. K. Robinson (Epsilon) is with Tucker and Laxton at Charlotte, N. C.

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Bro. L. C. Richardson, Jr. (Mu), is putting in good work at Cornell University.

Bro. J. W. Robinson (Eta) is at McKeesport, Pa. Bro. W. J. Smith (Epsilon) is at Abbeville, S. C. Bro. M. C. Strout is with the Carrleston Cot Oil Co. at Charleston, S. C. Bro. J. G. Thacker (Epsilon) is at Greensboro, N. C. Bro. A. E. Young (our Kappa live wire) is at Rockhill, S. C. Bro. C. C. Nall (Lambda).is with the Lowery Bank at Atlanta, Ga. NEWS OF ETA ALUMNI E. R. Gunn is now with the Atlanta Georgian, and Eta misses his presence quite a great deal.

We received a most interesting and encouraging letter recently from Herman J. Lambert, D.D.S., Quitman, Ga. He is still very much interested in his chapter's affairs; and we wish that we had more alumni so interested. He is alive to our present problems, and does not allow his interest to wane. He promised us a visit soon.

J. T. King and W. L. Bazemore, Jr., are now in their second and first year courses, respectively, at the Atlanta School of Medicine, Emory University.

Both of these are members also of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity.

L. H. Battle is still teaching in the Griffin High School. He is now the proud father of a son.

There came to us recently a notice of the engagement of L. D. Shell. He is now located •

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Fain came to the front as a barber, Murray says, though, that he never could bring himself to let Fain cut his hair; and he says that the styles which Fain started in that line were most interesting.

Later both Fain and Murray were . Murray is transferred to in the 78th Co., 6th Regiment, and Fain is in 85th Co., Mobile Artillery. They are expecting to go to France at any time.

G. W. Griner is in the Machine Gun Company, 35th U. S. Infantry, Nogales, Ariz., and is a lieutenant.

J. F. Lancaster, who saw serEta has quite a number of men vice in Mexico, and C. F. Hendry in the service now. The present are in the National Guard. addresses of most of these are not R. H. Bazemore is in Co. M, known to us at present, but it is 121st Infantry, Camp Wheeler. with much pride that we think of While there he has had several these loyal men who are answer- promotions. ing so faithfully and fittingly the W. H. Saffold, we have heard, is call of our country's need. the service also; and H. R. in Early last spring G. N. Murray, Handcock is, but their present adof Griffin, who was then studying dresses are not known. law in Atlanta, and R. L. Fain C. A. Carlisle, E. S. T., is now in business who was in the drug Baxley, met in Atlanta and on the with the Phoenix Iron Co., Birspot decided to enter the Marine mingham, Ala. W. R. Reud is in the Ambulance Corps. This they did and for some Service, but whether he is in time were stationed at and it was while there that "Bess" France or not we do not know.

at Sylvester, and is to be married in December.

A. P. Whipple, Jr., left Emory College recently to enter the Quartermasters' Training Corps at the University of Georgia.

H. M. Henley is attending Vanderbilt University.

C. L. Parham is now at the University of Georgia.

J. W. Griffeth is living in Winder, Ga. A. B. Daniel is located with the Savannah River Lumber Co., Savannah, Ga. E. H. SANDERS, Eta.

MARRIAGES Bro. Robert Gayle N i mocks (Iota '17) of Fayetteville, N. C., and Miss Evelyn Arline Messick, of Winston-Salem, N. C., announce their marriage at Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday, November 1, 1917. After a wedding trip to New Orleans and other southern cities they returned to Atlanta.

Brother Nimocks is now in training for the Aviation Corps at Tech.

Bro. George Ralph Barker (Iota "i7) of Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Ann Coleman of the same city were married recently "Somewhere in the United States." Brother Barker holds a lieutenancy in the Army, having volunteered at the outbreak of the war.

Bro. Robert Owens (Sigma and Beta) of McCormick, S. C., and Miss Mary Frances Pool of Newberry, S. C., were married at Newberry, S. C., at the home of the bride Thursday, January 3, Tgi8.

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EXCHANGES Those of the fraternities represented in our exchanges, having war lists or honor rolls of men who are in the service, were Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Delta Sigma Phi. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta lists were most completely catalogued and certainly gave proof of loyalty. All fraternities have contributed to a remarkable percentage. *

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And the sororities or women's fraternities (as some prefer to be designated) are not in the least to be ignored in war activities. Kappa Alpha Theta is prospering and expects to equip one complete hospital unit and send Theta nurses to serve therein. Delta Delta Delta has an interesting article telling of the many Tri Delta nurses in the Red Cross service. Gamma Phi Beta is engaged in promoting the Belgian-French relief work. *

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STUDENTS' STUDY

BY MAmoN L. BURTON, LL.D. • President of University of Minnesota The war has hastened the development of a very significant tendency in university life. A few years ago it could be said of college students

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that their chief interest was not in study and work but in athletics and student activities, organized and carried forward by student initiative.

Conditions became so deplorable and public criticism so severe that a rapid improvement in colleges and universities has been distinctly noticeable in the last five years. The war has not only hastened this highly commendable tendency, but has made possible the actual realization of the aims which it embodies. Today students study. Intellectual effort, high scholarship, genuine interest in the actual work of the classroom are no longer ridiculed. A new spirit pervades the colleges and a new atmosphere prevails upon the campus of every university. A new note of seriousness and earnestness is everywhere discernible. Our educational institutions seem to realize more fully than ever before the high aim and object for which they are organized, namely, the training of our youth for leadership and the preparation of prospective citizens for loyal citizenship.—Minticapolis Journal.—The Anchora, Delta Gamma. *

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BY DR. S. B. McCoRmIcK Ten million men have been enrolled for war service in Europe. Of these one, two, or three million will in time, in all probability, find themselves in the trenches. Many thousands of them will never come back. In their death they will sow the imperishable and fruitful seed of justice and liberty, as America conceives these terms.

What are we who remain at home to do which will not only enable our gallant soldiers to win the victory, but which will make us feel that we have as direct a share in the conflict as the men in the trenches?

Unless we plan definitely to this end we cannot avoid the opprobrious epithet of slacker.

Many things; but just now the Fraternity can begin a propaganda which will interpret duty for the college man in terms of patriotism.

No better thing has ever been done by the national fraternities than to show the student that he must interpret his duty in terms of genuine scholarship. Just now, however, to teach patriotism seems the. obvious duty.

The student must be reminded that for three years the Allies have been fighting the battle for the principles upon which the very republic of America is founded and of which it is the mightiest exponent in all the world. If these principles are overthrown in Europe the republic will be overthrown in America. The student in our colleges and universities should be reminded that simple gratitude demands his consecration of his manhood to this great cause for which the Allies have been pouring out their treasure and blood for now more than three years.

The student should be reminded that it is his duty to distinguish the immaterial and spiritual elements in a great conflict such as is now being

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waged and give himself with ardor and enthusiasm to the defense of these high and fine ideals of civilization.

Again it is the college student who is best able to understand.how difficult it is to build up civilization and how vital it is that the things which have been won shall at all possible costs be preserved. Slowly nations have come to agree upon certain vital principles, involving the security of the rights of humanity, and international law has become a fact of vital import to the well-being of all nations. Germany has seen fit to violate every principle of humanity and of international agreement. She has refused to submit herself to the obligations of solemn treaties which she herself has made. She has struck a vital blow, not only at civilization but at the very existence of neutral people, so as to make her a public outlaw.

Once more the college student should understand that the only way in which nations can live together is through understanding and goodwill. The adoption of methods by one nation which make impossible all international relationship is public notice to all the world that such nation becomes a common enemy. It is a notorious fact that Germany is the one nation in the world which has instituted the spy system everywhere for the direct purpose of convenient attack. No nation can operate such a system without moral deterioration both as to government and as to people. That is exactly what happened to Germany.

Germany enunciates principles which she imagines to be right, but which are utterly opposed to the ethical principles which have controlled Christendom for a thousand years.

If the national fraternities will for a little while turn to the rendering of this service in our colleges and universities they will accomplish during this year a mission genuinely worth while.—Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly.

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CHAPTER LETTERS NORTH CAROLINA MU CHAPTER Despite the handicap which the war has forced upon every phase of social life, Mu returned this year with the same number that she left with last June, and since that time has initiated one more, Carlisle Wilson Brabham, of Allendale, South Carolina. He is in the junior class, having attended Wofford during the two previous years. Carlisle is white headed, but a good fellow. As the campaign for new men looks now, Mu is going to get her usual share of the best that the Park affords.

Brother Edens, though liable to the army draft, is with us again.

He is continuing his record of acquiring honors. Since September he has been elected president of the junior class, an honor which you can generally count on Pi Kappa Phi to get. He has also been initiated into the Tombs, a secret order of the junior and senior classes.

Brother Long is now acting as captain of the varsity basketball team, and from the show that he is making in the class games, he will push some guard for an allstate berth.

Brother Cox received his A.B. degree last June, but since then decided that he knew too much to stop college, consequently he is working this year for his Master's degree. He, with Brother Brim

and Hurst, was initiated into the Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternity this fall.

Beside being represented so strongly in athletics, Brother Wiggins holds up his end in the few other phases of college activities.

He has been elected president of the Hesperian Literary Society, having held during his former years nearly every other office in the society. He and Brother Cox are assistants in the English Department this year. He was also initiated into the Tombs along with Brother Edens. Beside these honors, Brother Wiggins is on the editorial staff of The Archive, the college monthly.

Brothers Brim and Hurst have organized a secret order of the sophomore clas s, called t h e "Bloody Sophs," with the distinct purpose of giving freshmen cold baths and other things necessary for the sanitation of the campus.

Mu has done one other thing n which she hopes that she does not stand by herself. She purchased a Liberty Bond of the second loan of 1917. Aside from this "bit" she has furnished several men for the Army.

By the time the next issue of THE STAR AND LAMP appears, we shall have introduced several new men with unusual capabilities and prospects.

CHAPTER LETTERS Let's all pull together, fellows, for a good year in Pi Kappa Phi. R. C. Wiccirts, '18, Correspondent.

Trinity College, Durham, N. C.

NORTH CAROLINA KAPPA CHAPTER The correspondent of Kappa, North Carolina, famous for his ability as a procrastinator, hastens at the last minute, to send greetings to the Fraternity, and to recount in a feeble way the doings and varied activities of healthy Kappa.

We were fortunate in finishing last year with plenty of reserve, and although somewhat depleted by the loss of aspirants to commissions, we had enough men left , to see each other off on the train.

We returned to the hill on September 12 seven strong, and having nailed our pennant over the fireplace, hired a janitor, and ordered a cord of wood, we sallied forth to hunt the elusive sophomore.

The dauntless seven—R. L. Young of Charlotte, N. R. Pippin of Freemont, Bert Griffin of Goldsboro, C. M. Hazelhurst of Wilmington, M. G. Wilson of Raleigh, R. J. Crowell of Asheville, and F. A. Clarvoe of Virginia—added four more names to the roll: C. C. Chinnis and C. P. Spurill, of Raleigh, Jeff Bynum of Durham, and Nat Mobley, of Charlotte.

The preliminaries over,. we settled into the collar and have been moving along "right peart" ever since. Hazlehurst is president of the junior class and a promising Phi Beta Kappa man. Spurill is president of the sophomores, a football, magazine, and Phi Beta

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Kappa aspirant. Nat Mobley harangues the Di Society quite frequently and also pursues a key.

Griffin is business manager of the Yachety Yack, and at present is president of the Phi Society. Chinnis is a society bull, shaking a foot where'er a fiddle squeaks. Pippin smokes El Reeso cigars and manages the freshman football team. Dick Young spends most of his time studying, reading the Charlotte Observer, and hunting news for the Tar Heel. Jeff Bynum is one of the assistants in the Geological Department, studying the life and habits of rare rocks and animals. W. G. Wilson reminds one of Bill Shakespeare, toting a skull about, and muttering, "To wed, or not to wed, that is the question," while Buddy Crowell, who rooms with him, suffers in silence, and wears his grouch out on an unoffending platoon. Clarvoe spends his days dodging work and scrawling headlines for the Tar Heel.

We are finding something to do, and from the time that we roll out in the morning, swallow one-half portion of egg, and get late to drill, we are pretty busy. That military drill is a great thing. All of us have improved under its elevating influence and are now wearing our chests where they ought to be, and not over on our shoulder blades. Most of our men are corporals or better, with one or two R. A. Ps. The leaves are falling here, and the campus is acquiring the seedy look of the morning after. The Fraternity may be sure that the spirit of Kappa will not be dormant like the plants, but we hope

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and expect to put in a very energetic and progressive winter. We are hoping for a new house, and see our plans maturing. While the national outlook is not very conducive to the formation of plans for this or any other succeeding year, the Fraternity may be sure that the local chapter will endeavor to do its national and world duty as it sees it, whether the brothers go or stay, and the reputation of Pi Kappa Phi will not be lowered by our activities.

We hope to report further progress in our next letter. Vale.

FRAN K A. CLARVOE, Correspondent.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.

GEORGIA LAMBDA CHAPTER Lambda certainly has been lucky this year. We returned fifteen men this year and have so far taken in seven new men, and have five other pledges. The list of new men taken in is as follows: John C. Mitchell, Dalton, Ga.; Barry Claire, '18, Fitzgerald, Ga.; Robin C. Wood. '20, Jackson, Ga.: F.T. Vincent, '18, Macon, Ga.; Monroe Butler, '20, Athens, Ga.; W. Highsmith and G. T. Overstreet of Baxley, Ga., both being of the class of '20. We expect to take in the remainder of the pledged men by the first of December. which will give us one of the strongest chapters at the University of Georgia.

We are also pleased at having affiliated with us Brothers Parham and Whipple from Eta. Brother Parham is of the class of '20, and Brother Whipple is preparing to aid Uncle Sam by taking a quartermaster's course.

We were pleasantly surprised by the return of Brother Mathis, L.L.B., University of Georgia '17, who had been one of Lambda's most distinguished men who graduated cunt stemma honor'.

Brother Mathis is showing his patriotism by taking the quartermaster's course.

We regret the departure from our chapter of Brothers Tippett and Young, who have left to join the Army as quartermaster sergeants. As the result of Archon Young's leaving, it became necessary to elect a new archon, Brother Padgett, '18, being chosen.

On the Panhellenic Council we are ably represented by Brothers Reece and Mott, in the German Club by Brother Osborne. In the Freshman Club we have Brothers Parham, Wood, and Butler.

Brother Patterson was signally honored by being taken into the Senior Round Table, a leading honorary society of the University of Georgia.

Brother McWhirter was honored by making the Junior Cabinet, an honorary society.

Brother Duncan was elected president of the sophomore class.'

We are justly proud of him.

Although Georgia had no football team this year, she will be represented by a basketball and baseball team. Pi Kappa Phi bids fair to be represented on the varsity five by Brother Mott, and on the second five by Brothers Griffin and Padgett.

We are to give a big dance on December 5, and hope to have over some of the Iota and Eta bunch for the occasion.

Brother Highsmith was elected chairman of the freshman Y. M.

CHAPTER LETTERS C. A. promotion committee. All the old men of Lambda who are with us this year and who take military science are either officers or noncommissioned officers.

As you see, Lambda is trying her best to lead at the University of Georgia this year, and the Pi Kappa spirit will conquer. Lamb-. da sends greetings to all the brothers, and wishes them a very successful year.

KENNON MOTT, JR., '18, Correspondent.

University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

NEBRASKA NU CHAPTER am sure no chapter looks forward more eagerly to the coming of THE STAR AND LAMP than does Nu at Nebraska. Just now we are wondering how it goes with the other "gangs" in this very unusual college year. We opened the house on September 12 with thirteen old Brothers Barker, men back.

Anderson, Weatherbee, F o r d, Riley, Thomas, Peterson, Rice, Christensen, Liebendorfer, Simpson, Geistfeldt, and myself. Two of the twenty fraternities here at Nebraska could not open their houses at all. We were rather above the average in the number of men we had who returned.

There was an unusually large number of freshmen registered this fall. This fact together with the scarcity of upperclassmen made the fall rush season perhaps the most active ever seen at Nebraska. We pledged ten men. Six of these, Brothers Pegler, Mingus, Halvorstadt. Clifford Williams, Glen Mackey, and Garrison were upperclassmen, so on the evening of October 25 we held a special I

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initiation, and now these men are Pi Kapps in every sense of the word. This leaves us with five pledges, Stoddard Robinson, Ashley Williams, and Harold Mackey of Lincoln; Ralph Ford of Bertrand; and Kenneth McCandless of Omaha. With this group w! feel this year is going to be the best ever.

Our fraternity has its full share of men in college activities.

Brother Garrison is president of the senior class. Brother Weatherbee is secretary and treasurer of the Engineering Society and a member of the engineers' hop committee. Brother Pegler is vice-president of the University Commercial Club and also a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, the honorary commercial fraternity.

Brothers Thomas and Barker hold commissions in the cadet regiment.

Brother Liebendorfer is active in the Premedic Society, and I am at present business manager of our college publication, The Daily Nebraskan.

We have eleven men in war work. Brothers Hlava, Partridge, and Catterson are in the Infantry at Camp Funston, Kansas. Brothers Crane and Nelson are at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Brothers Anderson and Collins are in the Navy. Brother Clark is in the aviation work. Brother Oyler is at Fort McArthur in southern California training in the Coast Artillery, and one of our pledges, Harold Mackey, recently left to train at the Great Lakes Training Station. We are preparing an oak slab with the names of all the men who are in the service as well as the data respecting them

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carved on it. This we plan to place on the wall of our chapterroom.

First semester scholarship reports are not out yet, so we will save that information for our next letter.

In closing let me remind every Pi Kapp, who may at any time be anywhere near Lincoln, that Nu Chapter is located at 423 North 13th Street and we expect you to come over and get acquainted.

Yours in the bond, GEO. D. DRIVER, Correspondent.

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.

ALABAMA OMICRON CHAPTER Although we began this year with only eight active members, we all had the determination to accomplish great things. Very soon we had pledged thirteen men, being the largest number of pledge men of all the fraternities at the University of Alabama.

We take great pleasure in introducing the following new brothers who have become members of the Alabama Omicron Chapter: Bros. Cecil Brannen, Brantley, Ala.; 0. C. Brannen, Brantley, Ala.; Walter Hovater, Russellville, Ala.; A. M. Hovater, Russellville, Ala.; Hugh Fite, Hamilton, Ala.; Earle B. Sanders, Troy, Ala.; Stedham Acker, Birmingham, Ala. We now have the following six first-year men pledged: A. F. Stephens, -Montgomery, Ala.; A. M. Johnson, Fitzpatrick. Ala.; H. P. Hodge, Wadley, Ala.; A. B. Hollingsworth, Mt. Andrew, Ala.; H. P. Talbot, La Fayette, Ala.; C. W. Green, Birmingham, Ala.

To this list may also be added J. L. Wright, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who will enter college next year. The above six first-year men will be taken in after December I, i. e., after their first examination.

We are certainly very proud of the fact that we have now in our chapter the captain of Alabama's football team, Bro. A. M. Hovater. and also his brother, Walter Hovater, who plays tackle. They are among the best of Alabama's material in the athletic line and have the highest respect of everyone in college.

The following officers were elected for the year 1917: C. J. Colquett, archon; A. B. Wright, treasurer; J. R. Faucette, grapter ; 'G. H. Stacy, chaplain; W. B. Talbot, historian; Herman Burchfield, doorkeeper. We are now located in nicely furnished chapter-rooms.

We are making plans for a house for the coming year.

Recently we were honored by a visit from Bro. L. V. Powell, of Georgia Eta. Visitors are a source of gratitude and inspiration to us, and we hope we shall have numbers of them in the future.

It has been decided by the Panhellenic Council of our university that a "closed" rushing season will be observed next session. Very strict rules have been laid down by them, which will necessitate a great deal of work for each of our brothers. However, we think that these regulations will be beneficial to all concerned.

Our opening dance will be given December 7. We would certainly be glad to have other visitors from other chapters. We believe all

CHAPTER LETTERS who attend will be rewarded for their time spent.

We extend best wishes to all brothers of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.

C. J. COLQUETT, Correspondent.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

GEORGIA ETA CHAPTER Eta Chapter opened the fall term of 1917 with the best prospects of a successful year she has had in some time. We returned seven old men; Brothers Powell, Sanders, Graham, Davidson,Stewart, King, and Pharr. Only two other fraternities of the eight in Oxford returned a large number.

We are very glad to have these brothers with us again.

Our spiking season was very successful. We pledged twelve men who are going to do great things for us in every branch of college activities unless all signs fail. The pledges are E. 0. Blalock, W. R. Bridges, H. L. Mitchel, A. D. Partridge, J. Rogers, G. R. Isbell, 0. L. Sharp, J. E. Mock, J. G. Adams, J. W. Norval!, A. P. Whipple, and E. J. Grimes. All but a few of these have been initiated and the rest will be by the time this is published.

We have several men making good in athletics and are represented on two of the four teams the classes put out. Mock is a terror in football and has carried off his E already in his first year.

Our standing is good also and we count several class officers among us. In class work we are doing very well and will do much better before long.

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• The chapter is very proud of the fact that it has subscribed for $300 worth of Liberty Bonds. These bonds will be used in building our new chapter-house in Atlanta when the university is moved there as it will be in the next year or so.

The chapter spirit is excellent and we hope to do great things for Pi Kappa Phi in the next eight months.

E. P. DAVIDSON, Correspondent.

Emory University, Oxford, Ga.

VIRGINIA XI CHAPTER • Have you an ideal? With this challenge before us we begin our second full year of Pi Kappa Phi work. A world is in a turmoil, conditions are precarious, and civilization hangs in the scales.

Colleges and universities are not alone in feeling the flames caused by the great aristo-democratic conflagration. But what has this to do with our coming fraternal activities? And why should we propound .this question and issue the challenge of an ideal? It simply means that in the midst of all the diversity of battling forces our youthful and vigorous Fraternity must keep its purposes firm and resolute. Our Pi Kappa Phi goal must be striven for. And Virginia Xi has this perspective before it for the coming session. We have determined not to shirk!

Our reorganization for 19171918 finds us intact. Those of us who have been scheduled to return to college are all present, ready for service. Our alumni, for whom we speak a few words, deserve commendation. Frater A.

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Karl Mock, ex-'18, is in France with the expeditionary forces.

We expect a letter from Karl any day telling us of his experiences.

Frater Elish Kent Kane, who left us last June as a graduate, made up his mind to enlist as a private the latter part of August and already has been promoted to sergeant-major, the highest noncommissioned officer in the battalion.

Frater Blackwelder, who is going into a different kind of business, the ministry, has entered the seminary after having performed excellent service this summer in actual preaching. NVe have few alumni as yet, but, oh Pi Kapps, we are proud of them! Of course:, we have a natural aversion to selfcommendation, but don't you join with us in feeling that we have had and still do want men of high qualities—men who will carry Pi Kappa Phi ideals out into the world?

As for those of us who gather again under the same shining star and glorious lamp, we have our patriotism. Frater Carrol Eugene Beach is a member of the Base Hospital Corps of the University of Virginia and is likely to be called out any moment. At the same time, we would keenly feel the loss of Frater Carrot, inasmuch as he has been a tower of strength in all our activities. As a football, basketball, and baseball 'star, a debater, or a social hero he has kept us in the front. Frater Craft, the mainstay of the baseball team, is also with us in body and spirit. Frater "Doug" Chapman figured prominently in the public eye with his punting and playing on the varsity football team this

fall and we have a hunch he will The be next season's captain. presidencies of two classes rest upon the shoulders of Fraters Pflum are old men, the former a crack comedian, and still an irresistible, Frater Luther Clinton Eley was recently given his initiation. This was delayed until this session because of his being pledged too late last May. Frater Eley is, as we have stated before, the best pianist in these parts. Of course, we don't apologize and declare that the new brother is effeminate and weakminded because he thumps the ivories! He isn't. He's quite the opposite, a popular and talented man who looms up large in fraternal work.

Several men have already been pledged: namely, Leonard G. Muse, Ira D. Chapman, Jr., Wm. P. Tatum, Chester M. Moyer, and R. R. Rush. Muse and Chapman are old men, the former a crack third-baseman of the varsity, athletic editor of the annual, and a good student. Chapman is a good literary man, winner of the sophomore declaimer's medal, and has a fine personality. Shows lots of class pep and is somewhat of a baseball man.

Of the new men, Tatum attended West Point until his mother begged him to quit, and then he saw fit to turn to an arts college.

He comes with a good reputation in baseball circles and is a most likeable chap. Moyer has already won his letter in football and is used at guard and fullback, performing each job with equally good credit. Rush is a fine young fellow, a good scholar and social man. Would be a football star

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The few old men who might he last, but not least, are Fraters "Bud" Howerton, editor-in-chief of the Collegian and an artist in literary work; "Frankie" Noel, excomedian, and still an irresistible, good-natured "prep"; also Frater Polvogt, erstwhile "Polly," present archon and president of the German Club; and Paul Atkins, distinction man in studies, both kings of social work.

Thus are we equipped to meet the challenge. Our ideals remain ever firm. We know that we are joined by every chapter in hoping that for this coming year our Pi Kappa Phi work will go on with ever-increasing vigor and power.

We salute you all and wish you the most glorious session ever attendant upon a fraternal organization. All hail to Pi Kapps!

H. J. PFLUM, JR., Correspondent.

Roanoke College, Salem, Va.

GEORGIA IOTA CHAPTER Tech opened on September 23, 1917, with the greatest enrollment in the history of the school. Also Iota opened with a burst of energy and push never shown before. We have taken in eleven new men and tonight are going to take in our twelfth. So as a beginning let us introduce to the other Pi Kappa Phi brothers: V. L. Davis, Commerce, Ga.; C. C. Carson, Commerce, Ga.; B. M. Filbur, Decatur, Ga.; A. J. Little, Augusta, Ga.; J. W. Setze, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; D. A. Cochran, Atlanta, Ga.;

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R. I. Lowndes, Jr., Charleston, S. C.; T. Hood, Commerce, Ga.; R. C. Stubbs, Dallas, Texas; E. H. Havis, Atlanta, Ga.; D. 0. Rice, Memphis, Tenn.

All these men are crackerjacks and are certainly pushing things along. Davis is a star halfback on the scrub team, and believe me Tech has some'scrub team this year (not speaking of the Golden Tornado). Carson is helping on the first aid squad of which Brother Barnett is the head. Filbur, who was in school last year, is a track man as well as Little.

Setza is the demon of work and the punch and pep of the Commerce Class of Tech. Hood is also out for the scrub team. Our last new man is Lilliot, a husky blackheaded brute. Look out for him.

Roddy is assistant band leader of the school, and the Old Gold band is the best in the land. Davis is also a swell slap stick artist in the above mentioned outfit. Barnett is the official keeper of the Golden Tornado and looks after the bruises. Carswell is president of the Chemical Society, the H, S gang of the school. Carreker is still biting the moon in his studies and making them all step for the leadership of the class.

Dawson is trying his hand as a reporter on the Technique, while Brother Alden is exchange editor and a good chemist. Weaver is now acting president of the Tech Bible Class, the biggest Bible class in the city, a class for Tech men only. He is also head usher at the Billy Sunday meetings. Wilkins is also a would-be reporter on the Technique.

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Iota also landed the presidency score in the United States and of the junior class, vice-presi- hasn't lost a game in three years.

I guess we will quit using up dency of the Junior Society, had two men elected to the Junior the worthy paper's space and close.

Society of Civil Engineers, also Wishing the other chapters all the captaincy of the scrub foot- kinds of luck and warning every chapter in the Fraternity that they ball team.

As for alumni, Brother Thomas are going to hear from us pretty of the Southern Wheel Company soon.

GEO. C. GRIFFIN, is now paying us a visit, came over Correspondent. to see the Golden Tornado win Georgia School of Technology, over Auburn to the tune of 68 to Atlanta, Ga. 7, the team which held Ohio State to a scoreless tie. Brother NiSOUTH CAROLINA ALPHA CHAPTER mocks is an aviator of renown stationed at Tech. He graduates The boys of Alpha have rein a week and will . be sent to turned after having spent a much Egypt. Most important of all is enjoyed vacation. Everyone says the fact that he was married on that he is ready for a good year's November i to Miss Evelyn Mes- work, and to keep up the Pi Kapp sick of Winston-Salem, North record, we must all stick up to it.

Carolina.

Last year we had twelve men in Brother Barker is a captain in our chapter, and as we returned the United States Army, and is only five of such a large body, also a recent bridegroom; he was things looked a little gloomy for married to Miss Anne Coleman of us at first. Nevertheless, we beAtlanta on November 22. Brother gan work in earnest, and it was Ellis is in Fort Wayne, vamping only a short while before we the women of that fair burg. We added three men to our loyal hear from him every once in a body. It is with greatest pleasure while. Byrd is in Columbia draft- that we introduce into the Pi ing for our well-known Uncle. Kapp world, Luther Lohr Long of Denton is a petty officer on the Kershaw, S. C.; George Whitman United States transport Albany. Smith of Union, S. C.; and J. B. Hutchinson is in the National Samuel Izlar Buist of Blackville, Guard, as well as a few more of S. C. Many of our fellows are holding our old heads. Breen is also a member of the benedict gang. And college offices this year. Frater by the way Brother NIcCreight, Long is president of the senior class, student body, and vice-presione of our oldest men, is back in dent of the Cliosophic Literary school and is pushing things right Society. Frater Martin is business along. Graham of Eta was over manager of the college magazine, to see us the other day. and Frater McMillan is his asWe won't bother to tell you sistant about our football team, but it is Owing to the ban on fraternities the best in the world. The highest at Presbyterian College, we had

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Henry A. Rogers and George W. the pleasure of initiating two men for our Presbyterian College Campbell, of Alpha and Delta, rebrothers when their football team spectively. They are members of came down to play Citadel. The the Naval Reserve Corps.

We have another man pledged following were initiated: Messrs.

H. D. and D. Fulton, who are and hope to introduce him in the next issue of THE STAR AND brothers.

Now a word concerning our LAMP. J. P. Mc MILIAN, men who failed to return this year. We are glad to say that they Correspondent.

College of Charleston, are climbing in the world Charleston, S. C. with the same speed with which they did in college. Brother Peecksen has gone into cattle CALIFORNIA GAMMA CHAPTER This has been perhaps the most raising and he informs us that the future looks bright for him. unusual year in the history of Brother Kahrs is holding a Gamma. With but ten of the fragovernment position and is situat- ters back and of these only four ed in Washington, D. C. It is who were prepared to live in the gratifying to us to know that his house, we decided to relinquish it record has been such that he has for a term at least. The other six been twice promoted. Brother members live with their people Jenkins is working in Summer- around the campus so that lack ville, South Carolina, temporarily; of a house did not prevent the he intends entering Georgetown boys from getting together.

University in a few months where In spite of the setbacks due to he will begin the study of law. war conditions things have proBrother Pearson is attending the gressed smoothly. At present no Medical College of South Caro- new men have been pledged due lina. He attends our meetings to the unsettled conditions. Howregularly, and though he is not an ever, we have maintained a good active member, he is one of our standard here among the organizations. Frater Washburn has live wires.

Congratulations t o Brother been a particularly active leader, Blitch, he has surpassed us all. having been elected to memberAnyone knowing him will not be ship in the English Club, an honor surprised to learn that he is en- society, and the Mask and Dagger, gaged to one of Louisiana's fair- •dramatic honor society, and has a est, Miss Louise Buchannan. At prominent part in the junior class present. he is at Meggets, South play. Unfortunately our archon, Carolina, where he is engaged in Hob Miller, who is a member of truck farming. He has such an ex- the varsity soccer football team, tensive farm that he is commonly left college temporarily. Two of known as the "Cabbage Prince." the sophomore class, Art Sinnock It is indeed a great pleasure for and Al Clement, have figured us to have with us this year two prominently in tennis and wresof our alumni, namely. Bros. tling. We are to lose very shortly

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one of the most active members who for a long time held the office Df grapter and later archon, Frater Henry Brink who will graduate in December.

One of the big events held this semester was an informal banquet given by the present members to "The Boys with the Colors." The following branches of the service were represented there: Aviation, Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry.

Gamma has now at least.one commissioned officer in every branch and fully forty per cent of the

chapter is serving the flag in one form or another.

The chapter roll follows: Hobart Miller, Archon (has taken out a temporary absence); H. S. Brink, Jr.; A. E. Washburn; A. E. Mead; S. Persons (enlisted in Aviation Corps); A. Sinnock; A. Clement; L. D. Null; H. K. Hirst.

Gamma extends the best wishes to all the fraters.

Fraternally, ELWOOD MEAD, JR.,

Correspondent.

University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

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