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GRAND CHAPTER ROY J. HEFFNER Eminent Supreme Archon T. H. lu, Honolu s, Barrack Schofield G. HARPER, JR. NRY ....FI Archon Eminent Apreme Deputy 803 East Ave., Charlotte, N. C. JAMES W. SETZE, JR. Eminent Supreme Grapter , 25 Auburn Ave., Atlanta Ga. J L. ELLIS, JR. Eminent Supreme Thesaurophulax Ga. , Atlanta ee, 241 W. Peachtr RICHARD L. YOUNG Eminent Supreme Journalist 459 Beaumont Ave., Charlotte, N. C. JOHN E. HAVIS Eminent Supreme Historian 2026 Mayview Ave., S. W., Cleveland, Ohio JoHN D. CARROLI, Eminent Supreme Counselor C. S. ton, Lexing BOONF, S. BOWEN Eminent Supreme Chaplain Mt. Pleasant, S. C. D M. HAYES Eminent Supreme Thurepanioiktes Emory University, Georgia SUPREME COUNCIL For the East For the West At Large

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THE STAR AND LAMP Editor-in-Chief 459 Beaumont Ave., Charlotte, N. C. RICHARD L. YOUNG Business Manager 3310 Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. J. COZBY BYRD Associate Editor West Point, Ga. E. H. SANDERS Alumni Editor Cleveland, Ohio JOHN HAVIS, At Large Exchange Editor Otterbein, Ind. WADE S. BOLT

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N(ivember, 1920

No. 3

CONTENTS PAGE

Alumni News

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Chapters Letters.

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Distinguished Musician Now a Pi Kapp

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Dope from Bolt

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Editorial

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Exchanges

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Former E. S. A. Weds

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Installation of Tau Chapter

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Kappa Brother Wins Rhodes Scholarship North Carolina State College a Pi Kapp Addition

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Pi Kapp Makes Phenomenal Record Pi Kapp Takes Glimpse into Antiquity

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Sparks from the Phi-re

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the postoffice Application made for entrance as second class matter at of March 3, 1879. at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of September, THE STAR AND LAMP is published in the months Printing ComNovember, January, March, and June by the Queen City pany, official printer to Pi Kappa Phi, Charlotte, N. C. the hands of the All material intended for publication should be inry, May, August, Februa of the fifth than later not -Chief -in Editor October and December.

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HIS is the first issue of The Star and 13 Lamp under the new regime. What success we may have attained is due to the men in the ranks, members of the undergraduate chapters and brothers of the alumni class. Without their help the publication could not have come from the press. Continued co-operation is asked.

There was a time when the one-horse plow was up-to-date. But that day has passed. The steam tractor and the gang plow are the order of the times. The farmer, driving a gray mule, pulling a single plow, who attempts to keep up with his more progressive neighbor with mechanical devices, is soon lost in the rear of the parade of progress.

So it is with The Star and Lamp. If the editor is compelled to do all the work of writing, then the product will be a "fleabitten gray" one-horse, one-plow affair. If every Pi Kapp will co-operate by writing for and talking The Star and Lamp, then the journal may well be called a gang plow edition.

Let's get in the gang plow class. •

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Brother Wade S. Bolt, who for more than four years has been the life blood of THE STAR AND LAMP, has seen fit under the circumstances to withdraw from active Dropping the control of the publication of the fraternity Mantle magazine. It is with genuine regret that the fraternity must lose so valuable a man as Brother Bolt, but his severance with the magazine is not absolute, for in the future he will conduct the exchange department.

We are sure the fraternity at large appreciates the work of Brother Bolt. His was no easy task. He worked valiantly to keep the journal going, laboring at times alone, without the help and co-operation of the rest of the fraternity. The success that came to THE STAR AND LAMP during that period may be ascribed to Brother Bolt and we dare say there is no *man in the fraternity who will offer to contradict the statement.

Now that the mantle has been dropped from the shoulders of Brother Bolt some one must pick up the cloak of editorial responsibilities and carry the work on. Amid untoward circumstances, we are shoved beneath the falling mantle. With misapprehension and misgiving, we accepted the honor conferred by the fraternity. We feared for the success of the magazine, the only thing by which Pi Kappa Phi is judged by the outside world and the Greek letter field. We know the official journal could not be issued without aid, co-operation, backing of the fraternity at large. We recalled the circumstances of the administration of Brother Bolt, when he was forced to publish the magazine himself. We knew we could not edit a creditable journal alone. Assurances from prominent members of the fraternity that co-operation and worlds of assistance will be forthcoming alone led us to accept the responsible position as editor-in-chief of THE STAR AND LAMP,

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We believe each and every Pi Kappa Phi has the good of the magazine at heart and deep down in his conscience wants to help. All we ask, "obey that impulse." We want to put out a good magazine but it is an admitted fact that the editor can not do it alone.

Our cards are on the table. It's your play.

Vacation time is over. The good old days of the shady nook and fishing line are gone. The light, airy nights with sweet sounding dance music blended with mellow These Days moonlight are memories of the past. Labor of Now Day has just passed and the American youth is back in college. From now each day should be a labor day with him. Labor and production are the greatest needs of America writhing in the throes of transition from war to peace.

Loafing on the job these days should be branded as the crime of the age. Too much of slip-shod methods, too much of wishywashy beliefs, and too much of passing the buck has held this country too long in its period of deliverance.

The American college man today, though it seems paradoxical, is an important factor in aiding in the readjustment. He has the potentiality of making or marring the peace and well being of the nation. He within a short time will enter into the new period to carry on the world's work. Today is his day of preparation. If he loafs on the job he is criming not only himself but his State and nation. If he fails to fully prepare for the days of toil ahead he is allowing an ignominy beyond erasure to be placed upon his record sheet. His time is now and if he fails today he fails in the great tomorrow.

Pi Kapps, you are part and parcel of this great American collegehood. Do your part in shaping your lives for the great service which is bound to be yours. Let it not be said of one who has seen the light under the Star and Lamp and who knows the value of brotherhood and co-operation that he snubbed his life in the eventful days of now. Do your work and do it well.

Some day your chance will come. By the light of flickering fire coals Abraham Lincoln prepared for the presidency. He declared that he would get ready for some day when his chance

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might come. And it did. And most,of all he was equal to the occasion 'and measured up to the standard of one of the country's greatest men.

Pi Kapps, work and play, but do both well. Don't loaf on the job. Render service for value received. Prepare for your day. Be ready to aid the world in the solution of its problems.

Be a man. Be ready.

The small business cards in the back of the magazine have been increased by two in this issue. The new additions which have appeared to keep company with the two Professional of long standing were secured by Brother Cards Henry Green Harper, Jr., E. S. D. A., who wrote only once and received prompt replies. Moral: Others can just as easily get more. Every little bit helps, the wiseguy is wont to opine.

All chapter letters sent in should be typewritten double space, and headed by the form which most of the letters in this issue have used. Some of the letters received had Chapter to be typed before being sent to the printers.

Letters This may not seem herculean, but when the short time at the disposal of the editor is taken up with the copying of letters, it means that vital time is taken from something of more importance to the magazine. A good soldier obeys orders and a Pi Kapp, being a good fellow, will follow instructions.

Soon after the appearance of this number, December 12 with all its meaning for Pi Kappa Phi, will come rolling around. It was decreed at the Charlotte convention that Founders the day shall be observed as a memorial to the Day dead and a tribute to the living. Each chapter for a celebration of founder's day that planning be should now the ideals of our fraternity. The day with keeping will be in to the service of Pi Kappa Phi ion re-dedicat of should be one of our order. It should high purpose the and the lauding of

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be made to stand for the best that is in us and should be observed with appropriate exercises.

The occasion need not be elaborate and if a chapter does not see fit to hold a banquet the members may be called into extra meeting when talks may be had on the founding of the fraternity and its aims and purposes. If new brothers have recently been brought in, then will be an excellent opportunity to show to them the spirit of Pi Kappa Phi. We are hoping that every chapter will stop for a short time, some time during the day of December 12, and looking back upon the history of an organization, begun so unpretentiously sixteen years ago, but which has grown to wide proportions, will receive inspiration and face the future with renewed hope for larger things.

Co-operation. You doubtless encountered it at the beginning of your trip through this magazine. You bumped into it as you rounded the corner of the last page. All along Co-Operation the way, it slipped up behind you and gave you —What Is It? a thrust in the side or a slap in the face. Well, what is it?

Some one has said that it is one of the big words in the lexicon today, for it breathes a spirit, which is the genius of all success and attainment. It is the by-word of successful financiers, contractors, merchants, preachers, and men everywhere in the work-a-day world. But why?

Because in these days and times when one man attempts to do a certain thing he usually fails, but let two men join hands and say the thing will be done and it is done. The mathematics, the exact science of things, of co-operation is pointed out by Dr. Vance in the verse of Scripture, which being interpreted says that if one man can chase a thousand men two men can put to flight ten thousand.

But what does it mean for Pi Kapps? It means the joining together within the flicker of our star and lamp for the upbuiling of the fraternity. We don't mean the mere physical expansion, for that is ours without the asking. But what cooperation should mean to Pi Kapps everywhere is the spirit of

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"let's do this thing and do it well." If stands for a more intimate knowledge of each other and consequently a more lasting .brotherly feeling. It is the feeling of doing things and seeing them accomplished.

The best medium for the expression of this intangible though vital word is THE STAR AND LANtr. What does co-operation mean in connection with what we are wont to call our magazine? It means the sending in of chapter letters on time, properly prepared, and written according to instructions. It means the thinking of the magazine when reading the newspaper, for the daily news sheets may contain interesting items concerning men of our fraternity. It means the writing of individual stories. It means the talking and boosting of the journal at every opportunity. It means the strengthening of the voice which speaks for us in the world of Greeks. It means the dressing up of our representative at the banquet of literary critics in the realm of Greek letter men. It means the warding off of a similar fate which once befell a man who attended a wedding feast without the conventional evening clothes.

When one man attempts a thing he usually fails. But when two men join hands and say let the thing be done, it is done.

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A WORD IN PASSING

By WADE S. BOLT The writer is no longer your supreme journalist. It is a case of stepping down a notch, not of stepping out of the harness.

We accept the duties of utility man and pass the responsibilities of the office to a brother whom we believe to be more capable and worthy of the position.

By consent of the incoming journalist, who has been duly appointed by the supreme chapter and council, we have been retained on the staff and will devote our time to the Exchange Department. This is indeed gratifying, for there is great pleasure in remaining in touch with Pi Kappa Phi and the fraternity world in general, even though it be in a lesser capacity than before.

It is not without regret that we pass up opportunities for such enjoyable relationships as we have experienced in the past, but such a course seemed necessary. In passing, our beseeching word to you all is this: Chapters, be prompt in submitting your chapter letters and special articles; alumni, respond to your journalist's appeal for material. No one person is able to compile a journal of the nature of our beloved STAR AND LAMP without co-operation from all departments.

Wisdom has been displayed in the choice of our successor.

There is no question as to Brother Young's qualifications. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and a member of the editorial staff of one of the leading newspapers of that State, he is well versed in journalistic requirements. He lacks nothing in his zeal for our fraternity.

In closing we wish to assure the fraternity as a whole that there is no lack of appreciation on our part for such honors as have been conferred. There is no sense of stepping out of the ring. We covet the associations of such good Pi Kapps as we have met at the conventions and look forward to journeying to conventions in the future.

Be patient in your demands, prompt in your responses and let us all combine to help "Dick" Young improve our magazine with each successive issue.

Among the Picturesque and Primitile Fiestas of New Ntexko, That of Su Ger Taos, Is Among the Most Important.. A Visitor Music, Who IS Seei4:pper Left Photograph with There Was Thurlow Lieurance, Recorder of Indian Two Taos Indians Songs.

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By HAZEL GERTRUDE KINSCELLA, in Husical America "Long before the white man chanced upon these shores, there sounded in forest, desert, and prairie, the song of the American

Indian, the music of a race that once peopled the entire continent, representing different types of culture and various grades of dezvlopment.--Natalie Curtis.

Thurlow Lieurance, recorder of Indian tribal melodies, and composer, has recently returned from a sojourn with the Taos Pueblo Indians at Taos, New Mexico. The very names "Taos" and "Pueblo" are words to conjure with, hinting at picturesque life and experiences, for Taos has been said to be the most "foreign" settlement in America, the pueblos now occupied having been there when the Spanish came in 1540. So it was with intense interest that the writer learned of the many unique experiences with which Mr. Lieurance met during his visit with this primitive people.

It is a mystery why some of our musicial "moderns," with their love for "vigor and vitality," their fondness for primitive "color" and pattern and the naivete of aboriginal art, have not long since sought this Pueblo country for inspiration. The trails to the little village of Taos are hard to travel, but certain it is that he who goes once will go again. Taos, the primitive, nestles in the foothills of the Don Fernandez Mountains, the two adobe pueblos—one five, and the other seven stories high— being three miles from the quaint old Mexican village about ninety miles north of Santa Fe. Here in Taos has been organized the Taos Society of Artists—such Indian and nature painters as Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest Blumenscheim, Irving Couse and Herbert Phillips, spending many months there annually.

We are just waking up to an appreciation of the necessity of cherishing our original greatness. Mr. Lieurance's intention and achievement has been to collect real history by the means of phonograph records and hand written records of tribal music.

He has already accumulated many hundreds of characteristic records of greatest artistic and historical worth, these records

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telling the history, legends, myths, manners and customs of a vanishing tribe as no printed page, however vivid, could set forth.

Mr. Lieurance was present at the great symbolic religious festival and pageant of Taos which is held annually on September 30, this festival being best known as the Feast of San Geronimo—sometimes also called the Taos Passion Play. This is one of the best known festivals in New Mexico and is largely attended by white visitors from Colorado and the larger cities of the Rio Grande valley. Added to these are thousands of Mexicans, Jicarilla Apaches, Navajos and Pueblo Indians—an interesting and motley throng. Mr. Lieurance has visited the Taos Pueblos many times, and is considered a trusted and wellloved friend by the Indians, so he has been able to gather from them alone several hundred authentic records of tribal and ceremonial melodies. He has deposited original records in the New Historical Museum in Santa Fe as proof of the worth of his expeditions.

Upon his most recent visit he was able to add to his already large collection, and so interested did the Indians themselveS become in the work that they labored with him tirelessly to secure "good" (authentic) records. Some days after the feast, Mr. Lieurance played a concert on the talking machine for the whole tribe, using in the concert only the song and dance records which they had sung and played for him. The concert started at sun-down and lasted all night, as many of the records had to be repeated six or seven times to satisfy the demands of the audience. Many of the themes so recorded will be used

by Mr. Lieurance in idealized Indian songs, and he always stands ready to share them unselfishly with any other composer who may express a desire for them.

"The songs and chants which are a part of the Feast of San Geronimo are usually weird and impressive," said Mr. Lieuranee, in telling of the festival. "If anyone would have a firsthand knowledge of music in its more primitive conditions, then surely the Southwest forms a field second to that presented by no other region in the world. And here in Taos I have found, among the Pueblos, that richness and completeness of aborig-

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inal life—with its old-time customs, ceremonies, and elaborate rituals—which has been preserved until today with but little foreign influences. All the Indians of the Southwest have been more or less influenced by the Spaniards, and each village, in early times, was dedicated to some saint who became its patron, and the saint's day is the occasion of the greatest public festival.

The Feast of San Geronimo is at once. dramatic, weird and beautiful, forming a spectacular pageant of gorgeous coloring.

"The festival really opens on the evening of the twenty-ninth, when the Indians begin to sing their sacrifice songs. The festival is celebrated, in nearly every particular, as it has been celebrated for nearly 200 years. The Pueblos use a sheep for a sacrifice and offer cakes and candies to their god. The chant and dance at the sun down starts the festivities, and sung as it is, by 500 picked male voices in perfect unison, is impressive to the utmost degree. The warriors, attired in white blankets, form in two straight lines, then sing in unison and dance away from the pueblo, straight toward the setting sun, carrying with them boughs of the aspen tree. They continue dancing until the moment the sun drops behind the horizon, then they fall to the ground and remain there in meditation all during the night, hoping by this act of devotion to get some word from San Geronimo. The meditation takes on almost the form of a seance, and some of the warriors presently feel that they have received a message from the absent saint. In the morning, just as the sun appears again in the east, they dance to the pueblo, waving red blankets in greeting to the sun, and bringing word to those at the pueblo that San Geronimo has sent them a message that he cannot come to them this year, but will at some later time—this and other messages for their comfort and advice. The sacrifice pole is usually set on the evening of the twenty-ninth, and topped with the sacrifice, so that it will be there to greet the god, should he come with the rising sun.

After the dancers leave the pueblo, camp fires are lighted, and through the clear night air, the visitor can sometimes hear, in addition to festival songs, the crooning of the quaint Pueblo lullabies by the Indian mothers.

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"Early the next morning the tops of the five and seven story pueblos—for these Indians still live in the ancient cliff-like dwellings—were crowded with a gorgeously brilliant throng of Indian spectators, watching with breathless interest, the strange scenes at their feet, where the dancers were gathering. In the morning the procession takes places, the two daughters of the Pueblo governor carrying the image of Christ and of San Geronimo. These are placed in a chapel made of aspen boughs, where they may watch the festivities planned in their honor.

A part of the festivities is the big race between members of the different clans—this having a political significance, as the winners have the privilege of electing the next year's governor.

This is followed in the afternoon by a revel or carnival, when the Indians play native games and sing their picturesque chiffonetta or clown song. The festive dancing follows the setting of the sun.

"The Pueblos themselves are very simple and conservative in their dress and manner, but many of the visiting chiefs bring with them their full war regalia, and the visitor may at times see the incongruous sights of soft purring motors vying with tiny burrows in transportation; and of a stalwart Indian from a neighboring pueblo, feet incased in moccasins, body wrapped in a blanket, head uncovered, driving to the celebration with his entire family, in a comfortable modern carriage or automobile.

The Taos Pueblos, however, more than any Indian tribe, have retained their primeval simplicity and dignity."

In many Indian tribes Mr. Lieurance is considered "good medicine." The Crow Indians have given him the name of "Two Sticks," Mr. Lieurance having met with a serious accident while recording Indian music in their country which causes him to use crutch and cane. The Taos Pueblos have a dialect name for him, "Him-First-Friend," and it is because of their high regard for him that he has been allowed to record many of their ceremonial and spirit songs. Each of their dances has special songs which are used at their special time, and it is deemed sacrilegious to use them at any but the appropriate time.

This is why it is sometimes very hard to secure records. It was, however, Mr. Lieurance's privilege to record fifty types of war

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dance songs in one night—enough to last one composer for thematic material all his life. Enumerating these taken that night, Mr. Lieurance described them as "twenty distinct flute songs played by three native flautists; a dozen love songs: five

Buffalo Dance songs; many pleasure songs, like Squaw Dance songs, songs of victory, songs for the chiefs, society songs of the clans; and working songs, as the corn-grinding songs."

Not only has Mr. Lieurance collected tribal music of the Pueblos, but that of thirty-one other separate tribes, and while not able to speak all dialects, he is able to converse in the universal Indian sign language. The last appointment of Kit Carson, the famous Indian scout, was at Taos, and his adobe is still standing there in its original condition. Mr. Lieurance made his home in this dwelling during his first visit to Taos.

A glimpse into his diary reveals many interesting notes about Indian music. There are about twenty tribes of Pueblo Indians living in the Southwest at the present time, each having a patron saint for whom they hold a feast day of grand ceremonies once each year. Said Mr. Lieurance, "Librettists and romancers could find a wealth of material there dramatizing the ceremonies of the pueblo people, and composers can find enough thematic material to color with real American atmosphere, whole operas, symphonies, and other forms of composition." It is in this way that Mr. Lieurance has utilized Indian themes in his songs, "The Owl's Bleak Cry," "My Lark, My Love," and "The Waters of Minnetonka," which later song is being sung with such great success by Mme. Schumann-Heink this season. He also furnished the Indian melodies which Preston Ware Orem has used in his American Indian Rhapsody, a most interesting and effective piano composition.

According to Mr. Lieurance, it is not always possible to secure original Indian melodies at will, but one must await the pleasure or mood of the Indian himself. He told of securing the story and melody of "Minnetonka." An old chieftain, whose friendship he had won, told him the legend of the traditional feud between the two clans or "societies" of Indians— the Sun-deer cland and the Moon-deer clan. Members of one

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clan were not allowed to mingle with members of the other clan, or intermarry, but one day a Sun-deer brave fell in love with a Moon-deer maiden, and played his love message to her upon his willow flute. Both were sentenced to death, but the two lovers ran away to the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The clans pursuel them, and rather than be separated, they waded into the waters of the lake until it flowed over their heads, and to this day, the legend goes, "one may hear, by this lake, the moaning of the waters under which the lovers disappeared."

This theme has been idealized by Mr. Lieurance in "Minnetonka," the piano accompaniment suggesting, in a realistic way, the Indian flute. , NIr. Lieurance has been able to overcome to some extent, the shyness of the Indian nature and the Indian's natural aversion to the camera, and has a remarkable collection of Indian photographs. Many of the Indians feel about the camera as they used to feel in regard to the phonograph, that it takes away a part of themselves. After he has been photographed, an Indian will sometimes look at the picture, then feel of himself, then when he realizes that he is "all there," he feels that surely his soul will be smaller in the future world. The Indians of the Taos manufacture little or nothing for sale and the tourist visitor cannot hope to carry away much in the way of tangible souvenirs, but the musicians or artist may bring away with him impressions to last a lifetime. The use of Indian melodies furnishes an unusual field for the American composer. The Indian will give him only a unison melody—this a thematic gem representing the spiritual or inner side of his life. His natural accompaniments are the rippling brook, or the whispering leaves, so the American composer must create for himself the atmospheric accompaniment.

"There are, among the Indians," continued Mr. Lieurance, "some Debussys who devise new styles of music, and among the Pueblos, there are village 'bards' who are famed for their ability to 'make songs.'" There are also transcribers who take our melodies and play them Indian style, the instrument used being always the same, a flute, which among the Pueblos usually a six-toned instrument made of willow or cotton-wood. The

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greatest gift I could possibly give them in return for the recording their songs, is to give them the privilege of learning some of my Sioux war dance songs from my records. Among the most beautiful Indian melodies, aside from the ceremonial songs, are the working songs. Our country is richer than we know in diversity of folknmsic. The aboriginal song of the American Indian—absolutely apart from any other in the world—is a vital part of his nature, and interwoven with nearly every act of his life, and is the language in which his fathers communed with the unseen world.

"In no other part of the United States can one see so many unique, complicated, and instructive ceremonials and spectacles in nine or ten days, as in the Pueblo country, best reached from quaint old Santa Fe, with its ancient charm, where one leaves behind a present-day civilization, and enters a colorful past.

The Pueblo dances are creative works of art, symbolic of political and spiritual life as were the old Greek dances. Among the dances which may be seen at the Pueblo at stated times are the Machitta Dance, symbolic of hatred for ancient captors; the Deer Dance—this danced in disguise—in which the maidens dance with wands, enticing the animals from their lairs, after which, following their capture by the warriors, there is general rejoicing; Dance of Feasting and Thanksgiving; and the Buffalo Dances danced by the medicine men. The Turtle Dance represents the tribe during the water famine. Each tribe has its totem, and should this totem be an eagle, then the tribal dance of those Indians will be an Eagle Dance, the inflection of the music rising and falling with the rising and falling of the eagle's wings, as represented by the arms of the dancer.

Many dances which may be seen at almost any time, are "popular," and have no special significance, but show skill, as the Pony Dance. During war dances, much beautiful music may be heard. Old warriors will, at different times, relate experiences of earlier days, and will then dramatize them, and intermezzo them with songs and dances."

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ance should be enchantment of picturesque scenes. Mr. Lieur a rare opporthanked by the musical fraternity for presenting America." tunity for the study of a historical "musical (By Courtesy of Musical America)

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low Lieurance When, on the night of June 4, 1920, Thur fraternity, a Phi a Kapp Pi became a member of Nu chapter of locally and both , rnity great honor was bestowed on the frate sition of acqui the nationally. Nu chapter proudly rejoices in chapters other the Mr. Lieurance as a brother and she is sure, honfeels ser, too, join in a hearty welcome. The great compo rnal frate lf a true ored by the ceremony and is proving himse brother. dship with Bro. It was through Mr. Lieurance's warm frien about. He had ht broug was tion Harold H. Lewis that the initia was on friendly and times of er visited the chapter house a numb Lewis, whose er Broth terms with several of the members. the help of by aided musical career has more than once been st be given piani oserMr. Lieurance, was desirous that the comp a Phi. When the the ritual and taken in as a brother in Pi Kapp he expressed great subject was broached to Mr. Lieurance, to become a memdelight at the suggestion and was truly glad ber of the fraternity. to Americans. He Thurlow Lieurance needs no introduction oser of charming comp a has made a splendid reputation as tion in the provatten musical compositions. He first.attracted ican Indians. His ince of the folkmusic of the North Amer and favorable comresearches in this field have attracted wide Senator Curtiss of ment. Here is an acknowledgment from Kansas: musical mouthpiece "Mr. Thurlow Lieurance: You are the help you in your to ready of the American Indians. I stand you to do all want I f, research work. Being an Indian mysel

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the work you can in your short life time. Preserve our songs.

They are our spiritual life. Respectfully, Chas. Curtiss, U. S. Senator from Kansas."

But not alone in his collecting of Indian music has his work been noteworthy. He is a creative artist as well as a collector. , In his hands these rare aboriginal melodies have been recreated and harmonized, without losing their strong racial flavor and atmosphere. The wild, soulful message of the woods, the hills and the plains is embodied in these fascinating compositions— characteristics which music lovers have been quick to recognize.

In addition to these remarkable contributions to the literature of American Indian music, Mr. Lieurance is creating continually fascinating songs and piano pieces. Whatever he does in music is distinctive in its melody writing, its effective harmonies (which are modern but not ultra), and in its depth and purity of sentiment.

One of the most noteworthy works of this artist is "By the Waters of Minnetonka," a beautiful and striking Indian love song. It is used frequently by Schumann-Heink, ,Alma Gluck, Julia Culp, May Patterson, Christine Miller, Julia Claussen, Horatio Connell, and many other artists. Schtimann-Heink says, "Always when I sing it I have to repeat it."

Mr. Lieurance has promised us that in the near tuture one of his compositions will be a dedication to Pi Kappa Phi, the fraternity which he honors. We are eagerly looking forward to this work and believe that it will be one of his masterpieces. At an impromptu banquet held at the close of the initiation that brought Mr. Lieurance into the fraternity, he expressed a desire to be considered as an active member and wished to be called upon to help in any way whenever possible for him to do so. He declared that although he had been initiated into many other secret and fraternal organizations, he had never accepted a more beautiful or sacred ritual than that of Pi Kappa Phi.

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By DEAN SNYDER, in Atlanta Journal CLEVELAND, Sept. 21.—Buying a ball player for his fielding abilities and finding that he is also a nifty slugger, is the luck

of Tris Speaker.

In his first few games as a regular with the Cleveland Indians Joe Sewell is cutting as big a swath with his bat as he is with his shortstopping.

With almost uncanny foresight Speaker had already secured an option on the New Orleans player before the Ray Chapman tragedy. When the brilliant Cleveland shortstop was struck down, Speaker paid the Pelicans a neat sum for an immediate delivery of the Dixie pastimer.

Some youngsters play over their heads the first few weeks when they first come up to the big show, but if Sewell can keep on doing it for a few days more he may be the cog that will cause the American league cloth to fly from the Cleveland flagpole. The kid is slapping the Ban Johnson apple with as much confidence as he did the Dixie pellets. Sewell is a product of the University of Alabama baseball team. He is in the majors before completing his first full years in the minors.

Johnny Dobbs, manager of the New Orleans Pelicans, from whom Speaker picked the peachy shortstop, says that Sewell is the best player he ever sent up to the big show, and he is the gent who gave both Jim Bagby and Del Pratt their first passpo-rts to the big orchards.

Dobbs was tipped off to the fact that Sewell was a promising player by Ward McDowell, former manager of the Birmingham City league. The youth was then playing on the varsity team at Tuscaloosa.

Ward told Dobbs that he had seen a pair of flashy players on the university nine which he ought to get for the Pels. The other player's name was Stephenson. Dobbs made a special trip to Birmingham and looked the lads over. As soon as he set his eyes on them he opened up negotiations which resulted in his getting Sewell before the competition of St. Louis and Philadelphia major league scouts had blocked the deal.

BRO. JOE SEWELL Om ICRON Who Has so Admirably Filled the Shoes of Ray Chapman on Cleveland American League Baseball Team and Who, the Manager Tris Speakers says, is destined to "Be One of the Best"

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Speaker secured an option on the youngster while the Indians were training at New Orleans last spring, but had not intended to exercise it until this fall. Stephenson, who is Sewell's pal, will get a trial with the Indians next year.

Here's the way Dobbs describes the work of the youngster since he reported to him last April: "I sent Sewell into the .

game as soon as he reported and he didn't miss a day until we sent him to Cleveland. Very soon I made him a leadoff man and I want to tell you that he is one of the best leadoff batters. • I ever saw. He is simply a marvel for a youngster. He hasn't a single weakness other than one or two little things that can only be overcome by experience, as for instance, not looking every time to see whether the ball is in the air or on the ground.

He has a baseball head and right now makes fewer mistakes than a great many good players who have been in the game a long time." • The youngster is already receiving the plaudits of Cleveland fans and if the Indians crowd the Yanks and White Sox off the pennant gangplank the Dixie recruit will be the biggest hero in Ohio, regardless of who is elected to the White House chair.

Sewell is a sweet kid, but he's got a big role to play. Still, he seems to have the stuff which will make hash out of Gleason's and Huggins' October hopes.

Here's what his college paper has to say about him: "Joe Sewell, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, has made the most phenomenal rise known in the history of baseball.

Within four months he has laid aside a college uniform, a Southern league uniform and is now wearing the uniform of the Indians, holding down the position of Ray Chapman with the dignity of an old major leaguer. It is probable that Cleveland will win the American league pennant and Joe will participate in the world series, making his rise still greater. From captain of a college baseball team to a world series within four months.

"Joe finished the university last year. While here he was president of the student body '19-'20; captain of the baseball t.

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team '19-'20; varsity football '19; varsity basketball '18, '19, '20; executive committee; green cap committee. Joe was all southern second baseman each year he played on the Crimson team. His splendid work attracted Johnnie Dobbs, of New Orleans, and resulted in the signing of Joe to the Pelicans.

"While with New Orleans Joe played the best ball of his career. His playing and hitting caused Tris Speaker, of the Cleveland team, to pay New Orleans $10,000 for Joe, the highest price ever paid for a Southern league ball player.

-Cleveland has opened her arms to Joe and he is making himself worthy of all her favors. His fielding and hitting is going to be one reason for Cleveland winning the American league flag and sharing in the world series.

"Taking the place of Ray Chapman has put Joe in the eyes of all baseballdom and the University is proud that he is showing up so well before them. Every student at the University is watching him and rejoicing over his wonderful record."

DOPE FROM BOLT Was it not Cervantes who said, By the road of By-and-By we arrive at the house of Never"? If it was not, he,said something to that effect. And, what is more, brother Pi Kapp, it applies to you, to me, to all of us. There is a plea from your chapter for information, advice, slight financial aid, or personal visit. A supreme chapter official calls for prompt response for the benefit of our fraternity. The journalist requests something for publication. Is it not too often that you hop a passing car headed down By-and-By Street? And don't you alight at the house. of Never? Let us all resolve to use the Rightnow route which leads to the house of Promptness.

In the death of Walter B. Palmer, Phi Delta Theta, which occurred at his home in New York City on February 17, 1920, the Greek world sustained a second great loss. Mr. Palmer was an authority in Greek statistics and history, closely associated with the publication of the Phi Delta Theta Scroll. He was a graduate of Emory College, and a member of the Bet-1.

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Chapter of Phi Delta Theta, which was but two years old at Emory College when he was made a member of the order. Mr. Palmer was educated for the practice of law but applied his unusual talents along literary and journalistic lines, devoting much of his time and talent to his fraternity. At the time of his death he was recognized as one of the foremost statisticians and cost-system experts in the United States. Pi Kappa Phi joins the other fraternities in extending to Phi Delta Theta utmost sympathy in the loss of so eminent and distinguished a character.

Another old bird back in the days before prohibition, has been given credit for a statement to the effect that "everything conies to him who waits." That is not true of chapter life, is it men ? Have you ever pledged the cream oT the freshman class by waiting? Have you at any time accomplished the results you expected by waiting? We warrant you that the waiting proposition is the fly-in-the-gravy with the editor of your magazine. Be prompt with your chapter letters. Be energetic in your efforts to pledge men of sterling worth and character.

The stitch in time which saves nine is the proper choosing of material for chapter construction. Chapters are all liable to an overshot of judgment during the strenuous rushing period which most institutions experience, but there are other ways and means to be considered. We have known many misjudged characters to have been almost reconstructed by proper chapter life. And there are many of the student body who escape pledging periods much to their sorrow, who will bear close inspection for later consideration.

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By HENRY G. HARPER, JR., E. S. D. A. On May 1st, the date set for the installation of Tau Chapter, John D. Carroll, Eminent Supreme Counselor, and I journeyed to Chapel Hill, N. C., where this chapter had its beginning.

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Kappa Chapter very kindly turned over its house for the ceremony, as the fraternities at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh, N. C., do not have the privilege of using houses. All of the boys in the petitioning group were present, together with the entire membership of Kappa Chapter.

The house was arranged for the purpose of initiation and the ceremony was beautifully carried on by Kappa's initiation squad. John Carroll and I simply looked on.

The men initiated were as follows: Franklin Dewey Cline.

Homer DeWitt Long.

Cecil Edwards Cooke.

Cecil Vann Saunders.

William Lewis Roach.

George King Murray.

Robert Pinkney Stacey.

John Hilgh Norwood.

Robert Edgar Williams, Jr. Joseph Gaddy DeBerry.

McCollough Deal.

Robert Antine The newly elected officers were ap. follows: Archon, F. D. Cline; Grapter, W. L. Roach; Thesaurophula.x, R. P. Stacey; Chaplain, C. V. Saunders; Thurepanioktes, R. A. Deal; Historian, R. E. Williams.

After the installation ceremonies, the new Tau Chapter was host to an elaborate banquet, attended by Tau and Kappa Chapters enmasse and the two installing officers. As an added attraction, it was our great pleasure to have with us at this time, John Carroll's charming wife. Telegrams of congratulations from all chapters were read.

All of the new men responded to toasts and displayed a great amount of enthusiasm. I am sure that we have started out at A. & E. College with a fine bunch of young men.

John D. Carroll acted as toastmaster and got by in his usual good style. Mrs. Carroll, who is a real Pi Kap.pa Phi sister, was not in any way bashful and recited beautifully when called upon.

The men were in fine spirits and admitted that they had had a great time. Immediately after the banquet they left for Raleigh to resume their studies.

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By H. D. LONG

North Carolina State College, formerly known as A. & M., is located in Raleigh about two miles from the center of the city. Raleigh is a rapidly growing city. The section around the campus that a few years ago was bare is now built up with handsome residences and modern up-to-date houses.

The people of Raleigh take great interest in the activities of the college and always give hearty support in any undertaking.

They support the athletic teams and boost the college at every chance. They seem to be glad that North Carolina State is in Raleigh.

North Carolina State College was established October 3, 1889, by the State. For several years following the founding of the school the struggle to keep going was very great on account of the lack of appropriations from the State ani because of the lack of support on the part of the people. But the men of strong character and determination who were backing the college soon overcame this obstacle and today the school is considered one of the.best engineering schools in the South.

The campus of North Carolina State is very beautiful, especially in the spring. The wide spreading lawns are well kept and always green and the trees, artistically arranged, add an attractive touch to the campus ensemble. Joining the campus is a public park, which affords various kinds of amusements, while in front are located the State fair grounds.

The three original buildings still remain in the center of the campus but the new buildings, totalling sixteen, are scattered over a fifty-acre campus. The main hall is the most beautiful building. It is a large brick building well designed and erected, but its appearance is added to greatly by the shrubbery and trees that surround it, while the clinging ivy lends the air of a knightly castle.

Pullen hall, one of the original buildings, and one of the most beautiful, is at present undergoing repairs which will make of it a modern structure.

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As a whole the campus is as pretty and the buildings of as good a type as any college in this section of the country.

The greatest factor in the school's success is the faculty.

Dr. Wallace Carl Riddick, president, is a very popular college president. In the midst of his care and work he is always open to the students for friendly conference and advice.

Among our professors and instructors are well known scholars and authorities in many intellectual fields. Among them are Dr. George N. Summey, of the English department; Charles McGee Heck, of the department of physics; Col. William Harrelson, of the mathematics department, and many others of great importance in their respective lines of work.

KAPPA BROTHER WINS RHODES SCHOLARSHIP The highest honor that can come to an American stuierit was awarded to Bro. C. P. Spruill, Jr., of Kappa Chapter, whose home is in Raleigh, N. C., when the Rhodes scholarship board examined fifteen applicants, selecting Brother Spruill to represent North Carolina at Oxford University, England.

Brother Spruill graduated from the University of North Carolina last June with the highest of honors, being given membership in Phi Beta Kappa. At present he is taking postgraduate work at his alma mater. When he appeared before the examining board in Raleigh, Brother Spruill brought with him the highest testimonials of personal worth and scholastic achievements, and the board was unanimous in awarding him the honor.

In addition to leaving a high mark in scholastic records at the University of North Carolina, Brother Spruill has the honor of being one of the most versatile men on the campus there in recent years. He won a letter in the gym and for two years has been gym instructor. He has served on the magazine and year book boards and has always taken an active part in student activities. Last year he was president of the campus council, an organization for the crystalization of campus senti-

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ment. He holds membership in practically every honor society on the hill. He was president of the Pan-Hellenic council in 1919.

One of the most untiring and enthusiastic workers for Kappa Chapter and the fraternity at large has been Brother Spruill.

At present he is house manager and upon his business sagacity the fellows are willing to pin their hopes for a clean financial sheet.

Brother Spruill has been appointed to enter Oxford next January, but it is expected that he may be allowed to finish his work at Carolina and matriculate at the renowned English institution in September, 1921.

The Rhodes scholarships are awarded under the Cecil Rhodes will, which provide annuity of 1300 per year for young Americans who measure up to the requirements of personality and scholarship. The examinations are held under the direction of the board named for the purpose in the Cecil Rhodes will, Frank Aydelotte, of Harvard being secretary.

The examining board for North Carolina is composed of the president of the university and two other college men who have previously been winners of the honor. On the present board, besides President H. W. Chase, are Dr. R. K. Gooch, professor of political science at William and Mary College and William W. Stuart, of Big Stone Gap, Va. Brother Spruill will pursue studies at Oxford in economics.

FORMER E. S. A. WEDS Historic Saint Stephen's Lutheran Church, in Lexington, S. C., noted for its many brilliant weddings in the past, was the scene of the loveliest wedding that has ever been witnessed in this community when Miss Carrie Ruth Efird, daughter of Judge and Mrs. C. M. Efird, became the bride of Mr. John DeLorme Carroll.

The church was beautifully decorated with fern, simlax and pink roses, carrying out an artistic motif of pink and green.

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tall cathedral candles. On each side of the altar was a large shepherdess basket filled with pink roses and tied with tulle. forming a lovely background for the bride and her attendants.

Preceding the entrance of the bridal party a beautiful musical program was rendered by Miss Veda Barre, of Lexington, pianist, Miss Elizabeth Davis, of Columbia, violinist, Miss Caro Efird, of Lexington, and Mr. J. B. Belk, of Columbia, soloists.

Selections were: Solo, "Since I Kissed You," Cadman; Duet, "Sweethearts," from Maytime; Solo, "Love's Garden of Roses," Hayden Wood. Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" was softly played during the ceremony by Misses Barre and Davis.

To the strains of Sousa's "Wedding March," the bridal party entered the side aisles of the church as follows: Ushers, William F. Bowe, of Augusta, with Robert F. Bowe, of New York; J. A. Barre, of Lexington, With Chas. P. Barre, of Greenwood; Robert Carroll, of Columbia, With Ernest Sawyer, of Lexington. Next entered the bridesMaids and groomsmen, who were members of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, of which the groom is retiring president. Miss Essie Efird, sister or the bride, with A. J. Dillard, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Miss Eva Crews, of Columbia, With Beemer 'Harrell, of Marshville, N. C.; Miss Katherine Efird, of Lexington, with James W. Setze, of Atlanta; Miss Annie Carroll, sister of the groom, with Dan Hayes. of New Orleans; Miss Sadie Hewitt, of Marion, with John B. Belk, of Columbia.

The maids wore dainty gowns of taffeta in pastel shades, and carried Orphelia roses. Each groomsman wore a Richmond red rose, which is the fraternity flower.

Next entered the matron of honor, Mrs. Robert F. Bowe, of New York, sister of the bride. Airs. Bowe wore a lovely gown of turquoise taffeta with trimmings of silver lace and carried Richmond red roses.

Immediately preceding the bride came her maid of honor, Miss Caro Efird, sister of the bride. Her gown was fashioned of orchid taffeta, with an overdress of silver lace. She also carried Richmond red roses. The bride entered next with her father who gave her in marriage. Of lovely brunette type she

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made a charming picture in her wedding gown of flesh duchess satin, with pearl motifs, and trimmings of real lace, with a court train of tulle and satin. Her wedding veil of tulle fell from a Russian coronet of real pearls and lace. She carried a shower bouquet of Maryland roses.

The groom with his brother, Arthur Carroll, of Charleston, entered from the vestry. Rev. L. A. Thomas, of Mooresville, N. C., performed the ceremony. He was assisted by Rev. W. H. Riser, of Lexington, and Rev. L. T. Carroll, of Columbia, father of the groom.

The ring ceremony was used.

The bridal party left the church to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march.

Immediately following the wedding a large reception was given at the home of Judge and Mrs. C. M. Efird. The lower floor of the spacious Efird home was thrown ensuit and was beautifully decorated with pink roses and fern. The mantels were banked with fern and roses and burning pink tapers.

In the dining room the bride's table was lovely in a lace cover with burning pink candles in crystal Candlesticks and pink shades. The centerpiece, a pink heart pierced with arrows, tied with tulle, held a bouquet of Columbia roses. Dainty baskets held pink and white mints. Here a delicious salad course was served by Misses Ernestine Barre, Bertha Efird and Reba Carroll.

Receiving at the front door were Dr. and Mrs. P. H. Shealy.

In the hall Mrs. Herman Huggins, in the drawing room were Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bowe, Judge and Mrs. C. M. Efird, Rev. and Mrs. L. T. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. John DeLorme Carroll, and the bridal party. Mrs. Efird wore a gown of flesh georgette beaded in white and carried pink roses. Mrs. Carroll wore black lace gown and carried pink roses. Miss Sadie Hewitt and John B. Belk presided over the bride's book, where numbers of guests registered during the evening. In the living room coffee and fruit cake were served by Mesdames W. F. Bowe, M. P. Bodie, E. S. Ward. Mrs. A. D. Kaufman and B. K. H. Kreps received in the sitting room, where lovely

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gifts were displayed. Among the gifts was a chest of fiat silver from the bride's parents, and a silver service present by the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, as a wedding gift and also as an expression of appreciation to the groom for his four years of faithful service as president.

Mr. and Mrs. Carroll left for a trip through Florida. The bride traveled in a three-piece suit of navy poiret twill with trimmings of rose taffeta. Her French hat was of blue taffeta, trimmed with pink roses, and shoes and gloves of castor.

The bride presented her maids with lovely feather fans and the groom silver belt buckles to his groomsmen.

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It doesn't take an ag. student to plant a fraternity pin, observes a Western journal. Neither does it take a farmer to reap the fruits of planting one in the wrong time of the moon.

There are pins, frat. pins, and safety pins, but the greatest of these is the safety pin.

It is no fun loving a flirt. Ask the man who owns one.

Now they call the grand old stuff "fruit jar-ade."

Too often the "Riders of the Dawn" are the ginks who have stayed out all night.

Rainbow weddings do not always indicate that storms are not ahead.

Flimsy dresses of the sweet young thing dancing on the ball. room floor often mean hours of painful toil for a loving mother.

One woman says she is not on to political tricks but we'll bet she can use a rolling pin.

In the campaign against high prices, the clothing retailers say they have been made the goats. We are inclined to believe they are wolves in sheep's clothing.

Let the Star and Lamp shine brightly, some of the elect are wont to cry. Yes. but the trouble with them is that they fail to replenish the lamps.

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Why is it that you always meet your best girl in front of the drug store when you have only a dime in your pocket?

Fords have gone down. Ours has always had the custom of going down.

It is alleged that fraternity men like to drink. Let it be said of us that we like to think.

She in bolshevism is the woman in the case.

Initiation impressions are lasting. Think twice before pulling the "rough stuff."

Here's one that will never drop a tear for a profiteer.

Pi—"Do the girls in Hawaii still wear straw dresses ?"

Kappa—"Sure they do."

Phi—"Now I know why Roy Heffner went to Honolulu."

A police officer says the jazz dance and shimmy are simply bolsheviki. Aw, come on don't be hard on the "bolshes."

The Golden rule is man's greatest measure.

"Fats" Hazelhurst may be a brave man but he will never venture on a ball room floor solely depending upon a belt.

Reinforcement of "galluses" is his motto.

With the old "co-op" we'll all "go over the top."

From a college diamond to the world's series stadium is the path of Joe Sewell over which he has journeyed in less than one season. His rapid rise is unparalleled in baseball history.

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NV. S. BOI.T We acknowledge receipt of exchanges as follows: January: Tomahawk of Alpha Sigma Phi; Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta; Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta.

March: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega; Kappa Alpha Theta, The Aglaia of Phi Mu; Alpha Xi Delta, The Signet of Phi Sigma Kapp; The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta.

April: Caduceus of Kappa Sigma; The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega; The Garnet and White of Alpha Chi Rho; The Phi Gamma Delta,. The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi; The Anchora of Delta Gamma; Rattle of Theta Chi. May: The Aglaia of Phi Mu; The Key of Kappa Gamma; The Sigma Chi Quarterly, The Phi Gamma Delta, The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma; Kappa Alpha Theta.

June: The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi; The Carnation of Delta Sigma Phi; The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega: The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta: Beta Theta Pi. July: The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

August: The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi. October: The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma.

Fraternities have gained another notch in the advance against the anti-Greek campaigners. Another institution has opened its doors. We quote the folowing from The Palm: "NEBRASKA WESLEYAN IS WILLIN'. Word comes from Dean F. A. Alabaster of the College of Liberal Arts of Nebraska Wesleyan University that the trustees of that institution voted in March to open the institution to fraternities. A committee consisting of members of the board of trustees and of

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the faculty was appointed to assist the local organizations. For several years,' Dean Alabaster writes,'we have had strong local fraternities here, some of which own property, and will probably desire to ally themselves with national organizations.'"

And, again we note the other side of the question in an editoHal in the same issue of The Palm. The editorial, which bears the caption of "Bone Up," is as follows: "Those who heard or read the address of the Walter B. Palmer at the last Inter-Fraternity conference will see in the item printed below the first clearly defined manifestation of the danger which he then forecast. It has been said that a revival of the agitation against the fraternities in state institutions is to be expected in the state legislatures which meet in January, 1921, and that the start' might be looked for in Wisconsin. Our Worthy Grand Chief, in various articles in the fraternity press and in his report to the Cleveland Congress has repeatedly warned the fraternities of the danger in this direction, and has pointed out that the fraternities are inviting attack by allowing the unsettled conditions of the vast year or so to lower their standing in scholarship. The item is from the Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern of May 13.

"CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH SORORITY HOUSES IS ON. A campaign to abolish sorority and fraternity houses at the University of Wisconsin is under way among the university students. At a recent meeting, attended by about seventy-five students preliminary steps were taken to bring the question before the State legislature again for action. It was charged that fraternities and sororities were a menace to the university, that snobbishness was engendered by fraternities and sororities, that they had no place in a democratic institution, and that the grade of scholarship was lower among fraternity and sorority members than among non-members. It is understood that further meetings will be held in the anti-fraternity campaign."

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not one bit of sameness was to be discovered in the three articles. Each bore a distinctive tone. Well sprinkled with illustrations, the issue appealed to us from the moment we opened the cover until we had journeyed carefully through the pages.

Kappa Delta has recently entered the Universities of Pittsburg, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

Very few were the instances where rank was forgotten, during the recent world struggle. Yet, in Beta Theta Pi we read the following interesting little incident: "WHEN RANK WAS FORGOTTEN. It is reported by our New York correspondent that, during the recent international troubles over there Col. John R. Simpson, Miami '99, known to many Betas as 'Jerry' was giving out orders surrounded by his aides-de-camps, who were captains when Marion Pierce, Miami '16 hove in sight. Colonel Simpson called out to hin.

'Hello Monk!' Promptly the reply came back 'Hello Jerry !'• The captains looked aghast at hearing such familiarity from a first lieutenant. And Pierce went over and said to Colonel: 'I fear I should not have addressed you the way I did but you took me by surprise,' whereat Colonel Simpson replied: 'If you had not addressed me in the way you did I should have gone over and kicked the devil out of you.'"

In The Purple, Green and Gold of Lambda Chi Alpha we observe the following comment on the live wire organization which Pi Kappa Phi boasts at Roanoke. The men of Xi have the best interests of Pi Kappa Phi always before them and the counsel of Bro. A. P. Wagener of the Roanoke staff to guide them. The article follows: "The fraternity world is watching with some interest .the experience of the chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, established in 1916, at Roanoke College. Six fraternities report inactive chapters at the institution, Phi Gamma Delta having been active 18661905 ; Phi Delta Theta, 1869-96; Alpha Tau Omega, 1869-92; Sigma Chi, 1872-1901; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1896-1909; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1903-06."

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Tau Kappa Epsilon, founded practically four year before our fraternity., now has thirteen chapters, having recently entered the University of California. We admire the slogan which T. K. E. has chosen: "A fraternity for life."

Theta Chi has entered the Universities of Rochester ( N. V.) and North Carolina, the installations having been held June 11th and 12th. Their Alpha Gamma Chapter (University of Michigan) has purchased a fine new home near the university campus.

An interesting feature in The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta was the illustration of some traditional .or especially merited building or site of the university of each chapter at the head of said chapter letter.

Omega Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa, University of California, has purchased a new chapter house.

Sigma Chi lays claim to no slight honor in one of her sons.

The pilot commander of the NC-3 naval plane, which successfully crossed the Atlantic last May, was a Sigma Chi, to-wit, Holden C. Richardson.

There was the following bit of interesting news in The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta. The Rainbow credits its Gamma Alpha Ccahpter news letter with the item: "There are now twenty-four fraternities at the University of Chicago. Recently Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Zeta Beta Tau, Pi Lambda Phi, Kappa Alpha Psi and Beta Phi have installed chapters. During the last three months the following eight university fraternities have bought houses at Chicago: Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, Delta Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Zeta Beta Tau, Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta and Phi Delta Theta.

Delta Tau Delta, buying in 1909, was the third fraternity to own its home at Chicago. Now sixteen out of twenty-four fraternities own their houses.

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Delta Tau Delta has suffered the loss of two founders, the deaths of J. S. Lowe and William Randolph Cunningham occurring in 1919.

We lifted from The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma the table of

data given below. This, together with an elaborate tabulation of college fraternities and their locations, appeared in the May issue of The Caduceus. Did we not judge it unfair to Dr. F. K. Farr's labors, we would have lifted said tabulation, too.

For convenience we reprint below, with one change which has come to our knowledge since last month, the addition of Theta Chi at Purdue, March 26, the list of the general fraternities with the number of their chapters: Sigma Alpha Epsilon 90 Delta Chi 22 Kappa Sigma 85 Chi Phi 22 Phi Delta Theta 84 Theta Xi 21 Beta Theta Pi 81 Alpha Sigma Phi 20 Sigma Nu 80 Phi Epsilon Pi 20 Sigma Ci 72 Chi Psi 19 Alpha Tan Omega 71 Delta Sigma Phi 19 63 Alpha Chi Rho Phi Gamma Delta 17 62 Alpha Gamma Rho Delta Tau Delta 14 Lambda Chi Alpha 53 Sigma Pi 14 Kappa Alpha 51 Delta Phi 13 Pi Kappa Alpha 48 Pi Kappa Epsilon 13 Delta Upsilon 46 Pi Kappa Phi 13 Phi Kappa Psi 46 Pi Lamba Phi 10 Sigma Phi Epsilon 45 Sigma Phi 10 Delta Kappa Epsilon 43 Beta Phi 8 Phi Sigma Kappa 30 Kappa Alpha (n) 8 Theta Delta Chi 29 Phi Kappa Tau 8 Phi Kappa Sigma 29 Delta Psi 7 Theta Chi 27 Sigma Phi Sigma 6 Alpha Delta Phi 25 Kappa Delta Rho 5 Psi Upsilon 25 Phi Mu Delta 3 Zeta Psi 24 Theta Alpha 2

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BETA CHAPTER (INACTIVE) Tom D. Jacobs was married last spring to Miss Nell Copeland of Clinton, S. C. He is now in business with his father and is located at Clinton at the present time.

S. C. Brown served overseas with the fighting marines and was stationed for some time with the army of occupation in Germany. His home is in Griffin, Ga. A. P. MacFie, one of the most popular men that ever went to the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, won his commission in the aviation corps as a pilot. He received his discharge some time ago and is now at his home in Winnesboro, S. C. J. H. Hunter was another of our patriotic brothers who won his commission in the aviation •corps. At present he is at his home at Clinton, S. C. D. M. Fulton and W. D. Fulton are at present working in their home town, Darlington, S. C. EPSILON CHAPTER (INACTIVE) Bro. W. S. Cunningham, is associated with the Erskine R. Smith Furniture Company in Charlotte.

Bro. S. T. Henderson is one of the partners in the Home Real Estate and Guaranty Company of Charlotte.

Bro. Ralph Robinson, who recently sold out his general merchandise business at Derita, near Charlotte, is farming for the time being at Derita.

Bro. W. H. Neal, Jr., is savings teller of the Charlotte National Bank.

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Paul C. Thomas, ex-'21, has given up his old position as a teller in bank and now is holding down the position of assistant to the treasurer of a large cotton mill in Spartanburg, S. C. Elyea Dupre Carswell, ex-'18, has a fine position with the Southern Cotton Oil Company as assistant chemist. He is at

present in Cartersville, Ga., at the company's plant.

T. L. Johnson, ex-'22, is a traveling salesman for the "Old Dutch Line" of carbon paper and typewriter ribbons with his headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. J. Cozby Byrd, ex-'19, has given up his work as an architect and has gone up to the University of Pennsylvania to further pursue the Muse of Architecture.

James Allen Weaver, ex-'20, received his release from active service in the naval reserve and is now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is studying electrical engineering.

R. Cardis Stubbs, ex-'21, is working with his father in the promotion end of his business. His father holds the patent on the "Vibrolithic Concrete Roads" and is making a great success.

Edmonds Etan Hune, ex-'21, is now working for the Memphis Steel Construction Company at Pittsburg, Pa. KAPPA CHAPTER Bro. T. C. Wolfe, who graduated last year, is at Harvard studying law.

Bro. Nathan Mobley, of last year's class, is with the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, connected with the University agency at Chapel Hill.

Bro. E. A. Griffin is associated with his father in the A. T. Griffin Manufacturing Company at Goldsboro.

Bro. N. R. Pippin is farming at Fremont, N. C. Brother J. Shepard Byran is superintendent of schools at Wilson, N. C. Bro. Frank Clarvoe is in Seattle, Wash., connected with one of the newspapers there.

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Bro. A. E. Young, who is with the Standard Drug Company of Rock Hill, S. C., recently underwent an operation at a Charlotte hospital.

Bro. John W. Perdew is at home in Witmington, with J. W. Murchison & Co. Bro. John L. Henderson, is manager of the City Drug Company at Burlington, N. C. Bro. R. T. Bryan, Jr., is practicing law at Shanghai, China.

Bro. John H. Cook, has a law firm in Fayetteville, N. C. Bro. C. M. Hazelhurst, one of the graduates of last year, is in Pittsburg, working with the Westinghouse Electric Company.

Bro. Jeff Byrum is recuperating from a spell of typhoid fever in Texas.

Bro. H. H. Perry is in the National City Bank, New York City.

Bro. H. G. Harper, Jr., is with the Charlotte branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. He is on the road part. of the time now, traveling in eastern Carolina.

Brother R. L. Simpson is in .the automobile accessory business in Greensboro, N. C. Bro. M. G. Quevedo is with the Snare and Triest Company, contractors for engineering work, located at Esmeralda, Cuba.

At present he is engaged in building a railroad for the North of Cuba Railway Company.

Bro. R. J. Crowell is .farming in the western part of the State at Acton, N. C., near Asheville.

Bro. W. C. Adams is one of the proprietors of the Conway Drug Company at Conway, S. C. Brother Ralph Wilson, of the 1919 class, is at the North Carolina State College, Raleigh, taking textile. He no doubt is giving the new brothers of Tau Chapter vaulable aid.

Bro. G. M. Brooks is practicing medicine in the eastern part of North Carolina.

Bro. Frank B. Marsh is also practicing medicine. He is located in his home town, Salisbury, N. C. Bro. E. B. Marsh is practicing his profession of law at Salisbury.

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Bro. W. H. Howell has recently been doing geological research work with the Standard Oil Company in Oklahoma.

ROBINSON-WHITLEY WEDDING.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Much social interest in the county centered on the marriage of Miss Marie Whitley and Mr. Ralph Knox Robinson, which took place last evening at 8 o'clock at the historical old Sugar Creek Church, which has recently undergone extensive improvements. The pastor, Rev. W. R. McCalla officiated. The church was beautifully decorated with quantities of Dorothy Perkins roses and potted palms and ferns. Prior to the ceremony Miss Mary Belle Hood,of Matthews, sang "Beloved It Is Morn" and "At Dawning." She was accompanied by Miss Lola Hood, of Matthews.

While the march from "Lohengrin" was being played the bridal party entered. First came the ushers, Mr. Davis Robinson and Mr. Coyte Hunter, Mr. Roy Todd and Mr. Bruce Hutchinson, . followed by the bridesmaids and groomsmen, Miss Lucille Jamison, of Charlotte, and Miss Ellie Russell, of Matthews, Messrs. Willis and Preston Robinson. Miss Jamison was gowned in white crepe de chine and tulle draperies; Miss Russell was gowned in pink satin and tulle overdress. They carried shower bouquets of pink and white sweet peas. Pretty little Miss Frances McCalla was ring bearer and preceded the bride carrying the ring in a large white rose. She wore a dainty dress of white ruffled organdie. The bride, gowned in white satin and lace and wearing a tulle veil, the latter worn by her aunt, Mrs. A. L. Bullock, of Rowland, at her marriage, and carrying a shower bouquet of roses and sweet peas, entered with her sister, Miss Helen Whitley. She was gowned in robin's egg blue crepe de chine with tulle draperies and carried an armful of Killarney roses. Mr. Robinson, the bridegroom, entered from the rear of the pulpit, accompanied by his best man, Mr. Silas Hunter. During the ceremony Miss Hood played MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose." Mendelssohn's march was played at the conclusion. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson left shortly after their marriage for a trip north after which they will be at horne in Derita. The bride is a (laughter of Mrs.

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Bruce Whitley, of Derita. She was educated at Queens College in this city and was graduated in music from that institution.

For the past two years she has been teaching music in the Huntersville high school. Mrs. Robinson is a direct descendant of John McKnitt Alexander and is widely connected in the county. She is a young woman of attractive personality and is admired by a host of friends. Mr. Robinson is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robinson. He was educated at Davidson College and the Georgia Tech and is a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He is a member of the firm of.

Hunter and Robinson, of Derita, and is a successful and popular young business man.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Charlotte Observer, June 2, 1920.

OMICRON CHAPTER Jesse B. McQueen is now'working in New York City.

William Bebell is engaged in business in Brooklyn, N. Y. William Randolph, a charter member of this chapter, is with the Highway Department of the State of Georgia and for the present is located in Americus.

William Ray, who left school at the end of the first term, is with a tobacco company with headquarters in Montgomery.

Phil Lightfoot is attending Massey's Business College in Montgomery.

Hubert Martin, who has been at work in New Orleans for the past few months, is now with a drug firm in Montgomery.

Joe McLure paid the chapter a visit the latter part of March.

Joe is in the real estate business and states that he is haying a good trade in the City of Troy.

A marriage of special interest to the student body was that of Chester Counts, '20, and Kathlyn Harrison, '21, which occured at the home of the bride in Midway, Ala., the early part of July.

Brother Counts was a popular member of the fraternity and Miss Harrison was a. member of the Delta Delta Delta society.

Soon after the marriage they left for Savannah, Ga., where they will reside in the future. Brother Counts holds a responsible position with the Central Railroad Company.

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Bro. William Ray, '22, married Miss May Teal in Montgomery the latter part of May. He is with the American Tobacco Company with headquarters in Montgomery.

Robert Tate,'20, is now practicing law in Birmingham. Old Bill will long be remembered as the famous back stop for the 1920 inter-fraternity baseball champions.

Herman Burchfield,'20, is in business with his father in Tuscaloosa.

John Shealy,'20, is practicing law in Enterprise.

George Stacy, '20, is now teaching school.

James Ward,'20, is also a professor and a booster for more pay for teachers.

Burnie Jones is professor of law in the law school of the University of Alabama.

E. P. "Robin" Hood, '20, is with the Tennessee Iron and Coal Company at Birmingham. Robin was a member of the football team.

Joe Sewell, '20, is now playing ball with the Cleveland Indians. He is making some record in the big league.

Ralph Jones,'20, is now practicing law and coaching the high school team at Guin, Ala. Jack Hovater is coaching the football team at the Easley high school.

Gordon Barnard is studying medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Aubrie Colquit is in business with his fAther at Brantley, Ala. Jack Hovater married Miss Velma Petree of Russesville, Ala., the latter part of August. Jack will be remembered as one of the best football ends ever seen on the Alabama team. Miss Petree was a student at Alabama Girls Tech.

ZETA CHAPTER Bro. W. C. Melvin is with the Moon Auto Company, Charlotte, N. C. Bro. "Rooter" Rollings,'20, is studying law at the University of South Carolina this year.

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Bro. W. S. Bozeman, '20, suffered a broken ankle this summer playing baseball. However, we are glad to report that he is able to be up and about again.

Bro. Vernon Earle, '20, has the agency for Templar Automobiles in Spartanburg and is doing well.

Bro. A. J. Dillard,'20, is located in Spartanburg, as agent for Swift's Fertilizers.

Bro. "Speedy- Barlow, who was a sophomore at Wofford last year, is attending the University of South Carolina this year, and is preparing a speech to deliver before the House of Representatives this fall, on open Fraternities in State Colleges.

We wish for Brother Barlow success in his efforts.

Bro. Geo. Simmons, '17, is doing a splendid work as Boys' Work Secretary in the Y. M. C. A. of Spartanburg.

Zeta Chapter has received the following invitation: Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hampton Dunbar request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their niece Miss Ida Maie Stafford to Mr. Arthur Burch Rivers on Saturday afternoon, the second of October at half after five o'clock Methodist Episcopal Church Oak Ridge, North Carolina Bro. Rivers is a graduate of the class of 1919, and a loyal brother. He is a successful, business man at Mt. Crogan, S. C., and we wish for him every happiness.

Alex. N. Brunson, '19, has been teaching school since his graduation. However, he decided to study law and is at present at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. J. M. Barnett, '19, has a responsible position in one of the banks of Rock Hill, S. C. Roderick M. Edens, '15, has returned to Harvard University to complete his study of law. During the war he held a commission as a second lieutenant in the supply section of the aviation corps.

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"Jack" Burnett, '16, paid Wofford a visit the other clay. He has a large and prosperous business in that growing town of Burnettsville.

W. E. Easterling, '18, has returned from France, where he served with the "Devil Dogs." He has gone into the cotton business and is located at Sumter, S. C. Bro. Henry W. Rogers, of Bennettsville, S. C., has been elected clerk of the court of Malboro county. His election is considered by political wiseacres of that county to be nothing less than phenomonal. He is a very young man and the run he made against the older and experienced candidates caused the hat to be raised to Rogers.

Lieut. E. P. Passailaigue, of Charleston, better known as "Dutch," recently appointed to the regular army, is now at Camp Jackson. He has been assigned to the Forty-eighth infantry and will leave with that regiment for the border within the next week or ten days. During the war Lieutenant Passailaig-ue was a captain in a regular army division and served overseas, where he was gassed. He formerly attended the University of South Carolina, graduating in law. He was a well know athlete while in college. Since being discharged from the army he has been engaged in law practice in Charleston. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;(Columbia State's account of Brother Passialaigue's military doings).

Geo. D. Driver, Nu, is in the employ of the Nebraska Telephone Company. For a portion of the summer he was located in Omaha.

J. Wilson Robinson, Eta, is secretary-treasurer of the McFadden-Robinson Oil Corporation of McKeesport, Pa, and Washington, D. C.

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GAMMA CHAPTER University of California, Berkeley, California It is a long and wearisome journey from Gamma to the Eastern chapters, so we put our trust in THE STAR AND LAMP to create mutual interest and strengthen the fraternal bond.

Our magazine should inspire and encourage inter-chapter correspondence. We are glad to let you all know of our activities this semester, and will read your chapter letters with appreciative interest.

Gamma began the semester with twenty-one members, back from the summer vacation and ready to work and play in a whole-hearted way for Pi Kappa Phi. On September 4th, eight new men were initiated. They were Francis R. Kent, Robert C. Fisher, William C. Ries, Emerson B. Morgan, Jess H. Schwarck, Emmons Pensinger, Jay O'Reilly, and J. Stanley Welch. We have at present one pledge, Paul Boron. Frater Stoddard Robinson of Nebraska Nu paid us a two week's visit during the first part of the semester and helped a great deal in rushing.

Frater "Doc" Hess is busy these mornings getting the boys up for five o'clock baseball practice. The first game of the Inter-Fraternity Baseball Series is scheduled for October 17th, Pi Kappa Phi vs. Delta Kappa Epsilon. From the showing made last year and so far this semester, we expect a place in

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the finale. The first day of the Inter-Fraternity Track Meet, held today, October 12th, netted second place to Pi Kappa Phi with a score of sixteen and one-third points, against Sigma Phi Sigma with a total of sixteen and two-thirds points. The next highest competitor totaled eleven points. Gamma took three first places. Frater "Duke" Welch took first in the high hurdles and the high jump. Prater "Sandy" Fish made first place in the pole-vault. Our hopes are almost assured for victory on the final day of the meet, since the events we are best represented in come off then. It is good to see the spirit that has been manifested over this meet. It's a big boost for Pi Kappa Phi on the U. C. Campus. Frater "Dud" Millington, on the Freshman Soccer Team last semester, made the 'Varsity this semester and played the first game of the season against the Olympic Club last Saturday. As yet it is too early to ascertain just who will make the other 'Varsity and Freshman Teams, but the majority of the underclassmen are out for some activity. Frater Les Ericksen is a member of the Blue and Gold Staff.

Frater Harold L. Gibeaut is Gamma's Archon. He started the ball rolling this semester. Our other officers are Fraters Arthur Sinnock, Vice-Archon; Edward J. Coleman, Grapter ; Emmanuel Solaria, Chaplain; Edward Parma, Thesaurophulax, and Edward Wallace, Historian.

Gamma feels deeply the loss of its respected and beloved brother, Frederick Kent, who died in San Francisco last July.

There never was a better brother.

Everybody is looking forward to the next Pi Kappa Phi Convention to be held here. Make it a big representation!

Let's all get acquainted!

Fraternally yours, , ARDEN G. RING, COrreSPendent.

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ZETA CHAPTER Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. Grapter, Jet 'I'. Smith Archon, DeWitt L. Harper Correspondent, Paul F. Carroll 1â&#x2013; ,,leeting Every Tuesday Night, Eight o'Clock Alumni, 55 Active Members, 8 Pledges, 0

To Pi Kappa Phis Everywhereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greetings:

Zeta held her first meeting this year on Tuesday night, September 21, and it was certainly good to see all the brothers again assembled together.

We returned eight men this year, and prospects are fine for some good pledges. Wofford has the largest Freshman Class in the history of the institution and Zeta expects to get her share of the good men.

We had seventeen men last year. We lost six through graduation and three failed to come back. Bro. Bill Begg decided to go to Sewanee this year, and he intends to look the field over and see about putting a chapter there. "Go to it, Bill. If you find the right bunch we are back of you." Bro. Jaynes underwent an operation this summer and was unable to come back. We were all sorry to hear of Bro. Jaynes' sickness, and wish for him a speedy recovery. Bro. Geo. McGee thought it best to stay out for a while this year, but expects to come back after Christmas. Bro. P. Black couldn't do justice to his course here, and expects to go to some other school. All of these men are loyal Pi Kapps and Zeta suffered a great loss when they failed to return. However, the men who are back brought the old spirit with them, and we intend to get the best men here.

Since the last issue of THE STAR AND LAMP, three new men have traveled the desert sands, and are now full fledged brothers. First let me introduce Bro. Heyward Dillingham.

Heyward is a member of the Sophomore Class this year, and stands "ace high" in his academic work. He also represents Wofford on the basket-ball team. His good looks assure him a high place in the estimation of the ladies.

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Next conies Bro. Bill Hood. Bill is a hard worker and is an authority on all things that pertain to the different elements of learning. Last year Bill was president of the Junior Class, assistant business manager of the annual, junior debater, and a member of Carlisle Hall executive committee. This year he is manager of baseball, and editor-in-chief of the college annual.

Combines with all that he is a mighty fine fellow and we are glad to have him with us.

The rest of the bunch needs no introduction. Bro. "Flip" Harper, our old standby, is back for his last year and all of his energies are bent on getting that "dip." Bro. Harper has been here seven years. He spent three in the preparatory school, one in the United States Navy, and three at Wofford. He is a loyal Pi Kapp, our esteemed archon, and a member of the Pan-Hellenic Council. He holds a high hand with the ladies, and they all fall for him the minute they see him.

Just put on a jazz record and immediately you will see a handsome blonde, Bro. Jet Smith by name, giving an exhibition of the terpsichorean art. When he hears music, he just can't keep still. Jet is a Senior also, but he doesn't let business interfere with pleasure.

Next comes Bros. J. D. Parler, "Branch" Rivers, and Ed. Nash. Brother Parler was vice-president of the Freshman Class yast year and was on both the football and baseball squad.

Brother Rivers is quite but is a regular ladies' man, and a corking good fellow. Brother Nash is also a member of the basketball team.

Zeta has the good fortune to have strong town alumni back of them, and they are always willing to help in anyway possible.

Bro. "Crip" Leonard, from Mu Chapter, has made Spartanburg his headquarters, and is showing great interest in the fraternity.

Zeta extends a cordial invitation to every Pi Kappa Phi passing through Spartanburg to look us up and visit our halls.

Pi Kappa Phi has a wonderful future before her, and it's up to all of us to buckle in and work and see that nothing is left undone to make each chapter the best on the campus. Nothing

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can be accomplished except through co-operation, and it is the duty of every loyal Pi Kapp to do his individual part in carrying out the good resolutions of the convention.

With best wishes for the most successful -year in the fraternity, I am, Yours most fraternally, PAUL F. CARROLL, Correspondent.

ETA CHAPTER Emory University, Georgia Grapter, J. I.,. Pittman Archon, R. T. Overstreet Correspondent, Chelcie G. Arant Chapter House, No. 2 Fraternity Row, Emory University, Georgia Alumni, 130 Active Members, 15 Pledges, 14

Dear Brothers: School opened on the first of October with the best prospects for Eta in the history of the chapter. We returned fifteen old men and these with the aid of our men in the professional schools have pledged fourteen men. Out of the number we have already taken in seven. Let me introduce to all Pi Kapp brothers the following: A. A. Knight, Henry Jones, R. K. Smathers, Frank Cumbee, P. P. Preas, E. D. Reeves, Jr., and Fussells.

Eta has begun the year by buying one of the new chapter houses on Fraternity Row and fully equipped it with new furniture. We entertained all our men with a banquet. Several of the alumni of Atlanta were out to greet our new prospects.

Speeches were made by several men. The entire affair was a most enjoyable one.

Eta is \veil represented in all the different phases of college activities. Brother Smathers is head coach of all branches of athletics in the University. He is a graduate of Trinity College and holds several track records. In football we have Brothers Cumbee, Smith and Pittman. Brother Smith is manager of the football team. On the track team we have Brothers Pittman, Jackson, Cumbee, Smith and several pledges. Our prospects in

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basketball are very bright as we have several old men who are sure to make the team. In the R. 0. T. C. we have Brothers â&#x20AC;˘ Stevens, captain; Smith, sergeant-major and several non-commissioned officers. We have almost an'orchestra and band of our own and with the aid of these we are planning to pull off some big things in the near future. In the University band we have Brothers Bond, Dixon, Stevens and Reeves. Our representatives to the Pan-Hellenic are Brothers Overstreet and Pittman. Brother Sid Stevens is assistant manager of the Emory Wheel, our weekly paper. In the Owl Social Club, a Junior organization, we are represented this year by Brother Pittman.

We are glad to have with us this Year Brother Overstreet from Lambda, Brothers Johnson and Colquitt from Omricon, who have entered the medical school.

Brother Tomlinson, who is not with us this year, is attending the University of Florida, Brother Beasley is at the University of North Carolina, and Brother Jimmie Simms is at the University of Texas. We wish for them great success in their fields.

We extend to all Pi Kappa Phis an invitation to visit us at our new home on Fraternity Row. With best wishes to all chapters, we are, Yours most fraternally, CHELCIE G. ARANT, Correspondent.

IOTA CHAPTER Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Archon, Devereux D. Rice Grapter, B. H. Wilkins, Jr. Correspondent, Dudley D. Fouche House No. 241 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia Pledges to Date, 5 Active Members, 29 Alumni, 90

Iota looks forward to this scholastic year with more real enthusiasm than she has to any one in the past. With the new location of the chapter house on West Peachtree Street, the return of twenty-nine old men this year, and the new men which we have secured so far there is no reason for anything other than optimism. The new chapter house is just around the corner from the old place at No.9 East North Avenue, so none

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of Iota's former visitors need fear of not finding the new place at No. 241 West Peachtree Street, for they will be on the right track should they forget and go to No. 9 East North Avenue. This place approaches quite closely the ideal fraternity house, and we were extremely fortunate in obtaining it at that particular time. But we are here to stay, for a while anyway. Iota's new home consists of nine very spacious bedrooms, two baths, plenty of front porch on which to air our experiences, an extra large room which we use for assemblages, and plenty of other rooms and back yard in which to carry out initiations. One bed-room is always reserved for guests. This is a challenge. Any member or members who are in the city for a few days at any time are urged to pay us a visit. Eighteen men are living in the house this year.

Iota intends holding her good record in student activities this year as formerly. Brothers McRee, Taber and Armentrout are members of the "Golden Tornado" squad this year. Football is about tilt only activity that has gotten underway so far and it is hard to tell at this early date just what we have in that line yet. Iota men hold a good share of the honors in the R. 0.

T. C. unit, Brothers Shoemaker, Nelms and Rice being officers of higher rank in this organization. Brother Shoemaker is Major of the second battalion, and Brothers Nelms and Rice have been made captains of companies. Bro. J. E. Patten is out for the Technique again this year. Iota intends stepping up one point this year and take first place in fraternity scholastic record instead of being second as last year.

We are very glad to welcome back into our fold Bro. J. Lawton Ellis, E. S. T., who is on the instructing staff in the electrical engineering department at Tech, this year. Brother Ellis graduated from this department in 1917.

Brother P. B. Seanor, who graduated last year in commercial engineering, is back in Atlanta pursuing a course in law at the Atlanta Law School. . Bro. L. Y. Dawson, who graduated last June in civil engineering, is in the maintenance department of the B. &. 0. railroad.

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Bros. F. E; (Teddie) Whitlaw and J. C.(Jimmie) Holmes are staying out of school this year so as to be able to pursue their courses in civil engineering with more enthusiasm next year.

Bro. G. E. Manning stopped over with us for a while last week end while on his way to East Pittsburg where he has accepted a position with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.

Bro. J. F. Carreker, who graduated last June in mechanical engineering and the previous year in electrical engineering, has a position with the Southern Bell Telephone Company, Atlanta, Ga. Bro. E. C. Gartner, who graduated last June in civil engineering, accepted a position with the State Highway Department at Augusta, Georgia. "Gene" decided that it was most too lonesome over at Augusta with his girl here in Atlanta so he came and got her soon after he had settled down at Augusta.

May happiness ever be theirs! â&#x20AC;˘ Bro. B. Rodriguez, who graduated last June in civil engineering, has gone home to his native land, Mexico. It is understood that he is following his profession with the Texas Company at Tampico, Mexico.

Bro. E. H. Havis, who graduated last June in civil engineering, is proprietor and manager of the Atlanta Blue Print Co., Atlanta, Ga. Iota invites correspondence with her sister chapters. It is highly probable that inter-chapter discussions on difficulties that are met with in the chapters will stimulate interest as well as be profitable to all chapters concerned.

Hoping that all sister chapters have as bright an outlook for a successful year as we have, we are Most fraternally yours.

D. D. FOUCIIE. Correspondent.

OBITUARY Bro. Howard Durant of New York City died Sunday, October 2, 1920. Brother Durant was initiated into Iota Chapter, October 13, 1913, and graduated from Georgia Tech. in 1917.

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Since that time he has been in business in New York City, with the exception of 1917-1918 when he was an instructor in the Ground Aviation School at Georgia Tech.

Interment took place at 12 o'clock, Saturday, October 9, 1920, in West View Cemetery. The following members of Iota Chapter acted as pall-bearers: Bros. Jack Little, K. D. Barnett, â&#x20AC;˘ D. D. Rice, B. H. Wilkins, J. L. Ellis, and D. D. Fondle.

KAPPA CHAPTER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Grapter, W. F. Falls Archon, Donnell Von Noppen Chapter House, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. Alumni, 37 Active Members, 23

At the opening of the University this year, Kappa moved into its new house, and we are now ready for a fine year. At the first roll call, we found that there were sixteen men from last year's bunch who had returned to school. Soon after, we were joined by Brother Beasley. from Eta Chapter. At the fall initiation, which was held September 27, we took in six new men as follows: Thornton P. Gholson, William L. Harris, Henderson; Thomas P. Graham, Charlotte; Fenner Anderson, Greensboro; Preston Edwards and McIver Edwards, Darlington, S. C. These men bring our total up to twenty-three, and we hope to take in two or three whom we lined up last year, but who have not as yet returned to school.

In order to fill up our new house, we have had to abandon our plan of having a man in every dormitory, and this year almost every member of the fraternity is rooming in the house.

This will be only a slight disadvantage in meeting the new men, and we hope to keep in close touch with the men who are rooming on the campus, just as we did last year.

In basket-ball, we show up just as well. Brother Shepard is captain of this year's team, and Brother Daughtridge is assistant manager. Brothers Fulton, Graham, Brand, Harrell, and Hanby will do the best they can to help Brother Shepard.

This year seems to promise great things for us in the line of athletics. Brother Harrell is captain of this year's football

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team, and he will be helped to uphold the honor of the school

by Brothers Pritchard, Hanby, Smith, Fulton, and Edwards.

Bro. Van Noppen is manager of 'Varsity football, Brother MacLean is assistant manager, and Brother Anderson is subassistant manager.

Recently Brother Spruill was elected to a Rhodes Scholarship, effective January 1, 1921. We will hate to lose Brother Spruill, but wish him all kinds of luck in his new surroundings.

J. N. BRAND, JR., Correspondent.

LAMBDA CHAPTER University of.Georgia, Athens, Ga. Archon, Louis Merritt Grapter, E. W. Highsmith Chapter House, 436 Dearing Street, Athens, Ga. Pledges, 9 Active Members, 10 Alumni, 60

Dear Brother Pi Kappa Phis: Lambda sends greetings. Beginning the year with a rush we feel that we are in for the best year since our beginning and we hope this is true of every sister chapter.

Our new home is at 436 Dearing Street and we are well satisfied at present, although we are laying plans for a home all our own within the next year or two. We have been visited by several brothers from other chapters lately and we are always glad to have them.

Ten old men returned to the fold this year and we have pledged nine of the best freshmen in school. Some of these men have been taken in and the others will be initiated at an early date. They are: A. M. Fisher, Baxley, Ga.; Edwin Thomas, Jesup, Ga.; G. G. Finch, Atlanta, Ga.; Leland Smith, Valdosta, Ga.; James Ross (Soph.), Macon, Ga.; H. T. McWilliam and Bill Edwards, of Griffin, Ga.; J. S. Beall, Atlanta, Ga.; A. S. Boyette, Atlanta, Ga. In the Senior class this year we are represented by Brothers Thaxton and Highsmith in the literary department and Brother Futral in the law department. The first two are Phi Beta Kappa men and will graduate with honors. The latter is one of the highest ranking men in the law department.

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Georgia has one of the best football teams in her history this year and Brother Highsmith is one of the cogs in the machine, while Brother Finch is trying out for the Freshman team.

As usual we have our share of men in the various honorary and social clubs. In the Senior Round Table Brothers Thaxton and Highsmith are prominent. In the Counsellors, Brother Putral. In the Barristers, Brother McCaskill. Brother Highsmith represents us in the Sphinx, the highest honor awarded a man at Georgia, the Gridiron Club, the Scabbard and Blade, and is president,of the Y. M. C. A. and a captain in the military department. In the two social clubs, the Senate and the Buccaneers, Pi Kapps are numerous.

We might "rave" on thus for some time but guess some had better be saved for next issue. May success crown the efforts of our new editor, and THE STAR AND LAMP be better and bigger than ever!

With best wishes for every sister chapter and for every Pi Kapp.

Fraternally,, LAMBDA CHAPTER. MU CHAPTER Trinity College, Durham, N. C. Archon, K. M. Brim Grapter, B. S. Borland, Jr.

Dear Brothers: Again Mu Chapter is on her feet and ready for business.

We have back with us this fall six of Mu's old men, and one man from Kappa who has already affiliated himself with us.

K. M. Brim, the oldest man in our chapter, is a senior in the law school this year. He was manager of the basket-ball team last year and I might Mention right here that his team won the chamionship of North Carolina; he has been re-elected manager of basket-ball and is figuring on making a wonderful trip north this winter. I don't suppose that there is a more popular man in school than Brim. He is a member of the Tombs, Beta Omega Sigma, Red Friars, and Theta Nu Epsilon.

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The next oldest man in our midst is R. C. Bernau from Greensboro. He is known all over the State as "Rudey." He is very much of a sport and is very fond of dancing. Any time that there is a real big dance pulled in Greensboro, Durham, or Raleigh You will find Bernau present. We are very glad, indeed, to have him with us this year.

Next in order is C. C. Cornwall of Gastonia. Cornwall is a senior this year, and we regret very much that he will not be back next year. He is a 'Varsity tennis man, and has a very good chance of being captain of this year's tennis team. Cornwall is also a Red Friar, an organization which selects only eight men from the senior class each year. He is also a member of the 9019, an organization which takes only the men who average as much as 90 for two consecutive years.

In literary activities we are strong indeed. We have back with us Brother Powell of the class of '19, after a year in the world on his own hook, he decided to return to college to study law. Mu is very much delighted to know that he is going to be with us two more years. Brother Powell is not only one of the strongest members of the Hesperian Literary Society, but is also a Tomb, Red Friar, and Theta Nu Epsilon. Two years ago he was 'Varsity tennis man, but he says that he can not desert his law this year to play tennis. We may, however, persuade him to change his mind, and if we do, then the chances are two to one that Cornwall and Powell will represent Trinity College this year in tennis.

Another man who is shining for Mu in college activities is Bro. W. J. Bundy, from Farmville, N. C. The men over at the Kappa Chapter say that "Dick" has the hottest line of "bull" that they have ever heard. He is a great worker for the literary side of college life; but I don't mean to say that he is a man who would turn down a chance or who Wouldn't take a whiff of "Uncle Tom Moore" if he got a chance. This year Dick is vice-president of the Junior Class and a member of T. N. E. Don't laugh when I mention T. N. E. for it isn't half as bad an organization as some narrow-minded people think.

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team, and on that team Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi is going to be represented, by Bro. R. C. Leach. Last year -Dick" had the reputation of being the best physical man in college and there is no doubt but what he will be a star on our football team this year. Dick is also a T. N. E. and a member of Beta Omega Sigma, a local sophomore-junior order here on the campus.

With him T. N. E. stands second and of course it is needless to say what ranks first.

The last member in our fold this year is Billy S. Borland, Jr., of Durham. He is the smallest as well as the loudest ; claims to be suffering with an athletic heart, but the whole trouble is he gets too much sleep. He is going out for basket-ball this year, however, in spite of his heart, and if all the men in school stop but five, then he is going to make the team. Brother Borland is also a B. 0. S., T. N. E. and a frequent visitor of the dean's office. He is, however, only eighteen years of age, and is going to graduate next year. He is junior manager of of basket-ball but doesn't stand much chance of being elected manager, because Brother Brim says that he cannot afford to recommend such a runt to succeed him at his old job.

This ends the history of Mu for this month, but we will have another hot line for you next month. We are in the work with our heart and soul again this year and are going to be stronger than ever. We wish all our Pi Kapp brothers good luck, and hope that all the chapters have a bunch of freshmen who are as good as ours. Goodbye until next month.

Fraternally yours, MU CHAPTER, Pr KAPPA Pill.

NU CHAPTER University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Grapter, Charles S. Reed Geistfeld Harry Archon, Chapter Hotise, 1342 F Street, Lincoln, Neb. Active Members, 23 Alumni, 74 Pledges, 18

To Pi Kapps Everywhere: Greetings from Nu Chapter! We have recently finished the most successful year in our history and are now about to

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embark on another. During the last year Nu Chapter has prospered exceedingly and has enjoyed success in every undertaking. I will take a little time and space to recite a few of our doings.

In athletics we were very well represented and the caliber of Nebraska athletics is well known throughout the country. We had two men on the 'Varsity football squad, Bros. Walt Jungmeyer and Clarence Cypreansen. It was this squad that trampled on the Syracuse University eleven 3-0. In basket-ball we had two letter men, Wesley and Walt Jungmeyer. Wesley played the center position and as a goal shooter is hard to beat.

Nebraska's basket-ball team was only beaten twice and then won return games from those teams that defeated her. Bro. John Collins was our representative on the wrestling team.

Not only in athletics has Pi Kappa Phi been prominent. Our men have held positions on the Daily Nebraskan and Cornhusker staffs. In university dramatics we have been leaders.

We are proud to claim as a brother Cyril L. Coombs, one of the best actors that has ever appeard in a university production.

Bro. Ralph Ford was vice-president of the Freshman law class and as a fitting climax we elected Bro. George D. Driver to the presidency of the Senior Class. Brother Driver has always been one of the most popular men on the campus and was deserving of the honor bestowed upon him.

Our last initiation of the year was held on the night of June 4. At this time Cyril L. Coombs and Clayton Woods, of Spencer, Neb., and Verne Thomas, of Adams, Neb., were initiated into the mysteries of Pi Kappa Phi. These are all promising men and we expect them to honor the fraternity. On this same evening Thurlow Lieurance was taken in as an honorary member, but this is spoken of elswhere We are now turning our thoughts toward the coming year and are laying plans for even a greater year than the last. Rush week begins September 12 and we have an excellent program arranged. We intend to pledge about ten or twelve men this fall and we know now just who they will be. Only four men were lost from the chapter ranks by graduation last spring.

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They were Bros. Harold Lewis, George D. Driver, Ray Scott and William Larson.

In closing, we extend to all Pi Kapps an earnest invitation to visit us and wish you the same success through the coming year that we expect to enjoy.

Fraternally yours, ORVIN B. GASTON, Correspondent, Nu Chapter.

OMICRON CHAPTER University of Alabama, University, Ala. Grapter, J. M. Kelley Archon, George M. Grant Chapter House, Twelfth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Active Members, 21 Alumni, 46

At the beggining of the new school year Omicron sends brotherly greetings to all chapters of the fraternity. The following men returned: Tom Buntin, Rex Almon, Norville Brice, Scott Drummond, Francis Fletcher, Paul Hooten, Vernol Jansen, Leighton Parnell, Luke Sewell, Joe Starnes, Robert Thompson, Lowell Black, William Burnes, George Cornish, Sam Faucette, George Grant, Walter Hovater, Burnes Parker, James Price, Bruce Shaw, James Kelley.

It give us pleasure to introduce to all Pi Kappa Phis the following brothers who were initiated into the fraternity during the latter part of the past year: Sam Faucette, Northporte, Ala.; William Burnes, Wedowee, Ala.; James Kelley, Cullman, Ala.; Thomas M. Buntin, Dothan, Ala.; James P. Price, Tuscaloosa Ala.; Joe Sewell, Titus, Ala.; Luke Sewell, Titus, Ala.; Ralph Jones, Jones Mill, Ala.; Burnie Jones, Jones Mill, Ala. All of these men show the proper spirit and with such men in the fraternity we can see nothing but success for the chapter.

In the way of college honors we have certainly won our share.

During the past year there were eight organizations in the university in which a Pi Kappa Phi was president and various other organizations in which members of the fraternity held honors. We were represented on the football team by six

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players and the manager, ex-captain, and this year's captain of the team. Alabama had one of the strongest teams in the South and this year the prospects are as good. On the baseball team we had four players, the captain and this year's manager.

Bro. Joe,Sewell was president of the student body. He was also on the 'Varsity football and baseball teams, being of the latter. For several years he has been placed on the all-Southern team. During the summer he played tall with New Orleans in the Southern League and prominent sport critics rate him as one of the best players ever seen in the south. His playing here caused Cleveland to pay the highest price ever paid for a Southern League ball player. All baseballdbm now has its eyes on Joe and he is now the third man in the great State of Ohio the other two being Harding and Cox. Bro. Ralph Jones is captain of the football team, chief disciplinarian, assistant French instructor, a former vice-president of the student body and a Phi Beta Kappa.

Bro Luke Sewell was manager of the football team last season and by the record you must admit that he was some manager. Not satisfied with this he went out and made the 'Varsity baseball team. Up until this year his only football experience has consisted in being manager of the team, in which capacity he had to take tickets, blow up footballs and work at everything in general. He is some find in the football world.

Bro. Bernie Jones has been out of school for several years in the service of his country. He returned the past year and was made professor of law in the law school.

Bro. James Price is secretary of the Masonic Club and president of this year's Senior law class. He was at one time secretary to Congressman Oliver in Washington.

We lost the inter-fraternity basket-ball championship but won the baseball honors with flying colors. The twelve fraternities here were divided into two leagues with six in each and the winners in each league played for the championship. We won the "A" league pennant from the S. A. E.'s and defeated the Phi Gamma Deltas, the "B" league champions, for the inter-fraternity championship. The world series had nothing

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on these games as there was much interest shown by all fraternities. The silver loving cup awarded to us bears the following inscription: "1920 Inter-fraternity Baseball Championship, University of Alabama. Won by Pi Kappa Phi." At the present time we stand fifth in scholarship among fourteen fraternities at the university. Each year a loving cup is to be awarded by the Inter-fraternity Scholarship Council to the fraternity having the highest scholarship.

On the evening of May the third at the McLester Hotel in Tuscaloosa, Omicron held its third annual banquet, which surpassed any ever given by this chapter. Many interesting speeches were made and telegrams were read from several of the alumni who expressed regret in not being able to attend.

Among these was one from Brother Abernathey of Alpha who is a professor at Marion Institute. He was a member of Alpha when there were only six chapters. Those who attended the Charlotte Convention will know how to appreciate the climax that occured at the end of the banquet. The Charlotte affair had been told to the chapter, but in the heat of the argument the boys forgot to do anything but to use their feet. One of the brothers charged that some of the members had promiscuously scattered pins among some of the fair sex who were not entitled to them. Argument added to the feeling and a gun flashed amid the tumultuous excitement. The joke was carried out so well that the few who were on to the affair were themselves uneasy as to the outcome.

We gave up the chapter house on Thirteenth Avenue and occupied a much better house on Twelfth Avenue about the middle of October. This house is well fitted for a chapter home, but in keeping with our line of policy we are making plans to build a new home in the near future. This plan will be outlined in the next issue of THE STAR AND LAMP. During the past year we received visits from Brothers Lemon, Sims, Little and Brice of Pi Chapter. They were members of the Oglethorpe baseball team. It is always a pleasure to have visiting brothers and we wish that all Pi Kapps would stop by to see us when they are in this vicinity.

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This year the dream of a greater university is in fact a reality.

During the past collegiate year a department of Commerce and Business Administration and an Extension Department, each ranking with the existing schools, have been established. The Business Administration school has as its dean, Prof. Lee Bidgood. The Extension Department aim is threefold: (1) Community service. (2) Extension teaching and (3) Correspondence study. The extension centers are to be established in several cities over the State.

Other evidence of growth are the erection of an annex to the woman's dormitory and the addition of a department for vocational education under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act. In the near future a modern high school will be erected on the campus as an adjunct to the educational department.

The university has lately been designated by the State as the "State School of Mines." The law school has changed to a three-year course. This is a change that will be welcomed by the legal profession of the State as well as others interested in higher education.

The Christian denomination of several of the Southern states are contemplating the erection of a million dollar school here in conjunction with the university. It is the plan to use this school as a school of theology and let the university do the academic work. An announcement to this effect is expected soon.

Fraternally yours, GEORGE M. GRANT, Archon.

PI CHAPTER Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga. Grapter, F. D. Little Archon, Frank Sims, Jr. Alumni, 19 Active Men, 18 Pledges, 5

With eighteen old men back, Pi Chapter has taken the lead already in every branch of the college activities at Oglethorpe.

No time was wasted after school opened, and Pi started out in earnest. We have a great year ahead, and the outlook is more than promising.

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We were indeed sorry to lose Brothers Bonney, Wilson, Durham, Gilkeson, and McNeill, who graduated last June.

Brothers Wilson, McNeill, and Gilkeson were charter members of Pi Chapter and all five men will be greatly missed.

We have five pledges who are splendid men and we congratulate ourselves upon getting them.

Pi has entered into every phase of college life and is on the top.

Brother Frank Sims is editor-in-chief of the Petrel, the college weekly, and Bros. L. E. Morgan, Chas. Boynton, and F. S. Little are associate editors. Brother Clifford Sims is president of the "0" Club, an athletic organization. We are represented in the band by Brothers McClung, Little, Morgan, F. K. Sims, and Cai`n. Bro. Frank Sims is president of the Boars Head Club and Brother Boynton is secretary and treasurer. This is an honorary club and the membership is limited to seven men, who must be in the Junior or Senior Class. This year there are only four members, and two of them are Pi Kappa Phis, both of them being officers.

Bro. Ford Little is president of the Sophomore Class and Bro. L. E. Morgan is treasurer. Bro. Frank Sims is president of the Senior Class and Bro. Jack Cain is secretary and treasurer. The Junior Class has not yet organized.

We are glad to have with us this year Brother Waits from Eta, and Brother Varnadoe, from Lambda. Brother Varnadoe has made a place on the 'Varsity at quarter while Brother Waits has also made the squad.

Pi is one of the youngest chapters in the fraternity but is growing rapidly and is spreading Pi Kappa Phi-ism all over this part of the country.

As to our pledges, they are: Frank Simpson, Norcross, Ga.; Roy Carlyle, Norcross, Ga.; J. L. Morris, Atlanta, Ga.; Edgar Watkins, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., and Edgar David, Atlanta, Ga. Carlyle, Simpson, David, and Morris are regulars on the 'Varsity football squad. Simpson and Carlyle play in the line, while Morris and David are backfield men. David is also president of the Freshman Class. Ford Little is assistant football man-

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ager. It can be readily seen that the Pi Kappa Phis stand high at Oglethorpe.

We hope that our sister chapters have been as successful as we have and we wish them all the best of luck.

Fraternally, FRANK K. SIMS, JR., Correspondent.

XI CHAPTER Roanoke College, Salem, Va. Pi Kappa Phi House Grapter, E. E. Dobbins Archon, I. D, Chapman, Jr. Correspondent, W. C. Chapman

Xi Chapter at Roanoke College is showing the old time Pi Kappa Phi pep this year, in working for her own improvement and the development of Pi Kappa Phi in general.

Although she feels with a brotherly regret the loss of a number of good men, she is never discouraged and continues to get the best men in college, always holding on to her old rule that it is better to lose a dozen good men than get one bad one.

We had only seven men back for school this year but since its opening have pledged a number of promising and influential new men, along with several old men at college, having proved their worthiness of Pi Kappa Phi last year. Among the seniors we have only two, I. D. and W. C. Chapman.

I. D. Chapman, who was recently married, is the oldest man in the fraternity among the students, and is possibly the most successful fraternity man in our chapter. He is prominent in both literary, and athletic circles, being president of the Ciceronian Literary Society and a letter man in both basket-ball and baseball.

W. C. Chapman continues to be on hand when the music starts for a dance and was recently elected president of the General Athletic Association of the college.

The fraternity is fortunate in the Junior Class, having five members back and a Pi Kappa Phi man for its president, namely, W. B: Corbin, who was also president of his class last

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year and is one of the best athletes in college, having played on the 'Varsity baseball team two years and is now playing on the 'Varsity football team.

Eugene Oulds, the college jazz artist, is back and the baseball fans are delighted to have him for first base again.

Fred Garis is with us again and playing 'Varsity football, being already a letter man in basket-ball and baseball.

E. E. Dobbins, who is one of the best fraternity men we have, is with us again and is exceedingly popular with the student body at large.

We are still counting on Lifts, whom we are looking for and hoping that he will soon return to college and be in our midst again, as his loss would be greatly felt both by the college and the fraternity.

Among the recently pledged men are Potter, Painter, Kinzer, and Davis.

Potter is a good athlete, and is showing up in good form for the second season on the football squad.

Painter, one of the best men in the Sophomore Class, was recently pledged and we are expecting great things from him in the future.

Kinzer was also recently pledged and the fraternity is especially fortunate in getting such a man as Kinzer, being especially fine in his classroom work.

Davis, the Freshman president, stands high in the estimation of his fellows and the old students are speaking of his ability to make a good college man, and so Xi Chapter, as usual, is represented along every line of college activity.

Dr. Wagener of the faculty is still with us and is a great aid in all our work.

0. F. Blackwelder, a charter member of the fraternity, is back at the college taking graduate work. Brother Blackwelder is pastor of a Roanoke church and making good in his calling, so we are expecting him to be very helpful to us this year.

"Speedy" Rush, a last year graduate, is back, having been added to the Roanoke College faculty, and is showing the same

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fraternal spirit that he has shown all through his college career and the fraternity is greatly pleased in having him back, "even as a professor."

So Xi Chapter is still at work, as she will always be for her own good and Pi Kappa Phi at large.

RHO CHAPTER Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Grapter, S. J. Robbins Archon, A. B. Powell, Jr. Chapter House, 735 Main Street, Lexington, Va. Pledges, 7 Active Members, 4 Alumni, 4

Pi Kappsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greetings to You All: Rho Chapter started.off the year's work by going into our first house. It is a yellow and white house, by the way, and more than affords ample space for the four active members who have returned. To explain this would say that we lost Bro. B. A. Davis through his graduation in the law school. Bros.

L. L. Davis and L. L. Overton hold good positions in the outside world, and we are sticking by them. Bro. Wells Rutherford seemed to have been lost in the wilds of the west until a recent letter advised us that he is still safe but has been flirting rather boldly with "wild cat" oil. However, we hope to witness his re-appearance after a breathing spell.

Bro. S. J. Robbins graduated last June and along with it brought down a chain of honors. Besides being rated among the first scholastically, he was admitted to the well-known honorary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. This scholastic year he is a member of the Washington and Lee faculty as instructor in Spanish.

Bro. Pen Powell as archon of our chapter is very busy.

Bro. R. B. Overton's burdens are in the nature of law courses and Bro. L. W. Milbourne is testing the horsepower of his hind legs on the Blue Ridge footbills (cross country).

As I have said before there are just four of us here, but we are working hard for the chapter and we know it is going to be a topnotcher some day.

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We are much pleased with our bunch of "goats." There are none better on this campus.

Before closing we wish to extend to every Pi Kapp a standing invitation to visit our chapter. A few Pi Kapps frequently drop in on us and we are certainly glad to see them and talk things over.

Fraternally, L. W. MILBOURNE, Correspondent.

TAU CHAPTER State College, Raleigh, N. C.

Well, Brother Kapps, another town heard from. We acknowledge that we are the baby chapter, but this is a boy baby and full of pep and enthusiasm. There was once laid down by the great moral genius of the world this statement. "A little child shall lead them." Well, brothers, that is our worthy intention.

The installation of Tau was held last May at the University of North Carolina. Bro. Henry Harper and J. D. Carroll were both present at the installation. Fourteen men were initiated at this time to form the nucleus of the new chapter. Mu Chapter was present almost to a man and lent very valuable assistance to Kappa. We didn't know they were there at first, but they soon made their presence "felt."

This year the chapter began with Bros. H. D. Long, G. K. Murray, P. V. Hooper, J. H. Norwood, R. E. Williams, R. A. M. Deal and Ralph H. Wilson, the latter an affiliate from Kappa.

Our position on the campus is assured by the active part we take in college activities. H. D. Long is manager of basket-ball.

G. K. Murray is captain of this year's baseball team, plays end on 'Varsity football team, and is very popular with the fair sex. P. V. Hooper is a wing-footed track man. J. H. Norwood is a 'Varsity baseball man, R. E. Williams is 'Varsity basket-ball. R. A. M. Deal, manager of 'Varsity football and also 'Varsity basketball man. Brother Underwood, who has

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just been initiated, seems to have stood the test very well and is a football aspirant.

Tau gave a feed to prospective members October 5. We had a good crowd and feel very well satisfied at our prospects.

When initiation time comes we feel certain of getting six of the best freshmen in the class. rraternities are not allowed to have houses here. This indeed is a handicap to us in entertaining visiting brothers, but when you are here, be sure to look us up and we will do our utmost to show you a good time.

Praternally yours, H. D. LONG.

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