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ment fund, and the number of departments has This is evide nce of the scholast ic sta n d tn g been gradually increased, t h e numl er and rhe inst ituti on. quality of t he teaching force has grow n, a nd Buildings and Grounds at the present moment the enrollm ent is greatFo urteen buildings ar e situ ated on the prDP' er than it has ever been before. Adeq uate laboratory and library facilit ies have been in - erty of the co ll ege, with fo ur devoted to ad·. stall ed, and the college is giving in struction mini stration off ices, class a nd lecture roo!ll'• in a modern efficient way. In 1913 the doors laborator ies, and the librar y, and ten serve. ~~ of the coll ege were open to young wome11 li vin g quarters for the st ud ents. The butl and nearly three hundred h ave been enro ll ed in g·s occ upy an elevated position about one during the present session. In 191 i) a summ er hundred and fifty feet above the city proper ' . quadrangu 1ar 0 rdcr sch ool was inaugurated which has had a and are so constr ucted 111 . c steady growth. The enrollment in it last session as to give perfect drainage to the immedtat was about 500. In 1920 Howard Coll ege was ad jace nt g r ound s. The front campu s slopeS ad mitted to membership in the So uther n Asso- to U nd erwood Avenu e a nd has a n a rea of ~p ciatio n of Colleges and Secondary Sc h oo l ~. proximately twenty acr es.
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By GEo. E. SnF.ETZ, E:recntive Secretary
l KAPPA PHI HOUSE-Pi Kappa geographicall y, and expect to find a group tre~~; . . . 1es, t he same 1.deas, wtt Ph i Fraternity!" These wo rds an- unng t 11e same pnnctp 1 swered cheerily every telephone call at whom we had found so much in common thai the Orphic Literary Society House at East Lan- we had accepted them as part of ourselves. bt sing after fo ur p. m., May 9. T he proud and st ill wond er at the phenomenon, but do not dot! practiced way in whi ch th e response was given it. A lpha-Theta is a " be-man's" chapter, a grott? indi cated clearly to Brother E lmer Turnquist and of interested ea rn est workers, proud of thetr myself the anticipation wh ich had p receded the affi li ation with P i Kappa P hi , possessed of thC 5 install ation of our first chapter in the State of same enthu siasm whi ch cha racteri zes I'i KaPP 10 re M ichigan. It indicated to the caller the change everywhere, a chapter whi ch should become 11 ~ which had taken place; that the old O rphi c and more a cred it to the Fraternity as its ,vor House was no more, not even the go ld lettering and contacts expand. '.L'h e O rphic Society was not a litera ry societ)' on the door remained. 'l'he Orphi c ociety had entered both temporally and spiritu~lly into P i in the usual sense of the term. The members Kappa Ph i. A bright new star had been added did hold well -ordered literary programs as a reg; ul ar feature of the organization but the cas~ta to its chapter roll. Fol.lowing so closely upon ·the installation of criti c should reflect tha t for yea rs frate rni tt~s I 1c A lph a-Eta at Howard Coll ege in Dirmingham, in we re fo rbidden at M ichi gan State. The Orp ~ • . [ . ctl' the heart of the South, it was with nlli ngled feeltterary Society was evolved und er t11ese 1 ings of anticipation that I traveled toward East cum tances. It continu ed under that name ~; Lans ing, Michigan, there to officiate in the trans- though it had become in all other respects a Joe~ formation of the local Orphic Literary Society fraternity. I did not a rri ve in East Lansing until after 011~ into Alpha-Theta Chapter of P i Kappa Phi. This was due pr im ari ly to wonder that I coul d thus o'clock Saturday, May 9, but I found "Turn)'•. turn from one section of the coun try to another, the capable archon of our Chicago A lumni ChaP 'ttl' so different in many way and so far removed ter, there already, and we soon sized up the st
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