Kappa Alpha Theta Journal, Vol. 22 no. 4

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA VOMUME XXII NUMBER 4 PUBLISHED BY KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY AT ANH ARBOR, MICH.

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I KAPPA ALPHA THETA Published by the Fraternity Edited by Charlotte H. Walker NOVEMBER JANUARY MARCH MAY Printed by The Ann Arbor Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address everything intended for publication and all business communication to Charlotte H. Walker, 1129 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan. All material intended for publication must reach the Editor before October 5, December 5, February 5, April 5. TERMS: $1.00 per Year, payable in advance; 25 cents Single Copy; Sample Copy Free. Kappa Alpha Theta will be sent to all subscribers until ordered discontinued and arrearages paid, as required by law. Entered as second class mail matter at Ann Arbor, Michigan. FRATERNITY DIRECTORY Grand Council President — Anna Harrison, 1243 Western Ave., Topeka, Kansas Vice-Presidents — Eva E. Capron, 80 Monroe St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Sarah E. Cotton, 27 State Capitol Bldg., Indian¬ apolis, Ind. Eva R. Hall, 738 nth St., Wilmette, Ill. Jessie Mac Farland, 2644 Portland Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Secretary— Pearle Green, 15 East Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y. Treasurer — Edith D. Cochins, 1348 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Editor of the Journal — Charlotte H. Walker, 1129 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan. !

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Deputies To Grand President— Mrs. Scott Hopkins, 1177 Fillmore Street, Topeka, Kansas. To President of Beta District— Mrs. Charles W. Eichrodt, 1418 N. New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Ind. To Delta District— Alice E. Wadsworth ,1414 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, Ill. To Grand Secretary — Maida Rossiter, Palo Alto, Cal. To Editor— Mrs. Wm. B. Cady, 550 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. Chairman of Educational Committee — Mary W. Titus, Westbury, Long Island, N. Y. Chairman of Archive Committee — Minna Stillman, Stanford Uni¬ versity, California. Inter-Sorority Conference Secretary— Miss Elda L. Smith, Pi Beta Phi, 710 S. 6th Street, Springfield, Ill. Kappa Alpha Theta Delegate— Mrs. Laura H. Norton, 2541 North Paulina Street, Chicago, Ill. CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES Alpha District President — Eva E. Capron, 80 Monroe St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Iota, Cornell University— Christine S. Avery, Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y. Lambda, University of Vermont — Lucy R. Bean, 41 1 Main Street, Burlington, Vt. Sigma, Toronto University — Mono McLaughlin, 28 Tyndall Street, Toronto, Ontario. Chi, Syracuse University— M. Eloise Andrews, 107 Comstock Place, Syracuse, N. Y. Alpha Beta, Swarthmore College — Katherine Wolff, Swarthmore College, Pa. Alpha Delta, Woman's College of Baltimore — Lucy Yancy, Wo¬ man’s College, Baltimore, Md. Alpha Epsilon, Brown University — Nelly M. Evans, 66 Benefit St., Providence, R. I.

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Alpha Zeta, Barnard College — Theodora Hall, 136 W. mth St., New York City. Alpha Kappa, Adelphi College — Mary E. Townsend, 5 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gamma Alumnae, New York City — Emma Crane, 295 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Eta Alumnae, Burlington, Vt.— Effie P. Wells, 407 College St., Burlington, Vt. Nu Alumnae, Syracuse, N. Y. — Mrs. Giles H. Stilwell, 1906 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. Beta District President — Sarah E. Cotton, Room 27, State Capitol, Indianapolis, Ind. Alpha, De Pauw University — Eleanor Lemon, Kappa Alpha Theta House, Greencastle, Ind. Beta, Indiana State University — Ruth Keltner, Kappa Alpha Theta House, Bloomington, Ind. Gamma, Butler College — Ruth W. Davenport, 352 N. Ritter Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Epsilon, Wooster University — Sarah J. Anderson, Holden Hall, Wooster, Ohio. Eta, University of Michigan — Ada Jones, 718 S. Ingalls St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Mu, Allegheny College — Lenore Y. Lytle, Meadville, Pa. Pi, Albion College — Gipsy Robinson, Albion, Mich. Alpha Gamma, Ohio State University — Helen Mackall, 1515 Neil Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Alpha Eta, Vanderbilt University — Nannie Moore, Vanderbilt Campus, Nashville, Tenn. Alpha Alumnae, Greencastle, Ind.— Mrs. Mary B. Wright, Green- castle, Ind. Epsilon Alumnae, Columbus, Ohio— Katharine D. Kiser, 81 Miami Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Zeta Alumnae, Indianapolis, Ind. — Mrs. Geo. T. Scribner, 2414 College Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Mu Alumnae, Cleveland, Ohio — Mary H. Cross, 1733 E. 116th PI., Cleveland, Ohio. Kappa Alumnae, Pittsburg, Pa.— Mrs. L. Clyde Bixler, 216 North Highland Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.

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Delta District President — Eva R. Hall, 738 nth St., Wilmette, Ill. Delta, University of Illinois— Margaret Niver, 901 S. Wright St., Champaign, Ill. Kappa, University of Kansas — Esther M. Rauch, 1247 Ohio Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Rho, University of Nebraska— Stella Trimble, 423 N. Thirteenth Street, Lincoln, Neb. Tau, Northwestern University— Marion Keyes, 1350 Morse Ave., Rogers Park, Ill. Upsilon, University of Minnesota — Helen M. Schutte, 330 South Exchange St., St. Paul, Minn. Psi, University of Wisconsin — Ethel R. Taylor, 823 Irving Place, Madison, Wis. Alpha Theta, University of Texas — Ethel Sykes, 2503 Whitis Avenue, Austin, Texas. Alpha Iota, Washington University— Meta Gruner, 3222 Sullivan Avenue, Saint Louis, Mo. Beta Alumnae, Minneapolis, Minn. — Mrs. George S. Wheaton, 61 Lyndale Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. Delta Alumnae, Chicago, Ill. — Anna Drummond, 719 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Ill. Xi Alumnae, Kansas City, Mo. — Helen Williams, 2802 E. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. Gamma District President — Jessie MacFarland, 2644 Portland Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Phi, Stanford University— Kathryn Culver, Box 1207, Stanford Uni¬ versity, Calif. Omega, University of California— Pearl Chase, 2426 Virginia St., Berkeley, Calif. Iota Alumnae, Los Angeles, Calif. — Jane Spalding, 134 N. Gates St., Los Angeles, Calif. Kindly notify Editor at once of any change in address of cor¬ responding secretary.

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1 • « TABLE OF CONTENTS Kappa Alpha Thetas in Literature and Arts . 261 A Semester in Gottingen ..... 263 Greater Alumnae Loyalty ..... 265 Notes from Luther Burbank’s “Training of the Human Plant” . .’ . 267 The State University of Washington 270 The Relations of the Alumnae to the Pan-Hellenic . 273 Fraternity Daughters and Sisters .... 275 A Scholarship Rally ...... 277 A Theta in Tokyo ...... 280 To the Seniors ....... 283 A Report on the Present Condition of Pan- Hel- lenics in the United States .... & 00 4^ Pan-Hellenic in Indiana ..... 294 AtaXcyoi/xc^a ....... 295 Exchanges ........ 300 Editorials ........ 04 O 00 Announcements ....... 311 Chapter Letters ....... 3ii Alumnae Chapter Letters ..... 333 Among Ourselves ...... 337 Marriages . . . . . 337 Births ........ 339 Deaths ........ 339 Personals ........ 340 News from the College World .... 346

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Miss Guthrik By Courtesy of The IAtevuvy Diyest,

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA VOL. XXII MAY, 1908 No. 4 KAPPA ALPHA THETAS IN LITERATURE AND ART It is with a peculiarly buoyant feeling that we hear of those in the ranks of Kappa Alpha Theta, who, by adding industry to their genius, have received the plaudits of a critical public, for such shed lustre upon our whole organi¬ zation. Two who have gone out from Upsilon are doing work in their distinctive lines that is meeting with the approval of the most hypercritical of critics. Anna Lorraine Guthrie, of Minneapolis, is the editor of a reference work, the first volume of which, published in Minneapolis in 1905, comprises 1,640 pages. The work is entitled “The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature,” and is, as its name implies, an index to the information scattered through the more important English and American magazines. It meets a want not supplied by the older indices,, in that the articles are listed with reference to the topic treated and not merely to the title, which is often misleading. But since, as Kappa Alpha Thetas, we are just now interested rather more in the worker than in the work, a brief literary biography of Miss Guthrie may be in place. Her undergraduate days at the University of Minne¬ sota were also editorial days, as she occupied a position upon the staff of “Kappa Alpha Theta,” — called then, I believe, “The Black and Gold,” — when it was edited by Upsilon about 1890, and also upon the staff of the college weekly. Notwithstanding the assuming of these extra responsibilities, her scholarship did not suffer, as is shown

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262 KAPPA ALPHA THETA by her election to the Phi Beta Kappa society. After grad¬ uation, Miss Guthrie was for eight years one of the assistant librarians at the University of Minnesota library. The experience gained at this time was invaluable as a prepara¬ tion for her later work, as a reference librarian is called upon for material on almost every conceivable subject and must be familiar with indices and catalogs of every descrip¬ tion. In 1903 a special course in cataloging taken at the Albany Library School proved very beneficial. Miss Guthrie’s first indexing work was done in the first thirty-two volumes of the Forum. In 1902 the work of editing the “Readers’ Guide” was begun. A year later the “Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals,” of Cleveland, was consolidated with the “Readers’ Guide” and the first volume of the present Index, described above, cov¬ ering magazine articles published during the years 1900 and 1904 inclusive, is the result. The Literary Digest of May 19, 1906, gives a very commendatory review of this “Baede¬ ker of the Magazines,” as it calls it, and publishes a portrait of the successful editor. Miss Guthrie also edits “Library Work,” a quarterly publication which contains a bib¬ liography and digest of library literature in the English language. At the Annual Art Institute Exhibition in Chicago last fall, there were exhibited two portraits, which were the work of the brush of another young Minneapolitan, May F. Knowlton, who was initiated into Upsilon chapter in 1894. Miss Knowlton was a student first at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, winning while there the scholarship offered by the Fine Arts School at New York City, where her study was then continued. Among those whom she has had for instructors are Louis Mora, Kenneth Hayes Miller, William M. Chase and Robert Henri, principally the latter, of whom she speaks most enthusiastically. In writing of a portrait of her studio-mate, hung at the exhibit of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy at Phila¬ delphia in October, which was mentioned as “good” in the

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A SEMESTER IN GOTTINGEN 263 American Art News of Nov. 9, 1907, her chief pride in the fact seemed to be that the mention of it was made “in the same breath as the work of her wonderful Mr. Henri.” Her first picture to be hung was a portrait of her sister Helen, which was exhibited in the spring of I9°7 the Carnegie Institute exhibit at Pittsburg. In 1906 a portrait was accepted by the jury of the New York Academy, but could not be hung for lack of space. In addition to close and constant work in her studio in New York, Miss Knowlton finds time evenings, to be prin¬ cipal of an Industrial School for Italian Working Girls, a fact which is by no means the least interesting in connection with a career, which we who know her are confident, has spelt but the alphabet of its success. A SEMESTER IN GOTTINGEN For the American colony in Gottingen those five months were all too short. We were supposed to work, we wanted to play, and before all, it was unfortunately necessary for us to acquire as much as we could of the “awful German language.” That first plunge into German was indeed a trying one. For three days after my arrival I was tongue- tied but for a few monosyllables. For instance, I learned to say “ich danke” when offered sausage or beer, realizing that it meant “no!” In time, however, most of us could make ourselves under¬ stood, and we could also understand what was said to us. This was useful when we attended lectures. One course that I took consisted almost entirely of electrical experiments which either did not come off at all or resulted in total darkness and an explosion ! There was only one other girl there (she was from Smith) and with the exception of two members of the Colony, the remaining sixty or so of the class were Russians and Germans. After a lecture or two, the number of those present steadily diminished. This was partly owing to the weekly duels that took place outside

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264 KAPPA ALPHA THETA the city between members of the various fighting corps. No wounded and bandaged student was allowed into the lecture room, and as every second student we met on the street was almost invisible on account of the bandages swathing his face, no wonder the attendance was not good. This want of attendance did not seem to matter much, for as long as a student had been noticed to be present once or twice, he was pretty sure to have his “book” signed by the Professor at the end of the course. On the day of the signing up, the Professor wound up with an eloquent per¬ oration, in which he hoped the same zeal would be shown the next term as heretofore. This before an audience of four, and no sooner had he finished, than in burst the sixty others who had been waiting outside till he had finished, and now had come to have their books signed ! Every Saturday morning I attended a laboratory for a period meant to be four hours, but if any more pressing engagement occurred before the time was up all we had to say was “ich muss fort” and one was at once smilingly bowed out by the “Herr Doktor” in charge. One day I was even requested to leave before the time. On that occasion in passing a table loaded with apparatus I had knocked into a projecting glass tube, causing every single thing to fly in the faces of the students who surrounded the table. It really was quite awkward. I was the only girl there; the students stared, none of them could speak English, while my own German was not nearly fluent enough to enable me to apologize properly, and I had the greatest difficulty to keep from laughing. Finally the “Herr Doktor” taking my own apparatus from me and bowing solemnly said, “Mein Fraulein fur heute est es gut,” and I hastily departed. Anyone can imagine what a good time the younger mem¬ bers of the colony had together. We met as often as possi¬ ble during the week, and every Saturday afternoon we either went on expeditions to neighboring ruined castles or else made attempts at playing hockey in a field one foot deep in mud. Other days we danced to the strains of what we

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GREATER ALUMNJE LOYALTY 265 called the “Gottingen Orchestra/' made up of some half dozen of us who performed on various musical instruments. There were other more formal occasions too; Thanksgiving day for instance when we had dinner for three hours and then danced all night, this time with German musicians performing. The last week of the semester was indeed an “Abschieds Wache.” Work was over by this time and every day and every evening we were together. A few were to return next term, but many were going away for good, so each day we grew sadder and each time we sang “Auld Lang Syne" it sounded more dismal! On the day I left it was pouring with rain, and as the train drew out of the station the remaining members of the colony stood at the end of the platform and gave the Gottingen yell : “Leberwurst! Trietwurst! Halb Krug Bier! Gottingen! Gottingen! Mahlzeit Hier!” What happened to them that day I never heard, but a few days later (singing and yelling being among the infinite number of things “Verboten !”) they found themselves sur¬ rounded by officials and summarily ejected from the station. Una Bernard, Alpha Zeta. GREATER ALUMNAE LOYALTY My plea today is for greater loyalty among fraternity members after leaving college. During undergraduate days fraternity interests are usually paramount, and the ties between chapter members, and the fraternity at large, are very close and it is thought they will never be severed. But once out in the world among the many new distractions and interests, the old love is apt to be forgotten. It is a po¬ lite fiction that the sight of one's own fraternity pin is the signal for a binding friendship ; but in reality how often it is passed by without more than a greeting to the wearer or with perhaps a handclasp and an exchange of addresses, and there the episode ends. The writer has in mind a resort

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266 KAPPA ALPHA THETA where every summer are gathered many fraternity mem¬ bers, an ideal opportunity for the renewal of old bonds and the forming of delightful new ones ; where fraternity affairs may be compared, criticised, praised, each one telling of the home chapter, and thus giving opportunities for mutual benefit of experience; where a community of interests be¬ tween different chapters may be fostered, and where for each member the horizon may be broadened. For keeping in one corner of the world cramps the outlook, while seeing other points of view gives that perspective which is neces¬ sary to ripen judgment. At this resort each season some faithful members establish a headquarters where all fellow fraternity members are requested to at least register their names and addresses — and do they? About one-half of them. Let plans be made for a meeting, or some festivity, and it is almost impossible to get enough members together to carry out the plans. Some will even travel to the other end of the continent without remembering to look up their fellow fraternity members on the way, or at the end of their journey. Many alumnae are constantly coming to the great cities and, having no acquaintances there, need the society of their fraternity sisters. How many of them are looked up and asked to attend the alumnae meetings? Few would care to have the question put as to how many times that duty has been fulfilled. This seems to be a criticism of alumnae, and some may think it undeserved; but shutting our eyes to a fact does not do away with that fact; — fraternity ties are not always what they should be. When it is realized what interests and pleasures these ties would bring into our lives, we can¬ not afford to let them go. It has been the experience of all alumnae that keeping in touch with the fraternity keeps one young. It is so fatally easy, after leaving college and its stimulating influences, to sink into a state of mental stagna¬ tion; the fraternity link is one that binds us to our ambi¬ tions and the means that will help us attain them. Blanche McGough, Kappa Alumnae.

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NOTES FROM LUTHER BURBANK’S “TRAINING OF THE HUMAN PLANT” One of the most notable contributions to recent litera¬ ture on education is found in the “Training of the Human Plant,” by Luther Burbank, whose analogies are based upon lifelong study and experience. We therefore take pleasure in printing this able review of his work by our former Grand President, Edna H. Wickson Kelly. Crossing, together with selection, is absolutely necessary for progress in the development of plant life. The United States now presents the most wonderful opportunity for developing the finest race the world has ever known, out of the vast mingling of races brought here by immigration. Less than one-half dozen years ago more than three-fourths of a million immigrants, representing more than fifty nation¬ alities, arrived in the United States, widely separated geo¬ graphically as well as ethnologically. The plant breeder notices changes in joining two or more plants of diverse type. He merges an absolutely wild strain with one which, long over-cultivated, has lost its vigor. So we notice changes in this vast combination of races, and so may we hope for a far stronger and better race — a magnificent race — far superior to any preceding it. We are more crossed than any other nation in the his¬ tory of the world, and here we meet the same results that are always seen in a much-crossed race of plants: all the worst as well as all the best qualities of each are brought out in their fullest intensities. Right here is where selective environment counts. When all the necessary crossing has been done, then comes the work of elimination. What has been done for plants and flowers by crossing, nature has already accomplished for the American people. When two different plants have been crossed, that is only the begin¬ ning ; the great field lies beyond— the selective environment. A child absorbs environment. It has been said that the way to reform a man is to begin with his grandfather. But this is only a half truth. Begin with his grandfather, but

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268 KAPPA ALPHA THETA begin with the grandfather when he is a child. The child in small towns or in the country should never see the inside of a school house until he is at least ten years old. In the city, school may be necessary earlier as a safeguard. The curse of modern child life in America is over-education. “The barefoot boy” he should be for ten years. Any child who has been deprived of the little friends of the woods and streams has been deprived of the best part of his edu¬ cation. A fragrant beehive or a plump, healthy hornets' nest in good running order often become object lessons of some importance. The inhabitants can give the child pointed lessons in punctuation as well as caution, and some of the limitations as well as the grand possibilities of life. Even by a brief experience with a good patch of healthy nettles the same lesson will be further impressed. Thus by each new experience with homely natural objects the child learns self-respect and also to respect the objects and forces which must be met. There must be power to grasp, digest, assimi¬ late, and make the most of the environment which is daily met, to conquer or to be conquered. There is scarcely a desirable attribute whi£h, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation and persistence you can fix this desira¬ ble trait irrevocably. By surrounding the chijd with sun¬ shine from the sky and from your own heart, by giving him the closest communion with nature, by feeding him with well-balanced, nutritious food, by giving him all that is implied in healthful environmental influences and by doing all in love, you can thus cultivate in him and fix there for all his life, any desired trait. From the children we are led to call abnormal may come, under wise cultivation and training, splendid normal natures. A great force is sometimes needed to change the aspect of minerals and metals: powerful acids, great heat, electricity, mechanical force. Less potent influences will work a complete change in plant life : mild heat, sunshine, the atmosphere, and greatly diluted chemicals. But when

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TRAINING OF THE HUMAN PLANT* 269 we come to animal life, especially in man, we find that the force or influence necessary to effect a transformation is extremely slight. This is why environment plays such an important part in the development of man. Total depravity never existed in a human being, never can exist in any one any more than it can exist in a plant. Heredity means much, but what is heredity? Heredity is simply the sum of all the effects of all the environments of all past generations on the responsive, ever-moving life forces. Each so-called species, each individual, has some¬ thing within itself which we call heredity — a general ten¬ dency to reproduce itself in form and habits somewhat defi¬ nitely after its own kind. Stored within heredity are all joys, sorrows, loves, hates, music, art, triumphs, reverence, courage, wisdom, virtue, beauty, time, space, and all mys¬ teries of the universe. The appropriate environments will bring out and intensify all these general human hereditary experiences and quicken them again into life and action thus modifying for good or evil character — heredity — des¬ tiny. A perfect system of education can never be attained because education is preparing one for the environment expected, and conditions change with time and place. Char¬ acter is heredity and environment in combination, and hered¬ ity being only stored environment our duty and privilege is to make the stored environment of the best quality. As time goes on environment must crystallize the American nation; its varying elements will become unified, and the weeding-out process will, by the means indicated, by selec¬ tion and environmental influences, leave the finest human product ever known. Edna Harmon Wickson Keu,y.

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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON It is with pleasure that we announce a unanimous vote in favor of granting a charter of Kappa Alpha Theta to the local Alpha Tau Delta of Washington State University. A full account of the applying group will be given when the new chapter is installed. As long ago as 1854 a body of progressive western men founded the University of Washington in the then small but rapidly growing town of Seattle. It was an ideal site, even then, tor an institution that was to progress, as it has, to the front rank among American colleges. Seattle is located well toward the center of the State of Washington, on Elliott Bay, a well protected branch of Puget Sound, and extends over the hills which surround two small fresh water lakes, to Lake Washington, a beauti¬ ful pine bordered twenty-two-mile stretch of water. In almost every direction one sees the towering snow-capped mountains with their timber covered slopes — the Olympic Range across the sound to the west, and the Cascade Range with Mt. Rainier (14,500 ft.), Mt. Baker, and other smaller peaks, to the east and south. But beautiful as the location is, it is also most practical, as the phenomenal growth of the city testifies. Seattle was once the home of a few Indians, was named for one of their chiefs and was the meeting place of the tribes of that section. In 1852 it was first settled by a few pioneers. With the coming of the railroad in 1884, it became a city ; in 1890 the census showed a population of 40,000; while today it has reached the 250,000 mark. Its location makes it the natural outlet to all the western trade and traffic of the nation. Practically all of the Alaskan trade ships from Seattle, as well as much of that of Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan and China. Here all the wonderful resources of the state are brought to market — the enormous lumbering industry, the fisheries, mining and manufactures. The shipping reports show an immense commerce, to facili-

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Cedar Grove on Campus of the University of Washington

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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 27 tate which, the government now has under construction a canal connecting the three lakes with the sound, forming one of the finest inner-harbors in the world right in the heart of Seattle. All this has had and will continue to have a wonderful effect on the University. It first opened for work in the fall of 1862 but was only a very small college until 1896 when it boasted of some 400 students. But in ten years it trippled in size and this year’s freshman class numbers over 600. The University grounds are beautifully sitlated com¬ prising some 360 acres bordering on Lake Washington. I he natural forest has been left untouched except for a clearing of about five acres where the buildings stand. The paths and trails among the trees and brush leading down to the water are most attractive. They claim that there is no campus like it anywhere, and one must admit that the nat¬ ural beauties are superior to the far-famed Cornell, the University of Wisconsin, or the University of California. But as yet it greatly lacks improvements of all kinds. The plan for the arrangement of the buildings is a mod¬ ification of a quadrangle — all the buildings being grouped around an elipse a little over a quarter of a mile long and half as wide. Any structure built here must be made of materials found in the state. The buildings now erected are the Administration Building and Science Hall, both large, well and artistically built ; the observatory, the Assay Shop, the Gymnasium and two dormitories. The labora¬ tories and libraries are well equipped. The increase in numbers in the last few years has been so great that the buildings are quite inadequate and so badly crowded that it has been necessary to build a number of small, temporary houses. Just now they are waiting and bending all their energies as is the whole state, toward the success of the big Alaska, Yukon and Pacific Exposi¬ tion to be held in Seattle in 1909. All of the campus except that part now occupied by the present buildings is to be loaned for this exposition ; in

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272 KAPPA ALPHA THETA return for which a number of the buildings are to be per¬ manently constructed and left to the university. $600,000 is to be spent by the state on three of these buildings, — an auditorium, a chemistry building with all the very latest improvements, and one another. $400,000 has been appro¬ priated for their equipment, making virtually an appro¬ priation of one million dollars by the legislature for the years 1908-1909. Besides this a number of the State Houses are to be left and the improvement of the grounds will be of great value. This work has already begun and one is glad to learn that in places where clearings are being made, as many as possible of the large trees are to be preserved. Thus in two years will be visible the great university which already exists in the organization of the institution. Besides these valuable grounds within the city limits of Seattle, the university has a permanent income from nine acres in the business district of the city, which are in¬ creasing enormously in value ; 320 acres near Tacoma ; a federal grant of 3,000 acres and a most valuable state grant of 10,000 acres. The faculty, numbering 78, is a most able body and the president, Dr. Xane, an unusually efficient man. The grad¬ uate school, the schools of liberal arts, music, law, mines, engineering and pharmacy are remarkably complete in their curriculum. The large student body is made up of fine, enthusiastic men and women. They maintain a general association which has charge of the student government, debating clubs, dramatic clubs and several special organizations for mem¬ bers of certain departments of study. In athletics they hope soon to rival California and Stan¬ ford in all the branches as they already do on the track and in their boat races. Having such great facilities for boat¬ ing of all sorts, their crew is the best in the west. Their big spring regatta with all sorts of interclass races must be a most inspiring sight. There are now ten national men's fraternities repre¬ sented in the University of Washington — Beta Theta Pi,

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ALUMN2E AND PAN-HELLENIC 273 Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi and Phi Chi. Among the women, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta have been established there for some years. Then came Pi Beta Phi and Delta Gamma. Alpha Xi Delta in¬ stalled a chapter only a year ago and Kappa Alpha Theta recognizing the growth and prospects of the university and the fine type of students there, has just granted a charter to the local Alpha Tau Delta. Jessie M. Macearland. THE RELATIONS OF THE ALUMNAE TO THE PAN-HELLENIC The conditions which confront the alumnae of the college town are peculiar unto themselves, and vary no doubt with the locality. The paramount question of some alumnae chapters, chiefly those in the college town, is the relation of the alumnae or alumnae chapter to the Pan-Hellenic. We alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta have a feeling, — a pardonable pride that the active chapter shows its strength by being able to conduct its own rushing independent of alumnae cooperation. The strength of the fraternity past and present should speak for itself. The decision of the new girl after having become acquainted with the national and local standing of the fraternity, should rest upon her judgment of the congeniality of the active chapter with whom she will have to be associated. The question then arises, has the “Pan-Hellenic” power to restrict the actions of alumnae who do not wish to engage in the rushing, and who are not represented as alumnae, nor wish to be in the Pan-Hellenic? That is, shall private citizens of a college town allow' college organizations to dominate their home life? Rules have within the past two

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274 KAPPA ALPHA THETA years been incorporated in the “Inter-Sorority Rushing Contracts” in certain localities which have this tendency. A majority vote of the Pan-Hellenic over the protests of the active chapter representing alumnae not otherwise represented, forbade the alumnae to exercise the rights of private citizens in entertaining new girls in their homes, whether the new girl was being paid fraternity attention or not. Alumnae have submitted at the time rather than embarrass the active chapter by protesting in words and deeds against these restrictions. Later protests have proved futile. We believe that as citizens of the town, having severed our relation with the college, that we are no longer under the jurisdiction of the authorities, nor of any association connected therewith. These restrictions have seriously em¬ barrassed the alumnae in their relations with the student body, including those to whom no fraternity attention is being paid, and whom we are often bound by the ties of friendship to entertain in our homes. The Pan-Iiellenic is no doubt good in its place, but its place is in the college. Will the people elsewhere understand the spirit which closes the doors of alumnaeas homes to the homesick student who has just entered college? Can older people of wider experience and mature judgment be governed by the dic¬ tates of college students, whose greatest fault is their inex¬ perience? Shall college fraternities stand as exponents of a narrow, selfish creed, excluding all others from a normal social life at the time they need it most? A condition, not a theory, confronts us.

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FRATERNITY DAUGHTERS AND SISTERS The subject of fraternity relations is as old as the fraternal idea and has been worn thread-bare, but the argu¬ ments have dealt largely with advisability and desirability of taking in relations, and the duty of the chapter under such circumstances. There is another phase to this ques¬ tion that is of equal if not greater importance, namely, the duty of the mother or older sister. It is a reasonable sup¬ position that all fraternity relations come to college eagei and anxious to enter the fraternity of their family, having been brought up under its influences. Unfortunately this state does not. always exist, even in the family of a very loyal fraternity member. This condition may result from a variety of causes. All fraternity people will have to admit that sometimes their families see the least desirable side of the organization, enjoying none of the pleasures, advantages and companionships directly, and that they draw unfavora¬ ble conclusions. We may be absent from the family dinner but are celebrating at a fraternity spread, the sandwiches for which were made by a devoted little sister. Perhaps that same little sister has hurried us into a new gown for a party where the dance programs she helped tie were espe¬ cially admired. The home-letter may have been brought to an abrupt close, that we might not be late to our chapter meeting. Again the discrepancy in the ages of the sisters may have been so great that their pleasures may have differed widely and the older woman may never have thought to confide in the younger, her pleasure in her fraternity life. It frequently happens that the older member has married and moved away and failed to realize that the little girl was almost a freshman. In other cases the mother chapter or any other chapter may be so far distant that the younger girl, never having seen fraternity life, may have confused and jumbled ideas of its nature. She is so impressionable and eager for glimpses of fraternity and college life that she ought to receive fair and correct ideas of what a college

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276 KAPPA ALPHA THETA fraternity is and what it may mean to its members, and who can so happily answer her questions as the mother or sister who has known the joys and possibilities through experi- • ence? High school girls sometimes put their little heads together and tell such marvellous tales of chapter life that we fraternity women would scarce recognize ourselves. In half an hour a good, serious talk with an older girl could give the little sister and possibly somebody else’s little sister a very different impression. Rushing season is bad enough for all concerned, but no one is so deserving of compassion as the little daughter and sister. The conditions surrounding her are always disad¬ vantageous. She knows she is not half the girl her sister was at her age. She knows the girls judge her by the finished product of her family on leaving college, seldom considering what the first member was as raw material. The poor children are so self-conscious, they never do them¬ selves justice. They are afraid to be too polite for fear they may be considered “rushing the girls,” and are afraid to be silent for fear of being considered unappreciative and stupid. Probably no senior has left college without having many times heard a little girl say when bid, “Are you sure you want me for myself or do you think you have to take me on account of my sister?” If a relation is rushed per¬ sistently by other fraternities, the conditions are even more unnatural. The rushing is of the fiercest kind for the rival fraternity would hardly dare begin the campaign without a special pull which usually tears the freshman heart asunder before the battle is finished. The attention showered upon such a rushee would endanger an older head. It is a ques¬ tion whether the practise of rushing and taking other fra¬ ternity’s relations is not too expensive to be indulged in, excepting in extreme cases. It has been known to result in unpleasant inter-fraternity relations, half-hearted loyalty in the girl and embarrassing social complications, for it is always dangerous to divide the interests of a family. Since rushing conditions are so unsatisfactory, both to the relatives and the active chapter, the older women owe

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A SCHOLARSHIP RALLY * 77 them especial consideration and effort. When a chapter is forced to rush a relation against another fraternity it suf¬ fers in dignity and is placed in a position which usually causes talk and unfavorable comment in the college. This reflects in some degree upon the chapter but it reflects still more upon the older member in the family, even though she is in no way to blame. It is unfortunate to lose a relative to another fraternity for it places the older mem¬ ber in the compromsiing position of having her loyalty and judgment questioned, justly or unjustly. Every active chap¬ ter has a right to expect that every sister and daughter will come to college, primed and brim full of interest in the fraternity. Every one of these younger girls has a right to be taught enough of fraternity life and methods to do her¬ self and her family justice and not to be led in another direc¬ tion in an hysterical rushing season. Some one will say that the occasion of a daughter or sister entering college, ignorant of, or not appreciative of fraternity life is so rare that it is not worth considering. It is rare, but when such an instance does arrive the effects are far reaching, and there are many heartaches. The num¬ ber of relations entering college increases each year and al¬ though it may seem a small matter now, it is one of grow¬ ing importance and one of the problems to be solved by the fraternity world in the future. Grace W. Lavayea, Iota Alumnae. A SCHOLARSHIP RALLY Iota Alumnae now feels that the common interest in the collection of a Scholarship fund binds its members more closely together than ever before. Here is one instance. At our formal Founder’s Day banquet last year we decided that we could have just as good a time at an informal meet¬ ing and save the banquet tax for the Scholarship fund. This year’s committee took up the suggestion, and the

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278 KAPPA ALPHA THETA “Scholarship rally” proved to be one of Iota Alumnae’s most joyous celebrations. For a week before, preparation? were made as for a picnic with the result that each mem¬ ber took her offering into the kitchen, and a most efficient committee served from there an exceedingly attractive sup¬ per. Among the decorations of the large room where the sup¬ per was held were the leaves of the Oregon wild grape, sent to Iota Alumnae by Alpha Xi Delta of the University of Washington. The tables, instead of being formally set for all of the guests, were used only for the chafing dishes and coffee urns. The forty Thetas sat in groups, many of them making use of the sofa cushions on the floor, and had a supper which was just as good as any banquet. The one suggestion of formality was a toast card with toasts following the initial letters of “Theta Day.” The speakers were cleverly introduced by our chapter president “T stands for toasts, drink one and all,” and Irene Tay¬ lor Heineman began by instructing us as to the most ap¬ proved ways of replying to toasts. After that she made us all personally interested in the new Alpha Kappa chap¬ ter at Adelphi College. “H stands for help — Scholarship’s call.” Ida Lindley’s “silent toast” will, we hope, mark a new beginning to our Scholarship fund. Cards were handed to every Theta with a new Theta pledge. “ Knowing that many Kappa Alpha Thetas have been unable to reach their highest attainments through lack of opportunities, I pledge myself by the sub¬ scribed amount , to help create a scholarship fund for Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae to be used for European study.” This made many of us think seriously of the real meaning of the Scholarship, and of our individual obligations. “E stands for 'eats/ they none of us bore.” And Clara Smith did anything but “bore” us when she told us of her travels, and of the chance “eats” she had had with other Kappa Alpha Thetas. “T stands for time, now’s the time to score.” Jane Spalding brought us back to the scholarship fund by ex-

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A SCHOLARSHIP RALLY *79 plaining its real meaning to us and to the whole fraternity. The moment has come and we must act together, and now. “A stands for all of us — and more,” for, said Maude Phillips, this Scholarship helps not only those who are in the fraternity now, by giving us a common interest, but it will make possible a great opportunity for the many who are to become Thetas in the future. ' “D stands for dollars, our cause to assist,” and no one could show the necessity for dollars better than Catharine Wiltimore, treasurer of the Scholarship Fund. She re¬ ported that we had $250.00 already and that our dollars — we had each brought $1.00 to the supper — made the fund nearly $300.00. She hoped our pledges made that even¬ ing would make the fund very much larger. “A stands for aims — to add to our list” — and the right person to hold us to our true aims was Jessie Macfarland. our district president. She reminded us that in adding to our list of subscribers we must not forget that our aim is above a mere money basis, it is to inspire a common enthus iasm among all Kappa Alpha Thetas. “Y stands for years, an end to our fears.” A worthy person to impersonate Kappa Alpha Theta was Bertha Lind- Icy Coffin who told us in an autobiographical strain of the early life of the fraternity. She dwelt with affectionate pride upon the earnest and loyal character of her children scattered from Canada to California and of the great things they had all accomplished. In the collection of a scholar¬ ship fund she knew all of her children would work to¬ gether. Lou Whipple McCrea gave a rising toast to “The Founders” and the loving cup passed from hand to hand. Mrs. Bonard, one of the first initiates into the group of women whom we had just toasted, told us something of the fraternity in those early days. When the time for leave taking came, we felt that the “Scholarship rally” had accomplished its two greatest aims — a larger bank account, and renewed affection for Kappa Alpha Theta and for each other. E. M. J.

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A THETA IN TOKYO When the request came to me from Chi’s editor, to write something for the “Kappa Alpha Theta,” I felt very much honored, and thought I should love to try. But the condition to be filled, — “Something around Tokyo that would be interesting to a Theta,” fills we with misgiving, for I wonder what I can tell that you have not already heard or read many times. First may I tell you how one Theta celebrated Founder’s Day? I had saved my bow of black and gold ribbon from last year, and felt proud to wear it again this year among new friends and new surroundings. I wore it on our twenty-seventh of January and also on part of January twenty-eighth, for as we are twelve or fourteen hours ahead of America I thought you would would be actually celebrating sometime during the forenoon of our January twenty-eighth. I thought it a happy coincidence that we were using our pansy tablecloth just then. It happened that several of the women missionaries of Tokyo spent that day sewing for an English Salvation Army worker who had just been burned out of house and home. When dinner time came I was again reminded of Theta by the pansy napkins. A pleasant dinner party in the evening fin¬ ished the day, which as Theta’s birthday I enjoyed very much. Perhaps one of my best friends in Japan is a Delta Gamma of the Woman’s College of Baltimore. Since neith¬ er of us had yet resided in Japan for a year, we obtained permission through the American Embassy, to attend the Emperor’s Garden Party last November. The permission came from the Imperial Household’s Department, in the shape of formal invitations printed in Japanese and hand¬ somely decorated with the royal seal of a golden chrysan¬ themum. There were four in our party altogether. Per¬ haps the affair was attended by one or two disappointments It was not held in the Emperor’s Palace Grounds, but in

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A THETA IN TOKYO 281 those of the Crown Prince, and the Emperor and Empress were unable to be present. Since one of the conditions of admittance is that all must appear in foreign or European dress, very few Japanese women came out, and so to my mind one of the most artistic and fascinating things about such a gathering was missing, — the gentle Japanese women in their quaint and' beautiful dress. But it was interesting to see all the people of the different legations together, and to wonder about them, and the display of chrysanthemums was alone worth going to see. There were thousands of blossoms, sometimes several hundred growing from one root. One plant for instance bore between eight and nine hundred blossoms, and another was grafted to bear forty- seven different varieties. After we had been watching for some time the flowers and the people, we were asked to stand aside in order tc let the royal family pass, and soon we began to hear strains of music. It was the Kimi ga yo, the national anthem of Japan. Originally, it was sung or played simply as a melody, or with the melody in octaves; but now although the quaint old tune so genuinely Japanese is retained, it is harmonized according to modern theories of music. That day a brass band played it so beautifully that it just thrilled me. It is always sung very slowly, the same words and music three times over. To me the Kimi ga yo, and the loyal and almost reverent way in which the Japanese peo¬ ple regard it and sing it, is one of the most beautiful things in the Sunrise Kingdom. If at first we were disappointed on learning that the Garden Party was not to be held in the Emperor’s own grounds, the feeling was soon forgotten. For as soon as we entered the Crown Prince’s gate and stepped down from our jinrikishas, we felt as though we had been spirited away from the city and all the outside world, and were really in fairy land. A magnificent grandfatherly old pine tree was the first to greet us. On the other side was a curious green hedge, many feet in height and closely crop¬ ped. A few steps farther brought us into what seemed

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282 KAPPA ALPHA THETA like a tiny forest. On the right was a little wood of pine trees, some soft and tufted, gnarled and twisted into all kinds of grotesque shapes; at our feet lay a little brook spanned with stepping stones, and opposite us was another wood, deep and dark and green, here and there a small maple tree, with tiny red pointed leaves, nestling lovingly against it in some snug little spot. The grounds were oth¬ erwise laid out in graceful slopes, winding paths, flower¬ beds and minature lakes. And while all the natural beauty of the place was preserved, still it seemed as though every tree, branch, twig and almost every leaf, had been placed just so, by some careful but loving hand and told to stay When finally it was time to leave, the guests quietly followed each other down through the pretty winding walks back to where the ’rikishas and other vehicles were waiting. Thanks to the foresight of our kurumaya san, we werq soon able to distinguish ours among the mass because he had signified to us when we entered, his intention of waving aloft on an umbrella, a Japanese towel which kurumayas always carry, like a handkerchief. Soon we were at our own door again, almost too soon if it were not for the fun of coming home to tell about it. When you visit Tokyo, be sure to come at either Chrys¬ anthemum or Cherry Blossom time, November or May, and then you may go to the Emperor’s Garden Party, and will enjoy for yourselves its pleasures, and also see how far short I have come in describing it. And please let this Theta know of your coming, for she would love to greet you and bid you “Yoku iraisshaimashita.” Luelea Mieeer Igeehart, ’o6.

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TO THE SENIORS The Commencement season, to the seniors, is never a time of unalloyed bliss. The associations and interests have all to be left behind. The fraternity chapter that is her very own, by virtue of her years of labor, thought, and ceaseless care, is about to pass into other hands, and unex¬ pressed perhaps, she carries with her the thought that in this world the empty place is filled all too soon, and that another, as ably equipped as herself, will carry bn the work for which she thought her own personality indispensable. This is as it should be. For no other reason do we select promising material for our pledges, teach freshmen our ideals, and gradually allow them to share responsibili¬ ties with the upper-classmen. Our fraternity, like society in general, lives only by renewing itself. As for the sen¬ ior, she leaves a formative period for better things, steps out into actualities, and finds some woman’s work ready to her hand. Her problem, however, is to keep in touch with her active chapter, keep her interest in it aflame, and herself as closely allied with it as time and distance will allow. Monetary help and gifts to the chapter house, make up the least of her duties to it. The gifts of the spirit count more for its good. She should feel herself free, tactfulh to give the best of her advice and counsel, often gratuitous¬ ly, if she thinks she can help in so doing. She must not feel slighted should her letters remain unanswered or her advice unfollowed, knowing the first were welcomed as the girls would welcome her, but overlooked in the busy life of college, or that the latter proved unfeasible in the course of events. This requires patience. She must have faith that those who come after her will do their best to uphold the ideals they inherited from her and from the chapter, upon their initiation, that they will meet their problems with steadfastness and courage. She must have faith in the future success of the chapter now left to the guidance of other hands. She must possess all charity for the mistakes that are bound to be made, re-

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284 KAPPA ALPHA THETA member ing, in all humility, those committed in her day; and must realize that her distance from the field gives her perspective and that judgment is sometimes blinded by mere nearness to problems. She should ally herself with some alumnae chapter or club, if possible, and so become a unit of organized labor for the good of her fraternity and the advancement of the world’s work, for success in her chosen field will bring credit to her fraternity. So, if she does all these things well, and they will be¬ come increasingly hard as college days recede, it is safe tc predict that the senior of 1908 will never become but a name to the future members of her chapter, but will remain down the years what she is now, a living, breathing, person¬ ality. Marie Nettleton Rose, Xi Alumnae. A REPORT ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-HELLENICS IN THE UNITED STATES The sixth Inter-Sorority Conference, which met in Chicago September 13, 1907, directed a committee of one to collect statistics from all the Pan-Hellenics which could be reached, and to form from them a general report on Pan-Hellenics. This report was to consider: (1) the similarities and differences in Pan-Hellenic constitutions; (2) the difficulties met by these associations; and (3) the ways of solving those difficulties. Reports have been re¬ ceived from fifty Pan-Hellenics, and the facts gathered have been grouped under the headings given below : I. THE LARGEST PAN-HELLENICS. Number of Sororities Name of College, in the Pan-Hellenic. Dates of Pledge Day. Syracuse University . 11 _ Matriculation day Northwestern University . 10. .. .October 11 Wisconsin University . 10. .. .Matriculation day California University . 9 _ September 13 Nebraska University . 9. .. .November 23 Barnard College . 8 - April, 1909 Illinois University . 8.... October 5

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PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-HIiLLENICS 285 Number of Sororities Name of College, in the Pan-Hellenic. Dates of Pledge Day. Michigan University . 8 _ Matriculation day, and Spring Minnesota University . 8.... April 11 Baltimore College . 6. .. .November 23 Boston University . 6 _ October 21 Dc Pauw University . 6.... October 28 Leland Stanford University _ 6 - September 26 Colorado University . 5. .. .September 16 Washington State University... 5 _ Matriculation day II. DATE OF PLEDGE DAY. 7 Colleges pledge in September. 15 Colleges pledge in October. 9 Colleges pledge in November. 3 Colleges pledge in December. 1 College pledges in January. 1 College pledges in March. 2 Colleges pledge in April. 1 College pledges at the beginning of the Sophomore Year. 11 Colleges pledge on Matriculation Day. The Colleges pledging in December are the University of Penn¬ sylvania, Swarthmore College, and Adelphi College. Ohio State University pledges in January, Newcombe College in March, and the University of Minnesota and Barnard College pledge in April. Barnard, however, by faculty ruling, does not pledge till April, 1909. The University of Mississippi, by faculty ruling, does not pledge till the Sophomore year. III. LOCALS. Thirty-five out of the fifty Colleges reporting have no locals in their Pan-Hellenics; the other fifteen each have one, and all but two report that the locals are just as willing as the nationals to abide by Pan-Hellenic rulings. At Adelphi College and at the University of Michigan the local has made trouble by pledging before Matriculation Day, or before the pledge day established by Pan-Hellenic. ******* V. BY-LAWS AND RUSHING CONTRACTS. As might be expected, the by-laws and rushing contracts of the Pan-Hellenics present many points of difference. Some of them, like Leland Stanford and Cornell, are elaborate, and at¬ tempt to meet every emergency likely to arise during the rushing

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286 KAPPA ALPHA THETA season. Others, like those of Wisconsin and Ohio State University, strive for the utmost simplicity and conciseness compatible with clearness. On certain points the great majority agree; the points in which they differ may be suggestive to Pan- Hellenics which have not thought of these plans. Most Pan-Hellenics begin their rushing on Matriculation Day, but Denver, Illinois, Leland Stanford, and West Virginia prefer to let a short period elapse before beginning, so that the necessary work of registration and arrangement of programs may be out of the way first. Fourteen colleges avoid all fraternity talk until the invitations are out; then, if a girl who has been bidden wishes to know something more about Sororities, she is requested to ask die Sorority she prefers for information, and this Sorority sends one of its members to answer her questions. During the rushing season all entertaining is decided on and limited by Pan-Hellenic. Indiana prescribes the cost of the most formal party given, and Pennsylvania states that the rushing must be “simple and inex¬ pensive/’ No other Universities try to regulate cost, but they all regulate the number of parties, and often the kind of parties that may be given. Cornell forbids “functions” (formal affairs) entirely. Several Colleges limit the rushing affairs to which men may be invited, or prohibit these entirely. Adelphi, Kansas, and Ohio State University Pan-Hellenics entertain at the beginning of the year; Adelphi specifies that this affair is for the Freshmen girls, but the others do not state clearly whom they invite. The customs about bidding are very nearly the same every¬ where. Pan-Hellenic decides on a form of invitation, and this is written, printed, or engraved at the cost of each Sorority. The The bids are sent out on the same day by a committee; the bid states the time and place for the answer, and freqeuntly adds a request that all bids not accepted be returned as a negative an¬ swer, which shall be considered final. The time allowed for re¬ turning an answer varies from a few hours to two weeks. Gen¬ erally the answer is to be written and mailed; several Colleges state that they have tried personal answers and have fonud them very unsatisfactory. Six Colleges forbid all rushing, or talk about Sororities during the interval between invitation and answer. Two Colleges use pledge pins instead of ribbons. I think this custom is more widespread than the reports would indicate. So far most Pan-Hellenics follow the same customs, but there are several points which are emphasized by very few of them. Four expressly forbid saying anything against another Sorority

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PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-IIELLENICS 287 or any of its members. Several state that alumnae, friends, and pledges are bound by the rules made by Pan-Hellenic. California, Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan, and Minnesota allow sisters to be pledged by permission of Pan-Hellenic, and Illinois Wesleyan al¬ lows girls who have been in college a year to be pledged any time after matriculation in their later years. Baltimore and Minnesota insist that a girl must take a certain number of hours of work to be eligible for a bid. Iowa Wesleyan and Wisconsin send five copies of their Pan-Hellenic constitutions and rushing contracts to their Grand Presidents each year. VI. DIFFICULTIES AND SOLUTIONS. Fifteen Universities report that they have no difficulty in organizing or running their Pan-Hellenics; they feel that Pan- Hellenics are necessary, and that they have already considerably increased inter-tsorority friendliness. Two Universities, on the other hand, say they do not like Pan-Hellenics, and consider them injurious to inter-sorority relations. These are the University of California and Washington University, St. Louis; the latter Pan- Hellenic was organized this year. The remaining Colleges, while they confess to difficulties, are bravely working to solve them, and in many cases are succeeding. The difficulty mentioned by the greatest number of Pan-Hel¬ lenics, fourteen, is the breaking of contracts; it is exceedingly hard to prove the offense and to punish it. In most Colleges the proofs are laid before Pan-Hellenic, which acts as judge. In one or two Colleges the Alumnae members of Pan-Hellenic form a court to deal with infractions of contract. Curiously enough, however, very few constitutions provide any punishment for the breaking of con¬ tracts when proved. The following punishments have been adopted by some Colleges: Baltimore has three grades of punishment for different degrees of guilt, but all consist of the withdrawal of rushing dates, or the entire suspension of rushing for a number of days. Cornell de¬ mands an apology in Pan-Hellenic meeting. De Pauw publishes a statement of the offense in the College paper. Northwestern pub¬ lishes an apology in the College paper. Ohio State University in¬ flicts a fine of not more than $10, or reports the offending Sorority to its Grand President. Swarthmore also reports to the Grand President. Several Colleges provide for the report of offenses to the Inter-Sorority Conference. When the case is taken to a Grand President, or to the Inter-Sorority Conference, the power in ques-

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288 KAPPA ALPHA THETA tion is expected to decide on and inflict the penalty. Cornell tries to prevent the breaking of contracts by having weekly meetings of Pan-Hellenic during rushing season. The difficulty which comes next in importance (reported by ten Pan-Hellenics) is that of fixing pledge day. The solution for this is frankness and courtesy in the discussion in Pan-Hellenic meeting, and a willingness to compromise when the wish of the majority becomes clear. Distrust of each other is the difficulty next in order. This is mentioned by but five Pan-Hellenics, but I suppose distrust must be present in the case of broken contracts, and may often lie at the bottom of accusations of such breaking. Several Pan-Hellenics, however, speak of the growing feeling of confidence between Soror¬ ities. The only cure suggested for distrust is time. The other difficulties are mentioned by but few Pan-Hellenics, but it may be that they have been felt more widely than the re¬ ports would show. For instance, only one Pan-Hellenic com¬ plains of tardiness and poor attendance at Pan-Hellenic meetings. The remedy suggested for this is fines — fifty cents for absence, and a smaller sum for tardiness. Several complain of indifference; no remedy is suggested for this. One Pan-Hellenic cannot inter¬ est its alumnse in Pan-Hellenic; another cannot keep them from breaking Pan-Hellenic rules by violent rushing. Several Pan-Hel¬ lenics cannot define rushing clearly enough to prevent misunder¬ standing; one has trouble beacuse Sororities pair off and oppose each other. In one College one Sorority refused to join Pan-Hcl- lenic, and caused considerable trouble, while at another College a Sorority insisted on withdrawing and doing as it pleased when things did not go to suit it. Both these last cases were reported to the Grand Presidents, and settled by them. After all ,this is not so long a list of grievances as might have been expected, and most of them are capable of cure. Consider¬ ing the fact that Pan-Hellenics have been running but a few years, and that Greeks always have shown a strong dislike to union, the prospect for the future is certainly encouraging. SUMMARY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS SUG¬ GESTED BY THE REPORTS. Thirty-nine Colleges out of 50 have an interval between ma¬ triculation day and pledge day; 24 Colleges out of 50 bid in Octo¬ ber and November. Every Pan-Hellenic should have a constitution.

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PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-HELLENICS 289 Every constitution should provide (1) for regular meetings (perhaps so often as once in two months) ; (2) for some definite way of calling both regular and special meetings; (3) for some definite punishments for breaking contracts. It would be well to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of requiring a unanimous vote in Pan-Hellenic. The Inter-Soror¬ ity Conference requires a unanimous vote, but Pan-Hellenics are of course free to decide this matter for themselves. Each Pan-Hellenic should consist of one active and one alumna member from each Sorority represented. The Inter-Sorority Con¬ ference agreement requires this. It is both wise and practicable to limit the amount of money spent in rushing, and the number of rushing affairs given. Some Pan-Hellenics have begun to entertain the Freshmen, or all the women of the college, as a good way of opening the social life of the year. All Pan-Hellenics might well express disapproval of talking against a rival Sorority or its members. All charges of breaking contracts, or the spirit of contracts, should be reported to Pan-Hellenics, when they should be inves¬ tigated; if the charges are substantiated, the guilty ones should be punished as provided for in the constitution. Pledge day should be fixed in time for the constitution and by-laws to be printed not later than May 1st. The constitution and by-laws should be sent each year to the Grand Presidents of the Sororities represented in the Pan-Hel¬ lenic. In making out this report I have often named the Pan-Hel¬ lenics who are trying some unusual experiment, or who have been successful in meeting difficulties. I hope that other Pan- Hellenics who would like more information on some of these points will write to the proper Pan-Hellenic for it, and I am sure they will receive prompt and cordial answers to their inquiries. I wish to thank most cordially the Grand Secretaries of Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, and Delta Gamma, whose work has made this report possible. Lillian W. Thompson, Gamma Phi Beta. 326 West Sixty-first Place, Chicago.

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290 KAPPA ALPHA THETA RULES ADOPTED BY THE PAN-HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. During the two weeks immediately preceding Pledge Day, there shall be no intercourse whatever between Sorority girls and Fresh¬ men. Daughters and sisters who arc not pledged during the first week of college shall be governed by the same rules which apply to other Freshmen. No Freshman shall be pledged to a Sorority unless she has attained the standard of scholarship decided upon by the dean of women and the Pan-Hellenic Association. Girls entering College at the second semester cannot be asked to join a Sorority until the Pledge Day of the following year. Uniform invitations shall be sent to Freshmen so as to reach their destination the morning of Pledge Day. A Freshman must mail her refusal immediately and give her acceptance at the speci¬ fied time and place. RUSHING RULES FOR 1907-8 ADOPTED AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. We, the undersigned fraternities of the Ohio State University, in order to bring about and preserve a friendly inter-fraternal spirit and to regulate rushing, do hereby agree to observe the following rules and regulations, from May 1, 1907, to Monday, January 13, 1908. (First Monday after registration of the Winter Term.) No invitation for fraternity membership shall be extended to any girl who has not been an enrolled student of the University for at least one term. Invitations shall be written according to the following form and mailed by the noon mail of the first Friday of the Winter Term : “My dear Miss . “You have been elected to membership in . Chapter of . Fraternity. You are requested to send your written an¬ swer not later than five P. M., Monday, Jan¬ uary 13, 1908. If you should desire further in¬ formation before deciding definitely you may re¬ quest one interview with any one girl of the fra¬ ternity. With the exception of this interview

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PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-HELLENICS 291 there shall be no intercourse between fraternity and non-fraternity girls until the answer is re¬ ceived. ‘‘(Signed) “ . Chapter, . Fraternity.” The interview with entering girls shall be limited to giving information desired by the entering girl concerning the fraternity. There shall be no urging or helping the entering girls to decide. There shall be no discussion or voluntary mention of fra¬ ternities with entering girls. No fraternity shall give more than two parties during the rush¬ ing season and none during the last week. (Parties mean the presence of the whole fraternity.) Smaller parties may be held on Saturdays from October to January, at which only four members of the fraternity may be present, each fraternity entering in the order of its establishment. Kappa Kappa Gamma first, Kappa Alpha Theta— second, Pi Beta Phi— third, Delta Delta Delta- fourth. An advisory council consisting of the alumnae members of the Pan-Hellenic Association shall act as a court of appeal in all cases in which one fraternity is in doubt whether or not its plans or the action past or planned, of any other fraternity, is an infringe¬ ment of these rules. During the Fall term of rushing the Pan-Hellenic Association shall meet once every two weeks. A copy of this contract shall be sent to all alumnae residing in town. (Adopted May, 1907.) GENERAL RUSHING RULES OF LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY. All matters concerning rushing are to be considered fraternity secrets and are not to be discussed with men or with non-mem¬ bers of the fraternity. All rushing is to be as secret, quiet, and unobtrusive as pos¬ sible. The discussion with Freshmen of fraternity matters is for¬ bidden before bidding-day. A pledged girl is subject to the same rules and regulations as In active member. Freshmen are not to be escorted in public, or to football prac- ice, or to public entertainments anywhere; and are not to be met

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292 KAPPA ALPHA THETA at trains by more than one person. Trips to Berkeley chapter houses are excluded. There is to be no calling upon, or walking with, entertaining, or rushing of Freshmen upon class days before 4:30 P. M., and all rushing is to cease not later than 10:30 P. M., upon all such days except Fridays. No dances, parties, or entertainments are to be for Freshmen at which men are present. This restriction applies to entertain¬ ments given by or in behalf of a Sorority in a private residence. Sorority members are not to countenance or to arrange rushing parties to be given by men. No tallyho or automobile rides are to be taken with Freshmen. Drives with Freshmen are to be limited to Saturdays and Sun¬ days. (The first Saturday and Sunday are excluded.) No Freshman shall be kept over night in a Sorority house. No Freshman shall be escorted to the chapter house after the first visit and then only by one member. Lists of engagements sent to a Freshman shall consist only of simple enumeration of dates. These restrictions are to hold until one week after bidding day. Questions of interpretations and complaints of these agree¬ ments arc to be determined by the Alumnae Committee, to consist of the alumnae representatives of the Sororities upon the executive committee of the Pan-Hellenic Association of Stanford University. Complaints of violations shall be made to the alumna represen¬ tative of the Sorority making such complaint, and such represent¬ ative shall attempt to settle the complaint by conference with the alumna representative of the Sorority complained against. In case these two are unable to settle the complaint, the matter shall be ferred to the full executive committee. * * * Lillian W. Thompson, Gamma Phi Beta. There is little which need be added to the above report made by Miss Thompson upon the results attained by the Pan-Hellenic organizations. The editor corresponded with twenty-eight chapters, asking each the same question: “Is your Pan-Hellenic system a success ?” Ten chapters sent definite answers, five in the affirmative, five negative. Th< remaining answers were vague or contradictory. We adc the peculiar provisions of two Pan-Iiellenic association! below.

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PRESENT CONDITION OF PAN-HELLENICS 293 The following rule comes from Kansas University : On Saturday afternoon at 3 130, October 5, Pan-Hel¬ lenic delegates went around in a body to each house where they intended to leave an invitation. It was a very trying procedure to see two and three bids going to the same girl but we each knew it was conductedly honestly. INTER-SORORITY RULES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 1. Rushing and pledging shall be allowed during matriculation week. There shall be no further rushing or pledging until after the mid-semester reports are filed. No student may be initiated until the end of the semester. No student who is delinquent may be pledged or initiated. 2. The standard of eligibility to a sorority in the University of Nebraska shall be twelve hours of collegiate work, with the excep¬ tion of Chi Omega who shall be allowed to fulfil the requirements of her national constitution in regard to regular students. 3. No student who is eligible to a sorority in the University of Nebraska shall be rushed or bidden by a sorority member cither active or alumna from September 21, 1907, until the first mid¬ semester reports are filed with the Registrar. 4- No student pledged in violation of these rules may be initiated until one year from date of such violation. 5. Any violation of these rules shall be reported to the chairman of the Inter- Sorority Council. Such complaints must be written and signed by the complaining sorority. 6. All written complaints shall be investigated by the chairman of the Inter-Sorority Council and referred to the Council, at her discretion.

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294 KAPPA ALPHA THETA 7- Students now pledged to sororities may be allowed initiation any time during the first semester 1907-08, if their names arc filed with the chairman of the Inter- Sorority Council on June 8, 1907. 8. Students who have been bidden during matriculation week and whose answers have not been given, may be pledged before the mid- semester reports, if their names have been filed with the chairman of the Inter- Sorority Council by six o’clock p. m., Sept. 21. PAN-HELLENIC IN INDIANA Perhaps a statement of what our Pan-Hellenic has done might be interesting. Although it has failed entirely in securing any agreement on a pledge-day, it has done cer¬ tain work that has shown the true Greek spirit. Last fall- term, the University Committee on Student Affairs, made up of five faculty members, decided that the college society must be regulated. They drafted a set of rules, and handed them to the Pan-Hellenic committee. They were very dif¬ ferent from the old absence-of-any-rule state. There were to be no more mid-week dances or parties, in either the afternoon of evening. The Friday and Saturday night dances must close at twelve exactly, and must be chaperoned by people approved by the committee. Of course, the only way these rules could be put into effect, was for the women of the University to take them up. Through our Pan- Hellenic committee, all the fraternity women pledged them¬ selves to uphold these rules, to refuse all invitations for proposed mid-week affairs, to close all dances at twelve whatever the circumstances, — and so on through all the minor provisions of the ruling. Pan-Hellenism, thus, co¬ operated with the university by taking on itself voluntarily the fulfillment of the requests of the higher powers. It has also drawn up a set of rules for the regulation of hours in the chapter houses, which is kept strictly.

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/\taAeya>/<t#q Would that some one would invent or dis- letters* cover a new recipe for chapter letters ! Will they be concocted after the same old rules a generation hence, do you suppose? In the fall, will the active chapter editor introduce the pledgelings and inter¬ sperse a speculation or two on the prospects of a winning football team? In the winter, will she still give a list of past, present and future social festivities? In mid-winter, will she still groan over pending examinations, and in the spring, will the sorrows of losing the seniors still weigh heavily upon her? And the poor alumnae editor, will she go on like the brook in a continuous annual performance of telling how and where and when the alumnae meetings are held? Beta Alumna. An alumna long out of college is some- editors* times reminded when she reads the chapter letters of what used to be, and perhaps still is, the custom in her own chapter. A freshman, or at most a sophomore was always made the editor just as a preliminary trial for the more responsible position of cor¬ responding secretary. If she attended faithfully to this quarterly duty, she was promptly raised to higher office the next year. Now, with the perspective given by time and distance and the reading of many chapter letters in the years that have passed, the office of chapter editor has assumed a new importance. The editor should not only be a girl who has had thorough training in rhetoric, but she should be one whose residence in college has been sufficient¬ ly long to give to her a just sense of the relative values, in the eyes of the old alumna, of the various college and chapter events. H. \

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296 KAPPA ALPHA THETA shall 1 From the point of view of a hoary old return to graduate, looking backward upon her own four happy years at college, the answer to such a question seems obvious and well-nigh irrefutable. The sorrow of Commencement, which seemed, then, to have put an end to all the happiest years of her life, has been tempered by Time, the Great Healer. She can now view the question w'ith a more impartial mind, and with the in¬ dulgence that is granted a harmless Old Graduate, she is permitted a little space to give good advice to you. To you uncertain, young, under-graduate, June comes bringing the first summer vacation. After the first happiness of the home-coming is over, and you have slipped back into the old accustomed round of little duties, we who know, will not think harshly of you if you find that the old joys do not satisfy you as they once did, and that you seem to have grown away from the old friends. It all comes over you with a certain shock, and you wonder if the three years more will mean a complete estrangement from all you hold most dear. But wait a little while ; go back to college and finish the course. By and by will come a deeper sense of values. The little home town will seem a veritable garden spot, and the faces of the workers therein to be the love¬ liest in all the world. There may be a very real and practical reason why it seems that you should not go back to college, — the lack of means, perhaps. If there be no reason why you are needed at home, you who earnestly desire to finish your college course may find all sorts of ways by which you may earn your own way through. Besides the various fellowships that have been established, Students’ Aid Societies, or sim¬ ilar organizations, are found in almost every college, for just such a purpose. A proud girl, who might shrink from accepting such aid, need have no fear that the other girls will look down upon her. They rather glorify her the more. A few years ago, the president of the senior class of one of the largest of our women’s colleges was a girl

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dktaXxydifitOa 297 who had worked her own way through, receiving at the end the greatest honor in the gift of her classmates. And then, as a loyal member of Kappa Alpha Theta, do you not feel that you owe it to her, that you should go back in the fall, and help to keep the active chapter active, for while we are many members, yet are we not but one body? You may not yourself realize it, but you may be just the influence the chapter needs, — the one to encourage a greater kindliness, a broader spirit, and the cultivation of all those “things that are lovely and of good report.” Shall you not go back to college for — Kappa Alpha Theta ? Mary MacDonald Bohannan, Epsilon Alumnae. How good it does make us feel to know no mistaking that hereafter we may recognize at a glance a Theta badge! No longer need we look again and again at some small kite-shaped pin before being able to decide whether it is a badge of Kappa Alpha Theta. This experience of peering and staring at pins has surely come to many of us, but now let us congratulate ourselves that at last we have a distinctive pin, one of good size, sub¬ stantial looking and handsome, and above all unmistakable. Christie Y. Dulaney. THBTA ADHERENTS Besides the duty we fraternity women owe to our chapter as to our personal conduct and standards, there is another almost as important — to make friends. Many people think a narrow, concentrated, loyalty to the members of their own organi¬ zation, is the best proof of Greek spirit. This is the wrong way — the very worst of ways, if we wish to put our fra¬ ternity at the head. It will generally be found that the best fraternity in a school, is the one whose members have the most friends, not only among the other Greeks, but among the great mass of unorganized students. Besides the small number of those who make up the inner circle, each college woman should have a host of

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29B KAPPA ALPHA THETA friends ranging* from the people she knows and cares for, to the mere class room acquaintance. It matters a great deal, sometimes, for us to remember on the street the girl who sits beside us in class. It is very easy to be careless, especially in a large university, and let some one pass you without recognition ; but a little care and attention is soon paid for by gaining a friend for ourselves and for our fraternity. There is not an individual on this earth but whose liking, whose mere good opinion, is well worth hav¬ ing, worth working for. Those who disbelieve this make a very great mistake. The fraternity has a very network of relations that extend from the school out to all the places where the students may go. They have their influence al¬ ways. We have won many a prize through the influence of some one outside. Not nearly all the workers have the right to wear the pin. On our registration blank at Indiana, there are two spaces for the religious census. They read : “Denomination of which a member.” “Denomination of which an adherent.” We might use that as a suggestion of our own con¬ duct. We can have but a few members who really belong. To them our highest love and loyalty is due. But the num¬ ber of possible adherents is limitless. We need one as much as the other ; so, after the annual rush is over and we have the black and gold on the girls who are our choice, we should begin the work for friends and continue it. management At the University of Illinois we are so for- of Illinois tunate as to have a chaperon who is both chapter house a /p]ieta an(j a conege student. As her studies take a great deal of her time she cannot manage the house, so several of the girls take charge of it. One girl is the commissary. She orders the food, plans the meals, directs the cook and maid, keeps accounts, and pays bills for her department. All other bills are sent to another girl, the house manager. Beside paying the bills,

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AcoAcy *>fjL€$a 299 the house manager orders coal and other supplies of that sort, and sees to keeping the house in repair. The laundry is done in the house, and a third girl takes charge of it. She has no official title because she objects to being called the laundress. Each girl has to mark her clothes and make out her own laundry list. The girl who runs the laundry, makes out the bills, and sees to it that the clothes returned tally with the girls' lists. In case any articles get into the laundry unmarked, they are seized and sold at auction. Re¬ cently a fourth office, that of proctor has been established. It is the duty of these newest officers to keep the halls neat. To do this they take anything left in the halls and hold it until a fine is paid. The result has been very grati¬ fying to the girls who take especial interest in the appear¬ ance of the house. Henrietta Hough.

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EXCHANGES Exchange editor, Myra Post Cady. Exchanges will please see that the following addresses are on their exchange lists: Charlotte H. Walker, 1129 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich Mrs. Wm. B. Cady, 550 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. We are glad to acknowledge the following exchanges: January: Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta . February: Alpha Xi Delta; Eleusis of Chi Omega; Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha; Phi Gamma Delta; Scroll of Phi Delta Theta ; Sigma Chi Quarterly ; Delta of Sigma Nu; Kappa Alpha Journal. March: Delta Upsilon Quarterly; Phi Gamma Delta ; Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Shield of Phi Kappa Psi; Caduceus of Kappa Sigma; Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta. Among the exchanges before us there are more than the usual number of articles of general and vital interest to the college and fraternity world. Some of them should be printed in full in all fraternity magazines. Unfortunately limitations of space will not permit our so presenting them to our readers at present. Many of them cannot even be quoted with any justice to themselves. We do, however, wish to call attention to the serious and practical discus¬ sions that are finding place in contemporary publications and to commend the editors who are able to obtain such excellent material. Probably the first of these in importance is The Legal Status of a College Fraternity Chapter by Olcott O. Part¬ ridge. This article comes to us from the Delta of Sigma Nu, which reprints it from the Shield of Theta Delta Chi, as do several of the other men's fraternity magazines. It has also received a more general recognition, for, in a slightly revised form, it occupies a conspicuous place in the March-April number of the American Law Review. Mr. Partridge has done a very valuable piece of work for the

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EXCHANGES 301 college fraternity, in the way both of legal investigation and of counsel. The article is hardly quotable, but is to be regarded as an absolutely necessary possession for refer¬ ence of every college fraternity. Of a different order, but of great practical value to a college chapter is the article on Safeguards Against Fire by F. J. T. Stewart, Consulting Engineer of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, for which we are indebted to the Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. In view of the recent dis¬ tressing loses by fire which college chapters have suffered the suggestions of this expert are peculiarly pertinent. We wish that each chapter house might post this article in a conspicuous place and act upon its warnings. Several articles dealing with the place of the college fraternity naturally group themselves together. From these we quote especially significant passages : One of the most striking characterizations of the Greek letter fraternity is that found in the Phi Beta Kappa address delivered by Talcott Williams at Columbia College, Tune n, 1907. “It was the child of the romantic spirit which had touched the life of the civilized world with a new light. * * * Under this impulse, whose majestic central figure was the German poet whose greater poem closes with a new sense of the fraternal relations of men and of mutual service, the youth of each nation flowed into new student organizations. The blackened brand of the carbonari drew together students of every Italian center of learning in the charcoal maker’s hut. Germany saw revived the medieval brother¬ hoods of university “nations.” In France there was a reorgani¬ zation of a secret order whose final fruit is the attempt today to destroy the teaching and conviction of the spiritual in the educa¬ tion of France and the life of the French. “It is not infrequently the habit on occasions like this, dedi¬ cated to pure learning, to regret the material aims of American life. But the romantic spirit which had these fruits abroad, brought forth in those fringing colleges upon the edge of our western ad¬ vance affiliated Greek letter societies, which made a cult of fra¬ ternity and of friendship a master passion. In American college life, the ideal is always present. * * * Where youth in other lands had organized for social or political purposes, the affiliation

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302 KAPPA ALPHA THETA of our colleges was to rest oil devotion to a common ideal of equal rights and of equal duties, of friendship which knows neither rank nor possessions, and of personal relation, which have become among the more powerful influences of our higher education. The need of such intercollegiate union to prevent our institutions from be¬ coming mere scattered centers of learning was unseen by trustee and disregarded by faculty. They antedated by half a century any common organization between the teaching bodies of our American colleges. They played their share in producing that knowledge and acquaintance, that common devotion to a common ideal of self- rule which was to prepare the educated men of America for united action when peril overshadowed the Republic, and those who had sat side by side in the school-room faced each other on the battle- field.’, ************ The great battle, let us not forget, is again joined. The cen- turied contest which began in the creation of freedom for faith, which extended to liberty for the state, is making its way to new fields and fresh victories in securing equality, individual independ¬ ence, and self-rule in economic endeavor. ************ Nor are there any who have a better foundation for hope of a free self-governing democratic economy than those who like us share both the greater lessons of the past and the individual exper¬ ience of college life.” — From Columbia University Quarterly , Sep¬ tember, 1907. From an address delivered at the first general session of the Fifth Convention of the Religious Education Asso¬ ciation at Washington, D. C., by Clarence F. Birdseye, on Chapter House Life— The College Home Life as a Means for Securing a Right Moral Atmosphere for Students: But let us still further contract our field of discussion and coa- sider that portion of this 90 per cent of time which is spent, not on the campus, or in athletics, or in touch with the main student body, but in the companionship of the student’s intimates or the com¬ parative seclusion of his college home, and which we shall call his college family life. ************ The college family life must be affirmatively ennobling and uplifting or it will be quite the contrary. It must be constantly 1

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EXCHANGES 303 affected by strong and usually older characters, whose influence must be exerted, silently but surely, within itself. ********** * * But how, in our large institutions and under modern condi¬ tions, are we to bring about a close touch between the students and older men, which shall constantly uplift the younger men in their college family lives? Is there any agency through which this is being or can be done? ************ No patent is claimed for the conception that strong, clean alum¬ ni, acting within their fraternity home, work powerfully for a bet¬ ter life therein. This has always been so — and would be in any home. But there is in sight an advance movement to further or¬ ganize, develop and endow the fraternity as a home-making force, and such a movement, with our most influential alumni behind it, will be sure of success. A thoughtful student of modern under¬ graduate conditions must realize that our fraternities furnish the only — I repeat it, the sole and only— broad and effective means so far developed for permanently reaching the college family lives of any considerable number of students in any considerable number of institutions. I challenge you to name any other home-building force now at work among our American colleges in a large way, and along well-defined and philosophically correct lines. Consider also the non-fraternity colleges, and show me any agency therein where¬ by you can systematically put the alumni in touch with the family lives of the undergraduate, whether a fraternity member or not. It is the question of whether we have failed to give due thought to one of the great departments of our college. * *********** But the fraternities ^have their own gerat problems to solve. They must thoroughly realize that they are no longer college secret societies, but important home-making agencies about to enter upon their endowment period and must brush away their earlier foolish¬ ness and frailties and rise to the height of the responsibilities which they have now assumed and to their place in one of the great depart¬ ments of the college. — Printed in full by Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta. Other interesting articles are: Recent Growth of Fraternites. — Delta of Sigma Nu. College Statistics for 1907-08 by Rudolph Tombo, Jr.-Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

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304 KAPPA ALPHA THETA From this we quote the following: Including the summer sessions of 1907, and making due allow¬ ance for summer students who returned for work this fall, the insti¬ tutions listed ranged as follows: Harvard University . 5,346 Columbia University . 5,19 7 University of Michigan... 5,000 University of Chicago.... 4,594 Cornell University . 4*293 University of Minnesota. . 4,207 University of Illinois..... 4,172 University of Pennsylvania 4,134 New York University . 3,600 Yale University § - .... 3.444 University of Wisconsin.. 3,401 University of California.. 3,346 Syracuse University . 3.162 University of Nebraska... 2,895 Northwestern University. . 2,714 Ohio State University.... 2,344 University of Missouri... 2,274 University of Iowa . 2.168 University of Kansas . I.932 Indiana University . . 1,667 Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. 1,594 Princeton University . 1,311 University of Virginia.... 757 Johns Hopkins University 651 Alpha Xi Delta reprints from McClure's Cameron Mac¬ kenzie’s Some American College Boys , the story of the heroism displayed at the time of the Chi Psi chapter house tragedy at Cornell. The narration is too distressing to read, so near does it bring the incidents and personalities of the dreadful event. The last paragraph, which we quote, gives the point of the whole article: Carnegie medals for heroism were awarded to Schmuck, Pope, and Curry. All over the country the fire attracted attention and the significance of the conduct of the members of the fraternity was widely recognized. That twenty-six boys should have met a test so severe with so much coolness, self-sacrifice, and instinctive heroism strengthens our most sacred hopes for the country that bore them. There was not a coward among them, and each counted life as nothing against the needs of his friends. The Phi Gamma Delta quotes as follows from The Social Value of the College Bred by Professor William James of Harvard in McClure's: “The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this : That it should help you to know a good man when you see him. * * * All our arts and sciences and institutions are but so many quests of perfection on the part of men ; and when we see how diverse the types of excellence may be, how various the tests, how flexible the adaptations, we gain a richer sense of what the terms ‘better’ and ‘worse’ may signify in general. Our critical

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EXCHANGES 305 sensibilities grow both more acute and less fanatical. We sym¬ pathize with men’s mistakes even in the act of penetrating them; we feel the pathos of lost causes and misguided epochs even while we appaud what overcame them. * * * What the colleges * * ♦ should at least try to give us is a general sense of what, under various disguises, superiority has always signified and may still sig¬ nify. The feeling for a good human job anywhere, the admiration of the really admirable, the disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impertinent — this is what we call the critical sense, the sense for ideal values. It is the better part of what men know as wis¬ dom.” Is the clan spirit undemocratic? On this point centers most of the argument. College presidents indulge in a Eutopian dream when they imagine that the removal of fraternities would estab¬ lish a democracy of the mind and heart. The genius and the fool will not become friends by college regulation. The law of natural selection will persist whether restricted or not. In colleges where no fraternities exist, we notice students of like temperament flock¬ ing together and organizing themselves into friendly circles that have the nature, if not the name, of fraternities. The lack of the latter is no safeguard against this natural activity. Just as you have infinite gradations of people marked in the social scale in the larger world, so will you have in colleges classes of students that will draw lines in their friendships and associations. This “clannishness” is not only inevitable but natural, and legislation for its suppression shows a sociological preception blunted by an ab¬ surd conception of democracy. — Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. From our exchanges we gather the following helpful suggestions for chapters and for individual members: Every girl who joins a sorority does so with the object of gaining something from it. * * * But how does she expect to do it? She cannot hope to attain these things by merely paying her dues and keeping in good standing. To gain the most possible from the sorority she must put her best self into it. The business man who expects his business to succeed does not merely invest his money and then stand back and look on while his business grows. He works and works hard, uses his mind and time and has the satisfaction of seeing his business increase by his efforts. — Alpha Xi Delta. Since the active chapters have come to recognize the benefit to them of their alumni, there is no excuse for losing track of a

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306 KAPPA ALPHA THETA member who, for any reason, terminates his connection with his college. The literature of the chapter, and something in reference to it, should be sent to every alumnus of the chapter at least once a year. — Delta Tau Delta Rainbow. A chapter that is working for a house or raising funds to pay off a debt is always healthy, prompt and conscientious in the dis¬ charge of its fraternity obligations, active in taking part in all college enterprises, alertly and energetically on the lookout for new material, and enjoys a harmonious chapter life of truly fraternal character. Let all specific object of endeavor be removed and dry rot soon sets in. — Rainbow. It is the hope of the Quarterly at no distant date to present a series of articles discussing the problems of parliamentary pro¬ cedure involved in chapter meetings. We believe that such arti¬ cles will give much food for thought and discussion, brush away many mooted questions, and be of great value to the “lame ducks” among our undergraduates. May we not look forward to an awak¬ ened interest in effective, dignified and business-like chapter ses¬ sions? — Delta Upsilon Quarterly. This contains its lesson for every chapter: Sometimes a member of the chapter fails to return to college when a little encouragement by the rest of the boys would per¬ suade him to complete his college course. More is lost in failure of an older member of the fraternity to return to college than is gained by the taking of a new recruit. If the brothers will mark the members of the chapter who arc somewhat uncertain as to their return, and will carry on, during the summer, an effort by corres¬ pondence to hold these members, the result in many cases will be the strengthening of the chapter and the serving of the best best interests of the individual Phi Psis effected. — The Shield. We think this well worth quoting, as it expresses our sentiments feelingly: The wind bloweth, the farmer soweth, The subscriber oweth, and the Lord knoweth That we are in need of our dues. So come a-runnin, ere we go gunnin’ We’re not funnin’, this thing of dunnin', Gives us the cverlastin’ blues. — Shield of Theta Delta Chi. —Quoted by Eleusis.

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EXCHANGES 307 It hardly seems possible that the expansion policy of a fraternity could have been so primitive, but we have their own word for it in the following extract from the Anchor a which quotes from the Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma: The December number of The Key , the pioneer of women’s fraternity journals, marks the twenty-fifth year of its history. It contains many interesting and some amusing details of the early history of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Now that expansion is so much discussed and the need of a definitely formulated policy to govern the fraternity in adding new chapters is so much felt, it is interesting to learn by the following quotation that by abandoning the methods and standards which Kappa and probably all of us used in the earlier days we have already adopted an unwritten policy : “A seminary or institution of liigh-school grade was consid¬ ered worthy of a charter, two girls, or even one, were thought sufficient to start with, and in the earliest constitution a candidate is defined as one ‘who is or has been an attendant at some col¬ lege or seminary/ Latitude enough, surely! They did not wait for girls to apply to them, either, but as in the case of Eta chapter, when they thought an institution a desirable one, they took a name at random from the catalogue, and suggested to the girl selected that she form a circle of her friends and accept a charter of Kappa Kappa Gamma !” — The Anchora.

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EDITORIALS The preceding report upon Pan-Hellenics throughout our American colleges shows a most gratifying growth in this movement. Such a tendency should do much towards eliminating that anti-fraternal feeling which we must ad¬ mit exists in many quarters. If the Pan-Hellenic Associa¬ tions can mitigate the evil features of the rushing system, they will have accomplished a stupenduous task. Never¬ theless their effort should not stop there. The Pan-Hel¬ lenic Association should become an influential factor in every college community and it should use this influence for the betterment of social conditions in the college world. We are glad to see that the associations at Brown Univer¬ sity, Wisconsin and Indiana have begun to work along these lines. Opportunities are open to Pan-Hellenics for co¬ operation with the college authorities in eliminating cheat¬ ing in class work and examinations. In each college some definite work lies ready for this association, through which the fraternity may prove to the carping critic its right to be. Lest the feelings of prospective seniors be hurt by the omission in the chapter letters of the customary regrets over the separation so soon to take place, the editor wishes to assure every senior that every chapter letter expressed the sorrow which would be felt at the coming Commence¬ ment. Further, we may add that it is only with the thought of the losses so soon to come that regrets over last year's seniors have ceased to fill our mail bag. The promptness with which the chapter editors sent their contributions for this issue of the Journal was most gratifying. Many letters came a week before they were due and the last contribution was at hand within four days of the specified date. To the many chapter editors who have done excellent work, we wish to express our appre¬ ciation.

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EDITORIALS 309 Seniors! Don't forget to subscribe for the Journal! Do so early that you may not miss the first number with its supplement the catalogue. More than eighty subscriptions for the November number of 1907 were received which could not be filled, the edition having been exhausted. Sub¬ scribe early and make sure of the catalogue. Many subscribers delayed sending in their subscriptions for the year 1907-1908 until within the last few weeks. We hope that next year’s subscription will be sent prompt¬ ly before the issue of the November number, or that a notice will be sent to the effect that the subscription is to be renewed. The new catalogue will be issued as a sup¬ plement to the Journal and will be sent to fully paid-up sub¬ scribers only. Cloth covered copies of the catalogue may be had for an additional fee of twenty-five cents. Send your names in early. Since the last issue, a subscription from an Alpha Epsilon alumna for the Journal for ten years has been received. Would we had more such alumnae! Will subscribers to the Journal changing name or ad¬ dress during the summer please notify the editor? Notices of changes of address have been received from over one hundred postmasters this year, as compared with ten re¬ ceived from the subscribers themselves. Nor is it an uncom¬ mon thing for the editor to receive a letter asking, “Why has my last Journal not come? I subscribed for the year but have had no copy since I was married.” A little fore¬ thought on the part of the subscribers will assure to them prompt and regular delivery.

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3*0 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Chapters notice the advertising Psi has sent us! Oth¬ ers can do as well if they will make the effort. Try it! Patronize our advertisers, and show them it pays to adver¬ tise in Kappa Alpha Theta. Mrs. Deyett’s painstaking work in collecting back num¬ bers of the Journal has been much appreciated. All chap¬ ters should carefully examine the notice sent by Mrs. Dey- ett, and should not fail to take advantage of this oppor¬ tunity for completing their files. Mrs. Mary Mills Deyett of Shelburne, Vermont, who has been making exchange of Journals among chapters, has now on hand some copies which she will send to any chap¬ ters asking for them. For the benefit of those arranging files, she wishes to state that only three numbers were issued in Vols. II, V, VII, X and XI. Also that there is an error in numbering Vol. X. No. i of Vol. X is Nov. 1895, No. 2 is Feb. 1896, and No. 3 is May, 1896. Numbers on hand: No. on hand Vol. Ill, No. 4 . 1 Vol. IV, No. 4 . 2 Vol. VII, No. 1 . 6 Vol. VII, No. 2 . 4 Vol. VIII, No. 1 . 1 Vol. VIII, No. 2 . 1 Vol. VIII, No. 3 . 1 Vol. VIII, No. 4 . 1 Vol. IX, No. 2 . 4 Vol. IX, No. 3 . 14 Vol. XI, No. 1 . 5 Vol. XII, No. 3 . 1 Vol. XII, No. 4 . 4 Vol. XIII, No. 1 . 2 Vol. XIII, No. 2 . 1 Vol. XIV, No. 1 . 2 Vol. XIV, No. 2 . 1 Vol. XV, No. 2 . 4 Vol. XVI, No. 1 . 1 Vol. XVI, No. 2 . 1 Vol. XVI, No. 3 . 2 No. on hand Vol. XVI, No. 4.*.« Vol. XVII, No. 1... Vol. XVIT, No. 2... Vol. XVII, No. 4.- Vol. XVIII, No. 1. Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 Vol. XVIII, No. 4 Vol. XIX, No. 1... Vol. XIX, No. 2... Vol. XIX, No. 3.. Vol. XIX, No. 4.. Vol. XX, No. 1 _ Vol. XX, No. 2... Vol. XX, No. 3... Vol. XX, No. 4... Vol. XXI, No. 1.. Vol. XXI, No. 2... VI. XXI, No. 3... Vol. XXI, No. 4.. MCA OCM -U W CNVJ N

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CHAPTER LETTERS 3U The Song Book Committee announces that the new Song Book will be ready for distribution about May first. Notice will be sent to each chapter giving price and direc¬ tions for ordering. Alumnae may order through the active or alumnae chapters, or directly from the chairman of the committee, Mrs. Philip F. Matzinger, 307 S. Leavitt St., Chicago, Ill. ANNOUNCEMENT Gamma Alumnae meets the first Saturday in every month at the Hotel Martha Washington, 29 E. 29th St., New York City, at 12 o’clock. The chapter cordially welcomes any Kappa Alpha Theta in or about New York. There is also a Help Committee, the object of which is to be of service in any possible way to Kappa Alpha Thetas in the vicinity. CHAPTER LETTERS Alpha District « Iota — Cornell University We held our initiation Feb. 22, and welcomed into our chapter three initiates : Elizabeth Anderson, of Philadelphia, Eliza Dickerson of Marion, Ohio, and Cornelia Switzer, of Stantan, Virginia. Several of our alumnae were there to help us welcome the new members, while others sent their best wishes with roses and narcissus. Our late pledge day forced us to wait a long time for our new girls but we now feel amply repaid for the winter's work. A short time ago we pledged Edith Young, of Philadelphia. Wc shall hold the initiation after spring vacation. Elizabeth Clarke. Lambda — University oe Vermont Among the most interesting of our college events of the year is the annual Cake Walk which is always held upon the night of February 22. This year the entertainment was as amusing as in previous years. This distinctive Vermont

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312 KAPPA ALPHA THETA celebration consists of the presentation of one stunt by each of the men's fratenrities, followed by walking for the cake, and after the award of prizes, by dancing. Athletics as usual claim a place in college events. The interclass basket-ball games have excited considerable in¬ terest, the sophomores having won the final victory. The classes hold their indoor track meet March 24. Vermont has a bright outlook upon the baseball season this year and we are confidently expecting it will be the best in the his¬ tory of the college. A radical change has been made in the student paper “The Cynic," which until this winter was a bi-monthly. Now the editorial board has been enlarged and a weekly is issued three times a month with a literary number upon the fourth week. In this way the student body obtains the college news while it is yet fresh and a keener interest for the welfare of the paper is gained. Of greatest moment to all members of Lambda chapter was the visit, March 13 and 14, of Miss Capron, our dis¬ trict president. She was with us so short a time that much was crowded into the few hours. We enjoyed her visit thoroughly. Mary Robinson. Sigma — Toronto University We of Sigma are apt to envy our other sisters now that the final May examinations are bearing down upon us; still the happy thought of a lecture-less, cram-less June acts as a solace to our anxious, worried minds. We lose only two from our active chapter this year and since both have their homes in the city, we shall probably still have them often with us. The annual dinner given recently by Professor and Mrs. Squair to the graduating class in mod¬ erns proved again this year the usual delightful function. February 22, our district president came to us for an all-too-short official visit. Thay day, Hazel Kemp enter¬ tained the active chapter at her home at luncheon. In the afternoon we held our second initiation ceremony of the year, when we welcomed into the ranks of Kappa Alpha

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CHAPTER LETTERS 3*3 Theta, Miss Gertrude Lawlor, M.A. ’g 2, of whom we spoke in our last letter. This was followed by a supper in our rooms, prepared by the '07 girls, a jolly informal meal. The next day Mabel Milman had us all at her home for afternoon tea, that we might make the best of every moment of Miss Capron’s visit. We were not a little proud of the advance Miss Capron saw in different phases of our chap¬ ter work and we feel sure we shall profit alike by her en¬ couraging praise and her sympathetic advice. As a result of our recent college elections we are pleased to announce that next year, one of our '09 girls, Mono Mc¬ Laughlin, will fill the President's chair of the Women's Literary Society, the highest office in the gift of the wo¬ men students. Another has been elected to the office of Recording Secretary on the same executive. We are also represented on the Executives of the Dramatic Club, the Y. W. C. A., and the Mathematics and Physics Society and one of our girls is the university college representative to the Evangelica House Settlement. And now heartily, in closing, “Here’s wishing you all success in the coming examinations and a delightful vaca¬ tion”! Prosit/ Marion F. Coats. Chi — Syracuse University Since our last chapter letter many interesting college events have taken place at Syracuse. But let me tell first of all the chapter news. At the March alumnae meeting, Nu Alumnae entertained our seniors. The pleasure of the meeting was increased by the interesting account that Allie Ross Walsh, ’97, gave of her trip abroad. Just now we are looking forward to Miss Capron’s visit. We only wish that the visits of our district president might be oftener. I am wondering if in other chapters the birthdays of the girls cause such pleasant times as they do at Chi. When¬ ever that day comes to one of the girls, a big birthday cake containing the all-important ring and surrounded by blaz¬ ing candles adorns the center of the dinner table. The most fun of all comes as the lighted candles are passed

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3*4 KAPPA ALPHA THETA around to the girls and each one racks her brain to think of the most original wish possible for the heroine of the day before she blows out the flame. Now as to university events. Of course there was sen¬ ior week, with the Senior Ball and parties galore but that is so far back that it is almost forgotten now. Of more recent date was the Historical 5*£Lebration, an extravagan¬ za, in which the Hall of Natural History was transformed into a veritable' midway with hawkers calling out the ad¬ vantages of their shows from every room. The proceeds, about $800.00, were used to purchase books for the Histori¬ cal Seminar library. We have had two Silver Bay rallies, one while Miss Green, our Student Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. was here, and the other a Gym. Party. Just a word about our Gym. Party, for it was such fun. It was in the nature of an in¬ door athletic meet and of course the girls all wore their gymnasium suits. The event of the evening was a basket¬ ball game played between the classes. The only require¬ ments for eligibility were that the players should know nothing whatever about the game. At last a long felt need in Syracuse has been met by the establishment of the Women’s League. The purpose of the League is to regulate all matter pertaining to stu¬ dent life of the women which do not fall under the imme¬ diate jurisdiction of the faculty. The Amherst- Syracuse Concert and “Twelfth Night,” presented by Boar’s Head, the dramatic society, are just ahead of us. M. Eloise Andrews. Alpha Beta — Swarthmore College The basket-ball season closed with a warmly contested game against Lehigh which we won. Now lacrosse and baseball have taken the place of basket-ball, and every after¬ noon the boys may be seen practicing out on the campus. As for the girls’ athletics, gymnasium work is over for the year, and after vacation our basket-ball and tennis sea¬ sons begin. The final gymnasium contest was the best we

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CHAPTER LETTERS 315 have ever had. We Thetas have special cause to be pleased with the result, as one of our seniors won first place. Our lecture course seems to improve with each num¬ ber. The last two have been particularly interesting, a song recital by Nicholas A. Doughty and a lecture on the Juve¬ nile Court by the celebrated Judge Lindsay of Colorado. Judge Lindsay held his audience s interest, as he recounted his experiences with young criminals, with poor booys who had never had a chance, and explained his methods of deal¬ ing with them. Yet another lecture we enjoyed was given by the chaplain of Hampton Institute, the great Negro and Indian College of Virginia. He had with him the Hamp¬ ton quartette of colored men, who aroused much enthusiasm by their excellent singing of the old plantation melodies of the south. Some time ago three of our charter members gave us a tea at the home of Ellen Atkinson Jenkins here in Swarth- more in order to have the active chapter meet our alumnae. Priscilla Goodwyn. Alpha Delta — Woman's College of Baltimore During the vacation many of the girls were in the vicini¬ ty of New York and several of them had the pleasure of visiting Alpha Zeta and Alpha Kappa. Lucile Lack, '07, of Brooklyn, entertained Miss Capron at an afternoon tea and thus some of the Alpha Delta girls had an opportunity to meet our district president. March 13 our college glee and mandolin clubs gave a joint concert with the musical clubs of Johns Hopkins and every one voted the affair delightful. The girls wore caps and gowns, as is customary at the annual concert, and the Hall was prettily decorated with flags and banners from both colleges. This combination concert was, in a way, an experiment but it was considered very successful. Among the events to which we are now looking forward are the Junior Banquet given by 1909 to 1908, the South¬ ern Club Prom., the Pennsylvania Boat Ride, another Glee Club Concert and last but not least our Kappa Alpha Theta

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3*6 KAPPA ALPHA THETA banquet which comes off just before Commencement. After college closes almost all of the active chapter and many of the alumnae will go down on the eastern shore of Maryland for our annual house party. We are expecting a big re¬ union this year for cards have been sent out to all our alum¬ nae and we wish that members from other chapters could join us there. Meta McClelland. Alpha Epsilon — Brown University We are launched on the spring term, perhaps the pleas¬ antest of the year, for out-door amusements crowd hard for supremacy over intellectual pursuits. The interclass bowling tournament at the end of last term resulted in victory for the seniors. During last month, the Varsity basket-ball team was defeated in a spirited game with Radcliffe. We have had various interesting speakers at college, among them Miss Taylor, Secretary of the Foreign Board of Missions, and Dr. Lord, D.D. of Providence, who gave a series of talks on “Fundamentals of Religious Experience.” A series of informal discussions has also been planned to talk over all sorts of topics of current interest. On March 28 a lecture was given by Dean King for the benefit of the seniors in the high schools of the neigh¬ borhood, after which the seniors were shown over the build¬ ings and a demonstration of gymnasium work was given by members of the college. The junior class is already planning for the Promenade to be given May 29. During the vacation, Nelly Evans, ’08, and Josephine Sackett, ’09, visited Alpha Zeta and Alpha Kappa chapters. Alpha Epsilon, also, enjoyed a visit from Angie Melden, ex-' 10, who moved last spring to Wilbra- ham, Mass. Saturday, April 4, the alumnae club of Alpha Epsilon chapter entertained the freshmen and sophomore members of the active chapter. We are pleased at the elec¬ tion of two of our girls to the Board of the Athletic Asso¬ ciation, and two others to the Board of the Komians, the dramatic society.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 317 Alpha Epsilon joins in the heartiest congratulations to Gamma Delta, a local at Brown which has just been ad¬ mitted to Sigma Kappa fraternity. As Gamma Delta has shown good personnel and excellent spirit we rejoice in their success. It also benefits us, as now we shall be able to have a Pan-Hellenic Association at Brown, which is of course desirable. The crowning event of the past two months, was the chapter initiation which took place Saturday, March 28, fol¬ lowed by dinner at the Crown Hotel. As we had some trou¬ ble and delay this year, the delightful event was doubly ap¬ preciated and we rejoiced in the large number, forty-seven, who banqueted with us. We now introduce to Kappa Alpha Theta three new members, Rachael Coolidge, Ruth Bur¬ roughs, and Alice Hildreth. Miss Hildreth and Miss Cool¬ idge are the freshman members of the Student Government Board, Miss Hildreth is president of the freshman class and Miss Burroughs is chairman of the Social Committee of the freshman class. We are now planning for a fra¬ ternity supper at which we shall entertain the mothers of the chapter members. Josephine T. Sackett. Alpha Zeta — Barnard College With no misgivings about the working out of the new Pan-Hellenic regulations, Alpha Zeta sends in her last letter of the year. In every sense the year has been a great suc¬ cess. Although nothing would please us better than to take in our chosen freshmen this month, we feel that we have made such true friendships with them that as sophomores next year they will help us in our rushing of the new freshman class in the fall. Although we are conscious that a hard and trying year is awaiting us, hard and trying on account of unfamiliar conditions, and that probably five of the chapter will be gone, we are confident, and eager for the time, not only because we have some very strong girls left, and girls most prominent before the college, but because of the tremendous loyalty and enthusiasm that has been shown all this year.

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3i* KAPPA ALPHA THETA that has made us work together with one mind and heart, and knit old friendships and new ones tighter together. All this promises much for the future. Concerning scholarship we are glad to announce that Una Bernard has been appointed one of the three under¬ graduate assistants in the Department of Philosophy for next year. This is a new plan at Barnard and we are justly proud of the honor conferred on a Theta. Alpha Zeta has been quite gay all winter, parties, dances, a masquerade, a reception, luncheons and teas being the program, and on next Wednesday evening we expect to celebrate, with a great deal of pleasure, our tenth anniver¬ sary in a good, old-fashioned college spread. Leonora L. Armstrong. Alpha Kappa — Adelpiii College One of our best meetings of the year was a couple of weeks ago when we hurried through our business and then spent the afternoon listening to Miss Capron tell of her visit to Sigma. We felt almost as if we too had been to Toronto and had the splendid time Miss Capron did. She made us so enthusiastic that we wrote to Sigma, and last week they sent us an interesting letter in reply. Chapter letters certainly are a good way of getting acquainted with far-away Thetas. Erene Figueira gave us a most delightful surprise when she presented the chapter with a die. We will think of her every time we use the new paper. Rushing parties have taken our attention of late. One afternoon we went to New York and had tea at the Plaza, and another day Emma Crane gave us a party at her home. A house party! We have made up our minds to have one. Miss Capron says there’s nothing like it for a chapter, so that settled it. All that remains now is to find a place that suits, and with all the actives turned into real estate agents we will succeed, I am sure. Great was the excitement in our midst when we heard about Marguerite Stephen’s engagement. Caroline M. Sutphin.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 3*9 Beta District Alpha — De Pauw University We are starting into the last term of our college year, making systematic preparations for the fraternity examina¬ tion and studying hard, you may be sure. But, although we are dreading the examination, we have one pleasure to which to look forward — a visit in April from our district president, Miss Cotton. De Pauw has introduced this year a second institution into her calendar. For the first time we have had a college fair. It was given under the direction of the Athletic Asso¬ ciation, and with the assistance of the faculty as well as that of the different fraternities, it proved a success in every way, — so much so that it will undoubtedly be made an annual event. With President Hughes at the handle of the plow and the students to pull it, the sod was broken one day in January for the new library which Carnegie has given to the university. The work is progressing speedily and by the time that we return next September, the north side of the campus will have a very changed appearance. This has been a much needed addition to the college and the stu¬ dents are exceptionally pleased at the prospect of having an attractive library in which to study. Helen Mac Neill. Beta — University of Indiana During the last term, and until this week, we have had a continuous stream of social events. The university has been very active in dramatics and we have had the pleasure of seeing Thetas in everything. On Foundation Day, Street and Fret presented David Garrick, with Hilda Palmer, ’09, as Ada Ingot. Elsie Ashby, ’io, too, had a part in the clever little curtain-raiser which preceded it. Le Cercle Frangais put on “La Poudre Aux Yeux,,, and Grace Phil- putt, ’08, took one of the leading parts. The men of the university recently gave a minstrel which everyone enjoyed immensely. The great success of these three productions

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320 KAPPA ALPHA THETA has encouraged a more ambitious project under the direc¬ tion of Professor Campbell of the German Department. A revival of the Mikado will be given some time next term. Rehearsals have begun and we are waiting impatiently to applaud our girls. Then the Panthygatric came, to which we all went. That is our big Bal Masque for only the fraternity girls. The Senior Hop, the Sophomore Cotillion were both given this term, but the Junior Promenade has been postponed until April. Our rush of social affairs suddenly came to an end, how¬ ever, when the faculty announced the institution of three- hour examinations. They have been used in the law school for some years, but are a distinct innovation in the literary department. Since this announcement we have all been studying madly. Beta wishes to announce two new members taken in, at the beginning of the winter term, Bess Van Valzah, of Bloomington, and Florence Frazee, of Rushville. Alice Booth. Gamma — Butler College Gamma chapter as a whole is in its usual felicitous frame of mind, now that the winter term examinations have become ancient history. In truth, since we have gotten all superfluous knowledge out of our systems by aid of these same examinations, we are able to take a more philosophical view of this past term, and realize what a really pleasant one it has been. On the evening of March 9, we gave our annual formal dance at the Woodruff Place clubhouse. It proved to be one of the most delightful dances that our chapter has ever given. We entertained about eighty people, quite a few of whom were out of town guests. Last month saw Butler winner of two debates in the same evening. The effect of this was such as to inspire the students to serenade all the faculty forthwith, at two thirty in the morning. Not content with this, they called on every member of the faculty to make a speech at chapel celebration

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CHAPTER LETTERS 32i that morning. Shortly after this the student body gave a successful vaudeville performance to raise money for the baseball team. Several of our girls were in a little operetta on the program. Margaret Browning. Epsilon — University of Wooster Since our last letter we have had the pleasure of a visit from our district president, Miss Cotton. We were greatly helped by her criticisms and suggestions which she gave in a most loyal and sincere way. The only trouble was the shortness of her stay, and we are looking forward to a longer visit next time. Our thoughts are turning towards the examination which will soon be upon us. Our hope is to raise our average and all our energies are bent toward that end. The most interesting event in college circles during the past two months was the minstrel show, a biennial affair given by the boys alone. It was a great success this year and a goodly sum of money was raised for the Athletic Association. The winter term was enlivened by a few fraternity dinners and dances. Upon our return we are to enjoy a dinner which one of our Theta mothers is going to give us April 14. We anticipate also the new appearance which our hall will wear when we get back, with its new wall paper, new curtains and other new furnishings. For some of us the vacation has been partly occupied with learning our parts in a production of Twelfth Night, which Willard Literary Society is giving. Several Thetas are in the cast, two of them in leading parts. Castalian Society is also busily practising The Rivals, in which a Theta freshman has an important role. Evelyn Lucas. Eta — University of Michigan Perhaps Eta's alumnse will be interested in the changes which have been made in the literary department since Mr. Reed, the new dean, has taken charge. An old girl, back on a visit to the chapter house, looks with a surprise which

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322 KAPPA ALPHA THETA she hardly likes to make manifest, on the undergraduate who declines to bolt a class. It is explained to her, — should she forget herself so far as to exclaim that times have changed since her day, — that bolting now, means going before a committee and explaining the occasion of the absence. Professors say that there is a gratifying increase in attendance, but we victims of the new regime rather wish the changes had not come in our day. Michigan students, heretofore able to follow their own inclinations in almost all directions, now find themselves surrounded and encom¬ passed by rules, and very good rules they are proving. Since writing our last Journal letter we have pledged Louise Tuthill, of Detroit. She has won class honors at the high school, graduating last February. A new institution here, and one of annual importance now, is the Michigan Women’s Dinner. Any woman who has been in the university is invited; so a gathering four hundred strong sat down at the charmingly arranged tables. Several alumnae and undergraduates gave toasts, and Pres¬ ident Angell made one of his delightful addresses. Last year marked the beginning of a new era for Mich¬ igan. Phi Beta Kappa was established as an incentive to greater effort on the part of the students. Margaret Stock- bridge, one of our seniors, has just been awarded the key. Lucie Harmon, ’io, has won the Lucinda Stone Scholar¬ ship. The Sophomore Prom and “Michigenda,” the opera composed and staged by the men of the university for the benefit of the Michigan Union, are now but memories. The Junior Play, a very clever take-off on the men’s production of “Michigenda,” called “Michiguse,” was given April 9, by the girls of the junior class. The clever hits and parodies were well appreciated by the audience of girls and faculty women which crowded Sarah Caswell Angell Hall. In the latter part of April the German play “Minna von Barnhelm” will be given with Elfreida Weitz, one of our sophomores, in the title role. The Cercle Frangais will produce Moliere’s “L’Avare”

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CHAPTER LETTERS 323 some time this spring. The cast is now practising, with a very knowing phonograph to show just how it is done. Many of the older girls will be interested in hearing of Major Soule's retirement after twenty-five years of work as treasurer of the university. Ethel Obetz. Mu — Allegheny College For Mu this has been a good year and at the writing of this letter all the girls are full of enthusiasm over the visit of Miss Cotton, our district president. She came to our chapter unexpectedly, — the surprise making the visit all the more pleasant. For our Founder's Day celebration we had a birthday party for our chapter and now our fraternity rooms are full of thoughtful gifts of our active girls and the alumnae. Our active chapter entertained the women of the faculty, the mothers and our alumnae recently. Florence Grauel. Pi — Albion College Our big event of the year came during this last term — the annual reception on Washington's Birthday to all the college, given in the gymnasium. The girls wore colonial costumes and the old gymnasium had on gala dress of flags and bunting, with a miniature cherry tree as a centerpiece. Theta is the only fraternity here that attempts entertaining on so broad a scale, but our success in the last five years with these functions shows us that our spirit is appreciated by both faculty and students. Then we turned our attention to the college banquet, February 29, an event which is attended by all the students and a place where Greek meets Greek and those who are not Greeks also on one common basis. Class rivalry runs high on these occasions with many songs and yells. March 20 the college maintained well its splendid record of never having been defeated on home territory in debate when its team gained a unanimous victory over the team from the Detroit College of Law. Interest is now centered upon the coming debate with De Pauw University. Albion also bore away all the laurels from the Michigan Intercolle¬ giate oratorical contest held at Hope College, March 6,

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324 KAPPA ALPHA THETA winning first place in both the men's and women's contests. We paused long enough to celebrate, on March 19, the twenty-first anniversary of the founding of Pi chapter. After a banquet at the Albion House, we spent the evening listening to the ever-new, old stories told by the sisters who have gone before us and singing our Theta songs. We especially enjoyed having with us one of our charter mem¬ bers, Rose Keenan, who told us of Pi chapter's inception. The spring term holds for us, beside many other good things, the Kaleidoscope on April 10, given for the athletic association, the music festival by the Philharmonic Society, at which the Messiah will be rendered, and our annual June meeting of the Alumnae Association, when we. hope to have with us many old girls to help burn the mortgage on the Lodge. We shall celebrate afternoon and evening and would welcome any Theta who might happen to stray this way at that time. Genevieve Ranger. Alpha Gamma — Ohio State University This is the last week of the winter term, with no vaca¬ tion to look forward to ! Final examinations have been abolished and the following plan adopted: a mid-term is given in each study — that is, in a course in which there are five recitations a week, there are five examinations given, each one hour long. As this plan has never been attempted in the university before, its success is questionable. The general opinion, however, seems to favor the one final examination. March 7 we entertained at the home of Ethel Snyder with a college tea. The hours were from three to six. Heretofore we have always had a large formal reception for the freshmen, but this very informal affair was voted more of a genuine success than any reception we have given. All the fraternities in college were invited and about two hundred men called. The tea was given in honor of our five freshmen and one pledge — Ruth Lippincott, whom we are glad to introduce to you all. On the afternoon of March 27 the Collegiate Alumnae Association gave a play, “Cranford,” in the chapel of the

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CHAPTER LETTERS 3*5 Main Building. Five out of the nine who took part were Thetas, Mary Bohannon, Florence Bell, Edith Richardson Ingraham, Edith Corner and Alice Thacker. Susan Siebert had charge of the properties. All of the costumes were especially attractive, as they were in the style of many, many years ago. We are going to give our formal dance May 15. The Girls’ Glee Club give their annual concert April 24. This is always one of the important college affairs of the year. The Men’s Pan-Hellenic Association give their annual banquet April 16. Five hundred students are expected and some very prominent men of the state and country will respond to toasts. Alpha Eta — Vanderbilt University The girls of Vanderbilt have been suffering from an attack of athletic fever which appeared among us in its most virulent form. We have just finished a series of basketball games with local seminaries and the scores were overwhelmingly in our favor. There are three Thetas on the varsity team and one of them is captain. One of the pleasant incidents of the last few weeks was the glimpse we had of Mrs. Northrup and her daughter, a Theta from Syracuse, who passed through Nashville on their way south. Another visitor was Miss Powers, travel¬ ing delegate of Delta Delta Delta, who in her trip to south¬ ern chapters stopped to visit sisters in Nashville. Knowing most of our grand officers personally and having visited at the college homes of many of our chapters, she was a most interesting guest. Among the many smaller affairs of which our chapter has been hostess was an afternoon with the Theta mothers in the city. It was a delightful way for our out of town girls to become better acquainted with them. Our alumnae have been particularly good to us this win¬ ter and last month Nell Pride, ’03, entertained the chapter and resident alumnae and patronesses. It was quite an

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326 KAPPA ALPHA THETA elaborate afternoon affair, and later a number of the frater¬ nity men came in. Spring vacation begins in a few days and a good many of our girls are expecting to enjoy the annual Mammoth Cave trip which the Vanderbilt students take. Alice Porter Clark. Delta District Delta — University of Illinois Just at present we are trying to repress our desire to remain out of doors, and instead, to apply our time more diligently. At this season there are so many things to look forward to, that study seems very unattractive. Our annua! party for which we are busily planning, although it is to be a very simple affair, comes soon. We are expecting several old girls back for it. The first Saturday in May, the Woman’s League will give its annual “County Fair.” There are several new side attractions planned, and as enthusiasm is high we are expect¬ ing it to be a success. Interscholastic, too, js drawing near. The Maypole is the first event in the series. Under Mrs. Lincoln’s direction this promises to be more extensive and more beautiful than ever. Following the Maypole dances are a stunt party, two ball games, a track meet, the interscholastic meet, the circus, and the dance. The Ben Greet players have favored us again with a visit. “She Stoops to Conquer,” “Everyman,” and “Romeo and Juliet” were enjoyed by all who attended. A series of convocations has been started for the mere purpose of getting the students together. The two which have been held were very successful. At the second, Dr. Draper, former president of the university, spoke. There has also been a series of vesper services during Lent, con¬ ducted by the organizations. The sorority girls were entertained by a reception at the President’s house, given by Mrs. James. The occasion was a charming one. Nellie M. Gleason.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 3*7 Rho — University oe Nebraska The banquet over, we are now looking forward to the big dance April 25. 'Hie banquet was held March 14. Although all the pledges were not initiated, they were at the banquet immediately following. Jessie Morgan was toastmistress. The following toasts were responded to: “The Past,” Edith Robbins; “The Future,” Ena Brach: “Sisterhood,” Kate Field; “The Present,” Lina Thompson; “Our Brothers — and Others,” Lora McCoid, and “Auf Wiedersehen,” Jessie Power. We adjourned to the frater¬ nity house where the freshmen entertained us by illustrating popular songs with silhouettes. Many beautiful flowers were sent by Theta “Brothers — and Others.” Of the alum¬ nae we had with us Claire Dovey, '07, Mildred Post, ’07, Ena Brach, 06, Mabel Dutch, '07, Mary Bowlby, ’07, Har¬ riet Paul, Ada Wilsey, Mrs. R. A. McNown and Mrs. Miller. Rho has just learned of the death of Harriet Paul, on April 4. This news comes as a sad shock to us all as she was with us but a few weeks ago for our annual ban¬ quet. Her death is deeply felt as she was one of our most faithful alumnae, always coming back for reunions and ever ready to help us upon all occasions. Although in school but two years from 1901 to 1903, her beautiful life has left a deep impression upon Rho. She was ill about eighteen days, during which time typhoid with complica¬ tions set in, resulting in her death. Our heartfelt sympa¬ thies go out to her family in the loss of our sister. Kate Field. Kappa — University oe Kansas The girls of Kappa are now busily studying for the fraternity examination and parties, spreads, and other tempting gayeties are for the time being abandoned. On the morning of March 6 we held initiation for Helen Janes of Williamsburg, and many of our alumnae being present, we surprised them with a little farce, “Comedie des

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA 328 Fleurs,” which, although gotten up on the spur of the mo¬ ment, proved a great success. In spite of its being Lent, Lawrence is a very gay place just now. Those of us who have given up dancing are still indulging in roller-skating so that there is something going on all the time. In a few weeks the Masque Club will pre¬ sent “My Friend from Indiana” in which Isabel Barden will take a leading part. We are really disappointed to learn that Miss Hall will not visit us this spring. We wish we were among the for¬ tunate ones and hope that Miss Hall will be our guest next fall. Elizabeth Lucia Laird. Tau — Northwestern University Perhaps the subject to be mentioned first in our letter is our play which was postponed on account of the death of Mrs. Harris, wife of our president. April 3, however, we presented “The Lamentable Tragedy of Julius Caesar in Song and Verse,” in Music Hall, before the faculty wives, our alumnae, and all the women in the college of Liberal Arts. The parts were taken entirely by members of the active chapter, under the stage direction and general management of Lois Linthicum, one of our freshmen. Alta Miller, who is now teaching in the School of Music, helped our entertainment by opening the program with two groups of songs ; while a number of our alumnae and pledges assisted in ushering, and in receiving at the informal reception which followed the play. We learned to know each other so much better while working on our play, and it was such a pleasure to entertain all our college friends that we hope to have a similar entertainment every year, as we are becoming more and more interested in bringing all the college women closer together. One factor that will probably be of assistance to us, is the springing into existence of a good many inter- frater¬ nity organizations — and not exactly inter-fraternity, either, since girls who do not belong to any Greek letter society , are also taken into these. The purpose is merely to promote

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CHAPTER LETTERS 329 good-fellowship and to help bring about more intimate rela¬ tions between the girls, and the members certainly have good times together. A few weeks ago a Pan-Hellenic matinee dance was also given by the various sororities, and it was voted a great success in the way of getting the girls acquainted and of having fun just among themselves. The students have been interested in the meetings con¬ ducted by Dr. Henderson for the past three weeks, and have been greatly awakened and helped. We are glad he came, and feel that he has become a personal friend to a great many of us. Before many weeks, now, commencement, which has been placed two weeks earlier than usual, will be upon us, and Tau will be saying goodbye to her three seniors. A short time ago a party was given at Gertrude Curme’s for them and for the two new additions to our chapter this half year — Agnes Becker, recently initiated, and Louise Brown, a transfer from Gamma. But seniors, freshmen, and all are alike laying plans for Tau chapter next year, in the hope of developing some of the many good things that have started in this. Pearl Greenough. Upsilon — University oe Minnesota Basketball holds an important place here at Minnesota during the winter months and great interest is attached to the game, especially to the girls’ basketball tournament. The tournament occurred February 20 and resulted in a final victory of the seniors over the sophomores. Two" of our girls, Florence La Vayea and Helen Schutte, play on the sophomore team. The girls’ varsity team has since been to Nebraska where it was royally entertained and carried off the honors of the game in addition. On April 3 the Nebraska girls will contest for their lost laurels in our Armory. Their physical directress and one of the girls on the second team are Thetas, and we are looking forward to their visit with pleasure. Our second and last rushing party occurred the night before Washington’s Birthday. It was in the nature of a

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA 33° house party and seemed to be fairly successful, at least. April ii is pledge day and we await it in hope as well as in trepidation. The great social event of the year, the Junior Ball, took place Feb. 28. This year it was given out of town at the Masonic Temple, instead of at the Armory, and the artistic ball room with its comfortable ante-rooms proved a wel¬ come change to the vast bareness of the Armory. The Dramatic Club is preparing to put on an outdoor performance of “As You Like It” in May, as well as a light farce of some kind. The Modern Drama class presented Ben Jonson’s comedy, “The Silent Woman,” in March. The Thalian literary society is planning to give Rostand’s “Romancers” soon. The Musical Federation is at work upon a Spanish opera. Besides these there have been numer¬ ous concerts by the orchestra and mandolin and glee clubs. During Lent society has been comparatively quiet and we have had the opportunity of cramming up a bit for the spring weather when the cool, green campus is far more alluring than the hot, stuffy recitation room. Fraternity examinations come on apace, and while we gasp to think of them, yet we are determined to try to make as good a showing as any chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta. Donna Lycon. Psi — University of Wisconsin We take great pleasure in announcing the names of four recent initiates — Hazel Josten; Lewise Halladay, Adah Fritz and Marguerite McConeville ; but the loss of Elsie Martens, through ill health, is much to be regretted. We have just discovered a new plan, and in our delight we must needs publish it; for we believe we have at last overcome the difficulty of uniting town and house girls in closest friendship and strongest loyalty to our fraternity. It is a much regretted truth that town girls never enjoy to the full extent the privilege of fraternity life, because they must live at home. This semester someone suggested having each town girl visit the house for a week ; and the

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CHAPTER LETTERS 33i success of the plan is proved in the mutual growth of affec¬ tion and understanding between the girls in the house and out. 9 As an item of general interest, Mrs. Maud Wood Park has been lecturing here on Equal Suffrage, and we hope she may be received with even more enthusiasm should she visit other colleges. Marion Grace Peabody. Alpha Theta — University oe Texas There is a decided lull in the social world, nothing divert¬ ing having occurred recently except the appearance of Mme. Sembrich and of Lillian Russell. Everybody is enjoying a siesta after the work and gayety of a few weeks ago. Alpha Theta is expecting a visit from Miss Eva Hall, president of Delta district, next week. We want to be with her as much as possible, and have decided to limit functions to a single tea for the University Ladies’ Club and Pan- Hellenic. Ethel Rather, Gonzales, Texas, was initiated into Kappa Alpha Theta, Feb. 8, ’08. Miss Rather, a B.A. and an M.A. from Texas, has studied at Cornell, and will take her Doc¬ tor’s degree from Yale in June. Leda Maud Nash. Alpha Iota — Washington University The chief thing of interest since the last letter was the organizatipn of the Pan-Hellenic and the agreement upon a fixed pledge day — one month after matriculation. We have been unusually fortunate in having three Theta visitors this month, Miss Hall, Miss Brach, Rho, and Miss Drummond, Eta. Miss Drummond came in just in time for meeting and afterward entertained us with some recol¬ lections of the convention. It is through such visitors as these that our interest in the national fraternity life is increased and we learn more of the life of the individual chapters. Thyrsis presented its annual play March 27. The cast of "London Assurance” was especially well chosen and the performance met with well-deserved success.

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33* KAPPA ALPHA THETA We are now planning a Theta house party to be given on our annual holiday, the second Friday in May. By the time this reaches you we expect to be out on a big farm enjoying ourselves immensely and revelling in long walks, country milk, and old clothes! Mary B. Glasgow. Gamma District Phi — Stanford University. We have been gay as well as studious in these last weeks and have been saving up all our rests until vacation, which was ushered in with a burst of glory. Our last day of college was a holiday — which is an Irish bull, but in this case a fact as well, for it is on this great occasion that the Stanford junior has his day, and having more to do in that one day than any able-bodied student can do, he begins his junior day the night before. From a junior opera to begin with — a local production, The But¬ terfly Isle — the water sports and regatta the next morning, a track meet and lacrosse game in the afternoon, we worked up easily to the climax of the Junior Ball. The inevitable result was a rush to trains the next morning with half- packed suitcases. What comes after is something that can happen only in California, in March at least. You have junior proms in your civilized countries, but can you pack up the next day and go for a roughing it trip into the glorious mountains, with your sleeping bags under your arm, and lie under the stars for a whole week and rest? That is the way some of the Phi girls are spending their vacation. Dora Moody Williams has a tiny cabin perched away up on a mountain in the heart of the Redwoods about fifteen miles from Stanford, and this she has turned over to us ; so the girls have gone up there with bag and without baggage, to spend an ideal vacation. It will probably take from now until commencement to tell the rest of us every¬ thing that happened in that one short week! Helen Green.

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS 333 Omega — University of California There has been little excitement of any note in this term’s events. Our birthday celebration was immensely suc¬ cessful, thanks to the sophomore class, and the birthday gifts were many and useful. We have had Helen Wright, 07, visiting us this month from Santa Rosa, and Helen Parker, ex- ’07, who is at present with friends in Oakland, has made an occasional trip to Berkeley. In the way of dramatics we have had “Trelawney of the Wells” admirably presented by the Mask and Dagger society. Several of our girls took part. We are now look¬ ing forward to a splendid production of “The Winter’s Tale,” under the auspices of the English Club. On account of financial difficulties, the symphony concerts in the Greek Theatre have been discontinued, to the great regret of the musical public. It is hoped they will recommence in August. Margery Lynch. ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS Alpha Alumnae — Greencastle, Indiana To us the year has brought many pleasant occasions, among which were two glimpses of foreign lands through the eyes of two recently returned members, Miss Burner and Miss Hanna. A humorous account of customs differ¬ ing from those in our own country, and a visit to literary shrines, both illustrated by well-chosen views were eiv- joyed alike by the eleven visitors and members who were fortunate enough to have seen the same things and by those of us less fortunate. On Saturday, January 25, more than fifteen alumnae and active girls hurried to Indianapolis to grasp the hands of other loyal Thetas from over the state and celebrate Found¬ er’s Day. Those of us who thought Theta birthday cele- tions were over for this year when the banquet and heart¬ warming toasts were at an end, were delightfully disap¬ pointed, for on the real day, in the evening, we were bid-

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334 KAPPA ALPHA THETA den as guests of the active chapter. After refreshments the loving cup went round ‘nor passed a Theta by/ despite the terrors of impromptu toasts. Mrs. Weik sang for us, songs of her own composition and we all renewed our youth in the spirited choruses of Theta. The March meeting of the Club is always devoted to chats with absent members. Those on the regular corres¬ pondence list are notified by postal each year before the ap¬ pointed day that news of them will be appreciated. Twelve good letters from Indian Territory, Florida, Cal¬ ifornia, Kansas, Ohio and our own state rejoiced us on March 7. To these letters was added a chapter letter, be¬ fore the return circuit was begun. The flavor of last year’s Read Letter Day reached us in some of the epistles this year, so we know how much the budget is appreciated. Epsilon Alumna — Columbus, Ohio “We’re twenty! We’re twenty! Who says we are more?” Indeed we do feel as young as ever, in spite of the fact that it has been — let me see, how many years since we graduated? Little Sister Alpha Gamma takes the greatest pride in us, because we are such a model alumnae chapter, and take so much interest in all her girlish affairs. Indeed. Rumor has it that Epsilon is not only looking at samples of the latest thing in party gowns, but also has purchased, in the meantime, a bottle of liniment, in preparation for our big formal dance in May, and is thinking of attending en masse. Among the other progressive things Epsilon has done, we should like to tell you about our new system in regard to our spreads at the meetings each month. Hitherto it has been the custom, as at picnics, to apportion the various goodies around the circle. (Perhaps you remember, at this point, how you groan when it falls to your lot to bring sandwiches!) Now the meetings are in charge of two stewards, appointed for two successive meetings, who make • out a menu, which, when added up, shall not exceed thirty cents apiece. They attend to every thing, the serving of

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS 335 the spread, and help in the clearing away, so that it may not seem such a burden upon the hostess. We have had the system in operation during this year, and it has proved a great success. It may be of interest to you to hear about the “College Club/’ among whose members are many of our number, and whose president is our own Edith Bell. The College Club is a purely social organization, whose qualification for membership is at least one year’s residence in an institution of recognized standing. The Club decided last fall to de¬ vote its philanthropic energies to the maintenance of the Reading Room in the new Newsbodys’ Home, which has recently been dedicated. March 20, the presented “Cran¬ ford,” an invitation affair, at the Ohio State University Chapel. It really was charming, with all the quaint old costumes and furnishings loaned by friends in town, and we feel duly bound to add that six Thetas were connected with its production! Susan Siebert as chairman of the properties committee; Edith (Richardson) Ingraham as “Miss Pole” ; Florence Bell as “Mr. Forrester” ; Alice Thacker as “Mary Smith” ; Edith Corner as “Miss Betty Barker”; the writer as “Martha.” Mary MacDonald Bohannan. Alumn.*; Letter — Seattle, Washington The following letter from a prosperous Kappa Alpha Theta club, we gladly place among the Alumnae Chapter letters and hope that in another year this club will be a regularly organized Alumnae chapter. As has been the custom for three years, the Seattle Thetas have held meetings each month this winter. This has been perhaps the most successful year so far, judging from the number attending the meetings. Being so far from any chapter, it has been a surprise to us to find twenty Thetas living in the city, this number being just twice that in the city two years ago. It is rather interesting to note that these twenty people represent fifteen chapters : Delta, old Delta at Illinois Wes-

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA 336 leyan, Eta, Psi, Phi, Kappa, Mu, Omega, Tau, Alpha, Alpha Epsilon, Rho, Pi, Alpha Gamma, and Iota. Two alumnae associations, Delta and Iota, are also represented. Our regular meetings commenced in October when we met in Furuya's Japanese tea room for the afternoon. It was decided at that meeting that our future meetings be held in the homes rather than in a tea room as in the two previous years. Accordingly we have been entertained once a month, usually the last Saturday of the month, at some home. At our last meeting Mrs. F. A. Ernst, 1509 15th Ave. North, was elected temporary chairman. Twice this year we have enjoyed the visit of a grand officer. Miss Edith Cockins was in Seattle late in the sum¬ mer, and Miss Jessie McFarland visited us in November. Both brought us news of the convention as well as news of the several chapters, and it was with a great deal of re¬ gret that we realized how short their visit with us must be. The following is our list of members: Mary Bellows — Tau. Ida Black — Alpha. Zella Fay Campbell — Eta. Belle Dirimple — Psi. Edith Ravenscroft Ellis — Alpha. Jennie Brawley Ernst — Mu. Blanche Mcleod Frein — Iota. Alice Dickinson Harper — Iota. Grace Young Harris — Alpha Gamma. Lilian V. Johnson — Delta. Gertrude Allen Knapp — Pi, Chi. Mabel Davison Lotz — Eta, Delta. Mrs. MacWhinnie — Alpha Epsilon. Josephine Meissner — Delta. Carrie B. Mowry — Eta. Mrs. F. W. B. Morris — Kappa. Olga Mueller — Psi. Mrs. O’Brien — Rho. Cornelia Stratton Parker — Omega. Cornelia Stevenson — Phi. Mrs. E. P. Storey — Delta. Phoebe Buell — Psi. We hope that all Kappa Alpha Thetas in the vicinity, or passing through Seattle will notify our general chair¬ man, Mrs. F. A. Ernst, 1509 15th Ave. North, or Josephine Meissner, Delta, 4333 10th Ave. N. E., University Station. Josephine Meissner, Delta.

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AMONG OURSELVES Minnie Parker, "08, Elizabeth Greene, ’0 6, both of Delta, Nannie Moore, '08, Alpha Eta, and Margaret Stockbridge, ’08, Eta, have just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mary Curtis, ’00, Chi, has just returned from a trip abroad and been made associate editor of the Delineator. The Indianapolis News of March 14 contained a very compli¬ mentary review of the third book from the pen of Elizabeth Miller, an alumna member of Gamma chapter We reprint the following press notices: THE CLIMAX OF A SPLENDID TRILOGY— Taken together, Miss Miller’s religious novels constitute a definite trilogy — the Rise, Triumph and Fall of the Jewish nation. THE YOKE saw the start of the Faithful for the Promised Land, SAUL OF TARSUS showed the greatness of the Jewish state at its fullness. THE CITY OF DELIGHT pictures the fall of Jerusalem, the triumph of Rome, and the beginnings of Christianity. The First Century— the age of warring faiths and changing creeds — lives again in this powerful book. The marriage in New York City April 6 of Cora Wells, Eta. ’03, to Captain George Cyrus Thorpe of the United States Marine Corps, has been announced. Miss Wells has recently had an article in the Field of Art department of Scribner’s magazine. MARRIAGES Sigma Married December 19, 1907, Evelyn H. Ward, ’05, to Mr. Samuel Dickson, ’00, Delta Upsilon. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson are making their home in Edmonton, Alberta. Alpha Beta Married, March 23, 1908, at Chester, Pa., Elizabeth Booth, ’03, to Mr. Robert Lamb, Delta Upsilon.

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33« KAPPA ALPHA THETA Alpha Zcta Married, January 15, 1908, Anne D. Greene, ’05, to Mr. Guy Bates. Married, April 9, 1908, Agnes L. Durant, ’05, to Mr. Charles Halsey. Alpha Married, March 18, 1908, Lillian Maxwell, ’05, to Dr. W. F. Holman, of Clark's Hill, Indiana. Beta Married, December 20, 1907, Lulu Kemp, ex-'o8, to Frank Hare, ’07, Phi Kappa Psi. Their home is now in Tipton, Indiana. Eta Married, April 6, at New York City, Cora Edna Wells, ’03, to Captain George Cyrus Thorpe, United States Marine Corps. % Pi Married, March 3, 1908, at Charlevoix, Jeannette Campbell, '05, to Mr. Arba Cameron of Chicago. Married, September 4, 1907, Jessie Cooper to Dr. Lane of Kenosha, Wis. They reside in Kenosha. Alpha Gamma Married, April 22, 1908, Mignon Poste, 06, to Mr. James Pren- dergast, Phi Delta Theta. Married, April 20, 1908, Helen Powell, ex-’98, to Mr. Oscar E. Miles. Delta Married, April 8, 1908, Louise Brookings to Mr. Harry Miller of Du Quoin, Illinois. Psi Married, March, 1908, Ruth Phelan, '05, to Dugald Atherton Stewart. At home Bowman, North Dakota. Married, March 28, 1908, Anna Ruth Hammond, ’00, to Henry Ernst Epley. They will make their home in the east. Married, March, 1908, Katherine Bunnell, '05, to William Gor- rill, Beta Theta Pi.

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BIRTHS Lambda Born September 3, 1907, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Steere (Helen Christine Hanna, cx-’o3). Alpha Zeta Born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Harrictte Pratt, ’oi), a son. Beta Born to Mrs. Morton Bradley (Marie Boiscn. ’oo), of Boston, Mass., a daughter. Eta Born March 18, 1908, to Dr. and Mrs. George H. Lynch (Una Palmer, ’03), a son. Address, 330 South Michigan Avenue, Big Rapids, Mich. Born Feb. 7, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Marting (Anna Harris, ex-’99), a son, Frank Lewis. Alpha Gamma Born April, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Heap (Mary Robi¬ son, ex-’oi), a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Sears (Jessie Carpenter, ’03), February 4, a daughter, Lorin Carpenter. Delta Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stahl (Jane Mahan), a daughter. Alpha Theta Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Hatchett (Alma Proctor, '05, a son, Joe Proctor. Omega Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Overstreet (Elsie Burr, '03), a son, Egmont William. DEATHS Rho Died, Harriet Paul, Saturday, April 4, at her home in Hen¬ derson, Iowa.

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PERSONALS Iota We are delighted to hear encouraging reports from Miss Pearl Green who is at a heatlh resort in Elmira. Alice Graves is spending her spring vacation with us here at Cornell. Iota had a short visit from Caroll Crossett, ’05. On April 17 we expect a visit from Miss Capron, our district president. We are looking forward to this visit with great pleasure. Abbie Potts, '06, will be back for a visit at about the same time. April 7 Iota pledged Helen Dudley, *n, and Marguerite Dor¬ cas, ’11, both of New York City. Lambda Joesphine Adelaide Marshall’s (’01) address is 130 Tremont street, Ansonia, Conn. She has the position of organist in one of the churches of Fair Haven, Conn. Margaret Healey’s adderss is New Mexico Normal Univer¬ sity, East Los Vegas, New Mexico. Eliza C. Isham, ’86, who has spent the winter at Saranac Lake, New York, expects to attend “June Spread” this commencement. Anna Clark, ’98, and Edith Abbott, ex-’04, are to travel in Europe during the summer months. Florence Nelson Ray, ’01, of State College Pa., was called to Burlington early in March by the serious illness of her sister, Mabel Nelson Jacobs, ’99. We are happy to state that Mrs. Jacobs is now improving. Emma Lane Votey, ex-’84, spent a part of the winter in Phil¬ adelphia, Pa. Chi Josephine Whitehead, ex-’o8, Psi, who has been taking special work in Syracuse this year, has been obliged to return to her home in Golden, Colo., on account of ill health. Helena Evans, ’01, is head of the biology department in the Washington Irving High School, 44 W. 25th St., New York City. Lizzie Lowell Hammond, ’94, is professor of Latin in Normal College, Park Ave., New York City. Mrs. Iva Lowther Peters, ’01, and Mrs. Minnie Sarles Payne, ’99, Liberty, N. Y., visited at the chapter house in March.

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PERSONALS 341 Mrs. Mary Blair Losey, ’06, West Bridgewater, Mass., visited the chapter house the first week in April. Lena Rhodes, '99, who has just returned from her trip abroad is studying for her master’s degree at Syracuse. Alpha Beta Mrs. Josiah William Votey, one of Lambda’s charter members, paid us a brief visit a short time ago, a visit which we thoroughly enjoyed. Julia Atkinson, ’07, visited us recently. May Seburt from Alpha Gamma was here for several weeks visiting Mrs. Gay, a Theta from Alpha Gamma now living in Swarthmore. Alpha Delta Esther Donnelly Smith of Psi entertained the active chap¬ ter at her home on Maryland avenue on March 14. Lucy Yancey, ’09, and Emma Gregg, ’09, spent the spring vaca¬ tion with Marian Pitts, ’07, at Warwick, N. Y. Nancy Pusey, *io, and Rachel Miller, ’n, visited Lucile Lacke, ’07, in Brooklyn during the holidays. Ethel Elmer, ’04, entertained the alumna and many of the active chapter at an informal tea April 2. Alpha Epsilon The engagement was recently announced of Olive B. Eddy, ’05, of Riverside to Mr. Eaton of New York City. The chapter recently received a visit from Angie Melden, ex-’ 10, of Wilbraham, Mass. Nelly Evans, ’08, and Josephine Sackett, ’09, recently enjoyed visiting Alpha Zeta and Alpha Kappa chapters. Louise Towle is teaching at Technical High School, Provi¬ dence. Martha Watt is teaching at the Fielden-Chase School in Prov¬ idence. Ethel Phillips, ’06, is visiting Mrs. Otis Green (Harriet L. Hoyle, ’07), at her home in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Mrs. Howard Adams (Bertha Tucker), with her little daugh¬ ter, is visiting her mother on Villa Ave., Providence. Alpha Zeta The engagement of Elizabeth G. Evans, ’06, to Mr. Clifford Easton is announced.

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34* KAPPA ALPHA THETA Alpha Kappa The engagement has been announced of Cora Marguerite Steph¬ ens, ex-’io and Nils Anderson, Flatbush, New York. Nellie Evans and Josephine Sackett of Alpha Epsilon visted the chapter last week. We were glad to have with us at our last meeting Mary Titus of Alpha Beta. Dr. Annie Marion MacLean is giving a course of lectures at the home of Laura Walsh during Lent for charity. Regina Gorman, ’io, has returned from her trip south. Alpha Three of our girls did not return this term. Eleanor Lemon is at her home in Indianapolis, Ethel Spade is in Portland and Betty Reed in Warsaw. Elizabeth Dougherty, ’o 7, who is now attending Wellesley Col¬ lege, has been the guest of the chapter. Ruth Ritter O’Daniels, ’04, has been visiting in Greencastle. Mabel O’Hair, ’07, has resigned her position in the high school at Darlington and has entered college for graduate work. Betty Bushnell, ex-’o7, has been visiting the girls. Gamma Roxana Thayer and Nell Reed visited Anna Hughes in her home in Columbus during spring vacation. Helen Carver, one of our “active” alumnae, is going to visit Ora Williams, another one of our alumnae girls, at Madison, Wis. Bernice Ball intends to spend part of the spring term with Anna Hughes in the dormitory, although she will not enter college. Gamma chapter makes the important announcement that by the time the Journal goes to press, the Theta Cabin will have emerged from a thorough spring house cleaning, and will be ready to cor¬ dially receive all visitors. Eta Mrs. George R. Swain (Edith Rice, ’99), and Minerva B. Rhines, ’97, spent a few days in Ann Arbor during the sessions of the Schoolmasters’ Club. Mrs. Swain’s address is 309 N. Lin¬ coln St., Bay City, Mich. Myra Post Cady came out from Detroit for the Michigan Women’s Dinner. Mrs. Horace Wilgus entertained the chapter and the patron¬ esses on Saturday, April 4, in honor of Mrs. Henry Carter Adams

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PERSONALS 343 (Bertha Wright). Professor Adams is at work upon the Inter¬ state Commerce Commission at Washington and they are here for a fortnight, while he presents a special course of lectures in the university. Mr. and Mrs. Adams expect to return to Ann Arbor next winter. Grace Holmes, *05, and Bess Cantwell, ex-’o6, made us a visit before Easter vacation. Mrs Tuthill entertained six of the chapter most charmingly at luncheon in honor of Louise Tuthill, our new pledge. Address 147 Horton Ave., Detroit. Esther Harmon is at 19 III 3 Tanentzien Strasse, Berlin, Ger¬ many. She will probably return this summer. Mrs. Edward Maynard (Harriet Harrington, *04), has spent the winter at Woodbury, New Jersey. She will be in Ann Ar¬ bor for one or two months before going to her home near Denver, Colo. Elsie Sawyer, '03, goes abroad in June for a year’s study in Germany. Margaret Stockbridge, ’08, sails also in June. She will spend the winter studying in Europe. Eta’s deepest sympathy is with Mrs. Walker, and Charlotte Hall Walker, our editor, in the death of Mrs. Israel Hall, but a short time ago. Maude Philips, ’01, is expected here for Commencement, June 18. Alice Wadsworth, ’95, sails in June for Italy and Greece where she will spend the summer. Pi Clara Belle Shaffer, ’07, is to be active this term-— taking post-graduate work in the college. Lena Fairweather who was unable to be with us last term re¬ turns this spring. Gertrude Allen Knapp, ’87, the first girl initiated by Pi chap¬ ter, is now living at 4227 12th Ave., University Station, Seattle, Washington. Edna Thompson, ’00, spent a day in Albion recently. Alpha Gamma Alice Thacher, ’06, will leave the first of May for a visit of some months in Portland, Oregon. Louise Grace has spent the past two months in the cast. Edith Wilson, ’07, of Selma, Ohio, visited us March 14.

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344 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Alpha Gamma was delighted by having three Thetas from Wooster with her at a spread in the fraternity room March 28. They were Elisa Candor, Clarissa Anatt and Adelia Anatt. The marriage of Edith Jackson, ’07, to Adolph Theobald, Sigma Nu, is to take place in June. Edith Jackson, ’07, of Portsmouth, Ohio, spent her week of spring vacation here with the girls. Mrs. Percy Parkhurst, Tau, is now making her home perma¬ nently in Columbus. We are glad to welcome her into our circle. Jessie Farr, Tau, visited Mrs. Parkhurst in February. May Siebert has recently returned from a three weeks’ visit at the home of Mrs. Carl Gay (Catharine Andrews, ’03), at Swarth- more, Pa. Alpha Eta Jane Knight, Alpha Iota, has been visiting friends in Nashville. Ruby Hanlin, Alice Clarke and Nannie Moore are at home for spring vacation. Delta The marriage of Louise Rust to Mr. F. E. Foss of Pittsburg, will take place June 10. Mr. Foss is Professor of Electric Engin¬ eering in Carnegie’s Technical Schools. We were very glad to have Sahra Stevens, ’06, and Frances Hayden, ex-’o3, with us for a few days. Eda and Lois Linthicum from Northwestern, who came down for a Sigma Nu party, visited a short time at the Theta house. Helen Sunday of DePauw paid us a short visit. Kappa Gertrude Reed, ’06, of Topeka, spent a few days at the chap¬ ter house in March. Marrienne Brooke, ex-’o7, has been visiting at the Theta house. Florence Pond, Upsilon, spent a day with us this month. Alice Turner, ex-’ 10, is visiting in Oregon and Washington. It is with deep regret that we announce the death of the father of Grace Poff, ’99. The engagement of Alice Templin, ’08, to Herbert Rankin, ’08, is announced. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Helen Williams, ’03, to Lee E. Philbrook, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, ’04, Co¬ lumbia, Mo., of Chicago.

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PERSONALS 345 Rho The engagement has been announced of Nelore Wilson, Rho, ’04, and Thomas O. Swan, Beta, of California. Agnes Sangevin, ’08, announced her engagement to Archibald Stratton, Sigma Chi. Mrs. Yale Huffman (Martha Cline, ’05), is now living at Basin, Wyoming. She expects to remain here for about two months. Camille Hall, ’o 7, is teaching mathematics at the Lincoln High School. She is taking post graduate work in Latin and German at the university. Minnie Swezy, ’07, is assisting in chemistry at the Lincoln High School. Ida and Edith Robbins, ’07, will sail the first part of April for Europe. Ena Brach, ’o 6, will accompany them, Alice Towne, ’oi, is expected home from Sweden in May. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy (Gertrude Laws), sail in May for a European tour. Ruth Macfarland of Los Angeles, visited Rose Carson in Lin¬ coln. Emma Swezy, ’08, will spend the summer traveling in Europe, and will study French in Paris during the winter. Tau Florence Pond has recently visited Alpha Gamma and Kappa chapters and Xi Alumme. Upsilon Edna Brown, ex-’o7 ,has returned from Long Beach Calif., where she spent the winter. Florence Parker, ex-’o6, came up from Willmar to spend Easter vacation. Mabel Hanson, Delta, spent several days in the city visiting her sister. Blanch Fridd, Psi, from Valley City, visited friends in the city in March. Alpha Theta Adele Johnson, ’06, who has been spending the winter in Ohio and Illinois, will return home the early part of April, accompany¬ ing Miss Hall on her visit to Oklahoma and to Texas. Lena Wood Greer, ex-*o8, Beaumont, Texas, spent a week with Alpha Theta, in March. Pauline Davis, ex-’o8, Taylor, Texas, will be a guest at the chapter house the first week in April.

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346 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Alpha Iota The engagement of Elinor Hall to Wesley Winans Homer, Sigma Chi, *05, was announced on March 26. 1 Omega Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Parker (Cornelia Stratton), have late¬ ly come from Seattle to Oakland, Calif., where they will make their future home. Ruth Van Kampen Green, ex-’o8, will be married on June 16 to Mr. George Campbell Jones, Beta Theta Pi. They will make their home in Tonopah, Nevada. Mu Alumnae Mrs. Will L. Chandler (Beulah Throop) Chi, and Mrs. W. T. Fisher (Grace Clark) Beta, are recent acquisitions to Mu Alumnae chapter. NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE WORLD The University of Jena has opened its doors to women on an equal footing with men, making the eighth in the twenty-one uni¬ versities of Germany, and following three of Bavaria, namely Munich, Erlangen, and Wurzburg; the two of Baden, viz., Heidel¬ berg, and Freiburg; that of Wurtemburg, Tubingen; that of Alsace- Lorraine, in Strassburg; and that of Saxony, viz., Leipzig. Prussia has stubbornly refused to open any of its ten universities to women for matriculation or graduation. In Berlin the women’s contingent has increased from 96 ten years ago to 783 during the past semester, of whom 601 are German subjects. The situation is not the same in the Swiss universities, where of a total of 2,101 medical students no less than 1,171 are women. The proportion of women students in Germany is less than in France, where out of a total of 38,197 university students, 2,259 are women, but of these 1,195 are foreign¬ ers. — The Independent. Quoted by Sigma Chi Quarterly. As next commencement marks the completion of forty years of Cornell's history, it is proposed to have a reunion of all classes, and steps toward adequate accommodation of returning graduates are now being taken by a committee of alumni.— Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

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NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE WORLD 347 A replica of the bronze equestrian statue of the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, which stands in Rome, will soon be erected on Brown University grounds. The statue is a gift of the late Moses Brown Ives Goddard, who was the donor of the statue of Cfesar Augustus, standing on the campus. The horse and rider measure about thirteen feet, and the stone pedestal seven and a half feet. — Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. Ground has been broken for the construction of the North¬ western engineering school, which will be located on the campus which has hitherto been given over almost entirely to liberal arts. Plans are well afoot to remedy the somewhat haphazard arrange¬ ment of the present liberal arts structures, and efficient architects and landscape gardeners are completing plans for sweeping improve¬ ments on the Evanston campus. — Record. It has been estimated that there are at present about four hun¬ dred chapters of Greek-letter fraternities and local societies which own their chapter houses, and that the property owned by them is worth at least $4.500,000. — Footnote to article, Legal Status of a College Fraternity Chapter , by Olcott Partridge, in American Law Review. A splendid new law building has been erected on the campus of the University of Texas. — Themis. The University of Wisconsin is to receive $200,000 annually for four years as provided for by a recent act of the Legislature. — Themis. Colorado College has completed an addition of $500,000 to its productive funds, toward which the General Education Board and Mr. Andrew Carnegie each contributed $50,000. The town of Colorado Springs raised $50,000 toward the fund in two weeks. — Sigma Chi Quarterly. Michigcnda, the comic opera, written composed, and presented by Michigan students, was remarkably successful. It was given under the auspices of the Michigan Union, the latter part of Feb¬ ruary, in Ann Arbor. A college of education has been created by the Regents of the University of Nebraska. Dr. Fordyce of Wesleyan is to be the dean of this new department. The first women’s inter-collegiate basketball contest has been held at Lincoln, Neb., between the teams of the Universities of Minnesota and Nebraska.

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348 KAPPA ALPHA THETA The Alpha Tau Omega house at Cornell and the Delta Tau Delta house at Illinois have been destroyed by fire since the last issue of the Record. In both instances it is safe to state that in spite of the heavy property loss the chapters, supported as they are by loyal alumni, will soon rebuild their homes, but Alpha Tau Omega has suffered irreparably in the death of the gallant young man who lost his life in the flames. It is thought that he could have escaped had he not gone upstairs to warn others who, as he thought, were in danger. Long after the houses have been rebuilt and after every trace of the fire has disappeared, Alpha Tau Omega will mourn for this man whose heroism and self-sacrifice will ever be an inspiration to his brothers. — Record. At Yale the house of the Berzelius Society of the Sheffield Scientific School was damaged to the extent of $10,000. At Troy the Theta Xi house was badly damaged by fire on January 21. — Phi Gamma Delta. Dean Wright, of the academic department of Yale, says that the collecting together of rich students in expensive dormitories at old Eli leads to serious evils, putting scholarship in a second place and tending to limit social advantages to the favored few. — Kappa Sigma Caduceus. A Pan-Hellenic banquet was held in Houston, Texas, December 30. The Pan-Hellenic association of that city has been organized for three years, and has held annual banquets during that time. — Phi Gamma Delta. Gamma Phi Beta has a chapter house at Haxford. Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta, and Alpha Tau Omega have alumni chapters at Manila; Southern Kappa Alpha and Beta Theta Pi have alumni chapters on the Canal Zone ; Phi Delta Theta has an alumni club at the City of Mexico. — Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. Delta Delta Delta announces the establishment of Beta Zeta chapter at Kentucky University, Saturday, February 22, 1908.