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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR MARCH.

CONTRIBUTIONS— PAGE

Nothing Will Die 175

A Dirge 175

College of Charleston 177

The University of California 183

History of California Gamma 187

North Carolina Epsilon 199

Emory College, Oxford, Ga. 217

Ohio Theta—Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. . . 225

Georgia Iota—Georgia School of Technology. . . 235

The Columbia Alumni Chapter 237

"If!" 241

"Biff 1" 242

Yet Another 243

THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT—

Editorials 244

Announcements 252

Pi Kapps 254

The Roll of Honor e56"Frat" Men Take Steps to Remove Criticism 256

SCISSORS AND PASTE—

Exchange Clippings 260

News—That's All 270

'tar arth iCatuttThe Official Organ of the Pi Kappa Plit Fraternity.

Vol. II. March 15, 1914. No. 3.

NOTHING WILL DIE.

(Parody on TENNYSON'S "Nothing Will Die.")

When will the earth be weary of rolling,Around the sun?

When will lovers be weary of strolling,Beneath the moon?

When will mountains be weary of soaring,Into the sky?

When will my brother cease his adoringPi Kappa Phi?

The earth rolls,The lover strolls,Mountains soar,Brothers adoreTheir Pi Kappa Phi.

—BOLT, Sigma, '09.,

A DIRGE.

Now is done thy life's long "toil;Fold thy palms in blissful peace,Enjoy the blessings of labor's surcease.

Fear not to die.Shadows of death begin to fallAnd the angel hovers nigh.

Pi Kapp, good-bye.—BOLT, Sigma, '09.

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COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. 177

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON.

As far back as 1770, a movement was begun for the "estab-lishment of a college in or near Charleston," the result ofwhich, in 1785, was the chartering of the College of Charles-ton, the oldest institution of higher learning in South Carolina.From the beginning this college has served to formulate theideals of its community as appeared in 1791, when, in a newcharter, the General Assembly incorporated this memorial tothe liberality of thought in eighteenth century South Carolina:"No person shall be excluded from any liberty, privilege,

immunity, office or situation in the said college on account ofhis religious persuasion."

MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE.

Many of the greatest men of the State have given theirconstructive thought to the establishment of the college orhave taken its stamp in their impressionable age. Among theactive participants in the original movement were the threeRevolutionary Pinckneys—Charles, Charles Cotesworth, andThomas. General Moultrie was the first President of theBoard of Trustees; John Rutledge was one of its members.In the list of noted men since connected with the college,occur the names of John Allston, Nathaniel Bowen, RobertY. Hayne, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Hugh S. Legare, WilliamH. Trescott, John C. Fremont, Mitchell King, WilliamPorcher Miles, J. L. Girardeau, W. M. Wightman, OctaviusA. White, and Edward McCrady.

LATER HISTORY.

Though nearly ruined financially by the War Between theSections, the college was enabled to reorganize, largelythrough the munificence of Ephriam Baynard, who donated$166,000 in the year 1864. The city of Charleston has alsobeen a great benefactor to the college. In 1837 the cityassumed responsibility for its maintenance, accepting the

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permanent trusteeship of all its property. Since then the city

has contributed to its support by annual appropriations. The

college has also been the recipient of large bequests for the

foundation of scholarships. Few colleges are proportionally

MAIN BUILDING.

so rich in this respect. These scholarships enable many young

men to receive their collegiate education practically without

expense.THE COLLEGE CAMPUS.

The plot of land which is now the campus of the college

was assigned to it under the Act of 1785. For more than a

hundred years it has been identified with the best life of the

State in its expansive student time. Many associations enrich

this place where Lowndes, Hayne, and Trescott, their friends

and rivals, changed from boys to men. This spot is now one

of the loveliest in Charleston. A group of oaks have attained


sufficient size to give it a secluded bowery character. Passingthrough the little old lodge of red stone the visitor pauses,involuntarily, to take in the charm of the way, the trees openbefore him and reveal a facade of the elongated Ionic columns

faintly rosy in the clear neutral light which is so frequent in

Charleston—a light that unites the trees, the buildings, the

sky in a quiet intensity of soft radiance. All around the

trees are moving, mounding, breathing in the wind—or are

most likely to be. And in their restless midst is the quiet space

full of sunlight, silence and repose, bounded by the red portico

of the college's main hall.

POLICY OF THE COLLEGE.

The College of Charleston has been proof against thetemptation which colleges, as a rule, find hardest to resist.This is the temptation to secure nurribers at all costs. It is atrueism that the present time is smitten with a passion forbigness. To bulk large on paper is a sure way to capture acertain sort of popularity. Those colleges which yield to thetemptation to do so, even when they have to drop their

standards so as to let the crowd in, are committing a very

human error. But it is a pity for them to give way. The

College of Charleston has resolutely stood its ground. Its

degree has a high value. It does not mean to let that value

fall. Graduates of the College of Charleston who have gone,as candidates for the master's and doctor's degrees, to thegreat universities are welcomed, because their Charlestonbachelor's degree is recognized as standing for thorough work.The value of its degree, the determination to maintain thatvalue—these are matters held at Charleston to be of firstimportance.

INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION.

Consequently the attendance at the college is no largerthan it ought to be. Exceptional care is taken not to crowdthe classes with ill-prepared candidates who are not equal todo the work required of them. The comparatively small

SOUTH CAROLINA ALPHA, CHARLESTON COLLEGE,

The Mother Chapter, Founded December 10, 1904.

Left to Right, Top Row—J. M. Nesbitt, Prof. A. P. Wagner, P. G.

Anderson, C. W. Birshmore, Jr.

Middle Row—W. F. Peecksen, C. A. Weinheimer, Jr.

Bottom Row—H. A. Rogers, W. D. Crawford, N. H. Mitch, Jr.


student body thus sifted in advance makes possible close per-sonal unity of the work of each member and careful attentionto his special needs. Small classes, personal attention,thorough training, such are the characteristics of the instruc-tion at Charleston. The justification of the Charlestonmethod was strikingly shown this past year at Oxford. Theonly American who gained that coveted "double first," whichis the highest honor of the Oxford year, is a Rhodes scholarfrom the College of Charleston. Another College of Charles-ton man was sent abroad last year on a traveling fellowshipby Harvard, while another was given by Johns Hopkins ascholarship in the American School at Rome.

EQ,UIPMENT.

The equipment at the college is such as to enable it to offerfirst-class instruction in all the branches usually pursued incolleges of high rank. The laboratory facilities, both inchemistry and biology, the library facilities, the engineeringshops, are all of first excellence. Being affiliated with theCharleston Museum of Natural History the scientific depart-ments of the college have the benefits of its unique collections.On the other hand, the languages, history and mathematicsreceive a degree of attention not often given them in this dayof scientific predominance. The physical needs of the students

are looked after in a well-appointed dormitory, while a largeathletic field bears witness to the active sympathy of the

authorities of the college in outdoor sports.

THE CAMPUS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

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Established in 1855 as the College of California, with a

freshman class of eight, the University of California has had

a steady and substantial growth until now, January, 1914,

she stands second in size of all the universities in the United

States, Columbia University in the city of New York being

first. Along with this remarkable growth in size has come an

equal increase in power and prestige, both in the State and in

the nation at large. Nowhere in the world today, nor in the

whole history of the development of educational institutions,

can one point to a duplication of this marvelous growth and

development of the University of California.

This has come by no mere chance, nor is it spurious, for the

greatest of natural advantages and well-laid plans have com-

bined to make it what it is. Nothing could have been better

calculated to produce a great institution than the selection

of the site. Lying on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay,

directly opposite the Golden Gate, the campus, comprising

more than four hundred acres, rising at first in gentle and

then in bolder slopes from a height of about two hundred

feet above the sea to one of nearly thirteen hundred. It has

a superb outlook over the bay and city of San Francisco, the

neighboring plains, the mountains, the ocean and the Golden

Gate. The climate is one of great uniformity and is excep-

tionally well suited for university work throughout the year.

The summers are cool, making it possible to begin the academic

year earlier than in the eastern universities, and thus divide it

at the Christmas holidays into two equal half years. With

these great natural advantages growth of the most whole-

some kind must come.

Of no less importance has been the plan under which it has

been and is being fostered. From the first, adequate financial

support was assured by the income of a large grant of land.

The State government has from the first been committed to a

definite plan of development, and by a constitutional enact-

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ment the institution was made perpetual. It was not, however,until 1898 that a definite architectural plan for the GreaterUniversity was adopted. This is known as the Hearst Planand was designed by Monsieur Emile Bernard, of Paris.Under this plan the building arrangement is to be recon-

structed and when complete will be in the shape of a great

GREEK TIIEATER.

wheel, with the magnificent Doe Library at the center. All thebuildings are to be of white granite.The first structure completed in execution of plan was the

Greek Theater, the gift of Mr. William Randolph Hearst.The Greek Theater is an open-air auditorium of unique beautylying in the hollow of the hills and surrounded by trees. Itis used for great university occasions and for musical anddramatic productions.

Following shortly after the Greek Theater came CaliforniaHall, the administrative building. Then came the Hearst

Memorial Building. June, 1911, saw the completion and

occupation of the Doe Library Building, the gift of Charles

Franklin Doe, of San Francisco. Then in the same year came

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 185

the Boalt Hall of Law. The next year saw the dedication ofAgricultural Hall, the sixth to be completed. There is nowunder construction the Sather Campanile, a gift of Mrs. JaneK. Sather, of Oakland, in memory of her late husband. This'structure is thirty-six feet square at the base and three hun-dred and seven feet high, a slender granite shaft taperingslightly toward the top. A set of chimes, like those of West-minster Abbey, are to be installed. A fund of $25,000 hasbeen provided for their purchase.

Until new buildings are erected according to the new plan

the old buildings will stand. There are now forty buildingson the campus. Practically every branch of culture, art andscience is taught in the university. The curriculum includesinstruction in forty-six different departments. The officersof instruction number over six hundred.And the university is still in its infancy. What she will be

when she is grown up is hard to prophesy, because one who is

here and is familiar with conditions and so in a position toread the signs must, through fear from being put down as a

visionary, or something worse, refrains from repeating all

he reads and hears. But this much can be said—and it doesn't

take a prophet to say it—that in less than another decade the

University of California will be the biggest in the United

States, and that, because the tide is ever moving westward.

And to use the same reasoning in a wider application we can-

not doubt that the Pacific is to be the next center of civiliza-

tion and the University of California the greatest in the

world.

CALIFORNIA GAMMA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,

Founded January 11, 1909.

Standing, Left to Right—Mess, Brueck, Shafer, Laverty, Stack

Sitting Outside of Steps—Brown, Heffner. Sitting on Steps--

Oliver, Hardy, Gwynn, Manley, Shafor, Miller, Wedemeyer,

Paulsen, Benson, Kaiser, Barnes, Phelps, Kellas.

HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA GAMMA. 187

HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA GAMMA.

California Gamma was organized in the fall of 1908through the efforts of Brother T. B. Kelly, a member ofAlpha, the mother chapter. He chose Frank Nottage, ClarenceHagerand, James Armstrong and William Peterson; thenWilliam Anderson was added to the list. These men comprisedthe charter members of the chapter. In the spring of 1909Harry Long, Harold Mills, Charles Dimmler, Milton Selig-man, and Clarence Fraser were taken in as subcharter members.The most serious difficulty to be overcome was that of find-

ing a suitable home. The boys finally settled on a house at2222 Bancroft Way, and although the house was not elegant,the place was home and what was lost in the surroundings wasmore than made up for in fraternity spirit. The new mem-bers taken in that semester were Fred. Mechfessel, ChesterProuty, Jack Matthews, Vernon Galloway and Dave Hardy.The fraternity entered the college social world by giving avery successful dance.The next semester, the Fall of 1909, found the chapter mem-

bership nearly intact. Four new men were added—FrankStack, Ben Laffin, John Strebin and Ray Perry.

It was at this time that the Pi Kapps caused the other fra-ternities to sit up and take notice by entering a brilliant teamin the Interfraternity Baseball League. Brothers Chet andRay made up a battery that knew no equal in the league. Theolder men recall with great glee the game with the Theta Dellsin which their star slabster, a terror to Stanford batters inthe intercollegiate series the preceding spring, was promptlybatted out of the box by sheer nerve and pluck.Pi Kappa Phi was well represented in college activities by

Brother Dave Hardy in football, Brother Prouty in baseballand basketball, and Brother Millis, band leader of the Uni-versity Cadets.By this time the old house was becoming too small for the

bunch and the house in which we are now living was leased.

188 THE STAR AND LAHR.

The Brothers all contributed nobly to furnish the new house.

By the time the fellows had comfortably settled down the

spring semester was over.

The next semester found the bunch waiting, in the new

house, the arrival of Brother Hal Millis, the new leader, when

the news of a great sorrow reached them. The "Czarina,"

on which Hal had booked passage, sank with all on

board in a storm off Coos Bay, Oregon. The great broth-

erly love and high regard with which the Brothers held Hal

CHAPTER HOUSE, 1547 EUCLID AVENUE,

came to the surface and the house was plunged in blackest

grief at its loss. This great sorrow brought out the true

significance of fraternal spirit. It was with heavy hearts that

the boys returned to the duties of organizing for the year.

The new men initiated that semester were Orrin S. Cook,

Elbert Brown, Walter Hughes, Charles Manley, George Arm-

strong, Arthur Haslan, Denair Butler, Walter Smallwood,

Lloyd Haskell, and Paul Starke.

There were now thirty-two men, active and inactive, in the

fraternity, and although the house was not full there was a


goodly showing. And anything that may have been lackingin numbers was made up in "pep." The fraternity was nowable to stand on equal footing with any on the campus.Again we sent a fraternity baseball team into the field, but

failed to make as good showing as the previous year.In the spring of 1911 Boyd Oliver, our present leader, was

initiated into the fraternity.During the year two house dances were given, which were

decided successes, in fact they were so successful that five were

GAMMA HOUSE INTERIOR.

given the next year. The house is admirably suited fordancing parties and the assemblies never fail to make a hit.In the fall of 1911 eight new men were taken in—James

Church, Buford Wright, William Gwynn and Melvin Paulsen,then Stephen Malatesta, William Barnhill, Philip Hubbardand Harold Cummings. Our roll now included men interestedin all branches of study, but the most loyal to their professionswere the miners, who prevailed in numbers. At any time onecould hear long, learned, and vigorous discussions on the rela-tive merits and demerits of the miners or mechanics.


In the spring of 1912 three new men were initiated—JamesShafer, Vinton Miller, and Herbert Hardy.Our representatives on the athletic field were Dave Hardy

and Steve Malatesta in football and crew and Doc. Cook andVin. Miller playing soccer. And right here it is fitting to

OUR HUSKIES.

From Left to Right—Manley, Hardy, Mess, Shafor, Miller, Wedemeyer,Kellas, Cook, Brueck.

interject a word in praise of the two last mentioned, and ofEddie Kellas, who was later to become one of us, for theirstick-to-itiveness in playing, and playing hard, a game thenunrecognized as worthy of effort and of forcing the collegepublic to recognize it. Doc. Cook is now captain of the team,and who knows who may be next; Vin and Eddie will be seniors.


The fall semester of 1912 started with a whirl. Don Billick,Edward Kellas, Carl Shafor, Roy Heffner, Clarence Merrell,Ronald Ring, Theodore Mess, and Ralph Noreen wereinitiated.During the spring of 1913 Harry Kaiser, Henry Peterson,

Rupert Wedemeyer, and James Suits were initiated.Our athletic prestige was in danger of being considerably

diminished by the loss at the end of the preceding year ofDave Hardy and Steve Malatesta. The younger fellows feltthe loss keenly and were spurred on to valiant efforts to keepup the athletic standing of the chapter. Brothers Cook,Miller, and Kellas made the soccer team; Brown, Cook, andMess played on the varsity basketball team; Bert Hardyrowed in the freshman shell and Wedemeyer was on the fresh-man track team.In the fall of 1913 Samuel Laverty, Larry Phelps, Donald

Benson, and Herman Brueck were taken in. Larry is a boxer;Herm plays with the varsity basketball team and plays foot-ball.The fraternity lost three of its best men at the end of last

.emester—Don Billick, Bill Barnhill, and Bud Wright. Thereare now pledged to the fraternity two good men, old friendsof the fellows—Wallace Barnes and Ernest Adams.Gamma has gradually developed from a small chapter with-

out standing to its present position, warranting comparisonwith any other fraternity on the campus.

OUR ATHLETES.

Almost a half of the men in the chapter, a goodly number,are interested and actively engaged in varsity athletics.Doc. Cook, '14, is captain of the soccer football team; he

has played the game since it was first started on the campus,three years ago, and has grown up to his present positionthrough sheer hard work and enthusiasm. He plays basket-ball, too, and plays it well. Last year he was captain of the145-pound team and played with the varsity. His light

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weight is all that kept him off the varsity this year. He is

there with the goods.

Elbert Brown, '14, has played basketball ever since enter-

ing college. At first he was on the 145-pound team, the last

two years on the varsity. He has had much hard luck lately.

Last year he fractured his ankle just before the Stanford

JANIES BOYD OLIVER.

game and so was kept out of that. In January of this year he

threw his knee out of joint while playing a game and is now

suffering with water on the knee.

Vin. Miller, '15, and Eddy Kellas, '15, are soccerites.

They, too, have played the game since its inception. We are

fully expecting one of them to lead the pack next year.

Babe Hardy, '15, goes in for the heavier sports, and well

he might. In nature's garb he tips the beam at over 190. He


played on the freshman football team and rowed in the freshieshell. He is rowing now and we all have high hopes of hismaking the varsity crew this spring.Ted Mess, '15, is captain of the varsity basketball team.

He has played the game three years and well deserves thecaptaincy.Hermann Brueck, '15, plays basketball with the varsity.

We look for him to make good in Rugby next year. As hewas a transfer from the College of the Pacific he could notplay this, his first, year here. He did play with the BarbarianClub, of San Francisco, and put up a good game. Here'shoping for next year.

Charles Manley, '15, is a track man. He ran the mile inhis freshman year and made his numerals then. We look for-ward, confidently, to his making his "C" this year.

Carl Shafor, '16, and Goog Wedemeyer, '16, both playsoccer. Carl has played in two Stanford games and wonhis "C." "Goog" has played in an intercollegiate game, butnot through a whole one. He'll get his letter in the Stanfordgame. "Goog" also has track interests; he ran the mile forhis freshman class.Larry Phelps, '17, boxes; we expect him to do something

in the Polydncean Club. Ralph Noreen, '16, plays soccerwith great skill. He will be registered next fall and will takehis accustomed place with our contingent.

The two pledges—Wallace Barnes, '16, and Ernest Adams,'15—are both athletic. Barney is out for distances on thetrack. Ernest was captain of the football team at BuchtelCollege and played on the baseball team. He is out for base-ball now. Here's luck to him.

JAMES BOYD OLIVER.

California Gamma is indeed fortunate in having for itsleader James Boyd Oliver. A born leader of men. he iseminently capable of holding the chapter together and of lead-ing it to success. His worth is acknowledged on the campus,


and the house is, through his prominence, well known to the

college world. He is president of the graduate students, a

member of the English Club, a member of the Mask and

Dagger. He has taken part in the English Club and in the

Mask and Dagger plays since his sophomore year; played the

lead in the Junior Curtain Raiser and in the Senior Extrava-

ganza.

Having graduated from the College of Social Sciences in

May, 1913, he is now studying law. That he will be as suc-

cessful in the world as he has been in college is doubted by

none who know him.

DAVID P. HARDY.

No member of California Gamma has so much left the

imprint of his personality on the fraternity as did David P.

Hardy, '12. To him must go much of the credit of holding

the chapter together during the discouraging years of 1910

and 1911. He thought, ate, drank and lived fraternity.

When things were at their blackest he never entertained a

thought of anything but ultimate success, or, if he did, kept

his thoughts strictly to himself.

His prominence in college did much to establish the reputa-

tion of the fraternity on the campus. Three years he played

on the 'varsity football team, three years of success, and three

years he rowed in the 'varsity shell. When the All-American

football team went to the antipodes to play the New Zealanders

and Australians, Dave was right with them.

He was president of his class in his sophomore year, a mem-

ber of the Winged Helmet and Golden Bear honor societies.

He was leader of Gamma in the fall of 1911.

Of Dave, personally, it would be impossible to say too much.

Only those who know him can realize the magnetism and worth

of the man.CHAPTER LETTER.

It is but seldom that we really feel the strength of the fra-

ternal bond we have so gladly entered into. To a degree, we


realize our unity at the initiations and banquets, times ofrejoicing, but it is only the loss of our brothers that makesus realize to the full the power of fi-aternity. The loss ofthree of our number at Christmas time made us feel, some ofus perhaps for the first time, how much they had grown tomean to us. Three who were brothers, indeed—Bill Barnhill,Don Billick, and Bud Wright—have left college to try theirluck in the school of the world.

Bill left the graduate work in chemistry he was interestedin to accept a very good position with a cement company inFillmore, a town in the southern part of the State. Don13illick, having completed the course in mining, has gone toEastern Nevada to try his hand at the real thing. Bud hasgone south to superintend his uncle's cattle ranch.

Two new men have been pledged to the fraternity—WallaceHarold Barnes, of Ferndale, Cal., a sophomore in the Collegeof Natural Science, preparing for the College of Medicine,and Ernest H. Adams, of Akron, Ohio, a student in the Col-lege of Agriculture, a .transfer from Buchtel College, wherehe was a member of Pi Delta Epsilon, a local fraternity.Both of these men are old friends of the fellows; that thefraternity will be greatly a gainer through their acquisitionwe fully expect. Both are good students and both athletes—Barney a track man and Ernest a football and baseballplayer.

Never in the history of the chapter has fortune smiled somuch upon us; the chapter has many members—the house isfull. There are twenty-four active members and two

pledges—soon to be initiated. Two members not in collegeare at present living in the house—Harry Long, '10, andRalph Noreen, '16. Ralph is absent on leave this year, butwill register again next fall. Jack Matthews, '12,, who hasbeen away for a year and a half, is again in college and isliving with us in the house.

We had our first dance of the year the evening of the 30thof January—the most successful ever, as our dances always

DAVE P. HARDY.


have been. The date for the initiation has not been set yet;it will take place within the next month.

We are looking forward to the convention in 1915 with keenexpectation, and anticipating great pleasure in meeting ouibrothers of the East.

Wishing all the chapters the hest of fortune, we are,

Fraternally, CALIFORNIA GAMMA,

C. C. MENELL, Correspondent.

Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 4, 1914.

Splendor falls

'Mid castle halls,And princes dine

With flowing wine.

But, give me truePi Kapp men, whoMeet and, do regale

Within the paleOf civilization.

No prince has known,

No kingly throne,

The pleasures that do I.

No prince will know,

Nor his king bestow,

My love—Pi Kappa Phi.

—BOLT, Sigma, '09.

SHEARER BIBLICAL HALL.

ETIMENEAN LITERARY HALL, DAVIDSON COLLEGE.

NORTH CAROLINA EPSILON.

NORTH CAROLINA EPSILON.

JOHN YOUNG.

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To this man we owe the founding of Epsilon Chapter—a

debt which we can never repay him, except in carrying on withearnestness the work which he started so well.

He came here from S. P. C. at Clinton, S. C., where he had

been a Pi Kapp. After much worry and no little labor, he,

with W. M. Shaw, John Barry, George Howard, Jr., Paul

Schenck, E. L. Booe., and J. M. Smith, fixed up the hall which

we now have and obtained bur charter. After doing that

they took in several more men, thus giving us a good start on

an equal footing with the other fraternities which had long

been established here. To him we extend our heartiest thanks,

and wish him as much success in all of his undertakings as he

met with in founding N. C. Epsilon of Pi Kappa Phi.

BOOE AND CASHION.

Epsilon lays claim to probably the two best all-around

athletes that have ever been to Davidson College, or any

other college in the South, for that matter—Everett L. Booe

and J. Carl Cashion.

Everett entered Davidson as a freshmen at the age of six-

teen and succeeded in making the scrub football team and the

varsity baseball team in his first year, in addition to the track

team, where he starred as a sprinter of no mean merit. In

his sophomore and junior years he made all varsity teams

with the exception of basketball. In his junior and senior

years he was twice chosen as an All-South-Atlantic half-back,

a position that all who have seen him pull off his sixty-yard

punts or his broken field running will be unanimous in choosing

for him. He was also captain of both the football and base-

ball teams during this time. He came back the next year and

played his usual good game of football for us. But owing

to having to leave for spring baseball training with Pitts-

burgh could not play baseball for us. But he made up for it


by branching out into new fields of athletics and making places

on the basketball and gym teams. During the past season

Everett played baseball for the Pittsburgh Nationals, being

the only recruit to win a place on the team. He is at present

in charge of all athletics at Presbyterian College, Clinton,

FOUNDER OF EPSILON.

S. C. Dangerously handsome, and with that Billiken smile of

his, he is welcome anywhere. Next to his renown as an athlete

he is best known for his unusually great number of friends.

J. Carl Cashion came to us as a fresh-soph from Erskine.

He attracted attention from the first on account of his

remarkable size. But when football practice was called he

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soon showed up that he had a place on the team "cinched." Asthe season progressed he proved a bulwark of strength atright tackle and was a powerful factor in our victory over theUniversity of North Carolina that year, 6 to 0. When trackseason came around he showed us that football was not hisonly fort by breaking two college records-16-pound ham-

EPSILON'S BIG LEAGUERS.

mer throw, 97 feet 9 inches, and the discus throw of 101 feetand one inch. In baseball he played in the field and also gaveus sufficient proof of his coming ability as a big league pitcher.Perhaps his greatest pitching for Davidson was when hestruck out fourteen men, gave up only three hits, againstA. and M., and lost, although he struck out the third con-

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NORTH CAROLIN A. EPSILON. 208

secutive man in the ninth inning with Davidson in the lead—but the catcher dropped' the ball. That summer he playeda while for Greenville, S. C., in the Carolina League, butwas soon snatched up by the Washington Americans. Hereturned to Davidson the next year after football season, and

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had to leave before the baseball season to report to the "Sen-ators'" training camp. But he had to be on some varsityteam here, so he made the basketball team. He sufferedan injury to his arm which prevented him from showing upmuch with Washington. But look out for "Big Liz" tosurpass Walter Johnson's record this season!

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Booe and Cashion are both members of the "Gryphon," anhonorary Senior organization here, but best of all, they areloyal Pi Kappa Phis, Booe being one of the charter membersof Epsilon Chapter.

ROBERT LYNN PETERS.

"Pete" came to Davidson in the fall of 1912. He hailedfrom Knoxville, where he had been attending the' McCallieSchool. There he had been captain of the football team anda member of other athletic teams, and fraternity man as well.With such preparation for college football, together with alarge frame as well, it was not surprising to find him soonholding down a position on the scrubs. But it was not longtill it was seen that he was too good for this place and he wastransferred to the varsity. Here he held down the positionof center against all competition.On the day of the first big game we were lined up against

the University of North Carolina, who greatly outweighedus, besides having men of more experience. The game wentto our opponents by two touchdowns, but only after a hardfight for every foot they advanced. At all stages of thegame the big freshman showed up to be a strong man andone who was to be counted in on every play. He had notonly secured his place on the team, but had won the lastingfriendship of every man in school, this friendship beingstrengthened constantly by his genial, hearty ways and inshowing himself a friend to all. As the season progressedPete got stronger than ever in his position and starred manytimes in the other games.In the rushing of freshmen he received attention from five

of the six fraternities here, but on pledge day he became aPi Kappa Phi. He soon showed himself to be a worker inmore ways than one and thereby a more valuable man andfriend.In February he and Brother "Doc" McWhorter left school

in search of adventure in Florida. This trip did not last


long, however. And last fall Pete came back in great form

and with good chances of being the All-South-Atlantic Center.

He resumed his old place on the varsity, but luck was against

him. He got his knees in bad condition and kept his nose

broken most of the time. Despite these disadvantages he

played wonderful ball in every game, easily outplaying his

SCRUB AND VARSITY SUB., "D. C."

opponent on offense and being first in the play on defense, no

mater whether end run or line buck, or forward pass, he was

always "there."

We soon discovered that in Pete we had a past master in

the art of rushing "fresh," as well as in general fraternity

work. For at McCallie he had been a member of Alpha Phi,

and so was on the ropes from the start.


Soon after Christmas of this year he retired from collegeto accept a position in Knoxville, Tenn. In him Epsilon haslost one of her most valuable men, and he is often thoughtof by those he left behind, who wish for him success.

ROBERT FRANK BROWNLEE.

Down in Anderson, S. C., Brownlee got the nickname of"Huckleberry Finn," though we up here have never been ableto see why. Some of his more malicious fellow townsmen,however, who preceded him to Davidson spread the epithet,and so he is known to all as "Huck" Brownlee. Energetic,optimistic, level-headed, jolly and good-natured, he is what isknown as an all-around "good egg." As head of the chapter,he has given his time and thought to such matters as wouldcome up concerning the general welfare of the chapter, andmuch of the success of the year's work, and especially thesuccess of such social occasions as Senior and Junior speakinghas been due to the constant planning of Huck, coupled withhis ability to make things "go." For he is as practical ashe is original, and he's made of the kind of stuff that makesit natural for others to follow his lead and do his every bid-ding.

But not only has he distinguished himself in the fraternity,but on the athletic field as well. He has played class basket-ball, football, and baseball, has managed the class basketballteam, and won his "D. C." on the scrub football team.

Besides this, he has kept up in his studies, and in a fewmonths will receive his Bachelor's degree in Science. Real-izing what it means to get a "dip," we congratulate him onhis success, but his good fortune is indeed our misfortune, andwe hate to let Huck leave us. But as he goes out into theworld we wish him all the success which his career in collegeportends, and we assure him that he' will always occupy awarm place in the affections of those who in these few yearshave learned to love and respect him.


JAMES ENOCH FAW.

4 "Nowhere so busy a man as he there was,

And yet he seemed busier than he was."

Enoch is the only Georgia boy of our bunch, having come

here three years ago a green freshman from Marietta. But

COMMENCEMENT MARSHAL,

Eumenean Literary Society.

if he is a fair specimen it is little wonder that the Cracker

State prospers. For he is a great worker, although excessive

studying is not one of his faults. In fact there are many

other kinds of work much more interesting to him than Greek

and German.


Enoch's long suit is to manage whatever may be in prog-ress. Here he is in his glory, for during his three years incollege he has been elected manager of everything with whichhe has come in contact, and it is needless to say that they have

CAPTAIN GYM TEAM.

all been well handled. Among these were manager of theSophomore Banquet, manager of the Orchestra and GleeClub, and he is now assistant business manager of the Annualand has been elected manager of this publication for nextyear.

CAMPUS VIEW.

HISTORIC UMBRELLA TREE, SOCIETY HALLS IN BACKGROUND

(EUMENEAN AND PHILANTHROPIC), DAVIDSON COLLEGE.


He has taken an interest in literary society work and waslast fall elected one of the four commencement marshals fromthe Eumenean Society. With us who know him best, he hasalways held a position of trust and responsibility which hasbeen well filled, for among us all there is no better fellow nortruer brother than Enoch.

JOHN GILLESPIE THACKER.

"Gip" came here four years ago in short trousers. Hewas small of stature and still is, for that matter, but that isas far as his smallness goes. His activities first took him intothe gymnasium, where he was the only freshman to make theteam. He had no experience in that line before coming here,but under the director he developed into one of the best menon the team. Since then he has been manager, and in hisJunior year was captain, while this year he is leader.In class football he has played for two years, making the

all-class team. He has also played two years on the classbaseball team and will be out again this spring.

Studying too hard has never been a failing of his, but healways manages to get through on most of his work, doingespecially well on "Saturday Evening Post" and "Cosmo-politan" (his favorites). His favorite exercise is sleepingthrough chapel in the mornings.

In the fraternity he is a good worker and is now serving astreasurer, as well as being a member of several committeeswhere his deliberate speeches add much to their sage counsels.

WILLIAM T. °STEEN.

Bill entered Davidson in the spring of 1912 and immedi-ately won for himself a place on the varsity baseball squadas pitcher, and in the hearts of all with whom he came incontact.He returned the next fall and showed us that baseball was

not his only strong point, but that he was some student. Whenspring came again he, with his previous varsity training,

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OLLEGE.

Founded February 8, 1912.

Left to Rights Top Row—W. J. Smith, S. T. Henderson, F. H. Smith, W. T. Osteen,

H. E. Shaw. Bottom Row—R. Howard, H. F. Mayfield, J. E. Faw, R. F. Brownlee,

J. G. Thacker, A. M. Fairley.


easily made the first pitcher, and this ability, coupled with

that pernicious habit of his of getting a hit at a critical stage,

has won for us many a hard fought battle.

This Fall he returned to us once more and proved a most

valuable man to the fraternity in rushing freshmen success-

fully and in many other ways. He also devoted much time

to his studies, pushing Brothers Fairley, Faw, and Smith close

for the honor roll ( ?). And on the first day of baseball prac-

tice this spring he was out in his old uniform to get into

shape for the coming season. With Bill on the mound for

Davidson, we may warn the Sigma brothers to BEWARE.

Bill is not only a gentleman in every sense of the word, but

a man as well, and one whom we are all proud to claim as a

Pi Kappa Phi.

JOHN BLANTON BELK.

"Fuzzy" was with us only two years, but in that time he

did great work for Epsilon. He was the first freshman to •

be taken in by this chapter, soon after its installation. He

was a member of the Glee Club and Quartette and played on

the class football, basketball, and baseball teams. At present

he is teaching in the Mills River Academy, near Henderson-

ville, N. C. We wish him success, but would like very much

for him to return next year.

CHAPTER LETTER

After a successful rushing season, extending over the Fall

-term, Epsilon takes pleasure in introducing to the fraternity

at large the following brothers who were duly initiated into

the order on the night of January 12th:

W. Joel Smith, Abbeville, S. C.

H. E. Shaw, Wilmington, N. C.

R. _Howard, Tarboro, N. C.

S. T. Henderson, Charlotte, N. C.

H. F. Mayfield, Anderson, S. C.

With these men our roll numbers eleven. Brothers Robin-

son, O'Connell, and Peters, though present with us on initia-


tion night, did not remain in college for the spring term.

The first two are in Charlotte, while Brother Peters has a

position in Knoxville, Tenn. Brother Golden was late in

returning after the holidays and on being questioned

admitted that he just couldn't tear himself away from "her"

any sooner. So it was not a complete surprise when a few

weeks later he announced that he was leaving college to accept

a position with the A. Y. Bowie Co., of Talladega, Ala. We

hate to lose these brothers, for they have the true Pi Kapp

spirit and are mighty good fellows to have around. But we

wish them all success in their various undertakings.

In the class football games which have been going on for

the past week Epsilon has been represented by Brother

Thacker on the Senior team and by Brother Shaw on the

Fresh team. Though neither of the teams have been vic-

torious, these brothers have played good hal It has been

very annoying in Thacker to be so closely associated with

Brownlee, who is one of the coaches for the seniors, for

Coach Brownlee is very particular about having his men keep

pledge.By the time this letter appears Junior Speaking will be

past. This is a great social occasion with us and already

preparations are under way for the entertainment of our

guests, which will include, besides the ladies, several of our

alumni. And we only wish that more of the brothers might

be here to enjoy the good time we expect to have.

With fraternal regards for all Pi Kapps, we are,

NORTH CAROLINA EPSILON,

J. E. FAW, Correspondent.

Davidson College, Davidson, N. C.

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EMORY COLLEGE, OXFORD, GA.

The Methodist Conference, in session at Columbus, Ga., in1836, appointed trustees to incorporate the college, anddirected them to call it Emory, in honor of Bishop JohnEmory, of Maryland. In pursuance of the will of the Con-ference, the trustees bought one thousand four hundred acresof woodland near Covington, Newton county, in the graniteregion of Georgia, for fourteen thousand dollars and at thesuggestion of Dr. Ignatius A. Few, gave it the classic nameof Oxford, in honor of the old Engish University.

In 1837 the ,college was opened for the reception of stu-dents, under the presidency of Dr. I. A. Pew. The first class,of three members, was graduated in 1841. During theseyears over seventeen hundred men have received the diplomasof the college, and have since served the country and theiralma mater with honor.During the presidency of Dr. A. G. Haygood, the college

began to take on new life, when Mr. George I. Seney, ofBrooklyn, New York, gave one hundred thousand dollars tothe institution.

Under the presidency of Dr. W. A. Candler one hundredthousand dollars was added to the endowment, and the library,known as "Candler Hall," was erected at a cost of twenty-fivethousand dollars.During the presidency of Dr. C. E. Dowman, a thirty

thousand dollar Science Hall was erected, the late Capt. J. P.Williams being the chief contributor.

Since Dr. J. E. Dickey took the presidency a three hundredthousand dollar endowment campaign has been made. Amodern dormitory, known as Haygood Hall, has also beenerected, chiefly through the munificence of Mr. Asa G. Cand-ler, of Atlanta, Ga. The college is in an era of gradualexpansion, and it is to be hoped that in the course of the nextfew years intercollegate athletics, for which many students

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and alumni have fought for unsuccessfully more than once,will be numbered among our privileges.

GEORGIA ETA—EMORY COLLEGE,

Georgia Eta Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi is the outcome ofa local nonfraternity organization known as Cross Keys Club.The Cross Keys Club was founded as a nonf'raternity organi-zation, and was, in the beginning, in no way a local fraternity.However, a close association of a few always includes organi-zation—therefore it was not very long before the idea ofaffiliating with a fraternity was freely discussed.The question was debated pro and con by the members of

the club and finally it was decided to petition some of theyounger and more progressive fraternities, and if that wasnot done, to branch out as a fraternity for themselves.In 1912 we petitioned Pi Kappa Phi and in April Eta was

installed. We believe that we have affiliated' with the bestfraternity on earth, and are egotistic enough to believe thatPi Kappa Phi has as fine a bunch of fellows from Emory ascan be found in any frat from any institution.

Brother James W. Robinson, now at Whitworth College,Tacoma, Washington, was the moving spirit in our fight forcharter. Closely associated with him was Herman Lambert,now at Vanderbilt. Of course others helped, but these twodid the real work. Brother G. N. Murray was first initiate;he is still with us.Eta is now past its babyhood days and is steadily gaining

strength in college affairs. Our men are active in everyphase of college life. The following is a complete list of themembers of Eta:

W. H. Brewton, Reidsville, Ga.

H. M. Shaver, Jackson, Ga.J. W. Robinson, Whitworth College, Tacoma, Wash.H. J. Lambert, Dental Department, Vanderbilt University,

Nashville, Tenn.

ALLEN MEMORIAL CHURCH, EMORY COLLEGE. Erected to the :Memory of Young J. All

en, Missionary to China.

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D. B. Lasseter, New York University, New York, N. Y.S. J. Shepherd, Unadilla, Ga.L. 0. Moseley, Adrian, Ga.L. H. Battle, Shreveport, La.J. R. Blake, Akron, Ohio.

• Active Members:

C. A. Carlisle, Culloden, Ga.L. C. Fitts, Luthersville, Oa.G. W. Griner, Haskell, Okla.G. N. Murray, Griffin, Ga.S. A. Hearn, Baxley, Ga.A. V. Folsom, Morven, Ga.W. L. Bazemore, Macon, Ga.S. J. Veal, Conyers, Ga.R. H. Baker, Calhoun Falls, S. C.L. P. Hatfield, Irwinton, Ga.E. R. W. Gunn, Oxford, Ga.C. L. Manuel, Unadilla, Ga.

Pledges:

Marvin Mobley, Hogansville, Ga.Cullen Goolsby, Forsyth, Ga.

Fraternally, GEORGIA ETA,Oxford, Ga. G. N. MURRAY, Correspondent.

GEORGIA ETA, EMORY COLLEGE.

Founded April 27, 1912.

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OHIO THETA—CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, founded in 1867

by Miss Clara Baur, was the first music school established in

this now famed musical center. As all beginnings are diffi-

cult, the establishment of a Conservatory of Music was no

exception. The school was opened on Seventh street, between

Vine and Race streets; later it was moved to Broadway, and

finally to Fourth and Lawrence avenues.

From a very humble beginning the Conservatory of today

has grown, numbering among its remarkable faculty of sixty

many artists of international reputation. Such men as

Frederic. Shailer Evans, winner of the Helbig prize upon his

graduation from the Leipzig Conservatory, and Edgar Still-

man Kelley, the eminent American composer and musical

authority. Professor Kelley held the professorship of

Theory and Composition at Yale (1901-02) and is also a

member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

In 1902 the Conservatory was transferred to its present

location in Mt. Auburn, one of the most beautiful suburbs of

Cincinnati.

If there are two institutions of learning in Cincinnati of

which the citizens are pre-eminently proud, one is the Univer-

sity, and the other the Conservatory; the latter bearing the

same relationship to the world of music as the former to the

world of letters and science.

The breadth and catholicity of the Conservatory's plan is

revealed in the selection of its faculty—representatives of all

the great music centers of Europe—Berlin, Leipzig, Stutt-

gart, Basle, Vienna, Paris, Naples, Venice, Brussels and

London.The various departments have always been brilliantly

equipped and the development of students has been duly

recognized at home and abroad.

Dramatic Art And Literature are made prominent features

of the curriculum. Recognizing the necessity for broad cul-

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ture and familiarity with the world's best thought, the Con-servatory maintains a fully equipped department of EnglishLiterature under the direction of Miss Sara Langly. Eachsection of the Modern Language Department is in charge

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of native teachers and by conversation and original plays the

student acquires easy facility in the use of language.

The most prominent student organization is the Conserva-

tory Orchestra, which, under the leadership of Pier Adolfo

Tirindelli, has developed into one of the finest student orches-

tras on either side of the Atlantic.

Sharps and Flats the clever magazine edited, managed

and financed exclusively by the students, is an eloquent expres-

sion of the student body and through its pages mulch superior

talent, both of a literary and artistic nature, has been brought

into public notice.

CAMPUS VIEW FROM MAIN ENTRANCE.

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

OHIO THETA. 229

"Tree day," on the first of May, is one of the great eventsof the school year; the graduating class plant their tree withfitting ceremony, and the day has come to mean much, notonly to the student body, by to those who journey back totheir Alma Mater at this time.

There are four sororities represented in the school and twofraternities. In addition to our own chapter there is achapter of the musical fraternity known as the "Sinfonia,"or Phi Mu Alpha.The boys of Pi Kappa Phi are active in school politics.

We are proud of Hardin, who is business manager of Sharpsand Flats, and Beaumont, who is editor of the Alumni andJoke Department. In the Orchestra we lay claim to three ofthat splendid body, Beever, Beaumont and Schenk. BrothersWhitlock, Staater and Beauniont are active members of theDramatic Club. Staater also is a member of the GermanDramatic Club, which presents each year an original playwritten by Frau Sturm, head of the German Department.Brother Keller holds two of the most responsible choir posi-tions of the city, being tenor soloist at the Plum Street JewishTemple and of the Mt. Auburn Baptist Church. He is alsoa member of the exclusive Bach Society of Cincinnati, and isquite prominent in affairs of the city. Kemper and Whit-lock are members of the Orpheus Club, one of our most famouschoral societies. Brother Johnston, who was not able to bewith us at the time our picture was taken, has returned fromthe East much gratified over the success of his concert engage-ment. "Jawn" appeared in concert with the University ofWest Virginia Orchestra in Morgantown, W. Va., of whichThe Post Chronicle gives the following: "The soloists allreceived enthusiastic encores, particularly Mr. Johnston,whose first appearance in Morgantown won instant favor.An unusually pleasing tenor voice, intelligence and trainingin the use of it, an easy stage presence and a delightful groupof songs were the secret of his success." Theta is proud withAlpha in having a brother in the faculty. Staater, having

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graduated from the Conservatory in 1909, but who returnedfor a four years' postgraduate course and is now a member

of the faculty as teacher of Piano and Theory.

Our banquet in honor of Founders' Day and complimentingour two new brothers, Keller and Kemper, was given at theHotel Alms on the evening of December 10th. Mr. GeorgeBaur, Secretary of the Conservatory, was the guest of honor,

and his genial personality added greatly to the success of

the evening.

On December 9th we gave the following program as the

second of our series of musicals:

MUSICAL

Given by the Members of

PI KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY

of the

CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Tuesday Evening, December 9, 1913, at 8:15 O'Clock

2056 Crown Avenue, Norwood, Ohio.

PROGRAM.

1. Trios—a. Spanish Dance No. 1 Moszkowski

b. My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice

(from Samson and Delilah) Saint Saens

c. Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahms

Schenk-Beaumont-Whitlock.

2. Songs—a. In the Time of Roses Reichardt

b. At Dawning Cadman

c. I Know of Two Bright Eyes OutmanJohn C. Johnston.

3. Violin—Air Vane No. 2 VieuxtempeGeorge Beever.

4. Piano—a. Valse Oubliee Liszt

b. Hungarian Rhapsodic No. 11 LisztH. Ray Staater.

OHIO THETA, CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Founded May 29, 1918.

Left to Right, Standing—W. W. Whitlock, H. R. Staater, G. W. Keller, H. Buddenberg,

R. B, Hardin, R. Schenk. Sitting—W. Kemper, J. H. Beaumont.

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5. Violin—Russian Airs and Variations Wieniawsky

Robert Schenk.

6. Cello—a. Vavotte Bache

b. Swedish Air Squire

c. Minuetto Becker

Herbert J. Beaumont.

7. Songs—a. At the Feast I Watched Thee

(from "Sayonara") Cadman

b. Dearest Homer

c. Night (with Cello Obligato) Ronald

George W. Keller.

W. W. Whitlock, Accompanist.

We miss greatly Brother Owens, who did not return to

the Conservatory after the Christmas holidays, He has

decided to enter business, and will locate in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

The following is the complete list of members to date:

.Hiram Ray Staater, Bluffton, Ohio.

John Herbert Beaumont, Morgantown, W. Va.

' William Waller Whitlock, Madison, Fla.

Ralph Bristow Hardin, Terrell, Texas.

• John Charles Johnston, Norwood, Ohio.

Henry Buddenberg, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Robert Schenk, Dayton, Ohio.

George W. Keller, Cincinnati, Ohio.

William Kemper, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Archie E. Tanner, Cincinnati, Ohio.

John Owens, Iowa Falls, Iowa.

George Beever, Beeville, Texas.

'Fred. Roehr, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fraternally, OHIO THETA,

Cincinnati, Ohio. H. J. BEAUMONT, Correspondent.

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GEORGIA IOTA, GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.

Founded October 25, 1913.

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GEORGIA IOTA—GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.

The Georgia Iota Chapter is located at the Georgia School

of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Although the school is

only twenty-five years old, it is considered to be one of the

greatest technological schools in the entire country. There

are seven hundred students attending it, coming from nearly

every State in the Union and foreign countries. Besides a

number of buildings which are used for classes, laboratories,

shops, etc., we have a new Y. M. C. A. building, costing

$75,000, and also a new hospital which can accommodate

seventy-five patients. We have an athletic stadium which,

when completed, will compare with the stadiums of Harvard

and Yale. It will seat about 25,000 people and will cost

$100,000. Work has also been started on a $100,000 unit

power plant which will furnish all the power that is needed

to operate all the machinery, etc.

Georgia Iota began its life with fourteen members on

October 25th, 1913, when the National officers and the entire

chapter from Emory College came up to Atlanta and insti-

tuted the chapter. We did not get a chapter house at once,

for it takes a little time to lease and furnish a house, so we

decided to wait until the first of the year before we went into

our new home. The house we now have is situated at No. 267

West Peachtree street, in a most desirable residence section.

We are in the midst of chapter houses—the Chi Phi, Sigma

Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi

Kappa Sigma, and several other fraternities having their

houses near us.

On January 31st we took in four new men and on February

7th we took in another man, making our total membership

eighteen, as one of our members left school and went into

business. We have two more pledges which we will arrange

to take in within a short time. When we consider that we

are the youngest fraternity at Tech, we feel very gratified


over the fact that we have been so fortunate in getting these

new men.

There is the best of spirits existing at Tech between fra-

ternity and nonfraternity men. There obtains the best of

spirits among the different fraternities. We have been very

favorably received by the other eleven fraternities here, and

as we have a goad bunch of fellows, expect soon to do some

good work; in fact we have already started, as two of our new

men were rushed by several of the older fraternities here.

This we take as a very favorable indication that we are well

thought of by men at Tech.

Below is a list of the active members of the Georgia Iota:

George R. Branson, '16, Memphis, Tenn.

James J. Calnan, '16, Brunswick, Ga.

Samuel A. Cook, '15, Oxford, Ga.

Charles E. Denton, '16, Eupora, Miss.

Charles W. Dillingham, '14, Atlanta, Ga.

Howard H. Durant, '16, Atlanta, Ga.

Charles W. Franklin, '15, Statesboro, Ga.

James B. Hutchinson, '15, Senoia, Ga.

David C. Jones, '14, Leslie, Ga.

Ralph M. Jones, '16, Griffin, Ga.

William H. Melton, '17, Macon, Ga.

J. Lawrence Metcalf, '15, Oberlin, Ohio.

T. Horace Mize, '14, Commerce, Ga.

Martin H. Powell, '14, Cairo, Ga.

Manuel G. Quevedo, '17, Union de Reyes, Cuba.

Harold H. Scott, '16, Herradura, Cuba.

Edwin L. Thomas, '16, Lyons, Ga.

W. Levis Wooten, '16,. Augusta, Ga.

Fraternal greetings to all Pi Kapps, and if any of you

should come to the "Metropolis of the South" we extend you

a most cordial welcome to our home, No. 267 West Peachtree

street. Yours Fraternally,

GEORGIA IOTA,

Atlanta, Ga. C. W. DILLINGHAM, Correspondent.

THE COLUMBIA ALUMNI CHAPTER. 287

THE COLUMBIA ALUMNI CHAPTER.

The suggestion to form an alumni chapter was first forciblybrought to our attention by Grand President Carroll, who isalways up to something. It was an admirable suggestion andone which appealed to us quickly. We felt as though weneeded something to keep alive the true fraternal spirit andsomething to draw us closer together. Thus, we expect, ifthere is ever a chance to establish openly again fraternities atthe University, to be prepared to grasp that chance and toplant here more firmly our fraternity.A few weeks. after the opening of our college we met for

the first time and organized with a membership of sixteen, themembers coming from colleges from all over the State. Offi-cers were elected and a committee was appointed to get suitablerooms for us. We were fortunate in getting a room in theUnion National Bank Building adjoining that of Grand Pres-ident Carroll's office. Sigma Chapter gave its furniture tous and the general fraternity agreed to share the burden ofrent if we would consent for the General headquarters of thefraternity to be here and also THE STAR AND LAMP'S. Need-less to say we were delighted. So if you are in Columbia youwill find somebody in the room practically all the time. It is

on the fourth floor, number four hundred and one.

We decided to have only one meeting a month, which is

largely attended. Because of our activities and duties, we

can not successfully meet oftener. The majority of us are

out in the business world, but some are still in the University.

Brother McInnes, Alpha 'M has been very successful in

oratory, winning the Roddey Medal for debating at the Uni-

versity.Being a firm believer in that beautiful quotation from an

unknown poet, "that in banquets, there is fellowship," we never

let an opportunity pass without putting it into practice. Weobserved December the twelfth with due pomp and dignity byhaving out Founders' Day banquet at the Jefferson Hotel.

COLUMBIA ALUMNI CHAPTER. Founded September 30, 1918.

Left to

IIUil. Standing—J. D. Hamer, E. B. Boyle, H. Langford, E. Horton, J. McInnes,

W. Hartz. Sitting—L. B. Wannamaker, C. E. Byrd, R. E. Monckton, J. D. C

arroll,

D. G. Maxwell, G. T. Newman, W. H. Monckton, Jr.

THE COLUMBIA ALUMNI CHAPTER. 289

It was well attended and very much enjoyed by all. The next

gathering around the festive board was February the tenth,

when we bid farewell to Brother J. D. O'Bryan, who has fin-

ished his law course at the University and gone home to hang

out his shingle in the near future. If law is similar to a

game of "matching," we feel sure that "Dessie" will make a

howling success of it. He is a good fellow and all will miss

his cheerful "Dag-gone" who had the pleasure of coming in

close personal contact with him. (Not to mention the ladies.)

Our idea is to have every month an informal supper for the

fellows at some local hotel. By this method we are sure of

a full attendance and the time passes so pleasantly besides.

At the last supper the suggestion was advanced that we

have a banquet about the first of June and follow it with a

dance to the sisters. It met with instant approval and in all

probability we will have "some" time. We extend an invita-

tion to those who may be in Columbia at that time to join

with us and help make the occasion one to be pleasantly remem-

bered by all.

Our Alumni Chapter as yet has no history, but it has been

a very successful experiment. The idea of establishing such

chapters is in its infancy, but indications are that it is waxing

stronger every day. We want to urge the alumni to get

together and following in our footsteps. By such an organ-

ization the members are awakened to a new interest in the

affairs of the fraternity and their enthusiasm is quickened to

a full development. The result is that the fraternity will be

benefited by their interest and co-operation.

The following is a list of the members and their occupations:

John D. Carroll, Sigma '11, J. D. Carroll Si Co., real estate,

renting and insurance.

W. H. Monckton, Jr., Sigma '11, The Globe Dry Goods

Co., junior partner.

Herbert Langford, Zeta '11, with Seibels Insurance Co.

C. E. Byrd, Delta '11, Union National Bank, bookkeeper.

Gilbert T. Newman, Sigma '12, cotton buyer.


D. G. Maxwell, Sigma '12, with R. G. Dun & Co.

J. D. O'Bryan, Beta '10, attorney at law (withdrawn).

W. H. Mixson, Jr., Alpha '11, planter.

J. D. Hamer, Sigma '12, student University of S. C., Senior

law.

William Hartz, Alpha, '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior law.

Julian McInnes, Alpha '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior law.

L. B. Wannamaker, Zeta '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior law.

J. 0. Green, Zeta, '13, student University of S. C., Junior

law.

E. P. Passailaigue, Sigma '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior law.

A. N. Carrigan, Sigma '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior law (withdrawn).

E. B. Boyle, Sigma '13, student University of S. C., Senior

academic.

R. E. Monckton, Sigma '13, student University of S. C.,

Senior academic.

Ernest Horton, Sigma '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior academic.

H. G. Mobley, Sigma '13, student University of S. C.,

Junior academic.

Yours fraternally,

COLUMBIA ALUMNI CHAPTER,

Wm. HARTZ, Correspondent.

Columbia, S. C., Feb. 16, 1914.

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If you keep your head, when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting, too;

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,And treat those imposters just the same.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heapr out of your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,

And lose and start again at your beginning,And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them, "Hold on !”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue;

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son.

—Rudyard Kipling.


" BIFF ! "

(With Apologies to Rudyard Kipling.)

If you can just darn socks when all about you

Are playing bridge, and grinning hard at you,

While Suffragettes with sneers and jeerings flout you,

Because you like the job you have to do;

If you can smile the while your younger sister

Has beaux galore, and you sit by the wall

And when you feel the green-eyed monster's blister

Don't show it outwardly at all;

If you can pass a groaning bargain-table,

And never even pause to glance at it;

If you can go to teas and 'mid the babel

Give not one thought to how your garments fit;

If you can hear a tidbit rarely naughty,

And never whisper it to any one;

If you can greet a glance that's cold and haughty

With smiles as fresh as shimmers from the sun;

If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken

Twisted and turned for table-talk at teas,

In such a way that friendships long are broken

By gossips active as a pack of fleas;

If you can cook such pies as once your mother

In days of old was always said to bake,

And satisfy a husband, son or brother,

With any golderned thing your fingers make;

If you can greet your husband's home return;ng

With smiles, no matter what a slob he is;

And quench within your every natural yearning

To help along some silly fad of his;

If you can sing while he is raising thunder,

And when he rages keep your temper mild—

Well, truly, dear, you'll be a perfect wonder.

And what is more, you'll be a joke, my child.

—Horace Dodd Gastit in Harper's "Weekly.

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YET ANOTHER. 248

YET ANOTHER.

If you can win a husband without trying

And make him think that he's the prize—not you;

If you can trust him—when you know he's lying,

And never even let him know you knew;

If you can wait, and wait—and keep an waiting,

And greet him, when he comes, with smiling eyes,

And listen to the old equivocating,

And never say too much nor look too wise;

If you can love him minus shave or collar,

If you can cook—when cooking's not your aim;

If you can coax for every single dollar,

And go on being "thankful" just the same;

If you can hear the earnest words you've spoken

Twisted to make them sound inane, absurd,

Or see your dearest hopes and idols broken,

And never, never say a single word;

If you can make one heap of your illusions,

And risk them on one man—to stand or fall—

And finding all your fairest dreams delusions,

Can still declare that he was worth it all;

If you can force your heart, and nerves, and sinew

To keep a smiling face until the end,

And never show what thoughts are seething in you,

And seem to feel the joy that you pretend;

If you can have your say—and then keep quiet,

And never lose your gentle little "Touch,"

If you can hide his weakness, or deny it,

And other men don't interest you much;

If you can spend each day and hour and minute

In pleasing Him—and never make a blunder,

Well, matrimony's yours—for what there's in it

And—what is more—my girl, you'll be a wonder!

—Helen Adelaide Roylands.

f244 THE STAR AND LAMP.

The Editorial DepartmentJNO. D. HAMER ISAAC N. EDWARDS. RETJBEN E. MOODY

The old saying, "Things come to the man who waits," has

no application to young fraternities. If you desire better men

in your chapter you will have to go out and get them. They

are not coming to you.* * *

What would you think of a commercial organization, after

establishing its place of business and putting in its stock,

quietly waited for the business to come to it? How long do

you think it would take it to get to the wall? Do you see any

application of this to a young fraternity?

* * *

Who runs your chapter? The officers or the members?

Neither should. It is the duty of the officers to run the

machinery and you to act the part of the machinery. This

means that every man must do his share of the work. No such

thing as laziness should prevail among the members when it

comes to chapter matters. How about it?

* * *

What do you think of this for a slogan? If we will adopt

it, editorial we, will make this prediction: The year 1924 will

find us a fraternity of 2,500 members with a chapter list of

twenty-five.

"All things come to the man who waits,

But here is a rule that's slicker,The fellow who goes after what he wants

Will get it all the quicker."

THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 245

We wish for all the baseball teams with "Pi Kapps" playing

on them the best of luck. during the coming season. We have

two fellows in the fastest company and may we have a few

more by the close of the season to keep them company.

* * *

To the minds of some legislators and college authorities

there is an undoubted antipathy between Fraternalism and

Democracy. It may be well for us to

Fraternalism and 'raise the question whether fraternity men,

Democracy. as a whole, are too exclusive and unsocial

from the outsider's viewpoint. If this be

the case, we should hasten to mend our ways, for democracy

is a good thing, and, therefore, inevitable. "Am I my 'broth-

er's brother?'" has supplemented the question of a more

remote origin, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Class lines are

already fading and must eventually disappear. The aristoc-

racy of the future must be the aristocracy of the efficient.

Now, why do we often hear the charge that fraternity men

are unsocial, breed class hatred and think themselves better

than the great mass of humanity? It is necessary that we

meet these charges in a candid manner, for State Legislatures

are beginning to act upon them. Are these charges true? In

part, yes; in a greater part, no. No doubt they arise from

ignorance of conditions, and yet there is some justification

for their existence. The facts in the case are these: Some

boys when they join a fraternity do not fully realize its pur-

poses. They deem its pin a badge of social pre-eminence only

and act upon that principle. From such as these, the world

gets its opinion of fraternity ideals. It does not know that

our chief purpose is to help bring friends together—to help

the college boy find his proper setting—to help cultivate

friendships that are lasting. To join a fraternity simply

means that one has found a number of congenial friends and

should not, and in most instances does not, change one's atti-

tude towards the other members of the community. Each

local, we believe, should cultivate the spirit of democracy. Be


true to your fraternity and its ideals, but at the same timebe considerate of others, especially those who are expectingyou to snub them.

* * *

FRATERNITIES are primarily for undergraduates, and, there-fore, the local chapter is of first importance. Your frater-

nity may be national—may number its membersYour Local by the thousands—its pin may be a badge ofChapter. great respectability—its conventions may be

inspiring to attend, and yet so far as youare concerned it's a failure, unless your local chapter isa success. When you get out into the world you will meet afratmate now and then and the meeting will be pleasant;occasionally amidst the noise of the street and market andfactory there will come an echo from the fraternity world—but, it will be only an echo. Not so on the campus, for thereone's fraternity, through the local chapter, permeates thegreater part of one's social life, giving tone and color toalmost every act. The local chapter furnishes you with yourdaily companions—boys who are to become your life-longfriends. Furthermore, the college community judges a frater-nity by the local chapter—by the type of men on its owncampus. We would like to see a friendly rivalry between allthe chapters of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. See to it thatyour local chapter is a good one, for otherwise you get littleout of your fraternity.

* * *

ARE the fraternities of the world helping to solve the greatproblem of education—that is, are they of any advantage

in helping to convey to humanity what weFraternities and call pure education? By pure educationTrue Education, we mean not simply the development of the

mind alone, but the development of thewhole being—the mind, the morals and the body. If one butthinks for just a moment: he sees that true education is notderived from books alone or from having attended college for


some years. Now, the question we ask is: Are the fraternities

of mankind advancing the standard and hastening the univer-

sality of pure education?

At once we can see that one obtains some educational

advantages from his order if he but attends his lodge. There

he inevitably learns, in the workings of his lodge, the par-

liamentary rules of order whereby he may conduct any public

gathering. He is led, too, to express his ideas upon his feet

and is instructed more or less in the art of debating. He also

comes in contact with his brethren and learns their ideas and

natures, to say nothing of the outside information he gleans

from having been associated with them for a short time. And

no greater factor of broader education exists than the associa-

tion and mingling of mankind: By association men learn

each other's minds, each other's ideas and ideals, each other's

plans, ambitions and moral inclinations—in short, they learn

human nature, the greatest of all studies. And by these asso-

ciations men are influenced and induced to things better, both

physically and morally.

Now, the fraternities of the world are some of the means

of bringing men in contact with each other for the above

results. It matters not so much whether a man belongs to the

same fraternity to which another man belongs in order for

them to profit by each other; for there seems to exist between

all men who belong to fraternities of any kind, a certain

brotherly spirit. And it is this spirit that makes it always

easy for men to get acquainted and enjoy each other, wher-

ever they may be and however for apart they may rank

socially, mentally or morally. We say that it is the frater-

nities of mankind that are promoting this feeling of universal

brotherhood and encouraging and aiding the easy association

of mankind, and hence their educational advantages.

And through the fraternities of men this brotherly feeling

has been widened and is now no longer confined to men who

are members of fraternities. Indeed, the time is here when all

men are beginning to feel like they are brothers, that each is


"his brother's keeper," and that we all belong to the one greatfraternity of mankind, whose lodge is the world and whoseWorshipful Master is God.

* * *

WHICH is the best fraternity man—the one who is popularwith the fellows, takes very little interest in fraternity matters,

still wears the pin and openly declares hisThe Alumni and membership but fails to pay his duties, orthe Magazine. the one who can be counted to help in

everything undertaken, pays up promptly,but is very seldom seen proclaiming that he is a member unlessapproached on the subject, and is seen oftener without a pinon than with one?We do not believe that there is a single Pi Kappa Phi

alumnus who is not proud of the fact that he is numberedamong the members of our fraternity. And if any one shouldapproach him upon the subject of his fraternity, said alumnuswould at once show his satisfaction of having joined Pi KappaPhi during his college days, and at once fond happy recollec-tions would loom up before him, brightening his countenanceand bringing back remembrances of that day when he wasasked to become a member. We again reiterate that webelieve that every one is proud of the fact that he is a "PiKapp" and has the deepest interest in the growth and develop-ment of the fraternity.But here is the problem. Why is it that so few take the

official fraternity organ? The subscription list is compara-tively small. We cannot see, then, why it is they have suchapparent good will toward the fraternity and such interestin its success when they will not subscribe to its magazine, theonly source from which the actual affairs and conditions of thefraternity can be learned.THE STAR AND LAMP needs your subscription and you need

the information it gives. Be patriotic and prove your interestand love for your fraternity.


WE want to suggest to the chapters who are not keeping

accurate records of their meetings, finances, members, etc., to

begin at once. You have no idea how the records

Records. can get in such shape that it is absolutely impos-

sible to tell head from tail. The only way is to

have it systematized. No uniform system is suggested, but

this remains for the chapter to fix. The requirements of each

chapter are different and they can work it out for themselves.

The object is to have a system and to follow it to the letter.

See that you have a complete file of all members and their

addresses, the date of their initiation, graduation, withdrawal,

etc. By doing this you will not only be keeping your own

records straight, but you will be of immense aid to the His-

torian in keeping his files up. It was only a short time since

we received a letter from him complaining of this. If you

have not done so, do it at once. Send him a complete list of

your active men, their flame addresses, your old men and

addresses and any further information that you can imagine

he will need in compiling a history of the fraternity. Read

this editorial from a brother journal and get to work at once

systematizing your chapter:

It is not to be expected that college undergraduates, for the

most part inexperienced in matters of business, will keep the

records of the chapters with the care and orderliness that men

with business training would. Yet it would seem that their

own interests would impel them to keep at least fairly accu-

rate lists of addresses of the alumni of their own chapter. Not

a year passes that a chapter has not some reason commu-

nicating with its alumni. Yet the catalogue work has shown

that few of the chapters possess even that. Where more than

10 per cent, of the letters sent out to addresses furnished by

the chapters are returned by the postoffice authorities, marked

"Not found," it indicates a general slackness, which in the

end is sure to injure the chapter's prosperity.

Yet the fault is not entirely on the part of the under-

graduates. In many cases it would need only a suggestion


from some of the alumni who are interested, as to what work

should be done, and how to do it, with an occasional visit to

the chapter and an inquiry as to how the work was progress-

ing, to bring about great improvement. The modern system

of card catalogues, in which are recorded upon separate cards

the name, correct address and a record of the doings of each

member, is a very simple system to install, and a very efficient

one to work. Yet few of the chapters have it. Few also

record the facts in the lives of their members, bringing down

the record from year to year. If this were done the making

of a catalogue would be a comparatively easy task.—Delta

Kappa Epsilon Quarterly.

* * *

WE commend the following editorial to you as good reading

for Pi Kappa Phis. If you follow the line suggested here a

vast amount of the criticism aimed at Greek-

A Suggestion. letter societies will be abated. If you

remove the grounds on which most of the

arguments are based then what will the antis have to use in

their fight on fraternities? This suggests the right line and

so let us follow it:

Each chapter should ask itself what it is doing for the men

in college who are not members of the fraternities and when

the answer is "nothing," it should get busy and do something.

The college man who for some good reason or other has failed

to join a fraternity in the average college is often heart-

sick and lonely for want of human companionship. He usually

feels that he is just as good, and often that he is better, than

the fraternity man. He does not know, and does not realize,

that oftentimes a chapter's ranks are filled for it by its alumni

and friends who press upon its attention men who are not only

desirable in themselves, but who, other things being equal, are

selected for membership because of the ties by which they are

connected to others. All he realizes is that he is out and they

are in. It is this bitterness of spirit which is iesponsible for

much of the growing anti-fraternity sentiment. Our chapters

THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. • 251

should make some effort to help the non-fraternity men to

social opportunity. Why not have an occasional bridge party

or dance to which they are invited? Or do some one of the

dozens of things they can do? But this must all be done with-

out being patronizing or it will fail of its kindly purpose.

Possibly, if the college officials were consulted they would be

glad to suggest a proper field for such effort. And if a chap-

ter perceives among a number of non-fraternity men a group

whose members seem congenial, why not assist them to form a

local society and to enter some good fraternity?—Beta

Theta Pi.* * *

IN the last issue notice was given that magazines would not

be sent to members of the fraternity who had not paid their

subscriptions. Up until this time copies of the

Subscriptions, magazine have been sent to all members whose

addresses we could get. If you have not

received your copy it may be that we overlooked your subscrip-

tion. If this is the case notify us at once and it will be sent.

Those who desire to subscribe can obtain a copy of the March

issue by sending check for $2.00 to Brother Langford. We

need your subscription and would appreciate it if you would

aid us to this extent.* * *

Extra Copies.—Single copies of the March issue can be had

for fifty cents. If you desire additional copies we will make

them to you at the rate of five for $2.00.


ANNOUNCEMENTS.

THE summer meeting of the Grand Chapter will be held

this year at the Isle of Palms, near Charleston, S. C., on July

15, 16 and 17. It is especially de-

The Grand Chapter sired that there be full representation

Meeting. from each chapter, for there are im-

portant issues to consider and plans

will be undertaken to make the next convention the biggest

and best in the history of the fraternity.

It will convene in 1915 for the first time in the West, the

place being San Francisco, and it is of vital importance that

every chapter have a full delegation present there. The

alumni are, of course, expected to give a full account of them-

selves. Their activities might be called a thermometer with

which to take the temperature of the fraternity. In any

fraternity the alumni are the bulwarks of strength. They

are in better financial position than the active members; they

are more experienced; they are more mature and their

guidance is needed and is expected in all matters concerning

the fraternity's welfare. In fact, they are really the active

members, for instead of breaking with the fraternity when

they leave college they become more interested than ever in its

workings, for it is only then they begin to fully realize how

much they need its bonds of fellowship and brotherliness and

of how much real benefit the fraternity was to them—though

perhaps they were unconscious of it at the time—during their

college days.

Even though you may not be entitled to a vote in the

Grand Chapter, it is essential that you be present, for you

owe it to yourself and your chapter to keep fully informed as

to what the organization has done during the past year and

what it contemplates for the immediate future. In addition,

you should attend simply for the good it will do you to meet

fellows who are just as much a part of the fraternity as you

are and yet with whom you are not acquainted. Then, too,

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 258

you should be there for the good you can do the fraternity.There are numerous other good reasons j but these shouldsuffice.

Charleston is the birthplace of the fraternity. Many ofthose who have worked longest and hardest for the orderreside there, and it is that we may have the advantage of theircounsel and wisdom and advice that the Grand Chapter hasselected the Isle of Palms for the summer meeting. At thesame time they remember that "all work and no play * * *"and they have been aided in their choice by the varied attrac-tions offered at this popular resort.To those who have attended a meeting of this kind it is

entirely unnecessary to direct any remarks other than the timeand place, for they'll be there—they know! But to you whohave never afforded yourself the treat of attending one ofthese meetings we ask that you but try the next one, for thenwe'll be sure of you, for all that are to come.Remember the place—IsLE OF PALMS—the time—JULY 15,

16, 17, 1914, and be sure to arrange your work so as to be

present. J. D. C.* * *

WE have decided to change the date of publication of the

next issue of the magazine from May 1 to July 1. Chapterletters are requested to be in by June 1. We

The Next urge that correspondents make the letters as full

Issue. of the year's work as possible. Let them be a

general summary. We will appreciate special

articles from members of chapters as well as alumni. It need

not be a cut-and-dried article on some fraternity subject. A

short story of college life with a little of fraternity atmos-

phere will be very interesting reading for the fellows. The

atmosphere of college life in California is different from that

in Ohio. The expressions which are peculiar to a certain col-

lege are not found in others expressed the same way. Work

these in your story and it will give the atmosphere desired.


Get to work, fellows, and let us have a good story from each

chapter. Contributions of all kinds will be gratefully received.

It will be necessary for us to have the names and addresses

of all the members of the chapters so that we can mail their

copy direct to them. We request the correspondents to send

these along with the letter. Be sure and give the summer

address.

PI KAPPS.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles McAlister

request the pleasure of your company at the

marriage of their daughter,

Lydia Montague,

to

Mr. Frederick Sparks Jones, Delta, '10,

on Saturday evening, the thirty-first of January,

at five o'clock.

One hundred and nineteen Butler avenue,

Greenville, South Carolina.

Hurrah! Another Pi Kapp has taken the necessary step

to future happiness. The alumni are fast forsaking the

Bachelors' Club, organized and presided over by Editorial We,

who has taken upon himself the task of seeing that the club

loses its members just as fast as they can secure the girls of

their choice, and we might add, the choice of the girls, also.

You know this is the day of Woman's Rights. The club con-

gratulates Brother Jones and wishes for him and wife a life

of happiness.

After their honeymoon they will reside at Florence, S. C.,

where Brother Jones holds a responsible position with a cotton

firm.

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Name: Martha Jane.Weight, 8 pounds.

Born: December 18, '13.Mr. and Mrs. Wade S. Bolt.

This novel announcement came to the editor on the eve ofChristmas. The club and president congratulate BrotherBolt, and request that one of the first pictures of MarthaJane be sent to the president as an inducement for the dyed-in-the-wool members to forsake the club.

* * *

Brother A. N. Carrigan, Sigma, has decided to forsake thestudy of law for banking. He is now located in "CharmingCheraw, the Tip-Top Town" of South Carolina. We regretlosing "Andy" at Carolina, but wish for him the best of luckin his future endeavors.

* * *

Grand President John D. Carroll paid a visit to DeltaChapter in February. He reports the chapter in good shapewith a membership of twelve.

* * *

Grand President Carroll, Brothers E. B. Boyle and L. B.Wannamaker, Zeta, went up from Columbia to attend JuniorSpeaking at Davidson College with the Epsilon brothers.They report a great trip and are enthusiastic about the NorthCarolina girls who were present as guests of Epsilon Chapter.Epsilon took a prominent part in the speaking.

* * *

The editor was pleased to receive a letter recently fromBrother R. A. Macfarlan, Sigma, '12. Bob is located at Gar-field, Utah, with the Hercules Powder Compary. He writesthat he will be there until June.

* * *

On Tuesday evening, February 10, 1914, the ColumbiaAlumni Chapter had its monthly dinner at the Jefferson Hotel.Twelve members of the chapter were present and the occasion


was enjoyed to the fullest. Brother W. H. Monckton, the

president, presided at the dinner.

* * *

H. M. Shaver, Eta, '12, Exchange Editor, STAR AND LAMP,

has been suffering from vaccination. He writes that his arm

has been giving him a lot of trouble. We wish for him a

speedy recovery and that he has successfully warded off small-

pox for good.

THE ROLL OF HONOR.

The following subscriptions have been received for THE

STAR AND LAMP during the previous month:

A. A. Kroeg, Jr., 53 Broad street, Charleston, S. C.

Dave P. Hardy, San Rafael, Cal.

F. Charlie Ayer, Bamberg, S. C.

W. C. Bailey, Clinton, S. C.

J. F. Robinson, Spartanburg, S. C.

"FRAT" MEN TAKE STEPS TO REMOVE CRITICISM.

When Ed L. Sutton, District Grand Master and editor of

The Caduceus, of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, told the fra-

ternity men of Mercer and their friends at the Kappa Sigma

smoker Saturday night that "for every anti-fraternity man

there is a fraternity man to blame," the "Greeks" of Mercer

took notice and began to think about the matter.

Mr. Sutton talked rather plainly to the fraternity men

about the problems before them, and his remarks were accorded

most respectful and cordial attention. His talk w9.s the

feature of a happy and enthusiastic gathering of the frater-

nity men.

In view of the agitation against fraternities, and more par-

ticularly the fight started in the Board of Trustees of Mercer

"FEAT" MEN TAKE STEPS TO REMOVE CRITICISM. 257

against fraternities, it is expected that the fraternity men ofMercer may soon look into the matter of establishing apermanent Pan-Hellenic Union which will prescribe regulationas to the time of pledging and taking in new men. The frater-nity men state that their troubles are understood by nonebetter than themselves and it is their intention to regulate theirgovernment at Mercer so that not even the smallest degree ofcriticism can be made on them. •

The occasion Saturday night was marked by the presenceof a visitor from Emory College. This was Prof. E. R. W.Gunn, a member of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity recentlyfounded and also general secretary of the society. Mr. Gunncame down to the smoker at Mr. Sutton's invitation and thevisitor was cordially welcomed. He originally came fromHouston county and is connected with the Middle GeorgiaGunn family.

Professor Gunn made a short talk at the smoker. His fra-ternity is a young, but growing, organization. It recentlywent into Emory College and is destined to become well knownthroughout the South. Professor Gunn was given the assur-ance that a chapter at Mercer would be gladly received by theother fraternities.

Mr. Sutton in the course of his talk mentioned and exhibitedletters he had received from prominent general fraternity menin the South. These were from Hamilton Douglas, PastGrand Consul of Sigma Chi, of Atlanta; Munro Lanier, Prov-ince Chief of Phi Delta Theta, of Birminghnm; Wayne P.Sewell, Vice-Regent of Sigma Nu, of Atlanta, formerly ofMercer; Robert A. Smythe, Grand Treasurer of Pi KappaAlpha, of Atlanta, and J. C. McCarty, of Sigma AlphaEpsilon, of Rome, Ga. These officers sent their greetings tothe smoker and expressed regret at being unable to attend.

It was announced that the future smokers of the KappaSigma Fraternity at Mercer would see prominent general fra-ternity men in attendance. The shortness of the time in which


this smoker was called prevented many from attending who

wished to be present.

It was the opinion of those "Greeks" who attended the

smoker that great good could be done the cause of Greek-letter

societies by having Pan-Hellenic gatherings. The Kappa

Sigma Fraternity first established the custom at Mercer by a

smoker in 1907. There have been others given by the same

fraternity at varying intervals since that time. The one Sat-

urday night was voted a success in every particular.

There was plenty to smoke and to eat for the fellows. Prac-

tically every fraternity man in the university was present

besides alumni who were invited. Short talks were made by

representatives of the fraternities at Mercer. Dean Newman,

on behalf of the Kappa Sigmas, introduced the following:

M. A. Smith, now at Mercer, welcomed the men for the Alpha-

Beta Chapter; W. C. Turpin, Jr., responded for Sigma Alpha

Epsilon; C. B. Landrum, for Phi Delta Theta; McKibben

Lane, for Kappa Alpha; Thomas M. Jones, for Alpha Tau

Omega; Howard G. Rice, for Sigma Nu.

Calvin George, formerly of the University of Georgia, and

an initiate of Chi Phi there, but now at Mercer, was called on

for a talk on behalf of his fraternity. A. T. Brewer, a mem-

ber of Sigma Chi, formerly of the University of Georgia, rep-

resented his fraternity. Philip Falligant, now a resident of

Macon and a member of Kappa Alpha at Emory, made a talk

to the smoker on behalf of his fraternity.

Ed L. Sutton, who is known throughout the Greek world as

one of the best posted as well as most finished workers on

behalf of fraternities in general, told the "Greeks" some facts

which might well be pondered over. He pleaded with the men

of Mercer to be fraternity men in spirit as well as in name.

He directed their attention to the meaning of fraternity and

told them that the future of the Greek cause in the United

States lay with the conduct and bearing of fraternity men

generally toward the world at large, more especially those in

the university with whom they come in daily contact.

"FRAT" MEN TAKE STEPS TO REMOVE CRITICISM. 259

That fraternities are measured and gauged by the conductand standing of the individuals composing the membership,and that the cause would stand or fall by this standard, wasMr. Sutton's declaration.Mr. Sutton pointed out "rushing" as the greatest evil of

present-day fraternity life. Speaking as a Kappa Sima, butfor the good of the entire Greek world, Mr. Sutton urged theMercer men to eliminate this evil of getting undesirable menin their ranks early in the year who are dropped from theuniversity rolls before the first term is over. Until fraternitieslearn this lesson, the speaker declared, there was going to bemerited criticism of fraternities.The Kappa Sigma Fraternity men announced during the

course of the smoker that it was their intention to mark eachcollege year with an occasion similar to the one Saturdaynight. This fraternity started the smoker idea several yearsago and every occasion has been enjoyed and the spirit mostheartily commended by the Greek-letter men of the university.The time of holding the next smoker will be announced far

enough in advance as to insure the presence of higher repre-sentatives of the several fraternities located at various insti-tutions in the South.—Macon Daily Telegraph, February 2,1914.

Secretary Gunn is certainly on the job. Before his termof office expires Pi Kappa Phi is going to be represented in anumber of States. When we have a man like this it is up tous to help him all we can. Let our motto be "A Bigger andBetter Pi Kappa Phi."

THE STAR AND LAMP.

Scissors and PasteWhat the Greek-Letter World is Sayi

ng, Doing and Thinking,

as Gleaned From the Exchanges.

Editor H M. SHAVER, Jackson, Ga.

This department of a college fraternity magazine is prob-

ably the most popular of all, due to the interest that the

average member of a chapter and the alumni have in the

Greek world as a whole. The member of a chapter knows all

the Greek news in his own institution, what is rumored, inno-

vations among fraternity and.college activities, but he wants

to find out what is happening in the "big arena."

He wants to know where new fraternities are placing chap-

ters, the history of old .chapters, incidents, etc., that the

Exchange Department always carries. There is a tendency

on the part of many magazines to burden their magazine with

"long-winded" articles, in which the average student has no

interest in whatever. But what the student really wants is

news of the Greek world, what other fraternities are doing,

and if he has only enough time to gather this information, all

other departments. will be left untouched. Hence, we are

going to endeavor to give you the news, and what they are

saying. We must apologize for not giving as much general

news as we ought, but in the future we are going to keep

our eyes open more to what happens in the "big arena."

Co-operation on the part of members will be appreciated by

the editor. Let us know whatever happens that you know

of, such as the installation of chapters, and articles that you

would think our fellows would like to read that come from

the other magazines.

SCISSORS AND PASTE. 261

Why Is It?

One outside of general college activities never realizes theamount of drinking, gambling, etc., that goes on among thestudents of colleges. There is no doubt that it does existand more than the average parents of boys would have theleast conception of. But it goes on. A large percentage ofcollege boys pass through a period of what they term "round-ering," in which they celebrate games won and lost in trueBacchical fashion. And yet they pass through this periodand make some of the best, most temperate of citizens. Now,why is this? We ask this question, because we have so manytimes seen so many instances of college boys that drink, thatpass out of the college and never think of partaking of alco-holic beverages again. Of course there are instances wherethey do not, but in the main, they refrain from this and benefitthe world by an educated and better citizenry.

Shall Fraternities Make An Account of Their Stewardship?

The following article was published in The l'ai-ceryity Occi-dent March 14, last, and was republished by the Kappa AlphaTheta, from whom we take it. It was written by BenjaminIde Wheeler and is worthy of reading.

The time is coming, if it be not already here, when the Greek-letter

fraternities of the country will be severely overhauled and asked to give

an account of their stewardship. If they do not prove themselves to be

an instrument of betterment they will surely go. Personally, I am one

of those who believe in recognizing the fraternities and utilizing them

for the good of the university. They exist. They have occupied a gap

in the equipment of student life. The students enjoy them. They

represent a certain endowment of loyalty and affection. All this is

good and may be used to the advantage of the university.

We have found at Berkeley means of bringing the fraternity into

official connection with the university through the co-operation of the

Adviser with the council of representatives from the various fraterni-

ties. The fraternities are thereby made responsible for the scholarship

of their members. They ought to furnish a student a better scholarly

stimulus than he would otherwise get. Resident graduates, who should

have rooms in the chapter house and be counsellors to the undergradu-


ates, might well be appointed, after the model of tutors in the colleges

of an English university, to endowed positions in the chapter. The

time is surely coming when the scholarship standing of each fraternity

will be made known to the university world. The general standing of

the fraternities before the community, and their ability to get members,

is coming to be very largely determinated by their repute with the

faculty.The Greek-letter fraternity, like the student clubs, must undertake

to aid the university in solving the problem of student residence. It

must furnish for the student who is a member a better and more

orderly home than he would otherwise enjoy. One of the first correc-

tives we need to apply to the present chapter house system affects

internal order and a stimulus to the intellectual life.

It is perfectly clear to me that if the Greek-letter fraternities are to

continue they must keep pace with the rapid development of the Ameri-

can university; they must make themselves useful in terms of the univer-

sity's service to the public. There is no doubt that in their inception

these organizations represented a callow boyish enthusiasm with undue

use of secrecy and exclusiveness. The early tendency toward exclu-

siveness is dying out; the secrecy no longer amounts to anything. The

snobbishness and exclusiveness have certainly disappeared in the Uni-

versity of California as it must everywhere eventually disappear in the

face of American dislike for such things. The fraternities of the

future are therefore replacing the meaningless secrecy with a fine spirit

of home life and aiming to make the chapter and the chapter house a

contribution to better morals, better thinking, and better living. The

apparently shallow and perverse Greek-letter fraternity system is

becoming an institution of helpfulness in student life.

Concerning College Politics and Fraternities.

The following article was clipped from the Sigma Alpha

Epsilon Record, and we commend it because every word of

warning about keeping your chapter out of college politics is

timely and can not be stressefl too much. Follow this advice,

uplift your fraternity, and you will find that other fraternity

men, "nons" and all, will hold your fraternity in respect, if

you keep out of politics.

"We hope the time is not far distant when the Pan-Hellenic organi-

zation in the colleges will realize the importance of fraternities being

inactive in college politics. As a rule, the moving spirits about college

are members of a fraternity; and naturally enough, have the support of

other fraternity men. Some of these leaders are ambitious for college


honors. That is, they like to have their vanity tickled by electing some-one or being elected to some office, usually an empty honor with littlesubstantial benefit. Such ambition leads to the formation of votingcliques, forces intense rivalry, and makes enemies.How much better for fraternity men to take an interest in all such

affairs and help to elect efficient men to all college offices—but underno circumstances, be a candidate or urge the candidacy of a fraternityman. Fraternities should avoid all appearances of clannishness—forpolitics more than any other activity in college life, separates the Greekfrom the Barb. The mad ambition to be boss and have fraternity menoccupying all of the college offices is responsible for much of the pres-ent agitation.

However, there are certain honors, possessing the same emptiness,but in their attainment the individual is selected because of real merit.Such honors it is well to seek—for pull, cliques and scheming have noinfluence. It is here that honest effort alone counts; and all honesteffort is a decided benefit, though the honor gained counts for little.Debating, oratory, declamation, essay writing, scholarship and all intel-lectual activities are the things worth while; but more important thanall else, one should strive to attain that poise and genuineness, the radi-ation of which attracts people and makes one bigger, better, andbroader. Think ye on these things, for they are real substance of col-lege life. Self-seeking, in whatever form, breeds discord and enmity."

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon's "Woman Brother."

In the September number of The Record of Sigma AlphaEpsilon appears the following account of how that fraternityheld the proud distinction of having a "woman brother:"

"It came about in this wise: Miss Lucy Patty, a bright, cultured andvivacious young lady of the neighborhood, was a popular 'collegewidow.' When War's Alarms were sounded in 1861 the Cadets, allSouthern boys, promptly responded to the call of their respectiveStates, and the school was closed. The preservation of the records ofthe Sigma Alpha Epsilon was a serious problem, which was solved bygaining Miss Patty's consent to take charge of them.

When the War Cloud was lifted and the institute was reopened, afew Sigma Alpha Epsilons returned, and Miss Patty delivered therecords intact, with seal unimpaired. The boys in gratitude and toshow their high appreciation and confidence in her integrity, formallyelected her as the first and only woman member of the fraternity.She did not attend the regular meetings of the chapter, but she has everbeen cherished as a "Sister" by the Sigma Alpha Epsilons of KentuckyChi (Kentucky Military Institute)."

264 THE STAR AND .LAMP.

What Has Been Predicted.

Every now and then we come across an account of where

some fraternity in convention has passed a law to prohibit the

taking in of a member that belonged to a high school or

"prep" fraternity.

If the rest of the fraternity world follows this, as has been

predicted that they will, there will be death among the Junior

frats. This is a death blow and will no doubt be followed by

other drastic measures, which will put an end to this form of

fraternities. This is merely a prediction; they may live, but

it is extremely doubtful as long as the college fraternities

prohibit them from membership in their ranks. Watch out

for an increase in the number of laws regarding membership

of the "prep frat" fellows.

Banta's Greek Exchange.

The most helpful and instructive fraternity magazine out-

side of one's own fraternity's publication is Banta's Greek

Exchange. The publication carries general news of the Greek

world, timely editorials about Greek topics, and articles that

are well worth the time and study of every member of every

chapter.In the exchange department it is always handy and the

best of publications relating to the field that every Greek man

and every fraternity magazine is devoted to. We wish to

express cur appreciation of the filling of a long-felt need, an

inter-fraternity magazine of general Greek news. We com-

mend the publishers of Banta's Exchange and wish them suc-

cess in their adventure.

One Fraternity's Relation to Another.

"If asked the question, 'What do you think of the fraternity that

knocks other fraternities?' I think the answer would be generally the

same. A knocker is never a well liked member of society. The spirit

of fraternities is supposed to be that of broad-minded people who are


always kindly disposed to their neighbors and trying to benefit allaround them. Now, the fraternity that ridicules or makes smartingremarks concerning other societies is certainly not living up to thestandard. I have heard of a certain sorority that had a song in thestanzas of which each other sorority in the university was ridiculed.It seemed to me to be a base way to express one's own superiority.This kind of thing never adds to the character of a fraternity. Weare much better off if we do not descend to knocking."—The LyreAlpha Chi Omega (Sorority).

The Passing of the Pin.Is the bejeweled fraternity pin to go? If one reads the signs of the

times aright the answer "yes" is almost forced upon him. For manyyears the wearing of a fraternity pin has not been considered goodform in either business or social life. There are, of course, communi-

ties in which this unwritten rule does not obtain, but in the circleswhere fashion lives, moves and has its being this is undeniably true.Prove it by counting how many mature, successful business men of youracquaintance wear the pin regularly.Again, the pin, fastened to an obscure part of its owner's vest, serves

poorly as a medium of identification, and the gaily colored hatband hasof recent years usurped this obvious and important function of the pin.As a positive means of signalling members of the same fraternity, highsigns and monogrammed pins inlaid with jewels are not knee-high to

the hatband.

Phi Gamma Delta is the first of the national fraternities to hear from

afar the ringing of the death knell of the pin, and at the last annual

convention resoluted an appropriate obituary by adopting a "recogni-

tion pin" small and inconspicuous in itself, but worn on the lapel of thecoat where its normal function might best be performed.

Truly, the fraternity pin, beautiful in its carving and setting, but

hidden away under the wearer's armpit, is a weird, laughable con-

tradiction.—Delta Upsilon Quarterly.

Where a Fraternity's Power Lies—The Member.

"Are fraternities—is our fraternity—generating men of power? Do

they really contribute something vitally worth while to their members?

This depends on the individual members. It depends somewhat on our

attitude toward our pledges and our initiates If we do not use some-

thing constructive instead of horseplay, if we do not impress on them

the seriousness of the brotherhood into which they are entering, we are

not enabling the splendid ritual we have to make its greatest impress

on their life, nor are we inspiring them to the highest service within our

ranks."—Caduceus of Kappa Sigma.


The Useless Fraternity Man.

Once there was a frat man—we needn't specify,

He might have been an Alpha Delta, a Deke, or Zeta Psi,

An S. A. E., a Sigma Chi, or maybe A. T. 0.,

(Most any name would do as well and be as apropos) ; IBut the moral of the tale

Is that this exclusive male

Never seemed to be the kind of chap the fellows liked about;

For a stupid lot was his,

And the explanation is,

He put nothing in, so he got nothing out.

Once in a while he'd pay his dues and come around a bit

And let himself be bored (which he most frankly would admit);

He said he rather thought the thing was out of date—antique,

And, after graduation, he forgot it in a week;

And when he went away

You could hear the fellows say

They really thought the chapter worse off with him than without;

And to every neophyte

That they took in, they'd recite:

"If you put nothing in, why, you'll get nothing out."

Once there was a frat man—will you swear it, now,

Never was there such a man as this in Delta Tau?

Positively certain were we talking entre nous,

Nothing in this useless man at all resembles you?

Oh, there may be a few things worse

Than this hesitating verse,

But it serves a bully purpose if it clears away a doubt;

You may take this as the truth,

And swear by it, pretty youth—

If you put nothing in, then you'll get nothing out.—Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta.

"One fraternity after another has been affected in the past few years

by two strong tendencies in the direction of increasing the efficiency of

its central or national government. The first has been the establish-

ment and maintenance of 'traveling secretaries'—a movement which

has already been amply justified by its results. A second, and natu-

rally dependent, tendency is just beginning to appear. That is a ten-

dency to increase the graduate vote in conventions at the expense of the

undergraduate chapters. An interesting example of this idea is a

change in government lately effected by Delta Kappa Epsilon, by which

a governing body has been formed consisting of one graduate represen-

tative of each chapter."—The Garnet and White of Alpha Chi Rho.


Horseplay in Initiation.The following was clipped from the Sigma Phi Epsilon

Journal, and we commend it to our readers for fear that theymay some day accidentally injure some one by pranks carriedon in initiation work.

Horseplay is one of the things that fraternities should be outgrow-ing, and some chapters, we are glad to say, have completely relin-quished their affection for it, and we hope that in the early future manymore will see the folly of their ways, and relegate this obnoxious cus-tom to the "land of memories." The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, in thelanguage below, shows what may result from the adherence to what, inthese modern days, is clearly an adjunct of our high school imitators:"Horseplay may result in some very serious accidents, as has been

proven lately by a fraternal lodge of Birmingham, Ala., four membersof which are at present under indictment of the grand jury for man-slaughter.The facts were, two of a bunch of initiates who were being put

through in the local lodge, died as a result of the old 'branding process.'The men were allowed to see the branding iron being heated, and werethen blindfolded, an iron band was placed around the ankle, and theywere struck upon the breast with a rubber stamp, at the same timethey were touched upon some part of the body with a wire which com-pleted the electric circuit with the band around the ankle. The sensa-tion of being burned was almost perfect, and the joke a good one.However, something went wrong and the two men died a few minutesafterward. The coroner's jury had a hard time decided whether deathwas caused by electric shock, heart failure, or whether a brick wall fellon them, but finally brought in a verdict of manslaughter."

The Growth of College Fraternities.The growth of the college fraternities within the past year has been

truly remarkable. Extension has progressed rapidly in the West andmoderately in the East, while the South has been hardly touched. It isalso interesting to note the extension of several of the more conserva-tive and restricted fraternities.Thus, Psi Epsilon has chartered a local at Williams and Delta Psi is

considering a petition from Cornell. Northern Kappa Alpha, the oldestsecret college fraternity and also one of the smallest; has establishedits eighth active chapter in the University of Pennsylvania by charter-ing a body of men who had previously been members of the young fra-ternity of Sigma Pi—a very questionable manner of growing !—SigmaPhi Epsilon Journal.


Scholarship.

The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly, the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta,

and the Shield of Theta Delta Chi published recently the comparative

fraternity scholarships at the University of Virginia. Our space is so

limited that we may not print these tables but suffice it to say that at

this university Sigma Chi heads the list of twenty-three fraternities

with an average of 81, while Sigma Psi takes the lowest place with an

average of 56.7. Phi Sigma Kappa is ranked in the eighth place with an

average of 76.9, rivalling Delta Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon, and hard

pressed by Delta Psi and Delta Phi.

From the statistics printed in the University of Illinois Quarterly the

Delta Upsilon Quarterly, and the Shield of Theta Delta Chi, covering

the comparative statistics of fraternity ranking for the second semester

1912-13, we find thirty-three fraternities and sororities listed. The

twenty-sixth place is given to Phi Sigma Kappa with a grade of 79.83.

The highest average is 86.61 and the lowest 75.14.—Phi Sigma Kappa

Signet.

All chapters are now starting upon a new year. Have you planned

out your work? Have you set up a standard to guide you? If not,

you have not started right. The following remarks of the editor of

The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are very enlightening on the ques-

tion:

"It should be an honor to wear a Greek-letter pin; but that can be

only when the standard is such as to make it an honor. It is, there-

fore, the duty of every chapter to see that its standard is high, and

that the individual members of the chapter live up to the standard set.

This is not difficult of attainment; for, if given a moment's thought, it

must be apparent that it does not require greater effort to do what is

right than to act indifferently and ignorantly. Pride, envy, fear,

hatred, discouragement, are the greatest enemies of mankind, and the

college man is not an exception. Character is developed by radiating

good; and this is accomplished by letting the still small voice lead. It

is not something to be fought and struggled for; but is natural and is

man's normal condition."

The Circle of Zeta Psi quotes from the Boston Herald as

follows:

Seventeen Greek-letter fraternities at Dartmouth College have agreed

to abolish the early rushing of freshmen and to do away with the show-

ing of especial favors to such youths as are considered especially prom-

ising material. These societies have promised not only to pledge fresh-

men before February 21, but at the instance of President Nichols, have


agreed also to elect no one whose scholastic standing falls below acertain grade.These are steps in the right direction. The method which prevails in

most colleges of pledging freshmen, even in their "prep" and high schooldays, has given American youths false standards of college. It hasover-emphasized the importance of the "hush-house." And as the menselected in the premature scramble are invariably chosen for proficiencyin athletics, the value of prowess on gridiron or baseball diamond hasalso been exaggerated.Dartmouth's new move will result in making the fraternity election

more worth while. It will tend to correct a good many mistakennotions, and in bringing about a better choice of men will help the fra-ternities and the college.

Nationalism vs. Localism.

A questiOn which faces all national organizations, at one time oranother, is whether the first duty is to the national body or to theseparate parts which go to make up the national organization. It isthe old question—the State or the Nation. Many chapters, and fre-quently individual members, feel that each chapter, or, more accurately,that their own chhpter is an entity, and that they need not concernthemselves about what the body aggregate is doing, thinking, or plan-ning. Wherever these two great ideas have come into conflict the resulthas been the same. The human race cannot get away from the truththat we stand united, but divided we fall. Too often we cultivate littlefriendships in a most local and limited sphere—not even including thewhole chapter membership—and stop there without trying to broadenand expand in sympathies and interests that we may become brothers

of a fraternity truly national. Brothers, this is a grand opportunity

we have to rub elbows with the entire nation, cast off little prejudices

and learn to be really American in spirit.—Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal.

Why, then, this seeming antagonism against fraternities on the part of

legislators and men of business? E. C. Mercer, a member of Beta

Theta Pi, who, to use his own words, "has been out of college and in

various lines of commercial life for seventeen years, and for the pastthree years has traveled steadily among the universities, colleges andpreparatory schools of America," says that the main cause of the

enmity, in his opinion, has been brought about by the exaggerated news-paper articles about certain fraternities and fraternity men who haveunfortunately gotten into trouble through immoral practices and thefalse conclusions jumped at by the public concerning what is going on

in these fraternity and club houses. "The fraternity man in colleges isa spotted man because of his fraternity pin which he constantly wears.


If he happens to do anything out of the ordinary, being a marked man

in the eye of the public, they immediately take note and jump to the

false conclusion that fraternities themselves are the cause of this drink-

ing or immoral conduct and that the Ire' believes in, and even stands,

for such practices."—Phi Alpha Lambda (Legal) Quarterly.

NEWS—THAT'S ALL.

The Kappa Sigma Nu Fraternity, Oregon Agricultural

College, Corvallis, Oregon, owns its club house and will peti-

tion a National fraternity at some future date.

•

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There are two locals at the Kansas State Agricultural Col-

lege, Manhattan, Kan. The Aztez Club petitioned Delta Tau

Delta at last Karnea, but were refused. Tau Omega Sigma

is petitioning Beta Theta Pi.*

The University of Chicago has the honor of being the

mother of a new fraternity. Beta Phi, which existed secretly

for the last two years, has been recognized by the students

and faculty. They have established chapters in the Univer-

sity of Illinois, Northwestern University and Armour Institute

obtaining the rank of a national.

•

*

Pi Kappa Alpha, long restricted to the Southern States,

rapidly presses its invasion to the North. Its latest garrison

has been placed at Rutgers.—Garnet and White, of Alpha

Chi Rho.* * *

The Delta Tau Delta Rainbow has a rather unique and

appropriate title for its memorial department, namely, "the

chapter eternal."

Kappa Alpha Theta has announced the establishment of a

chapter at the State College of Washington, instituted last

November.

NEWS-THAT'S ALL. 271

The Sigma Nu Delta has a new editor, Walter J. Sears,who succeeds Clarence E. Woods.

* * *

The Caduceus, of Kappa Sigma, should change its name to"pictorial review," as it gave all of the seventy-nine active

chapters a photograph in that issue.

* * *

High school fraternities received a death blow in a decision

in the Appellate Court, rendered last October, upholding the

right of school boards to expel all pupils refusing to obey

rules prohibiting them from joining fraternities. Amen!

* * *

Alpho Delta Phi (sorority) at its convention held in ChicagoJune 18-20 last, changed its name to Alpha Delta Pi, owingto the inconvenience and confusion resulting from the identityof the name with that of the fraternity.

* * *

Three thousand college students are to watch the polls in

New York on registration and election days to prevent floaters

and repeaters from casting ballots. These students have been

engaged by the Honest Ballot Association.—Item.

* * *

Beta Theta Pi and Delta Tau Delta, at Grand Chapter

Conventions this 'fall, passed resolutions condemning all soci-

eties of • the Theta Nu Epsilon type and high school frater-

nities.

Sigma Chi, at its - August •Convention, forbade its members

to join Theta Nu Epsilon and provided for' a central office

with a salaried executive -officer.—Phi Sigma Kappa Signet.

* * * • •

Delta Upsilon, at its seventy-ninth annual convention inRochester, N. Y., last October, voted to bar from membership

after 1917 any college freshman who had been a member of


a high school or preparatory school secret fraternity, and

agreed to urge the Pan-Hellenic council to take similar action

to govern other college fraternities.

* * *

The New York legislature has provided for seven hundred

and fifty State scholarships giving one hundred dollars annu-

ally for four years to be applied toward the tuition fee of any

college within the State. When all the scholarships are filled

there will be three thousand students receiving State aid with-

out the maintenance on the part of the State of a university

organization.—The Record of Alpha Sigma.

* * *

The Freshman class at the University of California is the

largest ever, over 1,500 new students having entered this year.

This has brought the total registration in the Academic col-

leges above 4,700, and the total for all departments, including

the Summer School, to more than 8,000.

* * *

Sigma Pi and Sigma Phi installed chapters at the Univer-

sity of California recently. This brings the total number of

national fraternities there up to an even 30. Besides this,

there are 18 national sororities, and 28 local fraternities and

house clubs.* * *

The faculty has been advocating the postponed "spiking"

season at Vanderbilt for several years, but owing to the high

standing which the fraternities have taken in all lines during

the past year, it is quite probable that the much-agitated

fraternity questions will be given a rest and the postponed

"spiking" season forever relegated to the realm of things

entirely unnecessary.

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