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SONG OF WELCOME.
(Dedicated to Illinois Beta Chapter of Pi Bela Phi Sorosis. by Inez L. Shipman.]
Air: "Auld Lang S""ylle."
As every heart is swelling now With gladness which we feel, Like loyal Pi Phi girls we meet And greet with Pi Phi zeal. We've pledged o'er life to brightness throw, 'To bravely do the right, , To strive eachdu ty to fulfill, And make dark places bright.
What harvest do we glean to-day?
\Vhat sheaves are hither brought?
\Vhat have we done for God or man? What goodly deeds have wrought?
Ah, He who knows each heart's desire, Whose guiding hand is 0' er, Knows best how well we've done our part, Sees what still lies before.
We wear our colors, \\'ine and blue, pride we gladly own, As representing good we've done, And kindly acts we've SOW:!,
Our arrow with its sharpened point
The shaft will carry true, In aiming toward the good we teach, And guiding each life through.
When we shall count our sisters o'er, \Ve all with us shall find, For those not present here to-day
The golden chain doth bind; And when beyond the stars we go, And meeting comes to all, May Pi Phi voices answer" Here"
1'0 heaven's muster call.
COLLEGIATE ALUMN£.
More than a quarter of a century ago 11atthew Vassar coufided to a distinguished British publisher, Mr. Chambers, his plan for an institution where women should receive the educational advantages hitherto enjoyed only by men. The good man was strongly urged byhis listener to give up such a rash, Utopian scheme, and to bestow his pectlniary favors on some more worthy object than the training of the feminine mind. But the clear-headed philanthropist had taken ill too llltlC h of onr free American air to be diverted from his purpose. Matthew Vassar lived long enough to be assured of the wisdom of his convictiolls, not only by the success of his own college, but of other illstitLltions which followed the
plan of Vassar or its co-educational predecessor, Oberlin. Now there are in this land about two hundred and seventy colleges, of various degrees of excellence, where thirty-six thousand women are studying for academic degrees. The time has come when some estimate should be made of the val ue of collegiate training for women.
The alumna, being a modern innbvation, has no representative in the past, and is therefore looked upon as a kind of experiment, which may result successfully, but is quite as likely to turn out a failure.
"By their fruits ye shall know them." People are beginning to recognize the fact that a college-bred woman is apt to be reasonable as well as learned; contented, though aspiring; kind and gracious in manner, sound and healthy in mind and body. Her intellect is expanded by processes of thought which spring from persistent and systematic study, while faculties that otherwise lie dormant are stimulated and enlarged by the inspiration of college work.
The first great argument against higher education for women was that it would result in a distaste for domestic life; that marriage and family responsibilities would be shunned by the feminine" B. A." .
To be sure, only about forty per cent of the alumnre of our principal colleges are married, but we must bear in mind the fact that a girl who has finished a college course possesses the tools necessary for gaining a livelihood, and is not likely to marry, as others often do, for the sake of a home and a living. Then, too, she is hard to suit, this girl graduate; for with her clear head and broad culture she detects the false and appreciates the true; so the man who captivates her fancy must have a mind and character calculated to arouse her highest admiration and respect. The
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universal education of women, if it ever comes, will result, if not in more marriages, certainly in better ones.
It is a fact that women are showing that intellectual traini ng does not divest them of domestic tastes, but, on the contrary, helps them to understand household needs, fits them for making true homes, and for presiding over them with wisd01l1 and womanly graciousness. If they do not altogether escape the trials of inefficient service, they set their wits to work to devise some means of s6lving the great servant problem. A co-operative system of housekeeping recently established in Evantson, 111., and which is probably the most practicable thing of the kind in the country, owes its beginning, if not its very existence, to a gradnate of Vassar.
It is well known a large per cent of collegiate a1umme become teachers, but there are other ways in which they are brought into close relation to educational affairs. They are becoming school and library trustees, school superintendents, and trustees of colleges. Librarianship is now a' favorite profession for college women, and their services are sought by the best libraries of the country. Mr. Demey, of Albany, recently said.: "We greatly 'prefer college-bred W0111cn in selecting new librarians."
Perhaps one of the best results of educational training is the broad and lofty character it engenders. To show that there are women who, like George Eliot's "choir invisible," " live in pulses stirred to generosity, * * * ill scorn for miserable aims that end with self," let me mention the phil:l1lthropic work carried on by the Association of Col.legiate A1ull1na:!:
In New York and Chicago college women have made homes in the midst of the poor and illiterate inhabitants of
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the most crowded wards of those cities. There a work is done quietly, almost without the suspicion of the very recipients of the benefits; a work unprecedented in usefulness and practicability by anything in this conn try. These" college settlements" are modeled somewhat after Townlee Hall, in the east end of London; but the latter is carried on by college men, while the, Rivington street settlement in New York and Hull House in Chicago are presided over by women of the finest sensibilities and 1110st delicate organizations. The" head worker" of the New York settlement, after des6ibillg the awful "tenement smell," which results froll1 a combination of non-ventilation, over-crowding, unwashed bodies and clothing, bad sewerage, etc., confessed to me that when at home she was of the whole family the one whose olfactories were most easily disturbed, for she could not abide even a good cigar, and the smell of cooking was always disagreeable. Yet this rosy, beautiful young woman lives ten months out of the year in a neighborhood dirty, vulgar, and ignorant, where home life is·a thing unknowll. The house where our "workers" live is alone clean and attracti ve, for their purpose is to establish a model home, and thus work with quiet persistence a change among these helpless people, giving them jrzt?7ldlzileSs, fellowship, and the blessings of personal influence. To qnote from a late report: "It cannot be val ueless to put a pleasan t, refined home within the reach of people whose, only escape fro111 small, crowded, dirty r00111S is the street or the saloon."
This work is under the auspices of the Association of CollegiateAlumme, which now numbers nearly one thousand, two hundred members, and represents sixteen colleges. This body of women supports two fellowships - one in Michigan University and one in Europe. Its records show
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that educational and philanthropic work IS being carried on in many different lines, and that college women, by systematic and organized effort, are becoming a power for good in this country. Its influellCe is quiet and unobtrusive. It does not meddle with politics, even to the extent of discussing woman suffrage, and it leaves the field of temperance to the able workers who have it in charge. In one place the members have done original and practical work in the matter of sanitation, honse drainage, etc.; a subject hitherto neglected by women, but which they would do well to study, for no work can be more practical and necessary than that of improving the local conditions affecting liome life.
\Ve have found that college women have already demollstrated their usefulness as lllembers of society; that they are pecnliarly fitted to adorn and manage a home; that they are like the three sisters cOlllmended by Ruskin: 1utely well-educated women - wise, withont either severity or ostentation, using all they know for 'the good of their neighbors."
A.
G. BLACKWELDER.
Aforgall Park, CIllcago, Ill.
SYMPOSIUM. --, FRATERNITy AS AN EDUCATOR.
What a fraternity is to one of its members, what it does for one, depends very largely upon the character of the individual. But it is impossible for fifteen or twenty young men or young women to be thrown together during four years of college life and not have the association leave some lasting imprint on the character. If the chapter be a good' one, if the aims of the fraternity be high, this influence can not but be very elevating.
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That this fraternity influence be good intellectually and morally, should be the aim of every chapter. Each member should feel himself individually responsible for the highest possible realization of that ideal- should feel that with ,him rests the welfare of the chapter, and in a broader way that of the whole fraternity.
In what way a chapter carries ont its aims for advancement and growth must be left to its own judgment. It is thought sometimes that being a college organization it must necessarily follow that the fraternity be a literary organization. I know that in some fraternities in some chapters this is held to be the maiu aim. But it seems to me that the very fact that a fraternity is a college organization should forbid that literary work be an end of its existence, at least that it be a principal end.
In my opinion the fraternity should be more for social relaxation than for literary study, for there is plenty of the latter in the regular .routine of school work. It should as much as possible supply the place of the home-life that has to be given up by students when they go away to study. The fraternity meetings should be made as attractive as possible, and the members be made to feel that they are indeed a part of a home circle.
In a fraternity hall are brought together young men or young women from different parts of the country. There are there represented the most diverse natures. These different natures come into the close contact that the intimate relations of a fraternity engender. The result is that the mind of each is broadened and the best that is in him brought to light.
HELEN SUTLIFF. Lawrence, Kansas.
The fraternity as an educator may accomplish much, may exert a marked influence. Its influence may be twofold - direct and reflex. Both should be studied and striven after j aud yet the direct is more important, since reflex must needs arise from the direct.
The fraterility may be an educator intellectually. To bring about this result it is llot nece"sary for the members to prepare long and learned papers, which require more time than the student can spare. If there be time and inclination, an occasional well-prepared paper will be of benefit j yet, since the fraternity meeting is to be mainly a time of rest, literary programmes which need less labor will be more pleasant and interesting. The reading of some good selec. tion, followed by a voluntary discllssion, will be restful. A line of reading may be selected for a term, and if it be desirable,unother line chosen for the next term. The English essayists, the American essayists, the poets of a conntry, or those of a certain period, the latest standard works - any one of these forms a profitable line of work. Two lines may be pursued at the same time. Another line of work of edncational value is a discussion of current events and topics.
The fraternity nlust be an educator socially and morally. It has before it its ideal of womanhood or manhood, and if each member continually strives to approach that ideal its influence as ai1 educator will be liJOst potent and grand. It must teach unselfishness, patience, self-control, charity, sympathy, purity, love j friendship in the true sense will result. The influence of the fraternity must go beyond its mernbers j it should .be such that others will feel its goodness and greatness, and they will, for-
" No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, And all life IlOt be purer and stronger thereby."
JEANNETTE ZEPPENFELD. Frallklz'll, Ind.
EDITORIALS.
OHIO ALPHA.
Gather them in to the banquet rare, 0, gather the bright girls in ! Yes, gather them in, the true and the fair, That Sorosis the best may win. Gather them in, gather them in, Gather the bright girls in.
The Ohio Alpha now asks to. come in To the feast that Sores'is has spread, And she pledges herself to work with a vim, 'With hands, with heart, and with bead. Gather them in, etc.
The arrow shall poiut us to work to be dOlle, Shall prompt us, and comfort, and guide, And we'll labor together, or work one by one, As friendship and duty decide. Gather them in, etc.
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WHEN shall we have a new catalogue? It is such a difficult and well-nigh impossible task to keep correct addresses even of the few whose ;Ja1lles, because of some responsibility in fraternity affairs, need to appear in THE ARROW. Personal responsibility is a subject upon which each Pi Phi would do well to ponder. Chapter secretaries and chapter correspondents need to keep upon the alert, and see that all . necessary letters are written, and at the proper time.
The SCI'off of Phi Delta Theta for June thus strongly defines the position of reporter or chapter correspondent: .( The reporter is elected by his chapter to the most responsible position in its power to give to a member. He is
chosen to voice and sustain the relation of the chapter as such to its sisters and the fraternity at large. He stands as its representative. Faithful attendance to all duties on his part are looked upon as loyalty to all obligations on the pa:-t of the chapter. Failnre to attend to these trusts on his part are counted as the negligence of the chapter. In many an instance a chapter has been charged with neglect in replying to communications of which it knew nothing, simply because the report.er had pocketed them or laid them aside, the chapter never knowing of their receipt. Again, chapters have given instructions as to replies desired sent, which the reporter h<ls considered a duty as easily neglected or deferred as his own personal correspondence. Is this right? Is it just to the chapter which has reposed trust ill an officer? Surely not. liVe feel that we cannot too milch nrge upou the reporter the duty he owes his The cOl1lmunications sent him are those L'r the chapter, and as its 111edium he should give them the closest care his ability permits. No one more than the Province President is entiped to prompt consideration at the hands of the chapter and its reporter. His communications should always receive the attention that they verbally ask for. On the reply lIlay the action of a number of other chapters of the Province. Then each chapter should see to it that it does nothing to hinder the general work. Promptness in its good effects is reflected back npon the chapter, and each will find that by keeping itself in touch with sister chapters and its supervising officers it grows in prosperity from day to day, and finds life in the fraternity has a sweetness that passes far beyond mere chapter walls."
The principle herein stated is applicable to all positions of trust. It is true of chapter officers and members as to
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chapter meetings. Past date issues of journals should never occur; indeed, promptness means prosperity in fraternity as elsewhere. Again, as to the selection of a chapter correspondent:
" It will be well not to select your reporter merely on the basis of high standing as a literary man. Nor, again, because he is distinguished for scholarship. \Ve insist that the man best fitted for the place is the one who is marked for the interest he takes in fraternity affairs; the one in the chapter on whom you can al ways depend when there's n piece of , spiking' to be done; who is always present at the chapter meeting, and who seems U1l11sually well posted on all topics pertaining to the fraternity.
"The department of chapter correspondence does not admit of a great amount of rhetorical display, since its manuscript is often called for on short notice, and is subject to condensation by both author and editor. This being the case, the man whose zeal insures promptness in answer to all requirements will more than overbalance a reputed literary deficiency by the interest he takes in his work, and you will find that at the end of the year no one has contributed newsier, more readable, and interesting letters than he has. Elect him."
PAN-HELLENISM seems lacking in vitality. It appears to be a movement in which those who are meant to be interested have no heart. This fact is a weighty argument in favor of fraternity households as they now exist. We want our own little circle that we can see and know, and feel that it is ours. We want homes, firesides, penates, not communities, for abiding places. To be sure, we might be members of one great chapter, but how? Who can even dream
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of congeniality under such circumstances as compared with that we so much enjoy as it is? Dr. Ziegenfuss said to the Sigma Chi at the founding of the lIew chapter at Cornell, October roth, 1890:
" There is a strange tendeucy in nature toward association. The inorgauic world is restless until it is properly grouped,stratified, or crystalized. The things that are selfmoving live in flocks and herds, in clans, empires, and republics.
"Again, men group thcmselves into parties, sects, coteries, and cliques. How strangely diverse affinities compel this segregation; so the fratcrnity is nat mal. 'vVe have known anti-fraternity men who were in t(:11se1.y pa;-lisall_ Like gathers uuto like. A few choice l'<JJlgcni:ll spirits desire, in a special sense, to associate with each other, alit! to be mutually helpful. This is infinitely better than being next to nothing to five hundred 1IIen with whom you have but a touch-an·d-go acquaiutance. This has been characterized as the cult of narrowness. 'vVe trust othenl·ise. IN e point to the great Friend of humanity, the ideal Man of the ages, and we bid men note that out of His twelve He picked a special three for particular confideilce and companionship; and that, again, of these three 011e had signal pre-eminence as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' \;-"7ho will restlessly cant and call that narrow which was done of bOUl.dless love? "
Again:
" Because you love your chapter lllore yon will not love your university less. You will ever be kno\\'il as toilers for culture and as upholders of good order. To you, I trust, will be accorded the same praise that your former president, a lllall whose wisdom is fully as great as his masterful scholarship, gave to the other Greeks of this place."
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He says: "More than once, when some member of a fraternity has been careless in conduct or study, I have summ:)ned senior members of his chapter, discussed the matter confidentially with them, dwelt UpOlI the injury the man was doing to his fraternity, and insisted that it must reform him or remove him. This expedient has often succeeded when all others have failed. The older members of various fraternities have frequently thus devoted themselves to the younger in a way which would do honor to a brother laboring for a brother."
" That is brotherhood, indeed. Be content with no less. Stand shoulder to shoulder for manliness and highest intellectual development in the indissoluble bOllds of fratemal affection and helpfulness." When fratemity education means this, can any 111ml or woman regard it lightly? There is no nature so strong, so nearly complete and self-sufficient, that it cannot live its own life fuller, better in a congenial atmosphere. So surely as all life assimilates the food best adapted to its needs, so surely do the best manhood and womanhood utilize in their development those surrounding- influences which continually, through sympatllY, show their ];insbip. Certainly this process of development can be better carried out in small circles of friellds who personally know and love each other than in large organizations where, individuals cannot become well acquainted, and where there will be a corresponding lack of interest.
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"I BEGAN taking the Phi Delta Theta QUai-terry when it was first published, and have been a subscriber to the Scroll when it succeeded the former, and always expect to keep it coming. In this part of the country Phis are not very numerous, but we have three in this city, and three 2
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others within two·hundred miles, so we are not entirely out 'of the limit. Please keep theScrolf coming to me·, and notify me when my subscription expires, and I will remit at once. "
So writes a Phi Delta Theta alumnus of '79 from El Paso, Texas, F. E. Hunter, of Indiana Alpha. :;: :;: :!:
THE illterest now taken in gathering to the chapters of each fraternity the interest alld influence of alul1lni certainly v.;ill be reciprocated in this v":!y by many of the graduated members who have gone to life's work, and have become so engrossed thereby 2.S to seem to lose sight of the halcyon days of chapter associations. ';:Ve believe that in most cases this forgetfulness is only a seeming. Time cannot well be more than once full, and so frequently the work and responsibilities at hand absorb all of it.
Chapter corresp0ndents will please look up the magazine department of the cOllstitntion as to dates for chapter letters.
Let each chapter send us for March some alUI1l11::E perDo we properly look after our busy alUlllll::E ?
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ALPHA.
It scarcely seems possible that two months of our college year have passed away, and but for the profit derived therefro111 - the only tangible memento of what has been - it wonld seem a dream j a dream scarcely begun 'ere finished.
Thinking over the many colleges blessed with Pi Beta Phi Chapters, it is pleasant to remember that it is Pi Beta Phi that links one to another, and without which each institlltion would be standing alone. Twenty-two colleges containing Pi Beta Phi hearts!
" Hearts with a single thought, Hearts tlla thea t as one! "
This reminds us that Columbia Alpha is delighted to introdllee two new sisters to our little world - Estelle F. Throckmorton and Nella B. Thute. l\fost he2.rtily do we welcome them into our midst, and most heartily do we feel that our sorosis extends to them the grip of fellowship.
Our initiation 'ceremonies were held at ollr last chapter meeting. It was our first initiation since convention, anel consequently the first time we had used our new ceremonies; but we had our colors and our carnations, and our'sample pins fr0111 Auld, and all passed off solemnly and bealltifully. 'vVe were delighted with the sample arrows, and all felt loath to give them up, even for the brief period which must intervene before we can experience the feeling of ownership.
It is a pleasure indeed to have Miss Dill, frol1l Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, with us. Her arrow greets us dail)' with Pi Beta Phi friendliness, and to those to Wh0111 its import is known it is a well-sprillg of pleasant thoughts and memories.
The October ARROW brought us good news from the sister chapters. May they continue in their prosperity, and may the bonds of our" wine and blue" ever strengthen as the days go by.
COLUMBIA ALPHA.
lYashz"ngton, D. c., Nov. I7th, I890.
INDIANA ALPHA.
Indiana Alpha takes great pleasure in illtroducillg to the S01"Osis five new sisters···· Ethel and ]Vlarcia ],l'1iller, Viola Lukens, Hallllah lvIiddleton, and Viola IVIurphy - thus making our number sixteen. \\le feel a certainly pardonable pride in the welfare of onr chapter and in the honors bestowed upon certain of our sisters.
Jeannette Zeppenfeld is now one of the facnlty, having been made professor of French <Ind German in onr institution. She is eminently snccessful in hel- work, and is winning praise frol11 the stndents in her classes.
Ona Payne is president of the sellior class.
Onr chapter contains six seniors - four in the college department and two in nll;sic. Pearl Polk, one of the seniors in music, gave the first recital of the year. The programme was well rendered.
On October 4th the chapter gave a reception to the girls of the college from half-past two to half-past four, entertaining some thirty guests. Our hall was beautifnlly decorated wi th flowers and palms. IN e have each decided to set apart a small sum as a Christmas gift to the chapter, to be used ill decorating the hall. '.\le are anxious to make it as pretty as an ideal Pi Beta Phi chapter hall sh'lllld be.
vVe are zealous to accomplish as mnch as possible in our chapter meetings during the year. YVe have been able to have but three literary programmes arranged thus far. The first was a paper, a critical study of Sesame and Lilies, with a reading fro111 "Queen's Gardens." The second was a reading and discllssion of Oscar Fay Adams' article, " The Mannerless Sex." The third was a paper, "\Vhat all Ideal Chapter Should Be."
\Ve send greetings to onr sister chapters.
Frankhll, Ind., jVove7llber 15//1, 1890. ,
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MICIITGAN BETA.
Michigan Beta sends greetings to her sister chapters, and wishes them all success in this, another new year. Though we are small, we are indeed hopeful, and expect by the end of the year to have quite a number of new names signed to our constitution.
So far this term our attention has been principally directed towards meeting and getting acquainted with new girls. There are four other soroses here, e.ach working for themselves j and, though the work goes on very quietly, we, at least, ;tre greatly interested in our work and its success. Our two last-year seniors were back in the early part of the term, and worked incessantly and energetically for us. 'vVe have had one initiation, at which we took in three new girls, and where our Province President presided. Our ways of amusing the innocent and very unsnspecting freshman, and, I may also add, upper classman, were varied and amusing. Although they were not particularly new; yet they may interest the reader. We had a marshmallow roast, a conversation programme, at which the subjects discussed were both comical and instructive, and a real, genuine Hallowe'en party. The two prettiest features of this was the" wheel of fortune)) and the little shell-boats with wax candles, which, when lighted, we set sailing in a vessel of water -" sea of life)) - and whose, destiny was supposed to fairly represent what ours was to be. Then, besides all this, walks and talks innumerable.
While we are particularly interested in our own chapter, yet we have a great desire for the welfare and growth of our Sorosis as a whole.
An1l Arbor, Mzch., November 7th, I890
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ILLINOIS BETA.
I wonder if yun arc: all as busy and happy as Illinois Beta. \Ve have had a pleasant <cm1 profitable tenn. vVe have had but two initiatirms. l\iove11llJi"r 20th we initiated Delpha DHrstoll alld Ecba Cbycomb. vVe are pleased to intmc1ucc them to yuu. Next week we expect to add one more to ollr Humber. 'liVe like the new initiation ceremonies vel-Y much. \Ve arc quite impatient to see our Hew ritual.
\Ve miss our ,)ld members a gTeat deal, but they are good to visit IlS often. \Ve have members with us who have becn abscnt from school fur SOlllC terms past. It seems very pleasant to have them again. Three of the present senior class are Pi Phis. Indecd, there are but three girls, alid they belong to our frateruity.
\Ve are glad to greet our new chapter in Minneapolis. Thl"Ough SOllle mistake we have not received 'our October ARROWS. 'vVeare correspondingly gloomy, for we feel as if we know bnt little about your prosperity and pleasures. However, next time we hope to know as much as the ARROW can tell us.
Galesbl:rg" Ill:, December, I890.
!LLINOIS DELTA.
The chapter work of Illinois Delta has been of unusual interest and pl"Ofit this term. We began the year strong in numbers, for we lost in the large outgoing class of '90 but one of onr sisters, Be:;s Smith. \Ve began the year with a finn resolve to do our b'.,st for Pi Bet1- Phi, and success has 'everywhe;-e crowned our efforts.
We, ill Knox college, have one rinJ" society, the Delta Delt,t Delta, recel1tly orgallized in Boston. Their chapter
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here is a good one, and in consequence our chapter work is made exciting and interesting.
vVeare glad to introduce to you onr six new sistersElizabeth Boggs, l\largaret Tait, Bessie Hinckley, Amy Sturtevant, Anna Robson, and Cora Thompson, all of whom were" desired," to say the least, by the Delta's. Doubtless our rivals think with the poet Whittier, that-
" Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these - it couldn't was!"
We want to tell the sisters how much we enjoy the new constitution in its present neat and cOllvenient form. The new ritual we think we will like very much when we have become more accustomed to it.
On October 8th the comer-stone of our beautiful new Alumni hall was laid by President Harrison. It was a great day for Knox college, and we Pi Beta Phis rejoice in every honor that comes to onr alma mater .
Socially onr chapter has always been known by the quaht;v rather than the qualZlz'lJl of its entertainments. This year has not been an exception to the general rnle. VV' e have given but one party, but from this one, quoting from one of the city papers, "Illinois Delta lost nothing from their prestige as capital hostesses."
Galesburg, Ill., November 131/z, 1890.
IOWA ALPHA.
A new and inexperienced hand takes up the editorial pen to do service for Iowa Alpha. Yet any duty that may be to promote the calIse of Pi Beta Pl;i is' not an irksome one. Another college year has opened, and all bids fair to be a profitable and enjoyable year. Never in the history of
onr university ha:; secret society warfare been more at rest. All party strife and spirit has been laid aside, and all work for the good of oue another.
Our chapter, though ollly nuinberil!g six, is strong in itself, for never have the girls been more thoroughly imbued with the zeal to work for the interests of Pi Phi. We feel if we bck in numbers of fun-fledged members that we are strongly snpported by the enthusiasm of our pledged members. This year four new ladies - Bee Lyman, Ara Nngeil, Blanche Swan, and Alice Speidel- have evinced their interest in us by donning the wille and blue.
vVe are glad V:> welcome alllong us Sister Mame Byrlit, cbss of '87, not as·;1 student, but as a melllber of the faculty. She has been elected to the posit'ion of assistant in the academical department.
A 1lt1lll ber of our girls, together with some of the members of the aluIlJna chapter, accepted a very kind invitation from Iowa Theta to spend a day with them during the Coal Palace season. All report an unusually pleasant time, and never tire of praising the hospitality of the Ottumwa girls.
Our chapter as yet has not adopted any special line of work, but will in the near future. .
November 17th we entertained onr pledged girls and a _ few other lady friends at a " cookey-shiue" with MISS Lillian Saunders. N vile bnt those who have partaken. of these pleasing viauds call appreciate the word "cookey-shine." To us it is suggestive of a feast fit for the gods, and a large amount of pleasure connected with it. Music and games were indulged in until a late hour, when all wended their way home, feeling that it is slleh occasions as this that adds a wonderful charm to life.
We are looking anxiollsly forward to llext term, when a
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number of our girls will be with us again. Until then our hearts go out with best wishes and sisterly love toward all chapters of Pi Beta Phi. . . lift. Pleasant, Iowa, November 18th, 1890.
IOWA BETA.
It seems so short a time since we received our October ARROW that we scarcely realized that the time for another chapter letter fr011l us was so near. Three more weeks, aud our fall term will close; but it has been a very prosperous one for Pi Beta Phi at Simpson.
We take much pleasure in introduciug to you our two new sisters, May Paul and Ethel Gilbert, of whom we may well be proud.
We celebrated the fourteenth anniversary of the foundation of our chapter, Hallowe'en, by a masquerade party, at which only Pi Beta Phis were present. Supper was served in regular" grub style." Several of the" old girls" were with us, and we pronounced it a decided success.
Agnes Buxton represents the Pi Phis on the Butler contest, which occurs next week.
We have been spending much of the time at our meetings discussing the new constitu tion. We received the initiation ceremonies a few weeks since, and hope soon to have an opportunity to use it. . Iowa Beta numbers fifteen active members. The TriDeltas are our only rivals.
Love and best wishes to all Pi Beta Phis.
Indz"allola, Iowa, November 18th, 1890 .
lOW A EPSILON.
Once again Kriskingle cometh! Soon 1890 will have fled. But stamped upon Ollr memories are the pleasant hours spent in the presence of the sisterhood. \Vhat can give us more joy than this - acquaintance ripened into friendship, and friendship into love?
A poet tells us of one who sought to perpetnate his name by stamping it upon things perishable, until convinced of the non· retaining power of sand, wood, and solid marble, he wrote it " on the hearts of men." So may we by kind words and by kind looks, by joying in each others joy, and in times of sorrow and affliction extending snch comfort and aid as lies within our power, stamp our names indelibly upon the hearts of each member of our home chapter. As the strength of :l chain is that of its weakest link, so the strength of the Sorosis is that of its weakest chapter. And as the strength of each link depends upon the power of adherence,'together with the quality of the metal of which it is composed, so the strength of each chapter depends uponthe personal efforts and personal advancement of each individnal girl.
Since the publication of the last ARROW our _number has been increased. The first week in October we initiated Miss Gertie Greenleaf, and on the evening preceding All-Hallowe'eu twenty merry, light-hearted Pi Phis met at the home of Mrs. Martha Wilson for the purpose of giving our name and badge of wine and blue to Mrs. Dr. Pittman aud Miss Fanny Thompson j the latter came among us a short time ago as teacher of science in our normal. Mrs. Wilson's parlor was prettily and appropriately decorated to suit the occasion. The initiatory services were impressive and beautiful. We were pleasantly surprised by the presence of Mrs. Clara
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Gish, who added much to the pleasure of the evening by reciting, " Asleep at the Switch," and giving us lessons in Delsarte movements, which, though they failed to work us permanent good, certainly afforded us no small amonnt of merriment. About ten o'clock the" shine" on the" cookies" began to scintillate. Its vivid flashes beamed in the faces surrounding the board. The sparkle faded as the" grub" departed. The literary programme next claimed our attention. Pi Phi songs, recitations, and music combined in rendering the passing hour a pleasant feature of the evening. After the programme we paid our best repects to a tray of delicious cream candy, and spent the remainder of the evening in a general pow-wow.
We have united our efforts with P. E. O. in endeavoring to establish a lecture course for the coming season. We hope to derive both profit and pleasure as the just reward of our com bined exertions.
Iowa Epsilon sends holiday greeting to sister chapters. Bloomfield, !owa, November 26tft, 1890.
IOWA ZETA AND KAPPA.
In a few clays our girls will be scattered for vacation. A term of solid work is closing, and the finish is hard enough to give us all an appetite for the festivities of Christmas. Our chapters have had a full share in the prosperity which has crowned the University in this, the opening of a new year. The introduction of the German seminary methods of special study is one of the new features of our work, and though this "extra" suffices to keep most of ns out of mischief, yet we have found time for a few frolics.
Our first exploit was the initiation of Mabel Rundell and Jessie J ohl1stol1 - both freshmen, and jewels, as we
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"knew before, and now 8xe snre of." This event occuned at Bertha Horak's late in September.
Next came our nutting party, wl;i:::h we know has not been excelled in the history of picnics. Boys, girls, baskets, gllllS, a tennis olltfit, and two ca,];eras this was the cargo which was unloaded from two band-wagons at the home of our sister, :Mrs. Emma Haddock, Oil that bright autumnal morning. The company cunsisted of Zeta and Kappa Chapters and a number of fi"icllcls, iac1ndillg three visiting sit;ters - Lillian Lewis, jnst retllrncd from a trip to _Europe, Mrs. Donnell, formerly Lal;ra Shipm:lll, of ZetaChapter, now living ill Minneapolis, and Edlla IVlcElravy, now teaching ill \Vest Liberty. Our hostes::;, by Mrs. Prof. Currier, received llS IllOst hospitably, anci tnrned ns loose in the beautiful grounds SllITol111ding her cr,untry home. We explored and rambled, and fed the fishes in the lake, and practiced with rifle, and gondled in the little gondola until we were weary ,md it was high noon, and the ill1nouncement of dinner called us to the heigths, literally and figuratively. The afternoon was delightfully spent in gathering nuts, etc., and when we made our adieux and started for the city the unanimolls opinion was that the day had been one of unalloyed pleasure. Thanks to the industry of our amateurs, we have a fine collection of photographs, which recall vividly the scenes of that festive day.
Our next celebration was the initiation of Bertha vVilsoll and Annie Ham. The new ceremony, etc., were employed for the first time, and the presence of Sisters Cora Ross and Bessie and Nellie Peery gave alai to this auspicious event.
On All Ha1l0we'en we had a quiet family celcbrationvery select and informal, at Sister Ella Ham':;. During the evening we had visitations from spirits, good and bad. Oile ,
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left a offering of 111arshn1allows and olives oil the door-step, the other invaded the dining-room and stole our peanut candy! The former rcappeared - in the pluralnul11bel' and masculine gender - and were permitted to join our revels. Pursuit revealed the identity of the latter. A bill for fifty cents, presented by the sorosis, was spurned. as extortionary, but conscience urged that some recompense be made, aud we received an invitation to spend the evening with Sister Hattie Cochrane-Robinson. vVe accepted with alacrity, and a company of forty enjoyed the traditional hospitality of the Cochrane household. This. bill receipted, we are square with the world, and we highly approve of this method of collecting fraternity debts.
Since this" cobweb party" we have been very temperate. Our plot to go skating on Thanksgiving fell through for the best of reasons, and we enjoyed, instead, the presence of two sisters, Emma Fordyce, of Cedar Rapids, and Carrie Rutledge, of Waterloo.
Carrie Kimball, transferring her membership from Hastings, Neb., makes the fifth additiou to Zeta Chapter this year. Kappa Kappa Gamma has initiated two and Delta Gamma one.
vVe learn with great satisfaction of the successes of our girls who are wrestling with circumstances out iu the cold world, and om love for study aud college life does not altogether smother an ambition to be with them. But we live 111 the present, and will let the future come along at its own pace.
In the best of spirits, Zeta and Kappa send Christmas . greetings to Pi Beta Phi, and a wish that "whatsoever is pure and lovely, and of good repute," may be her meed of blessing in the dawu of the New Year!
Iowa Cz'ty, December I, 1890.
MINNESOTA ALPHA.
After reCelV1l1g so many kind letters of gl-eeting from our sister chapters, we 110W feel as if we were indeed members of Pi Beta Phi. Already lye see and appreciate the advantages to be derived from Sorosis life.
We were much pleased ",ith the OetoberARRow, and found the interesting articles on chapter meetings especially helpful. We have pla1};led onr literary work for this winter, and think that it will be a valuable ana interesting addition to our college studies.
At the snggestion of Iowa lota, we called on Miss Marshall, and were glad to meet :llluther of our new sisters. VI/ e had a very pleasant call, <lEd hGpe to become better acquainted.
We are near the close of 011 r :first term, and are kept pl-etty busy at present. \;Vith !Study, [Dot-ball, and fraternities, our University is a very lil·ely place.
Since our last letter we have initiated two sisters, Tvlande Thompson and Franc M. Potter. We hope that their Sorosis life will be both a pleasure and a benefit. Next term we are to have with l'S one of our me111bers who has not been at the University this fall.
As this will be our last op]Jortlmity this year, we close with best wishes for a prospeml1s alld happy new year.
lIJz'1l11 eajoil's, l1Jzll1l., /1/{!(I('Jllocr 21st, 1890.
PERSONALS.
PERSONALS.
ILLINOIS BETA.
Sister Lizzie Wigle, '90, pays us an occasional visit.
Anna Ross spent November 21st and 22d with the Lombard Pi Phis.
Lillian Wiswell and Lizzie Durston attended our initiation, November' 20th.
Maude Conger comes up from Oneida frequently to visit the girls.
Mrs. Hattie Grubb-Hale, of Stoughton, Wis., visited us before Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Rachel Watkins-Delgren is in school this term. Her hOllle is in Minneapolis, Minn.
Sisters Gertrude and Julia Webster retnrned in October. They were unable to enter school the first of the term .
• Carrie Rice, Englewood, Ill., has been obliged to give up her worle as pastor, on account of ill health.
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Margaret Phelps ns a few weeks since. She is not in school this year..
Minnie Day has been several weeks with Alice Stuart.
Margaret Sisson is teaching in Altona this year.
Amy Sturtevant spent a week in Chicago recently.
Grace Lass brought honor to the chapter by her rendition of a declamation at a reception' given at the new parsonage of the First Congregational Church rece'ntly. '
HelenSisson is not with us this year. She expects to spend the win ter in the west.
Mame Barbers visited her Pi Beta Phi and College friends a short time ago.
A number of onr chapter took part in a Japanese wedding given in the Congregational Chnch last month - Bessie Henckley, Lou Drigge, Jessie Davidson, and May Phimister.
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IOW.\ EPSILON.
Fanny Thompson, of Iowa City, resigned her positioll as teacher of science in the Southem Iowa Normal, and returned to her home. The vacancy was filled by Mrs. Della Greealeaf-Sm\"e;'s.
Mrs. Minnie Kinnick-Shelton, of Ottumwa, Iowa, is \'isiting relatives in Bloomfield.
Mrs. Flo Hill-Knight visited JJI St. Joe, Mo., the guest of her sister, Mrs. FraJlk Hem.
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Leota Kennedy, 'S8, leaves lIext week fur Ta1:Jpoosa, Ga., where she will make her fl1ture home.
Our hearts were gladdened by a short fl"(\11I SlelIa Packer. She will be with us again next tpn!l.
Ethel Gilbert starts to-J110iTG\"" tor L,.l,'i Iigdc:s, Ca I., \'.--Ll.:rc :-,:le will spend the winter in search of better he:dth.
Flora JOhllSCl1, 'go, and 1(3 te Al i !ler Ol1r H al1;;v:c' en party.
Lydia Bradrick, (of j"wa CnllJJ!'a, through indiallola on her way hOllle
Clara Buxton nlacle the giris a •• fashionable call" i?st week.
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TLI.;lNC)lS HE'I';\.
DUNl'LEY - BAI.l.. - At Bushnell, ill., October 9th, 1::>90 , tillie Duntley to Mr. James Ball. •
IOWA J.;PSIl.ON.
TURPIN - .\ t Bloomfield, Iowa, November 19 th , 18 90, Ada Turpin to Mr. Jesse Higbee.
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Hum'I'[REY -VAN SCROY.- At Indianola, Iowa, October 1St, 1890, Louise Humphrey to Mr. S. 1.. Van Scroy, of Audubon, Iowa.
1-L\I.1.-I'ECK.-At Stuttgart, Ark., October 20th, 1890, Mary E. Hall to Mr. Frank Peck, of Indianola, Iowa.
MI'I'ClIEU,-PARKS.-At Des Moines, Iowa, September loth, 1890, Etha Mitchell to lIIr. Charles of Omaha, Neb.
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The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta gives several pages of the October issue to a review of college anllllals, interesting in the way that the productions themselves are attractive to all college-bred people, Several cuts add to the force of this review, Fmm the Cornell ian's "Yale Song" the Scroll quotes the following:
" Oh, we're the very pattern of an English uni\'ersity, We've the bOll-loll ladies, and the blue-blood aristocracy: \Ve're very old, cOllseryutive. and ha,ie our O'V11 111ythology, \Ve love to meditate upon the length of our chr.onology, For, sir, there's nothing equal to a long and noble pedigree, ABd, 'don't you know,' we started with the dawn of the last century. In fact, in genealogy, in hlood, and aristocracy, \Ve are the very pattern of an English university."
And of the R--altiro!l, of Allegheny, says:
"The hit of the book is in a series of panel illllstratiolls of Allegheny chapters, Phi lustrations show a piano 'and bass-viol, both Fratcrllz'(J' orgwl-- The Bazoo, Sedalia, Mo, Any siring membership must be able to discom-se readily on the Chinese fiddle, and re:ld Hebrew music at sight. None others Jleed apply. :1
" .' r - Cut shows rope, wires, chains, hooks, and three sail.ors hauling all a cable labeled' Faculty.' • Fratcrlll'(JI Ol"!]"tn? .•-. Po/t"ce (;Ilzcttr'. Any Ol1e de":iril1g membership h<:d better bury their cow;cienccs; Hlust be "bIe to hallClle ropes of every description, manipu18te wires, smooth anci barbed, salis gloves, and llot show any scars. None others lleed apply.'
" '" T :::. - Panels show two' swells.' • org-Ill! - DcmorEst's iJ;/(l{!"azillc. New students who contel1lnlate OJ " entering said fraternity mnst present a regularly certified·to pcdigree, be able to engage in the" mazy)) a!ld wei"r a c1res,; snit. N oue others need apply.'
"'I' C" - The pounding away in the pnlpit. , orgall - Pittsburg CIIn's//IlI/. Advomie. J.\jew mC11 expecting it bid fro111 the above order should bring with them letters of recommendation fro111 the home pastm', honorable disclwrge from the Sunday-school superintendent, and several pairs of trousers \\'ell padded at the knee. None others need apply.'
., :\ I:: ._.- Artist pictnres the • havseed' sWllIglllg his scythe. • l-:;:rail'J"7;ti), m:f"all-The Sa1l Francisco Rural Press. Stlldellts handing iu n::lll1CS llHlst belong to the battalion and [!lTamte to have bntter a1!d e,,::;"S brourrht the chapter ,-, '-' v how;e week Iv. Su nerior i 11<1 nCC11Ients offered to an" olle ..I .! getting up a club'
" K t\ U -' All young girls J0111ll1g this fratemity will be carefully looked after by the oldE!' girls, will receive aid in learning tl!eir Sunday-school leSSO!lS, and will' stand in ' with the preceptress'
" K K I" -' All ca:1didates for membership must take mllsic and elocution, write poetry, own a dark lantern, and contribute an article of fnrniture to the new' Frat' rooms.'
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This from the Garnet of Union: .
" Let the Grecian dream of his sacred stream, And sing of the brave adorning That Phcebus weaves from his lanrelleaves At the golden gates of morning; But the brook that bounds throngh Union's grounds Gleams bright as the Delphic water, And a prize as fair as a God may wear, . Is a dip from our alma mater! "
The statistics compiled from these annuals should be of in [crest to all fraternity people:
" Thcse annuals represent tweuty-five out of our sixtyfivc active chapters, and enroll just about half the active membership of the fraternity. Dartmouth is the largest, with thirty-two members, and University of North Carolina, with six, thc smallest. The average membership of tWl'lIly-fiVl' Phi chapters is eighteen. In these colleges lIIeet I: I) II seven teen times, 'I, K y and 4' l' ..I thirteen, ..I T ..I ,.1 1\ I': l'1l'Vl'll .\ Y and x ten, x .,. nine, Z 'i' and A T II ei. , . ,\ .1.", X 1, A E, alld I) ..I X six, and'" Y five. The aVE] IIIl'lIIhl'l'ship of the chapters of these' fraternities met is of ' twcnly-nint', i\ ..I ." tweuty-six, ..I)" twenty-two, ..I K E twentyt.\VO 1)..1 X nilletcclI B" II cig'htecn ." K '" sixteen ." l' ..I fif- , , , , teclI, X·" fourtcclI, [LlId ..I T ..I eleven. has the smallest average I11cmber:-;hip, 10,3 being the Humber. A further elaboration of the figures and averages will not be attempted."
And, in cOllclu:-;ion, speaks to the point:
"There are many points in annuals expressive of elegance and demerit that are not features to be picked out and specified separately. But at the same time they go to make 11p the tone of the book. There is taste to be offended here as as in society, and things may be in good form and they may be so. It is the ability to discriminate in these
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matters that helps nwke a good annual as well as extra pages of reading matter and illustrations. One page '.vith a tasty cut and a bright couplet is far superior to several pages of long drawn poetical s,ttire and poorly executed cartoons. Fine paper and a good printer are likewise esselltials, and are as !lIuch a matter of necessity as brains in the editorial CraJJ1l1111. It is the quality and not the quantity of the \\"(:;'k that calls for plaudit. The public will stop to a 'IT]] polished diamond, however small, but has little time to COlltemplate the possible beauty belleath the surface of an unpolished stone."
vVe notice the Scro/I favOl-s a conference of fraternity editors. So do many of the jOltmals. Certaillly such an arrangement should be productive of much additional zest in fraternity work.
The Rainbow, in speaking of Pan-Hellenism, says: " \Ve confess that there is much in the idea of Pan-Hel[enislll that is worth agitating a1lel working f,)r. For instance, if all, or a large 'majority, of the frater;liLies could agree (awi jJIIllZS/t brcac/zes oj tile agreement) to initiate no expelled from any other frater;)ity, a great step would be gained. If they could go eve!} farther, al.d pl"Ohibit the in, itiation of honorary melll bers, a11d mem bel'S of c12.sses below much that is most c1esi,'abie \\'Oldd be attaincd, To the of these euds we wii] lend onl" iJea;·ty IT 'fl ," f: 'I" eHorts. lere are CerC8.111 11111101" ie2ltl1reS aUXi jary te; these that might be add(:d, but beyond these we are uot prepared, at present, to go. ,', ". '" ", The scheme ontlillecl in the last Pall-Hdle1!1{ .H'ag'Il,:'t"ll(, is too bro"d even for agitation at present, like tryillg to make a gale 011 a mill-pond with a pail" of hand bellows made to a tnbfnl. The fraternity system is based 011 a definite idea the promotion
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of a spirit of true /Jroillcrlwod among a chosen set of COllg-cnial fel1ows. It is for the benefit of its members, and not outsiders. Wheu it, per se, reaches out and tries directly to meddle with the cultivation of the arts and sciences, college contests, literary or otherwise, and matters of this sort, it transcends its bounds. Let 110 one misunderstand us. vVe speak 011 one side of the question, near at hand, but not forgetful of the others. The [ra/cnlz't)f has to do with these but incidental1y."
So say we.
This magazine for October contains mllch on the subject of President Eliot's proposition to reduce Harvard's course to three years. A difficnlt task it will be to cOllvince college :t1l1ll1ui that the col1ege course of fOllr years is too long .'\nd hard, tno, to make any impression upon the large class "I' pe<>l'1<: II'ho are not college-bred, as they are not in position ''''ell to IIIHkrstand what is being talked abont.
'1'1,c /(r)' for ] line contains a pretty, womanly article".'\ \\fortl frolll the Home" - and to the point it is, too. 'I'h is kit t:r s"lIlIds the key-note to what should be meant by alld fratel'llity edllcation. Please listen while we qllote:
I, The desire fi,r learning' lIIel'ely [01' its own sake, or the delig-ht in acqlliring" aile! possessing it, is becoming more and nlOre a tllillg of the past; while the desire for thorough edncatiml for the sake of the guod to be accomplished by its use is constantly increasing, Let womel1's fraternities propagate this sentimcnt as generally as possible. Five, ten, fifteen, (lr twenty young women leaving their alma maier with the folll' yc:trs of intellectual training and this idea of IIsefulness will do' good of 110 small amount. The women II' ho become 'home-makers' are those in need of the" bes t
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,.,' L \\'111C'11 be!D11f{S nlC'. I-II\' S1-2CD . ' shr:.11 110t br.: h:::-lll:tCr.!. by gho:-:ts '1'0 S'Jciety, • :;'CHl1- >'Utlf .. chnrch, ; I \vill c'- "f' ,-, 1 "e dLl \','itiiin proper :;:
Ii T\,f'.ch 1er'c'!'ls IIi,· "'C QTadn- '- :.:' 1,l.., 1. L••. ::> l 1 ) 6 c'" u1 b <...J r:tes. ?-·Tot all thol.lght[ttl pe.rsoDs consider tilt: eXperilllent of ( higher educatioll ' [OJ: -,\'0111en a success. It is ours to so ho1c1 Ollr oym these pioneer day", that all question of its expediency will be dOll(: aw,1.Y with_ \Ve liiay well onrselves of an possible helps \\'ithia und \1,:ithout."
0('[1' ["01-1- c,' l' eo',1-}I'" --"(>1'0 or-Ilel- 1.::. .1 _t l.. lc: • .ll _,-' tn I\f. 'Y.". j>JOVC111ber issne \\ras a l' .' 1(' • rCClllctl011 111 S1ze 10rJ11, Dut pHlluer.
'1'(r"III" / ,: (.) i\:'''-\:e';pl){:''1' ;5 '.""; _L' •• ) <..'1 II \....11'· .11, l ,,,-, J L. --;.') 1.16 I '-' -l.. ne\v catalogue is ju::..:t oat, aud the are COllgratUlating tlli'::lllse1ves upon t11e founding of the chapter of th1S order Cornell 'University is re,. r 11 . ,' 1 d ' -", Z· t- (" portea 111: Ttl ,\VH.11 t 1e a nress ot 1.J!:, --,legen a of '66. This aJdress is good th:-onghoHt.We imve dready quoted, but here is something more ill the -..vay of wise advise to members lonlling a new chaptei': "But do not illsist upon
uniformity of exp'TsslOn. True manliness llIay be infinitely diville in manifestation. Creative wisdom has packed away under each skull-hone a particular kind of brain. Let fraternity leave inviolate the sacredness of Be yonrself, each of you. Think your 0'11'11 thoughts, and say them in yonr OW11 way. Let no one interfere with the fnll and free exercise of that right or of that duty. Golden ties llIust never hecome galling to a noble manhood. Our f!'atcl'l1ity had its very origin in protest against the coercing of cOllvictions. Seek men. Help them to remaiu men. lVbjorities must mle, but they will ever be considerate, if Hot of the preferences of ministers, yet certainly of their self-respect. A manly lllajOi'ity is neve)' tyrannical."
TIlt: Sepklllher number of Phi Kappa Psi's Siudd gives c<1l1!;irkr:d,ic space to the review of :1n11uals, and gives as the ,. ,'!everest t hi froJll the /lI/(!J'/cz', of LaselJ Seminary:
" OUR SENIORS.
'!'lien: :\ Sdl()\)1.
'1'lit'l'C \\'\:rt.: 1'0111' girls.
()IlC \\,;!=-, tllill,
(JIIC \\':IS sllI:dl : :1 I I( I
'I'u sl'lliol',"; all:
Olle \\,:IS r:lt, 01ll' \\·as L:dl ;
'fhey went to college, To luok for knowledge, One got it, One kept it, Olle tried it, Olle left it, A 11 together wellt away, They'll return to us some day,"
And the /i)lIowiJlg- fn)11l the /IJa/.;z·o, of Ohio State Univcrsit,Y, at Cnlllllllms:
" If eVer it should chance that a victim must be found, I've got a little list, I've g·ot a little list Of O. S. U, offenders who'd as well be undergronnd, \Vho never would be missed, who never would be missed.
.. There's the nlalhematic's tutor who conditions by the score, I've got him all the list, I've got him on the list. The prof. 's who live on essays and always cry for more, They never woul,\ he missed. they never would be missed .
.. The' blow' who boasts of 'records' alld never wins a race, j've got him 011 the list, .I've got him on the list.
The youth who smokes a cigarette alld puffs it ill your face, I kllow he'd not be missed, I know he'd not be missed. ,
The boys with lots of mOlley, who never had to work, \Vho, when they're sent to college, will all their duties shirk, Alld all examillation, will pony like a Turk, I'm sure they'd nr.t be missed, I'm sure they'd 1I0t be missed."
This same issl1e also ql1otes, without comment, the followi ng from the A Ip/;a Plti Quarter(l' : "vVonJd llllt a new era be inaugurated in the history of fraternities alllollg college women if, durin'g the World's Fair in Chicago, these societies ill the SU1l1mer of 1893 should hold their aunual conventions ill the Garden City, and on a selected evening should join in a Pan-Hellenic banqnet? This scheme seems feasible, as Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamllla, alld Gamma Phi Beta, as well as Alpha Phi, have chapters at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., which is but twelve miles distant from the second city in the union, while a chapter of Pi Beta Phi is established at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. These chapters could act as a cOlllmittee of arrangement, and make the conventions a success, and the banquet a time never to be forgotten. The railroad rates will be 111ttch reduced, so a large number of fraternity women may be expected. This would not ouly tend to bring these college and fraternity women into sweeter mld closer intercourse, would exalt to the world the benefits and privileges ill higher education of women for which our America is already famed.
Though the World's Fair is some time distant, it is not too early to be thinking about this, so each order may consider the plan at her coming convention, and there learn the pleasure of her chapters in the matter. May we not hear what the fraternity women think of this plan through the Greek-letter press."
This call from Alpha Phi should certainly meet with a hearty, quick response from sister organizations. Trne, it is not too soon to begin to talk about it. Trnly, no band of women can better be representative women than the members of college fraternities - women whose edncation is an exponent of the result of the combined influences of college education, and the sisterly association of congenial women through the four years of intellectual Doubly equip-, ped such women are for the life-work, be it in presiding over individual homes, or elsewhere. By all means, let us arrange for such a meeting at the World's Fair. Most likely a number of the fraternities could organize alumnae associations with material already in the city. All such steps can be taken at any time, it matters not how soon.
The Shield of October says of Pan-Hellenism:
"Some years ago we favored, in so far as we knew what it meant, the project so largely discussed, and so poorly understood under the title, Pan-Hellenism. As the years have gone, and we have become more versed in fraternity matters, we have lost faith in the virtue of any scheme to bring about substantial unity among Greek-letter societies along any settled lines of policy. We might just as .well nndertake to make the preposterous theories of the Oneida Commnnity, or of the Shakers, the law for family as to undertake to carry into effect the all-absorbing plans of the projectors of so-called Pan-Hellenism. * * * * * *
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The . , expeneilC:eo [,-"te,-uity jOllrnalists might have an l·"("'·-'!!·'·j ]'1' C..·"l'····,1 ··i'·'- I,,]'tl, 'P"Ofi-L'O "hem- .... , ...... '",,::> 1;:' \,... Ll \ • J • L. L selves '.'.llci iJellefit to thei!- con:;i.i!'.!ellcies. Vv'e should heartily endorse snch a !)foject: snd \voldd travel 111any a long l11ile in the hop-:,:: of seelug I)21ta Upsilon ::tlld Delta Kappa Epsilon 1'/1 ;)i"o/Jrt;[ /'('i"SOllil, without war-paint. If such a gathering is possible, count llS in_ F'o!' any 1110re elaborate gather;lIg, witlI any llwre c()lllprelicll:oive purpose than a pleasant i;Jterch:\1lge of ;llld plans, we care to have nothing to do.);
A contribn\.or to l("ppa !\lj:ll;a jiiilr;;a! -fur October deplores the fact th:.t onl.\' thn:e of the L:wclli:y.five chapters of Kappa J\.lpha have cb.apter 1-ioESe!:;., ci.l1d sllg"gests a tax of three dollars per active llle1lll.Jer be levied by tIle biennial cOllvention to niise a fU!ld to be ilsecl \vhere most advisable until all chapters al'e hOl1sed. 'fhi:; issue also contains a long editorial 011 "Choosing Carefully," the gist of which is that a chapter is' likely tv be know by its weakest member, and weak members lllllst not be chosen. The writer says: " Let us consider the cOll:·:equences of choosing an unsuitable man. 111 the first place, if the chapter i£ what it should be, he is lll]congenial. Trne fellowship never exists between him and his fellows. The fratemity feeling is like a current of electricity, if there is one part of the circuit partaking of the lIz,ture of a non-conductor, its force is lost. No chapter call be what it should be if there is one cold member. To the members initiated after him he sets a bad example. His influence \,,·ill spread, to some extent, in the choosing of men, and there is a possibility of many such becoming members, anel a likelihood of eventual death t,) the chapter.
" If he does not stand well as a student, he fails to comIlland the esteem of the faculty, which is highly desirable. He reduces the average of the chapte:' in its report; he wins no honor but necessarily shares that \\'on by othCi'S; he leads the younge;' members ill the conr2e, Ii he is immoral, he, by his conduct, brings shame UPOll his fellows in ways so well known as to need no amplifying here. 'I, * *
" Then, brothers, in the coming year, be careful in selecting those to Wh0111 you intrust the secrets and truths of your fraternity, Be careful to whom you open the doors f)f your hall j to whom you open the doors of your heart. Be careful in choosing companions for your young manhood,
" If a fraternity means anything beyolld friendship, it is the striving for lofty principles and sterling worth, . It means the yearning and strnggling for rounded character and perfect manhood, and he who fails to contribute to attaining these ends is a weight that holds men to the baser and lower things j impeding their efforts to rise.
"In choosing a member of a chapter there are three things which should be looked to, namely: The man's personal character, the man's congeniality to the members who elect him, the man's standing in college; bnt the last is the least important, though by no means unimportant. If, upon rigid inspection, he is found to be up to the average fraternity man in all three respects, he should be considered eligible to membership; if he fails in one, he should not be further considered,"
GREEK AND COLLEGE NOTES.
The \Vashinglon and New York alillnni of Sigma Chi have been holding meetings and enjoiyng banqnets after the most approved method. An organized alumni chapter now exists in each city. May the good work go on. Chicago alumni are discussing a similar step.
The Delta Psi's went into their new chapter house at the University of Mississippi about cOllllnencement, '89.
Pennsylvania College is prosperolls. In 1889 she had a new building costing $80,000, and the.Brua Memoriai Chapel costing $20,000, and the old buildings repaired.
Alpha Tau Omega has a new chapter at 'vVashillgton and Lee.
A well-equipped gymnasiulll is amll11g the improvements of Washington and Lee University.
A $I5,000 library building adorns the campus of the University of Mississippi.
The Illdiailapolis School of Music has become a part of Butler University.
Randolph-Macon College has a new sCIence hall costing $13,000.
The departnients of medicine and engineering are added this year to the University of North Carolina.
Cornell University has a new $80,000 chemical building, and a new library building, said to be the finest college library building in the United States.
Tuition is free in the University of Minnesota except in law and medicine, a fee of $5 per year for incidentals being the only charge.
. Delta Upsilon is to have a chapter home at Rochester, Cornell, and Rl1tger this year. The VhScollsin home is nearly complete. The 1'1'lillllesota Chapter begins chapter life in its own house - the only case record.- Ouarterly.
The greatest El1111ber of students in attendance at any· coilege in this coulltry is 2,500, at Anu Arbor.-Ex.
Four hundred and thirty-six of thc students in the GerlTlan Universities are from America.- Ex.
The University of Minnesota has a nell' chemical and physical laboratory costing $roo,ooo.
The laying of the ·corner-stone of the Dartmouth Y. M. C. A. building took place in October.
Kappa Kappa Gamma has entered the University of Pennsy Ivania.
A science hall IS 111 process of construction at M iama University. Senator Brice has duplicated the state appropriation of $15,500.
A library building has just been completed at Indiana University.
A $20,000 building for preparatory work has just been completed at Butler University.
Kappa Alpha Theta's home made a 111l1ch-to-be-col1gratlllated entree into the University of California.
Phi Delta Theta's have a new chapter-house at Cornell.
Delta Tau Delta's chapter-house at Cornell Uuiversity cost $II,OOO.
At· Pennsylvania College Phi G-amma Delta has the foundation of her l"di;e hid, and E.igma Chi has petitioned for ground 011 which to build.
ARROW.
A bequest of $40,000 to the Union Chapter of Sigma Phi means a new honse.
The year 1890 ,vi!1 see more chapter-houses come into the possession of the fraternity tllan any previous year in onr history. Thc Rochester Chapter is bnilding a handsome hOllle; the Cornell Chapter is to erect a fine structure, of which an ellgravillg appears ill this Humber. Plans are being drawn for the Rutger's house. The vVisconsin house is nearl}' completed, ami along comes Minnesota, the bab)! chapter, with the announcement that they will commence housekeeping' this f:dl in a cosy sixteen-room house. This is the first one of 0111' chapters that has ever started with a honse. The :\li!1l\esota men are bound to succeed. Thev have the vim aUc11JllSh necessarv to build up a.powerful chapter and win glory and hOllOr for Delta Upsiloll. The Rutger's clw?teJ' iJas just experienced anllllprecedentec1 piece of good fortune. Po;' some time past they have been couducting ncgotiatio;:;; for the purchase of a plot of ground npon which to build, a chapter-house. The papers were drawn up and the first pa.Ylllent of the $5,000 involved was about to be made, when word came that the pwner had decided to make them a present of the ground! Such generous action should meet with hea!·ty response among Rutger's men, and cause the ert.ction of a strncture befitting its liberal commencemcnt. This is the gift ever made to one of our chapters, alld it prdnLiy bas but one equal in all other fraternities.- Dc/ta Upsilon Quarterly (or August.
Theta Delta Chi 011 May 10th celebrated the completion and occupancy of their new house at Hamilton College.
Sigma Chi has decided to take steps toward huilding a <II Province chapter home at j ndianapolis, Tlid.
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Alpha Delta Phi's will build a three-story chapter-house at Trinity.- Scroll Pin' Della Tileta.
" '1'h<: floor was pe!'fect, the music was heavenly, the banqll<:t was glOl'iollS, and the girls celestial."- Chapter letter III Sillr:/d of Phi Kappa Psi.
Can (/Il)ibod)! gush more than <l boy?
Colgate and her friends are sl11'prised this year because of a freshman class of more than fifty, one of the largest <:lasses that ever entered the institntion.
The 1!ew chemical buildi1lg is in process of construction at the State University of IO',l'a; also a haudsome Y. M. C. A. bnildillg costing $25,000.
Olle of A11n Arbor's students has' been appointed to a profc!:'sors1:ip in Heidelberg Uni'o'ersity. This is the first instan<:<: fill record in which an Americall has been appointed to a chair ill :t Ger11lan University.-Ex.
!\ 1ll'1I' fraLcrility has appeared at the University of Michig;'I!, It i,; called "A. E. I.," and confines its 'memberIII I he h<iic,; ill tllC In<:clical dep:lrt1l1cnt, The pin is a lil'c-I'"illlt:d :;1;11', Ill;,: lctLcr:,; "A. E. 1." bcing pJaced in three I'!.l:lll:;, whik :l snpcllt\; head appeal's a little above the cent e 1'.- ,.1/i' //(/ /'/1/ [} /Ii II 1'1'1/1'.
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TR.!"; ARROW.
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