Asa phoenix vol 15 no 3 mar 1929

THE PHOENIX of ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA --------' VoLUME XV

MARCH , 1929

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Published in November, January, .March, May and Jul y of each year at No. 30 North Ninth Street, Richmond, Indiana, by the Nicho lson Printing Company, for the Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority having headquarters at 56 Mered ith Circle, Mi lton, Mass. Bus ine ss correspondence may he addressed to either office, but matter for publication and correspondence concerning the same shou ld be addressed to Gertrude D. Halbritter, Editor, 56 Meredith Circle, Milton , Mass.

Entered as second·class matter September 4, 1923, at the post office at Richmond , Ind., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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NATIONAL COUNCIL President-Mrs. Wm. Holmes Martin, A and AA, 5 Cobden St., Boston, 19, Mass.

Vice-President-Miss Minnie 1\'f. Shockley, rr, 709 College Ave., Alva, Oklahoma.

Graduate Secretary-Miss Katherine B. I evius, HH, 315 North 8th St., Neodesha, Kansas.

Treasurer-Miss Grace G. Fultz, 6.6., Rushville, Ohio.

ChaplainRegistrar-Mrs. Fred M. Sharp, ZZ, 1405 Hardy St., Independence, Mo. Undergraduate Secretary-Miss Leona Wilcox, I I , 19 16 44th St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Editor-Miss Gertrude D. Halbritter, ®®, 56 Meredith Circle.

Milton, Mass.

BOARD OF ADVISERS Alpha Alpha-Miss Amy M. Swisher, "The Tallawanda," Oxford, Ohio.

Alpha Beta-Miss Ethel Hook, 202 Conner Apts., Kirksville, Mo. Alpha Gamma-Miss Ethel A. Belden, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa. Beta Beta-Mrs. Lester Opp, . 717 17th St., Greeley, Colo.

Gamma Gamma-Miss Minnie M. Shockley, 709 College Ave., Alva, Okla.

Delta Delta-Mrs. Howard L. Goodwin, Box 215, Athens, Ohio.

Epsilon Epsilon-Miss Edna McCullough, 1017 Rural St., Emporia, Kansas.

Zeta Zeta-Mrs. Orlo R. Nattinger, 108 South St., Warrensburg, Mo.

Eta Eta-Miss Jane M. Carroll, 706 South Broadway, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Theta Theta-Mrs. Wm. Holmes Martin, 5 Cobden St., Boston, 19, Mass.

Iota Iota-Mrs. W. F. Barr, 2842 Rutland Ave., Des Moines, Iowa.

Kappa Kappa-Mrs. Sherman H. Doyle, 1804 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Lambda LambdaMu Mu-Miss Estelle Bauch, 408 Emmet St., Ypsilanti, Mich.

Nu Nu-Miss Mildred Burdett, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Xi Xi-Mrs. Martin E. Jarvis, 1328 N. Brand St., Glendale, Calif.

Omicron Omicron-Miss Ada Hyatt, 325 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio.

Pi Pi-Miss Elizabeth B. Small, 18 Ashland Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Sigma Sigma-Miss Lucy E. Spicer, Western State College, Gunnison, Colo.

Tau Tau-Miss Elizabeth J. Agnew, State Teachers College.

Hays, Kansas.

Upsilon Upsilon-Mrs. E. Basil Hawes, Granville, Ohio.

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Phi PhiChi Chi-Miss Mary C. Turner, 2126 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.

BOARD 0F SUPERVISORS Finance-Miss Helen L. Bennett, 362 Chapin St., Toledo, Ohio.

Service-Miss Evelyn G. Bell, 8 E. Depew St., Buffalo, N .Y. Membership-Mrs. Edgar M. Neptune, 86 Westbourne Terrace, Brookline, Mass.

Program-Miss elle L. Gab rielson, 1530 Twenty-eighth St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Activities-Miss Ina M. Bain, 28 Flynt St., Atlanti<,:, Mass.

ROLL OF COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Alpha-Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Alpha Beta-State Teachers College, Kirksville, Mo. Alpha Gamma-State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa. Beta Beta-State Teachers College, Greeley, Colo.

Gamma Gamma-State Teachers College, Alva, Okla.

Delta Delta-Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Epsilon Epsilon-State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas.

Zeta Zeta-State Teachers College, Warrensburg, Mo. Eta Eta-State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Theta Theta-Boston University, Boston, Mass.

Iota Iota-Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Kappa Kappa-Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. Lambda Lambda-Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Mu Mu-State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Nu Nu-Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Xi Xi-University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.

Omicron Omicron-State Teachers College, Kent, Ohio.

Pi Pi-State Teachers College, Buffalo, N. Y. Sigma Sigma-Western State College, Gunnison, Colo.

Tau Tau-State Teachers College, Hays, Kansas.

Upsilon Upsilon-Denison University, Granvilie, Ohio.

Phi Phi-State Teachers College, Maryville, Mo. Chi Chi-Indianapolis Teachers College, Indianapolis, Ind.

CHAPTER HOUSES Alpha Beta-501 N. Elson Street, Kirksville, Mo. Beta Beta-1732 Eleventh Ave., Greeley, Colo.

Delta Delta-127 E. State Street, Athens, Ohio.

Epsilon Epsilon-924 Market Street, Emporia, Kans.

Zeta Zeta-304 E. Culton Street, Warrensburg, Mo. Eta Eta-1206 S. Broadway, Pittsburg, Kans.

Iota Iota-2901 Rutland Ave., Des Moines, iowa.

Kappa Kappa-1826 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

Lambda Lambda-38 Seventeenth Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Mu Mu-507 Congress Street, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Xi Xi-768 N. Edgemont, Los Angeles, Calif.

Sigma Sigma-422 Pine St., Gunnison, Colo.

Tau Tau-425 VI!. Juanita St., Hays, Kans.

Phi Phi-522 N. Market St., Maryville, Mo. Chi Chi-2428 N. Talbot St., Indianapolis, Ind.

EX-COLLEGIO SECRETARIES Alpha Alpha-Georgia R. Turner, 2061 E. 100th St., Cleveland, Ohio.

Alpha Beta-Mrs. Kennerly Woody, 3889 Meramec St., St. Louis, Mo. Alpha Gamma-Mrs. Glenn H. Ferguson, 7511 Hutchinson Ave., Swissvale, Pa., ell H. Russell, 940 Water St., Indiana, Pa. Beta BetaGamma Gamma-Louella Harzman, 917 Flynn Ave., Alva, Okla.

Delta Delta-Lauretta Suntheimer, 130 Thorne Ave., Massillon, Ohio.

Epsilon Epsilon-Mrs. Everette R. Barr, 818 Market St., Emporia, Kans.

Zeta Zeta-Mrs. Leslie A. McMeekin, 201 W. Iorth St., Warrensburg, Mo. Eta Eta-Mrs . Wm. Clyde Bryant, 224 N. Eighteenth St., Kansas City, Kans. ' .

Theta Theta--Miss Edith M. Berntson, 15 Linnaean St., Cambridge, Mass.

Iota Iota-Edith T. Burr, 1014 26th St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Kappa Kappa-Mrs. Nevins W. Todd, 112 William St., Salisbury, Md. Lambda Lambda-Gwendolyn Singleton, 2662 Glenmawr Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Mu Mu-Mrs. Otto E. Nickel, 55 S. Vlilson Blvd., Mount Clemens, Mich. u Nu-M. Elizabeth Darlington, Merchantsville, N. J. Omicron Omicron-Ethel McMaster, Youngstown, Ohio.

Pi Pi-Miss Mary S. Lennie, 52 Bremen St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Tau Tau-Geraldine Reinecke, 2812 16th St., Great Bend, Kans.

Upsilon Upsilon-M . Louise Ralston, 1728 W . Main St., Newark, Ohi o.

Phi P hi-Mrs. Robert Mountj oy, 222 W. Cooper St., Maryville, Mo. Chi Chi-M rs. 0. K. Gaskins, 3356 Broadway, Indianapolis, Ind.

CITY ASSOCIATION SECRET ARIES Alva, Oklahoma--Mrs. J. A. Lane, 801 Center St., A lva.

Boston, Mass.-Edith A. Howlett, 40 Newtonville Ave., Newton.

Cherokee, Okla.-Ione Clark, Cherokee.

Chicago, IlL-Ann Brewington, 5701 Kenwood Ave., Chicago.

Cleveland, Ohio-Ethel E. Goddard, 1839 Knowles Ave., East Cleveland.

Columbus, Ohio-Ruth Blenkner, 170 Olentangy St., Columbus.

Denver, Colo.-Elvira Bjork, 3439 S. Grant St., Denver.

Des Moines, Iowa----,.Mrs. W . H. Carver, 311 Lorraine Ap ts., Des Mo ines.

Detroit, Mich.-Helen A. Cypher, 640 Delaware St., Detroit.

Emporia, Kans.-Mrs. Harry W . Everett, 10 E. Wilmah Ct., Emporia.

Greeley, Colo.-Ethelyne Rhiner, 1018 14th St., Greeley.

Huntington, W. Va. -Doris L. Feeley, 2547 Third Ave., Huntington.

Indianapolis, Ind .-Dorothy Darrough, Lebanon, Ind .

Kansas City, Mo.-Mary Grubbs, 3409 Wyandotte St., Kansas City.

Los A ngeles, Calif-Lilli an Cri swell, 254 S. Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles.

Neodesha, Kans.-Lucy Clinkenbeard, N. 8th St., Neodesha.

New York, N. Y.-Rosamond Root, 520 W. 122nd St., New York City.

P hiladelphia, Pa.-· Pittsburg, Kans.-Nellie N. Ross, 602 N. Elm St., Pittsburg.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Mrs. Harlan G. Wilson, Zelienople, Pa. Toledo, Ohio-Helen Robinson, 1005 Shadow Lawn Drive, Toledo.

Warrensburg, Mo.-Mrs. Marion F. Parker, R. R. 4, Warrensburg.

EDITORIAL STAFF Edito1'-in-Chief

Gertrude D. Halbritter, 56 Me redith Circle, Milton, Mass.

Chapter Editors

A lpha Alpha-Wilma Fistner, 23 Hepburn Hall, Oxford, Ohio.

A lpha Beta- Mildred Carpenter, 207 E. Normal St., Kirksville, Mo. Alpha Gamma-Josephine Buchanan, Box 605, Indiana, Pa. · Beta Beta- M rs. Boyce Newell, 1016 15th St., Greeley, Colo.

Gamma Gamma-Margaret Wallace, 727 College Ave., Alva, Okla.

Delta Delta-Ruth Zimmerman, 127 E. State St., Athens, Ohio.

Epsilon Epislon-Ruth Nation, 805 Union St., Emporia, Kans.

Zeta Zeta-Berne Heberling, 107 Ming St ., ·w arrensburg, Mo. Eta Eta-Ruth E. Shriver, 220 W. Jefferson St., P ittsburg, Kans .

Theta Theta-Dorothy Bixby, 82 E lgin St., Newton Center, Mass.

Iota Iota-Alice Eck, 720 E. 6th St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Kappa Kappa-Anne Willauer, 1808 N. Park Ave., P hiladelphia, Pa. Mu M u-June Schwalm, 509 Congress St., Ypsilanti ,Mich.

Nu Nu-Dorothy Williamson, 17 Woodbine Ave., Narberth, Pa. Omicron Omicron-Fidelia Farnum, 124 S. Mantua St., Kent, O hio.

X i Xi-Do roth y Brown, 122 S. New Hampshire St., L os Angeles, Calif.

Pi Pi-Dorothy Marley, Attica, N. Y. Sigma Sigma-Elizabeth Johnston, Gunnison, Colo.

Tau Tau-Dorothy Morrison, 332 W. Juanita, Hays, Kans.

Upsilon Upsilon-Fern E. Channell, Beaver Hall, Granville, O hio.

Phi Phi-Hildred Fitz, 209 S. Market St., Maryville, Mo. Chi Chi-Harriet Pollock, 2062 N . New J ersey St., Indianapolis, Ind.

ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL SORORITIES Chairman-Miss Minnie M. Shockley, AlA, 709 College Ave., Alva, Okla.

Secretary-Mrs. C. P. Neidig, IIKl, 23 Lockwood Court Apt., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Treasurer-Mrs. Orley See, 6.lE, 448 Wildwood Ave., Piedmont, Calif.

Director of Local Panhellenics-Miss Florence Eckert, ®lY, 413 Ballard St., Ypsilanti, Mich.

Director of City . Panhellenics-Miss Ada Norton, AlT, 510 Pearl St., Ypsilanti, Mich.

Representative of lll-Miss Mabel L. Walton, Woodstock, Va.

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The New Boston University A le xa nder Graham B e ll T owe r, Co ll ege of Li be ra l Art s on th e Ri ght, Co ll ege of B us i ness Ad m i ni s tra ti on on the Left.

THE PHOENIX lre~ple's C]rotvth The slogan for Temple University is "Grow." And during the year !928, keeping this thought fixed deeply in mind and heart, the University made wondrous and unexpected strides in attaining its goal. The seed planted by Dr. Conwell in love and faith is growing into the mighty oak.

The first little step in the growth of the school was the erection of an eighth story on Conwell Hall. This furnished a little relief for the congested halls and overcrowded classrooms but a greater remedy was 'needed. And so the Conwell Foundation Fund was created. Pennies, dollars, from students, faculty, and . friends all over the country poured in to the fund's coffers.

Soon it became evident that the University could begin work on the second unit of "The Temple of Learning." The plans had already been drawn up and a model constructed. On either end of the Temple of Learning are two eight-story buildings.

Connected to each of these buildings are the two twelve-story units, and in the middle of the group will be reared the twentyfour-story tower. It will occupy a square block in space.

Those old dorms that had stood on Broad Street so long and proudly were torn down and many of the girls sighed to see the walls crumble to ruin. Pleasant memories will always linger in our hearts when we think of those venerable halls. In their place the foundation for the first twelve-story unit was excavated. And as the work on this building advanced, there came the welcome news at the football banquet last year that Charles B. Erny had donated $roo,ooo for a stadium. Work on this new development began immediately and within a twinkling of the eye, it seems, the bowl was finished. It had been erected in record time at a finished cost of more than $3oo,ooo. (A description of this bowl appeared in another issue of THE PHOENIX.)

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Erection of the twelve-story section has progressed so rapidly that the dedication exercises will be held on February fifteenth, as the feature of the Founder's Day program. The second unit is built in collegiate Gothic style. It has a frontage of sixty feet on Broad Street, and sets back thirty feet from the front line of Conwell Hall. This space will serve as a miniature campus and entrance to the building. The book store and post-office will be in the basement, Student Council and other organization offices on the ground floor in addition to a large assembly hall or auditorium. The Home Economics Department with kitchens, dressmaking and millinery laboratories will be extended through Conwell Hall to the fourth floor. An exercise hall and two small gymnasiums will occupy the sixth floor: ·Studios and ateliers for the art department will be situated on the twelfth floor.

Other floors will be devoted to classrooms.

One of the big developments the new building will provide for in education is a modern nursery school. Temple is one of the first universities to provide this training and create a nursery education department.

Immediately upon the completion of this section work will be begun on the tower. This is made possible through Cyrus H . K. Curtis' mu:1ificent Christmas gift of $soo,ooo to the · University.

And while this extensive building program is being carried on at the college buildings the professional schools are also developing. A site for a new medical college building has been procured and work on the erection of this will begin in the ne ar future.

Dr. Conwell's dreams are coming true.

Buffalo's New Campus State Teachers College at Buffalo, formerly Buffalo State Normal School, will move within a few years into the beautiful and spacious buildings to be erected on the ninety-one acres taken from the State Hospital grounds at Elmwood and Forest avenues. The City of Buffalo will construct a boulevard one hundred six feet wide and over one-half mile in length which

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will separate the hospital property from the College grounds.

The tract of land set aside will be ample to provide for a football gridiron, a baseball diamond, tennis courts, and several new buildings, as needed for future years. The pressing requirements of the present indicate a necessity for a girls' dormitory in the near future. The proximity of Delaware Lake will provide for boating and for such winter sports as skating and hockey.

It is the general concensus of opinion that nowhere in the city could a more advantageous location have been found. It combines beauty of unusual park and landscape effects with and atmosphere of cultural and educational achievement, already assured by the presence in the neighborhood of the classic Albright Art Gallery, the McKinley Vocational School, a branch of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, a prospective open air theater and a beautiful Historical Building.

There will be four main college buildings, arranged in a quadrangle. The !\lain college building will front Elmwood A venue. On the opposite side of the quadrangle will be the gymnasium and swimming pool. On one side there will be the practice school and opposite it the vocational building, housing both the Home Economics Department and the men's Vocational Training Department.

THE NEW BOSTON UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS As the tower of St. Botolph rises from the banks of the Witham River to dominate the skyline of Boston, England, the Alexander Graham Bell Memorial tower will some day crown the assemblage of buildings of a united Boston University situated on the Charles within sight of two of New England's other great educational institutions, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Such is the plan as shown to the Board of Trustees by President Daniel L. Marsh. A set of photographs of the block plans and perspective drawings prepared by the Associated Architects, were exhibited at the last Trustee dinner and are now hanging in the president's office. These drawings of the new Boston University show that work has been done toward the erection of these buildings on the fifteen acres of University property on

THE PHOENIX Commonwealth Avenue below the new Cottage Farm bridge.

President Marsh does not predict when work will commence on the new buildings, but feels sure that the time is not far distant when New England's largest educational institution will have an adequate home for all of its departments. The development will require, it is estimated, approximately fifteen million dollars to carry through the complete program.

The new buildings have been designed with facilities for almost double the present enrollment of the university. In the plans are quarters for dormitories for men and for women, as well as a teaching hospital and a huge auditorium. Within the fifteen acres of buildings will be a complete city. When that university city will be complete is largely dependent on the degree of generosity of those friends of Boston University who see in this development an unparalleled opportunity to do something distinctly artistic for America's greatest cultural center.

A close survey of the plans reveal that on the extreme east end of the campus, which is the section toward Copley Square, the School of Medicine will be located. In this same section will be other units connected with this department, such as a teaching hospital, a private hospital, and the Evans Memorial.

Occupying a central location on this some part of the campus will be the administration building.

The central group of buildings will have as its outstanding feature the Alexander Graham Bell Memorial tower, which will be dedicated to that noted scientist who invented the telephone while a member of the Boston University faculty. Flanking either side of this tower will be C. B. A. and C. L. A. This unit will be erected on the Charles River edge of campus. In front of the Tower will be a large quadrangle surrounded by other buildings in the same unit. The Physics and Chemistry laboratories and the School of Education will be on the east end of the quadrangle. On the other side of this quadrangle will be the Robinson Memorial Chapel, located between the two units housing the School of Theology and S. R. E., respectively. On either side of the entrance to this quadrangle will be men's dormitories.

Extended to this unit on the side with the Memorial tower by the river will be women's dormitories. The School of Law will be on the Commonwealth Avenue side with more men's dormitories. These will form another quadrangle.

THE PHOENIX The third unit will be principally the huge auditorium, but the front section of this building will be for P. A. L. The College of Music and the Art School will have quarters on floors above the auditorium. The upper section of this building toward the river will be for more women's dormitories. On the extreme west end of this part of the campus will be the power plant for the entire Boston University.-B. U. News.

THE NEW BOSTON UNIVERSITY CLUB HOUSE A new era in intercollegiate athletic competition is marked by the construction of a unique clubhouse on the Nickerson Recreation Field. The building is the gift of B. D.'s greatest benefactor in recent years, William E. Nickerson, a trustee of the University and the donor of the funds used to purchase Nickerson Field.

Mr. Nickerson is providing Boston University with just such a clubhouse which will also be suitable for social gatherings by students at such times as it is not occupied by athletic squads.

No other college or university has accommodations quite like this. Dartmouth and Cornell have field houses where the visiting teams and coaches are quartered, but the "home" athletes live in separate buildings. At Columbia and Syracuse the "home" team lives in a single house, but no special arrangements are made for visiting squads. Boston University will not only house its own athletes on Nickerson Field, but under the same roof will furnish food and sleeping accommodations for the visiting squads with separate rooms for both coaching staffs.

The athletes will not dress or prepare for the game in the new building, but will continue to use the lockers and showers in the old wooden field house for this purpose.

The new clubhouse will be a two-story building of cement and wooden construction. Provision is being made s.o that the roof will serve as a roof-garden and will be suitable for dances in warm weather. Above the door of the clubhouse will be bronze enameled letters forming the official name of the building, The William E. Nickerson Clubhouse.

It is being erected on the plot of land just west of the present wooden field house and directly opposite the tennis courts.

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The New Boston University "I have been careful to warn all those with whom I have talked on this subject that they must not expect to see this plan consummated at once. It is a long forward look that we are taking. It will be a long hard pull before we reach the goal. But we shall get there some time if we steadily keep at it-all at it-always at it-all at it in all ways." (See Annual Report, page 22.)

--PRESIDENT DANIEL T. MARSH. Quotation from President Marsh ' s Ann11al Report relative to the proposed · new buildings for Boston University.

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This is almost midway between the gridiron and the baseball diamond.

Between the two wings of the clubhouse will be a pergola almost completely covered by a thin roof. This will serve as a protection against sun and rain, since the floor of the pergola will be of red and white blocks of tile suitable for open-air dancing.

On the first floor of the west wing of the clubhouse provision will be made for a study room to be used by athletes living in the building. There will be individual study desks. A special room will be designed for the faculty supervisor in one corner of this wing, so located that the supervisor will be able to sit at his own desk and yet command a view of the entire room through a glassed-in section of his room. When not used for studying, this wing of the clubhouse, with its huge fireplace, will serve as a lounge room.

The main section of this floor will be used as a dining hall with accommodations for qo people. All crockery and silverware used in this dining hall will be inscribed with the University seal surrounded by the words, "Nickerson Clubhouse."

Adjoining the mess hall will be a modernly equipped kitchen with facilities for preparing a great banquet.

All of the second floor will be devoted to sleeping quarters for both home and visiting teams. This floor is divided into two identical sections with sleeping accommodations for 40 men in each half. There will be four beds in each of the coaches' rooms, which occupy corresponding positions in each wing. Beds used by the athletes will be of the upper and lower berth variety.

Not only does this clubhouse adequately fill the needs of B. D.'s commuting athletes, but it also gives this University a distinctive place among institutions engaged in intercollegiate competition. Within this clubhouse the two teams who meet on the field of sport will have a real opportunity to become acquainted. Thus the true spirit of intercollegiate competition will be encouraged. Such a plan has been the dream of Prof.

Harry B. Center, head of the department of Journalism, who first made the proposaL-B. U. News.

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THE GIFTS OF CYRUS H. K . .CURTIS The new Engineering Building of Drexel Institute, with equipment costing $6oo,ooo, is nearly completed. This building has been erected on a plot of ground seventy feet by one hundred and two feet, immediately to the east of Randall Hall. This building is the gift of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, a member of the Board of Trustees of Drexel Institute, whose gifts include funds for the Engineering Building, a new pipe organ in the college auditorium, as well as a number of cash gifts.

Curtis Hall, as it is called, is four stories in height and includes Mechanical, Civil, Chemical and Electrical Engineering laboratories, in addition to a number of class and drawing rooms.

A modern and adequate gymnasium, a long felt need at Drexel, is included in the new·structure. The new gym in comparison to the old one, has a higher ceiling, a good ventilation system, and is well lighted. The equipment includes modernized locker, shower and dressing rooms, facilities for boxing, and special rooms and showers for officials. The balcony seats more than five hundred.

The roof, too, will be utilized to a considerable extent for outdoor athletic events, including a running track, baseball cage and similar facilities. Work on the roof,is not yet finished and is being rushed. The building conforms in general to the present architectural style of the Institute and is of fireproof construction.

The cornerstone-laying exercises were held on October 8, 1928, and were quite impressive. "Another tool to help you to help yourselves!" That is the purpose for which the Hall was built, Mr. Curtis told the students in his address. The memorial box was put in place by Dean J. Peterson Ryder and was sealed by the donor of the building. The box contained copies of all Drexel publications, including last year's book, coins, catalogues of all departments, rosters of faculty and trustees and a copy of tpe Public Ledger.

Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, brought greetings from the University, and declared that D~exel was a noted example of the popular appeal of higher education. He gave a pleasing tribute to President Matheson,

THE PHOENIX when he said "it is always a peculiar pleasure to join in occasions when Dr. Matheson's great work is recognized publicly."

A $25o,ooo pre-Christmas gift to Drexel Institute consisted of a large plot of ground on Chestnut Street adjoining the new Curtis Hall. Again Cyrus Curtis was the "Good Samaritan."

This latest gift means the college consists of a whole block of ground.

A,t the time the land was purchased there were buildings of the Philadelphia Lawn Mower Company standing, but already these have been demoli.shed and the new plot is available for college activities.

For the next year, at least, the land will be improved and used as a drill ground for the R. 0. T. C. unit and a hockey field for the girls' hockey team. Later it is hoped the students will use the gift to the best possible advantage ·by erecting a Y. M. C. A. or recreation building on the land and developing it into a campus community .center.

The ground has a frontage of ro8 feet running from Thirtyfirst Street to Curtis Hall on the west and extending back to Ludlow Street a distance of 199 feet.

Since Dr. Matheson resigned the presidency of Georgia Tech to become President of Drexel, well over $2,ooo,ooo has been added to the plant and endowment fund, the college enrollment has more than doubled, the standards of the institution have been raised and Drexel has been made an essential factor in the industries of the city and its environs through the co-opera· tive engineering and business administration courses.

THE PROPOSED COLLEGE UNION BUILDING AT YPSILANTI Forty-seven campus societies at the Normal College suffer from the lack of a place in which to hold meetings. The hospitality of faculty homes is strained to the breaking point to provide for the gatherings of these growing organizations. Many are kept from expanding by the pressure of inadequate accommodations. The College can provide no center for them. It lends all it has, the gymnasium, Starkweather Hall (theY. W. C. A. building),. and class rooms, for meeting places. The

THE PHOENIX weekly after-supper hour of dancing and various large gatherings are wedged in between periods of basketball practice and other athletic activities in the gymnasium. To Starkweather Hall are shunted student "mixers," banquets, parties, meetings everything that cannot get into the gymnasium. These buildings are filled with their own activities, they are unsuited to social purposes and they are wholly unequal to the demand of student societies. The Union will provide central headquarters adequate for all campus needs.

The young men and women of the College should have opportunity to meet socially under the best of auspices. Coeducation demands this. Coeducation does not mean simply that young men and women shall study the same lessons and recite to the same teachers. It also means that they shall carry on the common interests of college life in co-operation. The Union would provide a fitting center for these common activities.

The plans for the Union are the outcome of a careful and extended survey of the needs which it is to serve. They represent the combined judgment of students, faculty and alumni.

Its location will be near the campus center. The building is to be a hospital structure, consisting of a central portion of three stories, flanked by two-story wings, and a basement floor which extends under the whole.

On the first floor the right wing is to contain a spacious lounge for women, and the left, one for men, with social parlors open_to both in the central unit between. These lounges will afford opportunity for informal social contact and discussion among students, alumni, and visitors, the ·chance for undergraduates to "really talk and know each other," for visitors and · alumni to chat, confer, and rest. The cafeteria, directly opposite the entrance, and the small dining rooms opening from it will take care of the varied need of students, faculty and guests. Manager an_d hostess, with headquarters on this floor, will be readily accessible to make all the comforts of the Union available to users.

Above the cafeteria Of1 the second floor a banquet hall and a dance floor with a stage at one end will take care of large College and student affairs, and provide for the needs of the Dramatic Club. The alumni office, the headquarters for the

THE PHOENIX Men's Union, the Women's League, and committee rooms will be conveniently located in the central portion above the social parlors. Left and right wings provide club rooms for men and women, respectively.

Above and removed from the busy stir of these quarters will be the guest rooms on the third floor. The windows of these cozy rooms will look out on the campus. Here visiting alumni or guests of the College and of students may be comfortably lodged, apart from the activities of the Union, yet with all its facilities at their disposal.

Game rooms in the basement will center on t~e campus much of the recreational life now scattered in various places downtown. A barber shop and hair dressing and sewing rooms will minister to the personal needs of students and visitors. On this floor will be concentrated the kitchens and service quarters.

The architectural style of the Union harmonizes with that of the new College buildings and forms a part of the plan for the future campus which is the basis of the present building program. As this plan unfolds, the College is making use of its 107 acres of potential campus to draw back from the busy traffic of the town and to solidify itself as a physical unit. New equipment, including a library, a men's gymnasium, an elementary practice school, classrooms and dormitories, will gradually gather on this campus. The old main building will be superseded by the new classroom building and . the campus scheme rearranged to complete the quadrangle already begun by the erection of recent structures. In the plan for the greater Normal College, the Union is a necessity as a center of campus life, immediately and in years to come.

THE HORACE MANN ELEMENTARY TRAINING SCHOOL Horace Mann School houses the kindergarten and the first six grades of the Training School. It is owned by the city of Pittsburgh, but operated by the College. The building, completed late in 1927, is one of the best structures of its kind in the country.

The building was designed by Charles A. Smith, architect, 8oo Finance Building, Kansas City, Mo. It was erected by the

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city of Pittsburgh and turned over to the College for training school purposes. The total cost, including the lot, was $r3r,ooo.

The school is equipped and staffed entirely by the state and is under the direct administration of the College, co-operating with the city superintendent of schools.

It is located just across the street from the College campus and so serves both student teachers and faculty members efficiently. It is also near enough to the center of the district served to be easily accessible to all of the children.

The building is of fireproof construction throughout, being of brick and re-enforced concrete. It is trimmed with Carthage limestone. It is well lighted from the south, east and west. As there is no basement except for the furnace room, the children are not forced to work under the unhygenic conditions frequently found in basement rooms. The roof is of red tile and the building, while plain, presents a very dignified and pleasing appearance. , It harmonizes well with its nearest neighbor, the Porter Library, the latest and most beautiful building erected on the campus.

The building is constructed on the unit plan. Each unit consists of a large room approximately 24 by 32 feet, and two smaller rooms so connected as to facilitate the movement of classes and supervision on the part of the supervising teacher. Each unit is to have a small office inclosed with glazed glass so as to insure privacy for conferences.

On the first floor are located the first and second grade units, a large kindergarten room and work room, principal's office and work room, opportunity room, combined auditorium and gymnasium, boys' and girls' shower rooms, toilets, and kitchen.

On the second floor are the units for grades three to six, a large demonstration room with raised seats, a children's library room and a teachers' rest room. Each of the large classrooms has a pupils' wardrobe, a teachers' cloak room, and a built-in case for books and supplies.

The clinic is used for physical examinations and for the care of emergency cases. It will be equipped with first-aid cabinet, couch, hospital bed, scales and other standard equipment.

The demonstration room makes possible the realization of one of the primary objectives of a teachers' college-exernplifi-

THE PHOENIX cation of expert teaching by a trained teacher. Observing classes occupy raised seats, where they have an unobstructed view of the demonstration class and teacher. The room is large enough to avoid overcrowding and to relieve children of the consciousness that they are being observed. The auditorium may also be used for demonstration purposes, a fact that makes it possible to give two demonstrations simultaneously.

The building provides for twenty student-teachers each hour, with no duplications in any room, or a total of 120 per day.

Assigning of extra supervising teachers will make it possible to increase the number of student teachers handled without interfering seriously with the efficiency of the work.-The Collegia.

NEW BUILDINGS AT MIAMI Miami has been very fortunate in obtaining many new buildings and additions to buildings within the past few years. The following buildings were erected: In 1925, Irvine Hall, a recitation building, east wing of McGuffey Hall, our model school where practice teaching is done; Industrial Education Building, Observatory, and Benton Hall, the Administration Building and Auditorium.

In 1926 the University Greenhouses were put into operation, and an up-to-date field house was erected in the girls' athletic field and steel bleachers were erected on Miami's field.

In 1927 Fisher Hall was remodeled and equipped for Freshmen Men. In 1928 the south wing of Irvin Hall was completed to be used as a science building, and an addition to the Observatory was erected.

In the near future we expect to have a new gymnasium erected. It is also planned to have a new Administration Building, .using the old one as a Music Hall.

Oxford College, which recently merged with Miami, is being remodeled and redecorated to be used as a girls' dormitory.

All of the buildings on our campus are constructed of red brick with red tile roofs. This color makes a striking contrast with the green of the trees and the lawns and also the white walks.

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REDECORATION AND ALTERATION OF AUDITORIUM NEARS END The extensive alterations of the auditorium are nearing completion. The work now being done includes a complete redecoration following, as a finishing touch, the enlarged stage, finished last spring, and the new acoustic treatment installed during the summer just passed.

Beautiful new lighting fixtures of the indirect type have been installed, replacing the antiquated brass affairs so long an eyesore to the esthetically minded. Mr. Ryder's pet abhorrence, the peculiar green walls, have been covered with a very pleasing twotoned effect in a shade known as "Bisquit." All of the woodwork of the windows and doors has been refinished to match that of the new organ, which is a decided improvement.

On the stage, many improvements of especial interest to the Dramatists have been wrought. A very fine set of Klieg footlights, and suspended border lights will permit color effects never before possible at Drexel. A new arrangement for suspending scenery is now being planned. Three switch panels, from which all of the electrical equipment will be controlled, are also in the process of installation.

All of this should give added impetus to the efforts of the Dramatic Club. Something very fine is to be expected of them in the near future.-D rexel Triangle

NEW DORMITORIES PLANNED FOR DRAKE'S GIRL STUDENTS BY ASSOCIATION OF ALUMNAE The Association of Alumna: of Drake University have announced that plans are being laid for the erection of women's dormitories on the campus next spring. The association has been working for a number of years in behalf of the need for dormitories at Drake.

Mrs. John J. Boyd, president of the alumna: association, made the announcement and last evening she said: "It is quite likely that a drive for additional money to augment the funds already

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The site for the location of the new building has as yet not been chosen, nor have the plans of the building been drawn, but several locations are being considered about the campus on some of the property owned by the university.- The Drake Delphic.

DEPARTMENTS TO CHANGE QUARTERS The Botany and Physics departments expect to be situated in their new position on the campus, in the south wing of Irvin Hall, by the time the Miami students return from the holiday vacations, according toW. P. Roudebush.

The moving will be started as soon as the finishing touches are given to this newest addition to Miami's campus, and Brice Hall will no longer house these two departments. The Zoology and Geology departments will remain in Brice, the former science occupying the second floor of that building and the Geology department being moved to the first floor.- The Miami Student.

K. S. T. C.'s New Memorial Union Building The new unit of the Memorial Union building, which is to house various organizations and social activities, is expected to be completed about April fifteenth.

The building is 70 by roo feet and its main feature is a large room with an excellent floor to be used for all-school parties, other dances, and all functions of a purely social nature. A huge fireplace at the north end of the room is balanced by an orchestra balcony at the south end.

Downstairs there are the small rooms which are to be used as headquarters for the different organizations on the campus, such as the "Bulletin," the school paper, and the "Sunflower," the school yearbook. Downstairs, also, is the room which is to be fitted up as a recreation room for the men of the school.

The new unit is a $6o,ooo building. It is under the jurisdiction of the Student Alumni Council, thus making it entirely

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student-controlled. It was at first thought unwise to go in debt for the building, so work on it progressed only according to the amount of money then on hand. Now, however, it has been decided to borrow $rs,ooo so that the work may be completed in as short a time as possible. Also, class dues have been increased $r per person, so that officials are assured of the money with which to pay back the loan. The floors, walls, and ceiling are the only things remaining to be finished.

TRAINING SCHOOL IS NEARLY COMPLETED "The new training school building will be completed some time in January," said Dr. H. G. Lull, director of Teacher Training, "but it will not be ready for use until next fall."

Dr. Lull added, "that in view of the fact that special furnishings will have to be made for the interior, it will take five or six months before the building can be occupied. The manual training department will make some of the equipment, such as desks, chairs, tables, window sashes, and window frames.

The new training school is a two-story structme of face brick with white stone trimming, and the main entrance is on the west side of the building. The new school when completed will embody the latest ideas in school design, and will be the most up-to-date and modern training school in this part of the state.

There will be several features, including kindergarten rooms and fireplaces, sets of double class rooms, equipped with stages and library, a science laboratory, a clinic room for medical and physical testing, and an auditorium-gymnasium.

The class rooms will have plenty of light and ventilation, for each room has direct air ventilation, and at least six windows for each room. In addition to this, each room has a clothes closet and a cloak room.

The sets of double class rooms are separated by accordian doors, which are telescopic in action, as their name implies.

They may be opened and closed with ease. All the floors will be made of pine, and the casings, tables, chairs, desks, doors and · door frames will be constructed of oak.

The gymnasium-auditorium is modeled after the type, popular with up-to-date schools throughout the country. It is a com-

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bination of a gymnasium and auditorium. The gym floor will be made of sanded oak, and will occupy a large area of the ground floor. The stage will be equipped with two dressing rooms, and new scenery.

The plastering has been completed on the first floor, and work on the second floor is progressing rapidly. C. H. Hill, superintendent of the campus, says that, "More progress has been made on this building than any other structure on the campus."

The Helwig Construction Company of Hoisington was awarded the contract, and work commenced on the project during the latter part of last May. The old training school will be rejuvenated and remodeled, after the new building becomes occupied, and will be used as a junior high school to eliminate the crowded condition of junior high class rooms in Plumb Hall. "This will be a great improvement over the present conditions," said Dr. Lull.-The Bulletin, Emporia Kans.

HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT HAS NEW LABORATORY "We are not especially concerned about whether we make money; that is not the object of the greenhouse," says Mr. Knobbs. It is chiefly concerned with demonstration purposes and general usefulness. Of course, where there is a surplus, the plants and flowers will be sold at reasonable prices to students desiring to purchase them, and the money received will pay the labor bill.

One of the aims of the greenhouse is to furnish a variety of plants and flowers for the inspection of students and aid in solving any problem which might arise in one's own garden. Another aim is to furnish flowers to the Courtesy Committee for bouquets which are to be sent to sick members of the faculty and student body. Mr. Knobbs hopes to be able to produce enough plants so that the Courtesy Committee can reach more students who are absent from school due to serious illness. A third aim is to furnish laboratory work for the members of the Horticulture class and the class in nature study, and assist in furnishing laboratory materials for the Botany classes.-Kirksville, Mo.

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Our New Athletic Field and Qymnasium We have just had a new athletic field added to our Teachers College. The dedication took place in the stadium last October and is called "Jackson Field." It is one of the best football fields in the conference, and more seats are being added to it every year.

We are especially proud of our new gymnasium called "Gunder Hall of Health." It is one of the most imposing structures on the campus, and it is regarded as the most commodious and well-planned building that was ever given over to Physical Education in the entire West. It has a seating capacity of 2,8oo for basket ball games and 3,8oo as an auditorium. A swimming pool 30 by 75 feet is another attractive feature in the building.

Besides these two rooms, it contains a girls' gymnasium, a room given over just to aesthetic dancing, a boys' boxing and tumbling room, all the physical educational offices, and many classrooms.

-Greeley, Colorado.

The Drake Auditorium The alumni of Ohio University have presented Ohio University with a $2oo,ooo auditorium. The building is of Romanesque architecture and seats 3,000 persons. The building is rightly named Memorial Auditorium. Dedication was held January twentieth, and Ohio University's oldest living alumni was to offer the dedication prayer, but he was unable to be there because of inclement weather.

The Dedication Address was given by Dr. Hiram Roy Wilson, president of Ohio University Alumna: Association. The music consisted of a chorus sung by Ohio University Chorus, consisting of two hundred voices, and soloists. The soloists were Roma Leeof of Chicago, Dorothy Bowen of Chicago, and Arthur Kraft of New York City.

The auditorium is the largest and finest of any college in the United States, which has an enrollment of between 2,ooo and 3,ooo students. It will be the meeting place for many school and athletic conventions. The student body is very proud of

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COMMEMORATION OF PASSING OF OLD KIRK ATHLETIC FIELD The days of the Kirk Athletic Field, as a battleground for the Bulldogs are numbered, with the new stadium being nearly completed and ready for use in another year. On the eve of the opening of the last season that the gridiron warriors will use this much trampled old site as a trysting place, one cannot but think just what it has meant to the- many students who have graced our campus.

There have been many here to cheer our Bulldogs, both in victory and in defeat; and all those have, on many occasions, been swayed to emotional enthusiasm by the valor displayed on the old field of honor. They have seen their team win many championships; and it can never be said that they lacked the spirit to win.

As one watches the padded figures of the Bulldogs go tearing up and down the field, in an effort ~o shape themselves into another fighting machine, which is to preserve that honor attained through those other years of tqil, one may almost see a silent horde of dim ghost figures of other days-coa<;hing, goading, o~ pleading to the men who are out there; that this last stand on the old field be a formidable one, and one that will fittingly mark the passing of such as the old battleground.

NEW TRAINING SCHOOL AND LIBRARY AT KENT The program is being planned by the members of the faculty of Kent State College for the dedication of the William A. Cluff Training School and the David Ladd Rockwell Library, both buildings being named after trustees of the college.

The training school is two hundred and seventy-five feet long and sixty-five feet wide, except in the central section, which is wider. This building furnishes new quarters for the high school, elementary school, and kindergarten. Besides two complete

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units for each grade and very complete kindergarten quarters, the building includes a large space devoted to manual training, a complete home economics unit, new science laboratories, a demonstration room, a large auditorium, a music room, a library and a small gymnasium. Since April the twenty-seventh this building has been in use. The William A. Cluff Training School was made a reality when the General Assembly of Ohio in nineteen hundred and twenty-five appropriated three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for such a building.

The David Ladd Rockwell Library was made possible in the appropriated sum of one million two hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred and forty dollars, which includes the cost of this new building. The library is still in the process of internal construction and is the first stone building on Kent State College campus. Besides the large reading room, reserve and magazine rooms, and excellent quarters for the workers, there are four seminar or class rooms.

A bill was introduced into the Ohio Legislature on January the twenty-second to establish Kent State Normal College as a college of liberal arts and to change its name to Kent University. Thus these new buildings may be a part of the future Kent University.

NEW BUILDINGS AT WESTERN The need of new and adequate buildings at Western State College has been urgent for a number of years, and now we have hopes that the plans will be realized in the near future.

That present facilities are insufficient will be readily seen when one considers the fact that our enrollment has multiplied itself more than four times in the past twelve years.

The first and most needed building will be a fireproof dormitory to accommodate two hundred and fifty women. The one we have now is merely a temporary frame building, housing only one hundred and ten. This was constructed during the war when the need was acute and funds insufficient. But soon it will be a thing of the past and we shall be happy in our new dorm.

THE PHOENIX In 1918 the Administration and Auditorium Building was begun, but construction was suspended because of the lack of funds. We have been using the auditorium, although the interior is incomplete, and now our visions of its completion are about to come true.

Three other buildings are being planned: a Science Building, a Library, and a Physical Education Building. As conditions are now the science laboratories, library, and the music department are in one building. This is obviously a poor arrangement because of the fire hazard from the laboratories, and the sounds from the music rooms. But in the near future, we hope, we shall have two new buildings to eliminate the .two most conspicuous evils. Much more space is needed for the library, as the stack room and reading rooms are much overcrowded.

At the present we have a very nice gymnasium, but it is very inadequate for the enlarged student body. The plan is to build on as it can conveniently and economically be enlarged. The new plans will provide a training and playing floor of standard size, a smaller floor for the instruction of classes of girls, a swimming pool, more showers, more locker space, offices for physical education instructors, and quarters for a medical advisor.

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SCIENCE HALL The 1927 legislature appropriated $rso,ooo to provide for a structure to house the various science departments of the college.

Grounds were broken February I, 1928, and work began at once.

It was finished the middle of December, but classes were not moved from their former places until during the Christmas holidays.

Charles D. Cuthbert, state architect, designed the building, making plans for the building to comply with the rest of the buildings on the campus, following the Gothic style.

The school furnished 265,000 bricks for partition wall construction in the building besides supplying the sand and limestone from the college pits.

Some features of the building include the type of floor covering and the accoustically perfect walls of the lecture rooms. The floor will be covered with battleship linoleum except the entrance and the steps.

Four departments will be housed in the science hall. Chemistry and physics will be on the first floor; agriculture on the third and fourth floors; and biology on the second floor. In addition, the copper covered dome surmounting the tower over the main entrance will provide an astronomical laboratory, with room for a large telescope. A sun dial is also a new feature in the building.-From the K. S. T. C. Leader} Hays} Kansas.

WHISTLER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL The new Whistler Hall Memorial Hospital recently completed is now open for use of the students. While many little details still remain to be cared for, the hospital rooms can be used and the new equipment in the clinic room will enable the student health service to function well until the building is ready for general inspection. Formal dedication services are being arranged for late in the spring.

THE PHOENIX Whistler hospital is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Whistler of Hillsboro, Ohio, as a memorial to their daughter, Helen Arnett Whistler, of the class of 1920. It is a colonial structure of brick and Indiana limestone, containing eight twobed wards, four private rooms, and a suite of rooms for the resident nurse and her housekeeper. In addition there is a wellequipped examining room for use of the daily clinic. The student rooms are cheerful and homelike and yet contain hospital equipment of latest design and utility.

For several years prominent architects have been engaged on plans for the enlargement and beautifying of the Denison University plant. Several new buildings are in contemplation for erection in the near future in order to keep pace with the expansion of the institution. It is hoped that by the centennial year of the University, three years hence, the enlarged physical plant of the new Denison will be realized. Among the immediate and pressing needs of Denison are a new library building, a hall for classrooms, an administration building, and an additional dormitory for women.

C. M.S. T. C. STADIUM This institution boasts of a new stadium. It was started last summer and the first football game of the season was played there October twenty-nine.

The field is three hundred twenty-four feet long and sixty feet wide. On the west side of the field the bleachers are concrete and are twenty-four rows high. On the east side of the field the bleachers are wooden, which we hope to replace some day with concrete ones.

The stadium seats approximately four thousand nine hundred and ninety-two.

There is a track eighteen feet wide running around the entire field, making one-fourth of a mile, or four hundred and forty yards. The field is tiled, which makes it drain quite easily and readily. The cost is estimated at $27,000.- Warrensburg} Mo.

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WESTWOOD! Westwood! That is the word most frequently heard on the campus these days. And with good reason, too. For in September we will be ready to move to our: new University and campus -Westwood.

Since the si:te was entirely undeveloped when it was ceded to the University, it has been possible to erect buildings of one architectural type. Because of its suitability to the rolling knolls of Westwood, the Lombard architectural style of the early Christian period was chosen. The northern Italian atmosphere will be prevalent at all times. Tapestry brick and ornamental terra cotta are the materials used, for they most nearly represent the original building stuffs. So far only four buildings have been erected. Royce Hall, our auditorium and classroom building, and the University library were the first two to be completed.

These face each other across what will some day be the main quadrangle. Both buildings establish the Lombardian style, and Royce Hall, typical of the early Italian period, makes use of a general symmetry of plan. The two other structures are the Physics and Chemistry buildings. The former will include the Biology department, and Geology classes will be held in the latter until individual buildings are erected.

The main quadrangle is two hundred and twenty feet wide and a quarter of a mile long, and so presents infinite possibilities for landscaping achievements. Flower beds of many colors, rolling lawns, and low shrubbery will be used to beautify and help make the campus at Westwood enjoyable for all'-California.

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COLLEGE AS A BUSINESS Just what is college in university life, and how should it be approached? How should one conduct himself while going through the four years of study and experimentation met in this sort of life? Just what does that sheet of parchment, dubbed a "sheepskin" by historical fact, mean to the possessor who has earned it-or feels that he has earned it-after four years of hurry and scurry, after four years of drudgery or four years of pleasure-take it as one will ?

Ten answers of the same tone and thought would not be forthcoming from ten different individuals. Each would have his own conception of what college is, how it should be approached, and what the diploma means.

Just how is college to be approached? College and university life in itself is but a shade different from a strenuous business life. It-to quote the business school of any American university, and we believe it should apply to all students-but prepares one to meet the problems of life that are to be met when sheltering walls and parental care must be subordinated and a "striking out" made for one's ownself. College life should therefore be treated and absorbed as a business proposition. If it is to train us to be business-like we should assimilate it as a business-like life. Does a trainer teach his animal to "play dead" by having it chase rabbits? Why should the college man learn to be a business man by chasing a butterfly?

It is not to be assumed that what has been said is a renunciation in any way of cultural subjects in favor of business entirely, but, to the contrary, is to be taken as a general suggestion for the entire field of college activities. Cultural subjects are as necessary and, it is to be admitted, even more necessary in some fields of work, as the business courses.

But to get on. In business we have appointments to keep, sales to make, friends to make, and projects to put across. In business as in school we must "make the grade" or drop out of

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the rush. Why, if college life is to prepare us for the outside business world, should not campus life be approached on a busi· ness-like basis?

College- like business- is an individual effort. In the average high school, a student finds it possible to gain graduation on the strength of class prowess. In college, it is up to himself, the individual, as to possibility of completion. In business it is the general rule that one has himself as in college to depend upon.

This is found to be true no matter how great a "pull" that individual may have.

Professors, instructors, and fellow students should be approached on this business-like basis except wh~n pure society is the order of the day. Likewise work assigned and activity programs in the offing should be considered on a business-like basis and not accepted with a groan. If one groans his way through college, groaning through life after college will invariably follow.

With these points in mind and a knowledge already gained in this direction by the average person, it is ea~ily seen that we do not enter business life after four years in a university but are really subjected to it the first day of the freshman year.

- The Miami Student.

CLASS REWRITES "HAMLET" INTO BIG NEWS STORY .Shakespeare has been "revived" and modernized. In fact, "Hamlet," one of the greatest characters· in English drama, has appeared behind the footlights clad in knick~rs of the plus-four variety. To this trend of changes and adaptatiOns, Dr. George B. Franklin, associate professor of English at C. B. A., has added still another.

Dr. Franklin was recently interested to learn that thirty-five students in his Shakespeare class were seeking journalism degrees at the college. He studied hi.s cl.ass list car.efully and the~, in the manner of a city editor, d1stnbuted ass1gnments to h1s staff. . .

But first let Dr. Franklin explain the wherefore and howcome.

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"People read newspapers because they are interested. The worst crime that a newspaper can commit is to justify an accusation that it is uninteresting," he declared.

"Shakespear~ lives on, for one reason, because he crowded such an abundance of human interest material into his plays.

Study the newspapers and see what they feature. You will notice that subjects involving death and tragedy are prominently displayed. Then there are action stories-stories of fights, of sports, and of adventure. I hold that in 'Hamlet' you will find human interest stories covering all these newspaper requisites."

Here are some of the assignments which City Editor Franklin has distributed: "There are rumors of a war with Norway. Get an exclusive story."

"Prince Hamlet is reported mad. There's a good story here."

"Here is a story for our society page readers. Hamlet and Ophelia, accepted lovers, are reported to be estranged. Love stories are always interesting, and where the persons concerned are of the nobility, their interest is tremendous."

Professor Franklin explains that he is employing his novel method of studying Shakespeare to give journalism students a new angle from which to approach their study of the classics.B. U. News.

THE BEST TEACHER At the risk of incurring the wrath of Dr. Dallas Lore Sharp, we make bold to ask, "Is there any way of classifying teachers?

Are there any 'best teachers'? If there are, how can we select them?" The first two questions can be safely answered with "yes." The last question requires a statement of some length.

Teachers may be jointly classified and rated according to the extent of their living experiences, not only in their own particular field, but in other fields as well.

Now let us see what these experiences are, and how they can be realized. First, some business experience is helpful. The teacher who is familiar with the organization and executive responsibilities of a large business enterprise, can rise above other teachers both in planning lessons and in presenting them.

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Secondly, a wide reading experience is essential. Reading is the source of most of the information and experiences which teachers have. This is as it should be, for reading is within reach of all. However, this information and experience is secondhand. The teacher does not form direct contacts or original ideas.

These deficiencies of reading are supplied by the third type of experience, experience through travel, and through associations with other people. Both are direct, first-hand experiences.

The teacher's reactions to these are his own reactions, not those of someone else. This is the experience most worth while, and every teacher should make its realization his goal.

There is only one way to have these experiences, and that is by desiring to have them, and by perservering until they are fully realized.

In writing on this subject, we had a purpose in mind. We thought that every teacher should not be content with being an ordinary teacher. He should form a desire and a resolve to become one of the best teachers. We have told how we think this can be done. As an appropriate conclusion to this article, we quote a portion of an essay on "Learning and Leadership,"

by Professor Alfred Zimmern of the Geneva School of International Studies.

"Education is a process of transmission from one living mind to another. The book is merely an instrument in that process.

The best teacher is he who, whether he uses the books of others or not, is all the while engaged in communicating his own unwritten work, his own living and expanding experiences." _ u Aristides" in The Record.

THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE Science: accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of generallaws.-Webster's D"ictionary.

The modern student has been called skeptic, radical, anarchist and atheist; his disregard for tradition has been condemned, his lack of respect for authority and contempt for the past sternly rebuked. Yet his numbers increase. and his defense grows less

THE PHOENIX abstruse, for he has behind him now some of the leading educational authorities and intellectual thinkers of the country, who are advocating the secularization of thought, especially in such undiscovered fields as those of sociology, political philosophy and economics.

These men understand the origin of the modern student movement; they know that, despite the indisputable value of other means of thought for transitional purposes, the objective, scientific attitude towards physical phenomena has been the source of our great development in that direction; and that if any progress is to be made in the fields of social, political, and economic thought, the same method may be used to great advantage.

It must be admitted, however, that the modern student as described here, is not to be found universally in the State Teachers College, nor is the rationalistic method of thinking the only one accepted and applied. Indeed, if an accurate survey were to be made, no doubt it could be proved that the objective and unemotional attitude towards problems not involving the physical sciences is far from being the most popular. It would be difficult, perhaps, to label and classify some of the technique and methods used because, in a good many cases, the person using them is himself not conscious of the fact; somewhere in his own education, incidentally, haphazardly, he has picked them up and is now passing them on as theoretical dogma.

The method of approaching facts is at present a far more important topic for investigation than the facts themselves; for, as has been stated here many times, facts have little value to us unless they can be applied to human life. The primary purpose of a Teachers College is to prepare teachers for their jobs; that preparation is incomplete unless a sound method of thinking is established. What is a sound method of thinking? Rationalism?

Empiricism? What of the teacher who says, "These things are true; however, I feel . . ."?

Since modern thought has come from the past, handed down to us with our cultural heritage, would not a scientific study of the history of human thought fit into the curriculum of a Teachers College?-The Record.

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COMMENT "It is almost impossible to know what a man will be, difficult to know what he is, but easy to know what he has been. One must neither distrust nor trust blindly to young people, and one must take care not to depend upon men, nor to condemn them; the metal in a state of fusion is running into the mould. It is only God who knows what the statue will be."

This bit of wisdom is one of the finest criterions of an experienced attitude. It is good teaching modus operandi. It counsels patience, it advises a judicious attitude of mind, and it commands a sympathetic generosity in opening for each precious individual under our guidance, the gateway to our communal heritage of culture.

With the modesty of culture we should tolerate the pride of igorance and instruct it. We are bound as the coadjutors of Christ to obey that 'stern admonition, "Go ye therefore and teach--."

The classroom is the scene of the most profoundly decisive battle known to history. It is a battle of the present, of the past and of the future. On one side we see drawn up the solid, stubborn, menacing forces of ignorance led by those human traits: conceit, sloth and carelessness. On the other side we see the forces of education drawn up to wage incessant warfare for the intellectual and spiritual emancipation of the race. It is a great civil war. In the cold, clear light of reason we see the forces of education assail the morale of beleaguered ignorance, not for the pleasure of conquest but for the betterment of our social institutions.

All real teachers of the commonwealth are the commissioned officers in the army of education.-The Record.

FLAMING YOUTH Within the last few years of this modern age the younger set, particularly composed of college students, has been given the name "Flaming Youth." Critics have severely criticized the actions of the youth of today.

THE PHOENIX It is true that we are living in an age of advancement-one that is exceeding all others in the past. The youth of today has greater temptations to "flame," as it is called, than ever before.

Consider the many evils the college girl and boy meet with, and one can readily account for the many temptations.

Critics have said that the American youth is "going to the devil." We have heard that statement time and time again, and have come to the conclusion that such statements do not have a tendency to better youth, but to act the opposite. Personally, I do not believe that the young people are headed toward a "fiery future," as one critic expressed it. Let us look into the matter and analyze it.

We, as modern youth, have been criticized for having too much sex frankness, for jazzing our music, our art, our literature and our education. I heard an ex-college president address a group of about two hundred college women this summer, in which he described our modern music as "discordant racket."

Perhaps that is true to some extent, for we must admit that our jazzed music is not wholesome and satisfying. He spoke of our art as "splotches of paint" and our literature as "shallow and short-living." I cannot agree with this speaker on some of his ideas, for I believe that there are being written today many selections of literature that will live on, and that masterpieces of art are being produced that will not, for many years, be excelled.

There are many things in our "jazz age" that are undesirable, but I think we have every reason to believe that we shall, in time, outgrow our thirst for mere entertainment.

Another critic, with views directly opposite from the one formerly quoted, has said that we are living in the most sensible age history has known. He describes our clothes as being more sensible, our contribution to our country as being equally as great, and that we are not "going to the devil." There is much dispute as to which of these critics is correct, but Father Time is the only judge. I believe the average college student would prefer to accept the latter's viewpoints; there are extreme ideas in both opinions.

If we keep our morals to the highest standard we will be doing a great thing to better this situation. Good, common honesty is something we must not slight. Sincerity is another

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absolute necessity, while honest-to-goodness courage, and willingness to work for the right thing at the right time are other essentials. · If our so-called "Flaming Youth" mold their lives around those principles I heartily believe that His Majesty, the Devil, will have to make another trip or two to our colleges before he can completely claim modern youth as his own.-The Northwestern.

INDIVIDUALISM AND THE TEACHER A mental concept or an idea is always the result of an environmental influence. Heredity produces bodies with different capacities but never with different ideas. A new-born child knows nothing of politics or religion, and, therefore, is neither a born Democrat, a born Republican, a born Cathohc, or a born Protestant. New-born children do not aspire to artificial causes.

Ideas are rather the result of contacts between formative personalities and the outer world, a fusion of life with life, the basis of the human cultural inheritance. By this means rather than by birth, Protestants are bred in Protestant homes, Catholics in Catholic homes, and Jews in Jewish homes; that a nonbeliever is produced here and there is due to the negligence of the restraining authority, to the presence of conflicting influences. It is not due to inborn rebellion of the soul or of a natural individualistic spirit.

That we find so many different creeds in social, political and religious life today is a triumph for individualism as the antithesis of collectivism. Geography is no longer an index of thought; ' the Holy Land today harbors Jews, Christians and Mohammedans alike; America is the home of Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Prohibitionists, and Proletariats.

Such environmental influences as contribute to the triumph of individualism are found for the most part in reading matter and personalities. Because of the narrow experience of a single life, none of us is capable of stating definitely which books a child shall read and which he shall not; neither can we judge accurately whether the influence of such and such a person is good for the child or not. Being affiliated definitely with any

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school of collective thought,, however, leads us to attempt to _ influence the child's ideas towards an existing ideal, sometimes with too great success. The motive for such an attempt, of course, is pure egoism; to each man right exists at home, in his own personal surroundings, in his own mind.

What is the solution? Shall the teacher, like the soldier, yield to the collective authority of his native political affiliation?

Shall he teach the tenets of the most popular religion? Shall he teach conformity to the Superintendent's code of morals? Shaw says of the British soldier, "The rules are plain and simple; the ceremonies of respect and submission are as easy and mechanical as a prayer wheel; the orders are to be obeyed thoughtlessly, however inept or dishonorable·they may be. As the late Laureate said in the two stinging lines in which he branded the British soldier with the dishonor of Esau, 'Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do or die.' To the moral imbecile and political sluggard these conditions are as congenial and attractive as they are abhorrent and intolerable to the William Tell temperament."

The soldier, however, has not the teacher's prerogative of resignation, but the latter's is often as strongly hindered by economic dependence from leaving the influence of conflicting authority as the soldier is by military discipline.- The Record.

WOMEN STUDENTS ARE GIVEN MOTOR ABILITY TESTS Motor ability tests, to aid in the classification of women students in gymnasium, are being given. The tests began Wednesday noon and will be completed Friday noon, when 980 girls, all of those taking gym this term, will have been examined.

This is the first year that these tests have been given. The late Professor Wilbur P. Bowen, head of the department of physical education, appointed the committee last winter which has worked on the tests, with Miss Donnabel Keys, assistant professor of physical education, as chairman.

The tests, which are similar to those used in the University of Wisconsin, test students for speed and agility, accuracy, sense of rhythm, distance throwing, and co-ordination.

THE PHOENIX The first test, for speed and agility, consists in a running jump of as r8-inch rod, the climbing of ann-prong ladder and touching a rag a yard and a half above, turning a somersault, ducking under an obstacle and crossing the mark. The lowest time in which this test was completed was 13 seconds by a specializing student. The range is up to 30 seconds. The second test, which is for freedom and co-ordination, is a running £leap, starting on one foot and ending on the other. The distance covered is measured. A basketball is thrown at a target two feet square for accuracy, a baseball is thrown for distance. Skipping to music tests rhythm.

If a student passes with a very low mark, she will have to enter a preliminary gym class next term. A record of posture tests will be included on the card given to each student. The posture tests are given three times each term so that improvement may be measured. Those students who make a poor showing are put in a corrective class. The posture tests are given by Miss Mabel Bacon, associate professor of physical education, assisted by Miss Lurene Prouse, instructor.-The Normal Callege News.

MUSICIAN INSPIRED BY PRANK OF COMPANIONS The dramatic circumstances under which Chopin was inspired to compose the Funeral March of his Sonata in B Minor are recounted in Ernst Decsey's collections of musicians' anecdotes, "Die Spiluhr" (The Music Box).

Adolph Ziem, the painter, had decided to present his admired friend, Chopin, with a new grand piano, and for that purpose invited the master to dinner, together with two other Parisian artists, Prince Polignac and the painter, Ricard. Chopin arrived late, as ever, after dark. As he seemed more depressed than usual, the three jolly bohemians tried to cheer him up by playing one prank after another.

Finally Polignac conceived the grotesque idea of dragging ,a human skeleton from the adjoining studio, and, with ludicrous ceremony, seating it at the pianoforte. He grasped the bony

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Suddenly three dull blows reverberated through the darkness. Ricard had perpetrated the lurid joke of kicking the chest on which he sat. While the others laughed to ease the nervous tension, Chopin dashed to the piano and dragged from the chair the skeleton, which he passionately embraced. He then sat down and began to play without his friends remarking that it was he. The sadness and sweetness of the music gripped the three friends. Abruptly the flow of melody ceased with a glaring dissonance. The three friends rushed to the piano and picked up Chopin, who had fallen from the chair in a swoon.

When several months later Chopin played his B Minor Sonata for the first time in public, the three movements contained the improvisation heard in Ziem's studio that eventful night. And the first person to be carried to his grave to the strains of his marche funebre was - Chopin - The Northwestern.

ARE YOU WEAKENING YOUR INTERESTS

BY WIDENING THEM? Sometimes the teaching profession has been accused of being narrow, has been charged with having few interests outside its own field. Consequently teacher training institutions have been attempting to arouse interest in activities other than those of the school room. One of the methods for arousing this interest has been by extra-curricular activities. Indiana ·has placed special emphasis upon this feature in her teacher lraining, and she is meeting with success in making her students realize that there are other things than subject matter alone which count in developing really fine teachers. Our organizations fostering an interest in writing, in journalism, in contemporary social problems, in foreign relations, and in social life have produced diversified interests in the school and added to the experience which is necessary to the cultured man and woman. . There is one danger, however, which hides itself among the advantages of extra-curricular activities. The student in attempt-

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ing to broaden his int.erests may so spread his energies that they become only superfiCial. We would liken this problem of stude.nt interest to that of the use of fertilizer, if we may be permmed to use so homely a comparison. Fertilizer, if concentrated too heavily in one spot in a field, will not increase the amount of produce proportionately. Neither will the produce be increased if the fertilizer is too widely distributed. The same principle will apply to directing our interests. If our energy is concentrated, our interests will tend to become narrow; if our energy is too widely diversified, they are likely to be superficial.

If the student is to derive any value from extra-curricular activities, he must not weaken his energies by directing them into too many of these same extra-curricular activities.-The Indiana Penn.

AVIATION MECHANICS NEXT? It will not be long before aviation mechanics, perhaps the art of flying itself, will be a necessary part of every industrial arts curriculum. Auto mechanics has for several years been a prominent course in such curricula; the building and repairing of airplanes will soon demand nearly as much attention.

Although the system of government inspection and licenses inevitably limits the range of amateur activities in aviation, the arduous training which the government is demanding for airplane mechanics and pilots will quickly make necessary big school facilities for giving this training.

There is no reason why this training should be left wholly to private enterprise. Cities and states should provide the education of the young man who wishes to be an aviation engineer or even a flyer the same as they provide the education of other future technicians.

Many high schools with large industrial arts departments are sure to offer elementary courses in aviation mechanics in the near future. These high schools will need competent aviation instructors. Where should they look for such instructors if not to teachers' colleges specializing in technical subjects?

Even now the building of gliders-plans without enginesmight well be undertaken in the industrial arts department.

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Such construction, already a popular sport in Germany, would naturally prepare the way for the building of planes.-The Collegia.

INDUSTRIAL ARTS TAUGHT Character training through the correlation of industrial arts with science, history, and English, is being taught to students under the direction of Miss A vis Grawe, third grade supervising teacher of Horace Mann Training School.

One of the most interesting activities this year has been the building of a roll house, a task in which co-operation, patience, perseverance and other desirable traits are called into play. One entering the room during this period of occupation can see small carpenters measuring, hammering, sawing, cutting and painting. Besides making furniture for the house, the students have made curtains and are now weaving a rug on a loom made by the boys.

Another interesting project has been that of making slides for a moving picture, "How Fire Was Brought to the Indian." The slides were made by cutting silhouettes from black paper and placing them between two regular slides with percepatone around the edge. As the picture is shown on the screen, the child reads the part of the story which it represents. This gives the child a chance for oral expression.

A club with its chairman and secretary has been organized to care for the daily routine of the room. This outstanding activity has not only been a great benefit to conduct training and parliamentary law, but also in establishing poise, initiative, courtesy and responsibility among the students. A fine spirit of cooperation prevails during school hours and there are few discipline problems.

The results at the close of the different units of work have been most gratifying. One child who was not able to complete a problem because of the lack of "stictuitiveness" has by constant attention and encouragement completed an aeroplane.

Other individual activities o'r problems which have been carried on by the groups are the making of rubber guns, door stops, birdhouses, doll clothes and covers for the settee.-The Collegia.

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FOUNDER'S DAY MARKS SIXTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF EMPORIA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Founder's Day marked the 64th anniversary of the Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia.

The Emporia Teachers College was founded in 1865 with an enrollment of eighteen students. The faculty consisted of one instructor-Lyman B. Kellogg, who also acted as principal. In those days the school was known as the Kansas State Normal, and although its name was changed to Kansas State Teachers College more than five years ago it is still known as the "Normal" to many of the older "grads."

From the day of the school's founding, the enrollment has been gradually increasing until at the present time it has reached a total of almost 2,ooo. In proportion to the growth of the student body, the faculty has been increased to meet the needs of this large number and II9 faculty members are now listed in the catalog.

Mrs. George Plumb, a resident of Emporia and one of the few living members of the original eighteen students, gives an interesting description of that opening day of the school in 1865.

"I can still picture that upper room of the old Constitution Street schoolhouse, at that time the pride and boast of Emporia, furnished with settees borrowed from the First Congregational church, a desk borrowed from the county clerk's office, and a chair borrowed from somewhere else, as we gathered for that first day of school," Mrs. Plumb said. "The windows, through which the Kansas sunshine poured in such blinding quantities that even the strongest eye .quailed before it, were bare; which forced us to adjourn until we could make and hang some curtains. Blue Holland they were, made by the girls, hung by the boys, and superintended by the principal himself.

"No gas jets illuminated our society halls; we had only a few kerosene lamps. No electric lights aided us in getting home from the social in the evening of our first commencement day when the rain poured in torrents and the darkness could almost be felt. That first social we played blind man's bluff, snap-andcatch-'em, cross questions, and several other games; somehow we felt as though we scarcely knew just what was expected of us.

THE PHOENIX "I see that bright February morning of sixty-four years ago when the Old Eighteen were gathering in from town and country, some coming three miles. Only a few of us had met the new principal, and somehow we felt that he was not equal to the situation. How deceiving appearances sometimes are. How lonely we must have looked, scattered around that room in groups of twos and threes, and how oddly both we and our surroundings must have seemed to the young man in front of us, just fresh from cultured Bloomington. I wonder now that he did not get disgusted and leave, but we thought then that he should feel highly honored.

"Fifteen girls and three boys were in that group. All but two were from Lyon County, and mostly farmers' sons and daughters. The most of us were of that age when we really believed that the world would hardly move along without us, and really thought we could get on the blind side of the new teacher.

But somehow we never found it. Our free western life had given us the idea that we were to be hampered with rules and, in some unaccountable way, robbed of our freedom. We wanted the education, but we did not want too much red tape with it, and one thing we learned was, that we could be ladies and gentlemen, and still be free."

It was not until r867, when the institution was two years old, that the first building to belong solei y to. the normal school was erected. It was a stone building 40 by 6o feet, two stories high, besides the basement, and crowned by a lofty cupola. The State had expended $ro,ooo toward its erection. The building was located on r2th Avenue and Commercial Street, now the front campus of the Teachers College.

From that simple beginning the school has grown and enlarged until at the present time the campus holds twelve brick buildings, and two wooden structures. The only wooden buildings are the Morse Hall Annex (a dormitory for girls) and the school hospital.

The other twelve include the main buildings, library, science hall, the old music hall, new music hall, gymnasium, cafeteria, power plant, training school, a new training school building, Morse Hall, and the Memorial Union building.

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1928 year the Teachers College basketball team won the Central Conference championship, and the football team placed second in the Central Conference. The 1927 Kansas State Teachers College football team tied with three other colleges for championship of the K.ansas Conference.

Even John Kuck, who holds the world record for shot put, is a Kansas State Teachers College product.

The first president of the Kansas State Teachers College was Lym<l'n B. Kellogg. Mr. Kellogg was a graduate of the Illinois Normal University. He was a teacher in the model department of the same institution at the time ·he received his offer to become the only teacher and principal (as he was then called) of the Kansas State Normal. At first the honor was declined, but after considerable pressure and deliberation Mr. Kellogg accepted the position.

"Father and protector" of the school Lyman B. Kellogg is often called, and the name is quite fitting. During the six years of his presidency the school had grown to be a prominent factor in the educational life of Kansas, and had gained a national reputation. Kellogg, after his resignation in r87r, began to practice law and later became attorney general of the state.

Since the administration of Kellogg, G. W. Hoss, C. R. Pomeroy, R. B. Welch, A. R. Taylor, J. N. Wilkinson, Joseph H. Hill, and T. W. Butcher have become presidents of the college.

Thomas W. Butcher, who received his B. A. degree from the University of Kansas and his M.A. from Harvard, has been president of the college for the past fifteen years. He also attended the University of Berlin for one year, and visited and studied in the German and ·English schools. For two years he was president of the State Normal School at Edmond, Oklahoma.

Speaking of the progress of the past years President Butcher recently said, "We are proud of the many new buildings and other improvements which have been made on the campus of the State Teachers College within the past few years, but this is not our greatest source of gratification and pride. The biggest thing is the recognition, by standardizing agencies, of our higher standards of scholarship. Last year, we were admitted to the college and university list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Of about two hundred schools, Emporia is one of twelve in the first list."

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KNOWLEDGE OF CORRECT USAGE CONDUCIVE TO SOCIAL EASE In an old book on Etiquette, the following was found: "This book is intended for those persons who perceive the value of doing even the smallest things in life well, who do not care to figure as awkward or ignorant no matter what their true worth."

And so this article appears to sharpen our knowledge of the "smallest things in life" which make for ease in social intercourse.

The social dance is accepted practically everywhere today as a form of entertainment but it is interesting to note what famous men of other days thought of dancing. Homer held the dance in high esteem and mentions it as a favorite form of social entertainment. Cicero had little use for dancing of any kind, for he says: "No man who is sober dances unless he is out of his mind) either when alone or in decent society; for dancing is the companion of wanton conviviality, dissoluteness and luxury." What would he think of our modern, widespread habit of social dancing? Aristotle says that the dance is valuable because it mirrors the manners and actions of men of different periods. If this be true, let us take a look at the manners of today through the customs connected with a present day dance in our . college community.

Presuppose the place and date arranged. Patrons and patronesses should be invited as soon as possible after the date is fixed.

Remember that they are invited as honored guests and not that you may be watched! It is courteous to arrange that they have a way of going to and from the party. They should be met at the door and taken to the dressing rooms. At no time during the evening should they be left alone. If they do not care to dance, then some couple should sit out with them. They should be served at once if refreshments are served.

Between a boy and a girl the invitation may be an informal affair given and accepted verbally. However, accepting an invitation binds you to carry out your engagement no matter how entrancing an invitation may come later. If circumstances absolutely prevent, at once inform the person who invited you. It is not courteous for a girl to keep a man waiting, and vice versa, when a definite hour has been given in the invitation.

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A girl should know what is expected of her escort, co-operate with him and smooth his way and as well her own.

A boy opens a door but lets the girl pass through first. He should glance back to prevent the door slamming in the face of some one following.

When the receiving line is reached, the girl always precedes the man. If it is the man's party, he introduces the girl clearly and distinctly to the first person in the line. If the girl is the hostess, she still precedes and then introduces her escort. The correct formal introduction is, "Miss Doe, may I present Miss Smith?" The name of the person in the receiving line is given first. A briefer form of introduction is simply pronouncing the names, "Miss Doe, Miss Smith." Shake hands, respond by saying "How do you do" and pass on. Never try to go down the receiving line in couples, always go in "single file."

Either the boy or the girl may arrange the program. When there are no programs, a boy says, "Would you care to dance?" or "May I have this <:lance?" The girl replies, "I shall be delighted" or "Yes, I would like to dance" or if she does not care to dance, "Thank you, I am going to rest." She must not accept another invitation to dance if she has refused one: The man apologizes when he and his partner bump anyone in passing. He says, "I am sorry." The girl must not apologize or feel responsible for slight mishaps.

A void boisterous talking or laughing or walking across the floor between dances.

When the music ends, the polite formula is "Thank you for the dance." The girl replies, "I enjoyed it, too" or "I am glad you liked it." These polite forms are not omitted even if the dance was not especially enjoyed.

The man takes the girl where she wishes to go and remains with her until her partner claims her for the next dance. If the program has been arranged before, partners should get together at the close of each dance.

After an introduction, when one has talked for a while and is about to leave, say, "I am very glad to have met you" or "I hope I shall see you some time." The other should answer, "Thank you " or "I h ope so, too. " When the dance is over and the couples "stop some place to eat," the girl tells her escort .what she would like and he orders it.

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At the close of the evening, the boy thanks the girl for her company and she tells him she enjoyed going to the dance.

"It is not a small matter that one's relations to others should be comfortable, agreeable, positively pleasing. That one's company should be welcome and should be desired and sought is a goal worth cherishing."- The Normal College News.

BE A LOYAL ALPHA SIG If You think your sorority the best, Tell 'em so!

If you'd have it lead the rest, Help it grow!

When there's anything to do, Let them always count on you, You'll feel good when it is through, Don't you know ?

If you're used to giving knocks, Change your style; Throw bouquets instead of rocks For awhile.

Boost your president and your girls; Knock the knocker off his perch; Lift the stumbler from the lurchWith a smile.

When a good frosh from afar Comes along, Tell who and what you areMake it strong, Never flatter, never bluff, Tell the truth, for that's enough.

Be a booster, that's the stuff, Don't just belong.

Adapted by ANNE WILLAUER.

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()UJZ CJI/IPT6!?_8 ALPHA ALPHA CHAPTER We are very proud to announce the initiation on December eighth of Helen Neff of Camden, Ohio, and Dortha Wente, Portsmouth, Ohio. The initiation was held in the Adelphian Hall. Following the service a dinner was held in Wells Hall.

We had as our guest Miss Swisher and Miss Myers. We also are glad to announce the pledging of Louise Palmer and Evelyn Weaver of Mansfield, Ohio, and Dorothy Stewart of Warren, Ohio.

Miss Swisher, our, faculty advisor, is teaching an Extension Course in Art for Grade School Teachers in Adams County, West Union, Ohio.

On January eighteenth we played Ohio Wesleyan in basketball. It was one of the most exciting games I have ever seen.

Wesleyan led throughout the game, but in the last quarter with only about one minute to play Wesleyan was one point ahead.

One of our players shot for a foul but didn't make the basket.

Nevertheless, ~he game was good and one worthy of mention.

We played Ohio University last Saturday night, and that game, also, was very good.

On January fifteenth the girls of Miami heard a very interesting lecture on "Love and Life" given by Dr. Parker, who is connected with Health Association of New York.

Our chapter had a pledge banquet and a dance planned for Christmas time, but due to the severe epidemic of the flu we were unable to hold them.

On January tenth one of the big social events of the year took place-the Sophomore Hop. The Scarlet Mask Band of Ohio State University furnished music. The large gymnasium was attractively decorated and hung with red hangings.

We have also received news of the following alumn~: Ruth Duffey, who is now teaching at Lakewood, plans to come to

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Margaret Duncan, who was a critic teacher at Ohio University, but now is teaching at the State Teachers' College at Bowling Green.

Kathleen McCleneghan is now living at her home at Welch, West Virginia.

Elizabeth Quelette is now teaching at Wausean, Ohio.

Wilma Fistner.

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ALPHA BETA CHAPTER Alpha Beta of Alpha Sigma Alpha opened its winter rush week with a bridge party at the home of Catherine Burk, Friday afternoon, December seventh. After four tables of bridge the prize for high score was given to Dorothy Propst. Favors of picture frames were given to each rushee. A delightful lunch was served with Frances Ash and Frances Wood as hostesses.

An informal tea was held at the Sorority house at sor North Elson, Sunday afternoon, December ninth. Amelia Brown, Virginia Weatherly, Ruth Robinson, and Catherine Rolston were hostesses.

The Sorority played hostess to a nl,lmber of rushees at the Kennedy Theatre, Tuesday night, December eleventh. After the show the girls enjoyed a steak fry at the Sorority house.

Owing to the death of our dear Miss Hook's mother on Thursday, December thirteenth, all rushing was postponed.

Mrs. Hook had been in ill health for several years, but her death was unexpected. The funeral was held Monday morning at Cairo, Missouri. Alpha Sigma Alpha extends sincere sympathy in Miss Hook's bereavement. · Pin Pledge Services were held Tuesday, January eighth, at the Sorority House for Dorothy Propst, Daisy Evans, Elinor Fair, Nadine Carpenter, and Florence Rolston.

Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority gave a dance Friday night, January eleventh, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George Laughlin on South Osteopathy A venue in honor of its pledges and for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cooke, who were married at Christmas.

THE PHOENIX Mrs. Cooke, a member of the sorority, was formerly Elizabeth Becker.

After the opening dance an arch was formed by the couples holding hands and Mr. and Mrs. Cooke went down the aisle beneath the hands as the orchestra played a wedding march. At the end of the aisle they were presented with salt and pepper shakers with the Sorority crest on them.

Novelty dances were a balloon dance and a circle dance. During the entire evening Mrs. Laughlin and Mrs. Lena M. Norris served punch. Both Mrs. Laughlin and Mrs. Norris are patronesses of Alpha Sigma Alpha and Mrs. Norris is mother patroness.

Pledges who were honored guests are Elinor Fair, Dorothy Propst, Daisy Evans, Nadine Carpenter, and Florence Ralston.

Special guests were Dr. and Mrs. Haig Hosepian, Mr. and Mrs. Don Faurot, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clevenger, Miss Mary Jane Laughlin, and Ted Johnston.

Miss Mary France$ Wood has accepted a position as instructor in Art in the grade school of Des Moines, Iowa. She left us January twenty-fifth to take up her new position.

A very pretty and impressive wedding took place Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Becker, 8o9 East Normal Avenue, when their daughter, Miss Elizabeth, became the bride of Albert A. Cooke, of Burlington, Vermont.

Mrs. Cooke' at present is teaching at the Willard school. She is a former student at the K. S. T. C. and a member of the Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority.

Mr. Cook is a member of the senior class at the K. C. 0. S. and a member of the Phi Sigma Gamma and Sigma Sigma Phi Fraternities.

Immediately following the ceremony the couple left for Burlington, Vermont, where they will spend the Christmas holidays with his parents. They expect to return the first of the year, he to resume his studies and she to continue teaching.

They will be at home in the Kennedy Apartments to their many friends, who wish them success and happiness.

Mildred Carpenter.

THE PHOENIX ALPHA GAMMA CHAPTER December was an exceptionally busy month for Alpha Gamma chapter. We had only three weeks from Thanksgivi.og vacation until Christmas vacation and, of course, during that time we had to crowd in a great many activities.

On Tuesday afternoon, December eighteenth, we went out to the Williard Orphans' Horne. A doll was provided for each little girl and a toy for each boy. We sang Christmas carols together and the children also sang some of their own songs for us.

We held our Christmas party at the lovely horne of Ruth Rink. Ruth had been ill with the influenza, but fortunately had recovered sufficiently to participate. We also took this occasion to further initiate Jean Beers and Betty Clawson into the mysteries of our sisterhood. The impressive candle service was used and both Jean and Betty are now proudly displaying their pledge pins. Santa Claus, who was really Violet Ralston, distributed the gifts. \Vhat fun!

Since vacation we've been very busy planning for the rushing season, which began with a Panhellenic tea, Saturday afternoon, January nineteenth. "Rec" Hall looked very lovely with its colored lights, ferns, and flowers. We met and grew closer acquainted with many lovely girls. · Alpha Gamma is also planning a theatre party to take place February first, and a bridge at the Country Club the afternoon of February ninth.

We were very sorry to hear of the death of Eleanor Smedley's father during the Christmas holidays. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.

Thelma Sterling, Molly Rikert, and Burdella Nease have returned to college. Ted, Molly, and Burdella were doing their student teaching in Johnstown. Our president, Virginia Kinney, returned from Blairsville, where she, also, was doing student teaching. It seems like old times to have the girls back again.

Nell Russel, our former president, was a welcome guest at the Christmas party.

Josephine Buchanan.

THE PHOENIX BETA BET A CHAPTER One quarter all ready gone! And here we are, starting the winter quarter. Time certainly does fly when one is busy and Beta Beta surely has been busy lately. Due to a new ruling on our campus no freshmen may be rushed until winter quarter.

We have just finished a week of the fastest, most keenly competitive rushing you ever saw. This year, as always, there are a lot of charming girls on the campus to be rushed, but more than ever this year all the sororities seemed to center their attention on a few of the girls. Consequently rush week was very exciting. Alpha Sigma Alpha gave a series of charming parties, starting with a formal Bubble Dinner Dance, which we gave in the Grotto of the Club House on January fifteenth. Scores of gas filled balloons covered the ceiling and floated about. Pastel . streamers and tall tapers contributed to the effect. The place cards and programs ~ere bright hued bubbles. Everyone agreed they had a marvelous time.

A candlelight tea at the chapter house on Wednesday followed the dinner.

My horne was converted into a Japanese tea garden on Friday. Alpha Sigs in Japanese costumes served tea in real Japanese style to guests seated on mats on the floor in an incense filled room lighted only with deep red lights and Japanese lanterns.

Saturday we entertained our rushees at a French luncheon at the horne of Miss Grace Wilson. The food and appointments were typically French. Mrs. Charles Phillips, one of our patronesses, sang two delightful French songs. After lunch we all played bridge.

One of the most unusual affairs we had was "Breakfast in Sing Sing" on Sunday morning. A typical prison scene was depicted and the prison theme was carried out in the appointments. Although I hardly think our menu consisting of fruit cup, creamed eggs on toast and bacon, buttered toast and coffee, was a typical prisoner's breakfast menu.

A crimson and white bridge party at the house on Wednesday was the next event. Refreshments were served at small tables lighted by tall red candles tied with white tulle

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bows. Delicious white cakes ornamented with the letters A~ A in red were a delightful touch.

A green and gold bridge party at my house on Thursday completed our rush parties.

Now, after all the rush and excitement, we proudly announce the pledging of Louise Sanders of Greeley, Colorado; La Verne Shockley of La Junta, Color.ado; Jeannette Moore of Berthoud, Colorado; Margaret Hughes of Yampa, Colorado, and Helen Wiscombe of Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, January twentyseventh.

Rushing is lots of fun and excitement for everyone, but we are all glad it is over so we can settle down to work again. Beta Beta is proud of her scholarship record and we are trying to maintain it. Gertrude Strickland, one of our initiates, was recently elected to Sigma Pi Lambda.

Oh! I haven't told you that we have seven more names to add to the roll of Alpha Sigma Alpha, have I? Initiation services were held at the house on January twenty-first for the following: Volene Doubleday, Deertrail, Colorado; Gertrude Strickland, Greeley; Josephine Waterhouse, Greeley; Maurine Schmitt, Greeley; Elizabeth Foote, Denver; Bernice Udick, Alamosa, and Jean Nicholson, Greeley.

They have all been splendid pledges and we are sure they will be good, loyal Alpha Sigs.

Katherine Schlosser and Elizabeth Foote have moved into the house this quarter.

We had two weeks and a half for Christmas vacation this year, so all of the girls were able to go home. Of course, I was very busy, though, as you can imagine. I was so glad that my home in Fort Collins is close enough for all of the girls to come to my wedding on December twenty-sixth.

Our house mother, Mrs. Mickish, gave the chapter a lovely silver sandwich tray for Christmas. And our alumnce chapter sent us a check for their gift.

We wish to thank you all for your kind Christmas greetings.

Gertrude Harned Newell.

THE PHOENIX GAMMA GAMMA CHAPTER The month of December was a most busy month for Gamma It meant special study programs for the pledges, b1-weekly luncheons to "get-together" for better acquaintance, and the grand finale of a most delightful Christmas party in the home of our patroness, Mrs. H. E. Hart. This very lovely home was gay with the festive holiday garlands and Christmas spirit.

To this was added the beautiful Christmas tree with its lights and shining decorations.

The program for the occasion was started with the song, "Silent Night," followed by a recital of the many legends of Christmas as we find them in all countries, and ending with the story of the birth of Christ. Other songs were sung and each girl was given a chance to write a Christmas poem. This caused much worry at first, but was a real pleasure when all were read.

Delicious refreshment~ in keeping with the season were served.

Thus far we had been kept in suspense as to the contents of the mysterious packages to be seen around and on the wondrous tree in the far corner. Now we were able to solve the mystery and found that every girl had received a dainty gift from some other sister. With joy we found that our alumna: had asked Santa to bring us two beautiful floor lamps for the room; the patronesses had found him and asked that two dozen buffet trays and two bridge tables be brought for the room, and the faculty sponsors and other members of Gamma Gamma had given silver, glass and china to replenish our serving problems.

Gamma Gamma never forgets those who are unfortunate, so each year a gift is made for them. This year our "Love Basket" was filled with fruit, canned vegetables, candies, gloves, hose and many things to make a home or some child happy.

The city alumna: distributed these gifts for us just before Christmas Day . .

The old year is gone, leaving behind many pleasant memories. The new one is here with its promises of better and more acceptable service. The final semester examinations were a sort of new year gift from the faculty, but we have come through and no one is below the median. For that we of Gamma Gamma are very thankful and filled somewhat with pride. The new ~amma.

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semester is gaining speed, but had to halt this last week end because the heating plant was not working well. We had part of Thursday and all of Friday as a holiday.

Our third rushing season begins this week. Each sorority is to have one party. Ours will be a "Farmerette" party. Our patroness, Mrs. C. H. Mauntel, has kindly given us her home in which to entertain for this occasion.

On January seventh we gave the Sanctuary degree to ten very lovely girls who had been our pledges since October. The dim candle lights, the white robes, the soft music and the lovely words of the ritualistic service made this a most impressive ceremony.

Gamma Gamma wishes here to thank the sister chapters for their lovely Christmas greetings. Such remembrances make us feel very close to them. It is a lovely custom to greet each other and to wish happiness and joy for the coming year.

Margaret Wallace.

DELTA DELTA CHAPTER The Saturday before Christmas vacation was the time chosen for the pledge tea. The pledges entertained the pledges of the other sororities at a Christmas tea from two to five. The house · was beautifully decorated with holly and mistletoe, and a large Christmas tr~e stood by our red brick fireplace in the living room, on which hung various lengths of tarleton stocking filled with favors. The tea was a means of getting acquainted for the newly pledged freshmen.

The Monday following the pledge tea we held a Christmas party for the active chapter, the pledges and the patronesses. One of the girls drove out to the country and got us another Christmas tree, which we placed by our white fireplace in the chapter room.

We had a genuine old-fashioned grate fire which made it seem like pioneer days. The patronesses presented us with a silver sugar and cream, and we presented the patronesses with bridge cards. Everyone enjoyed the party and we were not so anxious to go home for vacation.

Our annual formal was held as a closed dance at the chapter house on January nineteenth. The downstairs was decorated

THE PHOENIX with white panels of snow scenes which were reflected with blue lights. The favors to the men were leather bridge sets. We were very happy to have the following alumna: with us: Ruth Yanger, Mary Mercer, Thelma Leichty, and Dorothy Hollinger.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Goodwin, Mrs. Jennie O'Dell, and Mrs. 0. W. Jones chaperoned.

Reba Shafer.

EPSILON EPSILON CHAPTER It seems a long time since Christmas, but I haven't told you a thing about our Christmas dance and you simply must hear all about it. As usual, the party was held in the Country Club.

The decorations were all white and silver, except for .a huge, gairly-colored Christmas tree in one corner. Cotton and crepe paper covered all the lights, and streamers of twisted crepe paper hung from the central chandelier. Other streamers were stretched from the center of the room to the walls, thus forming a false ceiling. White lattice-work marked off the space for the orchestra. The favors were red and white candy canes.

Initiation services were held January twenty-sixth for eleven . girls. Those who became "real" Alpha Sigs then were: Katherine Ferguson, Ottawa; Mina Scranton, Towanda; Eloise Owen, Wellington; Ida Good, Burlingame; Margaret Coss, Peabody; Marjorie Wilson, Strong City; and Elizabeth DeWar, Margaret Nicholson, Pearl Smith, Vivian Laughlin, and Lucille Laughlin, Emporia. Louise Ensign, Herington, was called home because of the illness of her mother and so was unable to be initiated with the rest of the pledges. The new initiates were guests after the initiation services at a dinner given at the Rorabaugh-Paxton Tea Room. Bowls of yellow calendulas and yellow tapers in silver holders were the only decorations. Elizabeth DeWar spoke for the new girls and Carolyn Ray for the old ones. Miss McCullough extended a word of welcome to the initiates. The evening was rounded off with the singing of several A. S. A. songs.

We have one new pledge this semester. She is Marian Matt and her home is in Emporia. vVe were all not a little thrilled when she accepted us.

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After our January twenty-fourth meeting, Miss McCullough called a meeting of all the girls who had been initiated last February, under the pretext that she wanted to talk to them about the coming initiation of the pledges. They were very serious and interested, as she talked about little things to be done about the house, and when, suddenly, able to keep it no longer, she presented them with their jeweled pins, they raised such a cry of joy that I'm sure the whole neighborhood must have heard and marveled.

Adda Anderson spent several days with us just after New Years. We are .always glad to have her, she is so much one of us.

Constance Ross, our last year's president, who is attending the University of Kansas this year, visited her parents here during the week between semesters. Needless to say, she spent a large part of her time at the Alpha Sig house.

Ruth Nation.

ZETA ZETA CHAPTER Station ZETA ZETA broadcasting and wishing to say hello! to all her sister stations. We are sending out a short program this time featuring the fact that we have pledged eight girls as a result of our rushing season. Those we have pledged are Mary Greenwald and Alice Gwinn from Falls City, Nebraska; Helen Ramsey and Rachel Brenneisen of Jefferson City, Missouri; Evelyn Reid, sister to our Coach Reid of Stafford, Kansas; Zelha Land of Independence, and Mattie Hull and Eugenia Land, both of Warrensburg. Four of the girls have moved to the house, and we have now ten girls here all the time.

Our rush parties this quarter were in the form of a Japanese Cabaret and a bridge breakfast. For the cabaret the house was beautifully decorated with wisteria, pine, Japanese wall hangings and lanterns. The odor of incense pervaded the house, lending an air of oriental mystery. Dainty Japanese maidens waited on the tables throughout the evening serving drinks and candy.

During the course of the evening a delicious supper was served, which consisted of chicken salad, sandwiches, ice cream, cake and coffee. The favors were old-fashioned bouquets of

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lace and roses. Each rushee was escorted to and from the party by an active member, who was dressed in the role of a handsome gentleman . .Dancing was the main event of the evening, in addition to a short program, which was made up of several humorous spec~hl~.

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The second party was a bridge breakfast at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning. The house was attractively decorated in accordance with the Christmas season, with a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, pine boughs, tinsel, candles and wreaths.

Breakfast was served at eleven thirty o'clock. The menu consisted of baked ham, Pittsburg potatoes, creamed peas, perfection salad, hot biscuit, butter, cranberry jelly, date pudding with whipped cream, and coffee. The place cards and favors were in the sorority colors, red and white.

After the breakfast, bridge was played.

At present we are very excited and enthusiastic over the plans for our Valentine formal-the date of which is set for February sixteenth. It is to be held in the Elks' Club rooms.

Station ZETA ZETA is now signing off and will again be on the air in April. Good-bye everyone.

Ernestine Thomson.

ETA ETA CHAPTER The hilarious month of December was certainly cekbrated in the Christmas spirit by the girls of Eta Eta at Pittsburg Teachers'. On the last meeting night before the holidays we had our Christmas party. Such a party! In one corner of the chapter house living room stood a tall Christmas tree covered with tinsel and sparkling lights. All over its branches were wee bundles, long packages, flat boxes, thick parcels, and fat rolls, for everybody had put something on, and everybody got something off that tree. Of course, there were delicious heaps qf candy sewed up in sacks, and big crisp popcorn balls.

The alumna: chapter presented Eta Eta with seven badlyneeded and joyfully-received card table covers, made of whitecloth with the letters A ::S A embroidered upon them in red.

Miss Carroll, our advisor, ~lso gave the chapter a gift.

THE PHOENIX The sacred program was also a part of the evening, with carols and Christmas Tales. Of course, Eta Eta helped with the city's Charity Work for unfortunate folks. After this, the girls scattered to the four corners for the holidays, all eager to be home, yet reluctant to leave comrades behind.

But during the days of festivity the town girls worked busily to have ready on New Year's night a lovely New Year's dance.

Stretched from end to end of the room down the center of the ceiling was a wire from which streamed out in both directions ribbons of red and white paper, looped up just above the heads and covering the sides of the room. The whole made a lovely tent of the red and white streamers. The orchestra was also screened from the dancers by a curtain of the same streamers.

The evening began with the arrival of the little New Year, Gordon Halliday, baby grandson of our college president. He was attired in a derby hat and a large red sash bearing the letters 1929. He pattered shyly out on the stage before the orchestra, bowed, blew a weak note on a large horn, and retreated. At the door, however, the good-natured little fellow paused to say, "Bye Bye." Our dance programs were printed on red paper cut in the shape of bells. Some of the novelty dances were "Bell Hop," "Carnival," with the usually delightful confetti, serpentines, and · noise-makers, and "Spirit of '29."

On January twenty-ninth Eta Eta added another sweet lassie to her pledge roll when Gladys Graham, Pittsburg, received the ribbon pledge.

Each year K. S. T. C. has a "Queen Contest" in which one girl from each sorority is nominated for campus queen. The queen is elected by the votes cast whenever a yearbook, "The Kanza," is bought. Eta Eta started to work early this year in order to raise last year's second place to this year's first place.

Our candidate, Elizabeth Caffey, is a very charming Pittsburg girl. We all believe that Elizabeth will "Bring home the bacon."

K. S. T. C. daily grows finer, and her campus becomes more beautiful. Don't you like our new library and music hall?

Every girl in Eta Eta is immensely proud of Alpha Sigma Alpha and K. S. T. C. Ruth Estelle Shriver.

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THETA THETA CHAPTER Back again to the round of classes and activities. Contrary to the expectations of the weary group of students who finished their mid-years sometime last week, everybody appears glad to be back. Exams are over for another semester and folks can breathe easy once more. Cramming and midnight oil are a thing of the past, and rabbits' foots and other luck charms are laid aside. Once more the consideration of social functions is permissible, and sororities and fraternities come into their own.

The Theta Theta girls, too, have been caught in the examination whirl and as a result January has been a comparatively quiet month.

In December was the annual Christmas party, an event long anticipated and never forgotten. This year it was held rather early, coming on Saturday, December fifteenth. According to the custom, the Junior members had complete charge of the party, arranging anq presenting the program and planning and serving the refreshments. They were quite indebted to Mrs. Martin, at whose home the party was held, for the tasteful decorations and the gigantic Christmas tree.

The program consisted of Christmas carols, the reading of the Christmas story from the Bible, and the reading of Van Dyke's "The Christmas Tree."

After the program, gifts were distributed, each girl receiving a gift and joke. The latter caused much amusement, for clever jingles were attached to many of them. Theta Theta, too, was remembered, receiving five dollars in gold, a fine gavel, and a box of candy.

While refreshments were being served, the beautiful Christmas tree ceremony was begun. Candles were lighted for all the members, past and present. Many of the ex-college members who could not be present had sent letters to Mrs. Martin extending to Theta Theta best wishes for the season and telling Mrs. Martin their choice of color in candles. It was a fitting close for a Christmas party that had been thoroughly enjoyed by 'all.

The Theta Theta girls are very happy, for at last they have a,n apartment all their own. It is located within easy walking distance of the School of Education and just off Huntington Ave-

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nue. Three of the girls are living in the apartment, while additional cots make it possible for a number of the girls to stay there over night.

To aid in securing funds for the apartment, the Theta Theta girls have been selling sandwiches and cake during the noon hour at the School of Education. Many of the other departments of the University have taken steps toward providing lunch for the students, but the School of Education had no such service. This work which the sorority is doing is thus both convenient for the students and profitable for the sorority.

The City Association is planning a bridge-tea to be held at Filene's on Saturday, February ninth, from three to five. The decorations are to be in keeping with St. Valentine's day, which comes the following week.

Dorothy L. Bixby.

IOTA IOTA CHAPTER The Friday before Christmas vacation was the date set by the pledges for their party in honor of the actives. They took us to the Capitol Theater, and then back to the house for a dinner.

It was delightfully served, and we all enjoyed it very much. The house looked very Christmasy with its decorations of wreaths and a large Christmas tree in the corner·.

Monday night the tree was quite loaded with gifts. We had our annual Christmas party and exchanged gifts. If anyone passing by our house had wondered what caused all of the delightful odors, we could have easily enlightened them. It was nothing more or less than the bath crystals, dusting powder, etc., which were among the gifts exchanged.

The following Friday saw us packing up to leave for home, and the campus took on a lonesome look. We stayed ten days, then came back to get ready for finals.

R. ·Fullerton Place of St. Louis gave an address to a special chapel on Thursday, January twenty-fourth, for the observance of recognition day held annually for the graduating classes of the College of Education.

The chapel exercises opened a holiday for the College of Education seniors and several interesting events took place.

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Th';Irsday n_oon a luncheon was held at the University Church of Chnst, and m the afternoon an all senior party at the capitol.

In the evening preceding the informal dance and reception for the seniors was held at Hoyt-Sherman place ..

"Whoopee Hop" was the name given to the dance given by Iota Iota on Friday, January eighteenth. It was held at th~ chapter house.

Alice Eck. KAPPA KAPPA CHAPTER The end of January and every Alpha Sig in Kappa Kappa sighs with relief, for it is also the end of semester examinations.

During the past two weeks social functions were dispensed with, faces took on serious and worried expressions, and lights twinkled way into the night. It is rumored that instead of the customary compacts reposing in dress pockets, rabbits' feet and lucky coins were there instead.

At the present time it is more pleasant for us to look back to December hours and gay pre-Christmas festivities than to think of the sombre January_days. The first All Teachers College Night for the present school year took place December seventh in the College Hall Gymnasium. These meetings are sponsored for the professional welfare of all the students by the Teachers College Senate, a group composed of the presidents of the various departments in Teachers College. Selec· tions were rendered by the Men's Glee Club, and an exhibition was given by the Health Education Department. Dean Walk introduced Dr. W. C. Bagley of Teachers College, Columbia University, who gave the address of the evening. Dancing until midnight brought the evening to a close.

Another important and enjoyable event was the Panhellenic Tea, also in the College Hall Gymnasium, on Saturday afternoon, the eighth of December. Our Helen, president of Alpha Sigma Alpha and Panhellenic Association, presided. A delightful program was presented. Three Kappa Kappa girls, Christine Kline, Sara McCullough, and Geraldine Smith, took p~rt in the entertainment. Dean Carnell presented the scholarsh1p cup to Beta Chi, a local School of Commerce sorority, for having the highest scholastic average on the campus for the past year.

THE PHOENIX Probably the social affair most enjoyed by the Alpha Sigs in December was the Christmas Ball, on the night of the fifteenth in Beury Hall. What a lovely sorority dance it was. The hall was transformed into a veritable winter fairyland; icicles and snow everywhere, Christmas trees on either side of our electric pin that occupied the center of the stage, mistletoe and holly.

The room was given a comfy atmosphere by the large davenport, cosy chairs, and bridge lamps that had been transported to the hall for the evening. Programs were in the shape of a green Christmas tree, with A. S. A. in gold letters interwined across the front. The first page bore the words, "A Merry Christmas to All"-the last page, "And to All a Good Night." It was a dance that will linger in our memories and bring pleasant dreams always.

The following night Kappa Kappa held its annual Christmas Party. A pantomime of Van Dyke's "The Other Wise Man," and Christmas carols constituted the program. Christmas gifts were then distributed by the Three Wise Men. Hot chocolate, Christmas cakes and candy were served. The real Christmas spirit prevailed and the joy and love of the Yuletide filled the hearts of all of us.

An annual custom by the Chorus of the Music Department occurred on December seventeenth. Bach's Christmas Oratorio was presented. A double string quartet accompanied the singing, and Miss Rachael Jones of the Music School faculty was the assisting artist.

Another annual affair was theY. W. C. A. white dinner in the dining room on December eighteenth. All the girls were clad in white, and the dinner consisted entirely of white food.

Many Christmas carols were sung by the flickering candlelight.

Following the dinner was the dormitory Christmas Party in the Gym. A play, "Queen Christmas," by Carolyn Wells, was presented. Jule Custer and "Kitty" Bender of the Health Education Department executed several clog dances. Then Santa Claus, our own inimitable "Jerry" Smith, distributed gifts to Dean Carnell, Mrs. Doyle, Miss Ewing, and Miss Mateer. Nor were the girls themselves omitted. Ice cream, cake, and candy were the refreshments.

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The morning before the Christmas holidays began theY. W. C. A. cabinet went carolling through the dorms at five-thirty o'clock. Bearing candles, they strolled through the halls, and filled hearts with the peace and goodwill of Christmastide.

Santa Claus did not forget Temple's chimney on his Christmas trip. At the faculty Christmas party a gift that quite took the breath away from the guests was announced. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, philanthropist, had presented the University with $soo,ooo. It was indeed a wonderful surprise and greatly appre" ciated by the University, for it makes possible the construction of the third unit of the "Temple of Learning."

And that jolly old elf visited the Alpha Sigs, too, and brought us a fine new rug. To our Mother-Patroness Association do we owe our thanks for this present, for they donated the money last year. Our room has taken on a real homelike appearance with this latest addition.

Christmas vacat\on was filled with many good times. My most pleasant experience occurred at Harrisburg. (Being editor has its advantages.) I was invited to attend a bridge party given by Mary Wilson in honor of June Smith at Mary's home on Saturday, December twenty-second. It nearly proved to be a regular old Alpha Sig reunion. Some of the alumna: I had not seen since their graduation were present. Why "Peggie" Brenholtz Gohn was there, Mary Jane Wentzel, Ann Slifer, "Marg" Eby, Olive Wirth, Betty Wilson, and Alice Hart, and many other guests. We were hardly seated at the lovely luncheon tables, with A. S. A. colors predominating, when our attention was attracted by the strains of the "Wedding March" and down the steps tripped a lovely little maiden carrying an armful of pink rosebuds, which she distributed among us. On each was a card announcing Mary's engagement to Rev. Spencer Angst, assistant minister of Friendly Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Mary's rosebud bore the beautiful engagement ring.

Congratulations and excitement reigned. The lovely luncheon was almost forgotten-but not quite. It was too delicious to forget eating. An afternoon of bridge followed and this little editor found herself being admonished on several occasions for neglecting her card playing to grab notes of gossip for future editions. Nevertheless, she greatly enjoyed the happy event and almost won the booby prize.

THE PHOENIX The Interfraternity Ball was the first formal event of the new year. Brilliant decorations and varied entertainment were a part of the annual dance. This event is one of the biggest social affairs in the school's calendar and is always closely rivaled by the Panhellenic Dance in the spring.

On Tuesday, January fifteenth, a distinguished orator, General Herbert M. Lord, addressed the students of Temple on "The Nation's Business." General Lord is director of the U.S. Budget Buteau. He received the Distinguished Service Medal for his activities during the war. General Lord explained how the budget saves millions of dollars annually for the U. S. Government, and illustrated that the budget wiped out the nation's huge war debt.

Although most of the school's activities were on the wane during January because of examinations, one group in the realm of sports still carried on, and successfully so. Only twice, despite a difficult schedule, playing games two and three times a week has the varsity basketball team met with defeat. And the freshmen team is hailed as the "wonder" team. It remains undefeated and has a point-a-minute record against leading freshmen teams in the east. · As the second semester looms upon the horizon, busy days confront sorority girls. Most of you have gone through the pleasure, excitement, and even anxiety, ofrushing, but at Temple rushing does not begin until Saturday, February ninth. It is officially opened by a Panhellenic Tea. We have just received the dates for our parties, which will be February fourteenth, St. Valentine's Day, and March first. Most of our plans are not yet completed for these parties because the dates have just been set, so you will have to wait until next time to hear all about our rushees, and in that issue we hope to tell you or several fine girls that we have added to the ranks of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

Kathryn Bender and "Jerry" Smith recently spent a weekend in Lebanon with June Smith and Mary Wilson. They had a great time visiting the schools where these alumna: teach.

They also saw Olive Wirth and Mary Jane Wentzel while they were there. "Janey" and "Wence" have a lovely little apartment and a most adorable baby.

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June paid us another of her delightful little surprise calls one Sunday in January, and spent an all too short afternoon chattina 'h US. b Wlt "Marg" Eby also dropped in one Sunday afternoon for a few minutes. We are sorry so few of the girls were here to greet her. Most of us had finished our exams and were spending a few days at home.

Olive Wirth breezed in to spend the night a short time ago and we all enjoyed her company.

Three alumnc:e attended the Alpha Sig Christmas Ball, two bringing their husbands. They were Mrs. Hermione Layton Traub, Mrs. Theodore Reimel, and Betty Little.

Anne Willauer.

MU MU CHAPTER The Alpha Sigs of Mu Mu Chapter had a very interesting ·visit from Santa Cla~s. The members, pledges, and advisors held a "Christmas Giving Program" at the sorority house at 507 Congress, on Monday evening, December tenth, at seven-thirty o'clock. The program was reverential. The aim of the Sorority throughout the coming year is to promote and encourage "Girl Development."

A local lass of eight years was given an ideal Christmas by the Alpha Sigma Alpha girls. Her childish anticipated dreams were realized when Santa paid his visit to her that evening. The program was opened by the singing of Christmas carols, and the little miss, accompanied by the sorority girls, was ushered into her Christmas dream room. In one corner stood a brilliantly lighted tree, surrounded with Christmas gifts and goodies.

The radiant fireplace added to the Christmas atmosphere of the room. .

Poems were recited by Marjorie Rathbun and Louise Hopkins, the latter being a cunning poem entitled, "The Snowman."

Joyce Potter entertained the little lass immensely by her contribution, "Why the Chimes Rang." Following this the lass opened her presents, ranging from clothes, which consisted of a complete wardrobe, to toys and Christmas goodies. These were purchased by the girls individually. The ecstacy and cheer that

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the child portrayed at receiving her gifts certainly gladdened everyone's heart that evening. The girls realized that their efforts were worth while and certainly appreciated by the little one. "A Little Child Shall Lead Them."

The sorority wishes to extend their thanks and appreciation of the untiring efforts of Miss Emery, whose contribution made this program such a success.

The Mu Mu Chapter has completed all final arrangements for the annual "open party," which is to be held on February 16, 1929, at the Temple in Ypsilanti.

Monday evening, January twenty-first, the Sorority meeting was devoted to the cost and display of an average college girl's wardrobe. The girls were divided into several groups, each supervised by a chairman. Each group presented their particular articles with the cost of each. The wardrobe discussion was a very interesting one (especially from the girl's point of view).

Among those present were Miss Emery, faculty sponsor, and Miss Bauch, faculty advisor.

Mu Mu Chapter has the honor of announcing the acceptance of three new patronesses to Alpha Sigma Alpha: Mrs. Harold Barss, Mrs. George Millage, and Mrs. Jack Shepherd.

Florence Bayler, former President of Mu Mu Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha, was graduated this Winter Term from the Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti. She has accepted a position at Berea College, Kentucky. Through THE PHOENIX the girls of Mu Mu Chapter wish to extend their wishes for her greatest success and happiness in life, and their sincerest appreciation of the efforts of this capable leader of the Mu Mu girls.

Newly elected officers of Mu Mu Chapter are: President-Jane Fairbanks of Ypsilanti.

Vice-President-Marjorie Rathbun of Lyons, Ohio.

Registrar-Margaret Leonard of Croswell, Michigan.

Both Marjorie and Margaret live at the Alpha Sigma Alpha house.

June Schwalm,

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NU NU CHAPTER December slipped by very rapidly with one week of class and one week of examinations-then vacation! One very important happening occurred on December fifteenth, when Evelyn M. Snyder and Clara B. Swisher received the Sanctuary Degree.

This meant that Nu Nu Chapter did not have any pledges when the rushing season began.

On January fifth the Panhellenic Association gave the party that formally opened the rushing season. One of the Sigma Sigma Sigma girls entertained the guests with a solo dance while the Alpha Sigs gave a little skit. There was a splendid orchestra that afforded music for the girls to dance and finally delicious refreshments were served.

On Friday evening, January eleventh, we gave our formal dance at the Hotel Marlyn. We invited twenty-three new girls.

Miss Burdett and Mis~ Macintyre received. As favors the rushees were presented with attractive shoulder bouquets of roses, sweet peas, snap dragons and baby's breath, tied with silver ribbon. A very good Pennsylvania orchestra furnished the music. Serpentine and confetti were the finishing touch to an enjoyable evenmg.

January fourteenth the Art Gallery was transformed into a Dutch theatre. The girls wore Dutch dresses and entertained the rushees with the dress rehearsal to a burlesque melodrama, "The Fatal Necklace." Evelyn Snyder made a lovely heroine and Dorothy Williamson did her part as the courageous hero.

Bertha Anderson was a "vicious" villian, while Edith Rood, as the villainess, deepened the plot of the play. Eleanor Henderson was the countess and was gowned in a flowing black dress belonging to past centuries. Sarah Baxter wore men's shoes, size eleven, in her role of property man. Kathleen Clark attempted to disguise her black hair underneath a straw-colored wig that did not fit, while carrying out her duties as the prompter.

After the rehearsal was finished the rushees played some informal games and a prize was awarded to the one who showed the best ability at sculpturing a figure from chewing gum.

Refreshments were served at a long table, at one end of which

THE PHOENIX was constr"ucted a Dutch village. This was made principally from the rushees' favors, which were cone-shaped, vari-colored boxes of stationery, with a pinwheel on each box. Moulds of ice cream in shapes of wooden shoes were served with fancy cookies, coffee and salted nuts.

Silence period began January twentieth and ended at noon January twenty-third. We were informed that we had fifteen girls! We are mighty happy to have such lovely new girls ..

On the evening of January twenty-eighth we gave the ribbon service to the girls. To say the many things I would like to about each one, individually, would mean to write at great length, so better than that I shall say for Nu Nu Chapter that: Mildred Odiorne, Bertha Pickard, Zay Henry, Louise Plumley, Martha Sasse, Margaret Stebbing, Jane Large, Sarah Lee, Margaret Leigh, Elizabeth Downin, Margaret Rusling, Mildred Wenz, Nan Scott, Margaret Lyon and Jean Abraham-are dears!

Nu Nu Chapter wishes to thank you for the lovely Christmas greetings.

We are sorry to report that Blanche Ball has been ill at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., since the first of December. We miss the vice president of our Chapter very much.

Myrta Probasco had a sudden attack of appendicitis during the first week of December. She returned to Drexel in January and her health is very much improved.

Edith Rood has left the student house and is living with her mother in an apartment in West Philadelphia.

On December twenty-eighth there was an Alpha Sigma Alpha luncheon at the Garden tea room at Pittsburgh, Pa. Mary Lou Warner, Marion Ball Wilson and Sarah Baxter were present and report a delightful time.

Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority was among the first organizations at Drexel to submit the name of a girl to represent them on the Students' Activities Committee. These representatives will discuss plans for a building fund. This building will be for the use of the sororities, publications, and the numerous clubs or activities at the Institute. Dorothy Williamson is the representative of Nu Nu Chapter.

THE PHOENIX On January nineteenth the City Association gave a luncheon.

Kathleen Clarke and Georgia Sherred represented Nu Nu Chapter. Elizabeth Darlington and Helen Lindenmuth Ware were there also. The luncheon was delightful and the business meeting was very satisfactory.

Two Alpha sigs and a pledge were in the Wedding party of Dorothy Chitterling on the evening of January nineteenth.

Frances Bishop was maid of honor and Alice Pratt and Margaret Leigh (our pledge) were two of the eight bridesmaids. There was a wedding dinner and reception at the Glenridge Women's Club, at which three hundred guests were present.

January twenty-eight Ruth Hasenfuss, president of Nu Nu Chapter, came to classes with a gorgeous engagement ring on her left hand. She is engaged to Horace S. Hollingsworth of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The same day we had this pleasant surprise a huge box of candy arrived from Mr. Hollingsworth for Nu Nu Chapter, i~ accordance with our custom. After the Ribbon Service that evening we all did our share to empty the box in lightning fashion.

On Saturday, January twenty-sixth, the women's basketball squad journeyed to Collegeville to open their season by a game with Ursinus. The final score-sad to relate-was 37-21 favor Ursinus. Eleanor Henderson and Bertha Anderson are on the varsity squad.

On Saturday evening, January nineteenth, there was an Alumni Dance in the Great Court at Drexel. Miss Burdett, one of our Chapter Advisers, was among the guests present.

The new .basketball court in Curtis Hall was opened January tenth with a bang by defeating the College of Osteopathy with a score of 42-23. We are quite pleased with the results of men's basketball to date.

The Dramatic Club presented three one-act plays recently.

Margaret Rusling, one of our new pledges took the part of the daughter of a pickle king in "Speaking to Father," an amusing bit of nonsense. She showed poise, ease and was perfectly at home with her lines.

Drexel Institute is proud of the honors bestowed upon the President of the Institute and the Dean of Women, just recently.

President Matheson has been elected President of the Associa-

THE PHOENIX tion of Co-operative Colleges. Miss Dorsey, the retiring president of Philadelphia Altrusa, has been appointed as a member of that organization's National Vocational Guidance Committee.

Delta Sigma Epsilon gave a Bohemian Party for their informal rushing party this year, while Sigma Sigma Sigma entertained their rushees for dinner and the theatre.

Frances Bishop spent a few days with us on her way home from Dorothy Chitterling's wedding. In fact, she was with us the day we received the names of our fifteen new girls. Frances met most of them and was delighted with each and everyone.

Elizabeth Darlington and Helen Lindenmuth Ware were the guests of Nu Nu Chapter the night of our informal party.

A nne W illauer.

XI XI CHAPTER During the last two months our chapter has been particularly active and we have some interesting news. First and foremost we have a new house. At present we are just getting settled, but we expect it to be very lovely when we have everything in order.

Besides our housemother's room there are four bedrooms, and when the new semester begins we will have eleven girls staying there. One room is very large and has five single beds.. The front and dining rooms are separated only by a large arch, and so we have room for all of the dances and bridge parties we expect to give.

Our Christmas party is also worth mentioning. We had a tree, and all of the girls gave presents to the house. We got a number of bridge tables, score and playing cards, vases, linen and records. We also received a lovely silver nut dish and a fivedollar gold piece. We are planning to use this to buy more silverware of the same pattern which we now have. We all had a good time at the party, opening the presents, dancing, and eating candy and nuts.

The pledges are taking advantage of the new house, and are giving us a dance tomorrow night. As it is our first affair since we have moved it is to serve as a sort of house warming, and we are all planning to have a very enjoyable time. · · Dorothy Brown.

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OMICRON OMICRON CHAPTER December the nineteenth Omicron Omicron Chapter gave a benefit picture show at the Kent Opera House entitled, "Me Gangster."

December the eleventh Madge George, pledge of Omicron Omicron Chapter, took the part of leading lady in the opera "Rosamunde," given by Kent State students. Pledges Peg Strock and Millie Greene also were in the opera. This was a very great honor for Madge, who certainly made a beautiful bride. Dr. Engleman of Kent State said, "I swelled with pride and gratitude when I witnessed the opera."

December the twenty-seventh the alumna: of Omicron Ocicron Chapter living in Youngstown, Ohio, entertained the Kent members at a dinner-bridge at the home of Eleanor Rowney.

January the twelfth the pledges of Omicron Omicron Chapter gave a benefit tea-,bridge at Moulton Hall. Fifteen tables were in progression and were composed of students, friends and townspeople. Mrs. White, house mother of the hall, said, "I never saw a group of girls manage a tea so well and clear away so rapidly as this crowd has done."

January the sixteenth Omicron Omicron Chapter gave a benefit picture show at the New Kent Theater entitled, "The Outcast." This venture was a huge success, especially in a financial way.

January the twenty-sixth the pledges are giving a formal dance at the Twin Lakes Country Club for the actives and alumna: of Omicron Omicron Chapter. This event promises to be the crowning social success of the winter term at Kent State College.

Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Norton of Kent have been chosen as patrons of Omicron Omicron Chapter.

Mrs. Steve Harbourt, new patroness of this chapter, was rushed to Akron the first part of the week for an appendicitis operation. She is doing as well as can be expected.

Jean Gorham, an alumna of Omicron Omicron Chapter, successfully coached three girls for an oratorical contest into two first places and one second. Fourteen schools were represented in this contest, which was held on January the sixteenth.

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Alice Sturgill, an alumni of Omicron Omicron Chapter, is going to Ohio Wesleyan at Delaware on the twenty-sixth of January to the Sigma Chi formal.

Eleanor Rowney, Hazel Keener, Jean Gorham, Alice Sturgill, Kathryn Greene, and Alpha Sigma Alpha alumnc:e will attend the pledge formal at Twin Lakes Country Club Saturday evening, January the twenty-sixth.

Lidelia Farnum.

PI PI CHAPTER My Dearest Tom: Exams are over and I am just beginning to revive. Perhaps now I'll have time to write you oftener and even make you some candy once in a while.

From cramming season eyeryone at school has plunged into a much more exciting season-that of rushing. Our chapter at Buffalo has practically completed plans for all three rush parties.

First, we are entertaining the rushees by an evening at Monte Carlo. The bids are illustrated travel booklets which extol the attractions of Monte Carlo and on the last flap is an envelope containing a card of introduction to the management of the Casino. We are going to transport our guests to Monte Carlo on a ship (really only a room, fitted with life savers and steamer chairs). After the voyage the ship will arrive at a real Monte Carlo-with a banker, a roulette wheel, necco wafers with which to gamble, fake money, and even a murder scene or two. It's sure to be nice and "bluggy."

Our second party is to be a theatre party and cabaret. The bids will be theatre tickets and we, ourselves, will give a little show called "The Doll Shop." After the show is over the party will be conducted down cellar to the cabaret. Here chorus girls and vocal artists ( ?) will help with the entertaining. I'm to be a Dutch doll and later a chorus girl. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous ?

The last party, of course, will be a formal dinner. This, of course, can't be as hilarious as the other two, but in many ways I think everyone likes it the best. Rushees are always thrilled with their dainty corsages and with the general atmosphere of this last event.

THE PHOENIX Like most organizations in this world we need money, but we also have several ideas for making up our deficit. We are going to have a Valentine Candy Sale and another roller skating party. Instead of having the ordinary table for candy in the basement, we are going to have girls dressed in white aprons and caps, carrying the candy on trays through the halls and selling it this way universally.

Oh, I am too tired to write you anything else. It certainly would mean a lot to me to have just a few days of real rest. But then, summer is only twenty weeks away.

I send all my love to you, dear.

Yours, Dorothy Marley.

SIGMA SIGMA CHAPTER On December ni.t;J.eteenth our chapter held our meeting at the home of Ruth Wolfe. In the first part of the evening we held formal initiation for Lillian Southwell of Grand Junction, Colorado; Whanieta Stoner of Pupo, Illinois; Romona Kemper of Alcreek, Colorado. Immediately following the initiation we had a Christmas party with a pretty tree and a present for each girl. At a previous meeting each girl drew a name to see whom she would give her present to. It was a lot of fun. We opened our chapter present, which was J bound "Symbolism" from Mrs. Martin.

Our chapter had an informal dinner at the College Cafeteria at six o'clock on January sixteenth. After the dinner we adjourned to the sorority house, where Herma Marshall of Montrose, Colorado, took the first degree of pledgeship.

The Alpha Sigma Alpha Pledge Dance was planned for on December fifteenth and we were going to decorate in Christmas decorations, but our plans were shattered when one of the fraternity houses, where a large number of the "dates" were housed, was quarantined for smallpox. Not only that, but a number of our girls were sick with "flu" and we decided to postpone it till a later date. But on January twenty-sixth, at eight-thirty o'clock, a lively dance orchestra started things off, and the College Clubhouse was the scene of a successful costume dance. Everybody

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from "the devil and his wife" to "the Scottish lad and lass" was there. The hall was decorated in red and white balloons.

Mrs. Davis, our house mother of last quarter, was leaving on January third for Cripple Creek, Colorado, and as no one else was going to keep the house it was necessary for us to find a new sorority house. We are now located at four hundred and twenty-two North Pine Street. We like our new house much better than the one we had last quarter. ''.

Our president, Ruth Bull, was taken sick with heart trouble the latter part of the Fall quarter and she was unable to remain in school. Shortly before; Christmas she had her tonsils out at Grand Junction. Although she recovered nicely from her operation, she was unable to return to school this quarter because of her heart.

Irys Osterman was troubled a great deal with her eyes and it was necessary for her to go to her home in Bristol, Colorado, last December, but she is with us again this quarter.

Miss Lucy Spicer, our sponsor, left on Jan:uary twenty-fourth on a six weeks' vacation to California. She will spend a part of her time visiting her sister, Mrs. Howard 'Porter, at Whittier, California, and the remainder in the various surrounding towns, and in Lo.s Angeles.

Gladys Dill, who was here last year, is in school again this quarter. She is staying at the sorority house.

Lucille Stevens, a pledge of ours, is now attending Barnes Business College in Denver.

Elizabeth Johnston.

TAU TAU CHAPTER The Woman's Building was decorated for a gala affair Saturday, February second, when Alpha Sigma Alpha held its annual carnival-dance. Scenes of the Mardi Gras could not have been more colorful than those of the "side-shows," novelty rides and dancing as well as a quantity of confetti, serpentines, and noise makers. Everything was represented-Madam Fifi, the mystery girl, the animal show, faculty graveyard, the fortune teller and all the rest that go toward making a good time.

The pledges of Sigma Tau Gamma entertained the Alpha

THE PHOENIX Sig girls with a short program at the A. S. A. House Tuesday evening, January twenty-ninth. An interpretive dance of Spring, many solos, debates and other amusements were given by a very chatming company of competent actors.

Tau Tau Chapter is very proud of the seven girls who are represented in the Girls' Glee Club. We did not realize how many were in the club until they started on their annual tour last week, making most of the towns for a radius of a hundred miles around Hays. However, they are again back on the campus and things seem more natural again.

Marjorie Walker of Brownell received the ribbon pledge of Alpha Sigma Alpha January twenty-first.

Virginia Sailors of Dodge City, who was a former pledge of Alpha Sigma Alpha, is in school again this semester. Virginia was not here the first semester. · Word has been received of Maybelle Schaefer, who was a member of A. S. A., last year, that she is teaching in Monte Vista, Colorado. Her work among the Mexicans and Indians is very interesting.

We are very sorry that some of our girls are not in school here this semester. Ethel Prince is at her home in Moundridge, Jane Skinner at her home in Stockton and Frances Reiff at her Dorothy Morrison. home in Russell.

UPSILON UPSILON CHAPTER One moonlight night shortly before Christmas vacation, our editor's fraternity brothers-to-be came to sing under her window that one of their number "would ever be ·true." As a result she has been wandering around in a daze most of the time.

Being one the many Math. majors with which Upsilon Upsilon is blessed, I quite naturally write in a mathematical vein.

ThereforeGiven-Upsilon Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha, a peppy bunch of girls, a charming and delightful chapter adviser, a most helpful chapter "Dad," and some good ideas.

To prove-that Upsilon Upsilon, although she has not let her sister chapters know much of her activities, is still "alive and kicking" and "prospereth greatly thereof."

THE PHOENIX In Denison sorority girls do not live in their houses, so we have taken some rooms on College Hill and have had more fun making them as attractive as possible. We have made curtains and pillows of gay cretonne, have painted the furniture black and lettuce green, and have·bought a piano. We have not used the rooms as much as we expect to in the future, for we still have the problem of adequate heating before us, but"1£ Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

As for our social activities, we have had several dinner parties, a rushing party and have plans made for two more. On February ninth, we are having a rushing bridge and expect to have a delightful time. On February sixteenth we are going to have a Valentine bridge breakfast at the Granville Inn and invite the "Boy Friends." Vve shall certainly be able to say-"A good time was had by all."

Oh, yes-I almost forgot our Christmas party. Because school closed early on account of the "flu," we had to change our plans and have the party three days before the original date. In spite of that we had a wonderful time- a Christmas tree, a basket for a poor family, Christmasy refreshments, and some singing. Our alumncr have told us of a most wonderful and mysterious present which will be ours in about a month, but as for the nature of it-that is a deep, dark secret!

On November seventeenth we had our first "own" initiation.

It was held at the Granville Inn from four until six and we had to have many rehearsals before we felt we knew just where each and every one of us came in. Following that, we had the initiation banquet at the home of Mrs. Hawes, our chapter advisor.

We had corsages of red and white roses for these initiates: Fern Esther Channell, Newark, Ohio; Gladys Mozena, Zanesville, Ohio; Pauline Pitts, Alexandria, Ohio; and Sarah Parks, Minonk, Illinois. · On December eleventh, the . Ribbon and Phoenix degrees were given to Jean Edmondson, Alexandria, Ohio, and Marybelle Hilliard, Mentor, Ohio.

We'd just love to have some of our Alpha Sig sisters come and visit us-to see our rooms, to join in on one of our songfests, to talk over things, and exchange ideas and plans.

THE PHOENIX Q.E.D. Have I as truly proved to you as I have wished to, that we are a flourishing chapter? I do hope so.

Also, before I finish, Upsilon Upsilon would like to thank her sister chapters for their Christmas greetings and extends to all a very joyous and heart-filled wish for the greatest success and happiness in the year which lies ahead. Although that wish is late, "it is better late than never."

Fern Esther Channell.

PHI PHI CHAPTER Dear Alpha Sig. Sisters: The winter quarter is now in full swing at S. T. C. and everywhere you go you hear this momentous question discussed, "Will the' Bearcats' win in the basketball championship?" The quarter began December fourth, and was started out with lots of pep- especially by the girls, on Mother's Day. Aud such a day!

There were one hundred twenty-three mothers present with their daughters at the luncheon at Residence Hall. In the afternoon they were entertained in the auditorium of the administration building by Victor Herbert's "Naughty Marietta."

This day was an especially happy one for the Alpha Sigmas, because our beloved Mrs. Sharp came to visit us. It happened that one of the Tri Sigma's national officers was visiting them also, so Dean Bernard, to finish the occasion, entertained the two sororities, their guests and patronesses, to a Panhellenic Tea the afternoon of December seventh.

In spite of all our protests, Mrs. Sharp had to leave Saturday morning. We would have loved to keep her forever.

The next thrilling event, my sisters, was final installation of our pledges. The installation service was held at the house and the banquet at Yehle's Tea room. The tables, all decorated in red and white, were placed together to form the Alpha Sigma insignia and on the favors our pin was drawn in red. The favors were small booklets containing the menu, the program, a brief fortune and a brand ne~ red and white 1929 calendar.

We all think that Phi Phi has four of the sweetest patronesses in existence. Sunday afternoon of the sixteenth the actives and the alumni of Phi Phi were invited to an informal tea at the

THE PHOENIX home of Mrs. Haggard, on Lawn Avenue. We always have such lovely times at Mrs. Haggard's. She has the knack of making one feel perfectly at ease in her presence.

School closed for Christmas vacation with a party for the entire school. Santa Claus was there and he was very good to all Alpha Sigmas. Mary Lee Peck was the only girl in the house during the holidays.

After vacation, basketball became the main sport with everyone and still is. The "Bearcats" had some bad luck at Springfield and consequently they stand low in the race among the five teachers' colleges of the state. .

I have been saving the best until the last and am sure you will agree it is the best. The Alpha Sigmas won the prize for the most appropriate stunt in the annual campus comedies. Three prizes were offered and we won one, with the production, "The College Girls' Check-book," under the direction of Miss Nell Martindale. It was lots of hard work, but a great deal of fun.

This is the second consecutive year that the Alpha Sigmas have won first prize in this event.

Phi Phi Chapter held its annual faculty tea January twentyeighth, at the Sorority house. The sorority colors, red and white, prevailed in the decorations. The tea table was centered with a bowl of red and white sweet peas with red tapers in crystal holders at each corner of the table. The patronesses presided at the teatable. At intervals during the afternoon, Betty Selecman sang "Coming Home," and Marjorie Brown played several piano selections.

Well, my sisters, a rather difficult French lesson demands attention, so I will bring this lengthy letter to a close.

Lovingly y2 urs, Hildred Fitz.

CHI CHI CHAPTER On December fifth a rush party was given for the five rushees at the Chapter House. A chili supper was served, and a general good .time was had by all. · .· The pledge breakfast was held at the Spink Arms Hotel on December eighth. The actives, supervisor, Adviser and pledges

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were all present and entered enthusiastically in the Christmas spirit.

The room was softly illuminated by red and green tapers.

Beside the place of each pledge was a tiny white scroll tied in green ribbon. As these scrolls were read we learned, through verse, the chief interests, pastimes or weaknesses of our actives.

Who wouldn't enjoy and long remember this delightful and eventful breakfast ?

From our Pledge Breakfast we hurried to a Christmas party at Helen Selvage s home ( ex-collegio). Again the Christmas spirit prevailed. One of the pledges wrote and dedicated a song to Alpha Sigma Alpha, and all of the pledges sang it in honor of our Sorority. There were several appropriate numbers given by our members.

After a lovely afternoon of songs and other entertainment, refreshments were served. Although just coming from the hotel we could not refuse any of the delicious food placed before us.

Money was given for a Christmas basket for the poor.

On December twelfth Berniece Elder, Warsaw, Indiana, and Elizabeth Browder, Arcannon, Ohio, received their ribbons.

The Christmas party planned at Evelyn Hall's home was given up because the school closed on account of the "flu" epidemic.

The Phoenix Degree was given Berniece Elder and Elizabeth Browder on January sixteenth, at the Chapter House.

The most wonderful day of my pledge life was the day I received my pin, on January twelfth. The air carried with it a breathless excitement, a very infectious excitement. A queer feeling swept over me, one of expectancy, sacredness and anxiety.

After the ceremony we went into a banquet. The table was in a "U" and loaded with flowers and other decorations.

Harriet Pollock was the toastmistress, and many speeches were made. A piano solo was given by Lois Herring.

Our initiates are: Martha Brumbaugh, New Lebanon, Ohio; Patricia Lee Crook, Vincennes, Indiana; Margaret Dow, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Julia H. Gerlach; Elizabeth Lanaux, Mobile, Alabama; Dorothy Racey, Indianapolis, Indiana; Irene Shaffer, Delphi, Indiana; Gwendolyn Sheering, Springfield, Ohio; Amy Souder, Peru, Indiana.

Margaret H. Dow.

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AA-Lucille Chick to Albert Coombs, on June 12, 1928, at Portsmouth, Ohio.

AA-Gene Converse to Ralph Moore, on June 16, 1928, at Columbus, Ohio. · AB-Elizabeth Becker to Albert Cook, in December, 1928. New address is I I Kennedy Apts., Kirksville, Missouri.

BE-Gertrude Harned to Bryce K. Newell, on December 26, 1928. New address is 1016 Fifteenth Street, Greeley, Colorado.

GG-Floris Patterson to Jesse Aldrich, on December 23, 1928, at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

GG-Doris Anderson to Bryan Henry, on December 24, at Mooreland, Oklahoma.

GG-Lolita Higdon to John Gallon, on December 25, 1928, at Alva, Oklahoma.

NN-Edith Hethrington to George Phillips, on December 22, 1928, in New York City. New address is 571 Ovington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

NN-Dorothy B. Chitterling to George H. Hopenpyl, Jr., on January 19, 1929, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. New address is Haddon Hall, 324 East Forty-first Street, New York City.

SS-Lemorah Anderson to Edgar P. Hunter, on December 30, 1928, in Pueblo. New address is 1218 Yz Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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THIS AGE of healthy competition, success I Ncannot be attained through ordinary channels of service. Fair price, quick delivery, and honorable methods are all of vital necessity. Yet there exists a phase equally important, that of a personal interest and trust between the manufacturer and purchaser. It must bring a willing acceptance, at face value, of the word of an individual or chapter.

Our entire organization has been taught that the customer is always right. Perhaps there have been times when, in the course of developments, we may have been right. But right or wrong, we hold a firm belief in the integrity of those whom we serve.

Impassive business methods may · have their advantages. Yet our records of annual growth might prove that our policy, old-fashioned as it is, may be right, after all.

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