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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER. CONTRIBUTIONS— Pi Kappa Phi The Inter-Fraternity Conference The History of PI Kappa Phi (first installment) - - The Institution of Georgia Iota The Origin of Georgia Iota Indian Spring Fraternity Membership Pi Kappa Phi Hymn The Ideal Chapter The Relation of the Individual to Chapter and Fraternity The Value of the Fraternity House Pi Kapp Life Song Fraternity Scholarship at California The University Life My Brother Fraternalism Pi Kappa Phi Hymn THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT— Editorials Announcements The Roll of Honor SCISSORS AND PASTE— Exchange Clippings News—That's All Etchings From the Quill THE ALUMNI DEPARTMENT— Historian's Report Pi Kappa Abroad Alumni News In Memoriam—Paul Leo Schenk THE CHAPTER LETTERS— Letters With the Humorists ILLUSTRATIONS— L. Harry Mixson Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr. John DeLorme Carroll Paul Leo Schenk ADVERTISEMENTS
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December 15, 1913. PI KAPPA PHI. At the study, in the classroom, Anywhere—our thoughts would fly, And our moments we'd consume Thinking of Pi Kappa Phi. School is finished, life begun, Years of toil before us lie, Yet, as the toilsome course is run, Remains with us, Pi Kappa Phi. Brothers linked in college spirit, Roommates, chums of days gone by, Breathe it, think it, love it, hear it, That dear old Pi Kappa Phi. In later years as we grow aged, With wrinkled face and dimmed eye, Still we'll find our thought engaged Cherishing Pi Kappa Phi. Time rushes on, the end is near— Then we're told it's time to die. When in parting with all that's dear, We bid adieu to Pi Kappa Phi.
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THE STAR. AND LAMP. THE INTER-FRATERNITY CONFERENCE OF 1913. Written by C. K. DILLINGHAM, Sigma,'11.
On Saturday, November 29, 1913, the fifth annual session of the Inter-Fraternity Conference was held at the University Club in New York city, with thirty-three fraternities represented by one hundred and three delegates, this being the largest session ever held. The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock by Chairman Trimpe, Sigma. Chi, which was immediately followed by the reading of the minutes of the Conference of 1912 and the report.of the secretary, F. W. Shepardson, Beta Theta Pi. The Committee on the Relations Between Colleges and Fraternities reported that they had not been called on during the year for aid nor had any specific cases been reported to them. The report of the Committee on Local Inter-Fraternity Councils was a very interesting one, and one should be a subject for serious thought by all fraternities. It was clearly shown by this report that even at those universities• where the local chapters of the various fraternities had formed a council or some such organization, the rules were not entirely lived up to, particularly in regard to rushing agreements. It was therefore the unanimous opinion of the Conference that local councils consisting of the chapters of various fraternities at the same universities be established, and it was further recommended by the Conference that each fraternity instruct their several chapters to co-operate with the delegates of the other fraternities wherever such councils were established. The Committee on Anti-Fraternity Legislation made the report that was probably of the greatest,interest to the Conference, as it is on this point that fraternities are most sorely worried. The committee has been hard at work this year, gathering evidence as to the cause of the recent agitation in the various State Legislatures against fraternities. The
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most serious cases are at present Wisconsin, Ohio, and Mississippi. In South Carolina fraternities have been barred from State institutions for some years. In Mississippi a test case has been fought through the Courts and is to be taken to the United States Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the law prohibiting fraternities. In some cases the committee found that the fraternities needed to wake up and to use a slang expression "get a move on," but in many cases they found that the reports were totally uncalled for and entirely wrong. The subject of high school fraternities reported on by the same committee brought forth a lively discussion. It was clearly shown that in many cases of anti-fraternity legislation the movement was started by the misbehavior of high school fraternities. Particularly was this so in Ohio. State Legislators, wise as they are supposed to be, do not seem to be able to distinguish between a collegiate chapter of a national fraternity and a wild group of boys in a high school, banded together for a good time. Consequently it is distinctly up to the fraternities to protect themselves against these groups trying to imitate them. It was unanimously recommended by the Conference that high school fraternities should be discouraged. A further recommendation was passed by a majority vote that each fraternity should initiate into its chapters no man of any high school fraternity. This was to become effective after due notice had been given. Some fraternities have already adopted this ruling, setting 1917 as the date when the law is to take effect. The report of the Committee on College Organizations Antagonistic to Fraternity Ideals took up the subject of the so-called fraternity Theta Nu Epsilon. This is not a genuine fraternity, but merely a secret sophomore society, which accepts anyone to membership and is very lax in its standard of living. It was unanimously recommended by the Conference that each fraternity prohibit its members from becoming members of Theta Nu Epsilon.
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The Committee on the Relations Between General College Fraternities and Professional Fraternities had found that in cases where a man, belonging to a college fraternity, joined a professional fraternity in an institution where his other fraternity had a chapter, there was a division of his interest which was extremely detrimental to both fraternities. It was therefore recommended by the Conference that each fraternity prohibit its members from joining a. professional fraternity in an institution where it already has a chapter. This, of course, would not apply to purely professional or industrial institutions. Some interesting talks were made upon various subjects of fraternity interest. One subject of discussion was the extravagance in fraternity chapter house, and it was the sense of the Conference that fraternities do all in their power to stop foolish waste of money and wrong living in their chapter houses. . With the election of officers the Conference was adjourned. The following officers were elected: Chairman, F. W. Shepardson, Beta Theta Pi; Secretary, H. H. McCorkle, Phi Kappa Psi; Treasurer, 0. H. Cheney, Phi Gamma Delta, and on the Executive Committee W. A. Trimpe, Sigma Chi, and 0. H. Rogers, Sigma Phi. No one who has not attended a session of the Conference can fully appreciate the feelings of a delegate. It is really an inspiration to see how closely the different fraternities are allied and how they are working together for the advancement of all h the only possible way that this can be done. 618 Highland Ave., Newark, N. J.
BROTHER L. HARRY MIXSON, Alpha, 907. One of the Three Founders of the Fraternity and a Moving Spirit in Its Early Development.
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THE HISTORY OF PI KAPPA PHI. THE HISTORY OF PI KAPPA PHI. (FIRST INSTALLMENT.) Written by L. HARRY MixsoN, Alpha,'07.
The possibility of organizing a new fraternity at the College of Charleston first had its birth in the minds of three men. These men were close personal friends, and their activities in athletics an literary society work throwing them into close contact, their ideas and opinions were in strong accord. They were Simon Fogarty, Jr., Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., and Lawrence Harry Mixson. These three men are therefore the founders of our fraternity, and though as they now look back nine years it is doubtful if there existed at that time in their minds the definite formation of a national fraternity, the germ was there, needing only to have a slight stimulus given it. These three men discussed among themselves the feasibility of organizing a fraternity, and decided to invite several others to become charter members. The first meeting which ed eventually to the final organization was held at the residence of L. Harry Mixson, 190 Wentworth St., Charleston, S. C., and the definite organization was entered into December 10, 1904, at the home of Simon Fogarty, Jr., 90 Broad St. Present at the meeting were the following students of the College of Charleston:
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into membership, and on March 4th, L. Orr Bruce,'08. The officers were:—A. A. Kroeg,President; L. Harry Mixson, Secretary; Simon Fogarty, Jr., Treasurer. The Sergeant-atArms was at that time elected monthly, and the other chapter officers we now have did not then exist. It was with these nine men that an almost impossible task was attempted. It is an easy matter for a group of men to come together and form . a club that would last for one, two or three years, and as long possibly as the influence of the charter members can be felt, but to lay the ground work of an organization that time will not destroy calls for the introduction of a spirit tangible and yet intangible, which will grow stronger and stronger and wider and wider until the names of the founders are perhaps forgotten or barely known to posterity. Fortunately among the charter members were found men who foresaw this, and who worked along this line. Leaders were found, and no fraternity ever had a more loyal, more far-sighted, more loving band of workers than did this fraternity of ours. The name was the idea of Kroeg; the pin that of S. Fogarty and Mixson, and the earliest constitution that of Mixson. Soon Rituals of Initiation and Procedure were needed, and this work was done by S. Fogarty and iMixson. Time has taught us that changes in them were needed, and these changes and additions were made, principally the work of these same men. Never will anybody else ever be able to understand the plans entered into, the labors undergone, and the anxious moments spent by these few men, and on the other hand no one else will ever appreciate the keen pleasure, delight, and satisfattion they experienced as each obstacle was overcome. They were truly a band of brothers, all laboring for a common end, and each heart was,opened to the other, telling its own hopes, fears, and joys. The cardinal principle which these men inculcated was conservatism. No doubt they imbibed this spirit in a large meas-
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ure from the time-honored College of Charleston, whose ancient walls and columns are living and constant reminders that it is best to build slowly and wisely. Most of their ideas were received, and plans were discussed in her corridors and under the majestic trees on her campus, and there is no doubt but that her principles and spirit actuated many an early step. These eight men fully organized in the spring of 1905, worked through the remainder of the college year, and at the end of the session a banquet was held at the Freundschaftsbund Hall, June 17th. Simon Fogarty, President-elect for the first term of the next session, presided as toastmaster. Andrew A. Kroeg responded to "The College of Charleston ;" L. Harry Mixson to "Athletics;" Thomas F. Mosimann to "The Chrestomathic Literary Society," and Theodore B. Kelly to "Friendship." Pledges were made anew for increased activity next session, and the banquet was a success in every sense of the word. The members were all well and favorably known in every department of student activity. Kroeg was prominent in Athletics as manager of the football team; S. Fogarty and Mixson were active in football, baseball, and basketball, in addition to being officers in the Literary Society; Mo.simann and Wagener were especially prominent in magazine work. All the other MEll were well known and regarded as good College men. Every man returned to college in the fall of 1905 with the exception of Brothers Kroeg and Bruce, but the former, residing in Charleston and reading law there, was present at all the meetings and continued to help greatly by his presence and advice. For the first term of 1905-06, S. Fogarty, Jr., was President, L. Harry Mixson, Secretary, and A. P. Wagener, Treasurer. Soon after the opening of the college year, the first initiation was held, Henry Patrick Wagener being the neophyte. Fratres Kroeg, S. Fogarty, and Mixson handled the ceremony, and it was a decided success. On December 10, 1905, the fraternity celebrated her first birth-
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day with an informal supper as the guest of L. Harry Mixson, at his residence. During the second term the officers were:—A. Pelzer Wagener, President; L. Harry Mixson, Secretary, and Simon Fogarty, Jr., Treasurer. During the year of 1905-06, the fraternity prospered in every sense of the word. There were many hardships to overcome, but the overcoming of each gave added confidence and strength for the surmounting of the next obstacle. At the close of the college year a banquet was again held, June 18th. L. Harry Mixson, President-elect for the first term of the next college session, presided as toastmaster. The following were the speakers:—A. Pelzer Wagener, Simon Fogarty, Jr., Theodore B. Kelly, Thos. F. Mosimann, Andrew A. Kroeg, Jr., H. K. Purdy, and H. P. Wagener. The fraternity started the year of 1906-07 with A. P. Wagener and S. Fogarty, Jr., missing from the ranks of active members. The former went to Baltimore, Md., to attend Johns Hopkins University, the latter going into business in Charleston, being able, therefore, to attend all the meetings and to remain in close contact with the affairs of the fraternity. During the first term the officers were:—L.Harry Mixson, President; Theo. B. Kelly, Secretary; Thos. F. Mosimann, Treasurer. During the term two neophytes were initiated:—Kenneth Earle Lowman, Orangeburg, S. C., and William Fogarty, Charleston, S. C. The fraternity, however, during the year lost one of its active members in Theodore B. Kelly, who left Charleston to attend the University of California. His departure was the source of regret to all the members, and on the eve of his departure an informal meeting was held in the fraternity rooms. He was presented with a scarf pin as a token of the love his brothers bore him. Up to this time, December, 1906, the history of our fraternity has been the history of the Charleston chapter, bid for some time the feeling was strong with some of the members that expansion into other colleges should be the result
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of our success here. The members with whom this feeling was strongest were Kroeg, Fogarty, Mixson, and Purdy. As yet, however, there existed no organization outside of the Charleston chapter, and in order to be prepared for this expansion, the proper machinery had to be provided, whereby two or more chapters could be governed by some central body. Accordingly, a meeting of the Charleston chapter and the Charleston alumni fully discussed the situation in December, 1906, and an organization was effected, and a Supreme Chapter formed. The first Supreme Chapter had the following members:—A. A. Kroeg, Jr., A.P. Wagener, Simon Fogarty, Jr., L. H. Mixson, and H. K. Purdy, the latter two representing the Charleston chapter, and the first three being ex-presidents. The officers were:—A. A. Kroeg, Grand President; S. Fogarty, Grand Secretary; A. P. Wagener, Grand Treasurer; L. H. Mixson, Grand Historian, and the first Supreme Council consisted of these four men with H. K. Purdy. Here then was an organization for a national fraternity with but one chapter, but a Constitution and By-Laws were framed, the work of Kroeg, and machinery was provided for the management of several chapters. The next step, then, was to institute a second chapter. Three members of the Supreme Council resided in Charleston, Kroeg, S. Fogarty, and Mixson, and meetings were frequent. The ground work for the future expansion of our fraternity was laid right in these meetings; the policy of the fraternity in regard to expansion was thoroughly outlined, and this policy pervades the extension work to this day. On March 10, 1907, the application of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, at Clinton, S. C., was read and accepted, the working up of this chapter being due principally to the untiring efforts of Grand President Kroeg. L. Harry Mixson was appointed Instituting Officer, and accordingly on March 16, 1907, South Carolina Beta Chapter was duly instituted. Brother Kroeg was present also at the ceremony, assisting Brother Mixson. Our fraternity, therefore, became
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national on this date, and on December 23d of the same year it was dilly incorporated under the laws of the State of South Carolina, the charter being granted to A. A. Kroeg, Jr., and L. Harry Mixson. The first Convention of Pi Kappa Phi was held on December 31, 1907. The following officers were present:—A. A. Kroeg, Grand President; Simon Fogarty, Grand Secretary; A. Pelzer Wagener, Grand Treasurer; L. Harry Mixson, Grand Historian. James Fogarty and H. P. Wagener represented S. C. Alpha, and Brothers Frazier and O'Bryan, South Carolina Beta. The meetings were held in the chapter rooms of the Charleston chapter. At this meeting an immense amount of detail work was taken up and numerous questions settled. The Supreme Constitution was ratified, and machinery for the management of a national fraternity was set fully in motion. Among all present was evident a spirit of harmony, all working for the common good, and many far-sighted steps were taken, the wisdom of which has been proved in the years which have el;tpsed. The following officers were elected for two years:—A.A. Kroeg, Grand President;, A. Pelzer Wagener, Grand Vice President; Simon Fogarty, Grand Secretary; Thos. F. Mosimann, Grand Treasurer; L. Harry Mixson, Grand Historian. The Supreme Council was composed of A. A. Kroeg, Simon Fogarty, L. Harry Mixson, Thos. F. Mosimann, and Jas. B. Frazier. Charleston, S. C.
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THE INSTITUTION OF GEORGIA IOTA. Written by JNo. D. HAMER, Sigma,'12. On the afternoon of October 24, 1913, after many telegrams and letters being sent and received, Instituting Officer Jno. D. Hamer and Assistant Instituting Officer D. Guy Maxwell left Columbia, S. C., accompanied by Grand President Jno. D. Carroll, bound for Atlanta, Ga., to install the tenth chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at the Georgia School of Technology, whose petition had been passed upon favorably by the Supreme Council of the fraternity. We arrived in Atlanta early Saturday morning and proceeded to the Hotel Ansley. After breakfast Grand Secretary E. R. W. Gunn appeared on the scene, accompanied by Mr. S. A. Cook, the moving spirit of the Tech petitioners, and several members of the Georgia Eta Chapter. Proceeding to our room, we discussed general fraternity matters for a few minutes, and then were told of the arrangements that had been made for us. The installation was to take place at the famous Kimball Hotel at 8 o'clock that evening, followed by a banquet in honor of the occasion tendered by the petitioners. Brother Gunn and Mr. Cook soon left to perfect arrangements and we killed the rest of the morning sauntering around the streets of Atlanta, which were very much enlivened by the presence of the University of Georgia student body. They had come over for the game between Georgia and Virginia. In our ramble we ran into Brothers Faw and Robinson from North Carolina Epsilon, who had come down to represent their chapter. It was decided that we get lunch and then go to the football game. Returning from the game, we proceeded to the Ansley to prepare for the hostilities of the evening. Gathering up our grips loaded with material of torture, we journeyed over to
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the Kimball, where we were met by the entire Eta Chapter and several visiting brothers. Mr. Cook had his squad of neophytes on hand and proceeded to introduce us to the finest looking bunch that could be assembled under one roof. (Later in the evening the roof was raised.) On account of the rules of the hotel, the banquet had to be served first, it being Saturday night and the hotel not allowed to have banquets extend later than 12 o'clock on that night. Brother Gunn was in charge here and made us line up in the following order before proceeding to the banquet hall:—Grand President Carroll and Grand Secretary Gunn, Instituting Officers Hamer and Maxwell, Brothers Faw and Robinson, representatives from North Carolina Epsilon, Georgia Eta, and last but not lease, Mr. Cook, leading the petitioners, fourteen strong. The banquet hall was decorated in the fraternity colors, gold and white, while the table was graced by fourteen red roses, the fraternity flower, in honor of the fourteen petitioners. It was decided to do away with the speeches and have them later with the other ceremonies, which were to take place in the same room. After doing full justice to the hospitality of the Tech fellows we vacated the room long enough for the waiters to remove the tables and prepare the room for the installation. At last, the momentous moment had arrived. With much fear and trembling, we marched them back into the room and proceeded with the ceremonies incident to the occasion. In order for them to understand how an initiation should be conducted, the Georgia Eta Chapter initiated five of them, performing a good job, ably assisted, or hindered, as the case may be, by Brothers Carroll, Gunn, Hamer, Maxwell, Faw, Shaver and Robinson, who could not resist the temptation of joining in with them.
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Next came the speeches of the evening, being led off by President Carroll, who spoke very impressively on "Fraternity Service," followed by Secretary Gunn, H. M. Shaver, Exchange Editor of STAR AND LAMP, and the representatives of the various chapters. At the conclusion of this, it was our privilege to deliver the charter, constitution and other ritualistic paraphernalia to them and declare the Georgia Iota Chapter duly installed as a bona fide chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity in good standing: Georgia Iota then went into the election of Archon. Brother S. A. Cook was chosen as the man to lead them, as he had been so successful in gathering the chapter together. With this we departed for our beds, tired but happy in the fact that Pi Kappa Phi had added one more good chapter to its roll. The next morning we departed for home on early morning trains, with a feeling of resentment against the demon "work" that was the cause of our having to leave such a good bunch of fellows. Success to Iota is the heartfelt wish of the instituting officer. Columbia, S. C.
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THE ORIGIN OF GEORGIA IOTA. Written by E. R. W. Guxx, Eta,'13. On a hot August day last summer, Mr. S. A. Cook, Brother Cecil Carlisle and the writer were taking a spin through the surrounding country to Oxford, Ga., in Mr. Cook's ibig Cadillac. All of us being college men, the talk was concerning colleges and college affairs. The subject of fraternities was broached by one of us. Mr. Cook made the statement that fraternities were good things and also that there was a fine opening for another fraternity at Georgia Tech. He being a student at Tech and not a member of a fraternity, of course he put us to thinking why not Pi Kappa Phi enter Tech. Nohting more was said on the subject then', so we parted at Brother Carlisle's with nothing definite decided. A few days after Tech opened, the writer received a letter from Mr. Cook asking what were the requisites for petitioning Pi Kappa Phi. These were supplied at once and nothing more was heard from him until we were invited to come to Atlanta and look over a bunch that he had assembled to petition Pi Kappa Phi. Needless to say we went, and saw the finest aggregation of fellows that could be gathered together into a petitioning body. On being'asked,"What about it?" I replied, "If our fellows could see them they would feel like kissing every one." Further than this I left them still in the dark. I received their petition and immediately sent it to the Supreme Council. In due course of time the Supreme Council acted favorably upon it and notified me to set the date for the institution. I notified the petitioners immediately to prepare for hostilities as they had been granted a charter and all that was needed was to install it. 0! the days of waiting! But they were busy days nevertheless. Many things had to be arranged before the arrival
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of the officials from the Supreme Chapter. I had the pleasure of working with them and they were a pleasant bunch to work with. They insisted that everything should be done in the best of style so that nothing would be lacking when the momentous day arrived. During our preparations Grand President Carroll telegraphed that October 25, 1913, had been set as the date of the institution, changing it from the date set previously by myself for October 18th. Everybody was in a bustle to have everything ready on time. At last the fatal day came. Bright and early you could see the fellows looking at timetables to see when they would arrive. They had telegraphed that they could be found at Hotel Ansley on their arrival. Hither we journeyed to find them in their room, resting up after the long trip. The suspense was partially over. They at least were here, but how they did talk. All the dignity in the world was assembled in that room. It made your flesh crawl to listen to them. I tell you it is some job to be instituted into a fraternity. Finally, they stepped down long enough to listen while we presented our humble tale of what had been done for their entertainment and the arrangement made for the institution. As soon as possible we left them to await the hostilities of the evening. We took the trouble, however, to tell the other petitioners that did not venture into their sanctum that they must prepare for anything, as you could not tell what they might pull off on them. The institution is over. At last Pi Kappa Phi is established at Georgia Tech, with a bunch of fourteen as fine fellows as could be assembled at any Southern institution. Success to them; may they all live long and prosper in Pi Kappa Phi. Oxford, Ga.
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It was a warm day in August that a few friends and ce myself decided to make a trip to Indian Spring, a distan of thirty miles, in an automobile. The days previous had d been hot, dry and sultry. Not even a breath of air stirre us the leaves on the well-cldthed trees. But fortunately for which fell rain the afternoon before we made the start a light g settled the dust and cooled in part the atmosphere, makin g peepin just was sun the morning and the roads ideal. The ge Stran over the red hills of Georgia when we left Oxford. to say, although I was born and reared in Georgia near this historical resort, yet I ,had never travelled through the gh country to the spring. Along the route we passed throu s citizen best the by a country that was one time inhabited The that the South produced in her most chivalrous days. al coloni ful beauti the first of these historic homes passed was home at one time awned by Lucius Q. C. Lamar, and where ia he lived when he represented Newton county in the Georg e becam Legislature. He afterwards moved to Mississippi, ed to Senator, member of Cleveland's cabinet, and was elevat me Supre the exalted position of Judge of the United States of Court. We slowed the machine as we passed the home d belove this of y Bishop Andrews, to do honor to the memor n Christian gentleman. Bishop Andrews lived in Newto over r asunde torn was county when the Methodist Conference we the question of his ownership of slaves. Further down and passed the beautiful Porterdale, the largest exclusive rope We twine manufacturing plant in the great round world. sucalso passed huts where some of the wealthiest and most names whose s cessful citizens of this State were born, citizen inspiraare now synonyms of success and whose life is an ng showi s, stance tion to every person born in humble circum y and full well that this is a country in which study, honest
BROTHER ANDREW ALEXANDER KROEG, JR., Alpha, '05. The Framer of the Constitution and One of the Three Founders.
BROTHER SIMON FOGARTY, JR., Alpha,'06. One of the three Founders of the Fraternity. While a member of Alpha Chapter he held every office of the Chapter, and has held the office of Grand Secretary and Grand Historian (two terms), besides designing the pin and getting out the first Catalogue of the Fraternity.
Cuts were requested from both Kroeg and Fogarty but failed to arrive in time. Fogarty did not have one and we did not have sufficient time to have one made.
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perseverance will prevail in the end. We passed the wonderful dam of the Central of Georgia Power Company. This company furnishes the light and power for the Macon Street Railway system, as well as light for numerous towns,including Griffin, Forsyth, Jackson, Monticello, Atlanta, and last but not least, furnishes light for the boys of Eta to study by. Knowing that Brother Shaver lived in Jackson, the temptation was too great for me not to stop, give him the grip and have a few words with him. Shaver is as jolly as ever, and a cleverer soul never lived. Being only six miles of level roads between us and the spring, it was only a few moments before we stopped in front of the famous, and justly. so, Wigwam Hotel. We arrived just in time for breakfast, and you may be sure that we did justice to the excellent bill of fare put before us. After a few moments on the porch taking in the beautiful scenery, we decided to visit all the historic places that time allowed us. Of course we first went down to see the spring. Prior to 1792 this country and the vicinity around Indian Spring was clothed in the swaddling of nature and the red man and the wild beast trod the hills and valleys west of the Ocmulgee, undisturbed and unmolested. The tents of the red man were always found on the adjacent hills, filled with invalids who were brought to this spring to be restored to health, they having discovered the "healing waters," but entertained a superstition that it would be unwise for any of their tribe to make a permanent residence near this spring, because the gambols of the squaws and papooses would drive the spell from the water. Thus, as late as 1800 the visits of the race to the spring, though frequently made, were only temporary and for a special purpose. About the date named above, General William McIntosh, a half-breed, erected a cabin for his own use and afterwards spent the summer here with his family. This broke the spell of Indian superstition and subsequently a double cabin dignified by the title of hotel was erected, and for years was the only house of accommoda-
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tion afforded visitors. These two buildings, together with a small corn mill which stood where the present mill stands, were the only improvements made until after the treaty of 1821. The ."spell" being broken, both races pitched their tents around the spring annually for a number of years, mingling without open hostility. Many were the visitors afflicted with various diseases who came to be restored to their original health. There were two factions of the Creeks, one headed by William McIntosh, the other by Napothlehatchie, who was termed Big Warner by his followers. Aiding Big Warrior in the leadership of his clan was Hopoethleyoholo, who was said to have been the most brilliant orator of the tribe. Through his influence the larger number of the tribe joined Big Warrior, and he subsequently took an active part in opposing the treaties of 1821 and 1825, concluded at Indian Spring. There was no disturbance until June, 1807, when the clan headed by Big Warrior continued to steal cattle and horses owned by the whites. In attempting to regain possession of their rightful property a pitched battle was fought, the whites winning, capturing Hopoethleyoholo, who was offered the pipe of peace, but refused it and spat in the faces of the leaders of the whites who offered it to him. Big VVarrior, reinforced, fell upon the whites, surprising them and recapturing their favorite orator. After this outbreak, apparent quiet was the rule. In the beginning of the War of 1812 the McIntosh party, which had been gradually gaining in strength, joined forcez with the State and government, Big Warrior united with the public enemy. The struggle in Georgia during the war was bitter and cost the lives of many whites and friendly Indians, as well as being a heavy expense to the State. The war closed, the whites again began to resort to the spring, and sick were gathered from all quarters. The fame of the waters spread, and the wonderful cures affected appeared
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more like the result of magic than the effect of one of nature's great restorers. Prior to 1821 efforts were made by the government to secure possession of the lands in Georgia lying west of the Ocmulgee. The McIntosh party favored such a treaty, while Big Warrior and his adherents opposed it. After many consultations between the two parties favorable .conclusions were arrived at, and the pipe of peace was passed. This treaty was ratified in Washington in 1821 and ceded all the land west of the Ocmulgee River. This action by McIntosh caused another feud between the opposing factions of the Indians. Big Warrior was killed and his clan was now without a leader. Sometime afterwards, by agreement all parties met at Indian Spring to consider a second treaty. The negotiations were conducted in the hotel, the main building of which had been erected the year previous, and called Indian Spring Hotel, which building is now standing. Under this treaty all the land in Georgia was ceded to the whites and an early removal of the reds arranged for. The agency of McIntosh in bringing about this treaty resulted in his death at the hands of the Indians in a few months. When it was announced that the treaty was concluded Hopoethloyoholo seized the occasion to give vent to his longpent-up wrath. Indians of both the old factions were present in large numbers; all were excited. At last the orator mounted the large rock, yet seen at the south end of the hotel, gave vent to his feelings and purposes in the following characteristic speech: "Brothers, the Great Spirit has met here with his painted children of the woods and their paleface brethren. I see his golden locks in the sunlieams; he fans the warriors' brow with his wings and whispers sweet music in the winds; the beetle joins his hymn and the mocking bird his song. You are charmed, brothers; you have been deceived. A snake has been coiled in the shade and you are running into his open mouth, deceived by the double tongue of the paleface chief (Mein-
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tosh) and drunk with the firewater of the paleface. Brothers, the hunting grounds of our fathers have been stolen by our chief and sold to the paleface. Whose gold is in his pouch? Brothers, our grounds are gone and the plow of the paleface will soon turn up the bones of our fathers. Brothers, are you tame? Will you submit? Hopoethleyoholo says no." Then turning to McIntosh, who was standing with the commissioners a few feet distant, he continued: "As for you, double-tongued snake, who I see through the window of the paleface, before many moons have waned your blood shall wash out the memory of this hated treaty. Brothers, I have spoken." By that treaty the spring became the property of the State of Georgia and the ceded land was laid out in lots preparatory to the founding of a town. Ten acres around the spring was reserved to the State and so it is impossible for the ownership of the spring to ever pass'into the hands of parties who would charge for the use of its health-giving water. The town was incorporated in 1837, and it grew until there were some 500 souls living there. It had three physicians, two members of the legal profession, two millinery stores, two bars and a billiard room, and a flourishing Baptist church. Also a weekly newspaper called The Echo. It bid fair to become one of the most prosperous towns in Georgia, but in 1876 it was visited by a disastrous fire which left nothing of the town except the historic McIntosh house and the old grist mil', unharmed. Then a railway was built within two and a half miles of the spring and later another on the other side of the spring, so surrounded by railways coupled with the terrific loss in property value of its citizens, the town never rebuilt. There is nothing left but tht little spring, untiring and never varying, continues to supply the healing water of the Indians for the benefit of all who care to come and drink. Silently the tiny stream trickles from the cleft of the rock into the small natural basin unaltered by change of weather or time.
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Brother H. M. The Echo was bought by the father of It has been owned Shaver, Eta,'13, and moved to Jackson. Shaver has been by the family for some time. Brother He is now editor and unfortunate in losing both his parents.. history connected proprietor of the paper that has much with it. ents who live near the I am indebted to a few of the old resid that I have given. There spring for much of the information who can recollect the are people living near the spring now nt owner and occupant place as far back as 1835. The *se from the McIntosh of the old McIntosh home purchased it it is said that he had family, I suppose from his two wives, as ans scalped him in his two wives living with him when the Indi new home. old mill, and standAfter going through the old house, the denounced McIntosh, ing on the rock from which the Indian all wended our way and other places of historical interest, we of its health-giving to the little spring to get a last drink waters preparatory to starting home. than our jourThe trip homeward was made more rapidly more familiar with the ney there, owing to the fact we were ved in Oxford. In fact, roads. In ample time for tea, we arri d hear the bells ringing, as we stopped the machine we coul good folks to be at home. announcing that it was time for all sant and profitable that The day was one of the most plea times go far from home I have spent in many days. We some there was one right to find spots of interest, but this time zed how much real history under our noses, and few of.us reali think of it, there is lots was connected with it. When you the histories of our land. of real information not recorded in Oxford, Ga.
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In a discussion of this kind, volumes could and have been written, and it is almost impossible to give it a thorough consid,eration in such a short article and with such a short time for preparation. For us to arrive at anything like the advantages that accrue from the membership in a, college fraternity, it will be well to glance into the past and see something of the history of this institution peculia-r to the colleges of America. This is indeed an American institution for nowhere on the continent do we find anything that even approaches it in character or in its widespread influence. The first fraternity was founded at the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Va., in the year 1776. It was at first a social club of five members, then they decided on a badge with the Greek letters of its name and a few symbols. Later this club established branches, or chapters, as they were afterwards called, at Harvard and Yale. This was the beginning of a group of organizations that have permeated the whole atmosphere of American college life. These fraternities have sprung up in such great numbers that in 1910 there were thirty-two general fraternities with 1,068 living chapters. This does not include the professional fraternities, which were first organized in 1864. We will not treat of them in this discussion. These thirty-two general fraternities have thousands of members and own and control millions of dollars worth of property throughout the United States. Each fraternity has its regular meeting or convention at which gather representatives from all the chapters for the purpose of advancing that particular fraternity. What are the benefits that the individual member derives from membership in the fraternity? He COMCS to college a freshman, new to the ways of the college world, where the
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competition is strong. If he is of the right sort, he is watched and given attention by one or more of the fraternities. Later he is probably taken in as a member of one. Here begins what to him are the benefits of a fraternity. He moves to the fraternity house and there he is associated with his fellow members daily. It is there he makes friendships which will last through life. A friend made in college will and does last. They are the dearest friendships that one forms throughout life. A man rarely forms a warm, lasting friendship after his college days. It is true that he farms business friends, but they are seldom the same close friendships that are formed in college. This is the greatest and most.ptowerful good that comes to one from his fraternity, but what more could be asked than this steady friendship and lasting love? Again, he is brought into contact with the older and graduate members, who in many cases are famous and noteworthy men. He meets them at conventions, college commencements, in business, and very often is materially aided by them to obtain social or financial recognition. His conduct through college and after graduation is greatly influenced. He has the reputation of the fraternity to uphold. In many cases he is more jealous of his fraternity's reputation than of his college's or his own. Many other benefits and sometimes evils are incident to membership in the American college fraternity, but at the last analysis it is generally conceded that the individual is benefited by being affiliated with a fraternity that strives to bring out the best in the individual by inculcating in the hearts and minds of each those principles which stand for the uplift and betterment of its members. It is this service which the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity wishes to render to its members so that in the generations to come the steady friendships and lasting love of us, the forefathers, will be handed down to be venerated in our chapter rooms and
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enrich the lives of our sons and brothers in Pi Kappa Phi. If this is our ideal, would you not say that the individual is benefited? Spartanburg, S. C.
PI KAPPA PHI HYMN. (Sung to the tune of "America.") Pi Kappa Phi we love Thy name all else above Fraternally. Success for you we pray, We strive each passing day To win where'er we may, Glory for thee. Thy stars and lamp shine bright, Thy swords are fraught with might, Thy shield a boon. Thy teachings are enshrined Withiri each Pi Kapp's mind. May each good Brother find Thy best fortune. Red roses call to each Pi Kappa Phi to teach Veracity. Long may the gold and white Each Brother's pride invite. May all Pi Kapps unite In Eternity. BOLT, Sigma, '09.
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THE IDEAL CHAPTER. Written by R. E. MOODY, Zeta. What is the ideal chapter? Is it purely a mental conception toward which we strive, or is it a standard of perfection which we can realize? Of course we could conceive of a chapter whose qualities would be purely imaginary and whose qualities we could never attain unto, except only in our minds. On. the other hand, we can conceive of a chapter whose qualities can be attained other than by the mind alone, and such a. chapter could be rightly called an ideal chapter— a true standard of perfection. It would seem to one who might visit some'few of our chapters that the members who compose them have in mind only the ideal chapter which we first mentioned. It would seem that they have despaired of ever realizing the standard they set for their chapter in the beginning, and in consequence are letting everything go to rack and ruin. Such conditions always have reasons for existing. And the reasons may be various, for example, A lack of the proper amount of ambition and pride on the part of the members of a chapter, a lack of true fraternal spirit, a lack of sufficiently knowing a man before he is taken into the fraternity, and sometimes (which is worse than all) through simple neglect on the part of the members of their solemn obligations. Such a chapter, if it has negligently sunk into such conditions, should be deprived of its charter and disbanded. It gives the fraternity a "black eye" in whatever college it may be and is a general drawback to the whole organization and that for which it stands. When a chapter is not what it ought to be on account of the lack of ambition and pride on the part of its members, then that chapter has missed being what this fraternity holds out for and teaches. For above all things else, it is intended to instill into a man an ambition to do and be something in
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this world. If a chapter is lacking in this respect, it shows a lack of a proper knowledge of the rituals, or a deficiency in the manhood of its members. A lack of true fraternal spirit comes about when we have such men in our chapters as would fail to feel an impulse for the better things when they have acquainted themselves with the meaning and teachings of the fraternity. And again by electing and bidding men who are not capable of acquiring our standard, and in whom there is no spark of ambition or pride. Indeed, the hasty and careless election and bidding of men causes more chapters to miss their ideal standard than any other one thing. It is far better to lose a good man by being slow and prudent in electing him than it is to choose .a man who turns out to be contrary to what you thought he was. It is too late to repent after he is chosen, bidden, and initiated. He is then one of us. He has a voice in the electing and choosing of all the other men who may come up for election, he has to do with the election of officers, he represents not you and not your chapter alone but the whole fraternity, not only in society, which alone is bad enough, but in all the world. He may, and does, bring up men of his own type and character for election, and if he fails to get them through he becomes a barrier over which a- man who would make a true fraternity man can never pass. With such men in our chapters we cannot bring in other men of a better type, unless we. also let in his favorites. Such is not true brotherhood, and tends to bring that chapter to the condition we have above mentioned. In electing men we cannot be too cautious or prudent. It is such a man as the above kind, who not only causes dissensions and unrest in his chapter, but also disregards his solemn obligations as a Pi Kappa Phi. And he also, by his deeds and actions, tends to lower even other brothers to do likewise, even though they have it in them to be loyal and true.
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Every chapter should have an ideal standard of perfection toward which it should strive. And when a man is brought up for election, every possible question as to whether he would have a tendency to lower that standard, should be discussed and settled satisfactorily to every member of the chapter, and then the chapter should govern itself. according to the outcome of that discussion. Then we would have more chapters working in perfect harmony, we would have more chapters with the true Pi Kappa Phi spirit, more chapters whose grand chapter dues are paid, whose treasuries are not defunct, whose standards other fraternity chapters would strive for, and whose qualities the whole fraternity would be proud of. Such chapters are looked to as leaders to guide our fraternity to that glorious destiny which it deserves, toward which it steadily approaches, and to which it must inevitably come. McCormick, S. C.
THE RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE CHAPTER AND THE FRATERNITY. Written by E. R. W. GuNx, Eta,'13. It was in the month of October that I was asked to contribute an article for THE STAR AND LAMP on "The Relationship of the Individual to the Chapter and Their Relation to the General Fraternity." I promptly wrote Hamer I would do so, and I also congratulated myself on having such an easy task assigned to me as my part of the coming issue. Some few Sundays afterwards, a cold, rainy, disagreeable Sunday, I sat before a warm fire, feet on mantel, pipe in mouth, and between puffs of blue I saw myself with flamed!tipped pen tracing lines that burned holes in the paper as the blazing words sizzled from the nib. I set down my ideas on this subject in language that sparkled and coruscated iridescent with living colors. I wrote an article about a yard
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and a half long, filled with majestic thoughts that rushed in succession and in such brilliant array that the soaring eagle able to gaze upon the noonday sun could not view them without being dazzled. But as the time drew near for me to put on paper those "brilliant thoughts," that "coruscated iridescent," all that was left of the iridescence was an "iridescent dream." But enough of this "what might have been." We must part with the dream and get to the real. You may turn the subject over as you will—treat it in as many ways as you care to—but after all it resolves itself into this:—"What must I do to be a good fraternity man?" Pi Kappa Phi has certain well-known principles which we must live up to. We have a standard by which we measure the worth of the individual. We presume that all fraternities have such a standard. If not, each chapter is nothing more than a local club organized for pleasure. A good fraternity man must first realize that he is not a member of a local club, but that he is a part of a great national organization that is a force for good or bad at a time when the mind and character of our American youth is in its most impressionable stage. For it is in the morning of youth that the future man is moulded, thus it is essential during youth's development, when the mind is best capable of being guided for good or evil, that you shape your destiny and select your part in the great drama of life. To be careless of college duties means that you are forming a habit which in after life may be a serious hindrance to your otherwise deserving success. A good fraternity man is first intensely loyal to the institution of which his chapter is a part. First, last, and always you are sent to college not to shine in society, but to get an education. Loafers, jolly good fellows—high "socitee"—cards and dancing ruin the character and reputation of fraternities and colleges. All members of a fraternity should obey the rules and regulations of the institution in both letter and spirit; thus you get the respect of the college body, the faculty and yourself. Not only do you help your
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chapter, but you help fraternity life at all institutions where fraternities exist. This spirit of college loyalty must run like a silver thread throughout your college life if you wish to reach the grand results aimed at by your fraternity. You should be familiar with the history, aims, principles and purposes of your fraternity, and more, you should be familiar with fraternity life in general. No person can defend their own creed unless they are familiar with the creeds of others; no man could practice law unless he knew the statutes, and all good lawyers study both sides of the case; it would be folly for a man to attempt to farm unless he knew something of soils and plant life and be familiar with farming implements; therefore a good fraternity man must know something of fraternities. He must of all things know the Ritual, Constitution and By-Laws of his own fraternity. By reading the exchanges he can get many good ideas from other magazines, for remember that all the good in this world is not bound up in the hide of the goat that eats Pi Kappa Phi tin cans. The character of the fraternity is the character of the individual. No member should do one thing that will bring condemnation on his head, for he is a part of a great organi— zation, and as such must ever keep in mind his relation to the entire body. Chapter reputations have been ruined by one or two members who persisted in rowdyism. When a task is assigned it should be cheerfully and promptly attended to. If you joined a fraternity merely for social prestige, a high rolling time, you may be a member, but certainly do not appreciate the order, and have no conception of purpose in life. Those who work the hardest in the interests of their fraternity, make the most sacrifices for it, are those who get the most good out of it. Each member has a distinct responsibility. You have greater opportunities for doing good than a nonmember, and therefore a greater responsibility rests upon your shoulders. If you do not do your duty to your brothers, to the students, to your college,
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it means that you are not capable of shouldering responsibility or are culpably careless. Edery opponent of fraternities and the fraternity system prates of the snobbishness of fraternity members. To a certain extent the accusation is well founded. Every man who has the interests of his fraternity at heart should avoid the appearance of snobbishness. Remember that as a fraternity man you are a marked man, the eyes of many are upon you. More is demanded of a fraternity man than a nonmember, and rightly so; for, as before stated, his opportunity is greater. Instead of assuming superiority over a nonmember you should help them all that you can, and there is a deal of good that can be done for the "non." If you do not find the opportunity of doing good among "nons" it is because you are not looking for the opportunity. The club house or rooms should never be a place for carousals. A fraternity is supposed to throw around you the influences of the home that you left, and if carousals are allowed the very purpose of the fraternity is thwarted. If you have to give vent to the animal in you, get out of the club room to do it. A certain college in this State has a rule not allowing members to room in chapter houses. One commencement carousal brought down the condemnation of the faculty on club houses. Think of the immense harm done to many brothers who come after you have left college and are in no way responsible for your conduct. Yet they are today bearing the burden of the bad conduct of their brothers years before them. The chapter should recognize that the aims and purposes of the fraternity should take precedence over the local customs of an institution. In some colleges it is customary for no fraternity to ask a man who was not rushed at the beginning of the rushing season. While it is well to work in harmony with other fraternities, we should not sink our individuality, our aims and purposes, for the sake of this harmony of action. If a man is slow in developing that should be no
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bar to his ultimate worth in a fraternity. "Imitation is the sincerest flattery." Pi Kappa Phi has a purpose, well defined—if a man comes up to the standard—if he is worthy, if he can be helped to develop, the fact that he was overlooked in the beginning should not keep us from rushing him at any time during his college career. We are supposed to help develop a man, and if we do not help we are simply not fulfilling our purpose of existence. Every chapter through its officers should strive to answer all correspondence promptly. Every meeting should be carried out as the By-Laws say it should. There should be order throughout the business session. Parliamentary law should be observed and all frivolity cut out. And above all things be prompt in the payment of your dues. You expect your national officers to be prompt in their duty, but can they when so many chapter corresponding secretaries let letters of the utmost importance to the fraternity, lie on the table weeks and never attempt to answer them. The Ritual should be learned and all horseplay during initiation cut out. We have a. lesson to impart to the candidate and we should be very careful that the wrong impression is not made. In short, when we answer the question, "What must I do to make a good fraternity man?" it can be summed up as being loyal to your institution, its aims and ambitions; loyal to the chapter, loyal to the fraternity, its principles and purposes; letting the glory of God run like a golden thread through all your actions, and you will stand forth before the world loved, honored and respected by all mankind. Oxford, Ga.
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THE VALUE OF THE FRATERNITY HOUSE. '14. Written by W. M. GWYNN, Gamma, fraternity house? What, What, then, is to be said of the been said? Hundreds of indeed, is there to say that has not reports have exhausted the books and thousands of university reiterate what has already subject. One can do nothing but been said. of vice and corruption Is the fraternity house the hotbed eve? Are the manners and its antagonists would have one beli Is, finally, the fraternity morals of fraternity men hopeless? man and living in a framan worse for being a fraternity these questions so familiar ternity house? No! No, to all to us all. ncy for good? Is the Is, then, the chapter house an age and morals? Is the frafraternity man a man of manners ng a fraternity man? Yes! ternity man a better man for bei Yes, indeed. ing with particular cases, It goes without saying that in deal to a fraternity or to any the answer to any question relative or no. One can no more other collection of men, may be yes he can a vicious institution defend a vicious fraternity than d himself to the fact that • of any other sort; nor can he blin some fraternities are vicious. do depends, of.course, on The good or evil a chapter may social thing it is, depends on the units that go to make it the the underclassmen, the upperthe members in the chapter, traditions that have grown in classmen, the alumni, and the that some fraternities do work and around it. But the fact nt; they are merely excepfor evil does not affect the argume ority of fraternities are tions to the rule. The great maj ve all else they make homes good and are doing good. Abo erless, sisterless, brotherfor the homeless, the fatherless, moth chief value, and in further less student. Therein lies their r future best efforts. homemaking lies the field of thei
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Particularly in the larger eniversities, as in such a one in which California Gamma finds herself, is the potential service of the fraternity great. One loses and misses among so many fellows the intimate, personal comradeship which forms so vital a part of one's education. As our Alma Mater bas become mater to so many, the feeling of brotherhood has weakened among us to such a point that we of California, among the five thousand students thronging our campus, feel that many of our classmates live in a world apart. In a general way we think of them as having a community of interest with us, tho' specifically they are strangers. As the number of students grows, the tie of comradeship that binds us together weakens. Each of us has just so much of human understanding and sympathy, the portions vary indirectly as the number of recipients increase. Along with the loss of companionship among the students have gone the friendly personal relations between students and faculty. The instructor has become for the student, particularly for the freshman, a mere bugaboo, demanding so many hours of hard labor each week; the student to the instructor a mere nonentity, a creature of marvelous ignorance, utterly devoid of personality. And so the students find themselves without that fine personal friendship of man to man, devoid of comradeship at an age when companionship is most dear. To provide a home and supply this lack of fellowship is the fraternity's highest function. For the brotherhood of a fraternity is a vital living force which extends to every phase of life, and it is this personal and vital interest in the individual that each man hungers, and which nowadays few men get except in fraternity houses. It is the human relations which the fraternity members get for which the nonfraternity men thirst. A fraternity being formed, what is more natural or desirable than that the members live together under one roof, that they may enjoy to the fullest their brotherhood? And so a home is made. Here may gather together members of' the
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four classes, the verdant freshman, the exuberant sophomore, the important junior, and grave senior. To these are to be added the graduates, and some day, let us hope, members of the faculty. To be ideal the fraternity house, the college home, should embrace the upper and the lower classes, the graduates and the undergraduates, for all these can be educated and developed therein. The older brother is trained and developed through the responsibility of setting an example to and protecting the younger who,looks up to him as the "big brother." Of the many good services a fraternity house may and does perform, not the least is the formation of an effective tie between alumni and the Alma Mater. Nothing could be more worth while. The active interest of the alunmi is absolutely requisite to the well being of both university and fraternity. Passively they help, for by them the university and fraternity are judged, and so prosper or languish; actively they help by canvassing among prospective students and by endowments. The fraternity is a most effective agent for this work of maintaining the bond between the alumni and the university. But what of the morals of the fraternity house? Will not the students, care-free and family-free, forget themselves in the crowd and be guilty of misdemeanors they would never think of housed in a dormitory or boarding house? Yes, in some cases. In most cases, no! It goes without saying that the morals of "roughs" will undergo no improvement through their being housed together. But "roughs" in a college or university are but a small majority, so the number of houses in which the rowdy element predominates is small. It may safely be asserted that in the majority of the chapter houses the morals of the members suffer not at all, but are, in fact, improved. Nowhere more than in a well regulated fraternity house are the vices, drinking, gambling, and others of the sort generally attributed to college men, discouraged. But virtue covers more than card playing and drinking. Where better than in a -fraternity house can sympathy and
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understanding, mutual help and kindness be developed? Nowhere is egotism to utterly defeated and rooted out. Through discipline the freshman, just free from the restraints of home, intoxicated by his new won freedom, and incapable of keeping his head, is restrained, is kept from doing what he later on will know enough not to do. The upperclassmen, feeling their responsibility to their younger brothers, are constrained, through pride and the desire to set a right example, to keep their impulses well under control, to sacrifice individual pleasure to the common good. But, one asks,"Granted that one leads a better life through living in a chapter house, why de, fraternity men stand so much lower in scholarship than the barbarians? That, after all, is the big thing one goes to college to learn." Before attempting to answer this it is but fair to say that, at least In the California universities, the scholarship of fraternity men has shown a remarkable and steady improvement. No longer is the man who "flunks" his courses consistently looked up to as the big man in college. Though it must be admitted that the standing of Greek letter men is not as high as that of the barbs, it does not follow that the fraternity house is the cause of this lack. Quite to the contrary. The real reason is that fraternity men are not in themselves as good students as are the nonfraternity men. The true cause lies within them. Fraternity men are gregarious creatures, they enjoy the companionship of men, therefore they make fraternities. They do not become social creatures because they are in fraternities, but they are in fraternities because they are social creatures. They are the men who, if they lived in dormitories, would usually be found in another fellow's room; while the greasy grind, the innate barbarian, would be sitting, ears cotton stuffed, solitary in his room conning his lesson for the morrow. Nor is the Greek's lower scolastic standing necessarily an indictment against him. He does other things well that the
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ce of men, barb does not at all. He cultivates the acquaintan , which is he becomes the finished, polished man of the world Most, man. ic a valuable thing. The Greek, too, is an athlet puts in almost all, of the athletes are in fraternities. He also ess valuel not and much of his time in extra academic pursuits, lower pursuits, either. Necess'arily his scholarship is a little day the For ing. than him who puts in his whole time study read. has only twenty-four hours, and he who runs may not gh throu goes grind the But the fraternity man gets something mind life without; he has cultivated a sane body and a sane to occupy it. Granted, then, that the fraternities are made up of men whose lower in purely scholastic ability than the barbs, men are which (but s achievements do not show in units and grade nevertheless real), the question is, what is the effect of resiDoes the' dence in a fraternity house upon their scholarship? e frastudent, the naturally gregarious student, the innat Some? house ternity man,kain or lose through living in the times he loses, usually he gains. rnia That which has done more for scholarship in Califo comfraternities than any other thing is the inter-fraternity on on positi petition inaugurated a few years back. A good r is conthe dean's list is a much sought after prize; no longe nence. promi to rk spicuously poor scholarship the only earma ing the That the fraternity may gain and keep a good stand way. le possib every upperclassmen help the underclassmen in Thus early in his career the initiate is made to feel the good man the fraternity does, and at the same time the older d realizes the responsibility of his position. The two are indee the 'to nce guida and brothers, the younger looking for help his older, the latter learning much in helping and guiding protege. What, then, has the fraternity house to say for itself? That it helps socially. That it helps morally. That it helps is scholastically. That it justifies itself as it now exists. It
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not to be doubted that it will justify itself in the next stage of its development, its endowed stage, when it shall approach the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. California Gamma Chapter House, Berkeley, Cal.
PI KAPP LIFE SONG. To live, to love, to learn, to die, Is the story of this life; But pleasures, as the years roll by, Bring joy into the strife. Pi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, In pleasures thou art rife. To use the arm, the mind, the eye, Are privileges grand., But there is that which you and I May better understand. Pi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, The grandest in the land. Success, a tonic all enjoy, Is the seas'ning of our work. Let every man his might employ And not a duty shirk. Pi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, Thy name prevents us irk. —BOLT, Sigma,'09.
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FRATERNITY SCHOLARSHIP AT CALIFORNIA. Written by C. C. MERRILL, Gamma,'16. There is a widespread notion, especially among people who have not been closely in touch with college life, that membership in a fraternity involves mediocre, if not poor, academic standing. This opinion, due more perhaps to the large number of fraternity men who are prominent in social and athletic activities at the seeming expense of their college work, than to any insight into the real facts of the situation, forms one of the strongest bulwarks in anti-fraternity arguments. In dealing with the question of the relation of fraternities to scholarship California Gamma may be able, by recording a few of the observations made in the half decade of her existence, to dispel some of the obscurity surrounding it. Certainly, in a university where there are thirty-one fraternities and some fifteen local clubs, scholarship statistics cannot fail to bear some weight. For the past few years it has been customary for a council of representatives from the various fraternal and club organizations of the University of California to decide problems of a general nature, such as rushing and pledging new members, house rules, and most important of all, the maintenance of a high standard of scholarship. At the end of each year this council has the average grade of each fraternity and club man computed and these figures arranged so as to show the exact standing of each fraternity and local, carried out to the fourth decimal. A surprisingly high average grade is shown by even the lowest in rank. California Gamma stands eigh4h in the list of fraternities. A local club occupies the last place. This statement is in itself an eloquent argument for the average high academic standing of fraternity men. In most cases the man about to be asked to join an organization will find that the record of the men bidding him equals or betters
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his own,for indeed, the fraternity grades are as high as those of the average student. No striking conclusion may be made by comparing the athletic standing of a house with its academic standing, for three or four of the bunches that make the highest bid for athletic honors are near the top of the list, while others equally prominent appear near the bottom. The spirit of scholastic rivalry that has been engendered among fraternities is evidenced by the very marked improvement that has been shown each year in their total average grade each year. It points to but one conclusion—that in the well-balanced scheme of life a fraternity advocates, the scholarship side of the balance is by no means the lighter one. California Gamma Chapter House, Berkeley, Cal.
THE UNIVERSITY LIFE. Written by I. N. EDWARDS, Sigma,'10. To interpret aright the profound meanings of university life is no easy matter. We have seen life at a Southern State university and at one of the great universities of the East. We feel, nevertheless, our utter inability to cope with the above subject. There is certainly a vast difference in life before and after entering the university. There is a still greater gulf between life at the university and the real article out in the world. What is it then that lends its charm to university life and causes it to stand out pre-eminently? What may be gained at a university? The university does more than anything else to broaden one's mental horizon. It is there we get a view—perhaps only a superficial glimpse—of life's philosophy, and henceforth the angle from which we view life is changed. It is
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there that we become less bigoted—lose our prejudices and idiosyncrasies. We learn to interpret the meaning of our environment and try to change it, or ourselves, in such a way as to produce harmony. At the university, we learn something of the complexity of society and determine our own relation to the social structure. Then, too, at the university we may become judges of human nature. It is not only a school of "books" but a school of experience as well. Life on the campus is but the prototype of life in the world. Here are assembled men from all parts of the country, mingling their different ideas and conceptions of things, and life becomes cosmopolitan in ratio to the size of the university. After all, human beings are more interesting that books—and much is gained by the unconscious absorption of other people's ideas. Whether we will it so or not our associates have much to do with the make-up of our own characters. We are a part of all we meet. Another advantage of the university is that it furnishes a place where one may pause and get his bearings before entering the realities of life. Just what the youth misses, who rushes from the high school into business, is hard to determine. It is surely a great thing to be able to spend the adolescent period in preparation for life and at the same time be free from most of its responsibility. The university is the table land that overlooks life's battle plain—here the youth passes for a brief spell before he too joins the fight that is being waged at every point of the compass. From his place of vantage he calmly selects his weapons and polishes his armor. He not only sees the present conflict with all its intricate movements—the campaign plans from age to age are unfolded to his view. But the phase of university life that is remembered longest and with most pleasure is the social. We use the word "social" in its broadest sense. The old Greek philosopher hit the bull's eye when he said, "Man is a social animal." This fact is the basis of fraternities, societies, clubs, cliques
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and clans. Society at a university is perhaps.more "social" than anywhere else. There is always a community of interests, and fellowship springs up. "College chums" is a phrase that is rich with connotations. The Greek and Latin verbs will soon fade from memory, even one's ethics may to some extent escape hilt., but his fraternity brothers—the old chapter house—the many evenings of pleasant fellowship—perhaps the occasions he "crammed for exams"—these things will be there until the end. A great man, when asked the key to his success, answered:—"I had a friend." Columbus, Ga.
MY BROTHER. Written by J. C. HYER,Zeta,'13. "Bob, why in the mischief don't those fellows come on?" "Aw,they'll be here soon enough; you need not fret. They said wait here, and I guess we had better follow orders." The foregoing passed between two very much excited and nervous freshmen in a small South Carolina college, generally advertised by the faculty as being "small, limited and thorough," and referred to by the big league scout and the sport writer of the leading papers of the State as a "fresh water college" and capable of turning out a possibility once in a lifetime. These two fellows, Bob Dixon and Jim Mason, had come off to college fresh from the high school and with high hopes and ambitions. They passed the recognition of their fellow collegians as they did the entrance examinations, and were hardly noticed by their associates, until the night of the first freshman class meeting, when the Sophs endeavored to profane the sanctum of the first year men by a sudden onslaught, as the result of which Biology II the nextiday discussed two very stocky freshmen who put up some fight, the results of which were apparent on several of the faces present.
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From then on they became at least factors in the freshman camp and were honored by an occasional senior recognition. As the fall passed the two friends saw the freshman eleven break into college football with their assistance. They sat on the bench and witnessed the varsity's defeat at the hands of their greatest rivals, and considered themselves lucky to get the opportunity of taking their medicine on the scrubs. Immediately after Christmas the fraternity spirit was revived, and they waited with the other members of their class to see whether the privilege would be theirs to become Greek letter men. Finally one morning they marched forth proudly to class with Pi Kappa Phi pledge pins in their coat lapels, after a joyous experience at the smoker the night before. Immediately they wrote to two very happy little "dames" at the nearby female institution, who reveled forthwith in the "frat" dances and attendant pleasures they anticipated in consequence. And so we find them in their dormitory room waiting for the arrival of the conductor who would explain to them their part in the much-looked-forward-to initiation, and here we will leave them, though it might be mentioned in passing that a window in the gymnasium was forced by some midnight visitor, and a titter ran around the room as their names were called in Fresh math and a witty friend ventured the assertion that "they were sick." So time rolled on, and they emerged from sophomoric stupendousness to junior insignificance and thence to senior fame, and dated their course closed when they were both borne from the field in the last great game upon the shoulders of their exuberant companions after Bob had sent the ball between the uprights from the 30-yard line for a goal from placement during the last few minutes of play, and the season was declared a success. Owing to business reverses, Bob was compelled to accept his university course from a foxy old uncle who dictated Yale,
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while his friend had chosen Harvard as the place to finish his football education. The scene on the Harvard field the first day out was hardly suggestive of football. The old heads went through the warming up, and the new men- put forth every effort, while the coaches watched neither class, but spent their time in earnest conversation as to prospects and material. Jim found himself upon the third squad after the first week of practice, and accounted for his tackle so well that when the team left for Cornell some weeks later he went along in the capacity of substitute. During the last few minutes of play, when the game was already cinched for the Crimson, Coach Laughton sent in a scrub eleven, and as they crumbled before the furious Ithican charge the lone star of the defense was the work of big Jim Mason at right tackle. Nothing was said by the coach, but the next game, when Colgate came down to Cambridge and received her drubbing, the official score registered under the head of substitutions "Mason for Riley," and the reporter who did the game and the "latest sporting dope," remarked upon the strength of the right side of the Red line. It was not, however, until the big game with the Indians that Jim came into his own. Glen Warner had led the strongest bunch of redskins that ever wore the Red and Yellow up against the teams of the East, and when Dartmouth had failed to score, and several contenders failed to make a first down, the wise ones began to wake up and count upon Carlisle for upsetting the dope pot, and inwardly hoped that they would throw a scare into the Harvard battle line, which would create new history. The game started with a rush and a drive, as the Indians have always started their games, and for the first few moments of play the Crimson veterans were swept off their feet and Carlisle gained an advantage which came near proving the undoing of the Harvard supremacy. Grimly did the two
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teams battle and the red men played their best points to hold the lead, and it was only in the last few minutes that the issue went against them, when big Jim Mason ripped the impregnable interference of the Indian forwards and nailed Balac for a safety, winning the game by a single point. Then came Jim's easy sailing. He trained and ate with the regulars, and the leading papers carried a full-sized cut of the big tackle with his high school and college records, for the day he would inevitably star. The gridiron authorities rated him high in the All-Eastern, and the All-American team seemed not far off. The gods of war and warlike sport smiled not so favorably upon Bob Dixon at New Haven. Bob had found a horde of candidates both old and new out for the backfield positions, and the opinion was general that Yale was slated for her strongesi season behind the line, while the defense yawned with lack of veterans. The Yale coaches worked every chance and possibility, and the driving which the regulars received was shown in the constant shifts for new men upon the scrubs. Bob came in for his share of extra work during these conflicts and played hard for the recognition he hoped would some day come. The truth was inevitable. Yale had her weakest team in years, and the old Eli line of history had given way to a veteran backfield and a lonely center of the old guard, who played the whole defense it seemed, in the first struggle with a down-east school, and managed to keep the truth from the world, until the next Saturday, when Holy Cross swept down and battered the Blue line to tatters and left with the score 15 to 5 in the up-state's favor. This awakened the coaches, as it did the undergrads and the squad. The men were shifted, possibilities became likelihoods and thence to the regular stage, while the former linesmen watched the Lehigh game from the inner recesses of their blankets, and prayed for the chance to come back.
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The Blue's strength lay in her backfield and with the two fourth-year halves, a scrappy little quarter and a kicking full back to strengthen the weakness of the line, the coaches stubbornly made ready for the remainder of the season and the Harvard game. Bob saw the shifts come and go and at last benefited to the extent that he was elevated to the signal half of the scrub, while the holder of that position found a place in the regular line. The Yale nerve played to its utmost kept the wolf of defeat from the Eli camp, but it was the kicking of the big full back, Bowles, that won many a game that Yale should have taken by#several touchdOwns. In the#meanwhile Bob#drove the scrub with a will and a determination that almost attracted attention, but it was from the bench that he saw the intercollegiate games, and beheld man after man substituted and his chance failed to come. Once it seemed as if his time had come, when Ramsey,#20 the veteran right half, was knocked out in the third period, but he saw the coach call Avery, his running mate on the scrub, to take the place, and he settled back in his big blue blanket and waited. -I' Thus the season ended, and after the Princeton game, which was#won on a fluke, the team journeyed down to the seashore for a rest and the scrub kept up its work with the third. The big game was only a week off and the coaches sent back cheerful news of the improvement, until the day of the half back, suffering#from final blow. Ramsey, the mainstay#20 orders came from the and quit, his injuries, was forced to varsity camp to send Avery of the scrubs at once. The practice that day seemed harder than ever to the Southern lad as he tore up the weak third team's line for •gain upon gain, and the graduate coaches and trainers began
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to take interest in the work of the men who were likely to play part of the big game. Four days before the game the team arrived in New Haven, and observed secret practice behind closed gates, and the newspaper reports guessed as best they could and gave Harvard the odds. The hopes of the Crimson constituency was that their strong team would be able to wipe out the old score, when Yale piled up point after point and finally averaged 38 to 0 against the Boston aggregation, a fact which still rankles in every undergraduate's heart. When the Harvard squad reached New Haven, Jim found Bob overjoyed at the meeting, and both friends spent the evening in recalling the memories of college days and the outcome of their friends and fratmates. Their talk finally drifted to the game and Bob confided in his old friend the chance which he so longed for and which it seemed would never come. Long after he left Jim at his hotel and walked slowly back to the clubhouse where the squad was to sleep, did Bob think of that battle on the morrow, when man was to meet man, and the force of power and muscle guided by brains and generalship would prove that science can conserve her energy and ally the forces of man's nature to his will. The big day dawned, not cold and clear as the usual weather of the big games comes, but with a dark and lowering sky, and when the fog had lifted late in the morning a light drizzle had made a wet field a certainty, and had bedraggled the gay decorations and splendors which had been prepared for the occasion. The crowd poured out to the field, however, and by 1 o'clock, clad in raincoats, sweaters, and under a sea of umbrellas, the supporters of the two rivals for the football supremacy shivered and waited for the game to begin. Thousands of women bearing Blue and Crimson banners and arm bands had braved the weather and vied with their
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undergraduate friends in the enthusiastic cheers which boomed back and forth across the field. "Yale appeared for warming up at 1:45, and her big punter, Bowles, endeavored to keep the wet pigskin under his guidance, shooting dropkicks from all over the field. When the Harvard squad in their red covers swarmed out at a gallop the cheering was deafening and the yells of the undergraduate's section boomed through the lowering clouds and echoed back to the city for many miles around. Back in the Yale dressing room the team had received its final boost, lecture, cussing, admonition, or whatever it could be termed, by the anxious head coach, and had heard the line-up for the start read. As "Avery right half" was called, Bob knotted a shoe lace and grimly picked up his headgear and followed the scrubs out to the sideline, where they waited for the game to start. The play started cautiously. Harvard expected an easy time, but her coaches took no chance upon a wet field. Almost before they realized it the Yale backs had carried the ball far into the Harvard territory, and it was only when the Blue quarter mishandled a bad pass, that a Crimson player fell upon it and the Cambridge warriors awoke to their responsibility. Furiously they charged the Yale line and the openings seemed easy, while it evolved upon the Blue backfield to get the runner in almost every instance. The ball went down the field steadily on line-bucks, and when Bauer, the fast end, broke through for a thirty-five gain on a, brilliant forward pass and Murray carried it over on the next play, the Yale fate seemed settled. Harvard failed to kick goal and so the quarter ended. The second period saw Bowles try a drop kick from the 45-yard line and the wet oval sailed between the posts for Yale's first score. When the mud-covered battle lines formed for the second half the score stood 6 to 3 and the Harvard team was growing stronger on each play.
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and again, The Yale line bolstered up with fresh men time the ball out responded nobly, and by well directed punts kept line, nervoaly of their territory. Bob Dixon, upon the side as if he were clutched his nose guard and played the game sweep down eye upon the field. Many times did the coach's another, but still the line of eager subs and pass him up for he waited. 8 to 3, as a As the fourth period began the score stood a safety and Yale man had been thrown behind his line for the Harvard lead increased. madly did The Yale team was playing on its nerve, and Crimson ked they defend their territory against the broad-bac er stand, with invaders. Men played till they could no long exhausted or fell r eithe every ounce of grit and stay, and out of the strugcursed the coach and the luck that took them gle they had lived for so long. of the third The staggering blow came in the latter part a star back for quarter, when Avery, who had been playing was carried off Yale, slipped and fell on a fruitless tackle and the field with a broken leg. t of every The roving eye of the coach pierced the hear the Southerner's scrub, and as he passed Bob tears welled to the wily genenly eyes as he saw his chance slipping. Sudd hy heard it in a eral snapped "Dixon," and that young wort ng up, heard the daze. Mechanically and overcome he spra dashed out to the hurried whispers of.the two coaches, and mmage. referee as the two teams lined up for scri Yale's 10-yard line. The fourth opened with the ball on Harvard's terriBowles punted out and the ball went far into , slipped and fell, tory, where Donnelly, the Crimson full back failing to return it. upon it, and The Yale line played like their lives depended h in the mad the backfield threw themselves in the breac opponents. The endeavor to stop the fierce charges of their leaning the ball Harvard quarter took advantage of the dry-c mpt failed and he had received, to try his passes, but each atte
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was compelled to send his heavy backs over tackle for the necessary gains. At the critical moment the Yak line held, and for the first time in the game Harvard lost the ball on downs. Jim Mason was playing a strong tackle for Harvard. He had aided materially in breaking up the famous double shift, which Yale had hoped to get away with, and twice had he ripped a hole in the Blue defense and blocked Bowles' punts, while the gains around his end were few and short. The last new man who had come into the game had whispered the astonishing instructions of the coach to start Dixon calling the signals, and the play was changed accordingly. Bob rose to the emergency and plowed through right guard for a five-yard gain, sending the quarter over tackle for a first down on the next play. The referee had warned the teams that there was only five minutes of play left, ages ago it seemed, and as Bob glanced at the Yale bench he saw a sub hold up to his gaze a large figure 2, indicating the minutes which remained. Forty-five yards and two minutes to win! Disregarding the play which the captain of the team hissed in his ear, Bob called a combination signal, and lost a yard through center. Then the test came. The famous Carlisle play which Warner had perfected in the Indian offense was to be pulled off and the signal had been given in the previous play. As the last man came up from the ground, the Yale center leaped over the ball and simultaneously snapped it into Bob's waiting hands. The entire Yale team stretched waiting for the play on one side, and around this end Bob dashed, while the Harvard line leaped#20 from its knees and realized its mistake. As Bob skirted the end he saw an open field. The Harvard full had not thought it necessary to play back, as a kick was unlikely and he was needed on the defense. One man was to be recokend with, however. Jim Mason, Harvard's big tackle and a fast runner, was seen to dart out in an attempt to head the runner, and prevent the touchdown. The chances were
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for equal and the crowds rose and with bated breath waited the outcome of the race. As Bob ran he saw and realized only that the field was open ahead of him and that a runner was behind, but for the honor his and glory of the entire world it seemed, regardless of own, he ran as if his life depended upon it. Mason's head was clear, however, and he realized what it he meant. It would mean honor and victory for his college if his blast would so do downed the fleet Blue runner, but to friend and fratmate's fondest dreams and hopes. He thought as he ran, as a man dreams of the college days, of the night when he had sworn to stand by his friend at any cost, even to his own destruction; yet his duty to his college and the colors he wore were also calling to his higher self. Fiercely did he battle until his mind went blank and mechanically he ran. Suddenly glancing up he saw the runner a few feet away and he dove. The tackle was perfect, and the Yale back lay with the ball at arm's length exhausted and stunned. Slowly the two men picked themselves up, and still the crowds held their a silence. But as Bob turned slowly to the view of the stands the t broad white line of freshly laid lime showed clear agains chest of his blue jersey and the crowds went wild. As the two boys faced each other, alone it seemed, as the thousands were rushing to them, their hands met in the old e grip, that they had learned as freshmen in the little colleg came far away, and a thrill ran through their bodies which from the heart of each. Jim's voice came first, and as he whispered in a husky voice, smiling through the mud and grime,"It was the greatest play that ever made, old man," Bob's eyes searched his friend's for r." which was not there, and he whispered: "Thanks, brothe 120 East Capitol Street, Southeast, Washington, D. C.
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FRATERNALISM. Written by W. S. BOLT, Sigma,'09. Fraternalism, when viewed from its many standpoints, is rather a difficult subject to cope with in such limited space as may be allotted one in the columns of THE STAR AND LAMP. The interpretation of the word is determined by the individual to whom it is presented. To the religious, to the apostate, to the Greek, and to those who are so often styled 4s "barbs," fraternalism carries the same conception in no case. Lexicographically speaking, fraternalism implies the state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly. To the religious this brotherly love is viewed from the spiritual status and we are sometimes amused at spiritual brothers acquiring such antagonistic fondness for each other in everyday life. To the apostate brotherly love extends no further than kindred ties. Having briefly disposed of these two phases of the subject, we approach the important. To those who do not enjoy the priiileges of a fraternal relation through some organization the word carries with it a smattering of distasteful thought. The unthoughtedness • and carelessness of our less interested brethren has given these people an opinion of fraternities that is much to be regretted. To the Greek we maintain that fraternalism is an all-important theme. As it presents itself we survey it as it is and as it should be. To so many of the brethren who lack seriousness fraternalism is considered as but the natural automatic result of being a fraternity man. To love or respect your own fraternity brother as much as possible and give as much independent respect as the occasion permits to a Greek of another tribe is the limit of the word to this lighter thinking class. Such men are not true to the ideals and teachings of their fraternity and are a serious hindrance to the welfare of fraternities in general.
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A fraternity is a voluntary association of men for mutual benefit, benevolence, and pleasure. A voluntary association, we say, because no man is compelled to become a Greek. Much to the reverse. Voluntary acceptance of fraternal obligations should result only from careful forethought on the part of him who accepts the proffered hand of fellowship. Forethought even beyond the collegiate experience. When one has mastered the proper solution of brotherly feeling the influence of Greek letter organizations may be greatly maximized. First, a word to the pledged brother, or "spike." Do you consider that, in becoming a fraternity pledge, you are better than the man who has not been so favored? If such is your state of mind you are minimizing your possible chance of becoming a force in fraternal circles. The fact is, you are not better than he. Only more acceptable as a brother to those with whom you are about to become more closely related. It is certainly to be maintained that a fraternity membership is a matter worthy of pride, but never to be carried to the extent of false pride. Next, a word to the "fratres in universitate." Fraternalism of the true sort calls for greater love for your chapter brethren than for those of the outer world. To be sure. But you are also dm a considerate love for your every acquaintance in the student body. Does it not sound more enhancing to a fraternity to hear "0, those fellows are royal, good, sociable, and jolly fellows," than to hear the criticism, "A bunch of swell-heads and stiff-necks." The writer resides twelve miles from a college town where over two thousand students are in attendance at a prominent university. There are twenty fraternities in the school. Three years of attendance at a high school in the same city, and residence there during the same period, acquainted him with the fraternity standings of the institution. The fraternity that made the highest average in grades and had the cleanest and best all-around record was the one that was
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known as the most sociable and civil. And the pne that stood lowest in the ranks was prevalent with the obverse conditions. Fellows, while in the happy period of chapter active membership at college, do all that you can to merit the word "fraternal." Make yourselves as popular with the "barb" as with the "Greek." And, do not neglect to hold the members of other fraternities in your esteem. Give them the magnetic sort of brotherly respect that will become reciprocal. To the alumni and ex-students we offer our final suggestions. Fraternalism for us denotes attention to the alma mater chapter, to the brethren of our fraternity, those of other organizations and those of man's largest brotherhood, the world. Our fraternity experiences at college should have imbued us with such a conception of true fraternal spirit as to keep the fires of kindred love burning in our hearts for our Greek brothers, Greek cousins, and fellows of the commercial world. When we have learned to develop a supernatural aversion and antipathy for false pride and fraternity arrogance—then, and then only, will fraternities hold an inimitable and prominent position in every community. May Pi Kappa Phi in her infancy lead the procession. Otterbein, Ind.
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PI KAPPA PHI HYMN. Pi Kappa Phi, Thine alter fires are burning Within our hearts, and turning Our faces unto thee. Thy potent power imbuing Our bonds and love renewing, Our hearts through thee communing In blest felicity. Pi Kappa Phi, Thy star doth lead us ever, Naught can our love dissever, Our trust is firm in thee. Thy pinions o'er us hover While hand in hand with brother, We here at last discover, Lave lives eternally. STAATER, Theta.
BROTHER JOHN DELORME CARROLL, Sigma, 911. grand Secretary of the Fraternity 1911-13, Grand President 1913-15.
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Represented in five States. * *• Nine years old and ten chapters. ••• Live Ever, Die Never, Pi. Kappa Phi. * *• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. *** Anniversary of Founders' Day. December 10, 1913. *** South Carolina, California, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio. *** Congratulations to the victorious brothers on Turkey Day. *** Georgia Iota Chapter. Georgia School of Technology. October 25, 1913. ** *
A New Year's Resolution—I resolve to do more for Pi Kappa Phi during the year 1914 than I have ever done before. *** Alumni, begin the New Year right by sending in your subscriptions to THE STAR AND LAMP. We need them if you want it to be a success.
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IT WAS our privilege to be appointed Instituting Officer for the Georgia Iota Chapter. We wish, through these columns, to express to Brother Cook and each member of the Iota. chapter our appreciation of the hospitable reception we received. Brother Cook and his associates are to be congratulated on gatheiing together such a representative group of young American manhood to compose the chapter. On looking over the bunch assembled in the Kimball Hotel parlors when we arrived, our first impression was,"What a fine looking bunch of fellows to make a fraternity chapter." After meeting them we were confident that Pi Kappa Phi should be congratulated on securing them. A.more congenial bunch could not be gathered together. The true fraternity spirit was evident from the first. After shaking hands we felt perfectly at home with them and could hardly resist th% desire to call them brothers before the institution. By the time this was over we felt that we had known them always and it was with a feeling of reluctance that we told them good-bye. We consider ourselves lucky to have the privilege of installing this chapter, and we wish to thank Grand President Carroll for giving the appointment, and again the Iota brothers for their hospitality. Our prediction is that the other chapters will have to get up and hustle if they wish to surpass Georgia Iota. * *•
AN ASS without .spirit is a donkey; a football team without spirit is a loser; a fraternity without spirit is a failure. The success with .which our fraternity has met in Pi-Kapp the past has been due to the spirit of life which was breathed into it by some of its members. A Spirit, tree isn't dead so long as it has a single green branch—a fraternity isn't dead so long as it has a few wideawake men behind it—otherwise we shudder at what our own fate might have been. Our question, however, is not how dead
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we are, but how much alive. The question is not whether six or ten of our number have the real Pi Kapp spirit, but does every man have it who wears the "Star and Lamp." Men, if you haven't got that spirit—get it! And get it now! It doesn't cost you anything to get it, and if you can't do it, you are not worthy of the fraternity that has honored you with its membership. Let it be said of us that we are a live bunch, with emphasis on the "bunch." The success of our fraternity depends upon the spirit of the rank and file of its members. I would rather be called an ass than a donkey—would rather be a "non-frat" than a "Pi Kappa Phi" without spirit. THE right growth of our fraternity is the uppermost desire in all our minds. We long to see it reach that zenith towards which it gradually has risen in the few years of Extension. its existence. And some.of us, no doubt, would sacrifice to a certain extent the dignity of our order to attain that growth which we desire. In our eager desire to stretch out and grow let us remember that genuine success is not a sudden outburst, but is the result of continued, patient, honest toil, and we should not get discouraged if we do not attain our ideals in a. single day. Someone has suggested the policy of openly bidding locals to ask for affiliation with us. Although his argument is good and reasonable, yet we cannot believe that this is the proper thing to do. It is true that this is an "age of progressiveness," when the new and unsuspected things are happening, but we are conservative enough to believe that if our fraternity adopts such a plan of growth she will inevitably be pulled down from that plane of dignity and respect she now holds. If we will but consider the time of her existence, we must surely see that she has not been idle, but has developed very rapidly, both in size and position—but in the latter chiefly, which is always the better.
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The ideals of,our founders were high. And that for which our fraternity stands is of the highest, noblest and truest character. Shall we keep it so? Or shall we lower our standard by rapid growth in an unwise manner? We are young and growing, we are forming our character, we are making history, we are laying the foundations of our whole future. Then careful and more or less conservative methods should be our policy of development, and not methods of a too hasty nature. But we do not believe in plodding along at the same old rate always, nor in the same old ruts. We need to expand, and to extend our chapters from the East toward the West, and from the West toward the East, until a mighty archway has been erected from the Golden Gate of the West to the silent old City-by-the-Sea, out of which our Star first arose just a half-score years ago. And by keeping that standard which we now have that archway shall steadily grow, for it is the fraternity that means something after which good locals seek, and not the fraternity of gigantic membership. And we want those locals which seek for the best, and not those which are seeking merely to become affiliated with just a national organization. We believe in holding our own, and having that fact in easy access to all organizations, whether local or national, so that our merits may be easily seen at all times. And then when a local wishes to affiliate with a national fraternity the advantages of our order may immediately be seen. This, we think, would win more choice chapters than for the fraternity R. E. M. itself to openly seek locals.
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WHAT do the words "Fraternity Service" convey to the minds of Pi Kappa Phi men? Is it the obligation of the fraternity to its individual members, to the colleges in which Fraternity it operates, to the chapters, to the faternity world, to the country in general? If you think Service, this, you are wrong. By "Fraternity Service" is meant your service to your fraternity. Have you rendered a service to Pi Kappa Phi? Are you still rendering it? If you can answer the following questions in the affirmative then you are rendering "Fraternity Service" to Pi Kappa Phi: Were you an enthusiastic members of your chapter? Were you always ready to help it in whatever capacity you could? Did you do it without being asked, begged and pleaded wit? Did you attend meetings regularly? Did you take part in initiations? Did you take an active part in obtaining new men? Did you pay your dues promptly? Did you see that the chapter maintained a good place with the others? Were you courteous and polite to nonfraternity men? After severing ties with your chapter do you still remember it and stand ready to help in time of trouble? Have you exerted any effort toward expansion? Have you attended at least one convention? Do you expect, if possible, to attend the next? Have you subscribed to the fraternity publication? Have you contributed to its pages? Do you take an interest in reading it? Have you always had a good word for Pi Kappa Phi in discussions with other Greeks? Are you ,on the lookout for good men going to colleges where Pi Kappa Phi operates? Do you write the chapters telling them about these men?
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Have you still a warm place in your heart for Pi Kappa Phi? Do you want to see it expand and become a large and more influential fraternity? Are you willing to do all in your power for its advancement? After reading these questions can you honestly say that you have performed "Fraternity Service" for Pi Kappa Phi? If you cannot, it is not too late to make a new beginning. Resolve to do your duty by working fox Pi Kappa Phi. It needs your aid. See that you give it. ***
THE following editorial taken from Teke, the official publication of Tau Kappa Epsilon, expresses our views so well in such an emphatic way that we publish it in our Building columns: versus "Every Teke should he proud of the youth of Existing. his fraternity. Don't let anyone, 'barb' or fraternity man, 'faze' you by exclaiming, 'Oh, you are so young.' Well, we haven't gray hairs, but we've been here long enough to cut our eyeteeth. There never was a national fraternity with a more auspicious beginning. Think of it! Ten years old and chapters in Wesleyan, Millikin, University of Illinois and Knox. And our active men are right at the top, if not wholly there, in every school. We can't get chapters at more desirable schools, and only those schools who compare with our standards can hope to have chapters.
What red-blooded man would not prefer to have a part in the making of a great fraternity rather than be one among thousands, with but little to do but live in reflected glory?" Sounds almost like this was Pi Kappa Phi being discussed. Ten years old. The only difference between us is that we have ten chapters in nine to their four in ten. Success to us both.
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THIS is one subject about which the fraternity men are criticised. In fact, it has been advanced as one of the leading arguments why fraternities should not exist. We College wish to warn the men of Pi Kappa Phi not to let Politics. any of this criticism be directed towards them. Let your motto be "The best man in your honest opinion, regardless of the fact of his being a member of your fraternity or a nonfraternity man." We would not hesitate to vote against one of our brothers if we thought that some other man was the best for the place. It is not a test of brotherhood to vote for him regardless of ability. In this respect, you owe even a higher duty to your college than you do to your fraternity. Vote for the man that will best suit for the good of the college. If you will follow this policy you will feel better by it yourself and you will be doing your fraternity more good than by proposing one of its members or voting for him consistently. Stay out of college politics if you cannot be a free agent when the time to vote comes around, is our admonition to you. ***
THE query has often been put to us,"How can we have better initiations?" Well, how can we? In our attempt to answer this we will give as a suggestion a plan that was Initiations. used by South Carolina Zeta Chapter very successfully a couple of years ago. First, they appointed a committee of three men to have entire charge of the initiation. They assembled all the material and arranged the program sometime before the time set for the initiation to be pulled off, so that when the team came into the room all they had to do was go ahead and initiate the neophytes.
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through the initiation without a hitch. (In the case of Zeta it was a standing team which served for the entire year.) Third, they always had a rehearsal the afternoon before to insure everything being in perfect order. We offer the above plan as a working model for the chapters if they do not have something similar. If you systematize your work you will find that everything will go through like being greased. ***
As PREVIOUSLY announced, and also in this issue, the next will be a Chapter Issue. We expect all active chapters to have a full page picture in the front of the magaThe Chapter zinc. We are expecting this to be the issue of greatest interest of the year and we wish to Issue, call the chapters' attention to the fact that they will have to furnish a great deal of copy and should get to work at once on it. In glancing through the Kappa Sigma Caduceus of last issue, which was a chapter issue, we noticed a picture of all the houses. We will expect all Pi Kapp chapters to send a picture of their house, or if they do not have a house, a picture of the rooms would look mighty good to the fellows. For further particulars, see announcements. **
How many of us remembered on December 10, 1913, that it was the birthday of the fraternity? Brother Mixson has an article in this issue which deals with the early Founders' history of the fraternity. We recommend it to you for good reading. It is the first time that Day. our history has been chronicled, and those who are not familiar with the early history will get some idea of the struggles to keep our heads above water for the first few years. We should honor Founders' Day and venerate the Founders, Brothers Kroeg, Fogarty, and Mixson.
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BROTHER C. K. Dillingham was Pi Kappa Phi's repres entative at the Inter-Fraternity Conference. This is the first year that Pi Kappa Phi has been represented The Interat the Conference, and it marks the beginning Fraternity of a new era for us. All of the up-to-date Conference. ideas concerning fraternities are expres sed before this gathering of Greek men with addresses by the most prominent fraternity men in the Unite d States. Pi Kappa Phi is sure to be benefited by association with them and gain valuable ideas for its advancemen t. ***
WE HAVE been requested by the Grand Secretary to call the chapters' attention to the fact that reports are expect ed to be made promptly to him, and also that your chapReports. ter assessments are now due and have been due since October 1. It is impossible for us to accomplish the best results without both financial aid from the chapters and also promp tness in making reports to the Grand Officers. As you well know, Pi Kappa Phi is a young fraternity, and its strength lies in the hearty co-operation of its chapters in all matters. While we can count on the alumni, to a certain extent this is limite d owing to the fact that most of them are just beginning their business career, and it is taking all they make to keep their heads above water in the financial whirl of the present day. They are not fortunate enough to have the alumni organized as in the case of the chapters, and cannot reach them as well. All Pi Kappa Phi needs at present is a little financial aid from the chapters and more definite information as to their members. Is it too much to ask you to aid us to the extent of prompt payments and accurate reports made month ly? We think that it is not. Co-operate with us and let's make Pi Kappa Phi a fraternity that you will feel proud to call your own.
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attention to WE DESIRE to call the chapter correspondents' e that page sixty-six of the October issue. You will notic neatly be s we requested that all chapter letter editor. A Request. typewritten before sending to the Already we have received one chapter letter writto ten in pencil which had to be rewritten by the editor s letter your all that avoid mistakes in printing. Please see es besid , are neatly typewritten and correctly punctuated us. making all corrections in spelling before sending to We have also received several typewritten articles from tions contributors, but they failed to make necessary correc This before mailing. Also one long article written in ink. easy will have to be written over and it will by no means be an It . riter task for us unexperienced in the use of a typew have will take very little of your time to do this, and you stop will you If . no idea how much it will save the editor and and think, he receives all material about the same time and it ng editi with d without having recopying to do, is rushe all has getting it into the hands of the printer on time. It but to be done at night, as he is busy all day and can give a limited time, to the magazine. of a Please heed us in this respect. If not for the sake hasn't better magazine, do it for the sake of the editor. He after them on strain strong eyes and all night work is a severe using them most of the day. be We feel that calling this to your attention once will ial for enough; so we thank you in advance for your mater punctly the next issue, coming in neatly typewritten, correc the tuated, and all words correctly spellea, to save us all trouble and labor you can.
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ABOUT the time this issue of THE STAR AND LAMP reaches the chapters, everyone will be thinking of going home for Xmas. We, also, will be making our plans for Christmas. the same thing. During the holiday seaso n let us not forget that there will be another issue March 1st, which will be called the Chapter Issue. This is placed entirely in the hands of the chapters. It would be well for the Archon of each chapter to make the assig nments before leaving college for the holidays. It will give the fellows something to do during their spare time and will insure getting material in on time. A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all Pi Kapps is the wish of the editor.
ANNOUNCEMENTS. THE CHAPTER ISSUE. The next issue will be devoted entirely to the chapt ers with the exception of the Editorial and Exchange Depar tments. Here is an outline of what we expect each chapter to have in this issue: First, we want a brief description of the college or unive rsity at which the chapter is located, with cuts of the prominent buildings and grounds. Second, a complete history of the chapter, with its roll of members to date. Third, short sketches of the prominent members, either in college now or who have graduated, athletes, orato rs, etc., with cuts. It would be best for these cuts to be from pictures taken in athletic uniform, etc., but if they cannot be obtained, send plain cuts if you can get them. Fourth, a group picture of the present chapter will be expected from Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon, Eta, Theta , and Iota. Fifth, pictures of chapter houses or rooms will also be expected from the above chapters.
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Sixth, we expect all material to be in the hands of the editor by February 10, 1914. Pictures from which cuts have to be made will be due February 1st, in order to give ample time for making them. This is absolutely necessary to insure getting the issue out on time. Seventh, we expect each chapter to pay for all cuts that have to be made. The expense of getting out the issue will be too great unless they do this. This includes group pictures of the chapters. As soon as possible we. will send each chapter specific instructions of what they are expected to do. In the'meanwhile they can get a sufficient idea from this to begin making their preparations. *** After this issue all names of brothers who are on the mailing list who have not paid their subscriptions to THE STAR AND LAMP will be dropped. Pay up at once and avoid missing a copy. The next issue will be the best yet. * **
Please add exchange to all checks sent to Columbia unless you send New York Exchange checks. They are the only kind that will go through without our having to pay exchange on them. THE STAR AND LAMP needs every cent it can possibly get. * ** We have received responses from two brothers in regard to songs of Pi Kappa Phi, Brothers Bolt and Staater. We were really serious when we made this request in the last issue. We expect to get out a Song Book if we can gather together enough songs to warrant it. Brothers, keep the good work up by following the example of Brothers Bolt and Staater. We will have that Song Book yet.
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THE ROLL OF HONOR. The following subscriptions have been received for THE STAR AND LAMP during the previous month: George S. Sloan, Piedmont, S. C. W. C. Lesslie, Lesslie, S. C. R. A. Macfarlan, Box 632, R. F. D. No. 1, Garfield, Utah. J. F. Stuckey, Drawer 7, Bishopville, S. C. J. H. Hydrick, Orangeburg, S. C., F. M. Nottage, Jr., 4503 Webster St., Oakland, Cal. J. W. King, Jr., Savage, S. C. J. S. McGregor, Ruby, S. C. J. J. Heffron, 55 Broad St., Charleston, S. C. J. 0. Moody, Dillon, S. C. J. B. Hamer, care Continental Gin Co., Birmingham, Ala. Bobo Burnett, Box 405, Spartanburg, S. C. J. T. Monroe, Marion, S. C. E. M. White, Chester, S. C. W. H. Mixson, Jr., 708 Woodrow St., Columbia, S. C. L. B. Wannamaker, 1808 Green St., Columbia, S. C. J. B. Hussey, care Reynolds & Earle, Greenville, S. C. Simon Fogarty, Jr., 90 Broad St., Charleston, S. C. A. L. Humphries, Camden, S. C. C. R. Edwards, Chester, S. C. J. D. O'Bryan, No. 10 University of S. C., Columbia, S. C. H. G. Mobley, No. 5 University of S. C., Columbia, S. C. Milton Seligman, Dinuba, Cal. Wade S. Bolt, Otterbein, Incl. L. Harry Mixson, Life Subscriber, Charleston, S. C.
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Scissors and Paste What the Greek-Letter World is Saying. Doing lind Thinking, as Gleaned From the Exchanges.
Editor
H. M. SHAVER, Jackson, Ga.
STAR AND LAMP acknowledges the following exchanges: K. A. Journal, The Signet, of Sigma Phi Kappa; The Delta, of Sigma Nu; The Phi Gamma Delta, The Theta Chi Rattle, Teke, of Tau Kappa Epsilon; The Kappa Sigma Caduceus, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, and Banta's Greek Exchange. THE
THE STAR AND LAMP notes the following fraternity and sorority expansion: Delta Tau Delta, Gamma Rho Chapter, at the University of Oregon, November 15, 1913; Pi Kappa Alpha, Beta-Alpha Chapter, at the Pennsylvania State College, October 11, 1913; Kappa Delta, Eta Chapter, at the Normal College of New York, October 11, 1913.
Pennsylvania State College, located at State College, Pa., has fourteen national fraternities, seven professionals and six locals, as follows: Delphi petitioning Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Phi Delta not petitioning, Alpha Phi Delta petitioning Chi Phi, Sigma Tau not petitioning, Beta Alpha Sigma not petitioning, and the Pioneer Club not petitioning.
Who's Who Among National Characters. While the information given below has been printed many times in various Greek-letter journals, the following facts from the Alpha Tau .Omega Palm might come handy for reference in case of a doubt:
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Woodrow Wilson is a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Thomas R. Marsha11,is. a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Ex-President Taft is a Psi Upsilon and the late Vice President Sherman was a Sigma Phi. "It is interesting to note the fraternity affiliation of some of our former presidents and vice presidents. Roosevelt joined Alpha Delta Phi and the 'Dickey' Club at Harvard and thus enjoys the unique distinction of belonging to two national fraternities, the 'Dickey' Club being a class society having a Delta Kappa Epsilon charter. McKinley was an honorary Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Cleveland an honorary Sigma Chi. Harrison belonged to Phi Delta Theta, Garfield to Delta Upsilon, and Arthur to Psi Upsilon." "Of the vice presidents, Stevenson was a Phi Delta Theta, Hobart a Delta Phi, and Fairbanks a Phi Gamma Delta." "Jefferson Davis, of the Confederate States, was a Kappa Sigma." "Champ Clark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is a Delta Tau Delta, and Oscar Underwood is a Pi Kappa Alpha."
The Kappa Alpha Journal added: "Grover Cleveland was initiated by some Sigma Chis on a sleeping car while president; President McKinley was initiated by Sigma Alpha Epsilons while governor of Ohio."
What Is the Cause of the Anti-Fraternal Agitation? The old anti-fraternity agitation is due, according to this article, to the attitude of fraternity men toward the "nons:" "Each chapter should ask itself what it is doing for the men in college who are not members of the,fraternities and when the answer is 'nothing,' it should get busy and do something. The college man who for some good reason or other has failed to join a fraternity in the average college is often heartsick and lonely for want of human companionship. He usually feels that he is just as good and oftentimes better than the fraternity man. He does not realize that oftentimes a chapter's ranks are filled for it by its alumni and friends who press upon its attention men who are not only desirable in themselves, but who, other things being equal, are selected for membership because of the ties by which they are connected to others. All he realizes is that he is out and they are in. It is this bitterness of spirit which is responsible for much of the growing anti-fraternity sentiment. Our chapters should make some effort to help the nonfraternity men to social opportunity. Why not have an occasional bridge party or a dance to which they are invited? Or do some one of the dozens of things that they can do? But this must be done without being patronizing or it will fail of its kindly purpose. Possibly, if the college officials were consulted they would be glad to suggest a proper field for the effort. And if a chapter
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perceives among a number of nonfraternity men a group whose members seem congenial, why not assist them to form a local society and to enter some good fraternity?"—Beta Theta Pi.
Sound Advice for Freshmen. Below is printed an article that appeared in the Theta Delta Chi Shield. It contains some sound advice for firstyear men. It is generally conceded that the college man's first year determines his future in both college and life: As a college man, always remember that each act of yours henceforth reflects not alone upon you as an individual, but upon each of several thousands as members of an organization. Furthermore, bear in mind that you were sent to college to secure a college education. That is your first and foremost object in being where you are. At the same time, a college education comes not alone from books, but along with the books must be a liberal admixture of other things. An educated weakling is not as useful as an educated specimen of healthy manhood. Be the all-round college man rather than the over-developed athlete, student, speaker or society sport. It takes some of each of these qualities to make the ideal man, but it is hardly,necessary to have all of any one of them. In building the platform for your college career, look over the following suggestions for material for planks and you may find some good timber: 1. In almost every case your college expenses are being paid by your parents. You owe it to them to try to please them first of all. 2. Make up your mind right now that you will complete your course for a degree; half an education is but little more useful than half a coat. 3. The members of the faculty want to be your friends if you will let them; try it, for it will pay you. 4. Don't make the mistake of thinking you know more than the upperclassmen; maybe when you have been at college as long as they have you will know as much as they now know. S. Because you have become a member of a Greek letter fraternity has not ipso facto made you a superior creature. Bear this in mind in your Intercourse with nonfranternity men.
At Tulane a Pan-Hellenic cup is awarded to the fraternity that averages highest in scholarship; at Purdue a trophy given by a professor, and at Vanderbilt a loving cup given by the faculty.—Phi Delta Theta Scroll.
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Why Single Out the Fraternities? The following clipping from the Phi Kappa. Psi Shield shows to what degree the prejudice of the opponents of fraternities have lead them to abuse justice and reason in their attacks: "Just why the limelight has been focused upon the Greek letter fraternities has never been satisfactorily explained. Why investigate a fraternity chapter and pass by the Y. M. C. A. or the college band, or the basketball team? They are all undergraduate student organizations. If an investigation should show that members of the university glee club are too long in music and short in scholarship, it might be that condition s might be improved by abolishing the glee club or by imposing certain scholastic qualifications for eligibility. In other words, the man or paper or organization that singles out for investigation one student organization to the exclusion of others in an effort to find a panacea for all deficient scholarships, would seem to have missed the fundamen tals of college training. The loud disclaimer concerning the poor scholarsh ip of fraternity men has been taken up largely without an adequate knowledge of the facts. Samuel Johnson once observed that the greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinion than that they are in fashion."
The Democracy of Human Service—A Noble Purpose! "I sometimes think that we have recently devoted so much energy to the question of increasing or not increasing our chapter roll that many of us are inclined to think that expansion of fraternity is the one overshadowing theme for us to consider. But this is merely one of the elements in our development towards our ultimate goal. We may differ materially upon this feature, likewise upon the relative importance of other features concerning our policy, btit there is one idea closely associated with 'The National Fraternity' which forms a common ground upon which every brother can plant the banner of Sigma Nu and battle for its supremacy—it is a broader conception of a splendid privileg e— it is the democracy of human service."—The Delta of Sigma Na.
A. F. Treakle, a 55-year-old student at the University of Missouri, was initiated into Delta Tau Delta on February 15, 1913. Mr. Treakle is a former college man, and has been superintendent of schools in various Missouri towns. Mrs. Treakle is at the university with her husband, and is as enthusiastic a Delt as he. Their son was a member of the fraternity at Illinois, but was killed by lightning while on a camping tri in 1910.—Sigma Chi Quarterly.
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A New Honorary Fraternity. new honorary fraternity, The college world has felt the need of a a University will have Indian that says the A. T. 0. Palm, and we find r of a new honorchapte mother the being of the honor and distinction Xi. ary athletic fraternity, known as Sigma Delta the Greek, means "the The motto of the fraternity, translated from mind." body, the servant of the ship as outlined in the The physical requirements for full member by-laws are as follows: One hundred-yard dash in 0:11 3-5. in 0:20, leaving all standOne hundred and twenty-yard high hurdles ing. Running high jump at 5 feet. Running broad jump at 18 feet. Putting shot (sixteen pounds), 30 feet. Pole vault at 8 feet 9 inches. Throwing baseball 250 feet on the fly. Putting football 120 feet on fly. g or other rest One hundred-yard swim (continuous without floatin Three-mile run in 17:30. Ten-mile walk in 2:30:00. front dive. Tumbling—Front handspring, back handspring, ittee should keep Posture—Erect carriage, especially of head. (Comm aware of it.)— not is ate candid the when a candidate under observation l. Journa Kappa Alpha
A Colored Fraternity. The The fraternity world is enlarging and expanding. rnity frate a ts Daily Mini, of the University of Illinois, repor for colored students in the following article: sed of negro students "Nine members of the Li-li Club, which is compo Alpha Nu fraternity of the university, were initiated into the Kappa be known as Beta will zation organi last Saturday evening. The local a University r Indian at Chapte Alpha the of rs membe Chapter. Seven a banquet ion initiat the conducted the installation ceremonies. Following were toasts of r a numbe which at was given in honor of the guests, rs. chapte both of rs offered by the membe Indiana Univer"The Kappa Alpha Nu Fraternity was organized at and was incortion, institu that at ts studen l negro severa by sity in 1911 of Indiana State the by porated as a national Greek letter fraternity shortly afterward."
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Interfraternity Rushing Agreements. In a former issue we expressed a doubt as to the advisability of local interfraternity agreements in so far as they laid down rushing rules which hindered the free discussion with candidates through a more or less extended time, of the particular aims and ideals of a fraternity having such ideals; and made the choice of a fraternity merely a social matter, interdicting the explicit mention of the fraternity and its objects till an invitation to membership was about to be extended. Such rules have been adopted in a few colleges, and we still think that they are to the advantage of the less useful, or purely social, fraternities. But as to the benefit of local interfraternity conferences, as they aim to promote good feeling, a proper feeling of toleration, mutual support and understanding and harmony among the local secret societies at any college, there can be no question. Such conferences are being formed at many, if not most, of the colleges where our chapters are located, and it is to be hoped that our resident chapters will encourage such movements in every way, so far as they do not impair the special landmarks of our order or the possibility of their enforcement, which alone constitutes, as it has always constituted, the raison d'etre of the Fraternity of Alpha Chi Rho.—Alpha Chi Rho: Garnet and White.
The Costliest"Frat"House Extant. If what Walter Palmer reports in the Phi Delta Theta Scroll be true, but we doubt if there be any such animal, it wouldn't be a bad idea to let the bars down to Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The story in reference is: "Frederick W. Vanderbilt has given to the St. Anthony Club, as the Sheffield Scientific School Chapter of Delta Psi is called at Yale, $160,000 for a new home, which will make the most costly fraternity house at any institution. He is a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School, class of '76. He has already given to the school its first two dormitories, one of which stands on College and one on Wall street. The new society house, replacing the present St. Anthony Hall, will connect the two dormitories and will be four stories high of Indiana limestone, of which the dormitories are built. Work on the building has begun, and the construction will take about a year."—Kappa Alpha Journal. Elkins, W. Va., Oct. 2.—A "spanker" containing a dynamite cap, which was being used during the initiation of Lee Phares, a merchant, into a fraternal order, explofied with such force that a serious wound was inflicted.—Newspaper. Now let them make haste to organize for a bill in the next session of the legislature against "them dratted fraternity fellers" in the state institutions.—Banta's Greek Exchange.
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An Excellent Idea! Phi Gamma Delta is to award an "efficiency cup," known as the Cheney cup, donated by their national president. The plan for grading chapters in competition for this cup embraces all branches of chapter activity, under three heads: Scholarship, 50 per cent.; relations of chapter to college, 25 per cent.; relations of chapter to fraternity, 25 per cent. Undoubtedly the end sought is a desirable one, but if the plan is fairly carried through somebody is going to have to make a noise like a public accountant, with a large undertaking just ahead. Such a plan will be exceedingly difficult where all the affairs of a fraternity are not handled in a central office, and it will be laborious even then.—Kappa Sigma CadaCelia.
Fraternity Politics. Don't try to grab all the school offices for your chapter. Don't stoop to tricks or deals in order to beat some more deserving man who belongs to another "frat." Honor your men with college offices when they deserve it, but never forget that your chapter, and your fraternity, is only a small circle in a larger one, the one great national fraternity, the brotherhood of man.—Tau Kappa Epsilon Take.
The Trident of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority mentions that it last thirty-two consecutive issues have appeared "without a single active chapter missing in any issue." As the Trident is issued quarterly, it therefore has an unbroken record in this respect for eight years. Certainly no fraternity for men has a journal with such a record or anything near it. It may as well be admitted that in several respects the sororities can give the fraternities cards and spades and then beat them at the game.—Phi Delta Theta Scroll.
With the formation of the College Fraternity Bureau another organization for co-operation of fraternities and sororities comes into being. The sororities have already effected a working organization, the PanHellenic Congress, which has attained such success that membership in it is a mark of standing. The general fraternities have been working for four years toward an organization, the Interfraternity Conference being the instrument through which they hope to achieve this end.—Signet of Phi Sigma Kappa.
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NEWS—THAT'S ALL. Pi Kappa Alpha has created a new office, that of Alumni Secretary. The duty of the new officer will be to keep track of the alumni. ***
The Delta Upsilon fraternity passed an amendment while in session at Rochester, N. Y., prohibiting the reception into its fraternity after 1917 of any member of a high school or "prep" fraternity. ***
Tau Beta Pi issues a loose-leaf catalogue. Supplements ready for insertion are to be issued semiannually. This is an excellent idea for an ever-changing list of alumni. ***
Southern Kappa Alpha has withdrawn from Centenary (La.). Also the charter of the chapter at Virginia Military Institute has been surrendered. * * *
The Kappa Delta Rho, at Midcliesbury, Colo., is a new national fraternity. * * *
The only fraternities that Pi Kappa Phi does not come in contact with somewhere are: Alpha Chi Rho, Delta Phi, Sigma Pi, Delta Psi, and Tau Kappa Epsilon. * * *
At the University of California there are twenty-six fraternity chapters. Besides Gamma of Pi Kappa Phi, the following fraternities are represented by chapters: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Zeta Psi, Phi Delta Theta, Chi Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Beta. Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Chi, Chi Psi, Kappa Alpha, Delta Upsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Theta Delta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega,Kappa Sigma, Psi Upsilon, Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha
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Delta Phi, Acacia, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Sigma Phi. • Chester C. Wells, President of Sigma Delta Chi, the journalistic fraternity, died September 1st, after a minor operation on his throat. ***
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity in convention, September, at Nantasket Beach, near Boston, condemned the high school "frat" and endorsed the inter-fraternity conference. Phi Sigma Kappa has reestablished Sigma Chapter at St. John's College (Md.). Faculty opposition killed it, but the authorities found that a worse rivalry had grown to exist between rival literary societies. Banta's Greek Exchange for, September contains an interesting article on Delta Theta Phi, the new legal fraternity. Representatives of Delta Phi Delta, Alpha Kappa Phi, and Theta Lambda Phi consolidated by unanimous vote and created the new legal "frat" with thirty-two chapters. The expansion of fraternities westward has been remarkable. The following list shows the number in each college: "California, 28; Stanford, 15; Washington, 12; Oregon and Colorado, 8 each; Washington State, Colorado College, Denver, and Colorado Mines, 4 each; South Dakota, 3; Idaho, Utah, Montana, and North Dakota, 2 each; Southern California, and Wyoming, 1 each."—Baird's Manual. Most of these chapters have been established in the last fifteen years. ***
An inter-sorority conference has been organized with a membership of twenty-six. The purpose is to combat the anti-fraternity movement by supporting all Greek-letter interests.
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Twelve years ago only three colleges in the Southern States had entrance requirements which educators of the North and Europe demand as a minimum. This year 160 Southern colleges have reached this standard rank. It is doubtful if such rapid educational progress was ever made in any section before.—Chicago Journal. ***
The Kappa Sigma Caduceus carries five or six pages every month of wedding notices of its members. It's in small type, too. A thriving department, eh? A North Carolina Legislator has introduced a bill making hazing a felony, granting a pardon to the hazed who shoot their persecutors and imposing a jail sentence on college presidents who fail to suppress hazing.—Recent Press Item. *** Somehow that new fraternity at Northwestern University, Mu Gamma, which admits only members who wear mustaches, doesn't seem to indicate much of an advance in civilization.— Indianapolis News. * *•
"Many sororities, through alumnie clubs and some through their chapters, are engaged in a wide range of social betterment work." CM Omega has a regular Social Service Cornmittee. ***
There are three anti-fraternity campaigns being waged at present. Texas, Wisconsin and Ohio are the States furnishing the conflicts. The last Phi Gamma Delta Magazine carries a story of each. ***
Psi Upsilon and Phi Gamma Delta have recently entered Williams College. Psi Upsilon granted a charter to the local society of Delta Delta, and Phi Gamma Delta took over the society of Alpha Zeta Alpha.
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ETCHINGS FROM THE QUILL. Unless you are fully confident that the recommendation you give a new man is true, you will be doing yourself and your fraternity good by keeping silent. A recommendation often means a new member. * *• A fraternity without a spirit on the part of its members of co-operation and willingness to do quickly whatever there is need of, might as well start over again. These are cardinal virtues in the fraternity world. *** The Greek-letter world is the only class of people that can boast of being rid of those pests who are always harping on "good old times." Fraternity customs change in most probability less than the customs of any social order. *** A prominent alumnus of a college and member of a fraternity recently said before a bunch of college men that he was indebted to his fraternity for his ability to speak to an audience. This he said he gained in his early attempts at speaking before the "fellows" of his fraternity. Today he is a polished and eloquent orator. Yet there are "wags" who say that fraternities never do any good. *** ( It is undoubtedly true that a worthless fraternity man is pointed out to the discredit of fraternities much more than a good man is to their credit. Doesn't it behoove you to make the best there is in you for the sake of your fraternity? *** It is gratifying indeed to learn of the increase of friendly relations between fraternities. There is a great field for an efficient inter-fraternity organization.
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The day of specialization hasn't failed to reach the Greekletter world. In the catalogue of fraternities we find medical, honorary, pharmaceutical, veterinary, dental, legal, agricultural, mechanical, chemical, engineering, journalistic, literary, musical, military, Masonic, forensic, scientific, and the latest of all, an athletic fraternity. * * *
Do you realize what the word fraternity means? Are you living it among your "fellows?" *0* Many of the best chapters of a fraternity are the smallest. They often furnish more distinguished men than the larger ones. ***
It seems that the question of the day in the fraternity is, "To expand or not to expand?" This alone depends on our spirit of co-operation and progressiveness. * * *
Some fraternity members count it a privilege and honor to wear their fraternity pin, while others think that they are honoring the fraternity by wearing it. To which class do you belong? Be the former and strive to achieve the latter. ***
Are you doing your duty by your fraternity? It does not require much of you and the task should be a pleasant one. You will certainly regret your inertia in the years to come.
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The Alumni Department Send all communications to this department to Simon Fogarty, 90 Broad street, Charleston, S. C.; Chester H. Prouty, 210 Forsyth Building, Fresno, Cal.; H. A. Mouzon, Charleston, S. C.
Notwithstanding that letters were sent to all the chapters requesting information concerning their alumni members, no answers were forthcoming. If this department is to be of any value the correspondents of the respective chapters should see that this information is sent to us at regular intervals. It is absolutely impossible for us to guess what the men are doing after they leave college, and so if neither the individual nor the chapter take the trouble to let us know these pages in the future must remain blank. For this month we have succeeded in assembling some dope with the aid of information from the general headquarters of the fraternity. Wake up now and let us fill these pages by individual and chapter reports coming in promptly. The historian, who is also alumni editor for the East, has the same complaint to register as above. We are completely devoid of data. In this not only the chapters are to blame, but the Supreme Officers. This department has received no information concerning Georgia Iota, although the request has been made twice. This method of attending to business can accomplish no goad and this department, which should contain all the archives and the official fount from which the future shall draw its history, will become extinct if something is not done by way of improvement. From this meager report, which is all that is on file with the historian, all our official information has to be drawn. South Carolina Alpha South Carolina Beta
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(1909) 57 members (1909) 29 members (1910) 28 members (1911) 20 members (1912) 27 members (1912) 20 members (1913) 11 members (1913) 9 members
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257 members Our request is for chapters to check up their alumni at once, and also their active list and report to Grand Historian Simon Fogarty, Jr., 90 Broad St., Charleston, S. C. As soon as this is done we will publish the full report under this department.
Pi Kapps Abroad. Seeing in that excellent issue of THE STAR AND LAMP dated October 15, 1913, that Brother D. Guy Maxwe ll, of South Carolina Sigma Chapter, had recently returned from an extended sojourn of fourteen months in Paris, it would not be amiss to record that in the same city at the same time three other Pi Kapps were testing the quality of the fillets of sole and wine at the Cafe Marguery on Boulevard de Bonnes Nowelles. These three brothers were James Foga rty, William Hartz and William Fogarty, all of South Carolina Alpha Chapter. It was a voyage of adventure successfully carried out on a limited amount of cash without the aid of guides or books or tourist tickets. The Triumvirate departed from Charleston, S. C., July 8th, via Clyde Line for New York, where they arrived July 10th. They succeeded in booking passage for Glasgow on the Caledonian Line, which left New York on July 12th. After a cold and foggy trip they arriv ed at Glasgow July 20th, passing along the northern coast of Erin.
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The following cities were visited:—Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburg; England, the cathedral cities of York, Lincoln, Ely, Cambridge, with its immense University, where a cricket match was seen but not enjoyed; London, Canterbury, and Folkstone. The dangerous channel was successfully crossed and the travelers landed at Bologne. Other cities visited in France were Amicus, Rouen, Paris, Versailles, Orleans, Chartres and Rheims, the seat of the champagne trade, which beverage was sampled with relish. The land of the Kaiser was next essayed: Metz, Strassburg, Stuttgart, the quaint old town of Nurnberg, and finally Munich were each in turn properly "done." On account of the magnificent quality of the various brews, a lengthy stay was made in Munich so as to give each a thorough test. The Hofbrauhaus was chosen as the favorite resting place. The tit) to Innsbruck and Trent in Austria was made through the magnificent mountain scenery for which the Austrian Tyrol is justly famous. Italy was next invaded at Venice. Then came Bologna, Florence, Sienna, Orvieto, Rome, and finally Naples, with Pompeii and Vesuvius as a side trip. On September 11th the trio departed from Naples via Cunard Line, stopping a day at Almeria, Spain, and at Gibraltar, and from there direct to New York, where they arrived September 27th and disbanded after a very pleasant and profitWILLIAM FOGARTY. able trip. Charleston, S. C.
South Carolina Alpha. Andrew A. Kroeg, Jr., is practicing law in Charleston, S. C., with offices on Broad St. L. Harry Mixson is manager of the W. H. Mixson Seed Co., located on the Battery, Charleston, S. C. (Just opposite the Custom House.)
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Simon Fogarty, Jr., is Vice Principal of the Simonton High School in Charleston, S. C. Residence, 90 Broad St. Thomas A. Mosimann has charge of the English Department of the high school of Charleston, S. C. A. Pelzer Wagner has charge of the Department of Latin and Greek at the College of Charleston, in the absence of the head of the department. Henry P. Wagner is practicing medicine in Charleston, S. C. William Fogarty has just returned from abroad and is idle at present. Kenneth E. Lowman is studying medicine in Charleston at the Medical College of S. C. Likewise M. S. Stover and J. D. Guess. Harold A. Mouzon is instructor in the high school of Charleston. Mason C. Stroud is with the Southern Cotton Oil Mill, Charleston, S. C. Julian McInnes and William Hartz are studying law at the University of South Carolina. Thomas C. Hunley is connected with the Becker Pharmacy, Charleston, S. C. Thomas P. Abernethy is teaching in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Ala. W. Boyd Brigman is studying medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va. James Fogarty is in an architect's office in New York. After leaving Charlestoh College he went to Columbia University and finished his course preparatory to becoming'an architect. William E. Massey is a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Paul E. Sherer is studying for the ministry at the Lutheran Seminary at Mount Airy, outside of Philadelphia, Pa.
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South Carolina Beta. Wm. Cyrus Bailey, after attending Davidson College for three years, where he was pitcher on the varsity ball team, is located in his home town, associated in business with his father. James B. Frazier, Jr., has married and settled at Blairs, S. C., where he has an interest in a large mercantile store. J. D. O'Bryan is studying law at the University of South Carolina. Robt. S. Owen is practicing law in Abbeville, S. C. Gus E. Reid is in the real estate business at Rock Hill, S. C. H. Wilton Shaw, after finishing in engineering at the University of South Carolina, has completely dropped off the map, as far as we can tell. Whereabouts of the following would be appreciated by the alumni editors: Walter W. Miller, Marion McS. Sellers, Thos. W. Simpson and the occupation of the following: J. S. McGregor, and J. S. Simpson.
California Gamma. Jimmy Church,'13, has taken a position with the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at Ruth, sampling and assaying for them. Jimmy graduated in mining last year and we • look for great things from him before long. Chas. Dimmler, '07, is superintendent of construction on the Liberal Arts building for the Panama Pacific Exposition. Wm. Peterson,'10, has accepted a position as chief chemist for the Associated Oil Co., with headquarters at Aron, Cal. Steven Malatesta, '12, has been with the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for the last year and is now foreman of the plant in San Francisco. Harry Long, '09, is carrying on a series of tests at the Selby Smelter to determine the destructibility of smelter fumes. Harry is recognized as one of the best oil men and chemists on the Coast.
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Jack Matthews, '11, is operating for the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in Oakland, Cal. Frank Nottage recently returned from Ann Arbor after completing a course there and is now visiting with his parents in Oakland. He intends to leave shortly for Hawaii to accept a responsible position. Paul Starke, '14, recently returned from Australia, where he has been on an extended pleasure tour. He expects to leave for Vienna shortly to continue his studies in ineclicine. Hal Cummings,'14, is another one of our boys holding a responsible position with the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. He has been placed in charge of the South Tower Electrical Station at Crockett, Cal. George Armstrong,'14, left college last year to take up a position with the Edison Electric Co. in Los Angeles. Denair Butler, a member of the '13 class, is at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, continuing his studies. Phil Hubbard, another member of the '14 class who did not return to college this year, is assisting his father in business at Los Angeles. Lloyd Haskell, our old baseball star, is spending the winter at his home in Olympia, Washington. Lloyd is some ball player and made a reputation for himself as a pitcher in the Northwest League. Bill Anderson,'10, and Al Bass,'10, are still running the Belcher Mine in Republic, Washington. They hold down the two good jobs and have made the mine a paying proposition. Don Billick and J. Bud Wright will gradivate in mining at the end of the present semester Xmas. Pi Kappa Phi is sure strong on engineering and in a few years you can expect to see her men at the head of several big engineering projects.
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South Carolina Delta. Whereabouts and occupations of the following would be appreciated: R. D. Calms, J. A. Cullum, J. Roy Geiger, L. M. Glenn, R. M. Johnson, Fred. S. Jones and Edwin Tate.
South Carolina Sigma. Waco S. Bolt, the founder of Sigma, is editor of the Otterbein Sun, Otterbein, Ind. Jno. D. Carroll, the Grand President of the fraternity, is in the real estate business in Columbia, S. C. His sign reads, Jno. D. Carroll & Co., Real Estate, Renting and Insurance. James B. Hamer is located in Birmingham, Ala., care the Continental Gin Co. W. Hampton Mixson, Alpha-Sigma, lives in Shandon, a suburb of Columbia, S. C. He is associated with his fatherin-law in running a large farm. He is a younger brother of L. Harry Mixson, Past Grand President. E. P. Passailaigue is studying law at the University of South Carolina. J. Chester Busbee, a member of the House of Representatives from Aiken county, was married last month. Brother Busbee graduated in law at the University last June and is doing things in jam-up style. Chas. K. Dillingham is located in Newark, N. J., 618 Highland Ave. What he is doing is a mystery.
South Carolina Zeta. J. M. Mobley is teaching school at Heath Springs, S. C. J. T. Monroe has not been heard from this fall. L. B. Wannamaker has entered the University of South Carolina and is enrolled in the Law Department.
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F. C. Ayer is at his home in Bamberg, S. C., but we cannot say what he is doing. A. L. Humphries is at his home in Camden, S. C. 0. C. Bennett is at the Medical College of South Carolina.
North Carolina Epsilon. J. H. Belk is teaching school near Hendersonville, N. C. At least reports give us that as his occupation. George Howard, Jr., is associated with his father in business at his home, Tarboro, N. C. Cannot be positive about this, either. J. L. McWhirter was associated with Everett Booe in coaching the'Presbyterian College of South Carolina. They won their Thanksgiving game, which speaks well for Pi Kappa as football coaches. W. M. Shaw, Jr., is Secretary and Treasurer of the A. B. Croom Grocery Co., Wilmington, N. C. We would like to have further information of Epsilon Alumni.
Georgia Eta. Dillard B. Lasseter is a student at New York University, New York city. Prof. Wade Hampton Brewton is now located at Reidsville, Ga. He is superintendent of the high school at that "burg." James William Robinson is at Whitworth College, Tacoma, Wash. Robinson is on the varsity football team. J. Renney Blake is with Goodrich Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Our auto owners should call on him for a tire or so. Henry McCord Shaver is editor of Jackson Argus. He was reared in The Argus office. Herman J. Lambert is still at Vanderbilt University in Dental Department.
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Ohio Theta. This being the second youngest chapter, no alumni notes have been made up. If any of the Theta brothers have graduated we would appreciate information concerning their location and occupation.
Georgia Iota. If any of the Iota brothers leave college during the year we would appreciate your notifying this department of their address and what they intend doing.
In Memoriam—Paul Leo Schenk. N. C. EPSILON, '12. On the 26th of March, 1892, there was born in Camden, S. C., one whose memory will long be cherished by all Pi Kapps. Though entering life handicapped with a frail constitution and with valvular heart trouble, Paul Leo Schenk surmounted obstacle after obstacle and in the brief period of twenty years carved out a name which will go down in the records of time, a glowing tribute to a mighty will, a superb intellect and an indomitable courage. Finishing his preparatory work with a record which foreshadowed a brilliant future, he entered Davidson College with the class of 1912, by whom were bestowed upon him the honors of class historian, and twice class poet. From the first his energies were directed towards literature. He joined the Eumenean Literary Society and after serving on the Debating Council and after being twice chosen first alternate on the debating team, he was chosen respondent for his society to the alumni address at commencement. But while gaining honors on the platform his pen had not been idle. He was elected to the magazine staff, and each
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month there appeared above his name some gem of verse, some interesting essay, or some absorbing story. After a year, however, this work was given up in order that he might serve on the annual staff. His ability in this line, as it was in all others, was soon recognized, and in his senior year he was made editor-in-chief, and laboring with untiring energy he produced one of the best issues ever published. On February 3, 1912, he became a charter member of Epsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. And he served his fraternity as he had his class, and his college, putting his whole heart into his work. He was also a member of the honorary senior organization of the Gryphon. In May, 1912, he received his degree after making high averages. But the strain had been severe, his enthusiasm had brought on exhaustion, and so several months after graduation were spent in seeking to regain his health. But all efforts were in vain, and on November 13th he passed away. And now in closing we quote from the Annual of 1913 an "In Memoriam" by Mr. Clifton Murphy, his successor as editor-in-chief, and one who though not bound by the ties of brotherhood, yet knew him intimately, and loved him. "A hundred years ago a ploughshare tore from its place in the field a mountain daisy. Myriads since then have perished, unnoticed in the winter's chill, but this one is remembered because it perished still in its flower and beauty. The kings and statesmen of that age will doubtless become mere names, shadowy figures in the background of history, but the memory of the little daisy may linger till the human heart has ceased to mourn for the death of youth and beauty. It lives because it fell by cruel circumstances before its time. A sparkling wit, a brilliant mind, a generous heart, a delight to his friends, and an honor to his alma mater—this was Paul Schenk. Frail of body, he suffered, yet smiled and made others happier. He put to shame many of us who bore a lighter burden with a heavier heart. He blessed us with the heroic cheerfulness that the daisy had:
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'Cold blew the bitter, biting North Upon thy early humble birth, Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm.' Deprived of the opportunity to grow to the full development of his powers, he was taken from us in the flower of young manhood. Our friendship for him will not be tried in the stress of a selfish world. We may not drift imperceptibly away from him on the diverging currents of life which take far asunder friends of youth. The love that we bear to him may not be torn by the conflicts of life, nor killed by the slow advance of years. His image, as we knew him in the joyous days of youth, is fixed in our memories by the sudden pain of unexpected parting. In his untimely death, we love him better still." J. ENOCH FAW. ( \Davidson College, N. C.
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The Chapter Letters The chapter letters must be neatly typewritten and in the hands of the Editor-in-Chief by October 1st, December 1st, February 10th, April 10th. The next letter will be due February 10, 1914. No further notice than this will be given.—En.
South Carolina Alpha—College of Charleston. Alpha began this year with the return of only Brothers Crawford, Blitch, and Rogers. Mouzon, Hartz, and McInnes were graduated in June and Stroud, finding the work at the College not to his liking, accepted a position under "Mr. John D." in the city. We think that we have done well, considering such unfavorable conditions, to have raised our chapter roll to eight members, and take pleasure to introduce to the fraternity: Charles A. Weinheimer, Jr., Charleston, S. C. James M. Nesbitt, Gaffney, S. C. Paul G. Anderson, Rock Hill, S. C. William F. Peeckson, Charleston, S. C. Charles W. Birchmore, Jr., Camden, S. C. Brother Birchmore is playing end on the varsity football team and is showing up well. In the annual Gregorian cross-country run, the College came out second out of five contestants. Brother Anderson finished well up to the front and received an honorable mention in the distribution of the awards. At the present we have no other members participating in athletics, but before the year is passed we hope to have won laurels in basketball and on the diamond. We were much pleased to have had several members from the Delta Chapter visit us when they were an a football trip to this city several weeks ago.
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We are pleased to welcome the new Ohio and Georgia chapters into the fraternity and feel sure they will materially strengthen old Pi Kappa Phi. Alpha is proud to boast of the fact of being the only ch ter of the fraternity to have a brother in the faculty. Dr. A. Pelzer Wagner, a former Alpha man, now holds the chair of Latin and Greek at the College. We state, with much pride, that when we celebrate the anniversary of Pi Kappa Phi on December 10th, we will have its three founders present. We expect to have a banquet at the Commercial Club, and extend a welcome to all Pi Kappa Phis to join with us. Greetings and best wishes to the new Grand Officers, and to all our sister chapters. Fraternally yours, Charleston, S. C. NORMAN H. BLITCH, JR.
California Gamma—University of California. At this writing all of our fellows are turning their heads from worldly pleasures and are working hard in preparation for the finals. We started off the season with twenty-one active members, and succeeded during the first few weeks in adding four more men, who have proven themselves very worthy of the fraternity. Those initiated were: Samuel P. Laverty, Herman S. Brueck, Donald Benson, and Lawrence W. Phelps. Brother Laverty is a member of Congress, a debating society. Brother Brueck, being a transfer from another college, and ineligible to the varsity, played the season with the Barbarian football club team. He also played on his class basketball team. Brother Phelps is a prominent member of the Polyducean Club, due to his cleverness with the "mitts." Among the old boys are numbered three graduates of last year. Oliver is president of the Associated Graduate Students, and a member of the freshman law class. Bill Barnhill
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is still on the job as professor in the Chemical Department. Walt Smallwood is pursuing his studies in medicine. Of the '14 class, Don Billick is a member of Theta Tau, Cook is captain of the Soccer team, Brown played on his class basketball team. Of the juniors, Mess is varsity basketball captain, Manley is on track, and Miller and Kellas are on the Soccer team. Kaiser is a member of the University band, and Hardy was on the football squad. Of the underclassmen, Shafor made his circle C in Soccer, and Wedemeyer is on the squad. We stand among the first division of the fraternities in scholarship. It has always been our motto not to sacrifice our studies for too many college activities. California Gamma certainly appreciates the work of the national officers &ring the last few months, and we believe we will have a pleasant surprise for them shortly. Fraternal greetings to all the old chapters—and especially to our new chapters, of whom we are very proud. Berkeley, Cal. C. C. MERRELL.
Delta Chapter. The Delta Chapter has been laboring under great difficulties this year because of the opposition of the faculty. It is extremely difficult for us to do anything because, if we are caught, we face immediate expulsion from the school. In spite of this, though, the work has been going on smoothly, but quietly. We have been having meetings which were live and full of spirit.• We have pledged two new men whom we will soon initiate and we have passed upon two more whom we are pretty certain to get. The place of meeting will soon be changed for a larger and more convenient hall. We will fit up this new hall in the best possible manner and we hope to make it a worthy rival of the other halls of the fraternity. We took a small part in the initiation of our Georgia Iota
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Chapter and we rejoiced greatly in the good report that our representative brought to us. Through the pages of THE STAR AND LAMP we wish to thank the brothers for the brotherly treatment rendered our fratres when visiting the different schools of the State and we wish to extend to them a most hearty invitation to visit us at any time possible. With best wishes for the fraternity, DELTA CHAPTER. Fraternally, we are,
North Carolina Epsilon—Davidson College. Up here at Davidson all members of the two upper classes have to deliver an original speech as a requirement for graduation. Of course the orators, after spending many laborious hours preparing weighty utterances on such subjects as the Mexican situation, the reorganization of our army, and the complete reformation of our present social and economic systems, want their best girls to hear their efforts. So the rest of the College take advantage of this opportunity to make the occasion a big social event. Senior speaking has just closed, and Epsilon was well represented on the platform by Brother Brownlee, who spoke on "The Common People," and by Brother Thacker, whose subject was "The Valor of Ignorance." The hall was kept open all the time, and in entertaining seven charming ladies Epsilon found three days of solid enjoyment. We were also fortunate in having with us Brother Booe, whose genial disposition always adds much to such an occasion. On Saturday night all the fraternities gave receptions—a grand climax to the previous gayety. And we only wish that there might have been some visiting brothers with us. But this was not all. On Thursday evening, November 7th, Epsilon gave a banquet in Charlotte at the Selwyn Hotel in honor of the ladies invited to Senior Speaking. Covers were laid for twenty-five and a delicious eight-course
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dinner was served, the table being decorated with tall vases of yellow and white chrysanthemums. The menu was as follows: Chicken Gumbo Celery Mixed Pickles Baked Sea Trout, Hollandaise Sauce Dutchess Potatoes Roast North Carolina Turkey, Stuffed With Oysters Candied Yams French String Beans Waldorf Salad Mince Pie Plum Pudding, Hard Sauce Roquefort Cheese, Toasted Crackers Demi Tasse Olives
After the banquet, which was a great success, all attended the reception at Queens College, which followed the DavidsonUniversity of South Carolina debate. And now in closing, Epsilon wishes all Pi Kapps a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Fraternally yours, Davidson, N. C. J. ENOCH PAW.
Georgia Eta—Emory College. Since our last letter to THE STAR AND Lap, a chapter of Pi Kappa Phi has been installed at Georgia Tech. Georgia Eta sent up the entire chapter for the institution and also put on the initiation. The initiation team was composed of Brothers Fitts, Battle, Murray, Moseley, Shepard and Carlisle. They succeeded in putting through five of the Tech neophytes very successfully. Eta is proud of the new chapter. Up until this time Eta was the only chapter in Georgia, so now it does not feel so lonesome with fourteen more Pi Kapps over in Atlanta, with prospects for more very bright.
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Brother Cook, the Archon of Georgia Iota, was with us at our last meeting. He reported Iota doing fine. They have rented a house in a good residence section of Atlanta, where the entire chapter will be housed. Emory petitioned the Board of Trustees for intercollegiate sports at the last meeting of the board, but they did not see fit to allow them. The result is that we have to content ourselves with interclass games. The football season has closed, in which the Pi Kapps took a prominent part. Brothers Fitts and Battle represented us on the Senior team; Brothers Murray and Carlisle on the Junior team; with Brother Griner and Veal on the Sophomore and Freshman teams, respectively. In the picking of the All-Emory team, Brothers Fitts and Griner were lucky enough to get a berth. This is as near as we can come to telling who the varsity would be if football were allowed. Basketball is now the thing, and several of our fellows are out working for their respective teams. Prospects are bright for Pi Kappa Phi to be well represented here also. The first semester examinations are now in full force and some of the fellows are catching up with their neglected studies in order to make their grades. The Keaygoocl Dormitory was opened in time for the first term. It is a handsome building of modern architecture, containing all the latest conveniences, such as electric lights, steam heat and shower baths. It is large enough for one hundred and fourteen fellows, with all the rooms taken. 'Several of the Eta brothers room here. Eta is very anxious to have a chapter house, but owing to the faculty rule of not allowing but two men to room in the house we have decided to await the time when the alumni will be able to help us in this respect. At present we have very comfortable and convenient chapter rooms, getting along fairly well without a house.
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It was a pleasure for us to meet our Grand President Carroll at the Georgia Iota institution, and also the other visiting brothers who were there representing their chapters. Taking everything into consideration, Eta is having a very prosperous year, with plenty of Pi Kapp "pep." Eta celebrated in honor of Founders' Day by observing the following program in the chapter rooms: The Founding of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, E. R. W. Gunn The Progress of the Fraternity L. I. H. Battle The Prospective Future of the Fraternity L. C. Fitts Ga. Eta's Relation to the Entire System__George Griner, Jr. Music, Piano W. L. Bazemore After the rendering of the above program refreshments were served, and the fellows had a jolly good time together till 12 o'clock. Program Committee: Cecil A. Carlisle, L. C. Fitts, W. L. Bazemore. Fraternal greetings to all Pi Kapps. If you happen to be in this community just drop around to the postoffice and you will probably find some of us or Grand Secretary Gunn Yours most fraternally, at his desk. GEORGE N. MURRAY. Oxford, Ga.
Ohio Theta—Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Since you last heard from us, Ohio Theta Chapter has not been idle, and it is with great pride that we introduce to you our three pledges, George Keller, William Kemper, and John Keck. They have the true Pi Kappa Phi spirit and it is with the utmost confidence that we take them in, and we feel that they will do their best to make this chapter one to be proud of. The initiation will take place in the new fraternity room on the evening of December 1st, and we expect to show them a
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very good time. The banquet will follow December 10th, complimenting our pledges, and also in commemoration of Founders' Day of our fraternity. The first of a series of musicals which our chapter is giving met with great success. The programme was as follows: Heberleia 1. Concerstuck (for violincello, Op. 8) Mr. Herbert Beaumont. Mendelssohn minor) flat 2. (a) Etude (B Liszt (b) Liebestraum (A flat) Mr. Waller Whitlock. deBeriot 3. Duo (for two violins), Op. 57 Moderato ,Adagio moderato Allegro con spirito G. W. Beever. Robert Schenk. 4. (a) I Love You Truly;(b) His Lullaby (with violin obligato);(c) A Perfect Day (with violin and cello Carrie Jacobs Bond obligato) Mr. John C. Johnston. _Golterman 5. (a) Cantilena Squire (b) Tarantelle, Op. 23 Mr. Herbert Beaumont. ROT 6. (a) Etude Melodique, Op. 130, No. 1 Chopin (b) Polonaise (C sharp minor) Mr. Henry Buddenberg. Sarasate 7. (a) Danse Espagnole Schubert Song) , (b) Wiegenlied (Cradle Tirindelli (c) In a Garden Mr. Robert Schenk. Bristow Hardin and H. Ray Staater, Accompanists. We received some very complimentary criticisms from the press, and we feel reasonably assured that our undertaking met with approval and we feel justified in going on. Our next concert is set for December 9th.
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We have cause to be very proud of Brother Robert Schenk, violinist, who will give a joint recital in Dayton, Ohio, on December 4th with Miss Maggie Teyte, the popular young English soprano, of the Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera • Company. Brother Schenk will also play the Saint-Saens Concerto, Op. 64, with the Conservatory Orchestra on the evening of December 3d. Brother Waller Whitlock is tenor soloist at Christ's church, and also met with great success on December 29th in a recital at the Conservatory. Fraternally yours, Cincinniati, Ohio. HERBERT BEAUMONT.
Georgia Iota—Georgia School of Technology. Iota, being the youngest chapter in the fraternity, we did not request a letter from them until the last minute, thinking that they would see the notice concerning chapter letters in the October issue. They failed, however, to get a letter to us, and in lieu of a letter from them, we run this press clipping from the Atlanta Journal on the event of the installation: "Pi Kappa Phi fraternity instituted a chapter at Georgia School of Technology Saturday. A dinner followed at the Kimball House, presided over by J. D. Carroll, of Columbia, S. C., a national officer of the fraternity. "The Tech chapter will be known as Georgia Iota. This is the second chapter of this fraternity in Georgia. Emory college at Oxford, has the Eta chapter, which is the first. "There are fourteen members of the new chapter at Tech. They are: S. A. Cook, J. C. Hutchinson, M. H. Powell, W. L. Wooten, C. E. Denton, G. R. Branson, H. H. Scott, C. W. Dillingham, H. H. Durant, R. W. Stribbling, D. C. Jones, T. H. Mize, J. J. Coleman and L. J. Metcalfe. "Dillingham, Durant and Stribbling are Atlantians."
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"Th' Knockers" is the only fraternity that kin hold Vgether without a banquet.—Abe Martin. FROM THE DOCTORS.
Pharmacy Prof.:—Have you your lesson today, Mr. Smith? Smith:—No,sir, but I have something just as good.-0.S. U. Sun Dial. THE LAST ONE OF THE YEAR.
Visitor:—You have a peculiar faculty here for— Senior (misunderstanding):—Sh! I know it—but we can't help ourselves—they were thrust upon us.—Chaparral. AFTER BOOTH TARKINGTON. Foreign Nobleman:—Have you much of a leisure class in Ann Arbor? Local Citizen:—Well, we have a large student population. —Banta's Greek Exchange. Tat GIRL AND THE GAME. A young man took a young woman friend to a ball game for the first time, and in his superior knowledge he asked after the first inning was over if there was anything about the game she would like to have explained. "Just one thing," said the sweet young thing. "I wish you would explain how that rheumatic bush-league relic in the box gets the ball over the plate without the aid of an express wagon." And in the silence that followed all that could be heard was the faint chugking of the young man's Adam's apple working up and down.—Boston Traveler.
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SONG OF THE FUSSER. You have "borrowed" my shoes and my neckties, You have taken my clean B. V. D.'s, My clothes and my hose, and the Lord only knows, You have "borrowed" whatever you pleased. And you're welcome, just take 'em, and keep them, It's not little trifles that hurt, But I'll spoil the map of the wise college yap That "borrowed" my clean full-dress shirt. I don't care for the dollars and collars, The studs and the duds and the rest, You've got my Gillette and a good cravenette, My scarf pin and tuxedo vest. You're welcome to use my pajamas, You're welcome to flirt with my "skirt," But I'll spoil the map of the wise cbllege yap That "borrowed" that clean full-dress shirt. —Warren Piper in Gamma Beta of Sigma Nu.
IS FATHER AN ANIMAL? Teacher:—Now leather comes from the cow, and wool from the sheep, and wool is made into cloth and into coats. Now, what is your coat made of? Yours, Tommy? Tommy (with hesitation):—Out o' father's.—Dipper.
IS LATIN A DEAD LANGUAGE? Tango Tangere Turki Trotum.—Life.
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