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Official Journal of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
Published Quarterly
$2 per year
Single Copies 50 cents
Editor-in-Chief
WADE SMITH BOLT
Otterbein, Indiana Associate Editors
ISAAC NEWTON EDWARDS REUBEN E. MOODY
Greenwood, S. C. McCormick, S. C. Exchange Editor
E. It. W. GUNN
Oxford, Georgia Alumni Editors
CHESTER H. PROUTY HAROLD A. MOITZON—
210 Forsyth Bldg., Fresno, Cal. Charleston, S. C. Business Manager
J. LAWTON ELLIS, JR.
9 East North Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
Send all material for publication to Wade S. Bolt, Otterbein, Indiana. Note.—All Exchanges please send copy to Editor-in-chief and Exchange Editor. Application made at the post-office at Otterbein, Indiana, for entrance to the mails as second-class matter, under the act of March 3, 1879.
NOTICE TO ALUMNI The STAR AND LAMP is the proof of the backbone of our fraternity. By It the Greek world judges Pi lial)Pa Phi. Your support means much, and your duty to your fraternity should be so well impressed upon you that you would at least subscribe to your magazine. Send the subscription and remittance to either the Business Manager or the Editor-in-chief, but preferably to the former.
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Published at Otterbein, Indiana, by the Otterbein Sun Printery Wade Smith Bolt, E, Proprietor.
My star anb Official Journal of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Volume 4
MARCH. 1916
Number 2
I LOVE YOU (To the tune of "Old Black Joe")
Burns still the love of old within my heart; Yearns yet within a love ne'er to depart. Loyal Pll be to old Pi Kappa Phi; 'Mid viet'ries grand—In foreign land, War thou my cry: I love you—I love you, Dear old PI Kappa Phi. Duty to you, may thouichts imbue, Pi Kappa Phi. Beats still my pulse for all that's good for thee; Greets still my mind a dream of victory--Bright may the Star and Lamp be shining high,— May their rays gleam, their brightness beam, As we shall cry: I love you—I love you, Dear old PI Kappa Phi. Duty to you, may thoughts imbue, Pi Kappa Phi.
• Falls now a call that bids me pass away; All's well with me to great that Fairer Day. When the cold sod is levelled over me May Pi Kapp say,"Re served his day For P. K. P."
I love you—I love you, Dear old Pi Kappa Phi. Duty to you, may thoughts imbue, Pi Kappa Phi. —Bolt,
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DECISION REVERSED AT WOFFORD FTER an earnest fight, lasting over a period of several years, the fraternity men of Wofford have succeeded in having the Board of Trustees re-instate Greek-Letter Societies. The writer is not able to give a detailed account of their effort. He has not been hi Intimate touch with Wofford's fraternity affairs. Suffice it to say that the result aimed at has been accomplished and Wofford is back in the bond. The signs point to a revival of interest throughout the state and, we believe, that if the proper effort is brought to bear, within a few years fraternities will be allowed in all the colleges in South Carolina At present Charleston College and Wofford are the only two, but this is a strong entering wedge and it is up to the fraternities to get together in a concerted effort to have a bill introduced in the State Legislature to allow fraternities in all colleges controlled by the State. For the benefit of our brothers, and for others who may chance to read this magazine, we give the faculty regulations regarding fraternities at Wofford, handed down by the faculty during the Christmas Holidays.
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REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO FRATERNITIES OR SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS AT WOFFORD COLLEGE By direction of the Board of Trustees of Wofford College the Faculty
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have adopted the following regulations with a view (1) to avoiding the errors which in the past made the existence of fraternities an injury to the life of the College, and (2) to the helping of those who believe in fraternities to realize the ideals and benefits for which they claim fraternities stand. REGULATIONS 1. Every fraternity or similar organization is required to submit to the Faculty the names of charter members, the name and general purpose of the organization. 2. No student may be initiated into any fraternity or similar organization until he has been a student of Wofford College for at least five (5) months. 3. The place of regular meeting, or any change thereof, must be submitted to the Faculty for approval. 4. There may be only one formal entertainment a year by each fraternity or similar organization, and that to be of such nature as not to offend the friends and patrons of the College, and at no entertainment may wines or other intoxicating liquors be served. 5. Within two (2) weeks after the beginning of each scholastic year each fraternity or simil• organization must hand to the Faculty the names of its members, the location of its meeting place and, during the year, the name of each initiate. 6. Fraternities or similar organizations shall not own, rent or occupy chapter houses.
DECISION REVERSED AT WOFFORD 7. The President of the College shall present to the members of each fraternity or similar organization whose names are handed to him the following pledge, which shall be signed in his presence: PLEDGE: I have read the regulations controlling fraternities and similar organizations in Wofford College and understand their meaning. I hereby pledge my word that I will not knowingly violate them or consent to their violation. I further pledge myself that I will put gentlemanly courtesy and consideration toward my fellow students and institutional loyalty above any obligatica that may conflict therewith. The writer also obtained a copy of the letter sent out by President II. N. Snyder, of Wofford, in regard to the re-instatement of fraternities. The letter was as follows:
WOFFORD COLLEGE Office of the President SPARTANBURG, S. C. December 22, 1915.
Dear Sir:— After considering the matter for several years, the Trustees of Wofford College have come to the conclusion that it would be best for the College to permit students to join fraternities or similar organizations under proper restrictions. I give herewith the regulations adopted by the Faoulty, and request that you hand them to your son after you have read them. Sincerely yours, HENRY N. SNYDER, President.
The above information is the best that I have to offer at the present time. JOHN D. HAMER, E Spartanburg, South Carolina, Jan. 13, 1916. [Editors Note: The following brief notice of the revival of our Zeta Chapter was sent from Brother Hamer under date of January 25, 1916.]
"For your information, Zeta Chapter was re-installed Saturday evening, January 22, 1916 by Instituting Officer Herbert Langford, of Columbia, S. C., assisted by Grand President Carroll. Others who were present were: IL E. Moody, Bobo Burnett and myself. The chapter consists of eight, to-wit: Adams, Bennett, T,rnett, Easterling, Huggins, Brunson, Fletcher and Edens. (Signed) John D. Hamer.
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? HE title sounds rather familiar, doesn't it? We admit the truth of that statement without argument, but do you realize how much is to be gained by a little detailed study of familiar surroundings? Isn't it a fact that you who see the same things day in and day out often miss points, through that very familiarity with them, that a stranger would pick out at a glance. If this is true of our every-day business life, can it not be true in other things? We, therefore, are trying in this article to set forth an old subject from a different standpoint. The name we have chosen is the old, familiar word,"alumnus." The dictionary gives its meaning as "one who has completed a course or graduated from an institution." It implies also one who has finished his work. This may do very well in speaking of an alumnus of a school, though we do not believe any real man ever feels that he is through with his school, or will ever forget his Alma Mater who has given him his start in life. When it comes to speaking of an alumnus of a fraternity, or, to narrow it down, of our fraternity, it is unite evident that the dictionary definition does not fill the bill at all. We consider an alumnus of our fraternity as just starting on his real work when he becomes an Alumnus. Up to that time he has been enjoying the privileges accorded him or earned for him as a member of the fraternity by the earnest efforts of those who have gone before him. When he becomes an alumnus he gets his first real chance to show what is in him, to do his first really helpful living, and lend a helping hand to those Coming after him. The question next arises as to what are the duties of an alumnus, and how he may help those behind him. Perhaps it were best to answer these questions by giving concrete instances or examples of the work some true alumnus has done. There is one difficulty in the way, however, Helpful men are usually modest and do not parade their good deeds. Hence it is sometimes difficult to get facts. We believe, however, that any alumnus, who really has the desire to do a little good work, has only to look around him a bit and he will find plenty to keep him busy. As to the duties of an alumnus, we might sum them up in the following: Work for your fraternity, use the talents that you have in every possible way, undertake any fraternity task that you are capable of; work for your chapter, try to make it the best one, if possible, but at least make it a sound part of a harmonious whole; work for your younger brother. This last duty is by far the greatest of the three, for in performing it you will be working for the upbuilding of the whole fraternity. In Iending him a helpful han, do not confuse his social and political with his material advancement. If you can secure the latter for him and put im on the right road, he will be able to take care of the former. What he needs most is guidance and sympathy, a feeling that some older
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brother is interested in his becoming a good man. Take your own case, for instance. When you were a youngster, didn't you just about bow down and worship your big brother when he showed that he was taking an interest in you? Well, the young fellows today haven't changed much since your time, and they would be only too willing to pay you the same respect if you gave them the chance. We know you are interested in your younger brother, but suppose you give us a few concrete instances of it to strengthen our belief. Consider for a moment how much the life of the fraternity depends upon the active members, the younger brothers. Then consider how many men, started right, have gone wrong because there was no one to stand by with advice and aid at critical times. Is any further argument necessary?
Finally, we must divide the alumni of our fraternity into three classes: active, inactive and deceased. The first we respect, the third we honor, but the second we neither honor nor respect. You who read this article must of necessity belong to one of the first two classes. To which do you belong? In conclusion, we may give OUR definition of
"alumnus" by naming the one chief duty that stands out above all others --Helpful Living.
Are you an ALUMNUS?
CHARLES R. DILLINGHAM. Manville, New Jersey. [Editor's Note:—Brother Charles K. Dillingham, one of Sigma's charter members, is Editor-in-chief of the "Phi Psi Quarterly." Phi Psi is a fraternity of textile students. "Dilly" gave us pemission to use this article, which was a part of the December "Quarterly." There is much good though in the article for alumni. "The Star and Lamp" needs to do some missionary work among the alumni of Pi Kappa Phi.1
FRATERNITIES AT CALIFORNIA
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fraternities, sixteen sororities and seventeen local
organizations are located at the University of California. The
9 ,.1 locals, ten of which are men's, are not Greek letter clubs, thus • --restricting their spread to other universities and necessitating cl anTes of name when chartered by national Greek fraternities. Some of these house clubs were organized as early as 11495. and claim alumni throughout the State. The participation in activities of these associations, side by side with nationals is carried on nearly the same standards. In some cases the locals appear a ta disadvantage. Nearly every year some new house clubs are launched and some nationals tempt locals to take up Greek associations. However, the stage has been reached when nearly all well known men's organizations have chapters here. For we. men's the field is still somewhat open for extension. The oldest women's house club on the campus is now in its sixteenth year.
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Clubs and fraternities here are located in houses of from ten to twenty-five rooms, generally averaging eight to twelve sleeping apartments. Nearly half of the houses of the nationals are owned by the local chapters. These range in value up to forty thousand dollars. No clubs are in possession of the houses they live in. In 1870 the first fraternity entered this university, but records show that twenty years elapsed before the "co-ed" institutions came with the sisterhood attitude. At that time only seven fraternities were in existence on this campus. It is probable that, with the establishment of sororities here, social activities first blossomed out, for the fraternities organized up to that time have been so linked together by prestige and custom as to be still known as "the original seven." Annually the pioneers band together to celebrate in a dance or other festivity commemorating their originality and adventurousness. The active membership of most organizations ranges between twenty and thirty-five, not all of these living In the house. The rushing system at this university is keenly competitve. It lasts
about six weeks in the fall semester and a month at the beginning of the spring term. Rnshees are dined, danced and taken on social parties. About five men are taken in at each Initiation. Pledge pins are much in use and there is a high standard of honor in Judging another organization's pledges. All the houses are grouped about the acreage containing class build. Ings, extending to a radius of about a half mile, chiefly in north and south directions. Inter-organization competitions are held throughout the year in baseball, football, track, basketball, bowling, etc. Some elegant trophies and perpetual cups are often put up. Concerning the California Gamma of Pi Kappa Phi, established here in 1909, it may be noteworthy that eleven other fraternities have established chapters here since Pi Kappa Phi came. That we aren't the first or the last gives this chapter a desirable footing and a good relative standing with other organizations. Social doings among houses are frequent and of the nature ot exchange dinners and dances, formal and informal. Every term the average grades of organizations are tabulated and made public. This seems to encourage scholastic work. There is a large coterie of honor societies, departmental, local and national, in operation on the campus. Political and athletic activities are tuned to a high pich at California. The proximity of Stanford University to Berkeley sheds no potent influence, but standards are often compared in general ways and thought of by individuals and societies.
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Thus It appears that this great institution, poorly supported as it Is by state or other finances, still offers opportunities to workers in nearly every field; organizations, activities and academic developments have been carried out to a strong degree and their offerings await the energetic and optimistic. REY B. WHEELER, Berkeley, California.
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THE INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCE YEN one who has never discounted the real value of the college fraternity must feel gratified when he hears of the many real services performed through its agency, and that these services are increasing daily. In one of the reports read at the meeting of the last Interfraternity Conference, illustration after illustration was given of the part the fraternity had played in the success of the life of some man, and even in some instances of the saving of that life. Were it practical to publish names to authenticate these Incidents they would form an eloquent eulogy on the usefulness of the fraternity. To get an idea of the great work the Interfraternity Conference is doing it is but necessary to consider casually the report of one of its committees—the committee on local Interfraternity conferences for instance, or the committee on standard form of report upon scholarship. or the committee on chapter organization. One should become acquainted -with the great amount of detail that is gone into and with what thoroughness the work is performed. Add to this the sincerity and earnestness of the men who have this work in charge, the long experience they have had in fraternity affairs and their familiarity with the subject in hand, as well as their deep interest in the work itself, and it is not hard to conceive what must he the result of their efforts. As an example of the efficiency of the organization, take the manner In which they have tarnished all kinds of material to the fraternity forces where anti-fraternity legislation has been agitated, and the exhaustiveness of the material so furnished. No fraternity, nor any two or three banded together to protect their own interests, could have been of the assistance to the fraternity forces that this organization has; and, even though they could, the cost would have been several times as great as that of their combined membership in the Interfraternity Conference. All investigations are conducted by the Conference in an absolutely Impartial way and for the best interests of all its members. .In its sessions the best thoughts of all the fraternities may be expressed. It Is there that the representatives of all fraternities may meet and exchange ideas and benefit from the experiences of others. It is where younger fraternities may sit at the feet of the older and take counsel, profiting by their mistakes and gaining through their misfortunes. It is the clearing house of the fraternities.
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The value of the Interfraternity Conference to its members and to the Greek world at large is beyond estimation. The fraternities should adopt it as their Supreme Court, and its recommendations should always be received with interest and adopted speedily wherever it is practical. The reports of the Interfraternity Conference should be carefully preserved in the archives of each chapter and periodically collected into bound volumes for permanent reference. Such a store of informatior will be found invaluable. All chapters are urged to comply with this suggestion.
FORWARD,MARCH! OUBTLESS the world has never witnessed the beginning of such a year as that Just reeenty begun, nineteen hundred sixteen. With the greater part of a highly civilized world at war with itself, with every political, industrial and social activity seriously shaken and unsettled, the year nineteen sixteen is a challenge to our courage, energy and manhood. Many of the cardinal elements of civilization are now in the crucible, and It Is neither the time nor the place for the weakling. Such circumstances are sufficient to chill the ardor of even the most sanguine. So it is not at all surprising to find that men engaged in every kind of work are loosening their grip upon things, and are waiting, Micawber like, for something to turn up. In the midst of such an environment, it is scarcely possible that the fraternity world will escape its influence. What, then, shall be our policy—"aatchful waiting," or "forward march?" What shall the answer be? If it were left to us, we would wax eloquent! Oh, yes! Our pen would doubtless melt from the impassioned flow, as we explained that "Forward March" should be our motto, should be one grand chorus sung by a thousand loyal Pi Kappa Phis. But, fortunately, or unfortunately, the question is not to be answered by editorial aloquence. It is a question that must be answered by the rank and file of our members. What shall we do about it? Shall we cry "hard times" and fail to pay our obligations? Quitters? No. Never. Forward! Will we take in new chapters this year? Will we aid those that we already have in becoming stronger and more efficient? Shall we face the past squarely with a fair view, see our mistakes and improve? Is it written that we shall face the future with hope, energy, zeal, inspiration, and, above all, a will and determination to accomplish something/ Are, will, shall we? Surely. Forward! It must be forward march, or disgraceful retreat. No reeting on arms for us. Older fraternities may stand still for a season, and can depend in a measure upon their reputations. Not so with us. We are young. Our reputation is }et in the making. We must grow. Yet, our expansion, while necessarily rapid, must not be unwise resultantly. We must grow deep, grow broad!
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To cause this proper growth we need enthusiasm on your part, you men of Pi Kappa Phi who are reading this. Will you withhold it? The future has issued a challange to the fraternity and to you. What is your attitude? Will you stand the singing, scorching, yet honorable toil and loyalty of the battle front? Or shall you be found cringingly reposel at the rear in fear. Will you be a man and share the honors of men, or do you prefer to be a camp-follower and share the honors that are Justly won by others?
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Expressions from the Editors BOLT
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Concerning the Manual We are certain that all PI Kappa Phis who received, or rather who purchased, a copy of the "Baird Manual," are disappointed in the very light way in which our fraternity is disposed of. To begin with, owing to a certain classification of Mr. Baird's, we belong to the Second Division. That is not a matter for argument. We are classed as Southern. We are rated as having five active and four inactive chapters. The Second Division proposition does not give us cause for wort.), nor should we be discontented. There are other fraternities in this division. And among them are those who in later years will prove strong factor in vying with the present First Division fraternities. Pi Kappa Phi has ten active chapters (although we had but nine at the time of the publication of the "Manual") and the book so belittles our strides of the past two years as to place us in the wrong light for Investigation. The editor made a special trip to a large city nearby and held counsel with a mighty fine bunch of fellows who were contemplating joining a national. The influence of the manual, which had been studied thoroughly, was very much against Pi Kappa Phi. The said bunch of good fellows are now members of another national fraternity. Possibly Mr. Baird sent out requests for information that were not answered. In that case some of our own organization are at fault. We regret the misrepresentation exceedingly and believe that all other Pt Kappa Phis will. Mr. Baird's efforts are well worthy of comment, however. The production of the work is no slight task and when the field is as ably covered, there is no doubt as to the value of the work. Our complaints are not of neglect. .1111.
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Longing for Expansion A trunk line near the editor's home town recently added an equipment of exceedingly heavy-type locomotives. We stood beside one of the monsters not long since and began thinking. Compared with the types of former years this mammoth piece of machinery was remarkable. As it stood there, every inch of its boiler plates fairly resounding with the pounding of the impatient steam within and the white clouds whirling from the exhaust valve, the iron monster was yet a thing without effect. There was yet a lacking factor. Thus our application.
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PI Kappa Phi began with an humble start, has progressed very encouragingly, and to-day stands at the verge of the field of expansion. We have equipped with new chapters, which will correspond favorably with the mogul engine—since the chapter is the principle pulling power upon which the active life of the fraternity is dependent. Just as the powerful engines are lacking effect, when fired to the limit, so may the chapter be found lacking. What does the engine need, one may question? First, fuel and water; then, a fireman; lastly, and principally, the engineer. We are determined to expand. We are longing for expansion, much as the pulsing steel ribs of the engine long for the musical throb of the exhaust. To whom must we look—to the chapter! Certainly. But, the chapter must supply the proper fuel for our expansion—namely, active members and alumni who will be on the lookout for an advantage, for an entering wedge, at every opportunity. We must have more Quevedos. The fuel when properly supplied to the fireman will be then subject to his ability, or inability. Our fireman, in this ease, is the council. Let our council choose chapters that will be a power, a factor In general fraternity affairs. Then the engineer, the executive officers, may be more able to guide the engine of expansion down the track of earnest endeavor to the station Twenty-five. We should arrive there by 19'20. Our application may he poorly put, but the idea Is there. Let's have some new chapters this year. Of course, we can count on one surely. At the University of Virginia. Did you say "Why?" Our answer, "One Quevedo is there." We're longing for expansion. Let's have it. 4111•
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Help the New Business Manager The Business Manager of The Star and Lamp has at last beeome a fixed body. One J. Lawton Ellis, Jr., a moving spirit of our loyal Iota chapter, has been called to the cause and is proving a hard worker, with successful results from those efforts. Brother Ellis has secured some additional advertising for The Star and Lamp and is ever on the alert for more. His next effort will be a subscription campaign. Many of our alumni do not get The Star and Lamp. The magazine needs their support, and they should have it upon their tables for the purpose of keeping in touch with the fraternity In general. The editor and publisher can greatly aid the business manager in securing these subscriptions from the alumni, providing he is given a similar aid from chapters and loyal alumni. Let us quote an instance. Brother Grand President Carroll informed us that Brother Charles K. Dillingham was located at Manville, N. J. Our first act, on receiving this news, was to write Brother Dillingham and request two forms of aid, an article for The Star and Lamp, and a subscription to the same. Needless to say, both were promptly promised. We have the article for The Star
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and Lamp and the business manager has the prospective subscription. The fact that we wish to drive home is, that every chapter should keep informed in regard to its alumni and freqaently inform the editor of the whereabouts of said alumni. Much good can be done by the chapters for the fraternity in this way, and yet the chapters will be benefitting themselves greatly. If you read in the paper, if you hear any news, if you get a marriage announcement or a birth announcement, or a death notice, wherein any Pi Kapp is concerned, make it a point to send the item in to us. 41111•
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Phi Gamma Delta at its 67th Ekklesia authorized life subscriptions to its official magazine, "The Phi Gamma Delta Magazine.' Life subscriptions are quoted at $25.00 cash. (The same may be paid in five annual payments of $5.00 each with interest, making a total of $28.00. The plan is already proving a success and many of the life subscriptions have been received. A committee and a bonded treasurer have
charge of the fund and the same is banked, and invested in securities, The income is devoted to the magazine. Upon the death of a member the original $25.00 payment reverts to the Founders' Memorial Fund. This appeals to the editor to be one good point for discussion, and adoption if possible at our next convention. Bear the matter in mind. 4111.
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Preparedness It
is the fashion of the day to interpret all phases of life in terms of "preparedness," social, economic, moral, and so on through the whole scale. And we have acquired the habit. "Uncle Sam," after having dosed for these many years in the calm sunshine of self-sufficiency, has suddenly awakened to the fact that he needs to oil his "flint-lock," and get dry powder in his "pan." And so, perhaps, it is with ns and other fraternities. Are we prepared to articulate the manifold college and fraternal activities? Are we doing the work that is at hand for us to do? Have we the proper vision of the function of a fraternity, and are we efficient? How about the local chapter—is it prepared to carry out the plans and policies of the fraternity? And, does it do it? You, who read this, remember one fact, your fraternity is a failure or a success in proportion to the failure or success of your local chapter. The fraternity may be a large one, the pin may be a badge of great respectability, the conventions may be Joy and bliss,—and yet, so far as you are concerned, It fails unless your local chapter is prepared to permeate the whole of your social life, giving tone and color to every
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Fertility We believe in fraternities, because we believe in the social Instinct. We know that it is but natural that every boy in college should have a number of friends and that he should seek to cultivate and give expression to those bonds of friendship. Hence the eternal demand for the fraternity. There may be those who disagree, but we believe that there should be more fraternities and a greater fraternal membership. We believe that the average boy in college deserves membership in some fraternity. There are hundreds of college men who need fraternity membership, and therefore should have it. Let us receive with a genial hospitality those who deserve such; let us be democratic—a democracy of the efficient. Edwards, E ••• •••
Speaking of sororities makes one think of the fraternity sister. And speaking of the fraternity sister calls to mind one "Batchelors' Club" that was in sway daring Brother Hamer's time of editorship. From the reports we have had, Brother Hamer may be introducing a new sister to PI Kappa Phis. The sweetest thing known is the fraternity sister— speaking of the other fellow's sister. 000
Do not the college authorities in some of the institutions where our chapters are located make statistical records of scholarship standing among the Greek Letter societies? Let The Star and Lamp have these statistics for publication, or better, let the chapter correspondents incorporate these items in their chapter letters. ••■■
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Alumni!! You who receive a copy of this issue of The Star and Lamp!! Subscribe!! The magazine is small, but will be enlarged In proprotion with the support which It receives. 411110 .11•■ .00
Brother Gunn, our energetic secretary, has ceased to be as friendly with us thru the mails as he formerly was. We retaliated by appointing him Exchange Editor. Go to it, Gunn! •••
The new year is well under its way. Resolutions were in order, and are yet. We moved to accomplish more for the fraternity? Did we have a second. ••• ••• ••■
Fraternity life should be lived as much for what you make It as for what it makes you.
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News. That's All. OBTAINED HERE AND THERE William C. Levere, Secretary of the College Fraternity Reference Bureau, offers a prize of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the best two. hundred word history of a college fraternity or sorority. The Bureau has so many inquiries concerning the history of the various Greek societies, that Mr. Levere has decided on this plan as the most interesting way of securing a brief history which will be concise, condensed and still full of information. The contest is open to all Greeks and aside from the prize, each fraternity member should be eager to see that his or her society has a well-written record filed at the Bureau, as it will be used many times to furnish required information. The only requirements are that the history of the fraternity must be kept within two hundred words and It must be tyewritten. Send all entries to William C. Levere, Secretary of the College Fraternity Reference Bureau, Box 254, Evanston, Illinois. Associated press reports recently told how a student at the University of Missouri had lost his left foot while being initiated into a College fraternity there. The reports said he was required to ride "blind baggage" on a passenger train, and in making the attempt fell under the train. The College Fraternity Reference Bureau has made an investigation and found that the young man was not being initiated into any College fraternity, but rather into a society to which fraternities at Missouri have been antagonistic. This society was a tramp organization which required its members to ride one thousand miles on a railroad without paying any fare before they were eligible to membership. The fraternities regarded it as an enemy to good morals, college discipline and general fraternity welfare. But the Associated Press and newspapers of the country give fraternities a black eye by representing the society as a Greek Letter organization. * The Purdue chapter house of the E 4) E fraternity recently suffered the loss of their furnishings, clothing, books, etc. by a fire which gutted the house in which they lived. The fire is thought to have been of an incendiary origin. Students who are working their way at the University of Chicago earned $209,253.00 last year. *
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The fraternities at the University of Washington have adopted an interesting plan to win the approval and good will of the newspapers of the state. One of the most popular courses at Washington is the department of journalism, which is headed by Dean Frank Kane, who is one of the best known teachers of journalism in the country. Re has instituted an annual Washington Newspaper Institute which meets for three days every year and the newspaper editors from all over the state attend it. Recently the fourth annual institute was held and the fraternities invited the editors to be their guests throughout the convention. The editors had a great time and when they returned to their homes, they had a lot of first hand knowledge about college fraternities. They had had an opportunity to see the societies at close range and to see that the fraternities were making college homes for their members, that the upper classmen were looking after the scholarship, comforts and morals of the younger men and that the atmosphere of a fraternity house Is wholesome. The fraternities made a lot of friends through the unusual opportunity. *
At Barnard, where sororities have been abolished for two years, the need of sororities is being badly felt. When such conditions prevail, we may be sure that the Greek world can rely on good argument for an honest and upright existence.
[Items followed by asterisk (*) are supplied to The Star and Lamp by the Reference Bureau News Bulletin, William C. Levere, Secretary, Box 254, Evanston, Ill.]
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News of the Chapters Letters for the next issue are due April 10th
A MOTHER CHAPTER IS IN GOOD CONDITION
LIVE WESTERNERS OF GAMMA HAVE TWO LETTERS
January 15, 1916. Alpha takes the greatest pleasure in introducing to K (1) Brother Robert Ashe Moore of Statesville, N. C. This makes three more good "old scouts" that we have taken in 1915-16 and we have an eye on two or three others. Our chapter is small owing to its Inactivity in 1914-15 and the small student body, but we are nevertheless well represented in all the college activities. A T 0 has the largest chapter; then K 0, and then K A has the smallest. The chapter finds itself in better financial condition than ever before, owing to the fact that the boys give liberally and our expenses are not heavy. Brothers Weinheimer and Reeves gave the fellows a "bud and pretz" party, celebrating their twentyfirst birthdays, in November. This celebration was highly enjoyed by all present. We are very sorry to hear of the death of Brother Hilderbrand's father and desire to express to him our sincere sympathy. Brother Hilderbrand was an Alpha man. Charles Willis Birchmore, Jr. Correspondent. College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
January, 25, 1916. January 6 was the date of Gamma's spring opening and by the first of college, four days later,
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ready for work. This is somewhat fewer than v,e have been accustomed to, but it was quality that counted. Of last semester's men, six were unable to return this time. Of these, C. G. Shafor '16, has taken up work supervising Oakland playgrounds and operating a taxi cab service. Just before leaving college, he was elected to Golden Bear, the senior men's honor society, in recognition of his consistent work in University activities. When it is understood that the University of California enrolls nearly 6000 regular students, it can be seen that Shafor's honor is a great one. R. G. Wedemeyer '16 left college to accept a position in the mines nt Miller, Nevada. Herm Brueck '15 was graduated and is now connected with a business firm in Stockton, his home town. W. I. Fulton '17 left before the close of last semester and is now engaged in tree surgery work at St. Helena. Joe Conkling '13 stuck to the farm when he went home to El Centro, Christmas. Irving Stockton '19 had to leave school before
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NEWS OF THE CHAPTERS the close of last semes ter on account of bad health. Among the brothers not enrolled last year Earnie Adams '15 and Elbert Brown '14 returned this January for some graduate work. Both men have held excellent positions while out of college. Our house Archon, Roy Heffner, '16, has continued his string of victories being initiated as charter member of E K N. a recently established engineering honor fraternity. He is president of the Associated Mechanical and Electrical Engineers of the University. Although the term is only two weeks old, we have had the pleasure of being visited by Harry Long '10, Cliff Stewart '18, and J. H. Conkling '18. Recently, also F. M. Nottage '12, W. J. Barnhill '13, Bud Wright '13, and Herm Brueck '15 dropped around. News has been received of the marriage of Jimmie Church '13 to Miss Florence Gilardine, of Oakland, both now living at Virginia City, Nevada. Gamma plans the initiation of a number of new fellows the first week of February. The following week, a joyful formal dance is planned. It will be one of our biggest social affairs this year. It is probable that a 11 K (1) alumni banquet will be arranged for later. Locally, Gamma stands well up among the seventy odd organizations (forty-five of which are men's Greek letter houses), on the campus. Our men are the successful kind. They are actively interested in nearly all the college activities here represented. We hold our own socially and are known in most interfratcrnity transactions. Incidentally this chapter is making a great study of K (D's organization. We expect to bring forward several desirable ideas on
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advancement by the next convention. Many of our plans concern extension; some deal with perfecting national and local organization. California Gamma should like to see something started to promote and encourage greater scholarship standards and we want to get in closer touch with the other chapters, their activities and individuals. We are looki ng forward to the December convention and hope to be better repre sented there than we have in the past. Let this chapter expre ss its appreciation of the last issue of the fraternity magazine, small, but excellently compiled. The semester closes early in May here and Gamma will graduate three
brothers. The "Star and Lamp"
will hear from us again before the vacation begins.
Rey B. Wheeler Correspondent. University of California, Berkeley, California.
Feb., 18, 1916. Two important events have marked the period of Gamm a's work since the last chapter lette r was submitted. Initiation, the first of these , was held the beginning of the month, a Saturday being devoted to disciplining and stunts and the ritualistic work taking place the following Monday night. Four freshmen joined us: Leroy (Bri ck) Fowler of Bozeman, Mont ana; Arthur (Art) Elwood Mead recently from Australia; (William Dean Oliver of San Jacinto; and Alonzo Earl Washburn (Earl or Washy) of Fresno. Shorly afler initiation Sheldon Paull of Ridg e, way, Wisconsin and J. S. Honk of Walnut Creek were pledged. For them and others whom we may
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bid, an initiation in April is talked of. The next item of importance here was given the week after initiation, at a local club house, in the form of Gamma's semi-annual formal dance. Brother Herm Brueck left the real estate business in Stockton and came to Berkeley for the occasion. The affair was a genuine success, reflecting much credit on brother Doc Richardson, who acted as general manager. Elegant programs were used and the California belles looked their best.
working out with the Varsity baseball squad. Ronnie Ring '17 has been elected to Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity.
Realizing the necessity and yet difficulty of keeping those who leave us interested and posted, several extra copies of the last Star and Lamp were mailed to recent nearby alumni. Lately also this chapter has subscribed to "Banta's Greek Exchange" Magazine. We wonder if all Pi Kappa have access to that quarterly or a similar Greek journal. In the exchange Gunn writes that fraternities have been readmitted to Recently we have been visited Wofford College, Spartansburg, S. by brother Ralph W Noreen ex '17 C. We suppose that means the rewho has been employed by a revival of our chapter there. If so, finery in the southern part of the Gamma extends a welcome. state. We hear of our representRey B. Wheeler ative, Dave Hardy '12, that aside Correspondent from his usual teaching duties at Mt. Tamalpais Military Academy, University of California, Berkeley, California. he is captain of San Raphael's Company D National Guard basketball team. On the campus Boyd Oliver '13 and Eddie Kellas '15, still enrolled in graduate work, TO have just been elected to (I) A A, EPSILON'S MEN ARE BOUND MARK GRADE HIGH WIN Likewise, society. the law honor Earnie Weidenmueller '17 is soon January 21, 1916. to be initiated into A Z, agriculThe spring term of '16 opened tural honor fraternity. A big cele- with a bright outlook for Epsilon. bration is planned on this campus All of her old men came back and February 29 and our archon, Roy took up their work in strengthHeffner, serves on the Labor Day ening her ranks with good materCommittee arranging plans. ial. And on January the tenth they In athletics, Jess Stockton 18 is realized the fruits of their labors about ready to claim a circle "C" by enlisting six good men in the K (1). Five of these emblem for soccer. Jess is an ex- work of cellent student also. E. L. Kellas were freshmen, each one of whom '15 still plays on the soccer squad. we have found to be possessors of W. D. Oliver is out for freshman the real qualities of men and baseball. A. E. Mead '19 is a re- whom we are proud to have porter on the University daily among us. The sixth man was a paper. A. E. Washburn '19 has Junior, and how he was missed by taken up track training. Herbert fraternities in his two former Hardy '16 is conceded every years at college is a mystery. Yet, chance to row on the Varsity crew it is true that he is quiet and rethis spring. F. R. Richardson is tiring, except in the choir or the
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averaged 86. At Davidson there is a Fraternity Cup offered to the chapter here making the highest average. We are after that cup, boys. Besides these honors Epsilon has officers in both literary societies; the presidents of both the senior and junior classes are fl K do men; we have a man on the debating team, the winner of the Peace Contest (an oratorical contest in which the winners from the different colleges speak before the North Carolina Legislature on "Peace"). In athletics our chapter is well represented, having six men who are sure of places in the class football. The same is true In other branches of athletics as well. And in the government of the college we have two men on the Student Council. One of the big events of the year at Davidson is Junior Speaking, celebrated by the students with the aid of girls and festivities. For this we have plans on foot for entirely remodeling our hall, which
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will make it the finest on the hill. And we are expecting a good representation of the fair sex. Our hall is open to all during this time and all the brothers are cordially invited to come and see Epsilon at her best. J. W. Clark, Correspondent Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina.
ETA FELLOWS LOOK FORWARD TO BETTER QUARTERS February 4, 1916. Eta chapter has enjoyed the last
issue of The Star and Lamp more than usual. The articles are excellent, and the letters from the chapters add greatly to its personal interest. We congratulate our sister chapters on the reports they have made. We suffered a great loss when two of our men withdrew trom college: W. H. Saffold, of Brooklet, and W. F. Humphreys, of Berlin. Both of these towns, especially Berlin, are in Georgia. We are quite sure Brother Humphreys is not going to Germany until the war is over, for he is an advocate of "Safety First." Since he isn't in the war zone, we hope to have him with us again before long. It was his duty to write the letters for The Star and Lamp, so we feel his absence more than ever at this moment. We are glad to have with us, however, S. J. Shepherd, of Unadilla, an affiliate who joined Eta in '13, and C. J. Tyler, of Sandersville. Mr. Tyler did two good things upon arriving at Emory— he entered the Senior class and joined 11 K P. He is recently from
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Wofford College, and his friends in Zeta will be pleased to hear of his conjunction as a brother here. We congratulate ourselves upon our alumni, and heartily thank L. P. Hatfield and S. A. Hearn for their appreciated checks. Eta is preparing to change her quarters, and in a few days the chapter house will be an ideal bungalow on Main street. As soon as we find ourselves in our new home we are going to give a reception. We hope none of our boys will capitulate, but this Leap Year business is fearful, and we know for a fact that the ladies know a good proposition when they see it. To prove it there is the story of one good old German lady, whose pastime was a quarrel with her husband. "I vish I vass in hebben vere you could not drubbles me," she stormed. "Me?" he replied, "Me?" "I vould like to bin in a beer-garten." "There you go, old selfish," she cried, "always taking the best for yourself." We have survived final exams, and have made good records. We also intend to stir up a few things In athletics and politics this comWe welcome Zeta ing season. heartily, and wish much success to every chapter this Spring. Eugene H. Sanders, Correspondent. Emory University, Oxford, Georgia.
BOYS OF IOTA ARE ACTIVE IN ALL PHASES OF LIFE February 10, 1916. Georgia Iota has just begun the most successful term of her career
we hope and believe. Our machine is in high and our spirit is in the same gear, so here's to a banner term for all Pi Kapps. Brother Robinson was waylaid by some fair maid during the holidays at Christmas time, and failed to return to the fold in January. His absence is greatly felt—tor our brother from Epsilon was popular and wielded a great influence for the best. Brother Breen left us February first to sojourn in the fields of "Sunny South Georgia." We are glad to say that our "society lion" will be back with us next summer, and at the regular school session next fall. His practical jokes and beautiful Irish countenance we need. The remaining four. teen active members have run the gauntlet of Exams very successfully, we believe, and many creditable grades were made. There is a movement on foot at Tech to further scholarship among fraternity men and we heartily endorse the movement as a long needed one—and are trying to live up to our convictions. Thus our men came through successfully in the examinations. Happily, with but one regret; that being the graduation at the end of examinations, receiving his degree in Civil Engineering, of brother J. L. Motcalf. of Lakota., N. D. We rejoice with him in his success, but mourn the possibility of his leaving us. Men of his caliber are seldom discovered. Too much cannot be said of his unselfish and untiring effort's in Iota's behalf. We wish him all success in the years to come. At the beginning of the second term Iota was very fortunate in Initiating three freshmen of the very best type. They are: Brother W. P. Lee, of Grantville, Georgia; Brother G. C. Griffin, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Brother W. G. McFar-
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To our mind the last issue of our Star and Lamp was a big step toward making the Star and Lamp what it should be. We have read it from cover to cover and are highly pleased with each and every article. We believe, that, with such strides, it will not be long before our Star and Lamp will rank well up with fraternity magazines. Words fail to express our welcome to Nebraska Nu, but our feeling is there, and we wish them an ever brilliant and successful future. May they ever be loyal and true Pi Kapps. Our first dance of the year was given in November in the Ansley Hotel ball-room. The seventy-five guests reported a very pleasant evening. We will entertain again on March eleventh, with an informs al house dance, for about fifty guests, and hope later to give a formal dance at the Capital City Club. Again we congratulate the officials of The Star and Lamp, and wish all Pi Kapps a successful Leap Year. James J. Dolnan, Correspondent. Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
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NEW HOUSE PLACES KAPPA CHAPTER COMFORTABLY January 15, 1916. We are now well fixed in our new house on East Franklin street. With no little expense and care we have furnished it neatly and tastily throughout. On the first floor is the home-like living room. It is here that we receive, every day, men of other fraternities and the freshmen "on our string." We are
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very proud of our dance hall, for It is considered one of the best on the Hill. On December 18th the annual high school football game for the championship of the State was played at Chapel Hill by the Charlotte and Raleigh high school elevens. That night, with an informal dance, Kappa was host to the Charlotte High School team and their charming sponsor. Other invited guests were the young ladies of the village, members of some of the other fraternities, and Brothers Swain and Council, of Mu, with their lady friends. Our fraternity colors were artistically arranged in the color scheme and throughout the evening punch and sandwiches were served in the hall.
Newspaper dopists have handed it out that he is one of the best guards in the state. Brother H. H. Perry is also on the varsity squad, substituting at center. Kappa has cornered the secretaryship of both H. literary societies. Brother H. Perry holds that office in the PhilR. anthropic Society and Brother r Brothe ic. Dialet the in L. Young ate H. G. Harper, Jr., is an associ editor of the "Yackety Yack," the Brother R. T. college annual. Bryan, Jr., expects to appear before the Supreme Court in Febru r Brothe e, licens law his ary for his G. M. Brooks will complete medical course this spring. Brothin er J. W. Perdew is specializing Economics and expects to receive ch. a certificate in Rural Resear Brother W. F. Howell is a good student and stands high in class room work while Brother Carl Sutton is doing well in the Phu:" macy department. Kappa sends best wishes to all sful the chapters for a most succes year. R. L. Young, Correspondeni. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Fall dances were "pulled off" just after Thanksgiving and the various members of Kappa were in attendance, with their ladies, at every dance. Immediately following the Reign of Terror (the Mid-year exams) we are planning another dance in celebration of having passed the ordeal. With all our pleasures we have not failed to work. Every member has faithfully labored, hard and long, for the best interests of the fraternity, and today Kappa stands on an equal footing with other Greek letter organizations. Certainly the past is full of mistakes and failures, but we are using those self-same errors as the stepping stones to higher things. From out the "checkered shade" we have stepped into the brightness of well-earned success. The members of Kappa are continuing to play an important part in college activities. Brother G. Raby Tennent is playing left guard on the varsity basketball team.
MU HAS EXPERIENCED GOOD FORTUNE WITH THE REST February 10. 1916. ary 15, there ocFebru Tuesday, curred what we consider tl.e best thing that has been done by Mn r since her installation as a chapte K (1)---the initiation of Carl of C. Edens and John C. Angier into fraterthe full membership of the nity. Brother Edens hails from Rowland, N. C., and Brother Ang!er is from Durham, N. C. The day was an important one
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NEWS OF THE CHAPTERS for two reasons, two young men from the Freshmen Class were initiated into the chapter, and at the banquet following the initiation ceremony it was shown just how great a spirit was actually in the breasts of the members of Mu. The Initiation ceremony was divided into two parts, the first half being carried out in the afternoon and the latter half during the evening. Directly after the exercises an informal banquet was served to the entire membership of Mu and five visiting brothers of Kappa Chapter of the University of North Carolina. Brother T. J. Swain of Mu acted as toastmaster and called upon the following: A. R. Council, "Fraternities in the Past at Trinity:" J. R. Rone, "Activities of the Fraternity:" J. W. Perdew, "Greetings from Kappa:" J. C. Angier, "The Goats." Not only did the above men talk, but every man present expressed a heartfelt and sincere wish, in his might own language, that K prosper, and gave his promise to do all in his power toward causing K ID to attain that ideal which has been set for her. Never before, we dare say, has such true Pi Kapp spirit been more distinctly shown. All observed with great pleasure that the Fraternity signifies more than a mere name and an outward appearance of life. Let us hasten to say that the above has not been said with the spirit of the braggart, but rather as our method of telling that we have begun to breathe the air of H K II and to live the life of the fraternity. In the following paragraphs we shall relate briefly what Mu has done in the past two or three months, but at the suggestion of several members we are first giving a list of the members of Mu, since The Star and Lamp has not
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carried such a list in a previous Issue. T. J. Swain, Mackeys, N. C. J. R. Rone, Charlotte, N. C. F. M. Sasser, Durham, N. C. Earle Long, Milton, N. C. B. 0. Rigsbee, Durham, N. C. D. C. Hickman, Granite Falls, [N. C. A. R. Council, Wanemish, N. C. L. C. Richardson, Durham E. F. Gill, Lauringburg, N. C. C. F. Bunting, New Bern, N. C. H. S. Pollard, Durham. C. C. Edens, Rowland, N. C. J. C. Angier, Durham. Of the aobve the ten first named were charter members initiated last June; Brothers Edens and Angier have been mentioned: Brother Pollard was initiated in January. The first exciting period for Mu was December 7th to 15th, called at Trinity "Freshman Rushing Week." The Panhellenic Council of the College designates this Nt,eek as the week during which Freshmen may be "bid" or pledged. To say the least, this week is full of Intense interest to fraternities. We were very successful, and we do not hesitate to say that our sue, cess was greatly due to the efforts of Archon Swain. Brother Swain labored diligently for the chapter and too much praise cannot be given him. We were also very fortunate in securing the good will of several other fraternities on the campus, and their kind advice was of much advantage to us in the inside work. In athletics we have played our parts. Brothers Bunting and Richardson have been playing basket ball as members of the varsity, and Brother Long played the same game in the class series. In forecasts as to the probable line-up of the varsity baseball team for this spring our Brothers Rone, Edens and Angier are mentioned as very
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strong contenders for positions on the team. In fact, it is almost a certainty that they will make the team for each plays a clean, fast game. Rone was a member of the varsity last year and Edens and Angier played with their high school nines. It pleased us that Brother Swain was elected to the position of Cheer Leader for the year and we predict for Trinity a most successful season in baseball if cheering means anything. The position of cheer leader is considered by the students one of much honor, as well as one of importance. On the whole the future for the chapter seems to be very bright, for everyone is working hard in his line of work. Some of us are trying our hands in society, while others find it necessary to buckle down to books. Our seven Seniors seem to think that they must study as diligently as possible the re. mainder of the year, and unless the unexpected happens seven of the members of H K to will receive their diplomas in June. Our letter must not end without an expression of the chapters ap, predation of the kindnesses shown the chapter by other chapters, es. pecially Epsilon and Kappa. They have been very kind to us and we thank them. Mu extends to the Fraternity her best wishes for a prosperous year. Frank M. Sasser, Correspondent. Trinity College,
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February 27, 1916. We read with a great deal of interest the last issue of The Star and Lamp, and especially the let-
ters from other chapters. Most of them were really like hearing from some distant relation, if we may so say, and for the most part our first definite idea of Who's Who in the Pi Kapp World. We were interested to know what position Pi Kapps held in the student life over the country, and were glad to discover that they are taking an active part. As for ourselves, we have been at the fraternity house since last November, and here many of our hopes for a richer fraternity life are being realized. We have a large twelve-room house with long halls and a dormitory on the third floor. We have about eighteen men staying at the house this semester and the dormitory makes a convenient arrangement to handle the extra number. We shall need to get more freshmen before the year closes for we have a number of members who will be leaving this semester and fraternities here will not be allowed to rush freshmen next year. All our old members are with us again. Harold Gribble, '17, was taken with pneumonia Just before Christmas, but is back now to finish last semester's work. Dwight Davis, '19, took a like vacation but is back now to do regular work. The men we have taken in so far are a very representative bunch in the school. We have a number who are members of the Cornus Club, one A Z, a representative in the Iron Sphinx, and others who hold commissions in the Military Department, besides assistants in the various departments. In athletics, Brother Gribble stood high Nebraska man in the Missouri Valley Track Meet, also winning first place at the state meet last fall, and third In crosscountry running. Jean Liebendorfer, '16, also won a first and sec-
NEWS OF THE CHAPTERS ond place in the fall meet. We have men in class football teams, Glee Club and other activities also. February 13th a new idea came forth in social customs here, that of an All-Greek entertainment, given at one of the fraternity houses. Each fraternity put on some stunt, act, or vaudeville skit, after the Orpheum manner. This was followed by a dance, and social good time. All fraternities were invited
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News of the Alumni All Chapters Should Have an Alumnus Reporter.
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returned from service as a doctor in the British Merchant Marine. L. Harry Mixson is General ManWilliam E. Massey is in business ager of the Mixson Seed Co. His at Wilson, N. C. son, Lawrence, is now a year and Zeddie Mobley is at Asheville, a half old. N. C. on a construction corps for A. A. Kroeg, Jr., is practising a railroad. law. J. Dechard Guess and Melvin F. F. Mosimann is Professor of Stover are students at the Medical English at the Charleston High College of South Carolina. School. Thomas Hunley is a pharmacist Harold A. Mouzon is his assist- in the DeLorme Pharmacy in ant. Charleston. Simon Fogarty is Vice-principal Wm. Davis Crawford is connectof the Simonton Public School in ed with the Siebels Insurance Charleston. Agency in Columbia. Paul E. Scherer is a student at the Lutheran Seminary, Munt Airy, Pa. According to a report In the AtJames Fogarty is an architect in the office of Wilson & Sompeyras, lanta (Ga.) Constitution Dillard B. Lasseter may become a United Columbia, S. C. T. P. Abernathy is a graduate States Consul. The item, which student at Harvard University, was dated January 18th, read as follows: "Dillard Lasseter, a Cor. taking his Ph. D. in History. A. Pelzer Wagener is Professor dele young man, who has been a of Latin in Salem College, Ro- student of Columbia university for the past two years, and is a foranoke, Va. William Fogarty is in the office mer student of the University of of the Southern Home Fire Insur- New York, has been designated by the state department to stand the ance Co. of Charleston, S. C. Henry P. Wagner is practising examination for a United States consulship. Congressman Charles medicine in Charleston. Kenneth E. Lowman, who gradu, It. Crisp of the third district, has ated in medicine alst year, is at notified E. S. Lasseter, father of the young man, to this effect." To the Roper Hosspital, Charleston. William A. Hartz is completing Pi Kapps this is good news for his law course at Columbia Uni- Brother Lasseter is an Eta man. versity in New York. Mason Stroud is in the Charleston office of the Southern Cotton Kappa Chapter gives Brother Oil Co. John Henderson first Benedictine W. Boyd Brigman, who has been honors. From the Kappa boys we a student in the Medical College received a copy of the wedding inof Virginia, Richmond, recently vitation and "At Home" card, read-
NEWS OF THE ALUMNI ing as follows: Mrs. Margaret Carson Sinclair requests the pleasure of your presence at the wedding reception of her daughter Moffitte Duart and Mr. John Leland Henderson on the evening of Tuesday, the fifteenth of February, at half after nine o'clock at home Marion, North Carolina At Home after March Second Bloomfield, New Jersey
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In behalf of The Star and Lamp staff, the editor-in-chief extends Brother Henderson and his bride the most fraternally sincere congratulations and hopes for them a long and happy wedded life. Charles K. Dillingham, Sigma, is In the employ of the Johns-Manville Company, at Manville, N. J. E. R. W. Gunn, Eta, resigned his postmastership at Oxford, Ga. and Is conducting a general store there. Manuel G. Quevedo, the livewire of "founding" principles m now a student at the University of Virginia.
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Said by Other Greeks In the Exchanges.
Exchanges received: OCTOBER:
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The Washington (D. C.) alumni, with the help of some of the resident Gamma Eta acNEW tives, have been enIDEA IN gaging in a novel but RUSHING, most valuable line of work for the Fraternity during the past summer. They have conducted an organized rushing campaign among the local lads who intend going to college this fall—whether they intend to enter George Washington University or not. More than this, they corn-
municated with our respective chapters at the colleges where the prospective freshmen were going to enter and sqw that connections were made. As a result six new DeIts have been landed by four different chapters. Here is a good example for other alumni chapters to follow. Such labors should not be confined to the summer alone, but can well be prosecuted thruout the whole year.—"Rainbow,"
A T A. A ruling of the Pan Board at Allegheny made it compulsory this year for all fraterWHY nity girls to reWEAR A frain from wearFRATERNITY Ing their pins durPIN I ing the first week of school. There was not one Alpha Gamma Delta girl that did not heave a sigh of relief when those two weeks had passed, and she was permitted to wear the little emblem again. We never knew that we could miss them so. Now let us ask ourselves the question—Did they miss us? Did they fret to be worn again, Or did they lie contentedly in the jewel boxes thinking: "This is as good a place as any. The girl who wears me looks unon me merely as a piece of jewelry. She does not remember that I am composed of the golden letters Alpha, Gamma and Delta; she has forgotten the words for which these letters stand; she does not live up to them"? Let us not wear our pins for
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SAID BY OTHER GREEKS ornaments or for the impression they may make on those outside the circle; but rather let us take them up remembering that they are symbols of good-fellowship, of loyalty, of all that is "truest and best." Most of all let us realize that it should not be necessary to represent the qualities for which we stand, but that the qualities themselves should be present in each one of us.—"Quarterly," of
AFL. It was not "against fraternities"
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as such that the Supreme Court of the United States recently TRUE ruled, though one might so conclude from the work of some headline writers. The decision amounts practically to this —that it is not for the courts to determine the reasonableness of the acts of legislature, concerning the control of public institutions of learning, so long as those acts outwardly conform to constitutional forms. It is not unconstitutional for one individual to hold the opinion that fraternities are a hindrance to the proper purposes of a college, and to forbid his son to have anything to do with them. It is not unconstitutional for a state legislature to hold the same opinion and to put every son of the state under like prohibition. The thing the fraternities must seek is, to make the holding of such an opinion wholly impossible with reasonable men. "A policy encouraging the members to a strict adherence to the real ideals and principles of the traternitieN will be the best argument in their favor for perpetuation and of noninterference by legislatures," said the new D. G. M. of District VIII, reviewing the decision for thee pages two months ago. It is just this which has been urged by
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every fraternity leader. The life of college men is not hidden from the world. If fraternity men live up to their best ideals, mind their own business, avoid the display of mere clannishness, and heed the counsel of those who are in a position to guide, they have little to fear in the end.—"Caduceus," of
K E. The new year rises like a star above the horizon of our hopes. A good thing about a star is 1916 that it gives only light. It does not encourage or bar. bor anything but light; it is positive. As a fraternity we have also to do with light. We call it love for our Fraternity. We search in our hearts for this love and having found it we let it shine. It is positive, dynamic, creative, irresistable. Let us get rid of negative and degenerating conditions, gloom, melancholy. * * * * What is 1916 going to mean to you and your Fraternity in 1920? When we look back to 1912 we can see the remarkable progress Theta Chi has made. This is due to the really wonderful work done by those with the love of Theta Chi in their hearts. Is Theta Chi to continue to advance? The answer rests with you. Are you going to keep up the work? YES; whether you be Alumnus or active member, if the love of your Fraternity is in your heart, you too will put your shoulder to the wheel and in 1920 you will look back to 1916 as we toilay look back to 1912 and you will say, "Well done, Brothers. We are proud of you."—"Rattle," of
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