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GRAND CHAPTER Eminent Supreme Archon ROY J. HEFTNER Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, H. T. Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon....HENRY G. HARPER, JR. 803 East Ave., Charlotte, N. C. Eminent Supreme Grapter JAMES W. SETZE, JR. SOU. Bell Telephone Co., Greensboro, N. C. Eminent Supreme Thesaurophulax J L. ELLIS, JR. 241 W. Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga. Eminent Supreme Journalist RICHARD L. YOUNG 459 Beaumont Ave., Charlotte, N. C. Eminent Supreme Historian JOHN E. HAVIS 1889 East Sixty-sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

Eminent Supreme Counselor JoHN D. CARROLL Lexington, S. C. Eminent Supreme Chaplain BooNE M. BOWEN - Mt. Pleasant, S. C. Eminent Supreme Thurepanioiktes D M HAYES Emory University, Georgia SUPREME COUNCIL For the East For the West

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' Wilson, N. C. W.L. SIMPSON

Sabetha, Kan. At Large

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Dillon, S. C. THE STAR AND LAMP Editor-in-Chief V.ICHARD L. YOUNG 459 Beaumont Ave., Charlotte, N. C. Business Manager 3310 Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. J. COZBY BYRD Associate Editor E. H. SANDERS West Point, Ga. Alumni Editor JOHN HAVIS, At Large Cleveland, Ohio Exchange Editor • WADE S. BOLT Otterbein, Ind.

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January, 1921

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Alumni News • Awarded Distinguished Service Cross Bible Discussion Groups at Georgia Tech Chapter Letters Coach "Track" Smathers Returns Crime is Low Aim, The Diamond Flash, The Editorials Editors' Dinner at Salmagundi Club.

Etas Eat Exchanges Founders' Day Celebrations Gentleman, The Inter-Fraternity Conference Introducing the Supreme Officers News of the Greek World Omicron's House Plan Our Associates i Page the Hon. Charles S. Reed ti Pi Kapp, What of the Future?

Roll of Honor, The Sparks from the Phi-re Success and How to Keep It Talk About the Alumni, A Zetas Ate

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Application made for entrance as second class matter at the postoffice at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of March 3. 1879.

Tilt STAR AND LAMP is published in the montlis of September, November, January, March, and June by the Queen City Printing Company, official printer to Pi Kappa Phi, Charlotte, N. C. All material intended for publication should be in the hands of the Editor-in-Chief not later than the fifth of February, May, August, October and December.

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By Wade S. Bolt Pi Kappa Phi! What does that mean? That you and I should while away each passing day, while others toil? Nay, we must not soil our records clean. Pi Kappa Phi, we cherish you.

You signify so much that's good, such brotherhood, that we can quite afford to plight our faith anew. Pi Kappa Phi, we look to you! To you we cry: "Our aims are true, our will—to do."

Set our star aflight, our lamp trim bright. Guide us safely through.

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Elsewhere in this issue is an admirable account of the sessions of the Inter-Fraternity Conference at the University club, New York City, November 27th. Bro. John Inter-Fraternity D. Carroll sets forth in his report of the proConference ceedings a resume that should be thoroughly read by every member of Pi Kappa Phi. Through a careful reading of Brother Carroll's story one may get a part of the great spirit which characterized the entire conference and upon which the organization seems to rest.

Of course, that spirit can not be fully caught by a mere reading of the sessions, but Brother Carroll has set much of it down for the brothers of our fraternity.

As he suggests, every chapter should by all means secure a complete set of the printed minutes of the meetings. These will soon be from the press and chapters of Pi Kappa Phi should have copies on their library tables.

Numerous expressions of good feeling and appreciation for the last issue of THE STAR AND LAMP, all of which we appreciate more than we can tell, have reached our We Thank desk. The editor wishes that he might be able You to write each brother a personal letter thanking him for his kind words, but it is impossible to do so.

We are taking this means of expressing to these kind brothers our sincerest thanks for their expressions. Believe us when we say that without the encouragement of the men who are the consuming public of THE STAR AND LAMP, the journal will never be brought to the high mark which by right belongs to it. Brothers, accept our thanks for thought for the success of the magazine.

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Bouquets are splendid compliments to receive, but sometimes the rose-greeted performer should be met with a brick for the good of the show. Now don't be afraid to cast the "alley apples" if you think the editoi• should be prodded along for the good of the "show" of Pi Kappa Phi. We are looking for constructive criticism. Tell us when we

go wrong, point out our mistakes. You will be doing the editor a service for which he will some day thank you as he is trying to thank you for your kind words.

Pi Kappa Phi should be the 'democracy of the efficient."

Efficiency comes from eliminating waste, correcting errors, righting wrongs. THE STAR AND LAMP is designed as the barometer of this Pi Kapp efficiency machine.

Let 'em fly. As many tosses as you desire.

Following the scathing report condemning the activities of Theta Nu Epsilon by Dean Thomas Arkle Theta Nu Clark, of University of Illinois, the following Epsilon resolutions of the executive committee were adopted by the Inter-Fraternity Conference without a dissenting vote: Whereas, There exist in various colleges and universities certain irresponsible organizations, under various names, that are antagonistic to academic and fraternity ideals, among them T. N. E, which has been repeatedly condemned in fraternity conventions throughout the country and in this Conference; And Whereas, It appears that hazing is practiced by certain of these organizations, and also persists in some fraternities or chapters thereof, contrary to the better traditions and more modern customs in fraternity life; Be It Resolved, that it is the sense of this Executive Committee of the Inter-Fraternity Conference that such organizations and such practices should be condemned by all loyal fraternity men; that every member of this Conference should place itself on record as unalterably opposed to such organizations, and should furthermore take steps to rid itself of members who continue to belong to T. N. E or any similar organization; that the fraternities in this Conference should also condemn hazing by any student organization at any time in any form as dangerous and silly, as opposed to the dignity and ideals of college

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fraternities, and as injurious to their good name, and that they should take steps to eliminate any such practice from their own organizations if the same be indulged in; And Further Resolved, that a copy of this action be sent to each fraternity in the conference for publication in its magazine, and to Banta's Greek Exchange.

Pi Kappa Phi was one of two out of forty-six fraternities that failed to have a complete list of delegates and alternates on the official program of the Inter-Fraternity Loose Screw Conference held in New York City November '27th. Some officer of the fraternity is at fault and because the names were not sent, the fraternity lost. At first glance we dare say that when the readers of the program came to the vacant space allotted to Pi Kappa Phi said "well there's a bunch that is slip-shod in its methods and slack in its administration."

Now we know that is not truly the case but no doubt that impression was left and our goods were so advertised. Let's all unite in the effort to eliminate such little things, yet things that count for most.

Bulletins which practically every day find their way into the hands of chapter officers are chockfull of valuable information which in a few years will be the history Keeping of the fraternity. We fear that these cornHistory munications from the supreme officers and other chapters are too hastily read and cast aside. These documents, though when read appear only routine matter, will in a few years form the basis of the historical record of Pi Kappa Phi. With little expense and no time these secret bulletins could be filed and the chapters could have at their disposal an accurate historical reference. Loose-leaf binders may be purchased at a small cost and if filled with these priceless papers will be of inestimable value in the years to come. THE STAR AND LAMP is suggesting and urging every chapter to begin keeping these bulletins as they arrive. In a short time the realization of the value of the filing system will be apparent.

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The grapter of each chapter should be made responsible for the preservation of these records. What chapter will be the first to inform the editor that it has started this all important task?

Don't delay. History is in the making and each day that passes without the recording of its events has slipped away never to return and with no one to tell the story of its activities.

Put the papers away and leave behind a heritage that will soon be prized by those who are to follow. Pi Kappa Phi is young.

The fraternity is fast approaching stalwart manhood. The period of young manhood is always the most virile and while• we do things let's have them recorded for future brothers, even down to the fourth generation, and further for that matter.

Editor Burd, of Tau Kappa Epsilon, TEKE, lays down chapter letter principles that would* be of inestimable value to correspondents of Pi Kapp chapters. He Chapter expresses our sentiments and the only thing Letters Again that we can do is to pass his "heart yearning" to Pi Kapp correspondents with the request that you "go and do likewise."

Follow this: "Chapter Histors would do well to remember that a chapter letter for publication in The Teke is not solely for local consumption. It is supposedly for the edification and enlightment of the whole fraternity, other chapters and individual alumni as well. It would be well then, especially in speaking of alumni (and new brothers, we add), to give initials and other definite information—`a local habitation and a name.' To say that Prater Johnson is now in a law office in Chicago means little more than nothing. But to say that Prater W. K. Johnson of Alpha Chapter is with the law firm of Jones and Brown, Marquette building, and lives at 2936 Sherman avenue, is worth while."

He also gives the following briefs that will give relief to the editor.

"Typewrite you letter.

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"Use one side of sheet only.

"Use standard size paper.

"Spell and punctuate with care.

"Remember your readers.

"Give initials and address of every alumnus mentioned.

"If you have a new chapter house, send a picture.

"Mention college news of general interest.

"Be prompt. A special delivery two days late does not square us with the printers."

Take this advice, brother correspondents, from a felloweditor and appropriate it for the improvement of the chapter letters to THE STAR AND LAMP.

Chockfull of news, snappily written, the first edition of The Nebraska Nu's for 1920, has reached the editor's hands.

It is an effort for which the promoters may The Nebraska well be proud. The paper is a four-page affair Nu's neatly gotten up and well arranged. There are many stories of interest concerning the brothers of the chapter along with a cut and story of.Bro. Joe Sewell, Omircon, who cut such a wide swarth in the "big" leagues.

There are two editorials, one on Founders' Day and the other about THE STAR AND LAMP. In addition there is some "funny stuff" and also three or four comical ads about Nu brothers.

A fine piece of work, which should be emulated by every chapter in the fraternity.

With hands clasped in the mystic manner, fraternity brothers stand on a plane before each other that can not be attained by other men. It is no super-imposed plane that The Grip makes the two men above others, but it is a psychological medium which somehow renders the men capable of understanding each with a brotherly feeling.

The shaking of hands with the fraternity grip gives a man a feeling of "I know you" and "you know me," peculiar to the men of the same clan, a feeling unshared by others beyond

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the pale. Knowledge of how to give the grip is possessed by the men, who realizing that they are the only ones with that knowledge, are drawn together as if with bonds of steel.

The grip is the best means of creating a fraternal spirit that is abiding. It makes brothers of friends and wipes away misunderstanding and prejudice. Let two men shake hands in that distinctive way and immediately they begin to know each other with an insight which is beyond belief. Let two men renew acquaintance with the grip and soon they are chatting pleasantly, for the grip is the "open sesame" into the hearts and lives of fraternity brothers.

Pi Kapps, form the habit of shaking hands with the grip.

The editor has pursued the policy of using the grip at every opportunity and it has been the means of enriching his fraternity life. He has found that it tears down any barriers of aloofness that might exist, giving him the opportunity of getting closer. Follow that policy, Pi Kapps, and see the difference.

Give the grip and shake hands with a man on the same stratum of brotherly equality. When the grip is given above all things give it right, otherwise cold water is dashed into the face of the man who wants to receive that warmth of feeling which only can come from a member of the same order.

Use the grip at all times. Use it right.

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THE INTER-FRATERNITY CONFERENCE

By JOHN D. CARROLL Past Eminent Supreme Archon

The twelfth annual session of the Inter-Fraternity Conference which was held at the University club, New York, November 27th, was the largest yet, and showed conclusively that there is a place for the American college fraternity in the educational plan, that it functions where the college cannot, and that it is welcomed in most of these educational institutions as a force for good on the campus.

Approximately one hundred delegates, representing forty-six fraternities, two of which had been re-admitted during the year, and two received for the first time, gathered in the assembly room of the club, together with a number of noted educators from leading colleges and universities from various sections of the country who had been invited to meet with the Greeks and make comment on the life of the fraternities as related to the life of their institutions, and offer suggestions as to how the fraternities can better co-operate with the colleges in the training of the youth of the land. It was good to hear from so many of these keen observers that in their institutions the fraternities have proved to be a powerful moral force and can absolutely be depended upon to co-operate in and further the work of the school.

In opening the Conference, the chairman, Mr. Albert Bard (Chi Psi), gave a general resume of the work of the year by the executive committee, incorporating several timely suggestions.

Mr. Herbert W. Congdon (Delta Upsilon), secretary, in his report mentioned the forming in South Carolina of an InterFraternity Conference, its meetings, work, and plans. He stated that the anti-fraternity spirit at the University of South Carolina has largely been due to the presence there of subrosa chapters of national fraternities (and the number of these would have been increased by one had not our national officers been so determined in their attitude against the pernicious

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practice). Immediately upon the conclusion of this report, a resolution was offered and adopted by the conference that inasmuch as such Practice was antagonistic to fraternity ideals, the Inter-fraternity Conference expose and attempt to break up such organizations wherever found to exist. Mr. Congdon further stated that not only fraternities had fallen under the ban at the University of Mississippi, but that it was rumored the Governor was even attempting to regulate social activities at that institution! There are 394 schools in America, he said, where fraternities are not organized; 79 of these are exclusively men's colleges. During the coming year the conference plans to questionnaire these schools as to their attitude on fraternities; are they allowed, would they be favOred, etc? Probably the most interesting announcement of the conference came right here, in that Mr. Francis W. Shepardson (Beta Theta Pi) had agreed to undertake the editorship of a book on fraternities, their origin, their ideals, their insignia, their customs, their activities, their achievements, the origin of opposition to them, etc. From his long experience with Greek letter fraternities, Mr. Shepardson is eminently well qualified to undertake this work.

Dr. Frank Wieland (Delta Tau Delta) reported entertainingly for the committee on hygiene, recommending among other things the periodic publication of a uniform article on hygiene in every fraternity journal, and the appearance of the most capable person obtainable at least once a year before every fraternity chapter for a lecture on this important subject. The fraternity gets closer to the boy than does the college; they need to realize the responsibility which this entails.

The treasurer's report credited every member fraternity with having paid their dues for the year, spoke of the numerous ways in which a small sinking fund might be a comfortable addition to the equipment of the conference, in view of which 1,e recommended that the dues be increased from $25 to $50 per year. This met with some opposition and caused considerable discussion, but the recommendation was finally cared for by an amendment to the constitution to the tune of 41 to 5.

Each fraternity voted one.

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Dean Thomas Arkle Clark (A T 0), proposed a memorial at this point to the late Walter B. Palmer, and it was adopte d unanimously by -a rising vote.

The meeting of the fraternity secretaries on the preceding evening at the Phi Gamma Delta club was reported briefly by Mr. Lyon, who told of the attitude of the secretaries for a onesemester-deferred pledge instead of a one-year-deferred, their approval of extending the pledge to any lawfully entered student, Jew or Gentile, their disapproval and condemnation of T N E, their organization into Fraternity Secretaries, and decision to hold a similar meeting next year.

When the printed minutes of the conference are distributed, the report of the committee on the Stanford situation may be had in full. It was read in the absence of the committee.

Attention is also called to Mr. Musgrave's (Alpha Sigma Phi) report on fraternity jewelry, which should be gone over carefully in the printed minutes.

At this point the conference took thirty minutes for a hurried luncheon.

In the afternoon session the matter of business management of fraternities was helpfully discussed by Mr. Paul Warner (Chi Psi), while Dean Clark spoke on Organization of Student Activities, and Dr. John J. Luck, University of Virginia, on Student Self-Government. Then educators from Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Wisconsin, Michigan, and a number of other institutions gave interesting sidelights on the fraternity situation at their respective institutions by indulging in a brief discussion of the following questions which had been propounded to them by the conference.

(I) What is being done in your institution to improve the scholarship of the fraternity groups?

(2) What is being done in your institution to improve the business administration of the fraternity groups?

(3) What should be the composition and functio n of a local interfraternity council?

(4) In what way can this national Interfra ternity Conference be cf service to your institution?

(5) What suggestions have you for increasi ng the serviceability of the fraternity as a college adjunct, and what practical methods do you

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suggest for maintaining contact between college and fraternity (either as a national or local group) for their' mutual welfare?

Numerous interesting ideas were being developed when the conference was called to a close on account of darkness, and those who had listened to the deliberations of the body realized that a great day's work for fraternities had been done.

T N E received the strongest and most unqualified condemnation at the hands of the conference, after Dean Clark had read his report on that fraternity. He stated that most of the group of younger fraternities have no regulations against T N E but that most of the older ones had. How glad we were that our fraternity has gone on record as condemning this organization, and disapproving any of our members joining it.

Many other interesting and important topics of the conference could be reported here but for the lack of space. It is urged upon the chapters, however, that they familiarize themselves with the printed minutes,• which will contain the full report of all committees, and some of the addresses by the educators. It should be preserved in the library of each chapter, and oft referred to for the valuable information and suggestions it will contain. Reading it is the only way in which the average active fraternity man may attend the conference.

Realizing the potential benefits to be derived from rubbing elbows with the other fraternity editors, the writer requested that our recently appointed editor-in-chief be sent to New York as a delegate to the conference, and especially in order that he might attend the editors' dinner, and he will probably have to tell of that function in his impressions elsewhere in this issue.

EDITORS' DINNER AT SALMAGUNDI CLUB By the EDITOR In its quaint setting at the Salmagundi club, an artist club on the edge of Greenwich village, the editors' dinner on the evening of the conference day was one of the most enjoyable and instructive gatherings the editor has had the pleasure of attending in many a day.

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With the tables set around a hollow square, the diners could look into the faces of each other, thereby making the occasion one of intimate fraternalism. While wit and fun flowed strongly with an undertow of serious thought—expression surging throughout, masterpieces of New York's artists looked down from all sides of the walls.

Many phases of the editorial game of fraternity magazines were discussed by men fully competent to speak of their activities. The editor of THE STAR AND LAMP sat back and listened with both ears and it is needless to say that many ideas were gleaned which some day will be put in force in the publication of our journal.

Mr. Rogers (Delta Tau Delta), editor The Rainbow, acted as toastmaster and his intimate introductions of the speakers added much to the enjoyment of the meeting.

Mr. Almy (S E), elected chairman of the Inter-Fraternity Conference for the corning year, made a strong plea for inter-fraternalism among the undergraduate chapters. This feeling can be brought about by the employment of traveling secretaries and through the Greek press. He asked that cooperation from the editors be given the executive committee of the Inter-Fraternity Conference working for that spirit of "one-ness" among Greek letter men.

Mr. Congdon (Delta Upsilon), editor of The Quarterly, and retiring secretary of the Inter-Fraternity Conference executive committee, was introduced as the man who had accomplished the remarkable feat of securing forty per cent of Delta U's living membership as subscribers to the magazine.

Mr. Piper (Sigma Nu) told of the success of the song contest conducted by the editors of The Delta. He declared that much interest was manifested in the contest with many manuscripts submitted. The best ones were selected and printed in popular sheet music size and sold to the chapters .

Mr. Banta (Phi Delta Theta), publisher of Banta's Greek Exchange, spoke of the difficulty of the labor and printing market. He said that the sun is trying to break through the dark cloud of high priced printing, which prophecy was hailed with delight by the different editors.

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Dr. Shepardson (Beta Theta Pi) urged that the American college man be made to see that he is soon to accept the burden of the world's affairs and that he should not be referred to as "in school" but in preparation for the vast responsibilities of the coming day.

Levere (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) told of the method of collecting life subscriptions in his fraternity. He declared that at the last convention the requirement was made that the full price of $10 be paid in one lump sum at the time of initiation.

Following the completion of the set toast list there was a "round-table" discussion when many varied questions were fired back and forth from one side to the other.

The editors gathered there seemed anxious to start the "ball to rolling" for that elusive intangible "inter-fraternalism," for the men talked and chatted friendly and appeared to be edging closer up to each other in a way that portended good for the Greek letter system.

OUR ASSOCIATES

By W. S. BOLT (NoTE—The author of this article is indebted for statistics from the Baird Manual and the Caduceus of Kappa Sigma for the major portion of material used. This number will deal with men's academic fraternities only. We hope to submit an article for the next issue which will deal with women's fraternities.)

Pi Kappa Phi now thrives in flourishing condition at fourteen universities and colleges. In each of these institutions, save one, we come in close touch with one or more representative chapters of other national Greek letter fraternities.

The statistics compiled evidence one point which all of our Pi Kappa Phi brethren will be interested in noting—the organizations which we most often meet, and those which we most seldom meet. In those instances where the number of chapters of one organization with which we come in contact is equal to the number of another, alphabetical arrangement of names has decided precedence in numerical order. The table below gives

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the numerical order, and at the right hand column is designated the number of chapters of the fraternity with which we come in contact.

1. Kappa Alpha (S) 2. Alpha Tau Omega 3. Kappa Sigma 4. Sigma Nu 5. Sigma Alpha Epsilon....

6. Phi Delta Theta 7. Sigma Chi 8. Pi Kappa Alpha 9. Sigma Phi Epsilon 10. Beta Theta Pi 11. Delta Tau Delta 12. Phi Gamma Delta 13. Phi Kappa Sigma 14. Phi Kappa Psi 15. Chi Phi 16. Delta Kappa Epsilon 17. Delta Sigma Phi 18. Lambda Chi Alpha

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28 29 30.

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Acacia Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Sigma Phi Delta Upsilon Delta Chi Zeta Psi Phi Epsilon Pi Chi Psi Alpha Delta Phi Alpha Chi Rho Theta Delta Chi Theta Xi Theta Chi Sigma Pi Sigma Phi Sigma Tau Kappa Epsilon Phi Sigma Kappa Psi Upsilon

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2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Thus it will be seen that our fourteen chapters are associated with one hundred and thirty-eight chapters, apportioned to thirty-six national fraternities.

One chapter only, in Pi Kappa Phi, is a lone-star national organization in its institution. That is Xi, at Roanoke College.

It has been conjectured by some of the fraternity world that Pi Kappa Phi will in time follow the precedent established by seven other nationals at Roanoke-namely, a withdrawal. If we are to judge by the spirit of the Xi men whom we have met, and the activity and interest manifested by the chapter, there never was a thought more wildly conjectured.

Our remaining thirteen chapters concur with other national chapters in their institutions as itemized in the table which follows.

Alpha-Kappa Alpha (S), and Alpha Tau Omega.

Gamma-Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi

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Kappa Psi, Chi Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Acacia, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Upsilon, Delta Chi, Zeta Psi, Chi Psi, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Chi, Sigma Phi Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Sigma Kappa, Psi Upsilon.

Zeta—Kappa Alpha (S), Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Phi. Eta—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Delta Tau Delta, Chi Phi. Iota—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Chi Phi, Phi Epsilon Pi. Kappa—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Psi. Lambda—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Elisilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Chi Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Epsilon Pi, Chi Psi. Mu—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Nu—Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa

Psi, Acacia, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Upsilon, Delta Chi. Omicron—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha.

Pi—Kappa Alpha (S).

Rho—Kappa Alpha (S), Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Chi Rho.

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Tan—Kappa Alpha (S), Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Alpha Gamma Rho. It is the intention of the author of this article to closely observe the announcements of installations of new chapters by all nationals, both men's and women's, and next year we hope to ,give you a more concise and intelligent form of survey of the entire collection of statistics. It will be a great favor to me if the chapters will review their lists in the table above and report to me if I have erred in compilation.

As we grow and chapters are added to our roll the order of preference will be changing. At present Kappa Alpha (S) leads in the numbers of chapters coinciding with Pi Kappa Phi, while there are ten at the bottom of the ladder.

Gamma leads in the number of nationals met, with thirtythree. Nu follows, with sixteen. Others follow in this order: Rho, fifteen; Iota, twelve; Lambda, twelve; Omicron, eleven; Kappa, ten; Eta, seven; Tau, seven; Mu,six; Zeta, five; Alpha, two Pi, one; Xi, none.

SUCCESS AND HOW TO KEEP IT

By HENRY G. HARPER, JR. Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon When Brothers Fogarty, Kroeg and Mixson joined with them a small group of men at the College of Charleston, back in 1904, and called themselves The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, little idea they had that in 1921 this same fraternity would have taken on the proportions that it has.

Such a growth, not phenominal by any means, but conservative and exacting, was not conceived.

Today we have a great fraternity as the result of the hard work on the part of all our men. Had it not been for cooperation, we would have remained with one chapter, as we originally were.

What has been done is only a start for us, if we continue to stick together and work for the best interests of Pi Kappa Phi.

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One great trouble with fraternity men of the present age i3 that they think of a fraternity only as a college institution, and forget it when they leave. We, as Pi Kappa Phis, must take a broader view of our fraternity and think of it as our fraternity always, even after we leave college, and do all we can to further its interests.

Building a fraternity is no one man job. Brother Roy J. IIeffner, our most efficient Eminent Supreme Archon, cannot successfully administer the affairs of Pi Kappa Phi alone. He cannot even do so with his corps of officers. It takes the support of all the alumni, and every chapter.

We have long since passed over the critical stage in our career. We do not have an up-hill climb any longer, but we do not want to remain at a standstill.

The entire fraternity system is being worked over. New ideas are being incorporated, and every time a member has a suggestion that he thinks is worth while, he should make it.

We need the undivided support of the whole fraternity. In this way our fraternity will be worth while and all of us will be proud of what we did to help it along.

I believe every member will agree that we have been "ileeping on the job," but I know that all are anxious to see our fraternity at its highest mark.

To accomplish the best results we must co-operate with each other. When you get a request from some officer, chapter, or member, do not lay it aside, but take a few minutes off and give the desired information. There was a reason behind the asking and we should try to do everything possible toward helping the other fellow.

THE STAR AND LAMP is now on a sound basis. However, to remain so, we must co-operate to the fullest extent. Give the editor all the news you can, either concerning yourself or some other members. Then the magazine will be useful and interesting.

Let's get together. Make up your mind that we are going to be a wide-awake, progressive organization, and nothing can stop us in our efforts.

Is everybody ready to do their part!

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THE DIAMOND FLASH To show what Pi Kappa Phi stands for in the various colleges and universities where the fraternity exists the following tables were compiled. The record of fourteen chapters with the first table showing the number of prominent leaders in athletics, and student-government, is to our mind striking.

Of necessity the compilation is incomplete, but the editor is hoping that the chapters will continue to send in the honors attained by their members. However, send only those of more than local importance.

STANDINGS: 3 Football captains.

5 Football managers.

24 Varsity football players.

2 Baseball captains.

2 Baseball managers.

10 Varsity baseball players.

1 Basketball captain.

2 Basketball managers.

ATHLETICS 6 Varsity basketball players.

13 Members Varsity track team.

3 Members Varsity gym teams.

1 Gym team manager.

1 Member Varsity soccer team.

1 Member Varsity swimming team.

CLASS OFFICERS 3 Presidents of senior clasS. 2 Presidents of junior clasS. 2 Presidents of sophomore class.

2 Presidents of freshman class.

1 President of senior law class.

1 President of sophomore medical class.

11 Other class officers.

ATHLETICS Alpha—(College of Charleston) G. A. Byrd, Jr., manager, football; C. L. Guton, secretary, athletic association; G. A. Martin, president, athletic association.

Gamma—(California)"Dud" Millington, varsity soccer.

Zeta—(Wofford) J. D. Parler and W. L. Rivers, varsity football; H. E. Dillingham and Ed Nash, varsity basket-b all; Jet Smith and J. D. Parler, varsity baseball; W. P. Hood, manager, baseball; P. F. Carroll, manager, gym team.

Eta—(Emory) J. L. Pittman, Jr., captain. football; G. L. Cumbee, varsity, football; Clyde Smith, manager, football; C. A. Jackson, Jr., assistant manager, football; C. A. Jackson ,

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Jr., Clyde Smith, G. L. Cumbee and J. L. Pittman, Jr., varsity, track; R. K. Smathers, director of athletics. lota—(Georgia Tech) E. R. Atchison, H. A. Butler, C. S. Carter, D. D. Fouche, track: G. C. Griffin, track, coach, freshMan football team; A. W. Harris, track; E. B. Heyward, track, swimming, basketball; C. A. McRee. football: H. E. Teasley, R. C. Watkins, track.

Kappa—(North Carolina) B. C. Harrell, captain, football, chosen captain all-state team; W. G. Pritchard, H. A. Hanby, football, mentioned for all-state team; H. E. Fulton, T. C. Smith, P. G. Edwards, football; F. C. Shepard, captain, basketball: H. A. Hanby, T. P. Graham. J. N. Brand, basket-ball, T. C. Smith, track, C. P. .Spruill, T. P. Gohlson, gym team: J. A. McLean, baseball: Donald Van Noppen, manager, football; J. A. McLean, assistant manager, football; R. F. Anderson, sub-assistant manager, football; A. L. Daughtride, assistant manager, basket-ball; T. P. Graham, assistant manager, basketball.

Lantbda—(Georgia) E. Way Highsmith, football. ifit—(Trinity) R. C. Leach, football; K. M. Brim, manager, basket-ball: H. D.. Ormond, baseball: B. S. Borland, Jr., track, captain junior track.

Nu—(Nebraska) Clarence Cypreanson, football: Wesley Jungemeyer and John Collins, basket-ball.

Xi—(Roanoke) E. G. Gould, baseball, secretary and treasurer general athletic association; L. D. Chapman, captain baseball, 1921, basket-ball; W. C. Chapman, president, general athletic association; W. B. Corbin, baseball, football; G. F. Garis, only man in school who has qualified for letter in three major sports. football, baseball, basket-ball; George Caldwell, football; Bradberry, Charles Martin, football.

Omicron—(Alabama) Ralph E. Jones, captain, football; Luke Sewell, football: Walter E. Hovater, football, chosen allsouthern quarter: J. Marvin Kelley, manager, baseball.

Pi—(Oglethorpe) B. F. Simpson, E. G. David, Ray Carlyle, John Varnadoe. football: Ford Little, assistant manager, football; Ford Little. Edgar David, Ray Carlyle, Frank Simpson, Jake Morris, Clifford Sims. Jule Price, baseball.

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Rho—(Washington and Lee) John NV. \\Talker, baseball.

Tan—(North Carolina State) G. K. Murray, captain, baseball, signed up with Yankees; football, vice-president athletic association; R. M. Deal, manager football, varsity baseball; R. E. Williams, varsity, basket-ball; H. D. Long, manager, basket-ball; P. V. Hooper, varsity, track; H. E. Norwood, varsity baseball, assistant manager football.

STUDENT GOVERN NW NT Alpha—G. A. Byrd, Jr., president, Senior Class; C. L. Guyon, president, Junior Class; J. F. Bush, Jr., president, Sophomore Class.

Zeta-1). F. Harper, president, inter-fraternity council; NV. P. Hood, vice-president, student-governing council.

Eta—Clyde Smith, student council, vice-president Junior Class; Jack Rogers, president, Sophomore Medical Class.

Iota--G. C. Griffin, president, inter-fraternity council.

Xi—W. B. Corbin, president of Junior Class; R. L. Davis, president, Freshman Class.

Omicron—Walter E. Hovater, president, student council; James R. Price, president, Senior Law Class; E. Burns Parker, secretary, Senior Law Class.

Pi—Frank Sims, president, Senior Class; Jack Cain, secretary-treasurer, Senior Class; Lester McClung, prophet: Senior Class; Carl Pirkle, historian, Senior Class; Clifford Sims; historian, Junior Class; Ford Little, president, Sophomore Class. Lennox Morgan, treasurer, Sophomore Class; Edgar David, president, Freshman Class; J. L. Morris, historian, Freshman Class.

Rho—William A. Peavy, vice-president. Freshman Class.

DEBATING Eta—Clyde Smith, mid-term debater.

Lambda—E. Way Highsmith, inter-collegiate debater.

Pi—Frank Sims, president of debating club.

Zeta—P. F. Carroll, president of debating society; W. P. Hood, president, debating society.

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Alpha—J. H. McLeod, president.

Kappa—Donald Van Noppen, president; W. F. Falls, treasurer, G. V. Denny, T. P. Gohlson, C. P. Spruill, Jr., H. E. Fulton, F. C. Shepard, and A. L. Daughtride, cabinet.

Lambda—E. Way Highsmith, president.

Xi—I. D. Chapman, student representative.

Omicron—George A. Cornish, vice-president; J. Marvin Kelly, chairman, student self-help committee.

COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Alpha—G. A. Byrd, Jr., editor-in-chief magazine, editor-inchief annual; C. L. Guyton, magazine and annual; G. E. Scheetz, magazine staff; L. R. Bell, business manager, magazine.

Zeta—W. P. Hood, editor-in-chief, annual; P. F. Carroll, editor Y. M. C. A. handbook, literary ctlitor journal.

Eta—Sid Stevens, assistant business manager, Emory Wheel.

Iota—E. R. Atchison, C. F. Reed, H. B. Grant, H. E. Teasley, R. C. Watkins, reporters, Technique; J. E. Patton, exchange editor, Technique; E. R. Atchison, H. E. Teasley and R. C. Watkins, Blue Print.

Lambda—R. E. McCaskill, assistant business manager, Georgia Cracker.

Nu—Orvin B. Gaston, news editor, Daily Nebraskan; Harry E. Stevens, circulation manager, Awgwan; Robert McCandless, circulation manager, Blue Print.

Xi—W. B. Corbin, athletic editor, annual.

Omicron—George Cornish, associate editor, Corolla; Hobart C. Fulton, athletic editor, Crimson-White; Lowell J. Black, feature editor, Crimson-White.

Pi—Frank Sims, editor-in-chief, The Petrel; L. E. Morgan and F. D. Little, staff, The Petrel; Frank Sims, editor-in-chief, The Yamacraw.

MUSICAL CLUBS Eta—C. A. Jackson, Jr., and E. H. Rape.

Iota—C. F. Kholrus, captain, Tech band.

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Mu—R. W. Simpson.

Nu—Harry E. Stevens, Neil McDowell, Wilbur Johnson and Lloyd D. Elliott, band.

Xi--S. R. Painter, N. A. Woodson, E. E. Dobbins.

Omicron—Lowell J. Black Pi—McClung, Watkins, Morgan, Little, Cain and Sims, band.

Rho—William A. Peavy, William Hellier and George L. Hill, band.

SCHOLARSHIP Kappa—C. P. Spruill and F. C. Shepard, Phi Beta Kappa.

Omicron—Ralph E. Jones, Phi Beta Kappa.

Rho—Shirley James Robbins, Phi Beta Kappa.

DRAMATICS Kappa—G. V. Denny.

Nu—Cyril Coombs, Clayton Wood, Stoddard M. Robinson, University players; Clayton Wood, business manager, University players.

Omicron—George Cornish.

MILITARY SOCIETIES Iota—D. D. Rice, G. W. Shoemaker, Scabbard and Blade.

Lambda—E. Way Highsmith, Scabbard and Blade.

R.0. T. C. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Eta—Sid Stevens, captain; Clyde Smith, J. H. Meacham, first lieutenants; E. M. Bond, second lieutenant.

Iota—G. W. Shoemaker, major; D. D. Rice, captain; H. V. Murdaugh, first lieutenant.

FACULTY Alpha—G. A. Byrd, Jr., instructor, English; J. H. Easterby.

Iota—J. Lawton Ellis, head electrical experimental department.

Kappa—D. D. Carroll, dean, School of Commerce Lambda—E. Way Highsmith, instructor; Dr. C. A. Butler, college physician.

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Xi—Dr. A. P. Wagner, Latin; R. R. Rush, preparatory department.

Omicron—B. E. Jones, Law College.

Rho—S. J. Robbins, instructor, Spanish.

SCHOLARSHIP STANDING Gamma—Fifth among thirty-eight fraternities.

Eta—Second arming nine fraternities.

Iota—Second among thirteen fraternities.

Kappa—First among fourteen fraternities for past two years.

Lambda—Second among thirteen fraternities.

Me—Third among seven fraternities.

Nu—Third among seventeen fraternities.

THE CRIME IS LOW AIM

By JOHN E. HARRIS, Eminent Supreme Historian The truth of Lowell's famous dictum, "not failure, but low aim is crime," remains as potential in its application to our day and generation as it did to that of our American poet. It will undoubtedly live through the ages as a brilliant inspiration to men in all walks and conditions of life, stimulating them to a higher appreciation of the importance of duty towards every interest at hand, and the danger of self-satisfaction and contentment with the mediocre.

Our beloved fraternity, while still in somewhat of the plastic stage, is destined to become, in its final state of maturity, just what each of us wishes to make of it. From the moment of our admittance into the sacred circle to the day when we emerge from active association and work in the individual chapters into the ranks of alumni, the silent influences of our nature and personality are operating and reacting upon the fraternity, and an unconscious impression is being made which, if worthy, will remain "a joy forever." but which, if unworthy, can never be effaced. How important it is that, during this scholastic year, each of us should set a watch over himself to set that only worthy influences radiate from his life and conduct to go into the final personal impression he is making upon the Pi

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Kappa Phi Fraternity, we are all looking forward to knowing and being a part of.

This will never be accomplished through indolence, slothfulness or indifference, or willingness to have some other brother perform our duties to the fraternity. Only a firm consciousness of personal responsibility, and the determination to make our association and part in the fraternity count for something, will make the proper and worthy imprint that our fraternity life

will leave behind forever. Then, only, will it be said of us, the fraternity is better off for that brother having been a member.

In this, our first communication to the fraternity in general, we wish .to extend warm greetings and well wishes to every chapter, member and alumni for a successful and happy year.

We have been reading with interest of the progress and activities of each of the chapters, and have noted with keen pleasure, a renewed interest and an increasing pride in our national organization. This is, in all things, a happy sign, which augurs well for the accomplishment of many big things for Pi Kappa Phi before our next convention.

This gives us an opportunity, at this point, to sound again our Eminent Supreme Archon's exhortation to all the chapters to have a full and capable representation at our next convention which is to be held iri Berkeley, Cal., during the Christmas holidays of 1921. We should.have so many going to this convention from all parts of the country that the railroads could offer special rates, and would have to attach extra cars to all through trains. Brothers, let's make it that way. We must show our Western chapters that we are as willing to go to them on the Pacific coast as they have been heretofore to come to us on the Atlantic coast. We must show our willingness to make •a "fifty-fifty" proposition of this matter. Big things are to be accomplished next time, just as have been accomplished before.

There are going to be representatives and delegates from several new chapters there whom we should all get acquainted with, and among these new chapters, in all probability, there will be two or three new Western chapters.

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acceptance into our ranks through Nu Chapter of Brother Thurlow Lieurance. He is a new brother in whom we can all feel the greatest pride, and feel exceedingly honored by having associated with us, for he takes undisputed rank today as being one of the most eminent composers and musicians in the field of American music, for his works not only are known from coast to coast in this country, but in Eroupe, as well, they have been widely acclaimed by critics.

COACH "TRACK" SMATHERS RETURNS TO EMORY AS DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS September 29th, announcement was made that Captain Ray Kenneth Smathers of Asheville, N. C., would be returned to Emory University as director of athletics. Captain Smathers had remarkable success as head coach of Emory last year, and the association has been trying to get him back for some time. When he left Atlanta last spring, he was undecided whether or not he would continue in athletic work. The good news of his return was received with great interest by the students and alumni.

Captain Smathers is a graduate of Trinity College. As a student he showed great ability in athletics, having been a member of the varsity track team for four years, and captain and coach during his senior year. While in the army he was director of battalion athletics and showed remarkable ability in organization work. His work at Emory last year was in many ways a big success.

Captain Smathers, better known in athletics as "Track" Smathers, is the present holder of the Southern mile record.

During the summer of 1918 he won the half-mile against Harvard, Yale, and Cornell stars in the big army track meet at Plattsburg, N. Y., in which there were twenty-four colleges represented. It is believed that he would have gone to the Olympic games this year had he not received a severe injury in an auto wreck last summer.

Not a little might be added by the students and faculty of the university to what has been said about Coach Smathers. At

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the "feed" given last year by the members of the track team after the end of the season, various members of the squad and visiting representatives of the faculty commented on the results of the season's work, and they were without exception in agreeing that the university could not have done without "Coach," not only because of his ability to train athletes scientifi cally using the most energetic and efficient methods of working, but also because of his having entered fully and completely into the highest type of school spirit, and on top of that, being a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. More than any other man, Coach Smathers, we feel, has striven for the advancement of the university.

A TALK ABOUT THE ALUMNI

By LAMAR MURDAUGH During the past few years the work of Pi Kappa Phi and her steady progress in the matter of extension has been gratifying. It has been to some extent more than we expecte d, and has certainly been a matter of satisfaction to all of us. Seven new active chapters have been installed since the writer was a freshman at the University of Georgia in 1914, and this is about the same thing as saying that our assets have doubled. We are growing and our growth is the sort to be desired. It is not the rapid expansion which some of our more enthusiastic brothers would have. Neither is it the slow and ponderous advance which characterizes some organizations. We are developing methodically and surely, along the lines laid out by conservative and sound thinking men who were at the head of Pi Kappa Phi for years, and who continue to take keen Interest in every matter which concerns the welfare of the organization.

For this we should feel proud, and it should inspire every _member to make some individual effort to further aid this line of progress, and try to find wherein we may better ourselves still more.

I wonder if we can in some way figure out a plan by which we can, by individual co-operation aid the.development of our

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organization. Let us make an effort, in, the beginning, to analyze the component parts of the fraternity—what it is composed of, and how the different parts work. An organization consisting of several units, such as a college fraternity, must needs work together smoothly, the same as a number of pieces of machinery, and a weak unit will tend to affect the whole organization, the same as a defective piece of machinery will probably tend to suspend operation of the whole. Just the same as any other organization, a college fraternity consists of a number of individual units or parts, and the principal of these are the active chapters in the colleges. These chapters are the life-blood of the fraternity, and the men who compose them must carry the banner of Pi Kappa Phi, in the classroom, on the athletic field, on the campus, and in all college activities.

Needless to say that the other members are well satisfied that these men are performing their tasks up to standard. At the head of Pi Kappa Phi is a well organized and well equipped Grand Chapter, and it is unnecessary to go into details of how splendidly this unit performs its duties. The men who compose this Chapter are at the head of the fraternity. ,They are ever on the lookout for service, and eternally on the job. Our hats are off to them.

So far, so good, and if we could stop there, we might say that our organization, so far as theory is concerned, could not be improved on. But we have still another unit, another link in the chain, which must be carefully considered. It is the unit that is hardest to get to, and this is probably the reason why no really efficient plan has as yet been effected for making most of this part of the fraternity. We must consider the alumni, and the possibilities that rest in them. Sooner or later after a man leaves college, he loses interest to a large extent, in his Alma Mater, in his college affairs, and in his college fraternity.

I do not mean to say that he forgets such things entirely. He does not. But it is only a matter of time before college affairs are compelled to retire in favor of business or profession. We may well consider these men a great unorganized reserve army.

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organizing the alumni to any appreciable extent. If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the alumni, we are compelled to admit, must be our weak link. Unlike the ordinary chain, however, we cannot remove the weak link, but must find some way in which to strengthen it. Efforts to keep in touch with the alumni are being constantly made, principally by the Alumni Editor of THE STAR AND LAMP, and by the correspondents of the chapters. Sometimes these efforts meet with success, and sometimes they don't. At any rate, when we analyze the results, we must admit that there is something lacking.

This then, is the problem that I want to place before the readers of THE STAR AND LAMP—more especially the alumni.

The write! is one himself, and I feel my duty to do something worth while for our organization. Let's get together and see if we can solve the problem. How can we organize the alumni, and revive the interest of those whom we have lost sight of?

What we need is ideas from everybody. I want to suggest that every man who reads this, whether he be an alumnus or a member of an active chapter, sit down and write a letter to the Editor of THE STAR AND LAMP. Tell him something of what you are doitig, and what you think you can do to aid in the progress of the organization. Let's start a sort of alumni campaign, and exchange ideas on the subject. It certainly can do no harm, and it may bring a lot of good results. I am going to ask the Editor to give us in the next issue a special article on alumni activities, and how they can be stimulated. He is going to depend on you to furnish him with the material for it.

So now send him your contribution before you postpone and forget it. Do it now, and help start the ball rolling.

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PI KAPP, WHAT OF THE FUTURE? By

PAUL PREA'S

"What will be the future of our Fraternity?" This question should be of interest to every Pi Kappa Phi. Of course, we all have visualized several scenes that would become an artist's canvas, but what have we really done toward preparing for that future Pi Kappa Phi? Merely sitting and "gassing," or have we gotten the significance and have gone to work preparing for that coming day?

As the editor has suggested, let's place ourselves behind the plow and push. And to do this we as individual members must exert ourselves more and more for our fraternity in all forms of student life. One form that has been neglected is the importance of good work as students and less stress on the laureled brows of the athlete, the lady-killer and the dancing demon. To specialize on these is a waste of time, and gives the men out in the world a bad opinion of us. So let's make a mark, too, showing our alumni that there is something more than social polish to a college life.

A fraternity is composed of several individuals and its work is judged by the work of each and every individual. So you can see that each member should be willing to do his part. It won't be hard, fellows, to raise or lower the standards upon which Pi Kappa Phi is based and it is up to us to raise them.

In order to do this we first must know the value of brotherhood and have interests for a bigger and better Pi Kappa Phi. Co-operation should be the keynote of the future Pi Kappa Phi. Co-operation in all matters of fraternal interests, that may be brought up in interest of our fraternity at home and abroad.

To THE STAR AND LAMP, the mouth-piece of our fraternity, we owe our first obligation. Each member and every chapter should take upon themselves this duty—to send in enough written material to fairly swamp the editor. Co-operation in this matter will further and greatly enhance the spirit of brotherly love in each and every chapter.

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To our own chapter we owe the best we have in us and we should do all we can for it. We should work hard for the local chapter, of which We are a part, and thus lend dignity to the national body.

The field of Pi Kappa Phi is limitless, for the fraternity is now in seven States- and has fourteen chapters. Last, but not least, we have today to prepare for tomorrow; so let's be up and pushing, pushing, always striving, doing something better today than we did yesterday for the bigger and better Pi Kappa Phi.

BIBLE DISCUSSION GROUPS AT GEORGIA TECH

By D. D. FOUCHE There has been organized at the Georgia School of Technology Bible discussion groups among the students at the fraternity houses, in the dormitories, and in the boarding houses. One or two representatives from each fraternity house, dormitory section, and boarding house compose the normal group which meets at the Tech. Y. M. C. A. each Tuesday night. There they are led by Dr. Marion H. Hull, one of the leading physicians and Bible scholars in Atlanta, and Mr. Secrest, the Tech. Y. M. C. A. secretary.

The representatives composing the normal class are the leaders of the respective grousp. Each class elects a secretary whose duties are to turn in at the "Y" office a complete list of all the men in the class not later than 4 o'clock the Friday afternoon following the meeting. The secretary also keeps the minutes and the records of the attendance each week, handing in the names of the absentees and report by 4 o'clock each Friday.

The class that has the best attendance record in each of the groups will be given free of charge a banquet in one of the Atlanta hotels next spring. Standing of the classes according to attendance is posted on the "Y" bulletin board each week.

Last year eleven classes had a perfect record (100%) throughout the year.

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The groups will study the book of Matthew until Christmas.

Every student is urged to read this book through as soon as possible. The Tech "Y" furnishes each student with a copy of the New Testament.

AWARDED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS

By JoHN G. THACKF,R The War Department has awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously to Lieut. John Cannon Paisley, who made the supreme sacrifice for his country while fighting the Germans in France, according to a letter received several days ago by his father J. W. Paisley of GibSonville, N. C., from P. C. Harris, adjutant-general of the United States Army.

Lieutenant Paisley, the first officer from his county to give his life for his country in the recent war with Germany, was a graduate of Davidson College, North Carolina, Class of 1917, and a member of Epsilon Chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity of that institution. He entered the second officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., from which he was commissioned first lieutenant in the fall of 1917. From the training camp he was assigned to the seventh infantry at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. That the same qualitieS that endeared him to all who knew him in college, and there were few among the students and townspeople who did not, were carried with him into the army is shown by the following letter from Major Langwell, his commanding officer, to the father of the deceased hero.

"Your son was an excellent soldier, a beloved comrade, and a born leader. In his first and only battle he led his men like a veteran, was skillful, brave and successful. He gave his life in the performance of his duty and I shall always feel that his spirit is still with the regiment to encourage the rest of us to 'carry on.' My hope now is to do my duty as well, and go to the end as bravely as your son."

The citation reads as follows: "John Cannon Paisley, first lieutenant. seventh infantry, third division. For extraordinary heroism in action in the Belleau

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BRO. JOHN C. PAISLEY Who Gave His Life in France for His Country. He Fell in the Midst of a Courageous Engagement, June 21, 1918

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woods, France, June 21, 1918. While leading his platoon against a machine nest, Lieutenant Paisley encountered several enemy spies, who attempted to give him orders and confuse his men. He killed the officer in charge of several of the men, and then continued in the attack. Later in the day he was hit by a 37 millimeter shell and instantly killed."

The Distinguished Service Cross is awarded for extraordinary heroism in action against an enemy and is second to the Congressional Medal, which is the highest award the government bestows upon its soldiers.

OMICRON'S HOUSE PLAN

By GEORGE M. GRANT For several years we have been seeking for a plan which would provide the best practicable and most economical way to construct a chapter -house. We recently decided to issue certificates known as the "Pi Kappa Phi Building Benefit Association Certificates."

What is a "Pi Kappa Phi Building Benefit Association Certificate?"

It is a death benefit certificate payable instantly at your death to the beneficiary named by you in the certificate or on any fixed date each year Pi Kappa Phi names, when your certificate number with all others will be placed in a box and drawn out until the sinking fund for the year (set aside for this purpose, estimated at about $1,000 each year) has been reached.

Each name drawn out shall receive at once the full amount of his certificate. This will be repeated each year until every member shall receive all that he has paid in.

If you should die and have not completed payment of the certificate, the exact amount that you have paid in will be refunded instantly to your beneficiary. In any case you will get back all that is paid in.

Another feature of the certificate is that it is transferable.

If you should need the money before your certificate is redeemed, there is always someone who will take it over either for cash or in trade.

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The 'Ti Kappa Phi Building Benefit Association" of Omicron Chapter will be glad to receive inquiries from anyone interested in the matter and will send the plan "How to Obtain Certificate" on request.

No Pi Kappa Phi can put his money in a safer investm ent and at the same time help his fraternity. The plan is safe and with it we are going to build a chapter house worthy of the fraternity. May it be a monument to the teachings of Pi Kappa Phi. In appreciation of those Pi Kappa Phi's who subscribe to one or more of these certificates their names will be enrolled upon the "Honor Roll" made of phosphorus bronze or hammered brass which will be placed in the main hall of the new house.

The "Honor Roll" will bear the following inscription, "In honor of the members of Pi Kappa Phi who made this home possible."

PAGE, THE HONORABLE CHARLES S. REED

By KENNETH MCCANDLESS' Nu Chapter feels. honored in being able to announce that Bro. Charles S. Reed was elected to the State legislature at the recent election. He is the youngest member of the Nebraska House of Representatives, being twenty-four years of age. Brother Reed's campaign was even more thoroughly of the "front porch" variety than the one conducted by President-elect Harding and just as successful. His chief opponent was a democrat up for re-election, while a non-partisan leaguer added zest to the race.

Brother Reed left the heavy campaigning to his many friends out in the district Bro. Charles S. Reed, Nu while he continued his studies at the law Member Nebraska House school. His election was decisive. In of Representatives Logan, his home county, he was a three to one favorite, while the district gave him a plurality of two

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to •one. He represents the seventy-first district, which comprises Logan, McPherson, Arthur, Grant, Hooker, Thomas, Blaine and Loup counties.

The boys at Nu are all naturally proud of "Charley's" record and take great delight in paging him when the postman brings a hefty bunch of mail addressed to "The Honorable Charles S. Reed."

Brother Reed served two years in the army—one year as an enlisted man. He was overseas nine months. At the present time he is acting as grapter for Nu Chapter and represents it on the inter-fraternity council. He is one of the leaders in law college activities; is vice-president of the senior class; played center on the football team which won the inter-collegiate championship, and acted as toastmaster for the annual banquet of Phi Delta Phi, national legal fraternity.

ZETAS ATE A lovely affair of Thanksgiving week and of particular interest in college circles was the pretty party given by the Alumni and Zeta Chapter Pi Kappa Phi fraternity of Wofford College at the residence of Mrs. Charles Moss, the invited guests being a number of Converse girls.

Yellow and gold, the fraternity colors, predominated, white carnations being used in profusion throughout the lower floor, and streamers of yellow crepe paper hung from the chandeliers to the picture molding. Vases of crimson roses gave rich color to the decorations, this fragrant flower being the chosen flower of the fraternity.

• Throughout the evening Cantrell's Orchestra furnished music.

Ices and cake were further carried out in the yellow and gold colors and the evening was most happy.

The guests present were: Misses Jessie Muckenfuss, Cicyle Metze, Geraldine Hatcher, Marguerite Howard, Rosa Gray, Louise Blizzard, Elsie Lumsden, Elizabeth Jackson, Elenor Herndon, Miriam McBrayer, Aletha Fennel, Margaret Fennel,

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Guy Skipper, Victoria Earle, Anna Law, Margaret Sweeney, Nancy Mathewes, Isabella Hardin, Elizabeth Green.

Numbers of the Alumni and Zeta Chapter present were: Messrs. Paul Thomas, Charles Harris, A. J. Dillard, Jr., R. H. Moore, V. C. Earle, Bobo Burnett, Jack Berry, John D. Hamer, Howard Carlisle, George Simmons, Charlie A. Moss, Jr., E. K. Leonard, George McGhee, D. L. Harper, Paul Carroll, J. Smith, W. P. Hood, J. D. Parker, W. L. Rivers, Julian Hodge, Paul Black, Ed Nash, Hayward Dillingham. Guests: William Gentry, William H. Hoole, Tom Brice, Paul Hardin Steed, W. H. Hope, M. L. Banks. Chaperones: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Moss, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clinkscales, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clinkscales, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Burnett and Miss Hudson.

ETAS EAT • Georgia Eta, the Emory University Chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, gave its annual Thanksgiving Day banquet Thursday evening at Hotel Ansley. The decorations were in gold and white, the fraternity colors, and the tables, which were arranged to present a fraternity smybol, were covered with red roses, the fraternity flower. During dinner and afterward many speeches were made on fraternity and kindred subjects with Eugene Sanders of Valdosta as toastmaster. Present: Misses Christine Sinclair, Marion Jones, Mildred Shelton, Virginia Martin, Dorothy Duggan, Minnie Kate Calhoun, Almeda Carlton, Sue Henderson, Minnie Lasseter, Nanita Antilotti, Elizabeth Partee, Nannabeth Preas, Myrtle Burchfield, Minnie Welch, Louise Granade, Elizabeth Moore, Mrs. A. A. Knight.

Messrs Eugene Sanders, R. F. Overstreet, Anthony Hearn, Jack Rogers, H. L. Mitchell, J. L. Pittman, Jr., Charles J. Colquitt, S. E. Stevens, Barry Clare, G. H. McWhirter, Charles Jackson, Ray K. Smathers, A. A. Knight, Ellis M. Bond, Merrill Grant, Nat Davidson, C. G. Arant, W. G. Crawley, Charles W. Smith, Robert K. Wilcox, F. L. Cumbee, T. C. Partridge, H. C. Williams, J. E. White, J. F. Meacham, Paul Preas, Julian Pinkston, H. P. Hodge, E. H. Pope.

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By DR; A. P. WAGNER (An Address Delivered at Founder's Day Celebration of Xi Chapter)

There is in every period of history a cleavage of people into two classes. Whether we want it or not it is inevitable. There is the one class Which by reason of leisure, wealth, and training are the possessors of superior dress, refined manners, love of art, and the power to indulge that love. We call this class "the gentleman." There is the opposite class, plebeian, workman, proletariat, call it what you will. You remember from your English history how the rebels under John Ball in the fourteenth century said: "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"

Maybe he didn't exist then. But as soon as more men were

born and property began to be acquired, master and servant had to come into being. The gentleman was the man probably who drove around with his wife behind a pair of dinosaurs or mastodons, ate his meals out of decorated vases rather than rude bowls of clay, and subsidized the primitive artist as he made his rock drawings. Look at him as he comes down in history. He is the Egyptian and Assyrian nobleman and priest.

He rides among Athenian cavalry on the Parthenon frieze.

He commands the legions of Rome, attends upon the court of the emperors, and governs the provinces. He is the priest prince of the Holy Roman Church. He rides as the crusader by the side of Richard Coeur de Lion. He follows in the train of Queen Elizabeth and embarks upon voyages of adventure and discovery along the Spanish Main. He dies upon the French guillotine beside his king and queen. He sits before his plantation fire in old Virginia and governs his household of slaves. He falls upon the field of battle by the side of Jackson and Stuart.

Such is the gentleman and gentlewoman of history. We may not always adore his politics or his creed of life. Often it has been better in the end for his country when he has been

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wiped from her roll of citizens. But he is a romantic figure and most of the memorials by which an age is remembered by posterity are owed to his influence. For the gentleman has been the patron of literature, of music, of painting, sculpture, and architecture, often himself the workman. It is always the select few who have the leisure and means necessary to secure the training needful for appreciation and production. It was the kings who produced the pyramids and the wonderful walls and hanging gardens of Babylon. S9phocles and Phidias could not have left their immortal works without a Pericles. Could Horace and Vergil have written, could the great roads, theatres and acqueducts have been built as a gift to the world without Augustus and his friends and successors? Did not the princes of the church and temporal rulers like the Medicis of Florence encourage the painters of the Renaissance? I love to read Brownings poem entitled "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church" as showing how the cultured men of that age revelled in pure beauty.

Did not the Popes establish the Vatican museum and library?

Who made Shakespeare and the wonderful Elizabethan age possible? Did not the gentlefolk of North and South in our own country render possible our early colleges and all tht, amenities of American life?

The day of an aristocratic class of gentlefolk, either of birth or wealth has passed. Maybe everyone of us will soon be like the teacher in the limerick.

However, I want you to note this. Steele in the Tatler says: "The appellation of gentleman is never to be affixed to a man's circumstances, but to his behaviour in them." The story is told of James II, who replied to a lady petitioning him to make her son a gentleman: "I could make him a nobleman, but God Almighty could not make him a gentleman." The historical association between gentleman and nobleman is due merely to the force of past conditions. The true distinction of a gentleman is due to that self-respect and intellectual refinement which manifest themselves in unrestrained, yet delicate manners. There is a place and a need for the gentleman in our present civilization as well as in the past. And our college

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men and among the college men to the highest degree the picked fraternity men must furnish these gentlemen.

This gentleman must be intellectually refined to produce if possible, but above all to appreciate and patronize true literature and art (architecture, painting, sculpture, music), both of the past and the present. But besides this he must be refined in body and Spirit.

Our colors are gold and white. Their significance has been taught to you. I wish that you would think of them also in the light of the Greek definition of a gentleman. Gold for physical purity and perfection, white for spiritual.

As college and fraternity men, do not lose yourselves in the prevailing fads of the moment. Do not rush from laboratory to athletic field, to the dance, to the movies. And then after graduation do not rush to your professional office, to business and money-getting, to automobiling, to the theatre, to the club.

Take life more slowly, learn to know and love good literatu re, great paintings, never-dying sculpture. Be cultured gentlemen true to the traditions handed down by generations of college and fraternity men. Modern civilization needs this type of gentleman. Do it as the chosen from the chosen of our country's young,men.

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In the opinion of the Inter-Fraternity Conference T N 1sT NT. To balance the personal equation add a number of u's and subtract a lot of i's.

"To him who stood and waited"—Epitaph ascribed to a chapter correspondent we used to know about twenty years ago.

Ye present scribes, stay with us and we will plead for a stature of flee-footed Mercury, stumping his toes on the zephyrs.

Give a woman a diamond ring and in six months she will give you a neck wring.

THE FOOL—Talk is cheap.

THE WISE PHI—Not when you say it with flowers.

A girl without a blush lacks one of God's most divine gifts.

LITTLE PI—Daddy, what is special delivery?

BIG PHI—Son, it is a department of the postoffice specially designed for the convenience of procrastinating chapter correspondents.

Little deeds of kindness, Little grains of sands, Make a Pi Kapp brother Prince in any land.

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A smile costs little but it is redeemable in the Land of Happiness way above par.

Why he was not a good brother: He failed to attend the chapter meetings.

He was late when he did come.

He lived away from the chapter house and seldom gathered around with the fellows.

But he was always picking flaws in the other men.

He was always criticizing other fraternities.

He did not go out for fraternity's athletic team but cursed when it lost the interfraternity championship.

He failed to catch his college spirit and consequently failed to "take" the easily communicable brotherly feeling.

Pun-making is fun-making. Ask a newspaper paragrapher and he will tell you that it is NOT. Who said the supreme councilman at large isn't fast? He was recently fined $10 and the costs in the Charlotte police court for speeding.

Too often the irony of fate is a flat iron' in the hands of friend wife.

The man who continually looks back not only has a "crick" in his neck but a gap in his determination to go forward as well.

When Russian meets Russian they try to sta.rt a new government.

Sometimes a man is black-balled for spite. And sometimes a chapter's nose is cut off to spite the face of the disgruntled brother.

We know a brother who has an invariable rule of telling when there is a visitor in the house—a clean towel in the bathroom.

"Ah," he cried as he picked up an egg from the piano stool, "the lay of the last ministrel."—Jester.

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For some women, kissing their husbands is the same as kissing the Blarney Stone.

"I am the captain of my soul" was not spoken of a married man.

If you know a good joke you tell it to the fellows, don't you?

Well, tell it to the "conductor" of this "collum" and he will tell it to the world.

If college graduates nowadays heed the advice to "start at the bottom" they will never get any farther, for the cellars are still damp.—Penn Punch Bowl.

Som—What'll we do?

SENIOR—I'll spin a coin. If it's heads we go to the movies; if it's tails we go to the dance and if it stands on edge, we'll study—Brown Jug. "She's a wonderful queen, but I'm not the king that has the jack to go with her."—Sun Dodger.

A glass of milk, a piece of pie,

Four bits are kissed a fond good-bye.—Penn Punch Bowl.

For the last two issues this little department has been the stamping ground of the editor and he has romped around unmolested. No one has to edit his copy, see! But paradoxical as it may seem he doesn't want to be selfish. He is perfectly willing to share honors with any ambitious brother. What the poor fish is trying to get straight (to balance the scales) is that if any funny thing happens around your house write it down and risk it to the care of one Burleson. If a witty brother thinks he can ont shine Luke McLuke, the lily white linen of these pages is open for his paragraphs.

In other words let's make Sparks from the Phi-re pop from all directions.

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By WADE S. BOLT During the writer's five or six years of interesting experience with exchange reviews there has never been such a profitable review as that. which we might pass on to you, if the space were available. The magazines received were as follo ws: The Carnation, of Delta Sigma Phi; The Palm, of Alpha Tau Omega; The Sigma Chi Quarterly. September.

The Delta. of Sigma Nu; The Teke, of Tau Kapp a Epsilon; Beta Theta Pi; The Shield, of Phi Kappa Psi; The Crescent, of Gamma Phi Beta; The Key, of Kappa Kapp a Gamma; The Phi Gamma Delta; The Garnet and White, of Alpha Chi Rho; The Scroll, of Phi Delta Theta. October.

Beta Theta Pi; The Aglaia, of Phi Mu; Kappa Alph a Theta; The Phi Gamma Delta; The Shield and Diamond, of Pi Kappa Alpha; The Anchora. of Delta Gamma; The Caduceus, of Kappa Sigma; The Lyre, of Alpha Chi Omeg a. November.

The Rattle, of Theta Chi. December.

Just like a sore thumb, always interfering, so is the Theta Nu Epsilon question with the general fraternity world today.

Six of the exchanges before us have gone into detail with reference to T N E, to say nothing of those givin g reference in less forceful manner. Tau Kappa Epsilon comm ents upon the subject with a statement to the effect that years ago, when T N E was apparently in the hey-dey of its power, Tau Kappa Epsilon added to its By-Laws Section 2 of Chapter X: All members of Tau Kappa Epsilo n Fraternity are hereby prohibited from associating themselves with Theta Nu Epsilon, or any other oragniation of a similar Policy or character, or any undergraduate organization of a political nature, or which is opposed by the faculty of the institution at which the chapter is located.

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The Kappa Sigma Caduceus disposes of the matter in the following short paragraph: Some contributions to the discussion of the near-fraternities. Says an outspoken brother: "Keep up the hammering. They were not so bad in my day, but I can remember one or two Kappa Sigs who thought their T. N. E. pins competed with the electric lights in shedding refulgence on the Kappa Sigma Chapter. . . . Their existence is justified, I think, by the same motive that I heard a Mason in Oklahoma City ascribe to the White Shrine of Jerusalem. He said, 'That is a d— good idea. It gives one more night in the week to be away from home.'"

Another subject which is dwelt upon extensively is that of poorly composed, carelessly prepared chapter letters. Et is too true that the chapters many times elect a correspondent without careful study as to ability. In days gone by we have spent many, many hours at the typewriter rewriting chapters letters.

As Teke puts it: "Typewrite your letters. Use one side of sheet only. 'Use standard size paper. Spell and punctuate with care. Remember your readers. Give initials and address of every alumnus mentioned." To this last suggestion we would add that the initials and address of each man returning to the chapter at the beginning of the year, new members, pledges and affiliating brothers would prove much more interesting than just the name.

The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma calls for dates to be written thus: Oct. 11, Nov. 23—not "the first of October, or November twenty-third. No capitals for: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, alumna, president, vice-president, class, or college. When in doubt use small letter. A girl who sends an article written on note paper on pages one, then four, and then crosswise on two and three, is styled an uneducated person.

(We have received chapter letters for THE STAR AND LAMP ill just such style in years past.)

The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega has a very lengthy and comprehensive article dealing with the faults and fol-de-rol of the chapter letter. The advice is given to get away from the stale old coined expressions. Use either originality in style of composition or follow a good common-sensed tone. "The

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tittle-tattle of the fraternity house has slight interest for the brethren elsewhere. But what the fellows do relish far and wide is a fresh idea or two. Set down all the hunches and ideas, all original stunts for entertainment." A little farther on in the article a complaint is given to the emphasis which correspondents place upon their fraternity life. "We need a new valuation upon the importance of good work as students, and less limelight around the laureled brows of the athlete, the lady-killer, the dancing demon, and the prize inter-society collector of vest ornaments. To read some chapter letters you would think the chief business of college is to give social polish." The author goes on to state that there is value in giving mention of the important accomplishments of other fraternities in your college, as well as noting any items of interests regarding the college itself. I would not omit some of his closing sentences: "Brevity is not only the soul of wit, but of interest also. After you have written that letter, rewrite it, boil it down a bit, lop off some of those superfluous words— Then send it in."

Following right along this line is an editorial plea in Beta Theta Pi for chapter historians: "There is opportunity to use photography. There is rich reward from a study of biography. During the next five years history writing should become a part of the life of every chapter in Beta Theta Pi. Chapter officers should lay this matter upon their hearts. Not every one is an historian. But many a chapter contains a member or members who likelistorical investigation and know how to pursue it. Let such individuals be encouraged. Chapter histories should be written. They should be printed. The years are flying fast. 'They are passing away, those cherished sires, who lighted our first fraterna fires.' l Now is the time, and this the year, for inquiry about origins and early experiences in Beta Theta Pi." Immediately following this, and co-ordinate with the thought is "Your Chapter." Pi Kappa Phi is not yet twenty years old.

Our chapter founders are living in the instance of every chapter .

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forty years an alumnus, represents a fraternity nearly a century old? Chapters, do not pass this suggestion by. We present the editorial verbatim: YOUR CHAPTER. How was it started? What brought the first members together? Was it some college episode or was it the result of individual effort? Who was the individual? How did he happen to establish the chapter? Was he easily successful at once, or did he have to overcome obstacles? What was that college episode? How did it lead to a fraternal organization? Where was the first real formal meeting held. Is the place still part of the college environment? Why not mark it suitably, or get a picture of it for the archives? Was that famous man, No. 5 on your roll, a real, live Beta when he was in the chapter? What was the first college honor ever won by a member of your chapter? By the way, what were considered college honors when the chapter was in its youth? How many honors have been won

by Betas in your college since 1850 (or 1901 or 1918—the date is unimportant). What was the Franklin Society, mentioned in the chapter minute book? Why was there such rivalry with the Calliopean Society? When and why did the Ciceronian society have its famous split? How did it happen that the name of Professor Perkins was placed on the chapter roll? What other names are found on the early pages of your roll book, representing individuals who never were students in the college? Why are they there? What was the reason Joseph Malloy resigned from the Gamma's and joined the Betas?

Why was John Hughes expelled in the fall of 1862? What was the dominant note in chapter life during the first two decades? But enough!

The questions come at every point. Chapter life is a great field for the eager searcher after the truth.

The Sigma Chi Quarterly makes a suggestion for an associate editor in each chapter. We quote a paragraph from the quarterly: The individual chapters might aid the Fraternity by selecting some man of willingness and ability and having him serve as associate editor for two or three years. In the meantime let him be training a successor, for the job is rather highly specialized and one that needs expert care and attention. This last paragraph is commended to the earnest consideration of all Sigma Chi Chapters and the editor will welcome suggestions which will throw any light on how he may raise the standard of chapter letters.

Our alumni need awakening, possibly more than our chapter correspondents deserve coaching. The Lyre of the Alpha

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Chi Omega states that "after all, the differences between alumn and undergradutes, we feel, are more apparent than real and no doubt the 'problem' are often exaggerated. The simplest remedy would probably be—the cultivation of more kindness of heart from which may be distilled the essence of selfforgetfulness, courtesy, and charity—which is love; 'and the greatest of these is love.'"

And Phi Gamma Delta handles the question with pride to the fraternity and suggestions to the Greek-letter world with the following: WHAT ALUMNI CAN DO FOR FRATERNITY Said Baird, a Beta, author Baird's Manual of Fraternities: "The fraternity that has shown the greatest development in the past ten years is Phi Gamma Delta."

Said "Tad" Jones, a member of another fraternity, who was an All-American football man and widely-traveled: "The fraternity that does most for its members is Phi Gamma Delta."

Said the national executive secretary of a fraternity generally classed among the "Big Four": "Compared with your national organization, ours is a joke.'

Like Cordelia, we "study deserving."

Phi Gamma Delta is driving away at her purpose of keeping up an organization of congenial good fellows, to start with. Moreover, like the colleges, we are developing character, improving scholarship, training in methods and making good men and good citizens.

The active chapters co-operate well. They realize what the reputation of the fraternity is and the consequent obligation. Sometimes graduate chapters and graduate associations do not.

The fraternity can not go far without alumni interest and support.

This year the fraternity is asking graduates to form graduate chapters, where there are fifteen Fijis in the town or in the vicinity, and graduate ass'ociations, where there are between five and fifteen. And the fraternity is asking for reorganization of such groups where they have become inactive, and for the payment of a dollar a year for each member.

You can help in your town.

You need in a graduate chapter the same officers as in an active chapter.

Can you get the Fijis about you to fill out the catalogue forms you will receive from the secretary's office? That will help make the new catalogue soon to be published complete.

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Who in your town will list Phi Gamma Delta in the telephone book under his own number? That's another project your officers are working up.

Can you help with rushing? You will be sent recommendation blanks if you wish. One secretary of a graduate chapter sent over a hundred blanks to different chapters last year. He visits high schools and preparatory schools and looks the graduates over.

"Once a Fiji, always a Fiji."

NEWS OF THE GREEK WORLD (Gleaned from Exchanges) Phi Gamma Delta has ten members in the staff of Rutgers teaching force.

Sigma Nu reports proudly that thirteen of her chapters purchased or built new homes during the last year.

Alpha Chi Rho dedicated the last issue of The Garnet and White to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fraternity.

Phi Delta Theta in The Scroll pays tribute to the soldiers of the World War, both dead and living. One hundred forty-four pages were required for the issue.

The vice-president elect of the United States is another Fiji.

Fairbanks, Marshall, Coolidge. A trio of which Phi Gamma Delta is rightfully proud and exultant.

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, has been opened to fraternities. The petition which was brought before the trustees of the university was signed by 79 per cent of the student body.

According to reports in several of our exchanges there are a number of locals, both men's and women's, which are planning to petition nationals.

In an article captioned "The Big Five" in The Delta of Sigma Nu we found this.paragraph which will be of interest to all Pi Kappa Phi brethren in South Carolina, especially those of Sigma chapter: "Old Delta chapter, at South Carolina College, was revived in September, 1920, with the initiation of nine brothers." The Delta chapter referred to was withdrawn in 1897, at the time the State Legislature barred fraternities in al State institutions.

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Elsewhere in the same journal we found the following news concerning Davidson College, where our Epsilon chapter sleeps since 1918. We had been assured that our Epsilon alumni were working for re-establishment of the chapter. The paragraph follows: "The Beta Theta Pi correspondent from Davidson College, North Carolina, states the opinion there is room for another national fraternity at that college and goes on to state there are two locals looking toward such a step. These local orders are: The Bachelors, and the Diamonds. The national chapters are: Kappa Alpha, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the Pi Kappa Alpha."

Expansions we have noted as follows: Alpha Delta Pi at Pittsburg, Tennessee, Oregon, Wisconsin and New Mexico.

Alpha Sigma Phi at Iowa State, Chicago, Oregon Agricultural.

Alpha Chi Omega at Washington College and Mt. Union.

Delta Sigma Phi at Boston, Penn State, Iowa and Marquette.

Delta Tau Delta at Wisconsin and Oregon Agricultural.

Phi Chi at Northwestern, Utah and Minnesota.

Psi Omega at Toronto.

Pi Lambda Phi at McGill.

Sigma Delta Chi at North Carolina.

Sigma Kappa at Florida State and Buffalo.

Sigma Pi at Tulane and Utah.

Delta Gamma at Washburn.

Kappa Delta at Pittsburg, Nebraska, Wisconsin.

Pi Kappa Alpha at Oklahoma, Oregon Agricultural, Wisconsin.

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THE ROLL OF HONOR The following have become subscribers to THE STAR AND LAMP and have had their names inscribed upon Pi Kappa Phi's roll of honor. Will you be the next?

W. C. Adams, Conway, S. C. Charles W. Burchmore, Jr., Camden, S. C. Wade S. Bolt, Otterbien, Ind. H. M. Bonnay, Jr., 21 Clairmont Ave.,. New York City.

T. A. Blakeley, Kingstree, S. C. John H. Barnett, Commerce, Ga. J. Shepard Bryan, Wilson, N. C. E. P. Courier, Southern Wheel Co., Birmingham, Ala. Joe H. Conkling, 457 Brighton Ave., El Centro, Calif.

A. N. Carrigan, Society Hill, S. C. C. K. Dillingham, 16 Madison Ave., Plainfield, N. J. C. W. Dillingham, Walbert Apartments, Baltimore, Md. F. C. Flannagan, Lancaster, S. C. H. G. Harper, Jr., 803 East Ave., Charlotte, N. C. W. F. Humphreys, Berlin, Ga. A. A. Kroeg, Jr., 54 Broad St., Charleston, S. C. B. H. Law, Huntsville, Ala. L. Harry Mixson, Charleston, S. C. T. H. Mize, 1804 R. R. Exch. Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. J. L. Metcalf, 410 Third Ave. North, Minneapolis, Minn.

R. E. Moody, Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va. G. E. Manning, 701 Swissvale St., Wilkinsburg, Pa. W. H. Monckton, 1620 Main St., Columbia, S. C. Lamar Murdaugh, McRae, Ga. W. H. Neal, Charlotte National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. H. F. Nelson, 6808 Cleveland St., Kansas City, Mo. Rev. George A. Odgers, Calcutta, India.

L. V. Powell, Red Level, Ala. R. K. Robinson, Derita, N. C. R. R. Rush, Roanoke College, Salem, Va. Ellsworth C. Shoemaker, Clearwater, Fla. John G. Thacker, Greensboro, N. C. Paul C. Thomas, Sparta Mills, Spartanburg, S. C. W. E. Tate, Asheville, N. C. J. P. Wilson, 33 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Mass.

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FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATIONS ALPHA CHAPTER The sixteenth anniversary of the founding of Pi Kappa Phi was celebrated by Alpha Chapter in a manner that will be long remembered by all those present.

Alpha feels that she has had some distinct advantages over her sister chapters, for in celebrating the founding of the fraternity, she is also celebrating her own birthday. Besides she was fortunate to have present at her recent "Founders Day" celebration Brother Simmon Fogarty, who is one of those to whom we today are indebted for the existence of our fraternity and the things,for which it stands.

All the Pi Kapps in Charleston having been invited, there was a large crowd present at the Chapter rooms to join the birthday party. Brother Hampton Mixson with his usual cleverness acted as toastmaster. Brother Fogarty was very appropriately called upon as the first speaker. He gave us first hand information concerning the origin of Pi Kappa Phi. Brother Fogarty said that strictly speaking the fraternity came into existance two years before 1904, which is now considered as the year of its birth. So in 1902 at the College of Charleston, the first thoughts of starting a fraternity arose. Our founders got together, and were known at the college as the "New Fraternity." However, on December 10, 1904, a constitution was framed, the name changed from the "New Fraternity" to the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, and the fraternity as we all now know it came into existence. Brother Fogarty says that at the beginning there was no thought of expansion; but that as time went on the idea was conceived, and eventually met with the favor of all. As a result Beta Chapter (which is now inactive) was founded at the Presbyterian College at Clinton, S. C. Brother Fogarty's account of the fraternity life of the early Pi Kapps was much enjoyed by all.

The next speaker from the alumni present was Brother Harrold A. Mouzon. Brother Mouzon, while not among the founders, gave an interesting account of fraternity life and the spirit of Pi Kappa Phi as he knew it in 1911 and 1912.

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Having heard from the alumni of our own chapter, and being favored with the presence of Brother "Ted" Whitelaw, of Iota, Brother Mixson called on our Georgia brother to tell us of some of the things which the Georgia chapters were doing. Brother Whitelaw's response was of much interest.

It goes without saying that the "feed" was enjoyed; and the past, present, and future having been well discussed, one of the most enjoyable evenings in the history of Alpha Chapter was brought to a close.

IOTA AND PI CHAPTERS Founders' Day was duly celebrated on Saturday, December 11, 1920, by Iota Chapter, Georgia School of Technology and Pi Chapter of Oglethorpe University. Eta Chapter of Emory was not represented because of an initiation on the same evening. However, Eta celebrated this event on the evening previous at their chapter house, which was attended by both active men and alumni.

The menu was of typical banquet style, and the speeches that followed were appropriate to the occasion. Nearly fifty Pi Kapps were present and talks were made by Bro. J. Lawton Ellis, E. S. T., and Bros. Rice, Nelms, Fouche, J. E. Patton, R. Patton, Taber, Barnett, McCree, Heyward and Watkins of Iota; and Sims, Watkins, David and Hayes of Pi. Bro. Chester Reeves of Alpha and Bro. William Stroud of Lambda also made interesting talks.

Brother Ellis made the most interesting talk, his subject being "THE STAR AND LAMP and the Growth of the Fraternity." He emphasized the importance of backing THE STAR AND LAMP to the utmost, both with money and material. Brother Fouche also spoke of the importance of assisting THE STAR AND LAMP in every possible way.

Brother Barnett acted as toastmaster and handled this difficult position in a most capable manner.

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tions, Kappa did not have a very elaborate "blow-out." A special meeting was held on the night of the tenth and several of the older brothers made short talks on the spirit of the fraternity, the growth and expansion, and finally Brother "Shorty Spruill," who is to leave within the next few days for Oxford, made a brief farewell speech, in which he told of how much

benefit the fraternity had been to him. The meeting was very impressive, and was closed with a prayer that the fraternity might live and grow, and stand for the same ideals in the future, for which it has stood in the past.

Long life and best of luck to Pi Kappa Phi! MU CHAPTER On Friday evening, December 10, Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity convened with a spirit of reverence and veneration, to celebrate the founding of what we deem to be the greatest college fraternity on the earth. Every member was present, and Brother K. M. Brim, Archon, presided with a dignity befitting the occasion.

In the last regular meeting, it had been decided 'to celebrate "Founders' Day" by a quiet, serious-minded meeting, and to have Brother G. E. Powell to give us the history of the fraternity, and Brother K. M. Brim, the oldest member of Mu Chapter, to give us the history of this chapter.

We met for the purpose of commemorating the founding of Pi Kappa Phi. After the regular opening formalities, Brother Powell related the history of our fraternity. As an introduction Brother Powell discussed college fraternities as a whole, showing clearly that they do not destroy the spirit of democracy as many people are led to believe. He admitted, that in some cases the fact of being in fraternities tended to make some men "stuck-up" and selfish, but explained this by saying that there are some exceptions to every rule. He defended fraternities by talking at length upon the fact that "birds of a feather flock together." He also cited this as the cause of the beginning of fraternities.

Having expounded at length on Greek letter fraternities in general, Brother Powell then spoke very eloquently of Pi Kappa

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Phi, relating the history of Pi Kappa Phi from its beginning in 1904 at the College of Charleston to the present, citing the establishment of chapters in chronological order, also mentioning the set-backs which always come to a fraternity. "Since the glorious beginning, Pi Kappa Phi has grown by leaps and bounds," declared Brother Powell, "Yet it is still a baby, but some baby."

In concluding, Brother Powell reached rhetorical heights in saying that we have the best fraternity in the world, and he urged that it is up to every Pi Kapp to make it still better.

Brother Brim then related the history of Mu Chapter from its beginning in 1914 to the present .day. He related instances leading to the establishment of Mu Chapter. Both Brother Powell and Brother Brim were given a rising vote of thanks, after which we had a general discussion of the fraternity, which was very beneficial and enjoyable to all. In the wee small hours of the night, after everything relative to the good of Pi Kappa Phi had been discussed we adjourned, each one leaving with his heart and soul pervaded with the spirit of true Pi Kappa Phi fraternalism, and with a strengthened and revived determination to devote his best to the fraternity's interest, and strive to place it on the loftiest pinnacle of eminence and perfection.

W.J. BUNDY, Correspondent.

NU. CHAPTER Commemorating the founding of Pi Kappa Phi, Nu Chapter held its Founders' Day banquet in the Garden Room of the Lincoln hotel, the evening of December 10.

A bountiful dinner was served by the hotel caterers and all the brothers ate heartily.

Bro. Harve Rice acted as toastmaster and filled the office in pleasing manner.

The following toast list was carried out: "Our National Fraternity"—Orvin B. Gaston.

"Local History"—Roy B. Ford.

"Current Issues"—Harry F. Geistfield.

"Fraternity Athletics"—Wesley Jungmeyer.

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"Recent Additions"—Allan M. Wilson.

"Opportunities for Improvement"—Kenneth McCandless.

"Our Pledge"—Floyd S. Pegler.

The chapter's paper, The Nebraska Nu's, made its first appearance for the year and was gladly reecived by all present.

OMICRON Omicron Chapter celebrated the sixteenth anniversary of the Pi Kappa Pi foundation in a most fitting manner at its chapter house on Thirteenth avenue, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, December 10, 1920.

The day was spent in welcoming the alumni of the chapter who came for the occasion. The "welcome" sign burned brightly at the door of the house and was easily perceptible on the countenance of each member of the chapter. The reception room was beautifully decorated in the fraternity colors of gold and white. Near 6 o'clock the entire chapter and alumni assembled in the reception room where a short business meeting was held.

Immediately after all repaired to the dining room where a six course dinner was serevd. The table was decorated with American beauty roses and silver loving cups comingling with the fraternity colors could not help but reflect the spirit and enthusiasm of every one present. Geo. M. Grant, archon, officiated as toastmaster and did credit to the office. Very interesting talks were made by a number of the members, Sewell, Hovater, Jones, Cornish, Black, Buntin, Starnes Fulton and others. Bro. Cornish received the laurels for the evening with his interpretation of the significance of the sixteenth anniversary of every fraternity. Likening it to the sixteenth birthday of every boy and girl, the time when that boy or girl changes his or her status to that of man or woman.

So also the Pi Kappa Phi is throwing off the robes of a young giant and in turn assuming the place it deserves among American college fraternities, one of the big giants.

After lingering over smokes and good talks for a short while, all present were invited to a box party at the Elks' theater, where they enjoyed the performance of the musical comedy,

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"Irene." It was with a tinge of sadness that we witnessed the fall of the last curtain.

Thus ended a day replete with every form of entertainment that one could wish for and often if one would have listened he would have heard such exclamations as."I wish Founders' Day occurred every day." To our sister chapters the least we can say is that we trust you had as enjoyable day as Omricon.

T. E. BuNTIN, Correspondent. • XI CHAPTER The celebration of the founding of the fraternity was held

by Xi Chapter, December 15th, instead of the 10th, because many of the brothers were away on a glee club trip.

In addition to the members of the chapter there were several of the old back for the meeting. Among them were Eley, Noel, Comer, and Crockett. We were certainly glad to welcome them back. .

The principal address was delivered by Dr. A. P. Wagner, a charter member of the fraternity and now professor of Latin at Roanoke College. In a witty and humorous manner he began his story of the fraternity. He spoke especially of the work of Kroeg and Mixson of Charleston, Kelly, the man who founded our western chapter and Carroll who installed our chapter at Roanoke. These men had great visions and carried them out. It behooves the younger members of the fraternity to emulate their example.

The meeting was closed with a few remarks by I. Q. Chapman, Jr., our archon.

W. S. CHAPMAN, Correspondent.

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Bro. Bobo Burnett, class '16, is a lawyer at Spartanburg, S. C., and is also judge of the city court.

Bro. Jim Burnett, class '17, is a teller in American National Bank at Spartanburg, S. C. Bro. W. L. Boseman, class '20, is connected with a bank in Greenville, S. C. Bro. J. W. Potts, class '20, is studying medicine at College of Charleston, Charleston, S. C. Bro. Chas. Hari-is is learning the cotton business, and is located in Spartanburg, S. C. Bro. Chas. Moss is connected with his father in business at Spartanburg, S. C. Bros. Vernon Earle and A. J. Dillard, class '20, are still located in Spartanburg.

Bro. Jno. D. Hamer is a successful lawyer in Spartanburg.

Announcement of the wedding of Bro. William Melvin, supreme councilman at large, has been received. The cards read as follows: Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wilson request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Lillian Hampton to Mr. William Melvin Tuesday' morning, the fourteenth of December at eleven o'clock At home Augusta, Georgia

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Bro. "41" Moore, class '16, is in the mercantile business at Cowpens, S. C., and is doing well.

Bro. Geo. McGee is at present located in Tuxedo, N. C., working as a civil engineer.

Bro. H. B. Carlisle, Jr., is connected with the Elford Insurance Agency at Spartanburg, S. C. LAMBDA CHAPTER G. H. McWhirter is connected with the Tanlac Company in Atlanta.

Fort Nall is holding down a similar position in Atlanta.

Julian Walker is a promising young attorney of Jesup, Ga. He was married last spring.

Lucius Tippett has just returned from Cuba, where he was engaged in the mercantile business. He intends going in the automobile business in Sumter, S. C. Ed Overstreet is attending the medical school at Emory and is no doubt making Eta a valuable man.

Harvey Griffin is spending this winter in the west on account of his health. We hope to have him back with us soon.

John Varnadoe is attending Oglethorpe University.

John Rourke is an instructor in the Savannah High School this year.

P. C. Reese is practicing law in Jacksonville, Fla. Vernon Coil is working with a drug company in the same place.

Ned N1arshburn is making an excellent rubber salesman. He is connected with the J. M.Tull Rubber Co. of Atlanta.

"I" Padgett is attending Columbia University this year. This is his second year at Columbia, where he is preparing for law.

Reed Doster is in business at McRae, Ga. L. 0. Vinson is attending the Atlanta Business College.

"Flossie" Breen is conducting an extensive advertising campaign in Atlanta.

"Butterfly- Moran is spending the winter in Florida. Parts unknown.

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J. J. McGouldrich is attending Georgetown University this year.

Jack Wise is working in Dothan, Ala. Ernest Saunders is attending Poughkeepsie-on-the-Hudson.

Ashley Osborne is a prominent lawyer, farmer and real estate man of Watkinsville, Ga. Levy Stroud is connected with the Dahl Flower Company of Atlanta.

Robert Poach is "Wildcatting" in Texas.

"Tubby" Vinson is practicing his profession in Macon, Ga. Druggist.

K. Mott is connected with the legal department of the CocaCola Company in Atlanta. ' Bill Bond is attending the Millersburg Military Academy in Millersburg, Kentucky.

"Brassie" Braselton is in business with his father in Braselton, Georgia.

"Dynamite" Griffin is connected with the Armour Company at LaGrange, Ga. Henry Robinson is with the A. & W. P. railroad as a civil engineer. Headquarters in Atlanta.

Barry Clare is attending the Atlanta Business College in Atlanta.

G. A. Butler is college physician for the University of Georgia.

MU CHAPTER Brother W. B. Cox is located in Wilson, N. C., where he is engaged in the tobacco business.

Brother J. T. Wooten is working in La Grange, N. C. At least this is what he says.

Brother C. F. Bunting is in the lumber business in New Bern.

Brother Earle Long is located at Milton, N. C. Brother Frank Sasser is with the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. in Durham. It is only a matter of a few weeks before Brother Sasser will be sent abroad to represent his firm in a foreign country.

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Brother R. L. Thornton is working for the Wall Street Banking Corporation in New York City. He, too, is preparing to go abroad. We are expecting a visit from Bobbie before he goes to England.

Brother L. K. Leonard is loafing in Spartanburg, S. C. He is helping or hindering Zeta Chapter, we do not know which.

Brother Carl C. Edens of Rowland, N. C., has won at last.

He was married December 15, 1920, to Miss Myrtle Mae Ward of Rowland.

Brother Harvey S. Pollard is working in Durham with his father, in the hardware business.

PI CHAPTER Bro. H. M. Bonney, Jr., is taking a course in journalism at Columbia University.

Bro. C. R. Newsom is at Columbia university studying interior decorating.

Bro. J. P. Wilson is in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard.

Bros. A. J. Whiddon and W. M. Lewis are working at their home at Dothan, Ala. Bro. S. H. Gilkerson is connected with a rubber belting company in Atlanta, Ga. 13ro. Albus Durham is "homesteading" near Peetz, Colo. It is said that he has the prettiest tract of land in that part of the West.

Bro. D. C. McNiell is at Johns-Hopkins university.

Bro. L. L. Bass is connected with the Chero-Cola Company in Anderson, S. C. Bro. E. C. Shoemaker is assistant cashier of the Peoples Bank of Clearwater, Fla. Bro. S. H. Gilkeson is connected with a large leather concern in Atlanta.

Bro. Will Lewis is in business with his father in Cottonwood, Ala. Bro. Frank Laird is in the fruit business with his uncle, in Virginia.

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Bro. H. C. Chestnutt is in the sand and gravel business in Columbus, Ga. Bro. Bartow Lidden is a midshipman at Annapolis.

MISCELLANEOUS Brother Blackwelden, Xi, is a minister in one of the leading Lutheran churches of Roanoke, Va. Bro. Charles W. Burchmore, Alpha, is now associated with his father in the publication of The Wateree Messenger, Camden, S. C. Bro. W. E. Tate, Delta, is in Asheville, N. C., with Grant's Pharmacy, 3 East Pack Square.

The present address of Bro. H. H. Paerry, Kappa, is 316 South Forty-third street, Philadelphia.

Bro. W. H. Andrews, Kappa, is with the Blue Ridge Power Company at Hendersonville, N. C.

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ALPHA CHAPTER College of Charleston, Charleston, S. C. Archon, L. R. Bell Grapter, J. H. McLeod Chapter House, Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C. Active Members, 13

Dear Brothers: We must apologize for the blank space by which we were represented in the last issue of the magazine. Our letter was missing not because we had nothing to say, but because our college opened too late for us to get one in. The fact is we have been very impatient for this chance to say something— about ourselves.

We had a great deal of pleasure in reading the letters from the other chapters. It was indeed a pleasure to read about the good records that all the chapters are making. Everything sounds good to us that confirms our belief that our fraternity is the best in the world.

Alpha is also making a good record this year. Our men are into everything that goes on here, and always take an important part. We have in our chapter three class presidents, president of the Y. M. C. A., president of the Athletic Association, manager of football and -baseball, editor-in-chief of the annual and magazine, and other officers too numerous to be mentioned here. We mention this fact because it shows that the Pi Kapps here stand well, and then, too, it is something that we like to talk about.

We are glad to see our men showing up well in athletics.

On Thanksgiving Day the college won a two and one-half mile cross-country race, and much credit is due to the admirable running of Brothers Arthur and Guyton, who were of the

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three winners. We expect to have several men on both basketball and baseball teams who will make good records.

We have recently moved into new rooms. We are fixed up very comfortably, and on every Wednesday night we have a most pleasant meeting. Occasionally some of the alumni come up, and usually they have some mighty interesting tales of the old times to relate.

It will be of interest to every one to know that there are six Pi Kapps at the Medical College this year, two from Zeta, and four from Alpha. They are all making good records in their work especially Brother Kenny (Zeta) who was the first honor man in his class last year. How he will ever make a good doctor though, is a puzzle to us, because he is never serious enough about life. The same fault also applies to the others, but by the time they finish, they will, no doubt, be pretty well sobered by hard work, and will step forth into the world as leading physicians.

We think that the progress that the fraternity is making is remarkable, and enough to fill us with enthusiasm and the spirit of co-operation. We send our best wishes and assurance to all the chapters that we are willing and eager to get behind everything that will work out for the good of the fraternity.

Most fraternally, GEO. A. BYRD, JR., Correspondent.

GAMMA CHAPTER University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

Archon, Harold Lee Bibeaut Grapter, John E. Coleman Chapter House, 2614 Dwight Way, Berkeley, Calif.

Pledges, 5 Active lembers, 27

Greetings—Pi Kapps: Again we find ourselves at the end of a semester, the time when we all take a last long glance backward before we turn our thoughts toward the new term. We review all of our mistakes and successes of the last few months, for at this time we know whether our plans have succeeded or failed.

Gamma has just passed one of the best periods in her history

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as a chapter. The mere fact that we have twenty-seven active members is enough to show that we are making great efforts to regain the position that we held on the campus before the war. We are well represented in most of the campus activities and the boys are certainly doing their best.

This has been a great year for everyone at California. You have all heard of our wonderful football team. While we are not fortunate enough to be represented on the varsity, nevertheless we are proud of the team and the record they have made.

November 20 saw a fitting close to the 1920 season when Stanford was sent home after a 38-0 drubbing. This being Homecoming Day, many of the alumni were back to see the game and become acquainted again. To properly celebrate the victory and, in order to bring the older members and the active chapter closer together, a Pi Kapp banquet was held at Marguard's Cafe in San Francisco. It was a get-together idea and throughout the whole affair there was evidenced that spirit of fraternal affection that binds us all as one. Old bonds were renewed and as the active members caught the spirit of some of the alumni brothers, who have done so much to make our fraternity what it is, we can hardly measure the good that has come from the gathering. If the older members would only realize what their occasional visits really mean to the chapter house they would come more often. They give to us that spirit of the past that helps us as we work for the future.

Out here we are getting ready for the finals, which will be • on us in another week. So you can see that it is rather a busy time with us. Last semester we were among the first five fraternities in scholarship and are trying to come back stronger this semester. With thirty-seven other fraternities in the race it is no small honor we are striving for.

But even while we are finishing up this semester we are looking forward to the next. We have a running start, for with five new pledges already we are going to make things hum from the beginning. So far, those who will be initiated next time are, Paul Boren, who won first place in the broad jump, Inter-fraternity Track Meet,"Wes" Tallie, a mean man at the ivories, "Dip" Cblfins, another fine fellow who is handy with

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his gloves and is out for varsity at 130 pounds, J. 0. Blaid, who has all the edge on cornet harmony, and is clever with his pen.

Last but not least is "Jack" Gregory, whom we expect to become ladies' man of the house.

With these five men added to our number and the possibility of some others who will enter the University next semester, we can almost feel assured of another successful half year. Thus slowly but surely we are about to realize our ambitions and put our fraternity at the top.

Since our last letter we have had a visit from Brother Rasmusson of Nu. We are certainly glad to see fellows from other chapters and if any of you are ever anywhere near to us we want you to drop in. We are looking forward with great expectancy to the convention to be held here next year.

Yours most fraternally, JESSE H. ScHwAncx, Correspondent.

ZETA CHAPTER Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. Archon, De Witt L. Harper Grapter, Jet L. Smith Correspondent, Paul F. Carroll Meeting every Monday night, 7:30 p. m.

Pledges, 0 Active Members, 10 Alumni, 55

Dear Brothers: Everything has been moving along pretty smoothly with Zeta, and we've got "our ducks all set" for some mighty good pledges, when the fatal day rolls around. All of the boys have got the old spirit, and the bond by which we are united have drawn us .closer and closer together. The alumni, too, are taking an active interest in us, and are always ready to help us out.

Bro. P. Black is back with us again. He started to another college, but, after staving there a week, he became homesick for the bunch and beat it back to Wofford, and we are certainly glad to welcome him back, because nowhere can there be found a more loyal Pi Kapp than Paul, We also have a new brother. Allow me to introduce Bro. F. Julian Hodge, whom we pledged at the beginning of the

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year. He is a sophomore and stands well in his work. Needless to say, he has caught the invincible Pi Kappa Phi spirit, and is living up to our highest expectations.

Bro. P. Black gave a 'possum dinner some time ago, and the occasion was enjoyed by all. This was followed, the next week, by a dinner at which Brother Dillingham was host. Of course, we had our "prospects" out, and indications are that

we made a good impression. Time will tell.

All of the boys have been pretty busy. Brother Parler has conducted himself creditably on the gridiron, being one of Wofford's back field stars. I feel no hesitancy in predicting that J. D. will be captain before he leaves Wofford. Basketball has started, and Brothers Nash and Dillingham are both out, as they are both varsity men. Brother Hood has his hands full, being editor-in-chief of the college annual and keeping well up in his classroom work.

Our Pan-Hellenic Council at Wofford is functioning better than ever before. Inter-fraternity relationships are excellent, and there is very little friction. At the last meeting it was decided that the fraternities would have an open initiation.

All of the neophytes will have some crazy or ludicrous task to perform up town. By this way we hope to offset the usual animosity shown just after pledge day. A Pan-Hellenic banquet has also been planned, which is to come just after pledge day.

Bros. Rooter Rollings and Speedy Barlow, who are at the University of South Carolina this year, came up just before Thanksgiving. Bro. "Whetty" Rivers, Class '19, also came through on business and stayed a day with us. Bro. "Count" Lanham, Class '19, who is teaching at Carlisle Fitting School, Bamberg, S. C., was here for several days. We are always delighted to see a brother, and any Pi Kapp may be sure that he'll always find a welcome here.

With best wishes to every Pi Kapp for a happy and successful new year, I am Fraternally yours, PAUL F. CARROLL, Correspondent.

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ETA CHAPTER Emory University, Georgia Archon, R. T. Overstreet Grapter, J. L. Pittman Pledges, 8 Active Members, 22 Alumni, 130

Pi Kapps Everywhere: With only two more weeks before the fall term conies to a close Eta Chapter realizes that this is one of the best years in the history of the chapter. With twenty-two active members we are holding our own against the rest of the fraternities.

Including men in the Medical, Law and Theology schools together with the pledges there are forty-one men ready to do their part in making Pi Kappa Phi what it should be.

To show that the spirit exists elsewhere one of our sisters, Miss Anita Antilotte, of Atlanta, gave Eta Chapter a large dance at her home November 12. The house was beautifully dcorated with red roses and gold and white colors. Refreshments and good looking ladies were the main attractions. The affair was a most enjoyable one and, of course, a great success.

Thanksgiving night Eta Chapter gave its annual banquet at the Ansley Hotel. Members and pledges were there with their lady friends. Brief speeches were made by all the different men. Brother E. H. Sanders officiated as toastmaster and his keen wit was enjoyed by all present.

An interesting feature of our social life is the Sunday afternoon gatherings which are attended by many of the town girls and members of the other chapters.

Brother Clyde Smith, the chaplain, conducts every other Sunday morning religious services that are well attended and from which much benefit has been derived.

The following pledges were taken in December 11: J. S. Pinkston, Merrill Grant, C. E. Weaver, J. D. Jones, Nat Davidson, A. P. Row, A. C. Floyd and W. F. Crawley.

Let me introduce to all Pi Kapps Brother Cleo Brannon, of Birmingham, Alabama. He is the third of three brothers to become Pi Kappa Phis and if he is as good as his other two brothers, we feel sure he is, he will make a valuable member.

The try out for the Glee Club was held about two weeks ago and two of our men, C. W. Jackson and J. S. Pinkston, were

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among the number chosen. We have several new additions to the track and football teams.

With best wishes to all other chapters and to each Pi Kapp a happy new year.

Fraternally, CHELcIE G. ARA:NTT, Correspondent.

IOTA CHAPTER Georgia School of Technology Archon, Devereux D. Rice B. H. Wilkins, Jr., Grapter Chapter House, 241 West Peachtree Street Active Members, 34 Alumni, 90

Dear Brothers: With the first two months of the fall term behind us, we are now looking forward to the Christmas vacation and the celebrations that go with it. These first two months have passed unusually fast, but we are not so sure about the remaining two months of this term flitting by without undue notice. From the time that school begins in September until Thanksgiving, when our last football game of the season is played, we are kept busy trying to keep up in our classes and at the same time give most of our attention to the wonderful performances of the "Golden Tornado" each week end on Grant field. The few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas give us time to consider the deficiencies incurred against us during the football season and to make new resolutions to start all over again directly after the holidays. So, here we are right in the midst of the time for making new determinations to put forth an honest effort to "pass up" at the end of the term.

Our new men (freshmen) this year are making a very good showing in their academic work as well as doing well in student activities. We are giving below a list of our initiates for this year and a little of their histories.

George Mercer Poole is a native of Atkins, La. This is not held against him particularly since he spent a good part of his life at Baylor School at Chattanooga. At Baylor he "preped" long and hard until he attained credits for entrance at Tech.

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Being most too light for the boys on Tech's regular football squad, he is trying out for military company football, and from all indications he is making good.

Robert Cameron Watkins has lived in Atlanta all his life.

Having been surrounded with the Tech atmosphere since 1903 he is finding his way about with less difficulty than the average freshman. Robert "preped" at Boy's High School and was a popular trackman there. His principal events were the 220 yard dash and the high jump. He made his letter at Boy's High in these events.

Hartwell, Georgia, has the distinction of being the home of one of our best freshmen this year. Harry Eugene Teasley prepared himself for entrance at Tech at the High School in his home fown. While at Hartwell High Harry represented his school as a debater and ready writer on several occasions. At Tech we find him on the reporter's staff of The Technique and making good, too. Not only is Harry out for The Technique (our college paper) but also for the Tech band. He has tried for various other activities since being here also.

Two of our boys of this year are from Rome, Georgia, and are past satellites of the Darlington eleven. Brett Roberts Hammond was captain of the football squad during his senior year at Darlington. He was also a member of the basket-ball quintet, but, alas! his career as a baseball player there was more or less checkered for he was never known to hit the pill.

Brett was assistant editor of The Darlingtonian, the school paper, a part of his senior year and was editor the remaining part of that year. He is playing Company football, is out for the Blue Print (our college annual) and has made himself known through various other channels of college activities.

Blount Hamilton Grant is the name given to our other young Darlingtonian from Rome, Georgia. "Ham" played football while at Darlington and was business manager of The Darlingtonian during his senior year. Since being at Tech "Ham" has established himself on his Military Company's football team.

He is also reporting for The Technique. From all appearances he is making good in his academic work as well as doing his part in school activities.

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Another one of our new brothers who has resided in Atlanta for some time is Richard Bush Morris. Richard came to us from Tech High School where he graduated last spring. Besides being president of his class he was active in the activities of the school. Having acquired his preparation at so reputable a school as is Tech High he should experience no difficulty in making his way through Tech. Richard is out for Company football and also for The Technique.

John Larm Joplin also comes from Louisiana, but fortunately knew better than to stay there. "Jop" "preped" at Georgetown Academy for entrance at Tech. Although he was one of the first boys on the campus at the beginning of the school term, we can find him much more often now at Nunnally's. "Jop" is decidedly the most promising "tea-hound" freshman we have this year. He is a frequent customer of the "Drive it Yourself" Ford agency and has originated a first class joke about oysters.

It is the custom of our chapter to appoint a committee on student activities at the beginning of each term. This committee is composed of an upper classman in the dormitory and an upper classman living in the chapter house. It is the duty of this committee to see that all brothers of every class go out for some student activity, especially the freshmen. Especial attention is paid to the freshmen because that is the only channel through which a student can gain any distinction here.

Usually if our freshmen are started off correctly in this respect it is not necessary to force them when they become upper classmen. The worthiness of such a system as this is readily comprehended. A fraternity is what its members make it, and we know of no better plan than to have our members get recognition through worthwhile activities of the college.

We were indeed glad to have with us at our meeting November 19, Brother Henry G. Harper, Jr., E. S. D. A. Brother Harper spoke to us at length OD THE STAR AND LAMP and urged that all the chapters contribute as much desirable material as can be gotten together for publication in our magazine.

The necessity and importance of co-operation with Brother Young in getting out a worthwhile and representative magazine was also stressed.

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Due attention is also given to scholastic standing. Student advisers are appointed from the upper classmen each year to act as counsellors for our younger members. The committee gets the grades from the registrars office each month and reads them out at the earliest chapter meeting. The advantages of such a system as this can be ascertained in a measure by referring to our record in scholastic standing among the fraternities at Tech for last year. Pi Kappa Phi ranked second out of thirteen fraternities and two locals.

Iota Chapter was very glad to have brothers from Omricon Chapter on a visit during the past month. These brothers came over for the football game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. We are always glad to have brothers from other chapters visit us while they are in the city.

Iota Chapter wishes each of her sister chapters a very successful year during 1921.

Fraternally, DUDLEY D. FoucHt, Correspondent.

KAPPA CHAPTER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Grapter, W. F. Falls Archon, Donnell Van Noppen Chapter House, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. Alumni, 37 Active Members, 24

Dear Brother Pi Kapps: First of all, Kappa Chapter wishes to congratulate the new eminent supreme journalist, Brother R. L. Young, for the latest issue of THE STAR AND LAMP. We were all delighted with the magazine, and hope that it can be kept up to the standard set by the latest issue. Brother Young, go to it—we are all behind you!

We are now well settled in our new house, and are very well satisfied with it, although, as most of us are rooming in it, we are at a slight disadvantage in meeting new men on the campus.

However, at present we have about thirty or thirty-five freshmen on our list, and feel that we are doing pretty good work.

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Since the fall initiations, we have taken in one man whom we had lined up last year, but who was late in returning to school; Charles E. Stroud, of Greensboro, N. C. This brings our total membership up to twenty-four, and we will probably take in one or two more after Christmas, who are not yet eligible.

During the football season which has now closed, the work of three Pi Kappa Phis stands out. The season was not a very successful one, but we look with pride on the fighting spirit of the team, which was captained by Brother Harrell. Brother Harrell has been unanimously chosen captain of the North Carolina All-State team, and Brothers Pritchard and Hanby have been chosen to keep him company. All three of these are linemen par excellence.

Basket-ball practice has started, and judging from the material on hand, we are in for a wonderfully successful season. Brother Shepard is captain of the team, and among the members of his squad are Brothers Hanby, Graham and Brand. The team this year is extending the limits of its activities, Bro. Beemer Barrett. IC Captain of N. C. Football and arrangements are being made for Team and Named on AllState Team a northern trip which will last for ahout ten days, and Nirhich will include games with Navy, Georgetown, Army and several of the more prominent Eastern colleges.

So far this year we have not had any freshmen feeds, as the Pan-Hellenic Council is undecided as to whether to allow them or not. But we have had two big dances, and they were great successes. We have quite a large dance hall in our new house, and we are able to entertain a rather large crowd. The

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regular fall (lances come off on December 2nd and 3rd, and we are looking forward to them with great eagerness. Several of the best-looking girls in the country will be the guests of Pi Kappa Phis, and we are looking forward to a wonderful time.

We are planning a feed at the house after the dance on the last night, just to wind up things with a big time for all.

Brother C. P. .Spruill, Jr., left Christmas for a three years' stay in England, as .possessor of a Rhodes scholarship. We hate to lose "Shorty," for he is one of the finest fellows in the world. We wish him the best of luck in his new surroundings, and we are sure that all our brother Pi Kapps will do the same.

Most fraternally yours, J. N. BRAND, JR., Correspondent.

LAMBDA CHAPTER University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Archon, Louis Merritt Grapter, Ralph Thaxton Chapter House, 436 Dearing Street, Athens, Ga. Pledges, 3 Active Members, 20 Alumni, o0

Dear Brothers: Lambda Chapter is the scene of much work at the present time. Exams are rapidly approaching and we are quivering in our boots. But studies are not taking up all of our time, as there are several good Freshmen in school yet unpledged, whom we are after and intend to get. Some of us are eternally on the job, especially Brother Brockington, who is developing into a genius in work along this line. No insinuation against his ability along other lines, of course.

Well, you probably know all about our football team. But we never cease talking about it, so please permit us to depart long enough to give just a few details.

As the smoke of battle clears from the Southern gridiron, the Georgia Bulldog is seen—triumphant and undefeated, the master of all he surveys. Scattered around him are the crushed and broken bones of that far-famed cat of the jungle, and he proudly licks his chops after a bountiful feast on "Tiger" meat. A "thin red line" is discerned—rapidly fading away in the distance, and only a "gentle breeze" is occasionally heard

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rustling among the chink-a-pin bushes far beneath his nostrils-cautiously refraining from engaging his prowess. Yes, he twisted the Tiger's tail, he demolished the "thin red line" and the muchly-touted "cyclone" is carefully blowing in the opposite direction. Blow, blow, thou blessed among the great dispensers of sportanic eruptions, and chosen among the "select few," but be warned by the "Tiger's" lot and blow among Sport Writers and not among Bulldogs, and thus sustain thy self-awarded prestige.

Having closed a successful season on the gridiron, we are now giving our undivided attention to basket-ball, and prospects are indeed bright for another championship team. Brother Mott is sorely missed, however. Practice has already begun, and we hereby give you fair warning.

But not only in athletics is Georgia holding her own at the top. An endowment fund of one million dollars is being raised, and in spite of bad financial conditions it is being pushed forward with great success.

The military department is making progress this year as never before, as "General" Jimmie Ross will testify.

Along with Omricon we can boast of a handsome new dormitory for women, and the addition of a department for vocational training. In fact the Re-habs and the Co-eds have come into their own this year, and we are glad to announce it.

Lambda continues to make herself felt in all college activities.

Brother Finch was recently elected vice-president of the Freshman Club, the most distinctive freshman organization in school.

Brothers Thomas and Finch made the freshman impromptu debate. Brother Highsmith made the senior impromptu debate. Brother McCaskill has been made assistant manager of The Georgia Cracker—a publication which has only recently made its appearance, but it bids fair to become the best publication of its kind in the South.

Brother Thaxton is a shining light in the physics department.

We will have several new brothers to introduce in the next issue.

Fraternally, E. NV. Elictismyra, Correspondent.

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Trinity College, Durham, N. C. Grapter, B. S. Borland, Jr. Archon, K. M. Brim Chapter Room, 212 Jarvis Alumni, 30 Active Members, 7 Pledges, 3

On October 20, 1920, we were allowed to send out invitations to new men. Mu was extremely lucky in getting every man that was bid. Our pledge men who will go through the mill in February are: R. W. Spencer, New Bern, N. C.; H. D. Ormond, Kings Mountain, N. C.; W. H. Huckabee, Albemarle, N. C. All of these fellows are very popular on the park and are out for almost all college activities. Another new man in the chapter is Brother D. S. Harper, Jr., of Bethel, N. C. Brother Harper is a sophomore this year and he is, indeed, a very good representative of that class. He is a first cousin of Brother Harper of Charlotte and this is, indeed, recommendation enough for him. As we all know that Brother Henry Harper iF one of our very hardest workers and most ardent lovers of Pi Kappa Phi. Mu Chapter is very active on the campus at the present time.

Brothers Cornwell and Powell have been "shining" in tennis this fall, and will be out again in the spring to represent Trinity College. Brother Leach, who has been starring at right tackle on our 100 per cent football team has been placed on the second All-State team which was picked by Egan of New York University. I will mention right here that Pi Kappa Phi was well represented on these two teams. Harrell of Kappa Chapter was captain of the first team, Brother Murray of Tau was center on the same team. On the second team we were represented by Brother Leach of Mu. Among the men mentioned as deserving credit was Brother Hanby of Kappa. In class basket-ball Spencer, Ormond, Huckabee, and Borland were all on the class teams. All of these men are now out for the varsity and it is a safe bet that Mu will have at least one man on the first team. In the glee club we are represented by "Dick" Spencer. He is now on a ten-day trip with the glee club, and he is playing in the orchestra as well as singing in the chorus.

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Dick is also an artist. He is drawing all the sketches and headings for our annual publication, making for himself quite a reputation as well as quite a bit of extra money. In the interclass track meet Mu was represented by Brother Borland, who was captain of the Junior team.

Thanksgiving Day was a big day for the members of Mu Chapter. There were a great many alumni on the campus to see Trinity and Wofford play a nothing and nothing tie game.

Among this number were three of our alumni. They were: Brothers W. B. Cox, Richland, N. C.; J. T. Wooten, La Grange, N. C.; C. P. Bunting, New Bern, N. C. Brother Bunting, by the way, was a charter member of our chapter. Another welcome brother with us that day was J. D. Parler of Zeta Chapter. Brother Parler was quarterback on the Wofford eleven and according to "Hoyle" he was the best ground gainer on the field.

J. D. stayed with us two nights and a day, and we sure did hate to see him leave, for when a man is a good fellow it does not take long for friendship to grow. Brother Parler was certainly a good fellow, as all the men are who have Pi Kappa Phi at heart.

Thus we end our line for this time. Mu sends New Year's greetings to all, and urges one and all to come to see us.

Fraternally, B. S. BORLAND, JR., Correspondent.

NU CHAPTER University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Archon, Harry Geistfield Grapier, Chas. S. Reed Pledges, 12 Active Members, 28 Alumni, 74

To Pi Kapps Everywhere: Greetings from Nu Chapter! At the beginning of the year, Nu returned twenty-three old men. To this was added during Rush week, eighteen pledges. Thirteen of the best "Fresh" on the campus and five of the "cockiest" Sophomores.

Nu takes great pleasure in introducing to Pi Kapps the following prospectives: Charles F. Adams, Robert F. Craig,

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•Robert Elmen, Wilbur A. Johnson, Elden N. Kiffin, Everett Lynch, Floyd Thomas and Allan N. Wilson, all of Lincoln; Henry Mooberry and Neil Morris, from University Place; Fred Earhart and Leslie Long, from Clarinda, Ia.; Lloyd D. Elliott, Mason City, Nebr.; Carl J. Peterson, Lynchburg, Kans., and Robert Wellington from Harlowton, Mont.

Of this number Earl Johnson, Wilson, Elliott, Wellington and Mooberry have suffered the trials and tribulations necessary to become loyal Pi Kapps.

Nu Chapter is well represented in activities this year. -Lanky Pete" Peterson and "Hungry" Long made the "Fresh" football team where both were stars.

Brother Cypreanson is a member of the varsity football squad. Brother Gaston, former correspondent for Nu Chapter, is holding down the position of "Sports" editor on The Daily Nebraskan.

Brother Wood is business manager of the University Players.

Brother Combs and yours truly are attempting to assist Brother Wood by supplying a little talent.

We have three men out for varsity basketball, Brothers "String" Jungmeyer," and "Johnie" Collins, who are old "N" men are sure of regular berths. Then there is Brother Cypreanson who will attempt to beat "Johnie" out of his job.

Nu Chapter is looking forward to the Inter-Fraternity basket-ball tournament which is going to be held the first of the year. We have a lot of good material and expect to place in the finals.

December 10 we are holding a Founders' Day banquet at the Lincoln Hotel. At that time, we expect to have a rousing good time and instill into the younger members of the fraternity that old Pi Kapp spirit.

In closing, Nu Chapter wishes all her sister chapters a prosperous and happy New Year.

Yours most fraternally, STODDARD M. ROBINSON, Correspondent.

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XI CHAPTER Roanoke College, Salem, Va. Archon, I. D. Chapman, Jr. Grapter, E. E. Dobbms Pledges, 4 Active Members, 12 Alumni, 33

Roanoke College is now looking toward a goal to which she always held essential. She now has a new president, Dr. Chas.

J. Smith, who is modern and progressive in every respect. And now as never before in her history does she realize and accomplish larger and greater things.

Along with the college Pi Kappa Phi has progressed and is, as always, in the lead among students. A Pi Kapp is always looked to to lead in every important undertaking among the students.

Xi has been especially fortunate in securing good men to replace the men who graduated last spring. Among the new men are Brothers Caldwell, Bradberry and Martin, all graduates of Radford High School and each making our varsity football.

Woodson, a Daleville College graduate, has entered the Junior class and is showing up well on the basketball floor.

R. L. Davis, a bright young man from Rocky Mount, Va. is possibly the most popular man in the Freshman class, as he was chosen president.

Rogers, who hails from Portsmouth, Va., is showing up well on the basket-ball squad, and has a promising future.

Several members of the Sophomore class have also been taken in this year. Of them is Jack Painter, who was recently elected secretary of the student body.

Brother Bill Kinzer, another Radford man, is a "shining light" in scholarship and surely headed for a distinction. He also promises to become an athlete.

"Bill" Trotter is the big man on the football team and is the logical man for captain of next year's team. He hails from Cloverdale, Va. All the old and new men are working for the fraternity with renewed spirit, and this promises to be one of our biggest years.

We are doing everything to make the new men feel like brothers and impress upon them the fraternity ideals and spirit.

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One of the best means yet found is our monthly stag supper at which all the alumni from the nearby vicinity are present and a speech is given by one of them. On November 15 Brother Blackwelder gave a very inspiring talk which he has consented to send to THE STAR AND LAMP for publication. Brother Blackwelder is a very popular young minister at one of the Lutheran churches in Roanoke.

On the night of the twenty-seventh of October Xi gave her annual reception for the new men. It was a brilliant success.

About 8:30 o'clock the couples began coming into the house where lights were few and ghosts, goblins and witches were many. The whole decoration scheme was in keeping with the spirit of Hallowe'en. Each room was decorated in beautiful autumn leaves and pumpkins, and witches and weird forms were draped all about the walls. After the couples had all arrived and had enjoyed informal conversations for a while Archon Chapman announced that the neophytes would provide entertainment for a few minutes. There was much guessing as to the form of entertainment they would provide. Soon it was discovered that each old man would have a defender in his claim for the title of "Hardest Lover." The neophytes did well especially in defense of Brothers Garis, W. C. Chapman, and Ould. Brothers Corbin and Garrett were also well defended.

But when I. D. Chapman's defender had completed his evidence it seemed that he was a sure winner but he was eliminated by the rule that married men are not eligible for the title. Brother Garis finally won out over all opponents.

After this the guests followed their own inclinations and sought amusement either in dancing or card playing, and strolling over the laws or "quietly talking" on the porch.

About 11 o'clock refreshments, consisting of salad and ice courses, were served and each lady given a "Kewpie" "dressed" in a neck tie of white and gold.

As the clock warned of the approach of another day all reluctantly departed, having had a wonderful time.

It is evident that Xi is having a good time as well as working for the uplift of Pi Kappa Phi and Roanoke College.

W. C. CHAPMAN, Correspondent.

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OMICRON CHAPTER University of Alabama, University, Ala. Archon, George M. Grant Grapter, J. M. Kelley Correspondent, T. E. Buntin Chapter House, 530 12th Ave., Tuscaloosa, Ala. Active Members, 32 Alumni, 49

Brother Pi Kapps: The current semester has so far advanced that one and all are now looking forward to the approaching holidays with the relief that only students who have given three months of good hard labor can enjoy at that time. I am sure we have all gained in knowledge the full extent of that which would be commensurate with this short time.

Omicron Chapter takes pleasure in introducing to all Pi Kapps the following brothers who were initiated into the mysteries of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity during the month of November: Frank F. Harris, Huntsville, Ala.; Hobart C. Fulton, Frank D. Constantine, Harry W. Prater, all of Oxford, Ala.; Ward Espy, Abbeville, Ala.; John Kilgore, Northport, Ala.; Beatie A. Inglis, Birmingham, Ala.; Warren G. Bailey, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Festus Bridges, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Harold W. Stephens, Montgomery, Ala. These men were true Pi Kapps from the very first and since their initiation they have shown the usual Pi Kapp enthusiasm that you are all acquainted with.

They are all in the fight to make this the best fraternity on the campus, and the best fraternity in American colleges. Let everybody get that kind of spirit and take old Pi Kappa Phi to the most forward place among college fraternities. We can do it fellows, so let's dig.

In the way of college honors we are keeping pace with that of the other fraternities here and that means a.lot. Our men are holding a number of places of trust in various student activities.

Bro. Burns Parker is doing all he can to keep the records of the Senior law class straight. Brother Parker says being secretary of a Senior class of seventy-odd men is no pleasant job and hopes they will find it convenient to appoint him an assistant at an early date.

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Brother Walter Hovater, aside from being the pick of quite a number of papers as All-Southern quarterback, holds the position of vice-president of the student body and we expect to see him go up to the office of president soon, due to the fact that the present president expects to leave the university before Christmas.

Bro. Jos. Starnes, is directing the Masonic Club this year.

This is quite a large club and we feel proud that a Pi Kapp should be elected to lead such an organization. No need to mention the organization as the name speaks for itself and we are sure it will prosper under the leadership of President Starnes.

Brothers Cornish and Kelley will do all they can to keep the Y. M. C. A. running smoothly. Brother Cornish being the vicepresident he finds a little difficulty getting his wishes carried out at all times. You should see him when the president is away, to say he is in high would not give you the right idea of that boy's speed. Brother Cornish is also running for Phi Beta Kappa this year.

Bro. Joe Sewell, of whom you have all read, is back with us and to see and talk to him you would never think he had accomplished the wonderful record that he did. Omricon Chapter entertained their honored member at a banquet given on October 21 at the McLester Hotel. During the serving of the sumptuous repast a number of short interesting talks were made by a few of the members present. During the smokes we were interrupted by Brother Starnes who addressed a hearty welcome to Brother Sewell and at the same time presented him with a very pleasant surprise in the form of a jeweled fraternity pin with chapter guard. Brother Sewell made a modest talk of his exPerience as a world-champ-shortstop, which was very much enjoyed by all present. We also had as our guests this night, our pledges, all of whom have since been taken in.

Every one present will long remember this as a very pleasant occasion.

In athletics, Pi Kapps are also holding their own here. While our representation on the football team this year was not as large as last year, still those that are there make up for numbers

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with their ability. Our team had a most wonderful record this year, suffering but one defeat the entire year and that through a bunch of flukes all of which our opponents had the good luck to take advantage of. The Georgia-Alabama game is the one

I 'speak of. It was a most glorious defeat. After the usual Thanksgiving game in Birmingham, our team journeyed to Cleveland, Ohio, where they beat the strong Case team by a decisive score of 40-0. Brother Kelley is business manager of our baseball team this year and we hope to have our share of the players as well.

We are most pleasantly located in our new house on Twelfth avenue now. This house is much better than the house we had last year. Omicron expects to be in its own house by this time next year. However you may learn more about this proposed house by turning to another page in this issue where the plan for this house is fully set out.

From the looks of the returns of our October tests we expect to pull our standing in the inter-fraternity scholarship contest from fifth to somewhat nearer the lead. Our Freshmen members are showing up best in this line, collectively speaking.

Six members of Omicron paid Iota Chapter a visit in Atlanta during the Georgia-Alabama game. Among others from the university were the following Pi Kapps: Geo. Grant, T. E. Buntin, Francis Fletcher, Hobart Fulton, Luke Sewell and Walter Hovater. All the boys express themselves as being very much pleased with Iota's hospitality and hope some of Iota's members will see fit to return the visit and allow Omicron to show its appreciation for hospitality shown its members while in Atlanta.

Some of Omicron's alumni are planning an alumni chapter in Birmingham, Ala. We wish them the best of luck. Birmingham is quite a city and there are a number of alumni men within the vicinity who will be only too glad to join them in this movement.

Omicron wishes its sister chapters a very happy New Year.

T. E. BLINTIN, Correspondent,

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Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga. Archon, Frank Sims Grapter, Clifford Sims Ford Little, Treasurer Alumni, 26 Pledges, 0 Active Members, 24

To All Pi Kapps—Greetings: It is indeed a compliment to Brother Young that the first issue of THE STAR AND LAMP was such a success! The success of the last issue was due entirely to the untiring efforts and work of Brother Young, assisted by Brother Harper and Pi most heartily congratulates them. Since the laS-t issue of the magazine, Pi has initiated all of her pledges, and we feel sure that we have unusually wise selections. First, let us introduce our new brother, B. T. Simpson, of Norcross, Ga. Brother Simpson a member of the Senior class. He played a tackle on the varsity football eleven the entire season, and is one of the best catchers in college baseball.

Next is Brother Roy E. Carlyle, of Norcross. "Dizzy" is a member of the "Bloody Sophomore" class and his six feet two inches plus one hundred and seventy-five pounds of manhood will throw a scare into almost any Freshman. Brother Carlyle played guard all this season and made an unusually good showing. Baseball is where he "shines." He is well known in Southern baseball circles, his batting average being .416 last season, and this year he will doubtless be better than last.

Next is Bro."Jake" Morris, of Atlanta. Jake is an old Boys High star and is a member of the Freshman class. During the past football season, Jake and Bro. "Geechie" Varnadoe alternated at quarter. Jake is also a pitcher (so we've heard) so great things are being expected of him.

Next, meet Bro. Ed David, of Atlanta. Brother David is - president of the Freshman class and has been elected to several honors by the student body. Brother David played end for us this year, and held that position regularly. Ed is also a baseball player and someone will have to work to keep him off of first base during the coming season.

Bro. Edgar Watkins, Jr., of Atlanta, appears next. Brother Watkins is a Freshman in college this year, but not in "society"

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and if we were not afraid of hurting his feelings, we would be tempted to call him a "tea-hound," but we won't be so cruel. Brother Watkins has already shown a great interest in the fraternity and has already made its a dandy man.

Our youngest member is Bro. Clarence Hill, of Dalton, Ga. "Sergeant" stands at the very top of everything he goes into and wherever advice is needed, Brother Hill is the man. He is a member of the Sophomore class, and as chairman of the Sophomore committee, he has played an important part in bringing the "Rats" and "Sophs" to terms. He is without a doubt one of the most valuable and influential men that we have.

Pi is still holding its own and steadily advancing upward.

Pi Kapps are supported by non-frat men and other frat men, just as loyally as the Pi Kapps support a brother.

We are not only on the top, but are going to remain there and we wish the same success to all our sister Chapters.

Fraternally, Pi CHAPTER, PI KAPPA PHI.

RHO CHAPTER Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Grapter, S. J. Robbins Archon, A. B. Powell, Jr. Chapter House, 73 South Main St., Lexington, Va. Alumni, 4 Pledges, 7 Active Members, 5

Dear Brothers: I take this opportunity to say that we are still at the oars and "rlioing" in perfect rhyme. Consequently, we are not so much at sea as we were at the beginning of the year. Our "rhoing" team consists of five old Pi Kapps to whom rough sailing is no obstacle. In about three weeks we will be in shore where our pledges will join us to start our permanent settlement to be christened Rho Chapter, Pi Kappa Phi. Now several things of note have happened since the appearance of our first letter: We have had an addition to our crew in the person of John W. Walker. He is a Tar Heel from Raeford, N. C., and a

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famous pitcher. We will, therefore, be well represented on the Generals' pitching staff.

Then we find in the report on academic standing of the fraternities' on the campus that Pi Kappa Phi stands third among the seventeen chapters here, the first three chapters having a difference in percentage of only a few tenths of one per cent.

We will endeavor to hold this record.

At our last regular meeting on Saturday evening we had a short confidential talk with the future Pi Kapps, setting a standard for them as new men of our fraternity. We topped off the evening with a feed. This did us all good besides helping us a lot.

Brother Mott, formerly of Lambda Chapter, was with us for several days and Bro. L. W. Davis, formerly of this chapter, spent Thanksgiving and the week-end with us. We were indeed glad to see both of these men.

Our foremost thought at present is in regard to Founders' Day, December 10. We have decided that the most beneficial plan for the occasion would be for each member to prepare a short speech pertaining to the past, present and future history of our fraternity, to be delivered in meeting on that night. This will form the nucleus of the program and the festivities will probably take the form of a smoker.

Coming on down the list of happenings since our last letter, heretofore referred to, r think it would be well to mention Washington and Lee's victory over Georgetown as the closing game of the season. The celebration and reception given to our returning team was declared the best ever given to a Washington and Lee team. Five hundred railroad torches lighted the way for the parade from the station to the gymnasium in front of which on a slope was formed with torches also, the score "W. & L. 16--G. T. N. 7." Speeches and yells were indulged in and the celebration closed in singing the famous Washington and Lee "Swing."

An old time Thanksgiving party was given by the local "Y" last Wednesday. A gypsy fortune teller and the Virginia Reel were the most interesting features.

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Our Thanksgiving hops were held on Monday and Tuesday, November 29 and 30. The Sophomore German took place Monday evening and a dansant and the Cotillion Club's dance had full sway Tuesday. The dances were preceded by the annual show of the Pi Alpha Nu Ribbon Society "Goats" Saturday and an elaborate show staged by the Troubadours Monday afternoon. Various features from burlesque to serious drama prevailed and the musical numbers furnished by our twelve piece orchestra led off with "That Jazzical Jazz of Sinful Syncopation."

The close of these festivities left only the cloudy horrizon of the Christmas examinations to look at.

Our Chapter wishes every Pi Kapp a happy New Year. You will hear from us again before the Fourth of July.

Yours most fraternally, L. W. MILBOURNE, Correspondent.

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North Carolina State College, West Raleigh, N. C. Grapter, Robt. W. Underwood Archon, H. D. Long.

Alumni, 8 Active Members, 7

Dear Brothers: As the first quarter nears its close we are looking forward with much interest to the beginning of the next session and to bid day, which comes February 1.

At present we have seven active members, Brother Hooper having taken leave until next term.

As the situation now stands we have six of the best men in the Freshman class thinking our way. These men are receiving the attention of several other fraternities but we have no reason to be uneasy on that account.

Basketball practice began December 1 and Brothers Deal and Williams are showing good form and are certain of a place on the team.

Brother Cline, who graduated last year, now holds a responsible position with R. G. Lassiter Construction Company and is now stationed at Greensboro, N. C.

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Brother DeBerry had a very successful season with St. Louis Nationals this summer, and is now holdiug a position in Washington, D. C. He will return to St. Louis with the opening of next season.

Brothers Stacy and Saunders are now with Westinghouse Electric Company of Pittsburg, Pa. Both are graduates from the electrical department of this college and are doing well in Pittsburg.

Brother Luper, graduate of the Civil Engineering Department, is in the engineering business in Gastonia, N. C. Fraternally, H. D. LONG, Correspondent.

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