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-/llCJin E. Duerr, Della Tau Della, before 1926 J'euion of the lnlerjralernily Conference.

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FEBRUARY, 1927

Number 1

EDITOR'S COMME.N T Supervision of Pledges '"PLEDGES are future brothers on whom will . soon devolve the responsibiliti es of "ca rrymg on." \\'e a re pleased to note, in the va riou s correspond ence that comes to our desk th e ca re rr that Undergraduate chapters are takit~g to see ~ that th 1d . ~ . ~ P e ges are properly dtrected. Chapters a re ~tvmg closer supervi sion to pledges and a re maktng sin cere efforts to guide them aright.

Kappa Chapter is offering prizes to tho e who make th e 111g · hest records tn . scholarshtp . and show themselves actively interested in the affairs of college 1 h .. anc c apter. Such recogmtwn on the Part of the eld er men is bound to impress on 1 minds f 1 . t1e o t 1e prospecttve brothers th e value of worthwhile endeavor.

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in our scheme of fraternity administration is clearly 1 ~~~w~1 by th e holiday meeting of P i Kapps in 11 nltnghac m. 'J'l . meetmg, . . 11s from all reports, Was extra ore1'man.1y success ful in the accompli sh~nent of the definite aims it had set before it and tn the c t. rea wn of a closer feeling of brotherhood at~ong those who attended. brothers who gathered in Birmingham 1l adThe a clef . t e program to carry out in arranging f or the e tnt t t . n ·er amment of the Fourteenth S upreme

Chapter meeting. That work was expeditiou sly don e.

Then after the day's work was over, the brothers gathered around the ba nquet table to enjoy true fraternal fellowship .

W e have contended that P i Kappa I hi has reached the stage of its development when di strict meetings a re urgently needed to cement still closer the fraternal ties that knit us into an efficient brotherhood . \i\'e beli eve that a definite mo vem ent should be started that will result in the authorization of di strict conclaves in the "off yea rs" when the Supreme Chapter does not meet. Th ere a re . m any broth ers, who for many reasons, are unable to a ttend meetings of the bi ennial Supreme Chapter. vVith di strict conclaves, properly supervi sed and intelligently di rected, these brothers can enjoy the advantages of a miniature Supreme Chapte r brought closer home. !fay we not give erious consideration to thi s phase of our work, and do something th a t will result in the creation of these di stri ct gatherings?

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vision of the ritual he has wrought a good work for Pi Kappa Phi. The original ritual has been changed only slightly but those few changes have done much to strengthen and intensify the ritualistic degrees, which have been made easier to present and more impressive to confer.

The thanks of the fraternity go unreservedly to Brother Day.

Scholarship the Aim ~HERE

is no gainsaying that scholarship should be of the most vital interest to every fraternity chapter. Scholastic training is the basis for the existence of fraternities, and when scholarship is ignored in any fraternity chapter, that chapter is turning its back on fundamentals.

Brother Edington, in this month's discussion of Pi Kappa Phi's scholastic program, utters words of the greatest truth when he says, "The strongest fraternity chapter is that chapter which selects its men carefully with an eye first on scholarship and succeeds in graduating year after year almost as many as it needs to pledge from year to year to keep its ranks recruited to maximum strength."

In the recent past there has been too much "dropping out" of men, who failed to make the grade and who were politely informed by the dean that their presence was no longer desired.

Brother Edington asserts that the chapter which can graduate, that is keep in its ranks for four years the approximate number that is pledged each year, is the strongest chapter. And he is eternally right.

Critics of the fraternity system have found in the scholarship records of some fraternity men a fine excuse to point the finger of scorn and exclaim, "Now, I told you so." But fraternity men, those with a serious purpose, are today struggling to improve the record and there is not a fraternity, the officers of which are not committed to a policy of aiding undergraduates to improve their scholastic standing. And the work is bearing fruit, for everywhere fraternity men are making grades equal, and in sometimes better, than the college or university average.

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We of Pi Kappa Phi have no excuse for pOl scholarship. Our aim is always for advanCi ment. Founded in classical halls of cloistert Charleston, Pi Kappa Phi has a vivid backgrout of splendid scholastic achievement. And tho: who have followed after should receive inspir> tion and determine to maintain our fine recor Brother Edington and his scholarship cot mittee have set about on an excellent progr3 for the betterment of Pi Kappa Phi. The f( ternity is anxious . to honor those who achie1 success in their collegiate work, and those wl· do, will be signally recognized.

Let each brother of every undergraduate ch3l ter determine to make a step ·h igher. Just no decide that for the remainder of this collef year you will put first things first and let no11 ing interfere with your proper attention scholastic efforts. ~14:,.

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se· By w. L. SIMPSON, N~t ex The new Pi Kapp song book was recently r se: ceived by the writer and it was with eagerne Ill\ that it was read from cover to cover. Co: '1 th, gratulations to all from VVacle Bolt to Fr Sturm, your efforts were certainly worthwhi bn lJncloubteclly, many memories are stirred eli! every brother when he hears these fratert1 sh, tunes. The song that brought a story to tt "I;; mind was the one assembled by Brother Frt 1'!Sturm, "Pi Kappa Phi \Ill e Love You." tht Back in my collegiate clays at Nu, we were alv the thick of a "rushing" season. There appeaf1 an, on the campus a very likeable chap by the nntl of "Slick" Meriam. We had him out to tt an house. In looking over his credentials we fottf that he was a wizard on the piano. He pla)1 all classes of music, rotten and otherwise, llr we enjoyed it all.

After he had played all the late ones he sn' that he wou ld play an original tune. He did, af it was the tune that was destined to be ot Wit "Pi Kappa Phi We Love You." be The idea for the words came at the suggestiC sai, of one of the brothers. We wrote them do11 Gu on an old envelope and then called all the gl1 1 111g up to the piano and they learned them. To ttI 15 day it is a favorite tune at Nebraska.

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By FRANK A. \VAUGH I tho= (Reprinted from The R ev·iew of Reviews, with Permission of the Editors.) nspir> recor< UY PETERS was a "typical fraternity student body. \11/e think he might as well leave , coil man"-p.1enty of friends, good clothes, an college-the sooner the better." ·ogr3' automobile, and a benevolent willingness In all of which the faculty brother fully con1e fJ'i to accommodate all comers with a good time. He curred, and sought the dean.

Lchie1 W~s smart enough, too, so that he could get by "\iVhy, certainly," said the dean; "I knew e wl· With his courses whenever he had a mind to try. Peters was not doing well in college, but I have Moreover, he was ambitious and had initiative, never had anything on him." (For deans will : chnl and his soc·a1 . . d 111m , not m. talk like that, too.) "But now that you have carne 1 exp1oratwns st no given me the facts, and since the boys in his own frequnetly outside the radius of the usual colcol lei I r fraternity feel like that, I think I can arrange it." : nott ~ge lfe. He would make an excursion into the So the dean and Guy Peters had a session; ~Jty and would come home most enthusiastic. on 1 and the dean said, "Now, Mr. Peters, I am in ndeed he was so enthusiastic that the conductor 0 possession of facts which indicate that you are ~ the late tro.lley car sometimes had to take not the kind of man we want here in college. him out o th , n e rear platform to cool off.

Two weeks will finish this semester and your 1hese in ves t'1.gatwns · . the City . m were not a connection with this institution. You may go set part of tl .

1e socwlogy course. They were wherever else you please, but I advise you to extra for G tly r lf ' uy was too energetic to confine him- go home and go to work in your father's lumber ;erne se ~ 0 the assigned work. Yet he did not com- yard."

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Fri leB omnisci en t dean Imew nothmg about them. vice given him.

1whil ut his classmates knew, and his "fraternity Then here is another authentic case. Gene brothers" 1 red · d. mew. In fact his housemates were McCarty was a promising high school athlete, 1sgusted that a .

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1teril should th nyon: weanng t 1err sacre pm and with that reputation was "rushed" by every to 11' "l us make hnnself a spectacle on the fraternity on the campus. He condescended to pre Thast car over ·" 1' 11ey remonstrate d wtt. I1 I11111. . accept the pin of Delta Theta-or whatever it 1 thee~· ~ck:d him in his room. They used all was. At the end of his first year he was caught •ere al lSClplmary measures in their manual. Guy cribbing. The case can1e before the faculty dis)eare wdays repented, always promised to be good, cipline committee with complications. Nearly nail an a1wa ys bro I(e hi s promise. every case has complications. Some facts 1'he fac It d · to tl u Y a v1sor was called in.

He was seemed to aggravate the offense; some consideraa . tl1er" 111 . the same fratermty-a . four n oIder . "b to tions pointed toward exoneration. McCarty man highl pla)'r wit!

Y respected by the boys and influential was bright and promising, and this was his first 1 H d . h -, 8r ne , dt 1em . · e a mon1s ed Guy, and Guy re- appearance before the committee. Soft hearts we hi s promises. Results same as before. were about to vote in his favor, when another e s31 member of the committee spoke. d, ar WI-Iy SOME BOYS LEAVE COLLEGE "I have not said anything thus far," he beSo the old . b · . e ot with tl er oys 111 the fratermty 'house met gan, "because I hoped this case could be settled 1 be d e faculty advisor to consider what should properly without my testimony. But now I am 1 . .

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1e boys obliged to tell you that last night I was waited do'' Gu . e have done everything we can to put upon by a delegation from McCarty's fraternity.

• gar ingyl ~traJght, but he won't behave. We are do- They told me that they knew he was guilty as no d b , . 'o t\1 is g·1Hn . goo , ut he rs domg us harm. He charged; that they believed he was a confirmed IVmg b us a ad reputation throughout the cribber and had a yellow streak all through .

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They said that they did not want him in their fraternity and did not regard him as a proper man to be in col lege. Now I wonder if this fa culty discipline commi ttee wants to be more leni ent than McCarty's own fraternity mates, and if they are willing to condone an offense w hi ch the boys think merits dismissal from college?"

That ended the McCarty case, and justice was clo ne once more. A nd ju stice in both these cases sprang from the pride, self-respect, loyalty, and fa ir-mincleclness of a littl e group of coll ege boys in a sec ret fraternity.

Tn fact, in these two in stances-both recent, gen uin e, and known to me personally- the deepest sec rets of the secret col lege fraternities are revealed.

IS A MEMBER BETTER? Let me say for myself that I have by chance been associated with men active in several different fraternities; that I have four sons who have gone through the fraternity life in college and for whose expe ri ence I have a sin ce re respect; that I have myself been actively connected, in a small way, for twenty years with the interior workings of one " nationa l" fraternity. O ut of this experi ence I think I should be able to tell what goes on in side.

Able and perfectly willing. Probably no man of this day who can read print and go to the movies is so naive as to sup pose that those clark and fearsome "secrets" of the secret "G reeks" are aimed at subve rsion of the State, at di scred iting the church, or at the disorganization of society. They do not include even a plan to roug h-house the police force, defy the faculty, or steal th e neighbors' apples.

The coll ege fraternity is in reality nothing but a selected group of stud ents. They are not quite an average g roup ; for they have passed through a selection w hi ch is always keen, sometim es captious, sometim es intelligent. The strong competition between fraternities generally tends to rai se these standa rd s of selection, so that any particular fraternity group ought to average somewhat better than the student body fr om which it is picked.

Better in what respect? Not in scholarship. !\ t least the statistics freely offered from van-

ous quarters indi cate that the average scholar ship standing of fraternity men in thi s or th:• uni versity is usuall y lowe r than the standi ng P non-f raternity men .

If those statistics are valid-and I do not car to dispute them-it must be that the pressur of select ion shows even g reater resu lts els1 where. P robably athletic statistics would sho\ fraternity men ranking far above the non-fr:ternity g roup . O ne of the co mplaints mad within the coll eges, against the fraternities, ' that they help to codd le and exa lt the athl ete Unquestionably thi s is true of some chapters~ some fraternities. Dut th e fraternities did JIC invent the present athl etic craze; they have !11 the responsibility of the coll ege admini stratir for its tol eration ; they do nothing more th1 accept a situati on p.Jacecl before them. t\11 many of them do not go so far as tl1at.

PERSONALITY A REQUISITE FOF MEMBERSHIP \\h at the fraternities really want is men wi1 two qualifications-men friendly in soc ial inlt' course and men capable of leadership. " \\, hen we bid a fellow for our frat," tt boys say, " it means that we mu st liv e with hit here in this house for four years." O n th point they a re usuall y shrewd. If a chap seel1 selfi sh , if he shows a mean streak, th ey assLtil he will be unpl easant company, in the ve ry it11 mate intimacies of the fraternity house whr' eve ry man is free to help himself to any n ec~1 which suits hi s costum e a nd to take any eire' suit which wi ll fit him . If a freshman is coar· a nd ill-mannered they know he will not ,ve· well on close acqua.i ntance.

But the college boys' favorite word is p1 sonality. If th e freshman shows any symptof of personality he is marked at once. If t comes to the top in hi s class election s, if I makes a good figure for the first dance, if "comes out for the coll ege paper" with evidt promise, even if he is mentioned as passi1 highest in the entran ce "exams," he is immc1! ately li sted with the desirables.

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lated very precisely and comprehensively. a s ·holar follows: r th· 1· "vv e want m en who have brains enough ing o to pass their courses and stay in coll ege. A fellow who flunk s out does us no good but he lt car does do us some harm. ' essttf ? "W ( -· e want men whom we like personally elst the usual formula) ; we want men who will be sh01 agreeabl e hou semat~s.

1n-fr•1 .3· "W e want men of personality and leacl er. .

111 ad shtP· men w I10 WI'II stand for somethtng 111 col1 ies, f~ge-and whose glory, naturally, will be rehlete ectecl on our chapter. " ers o . In . this last c1em an c1 any so rt of honorable clt·s. . icl tl( t tnctton co un t s. A ncl t. f athlet1c leaclersh1p ve ttl counts for more than schol a rship as T think it ' scholarship. :ratiO usually doe s, t't d oes not exclude A t worst I th~ am sorry. but T do not blame the j\1 1)Oys.

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The frat ernttt · ·es ap pear now to be pretty f 1.rml Y est bl' 1 · coll ege poli cy. Th ey own· a ts 1ecl 111 n wit many milli f • ons o dollars' worth of prope rty. In inte 1 l OUstng sev 1 h tl era t ousancls of students eac h year ley perform a real servi ce which no one t~eed " tt ':h hi question.

In this ma tt er o f hous mg . th ey have taken 11 th over one of tl f tl · 1e unction s form er.ly reserv ed to seeti' 1e coll ege I · 1 f · n ttmes gone by the coll ege housed, .sstil ec,1 and [)01' I . tcec tts stud ents.

Th e fraternit y y ittl Pow ass um e . .

1 . s one or all of these duti es· and tt whr ts reassuri tl ' ng ·1at the boys hav e clone so well at teck1 tl1 111 e all. one end of the land to th e other d re' any Serio } rom . · . agamst the hou sing feed. u complamt coar· tng. or eli se'1 r f . . ' · P me o students tn fratermty houses ,ve is remarl ·abl . .

1~ . . ' Y tat e. o say that a ll these thmgs a te clone b tt the . e er than they used to be clon e by college officers is to put the point too mildly.

DISCIPLINE P. S AN INSTANCE '!'he out t 1· c . s anc tng fact whi ch dese rves special tnp 1lasts is tl I tl · lat t 1e fraterniti es have taken over .

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rule of the college authorities. Yet the strongest and most wholesome and altogether the most effici ent di sciplinary force in the mod ern uni versity is thi s sam e college fraternity. The two authentic cases with which I opened thi s di scussion are typical. It would be easy to find hundreds like them.

Naturall y the fraternity house is not immaculate. It is not so tidy as an old maid's parlor.

It i not so quiet as a good hospital. In short , it is not an old ladi es' home. O n the other hand. it is not a bea r-ga rden nor a perpetual rough hou se. V/ hen a boy goes into hi s room and shuts th e door to study, hi s privacy is ( usually ) respected . "Q ui et hours" for study are prescribed and enforced by the house committee.

If one brother is weak in physics he is coached by a n upper-classman who is thought to be a shark in that subj ect. If one is found to be in danger. or is known to be neglecting hi s studies, he is put in his room and kept the re for hours, perh aps every night for weeks in success ion.

Thi sort of thing occurs with g reatest freq uency just before semester "exams."

GUIDING THE FRESHMAN MEMBER In most hou ses " the bi g-broth er sys tem ," or something like it, is practiced. Each freshman is ass igned to the care of a senior or a junior.

To thi s big brother he must report weekly, sometimes dail y. If any sort of trouble appears on the ho rizon the big brother does hi s best to cl ea r it up . If th e freshman begins to run low in hi studi es he is promptly put on probation. I rc cannot go to the movies, nor be out of his room after eight o'clock, nor have a elate, nor tak e any libe rti ~s without specific permission o f hi s big brother. And as a rul e big brothers arc much more stri ct than the clean.

Rem embering how the freshman looks up to th e senior-almost worships him- it is easy to see that such an influ ence may be both cogent a nd sa luta ry. And it is easy to see, too. that the exe rcise of such responsibility u. ually ha s a hi ghl y benefi cial reaction upon th e upper-classman.

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T HE STAR AND LAM P of P r KAPP A P H I men, after getting out of college, long ago di scovered that the f raternity coul d not long exist if it proved inju rious to the in terests of its stu dent members or inimical to college government.

T he prosperity of the fraternity was wholly bound up in t he interests of th e college. So these older men, hun dred s of them in all the stronger f raterni ties, set th emselves the task of bringing fraternity poli cy into harmony with college policy.

T heir labors have yielded a large measure of success; and it is worth remarking th at th e sub stantial gain s thu s fa r made have com e f rom the efforts of fra ternity men, not of college officers.

All th e time th e official attitude of th e colleges has been negative-unl ess it has occasionally been hostil e or meddl esome.

T he frate rni ty whi ch I know best has nearly 100 chapters in as many colleges and universities in all parts of th e U nited States and one in Canada. It has at all tim es between 2,500 and 3,000 student members in coll ege. T he business, social, and scholasti c a ff airs of these underg radu ates are constantly supervised- sometimes well, sometim es slackl y-by a large corps of graduates. Some of th ese alumni are men of large affairs, well kn own in busin ess and th e p rofessions. Taken altogeth er, their influ ence is a most co nsid erable factor in shaping the fraternity to th e service of th e undergraduates.

For exampl e, thi s parti cttl ar fraternity takes great pride in its scholar ship commi ssion er.

T hat fun cti onary secures, as full y and p romptly as possibl e, f rom th e registrars of nearly 100 coll eges, every mark of every undergraduate every term . T hese figures are carefull y coll ated, minutely compared, and ampl y reported. E very chapter is told, in f irm accents, right where it stand s scholasti cally. If individual members are remi ss they are pointed ou t by name and th e offi cers of the chapter are advised to get after them. If an enti re chapter seems lax an inspector is sent to put th em on their feet. I n seve ral instances chapters have had their charters temporari ly withdrawn for Jow scholarshi p.

F OR THE BUILDING OF CHARACTER I n view of facts li ke these, it is hardly fa ir lo say th at the f raternities care nothing about scholarship. And while, like any fraternity man,

I would cheerfully admi t that no other fraternity works on so high a plane as my own, still I hap· pen to kn ow that many oth er fraterniti es are doing very much the same thing.

Fo r twenty years I have attended somewhat regularly th e weekly meetings of one representa· tive fra ternity chapter, not much better prob· abl y, nor much worse, than the average. In th at tim e, in al l t he t housands of di scussions, I have never heard ·an appeal off ered to a loW moti ve, mu ch less urged. I have never heard the coll ege admini strati on questioned, even when I thought it was far from right. On the con· trary, I have heard every questi on argued, not always wisely, indeed, but always upon predi ca· tion of the highest motives . Frank avowals of manly ideals have been common, such as no stu· dent would think of mentioning in a classroo!Tl· This, I think, ought to be reassuring to some worried parents. Th ere are a good many homes where the news that the hopeful scion haS "pledged" brings something like consternati on.

Mother fears th at her darling boy has now tied him self to organi zed mi sbehavior- th at he is entering on a career of di ssipation and vice.

Father fears th at hi s son is committing himself to di stractions and extravagances whi ch the famil y character and exchequer cannot aff ord· If they reall y knew th e facts they would prob· ably find th at H enry was actulaly putting him· self into the strongest restraints of college life and fas tening to th e most powerful forces within his r each for th e building of sound character.

INFLUENCE OF OLDER STUDENTS I wish I might give to doubters and th ose who worry a literal report of an address I heard de· livered a few month s ago to a group of neo· phytes by an uppercl assman. This freshm an delegation had just come in from th e pledging ordeal. Th ey were being given th eir first instructions by a senior w ho was also a football hero. \ iVhile I cannot rep roduce the naive elo· quence of th e speaker, nor th e colorful atmos· ph ere surrounding th e scene, I can qu ote the speech with sub tanti al accuracy.

You fell ows have put on th e pledge pin of Zeta-Zeta, he sa id. You p robabl y think thi s is the best frat in coll ege or you wouldn't be here.

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prof s, " to salute the members of the college :~~ate and obey all the rules. Some students on d IS campus think it is smart to guy the girls-to rop cheap remarks for the women students to 1lear Do 't . bemg . .

1'1te to · n you ever d o 1t; 1mpo Women · · of IS no mark of a gentleman, and 1f any you don't want to be gentlemen the sooner ~ou turn in your pledge pins and leave this house le better for all of us. . Consider for a brief moment what this signif les N · ot one of those freshmen would use a Pennyworth of advice from his pastor at home.

The prayers of father and mother, uttered with tears, would be cheerfully disregarded, since father and mother don't lmow how it is in college. But to these admonitions, given by a deified senior- a football idol and a leader in their pledged fraternity-they would never dare to breathe the faintest whisper of dissent.

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I can solve a quadratic equation, but I cannot keep my bank balance straight.

I can name the Kings of England since the \iVars of the Roses, but I do not know the qualifications of the candidates of the coming election.

I know the income theories of Malthus and Adam Smith, but I cannot live within my income.

I can explain the principles of hydraulics, but I cannot fix a leak in the kitchen faucet.

I can read the plays of Moliere in the original, but I cannot order a meal in French.

I have studied a psychology of James and Tichenor, but I cannot control my own temper.

I can recite hundreds of lines of Shakespeare, but I do not know the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or the Twenty-third Psalm.

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NNOUNCEMENT that the Emory U niversi ty Glee Club will make a r eturn trip to E urope, either in the sum mer of 1927 or in 1928, again brings to mind the big part that E ta Pi Kapps have playe d in developing this coll egiate sing ing organi zati on to the point where it can venture on international tours with such marked success.

During three of the last four year s, in which period the most ph enomenal progress of th e E mory Glee Club has been made, the club has been ma naged by Pi Kapps.

Brother Ray N ixon, '25, was manager of the club in 1923-24, and has been publicity director of the singer s sin ce he beca me connected with th e uni ve rsity back in 192 1. He was succeeded as man ager in 1924 by Broth er Eel Bruce, '26, who ca rri ed the club through two hi g hl y successful yea rs, cul minating with a concert before P res ident Coo lidge in 'vVashington, and an E uropean tour last summ er. Broth er Henry Trost, '27, was the assistant manager last season.

This year Broth er George Patterson is ass istant manager, and Brothers 1 Cumbie, Charles Forrester, and Jimmy J enkin s are member s of the club, whi le Hrother N ixon, as uni ve rsity pub licity director, continu es to promote the advert ising of the singe r s.

Last summer, w hen fin al choi ce was made for the personnel of th e club for th e long expected E uropean trip, Eta felt honored to be represented by six of its members. This number, however , was cut clown to four when Brothers Nixon and Bruce fe lt the urgent call of business. The four r ema ining men who made the trip were Marshal l Vandi ver, director Vandiver's Coll egians orchestra; Jimmy J enkin s, saxoph oni st; Pete S til es, baritone, and B. K. Bilbrey, bass.

The tr.ip to New York by way of Savannah was interesting in that it gave many of us a taste of th e real ocean trip to fo ll ow. In New

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Came dawn, with the happy realization that the ship was literally jammed with g irl s £ro!l1 th e length and breadth of the country. A fter a merry time of it with dances, deck spo rts and ship conce rts, we found ourselves furling sailS in London harbor ; our passage had almost passed unnoticed.

The Ame rican vVoman's Club, of Lond011' gave us a hea rty welcome on the ni ght of June 21 with a ball at their pala tial home, and June zJ found us ready for th e initial bow to the E ngli sh publi c. T hi s first showing at Aeo lian Hall proved beyond a doubt that the E ngli shn1C11 really did enj oy A meri can coll ege sing ing eVC 11 th oug h at th e time smarting under th e defe;tt ad mini stered by our fell ow town smen, Bobh) J ones and Watts Gunn .

Parti es were interming led with th e concert> throug hout the whole three and a half monthS· Some of the mos t important ones were the En~· !ish Spea king Club luncheon and dan ce ; Ame1'1' can Men's Club stag banquet; party at L adJ' Beecham s, where we were presented to son1e fift y or more titl ed peopl e, among whom wert' two P rincesses. A Iso th ere was th e GuildhalL with its gift of books for th e Emory libran from th e City of London; the buffet supper at the hom e of :\lr. l-Tunting ton in honor of th1 Prin ceton -Co rn ell track teams and the Emor) Glee Club, where we met Brother Everett Brad·

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D fter a day spent with "Kim" Montague, tluke of Manchester, at his country home on le Thames, all the boys agreed that Americans aref not th e on 1y people who know how to ma I<e ;elfellow feel at home. Lady Astor proved herto be the perfect hostess at her luncheon f or th e club, and later in turning her country IlOme . on t I1e Thames over to us for a day's OtttJng .

On July 26 the whole club sailed for Paris to

spend a t wo wee I<s ' vacatton . , 1'! on t I1e contment. s lat two weeks within itself could easily fill everal volumes. In Paris we were joined by B . p 1rather d s Ed .. B enton and Johnny Gewll1ner, and . e ge George Gewinner all of Eta. They combtned f . . ' .

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Brothers Stiles, Jenkins and Bi.lbrey, accompanied by Richard Powell and George Baker, formed a five-man party for a flying trip through France, into Belgium, on through Holland, up the Rhine into Germany, and on into Switzerland, where the club reunited for the return trip by way of Alsace-Lorraine and Paris. Brother Vandiver yielded to the call of Paris, with Southern France, Nice and Monte Carlo thrown in.

Others of the boys brought back glowing tales of the beautiful canal cities of Italy.

Back into England with its interesting cities of I ondon, Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Stratfordon-Avon, Warwick, Kenilworth, Canterbury, and so on without encl. Our concerts ranged all

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September 4 finally came, bringing with it gladness as wel.l as a touch of sorrow, for we were going back to our homes and to the coun try of beautiful girls, fried ch icken, watermelons, peaches, and all those other good things of A merica. Hut we were a lso leaving new found

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friends , beautiful and interesting scenery, and above a ll , a land where it is cool in the summer and where no mosquitoes and hou se-fli es elwell 11ack home for a few days following the most wonderful summ er ever spent by thirty-five col· lege boys, and then back to school and to f.t~ with a hard yea r's work to help Eta in keepini the h mory Glee Club, known as the "South'· Sweete t Singers," in its present place in col legiate musical circles.

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A l · ARY 1, 1927, was a g reat day for Pi Kappa 'Phi in Alabama. The seventh district conclave was held at the Tutwil er Hotel in Birmingham. Not only was it a significant meeting fo r Alabama but for the wholr. fraternity. A spirit of zeal and enthu siasm permeated the group throughout every session as plans fo r the Supreme Chapter in December were made and other matters of business transacted. The success of the Fourteenth S upreme Chapter Meeti ng was assured as brother afte tbrother exp ressed a determination to make it the greatest convention P i Kappa P hi has ever had . Though the conclave was call ed primari ly as a business meeting, the social features were not neglected.

O n New Year's eve, A lpha-Eta enterta in ed with a smoker at the chapter house on the Howa rd campus. A large number of alumni and actives from other chapters wer e present for the wide-awake and snappy socia l event.

Conclave headquarters were establi shed on the second floor of rhe T utwil er Hotel with F-Toward Leak, Rho, and V . Hain H uey, O mi cron , in cha rge. The sessions were held on the same floo r. At ten o'clock Saturday morning, Leo H. Pou, di strict chapter inspector, opened the first busin ess session and made the first add ress, stating the purposes of the meeting. After an introdu ction of all present and the r eports from the chapters in the district, a discussion of the Su-

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Th e afte rn oon session was filled with cli sctl;· sions on expansion in 1VIi ssissippi and labat1 1' and organization of alumni chapters in the l e~d ing citi es of Alaba ma. J. R. Si mms, professor at the L'niversity of lVlissi ss ippi, and M r. P hilliP' of lhe Pi A lph a petitioning local at I ississipP' were present at this meeting.

V. Hain H uey, Omicron, former archon of th' Birmingham alumni chapter, was un animous!! elected general chai rm an for the Supreme ChaP ter Committee with \ V. . Berry, A-H, att( A lbert Lee S mith , A-H, prominent busin ess n,er of the city, as members of th e gener al commit tee. 13rother J-I uey is quali fied in every way w general chairm an. He has been a leader in Kapp activities in A labama for several year' havi ng organi zed and developed the Birmingha'' alumni chapter, the second la rgest in the fr~ ternity.

Many friends of Pi Kappa P hi join ed the c0 11 clave radio party at four o'clock in the Tutwile ballroom to li sten in on the return s of the AI~ bama-Stanford football game.

The climax came in the evening when , at eigh o'clock, we met again in the T utw il er ballrooi11 where we enj oyed the most enthu siastic banqt11 ever given by P i Kapps in this city. Tt was itt formal and about sixty brothers were presei11 J. Chandler Burton, Alph a-Tota, was toastt11~:

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It wa not until th e various brothers began to be call d wl . c e upon for speeches, that we realized \ cttves . \ lat a reIt.esenta tt.ve g roup we I1ad .

Vere pr . b esent from the three chapters 111 A laama and a 1umnt· from four states, representmg · . c 0 111tcr 011 R! ' x. 10, Eta, A lpha-Beta, Alpha-Eta and AI 1 tl p l a-Iota were there. Every speech pointed to . . . le great t S 1 es uprem e Chapter Meetmg m P1 •• ~Ppa P hi hi story.

The banqu et ended with a 1 lStng .,..{ vote of thanks to Howard Leak, Hain .r uey L ' ent B rewster , and Robbins ettl es, the co nc 1ave · commtttee, for the success of the conClave.

Pi Kappa Phi on Stage In the presentation of "The Poor Nut," by the Forsyth P layers at the Forsyth T heater, Atlanta, Ga., recentl y, I i Kappa P hi came in for considerable mention. The third act of the play was supposed to be the li ving room of P i Kappa l'hi at Oglethorpe, and P i Kappa P hi was mentioned scores of times during the play. The hi ghest ambition of the lead ing ch aracter was to become a Pi Kappa P hi .

Delta Upsilon Enters Oklahoma Delta Upsil o n installed a chapter at the U ni vers ity of Oklahoma J a nuary 15, bring ing the number of nati onal s to 20. La mbd a Chi A lph a was the latest in stallation .

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Gressette Makes Record W hat is believed to be the recor d for th e longest list of consecut ive victories in football history, has been won by Brother 'l'atum Gressette, coach of the H igh Schoo l at LaG range, Ga. J-:lis team is un defeated in 30 sta rts, with 1,054 poi nts against 93 for opponents. I-Ji s teams have won the I-:Iigh Shoo! Champ ionshi p of Georgia for two year s.

Br other F rank Thrower, of Alpha-Epsil 011' regul ar second sacker of the varsity team , wh0 having made hi s num eral as a f reshm an and his var sity letter last year , p romi ses to be itl even better form during the coming season.

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Bitting Weds Miss Harper M iss E mily Harper , of Fo rsyth , Ga., and N. K. B itting, J r., of Summervill e, Ga., wefl mar ried at th e home of th e bride on Januar' 8, 1927. M r s. Bitting is a g raduate of Bessie T ift Coll ege and B rother Bitting attended Ogle; thorpe U niver sity, where he was a member 0 P i Chapter . Brother Bitting is connected wi~l; the Ber ryton M ills and he and hi s bri de wd make th eir home in Summ ervill e, Ga.

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"Vve are confident," said Mr. Johnston at the conclu sion of his report, "that the interfraternity movement, the foundations of which were so firmly .laid seventeen years ago, will continue to grow and expand in such fashion that the fraternities will more and more do their part with the co ll eges and universities of the country in turning out as citizens of the United States men of high capacity, lofty ideals and devoted patri otism."

The treasurer, Judge ·w illiam R. Hayes, reported that the finances of the Conference are sound and healthy. His report showed, incidentally, that the Conference has 58 members. f In all , 272 attended the sessions of the ConT he Committee on Scholarship, headed by ~rence. Of this number 165 were delegates or A lvan E. Duerr, made one of the most impora ternates, 10 were educato rs 40 were v isitors tant contributions to the Conference. T he com. . ' ' and 57 .

Wet e representatives of undergraduate mittee reported on its progress since the last ~lterfraternity councils sent to the Conference plenary meeting, when its appointment was rom all sec t'tons of the country. a uth orized to make a survey of the scholarship In h' . ts annual report to the Conference as of fraternities at all institutions in the Un ited p . . cIlatr 111 t] ctn, • enry R. Johnston revtewed brtefly States and Canada at whi ch fraternities were le WorJ· of I .

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0 Mr. Duerr commented first on the interest and ;ef ~ ~ i~s special interests: the spiritual side 0 1 fr at~rn t ty li fe, the sectional organization of generous cooperation offered by deans and regis. acttvttt . . .es o f trars. With two exceptions the committee heard f. atern tty calumnt., t 11e sc110 Iasttc t aternities at least once from every dean approached and Itn tl~e development of the spiritual side of four institutions-Alabama, Duke, New York fr a ern 1t ] 'f Y 1 e, Mr. Johnston said the Conference U niversity and V irginia- for the first time comwa s s deeply indebted to Dr. Francis W. S hepard- piled official scholarshi p reports of their fraon, long 1 . who . . a eadtng ed ucator and fraternity man, tern iti es because they deemed the efforts of the to tl Vt s tte~ _scores of colleges from the Atlanti c Interfraternity Conference worthy.

Int lef Pact ftc 'to impart to them the sp irit of the The comm ittee found 118 institutions w ith 't C er rate or more fraternities. However, reports five C!"ff rnt Y onference. He also thanked 1 ex e ot:cl M . Swan, one of the members of the from them were difficu lt to tabulate because of cuttve . . serv·. . con1m tttee, for rendenng noteworthy a great variety of marking systems. Therefore, tee Jn spe 1 . .. the comm ittee found it virtu all y impossible to M a \:tng at numerous tmt.vers tttes. of Johnston pointed out that the fosterina interpret fairly the material it received, and the Ia t,e spi ri tual side of fraternity life der)end~ Executive Comm ittee of the Conference conrgely ex upon the personal contact of those in cluded to withh old all find in gs until such time ecuti ve ·· pos1ttons with undergraduates. as they could be harmonized sufficiently to the eighteenth annu al sess ion of the Interfraternity Conference followed t he general plan of its predecessors ' it was more mterestmg . . t I1an usua1 b ecause of the .meI uston . f . . . o an msp mng spea I<er at ~ach of the three sessions and because the enti re ~n ference seemed imbued with the spirit under1 Ytng fraternal association Th · . e sesstons were held at the Hotel Pennsylvania i N y .· ' n ew ork, all day Fnday and Satur1 c ay morning, November 26 and 27. Henry R. Johnston d.tree t ed t11e sesstons . . 1. .

111 11s capactty as chairman and drew fo r th a f rank and substantial d'tscusston · . and educational of fraterntty Prob.lems.

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Now, said M r. Duerr : " I do not beli eve th at many fr aternities are interes ted in scholarship as a mere acad emi c performance. But th ey a re vitally interested to kn ow that they are bring ing into their ranks men who can fini sh success full y a given job, wh eth er it be in the classroom, on the athl eti c fi eld , or a long executive lin es, th at th eir men are developing a power of sustain ed eff ort and a capacity fo r straig ht-thinking, so th at th ey may give som e promi se of ri sing above th e level of their fel lows w hen th ey get out into th e world . Fraterni ty men a re in th eory high-mind ed and eri ous-purposed ; they are not merely aggregations of congenia l and socially-minded men. N or are our ideals purely social.

"Unl ess we can be of definite value to our members du ring their coll ege days in in spiring them to something better th an they might achieve un a ided, we cann ot hope to hold their interest and to comm and th eir .loyalty in later days when th ey begin to assess th e va lu e of what th ey got in college.

"American id eas of the valu e and purpose o f co ~·:ege tra ining a re chang ing.

Coll eges are becoming un sympatheti call y un willing to keep a man w ho merely ad orn s the la nd scape. Business men a re likewise losing interest in paying good salari es to men w ho have never l earned to work, who have no sense of responsibility, and wh o a re unabl e to think straight. " Th ere is consid erabl e antagonism to fraternities in certain politi cal and college center s. Tt would seem easy to remove such antagonism by the simpl e expedi ent of making fraternity men, more th an any oth er g roup, stand for som ethin g a bit near er to the legitim ate puq oses of a college educati on as viewe d by men who evaluate such tra ining from every possible angl e.

"Looking at th e matter purely and simpl y from our own selfi sh point of view .. . it would be foo li sh for us to ignore the qu estion of scholarship . " \\ 'hat we need is not regula ti ons, or even recomm endations. but a better understanding of th e purposes of a coll ege edu cati on. If we ad mit th at class room work has a ny legitimate part

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In th e di scuss ion th at foll owed, everal dele· gates to the Conference warn ed again st any a ~­ sumpti on of duti es, claiming th at it was pri· maril y th e busin ess of coll ege offi cials to see to it tha t scholasti c standa rds a re mainta in ed. · A paper on schola rshi p was off ere I to the Conference by P rof . 0 . M. S tewart, of the U ni· versity of lVri ssouri , one of the members of the Committee on Scholarship.

P rofessor S tewart ma intain ed th at the scholar· ship of a chapte r is a good barometer of most other conditi ons a nd th at the meth od of r aising schol arship is not as important as the spirit : rul es, he sa id , are inclin ed to befog th e issUC· Hi s specifi c suggesti ons for r aising scholarshiP mig ht be summ arized as foll ows: L et the frw terniti es publish annu all y th e scholasti c sta nding of th eir chapters; let every fraternity have all acti ve offi cer in cha rge of its scholarship cam· paig n ; give publi city to matters a ff ecting scholar· ship ; a wa rd medals or prizes for schol astic achi evements; require reports on fa ilures; pen· alize th ose chapters whi ch a re consistentl y ]0 11' in sc holarship ; defer initiation of men whose scholarship is not sati sfactory; g ive special at· tention to th e tra ining of freshm en ; keep loa fer> out ; build up a beli ef th at good scholarship paY"·

THE REPORT ON REGIONAL ORGANIZATION The Committee on R egion al O rganizati on w~ ' brought into bein g as a result of th e 1925 pl enarY conference, whi ch authorized th e Executive Con,. mittee to des ig nate local interfraternity comn1it· tees in vari ous sec tion s of the country with sucll powe rs as mig ht be deemed ad visabl e. Througll its Chairm an. James Duane Livingston, the Con1• mittee on R egional O rga ni za ti on r eported con. iderable progress.

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The country was divided into section s along· the 1'tnes adopted by the Federal Reserve Bank. ifr .. Livingston then visited St. Louis, Chicago, ndtanapoli s, M inneapo lis, New O rl eans, Atlanta and Richmond and conducted correspondeSnce with fraternity men in Los \ngeles and an Francisco. 'l'he Chicago g roup is functioning under \V. C. ~arnes. Th e St. Louis committee will be in c large of Stratford N . Morton. Ri chmond is l~lder Willi am L. Phillips. Minneapolis is in t e hand s of Dean E. E. N icho.l son, who is arranging sub-committees of hi s own committee · on vanous campuses.

Mr. Livingston made thi s comment· ''1' . . · he probl ems of th e college fraterntty are not limited to a locality nor is the ability to solve those problems conf,in ed to any one se~tion of the country. That the interfraternity movellle~lt has made New York its capital is due ;namly to the fact that the metropolitan di strict las perhaps the largest numerical concentration of fraternity m en. ''1'.tme is ripe for the development of addif · f ratermty · · · '['h ftona] ce11t ers o f mter acttvtty. . e u 11 power for good inherent in the college fraternity . . cannot posstbly be realized unl ess th e sources of in spiration are nation-wide. The 1925 conferenc . d this . fact an d authonze . d th e recognize tl e Executive Committee to organize throughout 1 e. country regional interfraterni-ty committees Whtch · .

• su 1)ject to the supervi sion of the Execut tve C . t . ommtttee . should function in designated . s tlerntori es mu cI1 as the C onference fun ction lroughout the country "1'1 . te · 1e advantages of the plan are obvious. It nel s to 1)UI'I cI up reservOirs . . f raterntty . o f mter 1eaciersh . . h . . tp 111 t e Important centers thereby en. . ' n ching tl1e moYement wtth new tdeas. new blood, ~Wp' . '[' ! Otnts of view and new enthu siasms."

1e Commtttee · on Extension reported through .hTuclge \V ']]' 1 d tam R. Bayes that unu sual progress a been made during the past yea r. Most im Portant . fr . . of a II . of course, was the repeal of anttatetn1ty I 's.J · · M' · · · I I of egt at10n 111 tsstsstppt , t 1e resu t h1dseven yea r of patient and arduous work. ~ t ge Raye gave mu ch of the credit fo r the . 'f ' . . .

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A bill to repeal anti-fraternity legislation in South Carolina was not passed. " It is hoped," commented Judge Bayes, "that the recent result in Mississippi may encourage renewed efforts in South Carolina upon a scale suffici entl y broad to accompli sh the desired result."

Judge Bayes concluded his report with the statement that there has been no hostile legislation in any state during the past yea r. He warn ed, however, that as long as horseplay remain s there will be an incentive for unwelcome laws. He asked the assistance of active chapters in this important matter.

Dr. Walter H. Conley reported for the Committee on E xpansion that the Interfraternity Conference ought to encourage th e Local Fraternity Conference but not support or direct it.

Col. A lexander . Sharp, di scussing deferred rushing and initiation, thought all would agree with him that no one should be p.Iedged until he has registered or matri culated. I-T e call ed upon fraterniti es to wipe out the practice of pledging before matriculation wherever it exists. " It is recognized that man is a social being," said Colonel Sharp. Such being the case, he felt that rules or regulation s against prompt pl edging would only lead to subterfuges of one so rt .or another. Furthermore, he saw no reason why ru shing or pledging should be deferred. · ntil the fraternity question is settl ed, he said . freshmen and upper -classmen alike find it impossibl e to settle clown to work. " If we would fulfill our mi ssion and train our freshmen," he continued, "we mu st get them as early as possible, get them before th ey have begun to fa ll behind in their work and get them started right. If that is don e, then half th e battl e will be won. " The mortality among the freshmen of today is staggering. Much of it can be prevented by early training. It is imposs ibl e for any institution to prov ide sufficient tutors or proctors to look a fter th eir fre hmen. The chapters, w hen th ey realize their duti es and their obligations toward their pl edges, can . I\f any are the men who hav e been saved to th eir colleges by their fr ate rnities. ;, r\11 of us are railing upon our chapters for better sc holarship , under the la sh of coll egr authorities and publi c criti cism, yet some col-

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leges (and not the least cri tical ones) put obstru ctions in our path by forb idding early rushing and pledging."

As to initi ati on, Colonel Sharp held that to be th e completion of a contract made and entered into between the chapter and the pledge.

It is th e am biti on of every pledge to be initi ated.

I t is th e reward given f or performance. Every chapter of every fraterni ty shoul d fi x a scholastic quali f ication standard as a prerequi site to initi ati on and should strictl y adhere to it. Colonel Sharp held deferred initi ation to be "not only desirabl e but almost essential if the chapte rs expect to make creditabl e scholastic reco rds."

Through its Ch airman, Oswald C. Hering, th e Committee on Chapter House A rchi tecture reported th at it is gath ering plans and photographs of chapter houses throughout the count ry in order to furni sh planners with the best ideas avail able. T o date, the showni g of chapter houses is rather a sor ry one, according to M r. Hering, show ing rath er strikingly the need of enlightened guid ance in th e designing and building of chapter hou ses . At th e next confe rence th e committee hopes to present at least a dummy of the proposed book on chapter house a rchitecture.

Dean S. H. Goodnight, of th e U niversity of \:Visconsin, offered the Conference a paper on tl1e inspecti on of fraternity and so rority houses, an annu al event considered necessary by some coll ege offi cials a fter hav ing seen the inside of W isconsin fr aterni ty houses during the war.

Such inspecti ons, he reported, were not popula r with fraternity men at first. Now, however, sin ce th ey are th e establi shed thing, he said, th ey a re well received and quite valu able. (Incidentall y, th e W isconsin inspector is a woman.)

Th ese inspections are concent rated on fi ve matte rs: 1, cl eanliness, especiall y of kitchens, pantri es and basements; 2, adeq uacy of toil et facilities; 3, conditi on of all plumbing; 4, lighting and ventil ation of sleepin g and study rooms; 5, means of exit from upper floo rs in case of fire. \ iVilliam L. P hilli ps led an interesting di scussion on th e conservation of chapter fin ances, with a demonstrati on by cha rts and bl ackboard.

Clarence B. P iper .led a di scussion on the admini strati on of chapter fin ances. Hi s major premi se was that th ere can be no disagreement

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as to the des irabl e ends of the proper admini stration of chapter finances: th ere mu st be a collecti on of house charges f rom all members at du e dates and on a bas is of equali ty, all chapter ind ebtedn ess mu st be paid in full when due. the chapter mu st li ve within its in come. It is one thing to state these goals, he add ed, and quite a different thing to achi eve th em.

F un damentall y, he said, sound f in ances in chapters depend squa rely upon the enforcement of bus in ess p rin cipl es. U nder.l ying the whole structure must be a keen sense of personal responsibili ty upon the par t of each member.

Speaking generall y along thi s lin e, th e more the actives ca n be held responsibl e for th e success ful solu tion of their own p robl ems, th e I etter men they will become; f rom the poin t of v iew of the chapter, the active offi ce rs should bear the full burden of responsibili t ies, though alumni mi ght better care for expenses relating to the house stru cture. M r. P iper recommended "capital" and "operating" accounts.

Certainly, he concluded, the chapter organizati on should be des igned to provid e fo r a successf ul admini strati on of fin ances. A junior as treasurer was recomm ended, so that in hi s seni or year he coul d act in an adviso ry capacity if necessa ry. A chapter executive commi ttee is als0 recomm end ed , to supplant the old fo rm of upperclass control,路 a nd , incidentally, to appoint a sophomore as ass istant treasurer.

I deal and principl es may, like the truth , be tru sted to conserve themselves, said R ev. Joseph C. Nate. Th ey must win in th e end. Even so, he comm ented, th eir final victory in hum an hearts is a matter to whi ch we have se rious relations as fraternity men.

D r. Tate held that th e preser vati on of histori cal reco rds is important beyond measure. adv ised every f rate rnity to bu sy itself with the systemati c and compl ete organi zation of its history a nd materials. H e warn ed that the tasl< might involve years of work.

Acti ve chapters Dr. Nate admoni shed t o have th eir earl y reco r ds ph otograph ed, with th e ori g路 in als stored away in fireproof vaults. H e asked parti cul a rly that th e records of in li viduals ]Je ca refull y kept, as he put it, becau se hi sto ry is onl y co.ll ective bi ography.

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Surely, there is no other one thing more important than that every idea.! for whi ch we stand should be made the common possession of our chapter men."

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d~rgraduate Jdeals, sa id at the outset that he chd not consid er it the duty of hi s committee to a~t as spiritu al gu id es to undergrad uate fraternity men, but rather to bring before them somethin~ of the bigger and broader aspects of "fratern ity." Mr. Swan held it to be the duty of frat~rnities to develop the " unspoiled optimi sm and Ideali sm of the average college youth." . Mr. Swan made two concrete suggestions: first, that the fraternity magazines publish articles. able and sympathetic men on the opport~lnlties of friendship, the meaning of fellowship, t le fostering of ideals· second that visitation offi . ' . ' eel s be urged to stress thts feature of fraten1I't Y opportunity.

Chester \ V. Cleveland reported a most active ~;:r for. the coll ege fraternity magazine edito rs. outlmed an extensive program undertaken and told of meetings in Chi cago and New York to b · · . nng 1t to fulfillment. He stressed the meet;ng of a Com mittee on Gr oup Advertising, leaded by J. Harold J ohn ston, whi ch is on its :vay towards results in the matter of advertising 111 ,~raternity magazines.

M: 1'he primary object of our association," sa id ~ r. Cleveland, "is the betterment of fraternity ~~urnal.ism." He drew attention to an exhibit of Iatermty magazines whi ch made it obv ious that soill~e success along that line is already being ac 1Ieved.

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Mr. Cleveland recommended annual pri ze I awards eac h year I)y f ra. f or th e b est wor Ic cone t ernity n1 .

1)Ut I11s . recommen d at10n . was agazmes, received with only partial enthusiasm by delegates to the Conference.

Dr. ·william Mather Lewis, President of George \Vash ington University, addressed the Conference, discussing various phases of educational problems w ith sympathy, understanding and a keen wit.

Dr. Lewis spoke briefly of the gradual evolution of college officials from teachers to administrators, commenting that one member of hi s faculty links the president and the deans with the janitors and the charwomen. Dr. Lewis likened col lege presidents to the men in the signal towers of a railroad,. looking out of the window, throwing a switch here and there, signalling to come on, attempti ng to keep the educational traffic moving.

W hat a re some of the problems? F irst, a definiti on of what education is, interpreted in terms of the life we a re living. Today, he said, we need the stimulus of intellectual greatness; we need culture. Then, athletics. Dr. Lewis said he didn't care so much who sent a boy to co!Jege, but that he was interested in the boy keeping up with his work and doing a legitimate job .

He held, incidentally, that the coll ege is as much to blame as its alumni in whateve r evi ls exist in coll ege athletics today. T hen, the social problem. Dr. Lewis felt that one of our greatest social problems is the too lux uri ous li fe of our youth.

"I think," he said, "we can stand in our fraternities for a greater simpli city in the social affairs of the institution. I don't know but that we have gone to too great an extreme in the luxury of our coll ege life. I think one of the social problems of a fraternity is that while it is a wonderfu l thing to be a member, it is a tragedy for the boy w ho is not in one. I think the fraternity which is known for its democratic spirit is a wonderful thing on the American campus. That active chapter is on the road to weakness where the men who represent it vote for their own men for positions of honor, rather than for the best man to fill the position."

As to conduct, Dr. Lewis said that he believed thoroughly that the average fraternity today is holding standards wh ich the university or college could not possibly hold for the conduct of its men. He said he knew that the fraternities at George ·w ashington are an element for good whi ch cann ot be over-estimated.

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Dean Floyd Field, of the Georgia Institute of Techn ology, addressed the Conference on hi s experiences as a clean of men. He asserted that jealousy between frate rniti es is by no means a thing of the past and he was inclined to be a bit sarcastic about "the mad ( ?) search ( ?)" of modern youth for knowledge.

"The true purpose of a coll ege," said Dean Field, "is to develop mastery, the abi li ty to master a given task. A man Jearns to do by doing. not what he wants to do, but w hat is set before him to do."

The real purpose of a fraternity, said Dean Field, is to provide home life for th e gr oup, to assist the college in training and developing youth, to give practical experi ence in leadership.

I roperly to offer these, fraternities in hi s opinion would have to achi eve revivals within themselves.

"The religious life in a fraternity can make it the greatest force for ri ghteousness on the campus," he aclclecl, "can put honesty in every phase of coll ege life. There is no other group who can do it."

The Rev. Boyd Edwards, headmaster of Hi ll School, was a third inspiring speaker at the Conference. He spoke figuratively of the present age, holding it to be a right-handed age. almost a one-handed age, to the end that "we f ind ourselves today altogether too arrogant, satisfied and content. even proud and gloryi ng in the distinctions that are mate ri al, in the successes that have to do with the things that are symboli zed by this power of ou rs in the field of the right hand." D r. Edwards made a plea for the left hand, for the spiritual sid e of li fe, for honesty. for kept promises, for patience, for fraternity.

Harrold P. F lint introdu ced the fo!Jowing resolution to amend _the constituti on of the Interfraternity Conference: "Be it resolved that the first article of the constitution of the Interfraternity Conference be, and the same hereby is amended, by inserting immediately before the last sentence of said article the following provision: "Any fraternity whi ch shall have had the 1 rivilege of junior or other qualified membership for one yea r, may, upon motion of the Executi ve Comm ittee. be adm itted to full mem-

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THE NEW OFFICERS Officers for the I nterfraternity Conference for next year were selected as follows : Chairman, Judge William R. Bayes, Phi Delta Theta, Ohio Wesleyan, '01, 40 \iVall street, New York City.

Vice-Chairman , Harold Riegelman, Zeta Beta Tau, Cornell, ' 13, 67 Wall street, New Yor k City.

Secretary, Robert H. Neilson, Delta P hi , Rutgers, '02, 60 Broadway, New York City.

Treasurer, Clifford M . Swan, Delta Upsi lon, Massachu setts Tech. '99, 17 East 42nd street, New York City.

Members of the Executi ve Committee: W illiam L. P hillips, Sigma P hi Epsilon, Richmond, '03 ; Dr. Charles Vv. Gersten berg, Delta Chi, ew York U ni ve rsity, '04; Col. Alexander A. Sharp, Sigma Chi , Dickinson, '83; A lvan E. Duerr, Delta Tau Delta, Kenyon-W illiams. '93; Peter V ischer, P hi Gam ma Delta, Cornell, ' 19, and Edward F. Swenson. Alpha Delta Phi, 1\11in nesota, '07.

''Bill" Wickhorst Dies \\'m. K. \Vickhorst. Ups il on ( Illinois), died Feb ruary 18, 1926, at hi s home in Maywood.

Til. , from an illn ess which started with an operation for appe ndi citi s, fo ll owed by sca rl et fever and pneumonia. the latter being the cause of Brother \ Vickhorst was born Jul y 8. death.

1900, and entered the U ni ve rsity of Tllinois in 19 19. ''Bill," as he was known, was married A ugust 20, 1925, to Miss Emily I-:Tordyck, also of Illinois.

He had hard ly moved into hi s new home in Maywood when his end came.

Brother \iVickhorst was loved by all who kn eW him a nd especiall y to those who wo rked with him during the Thirteenth Supreme Chapter meeting in Chicago. He was a true and loyal Pi Kapp and could always be depended upon for hi s share and more of any task whi ch was assigned him. His memory stands as a monument to th e principals for which Pi Kappa Phi was founded.

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By Ml~ Lvru4E ME'J'C.\ U'Jo:, A lph a-Ga·m ma nrother Charl es E ugene Springer, A lphaGamma, g raduate of the U niversity of O klahoma and now math ematics in stru ctor at th e uni versity, was awarded the Oklahoma Rhodes ~chol arship by the exa mining board in O kla10111a City, December 16.

Springer won the award over fifteen oth er ~spirants, after gruelling session s of questioning ly _the board whi ch made the award. He will 1 na)or in m athemati cs at Oxford U niver sity in Engl· an d , where he wlll . attend school three ~~ars b?' vi rtu e of having won the scholarship . e lllaJored in math at O klahom a U niversity, · · grad uatmg 111 the class of '25 and in th e spring of the f oII ow tng · year, won hi' s master's degree.

Throughout hi s attendance in the university, he has been known as an honor student, winning membership into P hi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, national mu sical fraternity, and is now national treasurer of the organization. He has, for the past t wo years, been director of the university band, and displays hi s musical ability in va riou s other organizations on the campus.

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"Granny" will return next year for his third and .last year at the tackle position.

Norris was one of two P i Kapps to be honored by Callege Hurnor, well known magazine, whi ch named him as one of the ten outstanding tackles in the U nited States. Broth er \ iVickhorst, of Upsilon, captain of the Navy team, was the other P i Kapp to gain the di stin ction . And

whil e \iVickh orst was A ll -American 111 the Nell' York S1m's layout, Norris gained honorable men· tion on the S wt' s All -American selection.

"G ranny" is th e fourth · P i Kapp to be elected captain of a Sooner athletic team. Brothers Me· E lyea and Cooke h ave both been mat captains. and Brother J ones will pilot the varsity base· ball nin e in Missouri Vall ey competition this sp ring.

R ecently Norri s was elected treasurer of the stud ent council by a popular vote of the student body.

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THE PI KAPPA PHI SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM A definite policy has been outlined by the Schol arship Committee and was approved by the Supreme Council at its October meeting, so that in the future Pi Kappa P hi will proceed a.long definite lines with the hope of improving the schola rship of our active membership. Furthermore, Pi Kappa P hi expects to honor its outstanding members and chapters whose schol arship brings credit to Pi Kappa Phi, by awarding to them tokens expressing our fraternity's gratitude and pride in their scholarl y accomplishments.

P i Kappa P hi intends to honor annually that chapte r which makes th e best scholastic record of all the chapters of th e fraternity, by awarding to it a shi eld which is to be the property of the chapter winning it. This trophy will be one whi ch any chapter will be proud to di splay in its reception room or chapter room and will represent th e high est annual scholastic honor that our fraternity can confer upon one of its chapters.

Any chapter winning three of th ese shield s will receive special recognition and honor in the form of another trophy which will represent the supreme scholarship award of Pi Kappa Phi to one of its chapters.

To its outstanding schola rs among its active membership, not exceeding nine in number, pi J(appa P hi will award annually a specia.lly de· signed pendant. This trophy will represent thC highest schol arship honor that Pi Kappa Phi c8 11 bestow upon one of its sons and on account of the small number awarded it will be a most dis· tinctive prize which any member may feel justi_J' proud to rece.ive and wear. The award of th 1S pendant will not be made to a member earlier than the latter part of hi s junior year, and ''~ rating of at .least three-fourths of the g rade' max imum with no grades below passing shall pe necessary for candidacy for thi s honor." Fr0 111 thi s it is evident that thi s award represents ~ real honor which will not be lightly won by an)' member. As a furth er honor to winners of pendants, special mention will be made in 'frrf.

S'l'AR AND LAMP of th eir scholarly achievementS· These awards will be made only upon the ap· . ') proval and recommendatiOn of the SchoJarshiJ Committee of P i Kappa Phi. Hence, for the program to be successful, it will be necessarY that all active members of Pi Kappa Phi co· operate. Communications from the committee should always be answered full y and prompt!!' by chapter secretaries, archons and other ind~' vidu al members. Accurate and complete records of scholarship should be kept by th e vari0 115

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'I'he first important fact of specia l in terest and concern to fraternity men is that of 116.702 lllen d . tl a tn1tted to engin eering schools between 1 e _school yea rs 1899- 1900 and 1920-192 1 in1 ~ us,ve, 47,669 or 40.8 per cent. graduated be_ween the schooJ years 1902- 1903 a nd 1923- 1924 ltlclusi ve. 1 ..·n oth er words six out of every ten stud ents wl . courses m . eng mee . . f a1'I · 10 1)egm nng t 0 graduate. 'l'u . r_n111g to the graduating classes of 1923 and 1924 1 , 11 a stud y of the records of 5 724 students \V Il 0 , 't entered eng in eering school s as freshmen, sI was f ou n d t I1at onl y 60.6 per cent. began th e Ophomore year, 42.1 per cent. began the junior .

Year 33 8 · ' · per cent. began th e semor yea r. a nd 0 11 ; Y 28.1 per cent. or 1.661 of the orig in al 5,724 8 · llcl ents who entered graduated within the four Years · Tl1us appro,t·im.ately onl-v 28 out of each 1 !ltndred freshme11 e·n tering en gin eering schools can b . e e:t:pected to complete their courses and .9?'aduat e 7.cnt· Ju·n the C'ltsfomm')' fo ·ur ~~ea ·rs. Moreover 1't was found that th e following were the causes of the heavy scholastic mortalitv rate a 'lllong tl1ose w 110 fatled . : to g rad u ate as engmeers:

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Of course, every institution has men who spend five or s·ix years in completi ng a regular four years' course, and every graduating class contain s a number of men who have transferred from other in stituti ons so that the number of graduates is increased somewhat above 28 per cent. of the number of the original freshman class. It should be noted from the above that m.ore than one-half of the faihwes ·is dtte to scholastic d·i fficulties.

The results in other courses of stud y show likewise heavy scholastic m ortali ty rates but n ot quite as great as those in engineering. T hu s medicine and law, whi ch require at least two years of coll ege work before admission to these cou rses, is granted show mortality rates of 23.4 and 39.7 per cent., respectively. Busi ness administration and agriculture, wh ich require onl y graduation from high school for admission, show mortality rates of 38.3 and 45.4 per cent., repectively.

Of what interest can a ll these statistics be to the fraternity man ? A little study of the number of pledges made from the freshman classes each fall to f ill up the depleted ranks of fraternity chapters would probably show that the fraternities lose from their membership at least abou t the same percentages as fail to graduate.

The author has observed many times chapters with an active membership between 35 and 45 possessing fro m two to six sen iors and not all of these grad uated. As evidence of thi s fact, at P urdu e Un iversity in 1925, the average num ber of seni ors li sted by the 29 nationa l chapters was eight, a nd of these no doubt quite a few were initiated in their sophomore year and even a few in t heir junior year. A number of these li sted fa il ed to graduate that year, others were transfers from other schools and quite a few others were "five-year" men. A 11 this goes to

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show that fraternities lose from th eir membership a big percentage who never really become well acquainted with fraternity ideals. In other words fraternities accu mulate numbers but not quali ty in propo rti on to their numbers. Th e st?'ongest jmten1ity chapter is that chapter which selects its men carefull'J' with an eye fi?'St on their scholarship a.ud s1tcceeds in graduating year after yea?' almost as many all' it needs to pledge fro ·m )'ear to year to luep its mnks recruited to uwximwn streugth. A chapte r which pledges and initiates app roximately twenty men each year on ly to lose two-thirds of them during the

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next year is certainl y accumulating numbers but not real strength. I-:Tence in order to meet the keen competition to be .foun d on many campuses and at the sa me time to prevent the accumula· tion of mere num bers, it will be necessary in the near future for all th e fraternities to choose their men more carefully from among those who have the scholarsh ip to remai n in co llege until they graduate. In other words the fraternitieS must realize that coll eges are places for stud)' and each fraternity will succeed only to the de· g ree that its membership is composed of meO who have the abi lity and t he will to study.

c5\re CVistrict cilOCeetings Worthwhile?

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cou nt of the "conclave" of the members of the fraternity in the Seventh District, embracing the state of Alabama. This was, so far as my information goes, th e first time on e of our geographical subdi visions has held an off-year meeting. I think the results of this gathering are such as to justify our next Supreme Chapter Meeting providing for a district convention or conclave in each district, to meet in the offyears between our national conventi ons.

O ur fraternity's growth has been more rapid during the past five yea rs than in any oth er simil ar period of its hi story. Our membership is t hree times as large as it was seven years ago.

Vve ought now to make our districts mean more to the national organi zation, to our chapters. and to our scattered alumni . Many " lost" brothers cou ld be reclai med by being induced to attend a nearby get-together, who possibly would not be fin anciall y ab le to go to a nat ional convention in a distant city.

Our meeting in Birmingham was an experi ment in this direction. But it was in every way a success. Not only did we make use of the assemblage to perfect plans fo r the national con\'enti on to meet in Birmingham in December.

1927. and to disc uss other matters of a business

natu re, but we discovered that our territory was full of splendid fellows, and that we could appreciate them as brothers only by knowing thet1 1· The P i Kapp spirit, real fellowship, true brother· lin ess- these were present at that meeting in great abundance. Alabama men, Howard men, A uburn men, Tech men, Emory men. men frot1 1 \\ 'ashington and Lee and other schools-all of them together in P i Kappa P hi , partaking gladl)' of its joys, glad to join in its service.

These were some of the imm ediate effectS· ] f, as an indirect result of this "Seventh DiS' tri ct Conclave," there comes legislative pro· vision for future successful meetings in all our districts tha t shall rebound to the benefit of the frate rnity as a whole, then our efforts in thiS und ertaking will have been more than justif ied-

Wormley to Teach L. E. Worm ley, Upsilon ( Illin ois) , '2 1, has re· signed hi s position as a field engin eer of the Roxana Petroleum Corporation of East Chi cago, Jnd., to accept a position a head of the mathe· matics department of Hammond Tech nical High School, Hammond , Ind.

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Tn making up his U . S. Income Tax return for 1922, 1r. A lbert S. Bard of New York, deducted a gift of $500 he had made to the Alpha Chi Corporation of Chi Psi the corporation which own s the chapter hous~ of hi fraternity a~ Amherst College. In 1926 the government dt sallowed the gift and sought to add the amount to the donor's taxable income for 1922.

Thereupon, with the cooperati on of the Law Co 111 · tntttee of the Interf~aternity Conference, the donor made up a nd filed the accompanying protest and brief with the result that under date of July 26. 1926, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue allows the deduction.

1'he entire brief and prote t and the treasury department ruling are now printed as a report from the Law Committee and circulated by the Interfraternity Conference for the benefit of al l fraternitie

'hcse p~pers ( 1) develop the case for fra·· rnttte general ly, and (2) also present the ca e of the particular corporation involved. This co.mmittee recognizes that each fraternity case WI]] be judged on its own merits; but the present Paper · covering . as they do, the first successful ca. e fully presented will be of serv ice to others. .We suggest that .person desiring to refer to 111 t case (in papers filed with the government) 10 80 c by referring to the full title, adding the go,·ernment file number.

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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 'l'he sole is ue involved in this case is w hether a certain gift of $500 made by me in 1922 to the Ipha Chi Corporation of Chi Psi, is taxable or exempt from taxation under the income tax law.

The department has exami ned my returns for the two years 1922 and 1923 and under dale of March 16, 1926, has made a report through its internal revenue agent in which it disallows the above contribution of $500 as not being "a contribution within the meaning of the law ," but finds no error otherwise with re pect to 1922, a nd also finds no additional tax to be assessed with re pect to 1923. It finds that an additional tax of $45.00 shou ld be as essed for 1922.

The finding of the exam iner are set forth in detail and are attached to a noti ce bearing date .\pril 15. 1926, issuing from the office of the Supervising Internal Revenue . \gent, Room 431 of the Custom House. New York City. ' !'he exami ner tatements review and summarize the figures of my returns.

Schedule 2 of the examiner's statement for 1922. contain s the following paragraph: "Line 15. Contribution $500 is disallowed for th e reason that it represents a gift to Alpha Chi, a college corporation, therefore, is not a contribution within the meaning of the law."

\Vhat this may mean deponent does not know, a th reason given for di sallowing the deduction would seem to be a reason for allowing it. However that may be, the notice and the report conclude with an additional asses ment for 1922 of 45.00, as already stated.

To other point whatever i raised by the report and notice.

Tf the gift is taxable, it is adm itted for the purpose of this prote t that the tax would be $45.00. Tf the gift is not taxable no further assessment should be laid.

The Revenue Act of 1921, Section 214. paragraph (a) ( 11 ). provides that in computing the taxable in come there may be deducted: "11. Contributions or gifts made within the taxable year to or for the use of ... (B) any corporation or community chest, f11nd or foundation, organized and

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THE STAR AND LAM P of Pr KAPPA PHI operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, including posts of the American Legion or the Women's A ux iliary units th ereof . . . no part of the net earnin gs of which inures to the benefit of any pri vate stockholder or individ ual ; ..."

The A lpha Chi Corporation of Chi Psi, is organi zed under the Cha ritable and E ducational Co rporati on Law of Massachusetts, and the taxpayer claims. th at it comes within the above exemption of th e R evenue Act of 192 1.

O ffi ce of Commi ssioner of Internal R evenue IT: PA: 2 RMH-20 1 July 26, 1926.

Mr. A lbert S. Bard, 25 Broad Street, New York, New York.

S ir : Reference is m ade to th e report of th e Supervising Intern al R evenue Agent at New Yo rk, New Yo rk, forwarded to thi s office under elate of July 1, 1926, covering an examination of your books of account and records for the years 1922 and 1923.

I n said r eport th e contribution of $500 in 1922 to A lpha Chi Corporation was di sall owed as a deduction.

You are advised that an examination of the reco rd s of thi s office shows that the corporation referred to fall s within the meaning of Section 214 (a) ( 11 ) of th e Revenue Act of 1923,':' whi ch provid es in part as fo Uows: "Contribution s or gifts ma de wi thin the taxabl e year to or for the use of any corpo ration or community chest, fund or foundation, organized and oper ated exclusive ly for religious, chari table, scientific, literary, or educational purposes. in cluding posts of th e American Legion or th e \iVomen's Aux ili a ry units thereo f, or fo r the prevention of cruelty to children or anim als. no part of the net ea rnings of whi ch inures to the *NoTE: T he above letter refers to "Revenue Act of 1923."

Obviously th e Reve nue! Act of 1921 is meant. Section 214 (a) ( 11) is preci sel y th e same in the R evenue Acts of 1921 and 1924. T her e was no Revenue Act of 1923. Moreover the above case concern ed income of 1922.

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You r return s are, th erefo re, accepted as filed.

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Supreme Council Announcements T he Supreme Council ann ounces the followi ng: Ralph T. U re, A-Z (Oregon State), appointe.d chapter inspector for the State of O regon, thtS being designated as the Sixteenth Distri ct of P i Kappa P hi .

The granting of the petition of the Gamma Sigm a fraternity of the U ni versity of M ichigan. for a cha rter. E lm er N. Turnquist, supreme secretary, and J. W. Robinson, chapter inspector for Michigan, have been appointed installing officers and detail s of the time and place of the in stallation will be published when agreed upon路 It has become customary for chapters nearbY to r equest permi ssion to furni sh initiation tearns at in stall ation s. For the conveni ence of all concern ed, chapters a re requested to place such requests through the central office only, that theY may be taken up w ith in stalling officers collectively.

A petition has been received from the Lambda S igma fraternity of O hi o State U ni versity, Columbu s, O hio. Comment is invited .

The petition of the alumni of Detroit, Mich., for an alumni charter has been g ranted, and presentation of the charter will be announced late r.

Th e recent Seventh Di strict Conclave, held in Birmingham, Ala., elected V. Hain Huey, Q, general chairm an of th eir Committee on Ar rangements for the Fourteenth Supreme Chapter Meeting, to be held there next December. His a ddress is P. 0. Box 1628, Birmingham. .Address all conventi on communicati ons to him or to th e central offi ce.

Th e central off ice has not yet been moved, and written notice will be given when it is moved路 All communi ca ti ons shoulci be forw.arclecl tO Cha rleston promptly as usual.

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lumni Association was . ~ reorgamzed at the annual " home-comtl ing" celebration held in connection with 1 e Founders' Day uanquet at the Henry Grady 1 · Jotel, Atlanta, on December 11. Officers elected Were· p. 'd r F!a '' ' I esl ent, R r. Overstreet, '21, Orlando, ·' VIce-President, W. M. Camp, III, '26, At1 lanta; Secretary-Treasurer, Ray Nixon, '25, At~ldlta; members of executive council, E. P. DaVI son '18 , b. ' ' and 1. C. Partridge, '23. P lans are ~~~~g m~de for another meeting on Apri l 11, ,' Wh1ch will be the fifteenth anniversary of t he mst II · a atJon of Eta Chapter.

1 'homas H. Bass, ' 18, is now in Daytona 11 . each, F la. His mail address is General De1IVery.

Laurie 1-T. Battle, '15, is farming at Culloden, Georgia.

Dr. Wall ace Lee Bazemore ' 17 is practicing 111edici · ' ' ne 111 Macon, Ga. 1:1is address is 410 11 ,. .vJacon t' \V a 10nal Bank Bui lding. · T. Belcher, '25, is a bookkeeper in Roa11 1 O<e, Ala. d Edred C. Benton, '26, is with the auditing epartment of the American Bell Telephone C01npa · da! ny 111 tlanta. His address is 1011 Oake Road

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I11s . de loo] for . th e sp nng quarter an d to rece1ve gree In June. \/lldge E. 0. Blalock, '21, is practicing law in aycross , Ga .

D cin r. Foy Ernest Blu e, '21. is practicing medionee dill Bessemer, Ala. l-Ie is married and has aughter.

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1e f merican Cast Iron P 1pe o., 111111gham A Ia Fran! L ' ,. , . . . hus· < · Cumbee, 24, 1s 111 the msurance llless · \\' .

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I fro 111 · av1c son, '18 , I1as been trans f erre d the \Vilmington office of the DuPont Com-

pany to Charlotte, N . C. I-I is address IS 232 \Vest First street.

George N . Davidson, '24, is with the purchasing department of the \\ est Point nI anu facturing Co., West Point, Ga. James G. Dell, ' 17, is manager of the shoe department of a large department store in Dothan, A la.

Roy L. Dorminey, '26, is an electrical contractor in Fitzgerald, Ga. W. M. Fambrough, ex-'28, is manager of the rental and insuran ce divis ion of Hobbs & Massey, Realtors, Columbus, Ga. Prof. Lucius C. Fitts, '14, is a public school principal in Atlanta. His address is 1208 North avenue.

R A. F lournoy, '25, is with Trost & Trost. accountants, in Montgomery. Ala. Prof. A. V. Folsom, ' 16, is superintend ent of the vVacona High School in Waycross, Ga. Dr. S. A. Folsom, ' 17, has moved from Hain es City, Fla., to Orlando, where he is affiliated with Dr. C. C. Christ, diagnostician.

Dr. J. A. Fussell, '24, is practicing in New Brockton, A la.

Prof. James L. Graham, '19, is superintendent of schooJs in Blakely, Ga. Joe S. Graham, '25, is secreta ry of the Manatee Credit Exchange, Bradenton . Fla. \i\ 'illiam Coy Gray, '20, is in the poultry 1 usiness near Jacksonville, F la.

Capt. Geo rge \71/. Griner, Jr., ' 16, is now at !\ lien Academy, Bryan, Texas.

E. R. Vv. Gunn, known and 10\·ed a the "Daddy of Eta Chapter," is with the l~ulion ] aper Co., Atlanta.

Morris S. F[ale, '18, is superintendent of school s in Ar lington, Ga. Dr. Edward M. Harris, '23, is a li eutenant in the U. S. Navy. His address is '. S. S. A rkan sas, Philadelphia. Pa. Rev. Anthony Hearn, '20, is now pa tor of the Lee Street Methodist Church, A meri cus. ,a. \ Villiam D. Hughes, '25, is with Palmer & Palm er Corporation, Orlando, Fla. Gordon h .. Isbell is in the furniture business in Attall a, Ala.

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Charl es A. J ackson, Jr., '23, after spending three years "busting the salt and oil trusts," is back in the School of T heology at Emory.

Dr. Henry T . Jones, '22, is practicing in Tallassee, A Ia. 1-:T e is married and has one child, a daughter.

Dr. J. T. l( ing, ' 19, is specializing in eye, ea r, nose, and throat at Thomasville, Ga. M . L. Ki ng, '20, is with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Departm ent, Atlanta.

D r. A. A. K ni ght, '24, is at the Presbyterian Flospital, Ch icago, Ill. Joe Hi ll Lamb, ex-'26, after completing hi s coll ege course at A uburn , is now with the Columbi a Phonograph Co., 77 FairJie street, Atlanta.

Jack Langford, ex-'28, has taken unto him self a wife. He is wi th Parks-Chambers-Hardwick, Atlanta.

B. H . Law. '22, is an accoun tant with Ernest & E rn st. Jackson, M iss.

Carl J-Iobbs L ippold, ex-'28, is with the Hartford Insurance Co., Atlanta Trust Company Building, Atlanta.

Rev. \ V. E. McTi er, '23, is pastor of the Methodist Ch urch at Dublin, Ga. \V. N. 1 ewsom. '25, is manager of one of th e Cone D rug stores in Atl anta .

Robert T. Overstreet, '2 1, is vice-president of the Overstreet Investment Co., O rlando, F la.

Dr. L. G. Parh am is practicin g in Chipl ey, Georgia.

"11uck" (C . L .) Parham is with the United Nfotors Acceptance Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. :\. D. Partridge. '17. is an a rchitect in Los Angeles, Calif .

Th e engagement of T . Croom Partridge, '23, to :Miss ".Vfary 1 rown SpaJ ding, of Atlanta, has recentl y been ann ounced, the marri age to be solem ni zed in Febru ary. Brother Partridge is practicing law vv ith Ki ng, Cald well & Partridge, Atlanta T ru st Company Building, tlanta. Bryan S. Pemberton, '20, is now district manager of the National L ife I nsurance Company in Jacksonvi ll e, F la.

Julian S. Pinkston, '24, is with the Retail Credit Company in Roanoke, Va. Dr. James L. P ittman, '26, is an interne at Grady Hospital, Atlanta. He is still rooming

with Brother J. Pitt Tomlinson, '27 ("Little Pitt" ), who has been hi s roommate since their fres hman year at Emory.

Oley S. Poer, '24, is head tell er of the F irst National Bank in Fort Myers, F la.

E . B. Powe ll , '25, has been transferred by the Retail Credit Company from its Atlanta office to Birmingham, Ala .

Pau l P reas, '23, is a chemi st with the $10,000,000 Rayon Silk \i\lorks in John son City, Tenn.

E . H. Rape, '22, is with Swift & Company in Columbia, S. C. J ames W. Robinson , ' 16, has been with tl1e Everett VVinters Co., generaJ contractors, in Detroit, M ich., for the last five years. I-:Te was one of the organi zers of the new alumni chapter in Detroit.

Dr. D. H. Rogers, Jr. , '24, is practicing in ]-Jaines City, F la. He was marri ed last June· Dr. Harry S. Rowe, '22, is chief surgeon of the Mount Ve rnon 1-:Tospital s, Mount Vernon.

Ala., and also has an extensive private practice· Walter H. Saffold, ' 19, is ass istant paymas· ter of the Central of Geo rgia Railway in Savatl' nah, Ga. E ugene H. Sanders, ' 18, was marri ed on De· cember 2 1, 1926, to M iss L ucy W illiams, of \ Vest Point, Ga. Gene is head of the depart· ment of science at the Bass Junior High School.

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Dr. John Lewis Shamblin , '23, is practicing in Tuscaloosa.

Ia. H is specialty is surger)'· Roy B. Skipper, '26, is in the general mer· cantil e business in Ozark, Ia. Ray K. Smath ers, '22, has return ed to his native state and is now practicing law in As h~­ vill e, N. C. Brother Smathers was the Republt' can nomin ee for congress in the fall elections and was defeated by only 3,000 votes out of 70,000 cast.

Charles vVynn Smith is a fruit broker itt Ameri cus, Ga. J ames P. Stiles, ex-'27, is in the insurance and real estate business in I a fayette, Ga. Thomas M. Stri ckl and . ex-'26, had the mi 5' fortune of losing an automobile, suitcase, pocket· book, and other personal belongings to hi ghwa( men on a recent trip from P lant City, F la., h15 home town , to Atlanta.

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Charles . T hompson is with the Macon Rai lway & L' 1 . ]{ c · 1g 1t Co.mpany, Mac.on, Ga. . . · C. Traywtck, ex-'25, ts at the U ntve rstty of Alabama. '\f Rev. C. J . Tyler, ex-' 17, is now pastor of the

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1 1 ! orace C. \ Villiams, '23, is 111 the rea l estate )Ustness at Lake Como Fla CJ ' .. larl es H. Yarbrough '26, 1. with DavisonPax · on-Stokes, Atlanta. ' C.

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Ch apter, which was given Friday ni g ht December ] 0 ' 'L'h · ' at the Myers Park Club. c table was arranged in ere ce nt hape on the . · die t' West stel e of the ballroom. Sil ver can1 1 1' 1' d t ' 10 . c mg tg hted taper s, were place at sfretcks ba 5 k q tent mtervals along the table. Si lve r gra cts of rec1 roses, the fraternity flower, a lso cec1 the table 'rJ1 . car e ~lace cards were Christmas g reetin g 1 at tchs Wtth the Greek lett ers "Pi Kappa Phi" . ,s coat of arms was in th e to p. 'r h e fraterntty vors ~ center at the bottom of the card s. Faf or the lad ies were sma ll individua l perUme bottl . . str1· es, m tm y g ree n bags with drawngs, 'rhe aft . d' . et- tnn er program co ns ts ted of entert . amm ent f eatu res a nd " no speeches. " Iienr Onl y y G. Harper, Jr., essay in g the r ole of the spok spe~ker, briefly welcomed the ladi es, and and~1bnefly of t he founding of the fraternity 'l'l e reason for the dinner ce leb ration.

1 ,.ill e program inclu ded profes ional vaud ee acts · . ' mot10n ptctures, and other events.

Miss A llie Morri s 'W hi tfield enterta in ed with several dance numbers, and delighted the diners w ith her difficult but gracely dances.

One numb er that greatly plea ed wa the musical monologue of Edward M. Steckel, musical director of the Gastonia choo ls. \ iVith ready w it, Mr. Steckel kept the diners laug hin g. His interpretation of musical composit ions was amusing and instructive.

Professional va ud evill e acts in clud ed t he appearan ce of a sin ger and dancer, comedian, feminine performer in male im per sonations, a nd a "one-man" jazz orchestra.

The climax of the entertainm ent program was the pre-r lease showing of t he mot ion picture featuring Laura LaPlante in "Her Big N ig ht."

The dinner was arranged by a committee composed of B. \V. Garrison, ViTarren Mob ley, and C. F. Barlow.

Those present included: Zeke J ohnston and Miss Margaret Mather, S. 'vV. Hall and Mi s Thelma Suttl e, Harvey McLean and Miss Helen Hardie, C. R. Carr, of Davidson and Miss E li zabeth Fowler, C. F. Barlow and Miss Margaret \ iV hitted, A. M. ra irley, Jr., and M iss My rtle Holgraph, Mr. and Mrs. R ichard L. Yo un g, M r. and Mrs. Henry G. Harper, Jr., Mr. a nd Mrs. \ Varren Mobley, B. W. Garri so n and Miss Rebecca Snyder, Herman Hamilton and Miss Clara K in g, Mr. and Mrs. l~alph K Robinson, J. Ralph Rone and M i s Ethel Rea, W. H. Neal, M r . and Mrs. Claud e Carr, S. G. Patterson, Maurice B. W hi te, Reginald P rice, J. B. Hall, K. P. Maddox, J oe Hall, H. T. Powe ll , R. C. Grady, and J. A. Komack, the latter seven being members of the underg raduate chapter at Davidson Coll ege. ~!1;:

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Brother Robert A rgo was host at the a nnual l'i Kappa Phi dinner party in Jasper, Ala., on the even ing of December 28. T he elate chosen was also the occasion of the concert of the U niversity of A labama Glee Clu b in Jasper, and the party was a special complim en t to the members of Omicron Chapter who are in the club.

Brother Argo was ass isted in receiving by his father and mother, Mr. an~! M rs. R. A. Argo, hi s sister, Miss Katheri ne Argo, and M iss E li zabeth Atwood. Gold a nd white was the color scheme throughout the home, and the large dining room was beautifull y decorated in the fraternity's colors and flowers. A delicious a nd appetizi ng din ner was served. T he best of fellowship prevail ed throughout. T here were no formalities, but in a few well -chosen words Edd ie Jay expressed to the hosts the thanks of the guests.

P lace cards at the table showed the names of the following: Norman S. Morgan, of Binningham; "Bob" Young, of Cullman; Claude Vardaman, of Sylacauga; Ka rl Har ri son, of Columbiana, and Leo H. Pou, Neil son O'Rear, Lacy E lli s, Robert M undin e, George O'Rear, Ed and "Bane" I-:Iami lton and Robert Argo, of Jasper, and P ledges Eddie Jay, Utica, N. Y., and Barron Cranford and Eel Mu ncline, J asper.

Henson Heads Columbus Chapter The regular monthly meeti ng of the Columbu s, Ga., A lumni Chapter was held at the office of Gene Dunaway, at 200 H ill Building.

After the usual exchange of yarns, the meeting was ca ll ed to order and the officers for the year we re elected, as follows: R ud olph G. Henson, P i, president; Vernon Hogan, Alph a-Alpha, treasurer; \Vm. P. Robinson, Iota, secretary.

At the annu al Ca.-Auburn football game there a re usually some seventy-f ive or more P i Kapps in Columbu s and a suggestion that we get in touch with the chapte rs at the two schools and see if we could not have a smoker or some kind of get-together on the night before or after the

game. met with approval. 'vVe want thi s to be a yearly affair.

The meeting elate has been changed to the first Monday night of the month at 200 Hill Building. We will be glad to have visiting Pi Kapps with us on these nig hts and if you will give some of us a ring any other time you will be sure of seei ng the sights.

Here's a lin e on the Columbu s P i Kapps: Jake Moon, A lpha-Iota, is a lieutenant in Uncle Sam's Army and is stationed at Fort Benning. \ Vm. P. Robinson, Iota, is superintendent of the Pe rkins Hosiery Mill.

J. E ugene Dunaway, Jr., A lpha-Eta, genera l agent of Reli ance Life Insurance fame, hold s forth at hi s office at 200 Hill Building . Our meetings a re held here.

Bill Bugg, A lpha-Alpha, is with the Georgia Home Insurance Co. Vernon Hogan, Alpha-A lpha, is with the M uscogee Ba nk & Trust Company.

0. C. Br ann en, Eta and Omicron, is one of the promising young physicians of Columbus.

Joe S. "Si" Beall, Lambda, is the president and ow ner of the M uscogee I-:Tatcheries Co. F rank Register, Pi, is athletic coach and instructo r of hi story at the Industrial High School.

Rudely Henson. P i, is with the Central Railroad and says if hi s back yard holds out he will be one of the biggest stock holders.

Louis Robinson, Iota, is with the H um es M usic Company of A lban y and Columbus.

George Clark, Eta, is in the hard ware and mercantile business in Smithvi lle.

Tatum, Gressette, Zeta, is athl etic coach at the La Gr ange I-:Iigh School.

F rank Meacham, Eta, is teaching school at Cataula.

Le Roy Parham, Eta, is the M. D., of Chipl eY路 ~1 1,.;:

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Births To Drother and rrs. George Archi e Martin, Charl eston, S. C .. January 15, 1927, a daughter, Josephine.

To Brother and M rs. Robert J. Holly, Jr., San路 ford, F la .. December 25, 1926, a son , Robert J Holly, III.

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By '1'. T. TucKER 'l'h e At lanta lumni Assoc iati o n gave a banquet on Founders' Day, attended by Iota, P i, and Eta chapter s, which proved to be a great su . ccess. Not onl y did this j oint ce lebratio n of Founders' Day enable active men of the vari ous 1 . b c lapters to become better acquamted ut it was ver y beneficial in enabling the a J umni t . . . . .. p· o prove the1r 1nter est 1n actJvJtJes of 1 Kappa Phi.

J. Chester Reeves, suprem e treasurer, gave a very iJ1t . . . t.:r · ere tmg and 1n stru ct1ve talk on "The .cu story E h . o t .e Fratern1ty." J ohn Barnett made . . a construct ive talk o n the relatwns of a I umn·1 t . , o acttve chapters. rhe few Pi Kapps in At lant a who fa il ed to attend th' . .

IS gather in g would have been espe~l~lall y benefited by th ese talks.

'I' le 0 ff'JCer s elected for J 927 a re: T. T. Ucker 1 . . ' arc 1o n ; \ Va lter Gordy v1ce-pr es1dent and . . ' ' l11ed' · W. Harns, secretary-tr eas ur er. Imn lately after the e lecti o n of officers a fiance co . . .

B . 111 111Jttee was appomted w1th A. VI. arn as 1 · ,, . . f . c 1a1rman. I h eu· dutt es were very aJthfull the . Y performed and aft r goin g through fiJ re_cord s of past expenditures, a definite 1anc1al dr program for the coming year was awn up · '1' 11e expend1tures .

Pro· for 1927 were 'l'h )ected and a budget success full y drafted. ere · fir t port of thi COfT\ mittee was read at our s m eet' · as r Jn g 111 1!J27, the budget, as well ado eco mmend ed lu es, being un a nim o usly Pted.

O ur member hip co mmittee for the ensuing Year ha 1 n1e b c )een made up o f volunteers. A ll n,. ers ask present at the fir t 1927 m eetin g ec1 to p .. quot artJclpate and eac h was assigned a ber ~-of absentees and furnished with m em reps lp cards for their r espective quota. The orts of th. we r · IS 1927 m emb ers hip committee for ~h~:nd ered at an informal s m oker g ive n one!

Purpose, three days before our secmeeting thi year and ha s proven ver y con, n, enclabl e.

Ralph Ure, '26 in comm erce, has been appointed chapter in spector for O regon. Ralph has a position with General Moto rs Acceptance Company, of Portla nd , Ore. Syd ney Jones rece ived a teaching fellowship in entomol ogy at l owa State College and .is studying for hi s master's degree.

Joseph \Vi !cox is assistant entomologist for the experiment station at 0. A. C. Mr. ami M rs. \Vilcox have announ ced the birth of a son.

The engagement of Charles O lson. archon of Alpha-Zeta, to Hazel J lopkins was announced last term. ?vJiss Hopkin s, an A lpha Ch i Omega, is prominent in co llege activiti es, and is a member of several honor societies.

Tony Cannaviria is with the Forestr y Service. Portland is hi s headq uarters.

Ne lson Hohl is stud yi ng for a master' s deg r ee in bacteriology at \ Vas hin gton State Coll ege. ·w illiam Kline is head draftsman at E l Seg und o, branch of Sta ndard Oil ompany.

E dward Dregnie is with the Bell Tel phone Company at Po rtl and , Ore. Philip Begue is a building co ntractor al La Cresenta, Ca lif.

Frank Howard is studying for a doctor's degree in plant pathology at Cor nell Uni versity.

Marshall Sto ne a nd Earl G. Davi s arc with the Government Bureau of E ntomo logy. They are stationed at Houston, Texas.

Byrd Locates tn Charlotte J. Cozby Byrd, I ota (Ga. Tech ), who has been engaged in architectural work in New York City and Ashev ill e, N. C .. moved to Charlotte, J . C., about February 1.

Si nce last summer nroth er Dyrd has been located at Ashevill e, and while he will mai ntain hi s res id ence and main office at Charlotte. he will continue hi s office at Asheville.

Brother and M rs. nyrd with their infant son, have taken an apartment on Royal Court.

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Pi Chapter "Frog" Go rdy is one of the most Joyal m embers of our alumni . He works in Atlanta.

Calh ou n Young, '26, is with the Good ri ch Tire Company of Atlanta.

DuPre Jordan and George McMillin a re traveling aroun d the world .

James \ Vatkin s is studying in the Harvard Medical School. \\'illiam Shands, '26, is studying med ici ne at Wofford Coll ege, in addition to his '~ork at Spartanbu rg.

Edgar \ Vatkin s, '23, is practicing law 111 tlanta.

J. A. Va rnedoe will be with the Savann ah Hig h School, Savann ah, Ga., next year.

Charlotte Alumni Chapter At th e January dinner meeti ng of the Cha roltel (N.C.) Alumni Chapter, held at the South ern i\ lanufactu rers' Club, R ichard L. Young, Kappa (North Carolin a) was elected presi dent to succeed 11 . 'vV. Garri son, Fpsilon (Dav id son ) : Sam lJa ll , A lph a-Eta ( rloward ), was named vice- president; Reginald Price, Eps il on and P si (Dav idson and Corne ll ). sec retary, and \\ ·. H. Nea l, Fpsi lon, (Davidson ), trea urer.

Th e chapter meets for dinn er the second Tuesday in the month at 6:30 P. M., at the Southern Man ufactu rers' Clu b. V isiting brothers are welco med.

Waggoner to Wed i\ nnoun ceme nt is made of t he engageme nt of 'r. R. \ Vaggoner, M u (D uke), of Maco n, Ga., to Miss Martha G uth rie Stanl ey, of A t lanta. 'fhe wedd in g w ill take place th e latte r pa rt of Febr uary.

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[n sympathy w ith a nation-w id e 1 i Kapp campaign to put across a 100 per cent. sale of the new song book and directory of that famous f raternal organi zation the brothers at Horton, Kan., reso lved to be the first 100 per cent. cit)' in America.

At the fir st meeting I ordered a directory.

Schyetz sent it up P. D . Q. Then in a feW month s a statement was rendered for the directory. Tn an apologetic fashion th e money was paid. a long with enough for one of Fritz Sturms' song books. \ \' eeks passed and I received a pathetic letter from P i Kapp headq uarters asking w hy ever)' brother had not felt the impul se of needi ng a directory and song book.

This kind led th e; desire to be the first 100 per cent. Pi Kapp city in America. J stepped to the phone and call ed Brother Harold F . (Dad) Lewi s and took hi s order for the directory and so ng book.

Th ereupon hangs the tale of the fir t 100 per cent. American city, Horton , B rown county, Kas.

Withdraws Aid to Locals Because it was felt that the principal contribution of the Interfrate rni ty Conference to the A mer ican Local Fraternity Conference haS a lready been made. the following reso luti on was adopted by the executi ve com mittee: "Resolved, that the Committee on Local F raterniti es be. and hereby is, directed to e~­ press the sympathetic interest of the conference in the work of the A merican Local Fraternit)' Con fere1~ce but to adv ise the representatives of the A meri can Local Fraternity Conference that this conference could devote no further effort or money in the interests of th e merican r.ocal Fra ternity Conference."

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PULSE OF THE FRATERNITY L ucien Self is the director of the Little Theatre. Brother Self just about control s the whole AMMA CHAPTER is opening the spring dramatics department. Sin ce he has been direcsemester with more fight and honest to tor, he has produced plays with such skill that goodness spirit than it has had for years. . the world he has won mu ch praise, both from the newst Yes ' the 1)Oys 11ave all the r eason 111 paper critics and from universi ty officials. . o support th " g nn s and be generally pleased with \!\falter Hoyle has succeeded in making the acte sphere . ·" 1'11e new hou se now is almost an < ua 1tty.

"California Pelican," a P i Kapp in stitution . The 'l'he typ f I . .

Felly is the most popular college magazine in \vorth v · e· o louse ts certa mly g reat. It was . vatttng yea rs for. " \,Ves" Talley, one of California and Broth er Hoyle manages it. "Walt" 0 llt own 1 . · a umnt, drew the J)lans. " \II/ es" de- is a member of P i Delta Epsilon, national humoretc1ed to I .. ing ma <e the Pi Kapp house the best look- ous fraternity. · campu s. T he new home 1 orma Harrison J. Kolb is president of the sen ior is toonb the Cal'£ til e constructed of brick and is to have a class. This is one of the highest honors that bye ~oaf. Construction will start in April. and can be paid any Californian. "Harry" is the ''p rid ugu t Gamma should be esta blished in her second Pi Kapp to hold thi s office. Brother e of the ca mpus" hou se.

"Reel" Boland was chosen last yea r.

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Near the end of last semester the chapter held a formal dance at the Berkeley Country Club, hi gh in the Be rkeley Hills. Everything was perfect- music, supper, and the girl s.

One of Gamma's greatest assets ~ its mothers' clu b. The mothers are just about the most unselfish littl e g roup in the west.

On Found ers' Day the boys and the alumni were guests of the mothers. A wonderful turkey dinner with all the fixings was served and the mothers spent the whole day in giving th e boys a good time.

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Eps il on retu rn s with new en thu siasm for the new yea r. Vl/e are turning ou r attention to th e many interesting things of 1927 at Davidson. \ \ ' e ann oun ce the name of }{enry T. Powell , '28, of Henderson, N. C., as an addition to Eps il on's roll. Broth er Powell is secretary of Tnterco ll egiate Debating for Davidson College a nd a lso is treasurer of the P hil anthropi c Literary Society. I-Te is again out for the varsity debating team, having been a member last year and a lso a member of the Freshman Intercollegiate Debating team hi s first year . He also is vice-president of the North Ca rolina Forensic Associat ion and is a member of the Dran1atic Club in the coll ege.

N. A. McDona ld , '29, has left school and return ed to hi s home in Timberland, N. C. John Kugler is on the varsity basketball squad this season. I le has already played in several games and is show ing up well. \Ve deeply app reciate all the cards sent to this chapter during the Chri stmas season and in return we sin cerely hope that all the other chapters enj oyed the holidays as much as we. Epsil on also send s its best greetings in wishing all Pi l(apps a ve ry happy and prosperous new year.

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E ta begin s the new year as well as a ne''' scho.lastic term with the brightest of prospectS· Vve are glad to be able to announce the return of four brothers for th e remainder of this year: Joe Puett, Eas tman, Ga.; John Wilson, Caving· ton, Tenn.; Ed Bruce, B run swick, Ga., and Charles Jackson, Bainbridge, Ga. P ledge 'fonl L ittle, of Ocilla, Ga., has also returned, folloW· ing an absence because of illness. Brother Bn1cc will be remembered as one of the most outstand· ing Eta men, hav ing been president of hi s fresh· man class, twi ce manager of the Emo ry Glee Club, president of Pan-Hell enic, and holder 0 ~ other honors. Brother J ackson, E ta, '23, is no'' registered in the School of Theo logy. Brothers Puett and W ilson are sophomores.

E lection of chapter officers was held Januar)' 14. Those elected are: Henry E. Trost, A rchon : Geo. D. Patterson, treasurer; \ Vm. R. Blalock· secretary; John \ iVilson, corresponding secre· tary, and Chas. Forrester, chaplain. The elec· tion of warden was postponed so that one of thC newly initiated freshmen may have the honor· The following were initiated January 16: Joe S hea rer, Atlanta, Ga.; Jimmy Magill, AJbanl'• Ga.; J oe Cannon, Cordele, Ga.; Robert Barfield· Cordele, Ga.; b·ed Pace, Atla nta. Ga. : Joe Davis, Valdosta, Ga.; Peter Wilki;1s, Colquitt.

Ga. These seven men and Charles Forrester· formerly a student at U ni versity of Tennessee; and now affiliated with Emory U niversity antt initiated earlier in the yea r, g ive a total of eigh initiates this year. d Two new pl edges have recently been add~d They are Sam l erry, Columbus, Ga., and t:d Lowenhaupt, Covington, Tenn. These two at~ P ledges Bill Tumlin , Tom Little, Clyde Sinclatf· Roger Little, E el Hughes, are yet uninitiated. d· O ur annu al forma l "Coffee Party" was sch\ ul ecl Janu ary 18. For those who would hard )

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B ut last year our "C o ff ee 1Jar ty" fr om 7 P . M . to 111id gave · ntg 1lt an 1 . d . . that . '. c ( JU gmg f rom tts success, we feel c tt Wtll b I . .

'1'1 . e we com ed agam tht s yea r . the le electi on of IT enry Trost as chairm an of . ns co mtmttee . . cha cu toms a n cI t raeI'tt10 ( ha vmg rge of f 1 Con res 1111en, a nnua l D ad's Day, L ittl e 1111encemen t ) vice-p . . ' etc. , Geo rge Patterson, as 1 Alph e; tdent of Pan -H ellenic a n d sec reta ry of a- 1"-apr P . bee t Ja st, a nd the p ledg ing of A lf Cum 0 Brat] Alpha Kap pa Ps i, a nd the electi on of b eltal ers E F. rede n·c I<, B.la 1oc I< and Trost to n, t· c 'pstl on, "give a lin e" on our acti v ities.

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C.hapter, Geo rg ia T ech, thing have in th lappenmg a nd bigger thin gs a re expected A e nea t· f uture. t present tl b I . ' l e r ot 1e rs are f ac mg th e stern real itt' es of .I . . short] y, mt c -wm ter exams, w ht ch a re due Iota has Origin ~ seventeen p.l edges, n ot a one of our 1 \Ve a un ch hav ing dropped ou t of school. natura II the e t c Y expect to welcom e the m a jori ty o f 0 Febru full brotherh ood near th e middl e of ary A 11 d I t 1ese pledges haven 't been idle.

Pledge have bs all ey Gotj en and Th e01·en Ho rnbuckle lvrari ot eetn pl ay ing on th e T ech Glee Club and Car] p 1e te ore]l es t ras. 1-,)oth th ese a nd P ledges 111 in 'I'e , t , ey a nd TT all F ry h ave been tooting away 1 Ilas bc 1 s f canl Ous I)and . P ledge A lbert Cornell een worl . f staff 0 f <tn g or a place on the bu s in ess the T 1 · e. P ledge Kenn eth IT orton h cc Wtqu as bee n 1 · Waiting t . P ay mg ba ttalion f ootball , a nd is · th e f o g tv e some one a ha rd run f or a berth tn hour n td·osh t rack squad. Pl edge Harold I sen1 a e th e l\J a n·onettes Club ha ndil y. P ledge l ewis R I . p r es tc . Ient o f th e f reshm an c ass at '-Osen . ber bO' tS nt ght school a nd a lso is 0r1 th e sta ff of

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the night school pap er . T he other pledges also have been tr ying ou t f or acti viti es a nd nearl y eve ry one of th em is well up in hi s work.

Th e old er member s a re also active. Mar vin McGraw has been elected to P hi Ka ppa P hi .

He is also a member of T au Beta P i. A I Caesar pl ayed varsity football a nd showed up wel l.

B rothers R eeves and E zell have been working steadil y on th e T cchuiqu e a nd B l1tc Print sta ff s, T ech's weekl y and annual. Brother Canswell was elected to Cotilli on Clu b, and B rother Lloyd is to be ta ken into A lph a Kappa Psi. O thers have been doing t heir part in .l ooking a fter fr eshmen a nd keeping up with their work We a re pl anning a.. f ormaJ cjance to. precede Memori al D ay, whi ch we hop e to ma ke the greatest of our hi sto ry her e.

I ota obse rved Foun ders' Day, D ecember 10, with a banqu et, coopera ting in thi s a ffair with th e Atlanta J\ lumni Ch apter. Vve were present 100 pe r cent. strong .

Kappa Offers Prize to Pledges Wh en the Uni versity of North Ca rolin a opened its doo rs a fte r t he Chr istmas holid ays, onl y thirteen acti ve men return ed to Kappa char ter, th e t wo E by's hav ing left the O ld orth S ta te to enter a bu s in ess school in P hil adelphi a.

Th ese two brothers will be g reatl y mi ssed by th e chapter, Drother \i\forth E l y being, a t the tim e of hi s leav ing, bo.th treasurer a nd a rchon, while 11roth er Clyde E by was a lso ve ry active in f raterna l a nd campu s a ff airs.

A noth er Kappa man joined the ra nks of Gold en Fl eece, senior order, a nd th e hig hest campu s honor w hich m ay be awarded a Ca rolina man . when J ohn F razier Glenn, Jr. , pres ident of the Y. M. C. A., manager of track, a nd hold er of a long li st of oth er honors, was ta pped by thi s order a t its unexpected f all tapping.

Intramural ba ketba11 is now occupying the a ttention of th e more athl eti cally in clined broth ers. Droth er \ i\f i11i ams is m anager of th e team, and f or the first game, played aga inst th e Sig ma Tu's, a nd h ad a strong team out to defeat th em by a w id e m a rgin.

Hugh L . Merritt, of Mount A iry, N. C., has been pl edged a nd is expected to be initi a ted soo.n.

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Tn boxing, Pledge Overton is show ing up well for the middl eweight division on the freshman team , and Joe Bobbitt is fighting for a place in the varsity bantamweight class.

P ledge Hill Bobbitt has been placed on the art staff of Th e Buccaneer, Carolina's comi c magazi ne. He has had several creditabl e drawings in recent issues of that publication.

T o stimul ate campu s activity and scholarship among the p.ledges, a prize, to be determined later, has been offered that freshman who. by a vote of the chapter, is adjudged the best allround pledge of the chapter for the three month s ending Ap ril l. Competiti on is expected to run keen in thi s since seve ral freshmen have already e\·idenced scholasti c ability and others a re coming to the front in general campu s activiti es. ~~~

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M u co mm e nced the "rushing" seaso n with a spirit that promises success. The foll owin g have been pledged: J ohn Leach, Washington, N. C.; Everett Teague, Madison, N. C. ; F reel Roy ster, Henderson, N. C.; Jam es Fly, Wal ter Valley, Mi ss., and Wallace Taylor, Greensboro, N. C. At the prese nt, Kappa, Mu, a nd 'f a u are contemplatin g a dan ce som etim e soo n. As yet no definite arrangements have b ee n made, but a meeting o f th e co mmittees will be held to cons id er plans for the "frolic." Brothers Co lt and Parker are to represent Mu at thi s meeting.

The officer s for th e next se mes ter have been elected. . Brother Bundy was reelected as a rchon ; Brother Bright succeed s Brother Shipl ey as secretar y. The office of warden is filled by Brother Cotton; Brother Weatherby is s hifted from hi s offic e of warden t o t he n ew role of chaplain. The offi ces of correspondent and hi st orian are fill ed b y Brother Parker . Brother Parker continu es hi s duties as trea surer.

Brother Weatherby was recently awarded a letter in football. Brother Shipley is work· in g-o ut with th e basketball sq u ad . Brother Borland is managin g· the basketball team and Brother Bunting and Pledge Leach are oul dail y competing for Brother Borland's man· agerial position.

Mu Chapter is planning on holdin g its annual initiation and banqu et on or about February 1 G. From all indi cations we shall be ab le t o initi a t e the entire group of new pl edges of thi s year, includin g Pledge Bizzell who haS returned this year after b ein g forced to leave schoo l on account of illness.

We have the honor of welcoming Brother Blackburn to Duke. Brother Blackburn is ~ pro fessor of E ng li sh h er e, a nd com es to us from Furman U ni ver sity and Wofford College.

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The men who have been selected to direct thC destinies of N u Chapter for th e coming semester a re: E rwin Domeier, archon; Torgny K nudseil· secretary ; Reuben M aaske, treasurer ; Donald Spiker, hi stori an; Neil A dams, warden, and Ralph Thorell, chaplain . Carleton Hutchins will .. -: t as cashi er, hi s duty being to assist the steward .

The Nebraska Pi Kapps celebrated Founder"' Day by a banquet at the chapter hou se. rrhe presence of a la rge number of alumni and the rece ipt of telegram s from many who could not attend, made the affair a huge success.

A Christmas party was held at the chapter hou se December 17. Th ere will be no chapter formal this year, due to a ruling that allows frW ternities but one formal every other year. Pla 11 ' are being formulated for th e sp ring party, which will take place in March.

Of g reat interest at present is the inte rfr~­ ternity basketball tournam ent. Th e thirty-si~ fraternities are di vided into six leagues and the winners in each league a re to form another 1 group . The Pi Kapp cagers have won four o~' 111 11 o f fiv e games thu s far and are slated to ' in th eir ]eague.

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S loan w l I . . freshman 1o mace h1 s num era l 111 ' f ootball 1 t f .

1 track. pas a I .I S expe~ted to win anoth er in and R1chardson a re members 0f the fr· un1phrey h re es man basketball squad and from all ports a1· N · ' e gomg pretty hot. sch tl.l ~h~pter P i Kapps point with pride to their the o aJ. shl]) r ecorcI f or the past semester. At d . lllJd-senles t er t 11ere were · on ly ten hours of e1Jnqu en .

E " . . sibl e f . CJ ~s. "very B1g B roth er " 1s respon01 w01.1 .. hJ s pledge's standing, and the plan is ' 1ng o t · · u 1n fme shape.

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16, ? emJ-annual electiOn held December 19 6 a sen· - ,. Clarence \iVilli am s, of A nni ston, Ala., lOr Ill th I 1 "Robert . e , ~w sc 10ol, was elected archon.

1 llrer Jj Pa k, 1 roy, A la., was r e-elected treasna111~da1~~r\Vallace Lindsey of Butler, A la. , was elected a second term as secretary. Others Nonn Were: George Bennet, alumni secretary; an Mo· char)Ja · tgan, warden ; Karl C. Harrison , N0 Ill ' and A · p · M"1ze, J r. , correspondent.

1 are b w. t l at th e 1111"d-term exams are over, plans emg · · · 0 . made t o 1111t1ate the freshmen . lllJcron · 1'his .

IS P1a1111ing a big dance March 4. be tlle f.1rst entertamm · ent of its kind given wl]t .

'J'h 111 the new hom e. omas J .

Ca]ifo. . ~yce and D1ck Hamner made the IIlJ a tnp .I Whi ch t" . Wit 1 the fam ous Crimson Tide in p lee] Leland -Sta nford on New Year's Day asadena I 1 '· rot 1er Joyce was manager o f the te '!·eservamb and .:p:> ro tl· 1er TT n.a mner was one of the . e acks.

B1]] Yo 1 · basket] u :g IS pl aying center for the va rsity )a 11 f1ve tl · on the t 11 s yea r . It is hi s second year tain-e] eam and clue to the failure of th e cap. th e man most ehg1 . .ble fOr caect t .to retu.1n, B"lt 1. IS the sa, p am Bob Young, anoth er Pi Kai)J) of ' me f . did not . am!l y. was th e captain -elect, but he chance ~ e,tu~·n. George O'Rear has a good the Pre )emg elected manager at the close of sent season.

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Frank Everitt, our archon ; George J-Im·din , for four yea rs guard and end on the football team; Kenneth Campbell , for four years quarterback; Jeff Stacy, E ugene L ind sey, and Julian l-Tovis are the P i Kapps who are leav ing us by graduation this year.

H arc! in is aga in coaching the freshm an basketball team. U nder hi s direction the freshm en won the State champi onship last winter.

Dy a un anim ous choice, Brother Bass was elected to captain of thi s year's basketball va rsity.

J oe Dekle is manager of basketba 11.

Howard Smith has moved to Minn eapoli s.

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Rho Chapter has, in th e estimation of its members, reached the peak of its seven yea rs of ex istence on the \i\Tashington and Lee U ni versity camp us. The progress made during t he last four school month s of 1926 and the first two of 1927 has been remarkable. In no other o f th e seven years have the members of the chapter held as many honors and honored the name o f Pi Kap pa Phi as now.

C. H. Wi lson, A rchon, is one of the leaders.

I ,rother \Vil son is the possessor of a varsity monogram in track, is a member of P hi A lpha Delta legal fraternity, and r ecentl y passed th e Vi rgini a state bar examination.

E uc Reeves . who receives hi s law diploma in June, and hold s the honor of having pledged a total of 192 neop hytes for Pi Kappa Phi clming hi s coll ege ca ree r, is again one of Rho's leaders in campu s activiti es. l:Te is president of the clra-

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W. R. Bishop is p.\aying hi s fo urth year as a member of the Southern Collegians, university orchestra, is a member of the T roubadours, and finis hes in J une.

VI/. M. Jenn ings and J . L . J ennings will receive IJ. S. degrees in J une. J. L. J ennings will receive his va rsity monogram in track thi s spri ng.

George 'vV . Summe rson, who is con1pleting hi s f ift h year at \1\fashi ngton and Lee, will also graduate in J une. J-re won va rsity monograms in track and w restli ng three consecutive yea rs.

He is a member of Kappa Beta P hi , social fra. tern ity.

The juniors in the chapter are close on· the heels of the seni ors in winning college honors. 'vV ilton M. Garri son was recently chosen ed itor- in-chi ef of the Ring-tum Phi. Brother Ga rrison is also on the editori al boar d of The Min ll, and assoc iate edi tor of The Cal·y x, uni ve rsity annual. He is a member of Sigma Upsi lon, hono rary li terary f raterni ty; P i Delta E psil on, honorary journ ali sm fra terni ty; ed itor-inchi ef of Pideltanrus, organ of Pi Delta Epsil on ; member of P i A lpha N u, honorary social fraterni ty; assistant busi ness manager of the T roub adours; nwnber of 1927 .fin als committee; member of the Fancy D ress Ball f igure; holder of the uni versity poetry prize; treasu rer of th e chapter.

Robert D. Powers is promin ent in campus publi cation work also, upholding the busin ess encl. He is advertising manager of T he Calyx, circulation manager of T he M ·i nll, and subscri ption manager of the Ring-tum Phi. He is also a member of P hi Alpha Delta, P i Delta Epsil on, Alpha Sigma, honora ry literary f raternity.

John Bell Tow ill recently was awarded hi s varsity football monogram. He played end and sta rred in the games against V. P. I. and Maryl and. Brother Towill is a member of P hi Delta Phi, member of the executive commi ttee of the ·w ashington and Lee student body; member of

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B. K. Bull ard is uph olding the scholastic bon' . ors of th e f raternity again thi s yem··"'and is a member of the Biological Society.

Har vey B. Henlin e recently return ed to school in a new McFarlan custom built special roadster. l:·{e is a member of Kappa Beta P hi , and is secretary of the chapter. }{enry L. Dow.ling is a member of KapJl 3 Beta P hi .

A. H. McLeod, who was archon th e fir st terlll thi s yea r, is a member of P hi Alpha DeJta, Kappa Beta P hi , and was a member of the varsity football squ ad thi s fall.

1~h e sop homores of th e chapter are fast con1ing to th e fore thi s year and proving their worth· Juli an H. Black will be awarded hi s varsit)' monogram in box ing thi s year and stands a good chance of bein g elected captain of th e team next yea r. H e is a membe r of th e busin ess staff of th e R ing-tnm Phi, and P i Alph a N u .

D. S. TI os tetter was a member of the varsil)' football squad thi s fall , is alumni secretary of the chap ter and a member of W hite F riars, hotl' orary social f raternity.

N. Dawso n Hall is soph omore house manager and is on the edi torial boa rd of the R1:ng- l'll~ 11 P hi,· was a member of th e T roubadour cast ttl th e Th anksgiving show; member of th e fin ance commi ttee of the sophomore cotilli on, and is ll promi sing candidate for th e t rack team. \ 1\f. N. Holl oway is a member of the varsit)' basketball squad and was chairm an of th e re· ception committee of th e sophomore cotilli oil· and a nwnber of th e Troubadour chorus in the Thanksgiving show. d W . G. Sargent is a member of th e track sgua and is expected to make a monogram thi s spring· T . R. T yler and R obert Welch , who trans· £erred from Chi chapter t hi s fall, ha ve beeO in eligibl e for athl eti cs thi s year, bu t expect tO go strong next year.

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0 t 1ando PI H ' .. tanooa-a , · a.; owell Snodgrass, of Chatport ,T, ' 1 enn · ; \i\"11" t tam Colbert of ShrevePle j'a.; Tr enry Tiull ard . o f Lake \ Vales F la cges J ones I S .. . t~ u 111 "ra ] . a nc ~ nodgrass ma de th eir 15 a'" ' 5 tn fr esh man f ootball tht· s fall out of 'Wa rded . . .

Rh o cha];ter h . tnents p ouse tS un dergo mg tmp roveta in s · f ' 00111 s have been refini shed, new curor · 1ows ]n trch3Sed a new . hous. e wmc l1n 1t1s Wtc-:: .. ' 1 p bought a natt ope purchased, new rugs ' and a ne ]"] to the w t Jra ry tab le was th e p resent 1 'i'h c 1apter f rom tI1e pl edges. e chapter .

P:tper TJ expects to 1ssue a chapter newsDroth' !e R hodian, early in Feb ru ary, with H ers A Ga t-ri son , R'-eeves and H all in charge. · · Ament 1 · . . .

Versity o f A I ' w 10 t.s now attendtng th e Omfo r the 'T'h aba~11 ~· t ht s year came back to Rh o \\'"tl _ank sgtvmg d ances. t 1 tht s g 1 deserved] . a axy of honors, h .ho now hold s a frate rn 't· y 11tgh pl ace among th e t wenty national t tes on tl \iH I . anc] is still ) 1_e ·vas 1mgton and Lee cam pus, for Pi K I ushmg ahead for new laurels and · appa P hi. ' ~l'€:.

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· Chri st mas 11oltdays a t hing of the past, Chi Ch apter no 1 to take a . w 1as a breathing spell in whi ch L n Jnventory .. arry Bern . · .

111ates to at d has been elected by ht s team1ead th "M d I Versity th e a -Iatter s" of Stetson U nigles. ~"? ugh th eir next year's foo tball strug· ·on La rry stoo d ottt all day111g . 'at tll e p t']ot posttt anc1 faith£ un ng t he past season as a' tru stwo rthy l:'v u 1 leader . .t:. ery news year t he D eL and Daily N eivs pays a ath] Paper tribute to th e outstanding scholarete at Stetson. F or t h e second year Broth er

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Berna rd has been chosen fo r t his honor. Does he deser ve it? \ i\1 ell how do five 's in f r eshman law sound to you ?

Coach McQuill an says: "Lar ry Bern ard is the best quarterback I ever p roduced . TJ e is t he best general on the field I have had the pleasu re to watch."

Hi s r ating as a scholar was heartily approved by hi s p rofessors. He and Br oth er E ustice have just been pl edge d · to the <I? A 6. national legal f raternity.

Broth er E ust ice has been chosen as altern ate capta in ·of foo tball.

Chet F reeman, who hail s f rom t he same town as Larry, i"s another popul ar person. He is captain of Stetson's basketball team on whi ch Chi is alm ost certain to have fo u r men, who are Br oth ers F reeman, Bern ard , Smi th and E ustice.

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F reel Owens went clown to see hi s girl in Miami during th e Thank sgiving holidays, and came back with a wi fe. Fred and i\'1rs. Dec Keen O wens are now living cl own town in a coZ! littl e apa rtment. We certainly did enj oy the ciga rs he gave us.

Brother Carlton was forced to leave us for the tim e being. He is wo rking clown in Lake· land , and we're wishing him the best of luck· I rath er Griffin of Lambd a chapter. is mat1' ager of the Cocoa-Cola Bottling \ Vo rk s of l)e· Land .

Broth er Doug K ing still hold s the tenni s chant· pi onship of the school.

Broth er Chan J ohn son is wo rking ha rd ~, ' Iepi busin ess manager of the annu al and as prestC a nd soloist of the Glee Club and pres id ent of thC junior class. Th e P i .Kapps have held th prc"t· dency of the Glee Club for th e past f ive ye:tr;: l'hi J ames Carr has been elected president o f .

Sigma E ta, busin ess fraternity.

Sledge T atum , loyal Geo rgia crac ker. is 11.1\ personating T y Cobb on a bi g i\ Ioot Court' trt <l in the Law Coll ege .

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By E. F. N~uP:v:R'l' "ED" HENDERSON ' tl'

Brother Freeman is well known on the campus as a pi ani st, and was one of th e two entertainers at th e Pi Beta P hi's big progressive dinn er party several weeks ago.

Brother Smi th was last year's basketball captain. Brother E ustice was captain of our last year's f reshm an basketball team, whi ch was composed solely of Pi Kapps.

Eel I-:Tenclerson is president of th e seni or class of Stetson U ni versity. He has the uni que di stin ction of having been elected president of hi s class fo r each of hi s fo ur years in coll ege. H e is also p resident of T heta A lph a P hi , honorary c\ ram a tic f raternity.

Hrother Sims, a rchon, president of the Junior law class, was awarded a season pass to the Dreka T heater fo r w riting the best criti cism on "The Fourth Co mmandment."

F ive years ago A lph a Gamm a Beta w as 1 . phi· sta lled as O m ega chapter of P i Kap pa .

S in ce th at tim e we h ave left b ehind us tht cha ract eri s tics of a local fr at ernity a nd t al{e;: on m a ny n ew traits and ideal s. We h ave \ ready m oved into a new hom e a nd soo n hoP to build on a n ew site. ,, d· This fall we decid ed t o initiate our ~ 1 va nce ment Movem ent" b y buy in g a neW ~1 0 upon whi ch to build a home. Since the 1 "fr a t erni ty r ow" h as b ee n a lm os t done a\'l'a~ w ith, du e t o th e di st a nce from th e can,ptl·'1 . · Se' r e!'~oO we h ave sec ured an 1d eal locatiOn. hundred feet from u s will b e the n ew $200,0 c Presby t eri an Church and on th e sat~ tri a ng le w ill be th e n ew hom es of <l> K w, /:>. "; ~ T ~~ K ~ a nd ~ ~ E fr at erniti es. Pl a ns ha·Jt btl I b ee n ma de for a $60,000 h ouse t o be within th e next fi ve years.

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C E thi · · Backu m a d e L'ttt I e 'l'h eater Plavers Year 'l'l · · fro 111 th "P le annual production i taken . C1 · e oor u t , " w h.tc I1 I1as been pla)'lllg . tn 1 tcago · S R E l' s tnce eptember of last year. a! 0 · . : '-ector made the fencing team. He i 'tce-presid f cnt o the \tVeb ter Literary Society.

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ning of the year the motto, "Help the Freshie."

The result of that policy combined with honest conscientiou work on the part of the freshmen is that all are in good scholastic tanding. and a large class is to be initiated aft r examination .

The Tulane Glee Club gave its first concert of the ea on at the E lk ' Club, January 14.

Brother J a mes l\lcCain a nd Pledge George I-lop kin each sang a solo, which receiv cl fal'orable comment in the press. llrother McCain is a well-known tenor, having ung in some of the principal theaters in town on several occasions.

Pl edge Hopkins is a bass and come from Louisiana Coll ege where he was a member of the Glee Club . lla ketball is now holding the center of attention in the ath letic field a nd Griff Jones is certain to place on the varsity squad. In TuJanc's opening game of the season agai nst Sewanee. he did good work.

I l enry Ogden. without a word of warning. has sudden ly turned Thespian, and appeared in the sta r role of the first presentation of the Tulane Dramatic Gui ld , entitl ed, "The :vrayo r and the :\Janicurist,'' a comedy 1y George .\de .

Clancy Latham. geni al chapter inspector. has been seriously ill. having uffered an attack of pneumonia. I lowever, he is quite recovered a nd out of danger and the bunch wi11 be 1·ery happy to see him about once again.

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0 Verc 0111 e tl that. freshmen might be helped to IVh' · tch the le dtffi cu 1ttes and discouragements ve rstty · tl Y meet in tl1etr · f'trst year tn · the um·, 1e Upper I c as m en adopted at the begin-

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'·If winter comes, can mid-terms be far behind?" \\inter is here and exam a re just arriving. The de ire for knowledge eem to have gripped the chapter and brothers imm ersed in torts or swamped in calcu lu s may be tumbled over in any corner of the house; the cratch of pen and the cli ck of typewriters add to the atmosphere of feveri h activity. Chri stmas is a pleasant half-remembered dream.

"Red" Smith , capta in of the 'Gato r quintet, and his doughty hoopsters have returned to the hea rth side after a holiday campaign through the Torth in which they covered 3,000 miles and played nine games.

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O ur pledges give promise of coming through the g reat mid-sea'son struggle unscathed and the details of th e February initi ation are now being perfected. A ll of the a lumni in the state a re to be in vited to the ceremoni es that will extend ove r a period of three clays, terminating pro.bably with a formal banquet.

The inter-f ratern ity basketball team is being whipped into shape by "Red" Smith and Tommy Owen , the latter being our stella r halfback of g ridiron fame. \Vith two pilots of this calibre our team should sail far toward the port of victory.

Founders' Day was obse rved fittin gly by A lpha-Epsi lon, colors being worn a nd that evening an informa l banqu et was held at a downtown restaurant. After the mea l s vera! short talks were given by members of th e chapter.

Officers for the comin g se meste r were elected at ou r regul a r meeting January 11 as follows: Sam C. McCo rmi ck, a rchon ; J. D. Renfroe, Jr., treasurer ; Joseph H. Pearce, Jr ., Secretary; Charli e Crozier, alumni secretary; I-Iamilton Houlw are, chapla in ; Frank Thrower, warden and hou se manager.

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Charles \ iVeber is A lph a-Zeta's representatil:e on the va rsity debate team. "Chu ck," who 15 making a name for him self in forensics, is eJ(· pected to win hi s letter this term.

B rothers Richmond and Kallancler are both on the ed itorial staff of the Anmtal Crnise. 'fhC job of art ed itor has devolved on the former: and the latter holds down the position of alu111 111 ed itor. !1oth a re members of the forestry clttb• and "Hec" Richmond is also a member of thC Can ad ian Club. i\ lph a-Zela has been unu suall y fortunate in its pledges this yea r. Most of the men ar e protll' ine1:t in camJDS activities. and a re proving th;tl th ey will be worthy Pi Kapps in the future. .

I ledge Edward Thurston was a member ~I the fres hm an football team last fall , making ht" num eral at gua rd . .

Ranson Me inke, ex-Sault St. Ma ri e hocke) sta r, is treasurer of th e freshman class, and , member o f the freshm an basketba ll squad.

P ledge Th eodore K lin e made one of the best reco rds of any freshman in cross country Jasl fall. He is also a member of the college orcl1 estra.

111 P ledge Kenn eth Martin , latest additi on fr0 the sunny south, is another cinder artist. .

111 Pi Kapps won three hard games in a roW . 11 intramural basketball last term, and for a tt 11 . looked like championship contenders. 'fhetf first defeat was at the hands of Phi Delta 'fhet~· 1 and from then until the close of the season th ·ct 1 11 team suffered a number of set-backs wI

With seventeen m embers and fourteen pledges in coll ege this semester, Alph a-Zeta is looking kn ocked them out of the championship. forward to an unusuall y successful winter term.

P la ns for an informal winter term da nce ar: Charles Olson, a rchon, and Max E ngland , well under way. This will be simil a r to the ]aS m anage r, are the "guiding lig hts" fcir all good term " hop," whi ch was staged in the coJiege men of A lpha-Zeta. Brother E nglan d is asso- gard ens. ciate ed itor of the Annual Cntise, the yearl y pub~~~ ~~~ ~!~ ~· ~ ~ li cation of the school of forestry. · I-:le is also a member of the forestry football team, and is .Marriages social chairman and athleti c manager of th e forestry club.

Th omas P. Cr awford, I ambda (Geo rg ia), ' 2 ~; "Bob" Peacock, Pendl eton cowp uncher, is · to M iss nn e Ruth Moore, Phi :Mu, Decet11bet promin ent on the managerial staff of th e 31, 1926, at Decatur, Ga. They are living ~~ 0. A. C. Daily Barometer. "Bob" recently won Gain esville, Ga., where Brother Crawford '· the A lpha-Delta Sigma loving cup for having th e with the Metropolitan L ife Insurance CompanJ'·

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I ames 'l' J elected ·. ackson, of Ashfo rd, A la. has been president 0 f I ' Brather Jack t l e stud ent body of :Howard. ren.

1,111. son succeeds B rother Clyde T. \Vartl1e coli S electio11 was one of the hottest that R . ege had experienced.

1other B II congrat e and Brother Ca rroll a re to be 1 they hall ateld for the splendid way in which . 've land led tl1e G.lee Clubs under the cIJrectio the hol'nd of Brother Pat Alderman. Preceding northe 1 ays the c Iu bs made a tour through the 1)lans rn a Part 0 f t I1e state with g reat success. , re no I . w )e mg made to give the fo lks of the 1\th . 'g1c Cit . . . at the J f Y a 1eal entertamment 111 the sp rin g . tot e ferson TI 1eater, a fter which the clubs 1V1ll 11 Me 1ory1 . the Southland with their gang of " 11a 1,er Hobb)'" \ . this 1ast yea r iV .n g ht, who 11as 1)een at \1. ]\A,, . ] .

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I a-~ta h I · ast meet' ' e d Its election of offi ce rs at the f 111g .. , or the . ' ree ectmg the same set of officers lTayden lM est of tll e year : Earl Carrol, A rchon ; treasurer. cDanal , secretary; Jam e T. Jackson , 0

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One term of schoo l has been cr ed itably passed a nd all A lph a-T hetas are sti ll in the race.

During the past term seven pie lges have become active P i Kapps. T hey are: Chester N. Walker, Roya l Oak, M ich. ; Walter B. Dernberger, Pontiac, Mich .; A lb ert C. Morley, Buc hanan, M ich.; Harold C. Sprague, Hillsdale, Mich.; K lin e Sprague, Hillsdale, Mic h.; M . Ke nn eth Trapp, Benzonia, Mich., and Reuben Washburn , Benton Harbor, Mich .

T hi s term we expect to ini t iate the follow. Beckwith, Centervill e, in g pledges: Ralph Mich.; Roy C. Brigham, Kalm azoo, MiC h. ; Lee F is her, Charlotte, M ich.; Gerald Rouse, S helby, Mich.; Donald Strate, Detroit, Mich ., and Robert \ V. Dea ring, Detroit, Mich. Mr. R. E. I oree, a faculty member, is also to be taken in as a n ho nora ry memb er.

For some time plans have been made to remodel our ch apter ho use a nd now our hopes are abo ut to be r eali zed. All arrangeme nts have been completed a nd work has already co mm enced. A new heat in g syste m is to be installed, a number of new rooms and a shower bath added and the dining parlor is to be completely r emode led. :More interest is being taken in campu activities this year and a number of P i Kapps are taking an active part. R iva lry was keen in the try-outs for the debating team but Harry Smith has survived and now has a place on the varsity debating team. Harlow Drigham has m ade the M. S. C. Glee Club and is also takingan active part in college dramatics. Doth Freel Hodge and Louie Raymond are on the hockey squad. \1\Talter Dernberger is on the varsity swimming team and Kline Sprague i out for wrestling. Kenneth Trapp is in lin e for two si lver cups, having roll ed the highest in divid ual sco re and maintained the highest average in the interfraternity bowling meet. · lpha-Theta P i Kapps rated well sc holastically, h av in g stood third am o ng the men's fraternitie . Dur in g the pa t term Herman G nodtke went A lph a Zeta, honorary agr icu l-

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News from Alpha-Iota Alpha-Iota held its election and the followin g men were elected: W. C. Hurt, archon; R. D. Dean, treasurer; 0. C. Thigpen, secretary; J. I. Heinz, hi storian; M. K. Wilkins, chaplain; 0. B. Carter, warden.

The social event every one is looking forward to in Auburn is the Junior Prom. 'Jle are to act as one of the hosts to the visiting gi rl s. Zez Confrey and hi s orchestra from Chicago will play.

Our first bulletin was published last month.

Its name is The Alo ta. It contained all the news in a condensed form. Brother Hurt is eel i tor-in-chief.

We initiated one of our old Tau Kappa Phi alumni, Brother ]. A. Striplin. Brother Striplin is now working in Florida as an architect and came back to visit us. As he was not ab le to atte nd the in stallation and this was hi s first chance to be initiated, he was received during January.

The mid-year exams started January 21.

Vve have held the hi g hest scholastic standing in past years and we are going to try to maintain this record.

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When the Tigers left the "Fairest Village of the Plains," there were usually three less Pi Kapps in town. They were Brothers Ingran1, Cunningham and Holtzclaw. Two of them made letters and the other, Brother Holtzclaw, stands a big chance for next year.

Cunningham, who held down a big job at defensive tackle and offensive guard, played more than any other man on the squad.

Ingram played at end and he was do~Tl 1 sp illing the interference and catching passes right along. This was Brother Ingram's first year on the varsity and he has a fine record, havin g been m entioned on several All· Southern teams.

Holtzclaw, while not playing as much as the others, has a fine prep school and fresh· men record behind him and he can't fail to come out on top before leaving.

This year Alpha-Iota was represented otl the coaching staff by Brothers Brown and Green. Brother Brown is the head coach of freshman football, basketball and basebaii team s. He has the unique distinction of hav· in g made letters at both state school s, Auburn and the University of Alabama.

Brother Green, better known to the foot· ball world as "Pea" Green, is coaching the Lee County High School and also assisting Brother Brown in coaching the rodents. .

Our freshmen, who have been doing the 1r part in athletics, Neophytes Adams, White a nd Lester, made the freshman football sq u~d and Adams has made the basketball sq uad·

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5-23-26 ade Dudley G 1 _nve, Fort Wayne, Ind. t l-£itcbcock S e 1rt llger.......... · ........ 5-23-26 Ylc Willis • o~th Dakota.

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ALPHA-BETA T11/ane University Richard Edwin Rankin ....................... 10-23-26 4514 Prytania St., New Orleans, La. ALPHA-DELTA University of Wasilingto11 Donald Franklin PennelL ................... 10-30-26 318 East 59th St., Seattle, Wash.

Walter Douglas Willix .. ................ 10-3 0-26 8945 Wallingford, Seattle, Wash.

ALPHA-EPSILON U11ivcrsity of Florida Hugh Ashley Bruce .... ..................... 11·13-26 Kelsey City, Fla. Herbert Frazier ........................._ ......... 11-13-26 Mulberry, Fla. Earley DeWitte McFarland .............. 11-13-26 Odessa, Fla. ALPHA-ZETA O•·cgou A gn:cu/tl.ral College Vernon Keith Keane ........................... 10-23-26 Hubbard, Oregon.

Robert Charles Peacock ................. -. 10-23-26 209 Garden St., Pendleton, Ore. Nicholas William Ruhmann .............. 10-23-26 Vernon, British Columbia Harold Weaver .................................. 10-23-26 Pi Kappa Phi, Corvallis, Ore.

ALPHA-ETA lf oward Co/lcge Edward Early Beason ........__....... 11· 1-26 Demopolis, Ala. Williams Newton .........- ..................... 11· 1·26 Renfro Hall , Howard College, Birmingham, Ala. ALPHA-IOTA A /abama Polytcclmic l11stitrtte Richal'fl Thomas Holtzclaw .............. 10- :l-26 409 Washington Ave., Montgomery, Ala. Robert Crawford JJrown ......_ .......... 10- 3-26 Auburn, Ala. David Brown ......................................... 10· 3-26 Bayview, Ala. Riley Evans Cunningham .................... 10· 3-26 Somerville, Ala. Carson Edmon Greene .... __ .............. 10· 3-26 Bellwood, Ala. Rupert Ingram ..................... _ ............ 10· 3-26 P. 0. Box 34, W'etumpka, Ala. Robert Baker Jones ............................. 12-15-26 Tuskegee, Ala. William Petty Hixon ........................... 12-15-26 1611 East Cervantes St., Pensacola, Fla. Harry Lowe Fox .........................._......... 12-15-26 1804 Kirby Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn.

James Aaron Stripling.......................... 1- 4-27 717 Palmetto St., Montgomery, Ala.

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DIRECTORY PI KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY Found ed at the Coll ege of Chadeston, Charleston, S. C., December 10, 1904. lncorporated under the laws of the State of South Carolina, December 23, 1907.

FOUNDERS SIMON FOGARTY, JR., 151 Moultrie Street, Charleston, S. C. ANDREW ALEXANDER KROEG, JR., Chapter Eternal, February 8, 1922.

LAWRENCE HARRY MIXSON, 217 East Bay Street, Charleston, S. C.

GENERAL OFFICERS SUPREME COUNCIL Supreme Archon GEORGE D. DRIVER 1309 Telephone Building Omaha, Nebraska

Su7JJ·eme Tr·easut·m· J. CHESTER REEVES 342 West Peachtree Street Atlanta, Ga.

Supt·eme H istot·ian RAYMOND B. NIXON Emory University, Ga.

S:Mn·eme Sect·etar·y ELMER N. T URNQUIST 5676 Ridge Avenue Chicago, Illinois

Supreme Editot· RICHARD L. YOUNG 2 Ashland Avenue, Midwood Manor Charlotte, N. C.

THE CENTRAL OFFICE Room 12, 39 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C. Telephone 2864 GEO. E. SHEE1'Z, Executive Secretar·y All communications of a genet·al natw·e should be sent to the Centml Office, and not to individuals.

DISTRICT CHAPTER INSPECTORS

Fir·st Distt·ict K. C. LAUTER 2709 East 19th Street Brooklyn, N. Y.

Second District R. R. RusH 608 Windsor Avenue Roanoke, Va. Thit·d District KENNETH M. BRIM Greensboro, North Carolina Fout·th Distr·ict J. CHAM. FREEMAN Elford Agency Spartanburg, South Carolina Fifth D-istrict T. R. WAGGONER 405 Macon Nat'l Bank Bldg.

Macon, Georgia 8-ix t h Distr-ict GEO. B. EVERSON Palatka, F!-Jrida Scholar·ship Committee DR. WM. E. EDI~GTON, Chairman 633 Russell Street West LflFavP.tte. Indi an a

Seventh District LEO H. Pou Jasper, Alabama

T welfth District DR. J. H. ROBINSON Wesley Memorial Hospital Okl a homa City, Okla.

Eighth Distr·ict CLANCY A. LATHAM 1201 Hibernia Bank Building New Orleans, La.

Thir·teenth Distt·ict PAUL S. BOREN 2614 Dwight Way Berkeley, California

Ninth Distr·ict WADES. BOLT Otterbein, Ind .

Fonrteenth District WALTER R. JONES 7034 Sycamore Avenue Seattle, Washington

T enth Dist?·ict V. R. FLEMING 306 North State Street Champaign, Ill.

Fifteenth District J. W. ROBINSON 1651 East Grand Blvd.

Detroit, Michigan

Eleventh District RALPH E. ANDERSON 919 Terminal Building Lincoln, Nebraska

Sixteenth District RALPH T. URE 775 East 17th Street, N. Portland, Oregon

STANDING COMMITTEES Advisor·y Architect J. COZBY BYRD 611 Flat Iron Building Asheville, N. C.

Ritual Committee 11 DR. J. FRIEND DAY, Chai1·1na University of Alberta Edmonton, Alta., Canada

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lit~O~~ :-~The add ress following the name of the college or univer sity in eve ry case is t he official nddt·ess of th e Chapt er . ~tlllg th e address indicates the date o n whic h the Ch apter meets. Officers a re requested to inform th e Executive St>c· 111 Y of any c ha nges takin g place, eithe r in personnel of officers or in dates of meetings.

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R~a~~~ay evening.

NICJiOLAW.DACHURCH, Archon.

S OSCHER, S ecretarlj.

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J. !( R RIGHT, A1·chon. ' OBERTS, JR., S ec?·etary.

GAMMA Di .

2614'D ~trJCt 13-University of California.

Berkel Wight ':Nay. Mo d ey, Cahfornia.

J. t{ evening.

J. LEIG~:KHARDT, A?·chon. .

ON AMES, JR., Sec?·eta?'Y· EPSILON D' .

Box in Jstnc~ 3-Davidson College.

Thursday' DavJ~son, N. C. G. R evemng.

R. c · J'IMs, A1·chon. ' RADY, Sec?·eta?·y.

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Box 263, Salem, Virginia.

Ttwsday evening.

0NZA M. HYATT, A1·chon.

CECIL M. HEFNER, S ec?·eta?·y.

OMICRON, District 7-University of Alabama.

Pi Kappa Phi House, University, Alabama.

W ednesday evening.

R. CLARENCE WILLIAMS, A1·chon.

WALLACE LINDSEY, Sec?·eta?·y.

PI, District 5-0glethorpe University.

Oglethorpe University, Georgia.

W ednesday evening.

FRANK C. EVERETT, A?'Chon.

JULIAN S. HAVIS, Sec?·eta?·y.

RHO District 2-Washington and Lee Unive1·sity. i White Street, Lexington, Virginia.

W ednesday evening.

CHAS. H. WILSON, A1·chon.

HARVEY B. HENLINE, S eC?·eta?·y.

' District 4 Spartanbu 1· -Wofford College.

TAU District 3-North Carol;na State Colleg·e.

Tuesd g, ~- C. ao9 Forest Road, Raleigh, N. C. c. M: ay eventng.

Monday evening.

W. :N ~EE, Archon.

L. M. SHIRLEY, A1·chon. · WETT, S ccre ta?·y.

W. H. TAFT, S ect·etary.

ET · A. District 5 Pi Kap a -:-Emory U11iversity.

UPSILON District 10-Univel·sity of Illinoi s.

Thursd~y Phi ?ouse, Emory University, Ga. 106 E~st Green Street, Champaign, Illinois.

HENRY E eventng.

Monday evening.

W. REDDE. TBROST, ATchon.

THOS. W. WINTON, A1·chon. lOT .

N LALOCK, Sec1·etary.

F. W. TEEGARDEN, Sec1·etary.

A, District N 27 Fifth Str~~ 5-Georgia School of Technology.

PHI, District 12- University of Tul sa.

Sunday aft t, N. E., Atlanta, Ga. W 11..ernoon Tul sa, Oklahoma.

ESTILL · "~ARVIN M:cG · Charter under suspension.

E E RAW, Archon.

1<Ap · ZELL, Secretary.

PA D' p· ~~ IStJ'ict 3 U · · of North Carolina. CHI. Di strict 6-John B. Stetson University. ,~! <\.appa Ph. mvers1ty Pi Kappa Phi H~use, DeLand, Florida.

1 ~ednesday ~use, Chapel Hill, N. C. W ednesday eventng. vv. A HA eventng.

HARRIS SIMS. A ?"Chon.

RoaERT wNwwiNCKEL, JR., A?'Chon.

HEWEN Lj\.SSETER, S ec?'e la1·y.

LAMB · ILKINS, S ecretm·y.

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PSI District !-Cornell University.

386 Hill 8 llct 5-Umversity of Georgia.

'115 Ridgewood Road, Ithaca, N. Y. Monday Stre~t, Athens, Ga. Monday evening.

A. G V eventng.

L. L. SEAMAN, A1·chon.

J, G. pARNEDOE, A?·chon JOSEPH E. MooDY, Sec?·etat·y.

MD . · RYo R, S ec?·eta?·y. ' , District 3 OMEGA. Di strict 9- Purdue University.

Durharn N- Duke Univers ity.

40 N. Salisbury St., West LaFayette, Ind. Thu1·sd ' orth. Carolina. · SAM. Day eventng.

Monda11 evening.

P. L. MoRTON, A1·chon.

JEROME· ~UNDY, A1·chon.

C. E. BACKUS, SeC?·etary. l\TtJ . ' SHIPLEY, S ect·etat·y. , l D·strict 11 U .

ALPHA-ALPHA, District 5-Mercer University. ~~20 B Str L~nversity of Nebraska.

1 1 1424 Lawton A venue, Macon, Georgia.

C• onrlay ee \ mcoln, Nebr. liARLEs evemng.

W eclnesdau evening.

ERw 1N J A~AMs, A ?"Chon.

CLAYTON H. BucHANAN, Archon.

WM. K. JORDAN, S ect·etary. ' OMETER, Sem·etm·11·

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ALPHA-BETA, District 8-Tulane University of Louisiana.

830 Audubon Street, New Orleans, La. Monday evening.

WM . THOMPSON, At•chon.

CHAS. E. AYO, JR., Secretary.

ALPHA-ZETA, District 14-0regon Agricultur~l College.

31 N. 26th Street, Corvallis, Ore. Monday evening.

CHAS. A. OLSEN, At·chon.

A. HoNORE GRIFFIN, Secretary.

ALPHA-GAMMA, District 12- University Oklahoma.

757 DeBarr Avenue, Norman, Okla.

Monday evening.

LLOYD STORY, Archon.

J. GEORGE POINTER, Secretary.

ALPHA-ETA, District 7-Howard College.

Pi Kappa Phi House, Birmingham, Ala. Monday evening.

L. EARL CARROLL, Archon.

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ALPHA-DELTA, District 14-Uniyersity of Washington.

5212 18th Avenue, N. E., Seattle, Wash.

Monday evening.

WM. D. WooD, At·chon.

DONALD MACPHERSON, Secretat·y.

ALPHA-THETA, District 15-Michigan Stall College.

Pi Kappa Phi House, East Lansing, Mich.

Monday evening.

F. W. CREAGER, Archon.

H. E. SPRAGUE, Secretary.

ALPHA-EPSILON, District 6 - University of Florida.

Box 63, University Station, Gainesville, Fla. Tuesday evening.

SAMUEL McCORMACK, Archon.

Jos. H. PEARCE, Secretary.

ALPHA-lOT A, District 7-Alabama Institute.

Auburn, Alabama.

VVednesday evening.

W. C . HURT, Archon.

0. C. THIGPEN, Secretat·y.

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

(Iota Chapter House; third Sunday) ARTHUR W. 11 ARRIS, Archon 342 West Peachtree St. NATHAN T. TEAGUE, Secretary 605 West Peachtree St.

(1st and Jrd Mondays, Tait's, 424 West. 6th St.) MARVIN G. OsnORN, Archon 1001 Edwards & Wildey Building.

L. C. TAYLOR, Secretary 1209 South Rimpau Boulevard.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

MIAMI, FLORIDA.

(Y. M. C. A., alternate Wednesdays, 7 :45)

CHAS. B. CosTAR, Archon 128 N. E. 25th Street.

WM. C. RITCH, Secretary 140 East Flagler St.

InA DuNSMORE, Archon 1510 North 24th St. HowARD D. LEAKE, Secretary 220 North 48th St.

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. (Second Monday) Tnos. F. MosnrAKN, Arc/zan 11 Pitt St. HAROLD A . MouzoN, Secretary 13 Thomas St.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA (Second Tuesday, Manufacturers' Club) R. L. YouNG, Archon Care The Chm·lotte News R. L. PRICE, Sec1·etary 30 West Fifth ::,t.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GEo. H. KunL, Archon 2345 Bryant St., Evanston.

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. (Green Parrot Tea Room; second ]l'[onday) DR. GLENN B. CARRIGAN, Archon S tate Hospital.

T. MEADE BAKER, Secretary Care Federal Land Bank.

COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.

(Murray Building, first Sunday, 3 P. M.) RunoLl'H G. HENSON, Archon 1912 Eighth Avenue. \ V". l\f. FAMDROUGH, Secrctm·y 303 II th Street.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN. (Webster Hall) J. W. ROBINSON, Archon

1651 East Grand Boulevard.

MILFORD A. TYRRELL, Secretary 618 First National Bank Building.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK. (I st

W ednesday ; alternately Cornell Club of New York University Club of Brooklyn, 6:30 P. M.) WALTER MEASilAY, JR., Archo11 Box 91, W estwood, N. J. CARL OsTERGREN, S ecretMy 1021 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA. (I st Tuesday, Elks' Club)

HARLOW WETHERBEE, Archo11 146 North 34th St. CrrAS. H. CoLLINS, Secret.ary 1003 South 51st St.

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. L. G. 117 R. R. 608

MusE, Archon Broadway.

RusH, Secretary Windsor Avenue.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. (Homestead Tea Room, Wednesday, 12:15 P. M.) VIRGIL S. PARIIAM, Archon 317 First National Bank Building.

JASO N A. HAtLEY, Secretm·y P. 0. Box 3831.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. Jmi N F. CoNNOLLY, A•·chon 1748 Larkin St. FRANCIS H. BoLAND, JR. , Secretary 2843 Green St.

SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA. PAUI. C. THOMAS, Archon S1>artan Mills.

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A J_V NO[!NCING The Merger of the Fraternity Jewelry Division of

AULD'S, INC. with

Burr, Patterson & Company As Jl1 anufacturers qf the finest grade Fraternity Jewelry under the new name of

Burr, Patterson & Auld Co. /11 anujacturing Fraternity Jewelers Detroit, Michigan

A bigger and better ser~icefor the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity

Is There a Santa Claus?

DEAR DRO'l'HER :

. Pi Kapps told us they wanted a directory, bad. Vve worked two years pre~red Stur~1 worked hard-and \\ ade Bolt .before !1im-on the ong Book; P1 Kapps sm d we needed one. But many remam unclauned. ~ave you a new Directory and Song Book, or have you, too, failed to "obey 1 1111pul se ?" Vve still have many left. hat .

Fraternity labor requires inspiration. Vve thought we were filling a want l11 the fraternity.

To determin e the real value of a complete directory and a Ssuable song book in P i Kappa Phi, I send this .letter. To be told there is no abta Claus, then to find we have worked two years and paid $1,500 for books no ody wants is almost too much for our youthful years. \ iVhere are all the Pi Kapps you used to know?

How many live in your town?

What do you want to know about Pi Kappa Phi? The DirectOr')' will tell you.

Have you heard "The Rose of Pi Kappa Phi?" The Song Book has it.

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We have not planned another Directory before 1929, when we hope to pubIsh a handsome edition in connection with our Twenty-fifth Anniversary. But even this wi.ll not be feasible or even desirable unl ess the present edition is better ' supported. Shall we have it ?

If these publi c~tions are wot:tl'~while to Pi Kappa Phi, they s.hould b~ wort!: $1.50 to you. Ind1cate your opm10n, return coupon below w1th rem1ttance, orders wlll be filled immediately. .

Yours in Pi Kappa Ph1,

Execntive Secretary.

A free copy for each five in group orders.

SEND ME ........................ Directories at $1.00 each ...................... $ ............ ............

----路-----------路-------Song Books at SO cents each...... ..........

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For which I enclose ...................................................... $....................... .

(S igned ) ...................................................... ...... Chapter ............................. .

Address ................................................................................... .

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