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Since this census Alpha Gamma Delta has installed five chapters, at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia; Queen's College, Charlotte, North Carolina; North
Dakota State College, Fargo; University of Manitoba; and, McGill University.
Delta Zeta has installed a chapter at Swarthmore College, and Alpha Phi has new
chapters at the University of West Virginia and at Denison University. Delta
Gamma has gone into Pennsylvania State College; Gamma Phi Beta into North
Dakota State College, the University of West Virginia, Randolph-Macon and
Birmingham Southern; Delta Delta Delta, the University of Toronto; Alpha Chi
Omega, University of Toronto and Lawrence College; Phi Mu, Queen's College;
Alpha Delta Pi, University of Manitoba; and Kappa Kappa Gamma granted five
charters at their convention: Pennsylvania State College, Rollins, McGill, Duke,
and Michigan State College.

A copy of Baird's Manual will give you chapter rolls of other fraternities.
You may be surprised to find fraternity expansion in some of the colleges listed;
you may frown heartily upon entering there, but, mind you, some day in the not
too distant future we may find a chapter necessary in that very place. Shouldn't
we look beyond our own narrow personal horizons to the future welfare of our
fraternity?

Additional chapters mean a great many things to our national growth. A
name widely but carefully flung means universal recognition of a fine type,
hence rushing trials will be minimized, for it stands to reason if a girl comes to
a chapter knowing Alpha alumna?, having heard the name of Alpha Omicron Pi,
she is easier to rush than a girl who knows all about X Y Z, but who has never
heard of AOIT.

More chapters mean more members to bear our financial brunt. I t means
more money to spend for administration which in turn will aid in building up our
weak spots through the personal supervision of a traveling secretary; the ability
to pay the tuitions of strong members willing to help the weaker chapter by attend-
m g the school in question, the wherewithal to send girls to new campuses to
colonize groups. I t means a more rapid growth in our Anniversary Endowment
rund with consequently more revenue for To DRAGMA and more principal for
student and building loans. And so the circle moves round itself—more chapters,
more revenue; more revenue, better possibilities of closer administration; closer
administration, stronger chapters.

Look into your minds and see if you have realized whither you are leading us.
°u are causing us to waste money now, for you approve a college, and then if
^ j0l a r e sent to investigate a possible charter group, you refuse it, not because
tk 8rouP> but because of the college. You refuse to look at that college from
e point of view of other fraternities who have found the field not unattractive;
°m the point of view of the hundreds or thousands of students who have found
t e college^ able to fulfill their requirements. You have failed to give any regard
, the opinions of college authorities, to college ratings. Are you not blinded
°y your own self-satisfaction?
0 SuPPose we have a mail-bag on this subject. The pages of the magazine are
P n to you. You are free to discuss the subject pro and con. I t is one of the
most important which we face.

Whither will you lead our fraternity?