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Several interesting educational problems confronting the Faculty of a wom-
en's college are discussed by Dean Gildersleeve in her report. The report in
part follows:

"The second year of the experimental three-year period during which the
sorority chapters are not allowed to elect new members has passed without any
very definite development in our system of social organizations. Contrary to
the expectation of the Faculty, no new organizations have grown up to take
the place of the sororities; nor has there been any notable increase of interest
and activity in the departmental clubs and other existing organizations. The
omission of sorority elections has brought a welcome relief from the agitations
of 'rushing5 and 'pledge day' and from some undesirable forms of college
gossip.

"On the other hand, the lack of some such social organization makes close
acquaintance between students in the different classes far less frequent, and
results in fewer opportunities for informal social intercourse and the formation
of intimate and congenial friendships. An administrative office notices also
some lack of that beneficial influence of older students on younger ones and
that aid in the development of a sound public opinion in the college which the
sororities sometimes felt the responsibility of contributing."—A7. Y. Times,
October 31, 1915.

Through the Sigma Chi Quarterly we again quote from the 5 M -
ton Transcript:

The Boston Transcript has the following scholarship statement regarding s
the last school year at the University of Wisconsin:
t
Further striking proof that the women students at the University of Wis- P
consin have a higher scholastic rank than the men has now been found. The
weighted average for all the members of twelve sororities during the last
semester was 85.1, while the weighted average for twenty-three social fraterni-
ties was 80.3. The sorority averages were based on 312 active members.
The social fraternity figures were based on 499 active members. The weighted
average of 244 pledges of fraternities was 78.6. Here again the women
showed superiority, for the average of 128 pledges of eleven sororities was 82.8.
The first proof of superior scholastic work among women was disclosed when
twenty-three women were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last month, out of a total
of thirty-eight elections.

The highest average of any of the social fraternities was 83.3, and the

highest average of a sorority was 87.1. The lowest sorority average, 83.8,
was higher than the best fraternity average. The lowest average of a frater-

nity was 77.2.

With a scholastic average of 82.1 per cent, the 917 active fraternity and
sorority members (this includes 106 undergraduates in professional fraternities)

was .6 per cent higher than 3,185 nonfraternity students, whose average wa
81.5.

The four professional fraternities ranked as follows: Alpha Chi Sign1

(chemistry), Triangles (engineering), Phi Delta Phi and Phi Alpha L>ej*3

(both law). The first ten social fraternities were: Red Triangles (loca ft

Sigma Phi, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gaium*

Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Psi, and Acacia. .J

The four high sororities were: Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Xi D E '
Alpha Gamma Delta, and Alpha Phi.