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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 187

INTERESTING FRATERNITY NOTES

At the 67th Ekklesia of Phi Gamma Delta the Cheney Efficiency
Cup was awarded to Chi Iota chapter at the University of Illinois,
which will hold the cup for 1915-16. The purpose of this cup
and the standards and conditions governing its awarding are best
understood by quoting from the Phi Gamma Delta.

The Cheney Efficiency Cup was presented to the Fraternity of Phi Gamma
Delta by Brother O. H . Cheney, president of the fraternity, for the purpose
of stimulating the chapters to better their efficiency. The cup is awarded each
summer to the chapter which has shown the highest grade of efficiency during
the preceding college year. The successive holders of the prize have their
names and dates of possession inscribed upon the cup.

In grading the chapters for efficiency, scholarship is counted 50 per cent,
relations of the chapter to the college 25 per cent, and relations of the chapter
to the fraternity 25 per cent.

Lincoln Colcord, whose poem Vision of War has been recently
so widely discussed, is a Kappa Sigma, being a member of Psi chap-
ter at the University of Maine. Mr. Colcord and his work are of
interest to Alpha O's, and especially to those of Gamma chapter,
for his sister "Nan" is a graduate of the University of Maine in
the class of 1906, and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi.

The Pi Beta Phi Settlement School opened its f i f t h session on
August 3, 1915, and has been having an average attendance of 95
pupils. Caroline McKnight Hughes, Minnesota A, '96, is the new
head resident, with Mary O. Pollard, Vermont A, '96, principal of
school, Marie Ditmars, Indiana A, '13, and Bernice Good, Indiana

assistants. Manual training with a moderate equipment has been
uistalled, and one loom for weaving cloth and old-fashioned cover-
lids is kept in constant use. The Springfield, Mo., alumna} club is
trying to raise the money necessary to buy three more looms for the
work. The small cottage has been remodeled this fall and two
sleeping rooms added, a new chimney takes the place of the old one,
the piazzas widened and three coats of fresh paint puts the finishing
ouch to the last of our school buildings to be put in first-class order,

nis building will now be ready to be used as a hospital as soon as
the much needed teachers' residence can be built.

1 he new Board of Managers is composed of the seven province
'^"presidents, with Mrs. Helmick as chairman, and work has started
l s autumn with more enthusiasm than ever before, and the year
Promises to be the most profitable to both Gatlinburg and Pi Beta
*™ alumna? clubs.—Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.