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ing chapter letters which do not live up to the instructions. Sigma
Kappa and Kappa Alpha Theta have a mutual system of foot notes
in which are fully explained the changes made by the editor before
the letter was printable.

The June issue of The Trident is in a way an anniversary number, for with
it Miss Louise Fitch closes ten years of service as editor. There is a most in-
teresting account of the growth of the magazine during the period of her stew-
ardship, and we unite with the rest of the Greek world in congratulating Miss
Fitch on the abundant fruit of her toils. And from the bottom of our hearts
we envy any editor who can write as follows:

The especial gratitude of the Editor is tendered to the active Marshals who
have enabled her to say that not once in these ten years of forty Tridents has
an active letter—or requested substitute communication—been missing from any
Trident!

At the convention held this summer Miss Fitch was honored with the highest
office in the fraternity, that of Grand President. A l l good luck to her in her
new work.

The following clipping from The Key is also of interest to one of editorial
bent, and The Aglaia editor expects in the next issue to follow the example of
her Kappa sister and do a little classifying of her own. This quotation, then,
is intended as a friendly warning of what will be:

I n leisure moments, will the chapter correspondents, and any Kappa who is
likely to be stung by the literary bee and send us a contribution, reread the
rules for chapter correspondents which were in the February Key, and which
we paid the printer good money to "set up"? We asked you to use official
paper. You didn't—Iota, Pi, Delta, Psi, Beta Phi, Beta Chi.

We asked for typewritten letters. You didn't—Iota, Beta Nu, Theta, Sigma,
Eta.

We asked for double-spaced typewriting. You didn't—Beta Sigma, Lambda
Beta Omicron.

We asked you to mail your letter a week before the first of April. You
didn't—Beta Upsilon, Beta Chi, X i , Beta Zeta, Beta Omega, Beta Omicron,
Beta, Phi, Beta E t a .

We asked you not to use special delivery stamps. You used them—Beta
Mu, Gamma Rho.

A great many of you used "very," a few of you used "quite." but for this
we thank you—nobody said "eats"!

I f the chapter letter editors read the report of the Editors'
Congress in the November number of To D R A G M A , they were made
aware of the fact that at that Congress certain standards in regard
to the composition of chapter letters were made universal among
the editors of the respective Panhellenic journals. Among these
were the discouragement of the word "frat" for "fraternity," the
abolishment of the word "sorority" and the substitution in all cases
°f "fraternity," the spelling of "Panhellenic" as one word as here
given, the expulsion of the word "school" when used in place of

college" or "university," and the discouragement of slang and
other careless forms of expression.