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"The scholastic standing of sorority girls at the University of Minne-
sota last year outranked that of non-sorority girls, according to a table
completed today by E. E. Nicholson, dean of student affairs. The sorority
average was 1,247 or 73 points higher than the non-sorority average of
1,174. The averages a year ago gave the sorority girls 72 points advantage
for 1920-21."

This is of special interest f o r sorority women as it gives an answer
based on actual statistics to that troublesome and tiresome complaint that
sorority girls are so much interested in the social side of school that they
neglect the serious side.—Alpha Xi Delta.

The October Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta contains accounts of the
installations of Alpha Epsilon chapter at Arizona University, Tucson, April
1922 and of Alpha Zeta chapter at the University of Texas, in Austin,
Texas, in May, 1922.

The "Health and Athletic number" of the Pi Beta Phi Arrow—
(December)—is an interesting variation f r o m the usual. The Health
Program adopted at the 25th biennial convention, is the keynote of the
issue, which contains articles on athletics f o r college women, Diet in
Relation to Health, etc. A n illustrated article on P i Phis in athletics em-
phasizes the special branches in which the different chapters and in-
dividuals excel, and a second symposium on "What our college and chapter
are doing for the health of women students" contributed by each chapter,
is to be continued in the next issue.

I n an excellent editorial on "Extravagance" in the October Caduceus
of Kappa Sigma, Dr. J. S. Ferguson quotes a recent speech of Pres. J. M .
Thomas to the students of Penn. State and closes by saying:

"On every side we hear that the American nation has been passing
through a period of extravagance and is now endeavoring to get down to
a normal state. President Thomas urges the college student to follow this
same path. We hope that normalcy will be reached in the present college
year, and we trust that college fraternities, particularly our own Fraternity,
will do its share toward that end."

Under the heading, " A Timely Protest" the D K E Quarterly quotes
the following from the Beta Theta Pi editorial columns:

"University Dean recently sent a letter to a fraternity officer announc-
ing that a certain student had been suspended f r o m membership in that
fraternity, and therefore was no longer entitled to privileges. While the
letter clearly indicated that the action had been taken by the chapter, it
seemed strange at least to have the Dean inform the fraternity officer of
the suspension. The University of Missouri Panhellenic Council "has
passed a ruling which will take active membership privileges f r o m any man
who fails in more than three hours of his work." The question'naturally
arises, what is membership in a fraternity anyway? H o w is it regulated?
W i l l the next step be a letter f r o m the university president to the general
secretary: saying, " I am writing to say that John Reilly Knox of the Junior
Class has been assigned to membership in Beta Theta Pi f o r the second