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semester." There is coming to be a confusion of ideas in some college
communities. There are students who use such expressions as, "He lived
in the blank fraternity last year," meaning that he lived in the chapter
house. I t is probable that some students who are members make no
distinction between the fraternity and the house. Should that idea become
general among fraternity members the quality of the food served might
be the distinguishing mark between a fraternity chapter and Mrs. Warten-
be's students' club. I n some universities even now boarding clubs are
listed with fraternities as "organizations." Surely there is something else
to a fraternity than bed and board. I f there really isn't, then it is time
to give up the system. But, to return to the question of jurisdiction,
Beta Theta Pi Chapters should retain in themselves the power to regulate
their membership, whether in election or in suspension or in expulsion.
I f a member is to be disciplined he must be tried in accordance with the
Code of Beta Theta Pi and cannot be suspended by those not members
of the fraternity. The Dean and the Panhellenic Council are to be
respected. But the chapter member cannot be barred f r o m his rights as a
fraternity member except as provided in the Code."

President Harding, at the inauguration of President Chandler at the
College of William and Mary, in . Virginia, spoke of "the obligation to
maintain and encourage the smaller colleges. I t is the small college that
democratizes the higher education; that brings it within the vision and
means of the average young man and woman. We hear much of the
traditions of famous universities, but if we look into them we commonly
find that they concern men, men who have stamped their personalities,
who have given of their generous natures, who have colored the intellectual
atmosphere about them. And men who are big and strong enough to do
that are as likely to be found in the modest as in the impressive environ-
ment."—Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

"Campus Saturday Nights" is the latest scheme of the Student Wel-
fare Committee of the University of California to provide entertainment
and a means f o r the large student body to get acquainted. They have been
great successes and have already done much to create a more unified spirit.
The problem before us was to offer sufficient attractions to the student to
keep them on the campus on week-end nights. Every alternate Saturday
night an assembly dance is given in the two gymnasiums. The tickets f o r
the dance are fifteen cents apiece, and men and women are requested not to
come together. A reception committee, with official blue armbands, sees
to it that there are no wall flowers and that proper introductions are made.

On the other Saturdays, our new Little Theater has planned student
dramatic productions. The direction, action, stage setting and costuming
is all done by students. Besides offering very entertaining plays, the Little
Theater gives opportunity f o r a great deal of initiative and activity along
artistic and dramatic lines.

—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.