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some cases very petty rules. The chief way we have here of "making
impressions" on freshmen is by being w i t h them as much as possible
and by entertaining them at the college inn near our campus. Our
first regulation decided upon was that there w o u l d be no financial
rushing at a l l . When we have open house no freshmen were to be
expected and i n every case of luncheon and so f o r t h the entertaining
was to be " D u t c h . " T h i s in many cases, causes embarrassing positions
but we a l l knew that it was f a r better than last year, having no
limit whatever to the amount of money spent in rushing. The
rule is excepted i n cases of freshmen who have older sisters in
college f o r i n their case a separation seems impossible. We have
now decided to have one party a month -for rushees, f o r the above
regulations keep us f r o m knowing the prospectives well enough.
Every first day of the month, out come the invitations f o r the monthly
party and it is quite interesting to notice how much mail the u'irls
receive.

The non-financial rule of course kept us f r o m showing atten-
tion except by our presence to any freshman even in rase she
were sick. We have had several cases of the rules being broken, but
now that it is more f u l l y understood in its strictness, it w i l l not
likely happen again. Just lately we have made a small rule that
flowers may be sent to a freshman only i f she is i n a public per-
formance o f some kind, and then not f r o m the f r a t e r n i t y but f r o m
an individual member.

W i t h a l l these seemingly narrow restrictions, we are approaching
the realization of our dream of l i t t l e rushing. Good fellowship has
been restored in Pan-Hellenic again and we are making many plans.
Our whole year, you see, has been taken up w i t h this one question.
W i t h the heated arguments put forth in meeting after meeting. Pan-
Hellenic's hands were quite tied. But now since sophomore pledg-
ing is established, our association hopes to increase its efficiency in
the future.

L I N D A B E S T . K , 1913.

PAN-HELLENIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

The most important change of the year in Pan-Hellenic rulings
has been the postponement o f a freshman's initiation u n t i l she has
passed i n one semester's work. The chief argument i n favor of this
plan, of course, is the improvement in scholarship in certain indi-
vidual cases, that results. Since the adage, " A s the t w i g is bent, so
doth the tree incline" applies here as elsewhere, the h a b i t — f o r it is
often t h a t — o f attending courses and of studying regularly ought to
continue u n t i l a freshman is tided over her difficult year o f adjust-