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There was a bill introduced to amend the act relating to taxation, so as
to clear i t of technical error and avoid possible litigation. The bill, however,
was defeated.—Banta's Greek Exchange.

CANNOT BAR FRATERNITIES

O X F O R D (Miss.), May 3.—Legislation which would bar students affiliated
w i t h Greek letter fraternities f r o m State educational institutions is violative o f
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and at
variance w i t h the Constitution of Mississippi, according to a decision handed
down here by Special Chancellor Lamb in a test suit. The case w i l l be appealed.
— 5 . F. Chronicle.

There are now eighteen sororities in the National Pan-Hellenic Congress.
Recent additions are Phi M u , admitted December, 1911, and Kappa Delta,
admitted October, 1912.—Ban/a's Greek Exchange.

THE PAN-HELLENIC LUNCHEON
The fact that representatives f r o m Alpha Chi Omega, and Pi Beta Phi
were just returning f r o m their national conventions, and were able to report
the most recent development of their fraternities*, made the Pan-Hellenic
luncheon, held in the Marshall Field Tea-rooms, Chicago, on July 1, an un-
usually interesting one. Eighteen women representing eight fraternities, were
present.

By means of a convention round-table, many interesting points of f r a -
ternity development were brought o u t ; a few o f the most important ones
being, that Alpha Chi Omega has adopted a completely revised constitution
and a new financial system, has divided her chapters into five provinces, and
has taken one member f r o m her Grand Council; that Delta Delta Delta has
two salaried officers, the travelling secretary and the editor, whose entire time
is devoted to fraternity w o r k ; and that Alpha Phi has voted to continue her
centralized board in Chicago f o r two more years, before taking it to the
coast.—Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.

At a Pan-Hellenic ball held in Manila, Philippine Islands, December 16,
1911 the representation of the f o l l o w i n g fraternities was as f o l l o w s : Alpha
Delta Phi, 6; Alpha Tau Omega, 6 ; Beta Theta Pi, 7; Chi Phi, 2 ; Chi Psi,
4; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 2 ; Delta Psi, 1; Delta Tau Delta, 19; Delta
Upsilon, 8; Kappa Alpha (Southern) 4 ; Kappa Sigma, 9 ; Phi Delta Theta,
12; Phi Gamma Delta, 19; Phi Kappa Psi, 16; Phi Kappa Sigma, 5; Phi
Sigma Kappa, 1; Psi Upsilon, 4 ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 11; Sigma Chi, 2 0 ;
Sigma N u , 8 ; Sigma Phi, 1 ; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 4 ; Zeta Psi, 7.—Quarterly
of Sigma Chi, quoted by Anchora of A T.

A luncheon, open to members of the fraternities of the National Pan-
Hellenic Congress, was held in Patten Gymnasium, Evanston, 111., at one
o'clock on Saturday, October 19, 1912.

Those present numbered three hundred and ninety-nine, about sixty more
than last year's attendance, and included one man, M r . George Banta, * A 9 ,
guest of the Congress.

The fraternities were represented as f o l l o w s : I I B * , 2 8 ; K A 8 , 3 3 ;

K K r, 3 4 ; A * , 4 3 ; A r, 2 8 ; r * B , 4 3 ; A x n, 3 9 ; A A A,' 3 1 ;