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X O at Wisconsin is devoting the greater part of every Saturday
to. instruction among the Italian children of Madison.
About twenty two young Italians from 4 to 12 years of age are
taken care of by the chapter every Saturday morning in classes that
are divided for drawing, sewing, and other manual art studies. The
girls take the children and help them to make useful articles for
their homes, at the same time teaching them how to do things of
this sort in the best and most approved style of the home economics
department of the university.
An interfraternity society for senior girls at the University of
Minnesota is called Skin and Bones. The qualifications for mem-
bership are not announced.
The new president of Stanford University is said to contemplate
the dismissal of those chapters that do not bring their scholarship up
to the university average within the next two years.
A X 11 at California entertains the parents of the town girls at
dinner on Monday evenings.
A rule has been made at Syracuse that freshman girls cannot live
in sorority houses.
T <I> B received the scholarship cup last year at the University of group lies most of all in the spirit of brotherhood that prevails among its
Denver.
Each chapter of T <t> B has a small publication of its own, issued
from one to three times a year.
A * at Wisconsin had a mothers' house party last June.
A T is planning a new songbook. Have you ever thought that
A O I I needs a new one also ?
TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 285
EXCHANGES
We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the following
Exchanges:
The Anchora of Delta Gamma, the Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma,
the Triangle of Sigma Kappa, the Trident of Delta Delta Delta,
Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha, the Shield and Diamond of Pi Kappa
Alpha, the Star and Lamp of Pi Kappa Phi, the Scroll of Phi Delta
Theta, the Beta Sigma Omicron, the Alpha Xi Delta, the Adelphean
of Alpha Delta Pi, Eleusis of Chi Omega, the Lyre of Alpha Chi
Omega, the Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa
Alpha Theta, the Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, the Record of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, the Aglaia of Phi Mu, the Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, the
Shield of Delta Sigma Epsilon, the Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, the
Lamp of Delta Zeta, and the Garnet and White of Alpha Chi Rho.
Would not real neighborliness solve this problem?
What constitutes a weak chapter? It is wholly possible for a chapter to
have a large membership, to have captains, managers, and prize winners on
its rolls, to have an expensive house and many distinguished graduates, and
yet to be a weak chapter. On the other hand, it is possible for a chapter to
have a small membership, no undergraduate leaders, an inexpensive house, and
no famous alumni, and yet be a strong chapter. F o r the strength of a fraternity
members. Where there is the fellowship of loyal hearts and kindred interests
there is the only kind of strength that makes fraternity life worth while. Where
there is dissension, snobbishness, uncharitableness, nagging, uncongenial tastes,
or the display of any unbrotherly qualities there is the weakness that makes
any chapter an injury to its college and a reproach to its fraternity.—Delta
Kappa Epsilon Quarterly.
This is the time of year to think of the following:
And furthermore, no chapter which closes the college year with a debt,
should pass that on to the next year. Every chapter debt should be divided
among the members of the chapter for that year, and paid by them. Even
notes should be given to make the transaction a business proposition. No other
basis is fair.—Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly.
Some advice to- chapter delegates to Convention contained in an
editorial of The Record of 2 A E merits the serious consideration of
our own delegates to our approaching Convention.
He will attend every session of the convention, all convention functions,
and observe committee assignments. This, of course, is one phase of his duty,
but another, and equally important matter for him to remember is that he
should be prepared to make a good report of the convention to the chapter.
He should return filled with new ideas for raising the chapter to the level of
the most efficient. I f the chapter does not own its home, get ideas from those
who do. I f the chapter meetings lag or are not regularly attended, discover the