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Panhellenic Qongress ^Meets

Cjfebruary 23rd

TMME for another National Panhellenic Congress draws nigh and from the four
•*• corners of the United States will come the officials of twenty-one sororities to
discuss problems and relationships. On dozens of college campus such a meeting of
chapter officers is a monthly occasion, often supplemented by rotation luncheons,
ntersorority bridge parties, and interhouse dances, all to sponsor friendship. We
wonder if National Panhellenic Congress mightn't take a lesson from one of these
iner campus organizations. A little less formal they are, no doubt, and often their
members discuss such homely topics as cooperative buying and house building, but
each is giving constructive aid to her neighbor which happens to be every chapter on
her campus who rushes with her. The purpose of a fraternity, in our eyes, is to
build girls into women who can face this complex life with fewer mental and spiritual
difficulties than we have faced it and to give them friends throughout the land. Each
group has chosen its finest women to lead it and these in turn make up National
Panhellenic Congress. Why then is this Congress not one of the moving forces in
modern education ? Why is it interested mainly in who belongs to its group, in the
problems of rushing? Perhaps this Congress will tell us, and by its action declare
tself ready to meet the broader business of making and being friends, of discussing
problems of organization in each group with a view toward easy and efficient
manipulation of details and of giving to the girls who wear their pins the finest
Panhellenic spirit possible.