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The Colorado legislature has appropriated $70,000 for the cen-
tral portion of a Science and Museum building for the State Uni-
versity. The approximate cost of the completed structure will be
$270,000.

The University of Colorado is also to have a new auditorium
costing about $300,000. The building will seat 3000 people.—
American College.

The determined stand of the girls of Wooster University, Woos-
ter, O., caused the abrogation of an order that the girls' college fra-
ternities must die. The girls threatened to strike i f the order was
not withdrawn, and the fraternity boys, fearing a similar order
against their societies, offered to join in a walkout. The faculty has
taken the matter under advisement, and when a decision has been
reached, final action will be taken.—American Education Review i n
Lyre of A X fl.

The need of a strong chapter is a well-worn subject, yet it can-
not but be a very vital one to every fraternity girl. We all wish to
belong to the strongest chapter, and yet we desire all the others to
be strong, too, and we certainly dislike to hear outsiders say that at
this or that university our fraternity is "not much." Necessarily
some chapters must be stronger than others, but let us differ in de-
grees of strength rather than in being strong or weak; let us have
the strong, stronger and strongest varieties of chapters.—Lyre A X O.

Miss Laura Drake, chairman of the educational committee of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs, announces the conditions of
the $1,500 scholarship at Oxford which the federation will award
for the year beginning 1910. Each state has the privilege of sub-
mitting a candidate and in case of a tie the state which has contrib-
uted toward the scholarship will get the preference. Every can-
didate must be the graduate of an American college in good stand-
ing, unmarried and not over 27.—New York Sun, quoted by Arrow
of n B <£.

Would you not be glad to have Kappa, and indeed all our fra-
ternities, recognized as a group of wide-awake women, ready and
eager to take part in community as well as self-improvement? And
are they so recognized? When any plan for community betterment
is before the public, are fraternity women, as fraternity women,
called on for support? Is it that the public does not realize the
fraternities' completeness of organization and extent of influence,
or does it consider them merely social factors in college life?—Key.
From the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.