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Several changes in names of schools have occurred, Southwestern
Baptist University having become Union University, and Kentucky
University having assumed its old name of Transylvania University
The word Kentucky is now used to designate the State University
(formerly known as Kentucky State College.)—Ida Shaw Martin's
Handbook.

A A A has adopted as a badge for its honorary members a laurel
wreath of gold surmounted by a triangle bordered with fifteen pearls
and three diamonds, this in turn being surmounted by a triangle of
black enamel bearing a Delta of gold in each corner. The sorority
is to publish a secret annual to be known as The Trireme,—Ida Shaw
Martin's Sorority Hand Book.

As creditable additions to the campus of the University of Maine,
the visitor notes the new A T A house built in the old colonial style,
and the massive appearance of the * H K house, one of the largest on
the campus. The two expensive buildings bring the number of fra-
ternity houses at the University of Maine up to eleven, every one
of which is of equal interest and value.

The present senior class at the University of Nebraska, and a
great many alumni are interested in bringing about the adoption of
a university pin which shall serve as a class pin as well. The object
of making the class pin uniform, with the exception of the year of
the class which will necessarily differ, is to enable the graduates of
former years to recognize those of recent years. It is also hoped that
the pin will serve as a testimonial of the good work of the institution
by the number of graduates wearing it.

K K T has changed its method of ordering badges, all orders now
being sent to official jewelers through one member of the sorority
known as the Custodian of the Badge. The sorority had formerly
three grades of dismissal: Honorable Dismissal, Dismissal, and
Expulsion. The recent convention decided on two grades—Dismissal
and Dismissal on Request, the former where the initiative is taken
by the chapter, the latter when granted upon the request of the one
dismissed.—Ida Shaw Martin's Sorority Handbook.

X O has adopted pearls and diamonds as official jewels. The
national banner is made up of five vertical bars, three of cardinal, two
of straw color, broadly banded at the top with a bar of cardinal
bearing a white carnation of five petals, each with five points. The
official floating flag bears the same device on a field of straw color,
which is in turn bordered with a band of cardinal. As a special mark