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Fall Starting Time
+ F A L L MARKS M K RESTLESS. The
activity in an editor-housewife's
domicile never reaches a point of leth-
argy, but the crisp winds, the smell of
burning leaves, mauve sunsets, great jugs
of apple cider and gleaming purple egg
plant, the post box spilling out its con-
tents once more, make me draw a quick-
breath and want to hurry some place. So
with editor husband. I turned campus-
ward.
It's Freshman Week at the University.
Tlu- Big Sisters and upperclassmen in
eharge are easily distinguishable from
the newcomers. But there's less of a
difference than there was four or five
years ago when, in a restless mood, we
sought the campus. The Registrar's sec-
retary tells me that few Freshmen are
coming free of financial worries. Most
of them must work if they want to go to
college. Their clothes are simpler; there
is less swagger about them; they are
more mature. An education is costing
them more than a "Plow about it, Dad?"
' . ^ w . ° weeks hence rushing starts, a
simplified rushing compared to the elab-
orate parties we used to give. We antici-
pate that there'll be little quibbling over better her material affairs, the effort and
petty points when bidding is in session.
'Can she afford our membership?" will
be the chief question asked. I f a girl is
Congenial, she'll be asked to join some
sorority, without doubt. No one will ask
whether she has a car or arrived by air-
plane. It's enough that she is likable and
intelligent. All the shows have gone
overboard. Necessity and the desire to
keep chapters thriving have done what
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no amount of lecturing by officers and
oldsters could have done.
What are you doing as a group to help
each other get the most out of the educa-
tion you are working to attain? Have
you a chapter library where each of you
may find recreation as well as source ma-
terial ? Have you, as a group, purchased
a season concert ticket that each of you
may share sometime during the year?
Have you a discussion group where each
is free to have an opinion and to speak
it without being ridiculed ? Have you the
ability to provide enjoyment as a group
that will cost your members nothing?
Are you making your group life worth
the price you ask your pledges to pay ?
So often now comes the question of
what is worthwhile—worth the price,
especially if paying it means sacrifice of
other necessities. The college graduate
who has idled away the last two or three
years without employment asks the value
of her degree. Often her parents won-
der at the wisdom of having spent several
thousands of dollars which might now
keep them from actual want. If one can't
use the information she has obtained to
expenditures are certainly not wasted if
she has become more resourceful, has
learned to use leisure time advantage-
ously, has found out what unselfishness
and neighborliness mean. Your group
life can teach all of these worthwhile
lessons in the art of living. Are you
making the best of your opportunities in
the advantage you have ?