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EDITORIALS

WELCOME FRESHMEN !

W I T H a hearty grip and a sincere sisterliness we greet you and
wish you all joy and prosperity as Collegians and as Sorores.
The heritage of our fraternity falls on your shoulders.

May you always be proud of the mantle and may you wear it so
that your sisters will always be proud of you and glad that they have
intrusted it to your keeping.

T H E ELDER BROTHER.

^ Q O M E of the finest results ever attained in college have been
^ through the help rendered by upper classmen to under class-

men. Again and again I have known a man strong intellectually and
morally to take hold of a younger man who was stumbling in studies
or in conduct, and uplift and guide the younger man until he could
stand on his own feet, master of his own destiny."—William H . P.
Faunce, President of Brown University. (Copied from the Adel-
phean.)

We often lose sight of the finer side of fraternity life because we
have such a multiplicity of rushing, fraternity—and house manage-
ment and finances. But after all the spirit of fraternity is the spirit
of self-giving. Let us more often l i f t our eyes to our higher ideals.

HP H E yearly rush season brings the annually repeated charge of
« lack of democracy among fraternity members and especially
among freshmen. Whether it be that the charge is fanciful or that
there are always a few freshmen without sufficient balance of char-
acter to realize that the bid to a fraternity does not l i f t them above
their fellows and by the worth of that simple square of paper and
bunch of flowers they are not changed to a bright superior star above
the mass of non-fraternity members, we are not sure. However
this may be, the charge recurs regularly. Let us with all our energy
work, talk and live against this charge of snobbishness. I n some cases
no doubt i t is not deserved, and in others, no doubt sadly, it is de-
served and it is to prevent in a measure i f I can this littlest and mean-
est of college vices that I write a word to our freshmen especially.

Remember first, girls that there are many among those, whom I
have heard mistakenly called "outsiders" who have, and for reason,
refused all sorority bids.

Secondly, that fraternity life is a minor phase of college life and