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be investigated, with a view to remedying such conditions and to offering a
substitute for these Greek-letter organizations that will promote greater democ-
racy among the students of the university.

As a result of this resolution, the President of the university appointed
a committee of seven members of the faculty to conduct such an investigation.
The committee consisted of both fraternity and non-fraternity members. A
thorough investigation was made last spring, and a complete report was ren-
dered this fall to the faculty; it being the understanding that some of the
recommendations will take effect for the college year 1911-12, and all of them
for the year 1912-13. The new regulations proposed are as follows:

1. That the pledging of high school students by the fraternities be dis-

continued.

2. That no freshmen be permitted to lodge or board in a fraternity house.

3. That no student be initiated into a fraternity until the beginning of the

sophomore year.

4. That no student be initiated into a fraternity while on probation.—

Alpha Phi Quarterly.
How far does the spirit of Fraternity go? This is a query occuring to many

a mind. I t may embrace, and theoretically does embrace, all the young women
whom we touch. Does it? Does it rather limit itself to one's own fraternity
and even to one local chapter of that single fraternity? Does it show itself
in viewing a girl for the purpose of deciding whether she be the girl for
fraternity membership, and, i f so, in having toward her the comrade heart?
Does it mean a flavor of scorn toward all things fraternal that are not of
one's own fraternity? Is it true, as one 'Eklekta article states, that "in a fra-
ternity ten to one the chances are in favor of the snob?" At least it is worth
answering one's own query as to just how broad one's own spirit of Frater-
nity is—that beautiful, wonderfu], all embracing, self-forgetting thing which
we call the SPIRIT of FRATERNITY.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

To our recent graduates, as well as to our many alumnae who have not
availed themselves of the privileges, we would enter a plea for the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae. The membership in itself is an honor for a diploma
of a college of qualified rank is necessary for admission. The association
stands for social intercourse among college graduates and for improvement
along many lines. I t is accomplishing things worth while and should enlist
the hearty co-operation of Alpha Phi graduates.—Alpha Phi Quarterly.

The National Pan-Hellenic Conference will be held in Evanston Friday
and Saturday, November third and fourth, instead of in Chicago as hereto-
fore. This change will allow the delegates to meet and socialize fully with
their active chapters at Northwestern University.

The National Pan-Hellenic Conference was founded by Alpha Phi in 1901.
It will mark its tenth anniversary this November by ceasing to be merely an
advisory body and taking on the power of limited legislation to make its own
laws and to penalize local Pan-Hellenic offenders, thus diminishing the
unthinking as well as the flagrant violations.—Alpha Phi Quarterly.

The oldest woman's fraternity is Alpha Delta Phi, which existed at Georgia
Wesleyan as a local under the name of The Adelphean Society until about
1905, when it assumed the name of one of our oldest and most honored men's
fraternities and extended to other schools. During the last five years twelve
charters have been granted, but only nine chapters survived. The greatest