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different women's fraternities and eighteen different universities. I t is a
purely social organization.—The Kappa Alpha Theta.

The faculty and sororities at Northwestern University are planning a
Pan-Hellenic house. I n i t there is to be a room f o r each sorority and perhaps
a dance hall. The faculty is to f u r n i s h the land, provided each sorority w i l l
f u r n i s h a certain sum o f money. The rest w i l l be raised by bond.—Anchora
of Delta Gamma.

The real Sorority—that which the world knows—is made up of alumnae.
The active chapters are only children in the family, who shall grow up,
become alumnae, and in turn perpetuate and make famous by their deeds, the
name of their sorority.—Triangle of Sigma Kappa.

The Fraternity's most valuable asset, as every f r a t e r n i t y knows, is its
alumnae constituency. H o w can an alumna mean much to the fraternity,
unless she is i n f o r m e d , as well as loyal? A n d how can she be i n f o r m e d w i t h -
out the journal? We need the alumnae's active support; they need the
j o u r n a l ; the j o u r n a l needs their support. Above a l l , the f r a t e r n i t y needs an
alive relationship on the part of the Alumnae.—The Lyre of A l p h a Chi Omega.

I t is not enough f o r active and alumnae members to meet at a formal
banquet once or twice a year; i t is not enough to invite the active girls to
alumnae meetings. The Alumnae must, i n turn, visit the active chapter. I f
they d i d so, the college girls would feel that their older sisters had more
than a perfunctory interest in them; they would learn to know each other;
and from better acquaintance, a closer relation would result.—Crescent o f
Gamma Phi Beta.

Socially, fraternities have an opportunity of which they have, in general,
f u l l y availed themselves, to crystallize traditions of gentle breeding that no
campus could well afford to lose. However the details of rushing, early or
late pledge days, scholarship requirements, or social activities may seem to
fill the arena, the real debate is, in the large, upon f r a t e r n i t y aims. Are they
social or scholastic, or both? Are they for today, for the pleasure of the
undergraduate? Or are they for tomorrow, for the coming student and the
student community?—Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma quoted by Kappa Alpha
Theta.

A g i r l w i l l be a stronger sorority g i r l in the end and a broader member o f
the college community which conditions are synonymous—if she has spent
her first years outside of the sorority house. She w i l l in this way f o r m out-
side friendships and come to a broader view of college l i f e , which w i l l be of
infinite value to her always.

A f t e r entering the sorority house, the girl should make a constant effort
to retain her outside friendships, and above all to preserve her balance and
clearness of mind. She can be proud of her sorority, without coming to the
absured conclusion that no other crowd possesses qualities worth noticing.
She can be devoted to her sisters without continually raving over them to other
people. She can thoroughly approve of the f r a t e r n i t y system and be glad she
belongs to i f without looking down upon non-fraternity members.—Anchora
of Delta Gamma.