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A prize of $50 has been offered to that chapter o f Sigma Chi which has the

best series of letters in the current volume o f the Quarterly. In addition, a

prize of $5 w i l l be awarded f o r that letter which seems to be the best in each

particular issue.

K A 9 has just published a new hand-book and ordered a new edition of
the song-book.

By action o f the board of trustees, fraternities w i l l be allowed to build
houses on the campus of the University of Kansas.

A t the University o f Kansas a freshman must have passed 75 per cent of his
college work f o r one term before being eligible to initiation into a fraternity.

Each f r a t e r n i t y in the University of C a l i f o r n i a is supplied at least twice a
semester w i t h marks of its members.

A f t e r this year, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin may not j o i n
a f r a t e r n i t y , room in a f r a t e r n i t y house, or even take his meals in one. T o be
eligible the f o l l o w i n g year he must pass all his courses.

A similar rule goes into effect at Missouri.

1. Phi M u was admitted to the National Pan-Hellenic Congress, Christmas

Day, 1912, having dropped its Belmont Chapter.
2. Alpha Epsilon Iota (Medical) at their December convention with-

drew their petition f o r membership in the National Pan-Hellenic Congress
g i v i n g as their reason: "Objection would be justly made to a voting Pan-

Hellenic delegate who belonged both to a literary and medical sorority."

Wesleyan University, Connecticut has done away with the coe-ducational
plan, and the last of the women graduated w i t h the class o f I Q I I . W i t h the
newer plan going into operation the natural extinction of the Wesleyan chap-
ters of the Delta Delta Delta and the Alpha Delta Gamma Sororities is
evident.—Delta of Sigma Nu.

A n article entitled "Political Power of the College Greeks, a
Baffling Problem for Party Leaders" was reprinted by the Delta of
Sigma Nu.- I n the Editorial on this same article of the Delta U p -
silon Quarterly it is interesting to note how many of the prominent
men in public life are College Fraternity men.

[ E D I T O R I A L N O T E . — T h i s article appeared in the New Y o r k Herald. Sunday,
January 8, 1911, accompanied by portraits of President T a f t , Nicholas Long-
worth, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, John D. Long, Henry M .
Hoyt, Bellamy Storer, Charles P. T a f t , Victor H . Metcalf, Charles H . Treat,
and the following members of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity: James A. Gar-
field, Charles E . Hughes, Frank H . Hitchcock, Erman J. Ridgeway, W i l l i a m
Travers Jerome, and M . Linn Bruce. There was also published a group photo-
graph of the Lafayette chapter installation committee, 1885, of which Justice
Hughes and Commissioner E . M . Bassett were members.

The article is here reproduced, not because we take any stock in the theory
that college f r a t e r n i t y men as a class are beginning to pay politics f o r public
office, but simply because it makes interesting reading matter, and shows a keen
public interest in the growth and purpose of the fraternity system. The very
men o f our Fraternity whose pictures are published wth the article would be
the first to resent the insinuation that the fraternal bond is becoming a political
wire. The fact that Governor Hughes was a candidate f o r the Presidential
nomination and that Frank H . Hitchcock was the manager of the T a f t