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N E W CHAPTER HOUSES

Delta Upsilon at
Northwestern and Pennsylvania.

Sigma Nu at
Oxford, Georgia and at Syracuse University.

Delta Tau Delta at
Missouri and Northwestern.

Delta Kappa Epsilon at
Tulane.

Kappa Sigma at
Colorado College.

Pi Delta Theta at
University of California.

Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Xi, Psi Upsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon at
Northwestern.
—Santa's Greek Exchange.

PRINCIPLES OF CHOOSING T H E CONVENTION DELEGATE

1. Delegates to the general convention should be chosen primarily
for their fraternity activity.

2. Choice of the delegates should be kept distinct from all other
honors conferred by the chapter.

3. The chapter should get rid of financial considerations that
prevent a free choice.—Delta Upsilon Quarterly.

ARE YOU A THIEF

"No, you would not pick the pocket of a brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon,
nor the pocket of anybody else, we trust nor would you rummage through this
bureau for a dress shirt without at least an honest intention of returning the
same. You would resent with righteous indignation the charge that you were
a thief in any sense. But hold on a moment. Do you never drop into a
brother's room w i t h no object on earth except to chat and be sociable, when
you are well aware that he was making a real attempt to do some much needed
studying when you interrupted him? W e l l , that is theft. I t is taking some-
thing to which you have no right and which another needs. I n college, i f
anywhere in the w o r l d , time is money and is not to be stolen or wasted.

"And do you never thump on the piano or knock around the pool balls when
you know very well that there are a dozen fellows upstairs whom you are pre-
venting f r o m concentrating their attention on their books? That is making the
theft a dozen times greater. I f you do not like the word "theft," call it lack
of efficiency in the system of running the chapter house. A n d "efficiency"
among a band of brothers who occupy a college home together should be as
significant a word as it has come to be i n the business world. But call it what
you w i l l , i f you only make a change for the better. Do not let the freedom
of chapter house l i f e degenerate into license i n the use of time, and especially
in using the time of others. T h i n k it over."—The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quar-
terly. Quoted f r o m Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal.