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328 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

Phi Gamma Delta is to award an "efficiency cup," known as the Cheney cup,
donated by their national president. The plan f o r grading chapters i n compe-
tition f o r this cup embraces all branches of chapter activity, under three heads:
Scholarship, 50 per cent; relations of chapter to college, 25 per cent; relations
of chapter to fraternity, 25 per cent.—Caduceus of K 2 .

T H E PASSING OF T H E P I N

Is the bejeweled fraternity pin to go? I f one reads the signs of the times
aright the answer "yes" is almost forced upon him. For many years the
wearing of a f r a t e r n i t y pin has not been considered good f o r m in either
business or social life. There are, of course, communities in which this un-
written rule does not obtain, but in the circles where fashion lives, moves and
has its being this is undeniably true. Prove i t by counting how many mature,
successful business men of your acquaintance wear the pin regularly.

Again, the p i n , fastened to an obscure part of its owner's vest, serves poorly
as a medium of identification, and the gaily colored hatband has of recent
years usurped this obvious and important function of the pin. As a positive
means of signaling members of the same fraternity, high signs and mono-
grammed pins inlaid with jewels are not knee-high to the hatband.

4> r A is the first of the national fraternities to hear f r o m afar the r i n g i n g
of the death-knell of the p i n , and at the last annual convention resoluted an ap-
propriate obituary by adopting a "recognition pin" small and inconspicuous
in itself, but worn on the lapel of the coat where its normal function might
best be performed.

T r u l y , the fraternity pin, beautiful in its carving and setting, but hidden
away under the wearer's left armpit, is a weird, laughable contradiction.—A T
Quarterly. Quoted by The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

"A K A T's Garden of Verse" is the title o f a clever little volume issued by

Clare Lynn Fitch, wife of Siwash George, f o r the benefit of the scholarship

f u n d of Kappa Alpha Theta, of which Mrs. Fitch is a member. A couple of

extracts, copied by The Sigma Chi Quarterly are as f o l l o w s :

I n rushing I get up by night When I have reached Alumnae state

And rush by yellow candle light, A n d become very grand and great,

I keep i t up the same old way, I ' l l visit with the girls and tell

And do not go to bed t i l l day. Just how to run the chapter well.

—Quoted by The Crescent f r o m Kappa Alpha Journal.

CHAPERONS AND CHAPERONED

Chapter House Chaperons

What is a chaperone?—Webster says "a guide and a protector." But how
can anyone be a guide and a protector unless she knows to what ends she must
guide the girls in her charge and against what she must protect them? T o be
both of these she must have the powers of a Cassandra, the wisdom o f a M i -
nerva and the trust and love of a mother; she must be one who knows the
common rules of etiquette, is at ease w i t h people and can put others likewise
at ease: one whom the girls are proud to have receive with them at their func-
tions and one who has personality and power enough to see that proper house
rules are made and enforced; one respected enough f o r her word to be l a w ; one
old enough in experience i f not in years, f o r the girls to go to her f o r the
settlement of their difficulties; diplomatic enough to show no prejudices and
no preferences; and wise be5'ond all expression.

As a mother guides, teaches, leads, protects and even punishes her children,
so must a chaperon guide, teach, lead, protect and even punish her charges