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TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 329

in the chapter house—in short, she must be a noble, womanly woman whose
very presence commands and receives respect, loyalty and love.—The Key.

We have spoken of the obligation of the chaperon to the chapter, but there the
obligation does not end; in fact, it just begins f o r the g i r l in the chapter house
— f o r her attitude toward the chaperon should be that of scholar to teacher, of
sister to sister, of daughter to mother. She must first of all be respectful,
h e l p f u l , obedient, without resentment, but above all she must be loyal—by loy-
al we mean loyal w i t h i n and without the house, in action, speech and thought.
She should do nothing without the house which is not in accordance w i t h the
house rules, she must speak no word of condemnation or criticism to the out-
side world, which is so ready to criticise, enlarge upon and judge as the usual
in chapter house life—and never should she allow disloyal thoughts to fer-
ment in her mind f o r they always lead to disloyal speech and actions. Fight
them with might and main. Be as loyal to your chaperon as you are to your
fraternity sister.—The Key. Quoted by The Adelphean.

T H E BEAUTY OF TIMELINESS

Recently I heard an address i n which the beauty of timeliness was the
thought developed. T o me it then seemed that we could not do better than ap-
ply this thought to our college and fraternity life.

To borrow the words of the well-known proverb—a time f o r everything and
everything in its time (and on time, one might a d d ) , is a rule that it would be
well f o r us to f o l l o w . So often the object f o r which we have come to college
is lost sight of behind the cloud of social activities, athletics or scholarship, as
the case may be. Each of these has its place and, taken in its proper time and
proportion, will develop the all-round efficient college student, who gains that
which she is seeking. A n d yet how often this proportion is lost sight of, and
we have the resultant three types so often referred to, none of which is really
educated.—Key o f K K Y.

A t a meeting of the various fraternities o f the University of California, it
has been unanimously decided to inaugurate the twelve unit requirement f o r
freshmen before their eligibility to initiation into any fraternity. The rule
w i l l not go into effect f o r a year, but i t is sure to be tried then. The inter-
sorority council adopted this policy some time ago and we have found i t to
work well.—Caduceus of K 2.

Anti-fraternity men are making demonstrations at the University of Ala-

bama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute. They have raised $2500 with which

to finance their campaign, and are making a great effort to elect members of the

legislature this month who, when the legislature meets next January, w i l l vote

to outlaw fraternities i n the two state institutions. The Phi Gamma Delta f o r

March says:

A t these meetings inflammatory speeches are delivered and carefully worded

resolutions are railroaded through by the leaders and then given out to the

newspapers as the sentiment o f the m a j o r i t y o f the students. Diatribes against

fraternity men and against the injustice of the fraternity system are being dis-

tributed to newspapers and circulated among prospective candidates for the

legislature. Newspaper editors and non-fraternity alumni are being coached

to demand f r o m the candidates an expression o f their attitude on the college

fraternity question.

Every effort is being made to smoke out the candidates and compel them to

pledge themselves against the fraternities i n order to save themselves the op-

position of the anti-fraternity element and their friends Meanwhile