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TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 331

FRATERNITY SUMMER CAMPS

The idea is not new f o r college societies to maintain a summer camp or other
place, where, during vacation time, the undergraduates and younger alumni
can get together in an i n f o r m a l way.

D u r i n g the last two or three years this plan has been taken up by several
fraternities, which have established regular camps or meeting places f o r the
summer. Delta Upsilon has carried on what is understood to be the most
successful venture of this k i n d , and the accounts of these outings are of un-
usual interest. Delta Upsilon owns a small island i n Lake George and for
f o u r years has maintained this camp, with the result that opportunity f o r a
healthful vacation at a very moderate cost has been offered to its members,
and i t is believed the friendships formed have been of great use in promoting
fraternity interest and loyalty.

Several of the societies at Yale are understood to follow some such plan as
this, at least f o r their active members, and some other local societies do likewise.
—Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly.

T H E SCHOLARSHIP DINNER

Local Pan-Hellenic at M i l l i k i n started a custom this year which it is hoped,
w i l l be followed every year. There is so much said today about the non-fra-
ternity movement and about fraternity people being low scholarship people,
also about the poor feeling between fraternity and non-fraternity people. I t
was with all these in mind that Pan-Hellenic took the action i t d i d .

I t was finally decided that a scholarship dinner would be an excellent way
to find out who the high scholarship girls were; and also i f non-fraternity
girls were high in scholarship, there would be a more democratic spirit aroused
as the fraternity girls would be hostesses.

There are twelve Pan-Hellenic representatives, so they thought it would be
nice to have twelve guests beside the chaperones. The guests were the two
girls receiving the highest grades f r o m each college class, and the one g i r l re-
ceiving the highest grades f r o m each of the four fraternities. I t was announced
early i n the school year that there would be a dinner, so everyone had
the same chance to t r y f o r i t and the same length of time to make good. When
the grades f o r the first semester were turned i n , i t was found that there were
three out of the eight possible non-fraternity girls. Since then one o f those
girls has been pledged. We think we have proved that the fraternity girls can
get as high and higher grades than non-fraternity girls, and also we have
helped to bring about a better feeling between the girls.—Lyre o f Alpha Chi
Omega.

Delta Kappa Epsilon numbers among its alumni twenty-two college presi-
dents.

The strength of a fraternity group lies most of all in the spirit of brother-
hood that prevails among the members. Where there is the fellowship of loyal
hearts and kindred interests, there is the only kind of strength that makes f r a -
ternity life worth while. Where there is dissension, snobbishness, uncharit-
ableness, nagging, uncongenial tastes or the display of any unbrotherly qualities,
there is the weakness that makes any chapter an i n j u r y to its college and
a reproach to its fraternity.— A K E Quarterly.

CHAPTER MANAGEMENT

There must be, first of all, a graduate treasurer or manager, who is always
"on the job." I t is usually desirable to have a graduate brother who lives very
near the college or who is on the faculty. There should be an annual budget—

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