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EDITORIALS

T H E SITUATION AT PEMBROKE

T H E abolishing of the four Sororities at Pembroke is a serious
blow to the entire Sorority World. We are glad to contradict

the article in the Boston Sunday Globe of December 2 as to the cause
of this action on the part of the advisory council. A t this great dis-
tance from the ground of the action it is hard to understand the
allusion to a better form of Society for College Women. No bodies
of student women could have higher aims than love, loyalty, mutual
helpfulness, the development of the highest womanhood. We realize
that the working out of any system is faulty, but the advantages to
a college of a staunch organization with high aims is of far more
weight in the scales of usefulness than are the disadvantages of in-
dividual faults or any faults that have grown with the growth of the
system. I t reminds us of G. K. Chesterton on the English mandate
that because some poor children's hair was uncleanly, the hair of all
poor children must be cut off. England would not supply sanitary
conditions in the tenements so the poor girls hair could be clean
but no! Some are unclean—off with all hair.

Is it wise for a college to see the flaws in a beuatiful system, and
overlooking the beauty, say "Behold the flaws. Off with the Sytem"?

P R E S I D E N T W H E E L E R has taken a more thoughtful atti-
* tude, when he writes in a letter to the Editor dated January 10.

" M y own experiences with the Sorority as well as the Fraternity
System have been on the whole, favorable. I recognize the difficulties ,
and dangers but am strongly inclined to the policy of making use
of the organizations for all possible good to the University, now that
they are in existence."

ALUMNAE RESPONSIBILITY

T N the preparation of an Issue for the Alumnae, a grave question
* has forced itself upon us.

Both the Editor and the business manager have spent many hours
of hard work on this issue. Take for example one day's work alone.
The business manager wrote twenty-five letters asking for subscrip-
tions to the fraternity magazine, and sending sample copies. The
Editor wrote twenty-four letters to sisters in professional life asking