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TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 97

for articles of 500 words concerning their own professions, for a
group of articles on "The Interests and Professions of Women."

The business manager received one answer containing one subscrip-
tion, the editor received five articles!

Is a sorority so poor a thing that one can cease to love it (and love
means service) after the four years of College life are over? Have
we no finer sense of gratitude than to refuse small service, seldom
asked? Would not our entire organization be stronger and dearer to
our hearts i f we would perform the concrete services asked of us?
Our sorority is not an external organization that flourishes in spite of
us. It is—us. And every one who fails in forwarding a sorority en-
terprise, in that measure weakens her sisterhood.

CONFESSIONS OF PSI U .

SOME months ago we noticed with regret an article published in
a Greek Journal, called "The Confessions of a Psi U . " Although
regretting it at the time we passed it by without comment, hoping that
our silence would show sufficiently our stand concerning the publica-
tion of such an article. But since that time the article has been
copied in three leading Fraternity magazines.

The entire affair seems to us regrettable. That any fraternity man
should so far forget personal honor, loyalty, faith,—as to write for
publication in another fraternity's magazine a confession of such a
nature is beyond forgiveness and beneath the serious consideration of
another fraternity. Faults may be found and "confessions" made in
the secrecy of one's own Council Chamber, but to any other audience
it is disloyalty to Fraternity Ideals. The publishing of such a "con-
fession" of a member of another Fraternity is out of the harmony
with our Ideal of Fraternity dignity. With our own policy we have
everything to do, with another's, nothing. We do not exist to dis-
credit one another.

The benefit of the publication of such a confession is questionable
and is in discord with the best Ideals of the Fraternity System.
More Loyalty and less Criticism would accomplish better results.

T H E SORORITY HANDBOOK

T H E Fourth Edition of the Sorority Handbook has recently been
issued and is most valuable and highly interesting reading. No
girl who has a deep interest in the Greek World should be without
a copy. Mrs. Ida Shaw Martin, 5 Cobden Street, Roxbury, Mass.,
has collected not only the fullest datas concerning both Fraternities