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ter house should be kept fully insured, its contents also; and adequate means
of preventing fires should be provided such as fire extinguishers and pails of
water. Most important of all, the house, if over two stories high, should have
a fire escape, as several chapter house fires during recent years have been at-
tended with loss of life. We cannot too strongly urge that this warning be
heeded by all chapters living in houses.—Scroll of Phi Delta Theta quoted by
Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly.

The University of Illinois supports among others the following honorary
fraternities:

H K N, Electrical Engineering. Founded at Illinois in 1904 with chapters
at Illinois, Ohio State, Armour, Pennsylvania State, Case and Wisconsin.

A T P , Agriculture. Founded at Illinois in 1905 with chapters at Illinois,
Pennsylvania State and Ohio State.

Triangle, Civil Engineering. Founded at Illinois in 1907 with chapters
at Illinois, Purdue and Ohio State.

A K X , Commercial. Founded at Illinois in 1910.
K A IT, Educational. Founded at Illinois in 1900.—Alpha Tau Omega Palm.

Six hundred and fifty Chinese young men and women are now studying
in the more advanced schools in this country, says Y . S. Tsao of Yale Univer-
sity, secretary of the Chinese Students' alliance. Of these 323 are in universities,
72 in purely professional institutes, 23 in the smaller colleges, and the rest in
schools. Fifty-two students are women, and they are supported by the govern-
ment, each receiving about $900 a year. Nearly half of the students have been
prepared for college by missionary institutions. The average age of the young
women students is 25, that of the young men 24.—Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.

Quoting from the London Evening Standard, the Record of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon enumerates the fourteen errors of life. Fraternity life seems full of
errors, for we must admit that these are especially applicable to our life in
the Greek world.

The fourteen mistakes of life, Judge Rentoul told the Bartholomew Club are:
To expect to set up our own standard of right and wrong and expect every-
body to conform to it.

To try to measure the enjoyment of others by our own.
To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.
T o look for judgment and experience in youth.
To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.
Not to yield in unimportant trifles.
To look for perfections in our own actions.
T o worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all that needs alleviation.
Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others.
T o consider anything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform.
To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.
T o live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would
live forever.

T o estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes
the man.—Quoted by Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.