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"Once an Alpha Chi, always an Alpha Chi" is a slogan in the fraternity.
It is the chapter's newest affiliate who realizes most keenly the meaning that
this expression has for her affiliating chapter. And, strange to say, it is not
the chapter that has the most affiliates that needs most often to be reminded
of the unalterable fact that a member of the fraternity in one chapter may
be as truly a member in another chapter.

Alpha Chi Omega requires its chapters to affiliate members coming from

other chapters. The courtesy of inviting affiliation must be extended and an

affiliation certification must be given without vote by the original chapter,

provided the candidate for affiliation has for one full semester made the same

scholarship average required for initiation and has secured from her former

alumna adviser a recommendation certifying as to her previous sincerity and

standing in the college community and chapter. With this safeguard, it is

believed that chapters are fully protected and have as much guarantee of the

future scholastic and moral conduct of their affiliates as they have of any of

their pledges. Legislation at the 1922 convention now permits chapters to

charge an affiliation fee and to have certain alumnae notes turned over to the

affiliating chapter." L y r e of Alpha Chi Omega.

We are pleased to call your attention to The News Bulletin of the Bureau
of Vocational Information, which made its initial appearance October 1. It
is a semi-monthly four-page sheet. The subscription price is $1.00 a year,
single copies ten cents each. The Bureau of Vocational Information is located
at 2 West 43rd St., New York, N. Y.

The Bureau is doing valuable work for self-supporting women of the
professional and business class, and has chosen to further extend its useful-
ness through this medium, which we recommend to Alpha X i Deltas. The
Bureau is not an employment agency. All of the information in its files is at
the service of the public, but it does not undertake to locate a position for
those seeking one.—Alpha X i Delta.

In an interesting article in the Alpha Phi Quarterly for January, under
the caption, "Women in Architecture," Dorothy French speaks most encourag-
ingly of that comparatively new field for women. Accompanying the article
are drawings of the front elevation of a fraternity house and the basement
plan of the same, by Miss French.

The February Sigma Chi Quarterly chronicles the installation of Gamma
Delta chapter at Oklahoma State in December '22, when 90 Sigs representing 27
chapters took part in the impressive ceremonies.

Under the title "Candle Light" in the March Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha a
new and delightful way of observing Founders Day is told:

Some time before October 10, Founders' Day, at Illinois Women's College,
a printed slip was sent to all alumnae, former students, and the homes of our
present student body. In this was announced the beautiful new plan of
Candle Lighting as a "happy remembrance of the college days, and as a token
of continued interest in the College, and of communion with every other
former student." I t was requested that a blue and a yellow candle be burn-
ing on the table at the evening meal "in any place where two or more former
students can get together, in every Woman's College home, or wherever any
former student takes her meal alone."

The plan was carried out at the college, there being a large blue and
yellow candle on each table in the dining-room and at each place a small
blue or yellow one. The large candles burned throughout the meal, thus
lending an air of festivity and causing us all to think of those candles of the