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The Tau committee writes in of a new committee, which took
form after convention was over and of which Lucille Haertel and
Margaret Boothroyd were the most active members, the Lost and
Found committee. They report everything from silk lingerie, fra-
ternity pins, typewriters, shoes, official gowns, and what not, l e f t
at the I n n , and i n most cases have succeeded i n returning the
objects to their rightful owners. From all accounts, Tau could
have started a very respectable second-hand store on what was
gathered up by this committee.

A SIGN OF THE TIMES
The very fact that Greek-letter organizations are entering into
humanitarian work unconnected with college life is a manifestation of these
spiritual qualities which are unquestionably the basis of intimate fraternity
life. This tendency toward service should be the satisfactory answer to the
question, Is the college fraternity worth while? It has taken nearly fifty
years for fraternities to come through a period comparable to adolescence.
During that period we have been egotistical, self-assertive, intensely sub-
jective, callous toward one another. We have entered today upon period of
maturity. We deplore our rivalries and desire their removal. We meet in
National Panhellenic Congress with increasing openness of mind and spirit,
believing in one another, appreciating one another, looking always toward a
broader basis of understanding, a readier cooperation, a more sincere
endeavor to pull together for some common good. And well we may, for
the preservation of our order, since the public over-emphasizes our weak-
nesses, turning, sometimes perversely, deaf ears to our avowals of high aims
and fine achievements. The hour is filled with warnings and the time is
close when only a common understanding, a common unity will save us all
from those ruthless persons who would pull down our standards with their
beauty and their spirituality, who would destroy that inestimably valuable
teacher of idealism which the fraternity has grown to be.—The Anchora of
Delta Gamma, via Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha.