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A QUATIC DISTINCTIONS, as well as legal, are now claimed by Nu chapter.
^ * Some time ago the Rotogravure section of the New York Times con-
tained a picture of Ethel McGary, Nu '28, as she Australian crawled to
victory in the 880-yard swim at the A. A. U . Outdoor meet in Detroit.
Her time was twelve minutes and fifty-seven seconds, just one minute and
thirty-eight seconds better than Gertrude Ederle's. In 1924, she was a
member of the Olympic swimming team.

X J E W HONORS have been given Thelma Brumfield, the recipient of last
1 ™ year's Fellowship award. This coming year she is to have a White-
head Research scholarship which carries with it the privelege of investiga-
tion under Dr. Jordan, one of the leading workers in blood formation and
cell origin. In addition to beginning her work along this line this sum-
mer, Thelma took charge of her father's class in hygiene while he attf nded
a medical officers' training camp.

*T*iifc PLEASURE of seeing her name in print has been Beryl Dill Kneen's
several times again this summer, as a number of her articles, some

of them written in collaboration with her husband, have been published
recently. "The Olympics, Last Wilderness of the West" appeared in the
June Mentor; the July Outdoor Recreation contained "The End of the
Elk Trail," and "The Hunter's Paradise" was in one of the recent numbers
of the London Graphic. Mrs. Kneen, who is a member of Upsilon chapter,
has filled in during the summer on the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
first as club editor and later as society editor, during the vacation periods
of the regular staff members.

A NOTHER A L P H A O who cannot resist the call of the newspaper office
is Muriel Fairbanks Steward, of Tau. Upon her return from Seattle and

the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalistic sorority,
Mrs. Steward became a member of the Minneapolis Journal staff again after
a year's vacation. For the next two years she will serve as Grand Vice-
President of Theta Sigma Phi. She is the retiring Grand Secretary.

H p H E FOLLOWING, quoted from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of August 23,
1925, contains the high lights of Dr. Henry Suzallo's address at the

banquet of Delta Upsilon's national convention. As president of the Uni-
versity of Washington, Dr. Suzallo should know of what he speaks, and
his comment on the ever present question of the fraternity and college life
is an interesting and valuable one.

I regard the fraternities at the University of Washington as
the greatest single asset in the maintenance of a high moral character
among the students.

If I had my way, no undergraduate fraternity would have more
than thirty members. When a group of college students becomes too
large, they lose that intimate contact that is the greatest asset of the
college fraternity.