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NEWS OF T H E COLLEGE AND GREEK-LETTER
WORLD

We are indebted to Panto's Greek Exchange, that treasure-house
of fraternity and sorority information, for the following interesting
notes:

America's oldest coed, a student at the University of Kansas last
year, entered the University of California this fall. She is Amy D .
Winship, 85. Mrs. Winship started her education in a log school
in Illinois in 1847.

Every president of the United States since 1880 has been a frater-
nity man. Here are their affiliations: Garfield, A Y ; Arthur, * Y ;
Cleveland, honorary 2 X ; Harrison, * A ©; McKinley, honorary
2 A E ; Roosevelt, A A * and A K E ; T a f t , * Y ; Wilson, <I> K
Eight vice presidents also have been fraternity men.

Fraternity pins have been placed under the ban at the reserve offi-
cers' training camps, because they do not make for democracy.

The first attempt is about to be made to introduce standardized
dress for women in California, by certain of the faculty of Stanford
University who are members of an organization known as the Resartus
Club. The dress which they propose the women shall adopt is a two-
piece costume of which the skirt is gathered and moderately f u l l , the
weight being allowed to f a l l from the shoulders. The waist is belted
and hangs in straight lines. The costumes are being made by the
School of Design of the University of Missouri.—Christian Science
Monitor, quoted from the A T A Quarterly.

For the first time in its history New York University is to admit
women medical students. Dr. James E. Lough, dean of the extra-
mural division, said arrangements had been made to admit women to
a standard medical preparatory course.

I t is possible that as a result of the war women w i l l eventually be
admitted to New York College proper.

Harvard University also has opened its medical courses to Rad-
cliffe women this fall.

A hundred Bryn Mawr College girls turned out recently and
husked 600 bushels of corn in war gardens.

Sigma Kappa Sorority announces the establishment of Rho Chap-
ter at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, on
June 2, 1917, of Sigma Chapter at Southern Methodist. University,
Dallas, Texas, on June 14, 1917 ; and of Tau Chapter at University
of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, on January 4, 1918.