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r/1 M A R C H \ h 1 9 5 3 f-. ru� Ol�4C�iVt Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida Gflmmfl PHI BCTfl MEDITATION When he came to he ... himself, said, I will arise and go to iny father.-Luke 15:17, 18. THERE is something strange about the language of the young prodigal who had squandered his inheritance seeking the pleasures of the world. Before he came to himself, who was he? He was not someone else, and yet he was not himself. .V distinguishing mark of a person as compared with any lower form of animal life is his to ability look at himself, sit in judgment upon himself, praise himself, condemn himself, pamper himself, discipline himself, deny himself, or fulfill himself. But when a man looks at himself, who is it that looks at whom? How can anybody be both subject and object at the same time? What is the solution of this dilemma? The answer is that we are not simple, but multiple selves. Potentially, each of us is both a lower and a higher self, with other possibilities lying in between, and each contends for the supremacy and control of our lives. The higher self judges the lower, and the lower seeks to defy the higher. As long as the lower self rules there can be no abiding happiness. Animal satisfactions cannot satisfy for long one who has so much as tasted the higher values of the human spirit. We are involved in the animal world, but even more profoundly w'e belong to the world of the spirit. Tim latter is our real home, and we shall never experience self-fulfillment apart from it. The easier course in life is to seek gratification for the alluring urges of the lower nature; but like the prodical, one who follows this way can never escape the insistent accusation of the higher self that he is guilty of falling short o�- what he ought to be. There is no peace of mind for one who for the sake of passing thrills starves the higher self. Joy and satisfaction are the abiding experiences only of those who turn their backs on the lesser desires and resolutely decide to li\e in the Father's house and seek the values which characterize His household. In that fellowship man fulfills his highest and truest self. Dr. Arthur C. Wickenden, Denison '75 Beta Theta Pi Ref>rint fjermission from The Beta Theta Pi Tlie Crescent [auMiiia Volume LIII, The Cover Contents for Marcli, ^953 New Women's Dormitory at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida where Beta Mu chapter of was chartered Gamma Phi Beta April ap, 1950. "Flyin' High," Frontispiece ^ The Crescent is published September 15, Decem ber March and 1, the Banta 1, . 15, May by George Old School . Young Chapter .S Publishing Company, official printers of the fraternity, at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wiscon Attends of American .... a in Ann Industry 4 sin. Subscription price I1.50 year payable Pinkney Congress advance, 40^ a single copy. Pole Vaulter Is Honored .5 Send change of address and correspondence of a Olympic business nature to Gamma Phi Beta, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or Room 1160, 53 W. French Student Resides with Gamma Phi Betas 6 Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois. Mailing lists close August 15, November 1, January 15 and Women in a Democracy, Editorial 7 April 1. Ours Is a Republic Under God 9 Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, Mrs. Modern Home at Michigan State 10 James Marek, Clifton, Illinois. Items for should be addressed to the publication PROFILES-Our Canadian Alumnas 12 editor to arrive not later than July 1, October 1, January 10 and February ao. Albuquerque Alumnas Chapter Is Installed 13 Founders' Celebrated on Editorial StafF: Day 78th Anniversary 14 Ardis McBroom Marek, Editor-in-chief, Clifton, Grand Council 21 Illinois. Appointments Janice Parker Holman, Associate Editor, 1960 In Memoriam S.W. 16th Ave., Portland i, Oregon. 24 Frances Harkness Miller, Associate Editor, 11029 Canada. 89th Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, Call for Camp Counselors 25 Miss Mary Jane Hipp, Business Manager, Room Illinois. 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Collegiate Chapter Pictorial Section 27 Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national advertising should On with Our be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, Campus Chapters 35 1618 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter at Menasha, Wis Gamma Phi Beta Chapter List 47 consin, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage under the Gamma Phi Beta Directory ^8 provisions of Sec. 34-40 Par. (D) provided for in the act of February 28, 1925. Printed in the United States of America. Schedule of Officers' Duties Inside back cover Postmaster: Please send copies returned uncier labels Form 3579 to Gamma Phi Beta, Room 1160, S3 W. Jacbon Blvd., Chicaso 4, Illinois. uFlyin' High" Circus clowns perform at Florida State University's annual circus. A student production, it is the only college circus in the country, and has received national acclaim for its professional performances through magazine and motion picture features. OM School 1951 Florida State University in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, celebrated its hundredth as an institution �� IN anniversary 1^ of higher education, and its fourth year as a co-ed school. Also in 1951, Beta Mu chapter had its first birthday. The school in Tallahassee was chartered in 1851 as the West Florida seminary, later known as the Florida University. In 1905 the Florida college system was reorganized, and the Talla hassee school became the Florida State College for Women. In 1947 FSCW was transformed into Florida State University, and men were admitted for the first time in forty-two years. This shift to co-education has tripled the enrollment, and caused the academic program to be broadened. Florida State University has a varied scholastic program�from anthropology and classical languages through education and nursing to zoology�and offers advanced degrees including the Ph.D. A few particularly out standing schools and departments at FSU are the School of Music, the School of Education, the Department of Speech and the Department of Chemistry. The teaching faculty of over five hundred members includes such men as Ernst von Dohnanyi, the noted composer, artist Edmund Lewandowski, Dr. Meyer Nimkoff, and Dr. Moore, dean of the School sociologist, Coyle Main gates of Florida State University at Tallahassee, showing West of Social Welfare. cott Administration Building in background. In order to provide for the more than five thousand students now enrolled, a fifty-year building plan is under way. The Music featured in national magazines and a movie short. Other activi Building, one of the finest in the nation, was completed in ties are the various music organizations; the Operetta; radio 1947. The Doak S. Campbell stadium, named for FSU's president station WFSU, voice of the a musical and Seminoles; "Sandspur," popularly known as the "Soup Bowl," seats 15,000. An comedy written, directed, and produced by students; Gymkana, eight-story dormitory for women and an attractive Student Center featuring the nationally famous gymnastics team which has were both completed this summer, and an eleven-story men's twice sent its athletes to the Olympics; and the series of plays dormitory will be ready for next fall. Ground will occupancy sponsored by the Speech Department. soon be broken for the Geology Building and a new Demonstra Beta Mu was installed at Florida State on tion School. Chapter April 29, the fifteenth 1950, national sorority to come to this campus. "Flyin' High"�that's the FSU circus and the only college The chapter house is a beautiful, white-pillared colonial-style circus in the United States. Complete with clowns, pretty girls, mansion where twenty chapter members live and where Beta dancers, stunt acts and breathtaking trapeze performances, it is Mu's social activities center. The balcony in front is a perfect produced each year by students, and gives in performances neigh spot from which to listen to serenades. boring cities as well as in Tallahassee. The Circus has been Chapter traditions which have already been established are the yearly party for alumnae and faculty patrons and patronesses, the Armistice Day sale of poppies for the American Legion Auxiliary, Christmas carol serenade of alumnas in Tallahassee, and the Christmas donation to a charitable cause. Another tra dition is the "Steak Race"; members are paired according to their grades, and at the end of each semester the girl with the higher scholastic average is treated to a steak dinner by her partner. During the three years she has been at FSU, Beta Mu has won the Campus Sing; her members have been in the honoraries of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Lambda, Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Alpha Iota, Alpha Lambda Delta, Zeta Phi Eta, and Garnet have on Key; they served Women's Judiciary, as presidents of Sigraa Alpha Iota, FSU Home Economics Club and the Florida Home Economics College Clubs, Women's Recrea tional Association, Tarpon Swimming Club, and have held offices in other in canjpus organizations and the dormitories. Last year the Kappa Sigma Sweetheart was a Gamma Phi Beta, and this Christmas another girl was runner-up for the title of "Miss Army." At Homecoming this fall Beta Mu's float, which featured eight fan dancers and the slogan, "Don't Let Our Fans Down, Boys," won third place for its originality. To aid disabled veteran:,, llorida State's Gamma Phi Betas annually Beta Mu is fortunate in of a sell poppies on Armistice Day.