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THE NDNTIUS National Journal of Eta Sigma Phi VOL. XVII, No. 3 MARCH, 1943 THE NUNTIU NATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETA SIGMA PHI Volume XVil March, 1943 Number 3 Board of Editors HELEN CARLE, Gamma MARIETTA JOHNSEN, Beta Alpha ANN CHAMBLISS, Beta Gamma CLARA MOHLER, Gamma KINCHEN W. EXUM, Alpha Phi CAROLL O. SATRB, Epsilon MARTHA HESSON, Gamma MARY K, BROKAW, Edttor-iti-CHi«/ National Officers ME GAS PR.YTANIS S. GRAYSON CLARY Lambda Chi Alpha Williamsburg, Virginia MEUAS GRAMMATEUS JOHN L. KRIEGER Table of Contents . 5324a Bancroft St. Louis, Missouri MEGAS CHRYSOPHYLAX ANNA MARIE MANGIARACINA 629 Majestic Place New Orleans, Louisiana Eta Sigma Phi in War Time 2 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MARY K- BROKAW Ohio University Athens, Ohio Homer Gone Modern 3 BOARD OF TRUSTEES PROFESSOR HORACE W. WRIGHT, Chairman Aurea Aetas '. 5 Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania PROFESSOR VICTOR D. HILL Among the Chapters 5 Ohio University Athens, Ohio PROFESSOR D. M. KEY Birmingham Southern College Birmingham, Alabama PROFESSOR H. LLOYD STOW University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma PROFESSOR A. PELZBR WAGENER College of William, and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia -h Published four times a year, in November, January, March, and May, by the national society of Eta Sigma Phi. The office of publication is 213 Ellis Hall, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. All matters relating to publication should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. Entered as second-class matter December 16, 1940, at the post office at Athens. Ohio, under the Act of August 24, 1912. THE NUNTIUS Eta Sigma Phi in War Time Certain changes face the organization the National Convention presents. because of the war, and the cooperation Much good evolves from the "off-the- of all chapters of Eta Sigma Phi is record" discussions which form a part earnestly solicited so that we may be of the regular annual meeting. It is able to function as well as possible in the hope of the Executive Council that the face of difficulties presented by the difficulties of this kind may be sent to war. the Executive Secretary prior to the April meeting (probable date April 17 It is not possible to say now how or 24) so that there will be an oppor many of our members have gone into tunity to discuss any such problems and the armed services this year, for com inform the chapters concerned of the plete data are lacking. The number, decisions reached. naturally, is fairly high, and undoubted ly will become still higher as time goes One of the items on the agenda of on. the National Convention regularly is the consideration of petitions for new Some depletion of our ranks and the chapters of Eta Sigma Phi. This year serious curtailment of railroad services the matter must be carried on entirely for purposes other than those connected by correspondence, and it is necessary with the war effort have caused it to that the vote of the chapters be secured seem wise to the Executive Council this by mail on any such petitions. year to cancel the regular annual con vention. One of our national officers, To date only one petition has come Megas Grammateus John Krieger of to the national office, and it is repro Beta Zeta Chapter, has been in train duced here: ing since March 8. The Departments of Latin and Greek of Wake Forest College petition the It is hoped that the remain'ng mem National Honorary Classical Fraternity, bers of the Council can meet sometime Eta Sigma Phi, to establish a chapter during April and formulate plans for at Wake Forest College. the organization during the crisis. Pres ent indications are that the meeting will Wake Forest College was founded be held in Athens, Ohio. in 1834. It now consists of three divi sions: the College of Liberal Arts, the In the absence of a regularly sched School of Law, and the Bowman Gray uled convention of the kind held here School of Medicine. It has been pri tofore, it is necessary this year to con marily a school for men, but women are duct our business largely by correspon now admitted to the junior and senior dence, a task that will become hopeless classes, to the professional schools of and fruitless unless the prompt coopera Law and Medicine, and for the degree tion of the various chapters is secured. of Master of Arts. In the summer ses That cooperation of the very best has sion, women are admitted to all classes. been secured in the past is a well-known Wake Forest College has been a mem fact, and need not be stressed here. ber of the Southern Association of We are merely urging you now, in the Colleges and Secondary Schools for over face of accelerated programs and var twenty years. It has been on the ap ious distractions, to continue to furnish proved list of the Association of Amer the national organization the loyal sup ican Universities since 1938. It is also port it has had in the past. a member of the Association of Amer The lack of an opportunity to discuss ican Colleges. mutual problems is one of the most ser The faculty of the Departments of ious drawbacks that the cancellation of • Latin and Greek is as follows: Page Two THE NUNTIUS Hubert McNeill Poteat, M.A., Ph.D. the Departments of Latin and Greek. Professor of the Latin Language and This year the enrollment of the college Literature: has dropped forty percent; one hundred B.A., Wake Forest College, 1906; M. twenty-five students are taking courses A., ibid., 1908; Drisler Fellow in Clas in Latin and Greek. sical Philology, Columbia University, There is no classical organization in 1908-10; Ph.D., Columbia University, the college at the present time. 1912; Professor of Latin, Columbia The following national fraternities University, Summer Sessions, since have chapters on the campus; Phi Beta 1924; Professor of the Latin Language Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Gamma and Literature, Wake Forest College, Sigma Epsilon, Gamma Nu Iota, Pi since 1912. Member: Classical Asso Kappa Delta, Sigma Pi Alpha. ciation of the Middle West and South, The petition of Wake Forest College American Philological Association, Bri has secured the approval of the Execu tish Classical Association. Past Presi tive Council, and it is recommending it dent of the Classical Association of the to the chapters for the granting of a Middle West and South. charter. Author: Repetition in Latin Poetry, Each chapter is urged to consider the 1912; Selected Letters of Cicero, 1916, petition as soon as feasible after receipt second edition, 1931; Practical Hymn' of this NUNTIUS and let the Executive ology, 1921; Selected Epigrams of Mar' Secretary know its decision at once. tial, 1931; Selected Letters of Pliny, Chapters are asked not to wait for a 1937; T. Livius Harrator, 1938; and regularly scheduled meeting (unless one numerous articles. is to be held within a few days of this Cronje B. Earp, A.M., Ph.D., Pro announcement) but to hold business fessor of the Greek Language and Liter meetings so that action may be taken as ature. soon as possible. B.A., Wake Forest College, 1926; The cooperation of all chapters will Special University Fellow in Classical be most heartily appreciated. Philology, Columbia University, 1926- 1927; A.M., Columbia University, Homer Gone Modern 1927; Ph.D., ibid., 1939; Instructor in Classics, Long Island University, 1927- BY LOUISE ELLISON, Alpha Chi 1928; Instructor in Classics, Washing A long time ago there occurred a ton Square College, New York Univer war, and in Ithaca there were stationed sity, 1938-1939; Instructor in Greek and an A.P. correspondent, a fellow named Latin, Saint Stephen's College (now Walterus Winchellus, and a represent Bard College), Columbia University, ative of Varietas. The first day re 1929-1931; Associate Professor of the corded in the Odyssey, a friend of Greek Language and Literature, Wake Odysseus called on Odysseus' son Forest College, 1940-1942; Professor of Telemachus advising him to dismiss the the Greek Language and Literature, suitors and call a council among the Wake Forest College, since 1942. people. That day the Times' headline Author: A Study of the Fragments of read: Three Related Plays of Accius, 1939. CHIEF-EXEC'S SON RECEIVES Before the entrance of the United VISIT FROM UNKNOWN States into the present war, the attend CALLER ance in the College of Liberal Arts at Walterus Winchellus said: "A reli Wake Forest College was approximately able source has it that a certain well- one thousand. Of these, about one known widow's son is planning to oust hundred forty were taking courses in his mother's boy-friends." Page Three THE NUNTIUS Varietas printed: "Prince hints rinse." Nashus collected the news and wrote Well, Telemachus called the council a poem: and tried to dismiss the suitors, but This is the story of a man named Odys failed. That night he left town to visit seus, Nestor. The Times headlined: Whose name has certainly stood for a BOY PRINCE SKIPS lot of misuse. TOWN BY NIGHT Most freshmen follow the course of least Winchellus reported: "Flash . Things resistance and call him Odyshus, were getting too hot here for a certain party after he and his mother's friends Though that's probably not what the phfft. You-know-who mysteriously man himself wishes. disappeared last night." And some call him Odyssus. Varietas said: "Ham scrams jam." And I'll bet he was called lots of other A month went by; at Ithaca neither things by his missus. Telemachus nor Odysseus were heard And some call him Odyssheus. from. Then a swineherd came into But there's one better way of settling these issues: town with the rumor that Odysseus had And that's to call him U-LYS-ses, returned.