THE NUNTIUS

National Journal of Eta Sigma Phi

VOL. XV, No. 1 NOVEMBER, 1940 THE NUNTIU

NATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETA SIGMA PHI

Volume XV November, 1940 Number 1

Board of Editors MARGARET S. DUKES, Alpha Alpha ALEX MEKEDIS, Gamma JANET FULLINWIDER, Alpha Omicron EVALYN THOMAS, Gamma MARY LOTT, Gamma JOYCE WALKER, Rho ROBERT H. MCGREGOR, Alpha Psi MARY K. BROKAW, Editor-in-CMe/

National Officers Table of Contents MEGAS PRYTANIS EDWARD A. SCALLET Pen Portraits of the National Officers.... 2 7546 York Drive Clayton, Missouri The New Board of Trustees 3 MEGAS GRAMMATEUS CARL MILLER 424 Marshall St. A Message from the Megas Prytanis .... 4 Jackson, Mississippi MEGAS CHRYSOPHYLAX Eta Sigma Phi Adds Fiftyfirst Chapter to HARRIETTE COCHRAN Organisation 5 Agnes Scott College Decatur, Georgia Membership Cards for Initiates 5 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MARY K. BROKAW Ohio University Editorial Policy of the NUNTIUS 5 Athens, Ohio Medal Report for 1939-1940 6 BOARD OF TRUSTEES PROFESSOR ROY C. FLICKINGER, Chairman Report of the Megas Chrysophylax for The State University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 19394940 7 PROFESSOR VICTOR D. HILL Ohio University Athens, Ohio Breezes from Helicon 9 PROFESSOR H. LLOYD STOW University of Oklahoma Translations from Martial 10 Norman, Oklahoma PROFESSOR A. PELZER WAGENER Among the Chapters 11 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia Chapter Directory 15 PROFESSOR HORACE W. WRIGHT Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Here and There 4, 6, 9, 14

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. Application for re-entry as second-class matter at the post office at Athens, Ohio, pending. THE NUNTIUS

Pen Portraits of the National Officers It seems only fitting that members at places full confidence in his ability to large should make some acquaintance carry out its wishes. with their national officers, and the ob­ Equal confidence is given to the ject of this sketch is to present to them Megas Grammateus, Mr. Carl Miller, some notion of the people who are guid­ and the Megas Chrysophylax, Miss ing the organisation this year. Inade­ Harriette Cochran. Both Miss Cochran quate as this is—and we do apologize and Mr. Miller are from the South, Miss for its brevity and its many faults—it Cochran coming from Georgia, and Mr. may serve to give some slight conception Miller from the Mississippi Gulf Coast of these student officers. country. Mr. Miller hopes to become a Some knowledge of the Megas Pry­ college professor of English and is well tanis can be obtained from his message on the way to his goal even now, for he to the chapters (page 4). The Con­ is teaching freshman and sophomore vention at New Orleans last spring was classes at Millsaps College. At Millsaps the second National Convention that he has an English-Latin major, and writ­ Mr. Scallet had attended, having been ing is one of his chief diversions, al­ present at the one of the year before at though dramatics and debate occupy his Gettysburg. At both Mr. Scallet took attention too. In spite of the fact that an active part and is consequently well the Convention of last spring was his versed in the workings of the organisa­ first, he showed keen interest in the tion. In particular, at the last Conven­ issues that were being debated and in the tion he served faithfully on the Constitu­ general welfare of the organization. Be­ tion committee, which, because of the sides holding national office, Mr. Miller pressure of limited time, worked at odd is the enthusiastic prytanis of the Alpha hours and places and almost constantly. Phi Chapter. It was obvious to other members of the Also president of her group, Alpha committee then that Mr. Scallet was on Delta Chapter, is Miss Cochran, Megas the way to being a lawyer, and by his Chrysophylax. Already Miss Cochran own confession he admits that his work has attacked her job with energy and now at Washington University is pre­ resolution that augurs well for its suc­ paratory to attendance at Law School. cessful accomplishment. Thoroughly To Mr. Scallet the classics are a hobby, devoted to the study of the classics since the chief one of three (the others being high school days, Miss Cochran has the theater and sports), and what this studied both Greek and Latin at Agnes hobby means to him is easily discernible Scott College. As hobbies, Miss Coch­ from what he has written for this issue ran enjoys music and reading and occa­ of the NUNTIUS. Numerous activities sionally writes verse. She hopes to enter in connection with the theater and the field of religious education following sports, as well as offices on the campus her graduation from Agnes Scott Col­ (among them the directorship of Stentor, lege. centralized campus publicity organiza­ tion, and the presidency of the Student Such, in a word, are the national of­ Council) have not prevented his main­ ficers. Really to know them, of course, taining his scholastic position on the one must have been-at the last Conven­ Dean's Honor List as well as his scholar­ tion or be planning to attend the next ship to the University. An active and one. All are enthusiastic, capable, de­ energetic person, a forceful speaker, a voted to the aims of Eta Sigma Phi, and young man with ideas for the betterment anxious to do all they can to promote of Eta Sigma Phi—such is the Megas them. The national organization takes Prytanis, and the national organization pride in them and hopes that the local Page Two chapters will share in this feeling. THE NUNTIUS

The New Board of Trustees The greatest single change that was chosen Chairman of the Board. Always inaugurated when the new Constitution interested in the organization and pres­ was adopted at the last National Con­ ent at several of its National Conven­ vention was the creation of an actively tions, Professor Flickinger has well functioning Board of Trustees who demonstrated his fitness for this position. would act in an advisory capacity to the Members may not generally know that organization and who would work with it is to Professor Flickinger that credit the Executive Council in furthering the is due for the inception of the Eta Sig­ welfare of the society. For a number of ma Phi Medal, and that the Medal was years Eta Sigma Phi has had a Board of first issued from Iowa City. Even this Trustees, consisting of three members, early in the year Professor Flickinger but a Board of five members, faculty has been busy sending out letters and as­ members of active chapters, who interest certaining the status of chapters in the themselves in the formation of policy organization. The society is fortunate and who exercise general supervision in having Professor Flickinger as Chair­ over the society is an innovation in the man of its Board of Trustees. His term organization. In earlier years members of office is for a two-year period. discussed the advisability of establishing a Board of alumni members of Eta Sig­ Also with two-year tenure is Professor ma Phi who would serve in the same Horace W. Wright, of the Alpha Epsi­ capacity as the Board of Trustees is lon Chapter at Lehigh University. Pro­ serving now. Even at that time there fessor Wright has been actively con­ was felt the need for stability such as a nected with the organization as faculty Board would furnish. adviser of his group and has always been interested in the welfare of the national Last year these ideas were crystalized, society. For the last several years he and the hope for the formation of a has attended the National Convention Board of Trustees who would be active where his help on problems that have participants in the society's affairs was confronted the delegates has proved realized. In order that the personnel of most valuable. His aid has always been this Board may be varied and that the at the disposal of members of the society. same faculty members may not have to Professor Victor D. Hill, of Ohio give their efforts so continuously to the University, and Professor A. Pelzer organization, an arbitrary scheme of Wagener, of the College of William tenure of office was evolved for this and Mary, were chosen for three-year year, until the Board should be function­ terms of service. Both have been ac­ ing after the manner provided in the tively connected with their chapters and Constitution, that is, that each member have served as faculty advisers to their should serve for three years, two mem­ - groups. Professor Hill has been con­ bers being elected each year and one nected with the organization from its member every third year. Members earlier days, and shortly after its estab­ may, of course, be re-elected to the lishment was instrumental in securing Board at the expiration of the three- the incorporation of the society. year term. Professor H. Lloyd Stow, of the Al­ Following correspondence among the pha Lambda Chapter at the University members of the Board themselves, Pro­ of Oklahoma, who has served as adviser fessor Roy C. Flickinger, sponsor of of the organization since his student days Epsilon Chapter and chairman of the at the University of Chicago, is the Department of Classical Languages at other member of the Board, serving for the State University of Iowa, was a one-year period. Professor Stow un- Page Three THE NUNTIUS doubtedly holds the record as the per­ A Message from the son most intimately connected with Eta Sigma Phi over a period of years. As Megas Prytanis Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma Phi Never in the past has Eta Sigma Phi and Registrar of the Medal, Professor had the opportunity it has now of prov­ Stow became thoroughly acquainted with ing to itself and to the world the value the way in which the organization func­ of its existence. The ideals upon which tioned, saw its needs, and by suggestion Eta Sigma Phi is founded are ideals of and assistance aided in forming its culture, of quiet study, of intellectual policies. freedom. Needless to say, these are The society may well take pride in ideals which the world as a whole is having these five faculty members, all today forsaking for those of war and with the best interests of the organiza­ regimentation. If Eta Sigma Phi can do tion at heart, as their Board of Trustees. its part in maintaining its ideals, in pre­ The stability they furnish, the very pres­ serving the rich culture of the past, and ent assistance they give in problems that in brightening the intellectual spirit of arise, and the interest and enthusiasm the present, we, as its members, can be they show are sure to be reflected in the proud of our affiliation. life of the organization this year. Their How can we do this? By building up efforts, united with those of an energetic our organization. By giving those peo­ Executive Council, presage an active ple who are interested in the classics year, important alike to the local chap­ an opportunity to meet others who are ters and to the national organization. interested in the same things, to enrich their own knowledge by tapping the knowledge of others, and thus to grow intellectually and culturally at a time HERE AND THERE when intellectual and cultural growth are necessary for the preservation of our The Saturday Review of Literature of civilized world. October 12 carries the following verse Those of us who were present at the which is probably new to most of us: last National Convention of Eta Sigma Phi were greatly impressed and encour­ Two men wrote a Dictionary aged by the spirit and interest of the Liddell and Scott; large group of delegates. If we can One part was excellent; continue and increase this spirit and One part was not. interest in all members of our fraternity Scholars and gentlemen, read me during the coming year, we shall, in­ This riddle: deed, be on the road to accomplishing Which was by Scott, and which our aims. Was by Liddell? Thus I wish all the local chapters the greatest of success during 1940- 1941 and, at the same time, urge them to cooperate to the fullest extent with Readers of Pliny's Letters will enjoy the national organization. Mary Ellen Chase's description of the And remember — the National Con­ part she played as a child in the drama­ vention this year will be held this April tization of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in St. Louis, the home of Washington as she tells it in her autobiography, A University, where Alpha Xi Chapter Goodly Fellowship. Materials for the will be host. Begin making your plans drama were furnished by the letter in now to attend. which Pliny describes the death of his EDWARD A. SCALLET, uncle. MEGAS PRYTANIS Page Four THE NUNTIUS

Eta Sigma Phi Adds office and indicate the number of cards required, allowing sufficient time for the Fifty-first Chapter to order to be filled. There is on hand also a quantity of Organization membership cards signed by the national At the Convention last spring the officers of 1938-1939, and these too petition of the classical club of West- will be furnished to any member of the hampton College of the University of organization who was initiated then and Richmond was accepted, and later in the who is interested in having one of them spring the installation was held. Mem­ as a memento of his initiation. bers of Omega Chapter, of the College of William and Mary, had charge of the initiation of new members and of the in­ Wright and Street, Eta Sigma Phi stallation of Beta Gamma Chapter as jewelers, are in a position to furnish to the fifty-first of the chapters. the members pins, keys, rings, and sta­ The ceremonies, which took place on tionery bearing the crest of the organi­ May 17, were pleasant occasions for both zation. Orders should be placed directly groups. Professor A. Pelzer Wagener, with the company. Each local treasurer faculty adviser of Omega Chapter, and has a booklet which Wright and Street five active members of the group had publish containing pictures and descrip­ charge of the ceremonies. The Omega tions of their products. group wore academic garb while the initiates were dressed in white. The festivities included also a dinner which both groups attended. Both chapters ex­ Editorial Policy of press the desire that these pleasant con­ tacts may continue. The Nuntius It seems necessary to note here a change in the editorial policy of the Membership Cards for NUNTIUS and to give an explanation of Initiates it. Although the first purpose of the NUNTIUS is that of furnishing to the In accordance with the desire of the chapters a knowledge of the business of delegates expressed at the last Conven­ the fraternity and although the maga­ tion, the organization has now secured zine should serve as a clearing-house for membership cards for the use of the information of mutual interest, it should chapters. These cards are printed and also mirror the life of the various chap­ have at the top the Eta Sigma Phi crest ters. Since the national organization embossed in purple and gold. Space is has life and enthusiasm only as its con­ left for the name of the new initiate stituent chapters possess these qualities, and the date of his initiation into the it would appear that the best way in local chapter. The cards are signed by which we can get our fingers on the the current Megas Prytanis and Megas pulse of the organization, so to speak, Grammateus. They are furnished free is to find out what the activities of the of charge to the chapters upon request. local chapters are. It is for this reason, The matter of engraving or printing the then, that the Editorial staff is urging name of the initiate and other pertinent you to send in information about your data is left up to the local chapter. group. It is necessary that chapters desiring In order to secure this knowledge and these cards for presentation to the new at the same time to promote contacts be­ members on the occasion of their initia­ tween chapters as well as with the na­ tion send their request to the central tional organization, the following pro- Page Five THE NUNTIUS cedure has been devised: five student Eta Sigma Phi Medal Report members have been chosen from five different chapters who will serve to for 19394940 establish contacts with particular chap­ ters assigned to them. These student Mrs. H. B. Dunkel, past Executive members, Associate Editors of the NUN­ Secretary and Registrar of the Eta TIUS, in the time immediately preceding Sigma Phi Medal, presents the following publication of the magazine, will write report for the year ending Sept. 1, to the NUNTIUS reporters of their 1940. groups. (Each chapter has been asked to designate such a person.) It is the RECEIPTS hope that closer relations among chap­ Balance on hand, Sept. 1, ters may be established by this means. 1939 $ 686.86 Attention should be called here also Sale of 376 Medals @ $1.00.. 376.00 to the fact that copy for publication in Special Delivery .75 the journal should be in the Editorial Overpayments .27 Office by the tenth of the month in National dues received 9.00 which the magazine appears (November, Account from 1938-1939 January, March, and May) and that co­ received 3.00 operation in this is the sole way by Reimbursement for filing fee. . 1.00 which our publication can appear on Received by Medallic time. Art, credited 1.00 As a further reminder also — the names and addresses of newly initiated TOTAL RECEIPTS , $1,077.88 members should be sent promptly to the Editorial Office so that they may be added to the mailing list and begin re­ DISBURSEMENTS ceiving the copies of the NUNTIUS due them. Cost of Medals $ 282.75 Exchange charges on checks. . 5.25 Special delivery charges .75 Filing fee 1.00 HERE AND THERE Postage, including telegrams. . 7.54 We hope that Murder Gone Minoan, National dues forwarded to a mystery novel by Clyde B. Clason, will Treasurer 9.00 not have tragic significance in view of Transfer of funds to National the present world situation. The setting Treasury 400.00 of the novel is an island in the Pacific, Printing on order blanks 8.00 however, rather than Crete, but the Engrossing and mailing of whole story has plenty of Minoan "at­ charters .75 mosphere." Notary seals .40 Endorsement stamp 2.06 Express charges for sending Another book about Crete, the actual equipment to Miss Brokaw. 3.04 island this time, now appears, just off Balance on hand 357.34 the press, Winged Citadel, by Krist- mann Gudmundsson (Henry Holt and $1,077.88 Company). From the advertisement, the chief character seems to be Amyntas, of the race of Alexander the Great, The sum of $357.34 was forwarded who is attracted to Crete by the "glitter­ Sept. 9, 1940,- to Professor Roy C. ing island civilization and her magni­ Flickinger, Chairman of the Board of ficent women." Trustees. Page Six THE NUNTIUS

Report of the Megas Chrysophylax

for the Year 1939-1940 Herewith is the complete financial Gamma $31 00 statement for Eta Sigma Phi for the fis­ Delta 7.00 cal year of 1939-1940, as of August 31, Epsilon 34.00 1940. Zeta 9.00 RECEIPTS Eta 7.00 Theta 22.00 Balance brought forward. . . . $540.88 Lambda 7.00 Received from former Nu 20.00 NUNTIUS 130.07 Omicron 19.00 Dues for year 1938-1939 Pi . 12.00 (late) 133.00 Rho 2.00 Dues for year 1939-1940.... 738.00 Sigma 34.00 Transfer from Medal Account 400.00 Upsilon 8.00 Dividend from Hyde Park Chi 1.00 Bank 8.91 Psi 20.00 Wright and Street Adver­ Omega 39.00 tisement 70.00 Alpha Alpha 14.00 Alpha Gamma 19.00 Total receipts $2,020.86 Alpha Delta 40.00 Alpha Epsilon* 22.00 DISBURSEMENTS Alpha Theta 16 00 Mrs. Dunkel's salary $230.00 Alpha Kappa 16 00 NUNTIUS expenses 277.73 Alpha Lambda 33 00 First issue $54.29 Alpha Xi 34.00 Second issue 53.77 Alpha Pi 43.00 Third issue 86.89 Alpha Rho 18.00 Fourth issue 54.50 Alpha Sigma 10.00 Miscellaneous 28.28 Alpha Tau 49.00 Convention expenses 224.35 Alpha Upsilon 14.00 Speaking tour of Professor Alpha Phi 23.00 Crum 25.00 Alpha Chi 27.00 Contest 15.00 Alpha Psi 17.00 Refunds for over-payment. . . 5.00 Alpha Omega 14.00 Bonding of National Treas­ Beta Alpha 11.00 urer 2.50 Beta Beta 27.00 Miscellaneous: printing sup­ Beta Gamma 19.00 plies, etc 52.50 *A refund of $1.00 was made to this chapter. Total Disbursements $ 832.08 The following is an itemized state­ Transfer to the Board of ment of payments for the year 1938- Trustees $1,000.00 1939 made by some of the chapters dur­ Balance on hand 188.78 ing the past fiscal year: In order to allow the treasurers of Delta 2.00 the local chapters to check my figures I Epsilon 9.00 am listing the payments of fees by Rho 7.00 chapters for the past fiscal year. Psi 8.00 Page Seven THE NUNTIUS

Alpha Upsilon 34.00 ciety last year. The fraternity pays one Alpha Phi* 52.00 half of the expenses of the undergradu­ Alpha Psi 21.00 ate officers to the National Convention; because the Convention was held in *A refund of $4.00 was made to Alpha New Orleans the cost was high this Phi for over-payment. year. A year ago the National Treas­ urer was bonded at my suggestion. I The following chapters have been felt then — and I feel now — that the placed on probation: Beta, Alpha Nu, society should take no risks with pos­ and Alpha Omicron. These chapters sible loss of funds. may retain their standing in the frater­ nity if they make payment to the new It is particularly pleasing to note the National Treasurer for the preceding low expenditures incurred by the NUN­ year by December 1. TIUS. The money from the Wright and It is gratifying to note that receipts Street advertising further lowers the from the local chapters have increased cost to the society to almost $200.00. during the past two years. Through At present there is no reason why Eta greater vigilance and more businesslike Sigma Phi cannot continue to distribute methods this increase has been brought the journal without cost to the. under­ about. To be fair to those chapters graduate members who pay their fees. which pay their fees promptly it was Publication of the magazine boosted ex­ deemed necessary to bring pressure to penditures considerably, however. In bear on the chapters which were negli­ 1938-1939 total expenses amounted to gent and occasionally failed to meet $564.03; this year, as the report above their financial obligations. shows, they are $832.08. This increase The money received from the Hyde has been more than offset by the rise in Park Bank is part payment for the receipts. With the returns from invest­ funds Eta Sigma Phi had in that in­ ed funds and the diversion of the yearly stitution when it closed its doors during profit of approximately $80.00 from the the depression. The following is a Medal Account there should be no dif­ summary of payments from the bank as ficulty in meeting the increased expendi­ reported by Mr. Harold B. Dunkel, a ture. former Executive Secretary. One thousand dollars was transferred June 13, 1933 $ 40.10 to the invested funds of Eta Sigma Phi. October 16, 1934 17.82 At present — with the addition of this January 26, 1937 14.26 money — this account amounts to more August 29, 1938 17.82 than $3,000.00. The interest from the April 29, 1939 14.26 fund should be used for the running April 3, 1940 8.91 expenses of the fraternity, especially for the support of the NUNTIUS. In case TOTAL $113.17 of emergency or shortage of funds the Altogether sixty-three per cent of the society has a large principal to fall back funds has been paid back to the frater­ on. The future, in fact, looks very good nity. for the society in a financial way. Wright and Street, the official jewel­ I want to urge, in conclusion, the ers, pays $70.00 for its advertisement in local treasurers to cooperate wholeheart­ the NUNTIUS. Reference to Professor edly with Miss Cochran during the com­ Crum's speaking tour was made in my ing year. The position of National last report in the May NUNTIUS; see Treasurer is not a pleasant or easy one that issue for detailed information. The in many ways; the officer needs the contest mentioned under disbursements fullest support to make his tasks less refers to a project sponsored by the so- onerous. I hope that Miss Cochran will Page Eight THE NUNTIUS receive the support that I have received Breezes from Helicon during the two years I have held the position. I also urge the members of By PROFESSOR GEORGE CURRIE, the society to rally round its new Exec­ Alpha Phi utive Secretary, Miss Brokaw, and around its fine group of student officers. Make their jobs easier by cooperation! Beating Depression with Epicurus If all of you will work together dili­ There's nothing very good or bad, gently and enthusiastically, there is no But thinking makes it so; reason why Eta Sigma Phi should not Just make a game of paying bills, flourish and prosper. Through enthus­ Depression then is sure to go. iastic cooperation the cause of the But who will start the ball to roll, classics may be benefitted materially; at When debts so far outrun the cash? least, it will gain nothing through Inflate the value of our gold! apathy. Certainly in this war-torn Don't ever think it one bit rash. world we must cling more tenaciously For Epicurus, so we're told, than ever to enduring things, to the Made a penny last all day; permanent things of civilization such as His palate was the goal of life, the works of Homer, Vergil, Horace, What bills a penny then would pay! and the Greek tragedians. In an era when people have lost their perspective under the impact of a devastating de­ bacle and when people are clinging desperately to ephemeral successes and A Cyclone perishable things, more than ever we An ancient farm was swept away must extol the works of the ancients By nothing but a little draft; and keep aloft the torch of learning and So said Catullus to his friend, culture. When the destruction is at an And doubtless at the same time laughed. end we may facilitate the return to san­ But when a spider came along, ity and to a more bountiful and endur­ And wove a web in his own purse, ing peace. Regardless of what comes He hinted to his patron saint in the uncertain days that lie before us To ease him from depression's curse. we must not sacrifice the gains which 'Twas fun to see the great ones crash, civilization has painfully made through But when the little mortgage loan the centuries. Eta Sigma Phi—al­ Came due without funds to pay, though undeniably unimportant and per­ The draft seemed like a real cyclone. haps almost insignificant—at least stands for the best that man has to offer and the best that man has achieved. Ave atque vale, Interpretation of Jupiter and Europa EDWIN H. MILLER, MEGAS CHRYSOPHYLAX in Advice to a Friend Calm yourself, my sterling friend; Count not your worth to win the fair. HERE AND THERE Your rivals borrow what they spend; Their conversation's thin as air. G. D. H. and Margaret Cole, known To balance the brute man's innate for mystery stories, are the authors of strength, Gree\ Tragedy, a murder mystery in­ The gifted girl crams her head brim full; volving the leader of a group of tour­ In short, learn the story once told at ists and interesting only by reason of length: the picture of places visited. Europa was kidnapped by the "bull." Page Nine THE NUNTIUS

Translations from Martial

By MRS. BESSIE MARLIN MASON, Theta

[Mrs. Mason has had poems published in several magazines, "Foster Mother" in the October Good Housekeeping and "Grandmother Said" in the Saturday Evening Post of October 12. Mrs. Mason was graduated with high distinction from Indiana University, where she majored in Latin.]

A GOOD HARVEST (II, 38) If you're speaking the truth to me, Gellia, If you're mocking me not, then I Linus, you ask me a question or two: swear "What does it yield — That you yourself, my dear Gellia, Your new Sabine field?" Never have tasted hare! It yields me this pleasure: I no longer see you. A GOOD MATCH (VIII, 35) MORTUARY DINNER GUESTS Since you are the very worst kind of a (III, 12) wife And your husband's bad as can be You have good ointment, I confess, Since you're thus so well-matched in But you carved nothing for your guests. conduct and life, Droll business that to smell so good I wonder you don't well agree. And yet be hungering for food! I thought, Fabullus, 'twas the dead Who were anointed and unfed. PRAYER TO VENUS (VIII, 43) Chrestilla poisons her husbands, Fabius does away with his wives, A USEFUL JUG (IV, 69) Each waves a funeral torch over their You always serve Setian or Massican biers wine, And each of the two survives. Papylus, but rumor says your wines aren't so fine. Unite these two victors, O Venus, Four times you are said to have been Such death surely for them also is due, made a widower, Unite them, O Venus, in order And each new wife you got, with this That one funeral may do for the two. jug you got rid of her. I don't believe this, nor do I think it— No wine, thanks, Papylus, I guess I IDEAL MARRIAGE (VIII, 12) won't drink it. I don't want a rich woman, I, Priscus, you ask me why. I don't wish to be the bride of my TRY IT YOURSELF (V, 29) Own wedded wife. When you send a hare to me, Gellia, The wife must inferior be, Saying, "Marcus, pulchritude The husband superior be. Will within seven days be yours Else where's the equality If you eat of this delicate food." In married life? Page Ten THE NUNTIUS

AMONG THE CHAPTER!

Alpha Psi Holds Organization seem that Epsilon Chapter has brought to accomplishment, in a very practical Meeting way, one of the aims of the organization. A meeting solely for organization pur­ Members of Epsilon further enhance poses was held at the home of Professor the position of the organization by the John Paul Pritchard, one of the faculty part they play yearly in the Annual advisers of Alpha Psi Chapter, Mr. Conference of Classical Teachers in Robert McGregor writes. At the same Iowa. This year the Chapter is host to time plans for the next meeting were the guest teachers at an evening recep­ laid and papers were assigned for pres­ tion on December 6. In the course of entation at that time. the sessions of the two-day Conference The Chapter has sixteen active mem­ several honorary members of Eta Sigma bers this year, a total which is soon to be Phi will appear on the program, among increased by the pledging and initiation them Professor Clyde Murley, of Beta of new members. Chapter at Northwestern University; Professor William A. Oldfather, of Al­ pha Kappa Chapter at the University of Illinois; Professor Franklin H. Potter, of Alpha Phi Participates in Epsilon Chapter; and Professor Grace Beede, of Beta Alpha Chapter at the "Tap" Ceremony University of South Dakota. Professor George Currie, faculty mem­ Professor Roy C. Flickinger, Chair­ ber of the department of Latin at Mill­ man of the Board of Trustees and faculty saps College, tells of an interesting adviser of Epsilon Chapter, has been "tapping" ceremony which takes place honored by election to the Phi Beta in a public chapel service at the College. Kappa Senate. Eta Sigma Phi takes Alpha Phi Chapter was one of the or­ pleasure in the bestowal of this distinc­ ganizations taking part in the ceremony, tion upon one of its honorary members. and eight were tapped for membership in the Chapter. Pi Chapter Has Tea Its ranks badly depleted by the grad­ Epsilon Extends Prestige of uation of so many of its members last June, Pi Chapter was pleased to find Eta Sigma Phi that there were seven students eligible Epsilon Chapter has found a way of for membership this year, all of whom spreading the influence of Eta Sigma Phi, were initiated on October 27. which, so far as our information goes, is With its membership taken care of, unique. During the summer sessions at the Chapter, according to Miss Grace the State University of Iowa, at a time Fealy, prytanis, began to take its place when the graduate enrollment is high, among the honoraries of the campus by they receive into associate membership entertaining the students and faculty those who are doing work in the classics. of Birmingham Southern College at the All these members are teachers of Latin, usual Sunday tea on November 3, and and add to the influence which the na­ by planning various other campus ac­ tional organization exerts. It would tivities. Page Eleven THE NUNTIUS

Alpha Alpha Stages Beta Alpha Enters Float Mock Initiation in Parade Miss Margaret Dukes gives the follow­ It is not often that a chapter of Eta ing description of a clever initiation Sigma Phi participates in the home-com­ ceremony Alpha Alpha Chapter staged ing festivities on a campus to the point when it received into its group three of entering a float in the parade, but new members: that is just what Beta Alpha Chapter, at the University of South Dakota, did on "From the 'sublime to the ridiculous' October 19. From the description which was the keynote of the 1940 initiation Miss Marietta Johnsen furnishes it into the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Eta sounds quite classical: Ceres with a cor­ Sigma Phi. The neophytes were much nucopia from which poured grain and impressed by the ceremony midst candle­ products of the harvest. light. "Still wondering when the mock initia­ tion was to begin and what form it Delta Plans Active Year would take, the trembling girls awaited the summons of Hermes. Gliding along Delta Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, locat­ on his winged feet, Hermes conducted ed at Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana, the spirits of the dead neophytes to the has planned an extensive program for the river Styx. Charon, suffering from a current year. In accordance with the wretched cough, was not available to by-laws of the Chapter, two meetings render his services. Each spirit in turn are to be held each month, a business took her place on the 'sofa-pillow' bark, meeting on the first Thursday of the and laboriously paddled across the month, and a social one on the third 'waxed' waters. At the entrance to Thursday. Members of the Classical the underworld, an almost unsurpassable Languages Department who have not barrier of upturned chairs confronted yet fulfilled the requirements for mem­ the dead, Hercules, Theseus, Aeneas, and bership in Eta Sigma Phi are guests at Ulysses. Standing at the throne before the social gatherings. At the latter meet­ Pluto and Proserpina, the spirits were ings, a member of the Chapter serves as bombarded with requests to atone for hostess. Refreshments are served. their numerous sins. A Fury lashed her At the initial business meeting of the whip to compel obedience. Unable to year, in September, pledging services expiate themselves, each appeased the were held for Miss Rachel Bland, a soph­ rulers by rolling peanuts of imaginary omore in the Department. While a stu­ existence, singing songs backwards to dent at the Ben Davis High School in various tunes, and rolling like the river Indianapolis two years ago, Miss Bland Styx. A funeral feast was set before the placed second in Division IV of the spirits of the dead, who found some State Latin Contest sponsored by the difficulty in drinking from sugar bowls, Extension Division of Indiana Univer­ cream pitchers, and enormous goblets. sity. The group outlined a study pro­ The spirits found that in addition to gram for the year, consisting of repre­ their nectar problems, minute apples fell sentatives of Greek comedy. Three to their lot, while the rest of the feasters comedies of Aristophanes—The Frogs, enjoyed luscious large ones. The am­ The Clouds, and Lysistrata—are to be brosia, by way of atonement on the part studied, as well as the plays of Menan- of the gods for so harrassing the dead der. One member of the chapter will heroes, helped cheer the souls of the be responsible for leading group dis­ wayward beings." cussions of each play. Page Twelve THE NUNTIUS

The first social meeting, in October, An initiation ceremony was held on featured a discussion of the background November 8 for four new members. The of Greek comedy and methods of pro­ annual banquet followed the initiation. duction, presented by Mrs. P. L. Powell, The pledges for a week before their chapter adviser. Latin conundrums fur­ initiation wear togas on the campus at nished material for exercise of wit. all times except when a military or band Fortunes written on oak leaves were uniform is required. The purpose of hidden about the room; and the Fates, this, according to Mr. Bliss, is not to invisible, led each person to his allotted haze the neophytes or to make them destiny. self-conscious, but to show the other In addition to the study program, students on the Lehigh campus (The Delta Chapter has planned several other majority study engineering or business.) projects including a Christmas party to that there are other studies in the Uni­ which members of the ancient history versity. class are to be invited, a chapel program In addition to the regular members of before the student body, a dinner meet­ the group, the Chapter has two associate ing with a guest speaker, and a tea or members this year, one, a fellow in the similar function for high school Latin English Department, and the other, a students. graduate of the class of 1937, a clergy­ man who has returned to Bethlehem this year. New Honorary Member at Zeta Miss Faye E. Melick writes that Zeta Alpha Omicron Enjoys Chapter is to add to its ranks a new honorary member, Miss Burner, Latin Halloween Party teacher in the Granville High School. Alpha Omicron Chapter held its first Professor L. R. Dean, faculty adviser meeting of the new school year Thurs­ of the group, was appointed by the Ohio day, October 31, in Neenah, Wisconsin, Classical Conference chairman of a com­ at the lovely riverside home of its pry­ mittee to direct a state-wide competitive tanis, Miss Margaret Banta. After a essay contest among high school Latin short business meeting, a Halloween students in the state. buffet supper was served, and the guests amused themselves with "Diplomacy," a new game on the world situation by H. V. Kaltenborn. Theme for Year Chosen The group will soon be looking for­ by Alpha Epsilon ward to the traditional Saturnalia ban­ quet, held each December before Christ­ "Greek and Roman Political Institu­ mas in one of the dormitories. At this tions and Law" is the subject that Alpha banquet the menu and program are Epsilon Chapter has chosen for study written in Latin, and the Christmas this year, according to Mr. Welles Bliss. story is told both in Latin and in Greek. The Chapter has mapped out its pro­ gram of meetings for the entire year, and each one will be devoted to a parti­ Alpha Kappa Initiates Fifteen cular phase of this general theme. At the first meeting of the group, held at Miss Lora Palovic, hyparehos of Alpha the home of Professor E. L. Crum, Mr. Kappa Chapter, tells how the group Harold King, prytanis, and Mr. Welles holds meetings regularly on Sunday eve­ Bliss, hyparehos, had charge of the pro­ nings, and mentions that on November gram which was devoted to the subject 10, fifteen new members were received "Oligarchy and Democracy at Athens." into the Chapter. On the same occa- Page Thirteen THE NUNTIUS sion Professor H. V. Canter, of the Latin or Greek at the time of their in­ classical faculty, gave a talk about his itiation. trip to the Near East. The plan of procedure of meetings, . Picnic Enjoyed by Gamma regularly scheduled for the second Sun­ day evening in each month, is much the Gamma Chapter at Ohio University, same. First, business is discussed, then Athens, Ohio, upheld its old tradition of the main theme of the evening is intro­ welcoming new students to the Depart­ duced, this is followed by a general ment of Classical Languages. On Sep­ discussion, and, finally, refreshments are tember 26, all those pursuing the wisdom served. of the ages motored to the camp of Pro­ fessor Hill, faculty adviser of the Chap­ ter. On the beach of the Hocking River the group engaged in contests, played Alpha Delta To Present games, and came to know each other Christmas Play better over heaped-up plates and steam­ ing cups. The process of getting ac­ As its most important project of this quainted was completed by group sing­ year, Alpha Delta Chapter at Agnes ing around the camp fire. Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, is The programs for the year have been planning the presentation of a Christ­ planned to carry out a central theme, mas Latin play, Christus Parrvulus. Miss "The Arts." The first regular meeting Dorothy Travis, epistolographos of the conformed to this scheme, its subject for Chapter, reports that the play, to be study being that of sculpture. Professor given December 12, will be the first Hill presented the subject with slides given in the McLean Auditorium of the and, commenting on them, pointed out new Presser Building. Incidental music the distinguishing characteristics of each will be arranged and presented by Mr. type of sculpture from the post-Roman C. W. Dieckman, head of the Music to the very modern. Succeeding pro­ Department at Agnes Scott and a noted grams will be conducted in the same organist. A group of eleven new mem­ fashion. bers will participate in the play, their first activity as members of the Alpha Delta group. Invitations for the play have been extended to all Latin students HERE AND THERE and teachers in the Atlanta metropolitan A. A. Milne in his Autobiography tells an entertaining story of a friend of his who had difficulty in learning Greek and who was studying the New Initiates To Speak Latin Testament. This individual had learned the gospels by heart and hoped that, or Greek when it came to writing a translation, Miss Edna W. Brooks, NUNTIUS re­ he would recognize some keyword and porter of Omicron Chapter, mentions he could go on from that point by mem­ changes that the Chapter is making this ory. In one passage which he was trans­ year in its initiation ceremony. The lating the words of Pilate, "What I officers are to be dressed in togas, a de­ have written, I have written," caught parture from the practice of the past. his eye. He recognized the repetition, But what is more important—at least, but the meaning was quite beyond him. from the point of view of the University Memory came to his rescue, however, of Pennsylvania initiates—is that they and he wrote, "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusa­ will be expected to give talks in either lem, thou that killest the prophets." Page Fourteen THE NUNTIUS

BETA—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EV RHO—DRAKE UNIVERSITY, Des Moines, anston, Illinois Iowa Prytanis: Joyce Walker, 13 36 ' 27th St. GAMMA—OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, Ohio Prytanis: Alex Mekedis, 56 West Union St. SIGMA—MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio Protohyparchos: Charles Skelly, 14 McKinley Ave. Prytanis: Mary D. Hoss, 24 Wells Hall Deuterohyparchos: Ashby Coffman, 78 East State St. Hyparehos: Herta Liebschwager, 9 Bishop Hall Epistolographos: LeNore Corey, 37 Franklin Ave. Epistolographos: Leila Chapman, North Dormitory Grammateus: Evalyn Thomas, Boyd Hall Grammateus: Helen Nichols, South Dormitory Chrysophylax: Mary Lott, 15 Race St. Chrysophylax: Lucy Long, North Dormitory Pyloros: William Meredith, 28 Poplar St. UPSILON—MISSISSIPPI STATE COLLEGE FOR DELTA—FRANKLIN COLLEGE, Franklin, In' WOMEN, Columbus, Mississippi diana Prytanis: Edna Erie Waters Prytanis: Delores Keith, 345 East King St. Hvparchos: Mary Louise Matthews Hyparehos: Edna Agnew, Women's Residence Hall Grammateus: Eleanor Jean Tann Grammateus-Chrysophylax: Jane McAnally, Women's Chrysophylax: Lorine Goza Residence Hall Pyloros: Winifred Cook PSI—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, EPSILON—THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF Tennessee IOWA, Iowa City, Iowa Prytanis: William C. Cornelius, 2019 Broad St. Prytanis: Wilma Kelley, 828 East Washington St. Hyparehos: Jeanette Olliver Hyparehos: William Meardon, R. F. D. No. 6 Epistolographos: Adeline Reubush Grammateus: Ruth McLeran, Apt. C, 105 North Grammateus: Leslie Seaward Clinton Chrysophylax: John Bingham, Jr. Chrysophylax: Lowell Satre, Hillcrest Pyloros: Mary Brock Pyloros: Paul Bordwell, 111 East Bloomington OMEGA—COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, ZETA- -DENISON UNIVERSITY, Granville, Williamsburg, Virginia Ohio Prytanis: Emily Wilson Prytanis: Ruth Ford, Beaver Hall Hyparehos: Griffin C. Callahan, Sigma Phi House Hyparehos: Lillian Kovachy, Shaw Hall Epistolographos: Christel Ammer, Box 1183 Grammateus: Dorothy Gatton, Gillpatrick Hall Grammateus: Bettie Meade Creighton Chrysophylax: Howard A. Rogow, Monroe Hall ETA—FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOR WO­ Pyloros: Charles E. Stousland, Box 592 MEN, Tallahassee, Florida ALPHA ALPHA—WINTHROP COLLEGE, Prytanis: Roxilu Kelton, 406 Landis Hall Rock Hill, South Carolina Epistolographos: Louise Whitticr, 331 Gilchrist Hall Prytanis: Nell Ecker Hyparehos: Margaret Noland THETA—INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Blooming' Grammateus: Vada Newsome ton, Indiana Chrysophylax: Alice Blake, Box 576 Prytanis: Myra Jean Hennon Hyparehos: Betty Jean Dickerson Epistolographos: Mary Wienland ALPHA GAMMA—SOUTHERN METHODIST Grammateus: Georgann Shufflebarger UNIVERSITY, Dallas, Texas Chrysophylax: Martha P. Bassett ALPHA DELTA—AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, LAMBDA—UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, Un- Decatur, Georgia iversity, Mississippi Prytanis: Harriette Cochran Prytanis: John H. Gordon Hyparehos: Rebekah Hogan Grammateus: Lillian Dooley, Oxford, Miss. Epistolographos: Dorothy Travis Grammateus: Wallace Lyons Chrysophylax: Willis F. Malley Chrysophylax: Olivia White NU—MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE, Sioux City, ALPHA EPSILON—LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, Iowa Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Prytanis: Harold King, 826 Delaware Ave. OMICRON—UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA' Hyparehos: Welles R. Bliss, 826 Delaware Ave. NIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Epistolographos: Leon H. Plante, 826 Delaware Ave. Prytanis: Katharine E. Kaeser, 2210 North 7th St. Grammateus: John F. Hamblin, 826 Delaware Ave. Hyparehos: Adele Druckman, 5230 McKean Ave. Chrysophylax: Carl G. Konoh'ge, 1125 North New St. Grammateus: Herbert Rubinstein, 4317 Wyalusing Ave. Pyloros: Douglas M. Brown, 510 Delaware Ave. Chrysophylax: Gladys Meyer, 980 Carver St. ALPHA THETA—HUNTER COLLEGE, New PI—BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE, Bir- York City Prytanis: Margaret Smiles, 1410 Parkchester Road, mingham, Alabama Bronx Prytanis: Grace Fealy Hyparehos: Elaine Cramoy, 40 Thayer St., Manhattan Hyparehos: Doris Pepper Grammateus: Dorothy Muskat, 24 Metropolitan Ave., Grammateus: Nell Scoggins Bronx Chrysophylax: Dr. D. M. Key Chrysophylax: Deborah Fuchs, 2294 Grand Ave., Bronx Page Fifteen THE NUNTIUS

ALPHA KAPPA—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, ALPHA UPSILON — THE COLLEGE OF Urbana, Illinois WOOSTER, Wooster, Ohio Prytanis: Virginia Whitley, 901 West California Prytanis: Annarie Peters, Babcock Hall Hyparehos: Lora Palovic, 706 West Oregon Hyparehos: Katherine Sommerlatte, Babcock Hall Grammateus: Laura May Reid, 307 East Green, Cham- Grammateus: Elizabeth Woodword, Babcock Hall paign Chrysophylax: Winifred Parsons, Babcock Hall Chrysophylax: Geraldine Cohen, 1111 West Nevada Pyloros: John Bone, 814 North Bever St.

ALPHA LAMBDA—UNIVERSITY OF OKLA­ HOMA,' Norman, Oklahoma ALPHA PHI—MILLSAPS COLLEGE, Jackson, Prytanis: Jean MacTaggart Mississippi Hyparehos: Chesley P. Irwin Prytanis: Carl Miller Grammateus: Mary Ann Raleigh Hyparehos: Thomas Robertson Chrysophylax: Glory Ann Crisp Epistolographos: Mary Alyce Moore Pyloros: Barnell Bodard Grammateus: May Cavett Newsome Chrysophylax: Gayle Doggett Pyloros: Martha Gerald ALPHA MU—UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, Columbia, Missouri ALPHA CHI—H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB ME­ MORIAL COLLEGE, THE TULANE UNIVER­ ALPHA NU—DAVIDSON COLLEGE, David' SITY OF LOUISIANA, New Orleans, Louisi­ son, North Carolina ana Prytanis: Willamette Colley, 2328 Napoleon Ave. Hyparehos: Joseph Marchese, 5917 Patton St. ALPHA XI—WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Grammateus: Eleanor Bentley, 7635 Hampson St. Louis, Missouri Chrysophylax: Mrs. Felix H. Welsch, 1815 Robert St. Prytanis: Marietta Eisner, 6418 South Kingshighway Pyloros: Benjamin Petty, 1039 State St. Hyparehos: Marie Gonzales, 3846 Shaw Blvd. Epistolographos: Loraine Eisner, 6418 South Kingshigh­ way Grammateus: Patricia May, 4924 Sutherland Ave. ALPHA PSI—WASHINGTON AND JEFFER­ Chrysophylax: John White, 814 Clara Ave. SON COLLEGE, Washington, Pennsylvania Pyloros: Stanley Rosenblum, 6242 Southwood Prytanis: Kenneth V. Brown, 77 Highland Ave. Hyparehos: Robert McGregor, 148 Le Moyne Ave. Grammateus: Ambrose Sembrat, 3 5 Burton Ave. ALPHA OMICRON—LAWRENCE COLLEGE, Chrysophylax: Robert H. Meloy, 75 Le Moyne Ave. Appleton, Wisconsin Prytanis: Margaret Banta, Russell Sage Hall Hyparehos: William Diver, 416 East Washington St. Grammateus: Audrey Galpin, 1203 North Superior St. ALPHA OMEGA—LOUISIANA STATE UNI­ Chrysophylax: Dennis Wilch, 1133 East Nawada St. VERSITY, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Prytanis: Marjorie Moffitt, 3185 Highland Road, Baton Rouge ALPHA PI—GETTYSBURG COLLEGE, Get­ Hyparehos'Chrysophylax: Lazard Klinger, 3107 High­ tysburg, Pennsylvania land Road, Baton Rouge Prytanis: Stanley Whitson, Kappa Delta Rho House Grammateus: Charlene Faught Hyparehos: Leigh Bell, Phi Kappa Rho House Grammateus: Ruth Katz, Women's Division Chrysophylax: George Barrett, Phi Sigma Kappa House BETA ALPHA—UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH Pyloros: Harold Knoll, Phi Kappa Rho House DAKOTA, Vermillion, South Dakota Prytanis: Alfred Thompson, 214 East Main St. Hyparehos: Doris Faris, Dakota Hall ALPHA RHO—MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, Al- Epistolographos: Eloise Aker, 214 North Plum St. lentown, Pennsylvania Grammateus-Chrysophylax: Marietta Johnsen, Dakota Prytanis: Raymond C. Griesemer, 1432 Chew St. Hall Hyparehos: Albert G. Hoffaman, % Dr. Reichard, 2139 Pyloros: Don Lillibridge, 500 South University St. Allen St. Grammateus: Robert E. Lorish, 1329 Hamilton St. Chrysophylax: J. William Marsh, 1449 Hamilton St. BETA BETA—FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Green­ ville, South Carolina ALPHA SIGMA—EMORY UNIVERSITY, Em- ory University, Georgia Prytanis: John A. Barry Epistolographos: B. F. Hawkins, R. F. D. No. 1 ALPHA TAU—THE OHIO STATE UNIVER­ SITY, Columbus, Ohio BETA GAMMA — WESTHAMPTON COL­ Prytanis: Hazel Bachman, 80 West Woodruff Ave. LEGE, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Rich­ Protohyparchos: Mary Ann Bunner, 44 North Brinker mond, Virginia Ave. Prytanis: Josephine Fennell, R. F. D. No. 2 Deuterohyparchos: Ruth Flickinger, 378 Walhalla Drive Hyparehos: May Thayer, 2014 Hanover Ave. Epistolographos: Jean Conard, 125 Knox St., Wester- Epistolographos: Helen Hill, 46 Willway Ave. ville, Ohio Grammateus: Rosalie Clary, Dumbarton, Virginia Grammateus: Romana Alexander, 297 West Tenth Ave. Chrysophylax: Clarine Cunningham, 731 Byrtd Park Chrysophylax: Donald Wilgus, 595 Bulen Ave. Court Pyloros: Frances Smith, 1181 Mt. Pleasant Ave. Pyloros: Ethne Flanagan, 4007 Wythe Ave. Page Sixteen Established 1903

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