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It has long been the opinion of the SHIELD AND DIAMOND staff that four issues a year were inadequate for a fraternity of the size and im­ portance of Pi Kappa Alpha. Because of a distinct aversion to increasing the financial burden of the chapters, but desiring to increase the number of issues of the SHIELD AND DIAMOND, the staff has worked out a publication schedule of five issues a year, in which the total cost of five numbers will not exceed the total cost of the four in the last volume. This will be accomplished by condensing strictly chapter news of m­ terest only to members of that chapter and using the chapter news notes in three issues instead of four. The five issue schedule adopted IS as follows: MOJiling Date Chapter News Due Featuring October 1 General news and fraternal topics November 15 October 15 Mid-term news and Fall sports January 15 December 15 New term news and Winter sports March 15 Fraternal subjects and articles May 15 April 15 Review of year and Spring sports In the opinion of the Grand Editor and his associates, the five issue plan is greatly to the interest and benefit of Pi Kappa Alpha, its active chapters and alumni subscribers. The schedule has many advantages. First, only a month and a half elapses between the two Fall issues, instead of two full months. The January issue comes just after chapters have reassembled following vacation, thus eliminating the for-mer gap of three months. The two Spring issues are evenly spaced with the opportunity for a more strictly fraternal and organization number, the last issue coming out early enough to prevent interference with commencement. The fre­ quency of issues will serve to maintain continued interest in the fraternity at large and will be a means of knitting chapters together in fraternity endeavors throughout the year. Chapter news-letters have therefore been eliminated from this issue, and the next issue, to be dated December, will be mailed on or before November 15. News from the chapters will be due in the General Office on or before October 15. J. HAROLD JoHNSTON, Alpha-Psi, Grand Editor; RICHARD G. BAUMHOFF, Alpha~Lambda; K. D. PuLCIPHER, Beta.-Eta, Associate Editors.

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Volume XXXVI OCTOBER. 1926 Number 1

CONTENTS PAGE FRATERNITY ENTERS Los ANGEU:s ...... 5 DouTHIT BATS THREE HuNDRED FOR CARDINALS .. Richard G. Baumhoff, Beba-Lambda 8 LEADERSHIP DflMANDED BY THE MINisTRY .. Richard T. Gillespie, A.B., D.D., Beta 10 MARK TwAIN As A NoN-HuMORIST ...... R. S . Warner, A/phi-Psi 13 GRAY'S BIOGRAPHER REVEALS INTIMAT£ DETAILS ...... Arthur S. Bowes, Beta-Phi 16 STEADY GROWTH OF PI KAPPA ALPHA SHOWN BY HISTORY ...... 17 S. R. 0 . WHENE\'ER BROOKS CusTER ENTERTAINS .. Ralph Forsythe, Beta Upsilon 21 HuNTING PLATINUM IN SouTH AMERICAN W ILDS ...... Jahn C. R il ey, J r., Omega 23 NATIVE STATE, OHIO, PoRTRAYED BY II AuTHOR ...... Don Knowlton, Beta-Epsilon 25 · How TO CHOOSE A F RATERNITY ...... Ernest· H. W ilkins, University of Chicago 27 MIAMI ALUMNUS CHAPTER PLANS CLUB HousE .. Pharos R. Lester, Gamma-Alpha 28 H ITCHING THE RUSSIAN BEAR TO A PLOW ...... K arl Borders, Kappa 29 PARK, F oRMER NEwsBOY, Is PuBLISHER's HEAD ... . . Albert Escott, Alpha-Epsilon 31 PICKARD TAKES THE WELL KNOWN A IR FOR UNCLE SAM ...... 33 DETROIT LAUNCHES LARGEST ALUMNI CHAPTER ...... A. Ross Fox, Beta-Ta" 34 OLMSTEAD, AS "D. P." TALKS LIKE AN OLD DuTCK UNCLE . . C. H . Olmstead, Beta-Theta ...... 35 ALPHA UPSII..ON B uYs HousE AT N. Y. U ...... William Eagels, Alphw-Upsilon 37 LoTTER WRITEs AND AcTs RoMANTIC ScENARIO ...... 38 ROLLA MINES MAN " DiscovERs" NEWFOUNDLAND .. Donald R. Baker, Alpha-Kappa 39 SERVICE OF ScKOLARSKIP STRESSED BY DEAN ...... F. M. Massey, S·igma 41 WHICH SHALL I T BE, WoRK OR PLAY? ...... Lammert H. Redelfs, Gamma-Beta 43 HALL D IRECTS WoRLD's LARGEST PowER PLANT .. : ...... T. H. Schade, Alpha-Psi 45 BUFFALO A LUMNI O FFER !NDIVIDUAI, TROPHY ...... • ...... 46 PERIODICALS FOR CHAPTER SUBSCRIPTION LISTS ...... 47 Two ATHLETIC STARS AT UTAH AGGIES ...... Lesley Goates, Gat~Jma-Epsihm 51 BIG WELCOME PLANNED BY ATLANTA BROTHERS ...... E . R. Denmark, ...... Alpha-Delta, Beta-Kappa 52 PI KAP BROADCASTS ...... Harry W. Hart, Beta-Omega 54 BETA-THETA's CouRT oF WALLA WALLA ...... H. H. Blomeier, Beta·-ThebQJ 55 PROMINENT MEN LEAVE ALPHA-LAMBDA ...... ·...... ·...... 56 EAVENSON REC>:IvEs FIRST HoNORS AT MERCER . . .. R . Habenicht Casson, Beta-Psi 57 HARPER LEADS A Busy LIFE AT ARKANSAS ...... Richard Chenault, Alpha-zeta 58 How SHOULD OuR PU:DGES BE TREATED? ...... R. B. R ucker, Gamma-Delta 60 OLD SPAIN TYPIFIED IN NEW ARIZONA HousE ...... 63 PERSONALITIES ...... • • 65 IN PHI KAPPA ALPHA ...... • ...... 69 OuR NEIGHBORS ...... • ...... 72 THE CHAPTER ETERNAL ...... ·...... ·...... 75 GooD THINGS TO TRY ...... • ...... 77 0UTL!A w CHAPTER ...... ~ ...... 79 LIST OF I NITIATE;S ...... 82 ALUMNI CHAPTER N Ews ...... 83 OFFICIAL ANNOU NCEMENT FROM THf) SUPREME COUNCIL ...... 87 D IRECTORY ...... 89

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Vol. XXXVI October, 1926 No.1 F ratemity Enters Los Angeles Gamma-Eta, Se'l'entieth Chapter, Installed at Southern California Filling Geographical Gap Among II K A Units I KAPPA ALPHA gained its Starting in the morning, the teams from seventieth chapter and filled a geo­ Alpha-Sigma and Gamma-Delta, the of­ Pgraphical gap in the distribution of ficers and the alumni worked till about these units of the order when Delta Mu four o'clock in the afternoon to complete Phi local at the University of Southern the initiatory requirements of the ritual. California, Los Angeles, was transferred Grand Princeps Perez reported that all into Gamma-Eta chapter by an installa­ was done ''in good form and in a very tion ceremony on June 15. solemn and proper way." Two hours Grand Princeps John R. Perez, District more were taken for the installation of Princeps George B. Marsh, former Grand the group as a chapter. For this part of Historian Roy E. Warren, a number of the ceremony, the Grand Princeps wrote, other alumni, and teams from the other "We had present a great number of the chapters of the district conducted the older members of the fraternity from all ceremony, under the leadership of the over that section of the country, which Grand Princeps. made it very impressive to the new men." This is the third chapter in District No. That evening there was a banquet at 17, which comprises the states of Cali­ the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, fornia, Arizona and Nevada, the other given by the new chapter, and attended by chapters there being Alpha-Sigma at the between 200 and 300 members of II K A. University of California, Berkeley, and The principal speaker was Rufus Bernard Gamma-Delta at the University of Ari­ von KleinSmid, president of the Univer­ zona, Tucson. It is also the fourth chap­ sity of Southern California, who delivered ter on the Pacific Coast, the others being . an impressive speech. A number of the Alpha-Sigma, Beta-Nu at Oregon Agri­ older alumni also were on the speakers' cultural College, Corvallis, ·and Beta-Beta program. at the University of Washington, Seattle. President KleinSmid, who had written New England and six of the less populous previously, " Delta Mu Phi has maintained western states are the only sections in a good reputation on the campus and I am which the fraternity is not represented by confident they will be able to maintain the undergraduate units. ideals of Pi Kappa Alpha," is well known Thirty-five young men were made in educational circles. He is popular on brothers in the bonds at the installation the campus and has shown special interest ceremony for the new Gamma-Eta. in the development of Greek-letter organ- S 6 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

:izations at his institution. A year ago the £rained from thinking of national affilia­ Government sent him to Latin-American tion. When it considered itself strong ·countries to make educational inquiries enough and financially able, it petitioned and to advise with officials of those na­ Pi Kappa Alpha. tions. Gamma-Eta's house is at 2644 Port­ Delta Mu Phi, the forerunner of the land A venue, Los Angeles. new chapter, was organized by fourteen The University of Southern California was founded in 1880 in response to a demand · for higher educational facilities in its section of the State, by a group of public-spirited men "imbued with the high ideals of Methodism." It started with two professors in a two-story house. Now it is the second largest university on the coast, with a gross enrollment of 10,000 and a faculty of 350. It is co­ educational in policy and comprises the foilowing schools and colleges: Lib~ral Arts, Commerce and Business Adminis­ HoME oF GAMMA-ETA tration, Relig~on, Dentistry, Speech, men in 1922, originally being an oi·gani­ Pharmacy, Graduate, Education, Music zation for Masons and members of De and Social Welfare; . there are also ex­ Molay. After its first year this restric­ tension and summer courses. tion was dropped by unanimous vote. Adjoining the campus is Exposition The local became active on the campus in Park, a center of municipal cultural life. its youth, but also set a high standard of There are the State Building, containing scholarship. In fostering student activi­ ties, it helped to organize the university's Interfraternity Council. A careful system of supervised study has been used to keep up the scholastic standing, and last year the group was only .04 of a point behind the leading social fraternity in this respect. Gamma-Eta expects to continue this system, but will keep on encouraging participation in ath­ letics and campus affairs.

The local has followed the custom of COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION inviting several men from other fraterni­ ties as guests at luncheon each week, to exhibits of most of the products of Cali­ foster good feeling. · Likewise, it has fornia, and the Museum of History, sought to maintain friendships with stu­ Science and Art, containing the co11ec­ dents not belonging to fraternities. Re­ tions of the Historical Society of South­ lations with the sororities have been good. ern California, the Academy of Sciences, There is a regular schedule of house the Cooper Orinthological Society, the dances, in charge of two officers. Fine Arts League .and other.s. Thus a In its earlier years Delta Mu Phi re- valuable adjunct is available to university .FRATERNITY ENTERS LOS ANGELES 7 students, affording exceptional opportuni­ they met some of the men remammg at ties. the Alpha-Sigma house and Mother There are eight national fraternities at Camper, also alumni in the city. At Port­ the university, as follows: Pi Kappa land, Oregon, District Princeps Everett Alpha, Kappa-Alpha, Delta-Chi, Phi Fenton met his chief, with a group of Kappa Tau, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta actives from Corvallis and alumni. The Sigma Phi, Sigma-Chi and Kappa-Sigma. following evening a large number of ac­ Eleven national sororities are represented, tive and alumni members attended a ban­ as follows: Alpha Chi Omega, Phi-Mu, quet in honor of Brother and Mrs. Perez, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa­ and displayed keen interest in the fra­ Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Delta-Zeta, Zeta ternity's affairs. Tau Alpha, Delta-Gamma, Alpha Gamma Considerable desire was shown for in­ Delta and Alpha Delta Pi. viting II K A to hold its 1928 convention University of Southern California has in Portland. "I tried to encourage this been in the athletic limelight, with con ~ id - thought as much as I could," the Grand

THE ACTIVE CHAPTER OF GAMMA-ETA Left to right: BARNUM, BoGuA, CLARKE, HoBBS, CuAGER, B:enrcHEK, WrT'l'Y, CRIST, MAUDSLEY, LouY, DRUMM, CHuRcH, CLARE, Woon, TERNQUIST, EARL, BROWN, HoLCOMB, KrsPERT, DouGLAS, SwEIGART, WATSON, HARDEY, PETTY, HALL, BEHNEMAN, ELMQUIST, FISHER, HAYNE, PEPLOW erable success in football, baseball, basket­ Princeps reported, "because of the very ball and track. For two successive years pleasant climate and the facilities for en­ it won the I. C. A. A. A. A. national track tertainment in that section. I also felt championship. that the far northwest has not been Value of university buildings and other brought in close contact with our £rater- property is more than $4,000,000 and the . nity and a convention would mean a great annual income is almost $1,000,000. All deal to chapters in that district." the schools and colleges are on the central Grand Princeps Perez made a short campus. The library has double<:!. in size talk over a newspaper radio station at in the last ten years. Portland, by arrangement of District After the Gamma-Eta installation, Princeps Fenton. At Seattle, Brother Grand Princeps Perez, who was accom­ Perez was _met by alumni and members panied by his wife, journeyed northward. of Beta-Beta and visited the chapter District Princeps Marsh escorted them house. His report praised this university about San Francisco and Berkeley and and chapter, as the others. Douthit Bats Three Hundred for Cardinals By RICHARD G. BAUMHOFF, Beta-Lmnbda, Washington N CENTER FIELDER Taylor L. up!" in Little Rock, Ark., on April 22, I Douthit, Alpha-Sigma, Pi Kappa 1901, young Douthit stepped briskly to Alpha has a big league baseball player of the plate for the first time and he has considerable promise and of proven per­ been hitting fast ones and catching high formance. He is a ".300 man" and "reg­ ones ever since. His parents, Mr. and ular" on the Cardinals, the St. Louis Na­ Mrs. A. L. Douthit, moved to Oakland, tional League team: His part in the box Cal., when he was about a year old, so scores helped them on their climb towards naturally Taylor was traded to the Cali­ a finish at the top of the circuit as this fornia League. He received his early article was written, near the end of the education in the public schools and sand season. lots of Oakland and in his last year at St. Louis alumni, with whom Douthit Oakland Technical High obtained his has formed close friendships in the in­ baseball letter. Fr:om the first he was an tervals of the summer when playing there, . outfielder. prize his acquaintance not only for his For some reason, which he does not athletic ability but for his quiet, gentle­ now explain, he ~pecialized in agriculture manly ways and for his quick smile. He at the University of California, where he is a blue-eyed, well-proportioned youth of became a II K A, and took chemistry and medium weight. bacteriology with a view to going into the His career is the old story of the Ameri­ canning and packing business. He got can youngster who grew up in the atmos­ his degree all right, in 1923, but in the phere of ball tossing on neighborhood lots, meanwhile he won his frosh numeral in became a letter man in college and drifted baseball and three letters in the following into the professional game. At the re­ years on the varsity team. Incidentally, quest of the writer, in ortler to present an he played three years of varsity basket­ impartial estimate of Douthit, Roy Stock­ ball. ton, baseball expert of the St. Louis Post­ Charles E. Chapman, professor of his­ Dispatch., prepared the following state­ tory at the university and a former base­ ment: ball professional, took an interest in "Taylor Douthit, fleet of foot, w.ith a Douthit and recommended him to Branch fine batting eye and excellent judgment of Rickey, then manager of the Cardinals. fly balls, is considered one of the most Rickey signed Douthit in June, 1923, and promising young outfielders in baseball. .sent him to Fort Smith, Ark., in the He needs experience, but after he has had Western Association, recalling him a another year or two in fast company he month later. In June, 1924, he was sent probably will be regarded as the best center to St. Joseph, Mo., in the Western fielder in the game. Douthit can field like League, but recalled two months after­ a Speaker, he has an excellent throwing wards. Then in July, 1925, he was re­ arm, and his batting has been an impor­ leased to Milwaukee, in the American As­ tant factor in the success of the Cardinals sociation, but returned to the Cardinals this year." shortly. He has been with the St. Louis When Umpire Stork called, "Batter team all this season. 8 WILLIAM AND MARY CAPTAIN-ELECT IS ALL-ROU D ATHLETE 9

Douthit's batting average at Fort I realize I cannot play there I'm quitting. Smith was .305, at St. Joe .323 and at If I can draw down a good salary I'll re­ Milwaukee .372, leading the latter league. main till I'm 30. In the autumn and win­ He hit better than .300 this year, playing ter I'm building up a fire insurance busi­ steadily. In the first 100 games of the ness with my father in Oakland, and season he connected safely with the ball eventually I'll retire to that." 110 times, out of 360 trips to the plate. Roland Douthit, younger brother of "Professional baseball is a great way Taylor, entered the University of Cali­ for a young man to get a start in a finan­ fornia in 1924 and followed, too, on the cial way," says Douthit. "But if a col­ chapter roll of Alpha-Sigma. What's lege graduate cannot get in the major more, he occupies the same position Tay­ leagues in a relatively short time, say lor used to hold in the outfield of the three or four years, he should quit. The varsity diamond. Perhaps the two 'Dout­ only place to play is in the majors, where hits will go down in athletic history as there is money and publicity. As soon as "the .300 Douthits."

- IIKA - William and Mary Captain-Elect Is All-round Athlete TEE TODD, William and Mary's stellar is active in all other campus activities, L guard on the basketball team, who being a member of the B. B. Club, Omi­ has held that position for the past three cron Delta Kappa, Delta Pi Sigma, local years, has been elected captain for 1927. Todd had the honor of not only making the varsity in his freshman year, but was selected for the All-State College team of Virginia. He has now played a star game for three years and William and Mary should enjoy a good season next year with such a leader. He is a three letter man, having played football for three years and receiving two letters in track. He played end on the Indian team his first two years in college and during the past season, played a bril­ liant game at center. This is unique in that his brother, John Todd, who gradu­ ated last June, had played center for the four previous years and had captained two Indian gridiron teams. John Todd was a four letter man. LEE TODD, Gamma Lee Todd runs the dashes and partici­ pates in the weight events on the track chemical fraternity, Chi Beta Phi and team. He reported for track this year as national scientific fraternities, and was soon as the basketball season ended. president of the freshmen class. He is Ee is not only an all-round athlete, but also chairman of the Freshman Tribunal. Leadership Demanded by the Ministry By RICHARDT. GILLESPIE, A.B., D.D., B eta} Davidson HE ministry offers the largest field throw evil, defeat lawlessness, banish in­ Tfor constructive leadership which temperance, outlaw immorality and to to-day is ·open to young men. In every bring in a new era of righteousness the community the minister is a recognized minister has a vital place. leader, and from the day of his arrival The minister with a t~ue conception of in the community is accorded a place of his mission will seek no easy place. He leadership. This is true not only in the need not. His is a place of responsibility, church to which he ministers, but in the where responsibility carries self-denial, community of which the church is a part. sacrifice and service. There is no easy The only thing required in return is that place for a minister who knows his task the minister prove himself worthy of con- and who courageously faces his responsi- fidence and capable to bility. lead. While this 1s Our land is called universally true of the With this article THE SHIELD Christian, but it is not AND DIAMOND adds another to ministry, men in other the series being published occa- all Christian. It is the p r o f e s s ions, and in sionally treating of the voca- duty of the Christian commerce and industry, tions calling the fraternity}s forces to provide Chris- must make for them- members. The author of this tian.leadership not only discussion of the ministry is selves a place of leader- president of Columbia Theolog- for the church, but for ship, before their lead- ical Seminary} one of the large all phases of life, to Presbyterian institutions in the ership is recognized and South. give Christian character accepted. to all of our institu- The minister's influ- tions, to legislation, ence is most felt in the moral and spiritual education, diplomacy, journalism, trade, li·fe of the community, where he is teacher commerce, to make all of our social and and counselor to those who are seeking economic life Christian. This responsi­ the better way of life. Here his influence bility offers to the minister an opportu­ is felt in moulding thoughts, establishing nity for influence and leadership which is ideals, preparing programs and guiding presented by no other vocation. This men in their effort to find themselves and rare privilege of leadership should carry to determine their activities in the most with it a corresponding sense of responsi­ significant and most momentous experi- bility. ences of life. It is the function of the Only men of sterling character, per­ minister to discover the true values in life, sonal piety, deep consecration and a will to present them with clearness and em- to work should seek the ministry. No phasis and to convince· men that these are others, whatever their ability, should be most worth striving for. He must be accepted by the church. Only men of this possessed of the crusader spirit, willing type can succeed in the ministry. Added and ready to give his life to discover, and to these qualifications, every minister then to defend and to establish the truth. should possess a strong body, clear mind, Leadership is the greatest need in every clean life and an unquestioning convlc­ department of life. In the effort to over- tion that he is called of God. 10 LEADERSHIP DEMANDED BY THE MINISTRY 11

The ministry as a vocation leads. men my ministry I have served three Presby­ at once into the broadest fields of learn­ terian churches : First Church, Florence, ing and experience. The true minister S. C. ; Maxwell Street Church, Lexing­ thoroughly prepared for his work must ton, Ky., and First Church, Louisville, possess a world vision of human need and Ky. January 1, 1925, I became president of the possibilities of human life when of Columbia Theological Seminary. redeemed and restored by the renewing Columbia Theological Seminary is an power of the divine Spirit. His prepara­ institution of the Southern Presbyterian tion requires a knowledge of every field of human interest, including philosophy, logic, psychology, history, science, litera­ ture, language, world religions, but espe­ cially of God's Word in which is revealed God's will concerning the life and destiny of man. The minister through his wide and varied contacts, as he ministers from day to day, broadens his interest in and deep­ ens his sympathy with human life. As he helps men to solve their moral and spiritual problems, to discover the true values, and to find and follow the right way there comes to him an indescribable satisfaction and an inexpressible joy. The ministry, like teaching, is not a so­ called remunerative vocation. The re­ turns in money are often small, and fre­ DR. R. T. GILLESPIE, Beta quently but a bare living is realized, but the reward in appreciation, esteem and Church where her ministers are trained, love, as well as the satisfaction which and is one of the oldest theological train­ comes through a service well done is a re­ ing schools in America. It was founded turn far greater than riches, a reward in 1828, at Lexington, Ga., with Dr. more precious than silver and gold. Thomas Goulding first professor, and I am asked by the editor to say some­ with five students. In 1830 the seminary thing of my own career and of Columbia was removed to Columbia, S. C. In the Theological Seminary, of which I am fall of 1927 the seminary will be removed president. To do the former would prove · to Atlanta, Ga., where a beautiful site of embarrassing if there were much to say. sixty acres has been secured. Architects In 1904 I graduated from Davidson Col­ are working now on plans for the new lege, where I was a member of Beta plant, on which construction will begin in chapter. Beta has given to the ·ministry the near future. To make possible the many distinguished and useful ministers. removal of the seminary, Georgia Pres­ My theological training was secured at byterians have pledged the sum of $622,- Columbia, where I graduated in 1908. 516, including the site valued at $40,000. The honorary degree of Doctor of Di­ No institution in the South has made a vinity was bestowed in 1921 by Center larger contribution to southern Christian College. During the eighteen years of leadership than Columbia Seminary. 12 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

Among her faculty and alumni are found bia men to positions of influence and re­ the names of many of the most distin­ sponsibility in home and foreign fields. guished ministers and educators of the In Atlanta, Columbia Seminary will South. The history of the seminary is occupy a location strategic to the South, . closely interwoven with the history of the and will be in the natural center of her

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South. On the Columbia campus many own territory, which embraces the synods imperishable traditions have gathered of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala­ about this century-old institution. bama and Mississippi. Here we plan to The ideals fostered by the seminary build a new, modern and complete plant have produced in her sons world vision, and to offer a program of theological and have created the passion to serve training which will place Columbia in the wherever there is human need. Thes~ forefront of southern educational institu­ have for a hundred years carried Colum- tions.

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Omicron Boasts Five Letter Men

Reading from left to righ~ is A. P. N EW COMB, '27, , football; C. L. SEAWRIGHT, '29, basketball; W . P. H uN DLEY, 28, track; W . P . HooD, 27, track; J. W. TATUM, '26, track Mark Twain as a Non-Humorist By R. S. VVARNER, Alpha-Psi, Rutgers HE nature of this topic I have taken sociation-one that beyond doubt for­ Tto include the non-humorous qualities warded his general interest in books, in­ of Samuel Clemens as revealed in his fluenced his taste, and inspired in him works, as well as those personal charac­ certain views and philosophies that he teristics which indicate that he possessed never forgot. He was lodging in a cheap a deeper vein of mind in which humor boarding house filled with more or less played a most insignificant part. I am commonplace people with whom he cared well aware that the commonest conception not to mingle, with the exception of one of the man rarely takes cognizance of man, a tall, solemn Scotchman named little more than his humor, but this may MacFarlane. This MacFarlane had be explained in part by the reserve with books, serious books : histories, philoso­ which many of his most phies, a n d scientific revealing works were works, accompanied, of received by publishing The publication of this ar­ course, with a Bible and houses. ticle, which won the Philoclean a dictionary. He had Literary Society prize at Rut­ Either he expressed gers, introd1tces a slight change studied these and knew himself too vigorously, in editorial policy. The staff them by heart. Though too prematurely or too believes that the literary efforts the Scotchman's voca­ of our brothers should have a radically to be displayed place in our fraternity magazine. tion and life were for­ freely· to the public, Athletics, politics and campu,s ever a mystery to Clem­ or his denunciations of activities have definite value in ens, the latter did find college life but the litemry and prevailing customs were cultttral side must not be neg­ out that the man was a too searching to insure lected. C ontrib~ttions of this veritable storehouse of a profitable reception. nature are urgently desired. abstruse knowledge, a Mrs. Clemens was one living dictionary, and a of the most active in philosopher and thinker editing his more abitrary works. Lately besides. He gave evidence to one vanity ; there have appeared several editions of he would claim that he knew every word his complete works which include many in the English language, and in time of those that were suppressed at the time Clemens also was convinced of this. He of their production. A perusal of these was of a most discursive sort, never tir­ would inevitably reveal to the reader the ing of advancing his views on any topic predominance of the poetic, the philo­ mentioned, though the sound sense and sophic, the contemplative side of the man, rationalism they possessed at once ex­ a side that very few of his associates cused his garrulity. could discern while he was living.· Of Clemens' early associates there was Clemens was a philosopher in every another who also succeeded in discerning sense of the word. In 1857, when he was the deeper side, though his method was twenty-two years old, he was working in different than that of MacFarlane. This the offices of Wrightson and Company, was Joseph Goodman, editor of the Vir­ printers, in Cincinnati. It was an un­ g.inia City Enterprise, whose staff Clemens eventful winter but with one notable as- joined about the year 1863. Goodman 13 14 SHIELD AND DIAMOND recognized the underlying phase of Clem­ hereafter could accomplish any good end, ens' character and, while he perhaps did therefore, I am not able to believe in it. not regard it as a future literary asset, he To chasten a man in order to perfect him did take immeasurable delight in it on the would be reasonable enough; to annihi­ many quiet evenings the two spent to­ late him when he has proved himself in­ gether. Albert Bigelow Paine says: capable of reaching perfection might be "Goodman discovered and developed the reasonable enough; · but to roast him for­ deeper vein. Often the two, dining to­ ever for the mere satisfaction of seeing gether in a French restaurant, discussed him roast would not be reasonable--even life's subtler philosophies, recalled various the atrocious God imagined by the Jews phases of human history, remembered would tire of the spectacle eventually. and recited the poems that gave them . There may be a hereafter or there may especial enjoyment." In later life Mark not be, I am wholly indifferent about it. Twain became more and more the philoso­ If I am appointed to live again I feel sure pher and also somewhat of a pessimist in it will be for some more sane and useful theory, though not actually at heart. purpose than to flounder about for ages \\That was Mark Twain's religion? To . in a lake of fire and brimstone for having set that forth is not a question of private violated a confusion of ill-defined and investigation and conclusion. He has contradictory laws said (but not evi­ himself solved that problem neatly and denced) to qe of divine interpretation. If comprehensively. In the early eighties he annihilation is to follow death I shall not set down in his notebook a few pages of be aware of the annihilation, and, there­ concisely written conclusions-conclusions fore, shall not care a straw about it. I from which he did not deviate throughout believe the world's moral laws the out­ his remaining years. He said.: come of the world's moral experience. "I believe in God, the Almighty. I do It needed no God to come down out of the not believe He ever sent a message to man heavens and tell man that murder and by anybody, or delivered one to him by theft and all the other immoralities were word of mouth, or made Himself visible bad, both for the individual who commits to mortal eyes at any time or any place. them and for the society that suffers. from I believe that the Old and New Testa­ them." ments were imagined and written by man, From the beginning, Mark Twain de­ and that no line in them was authorized by spised meanness and strove against op­ God, much less inspired by Him. I think pression, sham and evil in every form. the goodness, mercy, and justice of God He was a most courageous thinker, al­ are manifested in His works; I perceive ways original, and possessed of remarka­ they are manifested to me in this life; ble sagacity in exposing falsity. His de­ the logical conclusion is that they will be nunciations of small and petty deeds are manifested toward me in the life to come, noted for an intensity and vigor that if there should be one. I do not believe spares nothing and they are replete with . in special providences. I believe the uni­ caustic statements that would virtually verse is governed by strict and immuta­ burn the offenders. ble laws. If one man's family is swept In connection with this quality of Mark away by pestilence it is only the working Twain's that abhorred narrowness and of the law; God is not interfering in sham it might be well to reveal these favor of one man or against another. traits as shown in the book, A Connecti­ "I cannot see how eternal punishment cut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. MARK TWAIN AS A NON-HUMORIST 15

William Dean Howells, one of Clemens' failing to find his more common expres­ most intimate friends and most apprecia­ sion, they suspected some huge joke. The tive biographers, has this to say of the result was that when the work was pub­ Connecticut Yankee and Mark Twain: lished· in book form it did not meet with "Here he is to the full the humorist as a very enthusiastic reception at first. But we know him ; but he is very much more, later criticism, which was not swayed by and his strong, indignant, .often infuriate the feeling that he had transgressed into hate of injustice, and his love of equality, a field in which he should not have at­ burn hot though the manifold adventures tempted to write, saw in the book the first and experiences of the tale. What he real picture of the girl, drawn with all thought about prescriptive right and tenderness, not as a solemn saint, which wrong we had partly learned in The was proper enough, but as a human being, Prince and the Pauper and Huckleberry one who could revel in the joy of life as Finn, but it is this last book which gives well as one who could play the divine us his whole mind. The elastic scheme role. It was the first picture of the girl of the romance allows it to play freely as one who really lived, and, considered back and forth between the sixth century from every point of view, Joan of Arc is and the nineteenth century, and often Mark Twain's supreme literary expres­ while it is working the reader up to a sion, the loftiest, the most delicate, the blasting contempt of monarchy and aris­ most luminous example of his work. tocracy in King Arthur's time, the dates --IIKA-- are magically shifted under him, and he is confronted with exactly the same prin­ A secret ballot was taken by the mem­ ciples in Queen Victoria's ti'me. The bers of twenty-three chapters of Kappa­ delicious satire, the marvelous wit, the Sigma to determine what trait is most wild, free, fantastic humor, are the colors important for a man to have to be pledged. of the tapestry while the texture is a hu­ Of the 539 answers, twenty-two were manity that lives in every fibre." thrown out. because they did not name any It is fitting to end this paper with a specific qualification. The tabulation was comment on Mark Twain in his supreme as follows: expression, Personal RuoUections of Scholarship .. _...... 121 Joan of A1'c. This is essentially an his­ Sociability ...... 108 torical novel, the only field in which Personality ...... 76 Clemens felt sure of a reception entirely Character ...... 69 in accord with the serious material he was Well groomed ...... 28 to present. The "recollections" were first Athletic ability ...... 22 printed anonymously in Harper's for fear Gentleman ...... 15 that if the author's name were affixed Social ability ...... 14 their true import would be submerged in Good family ...... 13 the universal attempt to unearth his char­ Manliness ...... 4 acteristic burlesque. After they were for Good morals ...... ·...... 4 a time properly received it was revealed Congenial nature ...... 4 that he was the author and immediately Family's social standing ...... 3 the public was thrown into perplexity for, Individuality ...... ·...... 2 Gray's Biographer Reveals Intimate Details By ARTHUR S. BowEs) Beta-Phi) District Princeps

HEY tell a lot of interesting tales something for nothing. He promised a Tabout Russell T . Gray, who escaped steel engraving of George Washington, from Purdue University in 1915 and the Father of His Country, for fifty now heads his own organization, Russell cents. The steel engravings were two­ T. Gray, Inc., advertising engineers, in cent postage stamps, and the gross profit Chicago. It is said, for instance, that he was forty-eight cents on each deal. But school days were about over, and Rus had to think about getting a real job. He heard that the Haynes Automobile Co. needed a man for its advertising depart­ ment, so he had some fancy engraved . letterheads made and applied for the job. Somehow he got it, and a few months later became advertising manager. Ko­ komo is a lonely place, though, and be­ sides Rus had had his eye on a pretty little Indianapolis girl for quite a while, so there was only one thing to do. Then he came to Chicago, where, after a few months' training in an advertising agency _he hung out his own shingle. Now, a good many persons don't know what an advertising engineer is. He is that peculiar being who is at one and the same time an engineer and an advertising R ussELL T. GRAY, Beta-Phi man-the kind of a fellow who knows how to advertise engineering equipment, once ran an employment agency in his from stokers to concrete mixers. The old home town of Indianapolis one sum­ demand for such service was great. mer during his college career. His ad To-day, Russell T. Gray, Inc., is one of promised information about a good job the foremost industrial advertising agen­ for a quarter, but when the boys started cies in the country. sending in their coin, it kept Rus busy clipping the want ads of the Chicago Editor)s Note: The author of this en­ Daily News to send to them. comium is associated with Gray in the The clipping business was evidently business. He should know. wearing on the nerves, for the next time -- u K A-- we heard of Rus he had started on an- Of the sixty-six men and women in the other enterprise. This time he probably Hall of Fame of New York University, was playing on the patriotism of the twenty-eight were members of Phi Beta American people and their anxiety to get Kappa. 16 Steady Growth of Pi Kappa Alpha Shown by History T IS a far cry from the ambitious Pi at the Virginia Military Institute, and, I Kappa -Alpha founded on March 1, according to tradition, comrades in the 1868, by five young men, who felt the Confederate Army, these five had felt urge of a natural fraternalism, to the themselves drawn together in brotherly widespread organization of to-day. Es­ liking after the civil conflict. Each had tablished in the South, in troubled times, refused invitations to join other fraterni­ it was held together for some years only ties. by indomitable desire, but eventually be­ Within a month, they asked William came firmly entrenched in many colleges Alexander; who later designed the badge, of its-native section of the country. to join them, which he did without formal Too broad in principle to remain local­ initiation. The first pledge was Augustus ized, the fraternity Washington Knox, who spread out years ago, was initiated on May 1, and now, with seventy History of the fraternity is l868. The five founders active chapters, is rep­ ever of interest to the member­ are now members of the ship, and publication of this ar­ resented all over the 1 ticle is 1·egm·ded as particula-rly chapter eternal but the nation. Its alumni have tim.ely, as it will reach many first two members con­ gone forth in m a n y freshm,en in the colleges and tinue active,. Brother uni"<'ersities throughout the na­ lines of endeavor and a tion as the31 are gaining their Alexander as Secretary striking percentage have first real acquaintance with Pi of the Equitable Life made names for them­ Kappa Alpha. Save for some Assurance Society of revision and omissions, this M­ selves. The directory ticle is the same as that pre­ New Y ark and Brother shows them to be scat- pared by the staff for the new Knox as a practicing tered among the states edition of Baird's Manual. This physician in Norfolk, may serve as a t e--e t for pledge and in foreign lands all instruction courses. Virginia. around the globe. Ideals The disorganization w h i c h the fraternity of the colleges of the seeks to inspire in its membership are high South following the war made the early and it has a smoothly functioning admin­ career of Pi Kappa Alpha uncertain and istrative machinery, providing close con­ difficult. On the first anniversary of the tact and supervision of the members in foundin~ the mother .chapter established college by those who have trod the path Beta Chapter at Davidson College and before them. two years later, in 1871, Gamma was Meeting in room 31 of West Range, a founded at William and Mary. Eight dormitory of the University of Virginia, chapters were founded during the first Frederick Southgate Taylor, Julian Ed­ ten years but, with the exception of Alpha ward Wood, Littleton Waller Tazewell, and Theta, each had its period of inac­ Robertson Howard and James Benjamin tivity either due to factilty rulings or Sclater founded Pi Kappa Alpha on that other adverse conditions which made sur­ day in 1868, an event which still is hon­ vival impossible. ored annually. For long intimate friends In fact, the years from 1868 to 1889 17 2 18 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

were years of struggle. During this Hostile faculty regulations brought the period Alpha was the governing body, discontinuance of Nu, Epsilon and granting charters, installing chapters and Lambda. A state anti-fraternity law determining policies, although for a time, caused the relinquishing of Xi. The char­ Theta exercised governing perogatives. ters of Rho, Phi, Chi and Alpha-Nu were The original coat-of-arms, passing from withdrawn and Alpha-Beta became ex­ Alpha to Theta, and its attempted repos­ tinct with the disbanding of the college. session, was the cause of rivalry between Sub-rosa chapters have never been per­ the two chapters for many years. mitted. In 1889, but three chapters were in For a short while in 1892, part of the existence, Alpha at Virginia, Theta at initiatory degree was given to women by what is now Southwestern, and Iota at several of the older chapters, until the what is now Hampden-Sidney, and all convention of 1893 prohibited this. three had had a continuous life. Dele­ Forty-two chapters own houses valued gates from these three chapters met on in the aggregate at $1,043,155. Every December 20-21, 1889, at Hampden­ other chapter where college regulations Sidney for the convention which was the. permit leases a house except two. second founding and the beginning of The room in West Range ·where the prosperity and development of Pi Kappa fraternity was founded, the door of which Alpha. That convention, led by Howard is properly marked with a bronze plate, Bell Arbuckle, l.o.ta, and Theron H. Rice, is permanently leased from the University Theta, adopted a constitution providing of Virginia and its occupant is selected by for the council form of government the fraternity each year on a scholarship which, with some modification, remains basis. Founders' Memorial Hall, erected in effect to-day. It was at that conven­ largely by fraternity funds, houses Alpha tion that Robert Adger Smythe, Lambda, Chapter. was elected to the position of leadership The convention of 1924 in St. Louis which he has held to the present day. He established the one-term initiation rule has been reelected Grand Treasurer in making it compulsory for a pledge to sat­ charge of the general office at every con­ isfactorily complete one scholastic term vention since that day to this, thirty-seven before initiation. Horseplay in connec­ years at this writing. No history of Pi tion with the initiatory ceremony has been Kappa Alpha would be complete without discouraged since 1911, when it was for­ recording the singular devotion, burning bidden during twenty-four hours preced­ zeal and intelligent service of Robert ing the ceremony. The convention of Adger Smythe. 1924 forbade organized horseplay or . From the day of the 1889 convention, mock initiations of any description at all Pi Kappa Alpha progressed and grew. times. An examination prepared ·by the Originally founded without geographical Supreme Council is given each pledge. restriction, the 1889 convention limited Scholarship always has been encour­ expansion to the southern states to per­ aged. The convention of 1915 in San mit concentrated development. The con­ Francisco established the Pi Kappa Alppa vention of 1904lifted the ban to enter the Scholarship Cup, to be awarded the chap­ Southwest and in the New Orleans con­ ter 'with the highest average each year. vention in 1909, all restrictions in the Competition is stiff, for while two chap­ United States were removed. Expansion ters have won two legs, the third, carry­ has been steady since then. ing permanent possession has not been STEADY GROWTH OF II K A SHOWN BY HISTORY 19

achieved by either. Several districts have convention of 1915. This caused the traveling scholarship cups and a number composition of the Dream Girl of I I K A of chapters have cups or plaques for in­ by B. E. Shields, B eta, which is one of the dividual scholarship achievements. In largest selling fraternity songs published. 1926 Robet;t M. Riculfi, Jr., presented a In 1886, Daniel J. Brimm, Theta, pre­ cup to be awarded on a point system to pared The Index, which, because of lack that chapter which, each year, had been of money, was not printed, but it served most active in college activities, scholar­ as the forerunner of the Journal. In ship and participation in athletics count­ 1889, Joseph Thompson McAllister, an ing highest. initiate of Iota but then a member of The ritual was rearranged by Robert Alpha, published one issue of the Bulletin Adger Smythe in 1894 and amplified on his own responsibility. In 1891 Robert somewhat at the 1894 convention in Nash­ Adger Smythe, Lambda, undertook, on ville. The charge, of such antiquity that his own responsibility, the publication of its authorship is unknown, is still retained. a bi-monthly known as the Pi Kappa A pledge ceremony is used by most of the Alpha J,o.urnal, which appeared through­ chapters. The badge was designed by out one year. In 1892 the Grand Coun­ William Alexander, Alpha, in 1868 and, cil started THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND with slight changes to permit copyright­ which has been regularly published as a ing, is in use to-day. The designer of the quarterly or five times a year ever since. original coat-of-arms is unknown but it In 1898 the publication of a secret journal was revised by Maxwell W. Smith, called The Dagg,er and Key, containing Omega, in 1906 and slightly changed later the minutes of the convention, was begun for copyright. and has been maintained without inter­ The song book was authorized by the ruption. Beta-Sigma Wins Four Out of Five Trophies By GEORGE KALLOCK, Beta-Sigma, Carnegie ETA-SIGMA chapter, at Carnegie ming champions over stiff competition. B Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Last but not least, Beta-Sigma won the had a victorious season in intra-mural interfraternity sweepstakes race. This is sports in the last scholastic year, winning run by curiously constructed vehicles four out of five cups offered in major somewhat resembling racing automobiles, competitions. but deriving their motive power from the The chapter turned out the campus pushing muscles of modern Greek youths basketball champions, its team comprising scrambling over a hard track. Let the

SWlMMING TRACK

Brothers Hawke, Broscius, Kallock, picture here tell the story, among those of Schwab, Kohne, Munro and Carley. the other champions. Brothers Crawford, It gained the interfraternity track McClelland, Schwab and Hawke made up championship, with Brothers Crawford, the sweepstakes team. Schwab, McClelland, Munro and Camp­ Clarence Euwing, besides being a swim­ bell on the team. mer, was on the varsity cross-country F urthermore, Brothers Smith, McNeil, team. Halsey Jones, a Captain in the R. Kristof, E uwing and Bell, donning bath­ 0. T . C. at Carnegie, won last year's ing suits, became interfraternity sw1m- trophy for conducting maneuvers. 20 S. R·. 0. Whenever Brooks Custer Entertains By RALPH FoRSYTHE, Beta-Upsilon, Colorado HE morning after the first presenta­ the writer of the before-mentioned head- T tion of Evolut.in' Evelyn, the twelfth line-versatile. annual musical comedy production of the Possessing a tenor voice of great range Boosters' Club of the University of Colo­ and depth, considered by his teachers as rado, before three thousand persons in being worthy of grand opera training, Macky Auditorium, a headline on the Custer has gained wide renown as a vo­ front page of one of Colorado's biggest calist. He is a soloist in the University newspapers ran, ''Versatile Brooks Custer of Colorado Glee Club and in the choir Scores Again in Booster's Best Offering." Two nights later six thousand persons in the ·Denver Municipal Auditorium gave Custer one of the best receptions ever accorded an amateur performer in that city. Not content in merely writing a part of the score, Custer had carried four of the most difficult roles in the produc­ tion in such a manner as to overshadow the work of the principals themselves. But to Custer such events are but a part of the clay's work. In the office of a booking agency in Denver lies an un ignecl vaudeville con­ tract tendered to Custer last September -a very liberal contract 'which he refused in order to continue his studies at the University of Colorado. Somewhere in Custer's desk lie countless requests for his services from t h e a t e r s, lodges, churches, hotels, summer resorts, lunch- eon clubs, high schools and amateur pro- TRoU BADOU R BROO K ' CusT ER, Beta- U ps i! on ductions of every kind. Recognition has come early to this entertainer. . of the First Baptist Church of Boulder. No doubt you are wondering about the He has had numerous vocal leads in such subject of this sketch, and what consti- productions as The Jy[ essiah, The Chimes tutes his claim to fame. Brooks Orlando of Nonnandy and The Gi1'l in R ed. Custer is a sophomore in the school of Custer can compose good music as well music at the University of Colorado and as sing it. Scores in such musical come­ a member of Beta-Upsilon Chapter. That dies as Evolut·in' Evelyn, Fuss and Feath­ much is easy. But when we pass from .ers and So This Is College bear testimony a statement of who he is to a statement to this fact. So also do To Pi Kappa of what he has done and is doing, we are Alpha, Going Smne and Waltz Dreams, thankful for the title given to Custer by which are perhaps the best of Custer's 21 22 SHIELD AND DIAMOND compositions. Even the sororities at Col­ Custer does not confine his actlvttles orado know of Custer's ability as a com­ wholly to the field of music, however, and poser and on guest nights at the Alpha­ in rounding out this sketch we must make Delt and the Tri-Delt houses, his rushing passing mention of the fact that he is a songs do their part in influencing the de­ member of the Players' Club and has cisions of many co-eds. taken several important parts in Little Singing and composing, however, are Theater productions. We must also add not the best known of Custer's musical that he is the newly selected Captain of attainments. If you happened to be a Company F, 157th Regiment, National guest at any of Colorado's big tourist Guard of Colorado, having under his hotels last summer, when Brooks gave his command a fully recruited company, and weekly entertainment for the guests, I in his charge one of the best armories in think you will agree that Custer does one the State. And just as a final proof of thing better than anything else, and that his versatility, we mention the fact that is to render an artist's performance on his he plays right field on Beta-Upsilon's accordion. baseball team.

--IIKA- "Old Oaken Bucket" Rewards Purdue-Indiana Rivalry VERY college in the land has its tra­ terms during · the greater part of the E ditional rival. Whenever it meets game, neither being able to score. Only this foe there is sure to be a battle royal. a few minutes of play were left and then It is around such struggles that tales of things began to happen. Indiana had heroic deeds are woven. When the possession of the ball ; a touchdown alumni come back for the clash of rivals, meant victory, and the Indiana rooters one is sure to hear each old game played had not given up hope. The line was over. Often the fight is for the posses­ formed; the quarterback barked his sig­ sion of some trivial object to which much nals; the ball 'was snapped to the re­ sentiment is attached. ceiver, who sped to his goal line. The Purdue University has a worthy op­ rooters were on their feet in an instant, ponent in her sister institution, Indiana those on one side wildly hoping he would University. Since the founding of these score, the others blindly praying that schools they have been rivals in all some one would stop him. branches of sport and especially in foot­ Through the whole field he ran, twist­ ball. The trophy provided last year by ing and turning to avoid the clutches of George Ade, a Purdue alumnus, and by a the Purdue men. He had passed the last prominent alumnus of Indiana Univer­ attacker only to find a black-and-gold dad sity, caused the annual Purdue-Indiana figure speeding toward him. Only a tre­ football game to be contested with more mendous effort could put the pursuer in a spirit than ever before. It was an "Old position to prevent Indiana from scoring. Oaken Bucket" with space on each link A final spurt, a flying tackle and the car­ of its gold chain to be engraved with the rier of the ball was forced out of bounds. score of a game. It is to remain in the It was Harry Hetrick, B.eta-Phi, who possession of the annual winner for a made this tackle and prevented the "Old year. Oaken Bucket" from becoming the pos­ The teams last autumn battled on even session of Purdue's traditional foe. Hunting Platinum in South American Wilds By JoHN C. RILEY, JR., Omega, Kentucky AS THE various assortments of fra­ enjoys the distinction of producing more J-\. ternity jewelers are spread before platinum than any other enterprise in ex­ the eyes of Pi Kaps throughout the coun­ istence, a few words about the operations try possibly it will be seen that the rare may not be entirely amiss. metails, gold and platinum, form by far Colombia lies in the northern part of the greater part of the display. It may South America and is divided into a num­ be interesting to know that these same ber of states or departments. The em­ hryonic departments, which have so far repelled all advances of civilization, and in the estimation of the powers that be, in Bogota, have not as yet "come from be­ hind the gob" in the matter of advancing, are called intendencias, which name corre­ sponds to the territories which we later recognized as states. The one in question is called La In­ tendencia N acional del Chaco and lies in the interior between the Pacific Ocean and the middle range of the Andes. It is

]OHN C. RrLEv, Qm,ega, Kentucky accessible only through its many rivers from Buenaventura on the Pacific coast metals are not usually found in workable and Cartagena on the Atlantic coast. In­ deposits on the campuses of our beloved land travel is, with the exception of a educational institutions nor in the front yards of our fraternity houses, but more frequently are encountered in out-of-the­ way places. Occasionally some of the brothers go from the peaceful bliss of tea dances and cadet hops to take part in the procuring of them. Of the two metals, gold is by far more widely distributed over the world. Plati­ num, according to the universally recog­ nized authorities on the subject, is found in quantity in only a few localities and INDIAN Bovs was first discovered in Colombia, South The bead work indicates that the wearer is an America. Since graduation in 1925, I eligible bachelor have been employed as a mining engineer few mule trails, entirely by canoes of the for a company whose business it is to dugout type, which are hand made by the obtain these two metals from the wilds Indians and other nadves. Canoe paddles of the Chaco country in the Republic of are employed to propel the craft down­ Colombia and I feel that, as this company stream but poles called "palancas" are 23 24 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

used to push them upstream. This is the of the river beds with the simple wooden only mode of transportation that the na­ gold pan or ''batea" in the same manner tives ever have known and .it goes with­ as did the pioneer gold miners and pros­ out saying that they are unusually expert pectors in our brilliant '49 days. Many in the handling of the peculiar boats. of these· natives work for the company as The language spoken is ·spanish and the canoe boys and on laboring jobs around population is made up of some whites the operations. with the greater percentage composed of At present there are three other engi­ Indians and Spanish-descent natives who neers and myself engaged in prospecting ·range in the color scale from straw to the watershed of the Atlantic side of midnight-stove-polish-blue-black. The In­ Chaco and it is necessary while out in the dians are too proud to work or to take on field to live in personally constructed nail­ any such gringo customs as the wearing less shacks, whicl\ are moved and recon­ of clothes. They live solely on the fish structed as the scene of our work shifts. they c.atch by crude, hand-made traps; Mail is received, as well as news of the small animals and the few bananas, plan­ outside world, about a month late and a -tains or other tropical fruits they succeed few weeks ago at least one of the brothers in procuring. The other natives pan gold got a thrill upon receiving THE SHIELD and platinum from the sands and gravels AND DIAMOND in this land.

-- IIKA -- Does This Define the Qualifications of a. Brother? . T WO men were talking about friend- leads others to misjudge you. ship, and one of them had praised "With him you can breathe free. You Emerson's splendid essay. The other said, can take off your coat and loosen your "I don't know what Emerson wrote on collar. Y ciu can avow your little vanities friendship, but I am willing to accept for and envies and hates and vicious sparks, myself the definition of a friend, written your meanness and absurdities, and in by some unknown writer, that I found opening them up to him they are lost, dis­ somewhere the other day printed on a solved on the white ocean of his loyalty.· little slip of paper. Let me read it to He understands. You do not have to be you." careful. "What is a friend?" he read. "I will "You can abuse him, neglect him, . tol­ tell you. It is a person with whom you erate him. Best of all, you can keep still dare to be yourself. Your soul can go with him. It makes no matter. He likes naked with him. He seems to ask of you you. He is like fire that purges all you to put on nothing, only to be what you do. He is like water that cleanses all that are. He does not want you to be better you say. He is like wine that warms you or wors.e. to the bone. He understands, he under­ "When you are with him you feel as a stands. prisoner feels who has been declared inno­ ''You can weep with him, laugh with cent. You do not have to be on your him, sin with him, pray with him. guard. You can say what you think, so Through and underneath it all he sees, long as it is genuinely you. He under­ knows, and loves you. stands perfectly. You do not have to ex­ "A friend, I repeat, is one with whom plain or defend that in your nature which you dare to be yourself." Native State, Ohio, Portrayed by II Author By DoN KNOWLTON, Beta-Epsilon, Western Reserve OUTHFUL geography students of The south shore of Lake Erie is the Yother states no doubt picture Ohio as playground for thousands whose fathers dotted with noble buckeye groves. In or grandfathers sported on the banks of proof of the buckeye legend any Ohio the Don, the Danube, the Tiber and the schoolboy will point confidently to the Hudson. All Northern Ohio goes to the rows of European horse-chestnuts which beaches to flirt, eat sand in hot clogs and (if not smoked out) grace the Ohio buy lots. The shop-hands from the towns towns. We do have a few true buckeyes read confession magazines and kiss work­ ( .lEscul,us glabm) in Ohio, bqt they hide ing girls on lake park benches, and there in the bottomlands and are identified only are still spinsters named Smith who think by students of denclrol- something ought to be ogy. done about it. There Another common as­ These excerpts are /1' om an is little enough romance sumption is that Ohio article in "The American Mer­ cnry" a few months ago by Don in a life of piecework possesses homogeneity Knowlton, Beta-Epsilon, '14, and storage eggs, but -a solid and uniform w ho does advertising for a the lake, at least, is population. The fact is Cleveland bank bttt by a vocation free ..... roa111s in thP world of letters. that its cities are pre­ Here he paints an 1mvarnished Ohio belches smoke. ponderantly foreign, yet attmcti·ve picture of his To the south, by rail, is wet, u n i o n i z e cl and home State, betmying a not 1m­ coal. To the northwest, becoming bit of cynicism. An­ pagan, whereas its rural other 1'ecent art·icle of his, "The by steamer, is iron ore. communities are pre­ Anato111~1 of Ja zz," appeared in In Ohio, is lime tone. ponderantly N o r cl i c, "Harper's Magazine." In it he That steel should be the dissected that modern musical dry, anti-labor and fun­ tongue. heritage of the state damentalist. Northern was inevitable. Ohio is flat and sophis- In C 1 eve 1 an cl, the ticated, full of poolrooms, truck gardens night is never -clark. There is always in and blast furnaces. Southern Ohio is the sky the flicker of the furnaces. In wild, overgrown with mountain laurel and the Mahoning and Upper Ohio Valleys, blackberries, and shot through with the the tops of the trees stand poisoned and Kentucky K ultur, which has drifted bare, and strong Slavs sweat and wrestle across the Ohio River and brought in with molten metal. These Slavs com­ poor white trash and burnt-over timber mand inordinate wages, but the stock­ lands. True, industrialism has flowed holders of the companies for which they clown the Ohio Valley from Pittsburgh work are by no means panting up the and blackened the reel clay hills, but peach traditional hill to the poorhouse. trees in Portsmouth, on the river, still Even steel has its romances. Among bloom a month earlier than they do in the captains of the Great Lakes ore boats Toledo, on Lake Erie, and the Cincinnati has grown up a wealth .of tradition com­ matrons take siestas at two in the after­ parable only to that of the fishing and noon, while the Cleveland housewives are whaling fleets of the New England coast. fighting at the bargain counters. A giant traveling crane, working among 25 26 SHIELD AND DIAMOND the miniature ore-mountains of a lake top, there are stretches of the Ohio along port, inspires a certain awe if one follows which the foothills of the Alleghenies still that ore to its ultimate destiny and visual­ retain their pines and arbutus, where izes sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, roads are mended with boulders, and old automobiles and bayonets ..... men sit in the sun and and watch lazy Though steel has seared many a hill- sidewheelers dodge sandbars .....

-IIKA- Champion Wrestler Clinches Another Title By RooNEY S. SPRIGG, Alpha-Sigma, California AROLD SLAGLE DILLON, a to Denver, Colo., and entered the Uni­ H young II K A, working for the versity of Denver School of Liberal Arts George L. Eastman Co., Hollywood, Cal., in 1921. At that time he became very is making quite a name for himself in much interested in wrestling and entered amateur wrestling circles. competition. In his first year he won the Rocky Mountain All Conference Championship and the Ro~ky Mountain Amateur Cham­ pionship, the matches being held at the Denver Athletic Club, both at a weight of 135 pounds. The following year he en­ tered the School of Commerce at the Uni­ versity of Denver, taking up the business administration course, graduating in 1925. In 1924 he again won the Rocky Moun­ tain All Conference Championship, but this time in the welterweight, or 145- pound, class. In 1925, after competing with some of the best athletes in the Rocky. Mountain district, he was finally successful and again took the Rocky Mountain Amateur Championship, the tournament being held at the Denver Athletic Club, in the welterweight class. About two years ago he went to Cali­ fornia with his mother and brother, where he secured an athletic membership in the Hollywood Athletic Club and for that club won the welterweight championship

HAROLD DILLON, Gamma-Gamma in the Pacific Coast amateur tournament held in the athletic club this year. His He was born in 1904 near Delevan, Ill., work has been an example of good sports­ and educated there and in Kensington, manship together with a keen athletic Kan. At the age of seventeen he moved ability. How to Choose a F ratemity By ERNEST H. WILKINS, Dean of the College of Arts, Literattwe and Science of the University of Chicago

Editor's Not.e: Dean Wilkins has given entertainment, if either crowd shows an permission t.o the SHIELD AND DIAMOND inclination for indecent conversation or .to reprint .this part of a c.opyrighted ar­ indicates tolerance of gambling or of ticle addressed to Fr.eshmen. The Dean drinking-you'll be better off not to join is familiar with college fraternities. His any fraternity than to join that one. list of eight important standards of com­ 3. Which crowd has the better-balanced parison is autlioritative. How does your interests? To be thought well balanced in chap.ter shap.e up? interest, a crowd should show evidence, in the first place, of esteem for and suc­ HE choice you are about to make is cess in scholarship (beware of any crowd Tan important one. You are choosing that speaks slightingly of such success) ; the group in which you are going to live and, in the second place, of genuine in­ for four years. That is a long time, and, terest in campus activities (publications, what's more, the effect of these four years dramatics, musical organizations, public will last through life. For they will prob­ speaking, social clubs) and in intramural ably determine, for good and all, your athletics. Evidence of representation in habits, your points of view, your conver­ intercollegiate athletics is also a good sation, your use of working time and of thing, but its significance as a measure of leisure time, your social relations, your fraternity value is usually overempha­ likes and dislikes, your main enjoyments. sized. Yet you have to choose your fraternity, 4. Which crowd seems to be the more in most cases, on short notice and without loyal to the college? Placing the interests extensive evidence. That makes it all the of the fraternity before those of the col­ more important to weigh carefully all the lege would be disloyalty; disregard of evidence you have. college appointments ~r duties would be The main considerations are these : disloyalty; running down other fraterni­ 1. Which crowd is the more congenial? ties would indicate disloyalty ; breaking That is, which crowd do you naturally any of the rushing rules would be dis­ "take to" more? With which crowd do loyalty. If any fraternity, while rushing you think you would be happier? As you you, knowingly breaks any of the rushing consider this question, take into account, · rules, that fraternity is not to be trusted, if you can, the Freshmen who are being and is a good fraternity not to join. rushed by each fraternity, as well as the 5. Which crowd has the homier and active members of the chapter. better-kept house? You should give your 2. Which crowd seems to have the bet­ self the chance of living in clean, com­ ter general quality of personality? Which fortable and pleasant surroundings. has the greater number of men of whom 6. Which crowd appears to live on the you might say, "I think he's a thoroughly more reasonable-and for you more ap­ fine fellow, likely to stand strong for the propriate-financial scale? Extravagance best things in life"? If either crowd is of any sort is a danger sign. low in the tone of its conversation and 7. Which fraternity has the better 27 28 SHIELD AND DIAMOND standing as a national organization? This brother has been a member of a given is worth considering, if you have evi­ fraternity, that will naturally and rightly dence, but its importance is often overem­ incline you toward that fraternity. But phasized. It does not necessarily follow this also is a motive which usually receives that the fraternity with the higher na­ more attention than it really deserves ; tional standing would be in your time and for it does not necessarily follow that the at your college the best fraternity for you. fraternity to which your father or brother 8. With which fraternity have you the belonged will in your time and at your stronger family ties? If your father or college be the best fraternity for you.

--IIKA-- Miami Alumnus Chapter Plans Club House By PHAROS R. LESTER, Gat1-tnw-Alpha, Alabama

H E Supreme Council established southern Florida as a 1~esort, as well as TAlumnus Gamma-Gamma at Miami, the wide diversification of development Florida, granting a Charter to C. E. interests which draw men of all profes­ Haley and W. C. Edm1;1nds, 011-tega,· W. sions from the w.hole country, Miami is Richardson, Delta,· P.R. Lester, Gamma­ a particularly favored spot for an Alum­ Alpha,· G. S. P. Holland, Tau, C. C. nus Chapter. ·within the last year II K McCutcheon and J. W. Berry, Psi,· W. A's have gathered informally with or­ M. Harrison, Beta-Sigma, and P. H. Al­ ganization in mind. It remained for ford, Alpha-Pi . The officers elected are Brother Phil Alford, Alpha-Pi, to start P. H. Alford, President, 211 East Flagler the machinery into. motion this summer, Street; C. E. Haley, Vice-President; P. with reward of the Charter August 10. The Chapter, while small, is exceed­ R. Lester, Secreta~y; W. C. Edmunds, ingly hopeful. Considerable publicity has been given the founding of the Chapter, · and many new members are expected. It is hoped that by the time the annual rush for Fl01:ida's sunny clime starts this win­ ter, Gamma-Gamma will be established in its own hospitable Chapter House, for plans are under way to provide a home INSTALLATION DINNE:R IN MIAMI for local and visiting brothers. Meetings of the Chapter are held at Corresponding Secretary, and W. Rich­ dinner every Tuesday evening at 6: 00 in ardson, Treasurer. The occasion of the the City Club, on the roof of the Profes­ installation was a dinn~r dance at the sional Building, 216 North East Second Coral Gables Golf and Country Club. A venue, at which all visiting brothers are Because of the great popularity of expected to offer themselves as guests. Hitching the Russian Bear to a Plow

The m~thor of this m-ticle, which .is 1'e­ turies of medieval darkness into an en­ printed by permission fr.om the World lightened present to do wonders with a Call, is carrying on an every-day labor heritage of natural resources unsurpassed of social service in a land which, unfor­ anywhere in the world. And the revolu­ tunately, is a closed boo/;: to 11'tany A111,eri­ tion that is quietly taking place in the cans. Karl Borde·rs, born on a farm near minds of these millions of boys and girls Frankfort, Ky., was graduat.ed from is far more remarkable than any coup of Transylvania College in 1913, having be­ the Bolsheviki or even than the mechan­ come a member of Kappa, and then stud­ ical miracles they will help to do. The ied at Union The.ological S eminary. He great Russian bear is stretching himself . 'Wta?'ried a Tra11S)'lvania graduate and to­ after a long winter of sleep and eagerly gether they did 111,issionayy W01'k in the looking about for new occupations for Philippines. H e became a Navy chaplain his head and hands. To watch this awak­ in the World War and l.ater took up so.cial ening at close hand and to be a tiny part service in Chicago, with the United Chris­ of it calls many a one of us back who saw tian Missionary Society, which next sent Russia in the dark days of the famine. him to Russia to investigate religious and In those dreadful days a young Ameri­ social wndi.tions. Last summer he en­ can agriculturist, trained at Penn State tered agricult.ural and educational de ­ and seasoned on the soil, went out to velopment in Russia with. the Russian Russia to lead a tractor unit in ploughing R econstruction Far111s, Inc., in which the for the stricken villages of the famine missionary society is interested. With his area. Like most of us who witnessed the wife and children, he is at Archangels/w e puny efforts of ancient agricultural Village, in a section between the Black methods in dealing with the treacherous and Caspian Seas. droughts, this man dreamed not only of staying the death of a few starving peas­ By Karl Borders, Kappa, Transylvania ants but of preventing the inevitable re­ currence of famine. by the introduction of ES, I am going back to _Russia. In tried methods of American agriculture. Yspite of the tales of horror that come Through the dint of hard work which cmt to us still , I shall feel considerably is not yet ended, this dream eventuated safer with my family t~ere .than I do in in the Russian Reconstruction Farms, Chicago. I go with no illusions. · I -know Inc. This organization is already at work that we shall find much poverty, a · deal farming an estate of 15.000 acres of of dirt and some strange ways of 1i fe as some of the finest of the black soil dis­ measured by our standards. But there is trict of southern Russia. There will be something unforgettable about Russia some forty Americans, including families, which seems to entice most of the younger when the unit is complete. These will people who have been in since the revolu- include expert farmers, mechanics and tion. VIe all want to go back. bookkeepers; a doctor, a nurse, and an Russia of to-clay belongs to her youth. American school teacher for the thirteen In this generation and the next the Rus- American children. Service in such a sian peasant youth will spring from cen- group presents unusual opportunities for 29 30 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

a Christian mtsstonary. The project, lowers of this movement, which in many working as a joint stock company with respects resembles our own, are farmers. the Russian Agricultural Department, While there with the Quakers two years hopes not only to be self sustaining but to ago, I visited the headquarters of the make profits for further educational ex­ movement in Leningrad, spoke to their tension. congregation in that city and saw their The object of the scheme, however, is worship in Moscow. I came away with not commercial. Its leaders are primarily the distinct feeling that the most prac­ interested in doing this thing of which its tical· thing that could be done at this time founder, Harold Ware, dreamed: teach­ was to lend aid toward the agricultural ing the Russian farmer all that we know reconstruction of the country. about tilling the soil, running tractors, The investment in the Reconstruction raising better cattle and sheep. And not Farms Co. has the advantage of the status only this, but our doctor and nurse and of a capital investment without interest social workers will teach him better ways and at the end of fifteen years may be re­ of health and village planning. Every covered and reinvested if it is so desired. American expert will have a Russian as­ In the meantime it is working year after sistant who will at the same time be year toward making the gospel a respected learning all that the American has to and effective good, where for so many teach him. Thus the Americans will not centuries it has been too O'ften lost in the be merely demonstrating that a group of mummery of ceremonies ·and the darkness imported foreign experts can come into of superstition. By a very small invest­ Russia and successfully run a farm, but ment the Reconstruction Farms Co. the educational influence of the project agrees to pay the salary of the missionary will be felt throughout the district. The as a member of its staff and makes his military authorities of the district have services available when needed to look become so much interested in the scheme after our other interests. We go as mem­ that they plan to place a whole regiment bers of the unit, co-laborers in this great at a time in the near-by village so that the project, ready to take our part, whatever farmer boys, who make up the Red it may_be, in advancing the work already Army, will go back to their homes as they so well under way. are demobilized to lay down the gun for Religion is not dying in Russia~ as a tractor. And so the circle will widen. pessimists are wont to wail. It is being Sounds like a mission station, doesn't it? reborn. But it will be an enlightened, And it is not really a long step to find the new religion brought down out of the Foreign Relations Commission of the skies and made to live among men. If American Christian Missionary Society we Disciples of Christ can have a little taking an interest in this plan and for me unselfish share in the aiding of this new to be setting off to Russia once more to birth and in the helping of these children join it. The way it came about is this: of one of the oldest Christian faiths in For a number of years dating back be­ all the world to struggle in their own way fore the war, the American Christian toward a new light, we shall add to the Missionary Society has held in trust stature of· our own souls and bring the a fund to be used in giving assistance world a step further toward the coming to the Russian Evangelical Church when in of the kingdom. a suitable time and manner could be And so I am going back to Russia. found for its use. The mass of the fol- And I go with rejoicing and hope. Park, Former Newsboy, Is Publishers' Head By ALBERT EscoTT, A lpha-Epsilon, N. C. State AT THE annual convention of the one another and protect society from the .t-\. Southern Newspaper Publishers' newspapers." Association, held at Asheville, North Editor and Publis.he.r gave the follow­ Carolina, in July, and attended by such ing account of his career : distinguished newspaper men as Clark "Mr. Park, who has been manager of Howell, Victor Hanson, Don Elias, Wal­ the Raleigh Times since 1910 and owner ter C. Johnson and U rey Woodson, a since 1911, began his newspaper career member of Pi Kappa Alpha was ·elected as a reporter on that paper during college president. John A. Park, Alpha-Epsilon, publisher of the Raleigh Times, Raleigh, North Carolina, is the new executive. Mrs. Park was present at the convention, and the Editor and P.ublisher, national journal of the profession, had in its issue of July 17 photos of Brother and Mrs. Park, taken just after the selection of Park was ratified unanimously by the convention. Park has distinguished himself in the publishing industry with efficient methods of recording operations and making com­ parisons on papers throughout the asso­ ciation for the mutual benefit of the mem­ bers. It is told of him in The American Press (New York) that when he took over the Times in 1911, that newspaper had suffered from years of subsidizing, ]oHN A. PARK, Alpha-Epsilon, N. C. State and the first thing Park did was to "throw the subsidy out of the window and run vacations. Of comse, he had been a the paper on its own merits." To-day newsboy, too, starting in 1898, when he the Times has a plant valued at close to was twelve years 'old. In 1905, when $500,000. nineteen years old, he was graduated from The independence and virility of the N ort~ Carolina State College as a Bache­ man are indicated especially in the things lor of Engineering. he said at Hickory, North Carollna, re­ "He taught mathematics for three years cently, before a convention of the North at the state college-possibly his present Carolina Press Association. ''There are fondness for business records traces to too many newspapers in America to-day," this early training-then studied art in he declared. "The kind of laws that we Paris and more engineering at the British should have next, with respect to news­ school in Kensington. Mixed in with this papers, would protect newspapers from searching for truth in art and science was 31 32 SHIELD AND DIAMOND a period of cowpunching on a ship bound "Park's four children, all ·born in from New York to Liverpool. Raleigh, are destined to inherit the Times, "He went with the Raleigh Times in but not through white-collar service iri. the 1910, and, in company with other mem­ business office. The oldest boys now bers of his family, bought the paper the work around the shop after school, hus­ following year. On his return home he tling papers, cleaning up the pressroom engaged actively in local affairs, served and doing a hpndred and one other jobs seven years in the ational Guard, first that might be called janitor work. The as an infantry officer and then in com­ oldest boy in this manner has earned mand of a military band. During the enough money to go to camp this summer war, when his family responsibilities made and his savings, $400, have been invested military service a remote possibility, he in stock of the Times Company." threw his musical talents into direction of John A. Park was one of the founders community singing, then a popular and and a charter member of Alpha-Epsilon well-employed device for maintaining Chapter, at North Carolina State College public morale. of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh.

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Wisconsin's Varsity Baseball Tossers

Reading left to right we start with long and lanky DicK HussA, star pitcher; EDDJE DoNAGAN, captain of the 1924 freshman team; BILL ScHARER, and end with EARL BURBRIDGE, the man who wields the big stick for a .300 average and who, m the football season, likewise keeps his eye on the ball Pickard Takes the Well Known Air for Uncle Sam HIEF of Radio Service is the title of in December of the same year. An elab­ C a new office created by the United orate program containing agricultural and States Department of Agriculture. Sam home economic courses was launched at Pickard, Beta-Gam'JI1UJ,) formerly of Kan­ that time. This station, known as KSAC, sas State Agricultural College, an ap­ was the pioneer in educational radio work. pointee of Secretary William M. Jardine, An attempt to correlate the individual has assumed the new place well qualified, radio activities of all the colleges in the both by reason of experience in radio preparation of fewer but more adequate broadcasting and as a publicist. and better distributed programs has been Born in Creston, Wyo., Pickard at­ made by Pickard since going to Wash­ tended school in Iowa and later went to ington. The cooperation of farm schools the University of Kan-' has been enlisted in sas; where he was ini­ sponsoring a F i f t y tiated into the bonds of Sam Pickard, Beta-Gamma, Farm Flash program. Chief of Radio S ervice of the Pi Kappa Alpha. At United S tates Department of Many of the institu­ Kansas University he A gricultttre, fo r m e rly had tions furnish answers studied journalism for charge of radio station KSAC to q u e s t i o n s put by at Kansas State A gricttltttral three years, leaving the College. In the World War he farmers of their states university for the army, was an army aviator overseas, through 1 o c a 1 broad­ where he served for and was wounded in aerial com­ casting stations. bat. Charli!s L. S eward, B eta­ two years during the Gamma, and Frank P. Mathews, A blanket of timely World War as a First A lpha-N?,£, went into aviation farm information cov­ Lieutenant in aviation. training with him but were ering the United States killed in accidents. Pickard has Upon leaving the army a five-year-old son. is now being spread he took up commercial daily by a group of aviation for another well-established broad- two years. After this, he finished his casters. Approximately fifty stations college work at Kansas State Agricul­ have responded to the invitation of the tural College, supplementing his journal­ Department oC Agriculture for volunteers istic training with agricultural studies. to broadcast the several services which it Upon being graduated, Pickard ac­ recently inaugurated. cepted a position as extension editor of The Fifty Farm Flashes, a daily serv­ Kansas State Agricultural College and ice started in February, is broadcast at while engaged in this became interested noonday. Each flash is fifty or less in radio as a means of disseminating agri­ words in length and includes a statement cultural information. In February, 1924, of a timely, practical question asked by through his influence, arrangements were one or more farmers, with the answer made with a commercial station to broad­ concisely, clearly and completely stated. cast some college courses. This resulted Several thousand letters received each in the College of the Air-a systematic week by the department serve as a barom­ course of instruction by radio, the first of eter to indicate the farmers' immediate its kind. The practicability of the ven­ problems. Stations are furnished only ture was soon demonstrated and an ap­ such material as is of particular interest propriation secured for a college station to the agricultural section within positive 33 3 34 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

and easy reception distance of it. of Home Economics in the department. The Housekeepers' Half Hour, a semi­ The three principle features which domi­ weekly service, is an informational, chatty nate the program are: 1, questions women are asking; 2, what shall I have for dinner? and 3, to-day's pick of recipes. This program is available on Monday and Wednesday mornings from a large group of stations. The Radio Order of Tunior Gardeners was started by the department in March. Stations using this service introduce the character "Uncle Bert, the garden ex­ pert." The gardening authorities of the Department of Agriculture put their in­ formation .into his mouth. Uncle Bert gathers the young folks about their re­ ceiving sets at a certain period each week and starts his meeting with appropriate SAM PICKARD, Beta-Gamm.a, ANSWERS A FEw music or a few applicable readings. LETTERS Timely gardening subjects are discussed program, attractively presenting the great in dialogue fashion, one or more boys or fund of facts available from the Bureau girls at the microphone .asking questions.

--IIKA-- Detroit Launches Large Alumnus Chapter · By A. Ross Fox, Beta-Tau, Michigan S A result of the petition of II K A's so successful, arid the renewed fraternity A in Detroit, who for some months associations were so strengthened that previous had been holding meetings as a other meetings followed. The meetings · temporary organization, the Supreme developed into wider social activities, until Council granted a Charter to Alumnus thirty-five II K A's enthusiastically peti­ Gamma-Beta. The officers of the Chap­ tioned the Supreme Council for an alum­ ter are: Dudley Newton, Beta-Tau, nus chapter charter. President; B. M. Hoover, Beta-Alpha, The Greater Detroit area, enjoying Vice-President; C. N. Woodruff, Beta­ prosperity as an automotive center, has Epsilon, Recording Secretary; A. Ross attracted many Pi-Kaps to its various . Fox, B.e,ta-Tau, 301 Hawthorne Avenue, fields. Thus Gamma-Beta feels that it Royal Oak, Corresponding Secretary, and has every chance for success and a splen­ C. A. Daniel, Alpha-ChirTreasurer. did opportunity to enjoy all the benefits The Detroit Chapter, even before its that an alumnus chapter can afford. official recognition, has shown unusual ac­ Regular meetings are set for the first tivity. Last March a number of alumni Friday of each month at dinner in Web­ in the city were entertained by Brother ster Hall. In addition, it has been decided Harry Deyo, Bela-Tau, at the Detroit to hold a weekly luncheon on Wednes­ Union League Club. This gathering was days, at the Hotel Frontenac Cafe. Olmstead, As "0. P.", Talks Like an Old Dutch Uncle By C. H. OLMSTEAD, Beta-Theta, Cornell UR state, our nation, our great re- groups, this movement was broadened to O ligious bodies and many of our great include the social plan of college life and citizens have given of their wealth so that our Greek-letter fraternities came into man's development may be carried on in existence. the great universities we owe to them. The organization of our fraternities They have been actuated by a spirit of was conceived in an unselfish idea. It service. was an attempt of these groups to help Are these great schools created and each other and stimulate each other to maintained simply to give the students a better scholastic work and student activi­ deiightful and easy life for four years ties. President Schurman of Cornell and at the end of this used to divide the activ- time to turn out gradu- ities of the student body ates who are drones and When the Eighth District held into two divisions-the parasites? I am glad its convention at Knoxville. studious activities and T ennessee, last spring, the Dis- to say that a large rna- trict Princeps, c. H. Olmstead, the s.tudent activities- jority of graduates are Beta-Theta, Cornell, who is con- and gave to the latter a not of this type. You nected with the T ennessee De- very important place in partment of Highways and students have an obli-· Public works, made a common- the development of the gation to society that is sense talk "like a Dutch uncle," student. He encour- very heavy for the priv- which was of such general in- aged student activities terest and timeliness as to merit ileges of this education publication here. as a counterbalance for that is given you, and the studious activities. the only payment that In his address to fresh- society asks is that while in these colleges men students, when I was a frosh in 1909, you avail yourself of the great opportuni- I recall a Gree_k motto he gave us. It was ties offered in educating yourself, in fit- M.egan Agan, which he translated, "Noth­ ting yourself as a new cog in the wheel of ing in excess, everything in moderation." progress. What he meant was, ''Do your college Early in the history of our American work well, put out the best that is in you, colleges groups of young men were but don't forget yourself and your fellow banded together. This was first done · students in your work, become a grind, through a common desire to get some- a soloist and hermit. In your student thing more out of college life than was activities enter into them heart and soul, given in the courses. First, this move- enthusiastically, but don't forget that the ment was directed entirely along the lines primary reason for your · attendance at of literature and science. The youths at- college is for studious activities." tempted to stimulate each other in better- Our fraternities have reached a point in ing their scholarship and applying the their development whe~e, by their restric­ principles that were being taught them. tive selection and excellent housing condi­ Later, as they saw the advantage of these tions, they should produce men who lead 35 36 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

not only in the student activities but in Kappa Alpha, who are lowering our pres­ the studious activities. I am glad to say tige scholastically and socially, realize that this is true, but I am sorry to say that their offense and with friendship and there are many men in our fraternities brotherly love force them to change their who do not take advantage of what our ways. The fraternity can and must im­ fraternities offer in the way of helping mediately remedy this condition by a them in their work, and, to be perfectly higher scholastic standard for admission frank, are a menace to our organized ex­ to our brotherhood. istence. There is an inscription on the entrance Let us have Pi Kappa Alpha take the to Cornell that has always appealed to me. lead in improving the scholarship of her It is: "So enter that daily thou mayest chapters. Let her be actuated by a spirit be more learned and thoughtful. So de­ of greater service to her members. Let part that daily thou mayest become more her stimulate and encourage the brothers useful to thy country and to mankind." to take advantage of .the great opportuni­ This is the underlying basis for all educa­ ties offered by our brotherhood, and, if tion. Let our fraternity . develop our stimulation and encouragement will not brothers to become more learned and accomplish this result, let us take more thoughtful, and let us send out and give drastic measures. Let us make these to the world men who will become more shirkers of their responsibilities to Pi useful to our coun~ry and to mankind.

--IIK A -- Bishop Darst to Lead Nation-Wide Crusade HE National Commission of Evan­ speak at mass meetings and conferences Tgelism of the Episcopal Church, at the in the principal cities, and, with the co­ conclusion of an important two-days operation of several thousand other meeting in Washington, June 10 and 11, workers, will -bring every diocese in the unanimously decided to launch in Epiph­ nation under the direct influence of the any of 1927 a nation-wide evangelistic movement. campaign, which shall be known as the Every Bishop of the Church will be Bishop's Crusade. Bishop Thomas C. impressed for service in some capacity in Darst, Phi, of North Carolina, whose pro­ the Crusade. Every other agency and posal of the campaign is to avert the fail­ organization in the Church will also be ure of the Church "to produce anything asked to cooperate to the end that the like apostolic results," was selected to or­ Crusade may be made the vigorous, re­ ganize and direct the movement. vitalizing movement intended. The Crusade will be launched at a great The diocese of North Carolina, in full mass meeting in some central location. recognition of the vast amount of labor Two hundred Crusaders, compnsmg and activity necessary to consolidate the Bishops, presbyters and laymen, will be expected gains of the Crusade, has re­ sent out as teams to strategic points leased Bishop Darst from his regular throughout the country. The members duties in order that he may give his full of these teams, headed by Bishops, will time and energy to the campaign. · Alpha-Upsilon Buys House at N. Y. ·u. By WILLIAM EAGELS, '13, Alpha-Upsilon, N. Y. U.

OME fourteen years ago when the moment. The sale price was such that S writer was a junior in college, a within two hours after the signing of the senior repeated at every epportunity an contract, an offer giving $2,000 profit was extract from the classics, "There is a received and refused. Besides the con­ tide in the affairs of men which taken tract payment of $2,000 cash, $4,000 was at its flood, leads on to fortune." Our needed by December .1 when title would brother may read this and, perhaps, re­ pass. member for so it has been with Alpha­ Then followed eight weeks of drive. Upsilon. An opportunity was presented A holocaust of mail, a deluge of telegrams, and with the enthusiasm of a youthful group, spurred by the audacity of its S.M.C., was seized in no uncertain way. College had opened last September at New York University. The Alpha­ Upsilon chapter house lease expired on October 1, ten days off. Rushing season was in full swing, the prospect of another migration with an increased rental, already too high, faced the chapter. Quick action was demanded. S.M.C. Rohohm promptly advocated the purchase of 30 North Street with all the eagerness and enthusiasm he could master. But the price was $28,000 and there was but $1,800 in the building fund. Truly he was an optimist. Strange won­ der that he would solve crossword puzzles with a fountain pen! ALPHA-UPSILoN's New House The morning of September 29 dawned clear and bright with eviction but one day a flood of phone calls, more than a thou­ away. At two o'clock that afternoon a sand miles of visits by automobile, in fact contract for purchase had been signed and . every avenue of communication was used by six o'clock that night, the entire con­ lavishly. Slowly but surely the alumni tents of fifteen rooms, filling six large responded. While a small extension of vans, was moved into the new house and time was granted for the final payment, the chapter for the first time slept in a title passed, interest and taxes have been home that legally might be called their paid, the second mortgage has been re­ own. There is no stopping an "active" duced by $250 and this summer more chapter! than $1,000 is being spent in decorating A very satisfactory dicker had been and new furniture. made. The owner had to sell and was The credit? First, to the active chap­ approached at the exact psychological ter of 1925-26 for their achievement is 37 38 SHIELD AND DIAMOND everlasting and their glory imperishable. weekly allotments, were added to cash Twelve hundred dollars in cash from subscriptions so that when the smoke had twenty-two brothers in sixty days means cleared away the necessary amount was giving until it hurts ! -And the pep and in hand. the enthusiasm and the work they put in · It was a hectic sixty days. Time and just could not be denied. Second, to the energy were given without stint but now alumni for they responded in overwhelm­ that it is over, the words of our Reverend ing measure. Bonds at $100 per share Brother Massie .given at the Lexington sold like hot cakes, money was even tele­ Convention in 1913 come to mind, graphed in and sent special delivery. "On Passage Brief Monthly payments, and in some cases On Memory Eternal."

-IIKA- Lotter Writes and Acts Romantic Scenario REDERICK D. LOTTER, Alpha­ camera. This picture business is the sug­ FXi, University of Cincinnati, District gestion of our fertile-brained editor. Princeps of the large area of District No. ('Time- August 11, 1926, at 6 o'clock 3, and a prominent figure among leaders A.M. at recent conventions of the fraternity, "Place-St. Leo's Church, Cincinnati. has succumbed. ((Girl-Catherine Bernice Smith, of In­ Not. to Mars, but to Dan Cupid. He dianapolis, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio. has changed his address from bachelor Daughter of George T. and Della L. quarters to 3411 Morrison Place, Cincin­ Smith. (Not one of the Smith Brothers.) nati, and while in daytime for nine (The whiskers were missing.) months of the year he may tell high school "Attendants-Daniel Burke, Potsdam, students what's what, it is suspected tha:t New York; Frances M. Smith, sister of a good deal of the rest of the time he will bride. Villagers, trades people, men and lend a willing ear to the wishes of the women of the chorus, angels, cupids, · lady who has become Mrs. Lotter. friends ·and relatives, onlookers and idle Being nothing if not journalistic, THE cunous. SHIELD AND DIAMOND went to headquar­ "Breakfast-Hotel Alms, Cincinnati, ters for the "story." Lotter replied in attended by bride's family, also the bride characteristic fashion, saying: ''I have and groom and attendants. put the details down in the form you see "After Breakfas.t-None of your busi­ because of my modesty; rpy natural back­ ness. wardness precludes my speaking more at "If you want any more of the details length of how fortunate the girl was to you will get in touch with the wife, I re­ get me." Lotter's own report follows: fuse to commit myself further." "Here are the harrowing details of the -IIKA- wedding. I have been trying to get a A telegram from Fred, in answer to a couple of snapshots of the victims, but request for a group picture says, "Cannot the weather has been so bad recently that get photograph. SHIELD AND DIAMOND it has been almost impossible, and when ·must be issued without this extra added the sun does shine I do not have the feature." · Rolla Mines Man "Discovers" Newfoundland By DoNALD R. BAKER, Alpha-Kappa, Rolla OR two months last summer a group view, sometimes several at once, on dif­ Fof engineers, of whom I was one, em­ ferent levels. ployed by a New York consulting firm, Arriving at Lewisporte at 4: 30 the were engaged in examining some mining next morning, we went to the hotel, Trav­ properties on the northeast coast of the eler's Rest. Inside, the wayfarer finds a island of Newfoundland. Part of the board on the wall with numbered plugs in time I had charge of crushing samples it. A sign says that if a plug is in the down for analysis and the rest of the hole, the room is vacant. Pull out the period I had charge of a party sampling plug, get a lamp and find the room. We one of the workings. pulled out the necessary plugs and pro­ Newfoundland is one of our smallest ceeded to find the rooms. The system but oldest neighbors,. having been discov­ would work if all the guests would pull ered for England by John Cabot in 1497. out the plugs. However, those we dis­ His reward was ten pounds sterling. turbed were good natured, and after New-found-land, as he termed the place, was the first colony of the British Empire. We sailed from New York on May 15, eight of us, and two more joined at Hali­ fax, for the second half of the 2,200-mile journey. Early on May 20 we were awakened by the foghorn at the Cape Race lighthouse, at the southeastern corner of the island. Hurrying to deck, we got our· 'first glimpse of the rugged coast which has caused Newfoundland to be called the Norway of America. Customs officers at St. Johns, a city of 40,000, founded in 1805, permitted us im­ DoNALD R. BAKER (center), Alpha-Kappa, Rolla mediate passage in order to catch a train searching half an hour we found enough and save a three-day delay. The train vacant rooms to accommodate us. had Pullman and other accommodations, Later we set out across Notre Dame on a miniature scale; the dining steward . Bay in two motor boats. Our destination took our orders in the coaches and called was Tilt Cove, fifty miles across, but due us after the meal was prepared. The food to the ice floe we had to go seventy-five was good. miles. It was not until then that we ap- Frost was just leaving the ground and preciated the beauty of the coast. Our vegetation was turning green. The air course took us in and out of the numerous was exceptionally clear and · the outskirts bays and around the many islands. New­ of St. Johns and then the farms we foundland is the tenth largest island in passed presented a striking picture. The area, but must stand. first in regard to train followed a swift brook with numer- coast line. The whole coast is abrupt as ous rapids and lake after lake came into carved out by the great ice sheet. 39 I I 40 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

That night we stopped at Pilley's Is­ cember. The climate is temperate instead land, the site of an abandoned pyrite of being cold, as most people imagine. It mine. During the night the ice, which seldom goes below zero in winter or above had been packed around Tilt Cove, eighty-five in summer. Spring was very moved across the bay to Lewisporte so we late this year, and until after the Fourth had a clear, but rough passage to Tilt of July I wore an army shirt, leather Cove. The following day the ice came jacket and sweater. We slept between back in and stayed for two weeks, so the blankets and had a fire most of the time. ice parted much as the waters did for The educational system of the dominion Moses to allow us to come in. is very poor. Several colleges in St. Tilt Cove is a small notch between two Johns, where the educational facilities are cliffs rising 400 to 500 feet above the better, offer two years of academic work. ocean. It is the location of the first Our trip from Tilt Cove to St. John's copper mme to be opened on the island. on our return was made on the Kyle, a coastal boat operated by the government. The voyage took three days, as we stopped at most of the small ports along the coast. The fare, including meals, was $12.50. We had three days in St. Johns in which to see the city. The officials of the Reid Newfoundland Company took it upon themselves to entertain us, so it was with regret that we sailed on July 17 on the Silvia for New York. We reached New SALMON FISHING IN NEWFOUNDLAND York on July 22, in time to get the hottest weather of the season and were sorry we It was first worked in 1864 and operated could have not brought a few icebergs continuously until thirty-five years ago. back. Newfoundland would give them Since then it has been operated several away, and New York would have paid times on a small scale, the last time being highly for a cool breeze blowing over one. during the summer of 1925. The smelter, . -- UK A-- which once was operated, has killed all The size of an ideal chapter, according vegetation and the hills are still barren. to Dr. Francis F . Bradshaw, veteran dean Here we got our first real glimpse of of students at North Carolina, after he the Newfoundlander. The people are of had received the views of sixty national the finest English, Irish and Scotch stock, officers of fraternities on this subject, is and are an honest, hot:ne-loving, religious as follows: people. Their hospitality is famous. "Because conditions vary in separate They resent the many mistakes outsiders colleges it was felt that the best way to make regarding their color and language. describe the ideal size of a chapter would Fishing is their greatest industry, while be in terms of the proportion resident in there is some farming, canning, paper the house. The consensus of opinion is making, logging and mining. The fishing that the chapter should be somewhat season begins when the ice goes out. The larger than the house will accommodate. salmon come first and stay about a month. The average estimate of the ideal number Then the cod-the wealth of the island­ of active men is thirty, of whom about come to .stay until the ice forms in De- five are not able to live in the house." Service of Scholarship Stressed by Dean By F. M. MASSEY, S,igma, Dean of Men at Tennessee ROBABLY the most "catchy" word of the past. He is not only interested in Pof this age is "service." Some put it the present but the call of the future has on the basis that all knowledge must be of attracted him as well. Extra curricula service to humanity-in fact, the broad activities have crowded in upon him until assertion seems safe, that there is after it is difficult for him to do the very thing all no knowledge save that which will for which he came to college. serve to the betterment of humanity. In their saner moments, all college men Man was really created to work and to know that there is no real reason for at­ live a wholesome life so that he might tendance at college or a university unless assist his fellow man in living likewise. one is thoroughly inspired by the spirit It seems to me that this assertion should of research. Somebody has said that a be of a tremendous appeal to college men university is a place where men are who are looking forward to the hour trained for research; a place where in­ when they may prove themselves to be tellectual supremacy and spiritual power real leaders. Thirty or forty years ago may be developed in order that these may big business apparently had but one mo- produce in later years a prophet and tive-the making of money, but beginning leader. about that time leaders in business have In comparatively recent years the learned the very important lesson that no Greek-letter fraternity has found a place business has a right to exist unless it has in university life. During all these years as its primary motive the production of the question has been continuously asked human happiness and welfare. The col- whether the coming of fraternities has leges of America have led in this altruistic been helpful or hurtful. At the time the fight for they have been continuously pre- fraternity system was founded, it was paring the leaders of big business. The founded upon the idea that only men of chief executive of a university now must superior intellectual ability would be not only be a great executive but he must asked to join. 1'hese men, in many cases, be a great prophet as well. As a financier were noted for their literary discussions he will guide the minds of forward look- and writings while in college; no men of ing young men along lines of big business low moral ideals were invited to join-in and at the same time in the capacity of other words, there was somewhat of in­ prophet, inspire them with the ideals of tellectual aristocracy in this group. Be­ servtce. fore long, however, men began to be ad- Life on a college campus now is just as mitted because they had social prestige or different from life on a college campus because their families had high ratings or twenty-five years ago as the · mode of because of their athletic prowess, etc., etc. transportation now is different from that Under the old regime fraternities did of twenty-five years ago. Then, the aver- not enter into extra curricula activities as age college man was primarily interested they do now.· The fact is that fraternities in the study of past events. To-day he is vie with each other now in an effort to see so engrossed with the present that he is which one can win the greatest number of about to fail to profit by the experience prizes because of the greatest number of 41 42 SHIELD AND DlAMOND

men in the greatest number of activities. versity. In the early stages of his life in They still claim to be a select group and the fraternity house he looks up to the for the most part they are. I do not leader of his chapter as an ideal man. know any institution where the fraternity Back home his parents and his high school men do not compose the larger part of teachers have told him what fine scholarly organized leadership. Frequently we hear standards he would find at the university. that fraternity men are more immoral Tpey have told him. how hard he would than non-fraternity men. My associa­ have to study if he measured up to the tion with them convinces me that this standards: It is a pretty serious blow to statement is not true_. There is practically him when in the evenings around the no difference between the two. We also chapter house fireside he hears the mini-· hear it said that non-fraternity men do mum requirements rather than a high more outside remunerative work than fra­ standard discussed. In other words, the ternity men do. I do not believe that this main criticism I have of . the fraternity is true. I am quite sure that it is not true chapter house is that they are doing good at the University of Tennessee. work when they might do excellent work. I have one serious fault to find with They are being average when they might fraternities and that is that they are not starid out as real leaders. They are per:­ emphasizing scholarship. Somehow or mitting the curse of minimum require­ other the notion is abroad that fraternities ments to destroy their fine ambitions for are not primarily created to foster schol­ maximum opportunities. arship. Therefore, upper classmen are --IlK A-- not setting the standards for the incoming freshmen. Ambitious freshmen with high ideals are often failures because at the "bull sessions" in the chapter houses of our fraternities they find cynics with low scholarship when these upper class­ men should be the men of real leadership. At the University of Tennessee, schol­ arship inside of the fraternities is just about the same as scholarship outside of the fraternities. The same thing is true of sororities. I do not believe it would destroy any of the fine fellowship if II K A men this term in all of their chapter houses would raise the mark of scholar­ ship just a little. I think it would help a bit if they would talk about the maximum instead of the minimum requirements. I doubt if upperclassmen in fraternities realize what a powerful influence they STUART R. BuRKE, Beta-Zeta, and AssiSTANT wield over pledges. The average pledge GRAND TREASURER RoBERT M. McF AR­ LAND, ]R., Alpha-Delta, inspect the in a fraternity would rather be president work on the memorial at of his chapter than president of his uni- Stone Mountain Which Shall It Be, Work or Play? By LAMMERT H. REDELFS, Gmnma-Beta, Nebraska HE committee on scholarship in its this should be the only consideration while Tdiscussion on this vital subject first in college and that scholarship be pursued considered these two important questions; at the exclusion of everything else. There first, what is a college man's main interest is no question but that in addition to while an undergraduate, and second, what scholastic activities there are other things big thing prompted him to ehter college which can be done with beneficial results or university? Was it a desire to take and prove helpful in the business world. part in campus activities or athletics ; a A certain Greek letter publication con­ desire for social activities and fraternity tained an interesting article some time ago life or was it a real de- listing a college man's sire for scholastic work main interests while an and t h e educational Brother Redelfs is the Com­ undergraduate in the benefits to be derived? mercial Manager of the Bel! following order of 1m- Telephone Company in Omaha, Unfortunately it cannot and a former president of portance: be said that the first in- Alumnus Beta-Sigma. As an 1. Scholarship terest of all college men employer and supervisor of 2. Campus activities large numbers of men, both col­ is scholastic work. Too lege and otherwise, and as an 3. His fraternity frequently some of the active alumnus in close touch 4. Social activities other interests already with college and fraternity af­ You will note that fairs, his views are based on mentioned p r o m p t e d ample experience. This report scholarship is listed first him to enter college. of the scholarship committee of as it should be; the Let all of us ask our- District No. 13, of which he is other activities, how- chairman, is worth reading. Do selves these questions. ),01, agree with the recommenda- ever, are also listed as Why do I go to college? tions? contributing and help- Am I doing justice to ful factors that should myself, my family and be taken advantage of the institution? Am I getting the things as educational and desirable training. that are building me and preparing me Too frequently you hear and see things for a successful future? In other words, that would lead one to believe that a man am I taking advantage of and capitalizing is attending college primarily for social on my opportunities or am I merely wast- activities or to be a fraternity man. The ing time and will I suddenly realize after desire to be a. fraternity man is a worthy leaving that I had not made the most of one and a chapter can be of real service what was offered me? and help in properly guiding a man so The educational advantages are placed that his main interest will become his at the undergraduates disposal upon en- scholastic work. A fraternity is not a tering college and the institution with its social club, but a strong educational rna­ teaching staff and other facilities will dis- chine with scholarship and college work charge their obligations if he will only its main interests. The upper-classmen accept the benefits that can be derived. should feel a responsibility to the under­ In stressing scholarship, the committee classmen and pledges for proper guidance does not wish to give the impression that and assistance in attaining correct study- 43 44 SHIELD AND DIAMOND ing habits and scholastic view points. For 3. M aterials.-P roper materials a<·e this reason it is necessary that the frater­ conducive to correct study and hard work. nity have regulated study hours and play Have good lights and comfortable desk hours. The chapter house is a home; not space. Have as good a library of text­ a movie house or place of amusement or books as you can afford. The men who a corner soda store; it is a place for the do not have to sell their books from a things that you would normally do at completed course should give them to the home, that is, a place for play and a place house. Have a good atlas, a good ency­ for work. It is impossible to do the two clopedia, even if cheap, and a large dic­ at the same time and, therefore, hours for tionary. An assessment of ten cents a each should be strictly and rigidly ob­ month per member would soon buy some served. of these important materials without In . setting aside hours for scholastic bankruting anybody. work, there are three things that should There will be rio difficulty in gettinf. be observed and that are conducive to college work done in the house if you studying and hard work. They are listed make it the easiest and pleasantest . thing in order of their importance as follows: to do. The men in the chapter house will 1. Proper Atmosphere.-W here the then be receiving the maximum benefits chapter house is large enough and so ar­ while in college and elevating not only the ranged architecturally, a separate large standing of each individual but that of room should be set aside as a study room the chapter as well, and they will be bet­ and so fitted that there is little to at­ ter equipped to meet the problems of the tract your attention from your studies business world. If you have learned to such as posters, magazines, gay pictures, concentrate and develop your mental fac­ cups, etc.. Such a room should not face ulties, these problems will be met with a busy street or a sorority house. Choose greater ease. Time and money spent for your study room and then make it a study college is preparation for business life and room and have the rest of the house quiet the sharing of responsibilities of good during study periods. If you have ·no citizenship. These responsibilities are work to do during the study hours and best met if our college days have been want to play cards, engage in conversa­ utilized to the best advantage and for the tion, etc., keep downstairs in the main things they were really intended and are rooms. There may be some merit in worth while. using a door sign such as, ''Studying, --IIKA-- Please Keep Out!" Piano playing, loud The nine oldest local fraternities in this laughter, singing, etc., do not create a fit country are: Alpha Sigma Pi ( 1857), atmosphere for studying and should not Norwich University; Berzelius (1848), be tolerated. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College; 2. C ooperation.-Cooperation is neces­ Delta-Psi (1850), University of Ver­ sary in scholastic work. Cooperate with mont; Kappa Gamma Chi ( 1868), St. your brothers in their effort to study. Stephen's College; K K K (Tri-kaps) Help those that need help. If someone ( 1842), Dartmouth College; Lambda­ is having difficulty, offer him assistance. Iota (The Owl) (1836), University of Mutual helps will prove profitable. Care, Vermont; Phi-Delta ( 1873), Michigan however, should be taken not to help the Agricultural College; Phi : N u Theta man who can do the work himself. Do (Eclectic) ( 1837), Wesleyan University; not develop lazy tendencies in anyone. Pi-Eta ( 1866), Harvard University. Hall Directs World's Largest Power Plant By G. H. ScHADE, Alpha-Psi, Rutgers OUR correspondent nonchalantly day, at some future time. Figure it out Ywalked into the entrance of The for yourself, the average bulb burns fifty United Electric Light and Power Com­ or sixty watts per hour, or about a kilo­ pany at the Hell Gate Station, 138th watt per day, so at the present rate Street and the East River, New York enough electricity is generated to light City, and asked if a Mr. H. Y. Hall was 335,000 bulbs for twenty-four hours a in their employ. day. "Have you an appointment," asked the What a sight for the eyes of an elec­ doorman. triCal engineer ! There are seven complete "No." main units in the turbine room consisting "What is your name, and what do you of two 50,000 kw cross compound, two want to see him about." 40,000 kw tandem compound, three 35,- "Good Lord, tell him it is the SHIELD 000 kw single cylinder turbo-generators AND DIAMOND calling." and two 2,000 kw house turbines. After such a lie nothing could stop me, Twenty-one boilers are in use consuming and after numerous telephone calls and a 3,000 tons of coal a day and belching out few minutes wait I was put on the ele­ smoke from four chimneys 175 feet high. vator, taken up to the sixth floor, sneaked The control and switchboard rooms fairly by three office boys and assistants, and walked into an office with the magic name of "Superintendent" printed on the door. Here sat Brother Hall, monarch of all he surveyed, in an office that the presi­ dent of an advertizing company would be proud to admit was his. From it he con­ trols the entire plant stretching over four square blocks, on which are two buildings having a combined floor area of twenty acres, a pier where coal is unloaded and the ashes removed, together with a coal yard with a capacity of a hundred thou­ BROTHER HALL's BIG PLANT sand tons. Brother Hall is the authority for the statement that it is the largest make your head swim unless you are in electrical generating plant in the world. the habit of taking your machinery in At this plant, the United Electric Light large doses. and Power Company generates at the And the man who knew what every lit­ present time 335,000 kilowatts per day, tle dingus was for was Brother Hall, the and Mr. Hall explained that it was only Boss of the works, both day and night, half completed. In about a year the third for the company maintains a private tele­ quarter will be in operation. They expect phone direct to his home in Westchester to complete the whole unit, giving it a County where he lives with his wife. total capacity of 800,000 kilowatts per Brother Hall graduated from Upsilon 45 46 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

Chapter, Auburn, Alabama, in 1900 trified the Putnam and Harlem Divisions. where for his four years in college, he at­ Then he helped J. J. White, Consulting tained an average of ninety-eight per cent. Engineers of New York, for a few years Upon graduation, he spent nineteen and in 1908 went to California where he months with the General Electric Com­ was Chief Engineer in the electrification pany at Schenectady where he went of 400 miles of the Southern Pacific Rail­ through every department from the lowest road. Following its completion, he joined position to foreman. Then he spent sev­ the firm of J. M. Livingston, Consulting eral years with the Interborough Rapid Engineers, in Cleveland, and finally, in Transit Company of New York putting 1920, he went with the United Electric in the present New York subway system. Light and Power Company, a subsidary When that work was completed, he joined of the New York Edison Company, and the New York Central when they elec- assumed the position he holds at present.

--IIKA-- Buffalo Alumni Offer Individual Trophy NEW trophy, for individual mem:.. Second-The attainment and owner­ A hers of Pi Kappa Alpha in college, ship of the trophy is to be based on schol­ is being offered by Alumnus Beta-Phi, arship and participation in at least one Buffalo, New York, subject to competi­ major college activity by a member of a tion among men of all chapters. chapter of the fraternity. The following statement of the aims of Third-Each chapter must submit at the award and the rules comes from the the close of the college year the names of Buffalo group : two men, together with a record of ac­ "We, members of Alumnus B.eta-Phi tivities of each, a certified copy of the of Pi Kappa Alpha, feel that the ideal scholastic standing of each for the closing fraternity man is not one who maintains year. only a high scholastic standing, nor is he one whose main endeavor is college ac­ F,ourth-, Where methods of grading tlvltles. We do feel, however, that the scholastic standing other than figures are· ideal fraternity man is one with a high used it will be necessary to state between scholastic standing, together with a rating what fractions of five the symbol ~pplies. in some major campus activity which will Fifth-A single fraternity man .cannot reflect glory on his fraternity. be awarded more than one trophy. "Thus, we will award each year the Sixth-All fraternity correspondents Alumnus Beta-Phi Representative Fra­ failing to have report submitted on or ternity Man Trophy, which we believe before September 1 will forfeit the will foster ·the growth of better fraternity chances of their chapter's entries. men, promote the actions of the book worm along lines generally helpful to his Seventh-The decision of award is to chapter and encourage the fraternity ac­ rest in a committee appointed by the Su­ tivity man to strive for higher scholar­ preme Council of the fraternity. ship." Eighth-Announcement .of the award Firs.t-The award will commence with will appear in the October issue of THE the college year 1926-27. SHIELD AND DIAMOND each year. Periodicals for Chapter Subscription Lists HAPTERS of Pi Kappa Alpha, ups of single or closely related topics. A glori­ C starting their year of activity, will be fied scrapbook. interested in this ably prepared group of See also: Bird Lore) Classic) Nature suggestions of publications of all sorts of Magazine, Popular M echanicsJ Popular interest to college men. They can con­ Science M onthlyJ Theater Magazine) sider their budgets and distribute the fund Vanity Fair) Wo1'ldJ s Work) the Wit and allowed for magazines and other period­ Humor group (below). icals among the various classifications listed here. EssENTIAL PAPERS A member of Zeta Psi fraternity, Mr. The student paper. Francis K. W. Drury, assistant librarian This is a necessity and generally more than of B,rown University, prepared this com­ one copy should be provided, either from chap­ pilation and its comments, listing titles ter funds or by individual subscription. in each group in order of desirability and The fraternity magazine. remarking that the groups are arranged as Every active student should subscribe for his a bill of fare-"soup, bread, fish and so individual copy if it does not come as part of forth." His compilation is reprinted the grand chapter dues. The chapter itself from Banta) s Greek Exchange) as fol­ should receive its official copy and bind up the lows: annual volumes. THE PICTURE MAGAZINES A local newspaper) or a near-by city National Geographic Magazine (monthly). paper. Washington, D. C. $3.50 For daily news, for sporting notes, for current events of every kind, a newspaper should be Elaborately illustrated articles in accurate but looked over by every student. nontechnical language on the peoples, manners, and customs, natural resources, and • industries Sat~wday Evening Post (weekly). Phila­ of the whole world. delphia. $2.00. Mid-W.eek P.ict.orial (weekly). New In popular style discusses keenly every impor­ York. $5.00. tant activity or tendency in economic and social conditions, aiming to be soundly progressive, Attractive magazine of news pictures g1vmg conservatively independent, and always up to events of the world through well selected photo­ date. Its stories are always interesting. graphs gathered by the New York Times. Illustrated London N.ews (weekly). New A m.erican M agaz.ine (monthly). New York edition. $12.50. York. $2.50. Popular treatment in special articles of social Entertaining record in picture and comment and political affairs, featuring successful careers of current events in science and technology, under difficulties of persons of current promi­ archaeology and art, books and plays, sport and nence. Wholesome fiction and interesting pic­ fashion. tures. One of the best cheaper general maga­ S ketc.h (weekly). London. .£3.12/ 4. zines. Chatty journal of society in England, with Golden Boo!? (monthly). Chicago. pictures in color, photographs of meets and $3.00. plays, notes on sports, books, and fashion. High grade selection of fine fiction and true Mentor (monthly). New York. $4.00. stories that will live, making available many Profusely illustrated, with popularized write- that might be overlooked or forgotten. 47 48 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

Red Book (monthly). Chicago. $3.00. present conditions and constituted authority, and sympathizing strongly with antimilitaristic, anti­ Contains one good serial and a good variety capitalistic, and communistic movements. of short stories, the first choice of the syndicate publishing this and the Blue Book. New Republic. New York. $5.00. If other fiction magazines are wanted Progressiv•.:: review of political, literary, and the following will serve : social activity, featuring clever criticism of lit­ erature, drama, and education, and discussing in Everybody's, McClure's, Munsey's. a thought-provoking way every significant phase of society._ Hearsf s International, combined with the Cosmopolitan (monthly). New Collier's. New York. $2.00. York. $3.00. Popular review of current topics from a pro­ Salacious in story and picture, blatant in its gressive standpoint, including also stories and self adulation, this degenerate journal induces articles. the best selling writers of the day to contribute Spectator. London. .30/- short stories, serials, and extremely popular articles, through which it appeals to the worse Leading English journal of comment and dis­ rather than the better instincts. cussion, featuring political topics, reviews of plays and books, and financial data, with an open See also: forum of letters to the editor. The quality group (below) Monthlies Collier's World's Wor.k. Garden City, N. Y. NEws AND CoMMENT $4.00. Weeklies Authortative discussionS" of current events and tendencies, social, political, and industrial. Con­ Time. New York. $5.00. servative and popular, with fine illustrations. Condensed summary of current events of ' every sort, covering a "vide scope and . treating Review of Reviews. New York. $4.00. each item very briefly but intelligently and World wide in scope, printing extracts and popularly. digests from current international periodicals, supplementing· them with original articles and Literary Digesl. New York. $4.00. illustrations. Carefully presents both sides of current ques­ North. American Review. New York. tions, culling and digesting from American and foreign newspapers, periodicals, and books. $4.00. Covers not only ' domestic and foreign politics, Conservative review of political and . social but also science, industry, religion, art, litera­ topics, ·discussing also literature, art, history, ture, and social progress. poetry, and science. The oldest of the American reviews. Outlook. New York. $5.00. Conservative review of current politics, lit­ Forum. New York. $4.00. erature, and social progress, commenting thereon Liberal discussion of political, economic, and tolerantly from the standpoint of the progres­ social topics, critical but constructive, introduc­ sive Christian statesman. ing also articles on literature and art. Independent. Boston. $5.00. Current History. New York. $3.00. Conservatively progressive review of current Popularly written, illustrated magazine of events, discussing political, social, and literary current events. Backed by the New .Y ark movements from the viewpoint of the intelligent Times which began it in 1914 to amplify impor­ American citizen. tant articles in regard to the World War. Nation. New York. $5.00. See also: American Mercury, Illus­ Independent radical review of politics, litera­ trated London News, Mid-week Pictorial, ture, and social progress, criticizing vigorously Punch, Saturday Evening Post, Sketch. PERIODICALS FOR CHAPTER SUBSCRIPTION LISTS 49

THE QUALITY MAGAZINES with summaries of current scenarios, and per­ sonal notes of actors. Formerly called the Atlant.ic M.onthly. Boston. $4.00. Motion Picture Classic, and is a companion pub­ Superior general magazine of a consistently lication to the Motion Picture Magazine. high standard in literature and comment. The literary essay is featured as well as original Theat.er Arts Monthly. New York. $4.00. poems, fiction, and criticism. Current politics, High grade critical magazine, devoted to the economics, history, and social affairs are dis­ art theater, with articles on new movements in cussed by authorities in a semipopular style. the drama and illustrations of modern stage set­ tings, printing also original and translated plays Scribner's (monthly). New York. $4.00. and notes on books. Notable general magazine of literature and illustration, featuring high grade fiction, art, and See also: American Mercury, Book- literary criticism. 1nan, Illustrated London News, Judge, C.en.tu1'Y (monthly). New York. $5.00. L#e, Nation, N ew Republ.ic, Punch, Progressive general magazine featuring lit­ Sketch, Spec tator. erature, travel, and current comment. All illus­ trations are black and white drawings. Nature Harper's (monthly). New York. $4.00. Nature (monthly). Washington, D .. C. Excellent general magazine of literature, $2.00. travel, and popularized science. Contains good Popular, nontechnical articles with attractive fiction, essays, and biography. illustrations, dealing with all kinds of outdoor plant and animal life. Yale R eview (quarterly). New Haven. $4.00. Bird Lore (bimonthly). New York. High grade general review, presenting espe­ $1.50. cially essays, poetry, and literary criticism. Popular in style and well illustrated in black See also: Gold.en Book, Literary Di­ and white and in color. The organ of the gest, N 01·t.h American Review, R eview of Audubon societies, and devoted to the study and protection of birds. Reviews, Spectator, World's Work. See also: Forest and Stream, Motor SELECTED MAGAZINES OF SPECIAL Life, National Geogmphic Magazine. INTERESTS Health Science Hygeia (monthly). Chicago. $3.00. Popular Science Monthly. New York. Popularized but authoritative journal of m­ $3.00. dividual and community health, backed by the Highly popularized summary of striking in­ American Medical Association to offset the ventions and new industrial and scientific de­ physical culture fad. velopments, profusely illustrated·. See also Forest and Stream. Popular Mechanics (monthly). Chicago. $3.00. Drmna Brief and simple descriptions of mechanical Theater Magazine (monthly). New processes and recent devices and patents, with York. $4.00. many sketches and illustrations. Finely illustrated, with critidsms of current Scientific American (monthly). New dramas in New York, excerpts · from plays, York. general articles, and special departments. $4.00. Practical journal of pure and applied science, Classic (monthly). Brooklyn, N. Y. including at least one leading article and nu­ $2.00. merous shorter notes, with reviews of books Well illustrated from motion picture films. and illustrations. 4 so SHIELD AND DIAMOND

See also Illustrated London News. ment to the Sunday issue of the New sp,orts Y.ork Herald Tribune. Fo1',est and Str.eam (monthly). New See also: Atlantic M,onthlyJ American York. $3.00. M ercuryJ Illustrat,ed London N ewsJ I nde­ Features outdoor life in all its phases: hunt­ pendentJ Life) Nation) New Republic) ing, fishing, wild life, photography, camping, Outlook) S,ketchJ S putator. touring, sports. Has taken over Ottting and WIT AND HUMOR aims to promote a healthful interest in outdoor recreation and a refined taste for natural ob­ Life (weekly). New York. $5.00. jects. Best American humorous journal. Text and Motor Life (monthly). Chicago. $2.50. illustrations are clever and the literary average is high. The editorials are keen criticisms, the Devoted to the design, equipment, and opera­ dramatic and literary notes are brief but ac­ tion of private cars and to auto camping and curate. touring, sepecially in the West. Judg.e (weekly). New York. $5.00. See also: Illustrated London News) Life's nearest rival in America. Text is good, Sketch) Vanity Fair. The various other the illustrations tend toward French models. sports have also their special journals, as Features a page from the college comics called The American Golfer. These may be "The Cheer Leaders." added to taste. Punch (weekly). London. 35/6. Leading English humorous journal, satirizing BooKs IN REVIEW politics and society, with comments on art, Bo.okwum (monthly). New York. $4.00. music, and drama. Devoted to current literature with well writ­ Other titles: ten articles and extensive book reviews. Season the fare to taste with such of the col­ S,aturday Re·view of Books (weekly). lege comics as are desired. Include of course New York. $3.00. the local product. Well edited journal of literary opinion, signed See also Vanity Fair. book reviews, and shorter notes on new books. SPICY MAGAZINES Literary Digest International Bo.ok Re­ Vanity Fair (monthly). New York. view (monthly). New York. $2.50. $3.50. Popularized treatment of literature and lit­ Smartly written and illustrated journal of erary movements in special articles and reviews society's fads and fancies, indoor and out. with a grouped arrangement of the month's new Peppy and very up to date. books. Additional reviews of books appear in American M er.cury (monthly). New the Saturday or Sunday issues of a great York. $5.00. many · newspapers, notably in the follow­ Dissenting journal reflecting the style and viewpoints of its editors, Mencken and Nathan, mg: who write positively, ir,onically, and often con­ Literary review of the New Yor,k Eve­ tradictorily alike to convention or radicalism. ning Post (weekly) . New York. They edit the departments on the theater and books and in addition many arresting special Supplement to the Saturday issue, but obtain- · articles are included. able separately at $2.50. Subscriptions may be placed for nine New York Times Bo,ok Review (weekly). months instead of twelve and thus money New York. Supplement to the Sun­ saved for additional titles. Economy is day issue. also possible by placing the subscription Books (weekly). New York. Supple- through an agent. Two Athletic Stars at Utah Aggies By LESLEY GoATES, Gamma-Epsilon, Utah PORTS followers of the Rocky lege big Glen starred on the freshman S Mountain athletic conference are be­ eleven as fullback and the coach, E. L. stowing a generous share of the success Romney, Signw-Chi, declares he will de­ which the famous Utah Aggie teams have velop into one of the greatest fullbacks won the past year to the remarkable indi­ the Aggies ever had. vidual perform

"MORE than six hundred members plans already, now is the time to get busy of Pi Kappa Alpha, National and make those all-important prepara­ Greek Letter College Fraternity, assem­ tions to . be in Atlanta, down in Dixie, on bled at the Biltmore Hotel yesterday December the 28th, 29th nd 30th. Think morning for the opening session of their of a holiday season inclu

ATLAN TA-BILTMORE HoTEL, CoNVENTION HEADQUARTERS

If present expectations are fulfilled, the raise above the noise of the streets a 1926 convention will be the greatest in spirited cry to Pi Kappa Alpha, to Robert attendance of any ever held by the grand A. Smythe, to Arbuckle, Perez and Fran­ ole lodge. Brothers from all parts of the cis, and to all those grand old-young men country will be present on the opening who have made and are making Pi Kcrppa day, and they are coming in big numbers Alpha what she is to-day. from all chapters. Those of you who do This is not just a convention with At­ not anticipate attending this convention lanta as the host but it is a convention are surely going to miss one grand and wherein the whole Sixth District will co­ giorious good time. If you have not made operate to make your stay in Atlanta the 52 BIG WELCOME PLANNED BY ATLANTA BROTHERS 53 most pleasant of a lifetime. Every mem­ meeting this loyal, energetic and splendid ber in every chapter in this district will II K A. There is not a man in the whole be present to greet you and show you just of Pi Kappa Alpha that does not know how Dixie entertains her guests. Bob Smythe, John R. Perez, J. Lawton A world of excitement awaits your Francis and Howard Bell Arbuckle, yet coming. There will be dances, banquets, to know them at a convention is worth smokers, automobile rides a plenty, be­ many times the price of railroad fare to sides the private entertainments that have Atlanta. There has never been a man, I been planned as a side line. In other venture to say, that has ever attended a words the convention entertainment com­ convention of Pi Kappa Alpha that did mittee has arranged every thing possible not want to go to the next one wherever

CAMPU S OF E MORY U NIVER SITY, ATLA NTA, GA. HOME OF BETA-KAPPA CHAPTER to make you have a good time. Atlanta. it might be held. This year is the time to as the convention city of Dixie knowE break away and come South and see for how to entertain, though we say it bash­ yourself what Pi Kappa Alpha really fully, and the best that can be had is not means to you. There is no doubt you will half good enough for the good fellows in understand after you have spent three Pi Kappa Alpha. days in the convention spirit of our grand If you have never attended a conven­ ole fraternity. tion you cannot understand just what it It is not only the young fellows, the will mean to you. The friendship that active members of the various chapters, you will make at this convention will be a that we want at this convention, but the sweet memory to hold in your heart for always. It was just such a convention as old boys are the ones we urge to come. this that the writer had the good .fortune We want you to be here and renew that of meeting and knowing our lovable old-time spirit that gripped your very Editor of the SHIELD AND DIAMOND, J . heart and soul during the days back Harold Johnston. Though this friend­ yonder when college, the fraternity and ship has been renewed from time to time the love of activity meant everything to yet it is to the New Orleans Convention you. If there is a wife then bring her of 1920 that I owe a debt of gratitude for along. We have not forgotten her by 54 SHIELD AND DIAMOND any means as features of the entertain­ place right in the hotel where every con­ ments have been specially planned for her venience will be yours. pleasure. A little over ninety days from now the The Biltmore Hotel, that magnificent big parade will head southward with the structure out West Peachtree Street right banner of Pi Kappa Alpha waving tri­ in the heart of the social circle of the umphantly through the breeze. Will you city has been selected as convention head­ be one of those keeping step with the quarters. All of the business sessions great army of loyal Pi Kappa Alpha men and much of the entertaining will take coming to Atlanta.

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Pi Kap Broadcasts

By HARRY W. HART, M.S., Be.ta-Omega

A FTER an intensive training for four being shied, thrown, heaved or tossed ac­ J-\. years in the fi reside gatherings and cording to the sensitiveness of the various bull sessions at the Beta-Omega chapter brother's ears, he is being deluged with house, Leon Schroeder is giving the radio telegrams from all over the country. There are telegrams requesting repeat numbers, telegrams ·that request new songs and telegrams of congratulations. Leon, of the fiery hair, first came on the air from station KTNT, Muscatine, Iowa. His first offering met with the hearty approval of his many listeners. His next program was broadcasted from the same station and was almost entirely made up of repeat numbers. He sang, however, four new songs. His clear baritone voice has an excep­ tionaliy pleasing quality when heard over the radio. In acknowledgment of his un­ usual success in his first attempts he was invited to sing from the station woe, Davenport, Iowa, wher;e the wes.t b.egins. There his program met with the usual hearty approbation of the many fans LEON ScHROEDER, B eta-Omega, Lombard tuned in on the powerful station. Brother Schroeder is officially the man­ world a treat. He has, in the past, broad­ ager of the S. S. Kresge Co. of Musca­ casted several successful programs from tine, Iowa. While his ambition for a stations in Iowa. successful business career has been abun­ Instead of books, chairs, shoes and dantly realized, his hobby, singing, has other paraphernalia of a fraternity house also met with the same success. Beta-Theta's Court of. Walia Walia By H. H. BLO MEIER, B et(JJ-Theta, Cornell "WALLA WALLA." This word will is the Reverend Star, who is ever pro­ always bring a smile to the face of nouncing benediction upon the accused. any Beta-Theta man. It means to him All the officers, defendants, jurors and one of the most humorous moments of his even the audience are clad in a ridiculous college life. One of those moments that fashion in old clothes, for they cannot tell is always talked about. at what moment they will become the re­ A freshman is a freshman. He is likely cipients of some penalty, such as the tub to do many acts which are typically fresh­ or a rolling in the snow. man in nature and which are not in har­ The best way to understand the work­ mony with chapter or University rules. ing of the court is to take a hypothetical In order to deal with such "crimes'! in an case. unbiased and systematic fashion, Beta­ (Tonkers announce the arrival of the Theta has seen the growth of an institu­ Royal High Bunghole. Everyone rises. tion, the High Court of Walla Walla. Tankers, see to this. Jury files in. Bung­ This court 0f supreme authority con­ hole calls the court to order.) venes regularly once a year, usually in midwinter when the chapter is running Prosecuting Attorney: "Oh, Royal High Bunghole, give ear to the first case. with forty men. The exact date is set in Never in history have such heinous crimes meeting and from that moment on the been committed. The defendant, Mr. word "Walla Walla" spoken in the deep­ Doe, has openly and. with malice afore­ est voices has more effect upon a fresh­ thought been known to refuse to wear his man than a cyclone. frosh cap on Saturday nights." The officers of Walla Walla are chosen carefully by the upper class men in order Bunghole: "Tonk him, tonk him!" to preserve the dignity of the court, as (Tankers give several taps. Laughter well as to mete out justice. The highest in court.) officer is the Justice of the Royal High Prosecuting _Attorney: "Furthermore, Bunghole, who is seated seve ral feet Mr. Doe has been seen at innumerable above the court so as to command a su­ dances in violation of that time-honored perior view. His commands are law. law. A most heinous crime." Next come the two attorneys, the Prose­ Bunghole: ''Tonk him, tonk him!" cuting and the Defenseless. The former Defenseless Attorney: "I object." represents the Chapter and the latter the Bunghole: "Objection overruled. Tonk defendant freshman, and is usually a the Defenseless Attorney." sophomore. Next come the two Tank­ Prosecuting Attorney : "In addition, ers who are big and burly. They are the oh, worthy Bunghole, oh, wise jurors, Mr. strong arm of the law and ever ready to Doe, freshmen though he be, never car­ carry out the commands of the Bunghole. ries matches for the upper classman. An They carry as symbols of their office a open violation of law and order." tightly rolled Sa.turday Evening Post, and Bunghole : "Tonk him !" a tap with this weapon will usually reduce Defenseless Attorney: "Prosecutor any person into submission. Finally there lies." 55 56 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

Bunghole : ·"Tonk the Prosecutor for Bunghole: ''The defendant Doe will be lying." tubbed!" (Uproarous laughter in audienc~ . ) (Laughter.) Bunghole: "Order! Tonk the audi­ (The two sentenced men await their ence!" penalty as Reverend Star asks benedic­ Defenseless Attorney: "Oh, Bunghole tion.) and worthy jurors, recall the days when In this manner every case is taken up you yourselves were innocent freshmen, in order and punishment is meted out. and-" Infractions of rules are thus punished but Prosecuting Attorney: "Your Honor, in such ·a way that good feeling is always I object." maintained and there can be no soreheads Bunghole: "Objection sustained. What when it's all over. is the verdict of the jury?" Sandwiches and coffee accompany the Foreman of the Jury: "Guilty." adjournment.

-IIKA- Prominent Men Leave Alpha ... Lambda ESPITE the fact that tradition says The honors accumulated by these five D that a quart of mellow old Bourbon men during their college careers were lies hidden in the base of each of the brick more than those made by the combined columns of historic old Giddings Hall, of efforts of the remaining men students of their class. Brother Taylor was president of his sophomore class, business manager of the G.eorge.tonian, the college newspaper, in his junior year and editor in his senior year. Brother' Trout was president of his junior class and editor of the George­ tonian the same year. He was editor of the B elle .of the Blue, the college annual, his senior year. Brother Neal was president of his senior class and was high point scorer in Georgetown College, Kentucky, these five his last season of varsity football. Brother '26 alumni of Alpha-Lambda stand in an Y ark was a member of the mile relay unconcerned pose as the nose of the team which holds the record for the State camera points toward one of the columns. of Kentucky. The baby alumni of Alpha-Lambda, which Brother Boswell made the highest scho­ was revived last March, are, from left to lastic standing for four years among the right: Allan M. Trout, William Boswell, men students of his class and was presi­ · Paul J. Neal, John M. York and J. Blan­ dent of the Varsity Club during his senior ford Taylor. year. Eavenson Receives First Honors at Mercer By R. HABENICHT CAssoN, Beta-Psi, M.S., Mercer ROTHER W. L. EAVENSON, Class Historian. During the last two B Beta-Psi, was the first honor gradu- years he has taught in the capacity of ate in a class of 104 seniors of Mercer student assistant in the departments of University with an· average for his entire French and Physics. He has been an of­ four years of 92 plus. He was one of the ficer of the Y. M. C. A. for two years ten seniors who were excused from tak- and in 1924 was elected to represent that ing final examinations. body at the Southern Student Confer- In a recent issue of the Mercer Cluster ence. there appeared a picture of Brother "If ·willie's ideas materialize, he in­ Eavenson with a long write-up of which tends to enter the noble profession of the following is a part : "Willie Eavenson's life thus far has been a romance. He completed Elberton High School at the end of a signal record, being no mean debater and the honor graduate of his class. "Although he wanted a college educa­ tion he was faced with the problem that so many of our noblest men have faced, that of having sufficient funds. He re­ mained out of school five years before he entered college. "Out of the 186 hours required for graduation Willie will receive his degree with 3 hours of C's, 31 hours of B's and 152 hours of A's. In view of the fact that an A indicates an average of between 95 and 100 this record is remarkable. "Despite your reaction to the above that Willie is just another incarcerated W. L. EAVENSON, Beta-Psi, Mercer book-worm, we are delighted to inform you that he is not confined to the narrow teaching. He feels that his chosen pro­ orb of concentrated effort. He has en­ . fession is one through which he can give gaged in the major activities of the to the world the best that is his. We are campus and the honors he has acquired not worried about Willie's future; we will be scoffed at by no student who ap­ should all be concerned about .becoming preciates yielding values. His senior worthy enough to boast (in our old age) honors denote the respect and confidence of having been his schoolmate." vested in him by his classmates. He is --IIKA-- a member of the Senior Round Table, is Kappa-Alpha northern and Delta Psi on the Student Tribunal, an assistant are the only fraternities of ancient or­ editor of the Mercer Cauldron and IS ganization having less than ten chapters. 57 Harper Leads a Busy Life at Arkansas

By RrcHARD CHENAULT, M.S., Alpha--Zeta ITH the June graduating class A fat-faced - little fellow, very quiet, W there passed from the annals of the dressed quite nicely, but seeming to be of University of Arkansas, a member of no use whatsoever. Many of the fellows Alpha-Zeta, Pi Kappa Alpha, one of the were opposed to him at the first, thinking most remarkable college students in the that he could do us no good in any line. South, and undoubtedly the greatest man My, what a mistake we might have that the state university of Arkansas has made !" And that last statement was ever produced. His name is Clio Armi­ true. For within the first two weeks, tage Harper. He has been an active Harper showed just what abilities he had. Harper's father had been a journalist and he naturally took up the business. This put him in contact with many of the university politicians, and he progressed rapidly. The first year, from September to June, 1922, he made the following or­ ganizations an<;! activities : Glee club, al­ ternate on the debating team, freshman numeral in football, . and vice-president­ elect of the sophomore class. The following year the start that he made was continued and he was taken into the following: Glee club for the sec­ ond time, Parakeet club, and the Y. M. C. A. cabinet. He was in the university pageant, was on the varsity football squad, and was in the university choir. In the year 1923-24, he was again on the Y. M. C. A. cabinet, on the football C. A. HARPER, A lpha-Zeta, Arkansas squad, made Skull and Torch, honorary scholarship society; Phi Delta Epsilon, member of practically every club and or­ organization editor of the Razorback, ganization as well as countless student junior yearbook, and was a charter mem­ activities, in the university for the past ber of the \iVriters' club. He was also five years. managing editor of the Traveler, and was Harper graduated from the Little Rock in "Hearts Up," an original musical com­ high school in June, 1921, with one of edy, given by university students. the highest grade averages ever given in The next year when he was a senior, that institution. He entered the univer­ he was editor of the Traveler, a member sity in September of that year. One of of the cadet club and an officer in the the older members, in speaking of Harper R.D.T.C. unit; was on the Interfrater­ when he first was brought to the II K A nity council, on the football squad, for house, said, "You should have seen him! the third time on theY. M . C. A. cabinet, 58 HARPER LEADS A BUSY LIFE AT ARKANSAS 59 and made Blackfriars, a local thespian so­ Harper then topped off these activities by ciety. He was a charter member of the graduating with an A.B. degree and hold­ staff of The White Mule, a humerous ing class and departmental honors ! magazine published monthly for a short He returned for graduate work and time by literary students in the univer­ conti~ued active on the campus as a cap­ sity. He was ih the university pageant, tain in the R.O.T.C. Unit, a member of "Springtime," and in the Blackfriar play, Scabbard and Blade, advisory editor ·of "Sham." He was a part-time instructor the Traveler and military editor of the in journalism, was elected to the Arkansas Raz01'back. He became a member of Phi Boosters club, a campus activities club Alpha Theta, national history society. composed of representatives from each Harper was active in chapter affairs fraternity, and was among the founders serving as S.C. for three years and of the University Men's Press club. S.M.C. in his senior year.

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Red Grange Compliments Long

UR picture shows Malcomb Long, basketball and made first string forward. O Beta-Delta, quarterback on the Uni­ His class elected him president. This past versity of New Mexico's football team, year he helped the "Lobos" become all· just after "Red" Grange had presented southwest basketball champions. him with a football as the best football The regulation-size football inscribed player in the southwest. ''Presented to Malcomb Long by Reel Long entered New Mexico from Albu­ Grange" on the chapter trophy shelf of querque in 1924 and promptly reported Beta-Delta will be the marvel of pledges for football practice. He made the var­ for years to come and will be a fitting sity. In the winter he went out for reminder of one of the chapter's best.

" RED" GRANGE AND LoNG, Beta-Delta How Should Our Pledges Be Treated? By R. B. RucKER, Gamma-Delta, Arizona HIS is a question with which we has to be watched carefully and any pos­ T members of Pi Kappa Alpha should sible hostility avoided .. be greatly concerned. It is our job to If we have accomplished the two steps bring up our pledges as our mothers and above, we may consider that we have done fathers have brought us up. The trouble our best to continue the work of our fra­ is that so few of us really feel the signifi­ ternity and helped the pledge through a cance of our duty. We are, . in most very critical stage of his life. I say a cases, too anxious to see our numbers in­ critical stage; I think I might say the crease, our activity list rank above the most critical stage and be entirely justi­ other . fraternities on the campus, our fied in my statement. I remember dis­ scholarship the highest, our social stand­ tinctly my first visit to a fraternity house ing the best, but we seldom take into con­ and the thrill that accompanied it. I re­ sideration the real purpose of our fra- member the idolization I had for the ternity. members, the times I wished I could do Now really how many of us know the as they did and say what they said. In real purpose of Pi Kappa Alpha? How other words, they were the stars to which many of us are living examples of the I hitched my wagon. That is the way teachings of our fraternity? How many with all freshmen no matter where they of us are good examples of unselfishness, are or who they are-they look at the good fellowship and loyalty to the organi- member~ as their standard and their goal zation and t.o one another? If each one is to be like them. of us was asked each of these .questions, Getting down to details, how can we how many could we answer affirmatively? accomplish the best results? Do you re­ I am willing to say that only a very small member . how patient your mother was percentage could do so truthfully. with you when you did the wrong thing? If we teach our pledges nothing by "We have to be the same way, firm but word or by action, how can we expect patient. Never fail to give the pledge a them to be men who: will be a credit to fair chance. Let him know what is ex­ us? First, our own thoughts, actions and pected · of him, tell him that he is on his teachings should exemplify the character honor and it is your belief that he is man of our fraternity. By having accom- enough to "come through with the goods." plished this, then we may expect and de- Confidence ·is a great help in accomplish­ mand the best of our pledges, but not be- ments in this life. Instill confidence in fore: You can't expect or demand from the pledge and he will coine through with a. pledge that he be an honest-to-goodness colors flying high. II K A unless you are one yourself. We have some pledges who are stub­ Second, the manner with which we go born, lacking in self-confidence and with­ about the accomplishment of our aim, out ambition. Of this class, some should should be tactful and unselfish. Most col- be discarded. The remaining ones are lege freshmen are at the age when they our problem. Often we become discour­ can be told nothing and believe that they aged and almost give up hope of ever know everything. That is a situation that making II K A's of them, but we must 60 HOW SHOULD OUR PLEDGES BE TREATED? 61 plug on. Never let the pledge get the idea Watlington Wins Honor that he is doing you-a favor by being one. H. E. Watlington, Alpha-Pi, Howard We want the man who is anxious to be­ College, who was graduated in 1924, was come one of our number and willing to presented with a loving cup by the chap­ work for that goal, no matter how hard ter, at a homecoming banquet last spring, the road may be. This, in my opinion, is the most serious problem that confronts the fraternity world today. We are making our future members. Are we picking up driftwood? Or are we picking carefully in order to get the very best of the material.

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Four Purdue II K A's Receive Letters

in appreCiatiOn of his untmng service to the fraternity while an active and as an alumnus. In addition to his work within the chapter, Watlington served on the campus as president of the panhellenic organization, assistant football manager, Left to right: Searles, gym ; Pillman, president of the_Glee Club, baseball man­ three in football and one of the two Pur­ ager, president of the l\.fask Club and due men on the all-State team; Work, member of the "H" Club. He also track, joint record holder in the high worked on the staffs of two publications, jump; Hetrick, football. the Crimson and Entre N ous. A Few II K A Championship Tearns

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Gamma-Beta's interfraternity championship track team consisted of (left to right), top row : UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Kelly, Kraemer, Lee, Kinsey, Seagle; bottom row: Negus, Leffler, Jolley, Linn. Beta-Chi's basketb'all team of (left to right) , top row, Just, L. Johnson, S. Johnson, Keene; bottom row, lhde, Mortenson (Capt.), Hage­ meister, Frenzel, not only won the championship among the academic fraternities by piling up more than twice as many points as their oppo­ nents, but they won the all-fraternity and the all-University championships as well when they defeated the Triangles, the professional cham­ pions, and the freshmen who had won the inde­ pendent race. The Beta-Chi team went through DUKE UNIVERSITY the season without a defeat. Alpha-Alpha's basketball team won the cham­ pionship with the team work of (left to right), top row: Hunter, Bost, Tomlinson, Hollings­ worth; bottom row: Finley, Gibbons, Frank (Capt). Cliff . .

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA There are twenty-one fraternities on the campus of the University of Oklahoma; seven­ teen are national and four are local. The win­ Omo STATE UNIVERSITY ning consecutively of all interfraternity ath­ letic honors for the past year and a half is a Alpha-Rho's bowling team (left to right), record which Beta-Omicron has established; a rear : Kopp, Ralston; front : Steel, Marton, record which has set a precedent that will be Mallory, has won three championships. extremely difficult to equal or surpass. 62 Old Spain Typified in New Arizona House

Ed.itor' s Note: As we go to press, a the level of which has followed the slope clipping from the Tucs.on u Citizen" has of the land, is a huge, brick-floored patio, been received desC'ribing the new home of covered by the great sleeping porch above. Gamma-Delta at t.he University of Ari­ This patio is to be vine-sheltered, and zona. A letter and a telegram for a equipped with lounging chairs. An ideal photograph have not been answered. spot for evening "song-fests," and ro­ mantic "twosing" at house parties and HE beauty and charm of Old Spain dances. Tand all of the conveniences of modern The butler's pantry, kitchen and other civilization are combined to make the rooms necessary for the efficient main­ new_ Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, tenance of a fraternity house curriculum being built on North Park Avenue, the are at the right of the dining room. most attractive and interesting edifice of Returning to the living room, one finds its kind in the Old Pueblo. In the first at the right of the piano balcony, a flight place, the fraternity home was designed of stairs similar to that which leads down to accommodate the land upon which it to the dining room, going up to the second was to be built, which makes it primarily floor. The nicest room on this floor opens a "round peg in a round hole." Secondly, out on a narrow, railing-enclosed balcony, its architecture is compatible with the which looks onto the street. This is for southwest, where, in the minds of discern­ the head-resident, or resident, or "house ing and beauty loving people, no other mother." Convenient hallways, adequate type of buildings or dwellings should be bath rooms and dressing rooms, each reared. equipped with a sizeable closet, and the great sleeping porch complete the second The house has, too, the fascination floor. which varied floor levels and ceiling heights lend. The living room, a spacious The house ha_s nine or ten rooms, which room with windows on three sides, is on may be called "rooms, proper," and many the ground floor. It has by the way, a others such as dressing rooms and closets. huge, ornate fireplace, Aztec in design, Its exterior, which is as attractive to look and its lofty ceilings, which are to be at as the interior, is white stucco, and the stippled in golden shades, conform to the roof will be red tile. With the carefully gabled contour of the roof. At its far laid-off grounds, and shrubbery and trees end is a pretty little balcony, to be entered which grow so quickly in Arizona's from the second floor through an arch­ friendly climate, the finished whole prom­ way, upon 'Yhich a piano is to be. placed. ises to be rarely beautiful. Brief flight of stairs at the right of this --IIKA-- balcony takes one down several feet to Just before going to press, we learned the dining room, whose red tiled floor that a two w·eeks' illness· made it impossi­ and gay little fireplace promise the cheeri­ ble for Brother W. B. Moore to draw his ness which every dining room should usual cartoon for this issue, but he will have. Opening out of the dining room, be with us next time. 63 64 SHIELD AND DIAMOND Scokel Receives Porter Loving Cup The highest honor paid any athlete at Howard He played halfback on the varsity football College was given to Brother Paul W. Seckel, team during his entire stay at Howard; for­ ward and center on the basketball team, and Alph.a-Pi, at the graduation exercises of How­ first b'ase on the baseball team, besides doing ard on May 24, when President John C. Dawson good work in his scholastic duties. announced that Scokel would receive the Porter The cup has been in competition for five years loving cup which is awarded annually to the during which time members of Alpha-Pi have best all-round athlete. won it four times.

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Five Honor Society Men at Cornell Alpha-Chi's T rack Representatives Syracuse has long been noted for its track team to whjch Alpha-Chi has Ion~ contributed. This past year Morton S. Johnson, '26 (center), has managed the team. Kelsey Denton, '28 (left), ran the quarter mile and the sprints, while ·warren G. Huber, '26 (right), took the Orange over the bar in the high jump.

Cornell University has two honorary senior societies. The oldest is. called Sphinx Head and consists of thirty men. Pi Kappa Alpha, in competition with about sixty fraternities and a senior class of about 1,000 men, had five mem­ bers this past year. There were (left to right), top row: Kearney, football captain; Blomeir, manager of soccer; bottom: Steffens, manag­ ing editor of Daily Stm; Moynihan, varsity bas­ ketball ; Bowdish, soccer captain. PERSONALITIES

Dr. W. C. Bower, Kappa, Dean of well. Dworshak is a member of the edi­ Transylvania College, has resigned that torial staff of the Buffalo Courier.

position to accept a full professorship in -IIKA- the chair of Religious Education at the Robert Tiernan, B eta-Lam,bda, former University of Chicago. He is consid­ secretary of Alumnus Alpha-Nu, St. ered one of the outstanding authorities in Louis, has been elected president of the America in the fidd of religious educa­ East St. Louis Junior Chamber of Com­ tion. In commenting, editorially, on the merce. resignation the Lexington, Ky., L e'ader, -IIKA- says: "The loss to Kentucky will be the gain of the country." He has gained a J . .H. Van Zant, Beta-Omicron, has national reputation as a thinker and completed his research in the Thomas and writer on the subject when he has studied Hubbard oil fields of Oklahoma in con­ most intensively. nection with the C. J. Weightsman fel­ -IIKA- lowship in geology which he won as a graduate student at the University of J. Edmund Woodman, Alpha-Upsifon, Oklahoma. VanZant received the degree Professor of Geology at New York Uni­ of M.S. in geology. versity, and a Consulting Engineering -IIKA- Geologist of high standing, sailed Sep­ tember 18th on the S. S. Ryndam, as an T. M, Beaird, B eta-Onvicron, has been officer of a "floating college" on a mne­ appointed head of the radio bureau of the months' trip around the world. extension department of the University of Oklahoma. He is preparing a complete -IIKA- extension program to be given by radio.

Arthur S. Bowes, B eta-Phi, District -IIKA- Princeps of No. 7, was married to Miss - Jane Mattison of Chicago on September 4. Ittar A. Luke, B eta-Gamma, is captain in the Ordinance Department of the -IIKA-- United States Army, and now located at J. W. Benfield, Alpha-Chi, is now lo­ Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J. cated in Syracuse, where he is selling -IIKA- bonds for Blair & Co., Inc., with offices in the Seitz Building. He has been elected W. H. Bogart, Alpha-Epsilon, is head Alumni Comptroller of Alpha-Chi. - designer for the Cone Manufacturing

-IIKA- Co., one of the largest cotton manufac­ turing concerns in the country. He is George C. Dworshak, charter member located in Greensboro, N. C. of Beta-Chi Chapter at Minnesota, and an officer of Alumnus Beta-Phi in Buffalo, -IIKA- organized - the Buffalo Chapter of the Clyde Patton, Alpha-Z eta, formerly American Business Club recently and is a cotton buyer for the MacFadden Cotton district officer of ·the national body as Co. of Little Rock, Ark., has been placed 65 5 66 SHIELD AND DIAMOND in charge of the company's office in the Southern Conference record in the broad ¥emphis, Tenn., district. jump at last spring's conference field f meet. -IIKA- -IIKA- , Leroy Richardson, Alpha-Z.eta, will re­ Omega won the Interfraternity track turn- to the Arkansas State Senate next championship of the University of Ken­ January for the remainder of his ter~. tucky for the second successive time last He is a prominent attorney of Hox1e, spnng. Ark., and a possible candidate for gov­ -IIKA- ernor in 1928. -IIKA- Georgia Tech won the southern cham­ pionship in baseball last spring, Gus Me~­ John Griebel, Alpha-Psi, who gradu­ kle, Alpha,-Delta, getting a home run m ated from Rutgers last spring, has re­ the first game with Georgia and Johnny ceived a commission in the United States Snead pitching top notch ball in the sec­ Marine Corps. ond game. -IIKA- -IIKA- Dr. David M. Gibson, B eta-Lambda, is Alpha-Eta Chapter won the Florida superintendent of the Columbia Hospital Intramural sports championship last of Richland County, S. C. It is one of spring, the first time the title has been the state's largest county institutions. won by a fraternity. The . chapter re­ -IIKA- ceived three beautifulloying cups. Everett M. Johns, Alpha,-Eta, is a -IlK A- prominent attorney of Starke, Fla.; and a Baskin, Epsilon'" holder of the Southern member of the lower branch of the Flor­ Conference record in the 120-yard high ida Legislature. hurdle, was elected captain of the Auburn -IIKA- 1927 track team. Emery Johnston, Alpha-Nu, head of -IIKA- the advertising department of the Univer­ Bagby and Pledge Wyse, Beta-M~t, sity of Missouri School of Journalism, won the Interfraternity tennis title at · has been elected grand president of Alpha Texas last spring. Delta Sigma, professional advertising fra­ -IIKA- ternity. The Beta-Eta team composed of Bel­ -IIKA- sing, Greene, Rude, Brydon and Weege, 0. B. Taylor, Alpha-!ota, has been won the University of Illinois basketball elected president of .the Mississippi Bank­ free throw championship last spring, es­ ers Association. tablishing a new record by scoring 187 -IIKA- out of a possible 250. Marvin McCarthy, Alpha-Pi, has been --IIKA- made sports editor of the Tampa (Fla.) Otis Cargile and Milton Wells, Beta­ Tribune and was also recently elected J • Omicron's entrants in the Interfraternity president of the Florida West Coast base- horseshoe doubles at Oklahoma, walked ball league. off with the championship last spring. -IIKA- --IIKA- James Brady, Omega, captain of the Dr. Bert Zener, who went to Washing­ Kentucky track team, broke his own ton University, St. Louis, to study medi- PERSON ALI TIES 67 cine, later affiliating with public hospitals The Board of Trustees at Mercer Uni­ there and serving as president of Alumnus versity has ruled that fraternities may Alpha-Nu, St. Louis, has returned to own houses within a radius of three White Salmon, Wash., to practice medi­ blocks of the campus. cine with his father. He won a wife --IIKA-- while in St. Louis, Miss Lillian Peters having become his bride late in June. Dr. When II K A's at Lexington, Ky., re­ Zener was unusually active as an affiliate turned to the Pi chapter hous-e this fall, with Beta-Lambda and in alumni circles. they found it newly remodeled with a brick fireplace and French doors opening --IlK A-- on a spacious new concrete porch. Gamma-Gamma Chapter at Denver won the tennis singles and doubles cham­ --IIKA-- pionship and the baseball championship The Pan-Helenic Scholarship trophy last spring. was won from a field of thirteen national --IIKA-- fraternities last semester at the Kansas Agricultural College by Alpha-Omega Charles Doornbos, Beta-Gamma., has Chapter. been elected captain of the 1927 track --JIKA-- team at the University of Kansas. He succeeds Howard Rooney, last year's II K A at Arkansas elected eight out captain. of nine candidates in last spring's elec­ --IIKA-- tion, the first time in the history of the Three Kansas II K A's played regu­ university that one fraternity has gained larly on the Kansas baseball team which so many offices. Jack Holt, S.M.C., of missed the Missouri Valley title by only Alpha-Zeta, was elected senior class pres­ half a game. They were Melvin Kreamer, ident and Carol Walsh was elected editor 2d base, who led the conference in bat­ of the" Arkansas Engineer. ting average; Stoney Wall, right field; --IIKA-- and Jip Hill, 1st base. For the third time in six years, a Pi --. IIKA-- Kappa Alpha is president of the student Alpha-Omega won the Kansas Aggies body at Southwestern. This time it is Pen-Helenic baseball championship with R. E. McCaswill, Theta. 1,000% average last spring. The II K A --IIKA-- nine scored 90 runs to their opponents 26 Four of the eleven new buildings now in eight games. under construction at Duke University --JIKA-- _were to be ready for use this fall. Two Delaray Mouron, Alfr/WrSigma, accom­ are dormitories, the other two classroom panied Brick Morse's Collegians, Cali­ buildings. fornia Glee Club, on their tour of the --IIKA-- Orient last summer. Two II K A's and a II K A sister are --IIKA-- on the staff of the Jacksonville J ou1'nal, Last year's seniors of Gamma-Beta one of Florida's largest daily papers. presented the Nebraska Chapter with a Sam Melson and H. B, Taylor, Jr., both silver loving cup to be awarded each year APpha-Eta, are in the news department, to the brother participating in the great­ and Mary Renfroe, sister of Henry Ren­ est number of campus activities. froe, Alpha-Eta, is society editor. 68 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

Dean Boggs, Alpha-Eta, was elected, Halsey Jones, Beta-Sigma, won the art­ editor of the S eminole, the University of· nual cup for proficiency in military rna- Florida year book for this year. '; neuvers as captain of the best drilled com- - n K A- '· pany of the Carnegie Tech R. 0. T. C. The Mothers' Club of Beta-Epsilon, last spring. Western Reserve, meets regularly every --IlK A-- other Wednesday afternoon at the house, Stuart R. Burke, B eta-Z.eta, and As­ serves .the boys a substantial luncheon sistant Grand Treasurer Robert M. Mc­ and plans some pleasing way to add to Farland, Jr., Alpha-Delta, inspect the their material comfort. They pass the work on the mem_orial at Stone Mountain. afternoon in planning menus, sewing and --II K ·A -- knitting. Mrs. Rehark is president of the Secretary of Labor James J. Davis was club. quoted in the New York papers some --IIKA-- time ago as saying: The Jenkins brothers, Beta.-Nu, closed "The fraternity has been the means of their career at Oregon Agricultural Col­ laying the foundation of some of the lege last spring with Vern Jenkins win­ strongest characters this country has ning the A. A. Johnson prize awarded to known. The horseplay that may attend the outstanding man in scholarship and some of the initiations is merely an ex­ activities, and George Jenkins winning pression of the vigor and enthusiasm of the James H. Albert prize, given the most youth. outstanding man for good influence of "In addition to moral guidance and character. spiritual uplift, the fraternity gives a man --IIKA-- a home while in college. This in itself is · a great service. It is a substitute for The Gretz cups for service to Beta-Pi the family life that a young man misses chapter for the last school year,· were when he leaves home. It is a sure cure awarded to Frank Valgenti for outside for homesickness." activities and to Sam Stormer for chapter --IlK A-- house activities. · Have you read the article by R. S. --IIKA-- Warner, Alpha-Psi, in this issue, entitled The Daniel Boone Cup for Sigma chap­ "Mark .Twain as a Non-Humorist"? 'It ter's best all-around II K A, was awarded marks a new departure in the type of last spring to Tom Holt. The Alumni material appearing iri ·the SHIELD AND Scholarship cup was again awarded to DiAMOND during the past two years at Byron Hill. least. The st<:tff ?elieves _th~t literary ef­ --IIKA-- fort as such, provided · the subject is ,not Kappa-Delta sorority at Florida State without more or less general interest, has College recently presented the II K A a def1,nite place in a fraternity magazine. chapter at Florida with a beautiful piece Material of this sort is solicited. Even a of tapestry as a symbol of friendship be­ good short story, well done, woul'd re­ tween the two fraternities. ceive careful consideration. · --IlK A-- - ·-UK A-- Stratton Coyner, Tau, although still in The Vanderbilt chapter of Delta Tau law school at North Carolina, has passed Delta has moved into a new $30,()(X) home the C. P. A. examination. He led the and the Kansas State ~hapter into a law schOQl in scholastic standing last year. $17,000 one. IN

J. HAROLD JoHNSTON, Alpha-Psi, Rutgers, Grand Editor Once again the staff has the privilege of welcoming a new chapter. This time we extend the hand of greeting to Gamma-Eta at the University of Southern Cali­ fornia. This husky baby takes its place as number seventy on the ever-growing chapter roll. Four years of hard work was put in by the local in organizing and establishing themselves on the campus. How well they succeeded is attested by the active and aggressive support of their petition by the alumni and chapters of the dis­ trict during the past year. Their persistence has been rewarded and we have made a fine acquisition. --IlK A-- Not to be outdone by the active chapters, our alumni have felt the charter urge and four new alumnus chapters have been launched during the summer, increasing the total to seventy-six. If you want to get some idea of the calibre of these new groups, turn to the alumnus chapter section of this issue and read the news from the Detroit and Miami chapters. --IIKA-- - Vacations are now but a memory, either pleasant or sad. The experiences of the summer, the descriptions of the various girls encountered and the miles traveled in the old flivver, have been told and retold to the point of boredom. Begin Early Now it's back to the grind once again and how hard it is! The alleged pursuit of this so-caTied education is not the snap some people imply in describing a college-bred man as a four-year loaf! How have you, as an individual, and as a chapter, started the year? Are you still in the haze of pleasant summer memories? Are you putting off for later the things which should be done now?. Early days in the term-are important. Standards are then set for the year. Attitudes are assumed then which are hard to change later. Habits are hard things to break. The man or chapter who gets the jump has the easier time. The trailers must expend greater effort to catch up and sometimes it is too late. A ragged and careless start means months of increased labor. Hit your stride early. Set the tone for the year on a high note. Key up chapter and individual activity. Make the chapter organization function efficiently. Make each brother carry his share of the load, so Begin Early and Start Strong! --IIKA-- We could hardly send the first issue of the year to press without calling attention to two sections of the constitution. The first is the very corner stone of our being. Section 57 of Article XI says that new members shall · be elected by the unanimous ballot of every active member. Note that it doesn't say every man present at a meeting. This duty of selecting new brothers cannot be delegated. Every man must vote on every prospect. Any other way is not only a flagrant violation of the constitution, 69 70 SHIELD AND DIAMOND . but is endangering the whole fraternity structure. And the other section we have in mind says that no pledge can be initiated until he has satisfactorily completed one semester's work. That, as we see it, is a bulwark. It automatically weeds out those unable to stand the gaff. And such weeding out is beneficial to all concerned. Don't waste time in rushing those whose previous scholastic records indicate inability to measure up to college standards. --IIKA-- Ideally, rushing is an expedient for allowing a man to know various groups and to become a part of that group with which he is most congenial. It doesn't always work that way but there are some considerations which should bring rushing standards to a saner and more profitable level. Too often a chapter Rushing rushes a man solely because everyone else is after him. To want any- thing merely because everyone else does is a juvenile trait. The situation sometimes reverses itself. You discover a good man, nobody is after him and you hesitate because of that fact. Look for desirable qualifications, bid a man on his merits, find if he fits your group, and trust your own judgment. Another consideration is this: it is wiser' to choose a man for his potential wocth than for what he appears to be when you first meet him. If his family, his former environment, is satisfactory, trust yourselves, as a chapter! to remedy his superficial failings and to develop the good traits that are bound to be in him. A reserved disposition may be against a man the first time he comes to your home. Later you may consider it his most valuable characteristic. · It is a mistaken idea to rush only the men you feel sure of pledging. If you rush twenty-five and pledge fifteen, you should have ten good friends in other chapters and fifteen good pledges, which is far better than rushing fifteen and getting fifteen. If a rushee is really more congenial with another grou;p, would he make you a good brother? Rush is soon over-the men you take are to be your closest friends, perhaps for the rest of your life. Choose carefully and intelligently! DrcK CLAYTON, Gamma-Alpha, Alabama. --IlK A-- Dean Wilkins, in his copyrighted article in this issue, enumerates some points of comparison and judgments for the guidance of interested freshmen which, in our opinion, are mighty good. There is too little scientific consideration in the average selection of a bid. Far too much blah and hocus pocus is indulged in by the average chapter. It is highly probable that such a scientific selection would place some chapters at a disadvantage. Arid that is as it should be for some need such stimulant' to jolt them out of their complacent smugness. --IiKA-- One million forty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars is a lot of money, but forty-two of our chapters have houses totaling that amount in valuation. This figure is . already out of date although it was accurately determined but three months ago. Specific figures have not reached the Grand Editor as yet, but as we understand it forty-five chapters now own property and the combined amount is about $1 ,100,000. Some colleges prohibit chapter houses. But note this. Every one of the seventy chapters of Pi Kappa Alpha, where regulations permit, lives in IN PHI PHI KAPPA ALPHA 71 an owned or leased house with the exception of but two. That, to our minds, indi­ cates a healthy condition. May the purchases and building of new houses continue in even greater proportion. --IIKA-- This is the time of year more particularly when chapters can use bound copies of last year's volume of the SHIELD AND DIAMOND. The national standing and prestige of any fraternity is hard to describe in words. But to read the accomplish­ ments of undergraduates, alumni and chapters in every section of the country gives a vivid picture and leaves an indelible impression. Part of the contents of each issue is of such a nature that chapters can use it constantly. Suppose you are having trouble in collecting bills or want to lay out a course of instruction for pJedges or want to develop campus interfraternity friendships or some other subject, or problem comes up for solution. It is then that a bound volume comes m handy for it is literally packed fulJ of helpful material.

--IIKA-- · Pi Kappa Alpha is a democracy. Its government is vested in conventions at which all its component parts must be represented under penalty of a fine. In less than three months from this writing, delegates will gather in that city of southern hospitality, Atlanta, to determine policies and make decisions The Convention which will vitally affect the administration, growth and success of Pi Kappa Alpha. The wisdom ~ith which · problems are considered must be of a high order or progress will stop and decline will begin. Too often delegates go unprepared to accurately and faithfully represent their chapters. Too little advance consideration is given so that judgments are based on incom~lete information or without necessary thought. Has the Supreme Council administered the affairs of Pi Kappa Alpha since the last convention to your satis­ faction? What defects are there in the administrative machinery? What changes should be made in the SHIELD AND DIAMOND? What is the chapter's attitude toward expansion? Has the alumni situation improved? Do you favor an endowment plan? What policies should be changed? What things haven't worked as anticipated? How should the convention program be set up? What do you .believe the fraternity should do to increase its ability to serve its members? This list could be prolonged but space forbids. Conventions are not all socia­ bility no matter how cordial the hosts may be. Now is the time for chapters to discuss questions like the above. These three months should be ones of serious thought so that each delegate may go into the convention this December fully prepared to dis­ charge his duty properly. --IIKA--

In beginning work on this new volume, the staff is grateful that the three brothers who helped so steadily and acceptably last year will continue to instruct and amuse our readers. W. B. Moore, Omega, Kentucky, head of the Art Department of the Louisville Herald-Post, will again draw our cartoons; H. Wilson Lloyd, Alpha-Psi, Rutgers, Associate Editor of the Bronxville Pr,ess, will continue to conduct the "Outlaw Chapter"; and Dana Todd, B eta-Delta, New Mexico, stray II at Columbia University, will comb the other fraternity magazines for the "Our Neigh­ bors" section. IIOUR NEIGHBORS I

By DANA ToDD, Be.ta-D.elta, New Mexico

Paris was not what it should have been. on the Tuscania, August 9 for his third Don Juan Teniebles, our dashing Spanish annual foreign jaunt. Incidentally, he collaborator pilfered a row boat at a little has had a vaudeville offer from Keith­ town between Fontainbleau and Paris one Albee and Paul Whiteman, who heard night, decided to float down the Seine to him in Paris, made an appointment m get back to the gay life, hit a bridge and New York for this fall.) drowned when the boat capsized, thus --IIKA-- ending his short but ambitious life. It If there is any existing fraternity that might be said that he intended to swim the wasn't represented in Harry's New York channel 'Yhile abroad but his early and Bar on the Rue d' Aunou we haven't watery demise prevented. heard of it. In fact there were so many --IIKA-- Americans in Paris that one bus-load of The Columbian Vagabond travelling sightseers, in which was a Phi-Beta from orchestra filled all the requirements of an Brown, was warmly stoned by the enthu­ inter-fraternity council; it was quite an siastic natives at Versailles. But having "our neighborly" conglomeration. Carl seen the hordes of greedy tourists over­ Theobald, Phi Gamma Delta, Columbia running their beautiful little city, we can't Water Polo captain for 1926-27, Engi- say we blamed the French. neer and Master of the I varies, played -- II K A .-- the piano; "Tjp Probert, SAE, man- Philadelphia, beside having the Sesqui- aged the band ; Maxwell McRoberts, centennial, or because of it, as the case B eta, of Cleveland, was drummer ; "AI" may be, entertained two fraternities at Egerter, of Baltimore, Psi-Upsilon, national convocations the same week. played one of the saxaphones, and Jimmy Theta Delta Chi met there from July 2 Clark, of New Rochelle, and Spencer to 6 and was preceded by Sigma Phi Clark, of Larchmont, both too good for Sigma from June 30 to July 3. Sigma fraternities to get at Columbia, were the Phi Sigma was founded at the University other two saxophonists; Pi Kappa Alpha of Pennsylvania. was represented by the ex-Don Quixote, -- II K A-- now sadder; more soberly and finally in The Sigma Phi Sigma Monad is one of earnest, Dana Todd, B eta-Delta, New the smallest of fraternity magazines in Mexico, now ''stray" at America's great- size but in the spring issue contained est educational institution, or is it just a "The ·Field of a Fraternity Magazine," mill with a "wet" bo·ss? by W. H. Gardner of their Cornell Chap- ( Editor's Note: Brother Todd, leader ter, who believes in the mean of two of the Columbia Vagabonds and fiddler views, first, that the college fraternity extraordinaire, took his orchestra abroad has assumed an integral part in the na­ on the Lancastria on June 5 and returned tiona! social make-up of this country and 72 OUR NEIGHBORS 73 as such is interested in a wide field of as ''came along ten or fifteen years ago topics, and the other, that a magazine and is now a strong subtantial organiza­ should be of strictly personal nature to tion ..... has landed among the first ten the fraternity. One valuable suggestion and is proceeding to show its quality as he makes is that chapter letters should be well as its quantity by publishing an ad­ more of the type of general interest than mirable quarterly, by attractive chapter the stereotyped kind. houses, by getting good men, and by --IIKA-- having a swelling endowment fund." The Chicago Tribune Tower, which Delta Tau Delta was the only other to in­ won the medal for the most beautiful crease its chapter roll by as much as building of the year erected in the north three. Never before in the history of central district of Chicago, was designed Greek letter societies has the growth in by Hood and Howells. Raymond M. chapters been as large. A new fraternity Hood is a member of the Brown Uni­ chapter was born in the United States versity chapter of Theta Delta Chi, grad­ every four and a half days during the uating in 1902. past year! --IIKA-- --UK A-- Norman Hackett, Grand Secretary of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is no longer the Theta Delta Chi, _Michigan man, has . largest fraternity. While it was taking in burst onto the stage and will tour the one local, Kappa-Sigma added two and South with ''The Green Hat," being co­ they are now tied in numbers, at ninety­ starred with Charlotte Walker. six chapters each. Phi Delta Theta, --IIKA-- which has grown to ninety-five with the Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, another incorporation of two more locals during Brown Theta-Delt of some time ago, the year, is close behind. former president of Amherst, has been --UK A-- appointed professor of philosophy at Wis­ Sigma-Chi installed two chapters dur­ consm. ing the year and Alpha Tau Omega put --IIKA-- in one. Now each has eighty-five. Beta F. Stuart Crawford, '97, Amherst, Phi Theta Pi, the only one not expanding, has Delta Theta, has been appointed a secre­ eighty-four active chapters. tary to Calvin Coolidge, a well-known --_ II K A-- Amherst alumnus and Phi-Gam. His Zeta-Psi now has three chapters m son, S. Stuart Crawford, Jr., won the Canada. Simpson fellowship from Amherst and --IIKA-- chose Oxford. Theta-Chi's have built and bought dur­ --IIKA-- ing the past year. Seven chapters either William C. Levere, that fine young old purchased or built new houses, one other man of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, SAE's leased a house with the privilege of buy­ Eminent Recorder, has compiled a fra­ ing at the end of three years and another ternity census again this year. Beta let contracts for a new $60,000 mansion. Theta Pi is the only one of the ten lead­ Those building were Wisconsin, Colgate, ing fraternities not to have added a chap­ Florida and North Carolina chapters. ter during the year. Pi Kappa Alpha is Pennsylvania, . Richmond . and Dickinson first of the ten in expansion, having added were the chapters to buy. Nebraska was four chapters. Three were installed by the one to move into the leased house and Lambda Chi Alpha, which he describes the ground is soon to be broken for a 74 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

beautiful new home of the fraternity at technic Institute, Stevens Institute of Indiana. Technology, Marquette University, New --IlK A-- York University, University of Louisville, Theta-Chi claims an all-fraternity ath­ Ohio Northern University, Kansas City letic chapter record. It had fifteen mem­ Western Dental College, Harvard U ni­ bers in its Rensselaer chapter and each versity, University of Buffalo and one had a varsity letter. But on top of that was recently reinstated at Union College, Theta-Chi at Rensselaer Polytechnic In­ "mother of fraternities." stitute had the greatest number of high --IlK A-- scholastic records in the chapter's history. Kappa-Sigma now has 101 active chap­ Among the number of men were five cap­ ters, having recently granted charters at tains and captains-elect, one manager and Montana State, Ohio Wesleyan, North a manager-elect. The chapter totals Dakota, and the Southern Branch of the thirty-five letters. University of California. Kappa-Sigma --IIK A -- is the first fraternity to pass the one hun­ Sigma-Chi is the first national frater­ dred mark. It was founded at the Uni­ nity to follow Pi Kappa Alpha into Utah versity of Virginia on December 10, 1869. State. Sigma-Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha --IlK A-- FolloWing the lifting of the ban at the likewise pioneered the University of Utah University of Mississippi, six chapters but in that case Sigma-Chi was the first have been reestablished during the first to enter by about four years. three months: Sigma-Chi, Sigma Alpha --IlK A -- Epsilon, Kappa-Alpha ( S), Phi Delta Theta Nu Epsilon, Sir, Not T N E! Theta, Delta-Psi and Delta Tau Delta Those holding TNE cards are hereby were the ones. In some cases the char­ notified that they are no longer valid. ters had been suspended rather than re­ Theta Nu Epsilon has reorganized, has voked which permitted quick action. cut out its drinking chapters and is now Eight or ten locals have petitione.d other a general academic fraternity. Branding nationals. its "rounder" membership as "clandes­ --IlK A-- tine," it is starting from the bottom to The great Ernie Nevers, Stanford Uni­ build a ranking national social fraternity versity all-round athlete and all-American· and has withdrawn from the Kappa Beta captain of the 1925 football team, who Phi class. In order that Theta Nu Ep­ · deserted college football with "Red" silon shall be thoroughly changed into a Grange for the professional game, was a "general academic fraternity" it has sus­ Kappa-Alpha. His successor at Stan­ pend~d its chapters at strictly professional ford, .Fred Swan, is a member of the colleges. same chapter. Grange is a Zeta-Psi. The reorganization from an inter­ --IlK A-- fraternity group into a general fraternity Although it does not assume the ap­ ·has. been accomplished with the coopera­ pearances of a glossary of an athletic tion of the Interfraternity Conference club, The Delta of Sigma-Nu presents a Committee of which Dean Thomas Arkle formidable array of athletes. For 1926 Clark was chairman. Petitions for mem­ Sigma-Nu has captains of the elevens at bership are now being entertained. Mercer, Purdue, Mount Union, Chicago, Chapters are located at the University Oklahoma, N ehraska, Stetson, and Mary­ of California, Jefferson Medical College, land. Last year the fraternity numbered University of Maryland, Rensselaer Poly- fourteen football captains. THE CHAPTER.ETERNAL

JOHN WIMBERLY MacKENZIE Sigma John Wimberly MacKenzie, Sig11W) Brother MacKenzie was born in Ver­ died in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, sailles, Kentucky, January 14, 1905. He July 7, 1926, from burns received in an received his early education at Webb Pre­ aeroplane accident during the celebration paratory School and Columbia Military of Independence Day in that city on the Academy, entering Vanderbilt University night of July 5. Lieutenant MacKenzie, in 1924 in the department of engineering, with his pilot, was flying a mile above where he became a member of Pi Kappa the city of Nashville setting off fireworks Alpha. from his plane. A premature explosion Several years ago he joined the lOSth set fire to the machine, necessitating Aero Squadron, receiving his training as escape by parachute for both fliers. Lieu­ a cadet ·at San Antonio, Texas. Later he tenant MacKenzie became entangled in an was commissioned, and at the time of his electrical wire with which he had been death, was a sophomore at Vanderbilt. igniting the explosives. His clothing It was his ambition to become an aero­ caught fire, and, although he landed nautical engineer. safely, his burns were so severe that he He is survived by his mother, Mrs. M. died two days later after a courageous W. Price, and his sister, Miss Mildred struggle for life. MacKenzie, both of Nashville.

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EDWARD McCOY Alpha-Phi Brother McCoy was born on a farm as a soldier was seen and in 1916, when near Creston, Iowa, in 1888, and received the battery was sent to the Mexican his education in the Creston schools and border, he was made lieutenant. Return­ at Iowa State College, where he joined ing from the border he resumed his pro­ the local which later became Alpha-Phi fession until the United States entered Chapter. While in college, Brother Me- the World War, when he again returned Coy, was a popular man, being quarter- to the service. He served with the 126th hack on the varsity squad for two years Field Artillery at Fort Logan Roots, Ar­ and engaged in a number of campus ac- kansas, and at Camp Cody, New Mexico. tlvttles. Upon graduating in 1910, he In 1918, he was given a captaincy and went to Davenport and started an engi- placed in charge of an Iowa Battery. A neering company with Arthur Compton. few months later he was promoted to When Battery B of the Iowa National Major and given the command of a bat­ Guard was formed he was one of the first talion at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and when to join, enlisting as a private. His ability this battalion was sent to Europe, he ac- 75 76 SHIELD AND DIAMOND companied them, sailing on the "Saxon." the Marsh Wood Production Company of Following the signing of the Armistice, Milwaukee when he died. he spent several months in Europe with He was married to Miss Elizabeth the A. E. F. and on returning to this Simms, of Grundy, Iowa, who· was a country, he again located at Davenport classmate of his during his college days. where he assumed the position of branch He was the father of three children, Isa­ production manager for the Gordon Van bel, four years; Marjorie, two years, and Tine Company. He resigned this posi­ tion to enter the consulting engineering Edward George, three months. Besides field and later to become building com­ his wife and children he is survived by missioner of the city. He had just ac­ his parents in Creston, Iowa, and several cepted the position as Superintendent for brothers and sisters.

--IIKA--. STANLEY .STUART SANDO Beta-Rho Brother Sando, or "Jumbo," as he was Finally, after a valiant but losing fight affectionately called, came to Colorado ~gainst too great odds "Jumbo" left col­ Springs from Versailles, Ohio, in· the fall lege to go to his home in Ohio. From of 1920. He entered Colorado College that time un~il tubercular meningitis re­ that year. From the very beginning he sulted in his death on Wednesday, April was handicapped by poor health. Yet 28, 1926, he was forced to remain in bed. there never was a man who carried his With his passing Colorado College loses burden with less complaint. Stanley was an excellent student, Pi Kappa Alpha an untiring worker in the interest of loses a loyal brother, and those who knew Beta-Rho. The chapter prospered under him intimately lose that rarest of all men his leadership as S.M.C. for two terms. -a true friend.

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R. B. McKNIGHT, JR. Alpha-Zeta Brother R. B. McKnight, Jr., at the Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi, time of his death on August 30th, was honorary musical and band fraternities, the leader of a band connected with the was leader of the university band, and Brunks minstrel troupe, then touring the . was prominent in musical and other ac­ southern part of Arkansas. At a party tivities on the campus. He was also given near Lewisville in honor of the active within the· chapter, holding. the troupe, a few hard words between Mc­ offices of Th.C. and Rushing Captain. Knight and a young man of the neigh­ Brother McKnight was twenty-one borhood developed into a quarrel, with years old, and was enrolled in the College the result that McKnight was shot and of Engineering at the university. He fatally wounded as he was leaving the would have graduated next June. He is scene of the party. survived by his parents, one brother and At the University of Arkansas, where six sisters. he was a senior, McKnight held a most Interment was at Augusta, Arkansas, enviable record. He was a member of his home town and birthplace. GOOD THINGS TO TRY

A 'Department /or Chapters Editor's Note: It will be the attempt each iss1te to set f01·th in detail a timely plan or suggestion which some chapter has ttsed sttccessf~lly and which, in our opinion, every chapter might use with profit. These articles are not theory but actual experiences. A Standard of Comparison for Personnel OBERT D. GRAHAM, Alpha-Ch$, racy, ease in learning, ambitions, ability R Syracuse, District Princeps of what to grasp a situation. was then District No. 1, prepared a plan III. Character. Integrity, dependa­ in 1921- for a more careful consideration bility, loyalty, freedom from conceit, in­ of prospects. He adopted it from one of dustry and readiness to shoulder respon­ the methods used by the U.S. Army Per­ sibility for his own acts. sonnel Service during the war in selecting IV. Leadership. Initiative, force, self­ new officers from among the non-commis­ reliance, tact, decisiveness, ability to co­ sioned men. It was originally designed operate. by several prominent psychologists at the V. General Value to the Fraternity. request of the government. Academic standing, debating, athletic abil­ The S. M. C., at the beginning of his ity, musical accomplishments, etc. term of office, shall appoint a Personnel In making this arrangement select first Committee composed of one member of the highest, then the lowest, then the mid­ each of the three upper classes. It shall dle. The other two will easily fall be­ be the duty of the Personnel Committee tween the highest and the middle or the or at least two of its members to inter­ lowest and the middle. The same man view each pr~spective pledge before his will not retain the same position in all name is voted upcin and determine his five points. Assu111ing that the five men eligibility as follows: are A, B, C, D and E, the result may be Each member of the committee work­ somewhat as follows : ing independently shall call to mind the I. Physical QuaJ1jties III. Charac.te1' five members of his chapter, either active Highest c 15 Highest B 25 or alumnus, whom he believes to be the High A 12 High D 20 most representative of Pi Kappa Alpha Middle E 9 Middle A 15 ideals and with whom he is personally Low D 6 Low E 10 acquainted. He shall then, for his own Lowest B 3 Lowest c 5 use only, arrange the names of these .five brothers in the order of their relative II. Schoh'i'tic IV. L eadership proficiency considering Highest A 25 Highest D 15 I. Physical Qualiities. Physique, bear­ High E 20 High B 12 ing, neatness, voice and conduct, consider Middle D 15 Middle c 9 the impression made. Low B 10 Low A 6 II. Schofarship. Past record, q.ccu- Lowest c 5 Lowest E 3 77 78 SHIELD AND DIAMOND.

v. General Value themselves before the other students in Highest c 20 the college that they will reflect honor and High E 16 credit upon the fraternity to which they Middle D 12 have been pledged. Low A 8 The headpieces also serve to create a Lowest B 4 stronger bond of union between the pledges. · True it is that this bond of The above schedu~e, when once pre­ sympathy and fellowship was created in pared, may be used without change for the pledge ceremony and in the wearing the entire year. After each prospective of the pledge pin, but the garnet and gold pledge is interviewed the committee mem­ caps have a tendency to strengthen and ber shall compare him to the five brothers maintain in a large degree this bond of he has selected as a standard and give brotherhood. The pledge pin has its him credit for the number of points oppo­ rightful place, but the caps seem to add site the name of the brother whom he the finishing touch. mos't nearly resembles considering each of -IIKA- the five points separately. He may not resemble the same brother under all H. E. Wattlington, Alpha-Pi, has of­ points. The number of points of credit fered a cup to the man in his · chapter thus attained should be added and if the voted the most valuable at the end of each total indicates a rating of less than fifty, year. W. A. Logan has also offered a cup the candidate's name should not be voted to the f reshinan voted the "Best All­ upon. The Personnel Committee shall Around Rat" and C. E. Petty, to encour­ report the rating attained by each pros­ age scholarship, has· offered a cup to the pective pledge to the S. M. C. who shall II K A at Birmingham who makes the announce it at a regular meeting of the honor roll twice in succession. chapter. -IIKA- -IIKA- Alpha-Iota chapter, at its spring dance, gave as a favor to each guest, a copy of Pledge Caps Create Unity "Dream Girl of II K A," autographed by Alpha-Iota has devised and used suc­ her escor:t. cessfully a novel and · unique plan for --IIKA-- pledge day aside from the regular cere­ Seniors graduating from Beta-Gamma monies. chapter at the University of Kansas each On pledge day the chapter issues to year present autographed books to the each pledge with proper ceremony an at­ house library. tractive garnet and gold skull cap bearing --UK A- the Greek letter II. These caps are The outstanding senior of Beta-Pi worn on the campus or on the street and chapter at the University of Pennsylvania are . not to be discarded until the pledge occupies a room in the first-year dormi­ has been initiated. tory and acts as senior adviser to the Th.e garnet and gold headpieces serve freshmen. to better distinguish the II K A pledges -IIKA- from the other pledges on the campus. Two flag poles on the top of the II K A They feel as if the caps make them a house at State College, Pennsylvania, fly separate and distinct group from other the colors of the nation and of the fra­ pledges, and try to so live and conduct ternity oh special occasions. • OUTLAW CHAPTER

H. WrLSON LLOYD, Alpha-Psi, Rutgers, S.M.C. The Annual Fall Opening Well, the Fall season opened with a Altogether it wasn't a very successful crash at the Outlaw Chapter. The crash endeavor, although they do say the cam­ occurred when Brother Grapple walked pus looks lots better since the absent­ into the west wing of the chapter house minded professor was removed. (or "The Ruins," as it is affectionately -o.c.- called) · with his summer mustache, a The second attempt was more success­ brown model tinged with red and dotted ful. Brother Thugg himself brought in with Great Open Spaces. the prize of the season. It answers to the Most of the roof and a large portion of name of Pledge Felix Wock. It is built the southern wall landed on him, with the like a portable safe with a bowling ball result that most of the west wing and a resting on top. large portion of Brother Grapple will The only difference between Pledge have to be rebuilt. Wack's head and a bowling ball is that Brothers Batwing and Filbert, deadly you can at least put your thumb into a opponents of the summer mustache in­ bowling baiL dustry, are suspected of having urged the -o.c.- roof and the wall on their respective Brother Thugg had an interesting ex­ ways. They will receive a rising vote of perience in bringing Wock up to the thanks from the chapter. house. Wock came from a small town and had been warned to be wary of these --o. c.- slick college fellers. Brother Herman ("Murderer") Thugg Brother Thugg approached him on the is chairman of the pledging committee. campus with outstretched hand. He announced recently that the campus "My name's Thugg," he said. would be combed thoroughly for likely "Well," said Wqck, ignoring the prof­ material. fered hand, "what of it?" Which was a good idea, in view of the "I don't know," Thugg replied. "I fact that the campus hadn't been combed just thought you might be interested." for years and was getting rather frowsy. ''I'm not," said Wock; "so there!" The first combing · netted a pair of "How about coming up to the chapter abandoned sleeve garters, an absent­ house for dinner?" suggested Brother minded professor who had forgotten his Thugg. home address in the Spring of '97 and "Why should I?" countered the affable who has wandered about the campus ever Mr. Wock. since, three passes to chapel, and a tra­ -o. c.- dition which died on the campus shortly Well, he had Brother Thugg there. before the war. Brother Thugg had never thought of that. 79 80 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

"Darned if I know," admitted Brother to Wack's chin. "Yes you will," he Thugg, scratching his head. "Why should grunted. anybody ever want YOU to come up to Wock countered with a short jab to the dinner?" ribs. "I really don't think I can to­ "I know what you want," said Wock, night," he murmured as Thugg came back pointing an accusing finger at our es­ with a stiff right that grazed his ear. teemed brother. ''You want me to meet "Some other night, maybe." the boys. You want to tell me what a -- o. c. -- fine frat you have. And then you want Thugg missed with his right and closed to hang a pledge button on me." in with a volley of body blows. ''You "What I'd prefer to hang," Brother should come to-night," he grunted. "Mul­ Thugg advised him, "is a shingle on your ligatawny soup. Fried chicken. Salad eye." with Russian dressing." -- o. c.-- "I don't care for Russian dressing," said Wock as he closed Thugg's right eye. "French dressing for mine, every time." They went into a clinch. "Some cooks use too much vinegar, though,". said Thugg as they came out of the clinch. He began throwing body blows into Wack's bread basket. ''Stop it," said Wack. "That tickles." Thugg tossed another volley of as­ sorted wallops ·into Wack's midriff. "Stop it," squealed Wack, you're tickling me to death! I'll scream!" Thugg put all he had into one final at­ tack. He. leaped ten feet through the air and' hit Wack with his fists, feet, elbows, shoulders, and knees at once. "There now," he said as he picked himself up out , o:f the dust. "Will you come up to din­ ner?" Wack giggled like a little child. You've aroused my appetite," he laughed. · "I certainly will!" - - 0. c.-- And arm in arm, they proceeded up to "Well, I won't go to your old house for ''The Ruins," where Wack ate a seven­ dinner," announced Wack with an air of course dinner, two legs off the table, and finality. part of the back porch. "You ought to," said Thugg. After dinner nine of the brothers, aided "I won't," said Wack. by a qerrick, succeeded in dropping the ''Ah, come on," said Thugg. . piano on Wack when he wasn't looking. "I won't, I won't, I won't," said Wack, In that way they were able to pledge him: stamping his foot and shaking his head. --0. c.-- Then Brother Thugg lead with a right Conditions are odd at the Outlaw Chap- OUTLAW CHAPTER 81

ter now. S. M. C. H. W. Lloyd sweeps All the upper-classmen carry matches and the sidewalk and puts out the ashes, some­ speak respectfully of the freshmen. thing he never did before in all his life. And over it all, serenely presiding, sits I. M. C. Branz washes the windows. Pledge Felix Wock. You'll hear more of Th. C. Omelette cleans out the fireplaces. him later.

--IIKA-- Many II's Attend Student Conference At the Southern Student Conference held at Sherwood Eddy, J. Stitt Wilson, Mordecai Blue Ridge, N. C., June 15-25, 1926, nine rep­ Johnson, and Dean Graham. resentatives of Pi Kappa Alpha composed the Mass discussions led by Dr. Uphaus of South­ second largest fraternity representation present, ern College Y. M. C. A., and group discussions Kappa-Alpha having the largest with eleven. led by delegates were held on world, home, college, and religious problems which are of R. B. Eleazer, Theta·, who is Educational Di­ vital importance to the youth of today. Among rector of the Commission on Interracial Coop­ the questions discussed were: "Jesus' and the eration, was present for a few days but was Student's Conception of God," "The Relations unable to remain throughout the Conference. Between Men and Women," "Jesus' Ideal of Other II's present were Hampto·n Mauzy and Brotherhood as Applied to Race Relations," Ed Speir of Beta,· I. M. Bagnal, M~t; Alfred "Military Training in Our Colleges," "What Dudley, Iota; R. E. McCaskill, Theta; H. B. Does College Do for Students?" "What Is Nee!, Pi; W. H . Stokes, Jr., Alpha-Iota; and Prayer and How May It Be Made to Function Murrey Atkins, Alpha-Alpha. Most Effectively in Life?" "Why the Church?" The representatives of Pi Kappa Alpha took There were several prominent speakers on the an active part in the program and helped to program of the Conference, among them being make it and the Conference a success.

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.a.------·--·---._.._.._.._..._.,_.._,,___ ,, ___"_11_11 ·------·------·~-··-...... 6 List of 'Initiates, 1926 ~ Chapter Date Name Name of Parent Home Prep School Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... Tolm William Guy Hannon ...... W. A. Hannon ...... Washington, Pa...... Washington H. S. Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... Edward Tempest Wi~t ...... W. F. Witt ...... Norfolk, W. Va...... Union M. A. Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... Thomas Morrison Arnett ...... C. T. Arnett ...... Clarksburg, W. Va...... Vvashington Irving H. S. Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... WJl!. Hendron Smith ...... J. C. Smith ...... Morgantown, W. Va...... Morgantown H. S. Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... Arden Wadsworth ...... S. M . Wadsworth ...... Clarksburg, W .. Va ...... Victory H. S. Alpha-Theta ...... May 29 ...... Luther James Dempsey ...... T. H. Dempsey ...... Lewisburg, W. Va...... Greenbrier M. A. Alpha-Lambda ...... May. 1 ...... Willie B. Traylor ...... W. B. Traylor ...... Williamstown, Ky...... Georgetown H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 1 ...... Harris Nash ...... T. W. Nash ...... Lexington, Ky...... Pleasureville, Ky. Alpha-La~pbda...... May 5 ...... George Love Smith ...... G. Smith ...... Cadiz, Ky...... Cadiz H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 5 ...... Warren Oliver Nash ...... J. W. Nash ...... Pleasureville, Ky...... Paris, Ky., H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 5 ...... William Strover Dean ...... W. S. Dean ...... So. Bend, Ind...... Central H . S. Alpha-Lambd~ ...... May 5 ...... Frederick Currier White ...... T. F. White ...... Chicago, Ill...... Morgan Park Alpha-Lambda; ...... May 5 ...... Adam Siler Roach ...... E. D. Roach ...... McRoberts, Ky...... Hazard Baptist Inst. Alpha-Lambda . .'... . May 5 ...... William Ponsett Gentry ...... H G. Gentry ...... Wheatley, Ky ...... Wheatley H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 5 ...... John Dunnock Woolford ...... T. D . Woolford ...... Houston, Tex...... Houston H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 5 ...... Edward Raymond Taylor ...... W. W. Taylor ...... Dayton, 0 ...... Leithfield, Ky., H. S. Alpha-Lambda ...... May 5 ...... Luther Byron Brashear ...... G. W. Brashear ...... Hazard, Ky...... Hazard H. S. '(fJ ....~ Alpha-Nu ...... June 6 ...... William Wayne Barnes, Jr ...... Wm. W. Barnes ...... Paris, Mo...... Paris H. S. tTJ Alpha-Nu ...... Tune 6 ...... Barrett Emerson ...... A. 0. Emerson ...... ·.St. Louis, Mo...... Cle_veland, H. S. t"' AJpha-Nu ...... June 6 ...... Chas. Jarvies Miller ...... C. G. MJIIer ...... Edina, Mo...... Edina H. S. tj Alpha-Nu ...... June 6 ...... George McLarnen Coleman ...... Frank Wilbur Coleman .. . .. Oskaloosa, Kan...... Oskaloosa H. S. Alpha-Nu ...... Tune 6 ...... William Lloyd Ball ...... Wm. Harve Ball ...... Paris, Mo...... , ...... Paris H. S. Alpha-Nu ...... June 6 ...... Edward Cotham Mulliniks ...... W . H. Mulliniks ...... Caruthersville, Mo...... Caruthersville H. S. :> Alpha-Nu ...... Tune 6 ...... Gi lbert Conrad Kellersman ...... H. W. Kellersm~n ...... Webster Groves, Mo ...... Webster Groves H. S. z Alpha-Nu ...... fune 6 ...... William Villard Hutt, Jr...... W. V. Hutt ...... Pine Bluff, Ark...... Pine Bluff H. S. tj Alpha-Nu ...... June 6 ...... Edwin Louis Michel ...... E. M. Michel ...... Carthage, Mo...... Carthage H. S. ....tj Alpha-Rho ...... May 31 ...... M. E. Estill ...... C. A. Estill ...... Millersburg, 0 ...... Millersburg H. S .. Ockmulgee H. S. :> , . Nuskingum College Alpha-Phi ...... May 11 ...... Edgar W. Junker ...... N. P. Junker ...... Harlan, Ia...... Harlan H. S. ~ Alpha-Phi ...... May 11 ...... Karl L. Michel ...... Toseoh Michel ...... Dubuque, r,...... Dubuque H. S. 0 Alpha-Phi ...... May 11 ...... DeanS. Francis ...... '). F. Francis ...... Kewanee, Ill ...... " .. Kewanee H. S., Wentworth M.A. z Alpha-Phi ...... May 11 ...... Robert H. Bishop ...... Carl S. Bishop .. : ...... Glascow, I a...... Fairfield H. S. tj Beta-Gamma ...... Tune 4 ...... Newlin C. Herndon ...... Frazier D. Herndon ...... Kansas Citv, Mo ...... Westport H. S. Beta-Gamma ...... Tune 4 ...... E lwood Reece ...... N. E. Reece ...... Arcadia, Fla...... ' ...... Pratt H. S. Beta-Gamma ...... Tune 4 ...... C. H. Kirshner, Jr...... C. H. Kirshner ...... Kansas City, Mo ...... Westport H. S. Beta-Gamma ...... Tune 4 ...... Harold L . Bradley ...... C. F. Bradley ...... n

Gamma-Alpha . ·...... May 15 ...... TaJmes Robert Solomon ...... Mrs. J . M . Solomon ...... Abbevill e, Ala...... Abbeville H. S. Gamma-Alpha ...... ; May 15 ...... James Edgar Skidmore ...... T. S Skidmore ...... Winchester, Tenn...... Winchester H. S. ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS .

ATLANTA, GA. Alumnus Alpha-Gamma "See you at Blackburn's next T uesday at one." Acme Advertising Agency, Alpha-Delta; Clyde That's what II K A's in Atlanta tell each other Murray Brown, Alpha-Eta, and F. Cecil Alex­ -and on Tuesday-every Tuesday-at Black­ ander, Upsilon, representing Johns-Manville, burn's Tea Room, 43Yz Peachtree Street, a Inc., 63 Walton St.; Dr. William Augustus goodly number assemble together around the big Clarke, Jr., D.D.S., Psi, with offices in the table. The hour from one to two o'clock is a Candler Building. happy time for those wearers of The Shield These brothers are very welcome, and any and Diamond. other II's who decide to be numbered with the To our alumni group recently has been added two thousand each month moving into Atlanta Daniel Webster Barnett, Jr., Henry L. Doherty wi ll be greeted in like manner. & Co., Hurt Building, and Charlton D. Keen, ELBERT P. TuTTLE, Secretary.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Alumnus Upsilon Alumnus Upsilon Chapter, Charlotte, N . C., The other members present were: John Brad­ had its monthly luncheon, Wednesday, August field, Alpha-Epsilon; AI Thomas, Alpha-Alpha; 18, at 1 o'clock, at Ivey's Department Store A. J. Beall, Alpha-Epsilon; J. B. Lamb, Dining Room, and welcomed two new members. Gall'l'f.11W; R. F. Wakefield, Beta; Alb'ert Escott, E llison Robinson, J r., Om·icron, formerly of Alpha-Epsilon; Burton Smith, Tau; D. H. Norfolk, Va., is now in Charlotte and connected Hill, III, Alpha-Epsilon; Ray Wilhelm, Alpha­ with the General Outdoor Advertising Co. Phi; Henry Barringer, Beta; Tuck Harrison, Charles Litaker, Alpha.-Alpha, is at home for Pi; W . B. Flewell yn, Alpha-Eta. the summer with his father, the Rev. D. M. Brother Wilhelm is -a recent addition to the Litaker, presiding elder of the Methodist Charlotte alumni. He is a landscape engineer, Church. connected with the office of Earl Draper.

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DETROIT, MICH. Alumnus Gamma-Beta With the expansiOn of the Pi Kappa Alpha contact with our beloved fraternity were de­ fraternity during the past few years, an · in­ nied, clue to the distance from their home chap­ creasing number of alumni has been settling in ter, and the fact that there was no alumnus the Greater Detroit area. The continued pros­ chapter in Detroit. perity of this midwestern automotive center Inspired by a desire for Pi Kappa Alpha has attracted Pi Kaps, from every section of the fe llowship a group of alumni met for dinner country, to move here, and practice their vari­ at the Detroit Union League Club, as guests ous professions. of Brother Harry Deyo, Beta-Tau. This oc­ To many of these brothers the blessings of curred March 23, 1926. At this meeting a tem- 83 84 SHIELD AND DIAMOND porary organization was formed and Broth.er guests of Dr. R. E . Cummings, Iota. Many of Dudley Newton, Beta-Tau, was elected presi­ the group played golf in the afternoon, enjoy­ dent, with Brother Ceylon N. Woodruff, B eta­ ing Brother Cummings' hospitality by turning Epsilon, as secretary. in low scores on that beautiful, interesting Two weeks later another meeting was called course. Twenty-five were present for dinner, and twelve of the twenty-two men previously and the following "Bull" and card session. present attended together with twelve new This meeting was made extremely interesting ones, making a total on the list of thirty-four. by the announcement of the marriage of our At this meeting it was unanimously decided efficieqt president, Brother Newton, to Miss to apply to the Supreme Council for a charter. Mary Griffin, of Pi Beta Phi (U. of Mich.). This petition was duly dispatched containing Felicitations were offered and congratulations the names of thirty-five brothers. expressed amid the congenial haze of the mat­ By this time such a feeling of brotherliness rimonial stogies. had developed that, the sentiment of the group The August meeting was held at the summer may be ·expressed by the statement of one of home of Brother Newton, at Cedar Beach on the . men, "I am more impressed with the great­ Lake Erie, near Kingsville, Ont. Eleven cou­ ness of Pi Kappa Alpha than ever, because ples motored out from Windsor, bathed and every Pi Kap I have met, whether he comes swam, played Barnyard golf, and quoits, ate from the north or the south, the east or the sandwiches and drank lemonade, got sunburned west, is the kind of a man I am glad to . call ·and freckled, and as a grand finale enjoyed the brother, and the type I am glad to ask into camp fire on the beach in the evening, at which my home." fraternity songs harmonized out over the water, While ·awaiting the disposition of our peti­ with "The Sweetheart of II K A" much in tion by the Supreme Council, our attention was favor, both as a song and an evening partner. turned toward social events and a dinner dance Pi Kaps have pleasing taste in choosing wives. was held at the Oriole Terrace. Fifteen cou­ The next meeting will be held the first Fri­ ples attended, and the joys of fellowship with day evening of October, at dinner at Webster the men was enhanced by the new acquaintance­ Hall. ships formed with the wives. The object and purpose of Alumnus Gamma­ This pleasant occasion afforded family intro­ Beta may be summed up in the following ductions which led to frequent entertainments "declaration" : of smaller groups in the homes of Pi. Kaps. We welcome all brothers of Detroit and sur­ Many families have found other couples so rounding cities. much to their liking that close friendships have Our prpgram is social, and fraternal. resulted. Small dinner parties, visits, sings, We want you to meet our families, and we picnics, and bridge parties have been exchanged want to meet yours. not to mention the poker parties which have also taken place. We are anxious to help every brother, and need every brother's help. Upol'l receiving the good news from Brother J. Lorton Francis, that our petition had received We are particularly interested in the welfare favorable action, and the charter granted, an­ of recently graduated II's in the city. other business meeting was called, at Webster For information write A. Ross Fox, 301 Hall. The charter was presented which made Hawthorne Ave., Royal Oak, Mich., phone our informal group formal members of Alum­ 1578-J. nus Gamma-Beta. If in Detroit, call Dudley Newton, Board of A permanent organi~ation was effected, with Education Office, Cadillac 1180, 1354 Broadway, the following officers for the ensuing year : or Ceylon N. Woodruff, 100 E. Grand River President, Dudley Newton, Beta-Tmt; vice­ Ave., Cadillac 1180. Home address, 14306 president, B. M. Hoover, Beta-Alpha; record­ Coyle Garfield 7831-R. ing secretary, C. N. Woodruff, Beta-Epsilon; Meetings : First Friday evening of each corresponding secretary, A. Ross Fox, B eta­ month, at Webster Hall, for dinner. T(J;ft; treasurer, C. A. Daniel, Alpha-Chi. Luncheons Wednesday noon at the Hotel The July meeting of the chapter was held at Frontenac Cafe. the Grosse Isle Golf and Country Club, as the A. Ross Fox, Secretary. ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS 85

MIAMI, FLORIDA Alumnus Gamma-Gamma Miami has an Alumnus Chapter! Truer We are also planning to have five-minute words were never spoken-and yet "the Bctby" talks from different brothers each week for the is scarcely old enough to talk. Phil H. Alford, purpose of keeping points regarding the frater­ Alpha-Pi, succeeded in bringing together ten nity before the brothers, such as "The Signifi­ brother II's on July 29, with the avowed pur­ cance of the II K A Badge to Me," "The Fun­ pose of petitioning for an Alumnus Chapter. damental Purposes of the Fraternity," "Why The petition was signed by C. E. Haley and W. Miami Needs an Alumnus Chapter and the Uni­ C. Edmonds, 011u ga; William Richardson, versity an Active Chapter," etc. Just little in­ Delta; Pharos R. Lester, Ga:mma-Alpha; G. spirational and educational talks-not long S. P. Holland, Tau.; C. C. McCutchen and J. enough to become boresome. W. Berry, Psi; William M. Harrison, Beta­ The installation dinner-dance was held in that Sigma, and Philip H. Alford, Alpha-Pi. place of beauty, the Coral Gables Country The Supreme Council granted a charter to the Club, on August 27th. Brother Houser, Alpha­ petitioners on August 10. Even before notice Delta, served as toastmaster. A number of of this action was communicated to the Miami excellent talks were given. Officers were elected group, plans were perfected for a weekly meet­ as follows: Philip Halford, Alpha-Pi, presi­ ing. The newspaper notices of this organization dent; Curtiss E. Haley, Omega, vice-president; and subsequent plans, combined with the per­ Pharos R. Lester, Gamma-Alpha, secretary; sonal efforts of the organizers, will soon in­ William C. Edmonds, Omega, corresponding form every II K A in the vicinity of the ac­ secretary; William Richardson, Delta, treas­ tivities of this Chapter. urer; and as a Board of Directors: Harry M. The second meeting was August 1, followed Houser, Alpha-Delta;; John W. Humphreys, later in the week (Thursday) by a party at Alpha-Delta; John S. McClelland, Alpha-Mu; the Biscayne fronton for the J ai Lai games. Frank 0. Jones, Alpha-Pi; Thomas J. Dowdell, It is our purpose as soon as we feel finan­ Upsilon; Alfred D. Killian, Upsilon, and Ira cially able to either rent or build an alumnus C. Evans, Alpha-Delta. chapter house somewhere in the city, preferably II's visiting Miami will be welcomed to our near the University. If we cannot build this group if they telephone the President, Philip season, we want to rent, so that we can have H. Alford, 4205, or the Secretary, telephone a "common stamping ground" for all local as 23383. We meet every Tuesday evening at well as out-of-town brothers, to hang their hats 6 p.m., dining at the City Club on the roof of in, stretch your legs under the table and partake the Professional Building, 216-218 Northeast of some home cooking, and, at night, have a Second A venue. place to lay their weary bodies. PHAROS -R. LESTER, S ecretary.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Alumnus Beta·.,.Xi Walter Snell, Secretary of the Pi Kappa The officers elected were: Walter Snell, Alpha Building Corporation, had been working president; Linn Waldorf, vice-president; Col­ on a plan whereby Alumnus Beta-Xi might be bert Moore, secretary-treasurer. reorganized and on May 19 he "threw'~ a luncheon at the Kingkade Hotel in order to There are ab'out twenty-five resident II's in get the reorganization under way. Those who Oklahoma City and this summer the number attended were: Eddie Yeager, Bet(J)-Omicron; was increased, so that the plans at the present Maurice Clark, Beta-Omicron; Earl James, time promise a hilarious time when the boys Beta-Omicron; Colbert Moore, Beta-Omicron; get back from school. The first social event JudgeR. A. Billups, Rlw; H. R. Lunn, Alpha­ Omicron; Linn Waldorf, Alpha.-X1'; Walter will be a picnic (suggested by Judge Billups) Snell, Beta-Omicron. and general get-together, which will be at- 86 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

tended by the wives or "to be's" of the men which to work and should be of a real benefit in the local chapter. Meetings will be held to the fraternity and local chapter in Norman. · every two weeks. We have a great field in C. B. MooRE, Secretary.

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OMAHA~ NEB. Alumnus Beta-Sigma At our last monthly meeting it was decided We have quite a number of active under­ to abandon our down-town monthly luncheon graduate II K A's in Omaha for the summer meetings during the hot summer months, but in vacation, and the alumnus chapter is going to its stead to have a swimming party or a picnic join with them and stage a real rush party dur­ or a dancing party once each month. ing the latter part of the summer. Brother Alexander McKie, Jr., who was . graduated from the University of Nebraska Alumnus Beta-Sigma wants to take this op­ Law College in June, has joined our ranks. portunity to congratulate the Editorial Staff of Brother McKie was S.M.C. of the active chap­ the SHr:eLD AND DIAMOND for the very splendid ter at Neb'raska this school year, and we are magazine published during the current college certain he will be just as active in our Alumnus year.. We wish there were twelve issues a Chapter. Brother McKie has set up a law year. Incidentally, this alumnus chapter hap­ office in the First National Bank Building, pened to be the only alumnus chapter of the Room 800, and is open to grant divorces and sixty-two . or more chartered alumnus chapters settle legal disputes for the brothers of of II K A that had a news letter in each issue II K A. of the magazine during the cur~ent year. Warren Pillsbury was married to Miss Hazel Bell Showalter on June 11th, and the chapter All we can report for II K A in this part certainly wishes our erstwhile brother and of the country is progress and a healthy but Hazel every success and happiness. conservative growth.

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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS Alumnus Beta-Iota . On Thursday night, September 9th, Alumnus About thirty were present at the dinner, which Beta-Iota, in conjunction with Alpha-Zeta and was held in the Hotel Marion. Richard Over­ Beta-Lambda, gave an informal dinner and man, Alpha-Zeta, acted as toastmaster. Aulton rush party in honor of several rushees planning Dougan, Alpha-Zeta's prize ivory tickler, and to attend the University of Arkansas, Washing­ Charlie Henry, the golden-voiced tenor and ton University and Washington and Lee. A pre-med stude, furnished entrancing melody good representation from the alumnus and the two active chapters were present, including during the evening, while numerous prominent Armitage Harper, former S.M.C. of Alpha­ actives and alumni regaled their listeners with Zeta, and Fred Conrad, S.M.C. of Beta-Lambda. wondrous bursts of oratory. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

FROM THE SUPREME COUNCIL

No. 81 The Supreme Council announces the chartering of

ALUMNUS BET A-OMEGA CHAPTER Chattanooga, Tennessee

CHAR'l'ER MEMBERS : Eugetie Jackson Bryan, Zeta Landis Lanier Graham, Zeta Samuel Jackson McAllester, Zeta William Deaderick Moon, Zeta Charles Shelb y Coffey, Z eta Richard Hodge Alexander, Zeta James Hardin McCallum, Zeta William Lusk McAllester, Zeta Clarence Hood McCollum, Zeta Carl Cleveland Wimberly, Rho Hugh Carey Hanlin, Ups£lon Fred Hill H enderson, Psi George McMurry Clark, Sigma Thomas Calloway E rwin, Zeta Raymond Hoff Seagle, Zeta Alpheus Carroll Grist, Alpha-Delta Julius Burton Seagle, Z eta Oli ver E llis Grist, Alpha-Delta Rudolph us Henry Hart, Jr., A lpha-Ddta Edwin Samuel Lindsay, Tau Thomas Hubert Weatherford, Zeta William VanDyke Och ~, Zeta William Arthur Seagle, Ze'fa

Chartered January 25, 1926. For the S1~preme Cmmcil, J. LoRTON FRA "CJS, Grand Secretary. N ew Yo1'k, N. Y., July 10, 1926.

No. 88 The Supreme Council announces the chartering of ALUMNUS GAMMA-ALPHA CHAPTER Bluefield, West Virginia-Virginia

CHARTER MEMBERS : Ellis Scott Hale, Alpha-Alpha; Ta1t Kenneth Cathwright Patty, P£ Vincent LeGrand Sexton, Jr., Gamma Kenneth E. Gresier, Alpha-Xi William Lane Nash, J r., Pi; Ganmw Ceci l Albert McGuire, Gan"'ma Alexander St. Clair, Jr., Iota Frank Madison Harrison, Ga111111a Alfred Glossbrennan Fox, Phi; Pi Richard Colbert Cecil, Gamma Claude Hawthorne E lson, Omicron Willard Nile Metcalfe, Gamma

Chartered March 1, 1926. For the S11preme Cou11cil, J. LoRTON FRANCIS, Grand Secretary. New Yo,rl?, N. Y., July 10, 1926. 87 88 SHIELD AND DIAMOND No. 89 The Supreme Council announces the chartering of ALUMNUS GAMMA-BET A CHAPTER Detroit, Michigan

CHAR'fi;R MtMMRS : Harry N. Deyo, B eta-Ta·u Byron M. Hoover, Beta-Alpha C. N. Woodruff, B eta-Epsilon Glenn A. Middleton, Beta-Tau Harold A. DuBois, B eta-Theta George A. Kelly, Kappa Claude L. Miller, Tatt Don M. Bethea, Beta J. Hastings Downie, Beta-Tmt Dudley Newton, Beta-Tau Arlie D. Reagan, Alpha-Lambda James M. Robinson, Alpha-Delta R. E. Hoffer, B eta-Alpha Currie Downie, Bet(J)-Tatt Carl A. Daniel, Alpha-Chi Fletcher D. Richards, Alpha-Rho Paul E. Gringle, Gamnw-Z eta W . B. Stevens, Iota Floyd T. Schermerhorn, Alpha-Chi H. W. Simpson, Beta-Tau James L. Newbold, Beta-Pi E. G. Keirn, Beta-Tmt Henry C. Dennis, B eta·-Xi George Porter, Beta-Theta Robt. E. Cumming, Iota Lyman J. Glasgow, Beta-Tau Clarence E. Bowser, Alpha-Rho Richard D. Seymour, Alpha-Chi Robert E. Clayton, Alpha.-Rho Paul E. Morris, B eta-Twu W . Sheldon Howell, B eta-Theta Art. L. Willard, Alpha-Tau D. H. Pullen, Psi A. Ross Fox, Beta-Tau H. Clay Musser, B eta-A'lpha Chartered April 29, 1926. For the Srtpreme Cowncil, J. LoRTON FRANCIS, Grand Secretary. New York, N. Y., ltdy 10, 1926. No. 90 The Supreme Council announces the chartering of ALUMNUS GAMMA-GAMMA CHAPTER Miami, Florida

CHAR'n;'R Mf)MBERS: Philip Hayden Alford, Alpha-Pi Granville Sharpe Patterson Holland, Tau Curtis Emmett Haley, Omega Charles Cicero McCutchen, Psi William Campb'ell Edmonds, Omega. Joseph Wilson Berry, Psi Pharos Rufus Lester, Gamma-Alpha Thomas Heath Belk, B eta Willia!ll Richardson, Delta William Mills Harrison, Beta-Sig·ma Chartered August 10, 1926. For the Supreme Cowncil, J. LoRTON FRANCIS, Grand S ecreta·ry. New York, N. Y., Attgust 11, 1926. No. 91 The Supreme Council accepts with regret the resignation of R. E. Davis, Jr., Omega, as District Princeps of District No. 16. Brother Davis has been advanced by Swift & Co. and transferred to the·ir headquarters tn Chicago. We wish for him continued success: For the Supreme Co~mcil, J. LoRTON FRANCIS, Grand S ecretary. N ew York, N. Y ., At1911st 12, 1926. D.IRECTORY

GRAND OFFI•CERS Grand Council Of' •• •• • •••••• • ••••• • • ••• • •••• • • ••• ••••• • Howard Bell Arbuckle, Ph.D., I ota, Davidson, N. C. Grand Chancello,. ••• .. • ...... •.•.. . .• .. Henry N. Eversole, Alpha-N u, 1604 Pierce Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Grand Historian •.... •• ...... •••...... W. W. Davis, Ph.D ., Upsilon, 1731 Indiana St., Lawrence, Kan. Grand Alum11us Secretary •.••..••...... Gerald S. Lambert, Alpha-Tau, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Grand Editor ..•. ••.• . •• ..•...... J . Harold Johnston, A lpha-Psi, 225 West 34th St., New York City Grand Chaplain ••• •. •.. • ..... • ...... •..... John W. Caldwell, D.D., Iota, 747 North Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Supreme Council GraHod Princeps ...... •...... John R. Perez, Alpha-Gamma, 13 28 Hibernia Bldg., New Orleans, La. Grand Treasurer ...... Robert A. Smythe, Lambda, 404 Commercial Exchange B~ dg . , Atlanta, Ga. Grand Secretary •••. •••• ..••..• • .• • ... J. Lorton Francis, Alpha-Chi, 21 Lawrence Ave., West Orange, N. J. GENERAL OFFICE Auistant Grand Treasurer •• .. R. M. McFarland, Jr., Alpha-Delta, 404 Commercial Exchange Bldg. , Atlanta, Ga. STANDING •COMMITTEES (Address communications to General Oflice) Committee on Ritual J , Harold Johnston, Alumnus Alpha-Epsilon ; Leslie B. John U. Field, Alumnus Rho, Cltairman; Walter A. Hill, Alpha-Chi; John W. Van Vliet, Alpha-Omega; Marquis, Alumnus Alpha-Sigma; J. W. Elizardi, Eta ; Geo. B. Astel, B eta-Beta; Wayne L. Morse, B eta-Xi; Louis W. Fischel, Tau; C. R. Bennett, Alpha-Pi; C. Fredk. L. Craise, Beta-Upsilon. L. Talley, Beta-Kappa; George M. Luhn, Beta-Mu. Committee to Confer with Inter-Fraternity Conference on S cholarship Committee on Standard Chapter House Plan Robert M. Bird, Iota, Chairman; H . B. Arbuckle, Walter C. Barnes, Alumnus Alpha-Theta, Chairman; Grand Councilor; Gerald E. Fitzgerald, Alpha-Xi. SCHOLARSHIP HONOR ROLL Winners of the Pi Kappa Alpha Scholarship Cup, provided by the 1915 Convention, for the Chapter with the best yearly average. Session 1916-17-Alpha-Sigma ,Chapter-Average 90 .39% Session 1922-23-Gamma Chapter-Average 85.24% Sessions 1917 to 20- (No award during war period.) Session 1923-24-Beta-Mu Chapter-Average 88.33 % Session 1920-21-Beta-Nu Chapter Average 83.30% Session 1921-22-Beta-Nu Chapter-Average 87.00% Session 1924-25-Beta Chapter-Average 87.15% ALUMNI CHAPTERS AND THEIR CORRESPONDENTS AKRON, OHIO, (Alumnus Alpha-Xi), Alden C. CHICAGO, ILL., (Alumnus Alpha-Theta), Arthur J. Fisher, 31 Oakdale Ave. Follows, 1423 Hyde Park Blvd. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., (Alumnus Alpha-Phi), Luncheons every Wednesday, Marshall Field Men's Lawrence B. Lackey, c ;o Charles Ilfield Co. Grill. AT HEN S, GA., (Alumnus Beta-Omicron) , H arold CINCINNATI, 0 ., (Alumnus Alpha-Iota), H . F . Hulme, ------. Koch, 2435 Clifton Ave. ATLANTA, GA., (Alumnus Alpha-Gamma), E. P . CLEVELAND, 0., (Alumnus Beta-Tau), H . S. Zwo· Tuttle, Atlanta Trust Co. Bldg. Luncheons ever y linski, 702 Engineers Bldg. Tuesday, 1 o'clock, Blackburn's T ea 'Room, 43 Y, COLUMBUS, 0., (Alumnus Alpha-Zeta), V. E. Mc­ Vicker, Rm. 415 , 44 E. Broad St. Peachtree St. BATON ROUGE, LA., (Alumnus Alpha-Rho), J. M. DALLAS, TEX., (Alumnus Theta), E. Raymond Barnett, Brooks-Barnett Co. Moss, 1108 Santa Fe Bldg. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., (Alumnus Nu), C. K. An­ DENVER, COL., (Alumnus Beta-Pi) , George R. Beall, drews, 700 S. 20th St. 219 Continental Oil Bldg. Luncheons every Thursday, Pine Rose Cafe. BLUEFIE LD, W. VA .-VA. (Alumnus Gamma-Alpha), Straehlin, Rm. 401, 1010 Kanawha St. V. L . Sexton, J r., Twin ·City National Bank Bldg. Meetings on second Monday. BOSTON, MASS., (Alumnu~ Beta-Zeta), H. A. Smith, DES MOINES, IA., (Alumnus Alpha Upsilon), T . W. 59 Manning St., Needham, Mass. Rehmann, 413 Flynn Bldg. BUFFALO, N. Y., (Alumnus Beta-Phi), George C. DETROIT, MICH., (Alumnus Gamma-B eta), Dudley Dworshak, Buffalo Courier. Newton, Board of Educati on, 1354 Broadway. CHARLESTON, W . VA., (Alumnus Alpha-Eta) , J , E. Luncheons every Wednesday, H otel Flrontenac Cafe. CHARLOTTE, N. C., (Alumnus Upsilon), Geo. M. Meetings and dinner, first Friday, W ebster Hall. Ivey, 31 N. Tryon St. DURHAM, N. C., (Alumnus Beta-Theta) , W . W. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., (Alumnus Kappa), Dr. Sledge, Trust Bldg. R. M. Bird, University of Virginia. FLORE;NCE, S. C., (Alumnus Beta-Epsilon), W . W. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., (Alumnus Beta Omega), Wilkins, 225 S. Dargan St. C. H. McCollum, 310 W. Colville St., North GAINESVILLE, FLA., (Alumnus Alpha-Tau) , ) . C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Dial, 224 East Main St. 89 90 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

GEORGETOWN, KY., (Alumnus Beta-Gamma), W . OMAHA, NEB., (Alumnus Beta-Sigma), J. W. Wolf, G. Nash, Georgetown College. 1200 Jackson St. HATTIESBURG, MISS., (Alumnus Phi), K. P. Meetings on first Wednesday, 5: 45, Elks Club. Walker, Brooklyn, Miss. ORLANDO, · FLA., (Alumnus Beta-Lambda), Bryan INDIANAPOLIS, IND., (Alumnus Beta-Nu), T. A. Anderson, 407 Boone St. Keener, 4176 College Ave. PENSACOLA, 1-'LA., (Alumnus Psi), H. W. Thomp· JACKSON, :MISS., (Alumnus Alpha-Psi), F. T. Scott, son, Attorney-at-Law. Capital National Bank Bldg. PHILADELPHIA, P.A:., (Alumnus Alpha-Mu), H. D. JACKSONVILLE, FLA:., (Alumnus Alpha-Alpha), J. Glover, 321 Walnut St. Y. Marr, Adair Bldg. PITTSBURGH, PA., (Alumnus Alpha-Kappa), W. T. Luncheons first and third Tuesday, Mason Hotel. Mantell, 4807 Baum Blvd. KANSAS CITY, MO., (Alumnus Alpha-Delta), G. R. PORTLAND, ORE., (Alumnus Alpha-Sigma, H. J. Wild, 934 N. Y. Life Bldg. Stewart, 174 E. 16th St. Luncheons every Thursday, Kansas City Athleti;: RALEIGH, N. C., (Alumnus Sigma), S. W . Hill, Club. State College Station. Meetings on third Thursday, same place. RICHMOND,- VA., (Alumnus Alpha), H. G. Duval, KNOXVILLE, TENN., (Alumnus Iota), J. P. Powers, B. T . Crump Co., Inc. Jr .. 403 Empire Bldg. ROWLAND, N. C., (Alumnus Beta-Beta), F. N. Me· LEXINGTON, KY., (Alumnus Rho), L. P. Gooding, Kellar, Bank of Rowland. · c jo Smith Watkins Co. SALISBURY, N. C., (Alumnus Tau), W. M. Snider, LINCOLN, NEB., (Alumnus Beta-Upsilon), Floyd 511 West Council St. S. Oldt, 308 Terminal Bldg. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, (Alumnus Alpha· Luncheons on third Monday, Univenity Club. Lambda), Lesley Goates, 352 Hearn·e Ave. Meetings on first Tuesday, 6: 30, same place. Luncheons every Wednesday, Hotel Newhouse. LOS ANGELES, CAL., (Alumnus Beta·Alpha), Geo. SEATTLE, WASH., (Alumnus Alpha-Omicron), War­ W. Clark, 320 .Chamber of Commerce Bldg: ren Hardy, 1477 Dexter Horton B!dg. Meetings on seco~d Tuesday, 6: 30, University Club. Luncheons every Tuesday, Hollywood Tavern. LOUISVILLE, KY., (Alumnus Beta-Mu), R. P. SHREVEPORT, LA., (Alumnus Beta-Psi), W. R. Hobson, 616 Inter-Southern Bldg. Barrow, CQmmercial Securities Co. of Shreveport, Luncheons every Friday, Side Door Inn. Inc. SPARTANBURG, S. C., (Alumnus Omicron), B. W. MEMPHIS, TENN., (Alumnus Beta), J. E. Dean, 1 161 Madison Ave. Isom, 153 North Liberty St. Luncheons on second Wednesday, University Club. ST. LOUIS, MO., (Alumnus Alpha-Nu), R. W. MIAMI, FLA., (Alumnus Gamma-Gamma), P . R. Tiernan, 1719 St. Louis Ave., East St. Louis, Ill. Lester, 213 N. E . 1st Ave. (P. 0. Box 4613) , Dinner on third Monday, 6: 30, Marquette Hotel. dinner every Tuesday, 6 p. m., City Club, 216 ST. PAUL, M'INN. See Minneapolis. N. E. 20. SYRACUSE, N. Y., (Alumnus Alpha-Omega), Dr. C. MILWAUKEE, WIS., (Alumnus Alpha-Chi), B. G. E. McElwain, Syracuse Clinic, Fayette Park. Zilmer, 614 Milwaukee St. TAMPICO, MEXIjCO, (Alumnus Beta-Delta), S. A. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., (Alumnus Beta-Rho), J. F. Grogan, Apartado 106, Mexican Gulf Oil Co. HANEY, 1003 S. E. 8th St. TULSA, OKLA., (Alumnus Alpha-Pi), C. F. Neer· MONROE, N. C., (Alumnus Beta-Eta), Thomas N. man, 216 East 3d St. Lee, Lee & Lee. WICHITIL, KAN., (Alumnus Beta-Chi), W. A. Me· MUSKOGEE, OKLA., (Alumnus Chi), Geo. E. Me· Kinney, 7 Wheeler·Kelly-Hagt).y Bidg. . Laurine, McLaurine's Drug Store. WILMINGTON, N. C., (Alumnus Beta-Kappa), NASHVILLE, TENN., (Alumnus Omega), Milton Bishop T. C. Darst, '510 Orange St. Davenport, c jo U. S. District Attorney. NElW ORLEANS, LA., (Alumnus Eta), G. R. Ham­ .The following alumni chapters have no correspondent: mett, 2015 Calhoun St. Gamma, White Suphur Springs, W . Va. NEW YORK, N. Y., (Alumnus Alpha-Epsilon), Delta, Charleston, S. C. Francis J. Leahey, 370 7th Ave. Epsilon, Norfolk, Va. Luncheons every Friday, 22 East 38th St. Zeta, Dillon, S. C. Meetings on third Monday, same place. Lambda, Opelika, Ala. OAKLAND, CAL., (Alumnus Alpha-Beta), R. E. Morgan, 2510 Haste St., Berkeley, Cal. Mu, Fort Smith, Ark. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., (Alumnus Beta-Xi), C. Xi, Lynchburg, Va. B. Moore Retail Credit .Co., American Nat!. Bank Pi, Gainesville, Ga. Bldg. Beta-Iota, Little Rock, Ark. CLUB HOUSES CHICAGO, ILL., 1423 Hyde Park Blvd. NEW YORK, N. Y., 22 East 38th St. (corner of Madison Ave.). CHAPTER ROLL AND DIRECTORY Note: The number following the chapter name is the district in which the chapter is located. The address following the name of the college or university is that of the chapter house. An • indicates mailing address of the S.M.C. only as the chapter bas no fixed meeting place. The name given is that of the S.M.C. The day and time is that of the chapter meeting. ALPHA, 4, University of Virginia, Pi Kappa Alpha BETA, 5, Davidson Olllege,• Box 12, Davidson, N. C., House, University, Va., Leon T. Seawell, Jr., Mason L. Carroll, Jr., Thurs. 10: 00. Wed. 7: 30. DIRECTORY 91

GAMMA, 4, William and Mary College, Pi Kappa ALPHA-OMICRON, 14, Southwestern University, 1412 Alpha House, Williamsburg, Va., H. B. Frazier, College St., Georgetown, Tex., W. L. Armstrong, Jr., Mon. 10: 15. Sun. 2: 15. DELTA, 9, Birmingham-Southern College, 600 8th Ave., W.est Birmingham, Ala., Wm. H. Jenkins, ALPHA-PI, 9, Howard College, 7815 Underwood Ave., Mon. 7: 30. East Lake, Ala., H. S. Tinklepaugh, Mon. 7: 30. ZETA, 8, University of Tennessee, 1305 W . Clinch ALPHA-RHO, 3, Ohio State University, 1943 Waldeck Ave., Knoxville, Tenn., W. P. O'Neill, Mon. 7: 00. Ave., Columbus, 0., M. W. Riethmiller, 111on. ETA, 11, Tulane University, 1114 W ebster St., New 6: 30. Orleans, La., J. Melville Smith, Thurs. 7: 30. ALPHA-SIGMA, 17, University of California, 2324 THETA, 8, Southwestern Presbyterian University, 435 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, Cal., J. S. Shaw, Mon. Coll ege St., Clarksville, Tenn., T. G. Connell, 7: 30. Thurs. 7: 00. ALPHA-TAU, 16, University of Utah, 160 S. 13th St., lOT A, 4, H ampden-Sidney College, Pi Kappa Alpha Salt Lake City, Utah, M itchell H. Kline, Mon. House, Hampden-Sidney, Va., A. A. Adkins, 7: 00. Wed. 10: 00. ALPHA-UPSILON, 2, New York University, 30 KAPPA, 8, Transylvania University, 603 N. Broad­ North St., Bronx, New York, N. Y., Gerald Mc­ way, Lexington, Ky., Joseph Henderson, Sat. Carthy, Mon. 7: 30. 1: 00. ALPHA-PHI, 12, I owa State College, 2112 Lincoln MU, 5, Presbyterian College of South Carolina,* Box Way, Ames, Ia., Jerome H. Bowen, Mon. 8: 00. 323, Clinton, S. C., I. M. Bagnal, Tues. 7: 00. ALPHA-CHI, 2, Syracuse University, 1005 Walnut OMICRON, 4, University of Richmond,* Box 100, Ave., Syracuse, N. Y., Archer M. Urquhart, Mon. University of Richmond, Va., J. T. Frazier, 7: 30. Sun. 3: 00. PI, 4, Washington & Lee University, Pi Kappa Alpha ALPHA-PSI, 2, Rutgers University, 126 College Ave., House, Lexington, Va., G. E. Burks, Wed. 7: 00. New Brunswick, N. J., Chas. Fowler, Tues. 7: 00. SIGMA, 8, Vanderbilt University, 2109 Garland Ave., ALPHA-OMEGA, 13, Kansas State Agricultural Col­ Nashville, Tenn., Ryan Taylor, Wed. 7: 30. lege, 33 1 N. 17th St., Manhattan, Kan., J. Eugene TAU, 5, University of North Carolina, Pi Kappa Alpha Irwin, Wed. 7: 15. House, Chapel Hill, N. C., John S. Graham, W ed. BE'I'A-ALPHA, 3. Pennsylvania State College, Pi 7: 00. Kappa Alpha House, State College, Pa., James C. UPSILON, 9, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Pi Kappa Gerry, Mon. 10:00. Alpha House, Auburn, Ala., G. R, McNeill, Wed. BETA-BETA, 15, University of Washington, 1804 E. 9: 00. 50th St., Seattle, Wash., B. W. Strecker, Mon. PSI, 6, North Georgia Agricultural College, Pi Kappa 7: 30. Alpha House, Dahlonega, Ga., R. E. Calhoun, BETA-GAMMA, 13, University of Kansas, 1200 Sun. 2: 00. Louisiana St., Lawrence, Kan., G. H. Crooks, OMEGA, 8, University of Kentucky, 273 S. Limestone Mon. 8: 00. St., Lexington, Ky., G. F . Robert, Wed. 7: 30. BETA-DELTA, 16, University of New Mexico, 1608 ALPHA-ALPHA, 5, Duke University,* Box C, Duke E . Silver Ave., Albuquerque, N. M., S. M. Arm­ University, Durham, N. C., E . C. McDaris, Sun. . strong, Mon. 7: 30. 2: 00. BETA-EPSILON, 3, W'estern Reserve University, ALPHA-GAMMA, 11, Louisiana State University, 810 1709 E . !1 5th St., Cleveland, 0 ., J ames Anthony, Lake Park, Baton Rouge, La., C. J. \Vyly, Mon. 7: 30. Sun. 2:00. ALPHA-DELTA, 6, Georgia School of Technology, 18 BETA-ZETA, 14, Southern Methodist University, West North Ave., Atlanta, Ga., w·. E. Booker, 3600 Haynie Ave., Dallas, Tex., Hugh Carlisle, Jr., Fri. 7: 30. Mon. 7: 30. ALPHA-EPSILON, 5, N. C. State College Agricul­ BETA-ETA, 7, University of Illinois, 305 E. John St., ture and Engineering,* Box 393, State College Sta­ Champaign, III., Herbert R. Reising, Mon. 6 : 00. tion, Raleigh, N. C., M. C. Comer, Mon. 7: 30. BETA-THETA, 2, Cornell University, 17 South Ave., ALPHA-ZETA, 10, University of Arkansas, Pi Kappa Ithaca, N. Y., H. H. Blomeier, Sun. 6: 30, Alpha House, Fayetteville, Ark., J . Wilson Holt, BETA-IOTA, 12, Beloit College, 416 College St., Mon. 7: 15. Beloit, Wis., Wallace S. Calvert. ALPHA-ETA, 6, University of Florida, Pi Kappa BETA-KAPPA, 6, Emory University, Pi Kappa Alpha Alpha House, Gainesville, Fla., S. D. Wallace, House, Emory University, Ga., J. M. Rivers, Sun. 2: 00. Thurs. 7: 30. ALPHA-THETA, 3, West Virginia University, 42 BETA-LAMBDA, 10, Washington University, 6117 High St., Morgantown, W. Va., S. C. Hill. McPherson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., Fred P. Con- ALPHA-IOTA, 11, Millsaps College, 1359 North West rath, Mon. 8: 00. · St., Jackson, Miss., J. T. Lewis, Jr., Tues. 7: 15. BETA-MU, 14, University of Texas, 2504 Rio Grande ALPHA-KAPPA, 10, Missouri School of Mines, 1008 Ave., Austin, Tex., A. C. Douthitt, Wed. 7: 00. Pine St., Rolla, Mo., 0. L. Koch, Mon. 7: 15 . ALPHA-LAMBDA, 8, Georgetown .College, Pi Kappa BETA-NU, 15, Oregon Agricult.ural College, 508 Jef­ Alpha House, Georgetown, Kl:·• Harry Mitchel. ferson St., Corvallis, Ore., Donnell T. H ender­ ALPHA-NU, 10, University of Missouri, 210 S. Ninth son, Mon. 7: 00. St., Columbia, Mo., Robert L. Riggs, Mon. 7: 15. BETA-XI, 12, University of Wisconsin, 661 Mendota ALPHA-XI, 3, University of Cincinnati, 2437 Clifton Court, Madison, Wis., C. W. Matthews, Mon. Ave., Cincinnati, 0., Harold. Hyer, Sat. 8: 00. 6: 30. 92 SHIELD AND DIAMOND

BETA-OMICRON, 14, University of Oklahoma, 732 BETA-PSI, 6, Mercer University, 1420 Lawton Ave., Asp Ave., Norman, Okla., B. E. Rawling, Mon. Macon, Ga., Tom Hall Smith, Mon. 9: 00. 7: 00. BETA-OMEGA, 7, Lombard College, 711 Locust St., BETA-PI, 2, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S. 39th Galesburg, Ill., John M. McGirr, Mon. 8: 00. St., Philadelphia, Pa., H arold C. Mertes, Tues. 7: 00. GAMMA-ALPHA, 9, University of Alabama, 1414 BETA-RHO, 16, Colorado College. 1339 N. Nevada University Ave., Tuscaloosa, Ala., Lewis A. Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo., S. B. Gray, Mon. Smith, Wed. 6 : 45. 7: 30. GAMMA-BETA, 13. University of Nebraska, 1141 D BETA-SIGMA, 3, Carnegie Institute of Technology, St., Lincoln; Neb., Philip H . Robinson, Mon. 7: 15. 4807 Baum Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pa., C. E. Craw, GAMMA-GAMMA, 16, Uni~ersity of Denver, 2114 S. Mon. 7: 30. Clayton St., Denver, Colo., Raymond Kirpball. BETA-TAU, 7, University of Michigan, 1824 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich., Rober B. Pickard, Mon. GAMMA-DELTA, 17, University of Arizona, 733 Speedway, Tucson, Ariz., Chas. Ewing, Mon. 7: 00. iO: 00. BETA-UPSILON, 16, University of Colorado, 1501 GAMMA-EPSILON, 16, Utah Agricultural College, Twelfth St., Boulder, Colo., Gilbert E. Lowes, 609 N. 8th Eas~, LogaTJ., Utah, Rex Ostler. Mon. 7: 30. BETA-PHI, 7, Purdue University, 175 Littleton St., GAMMA-ZETA, 3, Wittenberg College, 801 N. Foun­ West Lafayette, Ind., H. H . Roth, Mon. 6: 00. tain Ave., Springfield, Ohio, Harold E. Winey. BETA-CHI, 12, University of Minnesota, 1214 4th St., GAMMA-ETA, 17, University of Southern California, S. E., Minneapolis, Minn., Orien Anderson, H arold Kispert, 2644 S. Portland St. ., Los Angeles, Mon. 7:00. Calif. DISTRICTS DISTRICT No. I.-Connecticut; Maine; Massachu­ District Princeps: John J. Sparkman, Gamma-Alpha, setts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; Vermont. Henduson· National Bank Bldg., Huntsville, Ala. District Princeps: to be appointed. DISTRICT No. 10.-Arkansas, Alpha-Zeta; Missouri, DISTRICT No. 2.-Delaware; New Jersey, Alpha-Psi; Alpha-Kappa, Alpha-Nu, Beta-Lambda. New York, Alpha-Upsilon, Alpha-Chi, Beta-Theta; District Princeps: Joe A. Sheehan, Alpha-Nu, 1428 Pennsylvania east of Williamsport, Beta-Pi. Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. District Princeps: R. E. Cansler, Alpha-Chi, 440 DISTRI·CT No. 11.-Louisiana, Eta, Alpha-Gamma; Cedarwood Terrace, Rochester, N. Y. Mississippi, Alpha-Iota . . DISTRICT No. 3.-0hio, Alpha-Xi, Alpha-Rho, Beta­ District Princeps: A. L. Hogan, Alpha-Gamma, 624 Epsilon, Gamma-Zeta; Pennsylvania west of Wil­ Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. liamsport, Beta-Alpha, Beta-Sigma; West Virginia, DISTRICT No. 12.-Iowa, Alpha-Phi; Minnesota, Alpha-Theta, Beta-Chi; North and South Dakota; Wisconsin, District Princeps: Frederick D. Lotter, Alpha-Xi, Beta-Iota, Beta-Xi. 3411 Morrison Place, Cincinnati, Ohio. · District Princeps: H. J. Rowe, Alpha-Phi, 634 DISTRICT No. 4.-District of Columbia; Maryland; Higley Bldg., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Virginia, Alpha, Gamma, Iota, Omicron, P~ . DISTRICT No. 13.-Kansas, Alpha-Omega, Beta­ District Princeps: Samuel W. Lacy, Omicron, 812 Gamma; Nebraska, Gamma-Beta. W . Franklin St., Apt. 307, Richmond, Va. · District Princeps: J. W'ilbur Wolf, Gamma-Beta, DISTRICT No. 5.-North Carolina, Beta, Tau, Alpha­ 1200 Jackson St., Omaha, Neb. Alpha, Alpha-Epsilon; South Carolina, Mu. DISTRICT No. 14.-0klahoma, Beta-Omicron; Tex;u, District Princeps: Thos. G. ' Neal, Alpha-Alpha, Alpha-O,;icron, Beta-Zeta, Beta-Mu. 308 C1mrch St., Laurinburg, N. C. District Princeps: E. Raymond Moss, Alpha-Eta, DISTRICT No. 6.-Florida, Alpha-Eta; Georgia, Psi, 1108 Santa Fe Bldg., Dallas, Texas. Alpha-Delta, Beta-Kappa, Beta-Psi. DISTRICT No. 15.-Idaho; Montana; Oregon, Beta­ District Princeps: E. R. Denmark, Alpha-Delta, Nu; Washington, Beta-Beta. Beta-Kappa, 402 Trust Co. of Ga. Bldg., Atlanta, District Princeps: Everett W. Fenton, Alpha-Sigma, Ga. 223 Sherlock Bldg., Portland, Oregon. DISTRIC'l' No. 7.-Illinois, Beta-Eta, Beta-Omega; Indiana, Beta-Phi; Michigan, Beta-Tau. DISTRICT No. 16.-Colorado, Bt·ta-Rho, Beta-Upsilon, District Princeps: Arthur S. Bowes, Beta-Phi, Gamma-Gamma; New Mexico, Beta-Delta; Utah, 1423 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Alpha-Tau, Gamma-Epsilon; Wyoming. DISTRICT No. 8.-Kentucky, Kappa, Omega, Alpha· District Princeps. Lambda; Tennessee, Zeta, Theta, Sigma. DISTRICT No. 17.-Arizona, Gamma-Delta; Cali­ District Princeps: Charles H . Olmstead, Beta-Theta, fornia, Alpha-Sigma; Nevada. 1401 Beechwood St., Nashville, Tenn. District Princeps: George B. Marsh, Alpha-Omicron, DISTRICT No. 9.-Alabama:, Delta, Upsilon, Alpha­ Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Pi, Gamma-Alpha. Cal.

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