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1\idtard G'~aumhnff ~ource ..J~-:. ..:?.:.... ~ateJ?. ~l A Greater and Better SHIELD AND DIAMOND 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. ~11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ .. ··-··-··-··-·•-•t-••-··~·--·--··-·--·--·,---··- +-------·--··-··-··-·--··-··-··-··-··-l - ~ i i I Bound Copies f I of the f SHIELD AND DIAMOND for the year 1925-1926 ! ! ! are still available I ! i in a handsome garnet fabricoid binding with the fraternity · crest .embossed in genuine gold. The cost is $2.50 each, po~tage prepaid. If you want ·chapter or individual name stamped in gold in lower .right hand corner, add 50 cents. This volume should be on the library table of every chapter for it is both an historical record and a book of ready reference containing information not found . in any other place. SEND ORDERS TO THE 1 i i I General Office of Pi Kappa Alpha ! 405 Commercial Exchange Bldg. 1 I Atlanta, Ga. i i +--·--·-··-··-··-··-··~·-··--·-··-.·-··--·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··---·.-..--· THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND Official Publication of the Pi Kappa A /ph a Fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was founded at the University of Virginia on March 1, 1868 by Frederick Southgate Taylor, Julian Edward Wood, Little ton Waller Tazewell, Robertson Howard and James Benjamin Schlater. 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 J. HAROLD J o HNSTON, Editor 225 W est 34th St., N ew York City R. G. BAUMHOF'F, Associate Editor K. D. PuLCIPHER, Associate Editor The Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo. -525 Union Station, Chicago, Ill. T a lt SHIELD AND DIAMOND is published four times a year at T he Evangelical Press, Third All members of the fraternity are invited to sub and Reily Streets, Harrisburg, Pa., in Octoher, mit articles and photographs of both active and · December, March and May, by the Pi Kappa alumni members. Photographs will be returned on Alpha fraternity and is devated to the interests r equest. All material must be received by the first of its active and alumni m embers. · of the month preceding date of publication. The subscription price is $2.00 a year. Special E ntered as second-class maUer at the post office alumni •rate, three ;years for $4.00. Life subscrip tions, $20. Make all remittances and send ·.·an at H arrisburg, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. changes of address to Robert A. Smythe, Grand A:cceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 'Treasurer, 3rd and Reily Sts., Harrisburg, Pa., or provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 405 Commercial Exchange Building, Atlanta, Ga. 1917, authorized July 16, 1918. GRAND PRINCEPS }OHN R. PEREZ, WHO INSTALLED GAMMA-ETA Gfhe SHIELD and DIAMOND 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.