Phi Beta Kappa Number ~ DECEMRER, 1918 I 3 --/ Sigtna Kappa Triangle VOL. XIII DECEMBER, 1918 NO. 1 ... , ~' • 'Ev KTJP p.ta ooo~.. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY PHI BETA KAPPA NUMBER GEORGE BANTA, Official Printer and Publisher 450 to 454 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wlsconein. TRIANGLE DIRECTORY Editor-in-chief MRS. FRANCIS MARSHALL WIGMORE c!o The Orland Register, Orland, Cal. Chapter Editor FRITZI NEUMANN 701 A St. S. E., Washington, D. C. Alumnm Editor FLORENCE SARGENT CARLL South China, Maine . Exchange Editor MABEL GERTRUDE MATTOON 127 N. Malabar St., Huntington Park, Cal. Contributing Editor GRACE COBURN SMITH 2137 Bancroft St., Washington, D. C. Circulation Manager HATTIE MAY BAKER 24 Sunset Road, West Somerville, Mass. All communications r egarding subscriptions should be sent direct to Miss Baker. SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is issued m December, March, June, and September. All chapters, active and alumnre, must send all manuscript to their respective editors (at the addresses given above) on or before the Fifteenth of October, J anuary, April, and July. Price $1.25 per annum. Single copies 35 cents. Entered as second-cia s matter October 15, 1910, at the postoffice at Menasha, Wis., under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided f or in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized, .July 31, 1918. SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY Founded at Colby College in 1874 FOUNDERS MRS. L. D. CARVER, nee Mary Caffrey Lowe, 26 Gurney St., Cam­ bridge, Mass. ELIZABETH GORHAM HOAG (deceased). MRS. J. B. PIERCE, nee Ida M. Fuller, 201 Linwood Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. LOUISE HELEN COBURN, Skowhegan, Me. MRS. G. W. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann, 221 E St. N. W., Washing­ ton, D. C. ... ... ... GRAND COUNCIL · President ETHEL HAYWARD WESTON, 20 Prospect Ave., Rumford, Me. Vice-president LORAH MONROE, 701 N. McLean St., Bloomington, Ill. Secretary MRS. FLORENCE COLBY BATTRAM, 5606 Edgerly St., Oakland, Cal. Treasurer MRS. MARY LOUISE GAY BLUNT, 603 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Editor-in-chief MRS. FRANCIS MARSHALL WIGMORE, clo The Orland Register, Orland, Cal. ... ... ... OTHER OFFICERS Grand Registrar JOSIE B. HOUCHENS, 1106 California Ave., Urbana, Ill. Custodian of the Badge RUTH LITCHEN, 605 Olive St., Leavenworth, Kan. Chairman Extension Committee ELIZA ALEXANDER, 705 E. Empire St., Bloomington, Til. Delegate to Panhellenic MRS. ETHEL HAYWARD WESTON, 20 Prospect Ave., Rumford, Me. Chairman of National Panhellenic Congress MRS. MARY C. LOVE COLLINS, X 0, 910 Fayette Natl. Bank Bldg., Lexington, Ky. Grand Counselor MRS. EULA GROVE LINGER, 97 University Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. ROLL OF CHAPTERS ACTIVE ALPHA, 1874. Colby College, Waterville, Maine. BETA AND GAMMA. Consolidated with Alpha. DELTA, 1904. Boston University, Boston, Mass. EPSILON, 1905. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. ZETA, 1906. George Washington University, Washington, D. C. .i!:TA, 1906. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill. THETA, 1906. University' of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. IoTA, 1908. University of Denver, Denver, Colo. KAPPA, 1908. Owing to ruling of university faculty the charter was surrendered in 1911. LAMBDA, 1910 University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Mu, 1910. University of ·washington, Seattle, Wash. Nu, 1911. Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Xr, 1913. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. OMICRON, 1913. Jackson College, Medford, Mass. Pr, 1915. Leland Stanford Jr. University, Cal. RHO, 1917. Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. SIGMA, 1917. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. TAU, 1918. University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind. UPSILON, 1918. Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore. ALUMN.lE Waterville Alumnre Waterville, Me. Portland Alumnre Portland, Me. Boston Alumnre Boston, Mass. New York City Alumnre New York, N. Y. Washington Alumnre Washington, D. C. Bloomington Alumnre Bloomington, Ill. Colorado Alumnre . Denver, Colo. · Central New York Alumnre Syracuse, N. Y. Puget Sound Alumnre Seattle, Wash. Los Angeles Alumnre Los Angeles, Cal. Worcester Alumnre Worcester, Mass. Kan as City Alumnre Kansas ity, Mo. Western New York Alumnre Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago Alumnre Chicago, Ill. CONTENTS Our First Phi Beta Kappa . 7 Life Calls to Life . 9 Phi Beta Kappa . 10 Phi Beta Kappa and the British Commission . 12 Our Youngest Phi Beta Kappas . 15 A Tribute to English Women . 23 A Prayer for the Women of Europe . 25 Montreal and Environs As Seen by a Sigma Kappa . 25 Eliza Alexander . 30 War Work of the Chapters . 30 . University Women and the Fomth Liberty Loan . 34 A Panhellenic Magazine . 35 From a Letter from Eula Grove Linger . 39 In Memoriam ........ ·. 40 From the Editor's Easy Chair . 42 Exchanges .. .. .... ·. 51 With Our Active Chapters . 57 With Our Alumnre Chapters . 75 Chapter Meetings . 83 Advertisements 88 ILLUSTRATIONS Mary Low Carver, Alpha '75 ... .. ........ .. ...... ... Frontispiece Louise Helen Coburn, Alpha '77..... .. .. .. .. ............ 9 Helene Buker, Alpha '18 . 16 Marian Lewis, Alpha '18 ................ .. .. .. ........ .. 17 Norma Goodhue, Alpha '18 ........ ........... ..... ... .... 17 Dorothy Sornborger, Zeta 19 Bertie Daughartry, Sigma ... .. .... ..... ................ .. 20 Thelma Baker, Rho ... .......... .. ... .. .. ......... ... 21 Isabelle Batchelor, Tau . ...... .. .... .................... 22 Eliza Alexander . .... .. ...... ..... .... .............. 30 Dorothy Pease, Omicron .. ................. ........ .. ..... 70 MARY LOW CARVER SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE VOL. X III D E CEMBER, 1918 N O. 1 PHI BETA KAPPA NUMBER OUR FIRST PH I BET A KAPPA One of our Founders, Mary Low Carver, was the first woman student to enter Colby College. This was in 1871, .and she had to bear all the adverse criticism that then was uttered against women who dared seek a higher education. It was not that she really heard much criticism but she was made to f eel it. In spite of this opposition she ranked among the very highest in her class, and was in due time elected to Phi Beta Kappa. And you know how in 1873 four other young women .entered those classic halls, and of course you know who t hey were, those brave young women who blazed the way t hat we might follow, Frances Elliot Mann, Ida Mabel Fuller P ierce, Louise Helen Coburn, and Elizabeth Graham Hoag. Louise Helen Coburn was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, t hus two of our Founders set the example that Alpha has -ever so well upheld. In reply to a letter asking for particulars of her affilia­ tion with Phi Beta Kappa Sister Carver writes : '' 72 Fayerweather St., Cambridge, Mass., October 14, 1918. "'D ear Mrs. Wigmor·e : "Your letter had to travel around somewhat before reach­ ing me as my address has been changed twice within a short t ime. 8 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE "I am giving you what data I can in reference to the estab­ lishment of the chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at our college. Professor Black was the prime move-r, as I remember, in obtaining the chapter for Colby. It was organized in 1896, the first annual meeting being held on June 29 of that year, the charter having been granted the preceding year. Of course, this ·was some years after I graduated. Those who inaugurated the chapter went back over the records of former classes and placed in nomination for membership the names of all whose rank in scholarship entitled them to the honor. "The total living membership of Colby's Phi Beta Kappas· is now 390, and 147 of these are women and over seventy­ five of them Sigma Kappas. From the graduating class of 1918 there were elected three men and ten women, and for this disproportion, war conditions are given as the reason. " The Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa of Maine (such is its proper title) did not at first make use of a ritual o~· any form of initiation but it now uses these at the annual meeting at commencement. This ritual was recommended by the United Chapters about three years ago. ''The present officers of the chapter are: President, Julian D. 'raylor, LL.D.; first vice-president, Bertram C. Richardson; second vice-president, Florence E. Dunn of the class of 1896, our first Grand President of Sigma Kappa; secretary and treasurer, Prof. J. William Black. "Colby stands thirty-ninth in the eighty-nine chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. ''You will see that I cannot give any account of my own initiation as there was none at that time. I joined in 1896 and was present at the first annual meeting and the banquet. Only four of my class were elected to membership as only one-fourth of a class can be admitted. Whether that stringent regulation holds in other chapters I do not know. " Hoping that this little that I am able to contribute ma~r be of some slight use, I remain, Yours loyally in Sigma, M ARY Low CARVER.' • LIFE CALLS TO LIFE 9 "P. S. I should add, perhaps, that at Colby it is and has always been the custom to elect only members of the senior class or graduates to Phi Beta Kappa. ... ... ... M. L. C.'' LIFE CALLS TO LIFE Life calls to life in the shadow Betwixt the dark and the morn; Life's agony is voiced by a cry, And a little child is born. LOUISE HELEN COBURN, Alpha '77 Another ·body for anguish, For toil and vigil and strain; Another soul to learn the dole Of the world's immortal pain. But when earth wakes with morning, With stir of field and of mart, One mother keeps, while her infant sleeps, Life's Christmas in her heart. 10 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Though the world be spent with sorrow, Pain-racked and terror-driven, Hope springs on earth with each new birth, And love to love is given. (LOUISE HELEN COBURN in Kennebec and Othe1· Poems.) PHI BETA KAPPA Phi Beta Kappa was founded 142 years ago at the second oldest college in America, at Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the achievement of five young men, who met at the College of William and Mary on a December day, 1776.