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'., Sigma Kappa Triangle

VOL. XI SEPTEMBER, 1917 NO. 4

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY

RED CROSS NUMBER Dedicated to Our Founders

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FOUNDERS MRS. L. D. CARVER, nee Mary Caffrey Lowe, 26 Gurney St., Cam­ bridge, Mass. ELIZABETH GORHAM HOAG, (deceased). MRS . .J. B. P I E RCE, nee I da M. Fuller, 201 Linwood Blvd., Kansas City, M0 . LOUISE HELEN COBURN, Skowhegan, Me. MRS. G. W . HALL, nee Frances E. Mann, 221 E St. N . W., Washing­ ton, D. C. A A A GRAND COUNCIL President MRS. EULA GROVE LINGER, 97 University Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. . Vice-president MRS. ETHEL HAYWOOD WESTON, 20 Prospect Ave., Rumford, Me. Secretary MRS. FLORENCE COLBY BATTRAM, 5606 Edgerly St., Oakland, Cal. Treasurer MRS. MARY LOUISE GAY BLOUNT, 874 Fairmount Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Editor-in-chief MRS. FRANCES MARSHALL WIGMORE, clo The Orland Register, Orland, Cal. A A A OTHER OFFICERS Grand Registrar .JOSIE B. HOUCHENS, 1106 California Ave., Urbana, Ill. Custodian of the Badge RUTH LITCHEN, 605 Olive St., LeaYenworth, ·Kan. Chairman Extension Committee MISS LORAH MONROE, 701 N. McLean St., Bloomington, Ill. Delegate to Panhellenic MRS. ETHEL HAYWOOD WESTO r, 20 Prospect Ave., Rumford, Me. Chairman of National Panhellenic Congress LEKA GRAKDIK BALDWI , A ;E; ~ ~ 670 Euclid Ave., Elmira, N . Y. National Counselor MIRS EliHIA KINNE, 500 Unino•rsity Place, Syracuse, . 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. ETA, 1906. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill. THETA, 1906. University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. IOTA, 1908. Uni•ersity of Denver, Denver, Colo . KAPPA, 1908. Owing to ruling of university faculty the charter was surrendered in 1911. LAMBDA, 1910. Uni•ersity of California, Berkeley, Cal. 1\i(u, 1910. University of Washington, Seattle, \Vash. Nu, 1911. Middlebury College, .Middlebury, Vt. XI, 1913. Unh·er ity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. OMICRON, 1913. Jackson College, Medford, Mass. PI, 1915. Leland Stanford Jr. University, Cal. RHo, 1917. Randolph-Macon ·woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. SIGMA, 1917. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.

ALUMN.lE Waterville Alumme Waterville, Me. Portland Alumme Portland, Me. Boston Alumnre Boston, Mass. New York City Alumnre . New York, N.Y. Washington Alurrime Washington, D. C. Bloomington Alumnre Bloomington, Ill. Colorado Alumnre . Denver, Colo. California Alumnro Berkeley, Cal. Central New York Alumnre Syracuse, . Y. Puget Sound Alumnre Seattle, Wash. Los Angeles Alumnre Los Angeles, Cal. Worcester Alumnre Vi'orcester, Mass. Kansas City Alumnre Kansa City, Mo. Western New York Alumnm Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago Alumnre Chicago, Ill. CONTENTS

The Red Cross •• • •• 0 •••••• •• • ••• •••••••••• ••• •• •••• 0 ••• • • ••• 375 The National Red Cross Drive ...... 376 Do Your Bit ...... 377 Florence Nightingale and Her Achievement ...... 378 Clara Barton and the Red OrMs .'...... 381 The Soul of the Red Cross ...... ·. ; . ·. ·.. ·...... 384 The Red Cross and Its Reorganization in America ...... 386 Enlisting Women for War...... :...... 388 Canadian Women in the War ...... 389 Patriotic Songs: The Hymn of Free Russia ...... 393 The Marseillaise ...... 393 Hymn of Freedom ...... : ...... 394 Installation of Rho and Sigma of Sigma Kappa ...... 395 Sigma Chapter Song ...... 399 Doing H er Bit ...... 400 A Message from One of Our Founders .... : ...... 400 Our Active Chapters aml the Reel Cross ...... 401 Polly McLeod ...... : ...... 411 Hila H elen Small ...... 413 The Fraternity of the Future ...... 417 Letter from U. S. Bureau of Education .. . . ·...... ; . . . . 422 Letter from Akron, Ohio ...... 423 Report of Circulation Manager ...... ·...... 424 Resolutions ...... , ...... 428 From the Editor's Easy Chair ...... 429 Exchanges: The Fraternities' · Opportunity, 435; Do Your Bit, 436; Practical Preparedness; 438; Convention Business, 438; Extension, 439; Bureaus of Occupations, 440. With Our Active Chapters : Under the Editor's Drop Lamp: Citizenship, 441; Enthusiasm, · 442; With the Postman's Whistle, 443; Chapter Letters and Personals, 444. With Our Alumme Chapters: Editorial, 475; Chapter Letters and Personals, 476. Chapter Meetings ...... : ...... 486 Advertisements ...... 490 ILLUST R:ATIONS \¥here the Wisteria Blooms ...... ,· ...... F1·ontispiece Woman's Building, S. M. U., Dallas, Texas ...... 396 Dallas Hall ...... 396 Ethelyn Miller Hartwich and Craig ...... 412 Delta Chapter ...... · 446. Lucy Hall, Pi ...... : ...... 466 The Approach to Smith Hall ...... 468 The End of a Perfect Week ...... 4 71 Seeing Hattie Home ...... 4 71 zCll < )l 0 ~ SI-GMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

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THE NATIONAL RED CROSS DRIVE The Nation's contributions to the Red Cross in response to the call for $100,000,000 greatly exceeded that amount. The latest reports show the total contributions during the cam­ paign to be $118,021,370. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross War Council, in speaking of the result said : "The result which has been achieved is indeed gratifying. This result was made possible by surprisingly generous con­ .tributions in many communities. The most inspiring feature of the campaign has been the number of contributors as well as their wide geographical distribution. Many millions of our people representing every part of the country have given. ''No time will be lost by the Red Cross in its efforts to accomplish results with the large resources witl). which it has now been supplied. First, we shaH provide, as we may be called upon by the Army and Navy, for the care and safety of our soldiers and sailors wherever they may be. "We shall provide funds whereby the American Red Cross Commission may take over administration of American relief work in France. Major Grayson H. P. Murphy, head of the French commission, has been appointed by General Pershing a member of his staff, and the Red Cross has appropriated, at Major Murphy's cabled request, $1,000,000 to take care of immediate needs. "We have cabled each of the allied governments seeking authority to install American Red Cross dispensaries in each of their important seaport cities-a measure of relief urgently needed.'' Do YouR BIT 377

DO YOUR BIT

We have all done our share in helping to make the great National Red Cross drive the ~------• wonderful suc- cess that it was. I doubt if we could find a Sigma anywhere who is not a Red Cross member from the oldest Founder to the youngest pledge. Now we are to have a drive of our own-an extra special effort to show our love for Sigma Kappa and for our coun­ try. We want to raise a Sigma Kappa Red Cross Fund that will enable us to do something for the relief of the world's war suf­ ferers that will be worthy of us as a national sorority. That each one may

same time keep posted on the work being done we offer the TRIANGLE plan which you may read about elsewhere in this issue. Of course, this is not to be the only way of raising money for the Fund- the chapters are urged to other efforts and Grand Council stands ready to give as much as the treasury will stand. In this national and world crisis we must give and give and give again. Now is your chance to do your bit. Subscribe for the TRIANGLE and show your loyalty to Sigma Kappa and to your country. 378 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND HER ACHIEVEMENT A Red Cross number of any magazine is in itself a memorial to Frorence Nightingale and her pioneer work in the now international association. If you haven 't consulted your encyclopedia~ too recently, you may be interested in this sketch of the life. of our first Red Cross nurse. Florence Nightingale was born of English parents in Florence, Italy, May 12, 1820. She acquired a liberal educa­ tion and was brilliantly accoinplished, but her marked charac­ teristic from early childhood was her devotion to the alleviation of pain and suffering. When she was eighteen she was taken to England and presented at court. At this time she met Elizabeth Frye, the great reformer, and through her became interested in the hospital work. When the Nightingale family made their annual trip to the Continent, Florence gave up the social activities and spent her time inspecting the Continental hospitals. The year 1844 marks the beginning of the period she was to spend in preparation for her lifework. This preparation included visits to civil and military hospitals all over Europe, months of ;tudy with the Sisters of Charity in Paris, and finally a long training period as nurse at the institution of Protestant deaconesses at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. She returned to England after completing her training and put into working order the sanatorium for governesses in connec­ tion with the London institution. She was now ready for the stupendous task ~ hich she assumed at the outbreak of the Crimean War. War was declared in the spring of 1854, but no decisive battle was fought until September 20-the battle of Alma. Wounded soldiers were taken to the temporary ho pitals along the banks of the Bosporus. Sanitary conditions were unspeak­ able, and hundreds of soldiers were dying daily from lack of attention. The mortality rate in these shacks was much greater than on the fierce t battle-field. • Iis Nightingale then FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S ACHIEvEMENT 379 saw her opportunity and offered to organize a nursing depart­ ment at Scutari. Lord Sidney Herbert, then at the war office, gladly accepted her offer and on October 21, less than a week after proffering assistance, she left with her nurses. She arrived at Constantinople, November 4, . on the eve of Inkermann, just in time to receive the ·wounded from the second battle into wards already filled with 2,300 wounded. Her great service at this period was in getting supplies and organizing the workers. ''With her nursing scissors which hung at her belt she cut the red tape which had bound the army surgeons under orders.'' Soldiers whose lives she saved never tired of praising her wonderful self-sacrifice and devotion to the sufferers. She made no demand for the eight-hour day, but often stood twenty hours at a stretch in order to provide accommodations and treatments for her patients. Her special service was the improvement of sanitary conditions, by investigating the causes of the high r:p.ortality rate and then striving to eliminate those causes. But her incessant toil brought on a fever and in the spring of 1855 she lay prostrated for weeks. However, she refused to leave her post and remained at Scutari till the British withdrew from Turkey, July 28, 1856. Her untiring devotion to the hospital work in the trying climate of Turkey under­ mined her health and the rest of her life she was practically an invalid, but she did not give up her lifework. On the contrary she was continually busied with papers and other matters which would assist the various commissioners who were labor­ ing to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. In 1858 she contributed to the national association for the promotion of social science two paper:s on hospital construction and arrangements, ·which are most valuable to architects, engi~eers, and medical officers. At the close of the Crimean War a fund was subscribed for the purpose of enabling her to· form an institution for the training of nurses. The interest of the fund, £1400 per annum, is spent in connection with_ 380 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

St. Thomas' and King's College hospitals m training a superior order of nurses. Miss Nightingale also ac·complished a great deal by her investigations and writings toward improving conditions in the villages of India. Her writings include Notes on l{ursing, 1858; Life or Death in India, 1873; A Note of Interrogation, which deals with religious life and beliefs, beside numerous tracts and documents. In i907 King Edward conferred on Florence Nightingale the ''Order of Merit,'' the greatest award which ·the sovereign can bestow for meritorious public service. The Boston Herald observed, "In other times she would have been raised to the rank of a saint.'' Her great achievement speaks for itself in the vast Red Cross Association with its ambulance service at the front, its scores of splendidly equipped doctors and devoted nurses, its thousands of members in every community, sewing, knitting, folding bandages, and with its wonderful organization into provinces, districts, chapters, auxiliaries, branches, etc. Florence Nightingale at her death in 1910 was given wonderful tributes in all the leading periodicals, which styled her variously as ''the Lady-in-chief,'' ''the Lady of Crimea'' and the "Lady with the Lamp." [The lamp referred to the nurse's lamp which she carried in making her rounds in the hospitals in the stillness of the night.] Longfellow wrote of her: "On England's annals through the long H ereafter, of her speech and song That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land A noble type of good Heroitl womanhood.''

RuTH RICHARDSON, Delta '17. CLARA BARTON AND THE RED CROSS 381

CLARA BARTON· AND THE RED CROSS Clara Barton was the youngest child in a large family and her brothers and sisters all helped in her education. Her elder brother was very fond of mathematics and he delighted in teaching his bright little sister the mysteries of numbers. And she was such an apt pupil that she carried her slate about with her and begged for more sums. Her two older sisters were school teachers and taught her to. read the best books. They were a very. happy family. Their parents were well to do, but they lived a very simple life in the town of North Oxford, Massachusetts. The father and grandfather had·both been soldiers, and the grandfather had served in the Revo­ lutionary War. So the Barton children, as they sat about the fireplace during the long wintry evenings, heard many a thrilling· tale of the battle-field. When Clara was only eleven years old her brother David had a fall from a building and was seriously injured, so that for two years he was a helpless invalid. Clara at once took her place at her brother's bedside and became his willing little nurse. ''Clara is a born nurse,'' said her sisters, and this was true. Although the sisters were much older than Clara she was the one David relied upon for service. She was always self­ sacrificing and she considered it no hardship to wait upon others; it was a joy to her to be of service. When David was well once more Clara went to an academy at Clinton, New York, where she graduated. She was a good student, for the drill she had received in the home from her older brothers and sisters helped her in her work. One time when she was visiting in Bordentown, New Jersey, she noticed that the children ran the streets from morning 11ntil night. ''Is there no school~'' she inquired. ''No,'' said her friends. ''The children are so lawless that no school-master can hold them.'' Clara Barton at once offered to open the school and said that she would serve for three months without any pay. The chool authorities laughed at her and said: ''How can a 382 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE woman hope to hold those children when strong men have failed~'' But she · persisted and at last they provided her with a building. The first morning six children came, and they enjoyed the school so much that they told others, and at the end of a year the. school was so successful that they had 600 children and were obliged to have a larger building and the classes divided into grades. - Miss Barton worked so hard that the strain was too much for her, and so she was obliged to give up her pupils. Soon after this she went to Washington and took a position in the pension office there. Her drill in number work ·when she was a child was of great help to her now. She had a good business head and was so honest and upright in all of her dealings that she at once was placed in charge of the office. When the Civil War broke out l\Iiss Barton was in Wash­ ington and she felt at once that i~ was her duty to give up her position in the pension office and help the poor wounded soldiers. At first she busied herself in the hospitals in Wash­ ington, but she often said: ''How I long to go to the front and help on the battle-fields. Possibly there I could save some of our ·wounded soldiers. '' At last she received permission and went to the front, and - she was as fearless upon the battle-field as any officer in the army, and under shot and shell he went about doing her deeds of mercy. The soldier boys all loved her and they called her ''Angel of the Battle-field'' and their ''Guardian Angel.'' l\Iany a night she sat up all night long ministering to the wants of a dying soldier boy, writing down his last me age to his mother or wife or sweetheart, comforting him and helping him until the end came. Many a life he saved by her timely a· istance, binding up wounds and helping until the· boys conld be removed to the hospital tent. At the close of the war President Lincoln a ·ked lara Barton to search for the thousand of men who were mis ing. Names were on the army record,., but no trace of many of these men could be found. he visited the prison at Ander. onville and helped the released pri oners to regain their health and CLARA BARTON AND THE RED CROSS 383 to go home. She searched the National Cemetery and marked gravestones ·were at last put over the bodies of some of the soldiers, while many had to be marked "Unknown." This important -vvork took four years of her time, and then her health broke down and she went abroad for a long rest. While she was in Switzerland she first heard of the Red Cross Society. The idea had origii:J.ated with a Swiss gentleman named l\I: H enri Dnnant. H e had seen the suffering on the battle­ field at Solferino and he felt that all the nations should join to do something to help those who w·er e wounded on the battle­ fie1d , regardless whether they were friends or fo es. At last a conference was held in Geneva and this world's society was formed, and as Switzerland is a neutral nation they decided to take the Swiss symbol, the cross, for their sign of neutral service. The Swiss flag is red with the white cross, but this n ew society r eversed the colors and took as its fl ag the red cross upon a white fi eld. Clara Barton became very much interested in the good work :Yhich was being done by the Red Cross Society and she devoted herself to this cause during the F ranco-Prussian War. After the siege o ~ Strassburg she organized a relief fund for the starving people, and she found work fo r them to do and helped in every way that she could. In 1873, when she r eturned to America, she asked Congress to join in a treaty with the European nations and establish a Red Cross Society in this country. It took a long time to adopt this plan, hut finally in 1881 the Red Cross Society " :as offi cially established here. ~1is s Clara Barton was chosen as the fi rst president, and she soon widened the work of the society by including all suffering humanity. " It need not apply to the battle-field alone, " said this nob! e woman, " but we should help all those who need our help." And so an amendment was passed including all suffe ring from fires, floods, ·famine, earthquake, and other forms of disaster. And this amendment was finally adopted by all nations . . lVIiss Barton was nearly seventy years old when the Spanish War broke out, but she went to Cuba and did heroic work 384 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE there. And when the Galveston flood occurred she was eighty years old, but she went to the aid of that suffering community. Then she gave up active work and went to a small Mary­ land village called Glen Echo to live, and there she spent the remainder of her days and there she passed away on April12, 1912. Clara Barton ranks as one of the greatest heroines of the world. She was always willing to work for the ,good of others, and her services were not limited by nationality or creed, for she believed in the great brotherhood of man, her one aim m life was to relieve suffering humanity...... T HE SOUL OF THE RED CROSS ''To bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting p-eace among ourselves, and with all nations.'' This is the task of the Red Cross. The physical part of this task is immediate, tangible, and urgent-to care for the wounded, the hungry, and the homeless. But when this task of alleviating the physical sufferings . of mankind is finished, a greater task remains. For there remains the great work of healing the spi1·it of the nations, of purging men's hearts of hate and suspicion and revenge, and of freeing their minds from the bondage of narrow nationalism and selfish materialism. For a nation is more than its land and its people. It is great or small as it has a vision, a purpose, and a will to serve. There are nations which accomplish much in material things and gain neither satisfaction at home nor friends abroad, for their accomplishment is selfish and for nations as well as for men it profiteth little to gain a kingdom or a world if it loseth its soul. And there are nations in which the springs of human sympathy flow free-and run to waste into the ground again­ for they are not controlled or directed. But again there are nations where the e springs of human sympathy well up from the ground and where they can be turned to make the world THE SouL OF THE RED CRoss 385 a better place to live in. We are such a nation and the Red Cross is the agent that stands at the flood gates and turns the stream of human kirrdness, undiminished, onto the waste places. A nation whose soul is tried grows a greater soul, for humanity like many other things in nature increases its strength with use. And this is the purpose of the Red Cross. It is a congregation of service; a fellowship of humanity in which every person can enlarge his or her satisfaction in life by doing the things most worth while and doing them in company with so many millions that the whole nation will take on a new aspect. The Red Cross is the soul of the nation. Insofar as we give to it service, the soul of the nation takes on a new and greater aspect. It is a vision to fill men's minds and stir their souls and, out of a war that destroys, kindle a fire to remake our nation on a plane that we had not even before considered, for these days of emotion have loosened the generous energies of the people to great endeavors. The Red Cross must help them lift up their eyes from the horrors and the hell of this war and fix them upon the possible achievements of a federation of the nations. It must make these achievements as real and tangible as the objectives of a military campaign. It must attack and pursue them with the vigor· and discipline of a military organization. If the Red Cross can do this, can provide such a moral equivalent for war, it will not only heal the nation's wounds but achieve a just and lasting peace. The Red Cross will plead for service, record humanity at its best, outline the vision of a greater nation in the non­ material fields, cheer the despondent, and direct the wander­ ing good intention. It is the tie that binds the far separated acts of service together, until the little trickles of humanity shall all come together in a vast stream of human sympathy so pure and powerful as to accomplish a new thing on earth.­ From The Red Cross Mag·azine, August, 1917. 386 SIGMA K APPA T RIANGLE

THE RED CROSS AND ITS REORGANIZATION IN AMERICA At the beginning of the great world war, people here in America looked with distrust on the Red Cross organization. They did not trust it and therefore did not support it. It was while the organization was under this cloud that it decided to hold to a neutral policy-that of sending hospital units and supplies to all belligerent countries, including Germany. This policy caused a great deal of discussion and t"·o parties arose : those approving of the broad Christian-like "·ork · iu treating all alike for whatever cause they were fighting and those who felt that to help Germans vvas fighting against the Allies and against the ideals of democracy. The conse­ quence was that neither party supported the organization financially and so other relief organizations came into ex­ istence. The Belgian Relief Commission was one 'vhich raised two hundred million dollars of which between eleven and twelve million was raised here-three or four times as much as the Red Cross spent in Europe. The National Surgical Dressings Committee was built up from materials which the Red Cross refused to use~old rags, sheets, pieces of linen, rag-bag things. These went into bandages, etc., so that in its. two years' existence the society has sent over seventeen million of surgical dressings to the French English, and Italian hospitals. A New York woman called up the Red Cross bureau one day and asked them if they would send materials for her girls to work on. She had three hundred girls with high-powered machines which she wished to offer to the service of the Red Cross for a number of hours every vveek. The reply was that they couldn't accept them unless they would furnish their own material. Another society accepted the offer at once, Yery gratefully. The American Red Cross during the pre-war period was run by women ·who were amateurs. They had no executive training and as a result they were helpless when confronted by an actual emergency. Individuals got good result. here and there but the teamwork was weak. RED CROSS REORGANIZATION IN AMERICA 387

Every detail had to be subjected to authorities of the organi­ zation at Washington, instead of having some authority in local districts, so that the movement of everything they did was slow and cumbersome. · Before the war was declared here in September, 1916) Presi­ dent Wilson appointed Mr. Eliot Wadsworth active chairman of the National Red C:ross. Mr. Wads worth would not have been interested in the organization probably if it had not called forth a great deal of executive ability in reconstructing the weak places, for he has had special training in the work of reorganizing brokendown railway companies, business firms, etc., and putting them on a firm basis. Six months after this appointment came our declaration of war against Germany. The Red Cross was at once put on a new basis. President Wilson added a new department, the Red Cross War Council, with chairman, H enry P. Davison of the J. Pierpont Morgan banking: firm. Mr. Davison has told the aims of the Red Cross since he has been elected head of the commission. He says they have formed a commission to handle the entire European situation. It consists of men, ·each an expert in his own specialty, big medical and sanitary experts, construction engineers and transportation experts, Y. lVI. C. A. welfare men, civilian relief experts, at the head, Grayson lVI. P . Murphy. This commis­ sion will cooperate with a commission in Europe, France perhaps, and whatever big problem they have will be under­ taken and supported by the American Red Cross. Formerly transportation was a very troublesome question but now the Red Cross will own its own ships and they will be sent under protection of our admiralty. D. W. Cooke, vice­ president of the Erie Railroad, is in charge of this. The council consisting of Charles D. Norton, Grayson Mu!'phy, Cornelius Bliss, Jr., and Edward Hurley, are all men of large affairs. Each is to have his special task and is to be allowed to carry :lt out as he wishes. The newer organizations have become very friendly with the Red Cross and some have asked to be taken in. This new Red Cross organization is not more than two months old and 388 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE will be criti

ENLISTING WOMEN. FOR WAR Food Administrator Hoover, in the course of an outline of his plans for handling the food situation, call attention to some facts that are startling in their significance. Someone. has said that the ''stock pot is the foundation of the wealth of France.'' Out of this stock pot have come the soups \vhich have made the French famous around the world but the frugality of which the humble kitchen utensil is emblematic has gone a long way toward financing the republic in the _great war. 'fhe war may be won in the kitchen. Frugality on the part of the housewife will save millions in money and what is more it will save food 'vhich the world needs. We are told that acrifices will be necessary in the war, but there i no saCI·ince in the elimination of sensele s wa te. The wi e hou ekeeper can save without pinching but she can pinch if he mu t. In hi address to the hou ewives of the nation, Hoover say : Ninty per cnt of American food consumption pa se tluough tho hands of our womeu. In no other :field do small things, when multiplied by om hundred million pe6ple, count for so much. A single pound of br acl aYed weekly for each person will increase our export surplus of wh at 100,000,000 bushels, and an ave1·age saving of 2 cents on each meal C\·er_v day for each person, will save to the nation for war pur­ po c $2,000,000,000 per annum. CANADIAN WOMEN IN 'fHE WAR 389

These figures are surprising. Think of it, a saving of but two cents on each meal in the year will equal the amount of the liberty loan. A single pound of bread saved from the garbage can each week will save or add to the available wheat crop of the country 100,000,000 bushels. And it is to the women of the nation, the wives in twenty million homes, that the appeal of Hoover is now made, for into the hands of these women passes ninety per cent of all the foodstuffs consumed by the people. Hoover proposes to enlist the great army of women for the term of the war. 'l'hey will not be required to leave their homes, to follow the Red Cross, or work in factories. Their work will be done in the home. It can be done nowhere else. · Here is the pledge of the women's corps of food con­ servationists which Hoover asks them to make: I am glad to join yon in the se1·vice of food conservation for mw nation and I he1·eby accept membe1·ship in the United States food ad­ ministration, pledging 1nyself to ca1-ry out the directions and advice o.f the food administmtion in the cond11ct o.f my ho1tsehold, insofar as my cirmvmstances pe1·mit. If Hoover succeeds in enlisting the intelligent, active interest of the women of the nation in his work, the fight against waste will be won and the country will learn a lesson which will leave its mark on the life of the nation for generations to come.

CANADIAN WOMEN IN THE WAR Canadian women are rendering a marvelous service to their country and to humanity in the present war. Though far from the war zone, they bear the major part of the weight of the war, and, as a return for their service and sacrifice, their characters are being moulded to shape a nobler and purer kind of womanhood. Previously, Canadian women have not realized. their possi­ bilities outside the home. Today they are making character; they are proving themselves capable of being efficient busi- 390 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE ness women, clear-headed, intelligent thinkers, and equal to any emergency which may confront them. They have united the labors of all their societies,_ the Daughters of the Empire, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the St. John Ambulance Association, and many other such organizations, for the effecting of better conditions, not only for the soldiers at the front, but also for the soldiers' families at home. They are making a special study of the needs of each of these, and are attempting to satisfy those needs. The whole Dominion is divided into districts with a ward head in every city; each town has its relief organization which keeps in touch with every man· who has gone from Canada to the front, supplying him with blankets, the proper woolen clothing, and all other necessities. It also investigates the needs of his family, sees that his children are sent to school, and that they have proper care and nourishment. Canadian women have established hospitals in France, in England, and in Canada. They have also established schools for the maimed and blinded soldiers, to teach them some useful employment. By this means they are attempting to save their country from the necessity of the depressing pension system after the war. To finance the work of relief means to them a constant and absolute sacrifice of time and money, and a consequent lesson to themselves, to the world, and to future generations in the art of economy. The money is supplied through what they call the Patriotic Relief Fund, money which was at first earned by means of various entertainments, fairs, sales, and concerts, and now by a much more_de:finite plan. They are absolutely getting rid of the sin of waste. They collect all rubbish such as paper, kid gloves, rubbers, shoes, junk, and make ingenious uses of it. Carpets are torn up and transformed into carpet- lippers for the wounded soldiers; old kid gloves are sewed together into linings for soldiers' coats. In one city, the money earned by baling and selling waste paper amounted to one hundred and :fifty dollars a week. Thus, through their efforts for this "'onderful relief sy tern, Canadian women are uplifting ideals of economy and bu iness efficiency, and com- CANADIAN WOMEN IN THE WAR 391 bining with their business interests a willingness to serve and to sacrifice. Moreover, steadily and surely, Canadian womanhood is being subjected to forces which tend to produce better, stronger, and deeper-thinking women of the next generation. Everywhere in Canada are found women, serious but not depressed, who are brought together in little groups by a common bond of sympathy to do some active service. Here, there is no class distinction; rich and poor work side by side. In every organized gathering, a . prayer invariably precedes all work-a prayer earnest in its desire for peace and the safe return of every Canadian son. If we should visit one of these gatherings for any length of time, we should hear at first only the busy click-click of needles accompanied by broken bits of conversation-brave attempts to depart from the all-absorbing war topic. But eventually the talk drifts back to private information that has escaped the censors, to discussions of the women's conference at The Hague, and expressions of the fervent hope that God might answer the prayers of such women as those, met to protest not only with words but also with deeds against this, the maddest of all wars. There is no senseless laughter ·at these meetings. The women soom to be filled with a glorified sadness and with that peculiar tense­ ness which seems to possess all Canada. But whether they be shop-keepers, farmers, porters, cleaners, conductors, agents, telephone managers-for women have entered every one of these occupations-upon the faces of all, from the wealthy woman to the tradeswoman, from the peer's daughter who works in the munitions factory to the wife who takes her husband's place as chauffeur, from the middle-aged woman who drives a cab to the girl who sells tickets in a railway station-upon each and every face is stamped the impress of willing sacrifice and undaunted courage. Even more splendid is the quiet heroism and endurance of those women of Canada who have already expe1;ienced the deepest sorrows of war, and who have lost some dear one in the service of king and country. ''·Women pay the first cost of life," writes Katharine Tynan in an article, "Women and 392 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

War." "There is no battle-field on earth, howsoever strewed with slain, that has not cost women more in actual blood­ shed and anguish to supply, than it has cost the men who lie there.'' Do we ever realize, therefore, how intimate and indissoluble is woman's relation to the fate of the race 1 She gives up what has required her life's blood to produce. Yet, time and again, we see bereaved women facing all life's calls with a marvelous spirit of self-restraint. They do not shirk any of the duties of the life imposed upon them by this war; they do not excuse themselves merely because ''it would hurt.'' Rev. Archibald Alexander in a recent volume, A Day at a Time, describes such women as wearing their hurt gently like a flower in the breast, as carrying their grief like a coronet. He says, ''God only knows how sad and sore their loss is, and what takes place when they face their sorrow alone with Him.'' But at least we do know that they must take their sorrow to Hiin, else they could not endure the strain. The sorrowing mother of two noble young fellows who have recently been killed in battle said to a friend who was mar­ velling at her fortitude, ''My boys were brave! I must be brave for their sake. But, Oh! I do hope they died before they were forced to kill some other mother's sons ! '' Surely to be as brave and generous as that reveals the divine, sus­ taining Hand of omnipotent strength. Thus, the war, with all its evils, has been a means of quicken­ ing forces for good. It has revealed among Canadian women unsuspected moral energies. The spirit of sacrifice is finding new life. Women are awakening from dreams of pleasure and material ease, and are coming face to face with the real things of life. They are making a substantial gain in character and. self-reliance, in loyal devotion and useful helpfulness. They are realizing as never before their great responsibilities and opportunities to arouse in humanity a yearning for a nobler and more intelligent civilization. LOUISE McCURDY, Alpha '16. THE HYMN OF FREE RussiA 393

THE HYMN OF FREE RUSSIA Gilmm svobodnoi Rossii. I. III. Young Russia, hail, victorious! Young Russia, hail, victorious! All praise we chant to thee. All praise we chant to thee. Amid the Nations, glorious Amid the Nations, glorious Thou standest, proud and free. Thou standest, proud and free. II. IV. No tyrant shall enslave thee, A song of countless voices Thy sun arises bright! Resounds from shore to shore, All hail to those who gave thee The Russian folk rejoices New Freedom's sacred light! With Freedom evermore ! v. Young Russia, hail, victorious! All praise we chant to thee. Amid the Nations, glorious Thou standest, proud and free. Moscow, March, 1917. KONSTANTIN BALMONT. (English version by Vera and Kurt Schindler.)

The Hymn of Free R~tssia was heard for the first time in America at a benefit concert for the repatriated Siberian exiles, held in Aeolian Hall, New York. Gretchaninoff, composer of the music, which, since last March, has replaced the famous Czm·'s Hymn, is one of Russia's best-known composers. The melody of song, which is both march and hymn, is of notable simplicity, its highest flight comprised within an octavo of notes, and unadorned as a child's piano exercise. The crowd could have sung it after twice hearing it. The harmony, almost equally plain, yet enriched in the spirit of Russian folk-song, made a profound impression.

THE MARSEILLAISE Ye sons of France awake to glory! Hark! Hark! What myriads bid you rise ! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary ; Behold their tears and hear their cries! 394 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding!

To arms, to arms, ye brave! The hero's sword unsheath! March on, march on, all hearts resolved! On victory or death! With luxury and pride surrounded, The vile insatiate despots dare, Their thirst for gold and power unbounded, To smite and bind the light and air, like beasts of burden they would load us, Like· gods would bid their slaves adore. But man is man and who is moref Then shall they longer lash and goad us' Oh, Liberty, can man resign thee, Once having felt thy generous flame' Can dungeons, bolts, and bars confine thee, Or whips thy noble spirit tame' Too long· the woTld has wept, bewailing, That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield. But Freedom is our sword and shield, And all their arts are unavailing! To arms, to arms, ye brave! . The avenging sword unsheath! March on, march on, all hearts resolved, On victory or death! Collier's for July 7 submits this Hym,n of F1·eedom for our national hymn. At present we have no official national hymn. 1!he Star-Spangled Banner has be.en nominated for the honor at various times, but no act of Congress has ever so established it. ALL UP, PLEASE! Are we satisfied that The Star-Spangled Banner, written for a special occasion, should erve for all time as our "national hymn"~ LeaYing other faults out of accol).nt, The Sta1·-Spangled Banner is very hard for most of us to sing at all. .America is easier, and the words nobler, but the hme is associated with England's national hymn and with Prussia's cow-t hymn. After all, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the R epublic, sung to John Brown's Body, stands first among all our songs of patriotism. One can march to that I And now comes Mary INSTALLATION OF RHO AND SIGMA 395

Perry King with a Hymn of Freedom. The poet informs us that Mr. Roy Webb, a nephew of Digby Bell, has written s·ome thrilling music for the verses. Here are the words:

Unf~brl the flag of Freed01n, Free-born to peace and justice, Fling far the bugle blast! We stand to guard and save There comes a sound of ma1·ching The liberty of manhood, F1·om out the mighty past. The faith o~br fa.thm·s gave. Let every peak and valley Then soa·r aloft, Old Glory, Take up the valiant cry: A. nd tell the waiting b?'eeze Where beautiful as morning, No law b~tt Right and Mercy 01w banner cuts the sky. Shall 1'1ble the Seven Seas.

No hate is in o~b1' ange1·, No vengeance in ou1· w1·ath, We hold the line of freedom Across the tyrant's path. Whm·e 'er opp1·ession vaunteth • We loose the sword once mo1·e To sta.y the feet of conquest, A.nd pmy an end of war. A A A INSTALLATION OF RHO AND SIGMA OF SIGMA KAPPA Dear· Sisters: I want to introduce you to your two new sisters, Rho and Sigma, for some of you far-distant Sigmas may not have had the pleasure of anticipating with us the institution of these two chapters. Personally, I feel that two of my fond dreams have ·come true and I am hoping that others may be as realistically realized as have these. Through the special efforts of some and with the cooperation of all, these definite results in extension have been effected so that we now have an active roll of fifteen. And as our circle has widened it has also deepened; for I believe that Sigma Kappa does stand for intensive extension. There is mutual rejoicing upon the part of those who have attained their goal and upon the part of those who sincerely welcome them into the Bond. Happy have they been to r eceive; happy we to give! And now with increased numbers and . renewed enthusiasm let us press onward in the endeavor to · merit our wonderful heritage. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS, TEXAS Woman's Building Dallas Hall (Main Building) INS'l'ALLATJON OF RHO AND SIGMA 397,

'rhe installing team for Sigma Chapter consisted of Sister Eula Linger, Hazel De Haas, Eliza Alexander, and myself. Mrs. De Haas, coming fl'om Austin, preceded our arrival in Dallas; and she, together with Mrs. Shuler, a patroness, and the Tau Sigma girls, gave the three of . us a most cordial welcome, in spite of the fact that the temperature was high and we arrived shortly past noon. It is always a joy to be­ met at the end of a journey by a goodly company of folk, but the f~ct that one Sigma and several soon-to-be Sig:mas were there gave an added pleasure and interest to our enthusiastic greeting. We were taken almost immediately to the Hotel Southland where we enjoyed a delightful luncheon. After wh.ich we went out to the university and were comfortably located in the_Woman's Building. The following is the schedule which we followed during our stay in Dallas : W ednesday, J~tne 13 5 ;00 P.M. Pledge service at the home of Mrs. Shuler. 7 :30 P. M. Lovely drive over beautiful Dallas. _Th~trsday, J'une 14 10-12 A. M. Examination in Alpha Delta Pi Hall. 2-6 P . M. Preparation for initiation. 6 :00 P. M. Initiation in Oriental Hotel. 8:00 P. M. Banquet in Oriental Hotel. F1·iday, June 15 9 A. M.-12 :30 P. M. Fraternity meeting in Alpha Delta P1 Hall. 4 :00 P. M. Reception by Sigma Chapter to university and townspeople. Of course, every Sigma will read between the lines to ap­ preciate the great pleasure which we had. Those of you who have been to• a Sigma Kappa convention and house party know the good-fellowship, friendly chats, and sympathetic touches which filled out the nooks of our program and are now qright spots in memory. Indeed, the recollection of those days is very vital. The privilege of initiating new girls into Sigma Kappa is wonderfully inspiring but when those girls are to be members of a new chapter the inspiration is even greater. 398 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

An eager and sincere receptiveness is gratification of judgment rightly made and responsibility well placed. And the spirit of initiation was all that could be · desired in its sincerity and enthusiasm. The finale of initiation was, of course, the banquet. Fourteen seems, to many of us, a small number for a Sigma Kappa banquet, but had you been there you would realize that the small number was forgotten because the spirit of Sigma was there in its full significance. And messages from sisters far away enforced the realization that there is a Mystic Bond which binds Sigmas. These new sisters so readily and genuinely caught the spirit and enthusiasm of Sigma that it seems that they have been Sigma Kappas for some time-and were just waiting for our recognition. Now their wearing of the Triangle signifies that we are One Heart, One Way. And they are all endeavoring to make Sigma proud of them and to be loyally worthy of their inheritance-and they will, l know. I am thankful for the personal contact which I had with the girls and hope you may all sometime, somewhere, have the pleasure and privilege of assisting at the installation of a new chapter-nothing can so quicken your loyalty and rekindle your inspiration to work upward toward the goal of Sigma, whose ideal beckons ever onward. Loyally yours in the Bond, LORAH S. ::.'IIONROE.

ITEMS Upon our arrival we learned with much regret that Florence Nelson had been called home by the serious illne.·s of her mother and could not be initiated. The girls expect to initiHte her in the fall. Thanks are due to Eta and Bloomington Alumnre hapter.s for helping to send Sister Eliza Alexander with us. We just could not have done without her.

One of the most noticeable and praiseworthy feature of college life at Southern 1\Iethodist niversity i the spirit of SIGMA CHAPTER SONG 399

democracy and good-fellowship. Everywhere is this demo­ cratic feeling evident, both with the faculty and the student body. The spirit is that of a large family, united by a common interest and working toward a desired goal. Whether Dame Fortune smiles on a few or on many, interest and pleasure are shown by all. Kindliness and courtesy toward all who enter its portals are evidenced with one accord by the entire university, so its phenomenal growth in these two short years is really not to be wondered at. A visit there is one to be thoroughly enjoyed ahd long remembered. E. A.

SIGMA CHAPTER SONG ( Tune, Robin Adai1·.) What's in thy name exprest, Sigma Kappa ~ All that is truest, best, Sigma Kappa. What do we pledge to thee ~ True-hearted loyalty, Love and fidelity, Sigma Kappa.

Bound in one sisterhood, Sigma Kappa, Each for the common good, Sigma Kappa, In closest unity, Oh, may we loyal be, And honor bring to thee, Sigma Kappa. 400 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

DOING HER BIT Eureka, California, July 28, 1917. Dea;r Frances Ma1·shall Wigmore: I was indeed pleased to receive your letter this morning, forwarded from Kansas City. I had planned to be in Maine this year, but this awful war made me feel that I ought to devote my time and money to Red Cross work. For the past two weeks I have been going to different places in Humboldt ·county to talk on ''Conservation of Foods.'' I rode sixty miles yesterday, getting home about midnight. I am due at Red Cross rooms this afternoon. At six-thirty we start for Alton, about thirty-five miles from here. It is cold here at night-the thermometer stood at 48° when I returned last night. I received a compliment, too. After the meeting a man said to me, "Why you must be between fifty and sixty. The way you walked upon the platform and talked I thought you were about twenty-five or thirty." I replied : ''Kindly put the width of this hall between us and I will greatly enjoy talking with you. You look better at a distance.'' I will write somethin~ for you when I have a little time and am not too tired to think. I am much interested in every one of my sorority girls. It makes me happy to know that they think of me. Sincerely yours in Sigma, ... · . . InA FuLLER PmRCE. A MESSAGE FROM ONE OF OUR FOUNDERS 221 E St. N. W., Washington, D. C. July 18, 1917. My Dea1· M1·s. Wigrn01·e: I thank you for your note, received today. It is good to be remembered by Sigma in these latter days of my life, and to feel that my affection for her is not altogether unrecipro­ cated. My life is so full of duties, and they are o far from dimini bing as the year. flee by, that I rarely :find my. elf OuR AcTIVE CHAPTERS AND THE RED CRoss 401 present in any of the meetings of my sisterhood. I believe it still is-as in my day I know it was-a 1·eal siste1·hood. It was very seriously and earnestly conceived, and devoted to the object of "helping the other girls," rather than of afford­ ing a selfish pleasure or a mere social benefit to the girls already in. If I could make myself fully understood I would beg the girls who are now active members to bear that altru­ istic banner high. I feel that the highest good to each girl :is to be found right there-in the effort to be a means of good to other girls. With love to Sigma, FRANCES MANN HALL. A A A OUR ACTIVE CHAPTERS AND T.HE RED CROSS Zeta Red Cross work was begun early in the spring at George Washington University. Edith Aultman, a member of the local chapter of Phi Mu, was instrumental in starting the movement. Classes were formed offering courses in elementary first aid. Three-quarters of an hour's credit was given for this work. Then for those more advanced a course was given at the medical school, which counted for two hours' credit. The classes were all well attended. Another way in which the university showed its patriotism was in the adoption o£ two French orphans. Through the efforts of the Hatchet, our weekly paper, and Professor Henning, one of our French professors, a sum of money was ·raised from student contributions to adopt two French babies for a year. George Washington is well pleased with its acquisi­ tions and we are looking forward to adopting more next year. . . Theta We are indeed happy and proud to tell of the work in Red Cross at the University of Illinois, for one of our own girls, Fannie Brooks, '14, was head of the course, and due to her efforts it was indeed a great success. She was always first to get to the building in the morning and usually the 402 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

last to leave; and yet no one ever saw her without a smile, and enough ''pep'' for a half dozen people. The course was divided into the usual three branches: first aid, home nursing, and surgical supplies. While one division was having first aid another was taking home nursing, etc., thus making the classes which met two hours each day much smaller. Saturday mornings at seven general lectures were given and everyone was required to attend. You can imagine it was a rather weary looking group of girls who assembled at this hour after dances of the night before. Seven of our girls, Katherine Tener, Gladys Smith, Hazel Hulburd, Harriet James, Ruth Phillips, Margaret Pahl, and Adelaide Wheeler took the course, and as some of the other sisters remarked ''we have Red Cross here every meal and sometimes between meals,'' and that was true, but we notic.;d everyone was interested. Examinations in this course became almost a ·habit, there were so many of them. There were practical demonstrations as well as oral and written examina­ tions. All of these came by sections and one might see a girl going to a Red Cross examination at almost any hour of the day from seven in the morning to seven at night. In preparing for the practical home nursing examination one might have seen a room in the Sigma Kappa house turned into a play hospital ward; beds were being made correctly, draw sheets changed, pulses taken, etc. There is a great demand at the present time for teachers in surgical supplies, and I feel sure that every 'l'heta who took this course is willing to make her box of upplies to submit to headquarters and thus receive her certificate to teach, and help in the great work. There never has been a time when college women were better able to show their true worth, and I am sure the Sigma Kappas will not be found lacking. At this particular time let us endeavor to make our gold triangles mean to the outside world "A band of Red Cross Workers.'' What grander mission might we hHve ? Ou.R ACTIVE CHAPTERS AND THE RED CROSS 403

Larnbda California has done her bit in service for the Red Cross, as everyone in the country is doing now. The best expression of true patriotism is in service and there is no place so deserv­ ing the service of the people at the present time as the Red Cross Society. During the spring, the Associated Women Students bought two boxes of fifty dollars' worth of supplies each. 'l'hese the girls made up into bandages, handkerchiefs, etc. Regul3;r sewing hours were held every . Tuesday and Thursday after­ noons from four to six in Hearst Hall, the women 's· building. All girls who had free hours at this time went to Hearst to do their share in making up these supplies. At the house needles were flying, too. We ina de table linen, tray cloths, and about five dozen napkins and handkerchiefs. After college closed a tea was held at the house, and all the girls left in Berkeley gathered there to make dusters. The house as a whole is a member of Red Cross and several of the girls are members. l\Iany of the girls have been doing individual work during vacation. May Wright, '19, has spent one afternoon a week making dressings. Helen Brown, '18, collected money during a $75,000 campaign which the city of Berkeley ran and Leona Weeks, '19, has been making sheets. Others have been doing work in their own homes.

Mtb l\Iu Chapter has not taken up any Red Cross work as a chapter, but as individuals, we are working for the cause. Last year a training course was given at the university in Red Cross work. This course consisted of lectures on every branch of the work, as well as actual training in ''first aid and bandaging.'' These classes met several times a week during the last semester, and at the end of the year a rigorous examination was given over the whole subject. Our house­ mother and twelve of the girls took this course and passed the cx::tmination. Everyone completing the course and passing 404 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE the examination is prepared to do Red Cross nursing. None of the girls, as yet, have actually taken up the nursing but they are at least qualified to train in the Red Cross service. Another course was offered by the university, which a girl could substitute for fonr hour~ of college work. Victoria Morrison was the only Sigma Kappa who took this course, although several desired to do so, but were refused because only a very limited number were enrolled. Every member of the class had to pass a high physical examination. Their work consisted in two hours a day of lecture work and in actually doing ''First Aid'' work and nursing. Added to this, they had to make many visits to hospitals and attend operations. These girls are now qualified to go to France as nurses in the hospitals or in ·the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. In fact, if they were called on by the government or Red Cross, they would have to go. Beside the work of this kind, many of us belong to Red Cross auxiliaries and are doing the sewing and knitting required.

Nu Since the material for the last TRIANGLE was prepared, everybody has been brought to realize more and more what it means to live and work for one's country. The selfishness and the mad rush for money which has been so prevalent in our country has no part now in a true patriot's make-up. At Middlebury, as everywhere, there "was a tense feeling as of waiting for something, and yet not knowing exactly what to expect. As soon as war was declared measures were taken to start a course in first aid, under some competent instructor. Owing to the lack of time, and because of the great need of the Red Cross in its reorganization on a war basis, it proved impractical to do it. The girls meanwhile were on the watch for whatever they could do. The call came when the town was asked to raise 300 members as its quota. The girls of the college went out two by two to canvass the town which had been divided into districts for the purpose. There wa also a membership ta- OuR Ac·.rivE CHAPTERS AND THE RED CRoss 405 tion opened at Pearsons Hall, where twice a day the girls were given an opportunity to join. It was felt that this was the least we could do, so 163 college girls joined. In the catalogue there were 170 women registered. This makes a percentage very high. These figures have no connection with the men's part of the college. The girls were also given an opportunity, if they met the requirements set by the college, of leaving college on farm leave and received credits for the remaining time. Steps have been taken for a course to be given this fall, as college work. A trained nurse is to be in charge and a dif­ ficult course offered, which will prepare the girls for service in whatever capacity they may be needed. During the summer, every girl is doing her bit in coopera­ tion with her home chapter of Red Cross. Some are knitting sweaters, others scarfs or wash cloths. A speaker came and addressed the girls in behalf of the National League for Women's Service. T~1e girls were given a chance to join and a number did so. A committee has also been formed at the college with one of the professors at the head, and members from the faculty and both the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. of the college. This committee is to serve students in military and naval service. The work of this committee is to be threefold: to furnish Testaments, literature from home and college, and personal letters. Xi Are we patriotic here in the University of Kansas? An emphatic, ''yes, indeed,'' is the only possible answer to such a question. Not only is that the answer of a few especially loyal souls, but it is the answer of every person in the entire university-professors and faculty as well as the boys and girls. Very shortly after our United States entered this great war, Chancellor Strong called a special convocation of the uni­ versity. He aroused us all by his spirited talk on "Patriot­ ism'' and ever since, each student has remained kee:r;Ily alive to his duties and opportunities. 406 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Perhaps patriotism is the most easily evident among the boys. When the special drill and military classes were organized under the supervision of the faculty of the School of Engineering, more than three hundred boys took up this work in addition to their regular classes. Almost an entire engineering company was recruited here, and several boys have joined the aviation corps and the naval reserve. One hundred and twenty-five enlisted in the National Guard, and even more than that perhaps are in the Officers' Reserve Training Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. A larger per cent of the applications from Kansas University were accepted at Fort Riley than from any other school. However, patriotism certainly is not lacking among the Kansas University girls, judging from the fact that two hundred and fifty enrolled in the Red Cross classes in first aid. Each Tuesday evening a lecture and a demonstration of the various first aid treatments were given by Dr. Ann Childs. As soon as the demonstration was over, the girls, organized into squads of twenty, practiced making bandages, splints, compresses, etc. Nurses and doctors from our univer­ sity hospital were always present to give help and criticism. If you could only have happened in at the chapter-house any night after a Red Cross meeting, you would most surely have received a hearty welcome and have been pressed into service instantly. The enthusiastic Red Crossers would have bandaged you from head to foot, and you might as well have resigned yourself as a sacrifice to the cause. Each time a Sigma sister pleaded for a rest, the ready answer came, '' Oh, it's dummies we need, you know!' ' The students displayed their loyalty in many other ways. Girls sold tags down town one Saturday for the Red Cro . . and obtained quite a nice little sum in this way. The proceeds from the May Fete, amounting to some two hundred dollars. were donated to the Red Cross by the Y. W. C. A. Iany of the parties and formals were given up, and although the plan. for the sophomore hop were too well under headway to giw them up, the sophomores gave all the proceeds to the Red Cross. A ocial survey of the Lawrence re ource. available • OuR AcTIVE CHAPTERS .AND THE RED CRoss 407 for Red Cross work was made by the girls of the university. Sigma Kappa was well represented in this survey-more than one-sixth of all the workers were Sigmas. Omicron Indeed, it would be strange if Jackson, with all the fervor of patriotism and readiness for service demonstrated on the ''Hill'' by Tufts men, had not as well fallen subject to the contagion. The "Spirit of '76 revived" has I"Un high in our college, since the imminent danger of war with Germany has hung over the country. It certainly cannot be said that Jackson has been tested and found wanting in this time of crisis. The first indication of Jackson's preparedness was ·made evident over a year ago, when a quota of six hundred Tufts men wer~ asked to march in Boston's big Preparedness Parade. Of course, we '' J acksonites'' could not march, but we made the ''fezzes,'' or little brown hats with blue tassels for them to wear. These, indeed, were a mark of distinction, for Tufts men were recognized and cheered right and left through the streets. During the whole year, Friday afternoons have been devoted to work in surgical dressings, conducted under the supervision of the Christian Gulid. In this way, much has been accom­ plished for that worthy cause. To raise money for the expense of materials, the Christian Guild gave an informal dance one Saturday afternoon last winter. This proved to be a great success both financially and socially. The chapter letter told of our work in flag-making, and of the course in Red. Cross nursing. Doris Perkins and l\Iargaret Cochran from our number have taken these invalu­ able courses. What Omicron Chapter itself has been doing to help, has been through the agency of the college. In the fall the empha­ sis of our philanthropic work will be mainly upon war relief work. This number of the TRIANGLE, I am sure, will be very help­ ful to all the chapters, for by it we can gather ideas from one another for carrying on the work. 408 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Rho Even with school girls the first serious thoughts of war were accompanied by the idea of the necessity of eliminating all unnecessary expense. At Randolph-lHacon Woman's College, first there came the request from the seniors that their little sisters, the sophomores, would not send them flowers to wear at the annual senior-faculty reception. Of course, each sopho­ more insisted that her own particular senior just must have flowers on this of all occasions; the seniors, however, stood together in explaining to the little sisters that the custom had better be discontinued for the time being, at least. All during the year this spirit of ''look to the finances'' was kept to the foreground. At the senior-junior kimono party which usually ends with a midnight feast, this year the refreshments were simply tea and sandwiches. The seniors even left off all together their annual class banquet. Perhaps this was the greatest departure from college traditions made on account of the war. Each senior class heretofore has con­ sidered this banquet almost one of the requisites for gradua­ tion. It has been then, on the last Friday night before commencement, that the class has met at one of the downtown hotels, and, happily with good cheer, hearty toasts, and songs, made one of the occasions upon which later memory loves to dwell. All of the good times, however, could not be dispensed with until the need was more imperative, but even on festive occa­ sions one was not allowed to forget the critical condition of the country. Indeed, after the committee for the junior­ senior party had racked their brain to think of an idea that had not been used before, they were almost ready to say, ''If we have to have war, it's fortunate that we are so near it this year, for now a preparedness party is the very thing.'' So a preparedness party the juniors gave to their little sisters. The gymnasium was a most patriotic looking place with its quantities of red, white, and hlue bunting; with a recruiting tation on one side, a Red Cro s booth on the other, a huge camp-fire in the center of the room, and a miniaturP airplane OuR AcTIVE CHAPTER AND THE RED CRoss 409 suspended by ropes and pulleys overhead. Of course, one could find no students at this party, but there were soldiers and Red Cross nurses galore . .When the students returned from their Easter vacation and ·everyone felt as if she must "do something," part of this feeling found expression in a '' freshma111 militia.'' The other classes had noticed various posters advertising the time and place for enlisting but they had only a casual interest in what they thought was to prove another whim of the freshman class. One day, however, the· freshman band got together on the campus and summoned forth about two hundred girls in white duck hats, white middy suits, and gymnasium shoes, ready for drilling and marching. Then the college found out that they were really in earnest ; they had organized as a regular company, begun drilling under the gymnasium direc­ tor, and agreed to sul;>mit themselves to strict regulations concerning such things as the order of their rooms, their diet, and sleeping. Perhaps some of these rules had a good influence on the other classes; at any rate, the military idea was kept before the rest of the school by the salutes of the members of the militia and by their attendance, in uniform, at various meetings. But best of all, when President Webb had tried in vain to obtain a flag for the school, the freshman militia came to the rescue and offered to make one. Their huge flag with its five-inch stars was- presented to the school and raised with the proper ceremonies on lVIay Day. Then, in addition to these activities of individual classes, there were those into which the whole student body could enter, such as the Red Cross classes under the directions of the gymnasium teachers. In these classes the students cooper­ ated with the authorities in town as they had done also in the making of ''comfort bags'' and pajamas for the soldiers. One might say that after all, these activities of a student body of six hundred girls would not amount to anything material. Perhaps not, but they are indicative of something of real importance-the fact that students are more than ever 410 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

realizing that they cannot, during their student days, separate themselves from the current of events in the outside world. That the students were in earnest, and that they wanted to give their patriotism the benefit of an intelligent and a broad­ minded view was evidenced by the large attendance at the informal current events discussion which the professor of political science conducted once a week, and, incidentally, by the additional wear and tear on the newspapers and magazines.

Sigm,a Of course, the declaration of war by the United States brought great excitement to Southern Methodist University, more especially when the boys began to enlist and vacant chairs appeared in classes. Many of our boys-mostly juniors and seniors-went to the Officers' Training Camp at Leon Springs, ·and for those who remained a drillmaster was secured and every afternoon the campus was filled with khaki figure~ hard at work making soldier material. The boys showed a special preference for the boulevard in front of the Woman's Build- . ing for a drill ground. More than that, the United States Government called onr. dean, Dr. John H. Keen, to Washington to enter the work of the Secret Service. (Uncle Sam probably heard of Dean Keen's fame as a sleuth in "detecting" chapel cuts.) At the close of college another of our faculty members, Mr. M. Y. Stokes, entered the Aviation Training Camp. The girls were left out at first, though they were ver); anxious to have a share in the war preparations, but finally the Home Economics Department offered a course of lecture. along the line of food conservation, since this must necessarily be the greater part of the American woman's work in the war. In the short time that remained before the close of college, nothing else was planned for the girls, but the ne\Y catalogue just out offers work in first aid, dietetics, and other branches that will be necessary for those girls who contemplate taking Red Cross training. A number of Red Cross circles have been organized in Dallas this summer, and a great deal of knitting, bandage- PoLLY :McLEOD 411 rolling, and sewing is being done for the soldiers. One circle is making up a box for the French soldiers, to contain twelve knitted sweaters, trench caps, socks, and other articles. It is a common sight to see a bunch of girls get on a street car and pull out their knitting, never ceasing in their chatter. The Sigma Kappa girls who live in Dallas have been helping individually in the Red Cross work, · and next fall when we are· together again, we expect to do something along this line as an organization.

POLLY MCLEOD

(This appre~iation came too ~ate for the last issue) Polly McLeod is leaving the TRIANGLE staff. J f we lose Polly from among our national workers we are losing one of our best. She has been written up before in this magazine, and I've been feeling very reminiscent this afternoon as a result of being asked to talk about her as a farewell to her. You know Polly has lots of accomplishments. She was and is the most dynamic worker along many lines of any Sigma I have known. But some way, as I think over her career, it isn't the wonder­ ful efficiency with which she does many things which stands out in my mind. Instead, it is her marvelous capacity for being a friend. She's a genius at it! Polly is the girl who never forgets the babies and the anniversaries and the notes of sympathy or congratulation. She's never so tired that she doesn't feel like running around to the florists or making a little call, or writing a letter, if some friend needs it. Bless her heart-she used to make us all so cross because she sat up late writing letters when she should have been getting much-needed sleep, and we used to wonder if the recipients realized their luck. And then-that rare gift-she'd rather listen to your woes and joys, sympathize or reJoice vvi~h you, than tell you hers, and most of us are selfish enough to let her do it. But there's. ETHELYN MILLER .HARTWICH AND CRAIG HILA HELEN SMALL one thing she gets out of it anyway, and that is love, love, love. How her friends do love that girl! My message to Sigma. in this bit of a. screed is, then, keep Polly in our national list of workers some way or other, if you can, but above all things, if you ever get a. chance to know her, . bind her to you with hoops. of steel, for she's the most beauti­ ful friend ever was. .. ..ETHELYN .. MILLER HARTWICH. HILA HELEN SMALL (This article came too late for the June TRIA NGLE .) Hila. Helen Small, Grand Vice-president of Sigma Kappa. from 1906-1912 and Grand President from 1912-1915, a typi­ cal New England girl born of New England parents, scarce needs any introduction to Sigma. Kappas except to the very newest ones. So many times have I been asked to write of Hila. Helen as we best love to call her--that when approached this time it seemed I could give nothing new which would be of interest to our readers. However, I decided to review briefly what previous issues have said of her, and to add a bit . of what others have to say of her most recent work out­ side Sigma Kappa. SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE of 1908 gives her birthplace as Bos­ ton, Massachusetts; the time, October 4, 1873. It states that her secondary school life was passed in Somerville, Massa­ -chusetts, where upon being graduated from both grammar and high school she attained the highest scholastic honors. At Boston University, which she entered in 1892, she still maintained her standard of excellence, and in June, 1896, was graduated as commencement speaker, the highest honor bestowed by the faculty, since Phi Beta. Kappa. had not then ·entered the institution. Fortunately for Sigma Kappa, Hila Helen had not affiliated with any of the sororities then exist­ ing at college, but a banquet tendered her in honor of her ·COmmencement appointment, by the girls of '96 representing .all the sororities as well as ''the nons,'' testified more em- 414 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE phatically than can be appreciated by outsiders to her popu­ larity. In 1904 when she reentered the university to work for her A.M: degree, she was pledged and initiated into Delta Chap­ ter, and together with her A.M. degree she received the key of Phi Beta Kappa. She has been most active in fraternity affairs. Her loyalty, enthusiasm, and energy are never lacking. In 1905 she was a delegate to convention held in Waterville; in 1906 she assist­ ed at the institution of Zeta Chapter; in 1908 she inspected the petitioning group at Brown and assisted in the institution of Kappa Chapter at that college; in 1911, 1913, 1915, she assisted at the institutions of Nu, Xi, Omicron, and Pi Chap­ ters, and she has presided at no less than five national con­ ventions. These are only a few of the things which she has done for Sigma Kappa. The Angelos of. Kappa Delta in its March issue of 1915 says among other things in featuring :Miss Small: She is an excellent executive officer. She conducts her own business with such snap and vim that she inspires the girls to be prompt and businesslike, and she sees to it that they are, too. She becomes person· ally acquainted with as many of her Sigma sisters as is possible and by this ''personal touch'' stimulates the chapters to give only their best. To those who kno\\· her intimately, however, she is not merely an ex­ ecutive officer. Her innate womanliness, her sincerity of purpose, her tender sympathy in time of affliction, her ihm but fair judgment, in times of storm and stress, endear her to all with whom she comes in con­ tact. Fraternity work has not usurped all of Sister Hila's time. Extremely interested in work among the poorer classes of people, in 1913 she undertook a new project-that of organiz­ ing and supervising a Bible class for boys and girls of high school ages at the Church of the Ascension-an Epi. copal mission in the South End of Boston. Thi. work i. of an unusual kind, and associated with her ha been ·l\Iarion Ray­ menton of Omicron. A sketch of the '"ork a told by Hila Helen herself may be of interest. ''The entire high school department of the Sunday School first meets in the main room. In front of the cla e , on a HILA HELEN SMALI.. 41.) table covered with a strip of green felt edged with red-the school colors, Christmas red and green-is always a pot or vase of flowers. Behind this on the mantelpiece above the fireplace, are a silk national flag and a beautiful picture of Anton Lang as the Christ holding the Chalice-the communion scene in Oberammergau. On either side of the table facing the pupils are the chairs for the leader and secretary-both pupils; at the piano presides another pupil-a boy who Sister Small says is most gifted and who will doubtless in time make his mark in the musical world. The order of exercises ordinarily is as follows: Attendance is registererl by the pupil as he enters; the meeting is called to order by the leader who announces the hymn and who next reads·the col­ lect of the day-all standing. The Lord's prayer is repeated in unison , after which is read; also in unison, the Gospel or the Epistle for the day, from the prayer-book; following the sing­ ing of a second hymn the secretary's and treasurer's reports are read and accepted-the pupils know parliamentary law-­ the notices on the church leaflet of interest to the high school are read, and the offering is taken; the classes then separate to various rooms for the study of the lesson. " The closing exercises take place in the main room and con ­ sist of the singing of a hymn, extra notices neces c;; ::1ry to be given, and the benediction, ' Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in 'rhy sight. Oh Lord, my God,' recited in unison. " Hila Helen says the work has paid. The first gl'aduation takes place in about three weeks. The collections are marvelous considering the homes from which the children come, and a very unusual fact is that there are always more boys than girls present. One boy who graduated last year from the Mechanics Arts High School, Boston, and ·who graduates from the Stmday School this year has not missed attendance one Sunday in four years. The pupils hold all the office and do all the work themselves, in a most formal, -dignified, and businesslike_manner, and on special days, such as Easter and Christmas, they prepare special programs with -cover de. igns. etc., in which they are most interested. 416 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

The rector of the church in writing me of Sister's work says: Four years ago Miss Small established the High School Department of our Sunday School and has carried it on until now and she has made a great success in spite of unusually difficult circumstances in the church. What a sacrifice of her time and strength it demanded you know better than I, although I have some idea. I don't know which to admire more, her devotion or her skill for they are both rare and seldom found in combination in church workers. During the summer of 1915, when our parish visitor was on a vacation and our secretary resigned, she filled both positions and did it so well that the work went on as smoothly as though the regular staff had not been absent. She has been invaluable and I am only too glad to have an opportu­ nity of saying so. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM L. CLARK. Sister Small's profession is school teaching. In 1906 she was elected head of the English Department in the Brockton (Massachusetts) High School, handling a growth of from 600 pupils in 1906 to 1800 in 1915, all of whom took English, and in the number of teachers in her own department an increase from five to eighteen. In 1915 she was called to a like posi- . tion in the Medford (Massachusetts) High School and of her work there I shall let one of the teachers in her own depart­ ment and her high school principal tell in their own words: Miss Hila Helen Small assumed her duties as head of the EnglislL Department of the Medford High School in September, 1915. Owing to an unusual combination of circumstances the department was in especial need of a leader who was an efficient organizer. Miss Small has proved herself in every respect the woman for the place. Under her direction uniformity in the general work of the department has been established; greater opportunities in the classroom have become possible through a proper systematizing of the routine work; and cooperation with other departments has been effected to the general good of the school. Miss Small's personal qualities are felt in her work and in her relations with faculty and students. Noble in purpose, fair in judgment, a sympa­ thetic and inspiring friend, Miss Small has become an honored mem­ ber of the Medford High School faculty. MABEL ANSTICE GANNETT, (A member of the English Dept.) THE FRA'l:ERNITY OF THE FuTURE 417

Medford, Massachusetts, April 30, 1917. My dear MTs. Houlde1·: I have known Miss Small for two years as head of our English De­ partment-a department of over thirteen hundred pupils and more than a _dozen teachers. This has given me rather an unusual opportunity of forming an estimate of her as teacher and woman. The longer I know her, whether as teacher or as woman, the more the feeling grows upon me that she is not merely a great teacher and not merely a great woman, but that she is a great woman teacher, and more she is a rare and won­ derful combination of sense and soul-a mighty and growing force in the life of the school. God gives but few of her kind to the world, and seldom indeed is one given to a school. We thank Him just for her. And I am gl'ateful for the chance to speak this word. Very sincerely yours, JAMES DAVID HOWLET'l', P?·incipa.l. And so, dear TRIANGLE readers, I have this time tried to show you just a bit of Hila Helen's everyday life-and other people's estimates of it. She truly carries her sorority's ideals into all her work. They fairly radiate from her. And if you will pardon the personal comment, I think it far nicer that she herself may know and be inspired by all these kind things said of her while she is here with us doing her faithful best from day to day, rather than that they should be kept until such time as only her friends may read them . . GRA_CE A. S. HouLDER, Delta, '04. A A A THE .FRATERNITY OF THE FUTURE BY HELEN G. SPALDING, K A e (A Brief O~btline of the Pmposed R em·ganization of Women's Gre(}lc­ lette?· Societies) Each fraternity to comprise three degrees. The first degree open to any undergraduate on application, after con­ ferring with proper official. The second degree attainable through three qualifications, these to be recognized in the case of each girl either simultaneously, or at different periods in her undergraduate term. I. Scholarship, at what ever standard the fraternity chooses to ap- point. 2. Majority vote of all first-degree members. 3. Unanimous vote of all members above first degree. The third degree to be granted for unusual attainment in any form which the fraternity chooses to recognize. 418 • SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

First-degree members considered as associate members having limited executive power, and fraternity privileges according to the ability of second-degree members to grant the same. Second-degree members limited to capacity of fraternity house (or in some other way) to correspond to present active chapter to carry on the fraternity standards and direct iirst-degree members toward pro­ motion. After graduation all degrees privileged to participate in alumni ac­ tivities, an increased value of the vote to attach to the higher degrees.

KILLING NINE BIRDS ·w1TH ONE S TOX2 The writer believes that by this system certain evils of the college fraternity can be eradicated. 1. It eliminates rushing. 2. It disposes of the little sister problem by giYing the little sister or daughter a fair chance. 3. It allows time for development during the plastic years of the undergraduate term. 4. It rationalizes the method of selection-does not attempt to de- termine the status of the freshman immediately and unalterably. 5. It extElJ].ds the beneiits of the fraternity to a wider circle . . 6. It safeguards the standards of the fraternity: 7. It recognizes the essential democracy of the fratemity. 8. It accords to the nonfraternity girl the dignity she deserves. 9. It tends to simplify fmternity life by minimizing useless rivalry.

Q U ESTIONS ASKED AKD A K SWERED 1. To how rnany 01·ganizations could a gi1·l apply ? A girl could apply to only one organization. Possibly exceptionR could be made for exceptional cases, such as are now made when the breaking of a pledge seems to be the only way of rectifying what a girl feels to be a mistake. · 2. How 11wny gi?"ls al1·eady in the 01·ganization 1vould have to endo1·se he1· na1ne? In order to become a first-degree member I would consider it adequate if one second-degree member endorsed the name of an applicant. But in order for that girl to advance to second degree it would require a unanimous vote of all second-degree members, and this would only oper­ ate where the other two qualifications had also been met. There are three, you remember, (1) Scholarship (at whatever mark the fraternity chooses to set), (2) The majority vote of all first-degree members, (3) The unanimous vote of all second-degree members. She would then be a member of the fraternity proper, entitled to liYe in the fraternity house and to enjoy all the pri•ileges and opportunities (and responsibilities) that the fraternity affords. Her YOice would count in the making of standards and rules, and after her graduation her •ote would be held at THE FRATERNITY OF THE FuTURE 419 a value above that of any first-degree member in alunmre circles. Voting, it seems to me, is of so little moment in alumnm activity that this dif­ fei·ence would. not be one of any consequence in practical affairs. 3. How wo~bld this system affect the upkeep of the fraternity? ?-'he upkeep of the fraternity house would not be affected noticeably. Those living in the house would pay as they now pay. In my house it is a certain reasonable amount covering room and board providing a small surplus to be used in taking up gradually the shares of stock of a ''house association.'' All those not living in the house would be expect­ ed to pay a certain stipulated amount, such as is now required of non­ resident members-but a smaller sum, p ~rhaps . Restrictions would be determined by expediency, for example, the house manager's permission when a first-degree member wished to bring her mother to dinner, etc. These details occur readily when one begins to visualize the plan. It is presumed that first-degree members would be more numerous than second-degree members. The expenses of the house would be reduced because the strain of rushing would be dispensed with. The national fraternity might be affected, of course, in its finances-according as it depended upon fees from first-degree or second-degree members. All of which is really simple of adjustment. 4. W auld the new system save heartaches? 1 firmly believe that the proposed system would preYent heartaches. In the first place I do not think for a moment that every girl would de­ sire to be a fraternity girl. But any gii'l would have the satisfaction of believing that she might have been if she had wanted to try hard enough. This would prevent that hurt, so deep and so disastrous to character, which comes when a girl feels, as year after year she sees girls chosen all around her, that she belongs to the undesirable element left over af­ ter every group has taken all that it wanted! This I believe to be the greatest fault of the fraternity as it now exists, for only a girl of i·are qualifications can maintain a proper poise in the face of that feeling­ especially when it is tacitly accepted by the community in which she liws. Then in the case of the girl who falls to ''make'' second degree. She should thoroughly understand the qualifications before she ever attempts it. She should confer with some official person or persons (the dean of women wo.uld find it entirely within her province, I think), and such an official would make the standards clear in the very begi1ming. Different standards would prevail in different groups, since each would be at lib­ erty to make its own. The newer [\nd less established groups might find it advisable to set their standards in accordance with a policy of expan­ sion, and expect to bring up their members after they are in, or to in­ crease their requirements after a certain lapse of time (in pursuance of a deliberate constructive plan to advance the prestige of the group). No standards should be so high that they are prohibitive, and none so low as to be suicidal. H ence, a freshman, in considering the matter 420 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE of applying, would be free to select the group she favored, and would decide the matter in her own mind (supposing it were Alpha Phi), "I would rather be a first-degree Alpha Phi than a second-degree Some Other Thing. '' She should have the assurance that Alpha Phi would like to see her succeed in attaining second degree, and will help her in every way possible. Then if she fails repeatedly, she will have been pre­ pared. She will feel proud that the thing she is striving for is not easily accessible. She will have plenty of company, which will render her fail­ ure no disgrace in her own eyes, nor in the eyes of others. Moreover, she will have a perfectly unspoiled opportunity still open to her as long as she is in college. But supposing that she keeps her eyes open and her mind alert, suppos­ ing she uses fine discrimination and makes the best standards her own­ in other words, develops from an ordinary freshman to a splendid junior. Then Alpha Phi will i1ave reason to rejoice in advancing her to second degree. If it happens that she has an Alpha Phi mother or sister, that person will be ten times prouder than she has any justification for be­ ing under the present system. 5. What if all gi1·ls in ji1·st dcg1·ee fa;i,led to q1balify for second deg1· ee . Wha.t of the balance? If all the girls in first degree failed to qualify for second degree it would mean either that standards were prohibitive, or else that a de­ plorably unplastic group of girls had come into first degree ancl then hadn't tried very harcl to improve themselves. Second-degree members would perhaps confess a lack of diligence in keeping int

a g1·eat deal bettm·.'' I have wondered just what he meant by that. Does he suppose that fratemity girls have better brains' Or does he think that they have more leisure to study Y (He is sadly mistaken there.) Or does he recognize that they have more incentive¥ To me the very fact that they do as well, in spite of all the extra responsibilities and distractions, speaks volumes for the matter of the incentive which the· fraternity holds out. This incentive we can extend without impairment to the fratemity. 6. What of gi;rls f1·o1n the co1mt1·y-gvrls unacquainted with the system? It is true that sometimes our best girls come from the country, or from remote places: It is to be hoped that such girls would be discovered in the course of ordinary activities; that they would be informed and mged to apply. The chances of discovering such girls under the pro­ posed system are far better than under the present system where they are nearly always overlooked in a short rushing season. If some very queenly girl is discovered, even in her last semester, it would still be possible, theoretically, for the girl to make her place. The time element merely allows for freshmen to develop under stimulating conditions. 7. What wo1~ld be the f1mction of the fmternity house with 1·egard to the first and second-deg1·ee girls, and would they encroa ch 1~p on eadt other? It would be a home for the second-degree girls, a home whose benefits could be extended or restricted as they saw fit, a place offering hospital­ ity of a sort that is not spoiled by the necessity of calculation. Welcome should there be found for any Yisiting alumnre. Hospitality should be extended to faculty. Personal guests would always be received gracious- . ly as under the present regime. For first-degree members it would be a sort of clubhouse whose privi­ leges were governed by the second-degree occupants according to circum­ stances. A gathering 011ce a week might be held for the .purpose of mak­ ing first-degree members acquainted with each other, then for cultivating the relations between first and second-degree girls. This relation would de­ velop automatically, I think. L et the first-degree members assume the burden of providing the entertainment, serving the supper, getting up the stunt party for alumnre; or possibly it could be entirely an evening for reading or cla11cing among the girls. There should always be some con­ structive feature supplied by the second-degree girlE; perhaps they would choose to take turns in giving little talks illuminating fraternity ideas, or discussing college politics. You can think of a dozen different mat­ ters that might well come up which would ''bring out'' the girls natur­ ally and unconsciously. Second-degree girls could withdraw and hold thell- fraternity meeting \\'hile one of their number conducted the first· degree meeting. You can see that it would be splendid training and need be only as serious as the girls themselves chose to make it. While there might be present among the first-degree members certain ones who 422 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

were not counted attractive, they need be no more or a drawback to the good spirit of the occasion than such a one might be in a dormitory house meeting. Experience would tend to show it would be well to suspend judgment, because that very person might in time rise to the highest place· in the fraternity, just as, many times some puzzling nonentity of a fratemity freshman may prove in her Eenior year to be the leading girl in college. The whole idea would be not to determine her status immediate­ ly and unalterably, but to give her and the fraternity ample opportunity to develop each other. A A A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : BUREAU OF EDUCATION To Wo•rnen in Colleges, Uni1Je1·sities, Normal Schools, and T echnical Schools It has been· reported to me that many young women now in the colleges, universities, and normal schools of the United States rna~ · not return to continue their work at the beginning of the next school year, either because of their desire to serve their country in some capacity while it is in war or because of lack of money to pay expenses. The country will need the services of many women of good native ability and education in the Red Cross and to take the places in the tmdes, industries, and professions made vacant by the volunteering or drafting of men for the army; and it is good to see the readiness and the willingness with which women are offering their services by thousands. Fortunately for us the rapid growth of our high schools and our liberal policy of higher education for women in the last two llecades have given us something like two millions of women with high school education and several hundreds of thousands with the training of the colleges and normal schools. In this time of need they will more than repay the country for all the cost of their education. For this very reason it should not now be necessary for any young woman to leave school, shorten the time and lessen the amount of her education that she may enter the immediate service of the country. For eve1·y one of the 190,000 young women in colleges, universities, and normal schools (approximately 100,000 in coll eges and universities and 90,000 in normal schools) there must be two or three women having no less pTe.PaTation who could enter the services of the country without breaking up homes or leaving moTe impoTtant woTk undone. It will be far bette1· for the country that the e go and that the supply of edu­ cated and tTaiued women shall not be cut off in the earlier years of the waT. If the war is long there will be need before it is ended for all the trained women our schools can turn out. Even if all are con­ tinued at their full capacity there will be need for them in fields of service where as yet there is little or no need. LETTER FROM U. S. BuREAU OF EoucATION 42:1

\Yhen the war is over the world must be rebuilt with greater wisdom and more skill than have gone into the building of the world that is now passing away in the horrors of war. In the new world women· will play new I:Oles; they will take a more important part in industrial and pro­ fessional life than they have taken in the past, and will have much greater and much more direct influence on the public policies of city, state, and nation. In our own country there will be need for a much higher l.evel of general intelligence than we have yet attained, and to our country will come from all the world greater demands for both men and women of education and training than has ever come to any coun­ try at any tin1e. Therefore, all young women who would serve their country and the world most effectively in this time of their greatest need should take advantage of eYery possible opportunity to gain prepa­ ration for it. No one should leave school or college for any serYi cc which can be given as well by another ·whose preparation for greater service will not be prevented thereby. To prevent any having to leave because of lack of mea11s to pay expenses, colleges should reduce thPir expenses and the cost of living as much as possible, and societies and individuals should endow temporary scholarships or lend money to stu­ dents at low rates of interest until they can repay it. I do not forget, nor would I have anyone forget, that necessary im­ mediate service to the country must have precedence over all else. But when the immediate services can be rendered by others, those who are preparing for such services as cannot be rendered by most should con­ tinue their preparation with as little interruption as possible. Therefore, I make this appeal to all young women in college, uniYer­ sity, normal school, and technical school, who can do so to continue their studies to graduation so that they may be prepared to render the fullest and best service in tl1e years of war if they continue and in thP years of peace which will surely come. Yours sincerely, P. P. Claxton, C01nmissione1· of Ed~bcation.

Akron, Ohio, .July 2, 1917. Mrs. Florence Colb)- Battram, Secretary of Sigma Kappa, Oakland, CaL My dem· M1·s. Batt1·am: \Ve have formed a city Panhelleuic here and are anxious to have our lists of fraternity women complete. Vve liave no Sigma Kappas regis­ tered and if you have an~- addresses in Akron, would appreciate your sending them to us. Thanking you for your cooperation, I am Yours sincerely, HELEN H. HOGUE, II B

REPORT OF CIRCULATION MANAGER 24 Sunset Road, Medford Hillside, Massachusetts, July 1, 1917. To the m&mbm·s of the Gra'ltd CO'Uncil of Sigma Kappa: The Circulation Manager of the SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE submits the following report for the year 1916-1917. RECEIPTS: From Grand Treasurer, August 10, 1916 ...... $248.72 From subscriptions ...... 663.35 From cards in Chapter Directory, 1916 ...... : . . 30.00 From cards in Chapter Directory, 1917 ...... 80.00 From chapter fines ...... 8.00 From D. C. Auld, advertisement ...... 20.00 From chapter appropriations toward chapter deficits ...... Xi ...... 5.00 Theta ...... 5.00 Mu ...... 8.75

Total ...... $1068.82 DISBURSEMENTS: To H. M. Baker for money advanced last June ...... $ .60 To express ...... 1.31 To stamps ...... 1.60 To exchange ...... '...... 66 To Mrs. Wigmore, express and postage ...... 26.18 To Florence Carll, postage ...... 1.20 To George Banta, express and expiration notices ...... 1.74 To George Banta, June 1916, TRIANGLE ...... 246.26 To George Banta, September, 1916; TRIANGLE ...... 220.98 To Georg·e Banta, December, 1916, TRIANGI,E ...... 221.1S To George Banta, March, 1917, TRIANGLE ...... 223.74

Total ...... $945.35 Cash on hand ...... 123.4 7

$1068.82 BILL OUTSTANDING: To George Banta, June, 1917, TRIANGLE ...... $275.87 To George Banta, postage ...... 04

Total ...... $276.91 Cash on hand ...... 123.47

Deficit ...... $153.44 REPORT OF CIRCUL.A'fiON MANAGER 425

. Cards in the Chapter Directory have not been paid by Pi Chapter ·• waterville Alumnre Colorado Alumnre New York Alumnre Puget Sound Alumnre Rhode Island Alumnre Los Angeles Alumnre Bloomington Alumnre CHAPTER DEFICITS FOR 1915-1916: 1916-1917 Alpha ...... None ...... None Delta ...... $18.75 ...... $16.15 Epsilon ...... None ...... 8.65 Zeta ...... None 23.75 Eta ...... None 16.95 *Theta ...... None ...... 10.00 Iota ...... $33.75 ...... 21.25 L ambda ...... None ...... 6.25 *Mu ...... $20.00 ...... 10.00 Nu ...... None ...... : ...... 42.50 Xi ...... $23.75 ...... 18.75 Omicron ...... Deficit of $35 has been paid . . . . . 31.25 Pi ...... , ...... $23.75 ...... 33.75

Total $239.25 * Not paid for two year s. This deficit which by vote of the 1915 Convention is to be paid from the Grand Treasury to the TRIANGLE treasury is larger than the TRIANGLE needs to balance the accounts this year. I wish that more pressure might be put by Grand Council upon the chapters to meet this sixty-five dollar requirement, which is not large if the chapters work for it. It does 110 good for me to hold over t he heads of t he chapters my report to Grand Council of their failure to meet their requirements, if they are never to hear from Grand Chapter in regard to the matter. My only weapon, weak enough at any rate, loses all force, if it is not followed by at least serious reproof from headquarters. Omicron has paid to Grand Treasury the amount of her deficit of last year. None of t he others have repaid it; Alpha excepted, none have met the requirement this year. It is only just in the case of Theta and Mu for me to explain that they appropriated enough from their treasuries to, as they thought, make up their deficits. But in my last reports to them I made a clerical er­ ror and they are each ten dollars short. Although the TRIANGLE deficit is smaller than ever this year, you see that the chapter deficit is larger and affects all chapters except Alpha. This is doubtless because the direct influence of convention is farther removed and no pressure f rom Grand Council has been felt. 426 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

From a financial standpoint I hea1tily favor Zeta's plan of an obli­ gatory ten dollar life subscription for each initiate. It is the only way that I can see of putting the TRIANGLE upon a working basis. From my work of the last four years I am more than ever convinced that the alumnre cannot be depended 1bpon. The most interested get careless and do not redeem their promises when money for the TRIANGLE is concerned. I do not favor a ten dollar life subscription unless it is made obliga­ tory upon initiates. In order to make the plan feasible, at the rate of ten dollars we need an absolutely assured increase of 100 life subscrip­ tions a year. '£he average initiation would bring that. But even though a large number of the alumnre promised to support the plan they cannot be depended on to pay the mone~·. I am son y to be so sceptical about my alumnre sisters, but ·promises do not pay bills and I have for four years had experience with promises. Even many well-known alumnre whom I have known personally and who I consequently feel ''are sm e to pay'' I have carried on the subscription list for a ~-ear, only finally to fail to get that year's subscription. Last spring blanks were sent to each chapter to be filled· in by the seniors, whereby they became promises to subscribe for the TRIANGLE for two years after graduation. Of the sixty-four. seniors, thirty-three returned the blanks. Of the thirty-three, twenty-three have paid for at least one year. Ten who did not r eturn the blanks have subscribed, so of the sixty-four seniors thirty-three have been subscribers this year. The two tables appended may be of interest.

Numbe1· of al1tmna? N'um,bf-1· now Nu1nber who prom· subscribing Senio1·s in 1916 subsc>·ibing ised to subscribe 57 Alpha 27 Delta 5 3 ...... 5 19 Epsilon 3 1...... 1 11 Zeta 8 5 ...... 5 17 Eta 4 4 ...... 4 18 'l·heta 5 5 3 6 Iota 3 2 ••••• 0 . 0 0 0 •• 0 0 0 2 24 Lambda 4 2 ...... 0 11 Mu 7 0 ...... o) 10 Nu 5 2 0 14 Xi . 10 3 ...... 10 9 Omicron 1 0 ...... 0 6 Pi 3 3 ...... 3 6 Kappa 6 3 ...... 0

235 64 33 33 The total number of subscriptions to the June issue was 633. Between 130 and 140 copies go to exchanges at each issue. REPORT OF CIRCULATION MANAGER 427

Mr. Banta very kindly made some estimates for me on the approxi· mate cost of an increased issue. These were based on the March, 1917, issue of which we printed 800 copies at a cost of $216.70. The cost of J ,500 copies would have been $268.63 and of 2,000, $305.64. So you see how an automatically increasing subscription list would help on the expense. Our increase from ~: ear to year is Yery slight under present conditions. The initiates who enter are offset by the alumnre who drop. There have been several propositions made this year for syndicate ad­ vertisements. I practically agreed to one by Panhellenic and so have done nothing about the others. But since agreeing I have heard noth­ ing from Panhellenic. · Mr. Ba11ta has recently made a somewhat simi­ lar proposition, and it seems it would be better to accept his plan than to wait for Panhelle11ic. Respectfully submitted, HATTIE MAY BAKER, Circulation Manager. [Editor's Note: Word has just come that Zeta has paid in full. All honor to Alpha and Zeta I Also to Theta and Mu.] 428 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

RESOLUTIONS WHEREAS, God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to remove from this life, Charles, the beloved son of Mrs. Grace Coburn Smith, be it· R esolved, That we, the undersigned, in behalf of the Wash­ ingt

FROM THE EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR All those who had been planning and living in anticipation of June 25 were keenly disappointed at the postponement of convention, the news of which ·came too late to be published in the June TRIANGLE . However, we feel that our first duty is to our country, and also that Sigma Kappa is strong enough to go forward without the added impetus that convention gives. Of course, much of the business proposed may be disposed of in some other way, but the prime purpose and greatest good resulting from conventions is not the business transacted but the spirit o~ nationalism, of broader vision ·which they give. The attributes which we have always claimed make a national sorority superior to a local all come from a strong national organization and spirit. As the active chapters are a con­ stantly changing personnel and our ideals must be ever repeated, the perpetuation of this spirit is a difficult problem at best. The postponement of convention for even one year brings about the situation of having in many chapters not a single girl who has ever attended a convention. We believe our existence as an organization is of vital importance to the college girl, and we must strive harder than ever to offset the disadvantage of this lack of the inspiration that convention gives. We urge all alumnre who have had this privilege of larger vision to make special effort to keep more closely in ·touch with their active chapters, helping to foster and keep alive this wonderful spirit...... If the ideas set forth in ''The Fraternity of the Future'' would solve all fraternity difficulties we would gladly advo­ cate their immediate adoption. But we very much doubt their efficacy to bring about the millenium among the Greek societies: Not until the whole world is ready for that happy day may we expect it even in fraternities. The questions and answers give us much food for thought and some of them are certainly worth while, and we hope to see them encouraged. The dean of women of the University of Denver is organiz­ ing the nonfraternity girls into small groups of from ten to fifteen for social purposes, thus giving them a better chance 430 . SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE for wholesome social life. This is a splendid idea; it is the best solution of the fraternity and nonfraternity problem that we have ever seen. The nonfraternity groups have the advantage over the fraternity groups in that they have fewer members · and . consequently may form closer ties; the only advantage the fraternities have will be their national spirit and significance.

We welcome most cordially our new sisters of Rho and Sigma Chapters. They come to us at a time when there is a severe testing of everyone. We know they will not be found wanting as individuals, and as chapters we .know they will measure up to Sigma Kappa's high standards of loyal woman­ hood. We .see them ever ready to give of all their strength in loving service whether it be for one another, for college, or for country.

We note that Rhode Island Alumnre has given up its char­ ter as a chapter and become an association.

The letters from our twin baby chapters, Rho and Sigma, are so interesting we felt we would like to put them first instead of last. We much regret that the descriptive articles asked for by the editor were not forthcoming.

The fifteenth National Panhellenic Congress will meet in Chicago in October. The first thirteen congresses were held in Chicago, only two having been held elsewhere-that of 1914 in New York, and that of 1915 in Berkeley, California. 1n the beginning fraternity men predicted that such an organi­ zation would not succeed. But now we find the m~n following the example of the women. which imitation bespeak tlie falsity of their prediction. We believe in Panhellenic, but we also believe that it has much room to grow and develop in broader lines of helpfulness. In order to accomplish thi it must get away from the petty and do the worth-while things. Pan- FRoM THE EoiTOR 's EAsY CHAIR 431 hellenic is often called upon to settle unpleasant difficulties. This must be done with fairness and open-mindedness and with understanding of the larger view of Panhellenism. Let our motto be Progress and Justice. Then will Panhellenic justify her reason for being.

Maude Wetmore is chairman of the National League for Women's Service. She believes the best way to do our bit is to go on living just as normally as we possibly can. The more normal our living, the more serviceable will we be. If we profit by the experience of the warring nations in Europe we will see the salutary need of normal recreations and pleasures to offset the terrible nervous strain caused by the heavy weight of war's sorrovY and suffering. Let there be no paralysis of thought or action. I1et us not waste our energy in feverish activity that accomplishes little, but rather let us keep our poise and be ready to serve with all our strength wherever duty calls even though it be the con­ tinuance of the unheroic tasks of daily life.

We gladly greet l\Iabel Gertrude Mattoon as our new Exchange Editor. ''True'' is not new in TRIANGLE work, how­ ever, having been correspondent for the Los Angeles Alumnre Chapter for many moons.

North Dana, Massachusetts. Dem· Siste1· Wignto1'e: I have such a habit of writing my comments on the TRIANGLE that I can't stop even if I did graduate three weeks ago and pass over the TRIANGLE file to my successor. My magazine came night before last and I've read it from cover to cover, and that has some significance, too, for I love the Creed of Sigma Kappa on the back cover. · The achievement number is a great achievement in itself. 'Vasn 't it inteTesting to note what the different chapters considered achievements~ I know it will make some of us feel we're not achieving half enough. I'm so glad to have a pictme of the founders to include in my pos­ sessions. I wish we could also have a picture of them as they are today. They're too widely separated for a group, but couldn't you persuade 432 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE them to send their photos for the TRIANGLEf The Sigmas about Boston are all familiar with Mary Lowe Carver.'s gray silk gown with her bunch of violets, her silvery hair, her sweet face, and quaint, gentle voice; but I'm sure the Sigmas who are not as fortunate as we would especially like her picture as well as that of our other three founders. ''The Fraternity of the Future'' contains many true if unpleasant statements. I do not believe the remedy suggested would be effective as it would keep out of the fraternity for weeks or months, perhaps, those who most needed to be inside imbibing the helpful influences that make for character building. Sincerely in Sigma, RUTH RICHARDSON, Delta '17. The Editors wish that many more would get this delightful habit.

We take these words from the editor of The Caduce~~s of Kappa Sigma. Change Cad~~ce~~s to SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE and this means you. THE CADUCEUS AND THE WAR The Cadtwetts will continue to appear regularly as long as the flag flies. "War economy" must not extend to the cutting off your best source of information concerning the Fraternity in the hour of its greatest responsibility and opportunity- Therefore renew promptly and ttse ymw personal influence for other renewals and new subscribers.

What Shall It Be-an Amb~~lance or Adoption of Some Wa1· Orphans? row that convention has been postponed what are we going to do with the money so saved 1 Shall we send a Red Cross ambulance to the front or adopt some war orphans 1 The TRIANGLE staff present this plan. Let every active and alumnro TRIANGLE correspondent be the leader (she may appoint her own assistants) to get TRIANGLE subscriptions at the usual rate, $1.25, but all above the $1.00 is to help form a Sigma Kappa Fund. This fund is to be used either in sending an ambulance or in relief of the war orphans. Perhap the war PROM THE EDITOR'S E ASY CHAIR 433 will be over before the money is collected (which praise God we hope it may be), but the poor orphans we shall have with us for a long time. The leaders are to begin their drive at once canvassing all alumnre; of course, anyone may give as much more than the $1.25 as she wishes. Have your lists ready to publish in the December TRIANGLE. We will at least have enough by that time to make Christmas happier for some of the orphans. Get busy and do your bit. W e may have to give you a cheaper, smaller magazine for the year but the effort will surely be worth while. The details of the above plan have not been fully worked out but we want to start the ball rolling at once. The reduced subscription plan will be of indefinite length, depending upon the response of our alumnre. We hope and believe that this will be prompt and gener·ous. The active chapter leaders who secure subscriptions will be given credit on the $1.25 basis to·ward the TRIANGJ_,E dues for each chapter. W e want the photographs of all chapter correspondents and alumnre leaders in this drive, and special space will be given to those heading the list in collections.

1734 P Street N. W., Washington, D. C. July 26, 1917. Dea1· Sister Wigmore: I am having the privilege of getting acquainted with the Zeta girls. I find them a truly delightful and charming group, and am already much attached to. them, and to some in particular. I wonder if the Grand Council really knows how very fortunate we are to have "Fritzi" Neu­ mann as chapter editor. She has a personality most delightful, and is a remarkably sweet, capable girl. She has been in correspondence with me as secretary of the Advisory Board for Zeta, for the past year, and I have had more satisfactory work from her in this connection than from any other suc:h officer. H er love for Sigma is ],een, her abi lit~ · great, and her nature such as to make man~· friends nmong those who have to do with her, both personally and by letter. I'Vould t hat we had "more of her." I have recently come across an article which I thought might be of interest to you, or to those of our sorority who were i1lte··estecl in th<' question of relative ranking of colleges. It is b:· Samuel Capen of the U. S. Bureau of Education, and it was delivered as an address before the A. C. A. here in Washington in April. It appears in a recent num­ ber of the journal, School and Society, and ~·ou should be able to g!:'t 434 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE hold of it at the library of your town, or somewheTe near. I will look up at the office again tomonow, and give the exact number, date, etc. Here it is, "College ' lists' and surveys published by the Bureau of Education. '' School and Society, v. G, no. 133, July 14, 1917. With best wishes for you and the TRIANGLE, I am, In the bond, EMMA E. KrxxE.

A TRIBU'l'E lVIrs. Weston writes : I was able to 11ee Grace Coburn Smith about t hree \Y eeks ag·o . and had such a happy visit with her. She spoke of the TRIA!\GLE \York ; airl she was teeming with ideas but hadn't the strength to put them in form. She is working at odd times on a set of poems called Scraps of Mother Love. They are the sweetest ''Scraps.'' She read me seYeral. They are quite as lovely as her sister's, on a different order. The fam· ily feel that she is really ou the gain under a new doctor, and I know all her friends will be so glad to hear it. But there, when I tart writing of Mrs. Smith I can't stop-she is Sigma Kappa realized to me. I wish all our girls could know her. She spoke of enjoying ~-our letters particularly. I think your spirits touch anyway, for ~·our ideas about service as you have given them to us in the TnrAKGLE are so like hers that I can note the similarity.

It is with deepest sorrow and sympathy that we learn of Sister Smith's great loss. Her first-born son, Charles Coburn Smith, was drowned while working for the United State.-; Government, July 31. This brief clipping tells of the sad event: Charles Smith, twenty-year-old son of George Otis Smith, director of the United States geological survey, ''as dro\Yned in Clough Pond, Loun· don, New Hampshire, according to word receiYed July 31, Hll7, in Washington. The young man's father left last night for the Xorth. where he hoped to join Mrs. Smith before \Y Orcl of the accident reached hflr. Mrs. Smith and other membeTs of the famil~· had gone to Sko\\·· hegan, Maine, the family horne for the summer. Young Smith was in the ervice of the geological survey when the ae· cident occurred. He was sun·eying the shores of a pond from a boat when the craft o•erturnecl, and, being unable to wirn, went down quitkl~ · . S. T. Rainey, a colleg·e frien 1, who wa working with Smith attempten in vain to save him. Charles Smith was educated in Washington, later going to Colb~· College in Maine, \YheTe he wa still a student. It wa from this in~ t itu· tion his father was graduated. ExcHANGES 435

( The newly chosen Exchange Editor was appointed too late to edit the exchanges for this number.)

We wish to acknowledge the usual exchanges but cannot give them by name as we are at the seashore and the magazines are at home. We have at hand, however, a few clippings which we wish to endorse and commend as being our senti­ ments, too. F.M.W.

'l'he Caduceus of Kappa Sigma: THE FRATERNITIES' OPPORTUNITY

BY GEORGE H. HYSLOP (BETA-THETA) The war will not make it necess:=J,ry to stop active fraternity life. Undoubtedly, it may be hard to find men to fill the emptied chapter ranks. Let each .chapter keep its expenses at a minimum. Let our Fraternity, in extending invitations to membership, dwell on the possibilities for a more democratic and efficient service, not only to its members but also to the colleges. In these days it is too easy to forget college spirit, even of the right sort. Fraternities that hold before their new members the standards of loyalt~· to college, and cooperation in coll ege life-scho ­ lastic ancl campus-will secme the continuance of the ideals and tradi- · tions that otherwise would be forgotten and lost. A fraternity that tries to liYC on in the frivo lous ways will do harm and will perish. But there is need of the things that fraternities ma~- accomplish if they will. The colleges are not to close their doors. Our President tells us to keep '' husine s as usual.'' "Why should fraternity life cease~ Thrre arc morf' than twelYe hundred chapters, all told, in all the coll ege fratei·nities. If each chapter ha · but fifteen mrn next year, and if each chapter tries to be a constructive influence in college life, the coll cg-f' " ·oriel 1rill learn that fraternitic~ hal'c a fo:~ncbtion built on roc·k . 436 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

American fraternity men have no task of martyrdom. To that extent their path is easy. But let them see the opportunity that is open to them-if they will only take it. A A A The Alpha Xi Delta makes editorial mention: Service is the keynote of the woman's fraternity today and we are constantly learning of something more along this line baing done by some one of the Panhellenic fraternities. A recent notice of this kind was the announcement of the Gamma Phi Beta Social Service Fellow­ ship made through the Association of Collegiate Alumnre. (This Fel­ lowship was given honorable mention in the June TRIANGLE ) . A A A The Cross K eys of Kappa Kappa Kappa: DO YOUR BIT Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famous suffrage leader, recently affirmed that the women of the United States are ready to "do their bit" and more if necessary, in the many avenues. of steadfast, loyal service open to us. L et us begin in our daily work, to fulfill all duties and perform every service in the spirit of willing loyalty, and so prepare ourselves to meet any future need as American Womanhood should meet it. Terrible as is the catastrophe of war, even when it is for such an im­ mensely precious thing _as the preservation of democracy, we must go on . living, and the more normal that living is the moTe wholesome and serviceable it is to the nation. The expeTience of other countries within the last two years has established the economic need for people, as far as possible, to maintain in war time theiT usual order of business. Ex­ perience has established also the salutary need of a normal continuance of pleasures, recreations, and holidays in 01:der to prevent the wrecking of the nation's health under the nervous strain of anxiety and sorrow which are necessary corollaries to war. The paralysis of thought and activity that have come with realization that war is an actuality for the United States is dangerous and must be short-lived. Women, because for the majority of them, business does not demand that they continue the routine of regular office hours, are especially susceptible to such demoralization. It is possible to be too willing to sacrifice immediate plans and rush into feverish, futile activity, thus dissipating· the energy needed for the genuine sacrifices which our country may in time of need ask of each of us. Maude Wetmore, chairman of the National League for Woman's Service, says of the thousands of capable women who have plunged into ''doing something'' ancl who hope that somehow, somewhere, good will come of it: EXCHANGES 437

The first thing for women to do, is to face the question of what is the most important thing to do. There are innumerable things which women can do, but some of them might better be left undone or left to men, while women con· centrate on those tasks for which they ·are most s11ited or which it is more ex· pedient for them to perform. The great majority of women will serve their coun· try best by becoming more efficient and more earnest in the everyday work they are doing now. The war has already demonstrated that bread is as essential as bullets and that the issue probably will be determined by the food supply. The food problem, already acute in the United States, can be solved by women, and very simply. By planting gardens, by encouraging others .to do likewise, by preventing waste in buying, preparing, cooking, and serving, and by doing without unnecessary articles of diet, women can render valuable service. There is nothing spectacular, nothing obviously heroic, about this sort of ser· vice, and it brings no outward glory, but it is vastly more valuable to the nation than joining- a women's aviation corps, or learning to become a crack pistol shot. * * * *

The Arr·ow of Pi Beta Phi for June was in honor of Pi Phi's fiftieth anniversary. The giving up of their convention this year was all the more of a disappointment because it was also to have been a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary. Their president, May L. Keller, sends this message : While Congress is passing the selective conscription bill this letter is being sent to The .A7Tow. My message to the fraternity in this crisis is for every woman to remember as John R. Mott has said: ' ' This is a woman's war, as no other war in history has ever been, and no woman with the right standards can dodge her responsibility.'' Whether we are individually affected or not, the ultimate burden of war falls most heavily upon the women. This is woman's era, and we cannot, and we dare not fail to assume the trust imposed upon us. Whether tlte fraternity will take part in any definite work as a whole or not, has not ·yet been decided. Until then each chapter and club should work through local organizations and so do its part in that way. I wish also to urge the utmost economy in chapter expenses, the doing away with elaborate dressing. and entertainments, and the saving of that money for the little children of all countries, who are dying for want . of food and clothes. The people of Europe have been reduced to fundamental thinking and out of blood and tears has arisen an unparalleled spirit of heroism, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice. It is for America, then, to learn this lesson and learn it early, without, however, I devoutly trust, the same fearful baptism of fire. In the name then of the highest ideals of Pi Beta Phi, I charge you to be true to your trust in this time of national crisis, to remember the symbolism of the golden arrow, and to do worthily whatever may be your part in this great war. 438 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

The Delta Upsilon Q11ar·te1·ly : PRACTICAL PREPAREDNESS T_o the Chapters : War is upon us. Inevitably our chapters must suffer severely. Num­ bers will be reduced, activities will cease, many chapters will find it necessary to suspend activities during the war. PREPARE for this; see to it that when the house is closed this spring that there are no loose ends. Pay all bills. Complete all records and store them safely, clearly marked for others to use. Arrange with some alumni who seem to be permanencies to look after chapter matters. Make everythiug ready so you may do your duty for your country without neglecting that for your fraternity. Above all, do nothing hastily; keep your feet warm, and your head cool. ' To the Almnni: Many of you can do no active service for your co1,mtry; but you can do much for your chapter or for the chapter that is in your town. Lend it a hand in this time of stress. If the chapter remains active, cooperate with it as never before so that even though weaken,ed in numbers it will remain strong otherwise. Be a Big Brother to the chapter. If needs you. Seek for services to render. They will multiply as time passes. Bu~k up and play the game! · A A A The C1·escent of Gamma Phi Beta : CONVENTION .BUSINESS

OTHER SOROP..ITY JOU ltNALS Each chapter required to subscribe to some sorority magazine. What does it mean to belong to a national organization? In ans~ er to this question, Carrie E. 1\Iorgan, president of' Gamma Phi Beta, said in part at convention assembled: It means first of all that we are able to gather together such an assem­ blage as this. It ha$ been an inspiration to each and everyone present and our lives will be more full for the pleasure and profit that we have gained here. Probably no one but a national officer can realize to its fullest extent just what it means to belong to a national sorority. As we go from cit;v to city and are. entertained in the homes of stranger , we are sure of just as hearty welcome as if we were visiting old-time acquaintances. It is a wonderful thing to know that the latch- tring· i always out for Gamma Phis. But a far greater advantage of national organizations than the mere social pleasure gained i the fact that we are enabled to undertake some EXCHANGES 439 really strong work for those outside of our ranks. Today in addition to the many things that we are enabled, as a national organization, to do for our own members, we are offering a five hundred dollar fellowship to A. C. A., a thing which it would be almost impossible for a local or­ ganization to do. We are united in a national effort to raise the stan­ dards' of our scholarship and to do many things that bind us more closely together in friendship's tie.

The Alpha Phi Qtw1·te1·ly for June is a Freshman Number. There are various viewpoints contributed by freshmen. The leading article, however, is by Margaret Mason Whitney, Theta '00, who is chairman of the Social Service Committee. "What Are We Doing ~ " is the title of her theme and is a plea for more sympathetic understanding of our neighbor nations. Mrs. Whitney is a woman with vision and hopes some time to see Alpha Phi as an international sorority, with chapters beyond the sea. A A A The Trident of Delta Delta Delta is an interesting number. We especially ~njoyed the Panhellenic Department and its frank discussion of Panhellenic mistakes and achievements. We quote one paragraph: The past fifteen years have seen a remarkable growth of the fra­ ternity system. That growth has been paralleled by the development of an interfraternity spirit of confidence and cooperation. Much credit is due to N. P. C., which has fostered and provided the medium of exchange for its development. It is certainly true today, however, that a number ·Of the fraternities are clearly in advance of N. P. C. If N·. P. C. is to justify its present reason for being, it must take giant strides at the coming congress to put itself again in the lead. A A A . . The Angelos of Kappa Delta (May) has a splendid article on '.'A Certain Species of Optimists,'' and would you believe it-they are the editors of the various sorority magazines! A A A EXTENSION Alpha Delta Pi at University of Washington. Sigma Sigma Sigma at State Normal School, Ypsilanti, :Michigan, and Emporia, Kansas. ~40 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Gamma Phi Beta at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Kappa Alpha Theta at University of Southern Cali­ fornia, Los Angeles. Delta Delta Delta at Colorado Agricultural College, Uni­ versity of Maine, and University of Indiana. Delta Zeta at Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, and Deaver University. Pi Beta Phi at Hollins College, Hollins, Virginia. A A A The annual report of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations shows a remarkable growth and increasing pros­ perity and effectiveness. We are glad to · see vocational bureaus growing in number. We gave mention of the one recently _established at Denver in the June TRIANGLE.

BUREAUS OF OCCUPATIONS BOSTON Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 264 Boylston St. Direc­ tor, Miss Florence Jaclfson. CHICAGO Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, Stevens Bldg., 16 N.· Wabash Ave. Manager, Miss Helen M. Bennett. DETROIT Collegiate Bureau .of Occupations, 209 Congress Bldg. Manager, Miss Mary J . Malcomsen. · KANSAS CITY Kansas City Collegiate Alumnre Vocational Bureau, 0± Grand Ave .. Manager, Mrs. William E. Cramer. NEW YORK New York Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, 130 E. 22nd St. Manager, Miss Frances Cummings. DENVER Colorado Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Denver. Manager, Miss Theodosia Raines. PHILADELPIIIA Bureau of Occupations for Trained Women, 302 S. 13th St. Man­ ager, Miss Theodora S. Butcher. PI'l'TSBURGH Collegiate Vocational Bureau, 510 Bessemer Bldg. Director, Miss Esther M. Smith. UNDER THE EDITOR's DROP LAMP 441 '

FRITZI NEuMANN, Ed!itor

UNDER THE EDITOR'S DROP LAMP Dea1· Sigma Sisters: A new day is shining, a fresh l;>reeze comes wandering through my window, and I am starting on a new task. As the hours pass, the breeze may die down, the sun become overcast. And my work~ I am very .new at it. I need help. Actives, this is your department; be frauk with your opinions, ready with your suggestions. Alumnre, let us know what you like to hear best about your college and chapter. I pledge my­ self to do my best. Sister Hartwich has written how much the personal friendships she has won from this work have meant to her. Sigma Kappa has always stood to me in a peculiar way for fTiendship. It is inspiring to think of these many girls, scattered from state to state, ready to be friends because of ''the mystic bond. '' So I, also, am hoping to make many friends through this work. In the name of all the active chapters we want to offer a hearty wei· come to our newest, Rho and Sigma Chapters. You can judge from their splendid letters what a :fine addition they are. CITIZENSHIP 'fo the call, "What are you going to do for our country'" individual replies keep coming in every day, from the sacrifice of our dearest to the eating of a wheatless meal. And I suppose some think there is little they can do. We are all eager for an active giving. But there is. something this crisis can bring home to all of us. That is citizenship. We boast of being citizens of the United States. Do we know what it really means' And do we realize what duties it entails' Would we· consider a useful member of our college community a girl who regularly went to her classes, did her lessons and her duties toward a small circle of intimates pr~tty well, but 'who not only did not. take an active part in college activities, but knew nothing of their organization, never· went to class meetings, knew only very superficially of those customs, which ll}ake college such a fascinating place' No need to await the· answer. But a goocl many of us are calmly doing that very thing in: 442 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

1·egard to our country. Let us study what she stands for in peace as well as in war; let us know something of her institutions, and then let us take an intelligent interest and active part in her affairs. For we can all do it, if it is only to add one more to the weight of public opinion. Conservation, elimination of waste, is the watchword of the hour. But what of the little lives, potential citi<:ens, being frittered away every day. What are we going to do about iU . And don't let us allow our enthusiasm to slump after the war. Good citizens we should have with us always. Now don't construe this into a ple!j. for us all to turn social workers immediately. Beside beir1g a good active citizen implies being a socinl worker in its broadest meanng-to strive for the good of society. And Sigma Kappa and service are pretty nearly synonymous.

ENTHUSIASl\I Enthusiasm! That word is on the lips of everyone these days, but how few realize the immense benefits which result from the cultivation o:( that intense feeling. To me, enthusiasm in a sorority means a most important thing, because it keeps the sorOI'ity at its best. If a soror.it~· would attain its ideal of success and development, enthusiasm must be kept at a high pitch, for without it all. success will be lacking. A chapter will drift along without striding forward at all, until some alert girl in­ jects enough life in it "to make it sit .up and take notice of the changes occuning every day. Take rushing for example. How can a chapter which mshes just half-heartedly and rather indifferently expect to. pledge keen, wide-awake girls ~ If a chapter would have its possibili­ ties become realities, it must have that magic word, enthusiasm, as its constant watchword. Enthusiasm! Did it ever occur to you, sister Sigma, that only by living out this principle can you gain the most from your sorority life' You g·o to meeting, of course, but when some question comes up for dis· cussion peThaps you say, '' Oh, anything is all right with me. If y' OU others want it go ahead, wh~r it doesn't make any particular diffel'ence with me. Only don't count on me! '' If so, you need to be awakened from your lethargy, for in reality you are nothing moTe or less than a ''slacker.'' Only too often are we enthusiastic about our large ideals and principles, but when it comes to the smaller things, which truly count for the most in our lives, we allow them .to slip past almost un­ noticed. ·w·heneYer you begin to feel all out of sorts and everything seems to be goi_ng wrong, just stop and rouse some enthusiasm. Imme­ diately you are happy and normal mice again. Is that not truef Only by each of us doil1g- oul' bit to make her stand for the true spirit of en· thusiasm, can Sigma Kappa continue to live tl'ue to her purest and highest ideals. EDITH BANKS, '19, XI. WITH THE POSTMAN'S WHISTLE This is what Sister Hartwich wrot<:>: By the way, I think nothing helped me more as an · editor than that requirement for a letter of comment within two weeks after the appearance of the magazine. I gleaned heaps of ideas there and the habit of writing me often lasted beyond the incumbency of the correspon­ dent's position.

This is how one alumna apprcciatfs her chapter letter.

Now, out of four issues for this year, I had three big disappointments, for personall~· . I alwa)'s turn first to hear the doings of my active chapter , for I am just near enou gh, 'and yet far enough awa)· to keep but little in touch with them. Each disappointment made me "go up in the a ir." The alumna alwa)•S tells of the "good old times," I suppose, but I distinctly recall spending a perfectly good holiday, the on!)• one, and a vacation, in a small hotel room writing my chapter "stunt" on my trunk cover, and it was hot! . . . It is a Sigma duty to "do their bit" and these chapter letters are none too frequent as it is, I think, and I, for one, missed them. The TRIANGLE is a splendid magazine-! ought to know for I handle 800 at M. I. T . Yours in Sigma, Ros~; GREENBERG. 444 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS ALPHA-COLBY COLLEGE

Address-Foss Hall, Waterville, Me. Once more we are entering upon a long summer vacation, and how glad we are to lay aside our books for the summer months. Yet there is a sense of sorrow also, for we realize we must lose our fine senior sisters who have helped us through so much during the last four years. However, we shall always be in the same bond of sisterhood. Since the last letter was written we sisters from Alpha Chapter en­ joyed an out-of-door picnic, on the banks of the Messalonskee stream. In­ stead of having junior night for Sigma Kappa, we entertained eight delegates from each of the other soi·orities, Delta Delta Delta, Chi Omega, and Alpha Delta Pi. When we arrived at the place for the picnic the busy juniors had the coffee boiling and the sandwiches and doughnuts ready to be served. Just before sunset, when the lunch was finished, some of the girls went canoeing, while others played ball or toasted marshmallows over the coals of the dying camp fire. The Ivy Day exercises this year were given on June 2. The pageant was composed and conducted by Mrs. Crowell, wife of one of our pro­ fessors. Marion White, '17, was the May Queen and Hazel Whitney, '18, represented one of the muses. The dances were divided according to classes, the seniors representing flowers; the juniors, birds; the . sophomores, sunbeams; and the freshmen, fairies. After the pageant and the planting of the ivy, the tennis tournament followed. We were well represented in the tournament by Marion Daggett, '17; Dorothy Roberts, '18; Katherine Hatch, '19; and Eleanor Seymore, '20. In the evening of the same day the juniors gave the Shakespearean .t1 Midsummer Night's Dre111m . Hazel Loane, Marion Lewis, and Gladys Craft, 'lS, took part in the play. Some of the fairies were Ernestine Peabody, '19, Eliza Gurgamus, Alice Mathews, Lucile Kidder, Florence Preble, and Eleanor Seymore, '20. Another local sorority has been started at Colby. It is called Gam­ ma Delta. ·All the Alpha girls were delighted to be able to wear the lavendar and maroon a few days before commencement in honor of our new chapter in the Methodist University at Dallas, Texas. On May 23 we held a special initiation for Ernestine Peabody, '19, and Eliza Gurgamus, '20. After the initiation a banquet was served at the hall and Dorothy Roberts was toastmistress. We are all very glad to have these two girls really witjl us. All we Alpha girls were very much disappointed to be obliged to postpone the pleasure of meeting and entertaining our sisters from the CHAPTER L ET'l'ERS AND PERSONALS 445 other chapters. However, we know it was all for the best and we are hoping to meet you next year. With best wishes to you all for a very pleasant vacation. MARY ANN Foss, Alpha, '19.

PERSONALS Marion White, '17, was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and also delivered an essay at commencement on "Art and the War." Marion Daggett, '17, was on the class ode committee and also won the cham­ pionship in tennis this year, for the third year in succession. Dorothy Roberts, '18, spoke at junior exhibition. Adrienne Clair and Alice ·Mathews, '20, spoke in the freshman reading con­ test.

DELTA-BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Address- Suite 479 Gainsborough St., Boston, Mass. Do you mind if I omit dates' At the approach of summer, they fold up their tents like Arabs and suddenly pop out of my head. Elsie Woodland, Kappa Kappa Gamma, has been installed as presi­ dent of the college Y. W. C. A. with enthusiastic plans to begin a bigger year in the fall. The Dallas Lore Sharp Prize, for verse published in the Boston University Beacon, was jl-Warded after chapel service to Emma Gold­ smith, '17, for her poem, "vVaiting for the Car." April 18 the College of Business Administration suspended its eYe­ ning classes for the annual banquet and dance. Gamma Phi Beta honored their delegate, Miss Nachtrieb, by a tea, April 20; May 10, Kappa Kappa Gamma served tea at the College Club. As a canape for examinations, we all sailed down the harbor (dodging mines and destroyers) to a week-end house party with Marion Leavitt, '20, at Nantasket Beach. Sister E . .T. Clark honored us with her presence, a book of Robert Service 's R ed Cr·oss Poems, and a broken window. Several of the freshmen were late because of their class dance at Riverbank Court on the evening· of the eleventh. College events practically resolve themselves into .T unior Week and Senior Week The juniors initiated their holiday season with a picnic on the Charles. Professor Wilm, of the Department of Philosophy, dis­ tinguished himself in the track meet. Then, junior prom at the Copley Plaza on Wednesday furnished an incentive for careful economy in made-over costumes! The classic English play, Engaged, was presented May 4. The juniors are still protesting that they 're not to blame if they acted it too well for a coeducational institution. Phi Beta Kappa initiation took place on May 7, followed by an ener­ getic address by William Lyon Phelps of Yale on "Happiness." The initiates included Alfred Longueil, Kappa Phi Alpha, editor-in-chief DELTA CHAPTER First row, left to right: Dorris Black, Gladys Fait, Fairy Brown. Second row: Hilda Murray, Doris Jennings, Rita Waldron, Lenna Peabody, Marion Leavitt, Helen Cady. Third row: Martha Card, Ethel Smith, Emma Bangs, Blanche Goodwin. Fourth row: Alice Kennedy, Marjorie Leavey, Nellie Young. Fifth row: Grace Smith, Helen Bisbee, Harriett P ettingell-Maria- AJJ,..,__R, •.•.h _D~'----'-~-----~------' CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 447 of the B eacon (which, of co urse, you all read) and Gladys MacMillan, Delta Delta Delta, class historian. Senior ViTeek witnessed another prom at the Copley, a banquet at the Thomdike, at which MT. Long·ueil read the class poem, and Gladys :NiacMillan, the history (so funny that the seniors have been giggling e• er since), and Alice Fitzpatrick, the prophecy. The faculty reception took place at the College Club. Then came Epsilon reunion and banquet, at which the chapter invested one thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds; and on Sunday the baccalaureate address by President Murlin. Tuesday was Class Day at Riverside. All the seniors were presented with appropriate gifts : The Phi Beta Kappas each with a zero to complete the discipline of their education, and our O\Yn Ruth Richardson, with a plentiful supply of "Es" to distribute among her college students, if you please, next year in Mary­ land.. Tremont Temple was the scene of t he commencement program. Bishop Hughes of the Methodist Church gave an address on ''The Col­ lege Student in Hi.:; Relation to Social Reform. '' Among the lrm rl rerls of students recei"Ving- degrees " ·ere many who failed to respond to their names-eyen as this year at all college commencements, t he presence of the war has heen so tremendously emphasized. Con•ocation was held in J acob Sleeper Hall after the commence­ ment sen·ice and in the evening the senior class, with its friends, en­ joyed ''pops'' at Symphony. Shall I tell you a secret~ vVe are refurnishing the house in brown and green. (All contributions received with t hanks; address Maria Allen,_±2 Mt. Vemon Street, Arlington, Massachusetts.)

PERSONALS Pearl Godd'ard, ' 15, h a a nnounced her engagement to Lieut. Richard Stickney, \Vest Point '15. Peg was to be our alumna delegate to convention. Gladys MacLay, ' 15, was married to John Raymond Parsons on April 27. She w ill live in D et-roit. Vir ginia Mabry, ' 14, is to teach in Weston, Mass., n ext year, and Josephine Parks, :07, in East Orange, N. J. Grace Ada Small Houlder' address is n ow 2 Eucli d St., Quincy, Mass. Ethel Smith, ' 19, talked to the student body on cold pack canning as a r esult -o f her work at Amherst. Harriett Pettingell, ' 17, was chairman of the Senior Banquet Committee. Effie Douglnss, '20, is singing in the Girls' Glee Club. Halc)·on e Wright, '19, and Nelli e Young, ' 19, have been appointed to the B eacon staff for 1917-18. Lenna Peabody, '20, read a paper on Prohibition in a prize contest at Y. W. Nellie Young, ' 19, has been elected junior proctor for women for 1917·18. Our patrone s, Dr. Man· Alice Emerson, told us at meeting about our oppor- tunities for service to our country duxing war time. After the senior play, G..een Stockings (which I forgot to mention in the Jetter) . we enterta ined our mothers at the r ooms. All of us wish nil of you a very happy vacation. 448 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

A ROUND ROBIN FROM DEL TA The first weeks of summer bring very welcome messages from the girls. To be sure, if you happen to be treasurer, you receive something like this: ''I presume a money Ol'der is even more welcome than a letter, so excuse the brevity of the enclosed.'' F1·equently, though, a letter altogether business free arrives : " -- upon my arrival from the Old Pine Tree State (where Alphas are as thick as mosquitoes and Deltas are scarce as hens' teeth) I went into town to see the Prince of Udine and his retinue. We could see the reviewing-stand at City Hall across the street. Two autos came by first, collecting money for the Red Cross. The coins simply show­ ered down into the back seats and Boy Scouts were busy picking up silver and bills all over the street. If Boston doesn't make her share of the Red Cross $100,000,000, ·it won't be because that crowd was stingy. ''I never saw so many Italians in my life. They were all out in full gloi·y with beautiful American and Italian flags all hand embroidered, carried by their different organizations. The Figbting Ninth was there with Colonel Logan bowing and prancing in front (of course, I mean his horse was prancing but he was· bowing)." Delta girls seem to be measuring up to requirements in enlisting. Even from our stony, soil-less New England we hear from these recruits: ''I am a farmer just at present- we have no less than four gar­ dens, so all hands are busy and will be busier still if C-- has to go to war.'' Or this from Reading : "Keeping house for a family of eight is my chief occupation; and, on the side, I am raising two pigs and thirty chickens. Once in a while I find a few minutes to read or sew or go down town for a college ice (after I've weeded a while in the garden, I'm thirsty)." Epsilon sisters may be interested in this item: "By the way, hasn't Epsilon an achievement to be proud off I had no idea we had sucli prosperous and energetic sisters. I have always heard a great deal about Syracuse, but chiefly in connection with Hol­ stein cattle sales for we have sixteen thoroughbreds and there is a great deal of cow talk continually. '' Collegiate dignity (if you permit the expression) makes not a very strong claim on our choice of summer recreation. "Nothing has happened here except that one cow got out twice so I had to chase her. I'd get almost up to her and she'd duck and go off on the gallop, not respecting the vegetable garden in the least.'' The pleasure rec;orts, however, are open in spite of these times of economic pressure. Witness the following from Revere Beach: CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 440

"Watch! Look! Listen! The management of the L. A. Thompson Railway has looked down upon my efforts in their behalf and pro­ nounced them good. Henceforth, my task is not to observe from my lofty pinnacle those who ride for a second time, nor is it to collect fares, but to labor over the accounts in the office and relieve the cashiers only on their days off.'' And they all end: ' 'Lovingly in Sigma. ' ' Does not a round robin like this breathe the odor of a violeU A A A EPSILON- SYRACUSE U NIVE RSITY Address-500 University P1., Syracuse, N. Y. The last weeks of the college year were so filled with the spirit of military service and patriotic duty that little time was left for college events. Friday, April 20, was a red letter day on the calendar of Syracuse University; for on that day military training started in real earnest on the Hill. After that date, we heard of little except the an­ nouncements of drill and the plans of the Red Cross. The city girls are now having luncheons once a week in the ''Com­ mons''; they hope to become better acquainted, and to increase the democratic spirit of Syracuse. A great many of the city girls have signed the blanks sent out by the National League for Women's Service. Another opportunity was given the city girls to sign up for garden work, and to cooperate with the movement for raising food products on the tract of land set aside for that purpose by the National League. The Big Sister Movement is a new branch of the Young Women's Christian Association service which has been most successful this year. The splendid work of the committee which had charge of this move­ ment cannot be overestimated. From all appearances, last ye.ar, there were very few unhappy freshmen, and tTie Big Sister Movement helped many to live up to their ideals, and to make. the most of every college opportunity. The College of Fine Arts led the rest of the university in war relief work, by the raising of $750 for the establishment of a Syracuse unit of the American Ambulance in France. However, before college closed in June, all the various organizations had formed definite plans for ser­ vice. On May 14, the German Club presented a play entitled, Papa Hat's ErlatUbt. Olive Fink, '18, was one of the leading characters in the play. Doctor Lynn Harold Hough, a member of the Department of His­ torical Theology at Garret Biblical Institute, gave a series of five lectures to the women of Syracuse University, beginning the evening of May 3. All the . lectures were well attended, and we would all be glad if the Young Women's Christian Association could have him lecture in Syra- ±50 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE cuse again. The topics which he discussed were: ''The Challenge of Life," '"l'he Personal Problem," "Exploiting the World," "Serving the World,'' ''·whither.'' Sunday aftemoon, May 6, a special Vesper Service was held and at that time Dr. Hough spoke before the men and ·women of the universit~· . His topic was '' 'l'he Christian Sword.' ' The annual concert of the Women's Glee Club was held at the Regent Theater, May 2. ''Songs of Mary,'' was the theme consistently por­ ti·ayed hi the program. Laura Davis, '17, Constance Manchester, '17, and Elizabeth Ives,. '19, took parts in the concert. The . annual Moving-up Day exercises started in the auditorium of Crouse College, the morning of May 1. ·vice-chancellor Emeritus Frank Smalley presided~ The presidents of the four classes g·ave very inter­ estillg speeches. Dean Frank R. ViTalker of Law College presented the trophies of the Justinian Society and Devil 's Own. He also pre­ sented the trophy of the Monx H ead, the junior societ~·. In the evening a r ealistic carnival closed up the celebration of the day. This big comic circus was held in the Archbold Gymnasium and was Yery wf'll attended. The Women's Athletic Dinner, w11ich is now an annual college event, was held in the Trophy Room of the men's gymnasium, April 30. Helen K. Salmons was awarded the circle sleeve numerals. On the morning of May 12, our annual l\1a~' morning breakfast was held il1 th~ gymnasium. We had a great time, although we were dis­ appointed because the weather· would not allow us to hold it clown at the Castle Grounds. ·women's Day this year was a grand success, and the l iggest event of the spring. The track meet was held in the forenoo•1 o·1 tl1c ~thlp•ir :fielcl. In the afternoon we assembled b~· classes, and marched to the Castle Grounds. The junior, of Eta Pi Upsilon, and the sophomore cup, of the Women's Athletic Association, n·ere presented at the opening­ of the assembly. The pageant, ''The Prophecy Gf the Age,'' wa given, which wa the principal feature of the day. It took place in the beautiful n'1t--•·!'l amphitheater of the Castle Grounds. H elen Salmons, '18, Laura Has­ brook, '18, and Ethel Thompson, '20, had a part in the Russian folk­ dance; Elsie Stevens, '19, was one of the girls in the fan dane~, which was representative of Japan. Elizabeth Ives, '19, appeared in a Spanish dance. At six o'clock the girls had hasket suppers, and later the annual class sings were helcl. Women's Day closed with the lantern ceremony on Crouse Hill which was one of the most beautiful feature of the program. Betty L. Barry, '18, has been elected by the Rational Panhellenic as the student representative on the Facult:· Eligihilit~· Committee. CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 451

The oratory students presented Clyde ·Fitch's modern play, The Clim·ber, the last week in May. Elsie Stevens, '19, took the part of Mrs. Hunter and was well received. One of the most delightful features of the commencement program of the university was the English Club play presented in the natural amphitheater in the Castie Grounds. The play selected for this year was The Admirable C1·ichton, by F. M. Barrie. It was an excellent choice, since its delightful nature lent ·itself well to an out-of-door presentation. "Miss Elizabeth I ves was one of the young women whose playing was particularly commendable.'' . The twenty-first initiation and banquet was held on Epsilon's twelfth birthday, June T. We were very proud and happy to initiate into Sigma Kappa: Marjorie Ashton, '19, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Melissa Powell, '19, Taylor, Pa.; Mary Sherman, '20, Vienna, Va. It surely did seem good to have so many alumnre with us on our chapter birthday, eight of them in all. There was great excitement when, dming the banquet, Sister Margaret Dean announced the marriage of Cora Kampfe, '14, and Dr. Dickinson, of Syracuse, on the first of June. This excitement was soon followed by another announcement by Sister Margaret Hutchins-the engage· ment of Margaret Dean, '18, to Glenn Harper, of Cornell. In the try-out for places on the 1919 board of the Onondagan, the junior yearbook, Elsie Stevens, '19, received the highest number of points, and Elizabeth Ives, '19, held the fourth. place. If "Steve" had only been of t1le other sex she would be editor-in-chief, but as man is still supreme; we are very proud to have both ''Steve'' and ''Betty'' on the board of editors. In the "round robin" which I just received, I found some still more surprising news: Hazel Leslie, '18, was married to Mr. A. T. Harclell, on Tuesday, June 19. Hazel said that she hopes to have a reception at the chapter-house this fall. I know we shall all anticipate a fine time. Five of our Sigma girls, ''Fish,'' Esther Pearson, Ethel Smith, Julia and Ethel Storr, and a coterie of gallants, recently went on an auto trip to Mohonk. After enjoying an elaborate lunch, they ro"·ed on the lake. They must have had almost as good a time as the seyen Sigmas at Silver Bay had on their ''picnic. '' The Sigma Kappa girls in and around Buffalo are planning on having a camp at Angela for a week some time this summer. The seven Sigma Kappas at Silver Bay, Dorothy Roberts, Alpha; Elsie Foote, Nu; Helen Newton, Nu; Elsie Monteith, Nu; Elsie Stevens, Epsilon; Ethel Thompson, Epsilon; and Elizabeth Fox, Epsilon, had a very enjoyable time together. Although the rain deprived us of the picnic, which we had all planned on, it was almost as much fun to have our supper at the same table, and later to indulge in ice cream cones. '!'hen we had a fine time down on the pier, discussing Sigma Kappa news. 452 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

The commencement exercises opened Sunday, June 10, with the bac­ calaureate sermon in the Archbold Gymnasium. Class Day exercises took place Tuesday; commencement Wednesday morning; and the chancellor's reception Wednesday night. Our Sigma members of class '17 were: Kate P erkins, Margaret Dean, Laura Davis, Constance Manchester, Esther Pearson, Helen Fisk, Ethel Barnes, and Mildred Pratt. Ethel Barnes received cum loode honors on her diploma. ELIZABETH A. Fox, '19. PERSONALS Frances Lyons, '16, has been elected to membership in the honorary biblical soc.iety. "Ben" Bennett, '15, was at the house Sunday, April 22. Mrs. Davis and son, Fred, of Carbondale, Pa., visited at the house May 1. Betty Barry, ' 18, was elected president of Somerset Y. Mary Brown, '16, spent the week-end of May 4 at the chapter-house. She will teach in Monticello next year. Kate Perkins, '17, was called home by the sudden illness of her mother. It was impossible for her to r eturn to school, except for a few days at commence· ment time. "Bob" Wells, '14, was at the house May 13. Fannie Pratt, '08, spent the week-end of May 12 at the house. Marjorie Case, · '16, visited at the bouse for a week the last of May. Betty Barry, '18, and Olive l<,ink, '18, spent the week-end of June 1 with Ethel Barnes, ' 17, at her home in Auburn. Margaret Mills of Nu Chapter and Teresa Welch from New Berlin visited at the chapter-house the week-end of May 23. The girls were delighted when Hazel Spann Gorden and Mr. Gorden motored from Buffalo on May 26, bringing with them Nina Harwood of Niagara Falls, Dorthy Peters, Caroline Gilette, Eula Grove Linger of Buffalo, and Ada Smeader of Middleport. Olive Fink, ' 18, was elected vice-president of the university German Club. Our Sigma Kappa "Barracks" is at present the place of encampment for our six Sigma "grinds": Esther Fay, ' 15, Mar_,, Brown, '16, Helen Hasbrook, '16, Helen Salmons, '18, Constance Manchester, '17, and Julia Storr, '19, who are attending summer school. Elsie Stevens, '19, Ethel Thompson, '20, and E li zabeth Fox, '19, attended the Eastern Student Conference of Young Women's Christian Association .at Silver Bay on Lake George. It is very interesting to note in our "round r obin" letters how many of the girls are busy this summer with Red Cross work. Laura Hasbrook is taking a course in first aid and spending much time with Red Cross work. Betty Barn· has also been bus)· at this work. collecting papers and attending meetings. Betty Ives has joined the Navy League, and is doing her bit with the knitting needles. Gertrude Scott is becoming a regular "Sharp Shooter" and when she is not busy with her rifle practice, she is doing Red Cross work. Esther Pearson, Helen Salmons, and Ethel Smith took the course of the Red Cross Society in first aid work, which was given at the University Hospital of the Good Shepherd. Elizabeth Fox has been appointed leader of an Eight Week Club, a branch of the Young Women's Ohristian Association work. The work of the club will take the form of some kind of patriotic service. Lam·a Bullock, '15, and Marian Smith were back at the chapter-house for commencement. CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 450

ZETA-GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Address- 2024 G Street N. W., Washington, D. C. 1918: Annie Cardwell, Helen Miles, Elizabeth Richardson, Dorothy Sorn· borger. 1919: Rachel Benfer, Eleanor Earnshaw, Frances ,Park, Ruth Phillips, Esther Dirickson. 1920: Marjorie Gleason, Josephine Huber, Ethel Densmore, Elizabeth Hl).m· pln·ey, Ruth McBrien, Agnes Nelson, Lenore Kolar, Margaret Shaw. Summer this year finds more Zeta girls in town than ever before. And Washington just now is not such a bad place in which to spend the summer, if you like to be in the center of happenings. When the visits of foreign missions and the gentle disagreements of Congress begin to pall we can always fall back for excitement upon our faithful suf­ fragettes and their little police-escorted excursions to Occoquan. The last weeks of college fairly slipped away-yes, really. Somehow we were all too busy this year to realize their dreadful significance. With many, ma,ny of the girls of the university the laying aside of books in June marked the taking up of pens in behalf of Uncle Sam. Zeta had two initiations this spring. One was our really truly own, that of Margaret Shaw, which took place at the home of Helen Miles, May 11. Sister Emma Kinne was present. The other was one in which Zeta girls took as deep an interest as if it really were our own. That was the usheTing in of Rho, the new ehapter which we o{ Zeta are especially glad and proud to welcome. Nineteen girls went down fl'om Washington foT the installing of the chap· teT, and weTe beautifully enteTtained by ouT southeTn sisters. They came back to make those who could not go envious with their tales of the fun they had had and praises of the Rho girls. No, I am not going to repeat what they said lest it spoil the youngest member of the family. Graduation took four of our girls thi; year, but we Expect to have at least one back as a postgraduate. Meta Neumann and Flor­ ence Ford distinguished themselves by graduating cum l111t~de. At a mock wedding at Josephine Huber's the seniors were presented with Sigma Kappa rings, the chap tel' 's graduation gift. Our commencement dance was held at the Washington Canoe Club, beloved for its romantic (let me not say rheumatic) balcony that juts out ovel' the Potomac, ancl on a moonlight night with tfie river below-oh, well. Annie Cardwell was hostess at a dance a little before this. We needs must enjoy dancing while we may, for who knows where our paTtneTs will be this time next year~ Mrs. Swett, our new patroness and the director of the Girls' Glee Club this year, entertained the Zeta girls and the Glee Club shortly after college closed. It rained, of course-it seldom fails to in Washington this summer~but almost everyone went. Not the least enjoyable part of the evening was our hostess's singing. Bess Ritchie, from Rho, was an out-of-town guest. 454 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

We are looking forward to next winterls rushing with curiosity. The local Panhellenic has decided to try out the plan of bidding at the end of the first semester-an innoYation here. What is college going to be like next year~ At any rate all of George Washington's athletic problems are solved for the present. As to enrollment, ·washington is so full of people from all over the country, come here on government work, that classes will probably he as full as usual. · Alas for convention! But om time will come. RUTH PHILLIPS.

PERSONALS Mrs. De Haas of Pi Chapter is in Washington this summer. Dorothy Sornborger was initiated into the Sphinx Honor Society this spring. 'l'he society is limited to seven members. R achel Benfer is spending the summer in her own home town in Ohio. Marion Brooks is in Maine. Greatly to our joy, the war has changed Emma Kinne's plans and she will be in town all winter. She has a position in the Surgeon General' Library. Helen Hasbrouck, E '16, is another .out-of-town Sigma in the government service. Her position in the War Department will keep her with us this year. Ethel Hall, M '14, is east again for a few months. We are glad of another chance to get acquainted with her. A A A ETA-ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Address-211 S. McLean St., B loomington, Ill. We were delighted to have Mrs. Linger with us in June-although we realize that two days is a very short time in which to visit with our Grand President. One of our most successful initiations took place at the home of Louise Claggett in Norma!, on May 5, our initiates being Gladys Tucker and J essie Kieszling. To say that we held our initiation at Louise's does not suggest anything out of the ordinary to Sigmas of other chap­ ters, so ju t a moment and we will explain. Mr. Claggett is superinten­ dent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, so you can imagine what wonderful large rooms we had for our initiation and banquet which were followed by a 'dance. Mrs. Claggett surprised u. by arranging wooden boxes-made triangu­ lar in shape and covered with lavendar crepe paper-and putting entire .-iolct plants in them, o that we had real violets growing right 011 our table. Our annual picnic was held at Miller Park the day after commence­ ment and about tift:· alumnre and active girls came and exchanged fare­ \Yclls. The seniors were presented with Eta guards in token of the es­ teem in which they were held by the active chapter. P erhaps one of the most important days to college juniors is Wes­ leyana Day. Thi year tlie day tarted with a parade in the morning CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 455 followed by the crowning of the May Queen, after which the Tr esleyana Yearbook, published by the junior class, was distributed. A cafeteria lunch was then served, each sorority taking charge of a booth. J 'une 13 was commencement clay. Mr. Landis of Indiana was the speaker of the morning and gave a powerful messag-e to t he graduates, as to their part in the present war. Eta sends best wishes to all for a successful new college year. I SABEL BARBOUR lVES, '19.

PERSONALS Marion Austin, our r etiring Triangular Correspondent, has been elected to the position of editor-in-chief of the W esleyan A •·gus. a coll ege paper published twice a month. Grace Kessler, '19, and Mr . TraC)' Gr een wer e man·ied in Chicago on June 6. They are making their home in Bloomin gton. Cecil e Thomassen, '17, an d Ralph Johnson were marriec\ on June 3. They ar e li ving in Chicago. Mary Hairgrove from Virden, Ill., and I sabella Danforth of ' Vashington, Ill., bo th last year's sen iors, were here for comn1ence1nent. Dorothy Bean, '19, spent six weeks in Ch icago this summer, visiting her brother. B ernadine Moratz, '20, spent most of the ummer at Peto ·key, Mich. Lena Green, '20, has been actively engaged in R ed Cross work. Ethel Forister, Marion and Lois Austin, Ruth Heffernan, Bernadin e Moratz, and Isabel Ives attended the first summer school term at Normal University at ·Normal, Ill. Among the two thousand students they halted "at the sign of the Triangle."

THETA-UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Address-122 E . John St., Champaign, Ill.

Summer yacation is really here! But b:v the time this TRIANGLE is issued many of the sisters will be back in college head over heels in rush­ ing. It's wonderful to be at home and through colleg-e, but I know other seniors will bear with me in saying thRt we envy you the thrill of going back to college with trunks and grips, ''doll ed'' out in heaps of new clothes, but most of all seeing one another again. Senior week was bliss itself. Can ~-ou girls imagine really living with nothing to do but visit, read stories, sew, tat, and dance¥ Well that was the luxury we seniors liYed in. '\'Ve also lived over our fresh­ man days, and ·it was just surprising to see how spry we old girls were in answering door bells and telephones, really! We also ate plenty of "Bostons" but we knew it was our last chance. And the. moYies! ·well we just couldn 't keep our Phi Beta Ka1Jpa at hom e and the rest of us felt it our duty to escort her. Commencement to us was the most wonderful one that was ever held, but ?OU 'll all think the same of your own. 'fheta certainly did her share in contributing to the great world of degreed women. 456 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Perhaps I have gotten ahead of my story, so I must go back and t ell about our senior _breakfast. This is given to the seniors by the freshmen the last Sunday morning of the college year. They write songs for the occasion, and the chapter gives each graduate a ring bearing the Sigma Kappa seal. Following breakfast we have the last chapter meeting of the year and the very last for the seniors. It is a time of both joy and sadness and Mystic Bond seems even nearer and dearer 'to us. The usual events of the college year were much changed, in fact, the whole atmosphere of college seemed different when so many of our boys left for farms and training camps and we sent twenty-three men to serve in France in the Ambulance Corps. The fraternities lost so many that several of them banded together and ate at one house. In­ terscholastics were cancelled and also senior ball. An Allied Bazaar was held to raise money· for the Ambulance Corps. We had a candy booth with Alpha Omicron Pi and made fifty dollars. Theta held her special third initiation of the year in May; it seemed espeCially fine to have violets brought fresh from the woods .. We appreciated the telegram of congratulations sent by Nu \Jllapter. One of her charter members, H elen Crane, was at our banquet. The· initiates were: Marcia Leeds, Mt. Carmel, Ill; Evangeline Highsmith,. Laurenceville, Ill; Ruth Rorig, Elgin, Ill; and Vera Klotz, Peoria, ill: Will the sisters of other chapters kindly pardon this personal note~ Those of us who will not be in college this fall want to know all about what you active girls are doing. When you receive this TRIANGLE' won't you just sit down and write to us¥ We will gladly pass the let­ ter around. Write and tell us what you're doing What's the latest gossip brewing, Kind of clothes your going to wear Tell us how you fix your hair, Anything at all will do So it brings us word from you. ADELAIDE C. WHEELER, Theta.

P ERSONALS Parents and sister s who attended the commencement are as follows: Mrs. Smith of R ochelle, Ill. ; Mr. and Mrs. Nichols of Dixon, Ill. ; Mr. and Mrs. T ener and Mr. and Mrs. Hulburd and Bernice of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Engle and' Ruth and Mr. and Mrs. Collins of Bloomington; a nd Mr. a nd Mrs. Wheeler and' I ren e of Laurens, I owa. Other guests during commencement week were: Eunice and Nell Miles of Garden City, Kan., who visited their sister May ; Helen D awson, '15, and mother of Morris, Ill., who visited us for a few days. Katherine Chase, '14, who is teaching at Springfield, Ill., visited us over a. week-end. · Vera Klotz is to teach in Honolulu this year. CHAPTER LET TERS AND PERSONALS 457

Berniece Powell, ' 14, will teach English at F air-burg, Ill., this coming year. Irene Wheeler, '13, will t"acn household science the comm g year at Lewiston, .,font. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sweet Brayton announce the m arriage of their daughte:t; Dorothy Mae, to Mr. VictoF Adna Acer on Saturday, the twenty-third of July, 1917, Long B each,- Cal. Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. H. F airburn on June 25, a son, John Straight Fairburn. .& .& .& IOTA-UNIVERSITY OF DENVER No letter.

LAMBDA-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Address-2401 Durant Ave., Berkeley, Cal. 1917 : H elen Brayton, H elen .Jeter , Myrtle L ar sen, Algeline Marlowe, Ger­ trude Young. 1918: H elen Brown, Alice Eastwood, Nina H allock, Marjorie L a Grave, Gladys Davis. 1919: Camille Albee, Irma B ennett, Margaret Smith, Alma Thornburg, Leona W eeks, May Wright. 1920: Margaret Alburtus, Alice Dickson, Alberta E lms, B ertha Owens, Frances Preston, Lucile Slade, Arline Weeks, Ruby W est, Marjorie Bonner, Marguerite Fellows, Ruth McGarry, Ruth Rogers.

PLEDGE S 1920 : Frances B acon, Nellie Campbell. Finals came about a week after I wrote my last letter and then -college closed and everybody went away so there are not many events to write about this time. Senior Week was held in the second week of May with the senior ball, the extravaganza, and all the other traditional. affairs held at_ this time every year. Commencement took place on May 16. Three more units for the Ambulance Corps, recruited from the faculty and student body here, have left for France. This makes four ·divisions in all which the university has sent to hospital service in France. ·while supported by Red Cross funds, these units are recog­ nized as units in the enlisted medical reserve of the United States army. Summer session is in full swing on the campus at the present time. The registration exceeds that of all other years. Ten Sigma Kappas are attendil,lg this year. On May 5 we held a special initiation and the following girls are now active members of Sigma Kappa: Marjorie Bonner, Gladys Davis, Marguerite Fellows, Ruth McGarry, and Ruth Rogers. L EONA WEEKS, '19. PERSONALS The following girls received their degrees at commencement: Helen Brayton, Helen Jeter, .A.lgeline Marlowe, and Gertrude Young. Helen Brayton has a position in the mail order department of Capwell's De· pat·tment Store in Oakland. · 458 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Helen Jeter is in Los Angeles and will not be back to college next semester. Algeline Marlowe is doing library work in San Diego and intends to go to the State Library School at Sacramento this fall . Gertrude Young is working in the Berkeley Charities. True Mattoon, '08, Helen Johnson, '13, Emilie. Poppe, '15, Pearl Cessna, Helen Brown, '18, Helen Ferrier, Iota, and E leanor Stahl, Mu, are all attending summer session at University of California. Pearl Cessna will teach in Fresno again this fall and expects her sister, Maude, of Theta Chapter to spend the winter with her. Tene Campbell, '15, will teach in the Francis Parker School in San Diego next year. F lorence Mason, ex-'18, has a position in the probation court in Los Angeles. Claire Tucker, '16, is working at the Women's Athletic Club in San Francisco. Alma Thornburg, '19, is working in the Federal Reserve Bank in San Fran· cisco. All Sigma Kappas in Berkeley were entertained at a tea on July 6 at the home of Marguerite Cordell , '16. It was given in honor of Alpha Heath, '15, who has been visiting in Berkeley this summer. May Wright, '19, will attend the Y. W . C. A. Convention at Asilomar. Edith Lawrence, ex·'19, visited the house for about a month before college closed. Florence Scott, ' 16, was in Berkeley for a month or o, shortly after coll ege clo ed. Dorothy Treacy, '19, will be back to coll ege this fall. She has been attending Stanley Hall in Minneapolis. One of our innocent and well-meaning freshmen, Rubr West, nenrlr knocked t he house over last spring by announcing that she had been married to Robert Witherspoon on May 5. II.a Smith, ex-' 18, was married to Napoleon Turner late in the spring. Marguerite Cordell, ' 16, is to be married to Victor Wells, Delta Tau '17, in August.

MU-UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Address-4515 15th Ave. N. E., Seattle, ·wash. Summer 'acation once more! Most of the Mus have flown away- to summer resorts or camps, as I suppose many other Sigmas ha'e done. College does not open this year until October 1 and indeed we are all rejoicing, since we at Washington have always before been hard at work by September 15. The University of w·ashington has instituted a new plan tlus year. The college year is to be divided into four quarters beginning October 1 and ending December 31. By this mean a tudent can complete a four years' college co urse in three years of twel'e months' work each. I think that anyo11e would have to ''go some'' to do this, but some might be willing to forego vacations in order to finish one year ooner. This plan is also advantag·eous in that a person may stay out as many quarters as he wishes to and then take up hi tudies "·here he left off-whenever he may see fit to return. The war doe not seem to ha•e interfered with summer chool at­ tendance to any great extent, ince the enrollment i. nearly a large as CHAPTER LE.TTERS AND PERSONALS 459 last year. Mabel Allen, one of our aiumnre, has I'cnted the chapter­ house for the summer while attending the summer session of the uni­ ·versity. Washington is trying summer rushing again. Last year rushing was absolutely prohibited during the summer but this did not seem •Satisfactory, since it gave no opportunity for sorority girls and rush~es ·to become well acquainted, so we have reverted once more to the old rushing plan. The alum.nre enter.tained July 18 at a delightful rushing party at the Wilkes Theater and tea afterward at the New Washington Hotel. Mu held initiation June 9 at the chapter-house. Opal Robb, Danella Davis, Doris Talcott, and Frances Fiske were initiated. In the evening we enjoyed a banquet at the Hotel Sorento. It was the largest banquet in attendance that Mu has ever held. It seemed just splendid to see so many of the alumnre back for initiation and the banquet. Best wishes for the coming college year to every Sigma. LOUISE KELSEY. . PERSONALS Frances Fiske was elected president of the Home Economics Club, while Dorothy Anderson was elected treasurer of the same club. Sophronia Ballaine announced her engagement to Winfield Scott, by running around the banquet table. This came as a s"rprize to everyone for Sophronia knows how to keep a secret. Elizabeth Draper and Agnes Arthur are spending the summer at their hom.es in Colorado. Mrs. Bean, who has been our housemother for the past two years, will spend the coming winter in the East. Mrs. Struble and Mrs. Twyman were our guests during commencement week. Helen Stone, Eugenia Craver, and Helen Robb are attending summer school. Mirie Playter is visiting relatives in the East this summer. Ruby Jean Henderson is spending her vacation at her home in Idaho. Helen Spaulding has our deepest sympathy in the loss of her father, whose death occurred June 29. Cora Em.ery of Iota Chapter is attending the University of Washington Sum- mer School.

NU-MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

Address-Pearsons Hall, Middlebury, Vt. 1918: Marion D ean, Elsie Foote, Marguerite Jones, Elsie Monteith, Helen Newton. 1919: Marion Clifford, Louetta H aynes, Mildred Gonyeau, Eleanor Layton, Dorothy Nash, Helen Paine. 1920: Helen Clark, Mildred Cole, Evelyn Frary, Gertrude Graves, Marie Henrichon, Mildred Hubbard, Ruth Joslin, Anne McKenzie, Marion Mullings, Ruth Scott. Now while we are scattered for our summer vacation, it hardly seems possible that by the time we receive the TRIANGLE we will all be hard at work with our studies, and we know not what may have happened 460 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE by that time in the public life in connection with the carrying on of the war for democracy. Junior Week came soon to take our notice after the last letter was written. Because of the unsettled condition of things many of the plans were upset. The festivities, however, started May 3, with the Parker and Merrill prize speaking contests in the McCullough Gymnasium. The next day was a ball game with Massachusetts Agricultural College. The prom was held as usual, only with reduction of expenses. Every­ body had a very good time in spite of the. changed plans. The junior play held May 5 was very successful. The play presented was The Lady of Lyons and was rather difficult to render, but under the careful coaching given and lots of hard work, was very skillfully done. Dr. Hamilton Holt, editor of the I ndependent, delivered a lecture in the new Mead Memorial Chapel on May 26. The lecture was entitled "The Declaration of Interdependence." Now when our minds are busy with war and longing for peace, the lecture was well attended, because the main idea of the speech was ''How shall the world be or­ ganized to secure universal peace¥" Because of his activity along this line, he spoke with thorough knowledge of the subject. The Women's Musical Association practiced on an operetta entitled The . J apanese Girl most of the winter. This was finally given May 31. The operetta was the first affair of the kind to be given in Middle­ bury for several years. Our seniors entertained the last Monday night. They gave the Quest of the Violet, which was printed some time ago in the TRIANGLE. It was very well presented and at the end a gift of a lovely chair to the chapter made a very fitting end to the evening. In spite of the sadness felt at the parting which was soon to come, everybody had a very pleas­ ant evening. The girls who went to Silver Bay reported a very good time, meeting three Sigmas from Syracuse and one from Colby, and all going on walks and trips together. After college closed· Dorothy Nash held a house party at her cottage at Wawela Park, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchangogoghaubunagungamaug, Webster, Massachusetts. It was held from June 19-28 and ev'ery day was filled with good times. Mrs. Paine and Mrs. Nash acted as chap­ erons for the girls who were in the party: Marion Dean, Marguerite Jones, Lois Bodurtha, Helen Paine, Dorothy Nash, Janet Nash. Four of the girls belong to the Mushegahe Club, so the party was well fur­ nished with music. The startling news from Middlebury this time is the sudden mar­ riage of two of the girls. Ruth Scott, '20, one of the freshmen, was married first, and then our noble president on July 7, who is going so far away to live, we are all wondering when we will see her again. CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 461

A committee, called the Middlebury War Service Committee, was formed in order to serve the students in military and naval service. It is hoped it will prove very efficient. With best wishes to all from Nu. ELEANOR G. LAYTON. PERSONALS Winifred Jeffords, '17, was married July 7 to Raymond Brown ''Valdo of El Centro, Cal., at Williamstown, Vt. They will be at home after July 20 at Holtsville, Cal. Ruth Scott, '20, was married June 30 to Robert Chambers of Randolph, Vt. Mr. Chambers has enlisted to drive a truck. Marion Dean, '18, acted as junior marshal at commencement. Marion Dean, '18, was elected president of Civics Club for the coming year. Ruth Joslin, '20, is sophomore member on the executive board of . the Civics Club. Ruth Hall, '17, graduated cum laude, and has accepted a position at Green­ wich Academy in Rhode Island. Gladys Frost, '1 7, r eceived honors in Latin. She is to teach mathematics at Margaretville, N. Y., next year. Marjorie Mackenzie, ' 17, received honors in L atiJ1, and is to teach in a private school in Coolidge Corners, Mass. Marjorie Phelps, '17, is expecting to teach in Fitzwilliam, N. H ., next year. Winifred Jeffords, ' 17, rece.ived the first prize for the best essay submitted on a pedagogical topic. Louetta Haynes, '19, r eceived third prize in Latin for a Horace notebook. Elsie Monteith, H elen Newton, and Elsie Foote, all of the class of 1918, were sent as delegates to Silver Bay. Ruth Hall, '17, also graduated with high honors in German. Madalene K. Foster, '17, graduated with magna cum laude, besides being a member of Phi Beta Kappa and delivering the salutatory addresses. Marion Dean, '18, Marguerite Jones, '18, Lois Bodurtha, '17, Helen Paine, '19, were present at a house party held by Dorothy :Nash, '19, at her cottage al Wawela Park, Mass. Phyllis Hopkins, '13, was married to Mr. M. G. Hubbard, ·Jr., also of the class of 1913, in Belchertown, Mass., on May 30. They are living in Utica, N. Y. Marion Dean, '18, Elsie Foote, '18, and Elsie Monteith, '18, were initiated Into the Banshee, a junior society, ..on May.. 29... XI-UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Address-1245 Oread Ave., Lawrence, Kan. 1918: Marie Bastgen, Lola L ee Daniels, Illde Fuller, Bonnie Lingenfelter, Lillian Martin, Ethel Scott, Winifred Siever, Francis Skinner, Helen Wedd. 1919: Edith Banks, Armestina Cissna, Gladys Drake, Dorothy Kelley, Co­ rinne Lesh, Lorna Pumroy, Margaret Young. 1920: Leone Carder, Irene Cutter, Mary Emerson, Edna Hitchens, Agatha Kinney, Lois Lingenfelter, Violet Matthews, Myra Summers, Eileen Van Sandt. · PLEDGES: Catharine Austin. Mighty hot in Kansas . these daysf Truly we must admit that the mercury has been soaring plenty high enough to make us feel quite happy and content to spend our vacation in rather a care-free way­ but nevertheless, we are enjoying ourselves just as much as our other 462 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Sigma sisters who are some place where the mercury hovers down close to the zero mark. We felt that luck had turned in our favor when the ''summer resort brand'' of weather lasted until the whirl of activities during the last month of our college year were all affairs of the past. On account of tho rain, our May Fete, scheduled for May 1, was post· poned until May 8. However, in spite of that, it proved to be very successful; and from its proceeds the Y. W. C. A. donated almost $200 to the Red Cross work. Kansas University made a splendid showing at the Students' Conference of the Y . W . C. A. which was held at Hollister, Missouri, during the middle part of J nne. Our delegation, consisting of sixteen members, was the largest one present. Of course, on Stu­ dents' Day there was lots of ''pep'' and enthusiasm. On this one day the university is turned almost topsy-turvy during the convocation; and in place of the professors, one representative from each school in the university is allowed to praise, criticize, or say whatever he sees fit about anything or anybody connected with Kansas University. The primary purpose of Students' Day, however, is to promote closer fellow­ ship among the students of the many different schools. About the time when so many of our boys begau to leave for the Officers' Reserve Training Camp at Fort Riley, everyone became in­ tensely interested in the war. Up until that time, we did not even half realize the seriousness of it all. Just now there is quite a bit of talk about the establishment of a Govemment Aviation School here in con­ nection with the university, and we are surely hoping that something comes of all this talk. With such a larg.e number of their men gone off to war, several of the fraternities here are wondering whether they will be able to maintain their houses next year. Somebody suggested they might at least have a Panhellenic house. Although the fraternities have been quite seriously affected, the so­ rorities have been scarcely conscious of much change in their affairs. Mo. Phi Epsilon held its national convention here early in June. From all reports, it must have been a splendid, well-attended convention.

Now for the chapter news : Tuesday, Ma~· 1, was our Mothers' Day. We were more than pleased to have so many mothers with us, but next year we are hoping to have every Xi mother. Wouldn't that seem fine' The color scheme of yellow and white· was carried out in our one o'clock luncheon, which was served at quartet tables. Between the courses, musical selections were rendered b~- some of our talented Sigmas. The week-eJ?d of May 18 was an especially busy one. We gave both a rushing dance and a breakfast for our seniors. On Friday evening came our dane", an informal. ·we danced in the pavilion out at Wood­ lapel Park, and then came back to the chapter-house for refreshments. But such a time as we had getting back! The streetcar which we had CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 463 chartered failed to appear, and there we were. After waiting most im­ patiently for quite a while, we all packed ourselves in the cars, just like sardines in a can-rushees and all-and drove back to town. It did not turn out just as we had planned it, but that certainly did not prevent us from having a jolly good time. Close after the dance came our senior farewell breakfast. Perhaps there was more sonow than happiness at that party, because we. realized how ver:v much we were going to miss our seniors. Even though they will not be back for all of next year, we are planning on having them all back for rushing. After the toasts, we surprised Joe Lamborn, b~­ giving her a lingerie shower. ViT e are trying our best to persuade Joe to be married at the house next fall. Now, who can ~ell but that we may be quite as fortunate as Theta and have a real Sigma Kappa wedding~ The event• of supreme importance, of course, came last. Our initia­ tion was held June 1, and we are duly prou.d of our four fine new sisters. The initiates were Lola Lee Daniels, a junior from Florida; Edna Hitchens, a freshman from Burlington; Leona Carder, a freshman from Lawrence; and Irene Cutter, also a freshman from Lawrence. At the banquet which followed we sang and yelled with even more than our usual vim and vigor, because we knew that we would not be together again until next September. As soon as the last songs had died away, the hurry and bustle for home-going began. Soon we were homeward bound, happy in the thoughts of the three months of vacation, but sorry to leave the other girls. Now we are eagerly looking forward to next fall, ancl \Y e expect to go back early to get everything in readiness for our rushing parties. If you could only peep il1to Xi's chapter-house on Sunday, September 16. ;·ou would be sure to see a busy, enthusiastic crowd of girls. vVe are go­ ing in for rushing with our usual vim, and we hope to emerge from the fray with some splendid, whole-hearted, wide-awake pledges! EILEEN VAN SANDT, '20.

P E RSO ~AL ~ Guests for commencement included: Ruth Litchen, ' 15, of L eavenworth: Mrs. Frank Lucas of Cherokee; Dr. Herbert Smith of Pittsburg; M1·s. Powell and Drexal Powell of Tyro ; and Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Huffman of Columbus. Lois Hunt, ex-' 18, of Conway Springs was back for the senior breakfast and rushing dance. Teresa Tucker , a Kappa Alpha Theta from Washburn College, was a guest at our dance. P. F. Walker, dean of the Engineering School and patron of Xi, is training an engineer corps in Topeka. Mona Clare Huffman was one of the nine girls chosen as members of Torch, the honorary society for senior girls. Lelah Jordon, ex-'16, Ruth Dyche, ' 1 6, Mary M~· e r s, ex-'16, were with us for in itia !ion. 464 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

Kitty Smith was a week-end visitor at the chapter-house. Winifred Siever will attend Columbia University next year in order to finish her work in home economics. Mary Meyers, ex-'16, will teach at Scranton next year. Ethel Scott and Lola Lee Daniels are attending summer school here at Kansas University. Bonnie and Lois Lingenfelter are equally industrious, since they are attend­ ing summer school at Northwestern. A A A OMICRON-JACKSON COLLEGE

A~dress-21 Kidder Ave., West Somerville, Mass_ At last Omicron is awake again and about to send its letter to the TRIANGLE. Although we have been for a long time silent, it is by no means because we have been disinterested or because we 'have lost en­ thusiasm in the work. We were all very sorry when one of our sisters, .Julie Ferris, had to leave college. She had been ill a greater part of the year and early in the spring gave up trying to come to college at all. We all hope that very soon Julie will be well and strong again. This year Tufts and Jackson issued jointly a yearbook, for the first time in a number of years. We were very proud to have Marion Ray: menton chosen Jackson editor-in-chief. How Marion ever found the time to add this momentous task to her already overfilled program is still au enigma to us all. To say that the yearbook was a great success is stating it mildly. Critics pronounced the J~bmbo Yearbook one of the best of its kind ever issued. About the :first of June, a "Jumbo Dance" was given to raise money to cover the expenses of its publication. A limited number of "Jumbo Books" were at hand and the dancers were the first to receive copies. A few days later the remainder of the supply was ready for distribution. When the United States at last plunged into the war, Jackson was not behind the other colleges in her readiness to help and desire to aid her country in time of distress. Red Cross courses in home nursing were started, which some of the Sigmas joined. Owing to the fact that so many people took to displaying their patriotism by the flying of flags, there was a great paucity of them in the market. We seized the op­ portunity to earn some money for the Red Cross by sewing flags. One of the rooms of Miner Hall was turned, as it were, into a miniature flag factory, and each girl pledged at least three hours a week to this occupation. Upon looking in at this busy scene, one was reminded of so many "Betsey Rosses." The long anticipated convention, although the greatest, was not the only thing that had to be postponed. Social events that were not CHAPTER LE'fTERS AND PERSONALS 465 given up entirely were ·-at any rate greatly curtailed. All interest in mere amusement seemed to vanish. Junior Day, in times past a very elaborate occasion, after much discussion as to whether it should be entirely abandoned, was made a very informal affair. There was no Class Day and all the commencement festivitie were for seniors only. On account of the war, too, we voted to give up our a1mual fm·mal Sigma dance. Jackson Day was the one event in t.he social cuniculum of the spring. A patriotic pageant was given. upon the campus after which a ftag, made by the Jackson girls, was presented to Tufts in behalf of which Dr. Hooper accepted it. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in '' ushering'' our little sub-freshman visitors about the campus, and making them acquainted with the girls in order that their enthusiasm for the coming year at Jack~o n might be strong. A delicious spread was later served at Metcalf Hall, followed by an informal dance which all seemed to enjoy. Just at present (not, o.f course, that we haven't always) we ai'e thinking that Ethel P eabody is a ''perfect peach. '' She has invited all of us who are able to come out to her home in Shirley for a house party. One thing and another had prevented our having the usual house party as soon as college closed, and the prospect of a visit to Ethel's was all the more delightful. Omicron sends the best of good wishes to her sister chapters for the coming year. May it be one of happiness and great achievement. Yours in the bond, CECELIA B uLLARD.

PERSONALS K atherine Briggs has been elected vice-president of the Jackson Athletic Association. During the p ast year she has been capta in of the junior track and basketball teams. She was sent as delegate to the athletic convention of New England coll eges at Pembrok e Coll ege, a nd came back full · of enthusiasm for athletics in Jackson during the year of 1917·18. 'l' his year in track meet, Katherine brok e the record for high jump she establi shed last year. Nellie Mansfield was chairman of the Jack on Day Committee. Marion Raymenton took the par t of Mater in Percy MacKaye's Mater, which was given this year at college. Jnlie Fenis was Miss Dean, her daughter. Elsie Bremner was capta in of the sophomore 'track team. Cecelia Bullard was a member of the choral committee. Aphra Patridge was vice-president of the fi·eshman class. Ellen Glass is secr etary of the All-around Club for the comin g year . B eula Hamilton, ' 16, has been teaching in Westbrook Seminar)', Portland, Me. She writes that she has to keep a stiff upper lip to keep from smilin g at her pupils. 'We can easily believe her. 466 SIGMA K APPA TRIANGLE

PI-LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY No letter.

LUCY HALL... , ...PI , ... B K, 1917 RHO-RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE Address- Randolph-Macon vVoman's Coll ege, Lynchburg, Va. As we turn our toes out and rather nervously make our fu·st bow, ''"e are wondering of what you had rather hear from Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Since we became really and truly Sigma Kappas at commencement time perhaps those few, full days would be interesting. No, Rho is not going to tell you of installation-one of the Zetas will do that. But if you remember how you felt when you first heard your Alma Mate1· sung after you came to college you will appreciate the feeling of the Rho girls at installation. You thought that of all the members of the freshman class you were the most loyal and devot­ ed to your college ; that of all classes, none had ever approached ~·our s in enthusiasm and fervor (we know that the older chapters will forgive this presumptuous feeling, for even now we can forgive it in the very newest chapter of all-Sigma); and that of all colleges, though other deluded students might be attached to different institutions, after all. these were nothing more than institutions-yours was to be a real Alma Mater. As iL. the case of one's college, so in the case of one's frater­ nity: may the love and loyalty ever grow as the flu h of "first days pas . And now to come back to commencement at Randolph-Macon Wo­ man's Coll ege. Saturday afternoon of June 2 was occupied by a meet- CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 467 ing of the Alumnae Association and a tea given by the seventy seniors for the \"isiting fathers and mothers in college. Saturda.'· eYening at 8 :30 the Jefferson and Fra1iklin Literary So­ cieties had their annual debate in the college auditorium. This occasion has always appealed to me as being a curious m_ixture of solemnity and gaiety. Perhaps this is a purely personal viewpoint, but the two very tall, straight, official looking chairs which the presidents occupy seem . the starting point for the atmosphere of solemnity; while the number of potted plants and tall baskets of cut flowers try to overcome this austerity. Or perhaps it is the general gaiety of the first night of com­ mencement that possesses one, and the fear that one's particular friend will not win the cup that gives the other feeling. This year; Thelma Baker and her colleague, Blanche Bingham, carried. off the honors for the Jefferson Society. The baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. Vv. A . Smart of Emory Uni­ versity, Oil Sunday morning marked the next event Oil the calendar. Mr. Smart also conducted Vesper services that evening. After . Vespers all of the college guests were illvited to the senior parlor where a musical program \Y as rendered. In the college Yernacu­ lar, \Ye ''had senior parlor,'' as \Y e clo every Sunday evening. Far be it from anyolle to illsinuate that this particular program had been arranged with more care and thought than those on ordinary occas i on~ when anyone with talellt who Yentures in to enjoy the program will preselltl.'- :find herself a part of it. After nille o'clock each of the fraternities had "open house" for guests. Perhaps this is a good place to speak of the hearty welcome that the other fraternities accorded to Rho Chapter on entering the Panhellenic world at Randolph-Macon "\Voman 's College. They were most generous in their offers of service and of the use of their houses. Rho appreciated also the hospitality with which they entertained the Sigma Kappa visitors who had found it possible to remain with us un­ til Monday. On Monday morning the class exercises were held on the campus. The seniors in their black caps and gown s formed a line beside the sopho­ mores in their white dresses with a heavy daisy chain on their shoulders. "\Vhile both classes marched and sang college songs the sophomores trans­ fen·ed the chain to the seniors, the lines continuing across the campus until they reached a huge sunflower which the juniors had made for the occasion. From beneath this, the flower of their Alma Mater, the sen­ iors presented each of the other classes with a parting gift and ex­ changed songs with them. The annual planting of the ivy by the out­ going class was tf1en celebrated. The exercises were completed by the seniors gathering in a circle in front of Main Hall to sing their fare­ 'wll song and la.'· down the daisy chain, while the "sadness of farewell" found a place in every heart.

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In the afternoon the Rhos had to bid goodbye to the last of their newly found friends-and oh, how we did regret seeing · them leave. There were so many things we wanted to talk to them about; they meant connection with all Sigma Kappas. Mrs. Linger had been wonderful with her patience and understanding; Nell Macfarlane had been a splen­ did friend; and each of the eighteen Zetas had won a particular warm spot in our hearts. All of this sounds quite incoherent, but to say the least, our thoughts and emotions did not follow an orderly pattern as the tmin for Washington passed around the bend. The train had had the goodness to be a little late, so we could not blame it too much for having come at alL We got back to college just in time for supper. After supper every­ one had to dress and hurry to the Casino where the senior play was to be given. Oh, no, the play did not begin at 7:30; the audience began to come at that time because senior play has become synonymous with 1 1 packed house.'' The class had been working most faithfully over As You Like It and the results pr.oved worthy of their efforts. The cos­ tumes, the voices, the acting, the scenery, everything together wove a spell that carried the audience far into the forest of Arden. On Tuesday moming the closing exercises were held. Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent delivered the commencement address. His ad­ dres; with its entire freedom from the 11 Behold, the world bows at your feet today, young graduate, go forth and possess it" sentiment to which so many graduating classes are treated, was strikingly good in its clear and sustained thought. Mr. Holt's address was built around a practical plan for a federation of nations whic]1 at the close of this war would make another such struggle impossible. w·hen the last exercises had been ended which -had p-tade the seniors of 1917 alumnae, they gathered on the front of the campus to give their caps and gowns to the new seniors and to put into their hands the key to the senior parlor. Marie Bock, vice-president of the class who accept­ ed the key, was very happy in the possession of a beautiful corsage which the visiting Sigma Kappas had sent to show their appreciation of her special helpfulness to their new sisters. 1 1 The seniors have gone. Long live the seniors. '' And now, though rather short of breath after a long letter, Rho wants to add a most hearty 11 I am glad to meet you,'' to every other chapter, and an extra squeeze of the hand for Sigma. MAUDE HUFF, '18.

PERSONALS Thelma B'aker is to be president of the J effer""' r ,;tcra l'l' S ociet ·; this )·ear. She is also chairman of the Association Meetings committee. F:stelle Welles wa elected junior ; oke editor of the H e li ' TI ~ h u s , the college annual. r~ o u e as e WeaYer will be picture ~ditor of the H eliontlws.· She will, no doubt be one of the busiest of seniors fo1· she will also be secr etar)' of the cla ss. 470 SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE

The college handbook, with Edith Moore as editor-in-chief, was especiall~- well edited this year. Nannie Dunton has been elected president of the Franktown high school alumni association. Maude Huff will be one of the freshman Bible class leaders this year. A A A SIGMA-SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Address- 3927 Bowser, Dallas, Tex. Dear Sigmas .All: Don't you remember when you were a very little girl and a new little girl moved in the house next door~ You used to hang OYer ~-our side of the fence and look at her and wonder all about her, ancl she on her side was looking and wondering about you. And then one day you both came and hung over the pickets. Then somehow, there was a picket knocked off, and she came through and you found out her 11ame, and how old she was, and what grade she was in, and whether she liked straw­ berry or chocolate ice cream best. And ever after, you were ''chums. '' Well, the picket was knocked off for us on June 14, 1917, and here we are. We may be a little youthful yet, but that is a fault that ever~· clay is helping to l'emedy. We're down here in Texas-where all the Wild W"est film are ' sup­ posed to be staged. Texas, you remember, is the big pink spot rlown in the left hand corner of the map, and quite the largest single spot in the whole United States. We have more than forty-seven yarieties of weather here-mostly warm verging on hot. Dallas is the "biggest city of the biggest state," with a population of 150,000 and all the latest improvements in the way of skyscrapers, jitneys, and five and ten-cent stores. Southern Methodist University is described in our ''varsity'' song : ' 'Oh, we see you on the hill Over there, over there, Oh we see yon on the hill over there; And our hearts are filled with joy, S. M. U., S. M. U., Alma Mater, we'll be true forever.'' The hill is about eight miles out from the business center of Dallas, but the residence district extends almost up to the. campus. Universitr Park is building up quite rapidly, and in common parley is known as "Faculty Row." The last lap to the university is traveled in the fam­ ous "Dinkey," a small streetcar, a relic of the days when Dalla was not so well grown. Southern Methodist University is the lustiest, youngest uniYersity of the South. It opened its doors for the first time in September, 1915, to 700 students. This past year, its second, saw more than 800 enrolled. CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 471

The university buildings are Dallas Hall, the main building pre­ sented by the citizens of Dallas.; the Woman's Building; and North, South, and Rankin Halls, boys' dormitories.

"THE END OF A PERFECT " SEEING HATTIE HOME" WEEK" on the Interurban. Lorah Monroe, Eta (Eliza Ale>

The other sororities in Southern Methodist University are Alpha Del­ ta Pi, Phi Mu, Chi Omega, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Delta, Pi Beta Phi, and Delta Delta Delta. They have all welcomed Sigma Kappa in a true spirit of friendship and good-will. Of cDurse the most important event in our calendar was Installation ­ Week. It is a rare privilege to be a member of Sigma Kappa, but to be a charter member of a chapter, when that chapter happens to be the first in the state and the first _in this section of the country; and when our Grand President comes all the way from Buffalo, our Secretary of Extension and another Sigma all the way from Eta Chapter, and our our Texas Sigma, Sister _De Haas of Pi Chapter, who has '' godmothered'' us ever since we organized to petition Sigma Kappa, comes from Austin-all this goes to make an occasion which the ten charter members of Sigma Chapter can never forget. Sister De Haas came on Tuesday, commencement day, .June 12. Sis­ ter Linger, Sister Lorah Monroe, and Sister Eliza Alexander came on Wednesday, and that· afternoon, .June 13 (lucky day for us!) the ten of us were pledged at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Ellis W. Shuler in Univer­ sity Park, just off the campus. By the way, our patronesses are worth coming to Texas to meet. Mrs. Shuler is the wife of the ''geology prof,'' and the two of them and ".Junior" make the Sigmas think they are all they ought to ·be. Mrs. Kern is the wife of the man who is responsible for all freshman Bible troubles-and he has never ''busted'' a freshman yet. They live in University Place, too, and have two little curly-headed girls who are headed Sigma-ward, and a boy. Mrs. Holt is the wife of our chaplain; and they are both noted for the "glad hand," as is Ivan L ee, .Jr. If there are any better patronesses in all of Texas or anywhere else, we haven't met them. Thursday evening our initiation "·as held at the Oriental Hotel, and afterward our first banquet in Sigma Kappa. I suppose a Sigma ban­ quet is always a Sigma banquet but there can be only one ji1·st banquet. Sister Linger acted as toastmistress, and Sister Monroe, Sister De Haas, and Sister Alexander toasted Sigma Chapter in behalf of Sigma Kappa. Sister Momoe's welcome will never be forgotten. In the happiest littl<' way possible, she reminded us of the-love of Sigma Kappa for her young­ est daughter, whom she called " Little Sigma" for herself. Congratula­ tions were read from many of the active and alnmnre chapters. The table was lovely-its centerpiece a triangle of lavendar sweet peas and maroon roses, and around the table ten shining new triangles of maroon and gold. The beautiful place-cards and nut cup were made h~­ our Eta sisters, and the cakes were cunningly iced in lavendar with '' ~ K'' in maroon on top. The g-rip and yell became our . We were full-fledged Sigmas. Yes, urely, there can be only one first banquet. CHAPTER LETTERS AND PERSONALS 473

Friday moming we held our first business meeting after installation. You should haYe heard the Sigma whistle shrilling through the halls of the \\.oman's Building all that day. Tl1at aftemoon we held open house in the liYing·room of the Woman' Building. \ Ve could not keep our visiting Sigmas with us longer than that w~ek. Mrs. Linger and Mrs .. De Haas left Saturday evening, and Miss Monroe and :Miss Alexander went away Sunday morning. We almost wept to see them go (for particulars, see E lla Belle), but it was perhaps just as well, for t he thermometer went aeroplaning the very next clay, and hasn't come down ~· et. It was truly an inspiration to have those Sig·mas with us. I think they unconsaiously planted the ambition in Sigma Chapter to do her best to make women that would do as much honor to their soror it~ · . I'm afraid I 'm running far over my allotted space, but I do want eYery Sigma Kappa to know every member of Sigma Chapter. I'll in­ troduce us briefly: J ennie Byrd Rousseau, of Glasgow, Kentucky, better known as '' T omm ~ ·,'' is our alumna member, having taken her M. A. this past June. She doesn't ~t her nickname at all. She is petite, dark, with Clara Kimball Young-ish eyes and a wonderful amount of quiet dignity. Somehow she radiates an atmosphere that makf?s the rest of us put our slang in quotation marks in her presence. Tommy is to be professor of English in the San Antonio High School (Texas) next year, but hopes to come up and be with us for initiation. Z~ · l ph a Maney, next year's senior, comes from Smithville, Texas. She is to be distinguished by her wonderful mop of copper-colored hair and t l1e twinkle in her brown eyes. She's expert in chemistry and home economics. Bertie Daughartry, of Dallas, will be. another senior next year. She was captain of the basketball team last year. H er favorite expression is : ''Kid, I don't know a t hing about it,' ' but she manages to pull clown the As. Ruth Eyman, of Dallas, is a junior. Ruth is all eyes, dimples, and enthusiasms. H er favorite occupation is going to the train to see sol­ diers off. Ruth Henr~' , also a junior from Dallas, is the brains of Sigma Chapter. Ruth combines the practical and the artistic according to a formula that was lost after she was made by it. Ruth is usually tender-hearted, but put her in biology laboratory and she carves sharks, earthworms, c r a ~·fi s h , or anything else with a glee that is positively fiendish. E lla Belle Myers, of Carrollton, Texas, is our ''Baby'' in spite of her junior ranking and the queenly little tilt of her head. If I were to name her, I think I should call her the ''Much Lo,ecl Girl.'' Eugenia Baird co mes from Kingsville, Texas, way down on the border. Genia is happiest when she and " H ats" get together in one room and keep the whole fourth floor awake with their giggles. 474 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Hattie Dennison, or "Hats" comes from Waco, Texas. She is to be captain of next year's basketball team. Hats is a husk~·, red-headed young Amazon with the most contagious laugh in the world. Jacqueline Bailey, or "Jack," is a rare bit of Dresden china animated by a forty-horsepower brain. She expects to teach Latin next year and return to us in 1918. Florence Nelson belongs to us, although she was unable to be initiated in June because of the severe illness of her mother which called her home just a day or two before initiation. However, her mother is recoYering, and Flo will be with us next fall. · She lives in Sulphur, Oklahoma, and was perhaps the best single player on the basketball team this year. I almost forgot myself, a junior with a predilection for rh ~ · me-making , and an aversion bordering on terror for mathematics. Dear Editor, you may censor this letter all you like. I could tell a lot more, but as they say in the popular magazines at the Yer~· point where the villain holds the dagger to the heart of the heroine, this story will have to be ''Continued in our next issue.'' With the best wishes to all Sigmas from Sig~a Kappa's ~-oung es t daughter. Yours sincerely, GOLDIE CAPERS, '19. PERSONALS Eugenia Baird visited relatives in Cleburne on her way home after com­ mencement. She is now at home in Kingsville, Tex. · Jennie Byrd Rousseau is spending the summer with her sister in Dallas. except for a visit to Waxahachie, Tex., for a week or so. Ella Belle Myers writes that she is "eating, sleeping, and attending re­ vivals." That's our idea of a good time. Hattie Dennison is bookkeeper for her father this summer. Jacqueline Bailey is holding do\vn a "regular position" in Sherman. She expects to teach this fall. Ruth Henry is devoting most of her energies to the R ed Cross this ummer. She is looking forward to a trip to Tennessee in August. Ruth Eyman is spending the summer in Dallas. Zylpha Maney, Bertie Daughat·try, and Golden Capers are enduring summer school together. Zylpha says she's "being exposed" to Spanish, qoldie to mathe­ matics ( ! ! ! ) , and Bertie to French. WITH OuR ALUMN2E CHAPTERS 475

WITH OUR ALUMN.lE CHAPTERS

Alumnre Editor-Florence Sargent Carll

Address-South China, l\Ie. Dea1· Alttmnm Siste1·s: Here's hoping that you have all had a most pleasant vaca­ tion. Here's hoping, too, that you are -making plans for a profitable year's work. The vacation season has shortened our list of alumnre letter.;; for this issue but we trust that none will be missing in Decem ­ ber. With the postponement of convention and the consequent failure of our plans for the Alumnre Round Table, let's not lose the whole benefits of getting together. When you write the next _letter, please keep the other chapters in mind. We enjoy the personal items but we want to know, also, of your work as a chapter. Give us in the December letter a prospec­ tus of your plans for the coming year; and make it detailed enough so that we may gain ideas and help. In these days of co.st and sacrifice we cannot underestimate the inspiration gained ·from each other. With so many useful and important lines of work open to us, the coming year cannot fail to be busy and interesting. May we-grow and gain and give in loving and loyal service. Yours in. the bond, FLORENCE SARGEN'I' CARLL.

"A wise rna.~ will make more opportunities than he finds." 476 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

WATERVILLE ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER Address-7 Nudcl St., w_aterville, Me. Just at this time, in the midst of the summer vacation, . we Sigmas are probably more widely separated than at any other time of the year. We notice this much more, perhaps, here in our little college community, for when the college closes for the vacations and all the students leave town, it does indeed seem a ''dead'' place, especially if one lives near the campus. Yet isn't it wonderful that", though we· are separated b~· many miles, the Sigma bond is strong enough to bind us all in spirit! ·when the last issue of the TRIANG LE came out we were looking for­ ward with great anticipation to having convention here at Alpha Chapter. It was indeed a disappointment not to be able to cany out the plans ancl welcome you all here in Waterville; yet it seemed best, and really the only right or wise thing to do under existing conditions to postpone con­ vention to a more favorable time. So that now, instead of looking back on the good times which we enjoyed, we are still looking forward to ha>­ ing convention here at Alpha some time in the future. It is surely not saf e to !jay when that will be, for in this. history-making period, the effect on both individuals and nations is most uncertain. The last number of the TRIA NGLE was ''Achievement Number'' and since Waterville Alumnre sent no Jetter it might be well to tell you brief­ ly what we have been doing during the year. The regular meetings have been held at the homes of different members where we have been delight­ fully entertained each time. At these meetings we have given the time chiefly to convention business and informal discussions of plans for the same. As is the custom once a iear we entertained the active chapter girls at their hall. The program was on war relief work. On e of our number talked inf01·mally on the great need for all kinds of relief work and the great opportunity offered for getting allied with ana helping­ in such lines of endeavor. There never was a time "·hen t here was such a call and need for volunteer service in the many branches of war relief. Let every Sigma generously respond to this call! We are very fortunate in being located where theJ·e is an active chap­ ter, for we can keep in such close touch with Sigma Kappa activities. vVe notice this advantage at commencement time especially, for it brings reunion which is always a jo~· · There were not aR. many alumnre back as usual this year but there were several who hadn't been present for years, so we shall long remember reunion evening. vVhen the next TRIANGLE co mes ou-t it will be time for the opening of the colleges. May we prosper in spite of the dreadful war and though our burdens be heavy, ma~ · we shoulder them with a glad heart. Yours in the bond, MARGUERITE R OBINSOX. WITH OuR ALUMNA!: CHAPTERS 477

PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Dustih Sullivan Lucier (Marjorie Meader, ex-14) ha.ve been at the South Shore for the summer -but will r eside in Boston this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Lucier are both of the Hr1·ald staff. In July, Blanche Crapo, Kappa, spent a day in Waterville with Bertha Kennison. Isabell e Brownson, Kappa, of Providence, spent two weeks at Lak.e Messalon­ skee with Lulu Joslin Ga~· . Kappa, of Baltimore. Judge and Mrs. George N. Hurd (Hattie Merrill , '88) have return eel to the · states after sixteen years in the Philippines. Among the guests at Colby commen cement were Hattie Menill Hurd, ' 88; Nellie Bakeman Donovan, ' 92: Mary Bickmore 'retrt, '93; Nina Vose Greeley, ' 96; Louise Coburn, ' 77: Florence Carll, Ruth Goodwin, and Jessie Ross Murchie, ' 12; Bessie Dutton Pillsbury, '13; Alice Beckett Hale)', '14: Vivian Skinner and Elizabeth Hodgkins, '16. Following commencement Alice Beckett Haley of St. Stephen, N. B., Ruth Goodwin of Hampton, Va., and Jessie Ross Murchie of Calais spent a week with Florence Carll at South China. Florence Carll spent the first two weeks in July as a state food co nservation clemonstrator. In the list of Phi Beta. Kappas published in June,- the name of Edith Hanson Gale, Alpha '97, was omitted. We are happy to add another Phi Beta Kappa member , Marion White, Alpha ' 17.

PORTLAND •ALUMNlE • • CHAPTER Address-93 Pitt St., Portland, Me. The reminder that TRIANGLE letters are due has finally overtaken me on my vacation. Greetings from Blue Mountain Range ! As usual during the summer months, Portland alumnro are Yery much scattered. At our last meeting which was held in May, we planned for a field day to be held at the time of the Sigma house party at Peak's Is­ land; but we remember 11 the best laid plans of mice and men'' and bear our disappointment as best. we can. All of the meetings of the c)1apter have been very well attended this year and we have been much pleased by the addition of seYeral new mem­ bers. Pro pects for next year look very promising. Yours in Sigma, MABEL A. BYNON. PERSONALS Mildred Ralph, ' 12, of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., has been spending the summer in Maine. Blanche Wilbur has taken a leave of absence from her work at Deering High and will spend the coming year at her home in Madison. Rhena Clarke Mm·sh and children of New York have been visiting in Port­ land. Adelaide Holway has announced her marriage to Mr. Brown of the Evening Expuss ·staff. On July 7 in Malden, Mass., Eleanor Bradlee, ex-' 16, was married to Mr. Percy Downing Mitchell, B-owdoin, Della K appa Epsilon. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell will live in Portland. 478 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Cards are out announcing the engagement of Mabel Bynon and Mr. John F. McDaniel, Ba.tes '13.

BOSTON ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER Address-171 Bedford Rd., Woburn, Mass. How true the saying, ''There's many a slip twi.xt cup and lip.'' Of course, we know the one important thought in the minds of all Sigmas for many months past has been convention. How many have ~aved and planned for long, looking forward with so much pleasure to those inspir­ ing days to be spent beneath the shades of Colby, when on account of this most awful of all wars, the word comes that convention is to be post­ poned. And what is to be the situation next yearT Any· betted We can only hope that a Higher Power will intervene to end this atrocious warfare that the awful days of sorrow for the whole wide world may be changed to days of rejoicing aud glac1J1ess. Boston Alumnre, .thanks to the efficient prqgram committee, has had a very enjoyable year. The subject of our meetings, "Vocations for vVomen'' has proved both instructi•e and interesting. The last paper on ''Law'' was given at the April meeting, held with Lillian Bowker in Malden, in a most interesting manner by Mr. Roswell Dwight Emerson of Cambridge, husband of Sister Rub~ · Carver Emerson. Perhaps if there has been one meeting more than any other that the girls have looked forward to, it was the one in May, when we all were to go to Marlboro to the home of Carrie Farnum. Although Canie lives such a distance from Boston she is a loyal chapter member and attends nearly all the meetings. I think I am right in saying she has missed only one during the year. I was so disappointed not to be able to go myself as I had planned to make the trip by auto, taking some of the other girls with me.' Unfortunately I had an attack of laryngitis at just the wrong time and so had to give up the trip. The girls reported a most delightful time. In June om arumal picnic was held at Norumbega Park. Fifteen were present including our little Sigma, Doris Elizabeth, daughter of Sue Tidd H eald. This is certainly an ideal spot for a picnic and we laid aside all cares and enjoyed each other 's company to the utmost. As the afternoon wore away, we sought the comfort of a rustic summer-house, where we untied our lunch boxes, filled with goodies from home, and ate and talked as all Sigmas can. As the hour for departure drew near, we bid each other a happy Yacation and a fond farewell until we should meet again in the fall, ready with new plans and renewed vigor for the corning year. Love to all Sigmas, BERTHA HEALD MENCHIN. WITH OuR ALUMNJE CHAPTERS 479

PERSONALS . Mabel Bruce spent her vacation at the Y. W. C. A. Conference at Silver Bay, Lake George, N. Y. i'Ve know she must have had a delightful time for Lake George is most beautifully situated among the mountains and Silver Bar is ideal in itself. Mildred Jones McCann left July 1 to spend the summer at her co ttage, Camp Comfort, Gloucester. Am)· Orpin has been enjoying the sea breezes at Popham Beach, Me. Sisters Mary Parker Dunning, Lucy Gage, Jennie Frost, and Bertha Heald Menchin attendecl 'l'ufts commencement. 'l'he members of Boston Alumnw Chapter will be glad to learn that Mar· ion Raymenton, Omicron '17, has been appointecl an English teacher at Med· ford High School. You will also be proud of the honor, summa cum laude, she r eceivetl at graduation. W e are all hoping she will join the chapter this fall. Lucy Gage will spend the summer in Maine. Ruth Butters will spend the month of August in Chelmsford, Mass. 'Vim1ie Given, who has been teaching for the past few )·ears in Spokane, iVash., h as returned to her home in Woburn for the summer. She is JlOW study· ing . for the A.M. at Boston U niversity. In the fall she becomes prfcer>tress and teacher of ancient and modern hi tory at Genesee Wesle)•an Seminary, Lima, N.Y. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Hawkes (Maude Elizabeth Abbott, '04) on Ma)· 30, a son, Albert James. The)' would also like to introduce their older son, Paul Francis, now three years old. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes will reside in Taunton, Mass., this fall where Mr. Hawkes has accepted a position as teacher of hi story in the high school. A A A WASHINGTON ALUMN JE CHAPTER Address-2024 G St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The summer letter is always the hardest to write, isn't it¥ I try to keep in mind that it won't be read until September, but I know you wa11t me to include the last-of-the-year gossip. Our most interesting meeting was a special one in May when we had the combined pleasme of greeting Emma Kinne and voting on the petitions for Rho and Sigj:na Chapters. You can imagine our enthusiastic_ affirmatives. Nineteen of our girls had the good fortune to be present at Rho's installation. The stay-at-homes didn't wait for the joint meeting in June to hear their enthusiastic accounts. The summer meetings are usually patronized mostly by actives, but at the June meeting ten alumnre listened and laughed at Bess Ritchie's interesting account of Randolph-Macon cus­ toms. Emma Kinne and Ruth Pickford, Epsilon, were also honor guests at this meeting. The annual joint meeting was held at Dorothy Sornborger 's this year and was one of the "best ever." -To the pleasure of welcoming two long abse11t alumnre, Jeanette Gaegler and Ethel Gallagher Rouse, was added the thrill of an engagement announcement. The first course was partaken of in a miniature Forest of Arden, where two trees bore the names of Margaret Wilson and Robert Harvey, late of Dartmouth .• Af­ ter this excitement had subsided, the chief words were, ''Are you going to Randolph Macon ~" "I am! " "How I .wish I could go." 480 SIGMA K . ~PP _\_ 'l'RIANGLE

The alumnre are going to cooperate more activ e ]~ · in rushing next year. vVe have a joint rushing committee, three from each chapter. The- alumnre are Eva Kelley, Louise Berry, and Meta Neumann. We are usually too scattered in the summer for regular meetings, but a few meet at active meetings. \Ve expect quite a few additions to oul" roll next fall, so we are anticipating a successful year. We wish you the same after a plea ant vacation. FRITZI NEU MAl'\X. PERSO:-IALS L elia Scott surp ri ed a good man)· of us by her wedding announcements. Since July 7 she has been Mrs. Louis Archer Maxson. Professor a nd Mrs. Kern (Jea nette Ge chickter, · '12 ) a nnounce the birth of a d aughter , J ean Russ Kern, on June 29. W e hear that Vinnie K ent 'Vaer , ex-'14, of Grand Rapids, Mi ch., also has a baby daughter, V irginia I sabell e. W e gi"e a hearty w elcome to Emma Kinne and ar e looking. forward to ha,-­ ing her one of us next fall. Indeed she is a h·eady one of us. We hear that Helen Hasbrouck, Epsilon, has a. position in the " 'ar Depart­ ment. W ith her, Emma Kinne, Ma r )' Shennan, ancl Rut.h Pickford. all Epsilon; Mrs. De Haas, Pi; Ethel Hall , Lambda; a ncl the expectation of J"orah Monroe, Eta., we feel that we are go in g to know our other sisters ancl chapters at last and ar e heartily pleased at the prospect. Nell Macl!'arlane has invested in a house in 'l'akoma Park. Our colon)· there is growing. We extend deepest S)'mpathy to Oli\' e Greene 'ewhall in the loss of her mother. Sue B alentine is going to spend her vacation in Ma ine in spite of no cotwention. Fritzi Neumann spent a week in Landsdale, Pa., with Syh·ia Hazlett Schwenk_ While she was there, Margaret Haines came fr om Allentown for the week-end.

CALIFORNIA ALUMN.lE CHAPTER

Address-2812 Piedmont Vi'ay, B erkeley, Cal. Such weddings as we ''e had this summer! Since April, Ruth John­ son, Verna Wood, Lorene Sno"·den, and Alta Struckmeyer have all be­ come brides, and Marguerite Cordell is to follow suit early in August. Of course, the war has hastened many of the weddings. Most of the men are in the various reserYe co rps, and they wanted to be married before moving somewhere so we ha\e been cheated out of a number of oyster parties. 'Tis an ill wind that blows no good, howe\er; maybe we will get reductions when we must order so many dozen of ilver spoon. at once. As usual, the summer session has been considerably influenced by the co terie of Sigma Kappa blue sto kings attending. There were ten of them at the school tllis year. Florence Colby Battram had the wh ole ten at her home one Saturday for a delightful luncheon. Rosamond Parma had quite a erious time in July following an opera­ tion for the remo,al of her ton ils. Wrur OuR ALUMNM CHAP'J.lERS 481

Florence Chubb spent the summer -on the ranch with her sister, Mabel Chubb Bailey, recuperating after an appendicitis operation. Grace Hamilton has been honored with a fellowship from Chicago Uni­ versity and plans to make that city her home for some little time. Helen .Jeter is also in Chicas-o studying advance work in social service. Olive Chubb motored to Yellowstone Park and returned to Bakers­ field via Oregon and Washington. After visiting Nell Morgan, Edith Blinn spent the I'emainder of her vacation in Yosemite. Grace Bird and "Blinnie" are both to teach in Bakersfield this year. On .July 9, .Jean Ellen anived at the home of Eda Colvin White. Ethel Uren and her husband spent their vacation in southern Cali­ fornia and motored over into Mexico. Marguerite Cron visited her Sigma Kappa sisters in the southern part of the state, this summer .. We more than miss Lulu Mann Dodge. She is now living in Mil- waukee . .Jean Smith spent the summer in the Mendocino Mountains. Minta Cox Edwards has again deserted us for Los Angeles. At the last meeting of the year, the following officers were elected: President, Ruth Ware Grieg; vice-president, Grace G:odwin Waterman; treasurer, Leonore Ott Barstow; secretm·y, Helen Millerick .Jensen; Panhellenic delegate, Irene Struckmeyer Popert. During the ensuing year we plan to continue having our meetings every month on the fourth Saturday. Visitors will be very cordially welcomed. If any of you are in Berkeley, ring up the Sigma Kappa house or the alumnre secretary and find out about the meetings. We are going to continue to make layettes and will do something for the Red Cross, too. We hope to have an occasional luncheon, and are going to take an active interest in the reorganized Panhellenic. Most sincerely, HELEN MILLERICK .JENSEN.

CENTRAL NEW YORK ALUMNlE CHAPTER

Address-500 University Pl., Syracuse, N. Y. Greetings to all, and especially to our youngest chapters! How glad we are to welcome our new Sigma sisters. We are all looking forward to getting better acquainted with them. With us, as with all, the war has been a factor in our summer plans. Those who have felt the force of the draft and the training camps can sympathize with other Sigmas the country over. Doubtless philanthropic work this new year will take the form of Red Cross work. 482 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

Although we were disappointed that convention could not be held, we were glad to curtail expenses these days. This summer has surely brought forth many surprises. Cora Kampfe started the ''ball rolling'' by sending us at initiation an announcement of her marriage to Dr. 'Yilliam Guilford Dickinson of Syracuse on June 1. They are to live in Oneonta. We were hoping to have Cora right in Syracuse. !n June we helped the active girls celebrate Epsilon's birthday. Initiation and a supper were planned-an ideal "birthday party. " We were all glad to have with us Sister Edith Jones Va Welden, Alpha, who has been in Syracuse for some time. We are hoping to sec more of her this next year. The day before initiation we had our last alumnre gathering of tho year out at Jessica Leland Bramley's in Jordan. An outdoor picnic with the husbands and friends proved one of the best times yet. Surely last year we started a worth-while custom which tended to make us stronger. Ethel Roberts Cross with her husbaRd has had a most enjoyable auto trip. In July they motored from Syracuse around through Ticonderoga, and then down beautiful Lake Champlain to Plattsburg, an especially interesting spot just now. From there they continued down the St. Lawrence and back home again. It is with real regret that I write my last letter for the present. It surely seems hard to know that I am not going to be in Syracuse the coming year. Connecticut is a good place to live, but how many Sigmas are there here' Loyally yours in Sigma, FRANCES WILLARD L~ONS.

PERSONALS Elsie Farnham and mother visited Sister Houghton in July. Sister Farnham came to continue her music. During August she substituted for Professor Yib· bard in summer school. Emma Kinne writes that the silver lining to her cloud of delayed plans is her chance of meeting and knowing the Zeta girls, whom she has- already come to l ov~ during her stay in Washington. She is in the library of the Surgeon Gen­ eral's office. Mabel Lyons is to be married August 1 to Mr. Albert Hendrix Stone of Whittier, Cal. They will spend the month of August at the sea shore. During summer school Peg Hutchings and her husband had a jolly time house· keeping in the Nu Sigma Nu chapter-house. Frances Lyons received her M.A. degree in June after six weeks' absence due to her mother's illness. She is to teach in the Middletown High School, Middletown, Conn., this year. Acla Wells and Mr. Charles Donaldson Ro(lt were married June 30, and are to live at 6 S. Farragut St., Philadelphia, Pa. WITH OuR ALuMN.tE CHAPTERS 483

WORCESTER ALUMN.lE CHAPTER

Address-34 S~affner St., Worcester, Mass. The May meeting was held the first Saturday of the month with a good attendance considering that the day was an extremely wet one. Frances Fox was hostess. Linda Graves and Lora Cummings Neal brought greetings from Alpha Chapter and had us so interested in con­ vention matters that we decided by ''hook or crook'' to get there for at least some of the convention, even though most of our schools did not close until the twenty-ninth of .June. The thought of postponement had not then pushed our expectation into the ·future. We sincerely trust that our numbers will be increased and not les­ sened when the schools open in September. Of course we are not alone in the Red Cross work but trust that our work in the fall will be as great as the other chapters. We shall be very glad to welcome at our first meeting on the first Saturday in October, any Sigma who will be in the vicinity of Worcester. With best wishes to all in Sigma, MAE G:UERIN. PERSONALS Mrs. Howard R. Knight's (Pauli ne Helms) a·dclress is 100 L exington Ave., Freeport, N. Y. Alma Morrisette was the organizer of an orchestra in the Worcester H igh School of Commerce, of whose faculty she is a member. Mae Guerin has been appointed to the Worcester North High School. The marriage of Phyllis E. Hopkins and Moses Gilbert Hubbard, Jr., occurred May 30 at Belchertown, Mass.

KANSAS CITY ALUMN.lE CHAPTER Address-3805 Euclid Ave., Kansas City, Mo. This is the hardest time of year in which to settle down to letter writing, at least it is for me. In this part of the country, it gets hot, not just warm, and one 's efforts are mostly bent toward finding a cool spot where there is a breath of air. In spite of the intense heat, however, eight Sigmas met at my home .July 7. Three of them were out-of-town girls whom we hadn't seen for a long time, and how our tongues did fly! It was with extreme difficulty that the chapter business was all transacted, for there were so many alluring conversational by-paths into which we all wandered before we fully realized where we were and were recalled to the business in hand by our stern ( ¥) president, Beula .Johnson. The meeting was an all­ clay one so we accomplished considerable and shall be able to take up any left-overs very soon as Betty McBride has invited us to her home the first of August. How much those few benighted individuals lose who allow their interest to lag after they leave college, and get out of touch with their Sigma sisters! 484 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE

The Kansas City girls are all much interested in the mobilization of the women of the United States in the food conservation work and most of us will be at the polls, July 28, to act ·as registrars to help in the en· rolling of the women of our city. The Kansas City Panhellenic Associa­ tion is active in the work, and sorority women everywhere are gaining recognition for their splendid efforts to help in this great movement. It would be interesting to know what the Sigmas in other cities are doing. Kansas City Alumnre Chapter sends best wishes to all the active chapters for a peaceful and successful rushing season. Lovingly in Sigma Kappa, LUCILE HURD HARPER. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Edward Briggs Mitchell announce the birth on June 3 of a daughter, Eleanor Frances. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons and small son, Jack, are spending the summer in Kan· sas City. Ruth Litchen has an announcement to make, but she told me not to dare put it in the TRIANGLE, so I'll just let you guess for yourselves what it is. We're all very .anx ious to meet him! '

CHICAGO ALUMN.lE CHAPTER Address-2315 73rd St., Chicago, Ill. Greetings to ''every good sister from every good chapter,'' and most of all to you newest sisters in Rho and Sigma! H,ow much there is in store for you to give and to gain, and how we are waiting for news from you and longing to know you! Chicago Alumnre Chapter feels very big indeed, for has it not had three meetings in three successive months¥ To make the getting together easier, until everyone has formed the habit of reserving the :first Satur· day aftemoon of each month for Sigma Kappa, the meetings have been held in the most accessible places, in May and June at the Chicago Col· lege Club and in July at the Brownleigh Club. The Sigma Kappa lunch· eons, with everyone seated at one big table have been treats indeed. On July 7, Mrs. Armington was a guest, also Ulara Armington, Naomi Moffat, and Alice Carlson of Theta active chapter, Josephine Nichols who has just graduated, Mary Madison Gill about whose wedding at the Theta house you just read in the June TRIANGLE, and Olive Menz and Mirah Jones Yakel, Eta. Wasn't it jolly¥ A beach party, with swimming if the weather permits, and the sons and daughters of the chapter as guests, is being planned for August 4. The most sincere invitation is extended by the chapter to every Sigma who is passing through Chicago. Don't be in town without letting us lm ow, and Temember especially the :first Saturday in each month. If WITH OuR ALUMN1E CHAPTERS 485 you are going east or west and are in Chicago on that day, plan to take the train that leaves at five or six P. M. instead of that one o'clock. Yours in the Mystic Bond. AROLINE .JAQUES FORREST.

PERSONALS Mrs. and Mrs. Charles D. Wesselhoeft announce the birth of Charles D., Jr., on May 22. Mrs. Wesselhoeft was Elsa Wintermeyer, Theta '13. Mrs. Ralph Yakel of Paducah, Ky., is spending the summer in Chicago. Olive Menz is studying music in Chicago this summer. Audrey Dykeman is passing July and August in Red Creek, N. Y. Ruth Harrison is in Virginia for the summer.

TAKE NOTICE The Grand Secretary uses the chapter directory at the back of the TRIANGLE as a mailing list for all com­ munications to chapters and chapter officers. Whenever the directory in the last .TRIANGLE is correct no other noti.ce of officers and addresses need be sent to · the Grand Secretary. But it is exceedingly important that she be notified immediately of any change. .ALPHA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President-Helen D. Cole, Sec,·etary-Katharine G. Hatch, Nash St., Waterville, Maine. Fairfield, Maine. Vice-president-Norma H. Goodhue, 001·responding Secretary-Phillis Prescott, Foss Hall, Waterville, Maine. Foss Hall, Waterville, Maine. Treasurer-Gladys V . Craft, Foss Hall, Waterville, Maine. Alpha chapter meetings, Wednesdays 7:30, at Chapter Hall.

DELTA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Suite 4, 78 Gainsborou gh St., Westford, llfass. President-Marjorie Seavey. T!·eas•l1·er- Nellie Young, 128 River View St., Campello, Mass. Vice-president-Ethel Smith. Oo,.,·espondir~g Sec1·etm·y-Jeanie Bangs. Secreta,·y-Hilda Murray. Chapter meetings, Friday, 4:20 P. M., 79 Gainsborough St., Suite 4.

EPSILON CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 500 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y. President-Margueret D ean. Treasurer-Laura Hasbrouck. Vice-president-Kate Perkins. Conesponding Sec1·etary-Betty Ives. Secretary-Ruth Pickford. I Chapter meetings, every Friday evening of the college year at 7:30 in the chapter house.

ZETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA George Washington University, Washington, D. C. President-Meta Newman. I Treasurer-Florence Ford. Vice-president-Mary Newcombe. Corresponding Secretary-Annie M. Cardwell. Secretary-Alma Barker. 608 F St. S. E., Washington, D . C. ETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 211 S. McLean St., Bloomington, Ill. President-Helen Hairgrove. I Treasurer-Lucille Byrnes. Vice-president-Cecile Thomassen. Cor1·esponding Secretary-Isabel B. I ves. Secretary-Pauline Ward. Chapter meetings, Wednesday afternoons, 4:30, in Sigma Kappa Hall.

THETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 112 E. John Ave. President-Charlotte Urbain. I .'l'reasurer-Katherine Tener. Cor. Secretary-Eugenia Allais. TRIA NGLE Correspondent-Ruth Phillips. Rec. Secretary-Clara Armington. Meetings, Monday evenings at the Chapter House.

IOTA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Box 174, University Park, Colo. TRIANGLE Correspondent- Gladys Boggess, '18. President-Maude G. Williams. · I T1·easttrer-Esther Mary Woodley. Vice-president- Gladys F. Boggess. Corresponding Secretary-Helen Boggess. Secretary-Anna L. Lee. 2200 South Josephine Street.

LAMBDA CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 2401 Durant Ave., Berkeley, Cal. President-Algeline Marlow. T1·easurer-Pearl Cessna. Vice-president-Helen Brayton. Corresponding Secretary-Alice Eastwood. R ecording Secretary-Irma Bennet. I Chapter meetings, every Monday evening at 2401 Durant Ave., Berkeley, Cal. MU CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 4515 15th N. E., Seattle, Wash. President-Helen Anderson, Treasu1·er-Helen Stone, , 8 16 Shelby, Seattle. 4546 Brooklyn, Seattle. Vjce·p?·esident-Eva Cole, Go1·. Sec?·eta?·y-Helen Doud, Harrison Apts., Seattle. 3202 N. 29th, T acoma, Wash. Secretary-Helen Pratt, Oak Harbor, Wash. Chapter meetings, Monday, 6:30 P. M., at Chapter House. NU CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 62 Main St., Middlebury, Vt. President-Winifred Jeffords. Sec1·etary-Louetta Haynes. Vice-president-Marion Dean. I G01·responding Secretary-Mildred Gonyeau. Meetings, Mondays at 7:30 P. ~r. in Chapter-rooms. XI CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 1245 Oread, L awrence, Kan. President- Artemesia Powell. T1·easure1·- Dorothy K ell y. Vice-president-Lillian Martin. Go,.,·esponding Sec1·etory-Lorna Pumroy. Secretm·y-Margaret Young. I Registm1·-Edith Banks. Chapter meetings at chapter house, Monday nights at six forty-five. OMICRON CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 43 Whitefield Road, West Somerville, Mass. President-Marion Raymenton. \ Treasu1'e1·-Isabelle Wonson. Vice-president-Katherine Briggs. Sec?·e ta?·y-Cecelia Bullard. Go>Tesponding Secretary-Elsie Bremnar . Meetings, Monday at 7 P.M. PI CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President-Gladys Walker. Treasu?'e?·-Grace Steinberger. Vice-president-Clare Holcomb. Go,.,·eszJonding Secreta1·y- Grace Mulford. Recording Secretary-Elsie Wingood. I Meetings, Monday evenings at the Chapt-er House. Stanford University, Cal. WATERVILLE ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President-Phyllis St. Clair, · IT1 ·easurer-Edith M. Priest, 3 Thayer Ct.. Waterville, Maine. East Vassalboro, Maine. Vice-president-Florence S. Carll, Secretary- Bertha Kennison, South China, Maine. 18 Winter St., Waterville, Maine. PORTLAND ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Sec1·etm·y-Caro L. Hoxie, 53 Brentwood St., Woodfords Sta., Portland, Maine. MEETINGS FOR 1917 J anuary 27-Evelyn Whitney, 50 Lawn Ave. July 2-Field D ay, Peaks I sland. March 3-Myrtice Cheney, 94 Rachleff St. November 24-Evali ue Salsman, 22 Cadman St. April 14-Marion Goodwin Dow, Saco, Maine. December 29-Tea to Undergraduates, May 26-Mabel Bynon, 93 Pitt St. Ina McCausland, 39 Read St.

BOSTON ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President- Sara L. Collins, 75 Galen St., Watertown, Mass. Vice-president-Ruth G. Butters, 56 W alnut St., Watertown, Mass. Secretary-Katherine S. Brady, Sandwich, Mass. Tuosurer-Louise J. Cooper, 72 Westminster Ave., Arlington Heights, Mass. Corresponding Sec1·eta1·y and Ghapte1· Editor- Bertha H . Menchin, 171 Bedford Rd., Woburn, Mass. MEETINGS March 24-Ruby Carver Emerson, June 23-Picnic. 26 Gurney St., Cambridge. September 22-Lucy Gage. April 28-Lillian M. Bowker, 45 Prescott St .. West Medford. 150 Walnut St., Malden. October 27-Susan Tidd Hoaltl, May 26-Carrie A. Farnum, 182 Sulem St., Woburn. 342 Lincoln St., Marlboro. NEW YORK ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA OFFICERS FOR 1917-1918 President-Elsie E. Gulley, I Sec1·etary-Edna F. Dascomb Truesdell, 10 Vincent Pl., Montclair, N. J. Jewett City, Conn., R. F. D. No. 1. Vice-p1·esident-Abbie Emma Fountain, Treasunr-Rhena Clark Marsh, 91 Prospect Ave., Flushing, L. I., N. Y. Grand Boulevard, Tuckahoe, N. Y. EXECUTIVE COMJIUTTEE Elsie E. Gulley, I Mrs. B. T . Anderson, 10 Vincent Place, Montclair, N. J. 223 S. Burnett St., E. Orange, N. J. Hilda Deighton, 101 W. 55th St.. New York City Meetings held second Saturday of January and May; annual breakfast at Sherman Square Hotel in January, and picnic with Mrs. Marsh, Grand Boulevard, Tuckahoe, in May.

RHODE ISLAND ALUMN$ CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Pruident-Madeline K. Johnson, I Treasurer-Helen I. Barrett, 111 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. 20 Babcock St., Providence. Secretary-Violet G. Bloomfield, 2 Crossman St., Central Falls, R. I. · WASHINGTON ALUlVIN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 2024 G St. N. W., Washington, D . C. Ptesident_;_Leila F. Scott, 649 B St. N. E. I T1·easure1·-Nell MacFarlane, Vice-president-Louise Berry, 1752 S St. N. W. 2375 Champlain St. N. W. Secretary-Fritzi Neumann, 701 A St. S. E. TRIANGLE 0o1'1·espondent-Fritzi Neumann, 701 A St. S. E. Meetings, second Tuesday in each month at seven-thirty, in rooms of active chapter. BLOOMINGTON ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Pre8ident-Clara Heffernan, 906 E. Grove St. Treasu1·er-B!anche Boyce, 301 W. Market, Kinlock Phone 2102 Kinlock Phone 785R Vice-president-Maude Wullenwaber, Cor. Secretary-Lillian Smith, . 1012 N. McLean St. 1101 N. Clinton, Kinlock Phone 773 Kinlock Phone 1484G Secretary-Hazel Myers, 505 E. Douglas, TRIANGLE Editor-Winifred Smith, Kinlock Phone 855L 1101 N. Clinton. Meetings, 4 P. M., October 15 and every second Friday thereafter. For place of meetings . call up one of the officers. COLORADO ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA OFFICERS FOR 1916-1917 Denver, Colo. President-Ann Lamb, 1140 Corona St. Treasurer-Cora! Wear, 1981 South York St. Vice-president-Zeta Sweet Fike (Mrs. John), I TRIANGLE Co1·respondent-Mary McLeod, · 1801 South Ogden St. 1219 Hnmbolt St. Secretary-Helen Wright, 2075 Elm St. CALIFORNIA ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA OFFICERS FOR 1916-1917 President-Lulu Mann Dodge, I Treasurer-Leonore Ott Barstow, 1664 Larkin St., San Francisco, Cal. Russell St., Berkeley, Cal. Secretary-Helen Millerick Jensen, Phone-Berk. 1958 J. 2812 Piedmont Way, Berkeley, Cal. Meetings are held the fourth week of every month. For time and place ring up the secretary. CENTRAL NEW YORK ALUMN.l:E CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Syracuse, N. Y. President-Miss Nina M. Becker. Secretary-M.l·s. Margaret Hutchings. Vice-president-Miss Cora Kampfe. I Treasurer-Mrs. Ethel R . Cross. PUGET SOUND ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA Seattle, Wash. President-Vera Brown Bean, Treas1~rer-Conradine Buzby, Bremerton, Wash. 202 12th Ave. N., Seattle. , Vice-president- Betty Smith King, Corresponding S ecretary- Marion Southard, 4736 lOth Ave. N. E., Seattle. ~65 19th Ave., Seattle, Wash. Secretary- Sallie M. Craver , 305 Bellevue Ave. N., Seattle. Meetings are held the first Saturday of ever y month at 12:30. For place of meeting call the secretary. LOS ANGELES ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA 658 S. Bonnie Brae St., Los Angeles, Cal.

WORCESTER ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President- Mrs. Charles F. Daniels, I Secretary-Ada F. Wells, 29 Coombs St., Southbridge. 135 Merriam Ave., I.eominster Vice-president- Mae E. G u ~ri n , Treasurer- Linda Graves, 34 Shaffner St., Worcester. 81 Court St., Westfield. Meet ings first S aturday in June, October, January, April. April meeting with Hazel B uckley, 8 May St., Worcester. June meeting with Mrs. Lora Neal, West Boylston.

KANSAS CIT Y ALUMN.lE CHAPTER OF SIGMA KAPPA President- Benla Addison J ohnson, Oorrespondir>g SecrP.tary-Ruth Litchen, 1419 E. 29th, Kansas City, Mo. 607 Olive St., Leavenworth, Kan. Vice·presidert- Rernita Elgin T avlor. Panhellenic Delega te-Dura Palmer Berry, 3537 Central Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 3920 Walnnt St .. Kansas City, Mo. Secretary-Grace Bradshaw Webb, TRIANGLE Editor-Lucile Harper Hurd, Lanexa, K an. 443 Montgall Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Treasurer- Gertrude Armstrong Tammen, 3742 Wayne Ave., Kansas City, Mo. MEETINGS ]\feetin gs first Saturday in January, April, July, and Octo_ber. . January meeting with Gertrude Tammen, Apnl meetmg w1th J_,u cil e Harper Hurd, July meeting with Dura Berry, O ctob~ r meeting with Beo!la Johnson. No Bargains-No Cutting

The United States Supreme Court gave its opin­ ion of the "price-cutter" .in a recent decision, say­ ing-"It is a fallacy to assume that the price­ cutter sustains and pockets the loss. .The public makes it up on other purchases." And it might have been added that, as a rule, there is no loss-the buyer simply gets a cheaper article. Auld badges, jewelry, and novelties are one­ priced, because the selling price is determined by the actual cost, plus a normal profit. A price determined in this manner does not permit of cutting. Improved methods of manufacture enable us to offer products at the lowest possible price, con­ sistent with their quality. 1917 Blue Book and Special Price List sent on request.

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