Ex-'92-Mamie Chattle has returned to college after a year's absence, and will graduate with 93. Ex-'92-Hattie Thompson has entered the Woman's college at Baltimore, and received a cordial welcome there as a member of Zeta chapter. '93-Mary Singleton spent the holiday vacation visiting with rela tives in Kentucky. '93-Delight Sanborn visited with friends in Rockford, Ill., during the Christmas vacation. She obtained first prize on the Congdon Declamation Contest last term by a beautiful rendering of "The Brides of Enderby." Sister May Plimpton was a close rival on the same contest, and received many merited compliments on the delivery of her selection. Alpha Phi was justly proud of her representatives. GAMMA. '88-Florence Hays, M. D., of Indianapolis, visited us recently. Ex-'91-Gertrude Simison came over to attend the Mary Howe concert and visited us this fall. '93-Minnie Tribbey has reentered college and will graduate with her class. '93-Sallie Hornbaker spent her vacation at home near Crawfordsville. '93-Dora Reaville attended the marriage of her brother in Illinois recently. '95-Winifred and Mamie Doud visited the State University at Bloomington recently and were tendered a reception by Kappa Kappa Gamma. '95-Minnie Beach has returned to college after a month's absence on account of sickness. '95-Winifred and Mamie Doud had the sad misfortune to lose a little sister by death during the Christmas holidays, at their home in Ft. Scott, Kansas. They have the sincere sympathy of the entire college. EPSILON. '91-Myrtle Connor is teaching in the city. '91-Rose Bebb is taking post-graduate work in the chemical department. '91-Grace Chapman is ill with pneumonia. '94-Mamie Steele has been elected class-historian and Mabel Hughes, poet. ZETA. The Zeta girls were much surprised by seeing a new student wearing an Alpha Phi badge. She proved to be Harriet Thompson, of Beta, who has always been distinguished as a loyal sister and a fine student. '95-Two of the class officers are Alpha Phis. Sister Lottie Baldwin is president, and Cora Perkins, treasurer. Marriages. BETA. DEAN-STEWART:-Dec. 29, 1891, at Palatine, Ill., William H. Dean, of Medical School of Michigan University, to Nellie U. Stewart, '90. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are living in Luddington, Mich. LEONARD-HUBBELL :-Aug. 6, 1891, at Altona, Ill., Herbert G. Leonard, 4. r., '89, of Northwestern University, to Frances Hubbell, '89. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard reside in Wilmette, Ill., where Mr. Leonard is pastor of the M. E. Church. GAMMA. MILLER NUTT:-Dec. 25, at Greencastle, Ind., Paul Miller Ø. 4. O., Ex-'90, of St. Louis, Mo., to Marie Nutt, Ex-'90. Mr. and Mrs. Miller will reside in Lagrange, Ind., temporarily. VANARSDEL-BARNES :-Nov. 12, at Greencastle, Ind., Ed. Vanarsdel, of Frankfort, Ind., to Bessie Barnes, Ex-'88. Mr. and Mrs. Vanarsdel will reside in Frankfort, Ind. In Memoriam. EMMA A. EVERDING, DIED JAN. 13, 1892. Thirty-three years of earth, but untold ages in Heaven, Brief the record as mortals view life and its objects; Long and completed the life work as seen by the angels in Heaven, Sweeter the songs of redeemed souls than echoing plaudits of mortals. C. P. J., A. '85. Sister Emma Everding was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., where she lived but a few years, moving to Syracuse, where she commenced her education in the public schools. As a young child, she showed a diligence seldom seen in performing every duty. Her course through the High School and University was marked by the same unwearied patience and determination. Failure was an unknown word in her life, and no matter how trivial nor how burdensome the task assigned, Emma was prompt to fulfill it. She must have had "charity " written on her heart, for she was never known to speak ill of any one, nor did she reprove her friends for expressing their likes and dislikes. After having been graduated from Syracuse University in 1882, she decided to go as a missionary to Japan, where she labored with an earnest zeal for six years. At the end of this time, her physical strength began to fail, and on her arrival home in '89 she was a wreck of her former self. Her mind became impaired, and after three years of the saddest suffering the Master called her home. Emma's friends in Nagasaki called her "a bundle of faithfulness" and the sisters in Alpha of Alpha Phi well know she merited the title. We are better for having known her and we, as a society, extend our love and sympathy to her devoted mother and sister in their affliction. BERTHA H. WILSON, A, '82. EXCHANGES. We would not advise anyone to take up the January number of the Kappa Alpha Theta Journal unless he is prepared to spend an hour reading the thirty-five or forty pages of contributed articles, all of which are too interesting to pass by. Two short stories are given, one a weird and tragic tale with a ghostly ending and the other simply a college love story of the pressent time. The longest article is a well written description of Smith College, full of quotable paragraphs, but we restrict ourselves to this summary from the closing sentences: "But there are no burdensome or coercive regulations in regard to religious matters; freedom of thought is encouraged; the students are treated like young women and not like boarding-school misses; rules are few and simple, and the quiet dignity of behavior which would characterize a young woman in any position in life is all that is required of her at Smith college. The aim there is to train to their highest development all the social, mental and spiritual graces which spring to life under the invigorating and refining influences of the place, and give to the world, not blue-stockings, not book-worms, not missionaries, not reformers, but women; women whose conscious independence shall not lessen one whit in them the sweetness of feminine charms, and whose gracious self-poise shall be the outward sign of a calm, well balanced mind, alike prepared for public or private life." Another article entitled the "Other Girls" we would like to give in toto; for it is a plea in behalf of those who are never so fortunate as to come within the Greek fold and to whom therefore full half the benefits of a college course are denied. Many a fraternity man and woman has felt that the only sadness incident to his or her fraternity life was the painful contrast of a cup running over with happiness for himself and one filled with bitter dregs for his classmate whom he loved. The article says: "Yet it is certainly true that besides the independents who remain outside from choice, there is in every college a large number who speak of the secret organizations with a suppressed bitterness, who if they do not really wish to belong to them as they are, yet would gladly see them abolished... Probably few would deny that fraternity members are the most evenly developed class of students. This is partly a cause and partly an effect. In the first place, it is usually the "good all around girl" who is invited to join; the peculiarities attending one-sided development unfit one for the close companionship of a fraternity. What most societies aim to secure is the girl who will stand well in her classes, appear well in society, and, above all, whom they can heartily like. The shy student or the " dig" too often has her peculiarities intensified by the treatment she receives while in college. She who is over-studious is likley to be neglected with the result that she turns to her books the more, finding in them a substitute for the pleasant times that come so easily to some. More than one echoes the forlorn cry of the little girl in one of Mrs. Whitney's stories: So many good times, and I not in 'em!' "A fraternity is not a charitable organization. It is the duty of all loyal Greeks to keep up their standard and to ask no one to become one of them who is not properly qualified in all respects. Otherwise the reputation of the fraternity is injured and its influence gone. The point is not that we should altogether disregard appearances and look only to the world within. It is rather that we should not allow the bonds which hold us together to become a barrier between ourselves individually and " the other girls." Surely our fraternity relations, if fraternities are all we claim, ought to make our sympathy wider, to teach us loyalty, not only to those in our own circle, but to all of our sex who, like us, are trying to become that higher type of woman whom we honor and admire." We make an innovation and clip the following from the convention number of the Chi Phi Chakett: |