But conventions would not fulfil their purpose if they brought only pleasure and taught us no lessons. Our officers emphasized the necessity of more business-like methods throughout the fraternity. This is a movement in which every member can co-operate. Prompt payment of dues, immediate attention to correspondence, prompt sending of ANCHORA articles, all these things are not only important, but essential to the welfare of our fraternity. Another point which was emphasized was the folly of sending a delegate positively instructed and powerless to use her own discretion. If she may not exercise her mind, of what use are reports and explanations? But a chapter with but one representative dislikes to throw all responsibility on one pair of shoulders, and thinks it wise to give minute instructions beforehand The remedy for this evil is, send more girls from the chapter to back up the delegate and help her at critical times and in decisive issues. A larger representation will help the delegate, will help the chapter, will help the Convention, will help the fraternity. The delegate who conferred with her clan during the ten minutes recess for conferring with one's chapter thinks she knows whereof she speaks. Let every chapter send to Evanston a strong delegation to support the delegate and to represent the chapter. [CHI.]

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The University of Wisconsin.

The congress of 1838 passed an act granting forty-six thousand and eighty acres of land to Wisconsin for the maintenance of a State University which had already been incorporated. Through misappropriation of these lands by the territorial legislature, further land grants and continued misappropriation, the first years of the University were a mere struggle for existance having no actual being save in name, and it was not until 1848 that it actually came into being by being housed in a rented hall.

The first chancellor was formally inaugurated in 1850 and a building begun on the present campus, the North Dormitory, now known as the North Hall. This was soon followed by the corresponding building, the South Dormitory, or South Hall. As the names signified these were the houses as well as the

recitation halls of the small band of men and boys studying in the institution. The growth of the college continued to be very slow. In 1870 women were admitted. More buildings were added from time to time until the present day finds us with a heterogeneous collection of buildings so varied in architectural design and material that the total absence of harmony becomes a bond of union between them.

To-day the two thousand, eight hundred and seventy students (not including 126 enrolled in the college of music) are distributed among the four colleges and six schools that together constitute the University. And here it might be mentioned that a summer library school has been established which is rapidly growing in popularity. The men's dormitories have long since been abolished, and all the men and many women are obliged to find houses for themselves in the many neighboring boarding houses. There is however one very large and attractive dormitory on the campus for the women, Chadbourne Hall, reasonable in its charges, well conducted, and justly popular as an abiding place for the girls. Perhaps this scarcity of dormitories is one cause for the almost universal custom existing among the fraternities and sororities for owning or renting attractive lodges about the University. Whatever the cause these homes are an established fact and it is here that many students find shelter during their college course.

The following sixteen fraternities. are represented at Wisconsin,- Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Psi, Sigma Chi, Delta Upsilon, Phi Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Theta Delta Chi, Psi Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Alpha Delta Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and eight sororities as follows:-Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Chi Omega.

In addition there are two honorary fraternities, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Phi, and three class societies, three dramatic clubs of high order, five musical clubs, seventeen literary, law and engineering societies and several departmental clubs.

The Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. are well established and doing

excellent work. The former hopes soon to have a building adequate to its needs, for which many thousands of dollars have already been subscribed.

Athletic teams and sporting clubs occupy the prominent place one would naturally expect of them-water sports especially being beautifully provided for by nature.

Among the women there is a movement toward close organization brought about by the Self Government Association. This is a comparatively recent movement extending back some five or six years, and there can be little doubt that it will eventually become a great power in University life, as it has already begun to exert a sensible influence in many directions. It only remains to give a brief sketch of the campus and the buildings.

Approaching from the business center of the town of Madison one passes the lower campus, a flat open square on which the military drill (a compulsory exercise for freshmen and sophomores) is held and the practice ball games which require no secrecy. Looking across this and beyond by the lake, stands the Armory and men's gymnasium, behind which is the boat house. On the end of the lower campus, nearest to the campus proper, stands the Historical Library building, the most perfect structure of all, though properly speaking not a University building. Although a distinct institution the students have free access to this library-the third I believe of its kind in the United States, and in one of the wings the University library has its quarters, so the students have full advantage of two libraries in one. Crossing the street one comes to the campus proper-a grassy hill with the buildings arranged somewhat in the form of an Omega with the main hall at the top of the hill and the two old dormitories, now vine covered halls of recitation, flanking it on each side and lower down the hill; and lower still the law and engineering buildings, of modern architecture; Science Hall and the Chemical labratory complete the right foot and the musical hall (known as Library Hall) and Chadbourne Hall, the women's dormitory, fill out the left lower part of the Omega.

As there are two hundred and forty acres in the University grounds one must pass over the hill into the small strip of woods