beyond, really to see the campus. It skirts the shore of Lake Mendota and for a short distance retains its original rustic beauty. Soon a second hill is reached on which stands the observatories and accompanying buildings, and on beyond, below the hill, is spread out the University agricultural farm and the dairy and the horticultural buildings. Not far from here is the athletic field proper, a recent purchase comparatively speaking, known as Camp Randall from historical associations. Three miles further out on a country road is a second farm also run by the University in connection with the agricultural college. These with the president's house and grounds constitute all the lands and buildings belonging to the University. Most, if not all, of the buildings have been either built or remodelled within the last fifteen years. The labratories are fully equipped and all accessories are thoroughly modern. Whatever may have been its early history, of recent years the State has certainly been most generous in its care for its institution of learning.

From our University Catalogue we quote as follows:

"The University of Wisconsin is a part of the free school system of the State. It was established by the constitution when the State was organized in 1848. The organic law establishing the University declares that its object shall be: 'to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of learning connected with scientific, industrial, and professional pursuits.' In the educational policy of the State, the University sustains the same relation to high schools that the high schools sustain to the primary and grammar schools. As those who have successfully completed the grammar grades may freely avail themselves of the advantages of the high schools, so those who completed with credit the required amount of high school work may advance to the opportunities offered by the University. It is not expected that every pupil who completes the grammar grades will advance to the high school and it is not practicable for everyone who completes the high school to go forward to the University. Still, the school system of the State has been so arranged as to make the passage from one grade to another as easy and natural as possible, in order to afford every encouragement to the most complete and

thorough education attainable. The State through the University undertakes to furnish thorough instruction in the various branches requisite for a liberal education, as well as in the technical branches of engineering, law, agriculture, pharmacy, pedagogy, and music.

"It is the general policy of the institution to foster the higher educational interests of the State, broadly and generously interpreted. It is its aim to make ample provision for the demands of advanced scholarship in as many lines as its means will permit. By prescribing a large portion of the studies of the regular courses in the earlier years, and by leaving a large number in the later portion to the selection of the student, it endeavors to give a wise measure of direction and at the same time leave sufficient room for choice to encourage individual adaptation and special development.

"The University avoids all that is sectarian or partisan; but it endeavors to extend its sympathy and influence to whatever contributes to good citizenship and high character.

"The government of the institution rests upon the inherent obligations of students to the University and to the State. The University is maintained at the public expense for the public good. Those who participate in its benefits are expected, as a matter of honor, not only to fulfill the obligations of loyal members of the institution, of the community, and of the commonwealth, but actively to aid in promoting intellectual and moral interests. Every student owes to the public a full equivalent for its expenditure in his behalf, in the form of superior usefulness to it, both while in the institution and afterwards."

ELIZABETH BENNETT MILLS, Omega '95.

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After College What of our Fraternity? To say that when a girl leaves college she enters a strange and unfamiliar world is to repeat a hackneyed commonplace of the commencement season. But if trite it is none the less true. A ruthless hand seems to have cut her off from the friends she most loved and the interests that most absorbed her. Later, when she has had time to adjust herself to her new environment, she finds that the old friends are still hers and that the

old interests, many of them, still claim her-some for brief periods and others for life. The question à propos for us of Delta Gamma is—what becomes of the fraternity interest when a girl leaves college? She has ceased to be a child, she must put away childish things. Is her fraternity one of these?

This question as the relation between a girl and her fraternity after her active college days are over is rather an interesting one; and it seems to depend largely on whether she lives in a college town or not. If she does, then her interest in her fraternity is likely to be a very permanent one. Real fraternity loyalty means something more-or should mean something more, than school-day frolics. It should mean a loyalty to the fraternity ideal, a desire to make Delta Gamma stand for the best things in college life, a determination that the girls in Delta Gamma from year to year shall have the right principles on which to build their hopes of fraternity success. The alumnae girls always and everywhere have much influence with the active chapter if they keep in anything like close relation with it; and that relation should be a valuable thing for both-a beneficial responsibility for the older girl, a conservative influence with the younger. Together they should be able to make their fraternity stand for more and mean more in the college world than either would be able to do alone.

The difficult question however is the question of the means by which the alumnæ girl can best keep in touch with the interests of her fraternity and be of most service to the active chapter. It seems to be generally agreed that this can be done best by some sort of a fraternity organization that will keep her in touch with the friends of her own college days-" the friends that are and the friends that were "-and at the same time keep her interested in general fraternity affairs. But the heart of the difficulty is reached when we come to inquire whether this organization shall be an Alumnæ Association or an Alumnæ Chapter, and here it is high time for the writer to remark-she is writing for the express purpose of advocating Alumnæ Chapters. Form Alumnæ Chapters instead of Alumnæ Associations, because you can help your fraternity most in that way; she has done much for you; you are strong now and it is your turn,

do something for her so that in the days to come she will be able to do even more for others than she did for you in the days that are gone.

But it may not be clear just why an Alumnæ Chapter is more helpful than an Alumnæ Association. First, because it gives added financial support to the National Treasury. Every Alumnæ Chapter pays its portion of the general fraternity expenses and every girl ought to know that this is always useful. More than this, an Alumnæ Chapter means that the older girls will send a delegate to Convention who will have a vote as well as a chance so talk. That this is desirable ought to be obvious for at every convention there are questions to be decided which need the conservative judgement of those who have had long experience in fraternity affairs and who are able to take a broader view of things than is ever possible for a girl in an active chapter, absorbed as she is in her own fraternity. The admission of new chapters, the expulsion of old ones, changes in the method of fraternity government-these are only suggestions of convention questions on which the advice of older girls is found helpful, and it is undoubtedly true that the Alumnæ will take a more active interest in their fraternity if they have in this way some official connection with it. What has been said has, of course, closest application to girls in college towns, but there is no reason why it should not apply also to any city large enough to contain at least ten Delta Gammas; and while it is true that there are many cities not so fortunate as this, yet the few that are thus blessed ought to make the most of their good fortune.

We who belong to National Greek Letter Societies know that the National Chapter means a great deal to us. The old charge that fraternities are exclusive and therefore narrowing can be denied in part by the fact that a fraternity that has homes in the college world everywhere has a broadening influence on every girl connected with it. There is something exhilarating in the feeling that one has been identified with an organization of this sort and everyone of us who has had any Convention experience and has in this way been brought in contact intellectually and socially with active enthusiastic girls