PUBLIC LIBRARDELTA GAMMA DIRECTORY. R 774836 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION8 Grand Council. President... Edna Polk Wilson, (Mrs. Burton W.) 498 W. 133rd St.,N. Y. Secretary. Fifth Member....Joe Anna Ross, N. E. Cor. Roland & Melrose Aves., Corresponding Secretaries. Alpha-Mary Mohler.. 220 W. State St., Alliance, O. ..1009 E. Porter St., Albion, Mich. ...202 Carroll St., Akron, O. Zeta-Merle McLouth. Rho-Adelia Allen.. Delta Gamma Lodge, Bloomington, Ind. .1035 J St., Lincoln, Neb. Lambda-May Lobnrake...1909 Queen Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Xi-Esther Treudley... ..University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ...209 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y. ...Woman's Hall, Evanston, Ill. .308 Church St., Iowa City, Iowa. ....Delta Gamma Lodge, Stanford University Palo Alto, Cal. Delta Gamma Lodge, Boulder, Col. ...Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y. The Woman's College, Baltimore, Md. .151 W. Gilman St., Madison, Wis. Sigma-.. Tau-Bertha Willis. Upsilon-Harriet Severance. .Leland Phi-Myra L. Thomas.. Chi-Katherine Selden. Psi-Mary Taylor.. Omega-Florence Palmer. Kappa Theta Alumnae-Blanche Garten........1213 H St., Lincoln, Neb. THE ANCHORA. Joe Anna Ross.. Editor-in-Chief. .. Roland & Melrose Aves., Roland Park P. O., Normandie Heights, Md. Md. Phone Wynhurst 863, Heights, Md. .Delta Gamma Lodge, 105 College St., Alliance, O. . Albion College, Albion, Mich. 108 N. Summit St., Akron, O. 303 E. Sixth St., Bloomington, Ind. ..University of Nebraska., Lincoln, Neb. .1529 Univ. Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ....209 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y: Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. .Iowa University, Iowa City, Iowa. ..... Delta Gamma Lodge, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. Delta Gamma Lodge, Boulder, Col. Tau-Blanche G. Spinney. Phi-Marcia Chipman. Psi-Elizabeth Goucher.. Omega-Marian Jones .Leland Kappa Theta Alumnae-Edith ....Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y. .Woman's College, Baltimore, Md .112 Langdon St., Madison, Wis. Abbott.................1300 G St., Lincoln, Neb. Psi Omicron Alumnae Ass'n-Louise West.. The Montreal, Balto., Md. Vol. XIX. of Delta Gamma. November 1, 1902. No. 1. THE ANCHORA is the official organ of the Delta Gamma Fraternity. It is issued on the first days of November, January, April and July. Subscription price, One Dollar ($1.00) per year, in advance. Single copies 35 cents. Advertisements are inserted for four times at the rate of fifty dollars ($50.00) per full page, or thirty dollars ($30 00) per half page for the inside or outside of cover; forty dollars ($40.00) per full inside page, or five dollars ($5.00) for one-eighth of an inside page. These advertising rates are absolutely invariable. Subscriptions and advertisements should be sent to the Business Manager, Desiree Branch, Ellicott City, Md. Exchanges and material for publication, due at The Anchora office by the tenth of each month preceding date of issue, should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. JOE ANNA ROSS, Roland & Melrose Aves., Normandie Heights, Roland Park P. O., Md. Maryland 'Phone, Wynhurst 863. Inter-Fraternity Relations. Our relation to fellow-fraternities has a more important bearing upon our part and standing in college life than we are likely to realize. The value of a wholesome rivalry in raising and maintaining high standards cannot be questioned in any walk of life. This being the case, we cannot disregard its importance, either in the fraternity as a national body, or in the individual chapter. Sometimes we are apt to think that we are little or nothing to those rival bodies which we strive to out-rush every autumn. I believe that we will one and all admit, if the question is given a moment's consideration, that our own self-respect is greater because of our place among other similar organizations, to the ideals and aims of which we owe in part our own. The strength of the college chapter is impaired more than can be estimated if there is not an honest and frank appreciation of those who are the respected rivals of our class. We, as college women, are expected to have a broad intelligence, and any tendency to shut our eyes to what is admirable in others, will surely lead to a petty view of our life problems, now and later on. What is true of general social intercourse, certainly must apply to fraternity relations. We shall not detract at all from perfect loyalty to that body in which we are bound together under promises that are both sacred and earnest, by looking squarely at the good qualities of another union of college women. In forming friendships without reserve outside of our fraternity, in admiring the admirable and copying the worthy points in our rivals we shall be truer to our own organization, because we shall be truer women. The "high and teachable nature" which has a broad grasp of life problems, and is most useful in solving them, is an essential element in fraternity circles, as it is everywhere. We who are fortunate enough to wear the anchor would not stop satisfied to have our fraternity narrow down to her own circular rut, and revolve there indefinitely. We are eager to have her learn and apply good lessons everywhere, and not least from her sister unions. Nor are we willing to belittle ourselves and our Delta Gamma by turning from the good qualities and snatching for the faults of our competitors. We are proud to meet such respected rivals and acknowledge our obligations to them. MARCIA CHIPMAN, Phi, '05. Fraternities, like electricity, hold many possibilities. If properly harnessed and carefully handled they can accomplish wonders for good. But in the hands of wicked or careless men they become veritable powers of destruction. What multiplicity of opportunity is there for narrow clanishness and selfish and unfair scheming. Fraternity politics is a good example-for there is no use trying to evade the fact of fraternity politics. Well, fraternity politics may be pure, and therefore, a really healthful recreation, keeping the wits alert and the judgment exercised and at the same time accomplishing good. But unclean, small politics are as degrading in fraternities as in states or nations. The matter of fraternity politics is of vital importance. If left to run rampant it threatens to defeat the cause of fraternities, externally, by antagonizing worthy people, and internally by frustrating the declared purpose of fraternity. New students see the trend and it becomes a matter of choosing between college political strength together with a fraternity or worthy, honest struggle and probable defeat together with personal worth. Fraternity politics too often consist in underhanded scheming and lying and the placing of honors without respect to merit-unless it so happens to fit. Men who have sons and daughters to educate do not see the sense in sending them to school to join fraternities for the purpose of shielding them from work and priming them for strife. They consider fraternities the root of contentions and the enemy to real scholarship. This, we hope, is not true yet. But straws show which way the wind blows; and such a tendency should not be permitted to gain headway. All the fraternities in our colleges assert that their aim is high scholarship, good fellowship and the development of latent powers through close personal contact. And we are sincere in our assertions. We do place our fraternity ideals high. Let us keep guard lest we find them being dragged into the dust by our own hands. At first thought it seems that only in men's fraternities could be found this tendency to unworthy scheming. But by no means are women's fraternities free from it. It is becoming apparently more and more the case that real worth must fight hard for recognition while wealth or other worldly influence wins prestige. It is so not only between different fraternities but even in the internal workings of a fraternity itself. Perhaps in the world these things must be so-we cannot argue that point now. But colleges or universities are not the places to foster such growth. In our educational institutions we hope to instil notions of the ideal in moral, intellectual and physical life. Lessons in worldly policy may be had anywhere else and there is no need to leaven school life with it. Policy has no place within school walls except when used to outwit meanness and to insure real worth the place upon the throne. This kind of politics may be called pure. We have our ideals of womanhood and we wish all our sisters to reach that ideal. We choose girls with the aim to help them and be helped to our ideals. Be sure that we keep encouraging such growth. What we encourage by word of mouth must receive sanction by work of hands. Precepts and deeds, let it be mostly deeds. When by care and perseverance a sister is steering straight with the fraternity watchword on her lips and the motto burning in her brain, with the white shield before her and a firm and trusting hand on the anchor chain, let 'it not break! Delta Gamma, let it be forever. EVA LORENTZ, Alpha, '02. Lest We Forget. In one of the most delightful of Stevenson's many delightful essays, he preaches a little-a very little-almost without our knowing it; and he warns us that though striving for shadowy ideals may be a good thing and well enough in its way, yet there are better ones almost within our grasp. And he says with an almost cynical touch, "Trying to be kind and honest seems an affair too simple and too inconsequential for men of our heroic mould." It does seem very simple on the face of it and yet its very simplicity has led to its neglect, and too often we are not honest, more often we are not kind. It has always seemed to me a great pity that Stevenson did not write an essay on values. For the subject of value is not exclusively an economic one; in fact it touches in some sort on what he calls "the golden chamber at the heart of life." And he could have told us many things that would have stayed with us because he would have told them so simply and so beautifully. But this is not to be a disquisition on Stevenson, only a small discussion of values, of the things he valued. It is the question, after all, that is of primary importance in the fraternity world. Of course we know that it is a standing reproach against fraternities that they have a false and artificial standard of value, that they do not prize most the things or the people that are worth while. We are always indignant when we hear this wearily reiterated by people who are constitutionally opposed to fraternities as instruments of the powers of darkness, for we know that we do not consistently or for a long time undervalue the right things in life and overvalue the wrong ones. Yet if we are honest, quite honest with ourselves, we shall confess that we have felt some times that there was perhaps some justification for this reproach, not against ourselves of course, but against fraternities as a whole, perhaps. And then some day, if we are very honest, we shall confess further perhaps that we have been guilty of overvaluing those |