THE ANCHORA, PUBLISHED BY DELTA GAMMA FRATERNITY. EDITED BY PSI CHAPTER, The Woman's College of Baltimore. “The Union of Souls is an Ancbor in Storms.” BALTIMORE: J. W. BOND CO., PRINTERS, 1903. Entered as second-class matter in the Baltimore Postoffice. President... Secretary. Grand Council. Blanche Garten, 1213 H St., Lincoln, Neb. Vice-President.. (Mrs.) Ella Tyler Whiteley, 1709 Pine St., Boulder, Col. Harriet Belle Frost,401 E. Porter St., Albion, Mich. Genevieve Ledyard Derby, 43 N. McComly St., Treasurer. Fifth Member. Battle Creek, Mich. .Joe Anna Ross, Roland & Melrose Aves., Delta Gamma Lodge, Bloomington, Ind. .1035 J St., Lincoln, Neb. Lambda-May Longbrake..1909 Queen Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Xi-Esther Treudley......University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Rho-Adelia Allen.... Sigma-Louise Raeder... Tau-Bertha Willis.. Upsilon-Harriet Severance. Phi-Myra L. Thomas. Chi-Katherine Selden. Psi-Mary Taylor.... Omega-Florence Palmer. .209 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y. ..1745 Asbury Ave., Evanston, Ill. .308 Church St., Iowa City, Iowa. ..... Delta Gamma Lodge, .Leland 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. Kappa Theta Alumnae-Clara Mullikin,......1035 J St., Lincoln, Neb. Alpha-Agnes Starkey... Zeta-Harriet Riddick.. ....105 College St., Alliance, O. . Albion College, Albion, Mich. ...108 N. Summit St., Akron, O. 303 E. Sixth St., Bloomington, Ind. Kappa-Ruth Baird Bryan.....University of Nebraska., Lincoln, Neb. Lambda-Alice Bean.......1529 Univ. Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Xi-Helen M. Stevens.. . University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich Rho-Edith Snyder.. ..209 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y. ....616 Foster St., Evanston, Ill. ..Iowa University, Iowa City, Iowa. ....Delta Gamma Lodge, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. Delta Gamma Lodge, Boulder, Col. .Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y. ......Woman's College, Baltimore, Md .112 Langdon St., Madison, Wis. 274 N St., Lincoln, Neb. ...Mt. Washington, Md. Kappa Theta Alumnae-Edith Lewis.. Omaha, Neb. Vol. XIX. of Delta Gamma. January 1, 1903. No. 2. 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. For its always fair weather With our songs and our jokes There is work to do in plenty, For we've rivals in the field; But we'll win the best of all girls With those letters on our shield.-Chorus. In the bonds Tau Delta Eta We've made friendships tried and true; So to work for Delta Gamma Let us pledge ourselves anew.-Chorus. EDITH A. BARNARD, XI, '02. Is Friendship But a Name? How will it be with us in maturer years? Will we say with Napoleon that, "Friendship is but a name," or will we feel that life is very full and rich because of the lives which have been touched by ours? In the busy whirl of college days, those beautiful days, when we build our airy castles and dream our golden dreams, we forget, sometimes, that we must not live for ourselves alone, that now those strong enduring friendships may be formed which will bless our after life. I once knew a girl, perhaps the most brilliant and beautiful girl of her class, who, at the close of her senior year, felt that no one was her friend. Why? Because she had not kept her intellectual ambition within proper bounds. She had forgotten to love her sisters more than a summa cum laude. She had missed the very best of her college life. All through those days, so rich in opportunities for forming loving ties, she had enveloped herself in a classic cloud, oblivious of those who would gladly have been her friends had she permitted them to break the ice. True friendship is a wonderful gift, as rare as it is sweet. "The most unselfish thing in the world," it has been called. It gives all and demands nothing, but with the giving comes the blessing, infinitely sweeter because unsought. "The way to have a friend is to be one." Give trust, sincerity, affection, sympathy, the best that is within us, and the best will stream back into our lives. If we lead narrow selfish lives, using our would-be friends as stepping-stones for the attainment of our goal, the day is not far distant when we shall say: "There is but little friendship in the world." Let each Delta Gamma be such a friend as she would wish to have, for each must prove for herself whether "friendship is but a name," or a glorious reality. BERTHA WILSON, Rho 'oi. de de The Fraternity Season. Those of our fathers who advocate laissez faire and free competition in the economic world, should look with pleased approbation upon our application of their hobby in the "rushing" system. So far, not the smallest shadow of a "rushing" trust or monopoly looms upon our college horizon to darken the atmosphere with doubts and fears. Instead, we have a beautiful spectacle of Darwinian evolution at its purest and best -an annual struggle for existence between the times of matriculation and pledge-day, wherein the fittest only survive, and sauve qui peut, the devil take the hindmost, serves for a simple but concise expression of every frat's mental attitude toward every other. Nevertheless, just as some one has said of nature: "She may be beneficient, she certainly is not economical," so may a similar criticism apply to our "rushing" system. When one thinks of the deplorable waste-waste of time, waste of money, waste of energy and nervous fibre, and moral expenditure-for the account is always over drawn-one commences to wish that a small revolution would drop along and sweep away our present recruiting system, substituting in its place some more restful, if less independent, method. The time will never be, we fear, when fraternities or nations will arrive at perpetual peace, will sheathe their arms and agree to submit their contests to an utterly impartial board of arbitration. In the first place the utterly impartial board couldn't be found, and in the second place, if it could be found, nobody would believe that it was impartial. But there are such things as truces, armistices, ameliorated conditions of warfare-trifles that make things infinitely more pleasant and comfortable all around for the combatants. And in so far as we can introduce such concessions and amenities into our "rushing" methods, be it in the form of Pan-Hellenic associations, or tacit contracts, or even an increasingly friendly and conciliatory public opinion; so much the better able shall we be, after the season that tries men's souls is past, to rejoice over our triumphs and recover from the scars which "Fortune, inopportune, hath dealt." EDITH LABAREE LEWIS, Kappa Theta Alumnae Chapter. Look About. Our ability to appreciate depends upon our knowledge of the subject; and our power of enjoyment increases in proportion to our broader envelopement. This is especially significant with regard to our fraternity life. |