The Kappa Sigma Chapter House at the University of Missouri has been entirely destroyed by fire.

Pi Beta Phi installed a chapter at the University of Arkansas December 29, 1909, with 19 charter members.

Alpha Chi Omega will hold its Twelfth Annual National Convention in Philadelphia, February 21, 1910.

The Sigma Phi Epsilon Chapter at Allegheny College has failed to secure faculty recognition and has disbanded.

The Greek World at the University of Montana consists of Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon installed a chapter at the University of Oklahoma, October 23, 1909, with twentyone charter members.

Kenyon alumni of Theta Delta Chi are working for the re-establishment of the chapter of that fraternity which was active at Kenyon from 1854 to 1896.

The De Votie memorial hall of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Alabama (the fraternity's birthplace) is rapidly nearing comple

tion.

Alpha Delta Phi and Theta Delta Chi will hold conventions in the near future, the former about February 22 at New Haven and New York, and the latter at Chicago from February 19 to 22.

Phi Kappa Psi has erected a handsome drinking fountain, with a bronze tablet in memory of two of its founders, on the campus of Wash

ington and Jefferson College. The fraternity was founded at this institution February 19, 1852.

At the University of Washington a novel organization is the intersorority club of freshmen. It was started last year among the sororities to foster a better acquaintance between the the various Greek-letter pledges. Every two weeks a social time is held, and business meetings. are called whenever necessary.

The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta states that Sigma Upsilon is the name of a literary fraternity which has chapters in several Southern universities. A chapter of it was established recently at Mississippi, where it has the local name of the "Scribler's Club." Its object is to stimulate interest in literary work, and at the same time give its members the benefit of a fraternal organization.

By recent action of the trustees Lehigh University will extend financial aid to the fraternities which desire to build chapter houses on the campus. No single loan will be in excess of 40 per cent. of the cost of the building. The buildings are to be designed so as to accommodate at least one student for every $1,000 of cost, and the principal is to be repaid in

sums distributed over a term of years.

The Delta Upsilon Chapter House at Cornell was severely damaged by fire December 23, 1909. On account of the Christmas holidays only two men were in the building when the flames were discovered on an upper floor. These both succeeded in escaping. The loss will be quite heavy. There is $18,000 of insurance on the building and its contents. This is

the third chapter house at Cornell to be burned.

The fraternity representation among the midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy is as follows:

Alpha Tau Omega, 3; Alpha Delta, 1; Beta Theta Pi, 2; Delta Phi, 1; Delta Tau Delta, 2; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 2; Kappa Alpha, 7; Kappa Alpha Sigma, 1; Kappa Sigma, 5; Phi Delta Theta, 4; Phi Gamma Delta, 3; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1; Phi Kappa Psi, 2; Phi Lambda Xi, 1; Phi Sigma Chi, 1; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 11; Sigma Chi, 1; Sigma Delta, 1; Sigma Nu, 4; Sig

ma Phi, 3; Theta Delta Chi, 1; Theta Xi, 1; Zeta Psi, 1.

Six University of Washington women have organized the Theta Sigma Phi, which is designed to become a national journalistic honor society among college women. Its membership is limited to upperclass women of the department of journalism who not only have shown ability along literary lines, but who also intend making journalism their life work. It is the intention of the founders to establish chapters in other colleges. The pin is a reproduction of the linotype machine matrix, with a torch and the Greek letters for emblems.

The Twelfth General Convention of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi was held in New York City, December 28 and 29, 1909. Forty out of forty-one active chapters were represented by delegates. Six applications from law schools were considered, and charters were granted to the Pittsburgh Law School and the Alcalde Law Club of the University of

Texas.

This fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan in 1869, and has over ten thousand members, nearly all practicing attorneys. The majority completed a college course before taking up the study of law, and at least 40 per cent. of the initiates are members of an undergraduate college fraternity.

The Ivy Club of Princeton, oldest of the upper class clubs, has adopted a new plan for its elections, which

will have its first test this spring. In recent years, elections to the several upper class clubs have been practically controlled by prospective sophomore members. In order to place elections in the hands of club mem

bers, Ivy has established a standing committee on admissions, consisting of two graduates, three seniors, and six juniors. Candidates for membership may be proposed to this committee either by graduate or undergraduate members, but before being voted upon must be approved in writing by at least one graduate member.

Each candidate is to be voted on separately and by ballot, and two negative votes constitute a rejection. The limit upon the number of members to be elected in any one year has been removed. Information concerning elections of members from the sophomore class is not to be divulged before the first of April each year, the date when by custom the club elections are made known. Then the committee will send notices to those elected to the junior section for the following year. Those elected from the junior and senior classes, however, are to be notified immediately upon their election. The new plan is new only for Princeton clubs, for it is essentially the same as the procedure in the ordinary metropolitan club, except that candidates are not openly posted for membership.

If the plan works well, it is expected that candidates will be nominated, seconded, and voted on as in city clubs. The success of the scheme will depend a good deal on the attitude of other Princeton Clubs with regard to it. As yet, the other clubs are adhering to the old system.

The chapter house system of the University of Maine is interesting, and is believed to be unique in some ways.

The first step in the evolution of the system at Maine was as early as 1876, when the Orono Chapter of Q. T. V.-now the Omega Mu Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta-asked and re

ceived permission from the trustees to build a chapter hall on the campus. A small two-story wooden building was built during the spring and summer of that year, largely with the labor of zealous members of the chapter. This hall was burned in 1901. For a number of years the university used the lower floor for recitation purposes, paying rent to the chapter.

In 1886 the members of the University of Maine chapter of Beta Theta Pi leased a house that had just been vacated by a member of the faculty, this being the property of the university. For some years after the opening of the institution it had served as the president's house, and in it were born three sons who later were initiated into Beta Theta Pi in the very house in which they first saw the light. This was the first chapter house in the State of Maine, and it is still occupied as a chapter house, altho moved from the original location several years ago in order to make way for a new Beta house.

At the request of the local chapter of Kappa Sigma, the trustees of the university, in 1896, built a house for it, at a cost of about $8,000, using for this purpose certain accumulated interest that was available at that time. In 1898 the trustees loaned $4,000 toward the erection of a house for Q. T. V.-now Phi Gamma Delta. Provision was made in both cases for the payment of the loan, the title of the house in each case to vest in the university until the final payment was made.

The University of Maine is located in a town of about 3,500 inhabitants, and is a mile from the village. There is only one men's dormitory, which will accommodate about seventy-five or eighty. Altho the number of students increased rapidly, beginning with the middle nineties, no funds have been available for additional dormitory accommodations until the present time; plans are now made to begin another dormitory next spring. As accommodations in the town of Orono were limited, the problem of housing the students was a perplex

ing one, and to that fact is due the action in connection with loans for the Kappa Sigma and Phi Gamma Delta houses.

As the number of students increased, there were additional fraternities formed whose members were anxious to build, but they were without alumni in sufficient number or with sufficient means to furnish the funds required. In view of the pressure for student accommodations, the trustees of the university secured the passage of a bill by the State legislature of 1903 which authorized them to guarantee loans made for the erection of fraternity houses on the campus. By taking advantage of the opportunities thus provided, six houses were built in six years, at a total cost of about $75,000.

There are at present at the University of Maine eleven chapter houses, nine on the campus and two in the village of Orono. These houses accommodate about three hundred men, a trifle more than half of the total number of men undergraduates. All of the fraternities run boarding clubs in their houses, and most of them, altho not all, employ matrons. The rivalry between the fraternities is keen, altho not bitter. There has been enough good material so that the younger fraternities have met with a sympathetic reception from the older ones.

As connected with the general history of the chapter house movement, the following queries are made:

1. Was any fraternity building of any sort built on any college campus earlier than 1876?

2. Was there any chapter house on any college campus earlier than 1886?

3. Has any institution other than the University of Maine ever loaned either its funds or its credit for the erection of chapter houses? If so, was the date earlier than 1894?

4. Has any other State than Maine ever authorized the trustees of a State institution to guarantee loans for the erection of chapter houses?

Contributed by Ralph K. Jones,
Librarian, University of Maine.

FACULTY PERSONALS

H. E. Smith, dean of the Medical School of Yale, has been appointed Connecticut State chemist.

Prof. Edward F. Buchner of Johns Hopkins has been elected president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Dr. George C. Ashmun of the medical department of Western Reserve University has been elected president of the Cleveland Board of Education.

The Modern Language Association of America has elected Prof. John W. Cunliffe of the Wisconsin English department vice-president for the ensuing year.

Prof. Frederick J. Turner of the American history department of Wisconsin University has been elected president of the American Historical

Association.

Professor Willard C. Fisher, of Wesleyan University has been elected mayor of Middletown, Conn., on the Democratic ticket. He defeated his Republican opponent by 91 votes.

Paul Philippe Cret, professor of design in the School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, has been made a member of the French Academy, with the title "officier de l'academie."

President Charles R. Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin was elected vice-president of the Association of American Universities at its recent convention at Madison.

Dr. Paul Shorey, professor and head of the Department of Greek at the University of Chicago, has been elected president of the American Philological Association for the current year.

Dr. William Huntington, president of Boston University, who has been connected with the institution for twenty-eight years, will give up his work in June. He has been Dean of the college for twenty-one years, and president for seven years. He has told the trustees that he needs rest and a change.

E. K. Eyerly, fellow in the department of sociology at the University of Chicago, has been appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Massachusetts State Agricultural College. Professor Eyerly is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in the class of 1889. He studied at Yale in 1888 and 1889, and took a course at Berlin in 1891 and 1892. From 1892 to 1906 he was professor of sociology at Yankton College, South Dakota, thence going to the University of Chicago.

Albert Abraham Michelson, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor and head of the department of physics at the University of Chicago, was elected as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its recent meeting in Boston on December 30 last. Professor Michelson is perhaps best known to the general public as having been the recipient of the Copley medal and of the Nobel prize in 1907, and as a delegate to the Pan-American Scientific Congress in 1908-'09.

Earnest Carroll Moore, at present superintendent of schools at Los Angeles, Cal., has been elected to the newly established professorship of Education at Yale University and has accepted. Professor Moore, has degrees from the Ohio State Normal University, Columbia University, and the

University of Chicago. He will take up his work at Yale next fall, offering six courses, namely: Principles of Education Methods of Study and the Course of Study, the History of Education, the High School. Its Purposes and its Problems; School Administration, and Educational Problems.

Alvin S. Johnson, late Professor of Economics at the University of Texas, has been appointed Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Johnson took his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Nebraska in 1897 and 1898, and his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in 1902. From 1902 to 1906, he taught Economics at Columbia, becoming Professor of Political Economy at the University of Nebraska in 1906, and Professor of Economics at the University of Texas in 1908. He gave a course on Political Economy at the University of Chicago during the summer quarter of 1909. Mr. Johnson is the author of Rent in Modern Economic Theory and Introduction to Economics, and has served as assistant editor of the Political Science Quarterly and as editor of Economics, the New International Encyclopaedia, Political Science, and the American edition of Nelson's Encyclopaedia.

ADMINISTRATION AND

LEGISLATION

At a recent meeting of the Amherst faculty, the entire sophomore class was penalized for participation in hazing. For the second semester the class will be allowed but thirteen cuts per man, instead of the usual twenty-five, not more than three to be taken in any one subject. The ruling affects the whole class, because the hazing was a class matter and was a violation of the rules.

od of distribution of the Horace F. A change has been made in the methClark prize scholarship at Williams College, which has previously been given as $400 to a member of the senior class, and $200 to a member from each of the other three classes. Hereafter it will be given as two prizes of $500 to two members of the senior class, or, in exceptional cases, as one prize of $1,000, to be awarded on the basis of superior scholarship, general ability and interest in scholarly research.

At Princeton a special committee on physical training, appointed a year ago, recommended that the scope of the standing committee on morals and discipline be enlarged, and its changed to the committee on morals and physical education, and that a physical education department be created; also that a professor and one or more associate professors or instructors be appointed in due time, and be given the prerogative pertaining to their respective positions, together with the control and direction of all matters connected with physical training, including competitive athletics, subject to the ultimate control of the faculty and board of trustees.

The faculty of Oberlin College has voted to exclude freshmen from participation in intercollegiate debates and oratorical contests, as well as from membership in the glee club. This regulation does not become effective until the fall of 1910, altho thus excluded, freshmen if they desire may participate in the preliminary contests in both debate and oratory. The action of the faculty was taken "to prevent the freshman from devoting to outside interests time that he