W. J. Kackley, and Harry McClure.
PHI DELTA PHI.
In 1869 Phi Delta Phi was Miss Oliver. The chapter house is located at 1245 Oread avenue. The initiates this fall are: Ruth Murvine and Leota McFarland of Kansas City, Mo.; Helen Burdick, Laura Pendleton, Clair Jaedicke, Marguerite Emery and Ethel Morrow of Lawrence; Hazel Kelly, Paola; Hazel Butts, Augusta; Effie Dean, Marion; Mary Darlington, Concordia; and Lucile Wilkinson of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA
The home of Kappa Alpha Theta is Depauw Castle, Greencastle, Indiana, where the sorority was founded in 1870. The Kappa chapter was installed here in 1881. The active chapter numbers twenty-one members. It is represented in the faculty by Miss Flintom and Miss Stempel. An excellent house is occupied at 1247 Ohio street. Their new members this year are: Katherine Curry, Ellsworth; Carrie Calhoun, Fort Scott; Euphemia Smart, Ottawa; Myra Rogers and Helen Gleissner of Abilene; and Ethel Chalkley, Katherine Dolman, and Helen Sparr of Lawrence. They have also pledged Gale Gossett of Kansas City, Mo.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded at Monmouth, Illinois in 1870 and in 1883 the Omega chapter was established here. It is pleasantly situated in a house at 1400 Tennessee street. The active chapter this year includes twenty-three member besides Miss Esther Wilson of the faculty. Initiates this fall are: Mary Lambert and Maud Brown of Kansas City, Mo.; Mildred Otis, Winfield; Zaza Wethers, Hutchinson; and Helen Phillips of Lawrence.
CHI OMEGA
Chi Omega is a southern sorority founded at Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1895. Seven years later the Lambda chapter was installed here. Its home is at 1005 Kentucky street. Nineteen members and two pledges make up the chapter roll. The initiates this year are Dean Bramwell, Belleville; Hazel Sanders, Galena; Sue Burgess, Olathe; Nancy Fisher, Lyons; and Hannah Mitchell of Lawrence. Their pledges are Helen Stevens of Parsons and Nina Pilkenton of Lawrence.
HONORARY FRATERNITIES.
SIGMA XI.
The Sigma Xi fraternity was founded at Cornell University in 1886. The chapter here was the fifth to be installed in the United States. The object of this society is to encourage research work in science and only those who give special attention to such work are eligible. The active chapter includes fifty three members, many of whom are in the University faculty. This fall two professors and five students were elected to membership. They are: Professors Glenn, Sterling and Edmund Bartholow, Paul Farragher, Chas. Lusk.
founded at Michigan University and in 1897 Green chapter was installed here. The fraternity is honorary among law students and scholarship is the chief requisite. The active chapter this year includes fifteen members with Dean Green and Professors Burdick and Higgins in the faculty. The chapter house is at 909 Vermont street. This years initiates are:HaroldArmsby, Harvey Starbuck, Carroll Lord, James Emerick, Irwin Stearn, M. O. Lock, William Rice and R. O. Douglas.
PHI BETA KAPPA.
Phi Beta Kappa is an honorary fraternity basing eligibility for membership on high scholarship. Its members are chosen from the college and include both faculty and students. The society was founded at William and Mary college in Virginia in 1776 and in 1889 the Kansas Alpha chapter was installed here. New members are elected in February and June of each year. The active chapter roll includes now over thirty-five members, of whom twenty-four are in the faculty.
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Before Suicide
[This poem was written when Mr. Kemp was in a melancholy mood and was contemplating playing the role of Chatterton.—Ed.]
[This poem was written when Mr. Kemp was in a mel-
mood and was contemplating playing the role of Chatterton.~
Life is a vain dream, over in a day,
A thirst of soul a drink of death doth slake;
Life is a cloud the light wind bears away,
A murmuring in sleep before we wake.
They err who say the body doth not hold
And clog the spirit with its baser clay;
Tho reasons they adduce an hundred fold:
'Twixt body and soul there is no wedding day.
Still is the soul a white-limbed captive, bound,
To rank desires and evil lusts a prey.
And my soul is an hunger to be free From bonds that thwart and accidents that mar, And while the body nought but earth doth see, She, like a being from another star, Is blind to all but immortality And is with flesh continually at war.
She would untrammeled be to do some deed Which God required of her, somewhere, sometimes. Constrained to countenance the body's need, She frets and pines—it is thus with all men; Their minds must rankle and their hearts must bleed Because the soul is heaven's denizen.
Draw near, my immortality, draw near! I bring upon myself the final hour. Already Death's portentious tread I hear And tremble in the presence of his power.
Already down the corridors of time
Nearer and nearer comes his ghostly tread...
Yea! his vast presence, solemn and sublime,
Draws nigh to add me to the uncounted dead.
Nearer and nearer comes his ghostly tread
I welcome him with pleasure born of dread:
Pleasure—I might meet great ones gone before;
Dread—Lest Death be a sea without a shore.
I cast me down from heights of high despair And storm the mysteries of Death and God, For all philosophy is empty air Founded on guesses dark leading nowhere, And futile is each rounded period.
The puzzle tempts me and I long to die;
The riddle of life doth for solution call;
I am an hunger to probe out the "why"
And understand—or nothing know at all.
When first I came into the world, I came,
Into the seventh Heaven of song up-caught
Pure-hearted, noble-minded—and I thot
To burn thru all the nation as a flame.
But Poverty dulled the sharp edge of my thot,
They dipped my robes of innocence in shame;
Men used my garden as a garbage plot
And mocked my name.
And day by poisonous day the gradual stain Gained on my soul. And struggle hard and long Banished imagination from my brain And stole a daily glory from my song.
And now I lay my weary effort down;
I cease, the shell of what I might have been,
And forth I go, lacking that starry crown
Which my fond Boyhood often dreamed to win,
Forever imperfected now my plan!
The harmony is broken up within.
And here, upon the threshold of the man
I mount my last sad step, put out the light,
And bid the world, and life, and all goodnight—Goodnight! Oh Life, Oh Light!
Oh World! Oh Love! Goodnight!
HARRY H. KEMP
HARRY H. KEMP.
? April 29th ?
Attention!
Make Dates!
Seniors, Juniors, Middle Laws, Pharmics, and all those eligible to go to "Prom" committee will call for dates first week after vacation.
Junior "Prom"—April 29
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