Show A HAN C YB 0 UL D ER DIN WO ODE Y- Y CA L L A HA NF N- N F JONES JONES- CRAG UN ELECTED E EprO TO BE JI El-JI yE CL CLUB Twenty Five Faculty F a u c-u Ity Members and Eleven Students Initiated Dr Edwin Edwin E. E Sparks Regent-General Regent of the NaI National Na- Na I 1 Fraternity Installed Chapter on U Campus Last Friday Morning ELEVEN senior students of the university were we initialed initial d Into nt nto Phi Kappa Phi national honorary scholastic scholastic fraternity Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- morning at 10 0 o'clock cl ck These students s were chosen as having haying hay hav ing the tile highest scholastic standing of any any students at this institution tn v eleven students chos chosen in include l de Miss Miss- T 1 Ri Ridges g Mrs Emily T. T Merrill Miss fiss ri Annie Merrill rerrin Miss iss Ethel Mansfield Mist Mis is Louise Donald ki Bennett Otto Duke Elias Day J J. J Ma Max fat Marshall Homer I-homer Holmgren and ard I. Lawrence Law rence F F. Wooley These These- members member aro are all an who will m be chosen th tho present col college collego col- col lego lege ye year i. i INITIATION HELD SATURDAY The In initiation took place the in in fac fac- lIl room room in the Park building and anti wa was conducted conduced by tho the faculty members of Jf the fraternity frat who were chosen as charter members when the chapter was installed Friday by Dr Edwin E. E Sparks regent general of cit It the thi n fraternity The faculty members cl ch en were President G George Ceorge rge Thomas the seven se deans of tife of schools of or the he university uni Joseph F. F Ferlin Merrill erlin 1 J. J ii 11 G Gibson Gib Cb- son fon Perry Pern G. G Snow Thomas A A. F. F W S' Reynolds Milton Bennion ami William WilliamI am I U U. Lear Loary and nil tho c on Ott the he faculty who are arc re already members of ot some honorary fraternity lh these se lat latter latter lat lat- ter being being being-b I. I A. A A. A R R. Anderson Ander- Ander Anderson AndElson son I L. L lr L. Dames Dalnes L. L B. B Swingle le H H. I. I 4 Thompson Thomas Brighton R R. K H. I Lyman R. R S. S Lewis Philip D. D K R II H. Beckstrand Orin T 1 F F. J r Pack R. R D. D Harriman H rum Schneider er Geor George c L L. L E B Cowie anti and Newton Miller TO PROMOTE THOROUGH EDU EDUCATION N. N Phi I Kappl ppl Phi fraternity was founded found found- ins In of or Maine ed ed in 1897 at the University The foun founders ers had for Cor their object in n establishing the fraternIty to to emphasize emphasize emphasize size scholarship In the thought of col college college col- col lege students to hold fast tast to the original hal nal purpose for which h institutions of learning were ere founded and to late mental achievement by the prize of ot membership also alo to bind more moro closely the alumni to their Alma AlmO Mater to furnish an an additional tie lie of college o friendship arid antI antIo to o Interest H its members In the promotion of a more thorough education MEMBERSHIP RESTRICTED Membership In the fraternity Is IR le- le to a number of students In any college or university chosen from the thc highest fourth or one fourth of of tile tHe cas class who have distinguished themselves themselves them them- selves b by scholarship or intellectual service to their college or university Members are elected eJected during during- the year ear before graduation Person may be elected to honorary membership who hay have havon Won Von distinction in science c literature literature liter liter- or education The badge bad which may be worn as ns 41 a t pendant pin button or medal is In n the form of or a globe bearing the thele the letters letters le er of tho fraternity surrounded by rays of or sun sup arranged In Iii eight groups The present officers of ot the fraternity fraternity frater frater- are are President General I. I S. S Ste Ste- vens yeas Orono Me ole secretary general L L. H. H Ames Iowa Ioa v treasurer treasurer- r- r general ener 1 C. C H H. Gordon Gordo Tenn registrar-general registrar L. L Woodman Wood Wood- man P nolin flolla olla Mo 10 and regent Edwin l' l 15 B. S Sparks arlu State colIe college e Penn Penn- I sylvania TWENTY TWENTY SEVEN S VEN CHAPTERS I There There are arc seven twenty chapters of ot the fraternity located at different cOlleges colleges colleges col cOl- col- col leges and universities es in the country as follows University of or Arizona Massachusetts Massachusetts Mass Mass- A Agricultural college Delaware Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- ware college University of or 1 Florida Georgia Poly tech nic Institute Alabama Polytechnic Institute Iowa Iona State college college col col- col lege Kansas Agricultural college cOllego University Tint Uni versi ty of Maine no Nebraska Wesleyan eyan university University University-of of Nevada evada University University Uni Uni- of ot New Mexico exi o North Dakota university Penns Pennsylvania I anla State Stat college Rhode I Island land State S Syracuse I in New York University o of Tennessee University ty of Utah University University Uni Uni- f n of Df Wyoming University of nr Wisconsin Utah Agricultural and nd Cornell Camel university DR SPARKS ADDRESSES Dr Dr Sparks who Installed the chapter chapter chapter chap chap- ter of ot Phi Kappa Phi at the university lly in 19 g the assembly Friday voiced hit his opinion that scholarship was declining rapidly In the United States He Ho said Student activities are threatening the existence existence- of ot scholarship Students are are taking taking- too mu much h interest In lances dances and movies At State the motto of or certain students has bas been When Yh n nIn In doubt give a dance and I 1 suppose the next thing to bo be Introduced th the American colleges will bo ho darn i among the Janitor It U all aU s 1 of ot a sign in a n certain sl lIts lIt's men studies interfere II A I Never ct c lot let your Mt ies v your education Jr Dr r. r Sparks beU es thai student nt a if at s are ro t taking entirely toe u much uth C e the students' students time Students should put thou their studies s Into college CJ ties College activities in this old old- old nar nary sense should merely constitute a. a Continual on p page pago uro 2 2 i I I j I I I I FIVE TWENTY T FACULTY Continued ContinuO from page 1 sideshow but as it is now they are running away with the entire circus Dr Sparks a. a astounded the assembly by stating that college students student put too much time on their studies He Ho explained this b by giving the example of ot a college student sitting on the porch of a n. fraternity house with a a. text upside down In his hands watching aUthe all aU the tho girls who passed and whistling at frequent fr quent intervals to the dog He said He SHe may spend an hour in this kind kindor of or stud but Is not getting an anything out of or it From this I have haye evolved a 8 motto Better ten minutes In concentration concentration concentration concen concen- than a a. whole hour of dawd dawd- ling hag HIGHER SCHOLARSHIP NECESSARY Dr Sparks declared that higher scholarship is absolutely necessary If this country countr is to hold its own In education education education edu edu- cation with foreign nations Ho He pointed point point- ed out that a great man many of ot our most prominent scientists were from Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and other foreign nations You Youcan Youcan Youcan can put a prohibitive tariff on the dyestuffs dyestuffs dye- dye stuffs of ot Germany he said but you cannot put a a. prohibitive tariff on German German German Ger Ger- man brains as long as they arc are willing willing will will- ing to work The visitor declared that while man many men have become great without college college college col col- col- col lege educations many of t them have regretted this lack Ho referred to a conversation he had with John D. D Rockefeller when Mr Rockefeller pointed to the Phi Beta Kappl key which Dr Sparks wore fore and said AIt Al AI t lUgh I may hAvo have made some money all aU my money could not buy one of ot those keys so BO I could wear It hon boa call estly IMPRESSION OF AMERICAN STUDENT Near the conclusion of ot his address Dr Sparks read an ln extract from a a. letter letter letter let let- ter in which a Chinese student In this country gave his impressions o of American college students Your Tour American fellows want to havo have havea a a. good time he read but they thoy dont don't want to be called caned sissies Tho students' students manners are boisterous but sincere The real desire for tor knowledge is rare and students like only those professors proCessors professors sors who have snap and ad pep Tho reading of ot students Is con confined tined to the funny papers the Saturday Evening Post and Life Lite Their chief vocation vacation alternates between the movies and antI dances 1 Finally Finall the they are ever everything thing that Is and Joyous but to m my mind there is not a promising prospect for tor the future of ot American scholar scholar- ship S |