THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



25 



TAU EPSILON PHI. 

 Alpha Chapter. 



Since the debut of the Journal in 

 January, many things have kept the 

 Alpha Chapter on the "go." 



The Epsilon Chapter at Fordham 

 University was installed on January 

 31st. The installation was attended 

 with a banquet at Colaizzi and visits 

 to several other places on the "White 

 Way." Good work is expected from 

 this chapter, as they will have the ex- 

 perience of the Alpha Chapter to 

 guide them. 



The Theta Chapter at Bellevue 

 Medical College is progressing rapidly 

 and will soon receive their charter. 



The annual banquet and ball given 

 to "honor men" is scheduled for some 

 day in the first week of April. The 

 committee is trying hard to make it 

 a huge success. 



At the last initiation J. Ettinger. 

 '13. E. Bellis, .'13 and B. Wallach, '15. 

 furnished the "music." Future vic- 

 tims are D. Svigelsky, '15 and H[. F. 

 Strongin. '16. 



J' 

 GREEK AND NON-GREEK- 



During the past year the Legislature 

 of the State of Wisconsin undertook 

 to abolish the fraternities which ex- 

 isted in that State. The bill was in- 

 troduced by an ex-student, backed by 

 several hundred others who were 

 carefully organized. By strenuous 

 work of the various fraternities of the 



State, who worked in unison, the bill 

 was killed. The Legislature threatens 

 to take the matter up again in a couple 

 of years. 



The main reason for anti-fraternity 

 legislation seems to be that the pur- 

 pose of fraternities is not well under- 

 stood. The reason probably is that 

 because fraternities are secret, non- 

 members believe they are harmful. 

 Another argument is that fraternity 

 members are given to snobbishness, 

 poor scholarship, immoralit}^ etc., 

 therefore, because there happens to be 

 one member who fell by the wayside, 

 all the others are judged the same. 



Stop to consider the prominent men 

 of to-day who are members of frater- 

 nities ; Ex-Pres. Roosevelt of Alpha 

 Delta Chi. Ex-Pres. Taft of Psi Upsi- 

 lon and Ex-Vice-Pres. Sherman of 

 Sigma Phi. In fact a list could be 

 compiled which would make a book 

 in itself. 



If the non-members could only be- 

 come acquainted with the good that 

 a fraternity does, how many young 

 men when gathered together in the- 

 fraternity house have heard talks on 

 morality and scholarship from men of 

 l:»usiness, and of afifairs which carry 

 more weight than if coming from 

 father to son. The student needs a 

 home and advisors while at college, 

 and this the fraternit}^ supplies to a 

 few. A large per cent, of fraternity 

 men are self-supporting and to these 

 especially the fraternity leads a hand. 



I hope that in a few years the true 



value of the fraternity will be fully 



recognized and not "knocked" the 



way they are during the present day. 



H. C. OEHLERS, 



Phar.D. 



