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| beru among n. honorary members tho Chinese
Minister TO washlns ston. and many noted woman
hat.rs, baa lust been discovered In Harvard
College II has been In existence fully yenr.
| consists Of n aoore or more OF students In the
| university, 10 serious In purpose and possesses Q
| tSactical sim Until last week even tho ex-
| istenoa Of ,he society wns not generally known,
| 40 that n big surprise was In stor" for those
who follow university affairs closely, when
| they siw In the announ cements Of the Harvard
daily paper last W@dnesday the notice
Al A --aisst tonight at 40 In Matthews
~ 10 appoint committee for reception TO
Chinese Minister.
To many the cabalIstic initials and the whole
nouoe looked like a hoax What was the
A. r A? Whoever heard Of ~ Was II the
Med Fac under another namcs All these
questions rapidly went the rounds. for the
! spirit OF the announcement reminded students
OF the mysterious works Of their most secret
Of societies, the Med. Fac whose escspades
give an annual thrill 10 the student world
After some search an oficer was found who
seemed willing 10 make known some Of the
facts about this most Interesting society.
The initials "A. F A." are an abbreviation
for the full name. which is Antt-Fussing Asso-
10 a young man who frsqusns the sooiety Of
young women. and -fussirg" Ia the torn which
describes thssocul ACTIVITY OF a student among
the fair sex The main outets for the Harvard
students social vsor are through vesper SER
woes teas In his room calls dances and din
hers The Anti i-Fussing Association Ia de-
signed To suppress all this. When the President
first explained the nature Of the club. 1t seemed
like joke but no was very serious and told
the story OF its foundation. Its aims, and its
achievements
When students attempted 70 gain admission
TO the French lectures last year 1t appears
they were unsuccessful because the Cambridge
mauons and girls had filled the hall The men
became angry had a meeting TO talk the matter
over. and at that meeting evolved the A. F. A.
The President stated its origin as follows;
we thought it was time TO restrict the move
| ment OF giving over the university 10 women.
| and TO prevent lectures from being monopo-
| lized by Cambridge women who brought their
knitting. and by Radcliffe girls. who ate candy
| during the lecture. Our original aim was TO
sssert the rights of students over audiences
OF Cambridge womenfolk. But We were not
satisfied with that. We saw that the students
were much TO blame; that with vesper. and
teas college men were being ruined by too much
society. 80 we thought best to cast the beam
out OF our own eve and 10 reclaim men who
we're falling because Of 'fussing'
The society has a constitutional the preamble
Of which the facts Of its origin are ser forth.
II then goes on to declare that tho members
shall do oil in their power to keep the gallery
Of Memorial Hall forever closed TO the public,
and never cease in their efforts TO have vespers
done away with. The gallery Of Memorial
Hall has been for years the favorte lounging
place of girls who are being toured about the
college bv their student friends Every vesper
service concludes with a rush to the hall TO
see the animals feed" as tho visitors express
IL. The srldents who board at Memorial have
long been annoyed by the jammIng OF the gal
leres and the resulting disorder In the hall.
But now the place is closed, and the A. r A.
IL largely responG1ble for it.
This society has not yot accomplished all
That II set out 10 do. however. for only this
week the vespcr services were announced to
begin. A long season OF busy proselytine
will follow for the earnest mcrooers of the
Ant.-Fussins League. The bylaws OF the
society contain some very interesting pro-
visions To show that II is not sorehead
or sore-hcarted or broken hearted afIair, re-
jected suitors are excluded from membership
The Executive Committee has also black
balled many applicants for membership be-
cause they were thought not TO possess sui
ilcient self-restra!nt
The association realizes. however TINT a
certain amount of "fussing' is indispensable
and necessary 20 ton. but IL i, reeu-
lated strictly Tho bylaws provide that mem
bers on application 10 the President may re-
ceive permits to do a reasonable amount upon
payment OF prescribed fines OF course. to
become a member each man must pledge him