The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-22

active in the social life and is greatly
| admired by all who know him
Leavenworth Post.
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| College politics and college society
are always amusing to the innocent
bystander, although the students take
| them both very seriously There was
a big political contest at Washburn
this week over the election of the
editor of the Washburn Review in
which one of the frats, the Kappa
Sigma, joining with the barbs downed
those naughty aristocrats, the Delta
Phis- The sororities also figured in
the uprising. The Delta Phi and the
! Sigma Delta Psi (girlS) are the oldest
| frat and sorority at Washburn and
! although there are some exceptions to
| the rule, Sigma Delta Psi girl usual
| ly has Delta Phi Steady, and (al-
| though this will doubtless be resented
by the exceptional Kappa Sigma who
| has a Sigma Delta girl, or the occa-
sional Delta Phi whose doll is a
Beta) for all practical purposes, po-
litical and social, the Delta Phis are
aligned with the Sigma Delts and the
| Kappa Sigmas with the Betas. This
was illustrated in the struggle of last
Thursday when the angry mob march,
! ed up and down in front of the Sigma
Delt house haunting the sorority
| girls with cries of Down with the
Sigma Debts and Delta Phis!'' They
avoided the Delta Phi house, however
and whether this was because they
naturally supposed most of the mem
bers of the fraternity were at the
Delta Phis scornfully imply. they took
cowardly advantage of feminine help
! lessness, far be it from deponent to
say.
In the old days, before there were
frats and sororities at Washburn, the
social sets and political factions were
| represented by the literary societies:
the w. c. L. S. and the Gammas, the
mems societies, and the W. G. L. S. or
the Alethean, co-eds. Although social
lines were not so closely drawn at
Washburn in those days as since the
organization of frats and sororities,
college society was by no means a
perfect democracy, even then. The
w. G. L. S. and the w. G. L. S. were
the real creme de la creme (whatever
that is), and the NEAR Great" with
the toadies, syycophants and favorites,
who always follow social leaders,
while the Gammas and Aletheans in
Guided the whole revolutionary faction
from the natural, born radicals and
the envious society "outs" who would
be tins," down the scale to the Sub
merged tenth" OF course, as in all
social divisions. there were incon-
gruities and inconsistencies: demo-
Gratis in the camp of the aristocracy,
and students who afterwards proved
to belong naturally to Our Set, who,
by mistake, got in with the Great
Unwashed." OF late years, since the
organization of the frats and sororf-
ties, the literary societies have ceased
to be a social factor but they are still
to be reckoned with politically. The
college is divided into the two. general
camps, F'rats and Barbs. And while
as in every society, the Barbs outnum-
Der the Frats, the Frats, having the
leaders, and the influence and the as
surance and the other qualities which
| mark the governing class, always and
everywhere, run college politics and
vote the Barbs pretty generally to suit
| themselves. A college election is, of
| course, carried by Barb votes, but one
| or the other of the Frats usually picks
| tickets. The election of the Review
/ staff is one of the big political events
| of the year at Washburn. For some
years the two frats have alternately
! named the editor. When the editor
was Delta Phi the business manager
was a Kappa Sigma and a minor job
or two was thrown as sop to the
| Barbs. This year it was the Kappa
| Sigmas turn to elect the editor, but
instead of conceding the sub-editor-
Sigmas Joined forces with the Gammas
! to down their ancient enemy, the
| Delta Phi, and of course licked 'em
| two to one. The w. c. L. s. pretty
! generally voted with the DelLa rms,
| but. since they lost their social i'm
| portance, the w. G. l. S. hasn't count
| ed for much at Washburn, and the
| Gamma vote included practically all
| the Hoi Polloi. In recognition of their
| service Gamma barb was elected
| business manager, and as this is the
only position which carries any pecu-
| mary remuneration, it would look as
| if the Barbs had bought something,
| for once. AS they would really con-
1 troll the situation if thew OnlV realized
| their power, one might think that the
| lesson would sink in, that the Barbs
would organize and run politics at the
| college themselves. But no: another
their own cause and eating out of the
| hand of a frat leader as before.
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Miss Velma Knapp. S15 Lincoln street
entertained the Flower club" a num-
Der of little girls among whom is the
Margaret Stubs. this morning AL
the little girls have taken their favor
lite flower for their club name and the
company included Pansy Stubs, Car
Barber, Rose Robb, Violet Knapp and
Sweet William Knapp.
|
The engagement is announced of Miss
Addie B. Curry, nurse at the Santa
Fe hospital and Mr.. David Charles
ford, 1905 Garfield avenue, who was
graduated from the Washburn medi.
cal school this spring and was mem
Der of the football team while he wa:
in college. Both DR.. Munford and his
hancee are in Harrisburg, Pa, where
they have been assigned to Chinese
mission field by the executive commits
sion of the board of foreign mission:
of the United Evangelical church. They
will be married Just before they sal
for China, probably in Topeka, wher'
their friends and relatives were mucl
surprised to hear of their engagement
through an Associated Press dispatch
yesterday.