The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-27
Social Notes

Periodically there comes from one
woman's college Dr. another the state
nlent that the faculty is considering
the abolition of secret sororities and
s~eIni-secret local clubs. Almost of the
larger colleges given over exclusively
to ONE however, the problem has
never been serious. At most OF them
the intercollegiate sorority has never
found a footing. mothers a method of
combined student and faculty super
vision has proved successful. At
Barnard Miss Virginia Gildersleeve,
the dean, said that fraternities had
ceased to be a faculty problem The
more intimate and personal affairs Of
the fraternities are adjusted by the
Pan-Hellenfc council, made up of rep
resentatives Of the various Barnard
chapters. The Pan-Hellenic council
has fixed upon a day early in Decem-
Der as pledge day. There are at the
present time eight chapters of national
fraternities in the college. There has
been no falling off of interest on the
part of the Wellesley college students
in the various societies which make so
much for enjoyment during the two
final years. OF the six societies or
clubs -four are Greek letter fraterni-
ties, and they are all purely Wellesley
organizations, not one Of them being
q chapter or having any connection
with the fraternities Of any other
women's college. Then there are the
Agora and the SHAKESPEARE clubs. The
first, as its name explains, is a dehat-
ing body, and the Shakspere club has
q beautiful Elizabethan house in which
to pursue its studies Of the works anu
history of the dramatist. In the strict
sense of the word Smith college has no
sororities and has had none since It
was opened as a woman's institution
In 1876. The first class in the college
had a society called the Alpha, whi"h
is-now in existence. and not long after
ward another literary society, Phi
Kappa, was organized, avowed1y a
literary society, but containing many
of the features of a secret society.
Vassar college is fortunate or otherwise
according to the point of view, in that
it has new had any secret societies.
There are numerous clubs and orgahi-
cations, but in them there is no Gle
ment of secrecy. The classes do have
secret conclaves; there is plenty of
fFolic and funmaking and some gro
resque mummery, but none of the sort
of secrecy which has been found OBJ
jecticnable in some colleges. With the
graduation of the class of 10 Mount
Holyoke college sororities will pass out
of existence. The step, which was
bitterly fought for a time on the part
of the college alumnae, was finally
taken last year when it vas clearly
seen that the institution vas losing its
democratic spirit. Immediate suppress
sion of the sororities was sought at
the time, but a compromise was eff
fected and it was finally determined
that the sorority should cas- to exist
after June, 1913. There never have
been any great secret societies among
students at Bryn Mawr. 1t has been the
rule since the foundation of the col
lege that they should not exist and
there has never been any tendency to
break this rule.
Fargo friends VIII be interested in
the following account of the recent
marriage of Dewitt Tufts, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. D. C. Tufts formerly of this
city, which took place at North Yaki-
ma. Wash. The following details have
been received: "A pretty home we'd
ding was soIemnized on Sunday after
noon. Dec. 81, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. A. Strange, 500 Cathrine street,
when Miss Marvel Kaufman and De-
witt Tufts of North Yakima We're
united in marriage by Rev. Raymond
Rrooks pastor of the First Congrega-
tionaI church. The bride wore a
charming gown of blue messaline,
draped with white chiffon and carried
an arm bouquet of white carnations.
The ceremony was performed before
the immediate relatives and a few
friends of the young people. Follow