Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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r1 12 ways knew that the O. S. 'U.,although a young Institution, knows as well as any how to conduct herself on great occasions. As to the decreased number of students this year, of course, that convenient 01d scape goat, h poor crops, has to take the blame, and poor crops have subsequently been reviled and vilihed clear from the Trustees down to the President. While we believe the late business depression has had some effect in diminishing our attendance7 we cannot truthfully say that in our opinion it has had everything to do with it; We refrain from expressing thus pub- licly what is no secret among all our students, yet we can hold forth the hope well founded on facts, that new forces are now at work in the management of our University, that will soon relieve her of some of the burdens lately so detrimental to her progress. L-

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L44 II cured and was in active operation, an assertion which has since been admitted to be totally false, but they proposed as their editor7 a man Who was not at the time, and Who has not since, become an initiated member of their Fraternity. The MAKIO Editors congratulate themselves that they were in no way duped by their schemes, but knew the inner workings of them all, and the persons before alluded to, may congratulate themselves that they carriedino further their attempts at manufacturing the proofs required to substantiate their statements, for the Board were hard onto the plans of the schemers, as a copy of a letter head of the Grand Lodge of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, printed in 1121's rz'ty, Will prove. The Board had requested a statement from the Grand Chapter to the effect that a charter had been granted this University, and know- ing this, it does not take long to guess what that letter head was Wanted for. Every true Greek must especially condemn such conduct, for it is not only discreditable to the persons and Fra- ternity actually concerned, but it must reflect eventually upon the entire Fraternity system, and our object in thus dealing with it, is to inform all such persons and any who may hereafter be engaged in efforts to establish a Fraternity at the O. S. U., that we, Who belong to Greek Letter Societies here, esteem ourselves too highlya and consider our organizations elevated upon too high a plane to submit to any such monkey business done in the name of a Fra- ternity. ' The members of the Beta Theta Pi now in College, also have endeavored to obtain a charter, but having failed, they and their pledged men have organized, for the purpose of keeping intact, a local Society under the name of Phi Alpha, and have announced their intention of persisting in efforts for a charter. To the claim of the Phi Alphas of being a local Fraternity, we shall hasten to ejaculate that that is all bosh. A Society Whose sole object is to obtain a charter from Beta Theta Pi, and which has in its member- ship two Betas who still retain active connections with that organization, cannot set up business at the Ohio State University and be recognized as a. Fraternity. The Inter-State Oratorical Contest and Convention held here this Spring, Was, with the exception of the general banquet im- mediately followmg, a great success. The welcome accorded the delegates and visitors by the students and friends of the Univer- sity, was most hearty, and demonstrates to everybody what we al- r1

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