Excerpt from The Sorority Handbook This brochure is sent out in the hope that it may fill a need that has been expressed by many sorority women. The present edition would have been an impossibility without hearty cooperation on the part of the sororities. Special thanks are due the grand presidents and the grand secretaries, who have spared neither time nor pains to furnish the desired information, and to the editors of the different magazines, who have generously supplied copies on request. The illustrations of the badges are "life size" and were made from photographs authorized by the grand officers or the conventions, a privilege never before accorded to anyone. The pins of Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Omicron Pi were furnished by J. F. Newman of New York, those of Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Xi Delta by Wilbur, Lanphear Company of Galesburg, Illinois, those of Chi Omega and Sigma Sigma Sigma by Wright, Kay & Company of Detroit and those of Kappa Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha by A. H. Petting of Baltimore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... STATISTICAL DATA There are in the United States 439 colleges open to women. They are of four types, the affiliated, the coeducational, the coordinate, and the independent college for women. The first and third kinds are rare, there heing only seven affiliated and four coordinate colleges. They are invariably of high grade, all but one being on the roll of Phi Beta Kappa. Both the coeducational colleges and those for women only are numerous, there being 332 of the former and 96 of the latter. Broadly speaking, the coeducational college is a standard one, but the same thing is not true of the independent college for women, for though some of this type are the equal of the best universities in the country, many are little more than seminaries, or at most do only one or two years of college work. Each year, however, there is marked improvement. The public is demanding uniformity. In the following pages each college is placed under one of the four heads already mentioned. Enrolment on the Association of the Collegiate Alumnae, the Carnegie Foundation and Phi Beta Kappa is indicated by appropriate abbreviations. Such enrolment always stamps an institution as of special excellence, but since a place on the Carnegie Foundation is granted to nonsectarian colleges only, the absence of the letter "C" in the case of denominational institutions does not indicate inferiority. Affiliated Colleges The word affiliated is used to designate such colleges for women as are under the supervision or tutelage of the administration of a college for men. The woman's college may, or may not, have an individual name, but in every case the separation is complete, i. e., the men and women do not meet in the classroom. Affiliated colleges are not numerous, but, few as...

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