The Kappa Alpha Psi Journal Puhli'hed Monthly 150 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, Indian VOLUME VII JUNE, 1921 NUMBER II LIONEL F. ARTIS, Editor-in-Chief ARNOLD H. MALONEY, Associate Editor ELDER \V. DIGGS, Business Manager IRVEN ARMSTRONG, Advertising Manager
For a long time our brothers had expressed themselves as desiring some means of keeping in touch with each other and for inspiring the chapters. After many requests and only after as many promises of loyal support the last Grand Chapter authorized the publicatian of the .Journal as a monthly magazine. The many kind responses, some of which are printed elsewhere in this issue following the issue of the May number have convinced us of the value of the venture. The success which comes ensues only as a result of the hardest work and closest co-operation on the part of all of us. ('ertainly it has made the Editors' hearts glad at the splendid fratei'nal manner in which some of the chapters have responded to our every appeal. But on the other hand, we are surprised at the seeming lack of interest and general inertia on the part of some of the men. If you should meet a brother on the street and should ask him a question, would you not expect the courtesy of sonic sort of answer? Is not the same courtesy to be expected in the matter of correspondence? Repeated letters have been sent to some of the chapters and no reply of any description has been forth-coming. We have felt reluctant to omit news of these chapters but no other course lay open. Shall we not expect the whole-hearted co- operation of these brothers in making the Journal a complete success? It would facilitate matters greatly if the chapters would see that the Grand Polemarch and Grand Keeper of Records are informed of the correct list of their officers. In several cases mail must be addressed to men who have ceased to hold office, but of which change no word has been sent to the Grand Keeper of Records. Attention is directed to the ruling of the 1920 Grand Chapter that fees for each new initiate must include cost of membership certificate, membership card and plain pin. Chapters should send this money for the membership certificate and cai'cl to the Grand Keeper of Records at once. and published as his thesis, "The Spatial Con- ditions for the Fusion of Cold and Warmth into Heat." Because of his untiring efforts in the class room and his success in the laboratory, Dr. Boring, director of the laboratories at Clark Univei'sity, wrote: "Mr. Alston is a young man of rare qualities and is able to think indlependlently." After read- ing his thesis Dr. G. Stanley Hall accepted it and wrote in a personal letter to Mr.Alston, "I want to comnien (I you for your success in
Corn mencernent The period of youth is one of delightful picture-painting. Who does not recall the roseate pictures he once painted—pictures of a future in which he tilted at the world, and won! True it is that some of these pictures are cubistic, futuristic, or even Einsteinesque (requiring elucidation). And yet it is good for youth to indulge his vivid imagination. It is thus that progress and achievement are attained. At this season of the year the schools are preparing to graduate literally thousands of young men and women. Some of them, no doubt the vast majority of them, have already made conscious settlement with the multiplex possibilities of life's issues. Gallantly opti- mistic, they have ideationally hurled their javelins at the baloon and have pierced it Time will show them, as nothing else can, that they have not inaugurated or created a "new order." It matters not what line of studies one has pursued ; it matters not how brilliant one's attainments— there is infinitely more in life to he learned than one can learn in a dozen life-times. Why, it is a matter of impossibility, keen specialist though one might be, to exhaust the contents of even a sub-science. So the sane graduate will be humble nad will not proudly proclaim that graduation is the end of education, nor will he think that his diploma arms him with the key with which to unlock the sum-total of life's arcana. He will continue to apply himself diligently to further mastering the higher points of the studies which he has already started, and, re- lieved of the artificial regimen of a formal curriculum and the necessary pie-occupation which it entails, he will set about the task of his well-rounded cultural development. The embellishment of a broad culture is an asset in any field of human endeavor. In his intercourse with his fellow-men he will be liberal in his views, tolerant of the opinions of others, even when those opinions seem to him to be stupid and absurd, willing at all times to serve the community in which he lives,—sold to the principle of helpfulness. For this is the end of Education! Inauguration of the Pi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In the fall, Brother Aiston, through whose untiring efforts Epsilon was established at Lincoln in 1915 appeared at Morehouse as Professor of Philosophy and Psychology. During the academic year 191 9-20, Brother Alston was a University Scholar at Clark University, \\orcester , Mass., and worked out
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