se DOSE DOD so DO Vol. XXXI EVANSTON, ILL., DECEMBER, 1922 No. 4 TO MY BROTHER IN SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: Christmas day is almost here and it brings with it a National Convention of the fraternity. To that National Convention I must report on your response to the call of the fraternity for the Endowment Fund. For nearly two years I have endeavored to put before you, in season and out, what this means to the fraternity. To a certain extent this appeal has been heeded. Twenty-five hundred members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon have helped, but that means many less than our membership. With Sigma Alpha Epsilon the cry is not "where are the nine" but where are the nineteen. I approach you who are numbered with the nineteen once again. Nothing can convince me that your liberality is not at the disposal of the fraternity. You have simply put it off and put it off until that has become a habit. It is a bad habit, certainly a bad fraternity habit, and the approach of the Yule- tide season gives you an opportunity to make amends. Before the conven- tion meets the fraternity wants and needs five hundred subscriptions of three dollars each to this Endowment. This is not asking too much of you for S.A.E., is it? This will be the first Christmas gift you ever gave your fraternity, and if you want to make it doubly gracious, doubly useful, doubly welcome, you will start it on its way this November day. Three dol- lars for Sigma Alpha Epsilon and its development! When you were in college how you would have scoffed at anyone who told you that you would ever hesitate to answer an appeal like this. Your heart still beats with that boyish loyalty of yours, you still cherish that memory of ties that are among the closest of your life. You were ready then to dedicate everything you had to the fraternity. Now you have passed on into the world beyond the walls of your alma mater. New names are on our chapter rolls and new leaders guide the fraternity forward to its ultimate destiny. Only a few of the old workers like the one who signs below have lingered in the vine- yard of friendship as laborers. But you have come at least to a measure of that success and family happiness of which you dreamed at the chapter fire- side so long ago. How you used to think you would share it with Sigma *Alpha Epsilon! Why not send this modest gift that. will make you feel you are a "regular S.A.E.," and give the young delegates who will meet in Detroit another cause to rejoice? Sigma Alpha Epsilon wishes you a'Merry Christmas and asks you to be one of the five hundred who will give their fraternity a Merry Christmas. The bond of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a factor that enters into the joys that come to you daily and its influence will last as long as you live. It is necessary for Sigma Alpha Epsilon, if it is to carry on its work well, that you contribute to its life, as it has contributedto yours. Is there any reason in all the world why you should not? Can you not think of some reason why you should? Yours for Sigma Alpha Epsilon, C Rose Box 254, Evanston, Illinois. Eminent Supreme Recorder.