THE PHI ALPHA A Quarterly Periodical Vol. XXXII EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER, 1923 No. 3 Entered as second-class matter at the post-office at Evanston, Illinois, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized December, 1921. Good News for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The Site for the Temple of Minerva is Ours. On a great national highway on the shores of Lake Michigan. Two hundred feet front on Sheridan Road in Evanston is ours in fee simple with an old family mansion for our temporary home. Imagine an old family mansion on an elevation of land which rises slightly above its surroundings, with lofty oak and elm trees, and just beyond it, a beautiful inland sea stretching away for sixty miles. Think of it as on one of the great national highways of our country along which travel passes from every section of the land. As you stand upon its porch, the wild birds of every plumage fill the green lawn and nest in the trees and yet at the same place you can see the lights reflected in the evening sky of a great metropolitan city of two million. There is such a place to be found at eighteen hundred and fifty-six, (notice the number,) Sheridan Road in Evanston, which for so many years has been the Mecca of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The possession and ownership is possible because of every member of the chapter na- tional. You who have helped the chapter national with your founders and life and annual memberships have brought to realization this proud status of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Here for the first time in the history of any college fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has purchased a national building for its high purposes, official, educational, memorial. Here later on this lovely site shall be erected that Temple which will stand like a beacon in memory of our sacred dead in the Great War, which shall contain a great library and where the work of developing and building the fraternity shall go on through the years. It is the beginning of another epoch in the history of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and these days and years will ever be remembered as the halcyon ones which preceded an era of happy fulfilment of our dreams.