Excerpt from The Alpha Tau Omega Palm, 1913, Vol. 33

While the palm is the fraternity's only Official journal, it has, in recent years, refrained from publishing in detail the business transactions of the Congress. The palm circulates not only among members of Alpha Tau Omega, but also among other Greek fraternity men, and it is thought wise not to reveal in their entirety the vast routine work transacted by the various sessions of the Congress. Those of our members who desire to inform themselves more fully concerning the work of the Congress can do so by studying the official minutes of the Congress. The minutes have been printed in pamphlet form and any member of the fraternity may secure a copy by applying to the Worthy Grand Scribe, Claude T. Reno, 124 S. Sixteenth Street, Allentown, Pa., who will mail same Without cost to the members. We cannot too strongly urge upon our members the advisability of procuring and studying the volume, particularly inasmuch as this year's volume contains in addition to the usual features the reports Of the various active chapters and stenographic reports of the debates upon the floor Of Congress.

The business sessions, of which four were held, were intensely interesting. Although many momentous problems were taken up, discussed and decided, the sessions were entirely harmonious. Several questions engendered considerable debate and many eloquent speeches Were delivered in the courses Of the sessions. NO one who was present is likely to forget the great debate upon the adoption of the official badge. The debate was opened by George H. Lamar, of the High Council, whose splendid defense of the action of that body was a brilliant forensic effort. The reply of Worthy Grand Keeper of Exchequer Max S. Erdman, who, as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, argued for the rejection of the Old design, and the substitution of the new, was a masterly presentation of the subject from the college boy's.

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