. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. tigator for theUnited States Bureau of Fisheries in1908-11 and investigator in various sum-mers for the Marine Biological Labora-tory. A retired lieutenant colonel in theUnited States Army Reserve, SanitaryCorps, Dr. Lyon was a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advance-ment of Science and a member of theAmerican Physiological Society and theSociety of Experimental Biology andMedicine. In 1913-14 he was presidentof the Association of American Medicalcolleges and two years ago he served aspresident of Phi Rho Sigma interna-tional medical fraternity. Our Fra


. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. tigator for theUnited States Bureau of Fisheries in1908-11 and investigator in various sum-mers for the Marine Biological Labora-tory. A retired lieutenant colonel in theUnited States Army Reserve, SanitaryCorps, Dr. Lyon was a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advance-ment of Science and a member of theAmerican Physiological Society and theSociety of Experimental Biology andMedicine. In 1913-14 he was presidentof the Association of American Medicalcolleges and two years ago he served aspresident of Phi Rho Sigma interna-tional medical fraternity. Our Fraternity Ideals Are Neededin Solution of Todays Problems [NOTE: The following address was givenat the Congress Banquet by Dr. Harry , Ohio Beta Mu, prominent lecturerand for many years President of Alma Col-lege.] BROTHERS in Alpha Tau Omega:I have never been in Meen-e-so-tahbefore. I have been looking for theA. Y. B. Railroad—the Anderson, Yon-son and Baderson Railroad. I didntfind it, but I did find that poem nvhich. HARRY M. CROOKSA delightful speaker for any occasion probably all of you have heard so manytimes. I think it should be used tonight,because many people count Minnesotavest and this poem, Out Where theVest Begins, has particular signifi-cance for this gathering, it seems to me. Down at the place where we put the dinner,Where theres a pain in the parts called inner;Down where we ought to he inches thinner—Thats where the vest begins! Down where we hate to have some one strikeus; Down where the belt buckle loves to spike us;Down in the realm of the umbilicus—Thats where the vest begins! Down where the form grows a little fatter;Down where in youth we were somewhat lighter;Down where, in brief, there is too much matter—Thats where the vest begins! I am constrained to speak of that,gentlemen and brothers, because I havebeen interested in observing tonight themen of my generation trying to beyoung again and trying to hide the envyAvith which they rgeard


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