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A GREATER WORK Gettysburg. The first reference to a dramatic association dates from 1895, when the Philo Dramatic Club was formed. Renamed the Roister Doister Club in 1898, it welcomed members of both literary societies.188 Its successor, the Mask and Wig Society, presented its first play in June 1904.189 From the beginning of its existence, the College had recognized superior academic achievement by its system of commencement honors. Over the years a number of donors established prizes which made it possible to regard classroom achievement in additional ways. On September 4, 1897 a group of students under the leadership of William }. Gies (1893) organized a society whose purpose was to honor broader-based attainments. Five of the thirteen charter members of the Pen and Sword Society were graduates. Writing in the 1899 Spectrum, Oscar G. Klinger described the new organization as a body which is unique in our Lutheran college world and is designed to exert a masterful influence in the future. It exists for the sole purpose of promoting the interests of the college in any and every possible way. It is an attempt to bridge the chasm which has too long separated the undergraduate body from the Faculty on the one hand and the alumni on the other. To its membership any man is eligible whose loyalty to the institution is expressed in some practical work for her. The student body elected members to the Pen and Sword Society, subject to confirmation by its undergraduate members. By 1904 about one hundred persons had been so honored. College Publications Since 1877 the College has had a regular monthly or weekly publication to keep its several constituencies informed of campus happenings and of the issues before the institution for debate and resolution. The first of these publications was the Pennsylvania College Monthly. Aware that other colleges were already issuing journals, in October 1876 the faculty appointed a committee to draw up a plan for such a publication at Gettysburg. A month later they adopted the committee report and committed themselves, if at least 250 subscribers could be secured, to a publication "in which articles of value on general subjects may be published and preserved, 188In February 1898 the faculty passed a sense motion declaring that "it is proper to give dramatic entertainment in Brua Chapel." 189The organization for dramatics is a good example of a student activity with little continuity. The Roister Doister Club disappeared in 1900; later in the year a Minstrel and Dramatic Troupe was formed; in 1903 the literary societies were staging plays; and in January 1904 the Gettysburg Dramatic Club appears. 34