1918 November - To Dragma

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LAMBDA—LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Dear Girls:

I t is doubtless too late to greet you with a welcome back to college
for most of you have very likely been there for a good long time
already. Here, however, we have just passed the first three weeks
of opening days. Rushing has been quite as strenuous and exciting
as usual; and registering has taken its ordinary amount of time and
trouble, but these two, usually of prime importance, have dwindled
into comparative insignificance, for the moment at least, because of
the sudden arrival of a visitor of most abominable nature, Spanish
influenza by name. A t present, four of us are suffering from the
malady, and are, with forty others, quarantined in one of the frater-
nity houses here on the campus. I t was great f u n at the beginning,
but the novelty is commencing to wear off, tempers are growing very
much worse for wear, and I fear that before we are out of this, a
general insurrection will have taken place.

We have all spent a very pleasant vacation this summer, even
though it has been quite different from our ordinary happy-go-lucky
playtime period. A number of our girls stayed here for the summer
session, others worked in the fruit during the rush season when help
was scarce, and still others devoted themselves to war work of various
kinds.

Though we have been back only three weeks, we have quite a list
of visitors from amongst our older girls to tell you about. Reba
Bland, who has recently returned from New York, came down to
spend the first week with us and to help us during rushing season.
Alice Moore ran in to see us for a day some time ago. She has a
splendid position as librarian for the Standard Oil Company i n San
Francisco. Harriet Maines, who is teaching in the Salinas High
School, has been with us f o r the past week and has added much joy
td our family round table. Irene Cuneo, another who is busy with
school work, found time to spend one day with us during the first week
after our return. Helen Montague Collins and her husband have
also been with us for a very short visit.

Now I must tell you the thrilling news of rushing season. We
have six of the very finest pledges ever to be found, and I assure you
that we are most intensely proud of them. Elaine Adrian comes to
us from Santa Barbara. Laura Davis from Santa Ana, Gladys French
from Hollister, Florence Hocking from Modesto, Ruth Meissner
from Lodi, and Belle Summers from Long Beach.

We are all very justly proud of our house president, Ruth Chandler,
who is this year occupying the most distinguished position held by
any woman in college, that is the presidency of Woman's Conference

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which is the supreme woman's governing body in the university. But
Ruth is not the only distinguished member of the house; for Mar-
guerite Roberts i n now Advertising Manager of the Daily Palo Alto
and is just about the busiest young person to be found. Caroline
Rockfort also is doing a great deal outside of ordinary routine duty
for she has charge of all the finances of the Woman's War Board
which is the primary organization under which all war work is carried
on.

A l l efforts of the university are this year concentrated upon war
work so that to attempt to tell it would mean an enormous task.
Therefore, may it suffice to say that our chapter is doing its utmost
to help on with this one great and foremost work of the nation.

Wishing you all a very delightful and worthwhile year,

CARMALETE WALDO, Chapter Editor.

IOTA—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Urbana and "712" again! My how good it seemed to get back
to school and old friends after three months of vacation! But also—
how sad it made me feel that I was no longer a romantic junior but
a dignified senior, soon to "go out from school life into life's school"
and to help others in securing that which I was so fortunate to have.

Most of us got back on Wednesday, September 25th, and house-
cleaning started in earnest on Thursday. Such washing of windows
and making of curtains and draperies had never been surpassed—all
in preparation for the thing uppermost in all our minds—rushing.
However, before Monday, September 29th we were informed that
because of the unsettled conditions, rushing was to be postponed
indefinitely, which chanced to be one week. Hence, on next Monday
our two weeks' rushing begins. We have a very promising list of
"prospectives" and we hope to be able to announce a proportionally
promising list of pledges before To DRAGMA next makes its appear-
ance.

We were all so glad that our charming chaperon, Mrs. Van Deman,
was able to be with us again and with twenty-four girls back we feel
quite encouraged. Muriel Thompson, '19, and Ora Williams, '21, did
not return. Muriel is at St. Luke's Hospital taking nurse's training
with the object of becoming a Red Cross nurse. Ora is helping to
"keep the home fires burning." However, Mabel May from Rho
Chapter joined our ranks, entering as a sophomore. We were cer-
tainly glad to welcome her as one of Iota's very own.

Upon our return we found things quite changed in many respects;
but it is as may be expected because of war conditions. The Univer-
sity of Illinois, like many other universities has an S. A. T . C. camp.

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The camp, together with the aviation ground school forms an extensive
army camp. The greatest problem was the housing and feeding of
these S. A. T . C. men; but everybody responded nobly when the
call came f o r workers and things are beginning to be more settled
by now. Most of the fraternity houses have been taken as barracks
and the traditional "fraternity row" is no more.

There is much opportunity for war work; and I am certain when
the call comes, Alpha O will be found near the front ranks. Red
Cross and similar relief work, as well as providing the proper enter-
tainment for these men at the camp will require many helpers. Our
local Y. M . C. A. has now been changed to a branch of the war
Y. M . C. A. with two war secretaries as well as a general secretary.
We are to have a Y. M . C. A. hut and all. The Y. W. C. A. is to
serve as a hostess house i n case any is needed.

There isn't much that I can write since school opened two weeks
late; and we have really just begun. Iota wishes each chapter much
success in any undertaking of the immediate future. These are
trying times—times in which we must strive harder than ever to
overcome the difficulties in our path and in which we must keep more
firmly than ever the words of our beautiful motto.

H E L E N M . BRAUNS, Chapter Editor.

TAU—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

As I am writing under dire threats from Mary Chase, I fear that
this letter will never live to see the printed page. I n some uncanny
way, she has an inkling of the fact that I am going to mention her
name too many times to permit her, with any modesty, to print it.
Despite her anger, I shall write. Selah! Since all the rest of you
chapters are deprived of Mary Chase that we may have her as our
chaperone, the least I can do is to give you a slight idea of her
abounding personality and dynamic forcefulness. I dare not say too
much, as Mary is a most unbending autocrat. Mary's intense love
of life is analogous to the jeweled ring of the great god Odin, which
every morning let f a l l ten other rings of priceless value. She creates
a terrific amount of vital energy from long tramps, heated discussions,
or even from instructing stupid freshmen in her rhetoric class. Every
time she comes into the room vibrating with life, she transmits by
some magic power a certain amount of her energy and enthusiasm
to every one about her. This small appreciation is an attempt to
show you why Tau has risen so rapidly at Minnesota.

True to our nomadic reputation, we have again moved; and though
not to the house of our last year's dreams, we are very happy with'
our choice. Our house is a stucco house, most imposing without, being.

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tall of structure and brown of shade. A winding brick walk leads up
to our side entrance i n the style of an old English tavern. And the
knocker came from Stratford-on-Avon 1 Over the entrance is Mary's
sleeping porch with its myriad casement windows. Our Dutch
dining-room is adorable; but best of all, we have a cook for whom
we give devout thanks three times a day.

Since college has barely started, and activities not at all I must
relegate my conversation to the happenings within our own four walls.
I cannot even talk of rushing parties and freshman rushees; for we
are to do no rushing at Minnesota until second quarter. We have
two nice little sisters living at the house, however, Frances and
Musetta Graham of Rochester, Minnesota. There are twelve girls
and a chaperone this year. We are especially proud of our two trans-
fers from Alpha Phi: Mary Danielson and Helen Rose. They are
both freshman medics, who regale us every evening with tales of
their cadaverous experiences.

The times that we love most of all are the evenings around the fire
after study hours, when Mary reads to us her stories in manuscript;
or we hold rapid-fire discussions upon questions of world import.
With Rhoda in the house, it could not be otherwise. She veritably
thrives upon argument. Mary Chase, the iconoclast, says,

" I t makes me laugh to see the way this sorority tries to solve the
problems of the Universe!"

We have entertained several lovely people this year; among whom
was Dr. Amy Hewes, head of the economics department of Mount
Holyoke. She was traveling through Minneapolis with our own Anne
Yates, who has stopped working for her Doctor's degree to inspect
factories in the Ordnance Department.

I hope that my next letter w i l l contain more of college news and
less of personal affairs. The year bids fair to be the most promising
of all years for Tau. May the gods smile as unstintingly upon the
rest of you!

L I L A K L I N E , Chapter Editor.

(EDITOR'S N O T E : Influenza conditions dictate lines of least resistance.)

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Dear Alpha O's:
After a delightful vacation of four months, all of the Chi girls

gathered once more at our new chapter-house on September 25th,
ready f o r work or* play.

Did I say "all" ? Indeed, we seemed far from complete without our
nineteen-eighteen girls who have made such a large place all of their
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girls, a sophomore and a senior, who did not return to college this
year.

For a week we were busy and rushing started out splendidly. We
had a lew very successful parties and pledged four of the finest girls
ever. And then the epidemic overtook us!

We had an improvised infirmary all of our own and everything was
complete even to a goodly number of patients. Telegrams and long
distance calls began to come in from distracted parents and soon there
were l e f t at the chapter-house only a half dozen sick girls and a few
volunteer nurses.

I wonder how many chapters can tell a similar tale? And I hope
that all have as happy an ending as ours, for all of our girls are
now recovering.

A t present, classes at Syracuse are suspended, most of the girls
have gone to their homes and only the S. A. T. C. men are left on the
H i l l under quarantine. However, we are all hoping to go back soon
and take up things where they were dropped so suddenly, or else
begin all over, whichever the case may be.

Fraternally,

INA M . MILLER.

UPSILON—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

We have just finished a most hectic rushing season, yes "hectic"
is the only word for it. School opened on October 2nd, and we had
our plans all made for the two weeks' rush. Owing to war conditions,
we entertained with evening parties from seven to nine, this year,
instead of the usual dinner parties. We had six very nice parties the
first week in spite of the "sans food" rule, and rushing was at its
height with great hopes for the success of the second week's rush.
But alas! Our hopes were shattered, and all the clever ideas we had
thought up to make our parties different were in vain. The Seattle
Health Department found that the Spanish influenza had become so
serious that it was necessary to close all schools, churches, and
theaters, and of course the university was closed also. The powers
that be cooperating with the health department put a ban on all social
gatherings, which included rushing parties.

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but nothing could
be done except to make the best of conditions, call up our rushees
and tell them that our parties were not to be. C'est la guerre! After
a day of committee meetings, Panhellenic conferences, and much
heated discussion it was decided to send out bids at once. Considering
the conditions and the fact that some of our nicest rushees are out
of town, having gone home for the duration of the quarantine, we-

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think we have fared very well in pledging eight fine girls, and we
are not through yet.

Our campus is much changed these days. This is the only univer-
sity other than Yale where all three military branches, the Army,
the Navy, and the Marines, are in training. Barracks have sprung
up like mushrooms over night, the campus dormitories have been com-
mandeered as headquarters, and the larger fraternity houses are being
used as women's dormitories. Although the beauty of our campus is
somewhat marred, still we feel very proud to be a part of the
Annapolis of the West.

When we returned this f a l l we were greeted by a pleasant surprise.
Our dear old colonial house, which had really grown quite shabby,
had been completely renovated. We almost feel that we have a new
house.

We are very proud to report that Alpha Omicron Pi leads in
scholarship on the campus, and we were very glad to hear that Up-
silon Chapter got the highest average in the sorority examinations.
We are hoping to do even better this year.

H A Z E L BRITTON, Chapter Editor.

NU KAPPA—SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Dear Alpha O's:
I f the war has had any appreciable effect on S. M . U . , it has been

that of a stimulus, for the campus is the scene of added activity this
year, due to the construction of the $25,000 gymnasium, to which
Nu Kappa gave $50, and to the erection of barracks for the S. A.
T. C , which has attracted an unusual number of men. The enroll-
ment of girls will exceed past records, too.

According to government regulation, the university opened officially
October 1st, matriculation having begun September 27th. To reduce
to a minimum the expense of rushing, no big parties were given and
the work was done individually—if you knew our seven pledges, three
of whom are "little sisters," you would all agree to what degree our
efforts were crowned with success. With Jewel Hammons as presi-
dent, N u Kappa could not fail to have a truly successful year.

The Dallas girls have most cordially opened their homes to men
in service at Camp Dick and Love Field, and many from all parts of
the Union have enjoyed their hospitality. We are always glad to
hear of our sister chapters from those who attended the colleges and
universities in which others are installed; we feel more and more the
"nationalness" of our fraternity.

During the summer, several of the girls took part in a pageant
presented by the Publicity Department of the Woman's National

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Council of Defense; it was considered a great success. Now, i n
addition to the many other phases of war work they are supporting,
Nu Kappas (active and alumnae) are enthusiastic members of the
War Camp Community Service.

Individually, those out of school are trying to do a wee bit toward
their share i n the great work to be accomplished. Annie Kate Gilbert
and Margaret Vaughan are successfully filling their places in the
Y. W. C. A . ; Louise Zeek is teaching French to classes of nurses at
Camp Travis, where her husband is in service; Margaret Bentley
(Mrs. W. P.) is temporarily filling a vacancy in her husband's office—
in addition to her countless other duties; Martha Smith is not in
school this winter, but will devote her time to the Red Cross,
W. C. C. S., and other patriotic work—making pleasant the pastime of
friends in training; Nelle Graham is preparing to do clerical work;
and Louise Pendleton finds it most engaging to be her father's
secretary.

When within a year a second Alpha O married a member of the
faculty, N u Kappa began to feel a kind of superiority for—"the rays
of their glory empurple their suite." Lucinda Smith and Mr. J. B.
Hubbell (of the English Department) were married June 1st; since
her husband is in the training camp at Louisville, Ky., Lucinda is
teaching in a school preparatory for Wellesley.

That this be a year both happy and successful, is N u Kappa's wish
for each of the sister chapters.

ETTA LOUISE PENDLETON,

For the chapter.

BETA PHI—UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA

Dear Sisters in Alpha 0micron Pi:
Once again I am to have the pleasure of writing to you in the name

of Beta Phi. Beta Phi sends greetings to all of you. We had just
gotten started nicely in our school work when influenza appeared in
our midst. A l l the grade schools and high school as well as churches
and movies were closed. Of course we expected to be dismissed
daily; but, alas, the faculty said "No." Then, all unexpectedly,
after ten o'clock classes yesterday, we were told there would be no
more classes until October 20th. We were permitted to go home so
the Alpha O House at Indiana University is alone now. The most of
us have very sore left arms where we took the vaccine as a pre-
caution against the influenza.

Only thirteen of us returned this year. We have almost more girls
in Washington than we have here. One of our girls wrote us from
Washington that there are nineteen Alpha O girls in the city and
that they were applying for an alumnae chapter.

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After school had been delayed a week, we were again at our dear
old house September 19th. We were so very glad to welcome each
other back again.

We spent the remainder of that week in preparation for rushing.
And such a time as we had getting help to clean the house! Rushing
started at four o'clock Sunday afternoon. We had a most enjoyable
rushing season and very lovely girls to entertain. We feel that we
chose the very nicest of these. Our pledges are Helen Armstrong,
Myrtle Dixon, Mabel Heitman, Mildred Menefee, Lillian Nesbitt,
Louise Rogers, and Susan Smith.

I must not forget to tell you of two other pledges we have. One
is a huge grey cat, the other is a little white and brown fox terrier.
The cat, Tom by name, is really the property of our chaperone, Mrs.
Rogers, although we claim him. The little dog, which we call
General Pershing was a g i f t to Beta Phi from a fraternity here.
General is very proud of his collar and big red bow; we are extremely
proud of him. We regret to report that General and Tom seem to
have a great dislike for each other.

We feel that we have had quite our share of trouble over a cook.
Our cook departed one morning, although luckily, she had already
prepared breakfast. We have all taken our turns at burning our
fingers and the meat. After tramping miles and after running into
influenza in several homes we at last engaged a nice comfortable, fat
negro mammy. But one of the girls, not knowing we had engaged
a cook, succeeded in engaging another. Fortunately an end came to
our troubles when vacation was declared. We have decided that our
favorite song shall be Pack up your Troubles in your Old Kit Bag.

Indiana University has a new Dean of Women this year. Miss
Wells came to us from Michigan University. We like her very much.

Also we have a new chaperone. We have grown to respect and love
Mrs. Rogers very much in the time she has been with us.

Of course i n every university there is an S. A. T . C. so, of course,
we have one too. There are many more men than women now at
Indiana University. Every place you look you see men marching,
marching. Very early in the morning, we can hear the tramp, tramp
through the mist.

A l l the fraternity houses have been converted into barracks. The
fraternities were forced to move all their furniture out to make room
for cots. Every room is filled with cots except those which are to be
used at "mess hall." Some of the fraternities stored their furniture,
but most of them rented annexes. The boys who are not in S. A.
T. C. stay in these annexes. The sororities have helped both them-
selves and the boys by taking some of the furniture to keep for the
fraternities.

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Our date rules have not been changed. I n fact, it seems rather
unnecessary when the men who are in barracks can get out only on
Saturday night.

We are all very happy to be back together again; and I know
every A O I I is glad to see her sisters again. Beta Phi sends to all
of you her love and best wishes for a happy school year.

MILDRED BEGEMAN,

Chapter Editor.

ETA—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

The opening of the school year has made the war a stern reality to
us. The military atmosphere prevails on the campus, and the patri-
otic interests are so predominant that we feel more keenly the responsi-
bility of making the most of our opportunities while here. The
enrollment in the S. A. T . C. at Wisconsin is 3,000. I n addition,
there are 1,500 limited service men and naval reserves. Chadbourne,
Barnard, and Lathrop Halls, the girls' dormitories, and the men's
gymnasium have been converted into barracks for the student soldiers.
The officers occupy the Deke House.

Wisconsin has used formal bidding for the first time this year.
Panhellenic allowed us only one function daily for four days; then
bids from the various sororities were sent to the Dean of Women.
Each rushee also sent preference slips expressing her three choices. A
third party mailed the acceptances to the sorority. We found the
new system to be very satisfactory although more strenuous in that
we had no opportunity to speak personally with a girl.

We are delighted to have seven new pledges. Elizabeth Babcock
comes to us from Dana H a l l ; and we are going to watch her climb
to the top in school activities. We are happy to claim Hortense
Bassett, for she gives promise of being equally as strong as her sister,
Dorothy. Agnes Gilbertson sets things moving when her fingers
drop on the piano keys. Hermance Teschner is entering in her junior
year. She is from Milwaukee Normal, where she made a record in
her academic work. Marion Roth spent her first two years at Prin-
cipia and is a wonderfully strong girl. Jennie Martin, from M i l -
waukee Downer, is a girl filled with enthusiasm for all school activi-
ties. Mary Urschel delights us with her interpretive dancing. She
has shown her patriotic spirit by dancing in the camps and for the
Red Cross.

Eta considers herself very fortunate to have these fine pledges. We
are expecting great things from them. The absence of men in the
university has made innumerable offices and prominent positions open
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welcome Mrs. Leo R. Tehon, from Iota. She is a member of the
faculty in the classics department.

There are sixteen girls living in the house. Our social functions
for the coming year will be very few, for we are in the army now.
Our first informal dance is to be given for our pledges on November
2nd.

Eta sends best wishes for a happy and prosperous year.

IRENE FOLCKEMER,

Chapter Editor.

ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Dear Alpha O Sisters:
Doesn't it seem good to be with one another once more, and to be

hurrying off to eight o'clocks not very long after the sun has risen
above the horizon? I n many ways, autumn is the saddest time of
year, because everything is dying and the chill of winter can be felt
in every little breeze. But for us Alpha O's, it can not fail to be a
time of joy instead of melancholy, a time of happy meetings and of
renewed and closer fellowship with one another.

There is for all of us just one thing that dims our gladness and
that is the absence of our last year's seniors and of the others of our
chapters who may not be with us this year. But with what interest
we do follow their careers! And how delighted we are to hear of
their work! They are still our sisters whether near or far away
and so they are still close to our hearts and our thoughts.

Of course, right now Alpha Phi, as well as the rest of you, is in the
excitement of the rushing season. So far we have had only one real
party, but it was a great success owing to the novelty of it. We called
our party " A n Evening in Bohemia." A l l of us dressed in strange
costumes such as might be found in the artists' quarter of a large
city. Two of the girls represented children, another was an old
apple vender, some wore evening dresses, others smocks, Grecian
costume, riding habits, gipsy costume, and one of the girls made a
strange looking Chinaman with a lovely, long, shoestring queue.

The party was at our A O I I house, and the dining-room had been
transformed into a miniature cabaret, where apple cider "wine" was
served while Mary Curl danced, and "ukes" were played, or other
girls sang. Our north parlor made an attractive artist's studio, while
the living-room was strewn with comfortable cushions, which we all
enjoyed lots more than chairs. About nine-thirty, we began to dance,
while the gipsy told fortunes for our guests and every girl there
seemed to have spent a pleasant evening. We enjoyed it ever so
much ourselves.

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The two locals here and Alpha O have agreed upon some rushing
rules, and no fraternity is to have more than three real parties. We
are planning a picnic up one of the canyons here for our second party.
For our last big party, we plan a Halloween dance; and expect to
have some of the boys in the latter part of the evening. Meanwhile
individual rushing is unlimited; and we are finding some splendid
girls among the freshman class.

Our college president has asked us to be especially considerate of
the S. A . T . C. boys now training here. He asked the various frater-
nities to have a few of these rather lonely young men in to dinner
sometimes. Alpha O is the first to comply with his request; and we
are entertaining twelve boys at supper Sunday.

Did all you sisters know we have a house this year? We are very
happy i n it, and wish all of you might visit us there. I t is a big,
homey, dark-green house right on a corner and surrounded by huge
cottonwood trees and smaller lilac bushes, apple trees, and Canadian
poplars. The house and lawn occupy two-thirds of the west half
of a block so we are looking forward to some lawn parties in the
spring. There are four large rooms downstairs and five bedrooms
on the upper story. Our "rose bedroom" is especially attractive with
its twin beds and cheery, dainty cretonne curtains, spreads, chairs,
and scarfs. We have the nicest housemother you can imagine—
cheerful, kind, and delightfully "mothery."

Alpha O is gaining honors here, too, for Doris Ingram was chosen
by our dean of home economics to do some substitute teaching in the
high school at Lewistown for three weeks. And, next week, Lynnie
Chattin starts out to do some food demonstrating work in the state.
Besides that our president, Azalea Linfield, is to be initiated into the
honorary home economics fraternity—Phi Upsilon Omicron.

College has not been in progress long enough for us to have any
definite war work planned, but we are continuing our knitting and
waiting for some other Red Cross work. Then, we are especially
careful to observe all the food administration rules both as a frater-
nity and as individuals. So, of course, we have no refreshments at
our parties in order to comply with the government's request of "no
fourth meals."

And now, once more, isn't it good to see one another again? We
of Alpha Phi wish we might meet in person all our other sisters, but
since that can not be we take real pleasure in visiting with you through
the pages of To DRAGMA. May this school year be f u l l of inspiration
and true fraternal spirit for every one of us.

Fraternally,

MINNIE-ELLEN MARQUIS,

Chapter Editor.

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NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Hello, everybody! I wish I might come around and shake hands
with you all but since I can't I ' l l tell you about it. It's the best
feeling in the world to be talking to you all again and to know that
at the same time you're reading this, I ' l l be reading messages from
you. I didn't even know I was to have the privilege of writing f o r
the chapter this time; but the little chapter editor called and asked
me to please write it for her just this once. Since she is an out-of-
town girl, she didn't know about the "before-school" rushing party;
and that was the principal thing to tell this time. As I knew how
the prospects of the first letter scared her ( i t used to scare me last
year), I consented this time.

First of all, back in July, the second of our girls married. She was
Mary Harrell, who, at a beautiful little home wedding was married
to Lt. Walter Rogers. They have been at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, for
the past three months and we had a most interesting letter about her
meeting two A O ITs out there. We are looking for her back soon
as Lieutenant Rogers expects to sail in a short time.

Then, in September came the one summer rushing party we're
allowed. I t was a progressive house party, something like the one we
had last year. I t began with a little matinee party after which we
all had dinner down town at the Y. W. C. A . They spent the night
with us, had late breakfast with another of the girls, and still another
gave them all a bridge luncheon. Then it all ended that night with
a big picnic supper and bonfire about ten miles from town. The
rushees seemed to have a real good time and I think every one
enjoyed it.

On October 1st school opened with five active members back, a
"peach" of a transfer from Alpha Phi in Montana, and several
interested and working alumnae near by. The influenza epidemic has
greatly interfered with classes but school continued; and conditions
are much better now. We are right in the midst of rushing season.
Of course, it's always a rather hard pull f o r a new fraternity; but
we're doing our best and we can only wonder what results "spiking
day" will bring. We'll tell you about that next time.

We liked being the baby of the fraternity for almost a year; but
we gladly gave up the honor of that place to welcome, first, Psi, way
up there i n Pennsylvania, and then Phi, in Kansas. We hope before
long there'll be another Southern chapter to swell the roll.

KATRINA OVERALL.

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PSI—UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Dear A O II Sisters:
Our first letter to To DPAGMA ! I t hardly seems possible that this

is the first time you are hearing from us. Although we have only
been sisters since A p r i l 13th, 1918—a day that will never be forgotten
by a certain group of eighteen—we feel we have always been A O H's.
We have so much to tell you that it is next to impossible to say it all
in one letter.

This year bids to be the most important in the history of the Uni-
versity and, undoubtedly, is the most important in our own chapter
history. Last spring, we expected that the winter of 1918 would
see Pennsylvania devoid of men and ruled by coeds. But we were
greatly mistaken for the university has been taken over by the United
States government and is now crowded with S. A. T . C. and Naval
Unit men. The men all live on the campus in the dormitories or the
fraternity houses. Every school under the university has been obliged
to adapt its curriculum to the rules and regulations of the army and
navy men. The usual two-term course has been changed into quar-
ters to coincide with the three month S. A. T . C. course. Another
change which we do not find so enjoyable is eight o'clock classes. The
majority of the girls at Pennsylvania live at home; and since they
must depend on trains and trolley cars, we find this rule quite hard.
But on the whole, we enjoy our military life thoroughly. Our opening
services were held in strictest military fashion with drilling, speeches,
and flag raising. The following Thursday, we had Induction when
all the five thousand odd men were sworn into government service.
We have a flag raising every Friday when the entire student body
gathers on the campus. Thus you can understand what a military
life even the girls at Pennsylvania lead.

Psi Chapter is doing its best in war activities. Eleanor, Alice C ,
and LaRue are on the coed Liberty Loan committee which is holding
its big drive at the University. Alice Lipp was a farmerette this
summer and is now proudly sporting the green badge of the Woman's
Land Army Unit. We are all industriously knitting for the Univer-
sity Unit in France. We are soon to have an opportunity to do can-
teen work for the girls are to be called on to help in entertainments
given for the men. Our chapter was the first to offer its assistance.

Our college work is not f u l l y started. We have been greatly
hindered by the influenza epidemic. Although Pennsylvania has not
been closed like all other schools in Philadelphia, nevertheless we are
prevented from gathering in groups. As a result none of the various
clubs have held their first meetings. The Panhellenic meeting as well
as the annual freshman reception has been postponed. Since the time

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of the men is all for this year it is up to the girls to keep up the settle-
ment work. We have all entered heartily into the plans and expect
to enjoy many happy hours among the kiddies. This work is included
under the Y. W. C. A. Besides this organization we have an Under-
graduate Association which meets once a month to manage coeduca-
tional affairs. Class elections were held last spring. Sylvia, the
former treasurer of the sophomore class, is now vice-president of the
junior; and LaRue, former president of the freshman class is now
treasurer of the sophomore.

A new chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha has been recently installed here.
They previously were the Alpha Delta Theta local group.

We have just finished painting and fixing our "room." We highly
recommend Alice L . as an efficient painteresse even though she did
paint herself as well as the furniture. We are sorry we do not possess
a house as many of you do but yet no woman's fraternity at Pennsyl-
vania owns one, so we do not feel out in the cold. We have given
our first informal tea which starts our rushing season. Ordinarily the
rushing season extends until the close of the first term which was in
February but we are hoping it will be shortened this year to suit the
three term courses. There are many nice freshmen; and we expect
an exciting and successful rushing season.

Two of our girls, Helen and Ruth Leaf, have chosen the business
world in preference to college life. But as yet we have not taken
their names from the active chapter roll because the times are uncer-
tain and woman's mind so changeable. Maybe Ruth has a reason,
however, for in August she announced her engagement to Lincoln
Hall.

Psi Chapter extends a warm welcome to any sisters who may be
visiting in Philadelphia. We will also be glad and pleased to wel-
come any brothers of our A O II sisters, who may be in S. A. T . C.
or the Naval Unit. Please let us know.

We wisli you all the most successful of years.

MARGARET ROBINSON,

Chapter Editor.

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PHI—UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Dear Girls:

So much has happened since we became Phi Chapter of Alpha
Omicron Pi last spring that I hardly know how or where to begin.

To start with, school began a month later this f a l l on account of
the 2,500 S. A. T. C. men in training here. Most of the girls came a
week early to help fix up the house. We are living two squares off
the campus, in the house that tTie Sig. Alphs. vacated when they built

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their new one. I t is a splendid location, and we are well pleased
with the house.

Rush week was conducted on strictly patriotic and "Hooveristic"
plans, as the Woman's Panhellenic ruled that no decorations be used
and no food be served except at the Exclusive. We were allowed to
use wild or garden flowers and to serve cold drinks, however. We
managed to get along though and on bid day we pledged three girls
who will do justice to Alpha O anywhere, anytime. There is Clarice
Gardner tall and stately: black hair and dark eyes. She is an enthu-
siastic worker with unlimited energy and tact. Bernice Kuhn, small
and active, a "whizz-bang" on the piano and uke, delightfully original
and entertaining, and Neva Brown, a charming little girl with big
brown eyes, brown curls, and a wonderfully rich contralto voice.
There were others whom we considered but we wanted to be very
careful the first few years of our existence on the hill, taking only the
very best, who would be sure to reflect nothing but credit on our
fraternity. Friends of ours among the Pi Phis, Kappas, and Thetas
have remarked to us and to others that in their estimation we were
doing the right thing and that we had won the approval of the
campus by our conservative method. We believe that during the
school year we will undoubtedly meet other girls who were made for
us.

On the eleventh of this month, we had the pleasure of a short visit
from Mrs. Irene Henderson Moore of Rho Chapter. Those of us
who met her were in love with her at first sight, and our deepest
regret is that all but a very few of the girls had left for home a few
hours before she arrived. The influenza epidemic grew so critical
that school was closed for over a week; and naturally, everybody made
a dash for home. But we are looking for another visit from Mrs.
Moore because she does not live far from Lawrence.

We received our charter this week; and it is to be framed and
exhibited at our earliest opportunity.

A l l of us are eager to read the chapter letters in T o DRAGMA to
learn what success the summer and fall have brought our sisters.

Fraternally yours,

HAZEL CORINNE ERNST,

Chapter Editor.

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS

The Editor is sorry to announce that the editors of
Boston and Lincoln Alumna? sent their letters too late
for this number, and that no letter whatever was received
from Providence Alumna. These chapters are asked
to investigate the matter.

NEW YORK ALUMNiE
I t must be confessed that as a chapter, we have lead a somewhat
Bohemian existence this last summer. During the college year, N u
graciously extends the hospitality of her delightful chapter-room,
atop the New York University Law School. A t other times, we some-
times find ourselves in strange places—but nevertheless we hold our
meetings with great regularity—for are we not engaged in the gainful
occupation about which we hear so much these days—and consequently
"held in a town that—sometimes waxes warm. So, one time it was
"The Village Store," and again a "Chop Suey" that sheltered us.
On still another occasion we dined at a famous rendezvous of artists.
We initiated Zolan Kidwell of Phi (not on the sanded floor of a
French restaurant, however)—and later we essayed a picnic on the
Palisades in honor of some of our sisters from neighboring chapters,
Among our guests this summer have been—Jane Rextrow Maulsby,
Delta; Lucy Somerville, Kappa; Augusta Stacy, Kappa; Katherine
Lyon Mix, Epsilon; Loverne Dolbeer, Rho; Hilda Gleaves, Kappa;
Annie Kate Gilbert, Kappa.
We have been glad indeed to welcome the'Alpha O's who have come
here on one mission or another. We are happy to say that some are
planning to remain. Now we hear interesting bits of talk about
"The Gas Defense Plant," "The Aeroplane Service," etc.
As a chapter we have not engaged in any war work other than that
of taking under our wing a little six year old maid of France, but
individually our members are doing yeoman service as canteen
workers, Red Cross workers, Liberty Loan workers, ambulance
drivers, and workers in all the other manifold activities that pertain
to the winning of the war.
With best wishes to you all.

EVA ALLA MARTY.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNiE
I n spite of summer vacation and college not opening until October,
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number from nine to thirty, gathered together for Red Cross work,
gossip, and A O ITs interest. Some of us have journeyed far, some of
us have just stayed at home, but all of us in one way or another have
tried to give visible evidence of the fact that we as college women, as
privileged members of a fraternity whose very corner stone is playing
such a large part in America's attitude toward the war, have a keen
sense of our privileges and responsibilities.

A t our A p r i l meeting, discovering that our supply of gauze was
exhausted, we decided to become an auxiliary chapter of the Red
Cross with the object of knitting for the soldiers. We have found
this to be the most satisfactory kind of work as we could take it home
to do as well as keeping our fingers flying while we conducted our
business, or exchanged news of brothers and husbands at "the front,"
ways of preserving fruit or using substitutes, or the baby's newest
stunt.

And right now I must tell you of the party to which some of us
went in response to a call from Panhellenic. Every Sunday after-
noon, Charles Keeler, a local poet, opens his beautiful home in Clare-
mont for the entertainment of one hundred and fifty enlisted men.
For one Sunday in August, Panhellenic was asked to send a corre-
sponding number of girls. Alpha O was well represented by a dozen
or more and those who did not go were sorry when they heard of the
games played, the basket suppers shared, and the friends made.

We were able to make quite a donation to the Red Cross from the
proceeds of a raffle which you might like to hear about. Pearl
Pierce's mother made a most beautiful filet centerpiece, which was the
envy of all the beholders. We sold tickets for it—two for twenty-
five cents (with two chances you would surely have the lucky number),
and each girl took ten tickets to dispose of. The drawing is to be at
the October meeting and we are all very anxious to know whether we
will be the fortunate one.

Our meetings since the last letter have been hither and thither—
at the chapter-house, where Margaret Dudley and Kate Foster were
hostesses and we had the best war cookies you ever tasted; at Marion
Strong's, who has two of the sweetest babies one could want; at Mrs.
Chapman's; at Rose Marx's; and in San Francisco at Ruth Carson's.
We were especially glad to receive the summons for a meeting at
Rose's; for not long ago, she tripped down the stairs with the baby
in her arms—tripped, not lightly, but most thoroughly—and in saving
the baby from a bump, broke her own shoulder blade. But when we
arrived, she proudly exhibited her skill at doing things with one hand,
even to picking up the small daughter, and is now well on toward
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installed. They are president, Rose Marx; vice-president, Mrs.
Chapman; treasurer, Dorothy Clarke; secretary, Ruth Carson; Pan-
hellenic delegate, Ruth Langelier.

During our summer meetings, we had quite an addition to our
numbers when Lillian Rice from San Diego and Margaret Hurley
from Phoenix, Arizona, were here taking courses at Summer School.
Lillian and Grace Weeks worked might and main at naval architecture
and hope to soon have an Alpha O in the service at the navy yard at
Mare Island.

We greatly miss Rose von Schmidt Bell and Gladys Britton. Rose
moved to Washington, D. C , to join her husband who is doing govern-
ment work. We are all interested to know i f Rose finds living there
as complicated as traveling with an infant. The trip was accom-
plished with the aid of a refrigerator in the compartment and bottles
by the gross. Glad is travelling in the Orient with her husband,
while from Georgia Meredith Oliver come tales of Africa that make
us anxious to start for there tomorrow. The gap in our ranks was
partially filled by the return of Emma Black Kew from Washington.
We are so glad that her husband's geology field is in California so
we can have her six months of the time.

Greetings to you all,

R U T H CARSON,

Secretary.

LOS ANGELES ALUMN-ffi

Dear Alpha O's, One and All:
Another school year for the actives, another school year for us

Pedagogues who are alumna;, another year for all of us! Our first
meeting occurred today. Although the influenza has closed every-
thing i n Los Angeles, we decided to have a little gathering at the
home of our new president, Florence Alvarez. I t was a small meet-
ing but a very happy reunion after the summer.

A l l during the month of September the members have been read-
justing themselves into the various phases of war work, becoming
integral parts of new positions undertaken, and between times knit-
ting, tending babies, and thinking of the brothers, husbands, and
other people's brothers "Over There."

Surely no meeting would be complete without a discussion of the
war. Somehow these days, we are drawing closer to each other.
Indeed we are trying to become more democratic in our viewpoint.
We were wondering away out here in the West i f some vital work
could not be done around each camp for the convalescent soldier.
We were particularly convinced of this great need because of Flor-

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ence's story of her brother's illness with influenza in Camp Greenleaf,
and the impossible food which was given him when he began to
recover. We wondered i f we could not create a desire among Alpha
O's to see what we could do in this regard. I t is human and a neces-
sity. We are also anxious to know of the boys from the East, Middle
West, or North who are near us in the West—that we may entertain
them. W i l l you not send their names and addresses? I t would
please us to show them a sisterly spirit; and what is better than a
good meal with a home flavor!

Are you not jealous of us? What for, do I hear you say? The
greatest of reasons on earth—we have Mrs. Perry, yes, Mrs. Stella
Stern Perry—with us for the winter. Hurrah! Her loving gentle
ways and active mind will be a joy to us.

We are also overjoyed to have Mrs. Southerland with us again.
She has given to the world a little Alpha O since we last saw her.
This little Alpha O's father is the School Psychologist in Los Angeles,
and many are the interesting experiments that this child has under-
gone. We know she will be interesting and long to see her.

We have a number of new members. As Virginia Moore, '12, of
Lambda is engaged in Y. W. C. A. work in Los Angeles this year,
we will have the pleasure of seeing her merry face very often. We
have heard very fine compliments about her work with girls i n Indian-
apolis where she has been for the past two years.

Please, dear people, cannot we boast this ambulance idea and have
all the money by Christmas. We can do it i f every one does her bit.
Are you tired of hearing that? Still the soldier in the trench is
still there. My brother is there—rain soaked and muddy helping to
hold the line with machine guns all around. Is your brother there?
He may need that ambulance! Let us do it. What say you in the
East? "

Hopefully,

LUCILE ROSE CURTIS.

CHICAGO ALUMNA

So far this fall, Chicago Alumna? has had some difficulty in getting
together. For the past year we had been meeting in one of the rooms
of the Chicago College Club. This year, the Club flatly refused us
a place, saying that all space was to be used for Red Cross work.
We agreed to do our share of the work, and finally were allowed to
meet there. But the notices were mailed so late that only ten people
came to the meeting. We made up for the small numbers in enthusi-
asm, however, and are planning f o r a large November meeting when
we shall take in the new alumna? in or about Chicago.

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Several of the girls attended Rho Chapter house party at Momence,

Illinois, last June. They all succeeded in getting amazingly burned

while having a good time.

Vera Riebel, president of Chicago Alumnae, has been very i l l with

influenza. We are delighted to hear that she is now improving.

The Evanston alumna; are rejoicing over the fact that Merva

Hennings, after a long trip in the West, has taken up her residence

in their midst.

Chicago Alumnae is sorry to lose one of its most active members,

Frances McNair. She has been appointed to a position in Milwaukee-

Downer Seminary, Milwaukee.

Another of our most loyal members, Geraldine Kindig, is to be

too far away to attend meetings very often. She is teaching in
Kankakee, Illinois.

Helene Bowersox of Eta Chapter is now engaged in advertising

work in Chicago. With her in the chapter we shall be quite cosmo-

politan, having members of Iota, Theta, Gamma, Upsilon, Eta, and

Rho on our lists.

Fraternally,

BETTY HIESTAND,

For the president.

INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNiE

Dear Sisters:
The activities of Indianapolis Alumnas Chapter of Alpha Omicron

Pi have been practically at a standstill during the summer months.
We held our last meeting i n June and resumed again the second
week of September. Nothing much was done at that time—it was
more of a "get-together" after the summer months and an arrange-
ment of the schedule for the regular meetings during the coming
year. Since that time the ban on a l l gatherings has prevented our
holding the regular October meeting, but we hope it will be lifted in
time for our November regular.

Two of our members have joined the ranks of the wedded. One
of our most enthusiastic and faithful workers, Margaret Jayne, was
married last June to Mr. Glenn Reed and is living in Brookville, Ind.
A recently acquired member, Allison McGloughlin, with whom we
had scarcely had time to become acquainted, was married in August
to Mr. Morris Murphy, a high-school teacher, and she also moved
away from Indianapolis. We were very loath to give this two splen-
did girls up, but were happy i n their happiness. Margaret Jayne
Reed, we feel sure can visit us occasionally and attend some of our
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apolis. We now have but eight members, having had to give up six
during the past year by removal from city.

We hope in our next letter to be able to report more activities, but
with conditions similar all over the country as to health rules on
account of the terrible epidemic of influenza now prevailing, we
suppose all the chapters over the United States have of necessity had
a cessation of activities.

Fraternally,

RUTH RITCHIE.

NEW ORLEANS ALUMNiE

"New Newcomb" is a reality at last, and in consequence we are
all busily engaged in the somewhat disconcerting occupation of adjust-
ing our perspectives. And there are many such to adjust. A new
aspect has come over our Alma Mater. We are quite military these
days. I say this advisedly. Adjoined to Tulane University as we
now are, our campus is of course open to her student-soldiers. I n
addition to this, the uniforms on the campus of the Emergency Motor
Corps and of the Motor Mechanics Corps—justify my saying that our
aspect is quite military.

We are proud of our brothers in uniform, we are proud of our
girls who are helping in all kinds of war work, and just now we are
particularly proud of our nine alumnae who are awaiting orders to
sail for France as the Newcomb College Relief Unit, the first southern
unit to be organized, and the fourth, in the United States. You will
all share my pride when I tell you that, of the nine who are going,
three are Alpha O's: Anna Many, May Norman, and Edith Dupre.
Still another Alpha O, Willie White, is an alternate.

Well, "that's that"! Now to come to fraternity matters which, of
course, you are anxious to hear about. Naturally there have been
changes here too. There is at present no room in the college build-
ings for fraternity rooms such as have always existed at Newcomb.
Besides, the Board of Administrators has decreed that there shall be
no fraternity rooms on the campus. For a while, it seemed as though
fraternity life at Newcomb was doomed, especially as we had always
understood that the President of Newcomb College was opposed to
fraternities off the campus. But at a recent Panhellenic meeting here,
all such objections were withdrawn, so that, temporarily at least,
fraternities are assured. I n consequence Alpha O's are engaged in the
pleasant pursuit of room-hunting. Here's hoping that our search
will be speedily and successfully terminated. I t is a distressing and
hopeless feeling not to have a "pied a terre." But everything will

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soon be a l l right, we feel sure, and we look forward to a successful

year.

New Orleans Alumnae send their best wishes to all f o r the new

college year.

MAGDA CHALARON,

Secretary of Pi Alumna.

MINNEAPOLIS ALUMN-ffi

The Minneapolis Alumnae have met every month this past summer
for the usual good visit. Sometimes the active chapter members who
were in the city met with us. Somehow times like these thtough
which we are living make us enjoy just being together more than ever
before. Some plans for this year had to be 'laid aside until after war,
especially those for the new chapter-house. We are sure it will be a
better, happier house when it is built, however.

The things we are doing in war work are what the rest of you are
doing in Red Cross, War Relief, and overseas service. Besides
national war work we have been interested in subscribing and collect-
ing funds for our own state's tornado and forest fire sufferers.

None of our own girls have been seriously i l l with the influenza
and pneumonia. We hope that wherever there are Alpha O's that
they, and those dear to them may escape this dreadful epidemic.

Mary Chase is presiding over the chapter-house this year, and of
course it's a charming place to visit. We older members find that
we manage to get over there on all sorts of excuses, not that we really
need any, but we love to gather around the chapter-house table and
hearth again. The spirit of comradeship is always there i f we want
to find it.

Alpha Phi, you are good to spare Mary Danielson and Helen Rose
to us. Last year it was Azalea who made us glad and now come these
two ambitious medics to flaunt ponderous medical volumes before our
startled academic eyes—will you send more Alpha Phis to Minnesota
next year? We'll welcome them right royally!

We miss many faces, but we know they are serving as efficiently

wherever they are as they did here. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Pulling

we hope are happy in their beloved East. Leta, our own dear girl,

is off in California and we do wish she would write to us. Have any

of you western sisters found her? She is in Los Angeles, but we

haven't her present address.
May the months to come find you all content and happy.

E D I T H GOLDSWORTHY.

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BANGOR ALUMNiE »

Bangor Alumnae Chapter regrets that in this, her first letter for
the year 1918-19, she is unable to give an interesting or detailed
account of her work for the coming year. Due to the epidemic of
Spanish influenza, which has been so serious i n all New England, all
gatherings for a time are forbidden i n Bangor. Thus, the chapter
has already missed the regular September meeting. As it is now
October 19th and no good news has been issued a second meeting
must of necessity of omitted. Interest is not lacking, however. The
Executive Committee has considered many plans for work; the Pro-
gram Committee has arranged f o r the meetings; new members have
been urged to join us; all is i n readiness. A complete chapter roll
cannot, as yet, be given. Gladys Reed and Pauline Haskell from
last year's active graduates and Marguerite Beach, who is to be in
Bangor this winter, have been added to our number. To have June
Kelley, who has seemed the leader of Bangor Alumnae Chapter, find
her place to do her "bit" away from Bangor and us seems a hardship
indeed. We must work even harder than ever, we feel, that she
may not find a lack of energy and enthusiasm when some vacation
gives her opportunity to visit us. To those fortunate enough to have
been around Bangor during the summer, our lack of meetings will not
seem so marked. They can remember the holiday at Phillips Lake
enjoyed by both active and alumnae girls.

The chapter hopes to do much when she is finally started and sends
wishes of best success for the year to a l l !

Loyally,

C. IMOGEN WORMWOOD, President.

PORTLAND ALUMN-ffi

Our first regular meeting has been indefinitely postponed because
of the closing of Portland to prevent an epidemic of the Spanish in-
fluenza, which has delayed our plans f o r the winter's work.

A t present, we are helping make plans for the War Community
Service League in which all fraternity women are asked to assist.
This means that Alpha O will have an active part in the entertain-
ments for the soldiers and sailors at least one night every month with
several holiday entertainments.

Junior Red Cross duties occupy the time of those of us who are
teachers while the others are busy with their families and the regular
Red Cross. Margery Miller is busy working in the shipyards in
Vancouver so we see very little of her these days. Alice Collier has a
leave of absence this year and is assisting in Y. W. C. A. fields. Susie

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Paige is now Mrs. Ehrhardt of Lewiston, Idaho, but we still hope

to have her with us once i n awhile.

We hope to have more to tell you about our meetings next time.
With good wishes to all the chapters,

CAROLINE PAIGE,

For the Chapter.

PUGET SOUND ALUMNA

With the time of the individual members so much occupied with
work and war duties to somewhat interfere with chapter obligations,
the Puget Sound Alumnae have started the new year with a get-
together luncheon at the Bon Marche tearoom in September. The
same officers who officiated last year were reelected at the formal
meeting in the spring and Cornelia Jenner, president, and Beryl D i l l ,
secretary-treasurer, are again heading the chapter activities.

Alumnae who are coming back to revisit the campus this year are
finding the University of Washington a veritable armed camp. The
university has the distinction together with Yale of being the only
institution in the United States having the Army, Navy, and Marine
Corps represented in the S. A. T . C. organized by the university
authorities. Washington also has the largest naval unit of any
college in the country, being assigned 700 men for this section. This
is in addition to the large training camp which has been located on
the lower part of the campus for over a year. The two naval d i -
visions on the grounds make the university almost a naval institution.

Each division of the training corps wears the uniform of the Army,
Navy, or Marines as the case may be, and according to age and classi-
fication, all are subject to call into the service as they are needed.

The S. A. T . C. takes the place of the R. O. T . C. formerly estab-
lished on the campus. The men are uniformed and equipped by
the government and barracks life is in vogue. Only military subjects
and those relating to the military life will be offered to the men,
while the women pursue the usual academic work.

When college opened on October 1st, the men registering were
inducted into the branch of the service which they preferred and have
already settled down to d r i l l and study. The influenza epidemic
closed the university grounds for awhile and held up some of the
plans, but work is now well under way again. Graduates of ac-
credited high schools who can pass the physical examinations of their
respective units are admitted to the training corps. Naval men of
the corps who are not called into the service will have cruises later,
while others may receive the summons into active duty at any time

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needed. The naval students are enrolled as apprentice seamen and
receive the pay and other prerequisites of such' rating.

The naval course is the most pretentious of the three offered, since
it has been planned for f u l l four years, giving the successful graduate
the degree of B.S. in naval science and an appointment as an officer
in the Naval Reserve. The course is patterned after that of Annapo-
lis, which is one of the most thorough and detailed technical schools
in the country. Seven naval reserve officers under Rear Admiral
Chauncey Thomas are instructors in the course. Admiral Thomas is
one of the most brilliant naval officers in the country and has a long
record of service which makes him a most suitable director of the
course.

The university dormitories are being used for the men entirely this
year and the fraternity system is practically suspended. Several
fraternity houses have been turned over to the women for dormitories
and even with this assistance, the girls have found it difficult to find
living accommodations.

For the duration of the war a l l academic instruction f o r men is
suspended making the university one of the greatest military training
colleges in the country.

Ruth Lusby, '18, is dietitian at the Swedish Hospital, Seattle.
Anita Pettibone, '14, is occupying an interesting and enjoyable post
in the educational department of the Bon Marche, Seattle's largest
department store. •

Mrs. Waldo P. Druley, Alpha, is with her husband, Commander W.
P. Druley, U . S. N . at the embassy in Japan.

Miss Ethel Kraus, '15, has taken a teaching position in Japan for
the coming two years.

Carrie Bechen, '14, is teaching at the Everett High School.
Beryl Dill is holding down a triple job, as editor of The Naval
Monthly, associate editor of the Bremerton News, and naval reporter
for the Seattle P. I.

"The Twins," Eloise and Eloine Fleming, '18, are teaching at
Anacordes, Washington, occupying adjacent rooms.

KNOXVILLE ALUMNA

There is very little news of the chapter to retail in this letter. The
war and war work have depleted our ranks alarmingly. There are
only seven left in town and some of those may go any time. We
have had no meeting this fall. Just as we were ready to come to-
gether, the influenza epidemic started, and half of us were afraid of
the other half. Consequently our plans are indefinite. Though all
of us are overworked now and with so few it seems unlikely that we

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w i l l place anything extensive. Alice Hayes Graf's hushand is at
Mussel Shoals. Blossom Swift Edmund's husband is at Camp Taylor
in the artillery. Alice Calhoun Cox's husband is in County Demon-
strating work. Emma Albers Hunt's husband volunteered and is a
captain of Engineers in command at Fort Douglass, Utah. Margaret
Conover is in government work at Cold Spring Harbor. Aubrey
Faulkner is in Government work in New York City. Louise Wiley
is principal of the high school at Tazewell, and about ten more
Knoxville girls are teaching here and elsewhere. We are very proud
of a new daughter. Blossom Edmunds announces her arrival in
September. " B " Armstrong Wade announces the arrival of a son i n
October.

Best luck and best wishes to the whole fraternity.

LUCRETIA JORDON B l C K L E Y .

LYNCHBURG ALUMNiE

I n spite of the usual summer exodus from town to various places,
the Lynchburg Alumnae have been able to report a good average
attendance at each monthly meeting. After a lovely afternoon with
Frances and Virginia Allen in May, the chapter met with Virginia
Shorter in June. Not yet can we understand why this was not an
announcement party; for, only a few days later, we heard of
Virginia's engagement and approaching marriage, which took place
on August 3rd to Dr. Henry R. Blackwell head of the English
Literature department at Randolph-Macon. They have an attractive
apartment for the winter near the college.

I n June Ella Butler surprised us all by a sudden and hasty de-
parture from our midst as Mrs. Price. Dr. Price is a prominent
physician of Wichita, Kansas. However, we still have a grudge
against him for taking Ella so far from us. Ever since her initiation
into Kappa, she has been a most loyal Alpha O and her interest and
enthusiasm have meant much to the fraternity.

Susie Mann Zannancy is leaving Virginia, too, for Little Rock
where her husband will engage in law practice with her uncle, Mr.
Richard Mann. A most precocius youth of five months is Malcolm,
Jr.; and in a surprisingly short time we fully expect to hear of a
junior partner in the law firm.

Clara Cleland, who has been chapter mother, president, counsel-
lor—all of these things—is leaving temporarily for Penniman, Vir-
ginia, where a new Du Pont plant is being put into operation. Her
husbands holds an important government position there. The com-
forting thought about Clara is that she really is coming back to us in
a few months.

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But while some are "seeking pastures new," we are fortunate in
having Clara Smith back with us after a year's absence spent in
Covington. She is now teaching in the Lynchburg schools.

Elizabeth Webber Payne and Gordon, Sr. and Jr., are spending
several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Webber of Texarkana.

Virginia Allen holds the chair of mathematics at the Lynchburg
High School and is establishing quite a reputation as a teacher.
Frances Allen is still doing the million and one things that someone
must do, never refusing a request that is brought to her.

Annie Kate Gilbert spent two days with us on her way to a
Y. W. C. A . conference in New York. Fanny Butterfield stopped
over on her way to Covington where she is teaching this winter.
Augusta Stacey also passed through on her way from New York
where she spent the summer at Columbia. We are mighty proud
of all these alumnae.

The alumnae met with Kappa at her first regular meeting for the
year and were much impressed with the personnel of the chapter.
The four pledges are splendid types of girls and we feel that the
chapter is going to make this a record year in every way.

Quite interesting details might be told of the various war activities
in which the girls are engaged—as a whole in supporting the French
orphan and individually in other branches. Briefly though it may
be said that each one is doing her bit to bring about the end for which
we are all striving and let us hope that when the next letter goes
to To DRAGMA the peace which is the dream of hearts the world over
may be more of a reality because of our redoubled efforts.

Fraternally yours,

N A N A T K I N S O N CRADDOCK, President.

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ALUMNAE NOTES

PI

Anna Many, May Norman, and Edith Dupre will sail shortly for

France with the Newcomb College Relief Unit. Willie White is an

alternate.
The alumnae are happy to announce the marriage of Solidelle Ren-

shaw to Louis Fortier, who returned from France after having seen
six months' active service. We feel doubly proud of his having
recently been promoted to the rank of Major as he is also the brother
of Lillian Fortier.

We are happy also to be able to announce the marriage of Betsey
Dupre to Lieutenant Albert Pooey.

Mildred Renshaw is teaching French at Texas A. & M .
Gladys Renshaw is instructor in French at the University of
Oklahoma.

Dagmar Renshaw Le Breton is now teaching English in one of

our large high schools.
Virginia Withers is again with us at Newcomb as instructor in

French.

Teddy Sumner has departed from our midst and is now teaching

in New York.
Mary Summer is a teaching fellow in psychology at Newcomb.

Rietta Garland is doing war work in one of the largest chemical

factories in the United States.
Mary Raywood is doing work in biology f o r the government.
Our Lake Charles Alumnae, Sara Bres, Clara H a l l and company are

back at their posts of duty.
Innes Morris Ellis is now teaching at her home in Rayville, while

her husband is away at a training camp.
The alumnae regret deeply the death of Captain Pendleton Morris,

Innes's father, who was a true friend of every Alpha O.
SIGMA

GENERAL

Rose Von Schmidt Bell (Mrs. George L . ) is living at Washington,

D. C , where Mr. Bell was called to do Americanization work for the

government. 1

Gladys Courtian Britton (Mrs. John A., Jr.) left on July 31st

for Manila. M r . Britton is sent by John Rothschild & Co., and they

will visit Japan and other Oriental countries during the year they

will be gone.

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Olive Cutter is painting mural backgrounds at the San Francisco
Academy of Sciences.

Margaret Stone Eddy (Mrs. A. J.) is among the brave ones who
wait patiently for letters from France. Her husband, Captain Eddy,
has been studying at a heavy artillery school in France and she is
expecting to hear soon to what unit he has been attached.

Vira Georgeson is in Berkeley.
Emma Black Kew (Mrs. Wm.) is in San Francisco with her
parents. Mr. Kew is in the field doing work for the U. S. Geological
Survey.
Rose Gardner Marx (Mrs. Ralph) proudly announces that her
husband is on his way to France to serve as physical director for the
Y. M . C. A.
Evelyn Bancroft Moore (Mrs. Justin H . ) spent the summer with
her parents in Oakland while her husband was training at Plattsburg.
She left for New York September 19th.
Alice Freuler Norris (Mrs. Homer A.) visited her parents in
Berkeley a few weeks this summer. During the time she was with
them, her little son celebrated his first birthday.
'Helen Slaughter is the general secretary for the Y. W. C. A. at
Tucson, Arizona.
Isabelle Henderson Stewart (Mrs. Benj. F., Jr.) is in Oakland
as this is written. Her husband has been recommended as First
Lieutenant in the Engineering Corps, and expects soon to be sent
east to train.

Edna Taber is teaching at Miss Head's School for girls in Berkeley.
Juanita Judy Vitousek (Mrs. Roy A.) was awarded second prize
at an art exhibition in Honolulu for her oil landscapes. She was also
given entire charge of the decoration of one of the booths for which
she painted separate panels.

Lucille Kistler Wagy (Mrs. Earl W.) is living in Berkeley now.
She has three wonderful children, two little girls and a cunning son.

Dorothy Weeks is training at the government school for nurses at
Camp Kearney, California.

Grace Weeks and Grace Morin are drawing ship-building instruc-
tions for the Navy Department at the Mare Island ship-yard.

Helen Weeks, Jeanette Green, Lillian Rice, Margaret Hurley, and
Savory Ford attended the summer session in Berkeley this year.

ENGAGEMENTS

Ruth Carson has announced her engagement to Peter Yuill. They
expect to be married at the end of the year.

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MARRIAGES

Evelyn Morrill was married at San Diego, August 24th, to Gilbert

Warde Woodland.
Mae I . Knight was married in June to Robert Siddell, North-

western University, a member of Beta Theta Pi. They are developing
a ranch at Lakeport, California.

I N T H E SERVICE

Daisy Mansfield Shaw (Mrs. Norman)—brother, Chester, A. E. F.,

France.

BIRTHS

Leona Mudgett Crawford (Mrs. David) has a daughter, Agnes
Joan, born May 28th at Honolulu.

Helen Bancroft Gooe (Mrs. Leon M . ) has a daughter, Evelyn

Elizabeth, born June 17th.

Wynne Meredith Harlowe (Mrs. George) has a daughter, Betty

Wynne, born September 23rd.

Charlotte Cowie Manzer (Mrs. Tilden T . ) has a son, Tilden Thor-

wold, born April 9th.

Elaine Standish Massie (Mrs. Andrew M . ) has a daughter, Eleanor

Gordon, born July 23rd at Shanghai.

Mildred Hunter Stahl (Mrs. Leslie W.) has a daughter, Virginia

Ellen, born April 30th.

Jennett Miller Swartz (Mrs. Burton) has a son, Burton, Jr., born

in July. Lieutenant Swartz is now in France.
RHO

MARRIAGES

Rho Chapter announces the marriage of Irene Marie Henderson,
Grad., to Dr. Amos Foster Moore of Dixon, Illinois, on July 9th
at Ottawa, Kansas. Dr. Moore is a major in the Medical Reserve.

I N T H E SERVICE

Betty Hiestand, '12—brother, Edgar Willard Hiestand, at Wash-

ington, D. C , with committee for Education and Special Training,

which directs the work of the S. A . T . C. He is assistant business

manager with the rank of major.
Marie Vick Swanson—husband in Washington as an aide to the

Shipping Board. LAMBDA

MARRIAGES

Alice Weyse to Antonio Pementeo, July 4th, 1918.

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BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Orme (Minna Vrang) a fine ten pound
baby boy, Charles, Jr., September 15th, 1918.

GENERAL

Virginia Moore has returned from Indianapolis and is engaged in
Y. VV. C. A. work i n Los Angeles.

Lucile Curtis now has a school in Los Angeles.
Mildred Cowdry Mosher has just returned from Honolulu and is
living temporarily in Palo Alto.
Muriel Turner McKinney is teaching i n San Diego this year and
is living with Hazel Hartwell there.
Beatrice Freuler Cykler (Mrs. Emil) spent the summer with her
parents in Berkeley and returned to Honolulu on October 1st.

TAU

GENERAL

Mary Lou Watson has come back home to be one of us again.
Vivian Watson Harkness is at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, with her hus-
band who is in service.
Edith Mitchell Toland expects to be in California for the winter.
Randall has been at the front for two months.
Marguerite Gillette is a business woman of this city at the present.
Ann Yates who is in government service came to the city for a too
brief visit recently.
Florence Brande is in Chicago in newspaper work.
Ruth Buckley has gone to Washington in government service.
I ' l l promise news of "Trudie" Falkenhagen who is in France for
the next number of our magazine.
Margaret Wood who is teaching in the high school at Red Wing,
Minnesota, has three brothers in service.

MARRIAGES

Ruth Paine was married in August at her home in San Diego, Cali-
fornia, to Guy Thompson.

Our "Dot" McCarthy was married on October 5th to Joseph Mur-
phy and will be at home in this city for a while.

Elsa Feldhammer Johnson is a bride of last June. Her husband,
George Johnson, is a first lieutenant in the medical service.

Bertha Marie Brechet and Junior Hayden of Glencoe were married
this summer. Mr. Hayden is in France.

Muriel Fairbanks was recently married to Mr. Thomas Edward
Stuart of the Minneapolis Tribune.

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HONOR ROLL

Margaret Wood—brothers, Sergt. Norman Wood, France; Arthur
Wood, Aviation service, San Antonio, Texas; Perry Wood, in Tank
Service, North Carolina.

NU KAPPA

GENERAL

The first thing of interest to tell is about the marriage of Lucinda
Smith, N K, *17, to Mr. J. B. Hubbell of the English Department of
our Southern Methodist University. He is now at the Training
Camp for officers at Camp Zachary Taylor in Kentucky. Since Mr.
Hubbell has been away Lucinda has been teaching. Lucinda has a
brother in France with the A. E. F.

Erma Baker Patton, N K, ex-'19, is at home in Spur, Texas, while
her husband is i n the Officers' Training Camp i n San Antonio, Texas.
And Louise Zeek is with her father while Mr. Zeek is away. He has
been i n San Antonio but is soon to be transferred to the Training
Camp at Zachary Taylor. Margaret Bentley, N K, ex-'18, has a
brother at the same camp. She also has two cousins in the army.
One of them is i n France.

Nelle Graham, N K, ex-'18, is*in Dallas this winter to take a
business course. Etta Louis Pendleton, N K, '18, is private secretary
to her father.

The recent marriage of Carrie Crane, K , '17, to First Lieut. Ray-
mond Warren Kearney of the American Air Service was a surprise to
most of us. Lieutenant Kearney is from California. He is an
R. M . A. and has several other initials in front of that. He is
stationed at Love Field near Dallas.

Mary Emily Barton, N K, ex-'20, lost her father in the early
summer, and Courtenay Chatham Mohrhardt's, K, '18, husband died
in October of heart trouble after an illness of several months.

Alpha O is represented at the Texas State University this year by
four of N u Kappa's girls—Ray Burgess, '20, Lora Thacker, '20,
Francis Cummins, '20, and Genevive Groce, '19.

Mary Emily Barton has three brothers in the service, all of them

officers and one in France.
Carrie Crane Kearney's brother Martin has just returned from

France to become bayonet instructor at San Antonio. His wife is
Anna Delle Hicks Crane of Kappa Chapter, '17. Carrie has two
other brothers i n the army, one brother is still in France and another
at Camp Travis.

Two of our girls are doing war work with the Y. W. C. A. Annie
Kate Gilbert, K, '16, who is the student secretary for the South-

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western Field is at present the State Executive of the Student Division
for the United War Campaign. The War Council is fortunate to have
Margaret Vaughan, K, '17, as the Assistant Recreational Secretary.

Several of the Dallas girls belong to the War Camp Community
Service and Margaret Bentley is one of the assistants of the chairman
of the Hospitality Committee. She is also an instructor in Red
Cross work.

May I say that our Dallas girls will be glad to hear from any Alpha
O brothers or husbands or relatives who might be stationed at Camp
Dick or Love Field or any of the Ft. Worth Fields.

NU OMICRON

GENERAL

We beg indulgence from our sisters everywhere for we are very
new at the alumnae business. We feel that we're still just college
girls and our chief thought just at present is the one that is absorbing
all of you who are at school—freshmen. We're wishing every Alpha
O luck, because being out of college gives us broader vision and we're
not thinking of chapters, but of the fraternity as a whole.

However, i t is our business to inform you all what we particular
Nu Omicron alumnae are doing.

Katrina Overall is working for Uncle Sam at the powder plant
in Nashville. She's a sure enough soldier in the Ordnance depart-
ment of the United States army.

Mary John Overall is not in Vanderbilt, but is still at Nashville to
give the chapter her moral support.

E Henna Webb also has a government position with the food
administration.

Mary D. Houston is the only school marm in the chapter. She's
trying to do her patriotic duty to her country's children in the high
school at Columbia, Tennessee.

We're very proud of our two brides, though we did hate to lose lone
Blair and Mary Harrell from Vanderbilt.

MARRIAGES

lone Blair to Lurton Goodpasture, April 29th, 1918, at Nashville.
Mary Harrell to Lieut. Walter Rogers, U . S. A. at the home of the
bride in Nashville, July 6th, 1918.

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EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT

Exchanges thus far this f a l l have been few. We acknowledge,
however, The Eleusis of Chi Omega, The Garnet and White of Alpha
Chi Rho, The*Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, Alpha Xi Delta, and The
Phi Gamma Quarterly.

The following articles are taken from The Eleusis:

A MESSAGE TO COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES

There is need, in the midst of the great conflict into which our country has
entered, for the patriotism that expresses itself in action in relation to immediate
requirements. There is need, also, of the patriotism that prepares for action
when the war is over. Upon the mature people of the present rest primarily
the responsibilities for the efficient expression of the first kind of patriotism.
Upon the younger people, and particularly upon those who are having the
opportunity to train themselves as workers of ability, rests primarily the second
kind of patriotism.

It is to a group of these younger people that this message is addressed, and
the keynote of this message is that college women should fit themselves com-
pletely for the new status that will undoubtedly be woman's at the close of the
war. It will be a new status developed out of recognition of women's ability.
There will be generous assent, instead of doubt and grudging approval, to
women in lines of work that require clear and correct intellectual functioning
and that offer the larger opportunities. The young women of the present will
mar or hold and strengthen this new recognition, in proportion as they have
rightly trained their talents.

There will be new social and economic problems for us at the close of the war.
Perhaps grave problems. Spiritual qualities will factor in the intellectual ability
necessary to deal with them. Now women, through years of discipline have
acquired some spiritual qualities that are needed in right social and economic
adjustments. But to make those qualities function in society, women must
learn how to make them function. They will function only as women them-
selves achieve. And before one can develop the capacity to achieve there must
be a preceding season of preparation, of study, of thought, and of experience.

Therefore, may the younger women use their opportunities to perfect them-
selves according to their abilities for the needs of the country when theirs will
be the tasks of carrying forward government by the people. And we will never
be a superior people until one-half of the people, the women, measure up to
the requirements of superior ability—and superior ability is born of mind and
spirit.

Editor's Note: The above article was written by Mary C. Love Collini for
The Alpha Phi Quarterly.

MORALS AND COLLEGE L I F E

The longer one looks on at, or takes thoughtful part in college affairs, the
more convinced does one become that they are only chaff unless at the heart of
each and all there are sound moral principles.

Assuredly there cannot be two sets of principles, one for life in college and
one for life outside; whether we are within or without, we are part of a life

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the sum total of the value of which must rise or fall as we live up to or come
short of the best things of which we are capable.

Unless each year finds us stronger morally, we may have mastered much of
literature, more of art, and the whole field of science, but we have not grown
in the large sense. Intellectual development in any individual without a
strengthening of the moral fiber is a real menace to society in that the world
often takes for granted the latter where it finds the former and entrusts to the
one well equipped intellectually what it would not think of entrusting to the
ignorant. A striking example of this one-sided development is to be found in
German "Kultur" of which we hear so much and so often; here is a people
capable of the finest accomplishments known to the world of science, yet low
enough in the moral scale to toss aside as a "scrap of paper" its pledged word
to another nation; to gouge and tear out the eyes and the tongues of helpless
prisoners of war; to cut off the hands of little children and to violate defenseless
girls and women. Surely a warning lies that way and from it the thinking
mind must turn with horror. These are extreme examples, we think, of morals
gone wrong and we are very sure we are not in danger in such ways; perhaps
we are not, but we need to be sure we are making a definite advance in the
opposite direction, to be sure that we have turned our backs on untruth of even
the so-called milder type, which keeps us silent when we ought to speak, perhaps;
on dishonesty which would make it seem worth while to take what belonged to
another, either of a material or of any other sort, such as the unfair use of a
fellow student's notebook or the taking of an idea from a neighbor's examination
paper; on cruelty of that refined type, something found among girls, which
causes them to turn sharply and definitely away from the shy, retiring, and
unpopular student to one from whom there is expected more material gain.

These are days of rapidly and definitely increasing responsibility for every-
one and such will be the case for years to come. The choicest of our men have
been or will be taken away from the usual places which knew them in days of
peace; those less fit must take their places as best they can. T o women the
country may look for strength that shall be equal to some of the tasks thus
left unfinished, but, without question, to its women it must look for a moral
strength that shall be so powerful, so all pervading that it can instill a spirit
to carry forward the work of the world.

From college women, and justly so, will be expected the greatest power both
mentally and morally; they will not fail to meet the expectation mentally, they
must not fail to meet it morally.

To each college girl then belongs the duty and the privilege to so live in the
seemingly small and insignificant every-day affairs that she shall not be found
wanting in the great testing days that assuredly lie not far ahead.

MARY TOUGH,

Head of Home Economics Department,

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.