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Saturday morning the pledges gave a very clever stunt, as it has
been a custom of our pledges to do before initiation. This one was
a negro minstrel, and the "make ups" were so very good, we had
a hard time recognizing our little "sisters-to-be." I n their songs and
jokes, we upperclassmen had a chance to see ourselves as others see
us, or at least as the pledges see us.

In the afternoon we formally pledged Mary Putnam, and initiated
five girls, Marion Gregg, '17, Martha Hedgcock, '18, Aileen Hunter,
'18, Helen Brauns, '19, and Elaine Buhrman, '17. A t six o'clock
our banquet, which was our real birthday party, was served to
fifty-four people, including our patronesses. A lovely letter from our
Grand President was read, and the toasts were so arranged as to give
a complete history of Iota chapter, beginning even before it was
Iota. This proved very interesting and enlightening to the active
girls, as well as affording pleasing reminiscences for the older ones.
A fitting and happy conclusion to the evening came when the
engagement of Anna Hoffert, '15, one of our most loyal Alpha
O's, was announced.

On Sunday morning, there was a general meeting of all active
and alumnns girls for serious consideration of future plans for Iota.
Alumna;, who could not be present in person, sent letters, which were
read at this meeting. Besides the inspiration and incentive for
greater effort, which we received, we enjoyed so much having our
alumna? with us, and wish they might come oftener.

On alternating Wednesday evenings, we have Yo-Ma exchange
and faculty dinners. Yo-Ma is a sophomore intersorority organiza-
tion, for the purpose of bringing the sororities into closer contact and
getting the girls better acquainted. On Wednesday night twice
a month six girls from each sorority go to some other sorority house
for dinner. On the other Wednesday nights of the month, we enter-
tain from four to six members of the faculty. We ask one of them
to speak to us for a few minutes after dinner. This brings associa-
tion with faculty members, which we could get in no other way,
and we find the evenings so spent, delightful and profitable.

Election of officers of Woman's League took place a short time
ago and our own Mate Giddings was elected secretary.

Friday night March 10th, we gave a formal dinner dance.
The dinner was served at the Inman hotel to thirty-five couples.
The color scheme was pink and white, and was carried out very
originally and effectively in the dinner and dance-hall. On Saturday
night an informal party was given at the chapter house. We had
as our guests at this time Laura Belle Glascock, Edna McClure, and
Iva Beason of Theta chapter.

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There was no little excitement the morning of March 14th, when

the scholarship averages of the sororities for the first semester this

year were published, and Alpha Omicron Pi headed the list followed

by K K T, K A ©, and r B. That evening during dinner a beautiful

victrola from our alumnae was delivered to us as a token of apprecia-

tion for our achievement.

We have been particularly fortunate this year in having visitors

from other chapters of Alpha O : Kathryn Brown, Jean Richardson,

Faye Smith of Rho; Iva Beason, Laura Glascock, Edna McClure of

Theta; and Mrs. Froyd from Zeta. Only yesterday, Mr. Atkinson,

a brother of one of the Kappa girls paid a very hasty call. Isn't

it wonderful to think one has sisters all over the United States, and

doesn't it give you a thrill to meet them? The latch-string hangs

out at our chapter house for every Alpha O girl the country over.

It will be September before we meet again. Although some of

us will not be returning, we will keep in touch with the cause so

near our hearts through To DRAGMA. Here's wishing you all

restful, pleasant and happy vacation days,—a smile for those who

will return, and a tear for those who won't.

LEOTA MOSIER, Chapter Editor.

ALUMNYE NOTES

ENGAGEMENTS

A n n a Hoffert, '15, has announced h e r engagement to M r . Bonum Lee K i r k .
M r . K i r k is a graduate of the University of Illinois in class '13, is a member
of Acacia fraternity, and is now a lawyer of Champaign.

T h e engagement of M a r y W i l l s , '15, to M r . Clarence Scholl has been
announced. M r . Scholl will take his degree of P h . D . in Chemical Engineering
this year at the University of Illinois.

GENERAL

T h e following girls attended the birthday reunion of I o t a :
Mary Bruner, '12, Grace Dallenbach, ex-'i5, Ruth Davison, '13, Margaret
G o r h a m E b e r t , '11, A t h a W o o d F o w l e r , e x - ' i 7 , L o r a H e n i o n , M . A . , '12, A n n a
Hoffert, '15, Pauline Davis Hollister, ex-'i3, Susan Hash Hubbard, '12, Mildred
H a r l e y MacDonald, '11, E l v a Pease Pettigrew, '09, Lottie Pollard, ex-'i5, Pearl
Ropp, '12, Marie Rutenber, '15, Louise Nierstheimer Stevens, '12, Frances
Trost, '13, Mabel Wallace, '14, Helen Whitney, '13, M a r y W i l l i a m s , ex-'l8,
Mary Wills, '15.
In F e b r u a r y Pearl Ropp was operated upon for appendicitis, but she has
now regained her lost strength.
Inez Sampson, ex-'15, w i l l graduate f r o m the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
this year. H e r major work has been done on harp, with minors in piano and
dramatic reading.
Pearl Ropp, '12, and Mabel Wallace, '14, visited Louise Stevens at Sadorus
for a week in March. They report that Louise is a charming "hausfrau," and
does her work with the same vim and enthusiasm with which she did her
college work.

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W e are very much grieved to hear of the tragic death of L o r a Moulton
Ross's husband. O n January 13th he started from their farm home with a
sled load of oats to take to t o w n — A l a v a r d o , M i n n . H e had not gone far
when the sled overturned, he was thrown head downward into three feet of
snow, and the oats were piled upon him. T h e team stopped, and though
the trouble was soon discovered, M r . Ross had been suffocated. H e was known
and much admired by many of our older alumna;, who very keenly regret his
sad death.

The Iota alumna: have presented a v i c t r o l a to the chapter house.
The a l u m n a ; editor w i s h e s to thank every a l u m n a who has written to her
this year—and most of you have been very good about writing.

IOTA I N SOCIAL SERVICE WORK

T h e following notes tell of the ways in which Iota alumna: are actively
interested in practical social service work :

H a z e l A l k i r e , '12, w h o is p r i n c i p a l of the high school at G r e e n v i e w , belongs
to a Community Club the aim of which is "The betterment of the community."
The club meets r e g u l a r l y to d i s c u s s m o r a l , c i v i c , and social problems as they
exist in that community. Some of the accomplishments of the club recently
have been the supplying of adequate equipment and apparatus for the school
playgrounds, the furnishing of the new high school with the best seats available,
and the prohibition of improper picture shows. Resides her regular school
duties and activity in the Community Club, Hazel plays the pipe-organ in her
church, teaches a Bible class, is President of Christian Endeavor, and conducts
on an average two home talent plays a year.

E l v a I'ettigrew, '09, is a member of the H a r v e y W o m a n ' s C l u b , and is on
the C h i l d Welfare Committee. D u r i n g the second week of M a r c h , "baby
week," this committee provided for illustrated lectures about what can be done
to m a k e babies w e l l . A l s o a graduate n u r s e f r o m the foreign d i s t r i c t in
Chicago was secured to give practical demonstrations for the foreign mothers
of H a r v e y . Other recent accomplishments of the club have been the cleaning
up o f the town the placing of good garbage cans at every two blocks, and the
purchase and equipping of a park. T h e moving picture censorship committee
prohibits improper pictures being shown, and provides for the children and
supervises a free matinee of educational pictures once a week.

M a r i e R u t e n b e r , '15, is president of a teachers' t r a i n i n g c l a s s in the F i r s t
M . E . Church in Champaign, is fourth vice-president of Epworth League and
has charge of all parties and socials given, is president of the Geneva Club
of Y . W . C . A . , and president of the home missionary society of girls in
her church.

Mildred M a c D o n a l d , '11, belongs to a c h u r c h society w h i c h supplies milk
r e g u l a r l y to a n u m b e r of babies a m o n g the poor of A u r o r a , a n d gives baskets
of food and clothing to the poor at C h r i s t m a s time.

S u s i e H u b b a r d , '12, teaches a S u n d a y School c l a s s in B o s w e l l , I n d . ,
plays the piano at her c h u r c h , and gives free music lessons to some talented
little g i r l s whose parents are too poor to pay f o r lessons.

Barbara Denison, '09, belongs to a Woman's C l u b in B r a i n e r d , M i n n . ;
this c l u b recently has secured a v i s i t i n g nurse for the schools, and has equipped
a Community Restroom which, besides the usual conveniences, has an electric
stove for making coffee or heating babies' milk. Formerly the public library
w a s open only two d a y s a week, but the W o m a n ' s C l u b is n o w financing the
opening of it every afternoon and evening.

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N e l l e B e n j a m i n , ' ' 2 , belongs to a R e d C r o s s Society and P a t r i o t i c S o c i a l C l u b

in Haywarden, Canada.

Mary Bruner, '13, is guardian of a camp of "Camp Fire" girls in Urbana.

She has time to do this very practical social service work besides doing her

teaching and working for her M . A . degree at the same time.

Before her illness, Pearl Ropp, '12, was actively interested in the Y . W . C . A .

of Bloomington. This Y . W. C . A . has charge of a day nursery where working

mothers m a y leave their c h i l d r e n at the n o m i n a l fee o f five cents a d a y . A

kindergarten is conducted, there is a library of books suitable for young

children, and cooking and sewing classes are taught after regular school hours.

Pearl had charge of one of the sewing classes.

Florence F l u h a r t y , ex-'12, hasn't m u c h time outside her home duties to

devote to social service w o r k , but that she is alive to the need o f it is s h o w n

by the fact that she belongs to a S t u d y C l u b w h i c h has recently studied

E r n e s t Poole's novel, The Harbor—that novel so strikingly criticized as "a

choking, blinding whiff from the crater of modern industrialism."

Inez Jayne, M.A., JI2, sings frequently at noon meetings in factories and

street car headquarters; she is president of the Y o u n g People's Society of her

c h u r c h , w h i c h helps support the U n i o n C i t y Mission, also, she belongs to a

c l u b w h i c h has f u r n i s h e d a n d finances the expenses of a hospital room in one

of the hospitals of Minneapolis.

Louise Blood, '09, substituted in the schools at B i g H o r n , W y o . , d u r i n g the

month of M a r c h . While here she taught a Bible class in one of the churches.

H e r home is on a ranch several miles from any town, and thus she can't

do much i n social service work except that which is done in the usual Western

hospitable and neighborly way.

E m m a D e W i t t , '11, is teaching s e w i n g and c o o k i n g to the m a n y little foreign

and native A m e r i c a n girls in the school i n the m i n i n g camp of K l e i n , Mont.

Lottie P o l l a r d , e x - ' i S . teaches voice to several c h i l d r e n in I r v i n g P a r k , and

sings often in public.

Katherine Buenger, '15. teaches household science in a night school in

St. Louis. T h e school is made up chiefly of shop and factory girls many

of whom are foreigners.

TAU, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Marguerite Gillette, '16 Florence Brande, '17

E d i t h Goldsworthy, '16 Muriel Fairbanks, '18

E d i t h Mitchell, '16 L e t a Nelson, '18

Margaret Wood, '16 Vivian Watson, '18

E l s a Feldhammer, '17 Mary L o u Watson, '18

Gertrude Falkenhagen, '17 Jennie-Marie Schober, 'l8

Dorothy McCarthy, '17 E l s a Steinmetz, '18

Helen Pierce, '17 Margaret Boothroyd, '19
Phana Wernicke, '17 A l m a Boerhme, '19

Cecile Morairty, '18, (medicine)

T a k i n g up t h e adventures of Tau chronologically I must begin
with Leta's success. She appeared as Maggie Schultz in Kenyon's
play Kindling, January 7th, at the Little Theatre. To quote a
Minneapolis critic, "We have not seen such acting in ten years at
Minnesota." For weeks after the play, which was given twice,

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I.eta was a campus sensation, and our Minnesota campus is exceed-
ingly blase in theatrical matters. We are very proud of her!

Perhaps you will think this is a bit histrionic in taste i f I proceed
at once to our vaudeville. I t is seldom enough, however, that one
is able to put through a purely money-making venture such as that
with any satisfaction to one's self. Our vaudeville this year, owing
largely to the energy and cleverness of Mrs. Jackson, was truly
a success. I t took place March 11th at the Little Theatre with a
burst of gayety. Mrs. Jayne sang for us, Mrs. Jackson danced,
Katherine Kester, a Minneapolis Alpha Chi Omega, played the violin,
and the rest of us bravely costumed, piped and danced to our heart's
content. Do you wonder that philosophy is become vapid and calculus
irrelevant when the thrill of the spot light is in our blood?

Perhaps the finest thing that has happened to Tau this year was
Mrs. Henning's visit of two weeks ago. She brought to us more truly,
I think, than we have ever felt it before the real spirit of Alpha O.
We are very grateful to Mrs. Hennings for her splendid counsel and
her beautiful kindness to us.

I wonder if you know about the alumna? chapter, which has been
established here at Minneapolis. I t would seem that now, at least,
Tau should accomplish many things, would it not?

We have begun the spring by pledging five lovely girls, Eleanor
Willets, Ella Breed, Lillian T i f t , Marguerite Doyle, and Gertrude
Hartman over whom we openly gloat.

Several of the girls have classes at the settlements this semester.
At Pillsbury House Edith Mitchell is assisting in the nursery and
Leta Nelson is coaching for a play. A t the Northeast Neighbor-
hood House, Vivian Watson has a class in gymnastics and Elsa
Feldhammer and Marguerite Gillette tell stories to the children once
a week. Elsa and Marguerite brought their little proteges to the
chapter house for a party at Christmas time, and we had the joy,
although it was shockingly unhygienic, of filling the little things
up to a state of placid, dreamy content, with ice cream and cake and
candy.

How we should like to adopt a French baby!
Tau sends most earnest wishes for a happy and satisfying New
Year.

FLORENCE BRANDE, Chapter Editor.

CHI, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Elizabeth F r e n c h , '15
Gertrude Shew, '16

Florence Gilger, '16 E m i l y Tarbell, '16

A l m a Jones, '16 Sadie Campbell, '17

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E d n a Hausner, '17 Florence H u g h e s , '18
L e t a M c C l e a r , '17 Bertha Muckey, '18
R u t h Melvin, '17 E d i t h R a n c h , '18
Helen Schrack, '17 Mary Adams, '19
L i l l i a n Battenfeld, '18 Ethel Farrington, '19
Frances Carter, '18 Florence Rich, Spec.
Snyder, '19
Reva

PLEDGES

Greta Ames, '19 Gertrude Johnson, '19

Irene Becker, '19

Irene Becker of Elizabeth, N . J., and Greta Ames of Richfield
Springs, N . Y., are wearing the little golden sheaf of wheat. Right
glad we are to introduce these lovable freshmen to you.

The twenty-sixth of February we celebrated our annual reunion at
the banquet at the Onondaga. " B i l l y " Barkman, '09, Martha Snow,
'12, "Tess" Maxwell, "Tweed" Adams and "Polly" Emmerling,
'13, Florence Shafer, Ethel Harris, and Gertrude Jennison, '14,
Florence Burkins, ex-'12, and Mildred Williams, '15, returned for
the jollification. Epsilon sent us Bertha Yerke and Anne Morrow
to our delight. Amid the laughter, the songs, the stories and the
repartee, we treasured the messages from these sisters returning to us,
or coming for the first time—and the greetings from the sisters
who could not be with us.

During this Lenten season war relief work is claiming that time
hitherto given to coasting-parties, informal spreads and dances.
Weekly the college women gather for the work ("preparedness" train-
ing one might call i t ) of rolling bandages, fashioning slings, and
making surgical dressings for the Red Cross cause abroad. One table
is usually filled with Alpha O girls, that is at the beginning of the
evening. Before long you find them in every corner of the room,
needle in hand or carrying gauze-strips—and their motto is—"Start
a song."

At the city Day Nursery, one of our seniors appears weekly, and
is hailed as the "lady what tells the stories." Her tales are nearly as
well received as those of our library senior, who makes flying-trips
to out-of-town libraries to preside over the story-telling hour for
children. Further individual work we have in the general overseeing
by Florence Rich, of a family whose head is toiling (for once) in the
penitentiary. Perhaps the "little tots" weren't thankful on Christmas
day, when they expected to dine on sausage and crackers, to receive
the holiday dinner Florence herself delivered! She didn't even for-
get the salted nuts!

In conjunction with the sociology department is the University

Settlement. Here Chi finds opening for social service. We have

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our representatives among the teaching staff of the school—the
kindergarten is the most favored department. One afternoon recently
we entertained a group of the settlement children at the chapter
house. Jewish, Lithuanian, Polish, Greek, Irish and Armenian they
gathered, all loyally American in listening to the story of the flag,
playing the marching games, and eating ice cream.

The chapter has become an auxiliary of the Settlement Association
by subscribing to the association. As such we are entitled to have a
representative on the Advisory Board. Delta Upsilon has been the
only fraternity so represented hitherto. Being brought directly
in touch with the settlement needs and problems by such repre-
sentation, we plan to f i l l a larger scope in the work there next year.

To raise five thousand dollars for the Woman's Building Fund, the
alumna? and undergraduate women will hold a progressive dinner the
night of May 6th, followed by an entertainment and dance in the
Men's Gymnasium. The five courses of the dinner will be served
each in a different chapter house, dormitory or living center. To
have eight or ten circuits of service is the present plan. Picture
us serving salad on that evening!

Chi sends commencement tide greetings to all.

EMILY TARBELL.

ALUMN/E NOTES

MARRIAGES

Florence Lawther and J . H a r r y Rich, I I K A , Syracuse, '13, were married
at high noon, February 19th. T h e y are at home in their cozy little bungalow,
308 Maple St., but six blocks from the chapter house.

GENERAL

M a r t h a Sargent, '15, is at home in Syracuse for the spring.
I a n t h a E m m e r l i n g , '13, r e t u r n e d to S y r a c u s e f o r S e n i o r W e e k .
Genevieve B a r k m a n , '09, and Florence Shafer, '14, spent several days at
the chapter house in February. Mildred Williams, '15, and M a r y Cullivan, ' i j ,
have been recent guests at the house.

UPSILON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Susie Paige, '16 I r m a McCormick, '17
A d a K r a u s , '16 Margery Miller, '18
E d i t h Sifton, '16 Mildred Jeans, '18
E t h e l K r a u s , '16 Ruth Lusby, 'iS
Mabel Potter, '16 Helen Brewster, '18
Mildred Baker, '17 Esther K n u d s o n , '18
Eloine Fleming, '17 Eunice Semmen, '18
Eloise Fleming, '17 E u g e n i a Garratt, '19
Madge Philbrook, '17 Louise Benton, '19
E l l e n Jolliffe, '17 R u t h Haslett, '19
R u t h Fosdick, '17 Eloise E l r i g h t , '19

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PLEDGES

H i l d a Hendrickson, '19 Harriett Seeley, '18
R u t h Abelsett, '19 A n n e Seeley, '19
Virginia Moseley, '18 M i r i a m Beal, '19
McGinnis, '19
Mary

First let us introduce our very newest pledges, Virginia Moseley,
Harriet and Anne Seeley of Seattle, Miriam Beal of Portland,
Oregon and Mary McGinnis of Waterville.

Our new semester opened in a most peculiar manner for the first
week was one of enforced vacation. Seattle was visited with a snow-
f a l l of over four feet, the third in her history. For a week not a
street car was running as far out as the university, several of the
buildings on the campus were closed because of the danger of collapse
due to the heavy snow on the roofs. Indeed Denny Grandstand was
entirely wrecked as a result of the snow. The house was crowded
for several of the town girls were caught by the storm and were
unable to get home, but this helped to make us enjoy it all the more.

The greatest surprise of the year was the wedding of Vivian
So Relle to Mr. Robert Williams of Seattle. We learned of her
engagement just one week before her wedding which was very quiet.
She is living now i n Madison Park, Seattle, in a dear little house
overlooking Lake Washington.

Phi Beta Kappa elections were made a week ago, and we are very
happy to claim two, for Susie Paige and Edith Sifton were honored.

For our social service work, we have a standing committee which
investigates and keeps on record work which may be done by girls.
During our chapter meetings we have been making patchwork, and as
a result we have finished twenty-four baby comforters and twelve
children's dresses. Two of the girls are i n charge of boys' clubs,
two have story-hours at the orthopedic hospital, and several of the
girls have been taking turns at playing the organ for service in one
of the missions.

March 18 we gave an informal dance at the house. Everything
was in green befitting the clay. But now we are planning for the
dance we are to give at Fortuna Park across Lake Washington on
April 29th. Representatives from all the fraternities and sororities
on the campus are being invited and many of our alumna? are coming
back for it. On March 24th our patronesses entertained us with
a progressive dinner. A l l their homes were decorated with spring
flowers and then too, such a dinner!

Our house has been greatly improved with the lovely new blue
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we have refurnished the den with white wicker furniture upholstered
in dull blue which just matches the curtains.

The inauguration of President Suzzallo occurred March 20th and
21st. Presidents and high officials of nineteen different universities
and colleges assisted in the ceremonies, among whom was President
Butler of Columbia who gave the inaugural address. Three wonder-
f u l assemblies, open to the public, were held in the beautifully
decorated auditorium.

In closing Upsilon sends love and greetings to her sister chapters.

RUTH FOSDICK.

ALUMN.E NOTES

GENERAL

Beryl Dill, '14, is to install a new chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary
journalistic sorority, at the University of Montana, April 10th.

Charlotte Hall, ex-'i7, is teaching in the State Blind School at Vancouver,
Wash. She is also taking vocal lessons in Portland.

Minnie Kraus, '15, has graduated from business college.
Laura Hurd spent a week in Mount Vernon in March.
Ruby Clift, '14, visited at the chapter house for several days in February.

NU KAPPA, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Margaret Vaughan, '17 Maude Rasburry, '19

Lucinda Smith, '17 Erma Baker, '19

Martha Smith, '19 Nell Graham, '19

Louise Pendleton, '18 Nell Harris, '19

Margaret Bently, Spec. Genievieve Groce, '19

When all are so enthusiastic as they are now over tennis, basketball

and baseball, you may be sure our warm spring weather is here. Our

expectations for high score marks in athletic contests, are kept up by

the continual interest in practice. We girls have been working for

places on the first team, and our try-outs will take place very soon.

Our last fraternity meeting was a rather unusual one. We piled into

Margaret Bently's car, some on the radiator and some on the fenders,

and decided to go for a picnic. We haven't any great hills and

trees, but there is a little creek not far away. A creek calls for a

camp fire, and a camp fire calls for something to eat, and all of this

makes one think of good bacon broiling on sticks. That's what we

did, we broiled bacon. I t wasn't too cold to wade, so we have some

pictures of us wading in February.

Last Wednesday we gave a little party at Lucinda Smith's home,
in honor of our mothers and the ladies of the faculty. We had a
very nice time talking and becoming acquainted over our tea. The
Zeta Tau Alphas have just sent an invitation to us announcing a
reception for the T r i Delta's Grand Officer who is here during
their installation.

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Nu Kappa has decided that she will have an academic standard—
that is, an individual average, and one as a whole. Both must be
at least C and if one fails to make this, we have one of our members
who will investigate and i f possible help raise the grade. The pur-
pose of this is to make us feel our responsibility not only to ourselves
but to our fraternity.

We are always deeply interested in every publication of T o
DRAGMA, and now we are especially so, for we are studying for our
examinations so soon to be held.

With our very best wishes to all.
ERMA BAKER, Chapter Editor.

ALUMNA CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK ALUMNA

In spite of the fact that everyone in New York is helping with
money, time and talents in the numberless War Reliefs, there was
enthusiastic response to the secretary's request for help in pre-
paring bandages for a hospital on the firing line in Alsace. Before
the date set for the January meeting, rolls of cheese cloth came from
members who were unable to be present. I t was fortunate that
there was no special business to be transacted, for everyone was too
intent on cutting strips accurately, or managing the bandage roller,
to give close attention to anything else.

It was such a pleasure to feel that something definite had been
accomplished, for it has been so difficult to find work simple enough
to do during meetings, accordingly the Executive Committee decided
to devote the March meeting to the same work.

EDITH DIETZ, President.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNAE

The March meeting of San Francisco alumna; was held at the
home of Dorothy Clarke in Alameda. As usual the girls had a very
enjoyable meeting and a good attendance. There was a National
Panhellenic report given, followed by a discussion of cooperative
house management, and the fellowship plan of chaperonage.

The regular May meeting was held the last Saturday in March
so that our Grand President could be with us. We were all so
glad to see her and only wish she could be with us always. She
talked to us about our relation to the active chapter, and how we
could keep in personal touch with the girls. The meeting was
necessarily short, as it was held in Haywards, a whole hour and a

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half from the homes of most of the girls. But the country is beauti-
ful now, and we more than enjoyed the ride and the hospitality
of Irene Gay in her pretty home.

A L I C E FREULER, Secretary.

PROVIDENCE A L U M N A

These are glorious spring days when we feel we must accomplish
something. After the long and tedious winter, we come out again,
with the hibernating bear, and set to work. This winter has been
an interrupted one for us in Providence, and we feel that we are
still far away from our ideal. A t last we have our chapter by-laws,
but we are looking forward to the time when the Committee shall
have established some set of rules for Alumnae chapters so that
we may cooperate with the others, and feel a stronger bond with our
sisters in other cities. Rumor has it that our General Secretary
will be in Providence this week, and we are all hoping to have the
pleasure of meeting her. These representatives from other chapters
gives us new courage, for as most of you know, we are a group of
seven working members, and we need encouragement at times.

Once again let me say as I did in our first chapter letter that
To DRAGMA has been an inspiration to me, and let me publicly
thank our Grand President (as I have already done privately) for
her very helpful article in the February number. Whatever may be
of help in training up a child in the way he should go, is most
heartily appreciated by,

Yours very truly,

M A U D E E. C . COVELL, Secretary.

BOSTON ALUMNAE

In January we were fortunate enough to have two meetings, as
our regular December one was postponed on account of the holiday
season. At our January meeting we returned to our custom of
assembling at the home of one of our members. Charlotte Lowell
gave us a royal good time, as was shown by the fact that our president
had difficulty in maintaining order while the necessary business was
transacted.

At the February meeting Monica Pipe was our hostess, and know-
ing her of old in that capacity, the older alumnae responded readily,
it being one of our largest meetings. Even though the snow was
falling outside, we were cheered and reminded of the fact that
spring would be here sometime by the thoughtfulness of our hostess
in giving us jonquils upon which to feast our eyes.

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Our next meeting is to be with Isabellc Owler. I t will be our third
meeting in Someville, as a large number of our almunae live there.

The first Saturday in March the college alumnae held an informal
meeting in the Jackson gymnasium, and a third of those present
were our girls. "Brownie" Keating is president of the Tufts College
Alumnas Association, and it certainly should flourish under her wing.

We are all sorry to learn that our president is suffering from
rheumatic fever, but we all hope she will soon be able to be with
us again.

One of our girls devotes her entire time to Social Service work,
living in the Peabody House in Boston. But the Alumna; chapter
as a whole does not participate in this work to any great extent.
Our time and money have been devoted more to the needs of our
Alma Mater, to whom we feel our best is due. We have a scholarship
given to the woman in the senior class, who makes the best record in
the A . B . course. A few years ago a guest-room was furnished by
our alumna?. This has filled a long-felt want.

MARGARET T . FESSENDEN, Boston Alumna Secretary.

LINCOLN ALUMNJE

In spite of the fact that the winter has been a severe one and that
there has been a great deal of sickness, we have held our regular
monthly meetings.

For the January meeting Mabel Williams Beachly and Emma
Bennett Beckman were hostesses—at Emma's home. The day was
unusually cold, so that the number of girls present was small, but
those who braved the storm had a most enjoyable time.

In February we met with Nettie Chaplin Campbell, and Alma
Birkner Raulings at Alma's. We enjoyed having with us Lula
King Bigelow, also Nellie Kitchen James of Springfield, Mo. We are
always glad to have any of the girls "back" and at our meetings.

I know that all of you who know Annabel Good will be
pained to learn that her mother passed away on the third of April.
Many of you will remember that Annabel was one of Zeta's delegates
to the convention at Chicago in 1912.

Elsie Fitzgerald and her mother have returned home after spending
the winter in California.

Supt. and Mrs. Fred M . Hunter will spend the summer in New

York City. Mr. Hunter will attend the summer school at Columbia

University.
We are looking forward to a real reunion April 29th, at our

annual banquet. Laura Peterson, Bess Mitchell, Edna Spears, Mattie
Woodworth Higgins, and Salome S. Bratton are coming from

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Omaha—Edna Waite McCook, Breta Deihl Stratton, Lou Chace
Shultz Stanton, Janet McAllister, from Columbus, and Melvina
Waters from Norfolk will be here. Elsie Ford Piper, Grace Gannon,
and Gizella Birkner are planning to be home at that time. We wish
that we might have some of our sisters from other chapters with
us at our banquets and formals, but they are too far away.

This is our last letter before the summer vacation, so let me wish
you a happy and restful summer. I f any Alpha 0 goes traveling this
summer and can have her ticket routed through Lincoln, have it that
way by all means. We should like to know our sisters.

ELSIE FORD PIPER, Lincoln Alumna Editor.

LOS ANGELES ALUMN2E

Mrs. Lochridge wrote in the last letter of our Christmas work,
which Alice VVeyse so ably managed. A t present, we are sewing for
the children at the Home Society—a home for orphans and found-
lings, which is in a struggling condition for lack of funds. Through
our President, we buy the material at wholesale prices, and then make
it into clothes for the children. We intend to continue the sewing all
next year, and in addition, a committee has been appointed to take
magazines, flowers, good things to eat, etc., to the County and Chil-
dren's Hospitals. Each girl is to have completed a scrapbook by
December, so that we will have them for the Christmas baskets, which
we give every year to worthy poor.

By inserting notices in the morning papers several days before
the meetings, we hope to reach any Alpha 0 who is visiting in Los
Angeles, or any one who has not already received a notice. We have
already reached Miss McKenna of Zeta chapter by this means. We
are planning to call on some of the girls, who have failed to respond
to our urgent appeals to join. So many girls live outside of Los
Angeles, and even with the good car service, find it hard to attend.
Others seem to have lost interest, so we are going to see i f "persua-
sion by tongue" will be more effective than "persuasion by pen" seems
to have been. We hope to greatly increase the membership of this
chapter next year.

In May we will have a picnic in the hills. Several of the girls,
who own machines, will convey us to Griffith Park where we will have
our lunch and a general good time. We expect to have several social
meetings during the summer, probably luncheons and matinee parties.

In order to keep in touch with chapters represented in this Alumnae
chapter, one girl from each chapter represented, writes to her
chapter for a monthly letter. In this way, we feel we will not lose

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track of the girls. At the last meeting letters from Lambda and
Sigma chapters were read, but at the next meeting, we hope to have
them from Zeta and Iota chapters.

Los Angeles Alumnae wishes you all a very pleasant summer.

MILDRED H U N T E R S T A H L , For the Chapter.

CHICAGO A L U M N A

As we look back over the months since our last letter to you,
Chicago Alumnae seem to have been unusually frivolous, for we have
enjoyed in that time a luncheon, a banquet (which wasn't really
ours but which we were invited to attend) and a dinner. We cele-
brated Founders' Day with a luncheon at the Morrison Hotel,
Chicago. We dropped our custom, for this one occasion, of having
an appropriate program, and after a most enjoyable luncheon, "visit-
ed" for the remainder of the afternoon, enjoying also our first letter
from Julia Clemes, written on shipboard.

Our February chapter meeting was held with our bride of last June,
Marie Vick Swanson, in her cozy apartment in Evanston. This was
a large meeting for us, for, besides our "regulars," there were
present a number of Rho girls, back for the active initiation which
took place after our meeting. We enjoyed another characteristic
letter from Julia at this meeting, and one also from Ruby Rapp who
has lately accepted a position in a Wisconsin High School for the
remainder of the year. Almost all of those present attended the
initiation at the chapter-room in Willard H a l l , and the banquet
which followed in the evening.

On March 18th we entertained our husbands (or friends) at
dinner at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, and a very jolly affair it
proved to be. After the excellent dinner at 6:30, under the efficient
direction of Corns Peake, the hostess of the evening, we took a
course in the College of Nonsense, which proved to be highly
entertaining. We were delighted to have with us Mrs. Froyd of Zeta
and her husband from Springfield. Our only regret is that Mrs.
Froyd lives so far away that we cannot see her often. We wish
that we might see more Alpha O's from other chapters at our meetings.
We were glad to have Miss Flint of Gamma at one of our meetings
this winter, and we frequently have Rho and Iota visitors. We
think that there may be some Alpha O's residing near Chicago,
whom we have not reached, and whom we would gladly welcome to
our meetings, whether they cared to affiliate themselves with our
chapter or not. We should be so glad to meet any of our sisters
as they pass East or West through Chicago.

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As we look hack through this year it seems as though we had

accomplished little as a body, and that we have given less than we

could of our time and service and ourselves to those outside of our

immediate circle. Our chapter is young yet, however, and during

these early years, while we are struggling for an existence and acquir-

ing strength, our chief efforts are necessarily turned inward rather

than outward. When I asked one of our members i f we had done

anything this year in the way of social service, besides packing a

box for a settlement, she replied that she thought "it was some

'social' attempt just to keep together."

With best wishes to you all for a happy summer.

HARRIET ROBERTS MOSES, Chicago Alumna Editor.

INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNA

Since the last letter, Indianapolis Alumna? chapter has ha<i but one
regular meeting, and although for various reasons the attendance was
small, we were highly delighted to have a few of the out-of-town
members present. Just recently we had a special meeting at the
president's home to discuss several matters of vital importance.

We have given only a small part of our time to social service work,
as we have been concerned very actively in a local matter. The
Indianapolis Panhellenic, which is now a strong organization, has
this winter taken up the vocational training for women having as its
objective point the placing of college women in other professions than
teaching. The work is being started among Butler women by having
a series of meetings on which occasions women and men in various
lines of work address the students. The alumnse chapters here are
all cooperating in this work. Recently a series of teas was given by
the Panhellenic to which all national fraternity women were invited
for the purpose of raising a scholarship fund for some worthy girl.
Each guest brought a dime.

I t is with sadness that we tell of the great sorrow that came to
us by the sudden death of one of our alumna?, Gladys Whitaker
McCracken of Martinsville, Ind.

FLORENCE I . HOSTETTER,

Secretary of Indianapolis Alumna;.

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 309

THE FRATERNITY WORLD

EXCHANGES

Exchanges please send magazines to :
Mrs. Benjamin F. Stewart, Sierra City, Cal.
Miss Mary Ellen Chase, Bozeman, Mont.
Miss Helen Charlotte Worster, Caribou, Maine.
Miss Anna Estelle Many, 1325 Henry Clay Ave., New Orleans, La.

We acknowledge with thanks the following exchanges, which have
been received by us since the first of February last:

December—The Beta Sigma Omicron.
January—The Mask of Kappa Psi.
February—The Adelphean of Alpha Delta Pi, The Angelos of
Kappa Delta, The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, The Key of Kappa
Kappa Gamma, The Phi Chi Quarterly, The Caduceus of Kappa
Sigma, The Trident of Delta Delta Delta, The Eleusis of Chi Omega.
The Beta Theta Pi, The Phi Gamma Delta, The Tomahawk of
Alpha Sigma Phi, The Shield and Diamond of Pi Kappa Alpha,
The Sigma Chi Quarterly, and The Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha.
March—Kappa Alpha Theta, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, The Phi
Gamma Delta, The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, The Garnet and
White of Alpha Chi Rho, The Journal of Kappa Alpha, The Cross
Keys of Kappa Kappa Kappa. The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
and The Alpha Chi Delta.
A p r i l — T h e Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, The Anchora of Delta
Gamma, and The Trident of Delta Delta Delta.

We are indebted to The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega for this reprint
of a toast given by Virginia Fiske Greene at the Y. W. C. A. dinner
to the Fourteenth National Panhellenic Congress.

T H E SPIRIT OF SERVICE

N. P. C. TOAST BY VIRGINIA F I S K G R E E N E , A X 0

T h i s annual gathering of fraternity women from all over the country,
in a common cause, and about one board (metaphorically speaking) is an
inspiration to every one of us. W h i l e we might not go so far as to call it
"the opportunity of a life-time" in the fraternity w o r l d , it is nevertheless one
w h i c h comes to us a l l too r a r e l y , and it is e m i n e n t l y fitting that we use it i n a
helpful interchange of ideas.

Instead of dwelling upon any of the many ways in which fraternities have
been, and can be, of use in the community—that is, upon the actual service
i t s e l f — I should like to devote my b r i e f three minutes to the k i n d or quality
of spirit which should lie back of the service.

A s individuals, each one of us has inherent rights—such as life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness; but in order that our liberty m a y not become license
and o u r h a p p i n e s s selfish, a k i n d l y providence h a s fixed upon us certain

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obligations a n d responsibilities. O u r lives would be empty a n d meaningless
if mere living were the goal of individual attainment, for life itself i s of
no value to the i n d i v i d u a l or to the w o r l d except i n s o f a r as it has been a l i f e
of service to the cause of h u m a n i t y . T h i s makes c l e a r that the p r i n c i p l e of
service transcends our privileges or obligations, and therefore this principle
of service s h o u l d be the a n i m a t i n g purpose o f f r a t e r n i t y l i f e .

Undoubtedly it is instinctive with each of us to seek happiness—but it is
a profound fact of nature that we can never find it alone. I t is the harmonic
relation between individuals which brings happiness, and therein lies one of the
strongest j u s t i f i c a t i o n s o f f r a t e r n i t y . E a c h f r a t e r n i t y should be a h a r m o n i c
grouping of relationships. I n this w a y we should have a strong nucleus for
accomplishment, and the most satisfactory tool of accomplishment is personal
effort on the part of each member. Without personal effort nothing of value
can be a t t a i n e d ; w i t h it, m u c h that is r e a l l y w o r t h w h i l e h a s been brought to
pass by the fraternities.

F o r instance, P i Beta P h i has been enabled to found her mountain school
in the South, and A l p h a C h i Omega has built her artist studio at the Macdowell
colony in Peterboro, N . H . I only cite these two instances with which I
happen to be personally familiar, but undoubtedly every fraternity represented
in the Congress has some p a r t i c u l a r record of practical achievement to its
credit.

N o w this is real service; but the most important thing is not the accomplish-
ment itself; it is the spirit in which it has been done. I f it has been done
unselfishly, with no thought o f glory to the f r a t e r n i t y ; i f it has been done
ungrudgingly, in a spirit of willingness and cheerfulness, then it has been true
service. T h u s it is our o w n attitude of soul t o w a r d the w o r k to be done w h i c h
determines the spirit in which we shall do it.

F o r example: we are t r y i n g to raise our standard o f scholarship. A r e we
d o i n g it because we feel that we h a v e to do i t a n d because some other f r a -
ternity will rank ahead of us i f we don't? O r are we doing it enthusiastically,
with the idea of getting the utmost possible out of our college course?

A g a i n : we may have taken up some sort of social service work. W h a t is
the motive h e r e ? A r e we d o i n g it because it i s the t h i n g to do, a n d our
N a t i o n a l C o u n c i l h a s u r g e d u s to i d e n t i f y ourselves w i t h this k i n d o f w o r k ?
O r are we doing it happily and cheerfully with an earnest desire to help those
less fortunate than ourselves?

E a c h of us is a unit of force in the great body of humanity, and we owe
it to society to be a healthy unit a n d to render the highest measure of service
of which we are capable. Fraternities which are animated with the unselfish
spirit of service will rapidly outgrow the confines of the colleges and universities
which gave them birth, and we may readily see how eventually their greatest
usefulness may be in the world at large.

T h e thought w h i c h I w o u l d l i k e to leave w i t h y o u is that i n the f u l l per-
formance of a service there is something vastly more important than the
mechanical act of doing. W e must not only do our work in the world, but
it should be constructive work done in the right spirit.

The Eleusis of Chi Omega contains the following quotation from
Hamilton Wright Mabie. We copy it, feeling that it is especially
appropriate for a Social Service number.

TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 311

T H I S IS T H E AGE OF T H E T R A I N E D M A N A N D T H E
T R A I N E D WOMAN. T H A T IS T H E T H I N G T H A T I
W A N T T O W R I T E ON YOUR HEARTS. T H E R E WAS A
TIME I N THIS COUNTRY WHEN OPPORTUNITIES
W E R E SO G R E A T , A N D W H E N T H E R E WAS SO M U C H
TO BE DONE, T H A T A N Y M A N OR WOMAN W H O H A D
A GOOD HEART A N D A GOOD CHARACTER A N D A
STRONG RIGHT ARM MIGHT ACHIEVE A CERTAIN
DEGREE OF SUCCESS. I A M N O T SAYING T H A T T H I S
T I M E HAS ENTIRELY PASSED. BUT THIS I A M SAYING
TO YOU, T H A T I F I WERE A YOUNG M A N OR A YOUNG
WOMAN GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD TODAY, I
WOULD NOT DARE TO GO OUT, UNLESS I H A D GIVEN
MYSELF EVERY POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTU-
NITY, UNLESS I H A D MADE MYSELF ABSOLUTELY
MASTER OF T H E T H I N G T H A T I WANTED TO DO. I
TELL YOU TODAY, T H A T T H E TRAGEDY OF MODERN
LIFE IS T H E TRAGEDY OF T H E HALF-EDUCATED M A N
OR W O M A N ; I T IS T H E T R A G E D Y OF T H E M A N OR
WOMAN WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING AND CAN
DO N O T H I N G WELL.

Hamilton IV. Mabie.

From The Alpha Phi Quarterly:

SUMMER SERVICE FOR COLLEGE PEOPLE

W i t h i n the past f e w y e a r s a n e w avenue o f c i v i c service h a s been opened to
college men and women, namely the D a i l y Vacation Bible Schools. These
are conducted by many churches in the cities throughout the entire United
States for six weeks every summer.

T h e three-fold purpose of this w o r k is to utilize the c h u r c h b u i l d i n g s , idle
most o f the w e e k ; to c a l l to service the college youths, home f o r the v a c a t i o n ;
and to keep the little c h i l d r e n from the vice a n d sin a n d d a n g e r o f the city
streets d u r i n g the l o n g summer d a y s .

Where the work has been conducted for many consecutive summers and
there are a number of schools, usually one executive board, composed of
c h u r c h m e n a n d l a y m e n , attended to the finances. O t h e r w i s e each c h u r c h finances
its o w n school, although the m e m b e r s h i p is by no m e a n s l i m i t e d to its S u n d a y
School p u p i l s . M a n y c h u r c h e s i n a r i s t o c r a t i c neighborhoods w i l l finance the
D. V . B . S. conducted by a mission church in a slum district.

The children make, besides the usual kindergarten articles, rope hammocks,
raffia and reed baskets. They also sew and cook. There is an hour of Bible
story a n d a time f o r m u s i c finished off by the A m e r i c a n flag salute. E v e r y
college man and woman ought to do his share in this still young but highly
helpful work i f his town offers the opportunity. H e or she may do it without
pay i f he choses, but the salary is there for a l l teachers, and the schools need
the highest type of workers as inspiration to the children.

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From the Sigma Kappa Triangle we quote the two poems which
follow. The second was written by a member of Alpha Chi Delta.
Can we not make it voice the spirit of Alpha O ?

" I f there be good in what I wrought,
T h y hand compelled it, Master, T h i n e ;
W h e r e I have failed to meet T h y thought
I know, through Thee, the blame is mine.
One instant's toil to T h e e denied
Stands all Eternity's offense,
O f that I did w i t h T h e e to guide
T o T h e e , through Thee, be excellence.
The depth and dream of my desire,
The bitter paths wherein I stray,
T h o u knowest who has made the fire,
T h o u knowest who has made the clay,
One stone the more swings to her place
In that dread Temple of T h y worth—
It is enough that through T h y grace
I saw naught common on T h y earth."

—RUOYARD KIPLING.

UNGIFTED

Did I but have Apollo's lyre,
Or song-king Schubert's lyric strain,
Or wondrous Sappho's words of fire,

I ' d sing for thee.

Had I immortal Caisar's dower
Of mighty sword and mightier brain,
Or Alexander's conquering power,

I'd fight for thee.

I only have my strong, bare hands,
A great and reverent love for thee,
A n d these I place at thy commands.

I'll work for thee.

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 313

COLLEGE AND FRATERNITY NOTES

Chicago Record-Herald prints the following report of the Collegi-
ate Bureau:

T w o h u n d r e d and fifty-nine women were placed in good positions d u r i n g
the y e a r by the C h i c a g o Collegiate B u r e a u of O c c u p a t i o n s , a c c o r d i n g to the
annual report just published.

O f this n u m b e r 104 were stenographers, 51 were c l e r k s , p r o o f r e a d e r s and
office assistants, 11 were bookkeepers, 31 were tutors, governesses, companions
a n d c h a p e r o n s ; 18 were superintendents a n d 10 were executives.

T h e bureau "puts college girls to work at everything but teaching," according
to Miss H e l e n M . Bennett, manager, "and wants anybody who needs an intelli-
gent w o m a n to do any legitimate k i n d of w o r k " to send to her b u r e a u .

T h e c a l l s f r o m employers went f r o m 345 d u r i n g the p r e c e d i n g y e a r to
446 last, a n d 60 per cent of the places were filled.

T h e fraternities at the U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n have adopted an inter-

esting p l a n to w i n the a p p r o v a l a n d good-will of the n e w s p a p e r s o f the state.

One of the most popular courses at W a s h i n g t o n is the department of j o u r n a l i s m

which is headed by D e a n F r a n k K a n e , who is one of the best known teachers

of journalism in the country. H e has instituted an annual Washington News-

paper Institute, which meets for three ( 3 ) days every year, and the newspaper

editors from all over the state attend it. Recently the fourth annual institute

w a s held a n d the fraternities invited the editors to be their guests throughout

the convention. T h e editors had a great time and when they returned to their

homes, they h a d a lot of first-hand knowledge about college fraternities. T h e y

h a d had an opportunity to see the societies at close r a n g e , to see that the

fraternities were m a k i n g college homes for their members, that the upperclass-

men were looking after the scholarship, comfort and morals of the younger

men, and that the atmosphere of a fraternity house is wholesome. T h e fra-

ternities made a lot of friends through the unusual o p p o r t u n i t y . — R e f e r e n c e

Bureau News Bulletin.

WHAT OTHER FRATERNITIES A R E DOING

T h e K A G committee on the scholarship fund reported that twelve girls

had, through the assistance of this fund, received their degrees last J u n e . —

Banta's Greek Exchange.

Some G a m m a P h i chapters belong as a u n i t to a social service league a n d
each of their members in the name of the fraternity pledges an hour a week
to social service. Other G a m m a P h i chapters have given up their regular
w e e k l y social h o u r and devote the time to s e w i n g for hospital c h i l d r e n or the
Belgians. Gamma Phi also maintains a scholarship fund.

Alpha Phi is interested, as we all may know, in playgrounds. The A l p h a Phi

chapter at Northwestern maintains a s e w i n g class in the settlements. T h e

chapter at L e l a n d Stanford, J r . , U n i v e r s i t y has a scholarship f u n d . O n e of

the eastern chapters supports a vacation Bible school and kindergarten in the

t e n e m e n t s . — A l p h a Phi Quarterly.—Banta's Greek Exchange.

O f all the Greek-letter fraternities, C h i O m e g a seems to have one of the
most definite and systematic plans of social service. Civic and social service
is now an integral part of C h i Omega's national program.

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P i P h i is interested in raising the standard of the theatrical productions
of today for the sake of the children who more and more are spending their
time and money to see plays and m o v i n g pictures w h i c h become so potent
a force in child education. Pi Phi also maintains a scholarship fund of $500.

Delta Delta Delta supports an employment bureau and a department in
charge of competent women of broad experience to advise girls how and for
what to train.

Alpha C h i Omega supports a studio in an artists' colony in New H a m p -
shire.

Kappa Alpha Theta has a traveling scholarship fund.

E i g h t y - f i v e poor children of C h a m p a i g n were entertained at C h r i s t m a s
parties b y the different f r a t e r n i t i e s and sororities at I l l i n o i s . — B a n t a ' s Greek
Exchange.

A J e w i s h sorority has been founded at Western Reserve with the intention
of becoming national.

A N e w Y o r k l a w y e r who died recently bequeathed $5,000 to his chapter
of K A at Williams.

A K E heads the list in number of college presidents with twenty-two.—
Record of S A E .

Mrs. Marion Craig-Wentworth, the author of the much discussed play,

War Brides, is a K K T . She graduated f r o m M i n n e s o t a in ' 9 4 . — B a n t a ' s

Greek Exchange.

N o fraternity or sorority not l i v i n g up to the standard set by Washington

Greek-letter societies in the past w i l l be allowed to exist on the c a m p u s , a c c o r d -

i n g to a recent statement of P r e s i d e n t S u z z a l l o , who has been m a k i n g a study

of the various organizations.

"Generally speaking," he said, "the fraternities and sororities at the uni-

versity are better, and always as good, as those at other universities. I t is

wise, however, to maintain this standard by preventive measures, and no one

or two f r a t e r n i t i e s w i l l be permitted to exist w h i c h tend to d r a g the other

organizations down."

D r . Suzzallo complimented the societies for the simplicity w h i c h in general

characterizes their buildings and furnishings, stating that they were superior

in this respect to o r g a n i z a t i o n s at m a n y other colleges. H e believes that

houses and furnishings should not cost more than $25,000, declaring that the

president's office would not approve of a larger expenditure than this amount.

T h e membership of the local societies, D r . Suzzallo noted, is larger than at

most other institutions. F r o m The University of Washington Daily.

I t is no longer impossible f o r women in P e r s i a to receive first-class education.
I n the school recently opened in T e h e r a n for the daughters o f Persian parents
as well as in the schools of the F r e n c h A l l i a n c e and the schools founded by
America and Germany in Persia, girls are attending in increasing numbers
but with provision that they shall retain the veil. T h e young Persians, espe-
cially the sons of aristocrats who have been educated in E u r o p e , are eager for
the emancipation of women and desire to find in them educated companions.
T h e tendency is toward the abolition of the veil among Persian women and

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the acceptance of the education of the W e s t . I n T e h e r a n , some of the women

are found taking lessons in French and piano-playing with an occasional

study of the habits and literature of other nations. T h e interest in reform

among Persian women was made evident d u r i n g the recent revolution. A

women's club was founded especially among reform-loving women in Teheran.

Education throughout Persia is showing evidence of a new liberalism.—Banta's

Greek Exchange.

Official figures of registration at C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y as given out show

a total of 14,575 students enrolled in the various local courses. W i t h 3,000

others m a t r i c u l a t i n g at several suburban branches, C o l u m b i a this year has

17,000 k n o w l e d g e s e e k e r s . — B a n t a ' s Greek Exchange.

A m o n g the fraternities which have by positive legislation barred liquor from

a l l f r a t e r n i t y f u n c t i o n s are A T 0, 13 9 I I , A T A , $ A 9, 2 A E a n d 2 X .

—Banta's Greek Exchange.

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