1909 November - To Dragma

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BIRTHS
ALPHA
On Oct. 31, '09, a girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Vincent
Mullan (Helen St. Clair, A, '98).

OMICRON

Born. June 18, 1909 to Mrs. Milton Preston Jarnigan (Dorothy
Greeve, Omcron '05) a son, Milton Preston Jarnigan, I I I .

In April there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Rankin (Jess
Swann '06) a daughter.

ZETA
Born to Mr. and Mrs. George C. Shockey (Laura Buchanan '06)
on October 12, '09, a girl, Patrice Lucille.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beaumont (Luree Biemer,
special) a boy, Oct. 23, '09.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pollard (Gertrude Waterman) a
boy.
On September 17th '09, there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
Wigton, (Jessie Mosher) a girl.

SIGMA

Sigma is very happy to hear that the homes of three of her alum-
nae members, Hattie Fish Bacchus, Martha Rice Furlong and Hazel
Skinner Schnabel have recently been visited by the stork. I n each
case, a daughter was the addition to the family.

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NEWS OF THE ALUMNAE

ALPHA

Elizabeth Toms, '06 is acting as secretary to Dr. Luther Halsey
Gulick, president of the Play ground Assocciation of America.

Edith Dietz '05 and Josephine Pratt '07 visited this summer with
the Chicago Alphas, and met the Rho chapter girls.

Mrs. Francis B. Sumner (Margaret Clark A, '02) and her little
daughter will spend the winter in Naples with Mr. Sumner, who is
doing some work at the Stazione Zoologica.

PI

Marguerite Saunders, Pi, '07 spent several weeks during the sum-
mer with a party of friends in Colorado. She is now taking post-
graduate work at Newcomb.

Alice Ivy, Pi, '03 spent the summer in Virginia.
Mrs. H . A. Moise, Pi, '00 is again living in New Orleans after
spending a year over in Covington, Louisiana. She is an enthusiastic
Alpha, and her very presence in town gives inspiration to I I .
Katherine M. Reed, Pi, '00 visited her sister Edna Whaley, Pi, '03,
during the summer at her home in Columbia, S. C.
May Sterling Parkerson, Pi, '03 is spending several weeks in
New York.
Anna Many and Nell Bres visited Bess Lyon for several weeks
at her home in Clarksville, Tenn. That was truly a '07 reunion!
Virginia Reese Withers visited Dorothy Safford during September,
and was present at the opening of college. I I Chapter felt as i f
it was beginning well at least, when Virginia was there.
Mrs. Abner Cook, Pi, '09 will spend the winter in New Orleans,
and chaperone all A O I I parties.
Lily Mysing, Pi, '08 spent the summer in Europe.
Early in June Lily Dupre paid us a short visit, and I I Chapter
gave a luncheon in honor of her and Julia Byrne both of '07.
Sue Gillian spent the summer at a nearby resort, and the active
members spent so much money going over for "advice" that the chap-
ter verged on bankruptcy.
May Norman, Pi, '06 has returned from her summer home over
the Lake.
Clevie Dupre, Pi, '04 paid us a visit at the opening of school.
She brought with her a little sister in whom we take great pride!
Harriette Greeve, Omicron '06, is filling the chair of history at
the Central High School at Chattanooga.

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OMICRON

Lillian Wells, Omicron '08, while visiting in Indiana during the
past summer had the pleasure of meeting and being entertained by
several of the Theta girls. I n return several of the Omicron girls
living in Chattanooga, were delighted to meet Jess Leavell and Edna
Stackard, Theta, when they visited there.

Lucretia Jordan, Omicron '08 is the guest of friends in Knoxville.
She will be with us until December when she will leave for her new
home in Asheville, N . C.

Clevie Dupre, Pi, '04 was the guest for a few days in September,
of Mattie Ayers.

Katharine Gresham Harrison, Omicron '07, has moved to Blythe-
ville, Arkansas, where her husband is making quite a success at the
bar.

Emma Albers Hunt is spending the winter in Asheville, N . C.

ZETA

Elsie F. Piper '04 is principal of the high school at Ashland,
Neb.

Emma Perry '09 is teaching in the high school at Bertrand.
Mattie Woodworth '09 is attending a business college.
Esther Devalon ex-'11 is teaching fifth grade in one of the Omaha
grade schools.

Alfreda Powell '09, spent the summer in California, and was
fortunate enough to meet the Sigma girls.

Helen Steiner '11 visited in Chicago during the summer and met
the Rho chapter.

Edna King '07, who has been teaching in Aberdine, S. Dak., has
given up her school, and will spend the winter in Lincoln.

Charlotte Wallace, special, is spending the winter in Seattle, and
is attending the University of Washington.

Jennie Piper is teaching history at the Temple, the university's
model school, and has accepted a scholarship in American History
at the University of Nebraska.

Alma Birkner '10 is home from a year's visit and study in Ger-
many.

Florence Parmalee '07 has been selected as the state secretary of
the Y. W. C. A.

Allene McEachron '05 has a position in the South Omaha High
School, teaching Latin.

Elizabeth E. (Bess) Mitchell, so long identified in To DRAGMA
by "Zeta, spec." has at last reached the round in the ladder, at which
she has been graduated June 21, '09 from the Kindergarten Training

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School, Oberlin, Ohio. At present she is director of one of the kinder-
gartens of South Omaha.

The Alpha O's in Omaha now number six. Enthusiastic meetings
are held every few weeks, and hopes for an alumnae chapter in the
near future are entertained.

THETA

Mary Duncan '08 is in the Missionary Training School in Chica-
go. Her address is 4949 Indiana Ave.

Irma Horn is teaching in Ritzville, Wash.
Margaret Pyke '09 is teaching German in the Greencastle High
School.
Irene Newman is doing primary work in Indianapolis.
Cora Frazier is again teaching in Ardmore, Okla.
Mrs. Ray Fellows, nee Goldie Huffman '08 is living in Broken
Arrow, Okla.
Lucy Allen '08 is attending the Normal at Terre Haute.

DELTA

Dorothy Temple Brown '06 is spending the winter in Rome.

GAMMA

Mary E. Chase, '09, is teaching in the Hillside Home School,
Hillside, Wisconsin.

Martha G. Knight, '09, is teaching in the Dixfield High School,
Dixfield, Maine.

Florence P. Chase, '09, is acting as assistant principal of the
Norridgewock High School, Norridgewock, Maine.

Cora and Christine Shaw are both teaching in the Bluehill Acad-
emy, Bluehill, Maine.

EPSILON

Isabelle Stone has returned from Athens, Greece, where she has
been for a year.

Roberta Pritchard is doing graduate work at the University of
Wisconsin.

RHO

Edith Dietz, Alpha '05, spent three weeks in Chicago this sum-
mer with Mrs. Alice Smith Thomson, Alpha '05, who has moved from
St. Louis. Numerous small gatherings were held in her honor, one
of which was a luncheon at the home of Mrs. Lula King Bigelow,
Zeta '04, where two representatives each from Alpha, Rho and Zeta

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were present, the latter including Helen Steiner, who was spending
the summer in the city. Others, who would have swelled the ranks
of Rho and Zeta, were unable to attend.

Josephine Pratt, Alpha '07, has been visiting Mrs. Thomson dur-
ing October. Carolyn Piper Dorr, Rho, '07, entertained Rho chapter
in her new home "for Miss Pratt and also for the f u n of i t . " Mrs.
Thomson also entertained the chapter at luncheon. Miss Pratt stayed
over for Rho's first informal dance.

The Chicago Alumnae are planning to have informal monthly
luncheons, to include any active or alumnae, until we are strong
enough to have an alumnae chapter. When the time and place are
announced, we hope all A O II's who happen to be in the city w i l l
make it a point to attend.

Edith Moody, '11 is studying at the University of Minnesota
this winter, but will return to Northwestern for her senior year.

EXCHANGES

A O I I will appreciate the placing of the following names on the
exchange list of the fraternity publications: Grand President, Miss
Jessie Ashley, 5 Nassau Street, New York City; Grand Recording
Secretary, Miss Elizabeth I . Toms, 44 West 128th Street, New
York City; Editor, Viola C.^Ray, 1527 S. 23rd Street, Lincoln,
Neb.; Inter-Sorority Delegate, Mrs. C. G. Bigelow, 1607 S. 6th
Ave., Maywood, 111.

We wish to acknowledge receipt of the following magazines:
June, Circle of Zeta Psi; July, Lyre of A X O; Sigma Kappa
Triangle; Phi Chi Fraternity Quarterly; Anchora of A T; August,
Alpha Phi Quarterly; Eleusis of X Q; October, Key of K K T;
Sigma Kappa Triangle; Mask of K * ; American College; Novem-
ber, Kappa Alpha Theta Quarterly; Anchora of A T; Aglaia of
$ M ; Eleusis of X f i ; Arrow of I I B $ ; The Alpha X i Delta of
A H A ; Alpha Phi Quarterly; Themis of Z T A ; Lyre of A X O;
American College; December, Triangle of 2 2 2 ; Key of K K T ;
American College.

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NEWS OF THE COLLEGE AND GREEK LETTER WORLD

The University of Nebraska offers a course in Swedish langauge.

George Ade has been appointed Grand Consul of 2 X .

A Y celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in November.

Commander Robert E. Peary is a member of A K E and planted
its flag at the Pole.

The twenty-first convention of the Alpha Phi Fraternity was held
in Baltimore, Md., March 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1910.

A Y boasts of 1812 alumni subscribers to its quarterly, and is
making a special effort to increase the number to 2,000 by Novem-
ber, 1909.

A 2 A Sorority has placed her Kappa Phi Chapter at M t . Union
College, Ohio. This is the first chapter of A 2 A north of the Mas-
on-Dixon line.—Themis Z T A.

The University of Virginia added $1,000,000 to its endowment
fund recently, one-half being the gift of Mr. Carnegie, and the
rest being donations from the alumni.—American College.

Alumnae chapters of A T have been given a recognized place i n
fraternity affairs and now stand on the same footing in convention
as our active chapters, having been granted the same voting privi-
leges.—Anchora.

A t its last convention, the I I K A Fraternity hitherto a strictly
Southern Fraternity, declared for Northern extension and chapters
will be placed in the North immediately. I I K A has thirty-two
Southern chapters.—Themis Z T A.

The number of students enrolled on Barnard's opening day was
about 500. This is an increase of nearly 100 over the registration
of two years ago, and is ahead of last year's figures by about twenty.
The freshman class numbers 177 up to date.—American College.

To sum up many questions in one, as to the test of a chapter's
efficiency, do the members of the chapter regard fraternity and its
interests as the main thing, the all absorbing interest of their col-
lege life, or as a factor, delightful to be sure, but necessarily sub-
ordinate to college interests and serious college work?—Key.

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The Zwinglius Grover scholarship at the University of Chicago
has been awarded to Miss Helen Fisher Peck, 31 Ashland Boule-
vard, Chicago. The scholarship is endowed by the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of Dearborn Seminary, and is awarded each year to a Senior
College student as an evidence of "high scholarship and promise."—
Chicago, Illinois News Letter.

I t is hardly possible to put too much emphasis on the absolute
necessity for a businesslike administration of chapter finances. Care-
lessness and sliphod ways in this respect have wrecked the happiness
of more than one chapter, and the rocks lie jut beneath the surface
waiting for other heedless mariners in these waters.—Kappa Alpha
Theta. Quoted by Themis of Z T A.

Every sorority anxious to keep up and increase its strength, must
recognize the necessity of each year selecting girls who plan to take
the f u l l four years course. Four years' training in the affairs of
the sorority is none too long to insure alumnae who are sufficiently
well acqauinted with their organization to be able to further its
interests in a new and larger field.—2 K Triangle.

The University of Kansas is to enter the market as a manufact-
urer, according to Professor Griffith, of the department of painting
and design. Fine pottery is to be the product, and as soon as possi-
ble, Kansas clays will be used. Miss Maria Benson, the instructor
for the new department, is from the famous Newcomb potteries of
Tulane University at New Orleans. Thirty-four students are en-
rolled for the work.—Key.

As a child I used often to wonder what the Bible words: "A
house divided against itself," meant. Growing older I reasoned that
they probably referred to family dissensions. As a college girl, the
phrase applies itself always to fraternity life. The gravest reproach
that can be cast upon a chapter is that within it there is a lack of
unity, a failure to co-operate, petty jealousy and strife. Usually
this condition arises from misunderstanding.—Lyre A X Q.

I n the process of rushing, the girls we get are not the only prizes
we gain. During no other time is such a test put upon each girl to
show what she really is. Under all sorts of circumstances she learns
to make herself agreeable to strangers. She brings out all her pow-
ers to seek for a response in the rushee, and learns to use tact, con-
sideration and discrimination. The value gained from studying dif-
ferent personalities and quickly sizing up girls is great.—Arrow
nB

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The Colorado legislature has appropriated $70,000 for the cen-
tral portion of a Science and Museum building for the State Uni-
versity. The approximate cost of the completed structure will be
$270,000.

The University of Colorado is also to have a new auditorium
costing about $300,000. The building will seat 3000 people.—
American College.

The determined stand of the girls of Wooster University, Woos-
ter, O., caused the abrogation of an order that the girls' college fra-
ternities must die. The girls threatened to strike i f the order was
not withdrawn, and the fraternity boys, fearing a similar order
against their societies, offered to join in a walkout. The faculty has
taken the matter under advisement, and when a decision has been
reached, final action will be taken.—American Education Review i n
Lyre of A X fl.

The need of a strong chapter is a well-worn subject, yet it can-
not but be a very vital one to every fraternity girl. We all wish to
belong to the strongest chapter, and yet we desire all the others to
be strong, too, and we certainly dislike to hear outsiders say that at
this or that university our fraternity is "not much." Necessarily
some chapters must be stronger than others, but let us differ in de-
grees of strength rather than in being strong or weak; let us have
the strong, stronger and strongest varieties of chapters.—Lyre A X O.

Miss Laura Drake, chairman of the educational committee of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs, announces the conditions of
the $1,500 scholarship at Oxford which the federation will award
for the year beginning 1910. Each state has the privilege of sub-
mitting a candidate and in case of a tie the state which has contrib-
uted toward the scholarship will get the preference. Every can-
didate must be the graduate of an American college in good stand-
ing, unmarried and not over 27.—New York Sun, quoted by Arrow
of n B <£.

Would you not be glad to have Kappa, and indeed all our fra-
ternities, recognized as a group of wide-awake women, ready and
eager to take part in community as well as self-improvement? And
are they so recognized? When any plan for community betterment
is before the public, are fraternity women, as fraternity women,
called on for support? Is it that the public does not realize the
fraternities' completeness of organization and extent of influence,
or does it consider them merely social factors in college life?—Key.
From the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.

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I f , at the start, a group of petitioners is certainly in earnest; i f ,
at the start, they are worthy men; if, at the start, they are financial-
ly sound; i f , at the start, they are recognized by the rest of the
college, why wait? I n most cases they are better at the start than
they are later, because as time goes on a sentiment against the lo-
cal organization is created by the national fraternities. As members
of a local organization they are sure to lose the fight for new men,
and since we desire to enter the institution such loss is directly our
loss.—Delta of Sigma Nu, quoted by Anchora.

College Honors! What do those two words mean? Fraternity
men are in the habit of proudly enumerating the college offices held
by the members of their chapter and when the list is made up they
entitle it "College Honors." I f these offices have come as the spon-
taneous recognition of merit of fitness for the office, then they are
indeed "honors." I f , however, they are the result of scheming and
unfair combinations in which a better man has been defeated, the
word "honors" is a misnomer and we prefer to label them with the
more correct term, "dishonors."—Scroll of $ A 0, quoted by the
Key.

The strong fraternity of the future will be the one that is
shrewd enough to discern which are the coming great institutions,
and then to grant charters to "first groups" applying for them. To
refuse a charter to the first in the field results very often in sub-
sequent handicaps; for while the group, nothing daunted, is deter-
minedly waiting for eventual success, other fraternities may enter
the institution and the race becomes an unequal one between lo-
cal and national organizations. Is it good fraternity economics to
place a local chapter at a serious disadvantage through the refus-
al of a charter, and then some time later, after granting it, to stand
at a safe distance and watch a struggle back to the coveted early
first place?—Kappa Alpha Theta.

We often wonder just why a "lost bid" is always such a skele-
ton in the fraternity closet. You offer the privilege of membership
only to those you consider worthy of the honor, and i f for various
and sundry reasons the prospective member finds another society
more congenial, have you lowered your standards any because you
desired a worthy person?

I t would be absurd to proclaim defeat from the housetops yet
this wrong conception may work harm within any fraternity. Too
often this aspect is made the dominant force in the final decision.
The chapter that never "lost a bid" probably does not exist and such
a stagnant condition could not work well in the long run—whole-

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some competition is good for all of us and nothing risked is generally
nothing gained.—A $ Quarterly.

As we talked matters over last year at the close of the rushing sea-
son, we came to the conclusion that it would be a good plan to give
our pledges some definite instruction on certain fraternity matters
before they were initiated. I t seemed to us that it would be useful
in two ways. I n the first place, it would prevent the pledged girls
from feeling that sense of being on the outside of things, that some
of us had experienced. With us there is quite an interval between
pledge-day and initiation, and it seemed well for the pledges to gain
some connection with fraternity during that time, other than their
pleasant intimacies with the girls. Our second reason was our desire
that the freshmen girls should enter with a good foundation of
knowledge of some details on which to build. We thought it would
make their preparation for the examination easier, as well as prepare
them better for a strong fraternity life.—2 K Triangle.

Adelbert College of Western Reserve University claims the old-
est living college graduate in the person of Mr. George A. Griswold,
of Kinsman, Ohio, who is "hale and hearty" at the age of 96 years.
Mr. Griswold entered Adelbert College in 1830 when the institution
was located at Hudson, Ohio, and he was graduated in 1835. Prob-
ably the premier old grad in the history of the country was Rev.
Nathan Birdseye, of the class of Yale of 1736, who died 82 years
afterwards, in 1818, at the age of 103 years, 5 months and 9 days.
He was an ordained clergyman for 81 years. When he was 100
years old he rode five miles to church, and altho substantially blind
he lined off the hymns, preached the sermon, repeated the scripture
and made the prayer. His record of over 81 years as a clergyman
appears at length in the History of the Congregational Church of
Connecticut from 1707 to 1857.—American College.

Dr. Brown Ayres, President of the University of Tennessee has
been elected President of the Association of State Universities of
America.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie has presented sixty thousand dollars to
the University of Tennessee to be used for the erection of a library,
the equipment of which is to be furnished by the University.

At Nebraska, there has been organized a new society, called
Acoth, which is to all intents and purposes, the same to the Eastern
Star as the Acacia is to the Masonic order. Unlike Acacia, frater-
nity people may be elected to membership. The new society hopes
to place chapters in other schools.

The board of trustees of Northwestern University have decided

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to promote the building of chapter houses on the campus. The fra-
ternity building will have to advance in cash a safe proportion of the
cost of the house and the university will assist in borrowing the re-
mainder. The general architecture and style of the houses must
correspond with that of the other buildings on the campus. The
land will be offered free of rent, but the building and the land will
be the property of the university, to be held in trust for the various
organizations.—American College.

What has become of that happy custom of subscribing to the
journal for the chapter patronesses? A few years ago many chapters
did this. This year there is but one that is thoughtful enough to
remember the patronesses with the journal, and this is not a good
record in a list of fourteen chapters. A patroness gives the chapter
the benefit of her influence, friendship, hospitality and advice, which
reduced to commercial terms mean time and money. What does she
receive in return? How often do the girls so much as call upon a
patroness, who has given her home to the chapter for a social event?
Is there not a tendency to take such factors too much for granted,
and so allow the patroness to take our gratitude for granted? A
student's life is a f u l l one, but however busy, friends should not be
neglected. The patroness has a busy life also, and we are to blame
if she sometimes thinks her position is a thankless one. The sorority
has authorized a badge for patronesses, and there is now in the
making a ceremony for patronesses. These are good as they em-
phasize the relation of the patroness to the chapter, but the use o f
both badge and ceremony is optional. The journal for patronesses
should not be a matter of choice with a chapter, but a recognition
of what is due them. A visit from "The Alpha Xi Delta"
four times a year is a reminder of the gratitude of the girls, and will
do a great deal to make the patroness feel she belongs to the Alpha
X i Delta family.—The Alpha Xi Delta, quoted by A $ Quarterly.

I f there is a lack of harmony in a chapter, that soon becomes ap-
parent in the institution to which it is attached and the chapter is
thereby weakened. Lack of loyalty is not to be tolerated in any
member of a fraternity. The girl who knocks her chapter and her
associates in the chapter on the outside, ought to be put permanently
on the outside. No quality in a member makes up for lack of loyalty,
which in itself stamps any girl as being unfit fraternity material.
The girl who joins a sorority and then begins to criticise its manage-
ment, find fault with its officers, and to otherwise create doubt and
distrust among members and non-members, is to be pitied. Good
results for any sorority are never obtained by girls of this character.

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The girls who get results are the girls who have confidence in them-
selves, in their fellowmen and in those who are trying to improve
the conditions of their sorority. They are the power which makes
the wheels move forward. The knockers, who do nothing but doubt
and complain, are so much mud on the wheels.

Chapter loyalty does not find its best test when everything is har-
monious and congenial. I t is when the result of a mistake must be
faced, that the loyal member proves her strength and faith, and
through her faith brings harmony out of discord. Self-examination
is good for all of us. Let us each examine our own personal loyalty
and decide whether our chapter is better for our being in i t ; or
whether we are that "little r i f t within the lute," which will make
mute the sweetest music, not only for us, but for others who turn
to us for guidance.—Themis.

During the last few months the following fraternities have
placed chapters: K A © at Montana State University, Missoula,
Mont., at Oregon State University, Salem, Oregon, and at Univer-
sity of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; A A A at University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington; I I B 3> at the University of Ark-
ansas, Fayetteville, A r k . ; A T A at University of Cincinnati, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; K K T at University of Kentucky, Lexington, K y . ;
A $ at University of Missouri, Columbia, M o . ; Z * at University of
Illinois; 2 A E at the University of Oklahoma; A Z at University of
Nebraska.

That chapter is generally the most successful and has the great-
est stability, which is constantly backed by the strongest band of
enthusiastic alumni. Observe that chapter which is shaken and
tottering, and you will find that practically speaking it either has
no alumni, or its alumni take no interest in it whatsoever. Then
observe that chapter whose progress is sure, steady and unwavering,
and you no doubt will discover that there is an ever impelling power
behind i t in the make-up of its alumni, always ready to assist, ad-
vise and encourage. Older and experienced heads are continually
putting inspiration and new life into a chapter, and at the same
time they tend to free the chapter from sudden breaks and changes
of policies or conditions, and to insure an even and temperate tone
in the life of the chapter from year to year. I t must be clearly
evident then that to obtain its best possible development the chap-
ter should not attempt to exist separate from its alumni.—Lyre,

A x n.

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RESOLUTION FOR FRESHMEN—AND OTHERS

I will not knock.
I will not be two-faced.
I will play the game fair.
I will make a desperate effort to have respect for the suggestions
and opinions of others, and in doing so I may learn something.
Altho I am very wise, and, therefore, never err, I will try to be-
lieve that the other fellow may have a few occupied brain cells—
altho these cells are undoubtedly loaded with very inferior stuff.
I will not knock the faculty.
I will study with some other end in view than passing exams.
I will not—I W I L L NOT—act as tho I am suffering from a
hopeless case of grouch—I will not.
I will not insert my nasal appendage into other men's affairs
until invited to do so—and then only part way.
I will not be a tagger-on nor an aper i f I can possibly be any-
body without it.
I will not let my studies interfere with my college work—but
I will not forget that they are a part of it.
I will not invite trouble by doing too many bright stunts.
I will not forget that note-books were made to hold notes and
that it is easier and more satisfactory to fill them properly than to
dope black coffee and flunk at Exams.—American College.
The A «£ Quarterly for August contained an article on "Con-
temporary Fraternity Journalism," which was very interesting. I n
discussing To DRAGMA, the writer had the following to say:

Alpha Omicron Pi, one of the younger fraternities, has the distinction, I
believe, of having established a chapter in the New York University Law
School, and as the present editor of To Dragma was a charter member of that
chapter, and prominent members of the executive board of the national fra-
ternity have come from that chapter, one would not be surprised to find that
society tempered by the L a w , as Alpha Chi Omega is by Music; and it
would seem that To Dragma might show traces of the difference. However,
the last copy at my disposal, being the issue of last November, does not show
such characteristics, unless the fact that it is such a carefully edited magazine,
so well worked out in all its details might be due to the influence for accuracy
and proper form of the legal profession. The copy appears in gray rough
paper cover, with simple lettering. Besides the directory of officers, of which
there are many, it contains two illustrations and ninety-one pages of reading
matter, inclusive of twenty-three pages devoted to a directory of the members
of the fraternity. There is but one page of advertisements. Notable articles
are "The Fraternity and the Individual" and a carefully worked out exposition
of "Rushing Problems in Alpha Omicron P i Colleges." A l l of the eleven
active chapters and five alumnae chapters are represented by letters which
are dignified and the context much like those in other journals. The personal
department appears under the head of "News of the Alumnae," and is divided
according to chapters, with and without class numerals. The exchange de-
partment is small, and "News of College and Greek Letter World" is followed

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by the directory, which, with the advertising page, completes the issue. We
should say that the hopes of its editors are fast being fulfilled, but with such
phenomenal success, they surely will not stop there.

I t is here presented to you, that you may have some idea of the
reputation of your magazine, among other sororities. We wish to
correct a false impression which the above might create. The present
editor is a charter member of Zeta chapter, and unfortunately is
not a member of the legal profession.

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History of the University of Maine 64

Gamma of Delta Sigma and Gamma of Alpha Omicron Pi . 66

At "Maine" 68

True Expansion 70
The Road to Yesterday
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The Scope of the College Pan-Hellenic 72

Editorials 75

In Memonam 77
Active Chapter Letters
Alumnae Chapter Letters 78
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Engagements
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Weddings

Births 95

News of the Alumnae .96
Exchanges 97

News of the College and Greek Letter World . . . . 98