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without feeling the solemnity and the sacredness of the vows they
were taking. The president's clear, slowly spoken words were
fraught with feeling and an appreciation of the beauty of the
ceremony we had chosen her to preside over.

Helene is determined to be a business woman. Her greatest
interest is in retail advertising, which accounts for her position on
the advertising staff of the Daily Cardinal and her interest in the
Advertising Club. Only twenty-five members are admitted to this
club and it was no small honor when the commerce men admitted a
few women students. Her excellent standing in all her subjects
makes us firmly convinced that another year will find Helene in-
valuable help on the advertising staff of some large department
store.

Helene graduates in June. A wail goes up every time anyone
mentions it. What will Eta do without her keen executive ability,
her enviable power to command without seeming to command, her
bubbling spirits, her insistence on orderly rooms, and her optimistic,
"We can do that, no matter i f we are new." We are afraid to
even speculate on what Eta's atmosphere will be in the fall without
our Helene.

WINIFRED INGLIS.

BERNICE HUBBARD, 2

Bernice Hubbard is not only Sigma's most prominent senior, but
on the campus of the University of California this year, she is one
of the most popular and important women of her class. She has
accomplished not only little things but big ones.

I n her sophomore and junior years Bernice was on the staff of the
Daily Calif ornian, the campus newspaper. Her efficient work led
to her being made managing editor and woman's editor this year.
This position is one of the most important in all campus activities.
Bernice has worked a great deal on Y. W . C. A. committees, and in
her junior year was a member of the cabinet and editor of the
Record, the Y. W. C. A. weekly publication.

Besides being on a number of innumerable smaller committees,
she has served on the more prominent, larger ones—sophomore hop,
junior prom, and senior week finance. Then, too, last year she
was on the Partheneia publicity committee for the annual woman's
masque given here. This year, Bernice was publicity chairman for
the Prytanean fete, which is perhaps the largest get-together social
event on the campus. Bernice is a member of several honor socie-
ties—Dyslyt, the woman's literary society, Istyc, the woman's press
club, the Economics Club, and most important of all, Prytanean

MARTHA JONES. BERNICE HUBBARD

LETA NELSON, T

RUTH LUSBY, T HELENE BOWERSOX.

TVfT

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which is the woman's honor society here for general campus activi-
ties. Red Cross at this time holds a prominent place in her calen-
dar. We wonder where she finds the time, but she does. She is
continually knitting, also, for Red Cross and has many sweaters,
helmets, and socks to her credit.

Beside all this Bernice is one of the highest in scholarship in
the house, having almost a straight one record. And she is not a
dig. She is altogether lovable, attractive, and charming. Truly
the University of California and Sigma Chapter of Alpha Omicron
Pi are proud of Bernice Hubbard.

MARTHA L O UJONES, O

Martha Lou Jones, the president of Omicron Chapter, will in
June complete her college course in three years. She has already
been elected to Phi Kappa Phi, the Phi Beta Kappa of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee.

With all the hard academic work necessary to win such distinc-
tion, she has been very prominent in college activities. She has been
president of the Student Government Association, and this year
largely through her efforts the University of Tennessee Red Cross
Unit was formed. This last term she has held the position of as-
sistant in the Department of Geology.

Martha is attractive and original, and a most clever teller of
stories. Omicron Chapter is very proud of the position of honor
and respect which she holds alike among faculty and students. She
has done everything for Omicron during her presidency, and it will
be difficult to find a superior successor.

RUTH LUSBY, Y

Ruth Margaret Lusby is a typical western girl, having lived all
her life in Seattle. She attended the public schools, and was
an honor graduate from Broadway High School in June, 1914.
f She entered college in the f a l l of 1914.

I n her sophomore year she served on the finance committee of
Y. W. C. A. and became a member of the Home Economics Club
For two years she was chairman of the Home Economics Club
dinners. She is a senior scholar in home economics and has been
elected to Sigma X i .

I n her sophomore year she was recording secretary of Upsilon
Chapter. During her sophomore and junior years she acted as
house manager and was chairman of the rushing committee during
n e r junior year. This year she has acted as senior adviser of the
rushing committee, and is president of Senior Council.

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For the past school year she has been assisting Prof. E. I .
Raitt in research work in connection with food conservation, and
is to be in charge of the fish department of the conservation exhibit
to be given by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in April.

Ruth is a girl of strong character and high ideals. She has a
wonderfully sweet disposition, and is never too busy or too tired
to help or advise an erring underclassman. She has won the love
of all who know her by her cheerfulness, willingness, and dependa-
bility.

THE IOTA SENIORS

We of Iota have eight seniors this year, each so charming in her
own individual way that when a letter came asking us to choose the
most popular one, like the old farmer, we threw up our hands
in despair and exclaimed, "Madam, there ain't no sech animal."^
Therefore we are compromising and sending a group picture and
a very brief sketch of each.

First, of course, comes Bertha Stein, our tall, dignified, yet not
too dignified, president. She is naturally a leader as the following
list of offices and honors shows: President of W. A. A., Secretary
of Y. W. C. A., member of Omicron N u , the honorary household
science sorority, and member of Phi Delta Psi, a sorority made
up of about fifteen of the most prominent senior women. A l l
these serve to keep our Bertha very busy. However, she has not
been too busy to become very much loved and admired by every
Iota girl and to have made a remarkably fine president.

Mary Caldwell is our theatrical star, having appeared in several
of the plays given by Mask and Bauble, the university dramatic
club of which she is a member. You would all have thought Mary
adorable could you have seen her in the latest play in the .role
of a sixteen year old girl. "Charming and dear is Mary but
possessing an unusual amount of common sense for one so tal-
ented," is the way Iota describes her.

There's one word that characterizes Martha Hedgcock better than
any other—and that word is "sweet." Everyone pronounces her
one of the dearest he has ever known. Martha is in household
science, too, and is a member of the Household Science Club. She
is planning to teach, but we are of the general opinion that she w i l l
apply what she has learned in a more practical way.

Velda Bamesberger is our brilliant member, and is conceded to
have enthusiasm and brains enough for several. She is a very fine
student, and at present is working on her Master's degree having
finished her undergraduate work in three and a half years. Velda
is our vice-president and has taken a very vital part in Iota's affairs.

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Nina Grotevant is another household science student. She is
one of our most dependable girls, having a large store of practical
common sense together with a fine sense of responsibility—a com-
bination which has won her a place that will be difficult for anyone
to fill next year. I t is usual to ask Nina about this or that.

Nila Edmundson was originally one of De Pauw's girls but we
have claimed her for two years and indeed have almost forgotten
that she was not always an Iota girl. Nila has lately become a
member of Omicron N u which, of course, proves her interest and
ability in the domestic arts. She has been our very efficient com-
missary, and I'm sure no one in the chapter has worked harder than
she in her struggles with H . C. L. Small, dark, bright, efficient,
very much loved—that's our Nila.

Dorothy Iwig has been with us only a year, having transferred
to Illinois as a junior but even in that time, has become very dear
to us. Our dark, curly-haired Dorothy is also going to "cooking
school" as one of our freshmen puts it. One thing we'll always
remember about Dorothy is her unfailing sympathy for a l l our
aches and pains. Another is the fact that she always accomplishes
whatever she decides to do, be it the solving of a dietetics problem
or one for Alpha O.

Probably the busiest girl in our chapter is Ruth Percival, our
secretary. She is interested in social service work and spends a
great part of her time working among the poor of the Twin Cities.
Her plans now are to devote herself to that exclusively upon gradua-
tion. We predict a successful career in her chosen work, for with
her practical nature, efficient mind, and purposeful attitude, she is
peculiarly fitted for it. But do not imagine that social service work
holds her interests to the exclusion of Alpha O—very much to the
contrary for she is one of Iota's strongest girls.

There you have them—the eight. As I said before each one
charming but each differing widely as to interests and characteristics.
Iota is proud of each of them and sad at the thought of losing
them. Knowing them as we do, we are sure that each w i l l be
of service out in the world just as she has been in the Alpha O
house.

E L S I E N O E L , '19.

MARGARET DURKEE, A

The 1917-18 president of Delta chapter, Margaret Durkee, was
born New Year's Day, 1896, at Tufts College. She is truly in-
digenous to the academic soil as her maternal grandfather was a
Professor of the college, her father, a member of the class of 1888,

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professor of chemistry, and her mother the first woman graduate.
Margaret attended the Somerville schools, and graduated from the
Somerville H i g h School in 1914. There she is well remembered
for her successful masque composed by herself in which she took
the leading part. Her chief activity in college has been i n dra-
matics, having taken the leading parts in the numerous plays pre-
sented by the college. Her scholarship throughout her college
career has been of high standing, and she received in her senior
year the Alpha X i Delta prize scholarship given to the senior who
at the end of her junior year had maintained the highest excellence
in a course of study broadly and wisely chosen.

In her junior year, Margaret was the Jackson statistical editor of
Jumbo, the college yearbook, and is now the historian of her class.

GLADYS REED, r

There's not a senior in Gamma Chapter who is more modestly
prominent than our Gladys Gage Reed. She is secretary of her
class; she has held active membership in the women's Glee Club
and in Deutscher Verein, the German Club; for excellence in
scholarship, she is on the honor list of the university—and yet she
insists that she has not been very active on the campus.

By unanimous consent, we voted Gladys our most prominent
senior. She has been treasurer of Gamma Chapter. This year
she is our president. Never have the affairs of Gamma run more
smoothly; never have we accomplished more worthwhile things,
never have we been more efficiently guided.

With enthusiasm and conviction, we of Gamma Chapter present
Gladys Reed, our most prominent senior, to her Alpha O sisters.

E V E L I N E FOSTER SNOW.

LURA HALLECK, B

After much debate and wrangling our chapter came to a decision
on the question of who should be our senior and have the honor
of gracing To DRAGMA'S pages. This senior is Lura Ardelle Hal-
leck, and she is our one and only.

An account of Lura!! I really don't know how to go about such
an undertaking for there's so much to take into account. First,
I ' d say capability just about expresses her. I t would do you good
to see her manage a meal, proctor the house during study hours,
plan her own and everybody else's clothes, knit like a streak of
lightning, or make an afternoon dress in a single day. Yes, she can
do any of these things and I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see her
doing all of them at once.

GLADYS REED, V LURA HALLECK. B *

artha , IOTA SENIORS

MARGARET DURKEE, a WINNIF'RED M O R A N T ^



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Aren't seniors supposed to grind a great deal? I f that is a pre-
requisite, our senior does not pass muster. She doesn't need to
study much, because you see she can digest anything in the way
of knowledge i n a shorter time than it would take anyone else to
settle down to it. And the grades she gets would make anyone envy
the- hours of leisure she has left for bridge-playing and for writing
letters to a certain lieutenant in a South Carolina training camp.

We often remark how independent she is. We mean, of course,
how independent she is when it comes to asking advice on such
ordinarily perplexing questions as, "What shall I wear?" or "What
shall I buy?" etc., but we are forced to admit that along two im-
portant lines her independence bows. Before being with her very
long we learn that one place where her independence wavers
is i n matters which concern that before-mentioned lieutenant; and
the other is, as it should be, where the good of her sorority and
her sorority sisters enters in. How could we help admiring such a
trait!

We are sorry not to have known her longer, for we've had her
only two years. I n the first place, our chapter has been in existence
not quite two years yet, and besides the first two years of her col-
lege career were spent in Oberlin College. Nevertheless, we are
indeed glad to have known her and worked with her through these
two years. May her future life be very f u l l of good fortune and
may it bring happiness to herself and glory to our fraternity!

WINNIFRED MORAN, Z

Winnifred is a rather remarkable young lady. I n the first place,
she was born in Hyannis, Nebraska, located somewhere "on the
lone prairie" of this state. Not many people have that distinction,
she admits. Now when Winnifred was of some eighteen summers,
she decided to attend Nebraska Wesleyan University which, I have
heard, is not far from Lincoln. After spending a year there, she
entered Nebraska University and was pledged to Alpha Omicron
Pi. I t did not take the girls long to discover that she was always
ready to work or play with them, ready to go to vespers, or help
them off to a party.

She went to many a party herself, by the way. She had a
ring f o r a while, but soon she preferred an Alpha Tau Omega pin
instead. When we seniors down at the foot of the dinner table
begin to talk of our plans for teaching next year, and of the good-
looking superintendents who have offered us positions, W i n smiles
serenely, and thinks, "Oh pshaw!" I f we ask her what she intends
to do, she deftly changes the subject by saying, "No, Florence,
we are N O T having date pudding tonight!"

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These three years of university life have left only happy recollec-
tions with Winnifred. She has made many friends, and is one of
thirteen senior girls composing the honorary society called Black
Masque. She has been our chapter president this year, and has been
a sympathetic, interested big sister to a l l of us.

Here's luck to you, Winnifred, and "blessings beyond hope or
thought; blessings which no word can tell."

E. M. H .
E V E L Y N M. C. H I E B E R , E

Obedient to directions in To DRAGMA, Epsilon has elected the
most prominent of her seniors and a biographer of her college
career. Of the worthiness of the choice for the former this account
w i l l inform you; as to the latter, you have the chapter to blame.

Evelyn (Evelyn Margaret Caroline Hieber is her complete cogno-
men) is one of the best known girls on the campus. Her distin-
guishing features are the happy smile which seldom deserts her, and
the merry little giggle with which she greets one. This does not
mean that Evelyn cannot be serious. None of us has had occasion
to see her in her official capacity as member of the Judiciary Com-
mittee, which is the court of last resort for the trial of infractions
of Student Government rules, but rumor has it that she is then very
stern and judicial. Next to the presidency of the Student Govern-
ment Association, election as one of the two members of the senior
class on the Judiciary Committee is the greatest evidence of confi-
dence which the woman student body has power to bestow.

Always prominent i n class affairs, Evelyn was elected in the
spring of her junior year to be the senior president. A t about
the same time she was elected to Der Hexenkreis, the senior women's
honorary society.

Her athletic activities have included participation in all the
women's sports, including basketball, crew, hockey, and baseball,
as well as. membership, during her junior year, on the governing
council of the Sports and Pastimes Association. The Cornell Bul-
letin, formerly the women's daily news sheet, was at first connected
with the athletic organization, but it has this year affiliated with the
university daily paper, The Cornell Sun, and as editor-in-chief of
the Bulletin, Evelyn was active in effecting the new arrangement.

Evelyn is registered in the Arts College and is due to receive the
beginnings of the alphabet at commencement in May. Nominally
she is specializing in romance languages, but in reality she is doing
the greater part of her work in chemistry. Like all seniors, she is
speculating much as to her future occupation. She talks a good deal
about taking up medicine, or a domestic science course, but you
never can tell what a senior may do in the spring!

MARY H. DONLON '20.

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REPORT OF T H EEXAMINING OFFICER

I t has been interesting and in some ways instructive to serve as
your Examining Officer. The courtesy and friendliness of the
responses have turned what might have been a task into a pleasure.

Eta and Beta Phi made no reply to either of two letters requesting
information. This should not happen. We may neglect our friends,
never our business. Beta Phi deserves honorable mention f o r being
the first chapter to get its papers in. Papers from Rho, Epsilon,
and N u Kappa were three weeks late; N u Kappa explained its
delay. Papers have not yet been received from Delta; we have
always the postman and expressman and with them may lie the
reason for late papers. The Executive Committee granted per-
mission to N u to take its examination in April. This report there-
fore, is incomplete.

Upsilon won first place and is to be especially complimented, as
it has gained twenty points upon its last year's record. Kappa and
Alpha Phi held their own and Theta also rose from the ranks and
has joined the leaders. May all be leaders in 1919.

Upsilon 94.7 Rho 88.7
Kappa 93.8 Epsilon 88.2
Theta 92.4
Alpha Phi 92.2 Lambda 87.1
Iota 91.5
Pi 91.3 Omicron 86.3
Tau 91.3
Nu Kappa 89.3 Zeta 81.8
N u Omicron 89.1
Sigma 88.7 Beta Phi 78.2

Gamma 76.6

Eta 72.1

Delta. . .Papers not yet received.

N u . . . Examination to be taken

in April

LUCY R. SOMERVILLE,

Examining Officer.

GRAND SECRETARY'S REPORT

SEP2T;ElMatBeEPR.—ist G, 2nd I , 3rd K ; college not open A, T, T , T , N 0; no report

OCTOBER—ist r , 2nd G, 3rd K ; late N, H ; others on time.
NOVEMBER—ist B * , 2nd P, 3rd G ; late N. 2 , E , A, N 0 ; others on time.
DECEMBER—ist I , 2nd E , 3rd, P; late N, K, Z, 2 , T, N K , B * , I I ; others on time.

JANUARY—ist I \ 2nd E . 3rd Z ; late A, B * ; others on time.

FEBRUARY—ist r , 2nd 2 , 3rd P; others on time.
MARCH—ist P, 2nd f, 3rd G ; whole number not yet in.

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A (Eatalngu* nf 2jnmeh| Virtura

I I . jfargrttittg

In rurrg rhaptrr of mrru fratrrnttg thrrr ia. it ia aafp to aag.
a girl mho nrnrr forgrta. 8»hr rratrmhrra thp orraaton bur-
tng brr frrabman bags mbm ahr maa rrprnurb for nrglrrting brr
rhrmiatrg or far unbtgnifirb brbauinr on lljp ratnpus nr for fatlurr
to obarnip thr houar rulra. &br haa not forgottrn tbr turning mhrn
brr ranbtbarg for nffirr maa art aaibr in faunr of a morr rapablr
girl, anb nothing ia rloarr in brr minb than thr mrmorablr rnrning
mbm brr brat frtrnb maa blarkballrb "atmphj on arronnt of mran-
nraa." Sr it aaib in paaaing that ahr baa ainrr uarb hrr pomrr of
tbr blarkball on arorral orraaiona "to grt mm." &hr rrmrmbrra
tbr fart that hrr rooramatr baB rrrrtorb ranrr innitatinna than ahr.
Poor roommatrt 2Ihr knomlrbgr that the brarrat plrbgr in thr
rhaptrr qnitr mibmtlg prrfrra fl!arg £mitb tn hrr ranklra bittrrlg.
anb tbr amful ttjinga mbtrhfliargarrtSrurnn aaib tn hrr in a nrrhana
juattfiablr fit of trmprr ran in timr pnaaiblg br forginrn. but of
ronrar nrnrr forgottrn.

Qtyp girl mho nrnrr forgrta ia oftrn attrartior, nrraatilr. rlrurr.
£omrtunra ahr krrpa thr mholr rqaptrr in a galr of laughtrr at brr
atorira. &br ia rnjogrb anb likrb. but atrangr to Bag stfr ia nrnrr
prominrat, no mattrr bom popular ahr mag br.

"©hrrr'a anmrthtng antall about brr." aaib thr rhairman of thr
nominating rnnunittrr of a rrrtain rhaptrr mhrn thr mattrr of a
rhaptrr prratbmt maa bring biaruaarb anb arnrral ranbibatra
mrighrb in thr balanrr. "3 bnn't knnm tuat mhat it ia. but ahr iau't
big mougb for tin* urraibrnt'a plarr. &hr mon't forgrt tbinga."

"3 bnn't quitr agrrr." aaib a quirt girl in thr rornrr. "&hr
bora forgrt aomr tbinga, anb ahr arrma qnitr milling to bo it. &hr'a
forgottrn mbat it ntrana to hrr to br a fratrrnttg girl, anb abr'a nrrg
apt to forgrt that no rhaptrr ran flouriah mqilr tqrrr'a mm our prr-
aon mho bolba grubgra anb rarrira rhipa. 3 tqink 3'll prob hrr
mrmoru a bit"

"3t mon't bo ang goob." announrrb thr rhairman quirtlg.
"g»qr'll forgrt all gnu Bag, anb Juat rrmrmbrr that gnu aaib it.
©hrrr'a nn girl tnurr hoprlraa tqan that aort"

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 241

MAXIMS F O RT H E SENIOR W H O W I L L
TEACH

If you hate to teach, leave the profession. In fairness to your
children and in honesty to yourself, you can do nothing else.

Don't wait for the locality to wake you up! Very often you
must wake up the locality.

"Despise not the day of small things," or, in the teacher's
interpretation, "the life in a small town." The greatest Teacher
began in Nazareth.

Remember that your influence is first; your ability to teach
what you know, second; your learning, third.

Enthusisam, eagerness, and interest will cover all sorts of
deficiencies in academic lore.

Be a student with your students.

Never be afraid to say that you don't know.

Remember that a girl teaching her first school is not an in-
dividual who does as she pleases regardless of public opinion.
The position you hold in the minds of your fathers and mothers
will go far toward determining your success in your first school.

Think twice before you go to movies on Sunday; think three
times before you decide that there is no church in town big
enough for you; think a countless number of times before you
say what you think about annoying persons. . You will find
them everywhere.

Believe that every day is an opportunity and that life is a
privilege, and live your creed.

You may count yourself a failure at the end of the year
unless you have made the life of some boy or girl richer and
fuller.

Take time to read a good story to your classes once a month.
It's a good investment.

Take the Teacher's Number of To Dragma with you.

Remember the fraternity motto. If you can make it more
than a mere motto, you cannot fail.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS A N D PERSONALS

GEOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY

At the urgent request of many chapters and members, the Execu-
tive Committee has decided to publish a geographical directory
of the fraternity, which will be ready for distribution in about a
month after this notice reaches you.

Price 25c
Orders may be sent to Mrs. N . L . McCausland, Jr., 517 Angell

Street, Providence, Rhode Island.

Since according to the above notice there is soon to be a Geo-
graphical Directory, the September number will contain no directory-
The number as heretofore w i l l contain exclusively fraternity material,
and will grant no exchanges.

Helen N . Henry has recently resigned her position as executive
secretary of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of
Boston. Her present address is 415 East 13th Street, New York
City. Chapter secretaries, take notice!

A charter of Alpha Omicron Pi has been granted the local, Pi
Sigma, at the University of Pennsylvania. Installation will have
taken place by the time the May number reaches you, probably on
April 13. Helen Henry will install the chapter. Information
relative to the new chapter will be published in the September num-
ber. We heartily welcome it to the ranks of A O n.

Four scholarships have been given to the Vassar Nurses' Training
Camp by the Class of 1913 of Vassar in memory of their classmate,
Amabel Roberts, who recently lost her life while i n active service
with the Presbyterian Hospital Unit in France. These scholarships
are for $350 each and include the payment of expenses of the
training camp and of the subsequent two years' training at a hospital.
The purpose of these scholarships is to enable some girls who might
otherwise be prevented to take advantage of the opportunity offered
bv the training camp. They w i l l be awarded by Prof. Herbert E.
Mills, dean of the camp, to whom all applications should be sent.
His address is Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

It is not at all unlikely that life subscriptions will be raised from
ten to fifteen dollars. This is not a threat nor an unsubstantiated
rumor, but a genuine likelihood. Why not subscribe now?

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 243

Bead, new chapter editors to To DRAGMA ! There will
be no chapter letters in the September number. Your
troubles will not begin before September 25, and you
will find full instructions in the September number. E)o
not look for individual instructions, for none will be
sent! We are conserving!

The Editor's address during the summer w i l l be Blue H i l l ,
Maine, but ample allowance should be made for the necessary for-
warding of letters.

Is not the Alpha Omicron Pi Ambulance a project worth sup-
porting? Have you sent your subscription as yet to Mrs. McCaus-
land?

Barbara Minard Fletcher of Rho Chapter is a Red Cross nurse,
being a graduate of St. Luke's in Chicago. She is now awaiting
her call to France.

From Mrs. Bickley, District Superintendent of the South, we ar±
warned that we have forgotten the mention of Madeline Doty,
the Good Housekeeping correspondent from Russia. Miss Doty is
too well known and too much honored by us of Alpha Omicron Pi"
to be forgotten, and we thank Mrs. Bickley for her timely re-
minder.

^ Edith Wherry's last book is to be made the basis of a movie film.
Sigma Chapter, we are sure, is duly proud of its authoress and so are
we all. I t is reported that Nazimova and her husband will play in
the production.

Have you plans for the summer? Why not consider the Vassar
Training Camp?

To those not in the active chapters and therefore not receiving
reports of the February Grand Council meeting, it may be interesting
to know that the delegates numbered nineteen, that twenty-two sat
down to dinner, that the grand officers present were Mrs. McCaus-
land and Miss Henrv, and that the chapters represented personally
were A, Boston and Providence Alumnae, T, E, A $, and New York
Alumna?.

Daisy Gaus, of N u Chapter in the class of 1904, has recently ac-
cepted the vice-presidency in place of Jean Loomis Frame, resigned.

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI
Mrs. Frame has served Alpha Omicron Pi long and well. Miss
Gaus has been for years one of our most loyal members.

On account of the size of this number it has been thought best
to omit the Exchanges. However, we wish to acknowledge gratefully
the following:

The Anchora of Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, The Key of
Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, Banta's
Greek Exchange, Alpha Xi Delta, The Elensis of Chi Omega,
The Trident of Delta Delta Delta, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi,
The Sigma Kappa Triangle, The Adelphean of Alpha Delta Pi, The
Phi Gamma Delta, The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, The
Aglaia of Phi M u , and Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha.

IMMORTALITY
Battles nor songs can from oblivion save,
But fame upon a white deed loves to build;
From out that cup of water Sidney gave
Not one drop has been spilled.

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EDITORIALS

TA SPRING POEM
H E following is an extract from a letter recently received.
" I don't know whether or not you are familiar with the
following poem. I t is A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
and ever since I read it the coming of spring has seemed a greater
gift—one to be seized upon and appreciated. I am sending it,
thinking that perhaps you may care to quote it in To DRAGMA."

We do care to quote it. I n fact, we tried two years ago, but it was
cut into tail-pieces by mistake. We are giving it below. Read,
seniors, and you who are to teach, give it to your literature classes
a year from now for memory work!

Loveliest of trees, the cherry, now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Easter-tide.

Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again ;
And take from seventy years a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since for seeing things in bloom,
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodland will I go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

NT H E SENIOR NUMBER
O N U M B E R of To DRAGMA in three years has been com-
piled and prepared with greater enthusiasm than this Senior
Number. The Editor can only hope that the seniors may find
one-half as much pleasure in its pages. The response has been very
hearty, and articles with pictures have been received from all chap-
ters except one. I t cannot be thought that N u Chapter has no seniors
of prominence. Truth to tell, N u Chapter has given us more famous
names than any chapter upon our roll. We can but think that the
chapter editor and corresponding secretary of N u were engaged so
deeply in the entanglements of the law that they forgot the Senior
Number, and that the president, fearing lesi she might be furthering
her own cause, was too modest to remind the chapter nf the request
for a picture of the most prominent senior. The readers of To
DRAGMA, being proud of N u Chapter, regret that they cannot know
m this way Nu's most prominent senior.

Postage rates and lack of time on the part of the Editor make it
absolutely impossible to thank individuals for generous service. But

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she is most grateful to those who so willingly contributed articles
for this number, and to those faithful biographers who so proudly,
and in most cases, be it said, promptly, chronicled the fame of their
subjects.

In some cases, notably that of Lambda, it was hard to select the
senior especially entitled to honor. Lambda left it to the Editor to
decide between Elizabeth Wood and Constance Chandler. The
decision was not easy to make. Elizabeth Wood, during her years
in college, has made Alpha Omicron Pi known at Stanford because
of her remarkable success in college athletics. The Editor, who
would rather ride horseback than read and play tennis than eat, and
who in her college days longed to make her awkard and clumsy
frame graceful and lithe, felt a strong drawing toward clear-eyed
Elizabeth Wood in her sailor-suit. But after reading the record of
Constance Chandler, who, not athletic, has been of greatest service
to her chapter by her leadership and executive ability, and who
through this last year has held the position of chapter president, she
hesitated. Is not a service at home as great as one abroad? Which
strengthens the chapter more—its athletic prominence in college and
university circles or its existence as an integral whole in aim and i n
spirit? I t was no easy decision, and it is with a desire to tell of
Elizabeth Wood's work for Lambda and for Alpha Omicron Pi
nationally that this is written. The Editor feels that Constance
Chandler deserves the place in To DRAGMA, but she extends To
DRAGMA'S congratulations to Lambda in that she has two seniors who
have reflected in two such different ways honor upon their college
and fraternity.

TT H E SEPTEMBER NUMBER
H E September number in accordance with Grand Council
will grant no exchanges, and will contain matter exclusively
Alpha Omicron Pi. We shall try in its pages to anticipate the
opening of a new college year and the problems attendant thereunto.
Articles on chapter financing, on the rushing problem, on scholar-
ship, on opportunities for service in war work and other fields, will
be gladly received. The number will contain no chapter letters. As
elsewhere announced, instructions for November letters will be given
in the September number. Newly appointed chapter editors, please
take notice.

T H E EDITOR'S BLUE PENCIL

t6~\T< >U are a perfect autocrat with that magazine." a frank frater-
X nity sister said to the surprised Editor a short time ago.
" I ' d hate to write anything for vou, and have it marked up

like that"

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Upon which half-jocular remark the Editor pondered long.
Perhaps, T o DRAGMA should not maintain a literary standard.
Perhaps, when some enthusiastic but ungrammatical chapter editor
sends an impossible sentence concerning "darlingest pledges on earth,"
and containing three relative clauses in succession, each modifying
the one preceding, that sentence should be allowed to stand as it is.
Possibly moralizing (and some correspondents love moralizing)
should receive approbation and no cutting. Perhaps, long poems
extolling the virtues of a friend and fellow senior should be given
space, impossible as they are from the standpoint of poetry.

But the Editor admits that she cannot see the matter i n that
light. She feels that To DRAGMA, i f it cannot be truly called lit-
erary, should not at least f a l l into the habit of allowing poor Eng-
lish, careless sentence structure, sentimental and trite expressions, and
poems which are not poems to taint its pages. The Editor wants
enthusiasm and spirit, but she must ask to be allowed to blue pencil
where she sees fit.

I n her opinion To DRAGMA is a magazine, edited as are other
magazines. Contributions are always welcome, but i f they cannot
rightly be printed without penciling, then they must be penciled,
and cut i f need be.

Therefore, you poets whose poems appear in prose, you weather
chroniclers who look in vain for your descriptions of rainstorms
and your eulogies on spring, you enthusiastic writers who love the
Miltonic sentence, but know too little how to construct it, and all
you who deal in sentimentality and superlatives—forgive a penitent
but resolute Editor whose New England conscience and whose
reverence for rhetoric dictate her autocracy.

T H E CHAPTER PRESIDENT

I (Selected by the examining officer from the 1918 examinations.)
T H I N K a chapter president should be a girl with a keen mind
and strong character. She should be able to figure out any
problems which might happen to confront her, and many prob-
lems will confront her in her control of the chapter. She should be
a very "level-headed" girl, so that when an argument arises, she w i l l
not indicate upon which side she is until after it is settled.

Again, I think she should be a good student. Being chapter presi-
dent is an honor, and it hardly seems fair for the person who makes
no attempt to obtain good scholarship to have such an honor be-
stowed upon her. Also, she should set an example for the other
People i n her chapter.

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Another thing, I think the chapter president should be a girl with
fine ideals, and one who tries to live up to her ideals. Then other
people are likely to follow her example, and they will all realize the
possibilities in the fine things they can do for their fraternity. This
is the only kind of president who can maintain discipline, and make
people realize how they should observe house rules.

MARGARET FORSYTH, r '19.

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ACTIVE CHAPTER LETTERS

EDITOR'S REPORT

The Editor is sorry that for the second time in her
term of office she must chronicle the failure of a chap-
ter to send its letter. The chapter is Nu. The chap-
ter editor of Nu is Edna Rapallo, 129 East 29th Street,
New York. If To Dragma is carefully read, there
can be no excuse, save that of negligence and care-
lessness, for the failure to send or to have sent a chap-
ter letter. Will Nu please investigate this matter?

The chapter editor of Rho, Ruth Sharer, Willard
Hall, Evanston, in spite of directions given in To
Dragma, used both sides of the paper in writing her
letter.

The chapter editor of Iota, Mary Caldwell, Cham-
paign, Illinois, sent her chapter letter to the Editor at
Bluehill, Maine, in spite of the fact that in both the
November and February issues attention was called
to the change of address.

Chapter editors, take notice! There are no chapter
letters required for the September number. Read
that number carefully however, for your instructions
for next year.

PI—H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB MEMORIAL COLLEGE

Magda Chalaron, '18 Ruth Kastler, '20

Helen Grevemberg, '19 Fay Morgan, '20

Anna McLellan, '19 Ophelia Perkins, '20

Evelyn Pigott, .'19 Mary Renaud, '20

Corinne Chalaron, '20 Jessie Roane, '20

Marjorie Fell, '20 Louise Withers, '20

Pledge

Lucy Renaud, '21

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Things have been happening so rapidly here at Newcomb and there
is so much to be told that it is hard to know where to begin. The
first Saturday in March was pledge day, and Pi is as proud and happy
over Lucy Renaud as though she were a multitude. Later on we
are hoping to pledge a few more girls whose conditions prevented
them from being bid at the usual time. Though we are so pleased at
having won Lucy, we feel that there is quite a gap in our chapter
roll, for just before Easter Ellen Jett, one of our sophomores, left
college to return to her home in Memphis. We miss Ellen sadly, but
there is a ray of hope left us in the knowledge that she will return
next year.

Our greatest excitement lately has been over Magda, who was one
of the five seniors who made Phi Beta Kappa, the other four being
Miriam Delchamps, Kappa Alpha Theta, Marguerite Ellis, Pi Beta
Phi, Ruth Heller, Alpha Epsilon Phi, and Ida Jungle. Phi Beta
Kappa stands for the highest degree of scholarship and college
spirit and is naturally a great honor, so it is no wonder that our
pride in Magda knows no bounds. Although she herself took it
calmly and with most becoming dignity, her fraternity sisters were
wild with excitement and could hardly settle down enough to attend
classes on that eventful day. However, we relieved our feelings
by giving her a little surprise party after fraternity meeting, the
chief feature of which was a cake most artistically decorated with
a $ B K key in pink icing. The next day, according to our usual
custom, Pi entertained the senior class and the Phi Beta Kappa
members of the faculty, in honor of the new Phi Beta Kappas.
There were music by the Mandolin and Guitar Club, speeches by
several of the professors, and a general spirit of festivity prevailed.

The awarding of Phi Beta Kappa is only one of the many things
that bring to us more fully the realization that the end of another
college year is drawing near. The annual Field Day will be held
next week, having been postponed on account of the weather. We
are expecting Ruth Kastler to run away with most of the honors,
as she is our principal athlete and won first place in several of the
events last year. After Field Day, begins the baseball season, and
here, too, A O I I is well represented, for Ruth is on the town team,
and Fay is captain of the dormitory nine. We are fully expecting
"Eddie" to win as great renown in baseball this year as she did last
year in tennis, when she walked off with all the cups in sight.

Many preparations are being made for May Day entertainment,
which is given annually by the junior class in honor of the seniors.
Usually it is a series of aesthetic dances given on the campus, but the
juniors this year decided to turn aside from the usual custom and

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give an old English May Day—folk dances with shepherds and
shepherdesses, milk maids and Robin Hood's men—ending with a
dance around the May pole. A queen and court are chosen from
the senior class, and as the names are kept secret until the very last
moment it is naturally a matter of great interest and excitement to all
concerned.

One event follows another i n such swift succession that almost
before we realize it we shall be in the midst of final examinations
and other pre-commencement activities. The closing of college this
year will be rather a sad one for most of us, for it w i l l be the
last at old Newcomb. The new buildings up town are practically
finished, and though far superior to the ones we are now occupying,
we can hardly help feeling bad at leaving the Newcomb that has
meant so much to us. Still, once we are settled in our new home, we
feel sure that we shall grow to love it as we have the old one.

To all our chapters Pi sends greetings and all good wishes for a
glorious vacation.

A N N A M C L E L L A N , '19,

Chapter Editor.

OMICRON—UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Martha Lou Jones, '18 Margaret McAnuIty, '20

Dorothy Nolan, '18 Eleanor Burke, '20

Sue Bryant, '18 Melba Braly, '21

Sadie Ramsey, '19 E u l a Scott, '21

Lynn McNutt, '19 Mary Bryant, Spec.

Lida Moore, Spec. Grace Ware, Spec.

Elizabeth Kennedy, '19 Elizabeth McDonald, Spec.

Johnetta Hancock, '19 Helen Shea, Spec.

Lucy Morgan, '21

Just as we were in the midst of preparing for examinations, a

most unpatriotic epidemic of German measles broke out in the girls'

dormitories. As the girls are proverbially healthy, we have no

infirmary; but one was hastily fitted up, and about twelve girls

moved in. Here they stayed for two weeks, missing classes, and

examinations, and having a most royal time. Nearly all of them

were benefited by this enforced rest, and aroused envy in the rest

of us.

On February 16th, the freshmen entertained the active chapter
with a Valentine party. I t was well planned and carried out, and
was done so secretly that not one knew about it. I t was a most
delightful affair and we appreciated it.

Our initiation took place on February 23rd. We were fortunate
enough to have with us Harriet Williams and her sister, Mrs. John

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Divine of Chattanooga, alumna? who had not visited us for some
time. Louise Wiley also came down from Tazewell, where she is
teaching this year, and with the town alumna?, who are too busy
with their Red Cross work to visit us often, we had quite a reunion.
Wista Braly '16, whose sister was to be initiated, came from her
home i n Lewisburg, where she is teaching, and occupied her old
room, which her sister now has. I t seemed very natural for her to
be there, and we were sorry to see her go. Instead of having a ban-
quet up town, as has been the custom for the past few years, we
served refreshments in the fraternity room after initiation, and were
able to purchase a badly needed rug and new curtains, with the
aid of the alumnae. Our new members entertained us with an origi-
nal song, and toasts. A l l the freshmen and a number of the older
girls who live out in town spent the night i n the dormitory, and
we all had breakfast in the fraternity room the next morning.
According to the immemorial custom, pictures were taken on the
campus. We are very proud of our freshmen, and feel sure that
they will be a credit to their fraternity.

On second pledge day, we sent to Lucy Morgan an invitation to
become a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, and she accepted, to our
great delight. We think that we have found in her a loyal and able
sister.

Next week we are planning to entertain our alumnae, mothers, and
patronesses quite informally. I t is to be a sort of farewell party for
our patroness, Mrs. Bender, who will soon join her husband at Camp
Sevier. Captain Bender, who was our athletic coach last year, was one
of twelve men i n the United States to be chosen by the government
to direct athletics in the camps. We shall be sorry to see Mrs.
Bender go, for we feel that we shall be losing a good friend.

The chapter as a whole is not doing any Red Cross work, but the
individual members are knitting, sewing, or making bandages. A
knitting unit has been formed in the college and next week a room
will be devoted to the making of bandages, where those who have
not time to go to the Red Cross headquarters may work. A number
of the girls took part i n the war garden and T h r i f t Stamp parade.
In the dormitory, Hoover regulations are observed, and all conform
to the doctrine of the clean plate. The professor of psychology has
just entered government service, and several others may do so. An
engineering course will be given to soldiers, beginning the first of
May, but it will not interfere with the regular courses. The campus
will have a very martial appearance.

ELEANOR BURKE, Chapter Editor.

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KAPPA—RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S C O L L E G E

Bernie Palfrey, '18 Mary Bine Frith, '19

Frances Hardy, '18 Linna Mae McBride, '19

Helen Scott, '18 Louise Bouldin, '19

Frances Hamilton, '18 Frances Major, '19

Julia White, '19 Eleanor Manning, '19

Anna Taylor, '19 E l l a Mae Upthegrove, '20

Elizabeth Sale, '19 Louise Sale, '20

Elizabeth Butterfield, '20 Alice Hardy, '20

Nadine Pillot, '20 Evelyn Allen, '20

Annie Moore, '20 Dolly Paxton, '20

Since our last letter a million things have happened at Randolph-

Macon. I t has been sometime since examinations, but we haven't

forgotten them yet. They were, as usual, mighty hard, but in our

spare moments we found our rushees good company. Everybody

who passed down Rivermont Avenue between twelve and one

o'clock each day of examinations must have taken for granted we

have nothing to do. That is the hour set aside for exercise by

practically every student in college. Under the Gymnasium Depart-

ment there was arranged a contest between the dormitories. One

hundred per cent was given to every girl who (1) took one hour of

exercise, (2) got eight consecutive hours of sleep, (3) ate three meals

at regular hours, and (4) showed no sign of worry. Twenty-five

per cent was taken off for each condition unfulfilled.

Just after examinations Dolly Paxton was pledged. Now she is
an A O I I . We are proud to have her and she certainly is a great
addition to Kappa.

The grand secretary of Delta Delta Delta has been visiting
in college. She held an open meeting of Panhellenic during her
stay, and in it she discussed war work. She told about the different
plans each chapter had taken up. But Kappa, too, is doing Red Cross
work. Each member has pledged herself to give one afternoon or
more a week to serving in the Red Cross room. Then too, everyone of
us make at least one Belgian square a week. These are made into
a blanket and handed over to the city Red Cross.

March 12th was celebrated as Founders' Day in college. A l l
classes were suspended for the day and the student body was given
a rest. There was no celebration during the day but at night Dr.
Mitchell, president of Delaware College, lectured on the "Moral
Offensive." A part of the time was turned over to the chairman
of the Student Building Committee. Every organization in college
had previously been asked to make a contribution in T h r i f t or War
Savmg Stamps. A l l the organizations must have thought a great
deal about this for the stamps turned in that night amounted to
m o r e than $400.

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Ella Mae Upthegrove's and Eleanor Manning's mothers spent a
short time here recently. One night during their visit they gave
us a turkey dinner down in the fraternity house in the pines. By
the amount of food that disappeared, probably Mrs. Manning and
Mrs. Upthegrove think there are more than twenty of us. But we
enjoyed the dinner and their visit so much we wish they would
come back soon. Frances and Virginia Allen gave a tea in their
honor. I t was not one of those formal affairs but just a good time
gathering outside the college world in a home once more.

Bernie Palfrey, annual Y. W. C. A. member, went to the con-
ference in Richmond last month. I t was the meeting of the under-
graduate members on the field committee.

Last week the student body voted on statistics f o r the annual.
Dolly Paxton was voted the most vivacious, Eleanor Manning the
most tempermental, and Frances Hardy the most popular.

The Week of Song was observed here. On ttie night of Wash-
ington's birthday, Dr. Latane of Johns Hopkins lectured. The stu-
dent body marched into the chapel in classes, and each class sang the
national anthem of one of the allies.

Every Monday night from 7 :00 to 7 :45 has been set aside for
food conservation lectures. A l l students have been urged to attend
these. Also a course which counts for the degree was started at the
beginning of the second semester. Over a hundred girl's have* taken
up this work.

We are beginning to feel as though this session has almost ended.
Tonight the first elections for 1918-19 were held. Frances Major
was elected president of the Y. W. C. A. and Annie Moore, secre-
tary.

FRANCES HARDY, Chapter Editor.

ZETA—UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

Arline Abbott, '21 Edna Hathway, 'l8

Jeannette Adams, '19 Helen Hayes, '19
Margaret Carnaby, '21 Doris Hostetter, '21

Belle Cook, '21 Lorene Hendricks, '20
Hazel Cook, '20 Lucille Mauck, '20

Lucile Crapenhoft, '21 Winnifred Moran, '18

Faye Curry, '21 Ethel Olsen, grad.
Lydia Dawson, '18 Margaret Perry, '20

Ruth Farquhar, '20 Genevieve Rose, '19

Florence Griswold, '20 Doris Vallery, '21

Mary Waters, '20

The first signs of spring, the budding trees, the birds, the early

flowers, all these tell us our college year is drawing to a close. For

some of us that means our school days w i l l soon be only a happy

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memory of gay laughter, merry faces, and long golden days brimful
of gladness. How often we shall recall the evenings when, after a
busy day we sat at the dinner table listening to Doris Vallery's latest
joke, or Jane's opinion of the Orpheum. We shall again hear Lydia
asking someone to please pass the salt, and Florence remarking that
she is PRACTICALLY through with the experiment on the crayfish.

And then the sleeping porch ! We shall not forget that. Remember
the time when Margaret fell off the top story bed? And the time
Jane stepped on Win instead of over her?

We are so happy to have Edith Swain, Zeta, at the head of our
table these days. She is a most charming chaperon and adviser.
"Jack," as we love to call her, is a concrete example of Alpha O
ideals.

Mildred will soon be doing her "bit" in taking care of her soldier
man, Laird Potter, of the base hospital unit of Nebraska men.

•Since we last wrote you we have pledged Esther Murphy of
Shenandoah, Iowa, and initiated nine splendid freshmen.

Zeta's banquet will be April 27th. Winnifred will preside as
toastmistress, and the toasts: "Reveille," "Mess Call," "Retreat,"
"Tattoo," and "Taps," will be responded to by members of the various
classes.

Now that we have reached the end of our letter, we find it verv
hard to say "goodbye."

Faithfully thee to serve,
Alpha, eternally!

EDNA MORGAN HATHWAY.

SIGMA-UNIVERSITY O]F C A L I F O R N I A

Helen Clowes, '17 Joyce Parlein, '20
E l l a Crawford, '18 Katherine Pride, '20
Marguerite Neely, '18 Edwina Robie, '20
Thelma Donovan, '19 Amelia Williams, '20
Margaret Forsythe, '19 Bertha Beard, '21
Lucile Graham, '19 Evangeline Bell, '21
Margaret McVey, '19 Mildred Cook, '21
Helen Schieck, '19 Margaret Day, '21
Dorothy Weeks, '19 Marion Farrington, '21
Marion Black, '20 Carmelita Heffernan, '21
Esther Cardwell, '20 Dorenda Maltby, '21
Virginia Cook, '20 Frances Morris, '21
Catharine Cox, '20 Esther Naylor, '21
Laura de Veuve, '20 Josephine Olcese, '21
Nadine Donovan, '20 Consuelo Osgood, '21
Anna-Gay Doolittle, '20 Dorothy Reichman, ,21
Hattie Heller, '20 Gladys Vander Naillen, '21
Mildred Mallon, '20 Lucile Young, '21

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To the Alpha 0 Sisters, Greetings/
As we have just finished our fraternity examination, bringing with

it the necessity of learning the chapter roll, we have you all defi-
nitely located. The bond of A O I I surely does reach from Maine
to California.

Well, we returned to college in the middle of January and after a
week of rushing, we were able to claim three fine pledges. They
were initiated on February 6th, the night of Sigma's birthday. I t
has been the custom for several years on the chapter birthday to
hold a vaudeville show in which each class gives a stunt. So this
year we combined initiation and vaudeville and had quite a celebra-
tion. The initiates, Margaret Day, Marion Farrington, and Frances
Morris, gave an Hawaiian song and dance skit, and were very versa-
tile with their ukuleles and guitar. After the regular initiation, the
freshmen offered as their contribution a takeoff of the sophomores.
They were mighty clever and although we all came in for our share,
we were almost rolling around before they finished, we laughed
so hard. The juniors and seniors combined and had a well-organized
Battalion of Death and the funniest make-ups. But we sophomores
admit that our stunt was the best. We had a sort of International
Peace Conference and among those present were the Kaiser, the
Crown Prince, Papa Joffre, Trotsky, General Pershing, Wilson,
Roosevelt, General Hunger, and Herbie Hoover—these last two
soul-mates—the corpse, who died from too much knitting, the Last
Draft, and the Sole Survivor of the Battalion of Death, with a mar-
velous array of bandages. Don't you think that was a promising
cast? Of course, you can't truly appreciate us because you didn't
see us.

After initiation we settled down to a very busy semester. We have
been trying not to waste time, but to work hard and to devote the
spare moments to Red Cross and knitting. The house and the girls
have invested in many T h r i f t and War Saving Stamps and in every
way, we have been trying to do our bit.

We have had a small share in campus activities also. Three of
the girls, Anna Gay Doolittle, Amelia Williams, and Esther Naylor,
are quite enthusiastic over crew, Anna Gay being sophomore manager.
Bernice Hubbard is woman's editor of the Daily Califomian, and
three or four of the girls are on the staff. We are represented in
National Service, Red Cross, Y. W. C. A., and other campus and
class committees.

Panhellenic here has inaugurated a system of exchange dinners,
affording a very fine opportunity for the girls to become acquainted.
We had one two weeks ago with the Kappa Deltas, our nearest

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neighbors, and are to have another next week with Kappa Kappa
Gamma. We have had one formal faculty dinner and are planning
another. Then, too, a few informal rushing affairs have taken up
some of our time. But the most important event in our Social calendar
was the informal dance which was held on March 9th. I t was
really a lovely party. The music and company were fine and the
house, beautifully decorated i n spring fruit blossoms, smelled arid
looked so nice. Two nights before the party, the chapter had a lovely
surprise in the form of an engagement announcement—Beatrice St.
John, ex-'20, to Donald Goodwin Searles, '20, a member of Theta
X i here, but in the Naval Reserve.

The University of California is having a great Semicentenary
celebration, of the granting of its charter as a state university. I t is
to be a week-long celebration, March 18th-25th, and as there are
many prominent people here to attend and various lectures and con-
ferences of interest scheduled, it will be quite a gala week. Many
alumni are returning and California men in the service in various
camps around the bay are to be given leaves to attend, so i t is
rather an important occasion.

We are a merry household this semester with twenty-four living
in the house. I n fact the place was filled to overflowing, and we
have had to rent two apartments around the corner. Now we have
about thirty girls at almost every meal. It's lots of f u n !

Sigma Chapter sends love to her many sisters.

M A R I O N A. B L A C K , '20, Chapter Editor.

THETA—DE PAUW UNIVERSITY

Beatrice Woodward, 'l8 Marguerite Norris, '20

Ann White, '18 Mabelle Hedde, '20

Esther Morris, '18 Mary Thompson, '20

Merle Huckleberry, '18 Maty Baker, '20

Jesse Jones, '18 Reggie O'Brien, '20

Margaret Douthitt, '18 Lucille Kelley, '20

Ada Smith, 'ig Edna-Jane Glendining, '20

Marie Hedde, '19 Juanita McFarland, '21

Ruth Little, '19 Ruth Stafford, '21

Helen Lange, '19 Helen York, '21

Bernice McCorkle, '19 June Morris, '21

VevVille Hausman, '19 Grace Largent, '21

Wilhelmenia Hedde, '19 Anna Jones, '21

Mary Bicknell, '19 Edna Bicknell, '21

Jessie Bicknell, '19 Ruthyene De Berry, '21

Agnes Lakin, '19 Thelma Sells, '21

Lelia Paulus, '21

Dear Sisters:

Since our last letter we have many things to tell you. First, let us

announce two splendid new pledges, Thelma Sells of Hagerstown,

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Indiana, and Ruthyene De Berry of Bieknell. They are very
enthusiastic pledges, and we are sure that they will make two more
strong workers for Alpha O.

February 15th our freshmen entertained the fraternity with a novel
little dance. They decorated the house with hearts and cupids and
served as refreshments pink ice cream in heart shapes and little
heart-shaped cakes.

The next night, February 16th, we held initiation for six of our
pledges (we had already initiated Mary Baker and Mary Thompson
several weeks before), Juanita McFarland, Ruth Stafford, June
Morris, Grace Largent, Reggie O'Brien, and Anna Jones. A few
of our alumna? were back with us for initiation, and our president
made the ceremony especially beautiful and impressive. After
initiation we ate a picnic lunch instead of the usual banquet.

Juanita McFarland has been elected secretary of her class, Ann
White president of the Chemistry Club, and Margaret Douthitt secre-
tary of the same club. Ann and Margaret are both doing splendid
work as assistants in the Chemistry Department of the university.

We regret to say that Abelene Ellis has been called away from
school because of the i l l health of her mother; also, that Merle
Huckleberry has left in order to be with her husband, who will sail
for France in a few months.

Many of our girls are busy with French Relief work, while of
course, everyone is doing some kind of war work. Several of the
girls have invested in T h r i f t Stamps, and we have decided to buy some
as a fraternity investment.

We are making special effort to have representatives in all the
spring athletic contests.

E D N A J A N E G L E N D I N I N G , Chapter Editor.

DELTA—JACKSON COLLEGE

Margaret Durkee, '18 Lorna Tasker, '19

Madeline Perkins, 'l8 Kathleyne Snow, '19

Elizabeth Sargent, '18 Ruth Robinson, '19

Kennetha Ware, '18 Mary Grant, '20

Ruth Brooks, '19 Marion Bennett, '20

Margaret Kimball, '19 Marion Phillips, '20

Inga Little, '19 Martha Walker, '20

Elizabeth Miller, '19 Eleanor Atherton, '21

Martha Neal, '19 Ruth Bagley, '21

Madeline Parker, '19 Sabella Kellock, '21

Ethel Richardson, '19 Louise Prescott, '21

Edna Wardwell, '21

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Dear Sisters:

' A l l white and still the stream and hill,
The winter dread and drear,
When from the skies a bluebird flies
And—spring is here."

Spring has come to us, for we have seen many bluebirds. And we
have spring in our hearts, too! Who wouldn't be happy with five new
sisters, who will stand by "through thick and thin" we know!

On one of our very coldest winter nights not so very long ago
either—we had the very next best thing to a sleigh-ride by going
in automobiles to Lynn where Madeline Perkins lives. Imagine ail
the stories you ever heard about long, cold rides followed by warm
fires and bright lights and the good old-fashioned hospitality, and
you will get an inkling of the good time we had. Going over we sang
all the old songs and all our college and fraternity songs, but coming
back we were too tired and too happy to sing anything but This Is the
End of a Perfect Day.

Three of our girls are living in the new cooperative house here.
I t is such a splendid success that I must tell you a little about it.
We do every bit of the work by rotating committees, and have the
best times on the hill. We have professors and their wives to dinner
Wednesday nights, and spend very cozy and intimate evenings by
the fire with them. The big dormitory, Metcalf H a l l , has taken up
the custom, too, and enjoys having a closer acquaintance with the
faculty. But by far the best part of our life is the little ways we
help each other by just understanding. Sometimes we find special
reasons for sympathy and are glad, when we know, to go " the second
mile."

Another way in which our fraternity is trying to come in closer
touch-with the faculty is by our "faculty calls." We have just
started these, but hope that they will be a great success.

One Monday night we gave a shower to Mildred Simpson. A l l
the gifts were pink and white, done up in pink and white wrappings.
A number of the alumna? from her class were back to join in the
fun.

Among the very best things that come to us during our fraternity
year, are the little friendly, advisory talks we get from Mrs. Lam-
bert and "Brownie" Keating. They come to us with the true spirit
of A O n and after being with them we cannot fail to be more loving
and more loyal.

LORNA TASKER, Chapter Editor.

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GAMMA—UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

Ruth Crosby, '18 Kathleen Snow, '20

Vera Gellerson, '18 Helen White, '20

Gladys Reed, '18 Achsa Bean, '21

Helen Stinchfield, '18 Rachel Bowen, '21

Ruth Jordan, '19 Julia Gilpatrick, '21

F a y Smith, '19 Lelia Hersey, '21

E l l a Wheeler, '19 Celia Longfellow, '21

Frances Bartlett, '20 Pauline Manseur, '21

Olive Chase, '20 Pauline Miller, '21

Barbara Dunn, '20 Ethel Packard, '21

Priscilla Elliott, '20 Helen Reed, '21

Ruth Ingersoll, '20 Dorothy Smith, '21

Florence McLeod, '20 Pauline Smith, '21

Eveline Snow, '20 Katherine Stewart, '21

Sarah Stewart, '21

Dear A O II Sisters:

I suppose that you as well as we of Gamma are beginning to pre-

pare for the sorority examination. Ours comes the eleventh of March

so we are busy hunting out our handbooks and looking up our chapter

roll.
Since our initiation and banquet, last December, we have not been

quite as active as usual—perhaps because our attention had to be given
to those dreaded mid-year examinations, but now that they are well
in the background we are making plans for the remainder of the year.
Our college year is to close May 17th in order that the University
of Maine may be made into a training camp f o r men in the technical
departments of the military service. This early closing means that
we were obliged to forfeit our spring vacation.

There are two social events to which we are looking forward; the
first is Gamma's " A t Home" to the Bangor Alumnse and the second
is their " A t Home" to us, which is to be held on the tenth anniver-
sary of the establishment of Gamma Chapter. I t makes it very pleas-
ant to have an alumnae chapter "next door."

We are attempting to make our weekly meetings more social by
decreeing that each class must take its turn in furnishing an enter-
tainment, which is given immediately after the business meeting.
The class which has the entertainment in charge must decide upon
the kind of amusement, and must also furnish the performers from
its members. So far this plan has worked very successfully. Does it
sound promising to you? But our meetings are not devoted entirely
to business and pleasure. I t was voted last week to knit a Red Cross
afghan, so I imagine that the "click, click" of knitting needles will
form an important factor in the coming meetings.

Our president attended the Grand Council Meeting in Boston and
brought us an interesting report of a very successful meeting.

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The Girls' Musical Clubs at Maine w i l l soon be giving their an-
nual performances. I n the Glee Club A O I I is represented by M i l -
dred Dow, Lelia Hersey, Pauline Smith, Olive Chase, Ruth Inger-
soll, Rachel Bowen, Katherine Stewart, Kathleen Snow, Helen
White, and Eveline Snow, who is the Glee Club leader.

Three of our girls, Ruth Chalmers, Mona MacWilliams, and Pau-
line Derby Haskell, left us after mid-years, having finished the four-
year course in three and one-half years. I t goes without saying that
Gamma is very proud of the ability these girls have displayed, but
she did hate to take their names from her active chapter roll.

We have decided to contribute our little "bit" in this awful strug-
gle by adopting a French child. Have any of you done this? Of
course, we haven't had time to learn much about our "adopted child"
yet, but we'll probably be able to tell you all about him and how
wonderful he is in the next letter.

Fraternally,

BARBARA D U N N , Chapter Editor.

EPSILON—CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Margaret Conlan, '18 Marie Hillidge, '20

Joanna Donlon, '18 Mary Moore, '20

Evelyn Hieber, '18 Cornelia Munsell, '20

Hilda Loeffler, '18 Elizabeth Ballentine, '21

Dagmar Schmidt, '18 Ruth Balcom, '21

Florence Coupe, '19 Jean Bright, '21

Hilda Greenawalt, '19 Nellie Davenport, '21

Irene Greene, '19 Esther E l y , '21

Helen Langdon, '19 Deborah Hitchcock, '21

Elizabeth Neely, '19 Elizabeth Merrill, '21

Mary Donlon, '20 Margaret Morrow, '21

Dorothy Hieber, '20 Sarah Searles, '21

Muriel Townsend, '21

Pledges

Marie Stanborough, '21

Naomi Usher, '21

The past three months have passed so quickly, that it does not
seem possible that spring is here. We have been fortunate enough
to have had visits from four of our alumna? during this time. I n
February, Clara Graeffe and Helen Bungart Leavens came up from
New York for the week-end. I n honor of the occasion, our "frosh"
gave their stunt. I t was a take off on rushing and we certainly saw
how others saw us. We certainly prophesy a dramatic career for
Naomi Usher. You should have seen her as an innocent freshman!
Beside giving us wonderful things to eat, they gave each one of us
a lovely rose.

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On February 8th, the Cornell Women's Dramatic Club gave She
Stoops to Conquer. I t was a great success and the girls cleared about
four hundred dollars, the greater part of which is to be given to
war work. I can't say much about it, you see, because I was the
heroine. Margaret Conlan, Evelyn Hieber, and "Patty" Loeffler were
ushers.

About this time, we had a surprise party at which Calista Hoffman,
ex-'18, announced her engagement to Clyde Warren, ex-'18. Calista
was the one who called it a surprise party but it was not such a
great surprise to the rest of us.

We are all so proud of Betty Neely. She was elected Y. W. C. A.
president for next year. She has been interested in the work ever since
she came to college and has been very active. We know that she will
more than make good. There was a new system of elections for the
big offices this year, which proved very successful here. The girls
were nominated by the governing bodies of the various organizations
and voted for at a compulsory mass meeting of all the girls. The
presidents of the junior and senior class were elected also. Beside
this, each class gave a stunt. Speaking of elections, Mary has been
elected to the Cornell Law Quarterly and Deborah has been elected
an active member of the Dramatic Club. Joanna, Mary, Marie, and
myself have all taken parts i n the plays which are given in the campus
theater.

In March we gave our faculty tea. The house looked beautiful,
thanks to our New York alumnae who sent us ten dozen wonderful
daffodils. We concluded the day with an informal dance.

Epsilon is "doing her bit" in the war work here. Every Monday
evening we all march over in a body and make surgical dressings
for two hours. We were the first fraternity to take it up and we cer-
tainly accomplish a lot even in such a short time.

As this is the last issue of the year, Epsilon wishes you all a
very, very pleasant vacation.

DAGMAR SCHMIDT, Chapter Editor.

RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Dorothy Maltby, '18 Eunice Marthens, '19
Mabel McConnel, '18 Helen Slaten, '19
Elizabeth Recht, '18 Miette Brugnot, '19
Kathryn Brown, 'l8 Velma Stone, '19
Ruth Sharer, '18 Helen Quayle, '19
Margaret Ariess, '19 Dorothy Church, '20
Elsie Brace, '19 E r n a Ariess, '20
Edith Brown, '19 Marguerite Kolb, '20
Jane Kennedy, '19 Ethel Wilman, '20
Dorothy Kerr, '19 Ruth Hendrickson, '20

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Gladys F r y , '20 . Geraldine Shaw, '21

Viola Hartman, '21 Hildegarde Reimer, '21
Mary Griffith, '21 Lucile Lloyd, '18, oratory
Helen Brooks, '21 Kata Blum, P. G.

Carol Issacs, '21 Francis McNair, P. G.

We have just returned from our Easter vacation, and are now

commencing on the last lap. There are a few of us seniors who hope

these next few weeks w i l l slacken to a snail's pace because it means

the time is approaching when we are to be sent out into the wide

world and be separated in person, but not in spirit, from Rho Chap-

ter. Evanston is so beautiful in the spring, too, that we all are

sorry to leave it.

Our social life of the past few weeks has not been as exciting as
it might have been because of the war atmosphere which seems to
pervade everything. We all feel that our spare moments should be
devoted to knitting or making surgical dressings. The university has
a room especially adapted for this work and the girls are pro-
vided with white aprons and caps to be worn while working there.
Our girls have been very liberal with their time and also their money
for Friendship Funds, T h r i f t Stamps, etc.

Our last social event occurred in February. We held our fresh-
man initiation ceremony at the home of Doris Wheeler in South
Evanston. I t was very impressive. After initiation we all hurried
to the Evanston Hotel where a wonderful banquet awaited us. There
were two long tables and then a shorter one across the ends of these
two, at which the toastmistress and "toasters" presided with a proper
amount of dignity and reserve. I think everyone must have been
extraordinarily hungry the way the broiled chickens disappeared.
Between courses we had original songs by i'reshmen and there was
not a quitter in the bunch even though one said she had practiced
her tune since last Christmas. They gave us some fine songs and we
hope to add them to our collection. When we were through eating,
the tables and chairs were taken out and a big baby grand was moved
in for dancing. Our old stand-by, Bessie Talcot, took her seat at
the piano and remained there, giving us all of the late dance music,
until we thought we had stayed the last minute we dared. I t was
surely with much reluctance that we broke up our party for we had
all had such a good time.

We are not as fortunate as many of the other chapters in having
sorority houses, but we believe in making the best out of what we
have. Last week we had the walls of our room newly adorned
with a beautiful gray paper and the woodwork given a fresh coat
of white. We rearranged all of the furniture and bought a new floor
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so different and so much more pleasant and home-like. We held our
next cozy there as the formal opening. We sang all of our songs and
several that we learned from Eta Chapter, knitted, and discussed the
war. Several of the girls brought their. guitars and we had some
Hawaiian music. Then we had some of the best apple turnovers
and chocolate. We have only two of our own cozies a month because
the girls at Northwestern want to be as democratic as possible and
so we have one class cozy and one Woman's League cozy each month.
But we have arranged to have "spread" on the weeks we don't have
cozy so we all get together once a week at least.

I mustn't forget to tell you about some little A O lis who have
come to town. Julia Fuller Crane and Grace Gilbert have the dar-
lingest little girls one would ever hope to see.

Our girls are very active on the campus, several working on the
new 1918 Syllabus that will appear shortly; one chairman of the
publicity committee of the Shakespeare play which will be given
May 18th, and for which five or six of the girls are planning fo try
out; others are busy at the gymnasium and in Y. W. C. A. work.

With the wonderful spring weather we are all "taking a new lease
on l i f e " and hope to make things count until June 12th.

Fraternally yours,

R U T H SHARER, Chapter Editor.

LAMBDA—LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY

Elsie Ford Piper, grad. Lenell Garvin, '19
Marguerite Odenheimer, 'l8 Edith James, '20
Constance Chandler, '18 Anita Compton, '20
Marion Gilbert, '18 Marion Loomis, '20
Jeanne Stoddard, '18 Virginia Flippin, '20
Abbie Wood, '18 Marguerite Roberts, '20
Elizabeth Wood, '18 Aline Laramar, '21
Caroline Rochfort, '19 Ruth Single, '21
Ruth Chandler, '19 Carmalite Waldo, '21
Marjorie Coil, '19 Ida Beckwith, '21

Lorraine West, '21

Since the quarter system has been installed here at Stanford, it
seems that we are hardly registered and through with our "rushing,"
until finals are upon us and then we have it all over again. At present
we are enjoying a week of vacation before taking up our work again
for the spring quarter.

We were all just more than busy last quarter, but we were very
happy with all our work! I n the first place, we feel that the year
started off well for us, for we have three pledges and they couldn't
be surpassed anywhere, we are sure of i t ! They are Dorothy Winkle,
of Salinus, California, Oma Retereth, of Williams, and Mildred Mer-
rett, of Woodland.

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A number of the girls have been busy with college activities this
year and we are proud of them for their work along these lines.
Constance Chandler, Abbie Wood, and Elizabeth Wood, were all
elected to senior committees. Constance is also on the War Service
Committee of the university, which, beside furthering war work, has
obtained a service flag for the university as a g i f t from the women
students. Ruth Chandler is a member of Woman's Conference.
Anita Compton, one of our sophomores, was i n the junior opera
this year. The opera given was Betty's Boots. Edith James is
captain of the sophomore basketball team, and Ruth Chandler is
on the varsity team.

A Belgian "Benefit" was given not long ago at the Women's Club-
house. Our freshmen gave a "stunt" for it which was received with
great enthusiasm. Another war benefit is to be given soon by the
women of the university. There is to be a regular circus with side
shows and everything i n the afternoon. They are even hoping to get
Douglas Fairbanks here for the occasion. Then i n the evening a
dance is to be given and we are to have charge of that. We are
hoping to make it a success, not only in giving a good time to all
those present, but in increasing the funds for war work. The girls
here are planning to make some Stanford scrapbooks for the soldiers.
They are to have cardinal covers, bearing the Stanford seal. We shall
be able to buy the books for twenty-five cents each and then fix them
up to be as interesting and clever as possible. You have probably
heard about the Stanford Woman's Unit which is to leave for France
soon to do relief and reconstruction work, under the auspices of the
Red Cross. We have all been interested in the work this unit is to
undertake, and have been giving what we could toward its support.

We had a letter from Virginia Withers, Pi, recently, telling us thai
her brother is at Camp Fremont. We hope to meet him soon and
make his stay at the camp a little more pleasant. I f there are any
other Alpha O brothers there, we hope that you will let us know of
them, and we shall do what we can to keep them from getting lone-
some.

The annual Y. W. C. A. convention was held here at Stanford this
year, the latter part of February. There were delegates here from
California, Mills College, the University of Nevada, and San Jose
Normal, so we had "open house" and were busy trying to entertain
our guests and enjoy the week-end with them.

We have had a number of faculty dinners recently and we have
enjoyed them very much. When one says "faculty dinner," you often
think of one of those formal, silent dinners, which is endured but
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were not what they were feared to be, and we really enjoyed them
thoroughly and found the professors and their wives to be very inter-
esting and entertaining!

We enjoyed a visit from Ethel Chase, Zeta, and her mother not long
ago. They came out to California for the winter and stopped here
for a few days on their way to Los Angeles. We feel real closely
related to Zeta now, for we feel that one of her girls, Elsie Ford Piper,
really belongs to us, since she has been one of us all year, and now
we all claim Ethel for a mighty good friend, too. We wish that you
could all come to see us and maybe you can some day!

With love and all good wishes from Lambda,

LENELL GARVIN, '19,

Chapter Editor.

Dear IOTA—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Bertha Stein, '18 Ermina Smith, '19
Velda Bamesberger, '18 Mary Putnam, '19
Nila Edmundson, '18 Dorothy Dunn, '19
Nina Grotevant, 'i8 Grace Gantz, '19
Martha Hedgcock, '18 Marion Kenney, '19
Ruth Percival, '18 Hazel Stephens, '19
Dorothy I wig, '18 Muriel Thompson, '19
Mary Caldwell, '18 Ina Holtermann, '19
Elsie Noel, '19 May Brady, '19
Beatrice Levy, '19 Leila Sheppherd, '20
Helen Brauns, '19 Shirley Mann, '20
Aileen Hunter, '19
Ruth Hohlman, '19 Ora Williams, '21
Ruth Bernreuter, '19 Ellen Kittinger, '21
Edith Davis, '19

Girls:

Spring has come. Five minutes ago i t was pouring down rain,
and now the sun is shining as bright as can be. I can't promise what
the next five minutes will bring forth. But we shall not complain of
the rain now, i f the proverbial May flowers will only hurry. And
yet i f we wish for the May flowers, we shall be wishing for the nearing
of the commencement time—and we seniors don't like that. But we
remember that we can't eat our cake, etc.

Since last we wrote you, we have initiated our freshmen, and they
give fine promise of becoming staunch Alpha O's. I t seemed that
our initiation was more beautiful this time than ever before. But
perhaps it just seemed more so to us seniors, because we were thinking
that we should soon be "grads," and that initiations for us in the
future would probably be "few and far between." We had an Alpha
O "training camp" at the initiation banquet, and the private (fresh-
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and commanding officer (alumna) each told us for what they were
training.

We are quite proud of our Helen. She has been very active in
campus activities during all of her college life, and now she has
captured new laurels. She is to be the vice-president of the Y. W.
C. A., and senior representative of Women's League for next year.

As I told you in my last letter, we have a U . S. school of military
aeronautics here, and a large number of soldiers are in training.
Their rules and hours are very strict, and they have little time for
pleasure. We have planned a little "aviation" dance at the house for
one Saturday night in April. The boys have to be in at eleven o'clock,
so it will be a very informal—but we hope enjoyable—dancing party.

Marie Rutenber, '15, announced her engagement to William Leslie
of Jacksonville, Illinois, a week ago. We were all rather surprised,
for we did not know that they were friends even. Some of us were
so much surprised that we suffered a decided (figurative) fall. Marie
had one of the other girls do the announcing for her. We had noticed
a considerable stir around the house, and so were expecting something
to "burst." A t dinner the bomb began to roll when Maybell—
Marie's representative—started her speech. Those of us who thought
we knew a little more about Maybell's private affairs than the rest
(we thought of course Maybell was announcing her own engage-
ment) put on our " I told you so" airs, and did not "tumble" until
Maybell was half through that it was Marie's engagement and not
her own that she was announcing.

We've had the mumps at our house. Ora had notice that hers were
coming, so fled home. Muriel lives with her aunt in Champaign, and
it was there that she was afflicted. Poor Ruth (Hohlman) caught
the "germ" just in time to keep her here during the Easter vacation.
We are glad to report that they are all doing nicely and expect to be
back in classes within a short time.

A l l the time I have been writing I have been conscious of the fact
that this is the letter I shall send. I t makes us sad when we think
that we are so soon to leave, but soberly happy when we think of
what a privilege it w i l l be to live our lives in the world as college
women. As I write the tramp, tramp, tramp of the soldiers is going
on under my window—the dull, but quick tramp, tramp, tramp inter-
spersed with the officer's brisk command, "Forward march! Sister
seniors, what can we do to help those boys in khaki and blue ? "For-
ward March/"

MARY CALDWELL, Chapter Editor.

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TAU—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Alma Boehme, '19 Margaret Howarth, '20
E l l a Breed, '19 Margaret Kendall, '19
Esther Cronan, '18 Lila Kline, '20
Margaret Doyle, '18 Doris Lohff, '19
Margaret Boothroyd, '20 Rhoda Kellogg, '20
Wynefred Clark, '20 Marion Mann, '19
Irma Egan, '19 Leta Nelson, '18
Emily Esswein, '19 Jennie Marie Schober, '18
Borghild Erling, '19 Lillian LifFt, '19
Muriel Fairbanks, '18 Eleanor Willets, '19
Mildred Hagen, '20 Vivian Vogel, '20
Mildred Haugland, '19 Anne Yates, grad.
Gertrude Hartman, '18 Lucile Zieglemaier, '19

Lillian Hoff, '19

Pledges
Helen Turner, '19
Alice Buckley, '21
Louise France, '20
Dinah Graham, '20

Out of the mists of our hopes and disappointments, gradually our
house is taking shape. As yet the form is very irregular and daily
changes to conform with our versatile selves. We are firmly con-
vinced, however, that our ethereal castle of today will be the tangible
reality of tomorrow. Indeed, the dream house of Tau has become
so much of a reality that we are starting to furnish it. A t least of one
piece of furniture we are sure, and that is the loveliest of tea-carts;
for we are saving tinfoil with which to purchase it. Indeed, there is
great danger of a future group of round-shouldered girls at Minne-
sota, as we now walk along the streets with our heads bent toward the
ground, ever searching for the magic glitter of tinfoil. I n our com-
pilations, we have been recruiting the aid of all nomadic peoples; so
if any of you other A O II's find any tinfoil which you do not feel
by duty bound to give to the Red Cross, please ship it straightway to
Tau.

Other means than tinfoil lie in our possession, however; and one
is the matinee which we are going to give at the Calhoun Theater this
month. Mrs. Alton Jackson of Gamma will have charge. The movie
will be followed by a vaudeville, composed of dances and skits by the
girls. The matinee will be a co-benefit for Red Cross and the new
house.

The new house is far from becoming our only topic of conversation.
We are thinking very seriously here at Minnesota of how we are
going to help our country. In view of this, discussion groups com-
posed of students with good leaders have been formed on the campus.
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to the war, to keep in touch with the important facts of this history-
making epoch, and, above all things, to unite as one group with the
purpose of making the people realize that in the students of the uni-
versity lies a dormant patriotic force which is awakening from its
lethargy into a dynamic force to be used in whatever way the nation
sees fit.

Along with the all-important matters, the usual incidents of college
life have been taking place. We have given up all dances and big
parties; but we still have informal gatherings and chats around the
fire. We have pledged three more prize girls in Helen Turner, a
junior from Fargo, North Dakota, Louise France, a sophomore in
the Architectural College, and Dinah Graham, a sophomore from
Rochester, Minn.

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

Mary CAHdaIm—s,S'Y19R A C U S E UNIVERSITY

Greta Ames, '19 Marion Jones, '21
Florence Barker, '21 Margaret Kreisel, '21
Lillian Battenfeld, '18 Gertrude Marks, '21
Irene Becker, '19 Ina Miller, '19
Frances Carter, '18 Clarita Moore, '19
Greta Coe, '21 Laura Moore, '19
Eleanor Cullivan, '20 Bertha Muckey, '18
Ethel Farrington, '18 Mildred Ostrander, '21
Leona Frye, '21 Edith Rauch, '18
Kathlyn Gilcher, '20 Marcia Rosbrook, '21
Helen Gregory, '19 Reva Snyder, '19
Gertrude Hall, '19 Edna Williams, '21
Ruth Harvey, '19 Ethel Williams, '20
Florence Hughes, '18 Mildred Wright, '20
Ethel Hunter, '20 Elisabeth Zimmer, '20

Pledges

Marion Knapp, '21 Gertrude Maxson, '20
Esther Koon, '20 Marjory Willard, '20

Back in your childhood days, at fairs and bazaars and things of

that sort, you used to delight in fishing in the surprise ponds for the

sheer glory of pulling forth unexpectedly such various gifts as a

paring knife, or a man's necktie, or a pink rattlebox—do you remem-

ber? As we think over the hodgepodge of events which fill the past

few months, we feel that we, too, would gladly shut our eyes, reach

m carelessly among the crowding bits of news, and pull out—perhaps

an account of the delightful dinner Nora gave us just before she left

or her home out west, to see him again before he leaves for France;

°5 of Laura's, which came a few weeks later; or of the spread for a

similar purpose, at which certain of our seniors were hostesses. Or

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we might find the story of Betty's sewing machine, which we have
rolled to a position of honor beside the fireplace, that it may be easy
for us to work upon the Red Cross garments we are making so indus-
triously. We are very proud, indeed, of that sewing machine and
the work it is helping us do—and helping others, also, since i n times
like these, those fraternities fortunate enough to have machines put
them at the service of all student Red Cross workers.

But we do not relax in our other war work, because we have the
garments to make; we still spend spare hours up at the Red Cross
rooms, established under the college Y. W. C. A . ; we still knit,
though we have progressed by regular graduation through the khaki
sweater and wristlets and helmets to the shaped white socks, the turn-
ing of whose heels carried us so frequently to our chaperon's room
for assistance. We still save carefully our penny a day—which penny,
many times multiplied, has already made possible the opening of a
second Red Cross room for the university women; we still enthusiasti-
cally sell T h r i f t Stamps, and buy them, too, to add the $8,000 worth
of Liberty Bonds we have purchased. The juniors are planning a
bazaar for a Red Cross benefit; the freshmen are planning a circus;
the stewardess is planning meals in accordance with the splendid
courses and special lectures we have had on food conservation. And
we together are planning also—planning for the farm work unit Chi
has formed, in response to the call for organization that has come to
Syracuse women.

The ordinary events of college life are so overshadowed or so per-
meated with war work that we almost forget their separate existence;
Senior Week, its play and its much simplified ball, seem far away,
and the Kastle Karnival as well. Most of the customary activities
and parties are omitted altogether, as Moving-up Day and Women's
Day are to be this year, along with Easter vacation, that we may the
sooner be ready for real work. We scarcely realize that this year our
College Equal Suffrage League has been disbanded because it has at
last seen its purpose gained, and that our Prohibition Club may soon
follow its example. The talks we have heard, the series of stirring
lectures, including one by ex-President T a f t , like the nursing courses
and the food conservation courses, and the sewing and the knitting,
have been merely an accepted part of it all, a part of the work college
women are letting drive out the old petty interests, the old ambitions
and rivalries, the old struggle for things not worth while.

One thing, however, we are thankful to say—for it means so much
to us—the war did not prevent, although it did change it to an
unrecognizably simple event. We mean, of course, our annual initia-
tion banquet, for which fourteen of our alumnae returned to see one

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another, and our new members, and us, and to meet three of you as
well, Elena Merrick of Epsilon, Louise Woodroofe of Iota, and Helen
Worster Cleaves of Gamma, who expressed in the unforgetable toast
she gave, something of the love and helpfulness she has been bringing
to Chi all this year. And love and helpfulness it is which Chi is
attempting to bring to her fraternity and her world during the years
to come.

FRANCES CARTER, Chapter Editor.

UPSILON—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Margery Miller, '18 Marguerite Oathout, '20
Ruth Lusby, '18 Hazel Britton, 20
Eloise Fleming, '18 Mary McGinnis, '20
Eloine Fleming, '18 Beth McCausIand, 20
Esther Knudson, '18 Una Weaver, '20
.Mildred Jeans, '18 Dorothy Hudson, '19
Nellie McColl, '18 Helen Brewster, '18
Ruth Haselett, '19 Violet Krohn, '20
Anne Seely, '19 H le e n Koller, '19
Harriet Seely, '18 Hope Moore, '21
Eloise Ebright, '19 Doris Moore, '21
Eugenia Garratt, '19 Alice Campbell, '21
Louise Benton, '19 Helen Fosdick, '21
Eleanor Peyton, '20 Ruth Baker, '21

Pledges

Margaret Woods, '21

Mary Burnside, '20

Helen Bogardus, '21

The beginning of the new quarter in January was also the begin-
ning of the "Reign of Terror" for the pledges. For a week the
Alpha O house took on all the aspects of a training camp, with
captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and poor down-trodden recruits. A n
officer of the day was appointed for each day of the week and the
recruits were given tasks for each hour from reveille at 7 A. M . until
taps at 10:30 p. M. and the tasks varied from climbing out on the
porch roof to unfurl the flag at sunrise to peeling potatoes and scrub-
bing the bathrooms. Everything was carried out according to mili-
tary rule. The privates were made to salute all superior officers and
to stand at attention when an officer entered the room and remain so
until recognized, under penalty of being assigned to kitchen police or
to the guardhouse. I n spite of threatened mutiny and a few minor
rebellions, Alpha O voted these recruits the "gamest sports" ever.

Friday night, January 18th, the pledges entertained us with a
vaudeville. I t was a "scream" from start to finish, and the following
Sunday, January 20th, we discarded our austere roles of captains and

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lieutenants, became once more Alpha O sisters, and initiated nine

splendid girls.

On the afternoon of Friday, February 1st, our initiates entertained
us with a the dansant, and on March 1st we gave our informal dance.
We made it a "Mad March Hare" party and all the decorations were
suggested by Alice in Wonderland. A border of black bunnies chased
each other's tails around the walls and the Hatter graced our pro-
grams ; the Queen's tarts and diamond-shaped ice were appropriate
refreshments.

I must not forget to tell you about Upsilon's basketball team. We
are mighty proud of it. I t has been defeated only by the champion
team.

Upsilon is very much interested in war work. Each active girl
spends one afternoon a week at Red Cross Headquarters, and we are
all knitting either sweaters or socks. Next quarter all freshman and
sophomore girls at Washington will do at least two hours of war
work and seniors will be given courses in food conservation.

We are very proud to announce that Louise Benton is now a mem-
ber of M u Phi Epsilon, and that Ruth Lusby has been elected to
Sigma XL

At present Upsilon is in the midst of quarterly examinations and
before this is read another quarter will have passed. We shall be
repeating the process and shall be packing trunks and buying tickets
and doing all the little things that go with saying goodbye to college
and going home f o r the summer. Upsilon wishes all her sisters
a happy and busy vacation, and will be looking forward to hearing
all about it next f a l l .

H A Z E L BRITTON, Chapter Editor.

NU KAPPA-SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Louise Pendleton, '18 Minna Lee Norwood, '20

Jewell Hammons, '19 L u r a Temple, '20

Rhea Burgess, '20 Mary Emily Barton, '20

Lora Thacker, '20 Elizabeth Burgess, '21

Elizabeth Cummings, '21

Our winter term and fraternity examinations (which came at the
same time) are over, and we are beginning the spring term with new
ambitions and resolutions. We are feeling the national spirit of
unrest strongly in our university, and it is not easy for us to be con-
tent with the little bit of service we can render when others are doing
so much, but there is one particular piece of war work we are to have
the privilege of helping with soon, .and we hope to be able to tell
you about it in the next letter. We are to help the Publicity Depart-
ment of the Woman's National Council of Defense.

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Our festivities have, of course, been reduced to a minimum, but we
have had two delightful entertainments given us this term by our
two patronesses. Mrs. Whaling entertained on Louise Pendleton's
birthday. We always look for surprises when Mrs: Whaling is hostess.
The girls were first set to embroidering their names on strips of cloth.
After these were collected each of us wrote a toast to Louise—Louise
thinking it was a toast to the fraternity. Then the birthday cake was
brought in—the biggest one you ever saw, with red candles in little
red roses, and decorated with white sweet peas, sweet alyssum, and
fern. I t was made of individual squares, with a candle burning on
each one. As each wish was read the writer blew out her candle.
I t might be well to mention that the one piece of cake nobody took
held the thimble. N u Kappa takes this for a significant omen! The
embroidered names were sewed on a red pillow, around the fraternity
seal and given to Margaret Vaughan.

Mrs. Murley entertained with a picnic at a fairy spot near the uni-
versity. I think she discovered it herself. We built a huge fire i n
the creek bed (that is the best place to find a real dry spot i n this
state right now) to roast our wienies and toast our marshmallows.
There were all kinds of sandwiches and f r u i t salad that Mrs. Murley
made herself, and hot coffee and iced sweet milk and plum blossoms
and a little new moon!

There is an article in the February number of the Sigma Kappa
Triangle we want all Alpha O's to read. I t is about our Editor.
We would like still better to see it printed i n To DRAGMA.

We are still living over Mrs. Stewart's visit to us. I wonder i f
any other chapter got as much inspiration from her visit as we did.

We feel a lot more acquainted with all of you since we have met
men from nearly every university where we have a chapter, who are
here either at Camp Dick, an aviators' concentration camp, or who
are at the flying school at Love Field. I f any of you have brothers
or friends who are stationed here or at the various camps near Ft.
Worth, Nu Kappa would count it a privilege to extend any courtesies
to them.

MARGARET VAUGHAN,

(For the Chapter.)

BETA PHI—INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Lura Halleck, '18 Mildred Begeman, '20
Helen Duncan, '19 Mary Duncan, '20
Vivian Day, '19 Hildred Oliver, '20
Beatrice Coombs, '19 Margaret Day, '20
Shirley Armstrong, '19 Emma McCIaire, '20
Pauline Cox, '19 Irene Ryan, '20

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Isabel VVeybright, '20 Mildred Douglas, '21

Edith Huntington, '20 Madeline Snoddy, '21

Lee Combs, 'aI Frances Heald, '21

Ethel Bender, '21 Alice Heald, '21

Francis Duncan, '21 Lelah Whitted, '21

Lelah Baker, '21

Now March has nearly passed and we must again write to you all
something about ourselves and our college. And as I wrote that sen-
tence it came to me that this was also the last time in this college year.
I t is always a problem to me to know just which of our interests will
interest you, but this will be the last time I shall do this for which I
am truly sorry.

I must to sure to write you about our initiation. We had such a
lovely impressive one. We initiated nine girls. These are Hildred
Oliver, Isabel Weybright, Lee Combs, Ethel Bender, Francis Duncan,
Mildred Douglas, Madiline Snoddy, Francis Heald, and Alice Heald.
After initiation we had a banquet. Some of the cleverest speeches
were made and Pauline Cox made the finest toastmistress. The deco-
rations were very clever, and carried out in red, white, and blue for
the next day was Washington's birthday. We have four pledges and
we invited them for the banquet. They are Mary Fletcher, Elizabeth
Miller, Myra Esarey, and Jama Bailey. We also made this banquet
a farewell for Irene Ryan. Irene has taken a position in government
work at Washington. She left a few days after initiation. We were
very sorry to see her go, but glad that she could serve our country
in its time of need.

Another one of our girls has changed her entire course, because
she felt she was needed much more as a surgical nurse than as a
teacher of Latin. Shirley was a junior and now she must stay four
years more in training. We all admire her for her decision.

For a long time we girls have fairly longed for a victrola. So you
can well imagine how overjoyed we were when three of our girls gave
us one. We surely felt grateful to them. These kind fairy god-
mothers are Lelah Baker, Lee Combs, and Mildred Douglas.

We have just settled down to hard work again after the state high
school basketball tournament. The university gave us a vacation on
Friday. The tournament began Thursday evening and lasted until
Saturday evening. We had such a good time and lots of company!
We surely enjoy company!

This semester our class schedule has been changed so we have five
classes in the morning. Another war measure! Classes begin at
seven-thirty in the morning and hold until twelve-thirty. This makes
us get up very early. We don't mind it so much now that it is spring
and the mornings so wonderful, but when the wintry breezes blew

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it made one feel that "it's nice to get up in the morning but it's nicer
to lie in bed." Soon the chimes will ring seven-thirty classes at six-
thirty. We shall have dinner in the middle of the afternoon and
' To to bed by day" and dress "by yellow candle light." I t will seem
queer at first, but we shall soon become accustomed to it like the rest
of you.

The university has started a movement called "New Democracy."
We are to have four lectures by President Bryan, three of which we
have had, and three discussion groups. A t the discussions we Alpha
O girls have as leader a very wonderful man, Mr. Lee, an instructor in
education and head of the Vocational Department. We discuss in
these meetings, problems in this war which bear upon this idea of
new democracy. Our meetings are delightful as well as instructive.

I t has been splendid weather for hiking these days, and the arbutus
is out, so several of us have gone for long hikes out to Arbutus H i l l .
Arbutus H i l l is about five miles from the university and a very beauti-
f u l place.

Two of our girls have had measles and all of us have had verv
severe attacks of spring fever, but there were no casualties.

This morning our chimes played Indiana calling us all to early
service. We are to have services which last ten minutes at seven ten
every morning this week because it is Holy Week.

Our Easter vacation begins Thursday noon, March 28th. We
are all eager for it to come. Then the time will soon pass until the
time when once again we are free for the summer.

So although summer seems a long way off, we wish each of you a
successful close to this semester and a lovely vacation.

MILDRED BEGEMAX, Chapter Editor.

ETA—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Margaret Babcock, '21 Winifred Inglis, '18

Dorothy Bassett, '20 Katherine Jackson, '19

Gladys Beveridge, '20 Julia Johnson, '18

Helene Bowersox, '18 Margaret Johnson, '19

Eddina Douma, '19 Garnet Kleven, '19

Lillian Dulin, '21 Lydia Lacey, '21

Ruth Engebretson, '21 Marion McCabe, '20 •

Karen Falk, '19 Margaret Melaas, '19

Irene Folckemer, '19 Clara Nehrlick, '19

Mary Fowler, '20 Avis Peters, '18

Marguerite Gooding, '21 Elizabeth Pruett, '18 I

Genevieve Greenman, '19 Grace Putnam, '21

Agnes Hottel, '20 Ruth Tufts, '18

Helen Turner, '19

j. A French war orphan, a little boy eight years old, is oyr latest
Pledge." I t makes Eta happy to know that for only thirty-six

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dollars a year a little boy is being clothed and fed somewhere in
France. A special movement has been broadcast in this university to
adopt war orphans from the same village so that it may be exclusively
a University of Wisconsin center. The sororities here have shown no
little spirit in responding to this call.

Many new movements in the university, incited by the war, are
growing by the vigorous efforts of the Greek-letter societies. A Bible
study class has been instituted in each fraternity house to meet once
a week in order to discuss "Christianity, Internationalism, and Democ-
racy." The study has aroused a deep interest among our girls and
we now look forward eagerly for the short thirty-minute discussions
every Thursday evening after dinner.

A chapter of Delta Zeta has just been installed here. As yet no
one seems to know much about the girls, who are probably waiting
until next f a l l to make a triumphant entry.

Our initiation took place the first part of March. To us it was the
most impressive ceremony we have ever had. A l l the pledges came
over Friday to stay at the house for the week-end. They had no
idea when initiation was to occur. Saturday night, just as the big
town clock struck twelve, the pledges, who had all been put to bed on
third floor at eight o'clock, were awakened by the playing of soft
chimes at their doors. There was no light save red candles carried
by the heralds of the night as they went from door to door. There
were ten pledges in all.

No sooner than the chimes ceased, strains of Once More United
floated from downstairs, followed by other sorority hymns while the
girls up on third hastened to make ready for the great event in the
short forty-five minutes given them to dress. A l l the way from third
to first floor was lighted with red candles only and by these each
candidate was led down in turn.

After initiation the girls were served hot chocolate and sandwiches.
Between three-thirty and four o'clock we retired for the morrow.
Every member of Eta was housed here that night. With the initiation
banquet at twelve o'clock Sunday, our week-end festivity closed.

With greetings to you all,

ELIZABETH PRUETT, Chapter Editor.

ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Mary Danielson, '18 Azalea Linfield, '19
Martha Johnson, '18 Minnie Ellen Marquis, '20
Ruby Hodgskiss, '18 Helen Rose, '20
Blanche Border, 'l8 Hyacinth Rowley, '20
Harriet Arneson, '18 Helen Tripp, '21
Etta Haynes, '19 Irene Abrahamson, '18

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Myrtle Kuhns, '18 Mary Millegan, '20

Alice McCone, '18 Marcy Angel, '20

Doris Ingram, '19 Leila Linfield, '20

Etta Morcutt, '19 Florence Tyler, '21

Lynnie Chattin, '19 Mayme Egan, '21

Dear Alpha 0 Sisters:

Once more a quarter has gone by and we here at Montana State

College have undergone that awful ordeal known as "examination
week."

But taking examinations is not all Alpha Phi has done since Christ-

mas. The first thing that happened was the initiation of us freshmen.

The girls wouldn't tell us when we were to be taken in until one day

they solemnly handed us cards saying that we were to report for duty

three days before initiation. When it came that close, we began to

see in some small degree the bigness of what we had undertaken.

Then the night!—never was there such a night—and before it WJ<S

over Alpha O had some new and loyal sisters.

Then the big thing for us was the return of four of our alumna:
for our first birthday. Plans were made, committees appointed.
Hoover food purchased and cooked, and all sorts of other things done
Finally the girls arrived, amid a great hubbub. On the night of
February 23rd we had our banquet. Mary Chase had sent us a letter,
which was the nicest birthday present we could have received, for all
the older girls know her and we freshmen feel almost as i f we do too.
(Tau, we envy you your companionship with her.) The banquet
was the very best possible. We Hooverized, but succeeded in having
the very best and as much as i f we were not living in a country whicn
is at war.

With the money left, that is, what we saved by cooking the banquet
ourselves, we have decided to buy Red Cross yarn to work up as a
unit and then send it to soldiers. We also have some dresses for Bel-
gian women. The girls down town made one and those at the hall
the other.

I'm at the hall, and "second blink has blinked," and Myrtle has
come to put me to bed, so good night, my two thousand sisters whom
I don't know but yet whom I love.

FLORENCE TYLER, '20.

(For the Chapter Editor)

NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Faith E . Clarke, '20 Mary John Overall, '20
Sarah Coston, '21 Natalie Overall, '20
Mary Harrell, '19 Billie Shelton, '20
Mary D. Houston, '18 Ellenna Webb, '18
Katrina Overall, '18 Louella Whorley, '21