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102 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICROX PI Is it too much to ask? I t is only a suggestion, of course, but

the active chapter, hut also about the sisters we knew and loved if you will take it up, it seems to me that it would be a splendid
so well when we struggled and toiled and rejoiced together—what
life is meaning to them now that we are all so far apart. thing for us all. It will not take up much valuable time if you all

I haven't been out of college for so long that I cannot clearly help, and each girl does her share; it will not require any wonderful
remember how little time there is for letter-writing, and how one
postpones the evil hour as long as possible in the stress of work and literary ability, you know, for you are writing to your own family;
pleasure. And I know it is asking a great deal to beg for letters
for all of us, telling all the things we want to know. and it need not be expensive. Have the little sheet mimeographed

T o D R A G M A , it is true, gives us all the fraternity news. By for a starter and see i f it won't bring joy to hearts all over the
reading that we know just what A O H is doing, and a little of
what our own little chapter has done, but of course it would be country*, and be an anchor in the truest sense of the word.
impossible for T o D R A G M A to print the intimate news of each chap-
ter. So why not each have a little chapter paper—an "anchor"— I think that you will find that it will be worth the effort, for
to "drop" to each chapter alumna several times a year?—the oftener
the better! It wouldn't mean much work. Everyone in the chapter it will draw each "family" closer together, and all of your "big
should be privileged to add to it. Keep a notebook in the chapter-
room ; and, when something happens in which you know we would sisters" can feel that they have a real part in your life, as you have
be interested, jot it down. A little note telling us of some party
you have been enjoying, another telling of some welcome visitor on in theirs; and that they are working for and with you as you are
the campus (who may also be induced to write her impressions of the
changes that have taken place; so that we, who know so well how working for and with them in A O I I .
"Mary" feels and sees things, can feel almost that we have visited
you, too!) another telling of some problem to be solved (for you GRAND SECRETARY'S HONOR ROLL
must all have problems—different from ours, presumably, but there
just the same—and perhaps some of us could even help, certainly OCTOBER NOVEMBER
sympathize) will soon mount up to a paper of much interest. And
add all the news you can get of your "old girls"—engagements, SEPTEMBER 1
marriages, births, triumphs in the business world, success in the
world of letters, struggles, and achievements. We will do our Third received First received
share, I am sure, by sending in all the "personals" we can collect,
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The paper could be sent to T o D R A G M A each time for the notes it
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crowd"—"once more united" in the room which holds so many happy f i n time
and tender memories for us all—or sitting on the porch—or gathered Zeta On time I 1U11I|'»
in some familiar spot on the campus. F o r we would all love to see Sigma Prompt
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