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24 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI
CONGRATULATIONS
The following notice deserves a page by itself, and i f the war
hadn't increased the paper prices, we should give i t that f u l l page.
We quote from the Boston Transcript of October 5th, 1917.
WOMEN STILL BETTER STUDENTS
They Average Higher Than the Men at Wisconsin—Fraternity Men
Lead, Nonfraternity Men
Madison, Wis., October 5th (Special)—Women students again
attained a higher scholastic average than men students at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin last year, according to statistics just compiled. The
women averaged 82.9 per cent, and the men 80.6. The average of
all undergraduates was 81.3.
The College of Letters and Science, with a roll of 2,849, had an
average of 81.6; the College of Agriculture, with a roll of 736, had
an average of 80.7; the College of Engineering, with 590, averaged
80.9; and the Law School, with 150, averaged 77.8.
Women who were members of sororities averaged 84.9, while non-
sorority women averaged 82.1. Fraternity men averaged 81.9, while
nonfraternity men scored 80.2.
Alpha Omicron Pi, a newly organized sorority, led the sororities;
its nineteen members averaged 86.5. Alpha Sigma Tau led the
social fraternities with 85.8. Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemi-
cal fraternity, led organizations of its class with 84.7.
I think the dearest time of day tea,
Comes when we've had our
Because we sit beside the fire
As quiet as can be;
And I just smile at mother then,
And mother smiles at me.
A L I C E V . C A R R I C K , in Youth's Companion.
TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 25
THE EDITORS' CONGRESS
Dear Mary Chase:
The Editors' Conference was so interesting and so free of sugges-
tions—at least to an outsider—that I wish more than ever that you
could have been there. I am sending you the secretary's minutes of
the meetings, which w i l l give you the routine business, and I will do
my best to pass on my impressions to you. I n the hurry of getting
off a report so soon, I shall necessarily not have time to distinguish
between what I think you would want to know and what you would
wish to print. W i l l you "cut" from this report rather freely?
Do you know that the things about those meetings which impressed
me most was the friendly spirit evident in all the discussions, the
willingness of all present to help one another in every possible way.
Surely such a spirit cannot help but bring better and more successful
magazines. I know I enjoyed every minute of the time I spent
there—and I had rather dreaded the meetings, feeling so totally
unacquainted with the matters up for discussion.
The meetings were held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago,
with Miss L. Pearle Green of K A ©, chairman, and Miss Florence
Armstrong, A X O, secertary. Practically all of the eighteen con-
gress fraternities were represented. Mrs. Rugg, Pi Beta Phi, gave a
most interesting report on the possibilities of syndicated advertising
which was added to i n more detail by the address on the subject
given by Mr. Banta at the second meeting. I t is my impression that
you know all about this matter from previous correspondence with
Mr. Banta. There was a great deal of discussion as to the advisability
of advertising, the kind needed in a fraternity magazine, etc. Alpha
Chi Omega was quite confident that advertising paid the advertisers,
and that it was a good thing for the magazine, financially. Some of
the editors felt that advertising did not pay enough to compensate
for the giving up of that amount of space. But Mr. Banta's scheme
met with fairly general approval.
The discussion of fines was most interesting. I found that
many editors used a system of collect telegrams to get material
in on time. Many had fines imposed by their constitutions
that had, as a matter of fact, become obsolete. Kappa Delta had
the heaviest fines—fifty cents a day every day of the first week over-
due, a dollar a day the second week, and $5.00 i f not in before pub-
lication. I n her case, the plan had been very successful.
Then came up the question of life subscriptions. You can well
imagine how wide open my ears were for any suggestion here. I
found that most of the magazines had some method of life subscrip-