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the sisterhood of Alpha O . I could not help wondering i f the fresh-
men had any realization of the exceptional opportunity offered them
to fit themselves for the more exacting world outside the environment
of college. They w i l l receive that rarest of disciplines: the necessity
for many girls of widely varying temperaments to strive together to-
ward a common ideal. What a w o n d e r f u l thing it w o u l d he were i t
possible f o r the college girl and the older g i r l who has put her col-
lege training to the test to know each other more intimately, and of
what benefit it w o u l d be to each!
P E A R L L . P I E R C E , Chapter Editor.
PROVIDENCE ALUMN-ffi
Dear Sisters in Alpha 0micron Pi:
Our chapter has not yet gotten together f o r this year, and I have
seen but t w o of the g i r l s a l l summer, and those only f o r a moment, so
that chapter news is impossible. The Women's College in Brown
University, of which most of us are alumna1, is to hold its t w e n t y - f i f t h some f a m i l i a r faces, and we trust these busy war duties w i l l not keep
anniversary on the twentieth of this month, and I hope to have Daza
Mowry Drury, a classmate and one of our members, residing i n Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, to spend the week-end w i t h me at that time, and
incidentally we hope that it w i l l be possible to get the chapter together
for our opening meeting. O f course we are always busy, but the war
has proven that none is so busy but that she can do a bit more, and
most o f us are doing our " b i t . " I hope there isn't a g i r l i n A l p h a O
who can say that she has has done absolutely nothing f o r the great
cause. Many. I know, are working their fingers off i n Red Cross
work, and those that cannot do that are paying their dues to help i n
that way. The housewives, I trust, are all showing their Food Con-
servation card " i n the f r o n t w i n d o w " as M r . Hoover requests us to,
and are doing a l l in their power to feed the allies. T h i s is the time
when college women are to show what the college education really
stands f o r , and to help educate those about them who so sadly need
to be educated. M a n y o f you are situated as I am, i n close touch
w i t h women who settle back and say, " I am not i n sympathy w i t h this
war," and therefore refuse to do anything! W h o of us is " i n sym-
pathy w i t h this w a r " or any other w a r ! Yet it is f o r a l l o f us to help
w i n as long as we are i n i t , and I feel confident that a l l of the women
of the fraternity, wherever they are, whether undergraduates or alum-
na2, are doing as much as i n them lies to f u r t h e r the cause of justice
and right, as l a i d d o w n by the rule o f democracy.
God speed the time when the peace that passeth all understanding
shall be so implanted i n our hearts that war w i l l be an impossibility-
May charity, or love (whichever version you prefer) become the key-
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note of a l l our actions, so that w i t h the constant enlarging of the cir-
cle the whole w o r l d may be embraced, and s t r i f e and anger be
consumed!
Yours fraternally,
M A U D E E. C . C O V E L L , Editor.
BOSTON ALUMNiE
Somehow, the winter hasn't really begun u n t i l the first alumnae
meeting has been attended. T h e Boston chapter started i n earnest
last Saturday, October 4th, under the splendid hospitality of our dear
Blanche Hooper, who swung open her house to us and had a cheery
open fire to greet us. I t was so good to be together a f t e r the summer
interlude, and tongues never wagged faster, f o r each person was
telling the news and experiences since the last meeting. We missed
any member away f r o m A O TI meetings. B r i n g the work along.
I t was a surprise to see D o r a Thayer M i n e r , and to hear about her
little daughter, Jane. I hope it doesn't sound too "gossipy," and we
hope the other chapters will pardon the personal trend in this letter,
but perhaps by mentioning what the various members are doing,
there may be other A O I I sisters interested along the same lines, and
it may help to make us better acquainted, although distance prevents
personal interviews. Esther Ladd was busy knitting and when asked
what her occupation might be replied, " S t i l l teaching L a t i n i n M e d -
f o r d H i g h School." Gladys Graves Wales, Ethel Davis, Genevieve
Fosdick, Genevieve Haven, and Clara Russell were present. We are
glad to have Annette Macknight "on the H i l l , " taking her A . M . in
English. M i l d r e d Simpson is making a l l the necessary stitches
appropriate to engaged girls. Jane Rextrow tells us that her interests
are now turning f r o m the Telephone Supervisor's duties to those of
home-making. Lucky m a n ! Edna Woodbury was present. She has
charge of the Children's Library i n Somerville, Massachusetts. Alice
Spear, who is secretary of the N o r f o l k School of Religious Education,
t o l d of her t r i p to N e w Y o r k State, where she visited E m i l y Eveleth,
and enjoyed the hospitality of the Syracuse and Cornell girls at their
tea given in Utica. H o w are the napkins? We congratulate Cornell
chapter upon its new home! W h y not send us a picture i n T o
D R A G M A ? I f any A O n reads the Curtis Publishing Co., issues,
it might be of interest to know, that Genevieve Fosdick is in the
Advertising Department of the Boston office. One of our recent
alumnae, Helen Rowe, was present and we are pleased to learn that
she is cataloguer at the T u f t s College L i b r a r y .