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Newcomb is p l a n n i n g her first intercollegiate debate w i t h Agnes
Scott f o r some date i n March. The participants haven't been chosen
yet but the other negotiations have been made and we are very excited
over the prospect.

We all enjoyed Maud Colcord's story in the last T o DRAGMA
and hope that others w i l l read it i n our library copy. I t is truly
"great" as M r s . Esterly says and w o r t h y o f A l p h a Omicron's best
interests.

NU. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Aldana Quimby. Helen Vollmer.
Virginia Mollenhauer. Nora Stark.
Helen Williams. Elizabeth Smart.

Vice-president class of '15, Aldana Quimby.

N u sends her greetings and hearty good wishes to you a l l .
Since our last chapter letter we have been setting our house i n
order, we trust, i n the spiritual as well as the material sense. A t
least the renovated fraternity room, the f r u i t of much presidential
effort, encourages us to feel that fine glow of accomplishment. I
wonder i f you girls w i t h your chapter houses, would care to come
with me through the bare halls of the university up to our little nook
on the roof and see how much our one home-like room means. New
Y o r k University is true to its motto—"Perstando et praestando utili-
tati." I t stands like a b u l w a r k against the ignorance of higher cul-
ture w i t h which i t is too o f t e n the doom of poverty to flood the slowly
rising fabric of democracy, and it holds open to all those—to whom
sex or circumstance might otherwise bar it—the door of opportunity.
Perhaps some time i n the future i t w i l l receive the f u l l meed of
recognition for the noble work which it is doing and f r o m which
other and prouder colleges too often turn. Certainly we girls—barred
out by the traditions and conventions of almost all the other Eastern
law schools—have a great deal for which to thank New York Uni-
versity. But where there are so many eager to take advantage of the
opportunity and so l i t t l e room and time and funds to meet all the
g r o w i n g needs, the cozy browzing-rooms, lounging-rooms, and other
asethetic things of the college l i f e , have had to be l e f t out. So the
one place of our own means a great deal to us.

Perched up on a corner of the roof of the, well, reasonably tall
building—ten stories doesn't count for much in New York any more,
you know—with big studio windows looking out over the city's lights
at night and with a good view of the clock on the Metropolitan
tower, which is quite important i n t i m i n g our conclaves, is the abode