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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 203

of N u chapter. Inside are cozy wall-seats with pillows f o r every
college represented by our active chapter, an idea of Virginia Mol-
lenhauer's, in a place of honor among them, the fraternity emblem,
and a crimson banner bearing the well-loved letters hangs on the
opposite wall framed in by the chapter photographs. Over our
heaped up pillows is the framed charter to which we owe our ex-
istence. Curtains cover the windows. I n the center of the room
is a round table, capable of being elongated indefinitely f o r frater-
nity dinners. A table-bench, arm chairs in green, a curtained cabinet,
a desk, a china closet, long benches the length of the windows, a
screen, electric stoves behind the screen, and shelves of formidable
looking law books and you have a hasty sketch of our chapter home.
I t means the one touch of college spirit as most of us have know it
elsewhere, the one meeting place for true fellowship, within the
university walls.

We have no dormitory l i f e . T h e classes are scattered and sepa-
rated, part coming only at night or i n the afternoon, others in the
morning, most of them busied with outside affairs, often one division
never even seeing members of the other division, and Alpha makes
the one common meeting place and tie that binds us a l l together,
morning, afternoon and evening divisions, workers and non-workers,
residents of the city and girls away f r o m home.

Here we met on Founders' Day to celebrate with a tea. There
were some fifteen of us, some, new girls. Since then we have been
h o l d i n g a series of teas to get acquainted w i t h the new girls who seem
possible material f o r the chapter. Next time we hope to report some
new members.

OMICRON, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Nelle Bondurant. Margaret Conover.
Ellen Converse. Aubry Faulkner.
Elizabeth McCargo Mary Annie Landy.

The f a l l term is over now, and we can rest a little after its busy
rush. The university has been an unusually lively center this year,
and some of our freshman girls have grown so f o n d of the " H i l l , " and
especially of l i f e at our dormitory, Barbara Blount, that they secretly
bemoaned their luck whenever week-end invitations were received,
fearing lest "something would happen while they were gone." A n d
the successful season of our football team, celebrated i n mass meetings,
bon fires, and grotesque parades, has aroused great enthusiasm in the
entire student body, and has added much to the l i f e and spirit on
the " H i l l . "