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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 113

OMEGA

B Y G R A C E W I L L I S , ' 2 1 , Editor

Our treasurer has to keep strict account o f a l l the finances because
the books go in to be balanced each month at the University office.
We have a budget made out f o r the year and use i t as a guide f o r
our expenses. O f course we have the national fraternity dues. Our
local dues are put down on the books as so much a month, but
usually the girls pay the year's sum at one time, before December
tenth. We have special assessments to cover special affairs.
Usually, after a social function, the total expense is divided among
the members who attended the affair. For our Sunday night par-
ties, every g i r l is assessed a certain sum f o r the affair. When we
give a party f o r some other group or fraternity, the expense is met
by the general treasury. We do not have a chaperon except for our
dances. W e have five patronesses. T h e y a l l are very nice and
especially Mrs. Clark, who often allows us to entertain at her home,
and who is always surprising the girls w i t h some kindness.

We are a state college and therefore do not have to pay any tui-
tion, but we pay an incidental fee o f fifteen dollars a semester.

A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in j a i l ; in a temperate,
schooled, law-abiding community, than in some sink of crime, where dice,
knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

R. W. E M E R S O N , Conduct of Life.