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From plodding oxcart to su-ift airplane is symbolical of the growth of American college fraternitU*
and is appropriate on the twenty-fifth anniversary of T o DRAGMA. Cut by
courtesy of General Electric.
By A L I C E S M I T H THOMSON, Alpha '05
EXCEPT for a loaded pistol in the hand of a child, what is more
dangerous than giving an old timer a chance to talk on "the dear
dead days?" And what is worse, I am told to "please be serious"!
There is grave doubt in my mind as to whether one should be serious
when approaching this subject. M y mother was serious when she dis-
coursed theoretically to the world at large, but somehow always within
my hearing, of the nice girls of her day. And I can remember just how
well I realized that she was aiming at me. Shall I too, be serious, when
all the time I know just what the daughters who read this are thinking
of me? Life use to roll by and leave us in the same place. Now it
carries us along with it, giving us the rich experience of the past, with
