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MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE MARGUERITE SCHOPPE
MARY ELLEN CHASE

and everything else seemed in the face of that terrifying brilliance of
sky, that awfulness of cold.

"The last year of my editorship knew many exigencies, for at that
time I was beginning my study for the doctorate at the University of
Minnesota. One hour at learning the Lord's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon, one
hour trying to decipher the writing of the California chapter editor, one
hour pounding the typewriter to ask busy and well-meaning people for
articles, one hour (and that late) tracing the influence of Beaumont
and Fletcher on Shakespeare! I used to use my bed for To DRAGMA
material in those days, and many were the nights when I crawled in
beneath galleys from George Banta rather than clear the way for my
weary frame.

"I do not know that the fruits of those four years with To DRAGMA
were particularly nourishing, especially joyful, or very long in their ef-
fects. And yet, believing with Pater and the Epicureans that 'experi-
ence itself is the end,' I look back upon my editorship with pleasure
and gratitude. Surely I do not wish to repeat the experience, but just
as surely I would not have been without it!"

Sincerely,

MARY E L L E N CHASE

DEAR EDITOR:

"In response to your request for my experiences as business man-
ager under Mary Ellen Chase in 1915, I must begin with a confession,
in all humility. Mine is not one of those memories that exist among
my fruits, and at which I marvel. I cannot, in truth, tell you that, on
such a day or such a year, I was overwhelmed and interested or hon-
ored and intimidated when I learned that the financial responsibility
for To DRAGMA was to be in my hands for a time. Likely all these