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on all the manifold details that go to magazine making. Having been
in my time one of the editors of the sort, I can remember still so vividly
my difficulties, my blunders, and my perplexities. Being equipped by
sad experiences with the knowledge and understanding of the same per-
plexities that others after me were going through, it always was a de-
light to gather with them and discuss the questions and troubles that
were before them.

"Alpha Omicron Pi had the same questions before her at one time
that all have had, troubles that the later generations of the sorority do
not even know existed. I remember with keen pleasure my first ac-
quaintance with any of the membership of the sorority when I visited
the chapter at the University of Nebraska. I remember that the group
quickly impressed me as being composed of young women of serious in-
tent to a somewhat greater degree than I was accustomed to meeting in
chapter houses. At that early time, for it was a long while ago, I dis-
cussed with them, among other things, To DRAGMA, and answered ques-
tions which were troubling them to the best of my ability. I enjoyed
the meeting exceedingly, I recall, and in the years following for a con-
siderable period was in close contact with many of the leaders of the
sorority, and I have to say that I cannot recall any time when any sort
of differences came up to mar our pleasant association.

"So, it is only a pleasant reflection today that on the twenty-fifth an-
niversary of the birth of To DRAGMA, she is again one of our family cir-
cle. She comes back to us grown-up, matured, and in a well earned place
among the leading sorority magazines of the country. I feel that I can,
in all respects, congratulate Alpha Omicron Pi and her daughter, To

PRAGMA."

GEORGE BANTA

"My Baird tells me that it took Alpha Omicron Pi only eight years
to establish To DRAGMA, and that that event fell upon the Greek world
before 'undergrads' who lately pinned on the jacqueminot rose were born.
Well, twenty-five years in any kind of publishing enterprise is but a
short time; for those who can 'arrive' within that period, the title of
successful is deserved: on the other hand, for those who can survive a
quarter century of continuous service, the title of exceptional is apt
indeed.

" I congratulate To DRAGMA on its twenty-five years of service. I
congratulate it most heartily upon its anniversary edition, but chiefly
for having as its editor at the turning point one, who with her husband,
my good friend, stands for the very highest standards in the publishing
field.

"May To DRAGMA continue to shine till the sun itself grows cold."

CHARLES W. GERSTENBERG

Chairman, Inter fraternity Conference

"Alpha Omicron Pi should feel a justifiable pride in To DRAGMA
'9H its twenty-fifth anniversary.