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Vol. 25 M A Y , 1930 No. 4

Our grand Jfistorian Jfyoks

I at To Pragma

A sketching of Mrs.
Perry sketched by
Rosemary Wyman,
niece of our grand
president and founder.

By S T E L L A GEORGE S T E R N P E R R Y , Grand Historian, Alpha

WE D I D not know, 'way back there, when we named our maga-
zine T H E SHEAF, T O DRAGMA, how prophetic was the title.
For the magazine has certainly gathered wheat from the whole
country, not only the wheat of talent and—after some hard farming, to

be sure,—of the support that was to be expected, but also of its editorial

guidance and policy. For the staff of To DRAGMA has been recruited

from a broad field, from Maine to California.

I think we ought not forget how barren and hard a plain this wheat

field was to those who cultivated it early, how little help they sometimes

got in their voluntary labors, how greatly we are indebted to them for

our full granary.

It would be futile to attempt within these narrow bounds, anything

'ike a complete survey of To DRAGMA'S years; but the Editor has asked

me for a cursory glance backward; and I am glad to give it.

As to the magazine's name, the symbolism of which nowadays needs

no elucidation to any member of Alpha Omicron Pi, it is amusing to