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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 11

The rest of the afternoon was spent in driving around Evanston
and viewing the campus of the University. A t six o'clock, we all
went to the Avenue House, an Evanston hotel, for the installation
banquet. Mrs. Gates and Mrs. N . D. Harris, two other patronesses,
were present on this occasion. We had a very enjoyable evening,
up to the very last, when Carolyn Piper acted as toastmistress and
called on several of us to respond without any previous warning
whatever. Nevertheless Carolyn and some of the girls had been
forearmed and were very entertaining, especially Gladys Kaye, who
had worried the girls by being so late to the banquet that they feared
she had become absorbed in some poetic day-dream (which it seems
is habitual) and forgotten to come. However, the brilliancy of her
toast was sufficient explanation for her delay. Afterwards we bade
the girls good-bye, congratulated Carolyn Piper on her approaching
marriage and took our departure, feeling we had helped to establish
the foundation of a brilliant future for Alpha Omicron Pi at North-
western.

The chapter letter elsewhere will tell you what wonderful pro-
gress this chapter has already made for its first year's work. I am
sure that Alpha Omicron Pi will always be glad she has welcomed
this group of girls into loving sisterhood, every one of whom our
fraternity may well be proud to own. The spirit of love and good-
fellowship among them is almost ideal, as all the alumnae who have
met them can testify. Their standards are high and have every reason
to remain so. I give fair warning to all our older chapters, that
they must look to their laurels i n the near future, or they will find
that our "star" chapter is located in this great university of the West.

LULA K I N G BIGELOW, Z, '04.