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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 33

reminds me, that Omicron is simply camping in regard to rooms,
until several new buildings are erected on the campus in which we
have the assurance of commodious quarters.

So far, we have been very quiet socially, but beginning with Hal-
lowe'en we expect to give a number of large entertainments. How
we wish that all of you might be with us on October the thirteenth,
when the witches are to assemble for our especial benefit in the home
of our patroness, Mrs. R. W. McCargo! Little yellow pumpkins
were sent around to about fifty of the chosen ones, and promptly
at eight on the eventful evening the guests, disguised in masks and
dominoes, will assemble, to be carried for a few hours into the
realm of the supernatural. And, i f you want any Hallowe'en ideas,
just write to us. Then we tell you how to decorate your rooms with
jack o'lanterns, black cats, witches and autumn leaves! How to have
your witch reach into a boiling cauldron and bring forth cards bear-
ing your fortune, and what grand things to have to eat! We can't
begin to tell you in this letter.

We have heard that Zeta has nine pledges! Our heartiest con-
gratulations and hopes that in February, we may be able to announce
as large a number. We feel that we will be able to do this, as the
material this year is far better than ever before. The enrollment in
the university for 1909-'10 exceeds that of the previous year by more
than a hundred, and the number of girls is exactly doubled.

So Omicron feels very cheerful about the future, and wishes all
success to her sister chapters.

KAPPA, RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEG
Perhaps To DRAGMA is beginning to wonder what has become of
Kappa. No, we have not been entirely buried by our Virginia
Mountains, but have simply been swept over by the flood of freshmen,
and, in listening when the freshman speaks and pretending there is
wisdom to her words, have committed the unpardonable crime of
letting the chapter letter go by unwritten.

The whirl of college opening brought the usual stream of beam-
ing and innocent "prospectives." Alpha O, of course, immediately
became interested, then followed that dreadful time, known to us
all—the rushing season—when we must listen to the stories of high
school, of last summer's house-parties, of "Jack," and of "George,"
and the time when we are interested in, smile upon, and admire our
"witty" and "attractive" freshmen.

Kappa, however, extends her most heart-felt desire that no other
chapter has had to bear just such trials as she. She is in the stage
of house-moving, and the whole miserable month has been spent in