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TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 35

OMICRON. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
We are entering upon a new college year and oh, i f we could but
realize how much or how little that may mean and just how much
we may get or fail to get in this new year that is opening up before
us. Of course we will each feel at the end of the year that we might
have been more diligent we are all prone to reflect when it is too late
for our reflection to do any good and we all feel very much as the
old woman did who said, " i f our foresight were as good as our hind-
sight we would never make a mistake." Now this year let us think
and plan to see i f we can not make fewer mistakes and have less to
regret at the end of it. Let us be true Alphas in every sense and
probably our foresight will not differ very materially from our hind-
sight.

Omicron wishes from all her heart to greet you all, preferably by
grip, but since that is impossible we can at least come in close touch
with each of you through To DRAGMA.

Six of us are back and enthusiastically take up our work for Alpha.
We are Mary Rust, Blossom Swift, B. Armstrong, Louise Wiley,
Jess McFarland and Helen Kennedy and although numerically we
are not so strong as we would like to be, we are thoroughly in ear-
nest and mean to get the most possible to be gotten out of college life
both for ourselves and also for Alpha Omicron Pi.

Our chapter rooms have been moved and as yet we are not per-
manently located but our new rooms will be so far superior to the
old ones that we feel we can well afford to wait a few weeks to
get them.

As usual our girls are taking active parts in all of the student
organizations and most of us hold offices in these organizations.

Tennessee is certainly coming to the front in her numbers of girls.
We have so many more women this year than in years past and we
are delighted to say that our women make a most creditable stand-
ing when report time comes around.

The mid-year pledge day rule was repealed by the faculty and is
no longer observed by the fraternities but the sorority Pan-Hellenic
decided to enforce the mid-year rule as it has been done for the past
two years and we feel that we are doing a great deal for the best
interests of all in so doing. The spirit is much better maintained
and we find that the older sororities were wise in adopting mid-year
and sophomore pledge day.

We do want to tell you all, how delighted we have been to
to meet some of our sisters from other chapters and girls, i f you are
ever passing through Kno.wille do let us know, so that we can at
least come down to the station and get a glimpse of you.