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6 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA O MICRON PI

HISTORY OF LAMBDA

A night in December of 1907 five girls were gathered around a
chafing dish with Mr. Hard Knox as the especially invited guest.
Everything was wrong. The Hall was losing standard we agreed,
our friends were departing, and we longed to pick and choose
congenial spirits. "Form a club" someone said in a moment of
daring inspiration and with ex. week only five days off we gathered
our dissenting clan of fourteen and rented a house for the following
semester. I n August we moved into the old Delta Tau house on
the Row and rushed according to Pan-Hellenic rules. We became
a sorority in all but name, and the two and a half years that we
were known as the Walden Club we sent representatives into
every women's organization, as well as into the social life and
class committees—not alone representatives but in many cases presi-
dents and founders.

With a desire for a permanent growth and larger fellowship,
we petitioned for our chapter in March, 1910. I t was presented by
Gladys Courtain Britton, Registrar, and to her loyal friendship
and the hearty endorsement of Sigma we will be undyingly grateful.
After anxious waiting, the chapter was granted in June and the
twenty-sixth day of August Lambda was installed by Kate Foster
and Blanche Ahlers, 2. We announced it to the campus through
a big dinner and the following week brought many a hearty con-
gratulation and flowers from the sororities.

We are a year and three months old. We are building a twelve
thousand dollar house, and the last rushing season proved that we
had come to stay. We hope to f u l f i l l every aim and aspiration of
Alpha Omicron P i ; not to grow by arrogance but through sincerity
and moral venture.

ALICE ELEANOR SHINN, A '09.