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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 139

THE JUNIOR ATTITUDE

In considering the four year college course, I think that the
Juniors have the best end of the bargain.. By the time we become
Juniors, we begin to feel "real grown-up big ladies". We have
passed the young and tender ages of the Freshmen and Sophomores
and as yet have not started out upon the dignified and austere paths
of the Senior's life. We are in the hey-day of life. Nevertheless,
it is a time of transformation as it were. I t is then that we start
our most active career, both in college and sorority.

By the time that we have been "civilized Greeks" for three years,
we begin to be able to understand and appreciate more freely the
sweet companionships, the spirit of self-sacrifice and the truer mean-
ing of the higher ideals for which our Alpha O stands.

We feel, as Juniors, a little more capable of working and striving
for Alpha's aims. We feel as i f we were beginning to be the guard-
ian angels of die lower classmen and since we have been through the
fire we feel more capable of advising and helping, and there always
is a joy in feeling able to be of use to someone.

But in spite of all the advantages there are in being a Junior,
there is one draw-back. I t is like the little boy who said that
every silver lining has a cloud. Well, that cloud is fear. We are
just a little afraid to take up the reins of Iota which the hands of
our Seniors have guided before us—afraid that possibly our chapter
won't increase and strive. But we have the proofs of former years
to encourage us and such very great incentives that after all, we long
to take up our duties as Seniors and try to make Baby Iota a strong
child and one that will reflect credit on her Alpha O sisters.

R U T H DAVISON, Iota '13.

THE ATTITUDE OF A SENIOR

To me as a Senior the word sorority is f u l l of meaning; it has a
deep and vital significance which I was unable fully to comprehend
in the earlier days of my college life. I t has been the means, not
only of affording the congenial atmosphere and pleasant surround-
ings which are so essential to the success and happiness of every
college girl, not only of affording opportunities for a social life
which otherwise could not have been realized, but it has meant far
more, yes, vastly more.

Our college days will soon be ended; our associations with those
whose joys and whose sorrows we have shared will continue but a
few months longer; but the ties of mutual love and of friendships