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To DRAGMA

VOL. I X SEPTEMBER, 1914 No. 4

T o DRAGMA is published at 450-454 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wis., by George
Banta, official printer to the fraternity. Entered at the Postoffice at Menasha,
Wis., as second-class matter, A p r i l 13, 1909, under the act o f March 3, 1897.

To DRAGMA is published on the twenty-fifth o f November, February, May
and September.

Subscription price, One Dollar per year payable i n advance; Single copie«
twenty-five cents.

Virginia Judy Esterly, Editor-in-Chief. Isabelle Henderson, BusineM
Manager.

"TIMES H A V E CHANGED"

At the conference o f Fraternity Editors held at Chicago i n October, there
was much discussion regarding present conditions in the fraternity and col-
lege world and those o f fifteen to thirty years ago. A number o f instances
were given where the older fraternity alumnce—those who had not been i n
touch with fraternities and their present day efforts—had been the cause o f
Pan-Hellenic eruptions and where their unacquaintance with the present times
had caused many serious complications. The opinion among the editors was
that these same alumna? would be sincerely grieved i f they realized that they
were really impeding the progress o f their own fraternity and a l l others as
well, because o f their lack o f knowledge o f present conditions and methods.
A committee was appointed to write an article to t r y to state clearly the
change i n times, hoping that the alumna; especially w i l l make a great effort
to see fraternity and college conditions now as they are now, not as they were
when they were i n college. I f so, their zeal and intelligent interest w i l l be o f
greatest benefit to the best interests o f fraternity l i f e . The article mentioned
is to be printed in all Journals.

The Committee appointed are: R. Louise Fitch, A A A , Editor o f The
Trident, chairman; Frances Perkins, Editor Alpha Phi Quarterly; L . Pearle
Green, Editor Kappa Alpha Thela Journal; and M r s . R. T . C. Jackson, K K T ,
Editor o f The Key.

My one experience of a Visiting Delegate was when I was head of

my chapter. I had to conduct the meeting—dreadful indeed was that

ordeal and fearful the nervous headache that followed it. Of course

it would have been the last thing that dear visitor would have wished

—to frighten a girl into a sick headache. I t wasn't her fault. She had

only two days to make that visit, she had but just arrived before the

meeting, and a Visiting Delegate had been heralded in the chapter as

an awesome individual—I was frightened within an inch of my life

and that impression has always remained, because in that brief time i t