Page 52 - 1912 February - To Dragma

TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 117

The Peoria Pan-Hellenic was organized in April, and numbered thirty-nine
representatives of nine national sororities. Three Alpha Chi Omegas, six
Alpha Phis, eight Delta Delta Deltas, two Delta Gammas, three Gamma
Phi Betas, three Kappa Alpha Thetas, five Kappa Kappa Gammas, seven Pi
Beta Phis, and two Sigma Kappas. The object at present is social, consisting
of three luncheons a year and informal one o'clock luncheons on the third
Saturday of each month in the Schipper and Block tea-room. Any sorority
girl in Peoria on that day will be most cordially welcomed.—Anchora of
Delta Gamma.

T h e enrollment of the 27 leading universities of the country is as
follows: Columbia 7,938, California 5,729, Cornell 5,600, Mich-
igan 5,452, Harvard 5,426, Chicago 5,390, Pennsylvania 5,220, Wis-
consin 5,015, Illinois 4,929, Minnesota 4,458, New York University
4,055, Ohio. State 3,567, Northwestern 3,438, Syracuse 3,307, Yale
3,224, Nebraska 2,733, Missouri 2,596, Texas 2,530, Kansas 2,265,
Indiana 2,154, Tulane 2,040, Iowa 1,067, Stanford 1,648, Princeton
1,543, Western Reserve 1,331, Johns Hopkins 1,057, Virginia 804.

Seriously, a college woman who is not a suffragist today is in a most
anomalous position. For we have entered into the largest share of the fruits
of the labors of those early advocates who pioneered for women's rights.
Something over half a century ago Latin and Greek were deemed positively
immoral for the weaker sex, and school teaching was the only profession re-
garded as respectable for a woman to enter. Even when the colleges began
to open, it wasn't ladylike to go to them.

There are other rights wrested from the nineteenth century that we enjoy as
a matter of course, forgetting the struggle it cost to get them. In most states
our property rights are pretty well secured. Yet there was a time when a
married woman might not make a will.

Four years of college training have been wasted unless they have taught
us to have opinions that we wish to express about the important measures of
the day that are going to make the world and the homes a better or a worse
place to live in. The ballot has a great deal to do with the home and no one
should know quite so well as the homemaker how to make it do the right thing
for the home.—Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

As we see it, there are three essentials that every alumnae chapter must
possess in order to maintain its organization intact. First of these is harmony
of purpose and action. The second is constant intercourse with active members
and other alumnae chapters. And lastly of all, every alumnae chapter must
have a definite purpose toward which to bend its energies. A chapter that simp-
ly meets once a month, or twice a month for social intercourse or desultory-
discussion of fraternity affairs, not only misses its highest usefulness, but
runs the risk of dying of malnutrition, in its infancy. Alumnae are no longer
confined to the narrow college world.—Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha.

Scholarship is a vital necessity if fraternities are to be recognized as a
success. That there are fine scholars among our college members today, the

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