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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 217

ALUMNiE CHAPTER LETTERS

(Readers, be sure to look at the reports f r o m the three new alumna chapters.
They are well written and on time.)

NEW YORK ALUMN2E

Is it a commentary on the character of the New York alumna; that the
Rogers' Tavern is the only place in the city not inimical to our hungry tribe?
Whether i t is or not, at present we dine with the rogues and probably we shall
through the rest of the year, as their food is f a i r and their hostelry not f a r f r o m
N u chapter rooms. The latter is an important consideration in view of the fact
that unspeakable weather is the usual concomitant of Alpha O meetings.

I n January we expected Miss Colcord, of the New Y o r k C. O. S., to discourse
upon her recent investigations in the field of social w o r k . Instead, she came
primed with questions and we d i d the discoursing. She soon had us involved in
a lively discussion of "the ethical obligation between employer and employee,"
nearly every Alpha 0 present feeling herself personally concerned, belonging
to either one class or the other. The only solution we finally reached, was that
there should be a joint conference, of employers and employees, before definite
action is taken.

I n spite of a blizzard almost unprecedented i n the annals of New York and
a tie-up of traffic equally unprecedented, there were seventeen members present
at the February meeting. I t took some time to dispose of the customary
routine business and more to make plans f o r the entertainment of our Grand
Vice-president, Rochelle Gachet, during her anticipated visit; but after we had
done both, Miss Henry talked to us most interestingly about the work of the
Near East Relief.

I n March our progress f r o m the Rogues' Tavern to New York University
was interrupted by a fire—a fire in a bookshop next door to the Washington
News, out of the windows of which and over the balconies hung the inmates
calmly watching the firemen just as i f a fire at their very elbows were the com-
monest occurrence in the w o r l d . We across the street were not so composed.

The Grand Vice-president has been scheduled to speak, but in her absence,
our chief interest centered around the report of the two delegates who had
represented Alpha O at the Panhellenic tea given in February by I I B <I>. The
report led to a discussion of anti-fraternity spirit and particularly of alumna;
work. I n the main, we agree with Mrs. Henry, Grand President of A i n her
conviction that anti-fraternity spirit can be quelled permanently only by a joint
effort of the national fraternities to improve their internal organization and to
ally themselves w i t h the administrations of the colleges in which they are
located. We believe furthermore that such an effort should be part of our
national alumna; work. The New York alumna; is of course intensely interested
in the latter question as everyone is at present, and we debate i t at all of our
meetings. What program shall we adopt?

THEODORA D . SUMNER, Pi '14, Chapter Editor.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNA

The San Francisco alumnse are such a happy family. Every meeting is just
like a reunion and we do have the best times. But sometimes i t seems that we
are a little too self-sufficient, f o r up to the present we have not participated to
any great extent in welfare work.