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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 99

In the Natchitoches A r t Colony we have a less tangible ambi-

t K ) n _ _ t h a t of fostering art in the South and of helping the

artist to interpret the beauty of Louisiana. However, among

the byproducts of our colony are advantages even more wonder-

f u l than those of a business artist.

In the first place the instruction which the student receives

here will prepare him well for the highest type of advertising art

and illustration, and the opportunities of exhibition will lead

him to the best art dealers and salons.

M r . Lorado T a f t wrote to us saying:

" I have a happy memory of my visit in your picturesque town.
I can imagine what a delight it would be to a painter and I am
sure that your Colony will be a great success. How our country
needs such genial centers of artistic endeavor."

M r . Ellsworth Woodward has said of the Natchitoches A r t

Colony:
"Many places in America have been interpreted f o r us by

the artist and have thereby become a national possession in which
we have a common pride. Louisiana awaits discovery to the
world of artists and art lovers. I look forward with confidence
to the day when, through the agency of this Colony of earnest
students, the beauty and romantic charm of Louisiana landscape
will be familiar in National art. I have never seen a spot where
in so small a space one can find as much that is paintable as on
the banks of the Cane River."

Irma de B. Sompayrac, Pi.

Oldest Fraternity Man Dies

Cornelius Cole, former United States Senator, the oldest fraternity
man and the second oldest living college graduate, died on November 3 at
the age of 102. H e was a P s i Upsilon, Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn., of the class of 1847. T h e oldest living college graduate is lohn
A. Stewart, Columbia '40, who was born just 27 days before M r . Cole.

Sigma Chi Quarterly.