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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 133

RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

The first and foremost event of autumn always has and always will
be, of course, rushing. At Northwestern, rushing is a very concentrated
affair lasting six days during which time each sorority is permitted to
hold seven parties. As we have no sorority houses as yet, we have to hold
our parties in the homes of the different members of the chanter. We
bring all our rushees to and from all the parties by automobile, so rushing
season is a "rush" in every sense of the word. We emerged very trium-
phantly from the melee with fourteen very attractive pledges. Our new
freshmen are: Ellen Hood, Eleanor Hinton, Margaret Haire, Grace Lan-
guth, Theodora Johnson, Mary Paschen and Phyllis Voorhies of Chicago,
Eleanor Raymoud of Evanston, Estelle Swigart of Wilmette, Harriet Rey-
nolds of Bedford, Iowa, and Virginia Snook from Davenport, Iowa. We
also pledged two sophomores, Margaret Wolf and Josephine Hahn of Chi-
cago. We are now looking forward to the laurels which we feel confident
these girls will bring home for AOI1. Margaret Haire has distinguished her-
self by the very clever drawings she has submitted to the "Purple
Parrot," Northwestern's humor magazine.

The program of our Mother's Club is in full swing again. At pres-
ent they are engaged in getting the linen ready for house-to-be. In the
latter part of October they are planning to conduct a rummage sale, by
which we expect to transform old furniture and clothing into lamps and
davenports for our house. The rummage sale is an annual affair. Last year
the Mothers' Club took it out of our hands and conducted it themselves.
They were so successful that they are doing the same thing this year.

Just before Commencement last year, Margaret MacKay was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa. We feel that we are justly proud of Margaret, for
in addition to making Phi Beta Kappa Margaret graduated from college in
three years, and was awarded a woman's "N7 To receive an "N" a girl
must have been a member of various athletic teams during her college
course. A few years ago Margaret's sister, Marion, was also elected a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. We are hoping the MacKay family will con-
tinue to keep us supplied with Phi Betes. Agnes Biesmeier, another of
our outgoing seniors, has secured a position on the Physical Education
staff at Vassar College. Just before the close of school, Dorothy Tinley,
one of our Sophomores was elected as representative of all sophomore wo-
men on the Student Council.

Then to cap the climax of the year, we held our annual house party
at Lake Geneva. Houseparty is an affair to which we look forward all
year, for it is the only chance we have to all live together. Every year as
soon as finals are over we all set out for house party. Sometimes we go
in cars and sometimes we go on the train. The all-important thing is to
get there. House-party is always very democratic, the most dignified senior
doing as much work" as the most harum-scarum freshman. This year
twenty-one of us were able to go. and between swimming, boating, hiking
and just sitting around doing nothing we all get acquainted with each
other and go back to school for Commencement feeling as if we had not
really known each other before.

As to our house we are beginning to feel rather hopeful. The plans
were completed last June and now they are removing the old houses from
the site of the quadrangle. Ground-breaking is to take place on Home-
coming Day, October 31, and the houses are to be completed within a
year. It is at last beginning to seem a reality for we are now busy earning
money for the furniture.

DOROTHY SPEIRS.