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not for us to say that we have, each fraternity may retain an editor
who will prepare this department. When the Panhellenic magazine
is bound there w i l l be included with the general literary division, for
each fraternity its own department of alumna- news and active chap-
ter letters, illustrated i f you please, and charged to the various fra-
ternities, while the general division is pro rated. Nothing will be
omitted except much exchange stuff which will be limited entirely to
material from men's fraternity magazines.
Yes, it means complicated bookkeeping and a good business man-
ager. I t means some sacrifice on the part of the individual frater-
nity, but it also means that we have outgrown the narrowness of
the separate fraternity, that we can see the vision of the greater
fraternal ideal, and that we are willing as college and fraternity
women to forget petty things, obliterate lines, and help our govern-
ment and our great, strong body of college fraternity women by
adopting this great Panhellenic idea of a common magazine.
W i l l you support this movement or are you going to take the
narrower view and stand out for your fraternity magazine? Let's
hear your views i n your next edition.
F R A N C E S G A Y P E R K I N S , Alpha Phi the very last car, decended a familiar figure and we flew down to wel-
L. P E A R L E G R E E N , Kappa Alpha Theta
E L I Z A B E T H CORBETT, Kappa Delta.
Do not fail to read the Announcements in this number!
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THE INSTALLATION O F PHI CHAPTER
"And oh, Katherine, won't you write up the installation for To
DRAGMA?" concluded Viola Gray, trying frantically to squeeze a
talcum powder can into a Dorin-sized space at one end of her suitcase,
" I think everything else is done. Please don't refuse me!" I didn't.
I had been trying to break into print for the last three years and
knew an opportunity when I saw it. Instead I fixed her with my
glittering eye. "Do you really mean it?" I cried, and she said she
did.
The actual installation of Phi Chapter began about three o'clock on
Saturday, May 4th, but that moment was only reached after months
of suspense and weeks of planning and preparation. Telegrams had
been exchanged, letters had crossed and recrossed, and special
deliveries had arrived an hour too late. But finally the last tangle
was straightened out, and the Beta Gamma girls settled down, with
outward calmness at least, to wait the coming of the installing officer.
Viola Gray was to arrive from Lincoln on the 10:20 train, and
Helen Gallagher took me down to the station to meet her. The train
drew in, but no Viola. Then a long way down the platform, from
come her—dear, capable Viola Gray, who was to make Beta Gamma
into Alpha Omicron Pi. But i f our reception at the station was
tardy, the promptness of the one at the house made up for it. As
soon as she stepped on the porch, she disappeared completely among
a crowd of girls to reemerge a few moments later in the hall, sans hat,
handbag, and dignity.
But time was precious and we had to turn to the real business of
the day. First of all Viola and I retired behind closed doors to open
the big package of robes and accessories that the Zeta girls had sent
down and to plan more minutely the afternoon's program. After
we had carefully stowed everything away, and when we knew the Beta
Gammas were about to burst from suppressed curiosity, we casually
reemerged and found that our advice on many things was most
earnestly desired. So we went into quite a conference and committee
meeting until a large shout below stairs proclaimed the arrival of
Julia Anna Smith, K, '15, and Charlotte Uhls, Y, ex-'18, who had
motored up from Kansas City. Of course, business could not with-
stand that, so we all adjourned to the porch and gossiped away most
happily until lunch time.
After lunch we finished up the morning's interrupted conference,
a n d then everyone scattered to dress for the important occasion.
When the last hook was hooked and the last snapper snapped, I wish