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western Field is at present the State Executive of the Student Division EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
for the United War Campaign. The War Council is fortunate to have
Margaret Vaughan, K, '17, as the Assistant Recreational Secretary. Exchanges thus far this fall have been few. We acknowledge,
however, The Eleusis of Chi Omega, The Garnet and White of Alpha
Several of the Dallas girls belong to the War Camp Community Chi Rho, The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, Alpha Xi Delta, and The
Service and Margaret Bentley is one of the assistants of the chairman Phi Gamma Quarterly.
of the Hospitality Committee. She is also an instructor in Red
Cross work. The following articles are taken from The Eleusis:
May I say that our Dallas girls will be glad to hear from any Alpha A MESSAGE TO COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES
O brothers or husbands or relatives who might be stationed at Camp
Dick or Love Field or any of the Ft. Worth Fields. There is need, in the midst of the great conflict into which our country has
entered, for the patriotism that expresses itself in action in relation to immediate
NU OMICRON requirements. There is need, also, of the patriotism that prepares for action
when the war is over. Upon the mature people of the present rest primarily
GENERAL the responsibilities for the efficient expression of the first kind of patriotism.
Upon the younger people, and particularly upon those who are having the
We beg indulgence from our sisters everywhere for we are very opportunity to train themselves as workers of ability, rests primarily the second
new at the alumna? business. We feel that we're still just college kind of patriotism.
girls and our chief thought just at present is the one that is absorbing
all of you who are at school—freshmen. We're wishing every Alpha It is to a group of these younger people that this message is addressed, and
O luck, because being out of college gives us broader vision and we're the keynote of this message is that college women should fit themselves com-
not thinking of chapters, but of the fraternity as a whole. pletely for the new slatus that will undoubtedly be woman's at the close of the
war. It will be a new status developed out of recognition of women's ability.
However, it is our business to inform you all what we particular There will be generous assent, instead of doubt and grudging approval, to
Nu Omicron alumnae are doing. women in lines of work that require clear and correct intellectual functioning
and that offer the larger opportunities. The young women of the present will
Katrina Overall is working for Uncle Sam at the powder plant mar or hold and strengthen this new recognition, in proportion as they have
in Nashville. She's a sure enough soldier in the Ordnance depart- rightly trained their talents.
ment of the United States army.
There will be new social and economic problems for us at the close of the war.
Mary John Overall is not in Vanderbilt, but is still at Nashville to Perhaps grave problems. Spiritual qualities will factor in the intellectual ability
give the chapter her moral support. necessary to deal with them. Now women, through years of discipline have
acquired some spiritual qualities that are needed in right social and economic
Ellenna Webb also has a government position with the food adjustments. Hut to make those qualities function in society, women must
administration. learn how to make them function. They will function only as women them-
selves achieve. And before one can develop the capacity to achieve there must
Mary D. Houston is the only school marm in the chapter. She's be a preceding season of preparation, of study, of thought, and of experience.
trying to do her patriotic duty to her country's children in the high
school at Columbia, Tennessee. Therefore, may the younger women use their opportunities to perfect them-
selves according to their abilities for the needs of the country when theirs will
We're very proud of our two brides, though we did hate to lose lone be the tasks of carrying forward government by the people. And we will never
Blair and Mary Harrell from Vanderbilt. be a superior people until one-half of the people, the women, measure up to
the requirements of superior ability—and superior ability is born of mind and
MARRIAGES spirit.
lone Blair to Lurton Goodpasture, April 29th, 1918, at Nashville. Editor's Note: The above article was written by Mary C. Love Collins for
Mary Harrell to Lieut. Walter Rogers, U . S. A. at the home of the The A If ha Phi Quarterly.
bride in Nashville, July 6th, 1918.
MORALS AND COLLEGE L I F E
The longer one looks on at, or takes thoughtful part in college affairs, the
more convinced does one become that they are only chaff unless at the heart of
each and all there are sound moral principles.
Assuredly there cannot be two sets of principles, one for life in college and
one for life outside; whether we are within or without, we are part of a life
