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EDITORIALS A t this Convention we must make plans for better cooperation and
possible coordination. Are there offices which can be united? Are
TT H E OUTGOING GRAND PRESIDENT we longer to expect already busy women to work merely "for the
H E R E are those of us who sincerely feel that the Constitution love of the working"? What can we learn from the financial
should be amended as to the provision which allows no systems of other fraternities? Have you, convention delegates,
immediate reelection of the Grand President. Especially do we thought of these questions? I f not, why not begin?
deplore such provision after the administration of so able an officer
as Isabelle Henderson Stewart. I t is admitted by all familiar with T H E SEPTEMBER NUMBER
Alpha Omicron Pi history that never has the fraternity made such
splendid progress as during the last four years. Mrs. Stewart, so S T R A N G E , indeed, it is after four years of prognosticatings and
ably assisted by Miss Henry and Mrs. MacCausland, has done a prophesyings, to be unable to predict the September Number of
noteworthy piece of work. Let us all unite i n hearty appreciation To DRAGMA. But since a new and unknown Editor is to issue the
of it. number the present one can say nothing concerning it. Suffice it to
wish her well—joy, it must be frankly stated, does not accompany
TA RETROSPECT the gathering and putting together of T o DRAGMA material. May
HIS is the last issue of To DRAGMA which the present Editor the gods send a cool July, unusually prompt assistants, and a
w i l l edit. The pressure of work, which includes teaching punctual printer. "O Caesar, we who are about to die, salute you!"
rhetoric to college freshmen, writing occasional short stories, and
struggling with a P h . D . thesis, makes resignation an absolute JESSIE ASHLEY
necessity, and, more or less reluctantly the Editor is resigning.
During her four years of office she has honestly tried to make T? L S E W H E R E in this issue will be found a press notice of Jessie
To DRAGMA a credit and an honor to Alpha Omicron Pi. I f she l-s Ashley's death. I t is only just to say here that, differ as we
has in any way achieved her aim, it has not been alone; and thanks may concerning many of the opinions and policies of Miss Ashley,
are here tendered to the many who have helped officially and no member of Alpha Omicron Pi has ever been more faithful to
unofficially in the work of the magazine. Its life would have been convictions, more willing to sacrifice, more eager to serve.
impossible without them.
JL I F E SUBSCRIPTIONS
The four years of service have been marked by the satisfaction UST a word of warning to those procrastinators who have
which comes from hard work and by many pleasant relationships with contemplated Life Subscriptions at ten dollars and have not
fraternity members throughout the country. The Editor gives a taken them. You have four weeks before Convention when subscrip-
guarantee of good value to her successor, and an assurance that it tions are most likely to soar. Why not invest now? Think it over!
has all been "worth while."

T H E CONVENTION

T T is hardly necessary to speak editorially of the coming Conven-
A tion. Enthusiasm, so prevalent in every chapter, is far more
efficacious and far reaching than editorial comments. Still the fact
that the coming Convention is to be the first held in four years makes
the gathering rather more significant than would be otherwise the
case. A t least in a purely business sense this is true. Since the last
Convention, that in California in 1915, the fraternity has established
nine active chapters and as many alumnae. With added growth
come added responsibilities on the shoulders of quite unsalaried
officers.