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EDITORIALS

T H E OCTOBER NUMBER

TH E October number is an innovation on the part of the Editor.
I t is really the September number published in October because
of the late opening of so many colleges. Economy has dictated
its size, but never has so much of importance to the frater-
nity been published between the covers of To DRAGMA. The reports
have been carefully chosen, and should be as carefully read for they
contain the progress of the fraternity during the past year. The
report on the Ambulance Fund should prompt a tardy generosity on
the part of many readers. Let us think of Delta Gamma's $10,000,
and make our $2,000 in a hurry.

The Announcements in this number are really a part of its Edi-
torials. Could we have afforded more paper and more type some of
the matters crammed into the Announcements should have been com-
mented upon editorially.

Many reports have been omitted, but we hope to publish a part of
them i n the November number. The accounts of the installations of
our two new chapters have been held over until the next number where
they will appear.

T H E NOVEMBER NUMBER

W I T H the help of Mae Knight Siddell of Sigma Chapter, who
is chairman of the Song Committee of Alpha Omicron Pi,
the November number will be musical in interest. I t is impossible
under the present conditions to give the issue entirely to the
publication of new songs; but several of the best of those sub-
mitted to Mrs. Siddell in the contest of last year will be printed in
this number. Articles on the subject of fraternity music and frater-
nity singing will be given place, and the Editor encourages contribu-
tions upon such subjects. A l l material should be in her hands by the
last of October at the very latest.

T H E CALENDAR

B ECAUSE of requests from officers and individual chapters, we
are again publishing at no small expense and a great deal of
work the Alpha Omicron Pi calendar for 1918-1919. I n keeping
with the amendments passed at the last meeting of the Grand Council,
the dates for reports sent by chapter officers have been greatly