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EDITORIALS

GREETINGS to our new chapters! For four of them have been installed
since the last issue of To DRAGMA came from the press. Two of
these groups are active and the stories of their installations are told else-
where in this issue. Many of you met their delegates at convention. Tau
Delta at Birmingham-Southern College, and Kappa Theta at the Southern
Branch of the University of California are twins, for they were installed
on the same day, May 23, 1923. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman installed
Oklahoma City Alumnae, which will be a great help and encouragement to
Xi, on her visit in the spring. What a unique privilege to be installed by
one of the Founders! Chicago South Shore Alumnae was chartered at
convention, so our active chapter list boasts of thirty-two names, and our
Alumnae list, thirty-three. Won't some mathematically minded person
figure out how much these additions will advance us in the expansion tables
printed in this issue?

Y ou WILL NOTICE, if you look very carefully in the Directory of Offi-
cers, that a new office has been added to the list, that of Registrar.
Created at the 1925 Convention, this office should do much toward the
efficient and economical conduct of the affairs of the fraternity. In the
next issue we hope to have a special article on the new office, what it does,
and what it hopes to accomplish. It seems especially fitting that the first
person to hold this office, should be one of the Founders; that one of those
four who gave our order its first impulse to be and under whose inspiration
and guidance it flowered and grew into what it now is, should also help put
it on a firmer and more businesslike working basis. We are confident that
Elizabeth Heywood Wyman will set a high standard for her successors in
the conduct of the office.

O O M E T H I N G MORE for the actives to learn anew. With four new names
fcJ on the chapter roll, a brand new office created, a whole group of fresh
names to be memorized, and a new set of districts to learn, they will have
to be quite industrious before the next fraternity examination. The rapid
growth of the fraternity during the last few years and the desire to keep
the rapidly growing family together under the influence of the District and
Alumnae Superintendents brought the whole matter of redistricting to a
head; such an action was sanctioned by the last convention. The execu-
tive committee, acting under that authority, has regrouped the chapters
in the fraternity under six districts. The new districts are given in the
directory of officers. The executive committee feels that in making the
districts smaller and in grouping the chapters according to geographical
position within these smaller sections, more intimate contact between the
chapters will result. Through closer proximity, the various chapters may
be mutually helpful. It is the hope, too, that the new grouping will enable
the Superintendents to keep more closely in touch with their chapters and