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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 51

will put them in a position to give intimate personal assistance where ever
it may be necessary. We feel certain that the fraternity will profit by the
action of the executive committee and we hope that the fraternity examina-
tion will not suffer.

THE NEW YEAR is a time for good resolutions and turning over new
leaves. And surely the fall is the beginning of a new fraternal year
(there is a fiscal year, why not a fraternal?). Fraternities and sororities
need to make, and abide by, good resolutions just as much as the individuals
within them. One leaf which we wish every girl who has anything to do
with official fraternity business would treat to a dutch wash is that upon
which is recorded the promptness of her transaction of fraternity business,
We really have twinges in our conscience about this, when our book, as
the Grand President calls it, which is supposed to come out by the middle
of September, is just going to the printers then, and when the next issue
has every indication of being late too. But, as they say about grape nuts,
'there's a reason/ and we ask you to be patient. Wouldn't it be nice
though, if every chapter officer would have every report in on time, every
chapter letter at its destination promptly. What a good opinion the
National Officers would have of us! And if this one virtue of complete-
ness and promptness were really seriously cultivated and attained, who
knows what other good traits might come to the fore. Our grandmother
used to say she could judge a girl's character by the condition of her
burer«i drawer. We can tell what kind of a girl we are dealing with
by the kind of a chapter letter she sends in. We have little else to
judge most of you by, so when your letter or report comes on the
wrong sized paper, illegibly written, dated two days after the late date,
and obviously scrambled together at the last minute, our general
impression of you, and your chapter, for^you represent your chapters to
us, isn't a very good one. Can't we all work toward a perfect time record
this next year?

* ND SPEAKING of goals, wouldn't it be fine if all our active chapters
J \ would set as their goal the winning of the Jessie Wallace Hughan
cup at the next convention. Of course only one of us can get it, but we
can all work and make it hard for the committee to decide the award. We
are sure no Executive Committee would mind a few extra sleepless nights
(for what are sleepless nights among convention goers?) devoted to decid-
ing which of the many deserving chapters is to have the honor of receiving
the cup. Think what a fine group of chapters we would have if each one
conscientiously set about to improve her standing on the campus, in the class-
room, and within the fraternity, and to be really deserving of the honor. And
an honor it surely is, one of the greatest that a chapter can be given. For
the next two years Omicron will have the cup. Didn't you who were at
convention envy Ruth Beck as she took it from the Grand President on
banquet night? Omicron is proud of her cup; letters from Omicron girls