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of social life, whose members are not only prominent but attractive,
wide-awake women, whose scholarship is high, whose chapter-house
is attractive? Are you a chapter which demands that its girls be
well-mannered at all times, that exacts a high standard of personal
conduct, that will not countenance conspicuous or loud behavior?
Do you have a reputation on and off the campus for being alive and
active and attractive, or for being dead and passive and unattractive?
Are you rushing against the best fraternities on the campus? Are
you one of the best? Yes, to these questions means that you are not
dead timber, that you are indispensable to the national standing of
Alpha Omicron Pi. No, means that something is radically wrong.
Perhaps we do not need you after all. Why not take an account of
stock right away? Dead timber is always dangerous.