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144 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI
DELTA—JACKSON COLLEGE
Dear Sisters:
Again it is Christmas, and in our northern land, the air is filled
with frost, and the sleigh bells jingle on the snowy roads. There is
something about frost and sleigh bells and "Merry Christmas" that
makes every heart yearn for home. Fortunate are those among us
who can go home! And happy the homes that are unbroken!
Delta this year is having a long vacation—three weeks—because the
college wished to conserve coal and also to give those who wished
a chance to work the week before Christmas.
Our girls, many of them, are knitting over the vacation. We have
established a fund for Red Cross work, bought yarn, and are trying
to do our part in making warm things for our brothers in the camps,
for we are all brothers and sisters now in the common cause. Mar-
garet Fessenden is i n charge of the knitting, and a good teacher she
makes for those of us who are not yet experts.
Soon mid-year w i l l be here, and then we shall joyfully add to
our number our six freshmen who are already our loyal sisters. They
are studying every Monday night under the charge of one of the
older girls, singing the Alpha Omicron Pi songs, and catching the
Alpha Omicron Pi spirit of comradeship.
With all the various activities of our college and fraternity life,
we are not forgetting to study. We won this year the Chi Omega
scholarship cup which is awarded each year to the fraternity with
the highest standing. And Margaret Durkee won the senior scholar-
ship in chemistry.
From an Alpha X i Delta girl comes the following, which may
well be Delta's Christmas message to her sisters:
"When at Christmas miles between
Old friends forbid their meeting,
Each knows the other holds at heart
Some happy word of greeting.
And though the outer things are missed
Their souls keep tryst.
And may not we, apart from things,
In spirit side by side,
Hold converse sweet and gladly meet,
Though miles of earth divide?
There is no far—the far grows near.
When trysting hearts keep Christmas cheer."
L O R N A T A S K E R , Chapter Editor.
