Page 60 - 1918 February - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 153

Now comes the climax. We are going to build a new house!! I t
is going to be such a house as will be a panacea for all human ills
and discouragements, a fulfillment of all our dreams, an edifice that
will meet all the exigencies of college l i f e ! I f you could but hear the
plans! A colonial house has been decreed with a charming interior
of gray and old blue—and such an exterior. I can best explain that
by a prophetic vision of Mary Chase, enraptured, with eyes shining,
saying enthusiastically, " I can just see our house with white pillars
and red brick, and woodbine climbing over!"

To you of Alpha Phi, we extend our heartiest sympathy for the
loss of Mary Chase.

L I L A K L I N E , Chapter Editor.
[The Editor publishes this letter only under dire threats. She
apologizes to all readers, and assures them that the above ravings
concerning herself are quite untrue.]

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

A day is a pitifully short time to make a friendship to which we
have looked forward for over a year; but with one like our Grand
President even a day may count for much. There is no need of telling
that to you who have grown to know her this f a l l as we have, when
she travelled across the continent and brought to us over here the
spirit of Sigma and the West and the inspiration to be, as she is, the
sort of Alpha Omicron Pi we are all proud of.

So much delightful news of you did she bring us, so many intimate
bits about your college life and your personalities, that we felt al-
most acquainted, and looked forward to the possibility of recogniz-
ing some of you at the big Women's League Convention that met
here this f a l l ; or of having you stop over at the chapter-house when
you were in our town, as some of the Epsilon and Delta and N u girls
have done; or, better still, of finding you living here in Syracuse like
Helen Worster Cleaves of Gamma, that you might join our chapter
night knitting parties, as we love to have her do, and get to know
the thirteen girls we have pledged, and our splendid loyal alumnae,
when they come back for a reunion at the time we win in football
over Colgate. We could tell you then, over our knitting, about the
sturdy little orphans some of us go down to teach every Sunday, and
the Red Cross sewing we do at our Big Sister group parties, and
the delicious and practical goodies Edith packed into the Christmas
baskets we sent, and about the way we are saving for our penny box
for war relief, and about heaps and heaps of other things. We are
trying to be as practical and busy as ever we can; we certainly
achieve the business, but we do find time now and then for good