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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 159

There has been so much to do, and our courses were so crowded
last quarter, that we had scarcely begun when final examinations
were upon us. But they were all finished before Christmas and so
the girls went home for vacation with a feeling of relief—if not of
entire satisfaction. But some of us, four Alpha O's among other
girls, stayed here at the dormitory during vacation and we surely
had an exciting time. Mary D — , our president, went "slumming"
on Christmas morning, and came back with two forlorn little girls
whom we promptly scrubbed t i l l they glistened, then dressed them
in clean clothes and took them down to Christmas dinner. You
should have seen them eat!! After they had gone and that excite-
ment was over, our janitor's boy got smallpox and we all had to be
fumigated. Now nearly everyone has a sore arm from being vac-
cinated.

Oh, did I tell you that three more of our girls were taken into
Phi Upsilon Omicron, the honorary sorority? They are Lynnie
Chattin, '19, Etta Haynes, '20, and Minnie Ellen Marquis, '20.

And then I guess I ' d better tell you about Azalea. She's the one
who deserted us and went to Minnesota this year. You remember,
don't you. Well, she almost came back at Christmas time, i n fact,
she had her trunk all packed and her ticket bought and then—she
changed her mind. We envy you, Tau, but also we warn you!!

And then another thing happened, or rather, didn't happen, for
we had dared to hope that Mary Chase might come here for vacation
—and she didn't come.

But anyway in spite of our disappointments, vaccinations and all,
we can still be thankful for the weather, for it's unbelievably warm
in Bozeman. There is no snow and the sun shines so warmly that i t
makes even a senior think of the times she's had spring fever. So
perhaps this next quarter we will be able to accomplish quite a large
part of the work we plan.

Hoping that Santa was good to you all and that you won't break
your New Year's resolutions, we are as ever, Alpha Phi.

E T T A NORCUTT, Chapter Editor.

NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

We promised in the last issue to tell you how "Spiking Day" came
out. Mary Harrell, a pledge of last year, has been initiated, and
also, we have pledged and initiated Billie Shelton of Bingham, 111.,
Sara Costen of Osceola, A r k . ; and Louella Whorley of Nashville.
Tenn. Pearl Tuttle, of Clarksdale, Miss., was also pledged, but
has an entrance condition to work off before she can be initiated. We
are indeed proud of our freshmen.