Besides our seniors of last year we have two other losses, Evelyn Hewes, '04, has left college to study music at the Peabody Conservatory, though it hardly seems as if she were not at college, we see her so often at fraternity meeting and elsewhere. Jane Rawls, 05, of Indianapolis, did not return this year owing to the illness of her mother. We hope that "Mother" Rawls is much better, for Psi would be made very unhappy by the prolonged illness of one whom we learned to love so well last year. We are glad to hear that Jane expects to return next fall, for we miss her very much. Rushing has already commenced and Delta Gamma is enjoying all the fun and work that it means. We are all off for a House Party to-day, which Psi Omricron is giving to us and our rushlings. Here are bright wishes for success to each chapter of Delta Gamma-as much success as we are looking forward to. ELIZABETH GOUCHER, '05. de de OMEGA; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON. The rushing season is passed and we are overjoyed at our great success. Our Alumna tea was an occasion of joy and happiness. Five of the town girls, juniors in the High School, pledged, and all of them seemed to be as pleased as we were. They straightway began to sing our songs and to appear to realize what great pleasure was in store for them. A few days later two more town girls put on the Omega. The initiation was held last night and we all feel that in our nine new girls we have a great treasure. I am pleased to introduce Ethelwyn Anderson and Helen Whitney, both Madison girls, Isabel Cunningham and Adelaide Miller, of Chippewa Falls, Louise Merrill and Ella Sutherland, of Janesville, Carolyn Bull, of Racine, Mary Stevens, who enters as a junior from Vassar and Madge Loranger, of Ashland. Could our dear sisters who graduated last year or who were unable to return, come back, our happiness would be immeasurable. Two of our girls, Helen Harvey and Bertha Jackson, who were not with us last year, have renewed their work in the University and help add to our completeness. Miss Miner is again our chaperon, and we regret only that we cannot have her always. One of our alumnae, Charlotte Freeman, is home after a long stay in Denmark. We heartily welcome her into our lives. Omega sends love and good wishes to all her sisters and hopes that they have been as successful as have her members. MARION JONES, '04. dede KAPPA THETA ALUMNAE; LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. The The "mournful mists" have claimed Nebraska for their own this year, and the land of sunshine has belied its name. But however depressing the weather outlook may have been, there has been no reflection of gloom on our fraternity horizon. active girls will tell you all about the successes of the rushing season, but we alumnae members have been as interested in the game as the rushers and rushes of more tender years. We have all been delighted with the results-not only because the new girls are fine, but because our girls have shown, as they always do at such times, a keen appreciation of the fact that there are such things as fraternity honor and fraternity ideals. But rushing is a hard, unsatisfying game at best, and the active girls will tell you of their efforts to work a reform along the lines suggested by the Inte rSorority Conference last May. There have been many comings and goings of interest in our chapter since ANCHORA last heard from us. Miriam Starrett and Stella Rice have returned from Europe, bringing reports of some interesting Delta Gamma sisters they met on the other side. Our beloved veteran, Joy Webster, has deserted us for the far West, and we are trying to live along in a sort of hopeless way without her. Blanche Garten, who has been on a Canadian Exploring Expedition, will return this week, and we are fortunate in having with us for the first time in three years Edith Lewis, who has been studying at Smith. Josephine Tremains McCroskey is home from Buenos Ayres, and we hope to have the pleasure this week of seeing not only her, but her small son, whose birth has not yet been recorded in the annals of ANCHORA. I know the other girls will tell you of all the rushing festivities, and surely a failure to repeat will be commended. We are all looking forward to our coming initiation, for we hope to have a great many alumnae members here at that time. EDITH ABBOTT, 'OI. PSI; OMRICRON ALUMNE ASSOCIATION, BALTIMORE, MD. This year the active chapter was obliged to get other rooms so we found very nice quarters for them and there held our first meeting the last of September. We came together to discuss the situation and make plans for the rushing. This year we have taken charge of the larger rushing functions for the girls and it has made it much easier for them. They can now attend to their college work without those manifold interruptions that "making preparations" call for. Besides innumerable teas, a delightful Barn Party and Tallyho Ride, which we took out to Mabel Carter's, at Mount Washington, for dinner, Psi Omricron entertained the chapter and rushes at a House Party in a large farm house. Every one had the best kind of a time, and we were assured by our guests that the affair was a great success. Our Pledge Day takes place next Saturday and I only wish that I could defer this writing until then, and give you the returns. We are proud of our new nephew, the son of Mary Harris Sherbourne. Elma Erich entertained Psi Omricron Thursday evening, and as she put it, the "special attractions" were Louise Tull, '93, Margaret Prince James, 97, and Helen Bull, '02, all of whom are visiting in town. We are happy that Lou Tull has decided to live in Baltimore. Her wedding to Mr. A. Baker, will take place in November. Jeanette Ostrander, '02, was married in August to Mr. John Palmer. They spent their honeymoon in California and the Rockies. Elma Erich, Helen Bull and Jessie Loeffler all spent the summer in Europe. LOUISE WEST, '99. Exchanges. "Isn't it strange How little we know The people we meet in this world below? And with only a nod we go our way, When there's so much more we each might say, Isn't it strange? "Isn't it strange How little we show What we really feel in this world below? How we hide, or pass with a merry jest The feelings that are true and best; Or a look, our friends, as best they can, To find what we mean, and to understand, de de -Eleusis of Chi Omega. "We all aim to be intelligent representatives of our society. We like to understand the various questions which are of interest to the fraternity world. The Quarterly is our means of acquiring this knowledge and if we fulfill our obligation toward it, it will be strong enough to mould the thought and opinions of those who need this form of help. "There are a few thoughts concerning our obligation to our magazine, which are of great importance. First, we would like to call the attention of the active chapters to a few of these. "Some of you are too complacent. You hold a sure place in your college world and you are so wrapt up in holding it that you fail to reveal any phase of your life except that. Take down the file of the Quarterly for six or eight years back and see yourself as others see you. You will not always be pleased with the reflection. Others of you are too indifferent. Whenever a chapter fails to be represented by a letter it indicates indifference. This may take two forms. It may be that you do not consider the chapter letter of sufficient importance to be the work of your most accomplished member; it may be that the indifference is so general that even your most talented representative does not feel any impetus to do her work. The most that the fraternity knows about you is from your chapter letter. If it be weak and silly, filled with slang and nonsense, a compilation of your dances and teas, readers of the Quarterly are obliged to set your chapter down as most devoted to these things. A chapter that stands for the best in a college will always have plenty of important things to tell, and will always have some member capable of telling them. "We want to know of your college and there is enough interest about it to tell something new in each letter for many years. We want to know something of your chapter life and what part you take in the best work of the college. Don't tell us that you stand first-easily first,' as we read in a letter not long ago. We shall be able to judge where you stand from what you are doing. We want to know your thought on certain important fraternity subjects, on which we have great difficulty to secure valuable advice. We want to know something of your social life. Not particularly your various parties, but have you a social spirit that reaches those less fortunate than yourselves, giving them cheer and encouragement? Where are your alumnae and what place are they taking in the earnest work of the world? Tell us this and we shall know what sort of intercourse is established between you and them. Your letters are your mirrors. Looking through them I see you. "We mentioned the indifference of the chapter toward the fraternity. There is another phase of indifference which is likewise unfortunate. It is that of one chapter toward a sister chapter. Once in awhile the Quarterly reveals to us a glimpse of the happy relations of two or three of our chapters. But we do not see this often enough, and we know that some of us are not only neglecting opportunities of this kind, but are allowing ourselves to be prejudiced by so trivial a matter toward a sister chapter. These are a few of the things which a correspondence reveals. But there is another means of taking your pulse. You have business relations with the Quarterly and the manner in which you fulfill this obligation indicates with greater accuracy than you suspect whether you are a healthy chapter. "Some of you never pay your Quarterly dues promptly; others of you are never dilatory. Strange to tell, those of you |