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IN RETROSPECT It is a long time since any general nevrs we.s sent out concerning the individual chap~ers and members of Alpha Sigma Alpha , so there is much to report . ~e closing months of the school year ~ere · filled with numerous duties, incidental to graduation and co~encment, but intermingled with the work were many pleasant times. Our Alva and Kirksvil le chapters closed. in June, only to ret;pen in .:ruly for the summer chapter made up partly of ~ctives remaining for further study and partly of returning alu~na~. Vfuen the Unive rsity of Chicago inaugurated in the early '90s the plan of an all-year curriculum, dividing the twelve mont~s into four periods of three months each, it did not dream that it was going to set the fashion for many of the state normal schools. _. There are still many colleges .and normal schools that have a short summer session of only a few weeks, but Alva and Kirksville are two that consider the Summer session the equivalent of any other term in the year. Those who are busy teaching during the regular school year may return then for a summer· quarter's work ahd in three summers secure credit for a year of average work . Kirksville has found that the Summer Session presents far mare of the really desirable sorority type than does .any other quarter in the whole year. Students enrolled by the hundred·s . Alpha Beta carried a chapter of 40, counting its pledges, who ~ere with the girls practically all the time, but who could not be initiated under school ruling until the close of the term. The Alva Chapter had a somevn~at similar experience, so far as wealth of material was concerned; but it returned very few of its alQmnae or undergraguates , and so found 1l difficult to get aequainted quickly with any large number of students. It did not add many members during the summer, but it did have numerous social affairs to wnich invitations were extended rather 8enerously, the chapter's idea being to familiarize the Summer Session student vdth the sorority system. THE VACATION SEASOl! \Jha.t with travelinG, honeymooni~8, visiting, .c ampi ng, rusticating, resting, or just r;e tting baclc to s~e the home folks, everybody seems to have had a glorious time Your Hati onal President vms su2,)posed to have one month in the country , one month at the beach and one at the mountains , but afte r three days' experience in the country sh . was so homesick for her little nest in the treetops that she uas allowed to com~ home, provided a h ousekeeper vras ·installed He~e i n heJ' t.orrer room , wrapped in a rug and s tretched on a. steamer cha1r, rri th n el l-love d bool<:s of travel and ac1ven+,ure a t hand, she s ailed a. Fay to cl.i s tant ~~ arts and ,sa the red the st.1/ength that nade it possibl e to tO.:<e up again the \:ork in Al pha Signa ,'\lpha. Everybo dy nas so - lad to know th~t she ~a s to ~e both in the world and of i t tl _a t t h ey made a speci 2. l ef:forJ( , if they came anywhere near Bos t on, to r un i n a.nr1 f~ e e h er .. Eon rt.1e 'ri Ghe cl t.h<J. t ha lf of ~.hem roi g 1.t h<w e l e en ASA-; · 0
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