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The Sphinx, December 192fe
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HAT were your complaints in previous conventions? Inadequate mformameet you at both the Main Street and Broad Stations. Insufficient or exorbition service at the station? When you arrive in Richmond, brothers will tant taxicab service? The Manager of the Yellow Cab Co. has assured us that there will be a sufficient supply on hand to meet all trains. Any temporary shortage will be met by the cars of various brothers. Confusion in registration? In the sumptuous building of the Council of Women's Clubs at 00 Clay St., Bro. Professor Spurlock and a staff of co-workers will have devised a system which would cause the Registrar of Columbia University to be envious. Unsatisfactory housing arrangements? Brother Dr. Ferguson's plan for accommodations will make you think that you are in the Statler Hotel. Boarding school diet? We will not comment on the Richmond cuisine for fear that too many will be drawn—Smithfield, the home of the ham, is just twenty and some odd miles from Richmond. Restriction of liberty in the public meeting place? You can smoke as much as you please in the spacious St. Luke Building where the deliberations will be held. Moreover, you will not need to wear your fur coats during the sessions. On Monday, the brothers and citizens of Richmond will assemble at a monster public meeting, to be held in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where one of Virginia's leading orators will bid you welcome. On Tuesday afternoon, the brothers will have a genuine get-together. The favorite Havana and the mellow Virginia leaf will permeate the atmosphere with their fragrance. On Tuesday evening, in the magnificent Coliseum, the ballroom of Palms, "soft eyes will look love to eyes that speak again" while entrancing strains of a highly syncopated orchestra will make you wish that four o'clock will never come. For here will be gathered the elite of Richmond, including the charming debs and the attractive co-eds, representations of other fraternities and various organizations of the city. On Wednesday evening, a group of aspirants will entertain the fraternity at the same place. On Thursday afternoon, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will lend its gracious hospitality to make the Twentieth Annual Convention the most pleasant in the history of the organization. Eclipsing all the social events of Convention Week, the annual frat prom looms as a beacon light on the horizon, beckoning brothers from all parts of the United States to the most brilliant ball on America's social calendar. The banquet will be served in the dining room on the historic campus of Virginia Union University. The food will be hot. In conclusion, every year we have heard the boast that "This will be the greatest convention in the history of Alpha." We make no boasts; our program speaks for itself.