Kappa Alpha Theta Journal, Vol. 21 no. 2

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KAPPA ALPHA THETA Published by the Fraternity Edited by Clara E. Fanning JANUARY MARCH MAY NOVEMBER TABLE OF CONTENTS January, 1907 Installation of Gamma Chapter ... .... 93 Butler College . 95 Formative Influences of Fraternities . . . . .98 Shovlin Hall at Minnesota .... ... 99 Student Government Conference at Baltimore . . t 100 “She Did Not Take the Journal” . 102 Miss Wickson’s Wedding . 102 Editorials . . 103 Chapter Letters . 108 Personals . .......... 145 Exchanges .... . . ... 160 News from the College World ... ... 162 Printed by the University Press, 1401 University Ave. S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Address everything intended for publication to Clara E. Fan¬ ning, 1107 Harmon Place, Minneapolis, Minn. Address business communications to Evelyn Hope Perkins, 301 Metropolitan Building, Minneapolis, Minn. All material intended for publication must reach the Editor be¬ fore October 5, December 5, February 5, April 5. TERMS: $100 per Year, payable in advance: 25 cents Single Copy; Sample Copy Free. Kappa Alpha Theta will be sent to all subscribers until or¬ dered discontinued and arrearages paid, as required by law. Entered as second-class matter September 23, 1905, at the post- office at Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

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FRATERNITY DIRECTORY GRAND COUNCIL President . Marion Whipple Garrettson (Mrs. E. A. Garrettson), 358 Selma Av., Holly¬ wood, California. Vice-Presidents . Mary W. Lippincott, Riverton, N. J. Josephine Barnaby, 13949 Euclid Av., Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Laura H. Norton, 2541 N. Paulina St., Chicago, Ill. Pearle Green, Stanford University, Cal¬ ifornia. Secretary . Pearle Green, Stanford University, Cal¬ ifornia. Treasurer . Edith D. Cochins, 1348 Neil Av., Colum¬ bus, Ohio. Editor of the Journal. . Clara E. Fanning, 1107 Harmon Place, Minneapolis, Minn. DEPUTIES To Grand President— Margaret Taylor, 4739 14th Av., N. E., Seattle, Wash. To President of Alpha District— Anna K. Wolff, 229 S. 42d St., Philadelphia, Pa. To President of Beta District— Mrs. Charles W. Eichrodt, 1418 N. New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Ind. To President of Delta District— Alice E. Wadsworth, 113 Sher¬ man St., Joliet, Ill. To Grand Secretary— Maida Rossiter, Palo Alto, Cal. To Editor— Evelyn H. Perkins, 301 Metropolitan Building, Min¬ neapolis, Minn. Chairman of Educational Committee— Anna Harrison, 1243 Western Av., Topeka, Kan. Chairman of Archive Committee— Minna Stillman, Stanford University, California. .Secretary of the Inter- Sorority Conference — Jobelle Holcombe (Chi Omega), Carnall Hall, Fayette¬ ville, Ark.

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CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES ALPHA DISTRICT President — Mary W. Lippincott, Riverton, N. J. Iota, Cornell University — Edna Mertz* Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y. Lambda, University of Vermont — Ruth W. Reynolds, 156 Loomis St., Burlington, Vt. Sigma, Toronto University — Mabel H. Millman, 490 Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. Chi, Syracuse University — Blanch Merritt, 720 Irving Av., Syra¬ cuse, N. Y. Alpha Beta, Swarthmore College — Mabel Creth Sullivan, Swarthmore College, Pa. Alpha Delta, Woman’s College of Baltimore — Helen D. Hough, Woman’s College, Baltimore, Md. Alpha Epsilon, Brown University — Zerrie F. R. Huntsman, 37 S. Angell St., Providence, R. I. Alpha Zeta, Barnard College — Theodora Hall, 18 Summit Av., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Gamma Alumnae, New York City — Marjorie Bacon, 1036 Ber¬ gen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Eta Alumna, Burlington, Vt. — Mrs. Mary M. Deyett, Shelburne, Vt. Nu Alumnae, Syracuse, N. Y. — Mabel Parker, 103 N. Lowell Av., Syracuse, N. Y. BETA DISTRICT President — Josephine Barnaby, 13949 Euclid Av., Cleveland, O. Alpha, De Pauw University — Clara Hood, 12 Poplar St., Green- castle, Ind. Beta, Indiana State University — Juliet Crittenberger, 203 Forest Place, Bloomington, Ind. Gamma, Butler College — Bernice Ball, Butler College Residence, Irvington, Ind. Epsilon, Wooster University — Frances E. Kauke, East Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio. Eta, University of Michigan — Leona Belser, 723 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Mu, Allegheny College — Jane Dermitt, East College St., Mead- ville, Pa. Pi, Albion College— Myrtle E. Smith, 712 Perry St., Albion, Mich. Alpha Gamma, Ohio State University — Grace Cockins, 1348 Neil Av., Columbus, Ohio.

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Alpha Eta, Vanderbilt University — Rosa Ambrose, 206 Twelfth St., Nashville, Tenn. Alpha Alumna, Greencastle, Ind. — Mary Birch, 302 Blooming¬ ton St., Greencastle, Ind. Epsilon Alumna, Columbus, Ohio — Grace A. Dann, 1298 Bry- den Road, Columbus, Ohio. Zeta Alumna, Indianapolis, Ind. — Mrs. Earl E. Young, Ander¬ son, Ind. Mu Alumnae, Cleveland, Ohio— M. Grace Vance, 13949 Euclid Av., Cleveland, Ohio. Kappa Alumna, Pittsburg, Pa. — Mrs. Orton Lowe, 510 Federal St., McKeesport, Pa. Lambda Alumna, Athens, Ohio. — Mrs. Louise B. Higgins, 42 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, Ohio. DELTA DISTRICT President — Mrs. Laura H. Norton, 2541 N. Paulina St., Chicago, Ill. Delta, University of Illinois — Elsie Sonntag, 901 Wright St., Champaign, Ill. Kappa, University of Kansas — Esther M. Rauch, 1247 Ohio St., Lawrence, Kansas. Rho, University of Nebraska — Zola Dellecker, 423 N. Thirteenth St., Lincoln, Neb. Tau, Northwestern University— Marion Keyes, 1350 Morse Av., Rogers Park, Ill. Upsilon, University of Minnesota — Rosamond Leland, 2010 Park Av., Minneapolis, Minn Psi, University of Wisconsin — Ethel E. Sabin, 1908 Arlington Place, Madison, Wis. Alpha Theta, University of Texas — Sbirliereed Streeter, 2503 Whitis Av., Austin, Texas. Alpha Iota, Washington University— Clara E. Nipher, 1220 Hamilton Av., St. Louis, Mo. Beta Alumnae, Minneapolis, Minn. — Bessie Scripture, 1316 Sev¬ enth St. S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Delta Alumnae, Chicago, Ill. — Eva R. Hall, 738 Eleventh St., Wilmette, Ill. Xi Alumnje, Kansas City, Mo. — Mary Barnette, 41 E. 32d St., Kansas City, Mo. GAMMA DISTRICT President — Pearle Green, Stanford University, 'California!. Phi, Stanford University— Mary Hutchins, Stanford University, Calif. Omega, University of California — Eula Glide, 2420 College Av., Berkeley, Calif. Iota Alumnae, Los Angeles, Calif.— Mrs. William R. Peasley, 673 S. Bonnie Brae St., Los Angeles, Calif.

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Kappa Alpha Theta Vol. XXI JANUARY, 1907. No. 2 THE INSTALLATION OF GAMMA CHAPTER I imagine the installation of Gamma chapter at Butler College, Indianapolis, Indiana, on November the fourth, must, in some respects, have resembled that of Sigma chap¬ ter at the Convention at Philadelphia a year ago. For, in¬ stead of the few members who usually have the responsibili¬ ty of installing a new chapter, we of Zeta Alumnae took the matter in charge, and a large delegation of Thetas from all parts of Indiana were present on that occasion. From the time the girls of Sigma Delta Theta applied for a charter from our fraternity, our Alumnae chapter has been very much interested in the matter, and when the joyful news came that the charter had been granted, the all- absorbing topic was, how to make the installation as im¬ posing and impressive as possible. Many were the commit¬ tees appointed, and many were the extra meetings called to practice the ritual, for some of the members had been so long out of college that they had forgotten parts of it. The spacious attic of one of our members was the scene of operations, and proved especially adapted to our needs. For days before, busy hands were at work arranging the appointments loaned by Alpha and Beta chapters, so that on the appointed day all was in readiness, and at five o’clock in the afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five Thetas were assembled to aid in the initiation of the thirteen candidates.

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94 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Our beautiful service seemed doubly impressive, and I think every girl present felt deeply the true significance of our ritual. One of the charter members of the old Gamma chap¬ ter said afterwards that she never before had realized what a potent factor Kappa Alpha Theta had been in her life in shaping her ideals and molding her character. Besides our own Miss Pearson, who, as a member of the Grand Council, was mistress of ceremonies, we had with us our Grand Treasurer, Miss Edith Cockins, and Miss Grace Eagleson, former president of Beta district. After the ritualistic service, the candidates, blindfolded, were led two squares to a church, where the banquet was to be served, and when the bandages were removed from their eyes, they were cheered by the sight of the long tables, and, behind each chair, the smiling face of a happy Theta, while the merry clinking of glasses mingled with the inspiring song, Vive la K. A. T. The good things to eat, interspersed with the familiar Theta songs, served to rouse everybody’s enthusiasm for the toasts which followed. Never was there a more charming toastmistress than Daisy Belle Hendricks Sutherland, who introducted each speaker in a most happy and original man¬ ner. Mrs. Hilton U. Brown, mother of one of the initiates, responded to the toast, “Links in the Chain of Love.” She said that instead of one Theta daughter, she now had thir¬ teen, so dear had each girl become to her that she felt herself a mother to them all. The other toasts were as follows : Fixed Stars . Miss Mary Lindley. Flower Gifts . Miss Edna Henry. The Board that is Spread for Sisters. . . .Mrs. Ira Christian. The One I Know Best of All . Miss Ora Williams. To the Constitution . Miss Margaret Snodgrass. When these were completed and the enthusiasm was at its height, each member present from the old Gamma chap-

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BUTLER COLLEGE 95 ter was called upon for impromptu remarks. These were fol¬ lowed by expressions of good-will from all of the Grand Council present ; then our Alumnse President gave words of greeting, followed by Mrs. Eichrodt, who read the loving messages and congratulations sent by the other chapters. A chapter roll was then called, which showed twelve chapters represented. There were thirty-five from Alpha ; thirty-four from Beta ; two from Epsilon ; two from Alpha Gamma ; one each from Pi, Eta, Alpha Beta, Alpha Delta, Mu, and Phi ; ten from old Gamma ; and fifty from Zeta Alumnae. As there is an end to everything, so was there to this joyous occasion, and as the loving cup went round, we felt that very auspicious, indeed, had been the entrance of the new chapter into our fraternity. We feel sure that each new girl was filled with the determination to do her share toward upholding the high standards of Kappa Alpha Theta. Alice Temple Day. BUTLER COLLEGE Butler College received a perpetual charter from the Indiana Legislature of 1850. The first college buildings were completed and thrown open to students in the fall of 1855. At that time there was no Academy or Preparatory School in Indianapolis and in addition to the College work the institution received pupils of preparatory and high school grades in large numbers. Subsequently, as the Indianapolis High Schools grew in size and equipment, the college prac¬ tically abandoned its preparatory department, and though still receiving conditioned freshmen, devoted itself to colle¬ giate work. Its charter authorizes university work and at times medical and law schools have been maintained, but not since the College of Liberal Arts was removed from its orig¬ inal 'site in the City of Indianapolis to Irvington, a suburb of the city and now a part of the municipality.

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96 KAPPA ALPHA THETA The early years of the institution were influenced, as were all colleges of the day, by the Civil War. Many of the students went into the army. One of them enlisted as a private soldier, declining all commissions and promotions, and afterwards became and now is the President of the Col¬ lege. The pictures of some of these students who went South with the boys in blue, are hanging in the College halls and remind us of those strenuous and heroic days. The College, first known as the Northwestern Christian University, was among the earliest co-educational institu¬ tions in the west. From the beginning, women were admit¬ ted. Its liberality in this particular was one of the indica¬ tions of the broad and tolerant character of the institution, its charter and its founders. Its early funds had been largely contributed by members of the Church of the Dis¬ ciples of Christ, though no sectarian bounds have ever been set or required and its student body includes representatives of every faith. This catholicity of spirit was further indicat¬ ed by the election of Horace Mann, who was not a member of the Disciples’ Church, as first president. The removal to Irvington took place in the fall of 1875. The question of transportation in those days offered a more serious problem than it would today, so a campus of twenty- five acres between two railroads was chosen. The develop¬ ment of electric lines has made the steam roads unnecessary to the convenience of the students and the extension of the college grounds has therefore been away from the railroads and to the eastward of the original campus line. The ex¬ treme eastern extent of the College property is now four blocks from the original western boundary line and is marked by the site of the Bona Thompson Library. This beautiful structure was a gift to the institution by the parents of Miss Bona Thompson (Kappa Kappa Gamma), who died soon after her graduation. The building of classic and chaste proportions represents a gift of $50,000 and stands on an

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BUTLER COLLEGE 97 elevated piece of ground which was also a gift to the College. The entire structure is as fireproof and as earthquake proof as the builders could make it. In it is placed the College library and a sub-station of the City library, affording for Butler students access to any of the 150,000 volumes owned by the College and the City libraries. Differing from this structure in architecture are the buildings on the main campus, which include an administra¬ tion building, a science hall, gymnasium, observatory and a young women's dormitory, besides the various fraternity summer houses. The college grounds have recently been en¬ larged by a new athletic field, the gift of Mr. Will Irwin. The institution makes no attempt at anything but colle¬ giate work at present, but to carry this on in a befitting way the directors and faculty have followed high ideals. The work done at Butler is credited at Yale and Harvard and Chicago, and through affiliation with the last named, Butler College graduates may receive Chicago degrees. The mem¬ bers of the faculty and the work required command the re¬ spect of all the Indiana institutions. All the members of the faculty have had connection either as graduates or teachers in some of the largest institutions in the country or abroad. Two year ago, feeling that resources which were at one time sufficient for collegiate work, had, under new con¬ ditions, become inadequate, the Board resolved to add a quarter of a million dollars to the endowment funds. About three-fourths of the required amount has been raised, includ¬ ing $100,000 from Mr. Joseph I. Irwin, of Columbus, Indi¬ ana, and $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie. It is proposed to complete the endownment by Founders’ Day of next Febru¬ ary, A committee of the Faculty and Board have this mat¬ ter in hand, and the Commercial Club and Merchants’ Asso¬ ciation in Indianapolis have endorsed the movement and their members are contributing to the endowment with a view to making Butler College fully representative of the interests of the capital city of Indiana.

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98 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Fraternities entered Butler at an early date, beginning in 1859 with Phi Delta Theta and followed soon by Sigma Chi and Delta Tau Delta. All of these fraternities still exist and their alumni include some of the most distinguished Indiana men in public life. The first sorority to be established at Butler was Kappa Alpha Theta in 1874. Kappa Kappa Gamma entered not long after, and Phi Beta Phi followed within more recent years. The Theta charter was withdrawn through a misun¬ derstanding in 1886, but is now re-established under its old name of Gamma chapter. There has always been a large number of desirable girls and there is no reason why the three sororities should not in future have full membership and thriving existence. FORMATIVE INFLUENCES OF FRATERNITIES Iiow many of the suggestions in Mr. Birdseye’s article on college fraternities, appearing in the Outlook , are practi¬ cal for the women’s fraternities of American Colleges? Every Senior knows how fast her last year goes by, how taxed her time is, week by week, with the worries and anxie¬ ties of her underclassmen. The younger girl needs looking after in her moral and mental development. She has no idea what it means to study; concentration is an unknown quantity with her; for where is the boy or girl who knew how to study until he or she entered college? New freedom, fledging liberty, needs the supervision of wiser, experienced women. If the fraternity is a training school for men, is it not an educational factor as well, in the life of the college woman? We all have had our upper-class loves; but dearer still was the beloved alumna who stood for the realization of what we were striving for. It used to be an ideal of our chapter, when I was in college, to have some day a Theta for our house-mother. We never realized our ideal, but it

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SHEVLIN HALL AT MINNESOTA 99 seems to me now, that our very longing for some older mind and heart whose sympathy and judgment would direct us rightly, was an obvious, unconscious expression of the very need which Mr. Birdseye has felt in fraternity life. Such a graduate of the fraternity placed in the chapter would be of inestimable value to the underclassmen. It should be her privilege to direct in a tactful way the work of the stu¬ dents ; to teach them how to study ; to stimulate the intellect¬ ual life; and, best of all, shape the moral and spiritual life of the incipient woman. Katharine Ethel Traphagen, Iota Alumna. SHEVLIN HALL, AT MINNESOTA Perhaps women in other colleges may be interested in hearing about our new building at Minnesota, designed ex¬ clusively for the use of the college girls and obtained partly through their efforts. About five years ago the project of obtaining money enough for a Woman's building was taken in hand by the Woman’s League. Two petitions to the legislature met with but doubtful success and the girls set about raising the money themselves, with undiminished enthusiasm. By carni¬ vals, entertainments and various other devices, money was gathered into the coffers of the Woman’s League until a sum of eighteen hundred dollars had accumulated there. Then success finally overtook them in the form of a gift of sixty thousand dollars from Mr. Shevlin and work on the building was commenced a year ago. Simplicity is the key-note of Alice A. Shevlin Hall. The interior decoration and furniture is in the mission style and the color-scheme is a harmony of dull blues and browns. On the first floor, a reception room and spacious parlor extend¬ ing up through two stories with another room for smaller

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IOO KAPPA ALPHA THETA gatherings are on one side of the broad corridor, while the other is occupied by the study room and Y. W. C. A. parlor. On the second floor is the assembly room, a rest-room fur¬ nished with creton-draped couches, the matron's apartments, and several other rooms where literary societies and other clubs may meet. In the basement is the dining-room where simple hot lunches will be served. Heretofore the fraternity girls have been the only ones who had any place to which they might go for rest and re¬ freshment while at college. Now, however, we have a com¬ mon home to which every girl feels free to go and where every convenience awaits her. Moreover it will be a place where the girls come into closer contact with each other on a common footing and where they will be welded into a unified whole, animated by a spirit of loyalty and helpful¬ ness to the college and each other. This is what our new building is to stand for among the girls of Minnesota. THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE AT BALTIMORE At the invitation of the Student Government Associa¬ tion of the Woman's College, the third annual meeting of the Student Government Conference met with us in Baltimore, November sixteenth to nineteenth. The first conference was held at Wellesley in 1904, the second one, last year, at Bryn Mawr, and we were more than happy to assume the honors and responsibilities of hostesses for this session. As is well known, the purpose of these meetings is to discuss ideas of self-government among the women students of the east, to compare methods, and to strive for the per¬ fection of the system under the varied existing conditions in the colleges represented. There were twenty-seven delegates present. Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Brown, Cornell, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Wells,

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE IOI Wellesley, Wilson, Simmons, Vassar, and Baltimore were each represented by two delegates from their Student Gov¬ ernment Association, and Randolph-Macon and Swarthmore, by only one. One alumna, Miss Eustace, Wellesley, '06, was present to represent the committee elected at the con¬ ference last year, to draft a constitution to be submitted at this session. The delegates arrived in Baltimore Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday morning. On Saturday two ses¬ sions of the conference were held, an open session in the morning, at which a report from each of the colleges was given ; then, after several hours for luncheon, a closed session was held in which officers were elected to serve until next May, and one of the drafts of the constitution, drawn up by the committee, was discussed, modified and submitted to the college associations for ratification. The delegates were entertained in our three dormitories, occupying our rooms and becoming “one of us’ for those few days. On Saturday evening, our Executive Board gave a dinner at Vingolf for the guests and the seniors, who were acting as special hostesses, and it was followed by a re¬ ception at Goucher Hall, to which the faculty and students and their friends were invited. Sunday was spent quietly with nothing pre-arranged except the usual vesper service and a twilight musical in Fucal parlor. Thus the two days were full of work and pleasure, al¬ though Alpha Delta was disappointed in not being able to welcome any Thetas among the delegates, we keenly enjoyed the charming guests from our sister colleges. Lucile Locke.

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“SHE DID NOT TAKE THE JOURNAL” At a college alumnae gathering, a member of another fraternity came to a Theta and said : “Haven’t you a chap¬ ter at Toronto University? Well, I met one of your Theta girls out west, last summer, and told her of meeting some sisters of hers in Toronto, and she said she had never heard of a chapter there.” MISS WICKSON'S WEDDING On Saturday evening, December first, Ednah Harmon Wickson, who was Grand President of the fraternity for four years, and Mr. W. F. Kelly, were married. The cere¬ mony took place in a large room, on the third floor of the Wickson home, which had been decorated with greens and everywhere there were great bunches of white chrysanthe¬ mums. The bride’s three sisters, all of whom are Thetas, were the only attendants. Katherine Wickson, the maid of honor, wore a white satin gown that her mother had worn as a bridesmaid. The two bridesmaids were dressed in quaint frocks of flowered organdie. The bride wore a lovely old light blue silk — her mother’s wedding gown. There were about a hundred and fifty guests at the wedding, all old friends and many of them Thetas. At the wedding supper telegrams were read, one of special inter¬ est to most of the guests, from Kappa Alpha Theta.

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EDITORIALS Kappa Alpha Theta has had the enviable pleasure of re¬ cently granting two charters within one month. Gamma is in the old home and takes the old name of a former chapter, and the fraternity is glad, indeed, both to welcome the new and to welcome again the older members of that chapter. Alpha Iota places our standard in a state where we had no active chapter before. Washington University has a most creditable place among institutions of higher education and is rapidly enlarging, therefore Theta is glad to enter under the leadership of the twenty-two charter members. It is with regret that the fraternity sees Miss Enima Pearson resign her membership in the Grand Council. Her marriage to Rev. Robert N. Fulton took place November fourteenth; they will reside in Littleton, Mass., so that she is thus outside of the limits of Beta district. Miss Pearson’s services, in connection with the re-establishment of Gamma chapter, will always be remembered by the fraternity and the chapter. Miss Josephine Barnaby, former vice-president of the district, succeeds to the presidency and thus becomes a mem¬ ber of the Grand Council. She is well known to those who attended the Philadelphia convention, to which she was a delegate from Mu Alumnae chapter. She was an early initi¬ ate into Alpha Gamma chapter, graduating from Ohio State University in 1896. To Miss Barnaby, the Grand Council and chapters extend a hearty welcome.

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104 KAPPA ALPHA THETA In this season of almost universal joy, the national fra¬ ternity of Chi Psi is in deepest mourning, as a result of the sad tragedy at Cornell, when four members of the fraternity met their death in the burning of the chapter lodge. Any expression of sympathy for the sorrow of the friends of the young men whose lives were thus snuffed out seems most meagre and inadequate, at best, yet we dare to join with our sympathy our word of profound admiration for the heroism and self-abnegation displayed that early morning, especially by the Chi Psi brothers in the efforts of rescue. The con¬ templation of such sublime conduct must relieve Chi Psi’s mourning of much of its blackness. The recent state elections are of interest, at least in two instances, to all Thetas, for the wives of the governors-elect, both of Ohio and of Colorado, are members of our frater¬ nity. Mrs. Buchtel, of Colorado, was one of the first initi¬ ates into Alpha chapter, and in 1900 her daughter was initiated into the same chapter. We all feel a just pride and sense of common ownership with regard to the public hon¬ ors Theta women may receive, and it is likewise with much satisfaction that we hear of the fame won by Theta husbands who we know would be the first to emphasize the names of their Theta wives in sharing the credit for their achieve¬ ments. Mrs. C. E. Buell (Martha Merry), Iota, now a resident of Madison, Wisconsin, has recently been honored by the club women of that state. A local paper says: “To Mrs. Buell came unsought the honor of election to the presidency of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. There were 154 delegates to the late convention. Mrs. Buell received 152 votes, making her election practically unanimous.” This is the second time within a year that Wisconsin has

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EDITORIALS 105 called upon our alumnae for public service, as Mrs. Stevens was last spring made a regent of the State University. A courteous exchange editor was kind enough to say that the quality of our May number was such that he wished it were doubled in size. The editor of kappa alpha theta is most grateful for such an encouraging word, and begs to state that her regret is along the same line, though she would give it slightly different and more modest ex¬ pression. So many articles, not only of timely value but also of literary worth, are being sent in that the number of pages available for such contributions is becoming far too limited. However, no editor ever utterly deplores a surplus of good material, and the more difficult it is to select the “fittest,” as far as originality and appropriateness of theme or ability in handling is concerned, just so much is the standard of excellence raised. Honors must be shared with chapter editors, whose painstaking care in preparing the material sent in, particu¬ larly noticeable in the contributions for this present issue, has been greatly appreciated. A hint seems necessary to some to read again the instructions sent in September, and the warning is here repeated that copy for the next number must arrive not later than February fifth, or the regulation fines must be imposed. In behalf of our new chapters, the editor wishes to make an urgent, and it is to be hoped, effective appeal for back numbers of the Journal. Such copies, possibly seldom taken from shelves or attics of alumnae would be of great value to our newly initiated sisters who yearn to know what has done and discussed in the fraternity in years past, and who have as yet no “older girls” of the chapter to hand down fraternity traditions. In order to facilitate matters and also to aid those chap¬ ters who wish special copies to complete files for binding,

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io6 KAPPA ALPHA THETA the editor will be glad to print in the next issue lists of extra copies and lists of desired copies, if those interested will send in such information. Rho chapter is exceedingly anxious to complete her bound file of Kappa Alpha Theta Journals. She lacks six numbers: Vol. IV, No. 3; Vol. VII, No. 4, Vol. X, Nos. 2 and 3 ; Vol. XV, Nos. 3 and 4. Will any Theta who has these old numbers, and who is willing to part with them, send them to Miss Martha Cline, 1955 A Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. Postage gladly paid. Will the active chapters kindly remind those initiates of last year, who have since left college, of the ruling of the 1905 Convention, requiring them to subscribe for the Jour¬ nal for three years. i

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CHAPTER LETTERS Alpha District IOTA — CORNELL UNIVERSITY The rushing season, with its ups and downs, is now a thing of the past. Under the Pan Hellenic rules we were limited to two large parties with all the girls present, so we combined our best efforts in these. One was held at the home of Mrs. Bailey, mother of one of our Iota girls. The program was a day at the coun¬ try fair. Each girl dressed to suit the part of some char¬ acter at the fair, and furnished entertainment for the guests. The second party was at Mrs. Thomas’, one of our faculty Thetas, and came as the climax of the rushing sea¬ son. Except for these two parties, rushing was very simple, mostly out-of-door walks, talks and picnics. Pledge day found us with five pledglings of whom we were justly proud: Alice Graves, Lois Wing, ’09; Eliza¬ beth Clarke, TO; Ethel Whiteley, TO, and Olive Whitson, TO. Initiation was planned for Saturday, November 10, at which time we hoped to have our two last year’s seniors with us. Abbie Potts was able to come. In fact, she came sooner than we had expected, and in our surprise, excitement and pleasure in seeing her again, the whole Theta chapter stood in danger of being proctored. Helen Underwood, our other ’06 girl, could not be with us, and we were keenly disappointed. The initiation service was held at Mrs. Roe’s, an alum¬ na, who kindly gave us her home for it. From there we progressed to Mrs. Chamberlain’s for our banquet. Abbie Potts, as toast-mistress, graced the head of the table, and

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io8 KAPPA ALPHA THETA was beamed upon and fully appreciated by her admiring sisters. On the fifteenth Miss Lippincott and her friend Miss Clothier came to us. We were especially glad to have them with us for the Swarthmore game, as both claim Swarth- more for their alma mater. Miss Lippincott was formally introduced to the town and faculty women, as well as the college girls, by a tea given for her and Mrs. Lyon on the seventeenth. We, of Iota, wish each chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta as busy and happy a year as we ourselves seem to have in store. _ _ M. R. Preston. LAMBDA — UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Lambda has had a few social gatherings lately, one of which was an informal tea given to all the Freshmen girls, at the home of Effie Wells, the eleventh of October. In spite of the unpleasant weather all the new girls and several alumnae were present. The evening of the twenty-second our annual reception took place at the home of Florence Votey. Our favorable impressions of the girls were strengthened by further ac¬ quaintance and the evening was pleasantly spent. Just now we are congratulating ourselves on having pledged, from a class of fourteen, six girls whom we are sure will make good, strong Thetas. Our local Pan-Hel¬ lenic fixed November fourteenth as pledge day and at that time we pledged these girls : Clara Bond, of Burlington ; Muriel Goodwin, of Wells River; Grace McFarland, of Hyde Park; Gertrude Murphy, of West Rutland; Amy Wilson, of Bethel ; and Ruth Votey, of Burlington. Saturday afternoon, November twenty-fourth, the an¬ nual Sophomore-Freshman football game was played, which resulted in a tie. The college girls attended the game in barges which were trimmed with the different class colors.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 109 Mary Robinson, who has been ill with diphtheria, has gone to her home in Ferrisburg, but expects to return to college after the Thanksgiving recess. Initiation is not far off, and we all look forward to what it brings and means. Lambda sends greetings to all the new Thetas, and wishes them a most happy an%d successful year. Ruth W. Reynolds. SIGMA — TORONTO UNIVERSITY We, of Sigma, have been in a state of excitement for the last few weeks, first with the rushing, then with initia¬ tion, and the visit of our district president, Miss Lippincott. Miss Lippincott came on the twentieth of November, and the next day Mabel Millman entertained the fraternity at a tea, to which representatives from the three local sorori¬ ties were invited. On the twenty-second, Jessie Barber gave a charming luncheon for the chapter, and in the evening we held our initiation. November the fifth was asking-day, and by the end of a week we were fortunate enough to have pledged the five girls asked, their initiation being arranged to make it the crowning event of Miss Lippincott’s visit. The initiates were: Helen Thomson, ’08; and Marion Coats, Hazel Kemp, Dora Mavor and Kathleen McAlister, fresh¬ men. Toasts were drunk, the first to the King, the last to Kappa Alpha Theta, to which Miss Lippincott was kind enough to reply. The evening ended with the singing of jolly Theta songs, and we felt it had been one of our best and most successful initiations. We were all very sorry to see Miss Lippincott go, but the stimulus her visit gave us still remains, and we are sure will be effective in the carry¬ ing out of the fraternity aims and ideals. The rushing season now seems a thing of the past, but it was strenuous while it lasted. Next year, we anticipate keener and yet more restricted rushing, because Alpha Phi has granted a charter to the group Psi Delta, and its inagu-

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no KAPPA ALPHA THETA ration, which takes place this week, is creating a flutter in our local Greek world. The college has been gay this fall. Each class has held a reception, and “Rugby,” one of the most popular dances, is to be held on the fifth of December. Varsity lost the col¬ lege championship in Rugby this year, but she fought well. Now the Michaelmas term is drawing to a close, essays are being rushed through, and a pleasant Christmas excitement begins to pervade everything. Sigma wishes every chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta a Merry Christmas and a glad New Year! Berta Bastedo. CHI — SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Has a “round-robin” ever hopped to your door, cheerily chirping the homely bits of news he has gathered, just the kind a college girl likes to hear? Chi girls are especially fond of round-robins, and heartily recommend them for va¬ cation days and for an after-college-bond. Our class of ’06 has instituted such a custom already. A few days ago the '06 round-robin came to the chapter house to Mary Ellen Blair, who was visiting us for Thanksgiving ; but it will be sent on its journey by Mary Blair Losey, with a card an¬ nouncing Mr. and Mrs. George Rinaldo Losey at home after December 4, at 1129 Broadstreet, Newark, N. J. And this is cur round-robin's spring song: On November 30, Friday evening, a time peculiarly sacred to Chi girls, was solemnized the marriage cermony, which is the secret of this happy surprise. “A chapter-house wedding is quite ideal,” exclaimed the girls who were present and who are wearing the dainty gold pins which were the bride's gift to the girls. Such a fluttering to put the house in readiness ! “Little pansies, every one . . . Putting little heads together Having such a lot of fun.”

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CHAPTER LETTERS hi Then the quieting strains of Lohengrin, the bridal pro¬ cession, the sacred vows, and then the congratulations and luncheon. To be sure, this sounds like many another house wedding; but the charm about this one was that it was all within our dear old chapter home. Mr. Losey entertained the Thetas at a dinner in “Ta¬ bard Inn,,, at The Yates, where the color scheme of pink and white was beautifully carried out, and the souvenirs pink roses. The following day, at the station, we enjoyed the lark of a jolly shower of final good wishes for the prosperity and happiness of our sister and her husband, who said that the letters on our kite to him spelled sisters. The Thanksgiving holidays seemed to have many de¬ lightful surprises in store for all the girls. While Mary Walker was entertaining a house party at Oxford, N. Y., our University Glee Club on its tour “chanced,, to stop in that town. The few girls who were left at the chapter house did not even have to miss the “home dinner/’ because of the kind invitations of our friends among the faculty wives and city alumnae. Again Chi has had the good fortune of a visit from Miss Mary W. Lippincott, with her sympathetic interest in all our problems and her store of helpful, practical sugges¬ tions. But, oh, such a short visit from one whom we love so much and whose very presence is an inspiration to every girl in the chapter. Though rushing engagements play a large part in our social life the first semester, we have given a tea to our alumnae chapter, city friends and faculty wives, and also our “big semester party.” This year it was a dance at the Women’s Union, and occurred on the night of our Varsity football victory over West Point. Ours was pronounced the prettiest party of the season. We gratefully acknowl¬ edge the help of our alumnae. Before this Journal reaches you, the peaceful Christmas tide will have brought its longed for vacation and its sweet

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1 12 KAPPA ALPHA THETA pleasure of giving, and will have made us all the richer thereby. So it remains for Chi to wish just an old fashioned “Happy New Year” to every Theta. Maud Merritt. ALPHA BETA — SWARTHMORE COLLEGE Just now Alpha Beta is going through the trying ordeal of mid-semester examinations — but “there’s a good time coming” — pledge day is the eighth of December and we hope to announce our pledglings in the next issue of the Journal. Our rushing season is practically over. The three formal functions allowed by our Pan-Hellenic regulations, have been given, we feel, successfully. Two of the girls en¬ tertained us at their homes, the one with a luncheon and automobile trip of thirty miles, and the other a house-party and a dance. We can only hope the Freshmen had as good a time as we ourselves ! A great many of our alumnae were back for the Am¬ herst game (score 21-0 in favor of Swarthmore!) and fol¬ lowing the victory, enjoyed with us the customary bonfire, “ice cream and speeches.” After the celebration the old girls surprised us with a sumptuous feast, and with the singing of Theta songs and discussing Theta questions, we had a small but jolly Alpha Beta reunion. Last week we held fraternity meeting at the home of Hannah Clothier Hull and many of the alumnae were also present. It made us realize and appreciate the advantages of a chapter house and long for one of our own ! Alpha Beta sends Christmas greetings and a Happy New Year to all Thetas everywhere. ALPHA DELTA - THE WOMANS COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE Our Thanksgiving vacation has come and gone, and Alpha Delta is just beginning the two weeks' rushing sea¬ son prescribed by our local Pan-Hellenic. By this new arrangement of having the rush follow Thanksgiving, we feel that we have come to know the Freshmen pretty well

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CHAPTER LETTERS ii3 and to be able to choose wisely our new girls. During these two weeks we may do only a limited amount of rushing. Each fraternity may give both a formal and an informal function, besides several informal teas. We are planning a house-party for the seventh and eighth of December, to be held at an old country seat near Baltimore, and our alumnce are going to give us our informal function on the evening of December the fourteenth, just before pledge day. The event of greatest interest to the students of Wo¬ man’s College, during the the past month, was the conven¬ tion of the Student Government organizations of all the east¬ ern colleges where such a system of discipline exists. We were disappointed that none of the visiting delegates were Thetas, as we are always glad to welcome members of our other chapters. The college is particularly happy just now over the gift by our honored President, Dr. Goucher, of his beautiful city home, which will be used as an administration building and so enlarge and increase the present usefulness of the Woman’s College of Baltimore. In closing, Alpha Delta wishes to send heartiest Christ¬ mas greetings and hopes that the New Year may be the brightest one so far for all chapters of Kappa Alpha Theta. Anna Boeman Skinner. ALPHA EPSILON - BROWN UNIVERSITY We have the pleasure of introducing to our sister Thetas, our ten new members, Nelly Mary Evans, May Hartshorn Hartwell, Angie Melden, Eunice Millard Clarke, Caroline Morton, Flora Marie Rausch, Elizabeth Morrison, Leila Tucker, Florence Rose and Gertrude May Allen, whom we are sure will make strong Thetas. The initiation banquet was as enjoyable as such occa¬ sions always are, and was made additionally pleasant by the presence of Miss Pine, of Lambda ; Miss Alder and Miss Brownell, of Kappa, and Mrs. Collier from Wesleyan.

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1 14 KAPPA ALPHA THETA As we hoped, our new gymnaium is ready for use, though not finished. Several exciting basket-ball games have already been held there, and on December third it was the scene of one of the fraternity dances and of the be¬ ginning of gymnasium work for the freshmen and sopho¬ mores. There will be a change in the gymnasium work for this year, because of a new building, a new instructor, and a different system. Many accessories, which we have never before had, such as shower baths and an indoor tennis court, help to make it interesting and beneficial. Ruth L. Foster. ALPHA ZETA - BARNARD COLLEGE For this number of the Journal, Alpha Zeta has an abundance both of fraternity and college news. But, per¬ haps, it would be better to let the other chapters judge of this for themselves. We are all very proud of our four new Theta girls — Cecile Deboney, ’09; Cornelia Flack and Martha Hamil, both ’08; and Edna Brown, W. This gives us an active chapter of fifteen, which, while it may not seem large to some of the chapters, is larger than we have had in some time. In fact, it is larger than any other fraternity chapter now at Barnard. In February we shall number sixteen, as Mabel Pennell, of Omega, is to enter then to work for the new B. S. degree. Our rushing of freshmen has only just begun in real earnest, but with the help of our four new girls, who seem to have fallen into the spirit of it already, we ought to have a most successful year. A great event has just taken place in the history of Barnard, for we have laid the corner stone for our new dormitory, Brooks Hall. The four present classes and representatives of classes back to '93, formed a most impres¬ sive procession, which made us proud of the splendid exhi¬ bition of loyalty to our alma mater which such an occasion could evoke.

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CHAPTER LETTERS ii5 A chapter of Chi Omega has just been established, which makes the eighth national fraternity now represented at Barnard: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Omicron Pi. Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi and Chi Omega. Alpha Zeta sends love to all Thetas everywhere and best wishes for a successful year. Lee Alexander. Beta District ALPHA — DE PAUW UNIVERSITY Thanksgiving vacation is over and we are back in the old places, preparing for parties and final exams, all in one breath. Scholarship in DePauw is being kept to a very high standard this year. Dr. Post has been made Dean of Scholarship, and the grades of each student are very care¬ fully watched. Among the good things we have heard, this fall, were the Boston Symphony Quartette, Temple Male Quartette and Rev. Matt Hughes. For the benefit of college athletics, the Dramatic Club gave a farce, “His Lordship.,, We are proud to say that three Thetas starred. Alpha chapter was well represented at the installation of the Butler chapter, at which thirty-four of the one hun¬ dred present were Alpha girls, and ten of those active: We are looking forward with great anticipation to the banquet on Founders’ day. Some of the younger alumnae gave the chapter girls a splendid surprise, a short time ago, in presenting us with a long wished-for mission table for our middle parlor. With¬ in a year we shall own also our new piano. According to the Pan-Hellenic rules, we are restricted to two parties, this term, one formal, the other informal. The latter was given the fifth of October and was an after¬ noon affair for the new girls. Mrs. McGibney, of Indian¬ apolis, entertained us charmingly, reading choice selections

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n6 KAPPA ALPHA THETA for which she accompanied herself on the piano. After an hour of talking and singing Theta songs, we were seated for a four-course luncheon. Fifty-two covers were laid and we had a splendid time. Invitations are now out for our formal on November fifth. This is to be a masquerade of charac¬ ters from either history or fiction. Alpha heartily wishes to all her sister chapters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Florence Wales. BETA — INDIANA UNIVERSITY Fall term has passed quickly and happily for Beta chap¬ ter. Never have we worked harder or had more good times. Indiana is proud to be the champion of the state in football this year. Although only one game was played on Jordan field, our own athletic ground, interest in the game has been very great, and large crowds of students went with the team to Crawfordsville, to Chicago, and to Indianapolis, where we played Notre Dame. The annual game in Indian¬ apolis is always a happy occasion for us, because at that time we see so many of the girls who have been in college for the past few years. The newly initiated are anxious to meet the “old girls,” of whom they have heard so much, while the “old girl” are no less anxious to give the Theta grip to the freshmen. We were represented by six active girls and about thirty alumnae at the installation of the new Gamma chapter in Indianapolis, on November 3. Not one of those present could fail to be impressed by the beauty of the initiation service, by the true Theta spirit which was felt throughout the initiation and the banquet which followed ; not one could fail to appreciate more fully the broad-mindedness and strength of our organization, after seeing more than a hun¬ dred women and girls, from some of our oldest alumnae down to freshmen in college, united by one common bond of sympathy — Theta love.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 117 Those of us who did go to the installation, and also those that did not, are now looking to the annual State Luncheon on Founders’ day, as a time when we shall again have an opportunity to meet a large number of Thetas from all parts of Indiana. We hope that the efforts of the com¬ mittee may be rewarded by a much larger attendance than last year. Since the rushing season we have done little in the way of entertainment. On the afternoon of November 8 we entertained the other sororities here, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Delta Gamma; Tri Delt and Alpha Phi were each represented by one girl, although neither has a chapter here. On Thursday evening, October 25, we en¬ tertained at dinner, our President, Dr. William Lowe Bryan, Mrs. Bryan, and Miss Louise Goodbody, Dean of Women, and a Theta of Beta chapter. Theta also had charge of the Woman’s League tea in October, and of the informal spread given by the Y. W. C. A. in December. The girls of the university are making good use of the new student building, which was occupied this fall for the first time. The teas given there, once each month by the Woman’s League, are well attended. The Christian Asso¬ ciation also has an informal afternoon once a month, when short talks on practical subjects are given by women of the faculty or wives of faculty men, and simple refreshments are served. These afternoons have proved very helpful and enjoyable. Theta has a large membership in both these organizations and is represented on the executive board of each. We are also taking a very active interest in all general college affairs. In the “try-outs” for “Strut and Fret,” our dramatic club, two Theta freshmen were successful this year. We now have an active membership of four, one of whom is president of the club. There are four Thetas in “Goethe Gesellschaft” and four in “Le Cercle Francais,” the president and secretary of the latter are Thetas.

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ii8 KAPPA ALPHA THETA We were sorry not to be at the wedding of Miss Emma Pearson in November, and we feel that Beta district is los¬ ing a great deal when she gives up the presidency. How¬ ever, we wish to welcome her successor, Miss Barnaby, and we shall hope to know her in our own home later in the year. Beta chapter sends New Year’s greetings to the Grand Council, to her sister chapters, and to all Thetas far and near. Mary Snodgrass. GAMMA - BUTLER COLLEGE We thirteen girls who have so lately become members of Kappa Alpha Theta wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to all those who have so materially helped us in obtaining our charter. We intend to prove that, in this case, at least, thirteen is a lucky number. It has proved lucky in that we were the baby chapter only for the short period of three weeks, and already we begin to look with a sense of com¬ placent seniority (but none the less affectionate regard) upon our younger sister at Washington University. Our happiness over wearing the kite was marred only by the absence of some of the original members of Sigma Delta Theta. Those of them who could not be initiated with us are: Mary Bailey, who has now become a Theta at In¬ diana State University ; Adele McMaster, at present study¬ ing in Paris, France, Reliance Holton, who is teaching school in Indianapolis; Gertrude Bowman Murray and Hazel Mc¬ Clelland Quinn, our recently married sisters; Constance Addington, of New Orleans; and Lenore Bowman, of Little Rock. The initiation of the six girls whom we pledged at the beginning of the fall term will take place the middle of the winter term. The active chapters of Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma, at Butler, entertained us on the evening of Novem¬ ber the nineteenth with a banquet at the Columbia Club. Our inter-fraternity relations are as harmonious as possible,

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CHAPTER LETTERS 119 and the prospects for our local Pan-Hellenic are entirely sat¬ isfactory. It is with much pleasure that Gamma chapter exercises, for the first time, her privilege of sending heartiest greetings to all of her newly acquired Theta sisters. Louise Brown. EPSILON - WOOSTER UNIVERSITY It hardly seems possible that Matriculation day has passed again, and that we no longer have “preps” in our chapter, but in their places nine new Theta sisters, whom we introduce to you as : Sara Anderson, Rochester, Pa. ; Isabel Bull, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Margurite Emery, Kenton, Ohio; Katherine McCurdy, Adelia and Clarissa Annat, and Helen Stafford, all from Wooster, Ohio. The other two girls — Edith Fulton, Canton, China; and Helen Anderson, Mt. Vernon, Ohio — were members of the upper classes, so we did not have to wait until Matriculation day to initiate them, but introduced them to Theta's goat on October the sixth, at the home of Martha Sanborn. The initiation of the other seven girls took place on the Saturday and Monday nights following the first of December, at Mrs. Mateer’s and Martha Sanborn’s. Since our last letter to the Journal we have been enter¬ tained several times by different almunre, and on the thir¬ teenth of December, the mothers and alumnae will be at home with Mrs. Overholt in honor of the active chapter. We are looking forward with much pleasure to the visit of our district president, Miss Josephine Barnaby, in a few weeks. The interest of all is turned at present toward our new dormitory, which is being built, and we have already chosen our rooms, although it will probably not be ready for oc¬ cupancy until the spring vacation. The building follows out the general architectural plan of our other buildings and will add greatly to the beauty of our campus.

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120 KAPPA ALPHA THETA This is our last letter to the Journal this year, and with it we send our heartiest greetings and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our new western sisters of Gamma and Alpha Iota chapters, and to every Theta the world over. Edith C. Lawrence, ’09. ETA — UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Eta chapter had her initiation this year on the evening of November third. In response to urgent invitations the following fourteen of the old girls were back to help initi¬ ate the six pledges: Ruth Manville, Alice Wadsworth, Charlotte Walker, Grace Moore Walser, Charlotte Bissell, Mary Jane Haskin, Myra Post Cady, Helen Post, Jane Pol¬ lack, Ruth Lowe Woods, Mabel Gale Lowrie, Minerva Rhines, Faith Cooper and Jessie Obetz. Mrs. Obetz, of De¬ troit, who is a Theta from the old Butler chapter, was also here. We were also fortunate in having with us Miss Hall from the Upsilon chapter at Minnesota. Her home is in Honolulu, and she told us how much it had meant to her to meet three Theta sisters down there. After the initiation we had a banquet here at the house. The tables were decorated with chrysanthemums and with black and gold pansies. Ruth Manville, of Chicago, was toast-mistress. All together we considered the initiation very successful. Two weeks from the date of initiation we gave a danc¬ ing party here at the house for the freshmen. Bertha Bal¬ lard, one of our pledges, came out from Detroit for the party and spent the following day with us. We entertained about forty people altogether. Two weeks from the coming Saturday, that is, on De¬ cember 15, the sophomore girls of the university give a danc¬ ing party at the girls' gymnasium for the freshmen girls. We all felt very much cast down over the result of the

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CHAPTER LETTERS 121 Michigan-Pennsylvania game, but hope to see Michigan make up for it next year. The week before initiation, Regina Kingman, of Battle Creek, spent a few days with us. Ruth Manville was with us for a week this fall, and Lois Wilson and her mother were also here for a short time. The girls are just back from their Thanksgiving vaca¬ tions and find it hard to get down to wrork again. Since our last letter to the Journal we have a new pledge, Gladys Thorne, of Bay City. Jean Goudie. MU - ALLEGHENY COLLEGE After a strenuous rushing season of five weeks Mu is most happy in announcing eight new Thetas, and not an invitation lost. The new sisters whom we introduce are: Grace Miller, Tarentum, Pa. ; Plelen Murry, Erie, Pa. ; Grace Howard, Titusville, Pa.; Mary VonStorch, Bradford, Pa.; Wahnita Danford, Delaware, Ohio; Lottie Hammett, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Kate Illingworth, Burma, India ; and Plelen White, Bradford, Pa. As a chapter we feel well pleased with the results of this term, and hope these new Thetas will prove as goodly in deeds as in numbers. Affairs around the college have rather simmered down since the close of rushing season, although within the chapter we have had several very pleasant little evenings. After pledge day, and before initiation, according to a chapter custom the pledglings gave the old girls an evening’s jol¬ lity. They had realized their youthfulness, so appeared as kindergarteners who lisped songs and slams upon everyone. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving we had a dinner in the fraternity rooms. The one long table was decorated in pansies and the candelabra had shades of yellow with black- cat silhouettes upon them. It was a happy homelike even¬ ing, just the sort to linger in our minds long after Latin verbs and unsolvable calculus problems have been forgot¬ ten.

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122 KAPPA ALPHA THETA The college has been unusually fortunate this year in its successful lecture course. Already \ye have had two lectures by Dr. Quayle, of Chicago, one on “Shakespear’s Julius Caesar,” the other on “Jean Valjean.” Bishop C. C. McCabe gave his famous lecture on the “Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison,” and Bishop Burt told us of modern Italy. Other and equally popular lectures are scheduled for the coming months. Just now the one thought uppermost in everyone’s mind is the approaching vacation. Our Thanksgiving tur¬ key being devoured, we begin to look forward to Christmas pleasures. So Mu sends Christmas greetings to Theta sis¬ ters everywhere, and hopes the New Year may dawn bright¬ ly with a full promise of many happy days. Amy V. Courtenay. PI — ALBION COLLEGE With plenty of work and a generous amount of play, the time has flown so rapidly that one has to look twice at the calendar to convince herself that December is really here, and that those terrible “exams” are only a few weeks distant. Rushing now seems merely an indistinct memory, and the “new girls” are becoming quite “old.” We had our initiation November 10. Ruth Haller, of Ann Arbor, and Lena Hunt Farley were the out-of-town Thetas present. Allow me to introduce to you: Genevieve Ranger, Battle Creek; Racellia Rolston, Mobile, Alabama; Josephine Os¬ trander, Waterville, Ohio; Gipsy Robinson, Albion, Michi¬ gan ; Mae Mulholland, Cass City, Michigan. Robinson Hall was dedicated October 31. Bishop Mac- Dowell gave the dedicatory address, one of the finest lectures ever heard in Albion. Among the dignitaries present, most beloved, seemed Hon. George D. Robinson, of Detroit, for whom the building was named. Albion students feel ex¬ ceedingly grateful to Mr. Robinson for enabling them to

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CHAPTER LETTERS 123 enjoy their recitations in such a beautiful, commodious building. Since our last letter several annual college events have taken place. Most important are the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. reception for the new students; the sophomores’ reception for the freshmen, with the unsolicited assistance ( ?) of the juniors; President Dickie’s reception to the freshmen, with the senior — pardon my inelegent expression — “butt-in ;” the Halloween party; and the Country Fair. The Country Fair affords much merriment, and not only is a means of financial gain, but also arouses a feeling of good-fellowship among the “country cousins,” be they Greeks or Barbarians, seniors or freshmen. Four Thetas attended the state convention of the Y. W. C. A., held at Kalamazoo, November 16-21. We were glad to meet a sister Theta, Miss Inez Kinney, State Secretary from Ohio. It truly seemed that none saw or heard her but to love her. Thus the time passes. That the New Year may have in store for every Theta much happiness, is our hearty wish. Myrtle E. Smith. ALPHA GAMMA - OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Initiation is over and we are both proud and happy to see our six new members wearing the little kite. They had their “coming-out party” on the twenty-third of November. It has always been the custom here to introduce our fresh¬ men to the college society at a reception and give one formal in February. At Ohio State we feel very proud of our football team this year, since it lost only one game, and we can truthfully say that our goal line has not been crossed. We think that very much of this is due to the successful coaching of Al¬ bert Hernstein, a former Michigan man. On Wednesday, December the fifth, the freshman Pan- Hellenic dance will be given. This is a new idea and it is

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124 KAPPA ALPHA THETA hoped that it may bring the freshmen together, and promote good feeling among the freshmen fraternity men. The Girls’ Glee Club, of which Eugenia Rounsavell is president, is practising for our big concert. We hope it will be a great success. Alpha Gamma wishes to send greetings to our two new chapters, and sincerely hopes that they, as well as all other chapters, will have a happy and prosperous New Year. Clara Brooks. ALPHA ETA — VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY There is very little news from us this time. Our spiking was successfully accomplished, and, on November the tenth, we initiated Elizabeth and Rebecca Young, of Memphis. The former comes to us after two years at Vassar. Our freshmen have even now begun to take hold of the fraternity work remarkably well, and we feel that they are to become unusually strong members. Our football season closed with our usual Thanks¬ giving game, which we won from Sewanee. On the preced¬ ing Thursday we gained a victory over the Carlisle Indians, which was the best game of the season. After the game the new bell, in our Main Building, which was given us by the school children of Nashville, was rung for the first time, in honor of our victory. When we heard that the installation of Alpha Iota chap¬ ter, at Washington University, was to be during the holi¬ days, several of us planned to go, but not until we had re¬ ceived a cordial invitation from Miss Dodge, a Theta alum¬ na, did we fully realize that we could go. Then three of our girls — Rosa and Sophie Ambrose, and Elise Handly — hurriedly packed their grips and left, after the Thanksgiving game, for St. Louis. We were met at the Union Station by several Washington girls, wearing black and gold ribbons, and taken to their homes, where we were entertained. It is needless to say how we enjoyed the installation, the ban-

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CHAPTER LETTERS 125 quet, and the next day spent at the University, but we en¬ joyed most of all, meeting the Thetas from the other chap¬ ters, and we were sorry we did not see many more of them. One of our seniors, Rosa Ambrose, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Greetings to the chapters, and an especially hearty one to Gamma and Alpha Iota. Elise Handly. Delta District DELTA — UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Delta chapter is very proud to announce eight new girls as pledges, Gertrude Humphrey, Mary Jane Case, L. Pearl Benjamin, Alice Pitts, Nellie Gleason, Mrs. Bertha Baird and Mabel Hanson, who were initiated in November; and Margaret Niver, who entered the University later. We were very much pleased to have eleven of Delta’s girls, both active and alumnae, attend the St. Louis initia¬ tion, and to help in the installation of the new chapter there. Those who were left at home heard very enthusiastic ac¬ counts of the girls and the conditions at Washington. At present everyone is occupied with preparations for an extensive fair which is to be given by the Woman’s League. This organization is entirely in the hands of the girls here, and has been an important factor in promoting good feeling and friendship among the girls of the Univer¬ sity. Receptions are also given every Friday by the League, in the new Woman’s Hall, which was added to the Univer¬ sity last year. This week the University celebrated the anniversary of the state of Illinois, it being the seventy-eighth birthday. Our new Auditorium is under process of construction, and altogether University activities are very flourishing. We are proud of the rapid growth of our alma mater, and wish every chapter as happy a life as Delta is living. Clara Gridley.

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126 KAPPA ALPHA THETA KAPPA — UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The last two months have been busy and pleasant ones for Kappa chapter and we feel, now, as well acquainted and settled as if we had been together for a year instead of only three months. First, you must know about our freshmen. We have nine of them, an unusually large class, and we have held three initiations. Those who have been taken in since the last Journal was published are: Mary Ward, of Belleville; Hazel Allison, of Clay Center; Alice Turner, of Fort Scott; and Isabel Barton, of Kansas City. There have been several very delightful social events recently for the chapter as a whole. Mr. and Mrs. Innes, whose daughter was a Theta from this chapter, entertained us at six o’clock dinner on the sixteenth of November. On the twenty-first we attended the wedding of Della Frazer, and our annual Freshman Katsup was given on the ninth. On the tenth of November most of the active girls went to Topeka to the Washburn-Kansas game, and were very nicely entertained by the girls of a local sorority there, Sig¬ ma Delta Xi, who are trying for a Theta charter. There was a tally-ho party to the game, and, in the evening, a banquet and dance. Just a week later a number of the girls went to Lincoln for the Kansas-Nebraska game, and were the guests of Rho. It isn’t often that we have an opportunity to visit a sister chapter, and we certainly appreciated this one of meeting the Lincoln Thetas. The Thanksgiving vacation came scarcely two weeks afterward, and a large number of the girls went to Kansas City. Here, on Friday noon, the Xi Alumnae and the active girls from Kappa, came for their annual meeting, which this year took the form of a progressive luncheon. There were about twenty-five present and, after the tables were cleared, Mrs. Johnson, as toast-mistress, called for speeches from both active and alumnae members.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 12 7 Two of the girls were unable to be present at the lunch¬ eon, having gone on to St. Louis to assist in the installation of our new chapter at Washington University. You are all, no doubt, looking forward to the coming- holidays as eagerly as we are, and Kappa, in saying good- by, wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. RHO - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA The most enjoyable time Rho has had since our last chapter letter, was the day Kansas University played foot¬ ball with Nebraska at Lincoln. Nine Kansas Thetas came up on the excursion : Caroline Doubleday, Mary Minor, Eleanor Blakey, Mary Ward, Mary Clark, Esther Rauch, Flo Shanklin, Alice Rankin and Isabel Barton. They arrived Saturday noon, and had to leave that night at midnight, so their visit was not nearly long enough, but we were ex¬ ceedingly glad to see them for even such a short time. On the evening of the twenty-fourth the Y. W. C. A. held the annual County Fair in the armory. The Thetas had a street of all nations, and each freshman dressed to represent a certain nation and sold things appropriate to her nation. Besides, they had a “Shoot the Chutes made of two boards and a little red wagon to slide down on. Each sorority had a booth of some kind, such as a vaudeville show, a fortune telling tent, New England bakery. Initiation was held at the fraternity house on October twentieth. Eight freshmen were initiated, and a banquet was served afterward. Silence Stewart is to be married on the twenty-second of December, and we are all anxiously looking forward to her wedding, as all the Thetas are to be there. Mrs. Bark¬ ley, the Dean of Women, gives a luncheon on December eighth to the Thetas in her honor.

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128 KAPPA ALPHA THETA TAU - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Since the last number of the Journal, Tau has had a busy season, the chief events of which have been pledge day and initiation. On November tenth, over fifty Thetas gath¬ ered in our large chapter hall to see initiated : Julia Cole, Hazel Horner, Edith Klett, Emma Hall, Elsie Ashby, Mary Holton, Josephine Alexander, Agnes Newhall, and Abbie Talmadge, the last two having been pledged some years ago in high school, before the adoption of the new rule. We had an especially happy time, as representatives were present from DePauw, Michigan, and Minnesota, a circum¬ stance calculated to give an extra sparkle of enthusiasm; and now that our pledglings have become full-fledged Thetas, we have all been busy in getting settled at work and in learning really to know each other. Within Thanksgiving week, Tau lead rather a gay life; for we gave a successful informal at Ravina, while Abbie Talmadge entertained at a dinner party, the girls of the active chapter and men from the different fraternities; Hazel Horner also had to dinner on Thanksgiving day those girls who did not live near Evanston and who could not go home. Our chapter life is meaning much to us, this year, while our freshmen are very enthusiastic, and our alumna: have been most loyal sup¬ porters of the cause. UPSILON - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Minnesota is now in the full tide of college activities. Already foot-ball, the absorbing topic of a few weeks past, has given place to matters of more recent interest. The completion of the Woman’s Building or Alice A. Shevlin Hall, as it is named, brings with it a series of events in which the girls are particularly concerned. The formal opening of the building preceded a bazaar given under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A., the success of which was assured by the universal and enthusiastic support of the college girls. In one afternoon and evening four hundred dollars was taken

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CHAPTER LETTERS 129 in, three hundred dollars of which was profit and will go to pay about half of the matron's salary. For the future, plans have been made by the Woman’s League for a reception to be given in honor of Professor Maria Sanford on the even¬ ing of December 19, the date of her seventieth birthday. The girls' basket ball tournament completes the list of enter¬ tainments for the college world in general, which are to take place before the holidays. On that evening the Girls' Crack Squad will drill for the first time. A society has been formed among this year’s freshmen fraternity girls to promote better acquaintance among them¬ selves and with their non-fraternity classmates. The club is known as Alpha Epsilon and after an informal dancing par¬ ty of its own members, plans will be made to entertain all the freshmen girls. The question of a year’s pledge day is still being agitated in the local Pan-Hellenic. There is soon to be an assembly of fraternity girls in Shevlin Hall for the purpose of informally discussing the subject. The meeting will be addressed by Mrs. Potter and Miss Comstock, mem¬ bers of the faculty, and we hope that the goal toward which we have been working so long, that of a year’s pledge-day, will ultimately be reached. Christmas is fast approaching, and we are already look¬ ing forward with pleasant anticipation to the Christmas tree and its attendant festivities at the chapter house, when ac¬ tive girls and alumnae meet together for the last time before separating for the holidays. To our two new chapters, Upsilon extends the heartiest of greetings and to Kappa Alpha Theta we wish the hap¬ piest of all New Years. PSI — UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN At last Psi chapter is at home — really and truly at home in its own house. This is why fifteen members of Kappa Alpha Theta were so especially thankful on Thanks¬ giving day. Of course, all of the furniture has not come

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130 KAPPA ALPHA THETA yet, and the house is far from being settled, but there is a piano, and the girls are all together, and what more could a happy chapter want ! The pledging of Marian Peabody, who has just entered as a sophomore from the University of Chicago, made an ex¬ cuse for an extra initiation. So, on the third of December, the first initiation was held in the Theta lodge. This great occasion was duly celebrated at the close of the ceremony. After an informal banquet, the rugs were pulled up and the new floors were given their first scratches. Perhaps they were scratched more than they ought to have been the first time they were used, but everyone was wildly happy, and they only grinned with the delight of scratching their own floors. ALPHA THETA - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS The most important event that has taken place recently in Alpha Theta’s realm was initiation on November 15. It was then that Ethel Sykes, Marie Streeter and Anne Thorn¬ ton were made Thetas. The pleasure of the occasion was increased by the presence of two of our alumnae, Mrs. Her¬ man Goldschmidt and Mrs. Joe B. Hatchett. A very in- tormah chafing dish party was indulged in afterwards, and a hearty Theta spirit shared by all. Next, Thanksgiving claimed our attention. At Texas this holiday is always celebrated by a football game with A. and M. College, and is the most interesting game of the year. A score of twenty-four to nothing in favor of Texas was truly something to be thankful for. We were very for¬ tunate to have several alumnae as guests for the week : Mrs. Joe B. Hatchett, Linna and Minnie Williams, Ethel Oliphant and Hazel Ransom. We are looking forward with much pleasure to a con¬ templated visit from Mrs. Norton, our district president, in January. We are planning to celebrate Founders’ day by having all the Thetas in Texas, from every chapter repre-

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CHAPTER LETTERS 131 sented, to meet with us in Austin. Being so far removed from any other chapter of Theta, our interest in Thetas who may have wandered to Texas is most keen. We hope to form a sort of state association, and thus be drawn into closer relationship. To our new chapters, Gamma and Alpha Iota, we extend best wishes and heartiest welcome into our Theta band. And here’s wishing a jolly Christmas to each and every one of you. Hallett McPhail. ALPHA IOTA - WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY On November 30, 1906, Alpha Iota chapter was wel¬ comed to Kappa Alpha Theta. We consider ourselves very fortunate in having had two members of the Grand Council, Mrs. Norton and Miss Cockins, with us on that evening, be¬ sides representatives from seven different chapters, Delta, which sent thirteen members, Eta, Iota, Tau, Alpha Gamma, Alpha Eta, Kappa and several alumnae chapters. The initiation was held at the residence of Miss Mary G. Cummings, after which we went to Peckman’s Hotel for a banquet and listened to toasts by Miss Cummings, toast- mistress, Miss Cockins, Miss Vida Gruner and Miss Benson. Miss Cummings read us greetings from many of the chap¬ ters and called upon each one of the visitors to express con¬ gratulations. We trust that in the future we shall be loyal and true sisters. The new chapter extends best wishes for a bright and happy New Year to all of the other chapters. Winona C. Petring. Gamma District PHI — STANFORD UNIVERSITY Back from Thanksgiving vacation! This year there were even fewer girls left in Phi’s chapter house over the Thanksgiving recess than ever before. With the close of college on Wednesday we scattered in every direction, to the

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132 KAPPA ALPHA THETA city, to Oakland, to Berkeley, even to Los Angeles. On Sun¬ day evening the return, always the most delightful part of a journey, was welcomed with a cozy fire in the library and a chafing dish supper, with leave for every one to tell every one else what a fine vacation she had had. For all we were entering upon the final stretch, the hardest part of the sem¬ ester, it was nice to be back. Since our last letter, college events have come thick and fast, the big game with the University of California, the Junior Plug Ugly, the Senior Circus and many others. Of course the foot-ball game has been the all absorbing thing, before it was played, because we were wondering what were our chances to win, afterwards, because we wonder whether the general opinion is going in favor of the Rugby game or against it. The first point is settled to Stanford’s great satisfaction by a score of six to three. But the second is still being earnestly discussed. Theta’s interests have been with college affairs and yet there have been the usual parties and spreads among our¬ selves. At the time of the big game, Omega entertained the visiting Phi girls most royally. Of the several spreads, the last one proved the most enjoyable. It was given as a fare¬ well by the three alumnse living in the house to Jane Spald¬ ing, ’06, who left for her home in Los Angeles on November twenty-seventh. We have been fortunate in having Jane Spalding here for so large a part of the semester. Her position as coach of the women’s athletics lengthened her visit through rushing season into a stay through November. On October twenty-fourth, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kap¬ pa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi gave a Pan-Hellenic dance to the other three fraternities in the association. The affair took place at the Kappa house and proved a great success. No girl took more than three dances with frater¬ nity sisters, and had the supper-dance with a non-member of her fraternity. It was a great improvement over the stiff

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CHAPTER LETTERS 133 afternoon teas which each fraternity gave the rest of Pan- Hellenics last year. OMEGA — UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Very little has happened to us as a chapter since the last letter was written. We have all been absorbed in our various concerns. Some are on the class teams and spend their spare time playing basket ball, others can generally be found on the tennis court, some wonder about the house spouting Shakespeare and discussing rehearsals, and still others are always rushing from one committee meeting to another. Thus we have been busy studying, working and amusing ourselves. On November seventh, we gave our annual reception, to which we invite our families, the faculty and our other friends, and introduce to them our freshmen. This is all the entertaining that the chapter has done since rushing season, perhaps, because so much has been going on in college. On November tenth, the big game with Stanford was held on the campus— the first intercollegiate game of Rugby to be played. Everyone was most curious to see the new game, and a great crowd sat on the bleachers under the hot sun, more excited than one would have thought possible in anything but the old game of football. The general opinion seemed to be that with one or two changes in the rules, Rugby makes an excellent intercollegiate game, and one that has come to stay. This term there has been a great deal of interest in dramatics. The women's honor dramatic society has or¬ ganized a club, “The Players," to which all women students are eligible. This new organization gave a most success¬ ful performance of “As You Like It," before the women students. One moonlight night in October, a student cast presented the “Merry Wives of Windsor," in the Greek Theatre. On Junior day, the class of 1908 gave the annual

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134 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Junior Farce, so we have had plays, classical and other¬ wise. We have been much interested in hearing of our two new chapters and it is to them particularly that Omega sends New Year's Greetings. Alumnae Chapters GAMMA ALUMNA - NEW YORK CITY Gamma Alumnae wishes to extend hearty greetings to all the chapters of Kappa Alpha Theta, and to all its mem¬ bers, active or graduate. We feel here that we must be a fairly representative body, as, counting our formal mem¬ bership, and the visitors who give us the pleasure of their company at our meetings when they happen to be in town, we have had with us at one time or another, someone trom nearly every chapter, and that is one of the good things in a graduate chapter, that one comes into personal t^uch with the life of other chapters, and gains a far more vivid idea of the fraternity as a whole than one can in undergrad¬ uate life. Our membership varies considerably from year to year for several reasons. One is that in New York, Thetas, like other people, come and go and sometimes go too far away to keep in active touch with the alumnae chapter. An¬ other is, that sometimes our members drop out temporari¬ ly from other reasons, such as ill health or pressure of other affairs. But usually they return after the unusual conditions pass away, and then they are warmly welcomed back. And if the Thetas who come to New York just for a short stay knew how glad we are to have them meet with us, they would not fail to hunt us up on the first Saturday of some month between November and April, at twelve o’clock for business and luncheon at the Martha Washington Hotel, 29 East 29th street.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 135 This year we have not as yet done much, as we have had only one meeting; but there is a new plan that we are now trying, by which we hope to be of use to Thetas now in New York, or intending to come here. We have establish¬ ed a committee, of which Miss Reynaud is chairman, who will be glad to see that Thetas coming here are met on their arrival, if they wish it; or who will find suitable boarding places for them, or will find employment for Thetas, or Thetas to fill positions, on request. These are the ways in which they have specially thought of being useful, and their services will be at the disposal of any Theta who will com¬ municate with Miss Aurelie Reynaud, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The committee are very anxious that their plans should be known among Thetas, and will be glad to have chapter secretaries, or any one else who will, circulate a word about them. For of course, their usefulness must depend directly upon their being known as widely as possible. With this message of her wish to be of use to Thetas, and of her plans for doing so, Gamma sends also her best wishes for a successful year to all the chapters. ETA ALUMNA - BURLINGTON, VERMONT Are all the sister alumnae chapters very, very active in a fraternity way this fall, and very, very ambitious? I’m going to tell you that we of Eta are content not to be so. We meet regularly and enjoy each other restfully without ever thinking of vieing with the clubs of the day in “works” of a recordable nature. However, we do study art, continuing last year’s program, and spend pleasant even¬ ings with paintings that we love, listening to one who has seen them herself or studied them with especial care. Whenever possible we are present at Lambda’s active chap¬ ter meetings. And if it be that our added years represent a measure of sound judgment Lambda finds us conveniently near. Our representative in Pan-Hellenic association has much responsibility. If we can make our influence felt in

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136 KAPPA ALPHA THETA the active chapter nearest us and in the Pan-Hellenic world of our University we are content to let the many rush past us in their race for other goals. NU ALUMNAE — SYRACUSE, NEW YORK With the opening of the college year Nu Alumnae chap¬ ter began meeting once a month at the homes of the differ¬ ent members. The plan for the winter’s work is the study of modern English authors. Our interest for these first few meetings has been centered in the rushing by our ac¬ tive chapter. On the evening of October twenty-third, several of the alumnae entertained the active chapter and their chosen guests at a progressive dinner. The first course was with Amy Bates Stark, ex-’08, at the home of her mother, Mrs. John Bates. The second course was served by Mrs. Ida Plopkins Chamberlin, ’01, at her home across the city. The party journeyed back again from there to the home of Mrs. H. S. Wilkinson, sister of Lola Lowther, ’04, for the third course. The next course was with Mrs. Lena Hoose Markham, ’98, and the fifth course with Mrs. Chap¬ pell, mother of Marion Chappell, ’08, and the last course with Mrs. Lola Searles Revels, ex-’05. The hostesses very cleverly carried out different color schemes in their decora¬ tions, which delighted the guests as much as the good things which were served. On the evening of November twenty-fourth, we enter¬ tained with the active chapter at a very pretty dance at which twelve rushees were present. Mrs. Gladys Hibbard Stranahan has invited the alum¬ nae chapter to meet with her at Rome. Edna Mitchell Shepard. ALPHA ALUMNA - GREENCASTLE, INDIANA The Theta alumnse, at the home of Alpha, are now en¬ tering upon their sixteenth year of club-work. Beginning with September, monthly meetings are held for nine months.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 137 A bit of their club-life may be of interest to the readers of the Journal. The October meeting of the present year had been looked forward to for weeks, for it was to be the third biennial October meeting held at the home of Mrs. J. R. Stunkard, in Brazil, who was formerly Miss Emma Ridpath, of our own club. The former meetings at the home of Mrs. Stunkard had been red-letter days in our club history, so there was eager anticipation as the “girls” boarded the early afternoon train on that ideal autumn day. A short half hour by rail and we were on the streets of the little city on our way to the home of our hostess. Upon arrival there we were given a most cordial welcome, and after the usual exchange of greetings, the regular business meeting was held, followed by the literary program. “Our Social Discontent — Its Cause and Cure,” was the topic for consideration under the leadership of Mrs. H. A. Gobin. Mrs. C. A. Royse, of Terre Haute, formerly our own Miss Mintie Allen, and a number of representative club women, of Brazil, were guests, who, on invitation, took part in a most interesting discussion. At the close of this part of the program a bounteous luncheon was served. Was it the kite-shape that made the sandwiches “taste like more?” Sure, Theta good cheer does have much to do with an ideal luncheon. At last the good-byes were said and the six o'clock train brought us home. The November meeting was held on the tenth, at the home of Mrs. H. A. Gobin, the hostesses being Mrs. Gobin, Miss Susan Terry, Miss Grace Birch and Miss Elizabeth Towne. It varied from the usual program in that it was turned into a surprise “handkerchief-shower” for Miss Edna Arnold, whose marriage to Dr. Birch Lockridge, of Monte¬ zuma, Indiana, is announced to occur on the third of De¬ cember. After the reading and discussion of a beautiful paper on “Mountain Heights of the Poets,” by Miss Martha Ridpath, Miss Oolooah Burner, took her place at the piano

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138 KAPPA ALPHA THETA and began the Lohengrin wedding march. All eyes turned on the blushing bride-elect, then on the procession of host¬ esses who solemnly entered the parlor bearing an upturned white parasol. The march ended with a sleight-of-hand move and a down-pour of dainty handkerchiefs over Miss Arnold, greeted with cheers and laughter. Late in the after¬ noon refreshments were served, including a bride’s cake, which Miss Arnold deftly cut for the company. The out- of-town guests were: Mrs. Stunkard and Miss Lenni Burner, of Brazil, and the Misses Ida Weaver and Grace Birch, of Indianapolis. EPSILON ALUMNAE — COLUMBUS, OHIO We, of Epsilon Alumnae, continue to hold our meetings in the same way, on the first Saturday of the month, taking the girls alphabetically we meet at the different houses, where after a short business session we enjoy a supper spread and a general good time. Just now in Columbus, a Woman’s College Club is in the course of organization comprising all the college wo¬ men in the city who have attended some college, one ..or more years, About one hundred names have so far been enrolled, on which list is almost every Theta in the city. It is the purpose of this club to undertake some char¬ itable work. The nature of which to be determined by the members. A few meetings have already been held and the prospects for its future success look very bright. A beautiful wedding took place Thanksgiving night, when Cornelia Miller became the bride of Claude Dietrich, Delta Tau Delta. They will make their home in Toledo, Ohio, where Mr. Dietrich is professor in the high school. Elizabeth Chamberlain. MU ALUMN3E — CLEVELAND, OHIO The meetings for this year have begun with renewed vigor and interest, after our long warm summer, and our

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CHAPTER LETTERS 139 first meeting, especially, was most enjoyable, for each mem¬ ber had some little anecdote to tell of her summer’s ex¬ perience. We try to have our meetings differ and each hostess manages to have some little surprise for us or we arrange to have luncheon in some down town hotel, so our meet¬ ings, at all events, possess the spice of variety. Mu chapter, together with all other fraternity women in the city, were beautifully entertained at a reception given by the alumnae chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, at the home of Miss Flora Sayles. A number of colleges were represented and it was interesting to note the friendly bond which exists between all college and particularly all frater¬ nity women. Miss Josephine Barnaby, the new president for Beta dis¬ trict, is one of our most enthusiastic members. She has been a great help to us all and will, I know, prove herself worthy of her new position. Here’s to her success! Miss Barnaby was recently entertained by the Kappas at luncheon and gave a little talk on Thetas and their work. Miss Scylla, of Akron, and a member of Gamma chap¬ ter, has joined our chapter this year, and we are glad to say that our .list of members is constantly growing. We have already begun our plans for observing Founders’ day, and have decided to give a banquet, which we think a good way of celebrating that joyous occasion, and trust that all Thetas in our vicinity will arrange to be with us on that day. Mu sends best wishes to all Thetas for a happy and prosperous year, and especially to our two new chapters at Butler and at Washington University, of whose installa¬ tion we were so pleased to hear. Mary Helen Cross.

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i4o KAPPA ALPHA THETA KAPPA ALUMNA - PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA When we read of the energy of our sister alumnae chap¬ ters, and meditate on the amount of work they accomplish, for an instant, we feel that the reasons for our existence are hard to discover, but when we think of the delightful meet¬ ings we have, and how much we enjoy them, our momentary misgivings vanish, and we congratulate ourselves that no visions of intellectual efforts mar our happiness. In November, we were delightfully entertained at an informal luncheon by our president, Mrs. Mae Goff Smith, at her home in Bellevue, and discussed business and delica¬ cies at the same time. In December, we enjoyed an afternoon with Mrs. Leola Vancil Randall, admiring her new home and her new baby in the intervals between the interesting discussions concern¬ ing our contributions to the next Journal. Over our ice cream, black and gold cake and coffee, we became enthusi¬ astic over the joys of a Theta meeting. Our next meeting will be our annual Founders' day luncheon, on the last Saturday of January, when we hope to greet a number of new faces. We have now nineteen members, five of whom are brides of less than a year. Their names follow : Mesdames Coral Merchant Lowe, Edna Gailey Calvert, Alice Bennett Pollard, Ida Evans Bixler and Marian Dibert Suppes. Kappa Alumnae sends a hearty greeting to all her Theta sisters and wishes for them many blessings during the com¬ ing year. BETA ALUMNAE — MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Beta Alumnae holds its meeting on the first Monday of every month at the chapter house. The active chapter meet¬ ing — Upsilon’s — is held on the same day, and thus we meet socially after our separate business meetings. The Minnesota alumnae Thetas are much interested in the discussions concerning the eternal rushing problem at

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CHAPTER LETTERS 141 the University. The Thetas, some years ago, began to agitate the question of a late pledge-day, believing it might lessen rushing. In spite of some opposition this attitude has been adhered to by the younger Thetas, and we are pleased that the faculty women are beginning to agree with • us. Mrs. Potter and Miss Comstock are to address college women on this subject on December 11. We hope that a late pledge-day may be agreed upon sometime soon, Pan- Hellenically, as we sincerely believe, in its salutary effect. One of the rushing parties in the fall, to which, of course, the alumnae chapter was invited, was almost as good as a banquet, owing to the fact that so many of us saw so many others after some months of separation. The active chapter entertained Beta Alumnae at a very pretty tea early in the fall at the chapter house, and with that and initiation we made a good beginning for a happy united winter. DELTA ALUMN/E — CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Our chapter has had three pleasant and profitable meet¬ ings this year. The third Saturday in the month is our established time of meeting and Marshall Field’s, in the new East Tea Room, is the established place. Plan your trip to Chicago for one of these Saturdays. Shortly after half¬ past ten, you will find us at our meeting; at noon, the luncheon begins. Never until this fall have we had a meeting before October, but last spring we planned one for September. With twenty-one Thetas present it was a most enthusiastic occasion and we feel that a September meeting is a good thing. In October, there were forty-eight of us. Tau’s mem¬ bers came and brought their pledged girls. We were de¬ lighted to meet and greet them. Does it not seem as though these new sisters must have a broader idea of the mean¬ ing of fraternity after being present at these alumnae meet-

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142 KAPPA ALPHA THETA ings where the enthusiasm and interest is as strong as in college days? Tau chapter asked us to their initiation and banquet, an invitation which many of us were able to accept. In November, our number was thirty. We have some plans which we hope to tell you later. Greetings to Gamma and Alpha Iota. Eva R. Hall. XI ALUMNA - KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Our meetings this winter have been only two, one in the early fall and the other at the luncheon on November thirtieth. The results of our first meeting were a “get-acquainted- better” spirit and a definitely expressed purpose to keep posted on fraternity news. A committee was appointed with entire authority to make arrangements for the annual enter¬ tainment for the Thetas from Kansas University, at Thanks¬ giving, the occasion being the Kansas-Missouri football game. We gave a progressive luncheon on Friday, November thirtieth. There were nine girls from Kappa and fifteen of the Kansas City Thetas, making twenty-four in all. We sat four at each table and at the end of each course, changed partners and moved on. This resulted in a better oppor¬ tunity to have a word with the visiting girls and we kept up a merry chatter until time for toasts. The following program finished the affair: Mrs. Johnson . Toastmistress. “Why we are Here” . Miss Marie Nettleton. “Chapter House Life at Lawrence” . . Miss Alice Rankin. “Extemporaneous” . Mrs. Rose Watson Rising. “Men we meet at College . Miss Hedwig Berger. Theta songs . led by the girls from Kappa. Our toastmistress was heartily applauded when she, in clos¬ ing, rose and reminded us of our new sister chapter at St.

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CHAPTER LETTERS 143 Louis. We all agreed that among our mercies to be thank¬ ful for, we would count the new chapter one of the greatest. We welcome her most heartily to the State of Missouri, where there is a great deal of good Theta material. Our regret was the fact that none of us could be present at the installation of the chapter. Xi Alumnae sends greetings to all, especially to alumnae chapters whose members in their travels will be gladly wel- ^^>med to Kansas City. Rose Watson Rising. IOTA ALUMNA — LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA That the Kappa Alpha Theta spirit is one of perma¬ nence is proven at every October meeting when the roll is called. For our permanent membership remains about the same, and we are all rather childish in our delight to get back again, and sit on the floor, college-fashion, to talk and talk and talk. Part of the pleasure of each meeting is in finding what new Thetas have come in. Sometimes they have just happened to be in Los Angeles for one second- Saturday of the month, and sometimes they are part of the great host who come to California in the winter time. We find them in interesting ways. It maybe that it is a mutual recognition of the pin in a down-town store, or it maybe that some one tells one of us of a Theta pin seen across the street car. We are on the look-out until we find the wearer, and so we gather the Thetas into our meetings, and of such pleasure is it, that we wish there might be a regular way of knowing about these visitors. We are hopine that when we have a club room we shall be able to simplify the situa¬ tion. Mrs. Garrettson, our Grand President, is in Los Angeles this winter. Iota Alumn?e entertained at a reception in her honor, the seventeenth of November. The guests were the fraternity women of Los Angeles and the vicinity, of whom there are about two hundred and fifty. Miss Beatrice Fox

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144 KAPPA ALPHA THETA opened her home for the afternoon, and in spite of a cloudy day, we were able to use the garden as well as the house. It was delightful to meet so many Greek letter women. The whole atmosphere suggested college days again, and we laughed as we heard one after another say with genuine enthusiasm, “Why, this makes me feel as if I were in col¬ lege again!” We suppose you are expecting to hear of the precious scholarship project which rests in our hands out here. Mrs. Lippincott, the first promotor of the plan and the present chairman, is still ill and we have added another member to the committee, Katharine Miltamore, of Omicron, one of the most loyal members of Iota Alumnae chapter. We are much alive to the importance vested in the scholarship idea and the more we learn of the enterprise and power of the Greek letter alumnae the more firmly convinced are we that in the future this scholarship will be only one of many such practi¬ cal projects of Kappa Alpha Theta, inter alumnas. K. E. Traphagen.

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PERSONALS Iota Born, November 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith, a daughter, Ruth. Susan Moses is teaching in Briar Cliff College, Vir¬ ginia. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks (Jane Day Caverly), on November 10. We, of Iota, were pleased to welcome two Thetas from other chapters. Miss Becker, from Tau, and Miss Few- smith, from Chi. The latter was with us for initiation. Mrs. Charles M. Thorp, ’83, and a member of Kappa Alumnae, visited Cornell at Thanksgiving time. Sigma Louise Carpenter, ’05, spent a few days in Toronto, in November. Norah Thomson, *04, is to spend Christmas in Paris. Mabel Steele, ’04, gave a piano recital on November 20. Mrs. Manchee, of Gamma Alumnae, was in the city on a flying visit in October and we were charmed to have her present at one of our meetings. Lambda Mae Russell, ’99, who has been ill with diphtheria in Ware, Mass., expects soon to be able to take up again her school duties in that place. Mrs. Glenn C. Gould (nee Fanny Atwood, ’00), of Brattleboro, visited relatives in town this month. Sarah E. Deane, ex-’05, is teaching domestic science in the public schools of New York City.

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146 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Sara Eno, ex-’08, is attending college at the University of Illinois, where her brother is teaching. Elizabeth Holmes, ’06, who is preceptress at Mont¬ pelier Seminary, and Ruth Bond, ’06, who is teaching in Morrisville, visited college in October. Alice Derby, '02, is teaching in Northampton, Mass. Frances Atkinson, ’95, of Newbury, visited in Burling¬ ton during October. Geneva Jones, ex-’02, has returned to college to take her senior year. Florence Burdick Hayes, ’95, is living in Brookings, South Dakota, where her husband is professor in the State Agricultural College. Mrs. Paul Leonard (nee Anna Dyke, ’89) is spending the winter in Burlington. Helen Christine Hanna, ex- ’04, was married in October to Mr. Charles Wilson Steere. They will reside in Kansas City, Missouri. In June, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hagar (Lucy Sawyer, ex-’99), in Albany, New York. Elisabeth Collier, ex-’05, Vassar, ’06, is teaching in Plolland Patent, New York. Chi Chi chapter is happy to announce the engagement of Mary Leone Cook, ’05, to Daniel Holley Cole, of Glens Falls, N. Y., who is a Delta U., from Rochester University, class of ’95. We enjoyed a visit for over Sunday from Beulah B. Throop, ’06, at the time of our Varsity football game with Colgate. Amy Quackenbush, ex-’09, visited at the chapter house for a few days also. We miss these sisters so much that their presence seemed but natural, rather than the un¬ usual. Flora Anderson, ’06, is again at home in the city, her

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PERSONALS 147 strength not permitting her to carry the heavy teaching work which she undertook in September. Mabel Wombough, ’06, has been granted a four months' leave-of-absence to accompany her uncle's family on a tour¬ ing trip abroad. Bon voyage ! A letter from Grace Nancy Baird, '04, to the chapter, is dated “Mid-Ocean” on the Pacific, en route to China. Sister Grace must have found the zone of perpetual youth, for she wrote that one young woman on board missed a birth¬ day because at the 180th Meridian they lost one day. Chi had the honor of entertaining at dinner Rev. Anna Shaw, prominent in temperance work and in the Woman's Suffrage world movement, with Mrs. Kent and Miss Cros- sett, Theta from Iota, who are personal friends of Miss Shaw. In October, some of our alumnae and city friends united in entertaining the upper-classmen, of Chi and six fresh¬ man girls, at a progressive dinner party of seven courses, each course being served in a different home. It was a pleasure to renew auld lang syne acquaintances with Miriam Slocum, a Theta from Brown, and with Eliza¬ beth Nichols, of Iota, who visited us on her mission as a Daughter of the King; and with Mrs. Sarah Hunt Hull, of Swarthmore, ex-’05, who attended our semester party. Mrs. Hull now lives at Mount Vernon, New York. Miss Jennie Bingham will be in the city this winter. Cora Soper, '01, is teaching in the Oneida High School. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Towne have a little daughter. Mrs. Towne was Bertha Knapp, '03. It is a pleasure to* record the almost complete recovery of Dr. Mary E. Sweet, '00, from her recent illness of typhoid fever which she contracted while on her summer vacation. Dr. Annie Bingham, '00, of Albany, was with Dr. Sweet for several weeks during her illness.

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14$ KAPPA ALPHA THETA Alpha Beta Caroline Sargent Walter, a former Grand President of Kappa Alpha Theta, is coming to live in Swarthmore in the spring. Emily Janney, ex-’04, was married October 27, to James Keyser De Armond, of Marian, Pa. Lucile Abrams and Sarah Wood, ’03, were among the bridesmaids. Caroline Comly Harris has returned from her wedding trip and is making her home in Swarthmore. She recently entertained the alumnae and active chapter at a tea. Mary Lippincott, ’01, Edith Coale, ’02, Caroline Wash- burne and Emilie Hill, '03, visited Alpha Beta last week. Millo Marie McCain, ’04, has announced her engage¬ ment to Mr. Everett Keehew, of Pittsburg. Marguerite Campion gave a “Theta shower” in her honor. Alpha Delta Miss Anna Slease is doing special work in history at Radcliff. Marion Dibert, now of Kappa Alumnae, was married to George Osborne Suppes, Harvard, '03, on September 27. Alice Dinger, Mary Boss, Florence Walther, Margaret Hukill, all of Alpha Delta, and Anna Woodring, of Mu, were among the guests. The engagement of Ethel Sharpe, ’02, of Baltimore, to Mr. Robert Griffin, of Long Island, has been announced. Margaret Hukill, ’03, was married on November 27, to Mr. Edgar Asahel Taylor, at Franklin, Pa. After the first of February Mr. and Mrs. Taylor will be at home at 106 Windsor Ave., Buffalo, New York. Mary Hough, ’05, spent a few hours in Baltimore on her return from a trip to California in November. Mary Adams, ’06, of Philadelphia, is planning to spend the last week of rushing season with the chapter. Ruth Haslup, '03, who is teaching at St. Michael’s, Md., spent Thanksgiving at her home in Baltimore.

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PERSONALS 149 Alpha Epsilon Born to Mr. and Mrs. Irving K. Bodwertha (Mabel J. Rowe, ’01) a daughter, Gertrude Adelaide. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Swallow (Grace M. Hamilton) a son, Richard Hamilton Swallow. Born on October 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Drew (Helen Whitmarch, '03) a son, Jerome Bradley Drew. Born on October 31, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hargrave (Anna L. Gray, ’99) a son, Arthur Hargrave, Jr. Alpha Zeta Romola Lyon, ’04, was married last June to Mr. Floyd Yates Keeler, Columbia, ’06, Delta Tau Delta. Margaret Jones was married last August to Mr. La- Clauche Moen, an Alpha Delta Phi, of Columbia, ’03. Lucy Embury, ’04, was married in September to Mr. Richard Hubbell, a Delta Kappa Epsilon. Agnes L. Durant has just announced her engagement to Mr. Charles Halsey, Theta Delta Chi, of Columbia. May Moen, ’03, is engaged to Mr. Stanley Brown, Alpha Delta Phi, of Columbia, ’03. Miss Elsie Totten, whose engagement to Allan B. A. Bradley was announced in a previous number of the Journal, expects to be married in January. Alpha Edna Arnold, ’00, living in Greencastle, was married to Dr. Birch Lockeridge, Beta Theta Pi, December 3. They will make their home in Montezuma, Ind. On November 8, occurred the wedding of Ruth Ritter, ’04, and Edgar O’Daniel, Phi Kappa Psi, at the bride’s home in Indianapolis. They are to live in Panna, Missouri. Several of our Theta sisters have visited us in the past month, Ella Shaw, Anna Osborn, Mary Haughton, Hallie and Jessie Riley, Ida Belle Ford and Mary Oursler. Ida Belle Ford is assistant librarian in the Carnegie public library at Kokomo, Ind.

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150 ALPHA KAPPA THETA Henry A. Buchtel, a De Pauw graduate of 72, and the father of Emma Buchtel, ’02, was recently elected Govern¬ or of Colorado, and still retains his former position of Chancellor of University of Denver. Minna Mattern, ’06, is spending the winter at her home in Sandusky, Ohio. Margaret Tribolet, ’06, is teaching history in the Bluff- ton, Ind., high school. Ida Overstreet, ’06, will spend the latter part of the winter in New York with her parents. Kathryn Staley Searles announces the birth of a son, Warren W. Searles, Jr., on October 11. Mr. and Mrs. Searles and son are now in St. Louis. Beta Emma Pearson, ’98, president of Beta district, was mar¬ ried to Mr. Robert Fulton, of Littleton, Mass., on November 14. Lenna Shackleton, ex-’06, was married in October to Mr. Harry Yoh, Beta Theta Pi, of Purdue. Born to Myrtle Emmert Stempel, ’02, a son. Clara Lancaster and Minnie Belle Cutsinger, of Gam¬ ma chapter, visited us during the Thanksgiving vacation. They were among the guests at the Beta Theta Pi house partv . Clara Roelker, ’03, and Frank Masters, Phi Delta Theta, ’99, were married in October. Jessie Spann, ’04, is the head of the Latin department in the Ogden, Utah, High School. Mary Hamilton, ’06, and Margaret Snodgrass, ’04, visited in Bloomington during the Thanksgiving holidays. Miss Mary Ardery, ’96, of Greenfield, visited Mrs. Harry Axtell during fall term. Alberta Kennedy, ex-’04, of Rockport, was married this fall to Mr. Ben Hoffman, of Rockport. Marie Boisen Bradley, of New York City, visited her

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PERSONALS 151 mother here this fall. We were happy to have her with us on several occasions. Pearl Jones, Ann Bishop and Mary Snodgrass were delegates to the state convention of the Y. W. C. A., at Franklin College, November 1-4. They were very glad to meet there Miss Florence Simms, of Alpha, National In¬ dustrial Secretary, who was one of the principal speakers. Epsilon Molly Remy, ex-’09, visited us during initiation season. Inez Kinney, ’03, State Y. W. C. A. Secretary, was here for a short stay in the middle of November. Helen Anderson, ’08, spent the Thanksgiving holidays at her home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Grace Hunter, ex- ’06, visited us during the last of October. She will re-enter Smith next spring to finish her course there. Halzel Emery, ex-’06, visited her sister a few weeks ago. Eta Lois Wilson and her mother spent Thanksgiving vaca¬ tion in Ann Arbpr. Edith Thomas, Helen Mead, and Mary White spent their Thanksgiving vacation in Fremont, Michigan, with Annie White. Jean Goudie visited Mary Jane Haskin, in Toledo, over Thanksgiving. Esther Harmon, who is doing post graduate work at Bryn Mawr, spent the vacation in Philadelphia. Elsa Humberg, of Detroit, who is one of Eta’s pledges, came to lunch with us one day not long ago. Jessie Obetz, who was a sophomore last year, took din¬ ner with us this week. Myra Post Cady lately spent a week in Chicago with Alice Wadsworth. Helen Mead, ’07, was initiated into Mortar Board, which is an honorary society among the senior girls.

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152 KAPPA ALPHA THETA At the initiation of Tail chapter this year, there were eight Eta girls present: Myra Post Cady, Alice Wads¬ worth, Ruth Manville, Charlotte Walker, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Cheney, Gertrude Hall and Leila Love Brown. Jane Pollack, ’01, is teaching mathematics in the De¬ troit High School. Dorothea Nourse and her mother are living in Pasa¬ dena, California. Dorothea is enjoying her press position, and is much better in health than when she was in Ann Arbor. Bertha Hull Warren has just gone into her new home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We can all fancy how artistic Bertha will make it, and we wish we might see .the home and Bertha's two little girls, Frances and Barbara. Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Hall are at home on Wash¬ tenaw Avenue this winter. As usual, they accommodated a part of the overflow from the house at the time of initia¬ tion. Mrs. Wilgus is just regaining her strength after a serious operation, performed more than a year ago. Her Theta enthusiasm has riot grown cool though, during her long time of staying closely at home. She was unable to attend initiation. Mrs. Adams is living at present in Washington, D. C. Prof. Adams is at work on the problem of railroads, ap¬ pointed to his position by President Roosevelt. Mu Mu was very happy in welcoming back several of the girls for initiation November 10. They were: Ethel Canfield, Effie Williams, both ’05 girls, Julia Heibel, ex-’07, Rebecca Langworthy, ex-’04, Grace Jones, ex-’05, and Mrs. Brakeman. Marian Bemis, '03, was married in October to Mr. Charles Douglas, Phi Delta Theta. Mrs. Alice Crittenden Derby has moved to New Mexico.

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PERSONALS 153 Miss Charlotte Illingworth has returned from India and is at present in Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pratt announce the birth of a son, November 25. At a recent meeting of the Homeopathic State Society of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ella D. Goff was for the sixth time elected treasurer. Pi Ruth Haller, ’06, made us a week-end visit in No¬ vember. Alice Wixom, Inez Croman, Genevieve Pope, and Ethel Cole were among the old girls back during rushing season. Mrs. Cora Walters Cook, ’00, of Fife Lake, Michigan, . visited Albion friends for a few days. Josephine Ostrander entertained her sister Alice Os¬ trander Dassette, a Delta Gamma of Albion College, dur¬ ing the Thanksgiving vacation. Lucy Gardner, ’99, is studying vocal music in Chicago under Mrs. Bryant. Ethel Cooper, ’99, is taking post graduate work in the University of Michigan. Alpha Gamma Alice Thacker has been spending the fall at Atlantic City. Mignon Poste has just returned from a visit in Cleve¬ land. Catherine Early is visiting Florence Durstine in New York. Alice Marsh spent her Thanksgiving vacation in Co¬ lumbus. Katherine Andrews will be married to Mr. Carl Gay, Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, on the 17th of December.

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154 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Among the January weddings will be the following: Gertrude Bellows to Mr. Howard Auld, Catherine Early to Mr. Alvin Bonnett, Phi Delta Theta, Edna Hoover to Mr. Ned Morrison, of Boston. Maud Lyons, of Westfield, N. Y., will be in Columbus to attend the various weddings. The engagement has been announced of Helen Hunt to Mr. Ray Zartman ; also that of Nell Brown to Dr. Leslie Lisle, Kappa Sigma. Delta Lucy Souther, from Phi, visited us at the time of our initiation. Gene Bullard, ex-’08, attended the initiation at St. Louis. Bess Trevet, ex-’06, and her mother have returned home from a trip abroad. Nelle Davidson Gage is the mother of a baby girl. Virginia Taylor, ex-’Ol, from Kentucky, is making an extended visit here. Helen Taylor, ’01, spent the week-end at Champaign recently. Lucilla Fullenwider, ex-’09, is expected for a week’s visit. Clara Brookings, ’03, attended the installation of Wash¬ ington chapter. Kappa Della Frazer was married on November 21, to Joseph Ramsay, a Phi Kappa Psi, from Kansas University. Alwine Wilhelmi and Anna Harrison, both from Kap¬ pa, sail on December 2, from Europe. Nell Wilhelmi will remain in Paris through the winter. A son was born to Prof, and IVlrs. Abbot on the thir¬ teenth of October. Miss Alice Bartell, one of the charter members of Kap-

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PERSONALS 155 pa chapter, will be married on December 19, in Houston, Texas, to Mr. Frank William Morris, of Seattle, Wash. A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Leonard, of Girard, Kansas, on the third of November. Tati Florence Pond gladdened the chapter by a visit, during the latter part of November. Catherine Wilson, Clara Neely and Gertrude Curme went with Mrs. Norton to the installation of Alpha Iota chapter. Mrs. John Parker Long (Anna Van Tressler) is now living in Chicago, and has been in Evanston in order to renew her acquaintance with the chapter and the alumnae. Edith Little is attending Wells College. Elsie Russell Ames came from her home in Craw- fordsville, Ind., for our initiation. Among the other guests from a distance were: Edith Knowlton and Elva Leonard Minneapolis ; Ruth Manville, an Eta alumna ; Lillian B. Brownfield, an Alpha alumna. Upsilon Upsilon kept open house after the Carlisle game and was delighted to welcome among the out-of-town guests Louise Chapman, Margaret Moore Spicer and Florence Parker. Louise Chapman has announced her engagement to Mr. Joe Reimbold, of St. Paul. Helen Stanford Fernald is visiting with Mrs. Fernald in St. Paul; Katherine Morse March, with her son six months old, is visiting Mrs. March, in Minneapolis. Florence Pond, who has been visiting in Ohio, is home for a short time before going to Florida for the winter. Nell Andrews and Eugenie Lamphere were in the city during the Thanksgiving holidays. Bessie Scripture and Ruth Leonard are in the city after two years away.

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156 KAPPA ALPHA THETA Ruth Haynes and Edna Broom are doing settlement work, the former in Unity House and the other in Hope Settlement. Mrs. Russell Spicer (Margaret Moore), with her daughter Mary Margaret, have been visiting in Minneapolis. Mrs. Willett entertained the active girls at luncheon, the first week of December. Alice French is teaching in Everett, Washington. Josephine Thomas and Katherine Kennedy are teach¬ ing in Hinckley, Minnesota. Married, November 7, Mary Tomlinson and Richard Pattee. Mr. and Mrs. Pattee live in Scanlon, Minnesota. Bom to Dr. and Mrs. Harry Rawson (Isabelle Arm¬ strong), on November 11, a daughter. Born to Dr. and Mrs. Frank Bissell (Blanche Stan¬ ford), a son. Mrs. Hotchkiss, mother of Zoe Duval and Foi Fitch, died in December while visiting her daughter in Spokane. Harriet Watson has been in Minneapolis during the fall. Katherine Bailey has been visiting in Iowa. Born to Mr. and Mrs. George T. Plowman (Maude Bell), a daughter. Their present address is 1411 Grove St., Berkeley, California. Mrs. Robert E. Esterly has had as her guest Lucile Jones, of Wooster. Psi Martha Merry Buell, of Iota chapter, has been made president of the Wisconsin State Federation of Women's Clubs. Gertrude Young, ’06, is spending the winter in Plank- inton, South Dakota. Josephine Whitehead, ex-'08, and Madge Parker, '05, were the first guests in the new Theta lodge.

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PERSONALS 157 Alpha Theta Jeanne Borum is teaching in the El Paso high school. Emmie Fountain entertained several Thetas with a week’s-end house party during Thanksgiving at her home in A. and M. College. Her guests were: Lida Nash, Pauline Davis, Linda Spence, and Jean Mateer. Phi The engagement of Alice Meyer, '05, to Mr. Hammond, of Nelson, British Columbia, has been announced. The wedding is to take place the latter part of January. Maryline Barnard Poole is visiting in Santa Barbara. Phi expects a visit from her before her return home to Wheeling, West Virginia. Born to Helen Vinyard Peasley, a girl. Miss Lucretia Whitehead, Wisconsin, ’05, who is teaching at Saint Margaret's Academy, San Mateo, spent several days with us during Thanksgiving time. Of the girls back for initiation, Carol Towle, Edith Miller, Clara Stevenson, Genevieve Chambers, Henrietta Stadtmuller, Lucretia Whitehead, spent a while with us. Several Berkeley girls were also here. The engagement of Jessie Gillmore, '09, to Bryant Mathews, '06, of Beta Theta Pi, was announced. Miss Mary Graham, ’06, is now living at Long Beach, California. Born to Ruby Green Smith, a girl. Miss Genevieve Chambers, ’03, has spent several week¬ ends at Stanford lately. Omega The engagement is announced of Elinor Merrill, '08, to Volney Craig, '98, Beta Theta Pi. The engagement is announced of Fannie Cushing Stone, '99, to Mr. Jahand.

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158 KAPPA ALPHA THETA The engagement is announced of Alice Meyer, ex-’Ol, to Mr. Fredrick Hammond, of Menlo Park. Carol Day, ’04, is spending the winter at Fort Clark, Texas. Bom to Mr. and Mrs Clifton Price (Elizabeth Hoyt, ex-’00),a daughter. Kelsey Paterson, ex-’06, is traveling in Mexico. Gamma Alumnae Mrs. Manchee, of Lambda, reported at Gamma Alum¬ nae’s November meeting, a most delightful visit with Sigma at Toronto. She was very enthusiastic about the girls and their hospitality. Miss Titus, of Alpha Beta, is able to be with us again after a long absence on account of illness. Mrs. Werner, of Alpha, is Treasurer of Gamma Alumnae. Delta Alumnae We congratulate ourselves on these new members: Frances Kerr Cook, Alpha Delta, Phi and Iota Alum¬ nae; Ethel Norval Babson, Rho; Ruth Manville, Eta; Louise Chapman, Upsilon; Margaret Elder, Epsilon; Alice Cary Cross, Phi; Ruth Forbes, Phi; Leila Love Brown, Eta. Anna Drummond, Eta, is in Lewis Institute this year as an instructor. We are glad to have her at our meetings again. Alice Wadsworth, Eta, is finding her work in the Evanston high school most congenial and pleasant. Mrs. Archer (Cornelia Saleno, Theta), one of our former members, is living in Black Mountain, N. C., where Dr. Archer is head of a sanitarium. Jane Dale, Tau, is in the kindergarten in Wilmette. Adelaide Lewis Heffrin, Tau, is to move to Birming¬ ham, Alabama. Mrs. Norton and several of Delta Alumnae went to St. Louis, for the installation of Alpha Iota.

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PERSONALS 159 Margaret Pearson Orchard, Tau, has a small son. Mabel Packard, Phi, had a delightful summer trip abroad. Xi Alumnae We had as visitors at the October meeting: Sara Parke Beebe, of Chicago, now at Fort Leavenworth ; Mabel Ray, of Chicago, on her way to visit in Chicago; Josephine Fitch Whitson, of Tau, visiting in Kansas City until Janu¬ ary, when she will go abroad with her husband, Prof. Whit¬ son, of Wisconsin University. The marriage of Miss Helen Christine Hanna, Lambda, now of Xi Alumnae, and Dr. Charles Wilson Steere, took place October 20. They reside in Kansas City. The marriage of Miss Madge Shaum, Kappa, now of Xi Alumnae, and Dr. Wever, took place November 14. They will reside in Kansas City. Iota Alumnae The engagement is announced of Edith Hill, Phi, ’98, and Mr. James McNise Powers, of Pomona, California. A daughter, Margaret, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wil¬ liam K. Peasley (Helen Vinyard, Phi ’01,) November 10. Mrs. H. R. Spencer (Hazel Webster, Phi, ’02), has been in El Monte with her parents since the earthquake. Her husband is at present in Yokohama as agent for a large milling firm of the northwest. In April they will both go to Hong Kong, where Mr. Spencer is to be located per¬ manently. Mamie Alice Sands, Psi, ex-W, is teaching at Long Beach. She was at the October meeting of Iota Alumnae chapter. Mrs. Lawrence Ellis (Edith Ravenscroft, Alpha, ’02), is with Iota Alumnae this winter. Emily Holder, Delta, ex-’82, was married in October, to Mr. Sarver, of Los Angeles.

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EXCHANGES We are glad to acknowledge the following exchanges: September — Alpha Tau Omega Palm. October — Beta Theta Pi, Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Cadu- ceus of Kappa Sigma, Phi Chi Quarterly, Scroll of Phi Delta Theta and Shield of Phi Kappa Psi. November — Garnet and White of Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha Sigma Alpha Magazine, Alpha Xi Delta, Eleusis of Chi Omega, An- chora of Delta Gamma, Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta, Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma Chi Quarterly and Delta of Sigma Nu. December — Kappa Alpha Journal, Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, and Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Will the editors of sorority exchanges who have chapters at Butler College and Washington University kindly add these names to their exchange mailing lists : Bernice Ball, Butler Col¬ lege Residence, Irvington, Ind., and Clara E. Nipher, 1220 Hamil¬ ton Av., St. Louis, Mo. The question as to whether a non-fraternity girl transferring from one college to another should be invited to join Delta Gam¬ ma without the consent of the chapter in the college from which she comes will probably come up at the next convention. The plan suggested by Sigma in the last number of Anchora that she should not be invited to join if she had already been black¬ balled by the first chapter, but if she had never been voted on with the consent of two-thirds or three-fourths of the first chap¬ ter she might become a member, deserves consideration, for it seems to meet in a practical way the complications which might come from the unreasonable prejudice of one or two girls. — Anchora. A contributor to the Kappa Alpha Journal defends the fra¬ ternities against those allegations made in an editorial in the Saturday Evening Post of September 29. The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta for December has a valuable ar¬ ticle outlining seven practical methods of securing money for fraternity houses. Chapters hoping soon to build would do well to consult the article. The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi for October 15 prints the list of Phi Psis who have served in the U. S. Senate, House of Repre-

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EXCHANGES 161 sentatives or as other prominent federal officials; federal judges; in the diplomatic service as Ministers and Consuls; district attor¬ neys; and prominent state officials. The Delta of Sigma Nu is publishing a series of practical let¬ ters on a few definite fraternity problems, drawn from the actual correspondence of fraternity men. At the end of the title stands the legend: “You get from the fraternity relations— only in proportion— to what you give.” The first letter is “From One Alumnus to Another.” Those to follow are from an alumnus to a member of each college class. Kappa Kappa Gamma at its convention in Madison established a scholarship fund; appointed committees to collect information on petitions, college conditions, and to ascertain scholarship of active members; took the office of the editor of the Key from the Council, but elected the editor as an officer of the fraternity for a term of ten years; established an alumnae organization, pro¬ viding for three officers to be elected by the delegates of all the alumnae associations complying with “the easy regulations;” pro¬ viding further for an alumnae vote on granting and withdrawal of charters and the dismissal of alumnae members. “A further im¬ portant factor in our fraternity policy was the vote for the ap¬ pointment of an alumna of each charter to organize the chapter alumnae.” There were three hundred women present, this being the largest convention in the history of the fraternity. Phi Chi suggests that the Greek Letter Fraternities adopt a uni¬ versal interfraternity grip. “How pleasant it would be for a Kappa Sigma to meet a man on a car wearing a Sigma Nu pin and be able to give a grip that all Greeks would understand irrespective of their fraternity. How often we see men wearing pins that have no right to them, and how quickly that fact would become apparent if there were such a thing as a universal Greek grip.”

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NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE WORLD Alpha Tau Omega has re-entered Washington and Lee Uni¬ versity; Alpha Phi, Phi Delta Theta, and Beta Theta Pi have put in chapters at Toronto; Chi Omega has installed chapters at Barnard and Colby College (Waterville, Maine); Pi Beta Phi has chartered a local at the University of Washington; Zeta Tau Alpha has entered Texas. Phi Sigma Kappa has entered Brown University and Swarth- more College. Phi Sigma Kappa has the distinction of a com¬ plete roll of chapters, having lost none from the roster through inactivity or withdrawal of charters. — Exchange. Phi Delta Theta is the first fraternity of Ohio State to have its own fraternity house. The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta for October prints a list of the chapters which have been established by the various fraternities since the 1905 edition of Baird’s “American College Fraternities” was issued. At least two fraternities, Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi, have planted trees at Washington’s grave at Mount Vernon; also one sorority, Chi Omega. — Exchange. Phi Gamma Delta calls its general convention an ekklesia, Delta Tau Delta a karnea, Kappa Sigma a grand conclave, Sigma Phi Epsilon a grand council, Alpha Tau Omega and Chi Phi a congress. Sigma and Zeta Psi a grand chapter, Phi Kappa Psi a grand arch council. — Exchange. Phi Kappa Psi is going to reprint the first two volumes of the Shield, at a cost of S350. There is a movement on foot in Washington, D. C., to form * some sort of association among alumnae sorority women in town. — Eleusis. In the last four years Swarthmore’s endowment has been raised from $400,000 to over $1,000,000. Newcomb College (Tulane University, New Orleans) is said to have an endowment of four and a half millions making it the richest woman’s college in the world. — Anchora. A portrait of President Angell, of Michigan, painted by Chase, was presented to the University December eighth, by the stu¬ dents at the annual Michigan Union Dinner, to which 1,000 ban¬ queters sat down. The Washington (St. Louis) and Illinois chapters of Beta Theta Pi issue monthly bulletins, which are distributed to their

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NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE WORLD 163 alumni and neighboring chapters. The University of Pennsyl¬ vania chapter publishes semi-occasionally a paper called The Dorg, which is intended to keep alumni informed of what the chapter is doing and planning. The Michigan, Wisconsin, Ar¬ kansas, Lafayette and Emory chapters of Sigma Nu distribute annually to alumni illustrated booklets, ranging from six to thirty-six pages. Norbert Wiener, eleven years old, the son of Assistant Pro¬ fessor Wiener, of Harvard, has entered the freshman class at Tufts, and is undoubtedly the youngest Collegian in the United States. He was prepared to enter Harvard, but was barred on account of this youth. Accounts of this prodigy say that he knew his alphabet when eighteen months old, began to read at three years, was reading Darwin and Huxley at eight, was graduated from Ayer High school last June, and that he intends to make the study of philosophy his specialty. Alpha Tau Omega was the first national fraternity to estab¬ lish chapters in the following states : Arkansas, Oregon, Florida. Of these, the chapters founded in Arkansas and Oregon are ex¬ tinct and the Florida chapter is a recent revival. A. T. O. was the first so-called Southern fraternity to place chapters at Brown, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington and Jefferson. Mrs. A. L. Vrooman Artistic Furnisher 7 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis Glove Certificates. The purchaser pays for any number of pairs of gloves, accepting certificate as a receipt. Upon presentation of receipt gloves are delivered. Kid Gloves and Handkerchiefs, French Underwear, Leather Goods, Hosiery, Fans and Neck Novelties. Men’s Kid Gloves and Handkerchiefs. An excellent line of Men’s Handkerchiefs. Initials, Monograms and Signatures embroidered to order. ..GLOVE CERTIFICATES . . Vrooman’s Little Shop 7 South Sixth Street Minneapolis

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