Zeta is glad to introduce Mabel Stone, our new pledgling. Since she received an invitation to another sorority last spring at the same time of ours, her decision to wear the bronze, pink and blue, gives us encouragement for our future success.

We have had only one rushing party so far this fall but are busy getting acquainted with the new girls and have high hopes. Zeta sends best wishes for success to all Delta Gammas. HARRIETT E. RIDDICK.

ETA; BUCHTEL COLLEGE, AKRON, O.

The girls of Eta began this year with renewed loyalty and enthusiasm. Although our chapter-roll numbers but six we still feel that we have at least ten, for fortunately our two seniors of last year were town girls and they continue to be active in helping us. Elizabeth Behan and Winifred Allen are both at home in the city studying music, and they are seldom absent from fraternity meeting. Dora Moore was unable to return on account of the illness of her mother.

With the commencement of the school year Eta renewed her former contract with Lambda of Kappa Kappa Gamma concerning asking day, so we will have no pledges to introduce until after the thirty-first of October.

To use the current expression, "Buchtel has taken a boom this year." There are about forty freshmen enrolled and almost all of the old students returned. The academy numbers over a hundred.

The prospects for a successful season in athletics are very bright, especially for a good basket ball team.

The first Friday night of the term the upperclassmen gave their annual reception to the freshmen, the following Friday night they again received them in the gymnasium and demonstrated the psychological fact that we know how to appreciate things only by contrast.

The third Friday night we entertained at the home of Mary Rockwell. It is an ideal place for a parlor dance and with a marsh-mallow roast, plenty of sweet cider and the usual repertoire of college songs we spent every moment of the evening most enjoyably.

With the beginning of our chapter meetings our alumnae association also began to hold semi-monthly meetings. From gentle

hints that have been given us we hope to receive valuable assistance from them this year. The strength of a chapter depends so much upon her alumnæ.

Eta sends best wishes to Delta Gammas everywhere for a happy and successful year.

MIRIAM AMY MOTZ, '03.

THETA; UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA, BLOOMINGTON.

Upon the opening of College, October first, we found that ten of our girls had returned.

Helen Posey, who has been absent several years, is again with us, much to our joy.

Many of our alumnae are teaching and a few of our undergraduate members are also in the school-room.

Theta Chapter has a new home this year. We have deserted College Hill and are now in a pleasant, well-arranged Chapter House in a convenient location. We have taken much interest in furnishing our parlors and have been so fortunate as to receive many gifts for this purpose from alumnae and absent members.

Edith Martin, an alumna member, made us a short visit during the first week of the term.

Our social affairs so far, have been informal. We entertained some friends and new acquaintances among the college girls the evenings of October first, third and fourth.

Accorning to our custom, we have been trying to know as many new girls as possible and to make the first few days in college, usually so trying to freshmen, easier and pleasanter for them.

We have done but little rushing. However, the Delta Gamma ribbon is now worn by four girls, Mamie Chandler, Fannie Lawson, Mamie Ellis and Ethel Waterman.

Our Dean of Women, Dr. Mary Breed, is to give to the college women this fall a series of informal talk on social forms. Theta Chapter sends friendly greetings to all Delta Gamma sisters and hopes that this year may prove to be the most prosperous and successful year the fraternity has ever known. EMMA R. MUNGER, '05.

KAPPA; UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN.

Kappa Chapter answers proudly to the roll-call and presents to Delta Gamma six new sisters. To say the rushing season was strenuous in this fall's campaign is leaving much untold. Every sorority showered the new girls with invitations. It was, here in the morning, there at noon, hither in the afternoon, yon at night. Poor girls! We Greeks who had only one calendar of entertainments to attend to pitied them. Delta Gamma did her part in the rushing, as the results show. Opening with an informal dance at the fraternity house, and closing with a beautiful dinner dance at Mrs. Peter Lau's. The season for Kappa Chapter was one of gaiety. We all staid one night at the sorority house, informally and the charm of it all was that the new girls became acquainted with us and one another. Then there was a little basket picnic at the Lincoln Country Club. Here we pledged Lena Fricke. Then there was a peanut party at the fraternity house where we did all the available "stunts" with peanuts. So the fun went on, but the best part follows. Our pledges, or rather our initiates are: Lillian Fitzgerald, Lena Fricke, Kathleen Tuttle, Roma Love, Jane Bunt and Grace Abbott. After the elusive ones were captured it then remained only to introduce them to the goat, and, in short, initiate the six. This we did on Saturday evening about three weeks ago. The ceremony took place first at Julia Deweese's home and concluded at the fraternity house with a beautiful little feast, contributed to by the other Greek organizations. And now we are all “a band of sisters true," who each sing with all their hearts "vive la, Delta G." Bound even closer than ever before, and in a compact, congenial body, Kappa Chapter proudly presents to Anchora six new and helpful sisters, who join in sending love and greeting to all of Delta Gamma.

RUTH BAIRD BRYAN, '05.

LAMBDA; UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS.

This year's rushing began very early. We had hardly reached town before we began to make friends with the new girls, though we were very strongly inclined to rush our own old girls for a little while, at least. We are glad now however that we didn't yield to temptation, for if we had, we might not have been

able to present to you our pledge girls, Gertrude McIvor, Florence Dickinson, Harriet Van Bergen, Helen Smith and Edith Frost. The girls who visit us this fall will probably find them full-fledged Delta Gammas.

We need hardly say how happy we are in thinking of the visits we shall have from the Kappa, Sigma and Omega girls. We can surely praise foot-ball for more reasons than one.

All the girls whom we expected last spring, came back this year, and at Christmas time, Esther Kinsey promises to return from Washington to take her degree with the Class of 1904. We have lent Gertrude Weaver to the Upsilon girls for this year but we expect to claim her as our own again in another

year.

In the last chapter letter several things were overlooked in the little budget of news on account of their very importance. It seemed hardly necessary to speak of these events as we ourselves were so taken up with them, we evidently didn't realize that everyone else didn't know of them too. Helen Humphreys was married in May to Wyman Lawrence, and Grace Tennant to Charles Adams, and both have left Minneapolis. Since then we have lost two more girls in the same way, Mellicent McCollom and Harriet Merrill. They are all girls whom we have learned to depend on, and Lambda has missed them more than she can ever tell.

We are only hoping this year may be a happy and a prosperous one for all our Delta Gamma sisters.

ALICE ANNETTE BEAN, '04.

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XI; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR.

In spite of the abundance of rain during our first days of college Xi is in good spirits and very proud of her five pledglings and one "sub.," Lucy Cooley's little sister Beth, whose mother is one of our ladies.

As is the custom unfortunately in Michigan, rushing is practically over after two weeks of college. We began the season by an informal dance on Saturday evening. Monday afternoon we took advantage of the only pleasant day of the week and had a long drive. Monday evening was passed very pleasantly with various progressive games, including ping-pong and flinch. Tuesday evening we gave our largest party, a German. Many

dainty favors and new figures made it an unusually pretty party. Thursday evening was cold and rainy, but a bright grate fire and plenty of marshmallows dispelled all gloomy thoughts and we finished the evening by singing rousing Delta Gamma songs. An informal dance on Saturday evening finished the week and we were all glad of Sunday in which to rest and recuperate. Last Sunday we had a small house party with four of our "old girls" as guests.

Friday afternoon of this week the Woman's League held a reception in the Parlors of the Woman's Gymnasium to introduce our new Dean of the Woman's Department, Mrs. F. P. Jordan. President Angell and Mrs. Jordan both spoke to us. In the evening of the same day occurred the Fresh-Soph rush, which was not exciting in the extreme, but nevertheless, very amusing.

We are looking forward to meeting the Alphi Phis from the various places where we have chapters during their Convention to be held here the latter part of the month, and to entertaining them in our Chapter House at an afternoon reception. Xi sends good wishes to every Delta Gamma for a most prosperous year.

HELEN M. Stevens, '05.

RHO; SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, N. Y.

There are eleven girls in the house this year, and we have delightful times together. Some of the girls came back a few days before college opened to make necessary preparations for rushing. We gave our first entertainment the night before college opened and had a pleasant rushing season. We have five pledglings to introduce to Delta Gamma, Louise Cooley, '04, Florence Loomis, '04, Nellie Allison, '06, Beth Mogg, '06, and Eva Bailey '06.

Florence Seeber, '04, is not in college this year but we hope she will be able to return to us next fall as we miss her very much.

Bertha Wilson, 'or, visited the chapter during the first week of college. She is teaching at the Howard Seminary in Massachusetts. Edith Cobb, 'or, Blanche Glenn, 'o1, and Edna McKinley '02, are also teaching. Fannie Morgan, '02, is back to take post-graduate work and her mother is with her again.