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in which the upperclass girls could see themselves as others see them,
was an hilarious success. (We have just begun this custom—a cus-
tom that will take long in dying out—of having one class entertain
the other classes after the chapter meeting once each month. The
Juniors and Seniors are racking their brains for ideas at present.

Nor must we forget the Christmas dance that enlivened the chapter
house that next Monday evening—perhaps it would be better to call
it a holly dance, so profusely was the holly festooned among the red
and green streamers. (Though Ruthie quite remembered to add a
bit of mistle-toe to the decorations.)

Florence Gilger opened her home on the evening of November 20th
for her birthday party. We were given a chance to designate the
characteristics of every Chi girl, and quite aptly it was done in many
cases. We had a merry evening as we always do at Florence's home,
and wished that she would have a birthday twice a year.

Thursday night we have regularly set aside as faculty night. Ou
that evening we entertain one or two professors and their wives at
dinner. We find that this plan is bridging the distance between the
faculty and ourselves in a delightful way.

Have you heard about field hockey, which has just finished its
first season as a sport for women at Syracuse? Edna made position
of left halfback on the Odds' team; Frances and Emily played right
fullback and left inside forward respectively on the Evens' team.
The Odds, that is the '17 and the '19 girls, won the final game with
a 3-2 score.

Emily and Lillian were two of the four S. U . representatives at
the state Y. W. C. A. student conference at Rochester in November.

Syracuse University has had an upheaval religiously. Doubtlessly
you have read of the soul-winning campaign that " B i l l y " Sunday has
been conducting here in Syracuse. The university has been vitally
affected. Faculty members, living-center, chapter house, and individ-
ual students have formed their respective prayer groups. Even in
this short time (the campaign closed but two days since) that Sunday
has been with us, the tone of the campus has been visibly altered.
Professors no longer hesitate to speak of religion to their classes, and
students speak frankly with each other on the subject. We ourselves
are forming our own little prayer-group to help perpetuate the won-
derful work of that much-criticized man, " B i l l y " Sunday.

We are to have another building on our campus—the Joseph Slo-
cum College of Agriculture, given by Mrs. Russell Sage in memory
of her father. The State College of Forestry building is fast near-
ing completion. Three new cottages have increased the women's