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also have a wonderful new tea wagon which the Freshmen gave to us
at the end of last quarter and of which we are very proud.

Two of our girls are missing this quarter, one of them being our
president, Katherine Steiger, who was forced to stay out a few months
because of her eyes. Our other absentee is Helen Richardson, who has
transferred to the San Jose Normal School f o r a short time. We miss
Katherine and Helen immensely and hope that they will return to us
very soon.

Rushing is going on about as usual. I t is extremely hard f o r us be-
cause of the new plan of a year's rushing instead of the old ten-day
system. However, we have several girls under our watchful eye and
intend to work very hard to get them. W e are planning a tea f o r Feb-
ruary 27 which will help us to meet many new girls.

We are having wonderful weather f o r this time of the year. The
days are like the first days of Spring and one wants to get out in the
hills and walk and walk, instead of attending strictly to work.

Lambda extends to all her sisters her very best wishes f o r the New
Year and wishes that they will have a very wonderful year.

DORIS BAILEY '23.

IOTA—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Christmas vacation over and back to the books at Illinois! Some
of us rested during the ten-day interval and some of us didn't, but any-
way we're all back now and ready f o r work. The Chicago girls were
busy engineering a holiday dance for the benefit of the house fund, Thurs-
day night, December 2 8 at the Edgewater Beach hotel with an Illini
orchestra playing. I t was pleasingly successful financially and socially.

The night before we left—not exactly "the night before Christmas,"
but nearly so, Iota pledges gave the very nicest sort of Christmas party,
with a taper-lighted tree and gifts with appropriate verses f o r each of
us, and f o r all of us, a really beautiful mantle clock with Westminster
chimes. We were so surprised and so pleased. Mrs.'Hobler, our chaperone,
presented us with a dozen lovely linen napkins and Elsie Brace of Rho,
and a good friend of Iota, sent us a pretty silver bon-bon basket. The
girls f r o m Rho chapter whom we entertained at the time of the North-
western-Illinois game, had sent us a beautiful velour pillow f o r the new
davenport, which by the way, our alumnae, under the auspices of Mildred
Holmes and Annetta Wood had bought f o r us.

Founders' Day was celebrated with a banquet at the chapter house,
with the "red, fed rose" the chief unit of decoration. Toasts were given
by Lucile Gibson, Elizabeth Brown, Frances Dolle, Jean Gregg and Cora
Jane Stroheker. Mildred Lantz acted as toastmistress.

Class committee appointments include Veta Holterman on Junior
Prom, Bernice Parkhill on Sophomore mixer committee and Frances
Grove on Senior memorial committee. Helen Grimes has been appointed
on Freshman Commission, Cora Jane Stroheker on Inter-Illinae com-