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The house is unusually attractive this year with its fourteen peppy occu-
pants, not to mention our august chaperon, Mary Danielson. A new Sonora is
our latest acquisition, and is welcome with opened arms by the several girls
cursed with ability to play the piano; f o r they, too, may now join in the
impromptu, after-dinner dancing. We were honored with a visit from Betty
Hiestand of Rho chapter, who presented us with a new record f o r our victrola.

Aside f r o m our most successful Hallowe'en dance, T a u has, as yet, not
adjusted itself to the routine of school l i f e to the extent of entertaining at any
large parties. A series of dinner-dances is looming up in the near future,
however, and with the Bazaar, Tau's social season w i l l be on i n earnest. Teas
have been the most dominant f o r m of entertaining thus far, and every week-
has found a bevy of people at the chapter house to chat and drink a cup of
the popular beverage. These teas have been f o r our mothers and fathers f o r
"open-house" after the football games. A n d Tau is especially proud of the
last "open house" on Home-coming Day, despite the fact that Illinois carried
off the honors; and we can not decide whether this is due to the delicious
football doughnuts which captivated the boys, or to the silver loving cup, pre-
sented to the chapter as a reward f o r selling more Home-coming buttons than
any other sorority.

And another fact of which Tau is justly proud is our high rank in scholar-
ship. Kappa Alpha Theta ranks first with T a u of Alpha Omicron Pi as
close second. Mary Ellen Chase has again added to the glory of both T a u
and the University by w r i t i n g another story, accepted by Harpers. We are
confident that prospects f o r T a u are brighter than ever before.

L i LA K L I N E , '20, Chapter Editor.

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Gertrude Maxson, '21 New Members
Ruth L . Walker, '21 Oma Rosbrook, '20
Genevieve Canfield, '21

Pledges

Doris L . Knapp, '23 M i l d r e d Reese, '23

Marjorie Townsend, '22 Dorothy Barry, '23

Ruth Young, '23 Leonilda Durieux, '23

Beatrice Baron, '23 Ruth Sidney, '23

Mary Lutz, '23 Esther Koon, '22

Lorraine Brett, '23

We have done no rushing since the first o f November, but we have had

plenty of parties all the same, and our quota of dances. The university

administration allows fraternities only three dances each semester—two ten

o'clock dances and one eleven o'clock. We were obliged to rent a hall down-

town in which to hold our eleven o'clock dance because our house, although

it is quite large, is not large enough to hold seventy people. You see our

alumna; still dance.

We initiated four girls November 24. The rest of the pledges w i l l probably
be initiated the last of February or the first o f March. They certainly are
fine. They come down every Sunday afternoon f o r tea and every Friday
night for pledges' meeting. They have a president and a secretary of their
own. A few weeks ago their president gave them an examination on the
Chapter Roll, etc., and the lowest mark was 98 per cent.

We celebrated Founders' Day by having a more or less f o r m a l dinner f o r
our city alumna; and our pledges. There were forty-three of us present.