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as in other ways. Their program for monthly meetings is varied and in-
cludes the entertainment on separate occasions of Butler pledges, seniors,
guests in general and sons and daughters, the last at the Children's
Museum. This program is printed in booklet form and includes a list
of officers and committees, constitution and membership list with ad-
dresses as well as the plan and dates for meetings.

From alumna? chapter concerns we return to the active chapter which
again entertained us at dinner on Sunday and held "Open House" in the
afternoon. This included representatives of fraternities as well as soror-
ities, alumnae, parents and friends. In the evening it was a pleasure to
meet Dr. and Mrs. Hippensteel (Mrs. Hippensteel having formerly been
Ethel Bender) and to renew acquaintance with Elsie Waldo (Iota), and
her husband Dr. John, well remembered from a former visit, at a jolly
little supper served in Dr. and Mrs. Smith's lovely living room before an
open fire.

Monday was quite free except for an interesting luncheon with Mary
Gertrude Manley at the Athletic Club in company with Vivian Smith
and Louise Allen (Kappa Theta), who is in the city temporarily. In
the evening Vivian left home and husband that we might enjoy the re-
laxation of a movie and in the morning the time had again come to say
goodbye, though not without a farewell word in regard to Beta Theta and
Butler. The latter has a magnificent new building, spacious grounds, con-
stantly increasing endowment and city interest and is bound to increase
ts schools and radius of influence. A t present Beta Theta has the city
problem, an overwhelming proportion of city members so that it has
only a few resident students to support the house. This difficulty is in
part overcome by the plan to have city girls take a certain number of
their luncheons weekly in the house. With additional schools the uni-
versity may draw more widely from the country at large. I f not, the
organizations must content themselves with small houses. Our chapter

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Most famous of Illinois landmarks is the huge $2,000,000 Stadium, one of the first major
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