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has built up considerable strength, thanks to a splendid alumna? com- o
mittee, consisting of Vivian Smith (Phi), Mary Gertrude Manley (Beta i
Phi), and Elsie Waldo (Iota). And before closing let me mention the c
honor which has come to Miriam Cosand in winning one-third of B
the Witter Bynner poetry prize of $150 offered for the best under- c
graduate poem. The judges could not decide between three contestants E
so divided the award. s
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On November 5, we drove to Greencastle in time for lunch at the s
Theta chapter house. The afternoon was taken up with an interview I
with Acting Dean Beroth and attendance at a Kappa tea to which an
invitation had been received. Theta's house as you know is new and
spacious, fitting well the Greencastle setting. Its pillars recall the charm
of the old house now passed into other hands. The interviews next
day were varied by luncheon with Elizabeth Morrison Proud at her
own Lucy Rowland Hall. The evening continued the interviews, this
time with the alumna.' committee, Elizabeth Proud and Jane Farmer of
Theta and Rosella Stoner Ross (Beta Phi), who has written the words
often sung at the close of the fraternity house meal. An interesting fea-
ture of the Greencastle visit was chapel attendance on two successive days.
I t was necessary to go early to procure a seat and attendance is voluntary!
Why? Because DePauw's new president, Dr. Oxman, knows that col-
lege students are intelligent thinkers and interested in moral and religious
matters when they are presented with vigor, directness and understanding
humor. A most attractive tea with music by chapter members and alum-
nae and the dining room looking its best with soft yellow candles and
chrysanthemums closed the chapter festivities to which were added a
most delightful dinner and evening with Acting Dean Beroth and six
other members of Alpha Omicron Pi in Rector Hall as the Dean's guests.
DePauw is an old institution and Theta an old chapter, but they are
both forward looking, the former with a new president and the latter
with a new house.

Beta Phi's house is not new, but it has a gracious charm. Girls may
occasionally sigh for more pretentious quarters, but guests at tea linger
long in the patio and living room, as was evidenced on the Sunday after-
noon of our visit. I t was a great pleasure to renew acquaintance with
Mrs. Chase who is so warmly hospitable. Save for one afternoon of
uninterrupted rest, we were kept busy alternating between interviews
and the various special affairs. There was the recital of Mary Garden,
a luncheon at the Country Club with Katheryn Hoadley Fell as hosted, a
lovely formal dinner with the alumnae chapter at the Hotel Graham, din-
ner at the Kappa Alpha Theta house and again with Kappa Kappa
Gamma, Sunday night lunch with Hannah Blair Neal followed by a
meeting with the alumme committee consisting of Charlotte Shaw Ellis,
Hannah Neal and Laura Alexander, a second luncheon with Hannah for
several alumnse members of other sororities residing in Bloomington, a
brief call at Mary Neal Mcllveen's to see her two delightful children,
and finally a call upon Mr. and Mrs. Huntington, the parents of Edith
Huntington Anderson, where we heard the welcome news of the arrival