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glory. The girls moved their belongings up College Avenue, one Saturday
afternoon, after a week of pink, blue, lavender, green, white, and cream
paint and gallons of turpentine. Then we had to choose the downstairs
furniture. Well, the alumnae gave us a grand piano, the Mothers' Club
gave us all the drapes, livingroom rugs, and sofas, and we received from
other friends a grandfather's clock, andirons, lamps, chairs, and vari-
ous decorations. We had our house-warming on March 23, and we felt
that all the praise and compliments we received on the house were very
well-founded. It is a beautiful home, and its best point is that it is so
spacious. It has twelve study rooms, two bathrooms, a pressing room,
a chapter room, a smoking room for our "dates" at dances, and of
course, a large dormitory on the third floor. Here is also a bath,
cedar closet, and sick room. Our chaperon's suite is to the right of
the entrance, and Mrs. Sheldon is in love with it.

The house is appraised at $54,000 and is situated on a lot 150 feet by
180 feet, so you see it is the largest fraternity house on the campus.

It is entirely colonial style as you see and is surrounded by boxwoods
and evergreens, and is backed by junipers. The large colonial lantern
suspended over the entrance is twenty inches in diameter and thirty
inches high, containing a shower of eight bulbs. The house faces north,
and the northeast side has a port-cochere backed by three French win-
dows of the sunparlor.

We feel that we have built in our chapter house everything that we

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The colonial staircase is the first thing one notices upon entering. The rug*
are champagne color with the drapes matching them.