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of the more important reports, including those of Grand President
and Grand Treasurer, to all chapters together with the customary
f u l l report of the meeting. This session was followed by a luncheon,
after which all of the out-of-town delegates and many of the city
girls visited the historic home of Washington Irving at Irvington-on-
Hudson.

The hard work of the convention began on the morning of the
20, with the opening of the second session at the Washington Square
Building of New York University. The day was one of the hottest
of an unusually hot summer, but that did not prevent the members
of the Grand Council from working faithfully and constantly, with
only a short intermission for luncheon, until after five o'clock in
the vain hope of completing the business before them . I n the end
it became necessary to arrange for a third session on Monday, the 22.
The plan of breaking this all-day session by luncheon served in the
Nu Chapter room gave those who had never before visited this chap-
ter an opportunity of seeing its new famous "sky parlor." The N u
Chapter girls, in spite of their avowed preference for professional
careers, are famous cooks and hostesses, and the equipment of their
chapter home for offering feasts of food as well as of reason, is prob-
ably not surpassed i f it be equalled, in the abode of any other chapter.

Perhaps the chief social event i n connection with the Grand
Council meeting was the dinner at the Woman's University Club,
on Madison Square, on the evening of the 20. Here the trials and
heat of the day were forgotten i n the pleasure of renewing old
acquaintances and making new friends.

On Sunday afternoon, June 21, Mrs. James Everett Frame
(Jean Loomis), Alpha, '04, President of the New York Alumnae
Chapter, was informally at home to members of the fraternity, and
Mrs. James Edwin Lough (Dora Bailey), Delta, '98, Secretary of
the New York Alumnae Chapter, served a buffet supper for A O I I
members at her home in University Heights.

The final business session was held on Monday, June 22, at the
residence of Mrs. George Vincent Mullan (Helen St. Clair), Alpha,
'98, in University Heights. A t this session which began at ten o'clock
and ended at about half after three, the miscellaneous business of
the Grand Council was finally completed and the elections held. The
results of the elections are published elsewhere, and the details of
the other business can be learned by reference to the reports to chap-
ters. I t is therefore unnecessary here to do more than summarize
some of the more important steps taken by the Grand Council.

1. Charters have been granted to Alumnae Chapters at Provi-
dence, Boston, and New Orleans.