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Alleghenies, and having the only school of Co-operative Engineering in
the country. The girls who were taken in after 1926 were active in
newspaper and annual publications, in the "Out of Town" Girls' Club,
W.S.G.A.; "Mummers," the dramatic society and oratorical clubs; requir-
ing always an average of " B " for pledging.

The installation service itself was carried through most beautifully
and impressively by Alice Cullnane (Beta Phi), who was assisted by
Mary Gertrude Manley (Beta Phi), Vivian Smith (Phi), and Ruth
Lindenborg (Beta Theta). Those initiated were Marjory Hollenberg,
Mariemae Forbus, Lucile Newton, Pauline Clark, Hope Johnson, Vera
Hesterberg, Evelyn Kester, Frances Yost, Nell Fitzsimmons and Aimey
Heher. We were a rather tired and heat-bedraggled crowd when the last
words of "Once More United" were sung, but also a very happy one. We
then rushed home to dress for the formal banquet.

One of the Maitres d' Hotel at the Gibson, where the banquet w a |
held, expressed the'wish for a picture of our table and decorations sayinl
that it was one of the most beautiful they had had in years. Eacfl
initiate had at her place the cherished corsage of jacqueminot roses and
baby's breath while red candles and gladiolas decorated the main part ofl
the dining table. Frances Yost, the newly installed president of Theta
Eta presided, and introduced Alice Cullnane who needed no introduction!
after her splendid work of the afternoon, Mary Gertrude Manley, Vivian
Smith, each of the new actives and Frances Rich and Ermina Price, whose
faithful efforts had added Theta Eta to our chain of chapters, and who
likewise represented the Cincinnati Alumna; chapter.

Such thrilling messages of love and congratulations were read frord
all the sister chapters; as one chapter expressed i t , " I t isn't often than
Alpha O has a baby born in the summer"—so with such an unprecedented
beginning, Fm sure we are all. going to be very proud of our newest]
baby chapter, Theta Eta.

University of (Cincinnati is an Urban institution

By M A R I E M A E F O R B U S , Theta Eta

THE first step toward the establishment of the College of Liberal
Arts in Cincinnati was taken in 1858 when Charles McMicken gavJ
to the city of Cincinnati, by will, most of his estate valued at one million;,
dollars ($1,000,000) for the founding and maintenance of a college. Iflj
1870 the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act "to aid and promote
education" under which the University of Cincinnati was organize(
From 1873-1875 academic classes were held in a building on Franklir
Street until the city had completed the first hall on the site of th«
old McMicken homestead. This first hall has continued under the nam<
of the donor, and it was through his generosity that Cincinnati cai
boast of her splendid, ever-growing municipal University.

The income from the original fund proving inadequate, the city ii