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been up to Monday thus r u n n i n g it seven weeks ahead. Fortunately,
Pan-Helenic stepped in and took the matter up. The Freshmen had
become spoiled past endurance, and physical wrecks—some of them
— f r o m loss of sleep. N o w we have a rule abolishing a l l Sunday
night rushing. Thank goodness! You should hear the sighs of re-
lief a l l around, at the prospect of being i n the house w i t h just our
own l i t t l e f a m i l y , and by the way, tonight w i l l be the first time.

We are wondering, and I suppose the other frats are doing like-
wise, how things w i l l turn out next year. A l l the desirable Fresh-
men are being rushed by practically a l l the frats, and o f course, i n
their diplomacy, like them all equally. We have a little feeling,
however, that A O I I i s pretty near to the hearts of many of them.

Perhaps you w i l l be interested in knowing that i n the recent Y .
W. C. A . elections f o r next session, we carried the vice-presidency
and the secretaryship, the girl elected to the former office, Annie
Kate Gilbert, being this year's junior president.

Easter greetings to you all from Kappa!

ZETA. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

First of all I want to tell you about our annual formal party and
the banquet. The party was held at the Lincoln hotel Friday even-
ing, March 29th. About seventy couples were present including
many of the alumnae. The banquet was held the f o l l o w i n g evening
w i t h sixty-five present, including fifteen out o f t o w n alumnae. The
banquet was unusually pretty, being carried out i n our flower. T h e
tables were decorated w i t h baskets of red roses and i n the m i d d l e o f
the room was a pedestal o f ferns and roses. T h e tables were lighted
with red candles, and the menu cards had a spray of hand-painted
roses. T h e toasts, which were unusually clever, were as f o l l o w s :

Toastmistress, Stella Butler; The Jacqueminot Rose, Helen
Steiner; The Bud, Carrie Coman; The Stem, Emma Schreiber
Hunter; The Petals, Lucile Johnson; The Thorns. Gislea Birkner,
The Fragrance, Mathilde Stenger; The Culling, Alfreda Powell.

Saturday afternoon before the banquet the Lincoln alumnae
chapter entertained the visiting and active girls at the chapter house.

The following honors have fallen to Zeta seniors since our last
letter: Alvine Zumwinkel has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and
is leading lady in a play to be soon given by the German Dramatic
club and Grace Gannon has been elected vice-president o f the senior
class.

Just now we are planning a dance to be given at the Temple,
A p r i l 13th. f o r out-of-town rushees.