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LAMBDA. LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY

"We're back again, we're back again, and all our hearts are gay.
And we'll ever be true, dear old Stanford to you, for we're glad
to be back again."
As we sang this song last evening at our first dinner together in
the new semester, we looked at the twenty smiling faces around
us, and felt truly glad. When I said twenty, I forgot one, and
an important one, as she is our new pledge, Grace Dickover (sister
of E v a Dickover, '08) and we are so glad to have her one of us.
Such a crowd as we are getting settled, but when we get too much
in one another's way we think of next semester when we shall
really be in our own home—for at last we have enough money,
and dandy plans, and will start when the rains are over.
But I must go back, past the Christmas holidays (and here
Lambda can only wish that her sisters had as merry a vacation as
she had) to our doings last semester. Mrs. Farmer made us a
brief visit. We enjoyed having her with us so much, and are
exceedingly sorry that she could not have remained with us longer,
and we would have liked to have the opportunity of knowing her
better, and of showing her more of our college. Our semester
passed in the usual busy fashion. A good many of the Sigma
girls came to see us over the Stanford-California game in November,
and as usual we were glad of every opportunity to become better
acquainted with them.

Just before finals, we celebrated our house birthday, on December
ninth. We had our usual dinner, and Christinas tree with its pres-
ents—jokes for all the girls. This year we made it a dress-up
party, and this only added to all the fun.

As we have hardly begun the semester, there seems little to tell.
Next week the annual Sophomore Cotillon, one of our big social
events, is to be given; and early in February " T h e Admirable
Crichton" is to be given.

Lambda sends greetings to one and all, and wishes you a happy
and prosperous New Year in A O IT.

IOTA. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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