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most interesting. Vanderbilt is in the main a men's school and
the girls are allowed only i n very limited numbers, fifty each
year, I believe. This means a women's body of about 150, and
a very cordial spirit among all the girls. There are only three
women's fraternities, KA(~), A A A and AOIT. While I was on
the campus we held an informal reception, I think one might call
it, in the women's dressing room—and I think I met most of the
Vanderbilt girls there before I had a chance to meet them again
at the tea the girls gave f o r me in the afternoon. I t was all very
pleasant and very happy. There is no dean of women at Vander-
bilt but I met the Dean of the School who told me how wonder-
fully well our chapter ranked on the campus and the Dean of
Men whose wife happens to be an A O I I — o u r own Mary D .
Houston Saratt. Mrs. Darden of Sigma Kappa called on me just
to tell me. 1 think, how much she liked our girls at Vanderbilt!
And well she might; they are attractive and "peppy"—combine
the southern girls' charm with the northern girls' vivacity. They
are building a little club house not far f r o m the campus which
is fully as pretty as those the other groups have and which is
going to raise the chapter quite to the seventh heaven when it is
completed. Naturally most of the girls are town girls and as such
have no need for a chapter house to live in-—but they will have
a lot of use f o r this little club house. They can entertain, have
small luncheons and can meet there f o r their own pleasant times.
I surely should love to see it when it is completed—and the N u
Omicron girls in i t !

And then I traveled still farther south to lovely quaint New
Orleans. I have to hold myself in check here lest I go clear out
of bounds and spend too much time telling you how charming this
southern city is with its old French quarter f u l l of curio shops
where one is constantly tempted to spend all he has and more, its
narrow streets with the overhanging balconies whose railings
are of hand wrought iron, the old "Cabildo" which was the home
of the government way back in the days of Spanish possession
and where you can still see the old prison cells, and the torture
implements of those f a r gone days. A n d the old cemeteries, and
the little Saint Joseph which some one gives you and which is
supposed to bring you the most desired g i f t in the world—could