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Many of our girls are entering into activities of various sorts. Edith
Vaughan is on the Badger board (the Badger is our college year book),
and through her, many of the girls expect to get positions on the staff.
We have several excellent swimmers who we hope will make Dolphin
Club. Carol De L a Hunt and Mildred Engler are in Wisconsin Players.
Mildred Engler is also chairman of the committee for Home Coming
Decorations. Jimmie Hughes is chairman for the Junior Advisors and
chairman of stunt night for W . A . A .

We have already had our pledge party and expect to have many
more parties this season. There is to be a Hallowe'en party on the thirty-
first of October with the appropriate decorations of pumpkins and black
cats. October fourth we had an "open house'' and introduced all our
pledges to fraternity men.

Our new chaperon is a charming Southern woman, who adds much
to the cheerfulness of our house.

Saving the best for the last, we were fourth of all the sororities in
scholarship this last year. This report was just published. Each semester
the sororities and fraternities are listed in order of their scholarship.
We are very proud of this last achievement because it shows the splen-
did co-operation of the girls in trying to do their very best for Eta.

JEAN JEWELL.

ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Could anything be a more wonderful climax at the end of a strenuous
week of rushing, than to pledge twelve very desirable girls? Alpha Phi
proudly introduces to her sisters, Mary Milles, Gertrude Simons, Judith
Ropes, and Marie Bowers of Helena, Bernice Meloy, Great Falls; Arlcda
Allen, Rapelji; Marcella Schneider, Three Forks; Jeanette Taylor, Boul-
der ; Edna Tait, Whitehall; Bernice Crane, Genieve Robinson and Vivian
Baker of Bozeman, all gloriously happy to be little sisters of Alpha Omicron
Pi. Judith Ropes is a sister of our Dorothy Ropes while Jeanette Taylor
is a cousin of Mary Stranahan.

Everyone is interested in rushing rules of other schools. For a long
time those at M. S. C. were inadequate. This year the period was short-
ened to one week, all parties to end at 7.15. No sorority could spend
more than $75, this sum to include personal rushing and flowers. These
rules to be enforced by convincing penalties. The success of these rules
is evident when I say that never has there been a finer spirit of sports-
manship and fair play than that shown by the five National Sororities at
M. S. C. this year.

During the summer two of our girls became brides: Harriet Nord-
strom was married at her home in Big Timber to Robert Kimmons. The
wedding of Margaret Conkling to Carrol Donohue was beautiful in in-
dividuality and simplicity.

This year is truly a record one for Alpha Phi. We have welcomed
back our Alta Athinson who has been absent two long years. Under
her guidance as president. I know that we will accomplish a great deal.
Up in our dormitory are seven lively sophomores almost too lively for
the comfort of those in the bedrooms below. Besides all of this we have
a most remarkable house manager in Elizabeth Hart. Truly Alphi Phi
has shaken Old Man Trouble from her shoulders and now prances lightly
towards a promised goal.

MARY A L I C E POWERS.

NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Wc are all very busy now and naturally very much excited over rush-
ing, especially since we are living in a sorority house this year. We feel
sure that no one could make us a better house-mother than Mrs. McKee,
who is the mother of one of our own girls. There are ten girls living