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afternoon to find one hundred and four children and several mothers
waiting expectantly. I t was not in our hearts to disappoint any of
those eager little folk, so we hurriedly changed our plans. Gifts
were cast aside, for we did not wish to hurt some by not giving to
them, and there were not enough f o r all, and the candy was quickly
taken from the generous boxes and put i n paper bags. The ice
cream company could not deliver cream on such short notice—we had
not planned on having cream, but required it to fill in—and so several
of the girls dragged two gallons of it two blocks to the Settlement
House. We had a merry time of i t , playing games with the young-
sters, and when ice cream and candy time came forming them into
a grand march. Later we gave the gifts to a few families whom the
Settlement House secretary told us were particularly needy and would
probably have no Christmas. Beside this party of our very own, we
dressed a number of dolls for the large Settlement House party.

The Wednesday evening before we left for the Christmas holidays
we entertained by an informal dance.

I t always seems good to hear about our sisters i n other chapters,
and so we were all attention when Betty Neely returned recently from
the National Student Volunteer Quadrennial Convention at East
Northfield, Massachusetts, which she attended as the woman's rep-
resentative of Cornell, and told us of meeting three Alpha O's from
Kappa Chapter. They were Annie Kate Gilbert, Helen Hardy, and
Annie Moore. Betty spent one day with "Annie Kate" and Helen
in New York on the way home from the convention, and there all
three had dinner with several of the Epsilon alumnas.

Basketball finals furnished considerable pre-holiday excitement,
and Epsilon was well represented on the teams, with Joanna Donlon
(captain) and Evelyn Hieber on the senior team, Dorothy Hieber on
the sophomore team, and Ruth Balcom and Sarah Searles on the
freshman team. The contest between the seniors and freshmen for
the championship was hard fought with the seniors the winners.
Epsilon has formed a fraternity basketball team and has challenged
the other fraternities. Most of them have expressed their willingness
to form a Panhellenic league, but do not seem very anxious to play us,
for they say we have such strong players that we would win anyway!

The presidency of the Panhellenic Association automatically de-
volved upon Epsilon this year. Joanna Donlon was our senior dele-
gate and therefore became president. Some radical changes and
improvements in the matter of rushing and especially pledge day
were tried out this year, that with regard to pledging being the
greatest innovation. I n previous years interviews between the girls
who were bid and the fraternities were conducted privately by each