How They Got Acquainted

One hundred and fiftyof the Woman'8 college stndeuts spent a pleasant faonr Friday night in getting acquainted at a receptiou given in Ooucher hall to thej new studouts by the Young Woman'9 Christian association. Nearly every one present had her name engraved on a visiting card or written od a pieoe of paper, piunedto her dress, and in thisway ;he formalities of an introduction were dispensed with and everybody kuew everybody else's name in short order. There was a reception coninrittee, and the girls who comprised it fonnd their most active duty to be that of seeing that the old stndeuts present made a point of talking with the new ones and did not get off into corners with their "chums" of last year. Members of the college faculty were the sole representatives of the sterner sex present. In their dark, sober suifs they looked out of place in the midst of so many dresses of bright colors. But they kept the conversation ball rolling merrily, and each of thein was the center of a group of girls. : Among them were President Goucher, j Dean Van Meter, Professor Thaddeus