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 When the time came for moving into the new house we had very little furniture. The old stuff we had had in the Green Street house had been hardly dealt with for nearly ten years. We gave it all a complete over-hauling, presented some of it to the Associated Charities, sent some to the repair shop to be gone over and refinished, and consigned the rest to the bedrooms. We had been gradually collecting a furniture fund, but it was entirely inadequate. Here again we fell back on the local chapter and the alumni. Some of the younger fellows were more than ordinarily skilful in handling tools and these agreed to make in the engineering shops some of the larger pieces of furniture for the living-room and library, such as the tables and the big lounging chairs. We found that by this method we could materially reduce the cost and in addition introduce a little element of sentiment. The fellows who had worked the hardest to raise the money for the house gave the most liberally toward buying the furniture or gave rugs, chairs, or curtains as they chose. The place looked mighty good to us when late in the fall of 1907 the curtains hung, the rugs down—I thought that the living-room rug was especially handsome because Frank Scott and I had paid for it—and the furniture placed, we moved in. No one knows so well how to appreciate an accom-