1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

9° THE SCROLL.shows the following number of students during 1904-05:seniors, 169; juniors, 117; sophomores, 220; freshmen, 369;academic, 292; special, 150; special dairy, 12; music, 43;short course in domestic science, 26; special courses in stockand grain judging, 538. The number of girls in the collegeclasses appears to be small—between 10 and 15 per cent.The catalogue shows that there were 121 members in thegraduating class in 1904. The degrees conferred upon themwere as follows: bachelor of science, 31; bachelor of sciencein electrical engineering, 26; bachelor of civil engineering,20; bachelor of mining engineering, 19; bachelor of scientificagriculture, 21; doctor of veterinary medicine, 4. It appearsthat the number of students in the engineering courses is muchlarger than the number in the agricultural course.The recent entrance of 2 N, 2 A E and B 0 TI at this collegeis an indication that fraternities are disposed to recognizemore generally than formerly the institutions which aredevoted mainly to the applied sciences. However, fraternitieshave had chapters in such institutions for many years.The first fraternity entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutein 1853; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1873; StevensInstitute of Technology, 1874; Purdue University, 1875;Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1878; Case School of AppliedScience, 1885; Georgia School of Technology, 1888; WorcesterPolytechnic Institute, 1889; Brooklyn PolytechnicInstitute, 1893; Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1893; ArmourInstitute of Technology, 1898.In these institutions there are chapters of every well knownfraternity except K A (Northern), 2*, *Y, A A* and® AX(the last having dead chapters at Rensselaer and M. I. T.)In these institutions the entrance requirements are generallyless than they are in colleges devoted to the liberal arts, butthe requirements of the scientific courses are much more severethan the requirements for a literary degree in ordinary colleges.In many institutions where fraternities are numerous, Cornelland Lehigh for example, the students in the practicalsciences form a large percentage of the student body, andthe fraternities never discriminate against such students inrushing.Fraternities have also entered two state schools of mines,one at Golden, Col., in 1901, and the other at RoUa, Mo.,in 1903. The wonder is that they do not enter the stateschool of mines at Houghton, Mich.; and if the state agriculturaland mechanical college at Ames, Iowa, is recognized.