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

92 THE SCROLL.were 716 women students, against 694 for the year previous.In addition in attended the sessions of the summer school.Dr. Angell said: "Certainly one cannot be blind to thefact that at present the aggregate number of women, nearlyall pursuing the course in arts, is increasing so rapidly thatthequestion is suggested whether the old-fashioned liberaltraining is largely to be monopolized by them."The men. Dr. Angell declared, are being driven into thetechnical and professional schools, while the women as a ruledevote their attention to the college of liberal arts. He saidthat engineering calls for so large a preparation that thereis a decided inclination in the profession to the belief thata five years' course well may be asked."COLLEGIATE,Harvard has a new club, its purpose being to entertainmembers of visiting athletic teams.—K 2 Caduceus.Purdue has cut out thanksgiving games, and PresidentHarper favors the like at Chicago.—K 2 Caduceus.The University of the South has begun work upon the AllSaints Chapel, which is to cost^i5o,ooo and be one of themost perfect specimens of church architecture in America.—A T i2 Palm.Clemson College, South Carolina, says a writer in the K.A. Journal, is the largest and best endowed scientific institutionin the South; it has fifty-six professors and 509 students.—AT0^3/«.The faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology hasvoted against the proposed alliance with Harvard. The votewas 67 to 6, a heavy enough majority to kill the question forthe present. — 2 A E Record.Miss Caroline Hazard, who has completed her fifth year aspresident of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has demonstratedthe fact that a college president need not necessarilybe a college graduate.—Philadelphia Record.The athletes of California have petitioned the academicsenate of that university that contestants in intercollegiatefootball games, track events, etc., be given scholastic credit.The petition has the support of a great part of the studentbody.—K 2 Caduceus.