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

THE SCROLL. 93President Charles F. Thwing, of Western Reserve University,declares in a magazine article that "the community islearning that it is not the buildings but the men which constitutethe essential force of an institution for training collegestudents."The University of Chicago will introduce the Oxford Universityhouse system for undergraduates. The students areto be divided into small groups and quartered in housesabout the quadrangle, each house to be under the supervisionof a member of the faculty.Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist of the University ofChicago, has gone to Central Africa to spend a year in studyingthe natives there. He is equipped with phonographs forrecording their speech, with cameras for taking photographsand moving pictures of them and with plaster for makingcasts of their heads.The class of 1905, college. University of Pennsylvania, hasvoted to erect on the campus, at a cost of between ?i 0,000and $15,000, a statue of Provost William Smith, the firstprovost of the university. The class of 1904 is raising fundsfor a statue to be erected to the memory of Benjamin Franklin,founder of the university.Taking advantage of the fact that gate receipts from baseballhave practically disappeared, the University of Chicagohas undertaken the experiment of putting President Harper'sscheme of free athletics into operation. Tickets are suppliedby the athletic authorities without cost, and interest in theintercollegiate game, it is expected, will be stimulated.There are 48,000 students in the University of Tokio. accordingto a floating paragraph. That sort of an institutionin this country would make hard sledding for the correspondentof the fraternity journal who has the habit of remarkingevery year: "Owing to the scarcity of fraternity material inthe freshman class this year, etc., etc."—* K * Shield.-•V Berlin dispatch, dated September 23, says: Prof. FrancisGreenwood Peabody of Harvard has arrived here for hisseries of lectures at the University of Berlin under EmperorWilliam's plan for an exchange of American and Germanprofessors. The minister of education, the rector of the uni-