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

94 THE SCROLL.versity and several of the great German scholars welcomedProf. Peabody, whose presence, owing to the internationalcharacter of his visit and the emperor's special interest, isregarded as being an important university event.The administration building at the University of Nebraskais now in course of construction. The recitation hallat the school of agriculture is completed, and the physicsbuilding is nearing completion. It is expected that thetemple, the building for social and religious purposes givenby John D. Rockefeller and graduates and other friends ofthe university, will be started soon. A fireproof museum tohouse the geological collection, now in Nebraska hall, is tobe erected.A London dispatch says: One unexpected result of theRhodes scholarship scheme may be the popularizing of baseballhere. The American Rhodes scholars at Oxford havemade a beginning by organizing a baseball club among themselvesand every effort will be made to get English studentsat the ancient university to join it. It is hoped that in timeCambridge will take up the game and that it may find a placeamong the sports of the great public schools and form afeature of intercollegiate contests.A press dispatch, dated Cincinnati, October 5, says: Onthe campus of the University of Cincinnati freshmen andsophomores fought from daybreak until late in the afternoonfor the possession of a leather flag that the freshmen hadnailed to a mast and set in four feet of concrete. The sophomoreswon. They assaulted the position 100 times. Clothingtorn to shreds, bleeding noses, blackened eyes, and bruisedbodies were the casualties. Many contenders, exhausted,had to be taken home. Over half of the freshmen had beencaptured or had succumbed when the last onslaught was made.ROCKEFELLER'S $10,000,000 GIFT TO COLLEGES.The gift of $10,000,000 by John D. Rockefeller for highereducation was announced July 30. The principal is not tobe expended, but the annual income is to be given to variousinstitutions chosen by a general education board. Thesmaller colleges will be most favored. The board hasmade the following announcement: