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

THE SCROLL. 99Nearly every prominent man Stanford has had has left anabbreviated autograph on the Mayfield tables. There arenumerals of the pioneer days, and on the present table numeralsof still living classes. There are names forgotten, andyet other names of mighty men which are cut deep also in thetraditions of Stanford. Some of these have already caughtthe ear of the cool world. Such are the Irwins, "Bill andMick," known to breezy literature and budding fame as WillH. and Wallace Irwin. Such is Bristow Adams, now of theWashington Life; such the poet, Charlie Field, and such willbe others, like our own Ike Russell, of Beta-Zeta.A law of this booze-fumed room is that no freshman shallcarve his name upon "the real Stanford register." That isan honor reserved for age and residence, and not allowed tothose who are tender to the taste of beer.It is especially fitting at this time to review the "Mayfieldhabit," which has flunked 400 men from Stanford, becausethere is to be a Mayfield habit no more. On January i, 1905,Mayfield went dry. Stanford men will have to tramp to MenloPark, now; a mile farther away. They will probably go inlesser numbers. There is nothing there but just beer. Thetables are not to follow. Undoubtedly, a great deal of thedrinking that has gone on heretofore did not arise so muchfrom actual thirst as from a desire to be in the presence of,to read from, and to carve upon the 'Mayfield Bawl-Out."—EARL J. HADLEY in the K 2 Caduceus.COLLEGE PRESIDENTS DISCUSS ATHLETICS.The Chicago Tribune of June 12 contained an attack oncollege athletics as they are now "overdone" in most educationalinstitutions in the United States. This attack—one ofthe most severe that has ever been published—was written byPresident James of the University of Illinois. Following arethe principal counts in his indictment:A score of men in college after untold hardships are picked to representthe college on a football team. They are kept under continuous strain formonths. All the rest of the college men play merely the part of "rooters,"taking no exercise at all. The great wrong here is that the incentive to generaland most desirable athletic work on a sane scale is lost. Only the comparativelysmall number taking part in it, and they far overdoing the work.Nearly alt football players, baseball men, and lawn tennis experts haveweak hearts, and are more liable to other forms of diseases than men whotake a more rational interest in college sports. Football is no worse in itseffects than rowing, tennis, long distance running or walking. There is