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

THE SCROLL. 103President Angell of Michigan, in his annual report, publishedSeptember 1,3, said: "Some critics assume that thecolleges are more given over to a passion for games than isthe public in general." On the contrary, it is in large partthe passion of the people for interesting games that stimulatesthe students to play them. When we read of personswishing to enter collegiate football games at Cambridge orNew York, and most of them persons of respectability andintelligence and maturity; when we see that journals of thehighest character devote at least a whole page to the reportof a game, and publish the portraits and biographies of theplayers as heroes of whom readers must desire to hear, maywe not truthfully say that the public is as crazy about footballas the students and that the passion of the latter is onlya part of the national passion which has taken possession ofthe country."THE PYX.THE GENERAL COUNCIL, 1905.LEFT TO RIGHT—J. B. Ballou. T. G. C.; A. M. McCrillis. H. G. C.: S. K. Ruick. S. G. C.;F. J. R. Mitchell, P. tl. C.: J. H. DeWitt. R. G. C. and Editor af THE SCROLL.This view of the general council was taken with a kodak byMrs. Arthur M. McCrillis on September 4, 1905, during themeeting at the hospitable home of Bro. and Mrs. McCrillis, inProvidence, Rhode Island.