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

THE SCROLL. 117side into the parlor, it being shut off from either by largesliding doors.The first floor is so arranged with large rooms opening intoone another, that the entire lower floor may be thrown openfor dancing.A wide easy staircase leads from the left of the center ofthe front hall. The stairs and the inside finish of the entirefirst floor are of clear red oak stained dark. The flooringfor the first floor is clear select white maple. The walls aretinted in a dark tan with the ceilings of a much lighter shadeexcept the dining room and parlor. The walls of the diningroom are of a dark pumpkin yellow, painted so as to give acloudy effect, and the walls of the parlor are of a dark olivegreen.The basement is taken up with the kitchen, the laundry,the fruit cellar, a boiler and coal room, a toilet room and alarge initiation room. The kitchen is large and most convenientlyarranged. In connection with the kitchen is aserving pantry equipped with a dumb waiter, which runs upto the serving pantry on the first floor.The back stairs, which extend from the basement to thethird floor, wind around a shaft built for a trunk lift.The arrangement of the second and third floors is the same.They are arranged in suites, a study and bedroom for twowith the exception of the two rooms in the center and frontof the second and third floors, which may be used either assingle or double rooms. The wood work on the second andthird floors is birch stained dark. The flooring is of clearpolished maple. The tintings are dark in the studies and ofa lighter shade in the bedrooms. Both floors have bathrooms which are equipped with wash bowls, a tub, a closet, ashower and a linen closet.The house is heated with steam and lighted with electricity.It will accommodate twenty-two men. It was erected at acost of $18,000. Wisconsin Alpha feels a very great prideand sense of even greater stability in thus having the finestfraternity home in Madison.LAWRENCE B. LEWIS.THE INSTALLATION OF PRESIDENT JAMES OF THE UNIVERSITYOF ILLINOIS-ITS SIGNIFICANCEThe exercises incident to the installation of the new presidentof the University of Illinois are now history. But thebrilliance of the spectacles, the scholarly character of the