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

THE SCROLL. 129pie of that state have equipped that great institution of learning.In number of buildings, in size, in architectural beauty,and in the most modern facilities for work, this plant is notinferior to that of any eastern university.Therehave been single sessions of the legislature which have voted tothe university more money than Massachusetts has appropriatedfor all educational purposes combined in fifty years.These grants are not made recklessly; they are carefully consideredand ordered in the belief that no possible investmentof the people's money will yield so quick and satisfactory areturn.-Less and less, as the years pass, will theseyoung men and women attend our eastern colleges and technicalschools; and we must have a care lest the time shall comewhen eastern, boys will find it to their advantage to seek these .western universities in order to enjoy the highest and most coinpletefacilities in their lines of study."The last clause of the quotation from the learned and keensightedBostonian's letter, epitomizes in brief compass thereal significance of the installation of President James and theconfidently anticipated effect of his high aims upon the futureof the university. The time is now near at hand when theautocratic and self-contained east must yield its educationalsupremacy to the west; and the University of Illinois hasshown the world at the recent exercises that she is preparedand determined to enter the lists in a friendly but most strenuouscompetition for the leadership among the universities ofthe country. W H. STELLERECENT FRATERNITY CATALOGUES.Continued from THE SCROLL, April, 190s.The Delta Upsilon Decennial Catalogue, ^ixaia TltoSr/xri. Publishedby the Fraternity, 1902.On the reverse of the title page is printed: "Editor-inchief,Melvin Gilbert Dodge," and the imprint: ' Ann ArborPlant: The Richmond & Backus Co. 1903." The book contains1107 pages, 6yi X 9^, and is bound in cloth. Thepaper is thin, so that the book is not so inconvenient tohandle as might be supposed from the great number of pages.There are 92 pages of introductory matter, containing, amongother features, a preface, a list of assistants, a roll of chapters,a roll of graduate associations, a short article about thefounders of the fraternity, a sketch of each of the chaptersestablished since 1891 (when the last previous catalogue was