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

158 THE SCROLL.The glee club has given its first concert, which was held in ProvidenceNovember 8. Bros. Bailey, Nason and Shields are members.A slight epidemic of typhoid fever has again disturbed us. Seven menhave been afflicted, and one case has been fatal. Bros. Dickinson, '07, isone of the victims. He has been seriously ill at the Rhode Island Hospitalfor several weeks, but we are glad to report that he is now on the road to aspeedy recovery.The reporter should have mentioned in the October SCROLL that Bro.Mclntyre, '06, had been elected to the Cammarian club, and was vice-presidentof the Brown Debating Union.The chapter within itself is in an excellent condition. The new menhave caught the spirit of our fraternity, and have been worthy, so far, ofthe honor conferred upon them by initiation into # A 9 We have addedto the initiates named in our last report, Walter Clyde McDuffee, of Rochester,N. H. Our seventeenth annual initiation banquet was held at theCrown Hotel on October 26. We were glad to welcome a goodly numberof alumni, besides a delegate from Massachusetts Beta.We intend to send three delegates to the Alpha province convention to beheld at Burlington, Vermont, and shall await their reports with much interest.HARVEY M. KELLEY.Providence, November 15, 1905.NEW YORK ALPHA. CORNELL UNIVERSITY.With his annual address. President Schurman set the machinery of theuniversity in motion on September 28. In this address, the president referredin particular to the marked increase in registration, and spoke of theplans formulated and in operation for handling the recent growth. Thereare at present 3500 students.The president also announced that the past year has provided a larger incometo the institution than it has ever enjoyed before.Goldwin-Smilh Hall of Arts and Sciences, a beautiful stone structure, israpidly nearing completion. This building tends to fill out the quadrangleand adds largely to the capacity of the arts and sciences department. Notso near completion is the hall of physics, a large three story building, westof the campus. Still farther to the west, the new edifices of the college ofagriculture are taking form. They are three in number and will be completedin a year. In the work of construction, the work on the new athleticfield may be mentioned. The big playground is nearly completed. Thisfield of fifty acres is for the use of the student body as a whole. It is providedwith all the apparatus and conveniences of outdoor sport. Immediatelyjoining is the new athletic field which is only partially finished. Thislarge increase in facilities is meeting with constant encouragement alongevery line.The crews distinguished themselves at Poughkeepsie in June, regainingtheir supremacy on the river. That event closed the most successful athleticyear that Cornell has ever experienced. The present year is, so far, onlyfairly satisfactory. Football is a stumbling block. The most that can besaid is that there is some improvement, though that is only slight. .Theteam lacks a certain cohesive unity—a power to stick together at criticalstages. Until that is reached, we can expect no better than close defeatsuch as Princeton inflicted on November 11 (16-6), and Swarthmore theweek before (14-0). There still remain two games, those with Columbiaand with Pennsylvania. Considerable improvement will be required if weare to win them. -Little can be said of the other branches of athletics. Sofar as can be ascertained, track and crew look promising.