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

2o6 THE SCROLL.unlike the technical schools, they do not require fortunes tokeep up immense mechanical plants. As much may beexpected of them as of the newer schools which neglect thehumanities for the sake of the sciences.—K 2 Caduceus.The legislature was very generous to the university, givingit the largest appropriation in its history. A $35,000 youngladies dormitory will be erected. Another boys' domitory tocost $20,000, a $10,000 chemical laboratory, to replace theold one, a much needed infirmary, will be erected besides twoagricultural buildings in connection with the experimentalstation. The senate refused to pass the anti-frat. law whichpassed the house 44 to 22. The following fraternities arerepresented here; K 2, 1890; 2 A E, 1894; K A, 1895; 2 N,1904; n K A, 1904; 2 X, 1905. 2 X granted a charter tothe Indian club after a debate of three days, as to the advisabilityof entering the University of Arkansas.—Arkansascorrespondence of 2 N Delta for October.The picture on the opposite page represents "the wild assof the desert in repose," which was used in initiating the chartermembers of the chapter of 2 X at Colorado College.Notice the eccentric wheels and consider their effect. TheSigma Chi Quarterly says: This nondescript animal, inventedand brought to perfection by the mechanical genius of Bro.Wilson Gary, for savage contortions and up-to-date buckingwas, to quote from a Sig author, the most vicious bronchothat ever pawed a western range. With a spine more pointedand adamantine than that of a Georgia razor-back, and amotion which combined the writhings of a channel steamerwith the twistings of a Rocky Mountain trail, it constitutedabout as uncomfortable and uncertain a mode of transportationas it is possible to find." For the loan of the half-toneplate we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Newman Miller,editor of the Quarterly.Each of the states in the Mississippi valley has a large andgrowing state university. As the people of the states becomebetter acquainted with the work of these institutions, whichis being brought home by the practical work of the agriculturalcolleges, the task of securing additional and more liberal,appropriations is made easy. Take one of the state universitiesfor example. Ten years ago it had a total attendanceof less than 700; today it has practically 4,000. Tenyears ago a legislative appropriation of two or three hundred