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

THE SCROLL. 221The first number of the Dartmouth Bi-Monthly, a magazinefor graduates, was issued in November. It is Dartmouth'sinitial effort toward a graduate publication.The Buffalo alumni of Syracuse have presented an entrancearch to the university. It will be placed at the end of Universityavenue, in front of the hall of languages. The archwill be built of stone.The Cornell Sun has resumed publication in eight-pageform, one page being devoted to general news furnished bywire from New York. This is a valuable feature, sinceIthaca has no morning paper, and the Sun is delivered beforeeight o'clock.An agreement has been signed by the presidents of thedebating unions of Brown, Dartmouth, and Williams, callingfor a triangular debate on March 3, igo6, each institutionhaving two teams, and all debating the same question. Williamswill uphold the affirmative against Dartmouth, in Williamstown,and the negative against Brown at Providence,Dartmouth debating against Brown at Hanover. Thus eachcollege debates the affirmative at home and the negative onits opponent's floor.Prof. Rudolf Tombo, Jr., © A X, registrar of ColumbiaUniversity, has prepared a table of statistics, showing thenumber of foreign students in attendance at the nine largestuniversities of the east and of the middle west: Pennsylvania126, Columbia 117, Cornell 100, Harvard 94, Yale 83, Universityof Michigan 38, Princeton 20, University of Illinois18, Indiana University 7. From the geographical point ofview, they are distributed as follows: North America 244,Europe 125, Asia 125, Australia 59, South America 39,Africa 11.The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, which aims to promotean interest in socialism among college men, has issueda letter to college graduates and students who are socialists.It is signed by Jack London, president; Upton Sinclair, vicepresident,and J. G. Phelps Stokes, second vice-president.They desire to distribute socialistic literature among studentsand arrange for talks in colleges by socialistic speakers, andthey say: "We hope to have a study chapter organized inevery institution in the country before the present year is past."Mr. London, who is a noted author, once attended the Uni-