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

222 THE SCROLL.versity of California—we do not know that he was graduatedthere. Mr. Stokes is engaged in settlement work in NewYork City, and we believe is a Yale man.Those who are interested in Mr. Cecil Rhodes' plan forthe perpetual representation of America in the undergraduatebody at Oxford will be somewhat concerned to learn that thisyear ten states and territories have failed to send qualifiedcandidates to the English university. As this is double thenumber of last year's delinquents, the question naturallyarises whether the scheme will work with entire smoothnessafter the novelty wears off.—YroxiAence Journal. There will beno examinations for Rhodes scholarships in the United Statesduring 1906. The 130 Rhodes scholars from the United Statesand Canada observed Thanksgiving day. There was a specialservice at the university church and a banquet at the hotel.The so-called "hall of fame" is a colonnade of one of thebuildings of New York University, a building erected withGould gold. On the walls of the colonnade are tablets bearingthe names of departed worthies. The electors appointedto select the names have not recognized the genius of EdgarAllan Poe, but the University of Virginia honors her illustriousson. At the latter institution a memorial tablet hasbeen placed on the door of No. r3 West Range, the roomwhich he occupied while he was a student there. The tabletis the gift of Misses Bangs and Whiton of Washington. It isa bronze slab and, besides the name of Poe, bears the inscription:Domus Barva Magni Poetae."Altogether too large a proportion of our college life andwork is perhaps still mediaeval in its character. Here belongseverything which suggests that the student has rights andprivileges other than those of an ordinary citizen; that he isto be treated on a different basis, or that there shall be a differentstandard by which his actions shall be weighed. It is inaccordance with this mediaeval spirit that the incoming freshmenmust be hazed, and that the police authorities are not toexercise control over a university campus; that a crowd ofstudents may make themselves obnoxious in a theater, or thatmen, because they are students, are privileged in the exerciseof vandalism. Everything that would encourage the studentto believe that he is a superior person, or a person ofanother caste, is a survival of medisevalism, and this spirit,many tell us, exists in eastern colleges, large and small, to anextent practically unknown in the west.—President W. R.Harper, in North Ajnerican Review.