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

THE SCROLL. 275bama and Georgia were thoroughly and profitably considered.In the afternoon the Phis attended the annual Alabama-Auburnfootball game, which was full of intense interest. OnSaturday evening the Birmingham alumni again entertainedthem with a german at the Hotel Hillman, which was a brilliantand delightful affair. The convention was well attendedfrom every chapter in the province and also the Tulane andMississippi chapters. It has given a marked stimulus to theenthusiasm for Phi Delta Theta in the south.At Cornell there is a student organization known as theCosmopolitan Club. Under its auspices a series of "nationalevenings" has been arranged. The first of these, on December15, was given by the Chinese members of the club. -\tthis entertainment Chinese music was rendered, the refreshmentswere Chinese, and addresses were made by the Chinesestudents. Mr. Z. F. Lin, a graduate of Yale, who has hadconsiderable experience of railroad construction in his nativecountry, spoke on "Railroads in China;" L. C. Lun and K.T. Tsai discoursed on Chinese music; Y. H. Long describedChinese social life, and C. H. Kuan was down on the programmefor a "Chinese musical specialty." The extent towhich foreign lands are represented at Cornell is shown bythe schedule of entertainments similar to that of December 15arranged by the Cosmopolitan Club for the remainder of thiscollege year, including Peru and Ecuador, the Argentine Republic,Holland and South America, India, France, Jamaicaand Nicaragua, British Empire, Brazil, Russia and Rumania,Germany and Sweden.—New York Sun.Great as Columbia University has grown to be, it is so lostin the vastness of Greater New York that it makes no suchimpression as Harvard does, for instance, upon Boston.—New York Sun.A fire wl;ich swept the trees and brush on hills behind theUniversity of California, revealed the fact that a Freshmannamed L. L. Loud, .unable to afford room rent, had been livingin a little tent in the woods. He cooked for himself, andno one knew where he lived. He is said to be a good student.—2 A E Record.