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

THE SCROLL. 307Athletics at Purdue are undergoing a system pf stock-market-like fluctuations.We are able to look back to the state championship in football withpride, but what the future holds for us in basketball and baseball is aquestion hard to decide. We have ix basketball team that is one of thebest, and the hard luck that it has experienced up to the present is not dueto a lack of good playing or pluck. Of the four games that Purdue hasplayed we have won but one, the other three we earned and the less saidabout them the better. Suffice it to say that the system of umpiring andreferceing was a new and fearful thing—nothing like it was ever beforeseen here. ^ A 9 is represented on the basketball team by Bro. F. A. DeBoos, and Mr. Reel, one of our pledges is on the squad.The prospect for the 1906 baseball team is extremely hazy. Of the 1905team there was left six "P" men as a nucleus for the new team. Three of thesehave since joined the ranks of the "also rans" and the nucleus has been reducedto three. Bro. Bird is one of the three left and will prove of greatvalue next season in his old position in the outfield. Bro. Babcock, whofailed to secure his letter last year owing to an untimely injury, will be outagain this year and will without doubt play second base. An entire newinfield has to be created from raw material and $ A 9 has hopes of beingable to furnish a good share of the supply for the demand. Indoor practicehas begun in the gymnasium.The track men are also getting together for the coming season. Capt.Verner, of the 1905 team, will coach the new team. A large number ofmen are coming out and a most successful track team is confidently expected.Capt. Verner, who is Purdue's crack miler and two-miler, will sailfor Europe next spring as a representative of the Chicago athletic club andis to run at the Olympic games to be held at Athens, Greece.On February i a meeting of the junior class was held to elect officers forthe 1907 Debris, Purdue University's annual. The elections were peculiarlymarked by the fact that not a single fraternity man was elected to office thoughthere were a number of candidates. This was not due to any personal dislikeof any of the candidates but was due solely to the fact of the lackof friendly feeling of fraternity men and the "barbs" as a class. This lackof friendly feeling seems to be on the increase rather than on the decrease.A new fraternity has entered the field of Purdue. A chapter of S * Ehas been recently admitted by the faculty. This brings the number of fraternitiesat Purdue up to twelve, but does not include the three medicalfraternities that have chapters at Indianapolis.On the evening of February 19, the class of 1907 will give the annualjunior prom. The first prom was organized and given by the class of 1906last spring, and was pronounced a decided success. A great deal of thecredit for the success of last year's prom was due to Bro. C. S. Sale whowas chairman of the committee. This year Bro. D. H. I-^ng is on thecommittee and has charge of the decorations. Everything points to a repetitionof last year's success, and the junior prom will doubtless become a universitycustom. The dance is held in the junior drpwing room of the mechanicalbuilding and the entire management of the dance is left in thehands of the committee.G. T. ELLIS.West Lafayette, February 6, 1906.ZETA PROVINCE.ILLINOIS ALPHA, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.The second semester begins February 21, the examinations having covereda period of of two weeks.