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

3o8 THE SCROLL.Of the many recent gifts of which Northwestern has been the recipient,one of the most unique is the endowment of $25,000 for a permanent lecturecourse for the students. The donor is Mr, N. W. Harris, a trustee ofthe university. This fund will yield annually about $1,500, all of whichwill be used for obtaining noted lecturers. In the last year the gifts to theuniversity have aggregated $1,000,000.Northwestern and Minnesota held their semi-final debate at Minneapolis,January 19. The winner securing a position in the final contest of the ceneraldebating league. Northwestern won. The contest was very spiritedand it was a hard fought victory. The league membership is composed ofthe following universities: Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago and Northwestern.The final contest will be held with Chicago April 23.The fifty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the charter of NorthwesternUniversity was celebrated by a Founders Day banquet at the NorthwesternUniversity building, Chicago, on January 27. The general condition andoutlook of the university were carefully considered and the ever increasingprosperity of this institution noted.Prof. John H. Gray, head of the economics department, has had an importantand singular honor conferred upon him. The national civic federationis planning to undertake an elaborate arid expensive investigation, bothin this country and in Europe, into the relative merits of public and privateownership of municipal public utilities. It has appropriated $1,000,000 forthis investigation and has appointed a committee of one hundred prominentmen to do the work. Prof. Gray has been requested to take charge of thisimportant investigation in the United Stales. In addition to the honorwhich comes to the university through Professor Gray's appointment, it isfurther honored in that Dr. Milo R, Matbie, Prof. Gray's first graduatestudent in the university, has been selected to take charge of the investigationin Europe, and Mr. Ward Pierson '03, has been asked to write the historyof the Philadelphia gas supply.Grand preparations are being made for the production of the annual juniorplay, which will be held the latter part of March. The title of the playwill be "Follies," There has been great rivalry for positions on the castand the play promises to be the best ever produced at Northwestern.In the early part of January there was installed here a chapter of SigmaXi, an honorary scientific society for.the encouragement of scientific research.The charter was granted to the faculty of Northwestern in recognition ofthe scientific work done here. The members consist not only of the facultybut also of those students who in their university work give promise ofability to carry on original scientific investigations.The annual promenade of the pan-hellenic association will be held February21. This is the most elaborate and important social function of theyear. The different committees are hard at work and the culmination oftheir plans are assured. The association consists of the following five fraternities;S X, B 9 n, * K 2, * K *•, 4- A 9.The student body of the college of liberal arts met a great loss in thedeath of one of its most popular and promising members, Mr. Dwight C.Hubbart, who died January 8, of typhoid fever. Mr. Hubbart was presidentof the senior class and was a prominent factor in all student enterprises.He was also a member of * A 9,Great interest is being taken in the university glee club, which was latelyorganized. Prof. Lutkin, dean of the music school, has taken charge of theclub and that fact alone assures us that it will continue to be a large factorof, and -A credit to, the university.