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

THE SCROLL. 321As is customary, with the winter season come the numerous dances andsocial functions, still things are quiet although the warm weather has giventhe baseball men an opportunity to begin out door work and the loafers anexcuse for following their chosen profession.University, January 21, 1906.ROBERT SOMERVILLE, JR.LOUISIANA ALPHA, TULANE UNIVERSITY.We have recently initiated John Taylor Chambers and Pierce LouveFreret, making five initiates so far this session.On account of the late opening of college our football team played onlyone game, losing that by a score of 5 to o. 4» A 9 was well represented onthe team by Bro. Chambers quarterback and captain.The basketball team is hard at work, and although this is our first yearin this branch of athletics, the team has already won five out of nine gamesplayed. Bro. Harry Meyer is assistant manager of the team.Bro. Chambers, manager of the track team, is using every effort to havea successful team this spring. The majority of last year's team are still atcollege, so Tulane will doubtless have a winning team again this year.The baseball team will be one of the best that has ever represented Tulaneon the diamond, and although the management has a very hard schedulein contemplation, the team will no doubt win a majority of the gamesplayed.At the recent election of the Tulane athletic association Bro. Chamberswas elected manager of the track team, and Bro. H. B. Gessner, '89, treasurerof the association.Work is progressing steadily on this year's annual. The Jamba lay a. Bro.Meyer is assistant business manager from the Academic department andBro. Ansley, editor-in-chief from the law department. Bro. Turner wasrecently forced to leave college on account of sickness in his family. Hewill be with us again next year. Bros. Sloss, Jordan and Upton returned tocollege when the medical department opened and Bro. Phil. Latham Gully,Kentucky Alpha Delta, '07, entered that department so we now have achapter of twelve men, with four pledged for next j'ear. Bro. Jordan iseditor of the Tulane Weekly from the medical department, Bro. Sloss isvice president of his class, and Bro. Gully was captain of his class footballteam. He will also represent us on the baseball team this year..Although there are eleven fraternities at the Academic department drawingmembership from about 275 students, another fraternity has made itsappearance. Several students, are wearing A A S badges. The membersrefuse to state whether or not the fraternity is national, but the general impressionis that it is local and intends petitioning some national fraternity.Whether this is so or not, the other fraternities have given them a very coldreception, and judging solely from the original members, any fraternity givingthem a charter would be making a serious mistake, and would neverprosper at Tulane.We are to entertain a Theta province here during carnival on February24 to 27. We sincerely hope that there will be a large attendance from allthe chapters as well as from chapters in other provinces.Louisiana Alpha sincerely regrets the resignation of Bro. Wm. Steen,province president. We had the good fortune of knowing Bro. Steen, betterperhaps than any other chapter in the fraternity and feel that his devotionto the interests of * A 0 is not exceeded by that of any Phi that we haveever met. We have sent in the copy for our annual chapter letter and areanxiously waiting for the letter to appear. Since our last letter we haveenjoyed a visit from Bro. Sill, Kansas Alpha. EDWARD C. ANSI.KV.New Orleans, January, 30, 1906.