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

324 THE SCROLL.angular debating league, for annual debates. We shall also be representedin the northwestern intercollegiate oratorical contest.We are expecting to meet the track teams of California and Stanford in athree cornered meet in Seattle next May. We will meet them on the waterat the same time. A large and enthusiastic squad are turning out for rowing.Our prospects for winning appear to be very good.The baseball men are getting out their suits and preparing to defend thenorthwest championship, which they won last year. The team last springwas very successful, only losing one game the entire season.The last football season was not entirely satisfactory to us. Our teamwas unfortunate in many respects. Out of six games we won two, tied two,and lost two.In rushing last fall we were successful. Nine good men were added toour chapter roll. Perrett Gault, and William G. Beurhans of Tacoma,Wash.; Samuel G. Lamping, Frank W. Dowd, Oscar Cailisle and VerneG. Begley of Seattle; Gov and Ralph Chittenden, of Cadilac, Mich.; LvnnF. Ratcliffe of Cheney, Wash.We are pleased to note the activity of the alumni in the province who areworking hard for # A 9 and the local chapter. An alumni club has beenorganized at Tacoma, and they expect to receive their charter soon. Theannual province convention will be held in Seattle, ending with the annualalumni banquet on March 17. All Phis are cordially invited.The chapter is well represented in nearly all departments of studentactivities. Bro., Hoover is manager of the '06 annual, president of the panhelleniccouncil, captain of the baseball team, member of the basketballteam and junior prom committee. Bro. Dalby is associate of the Goat, acollege literary journal.In football Bros. Tilley and Dowd represented us on the first team; Bros.Brackett and Mackie on the second team. Bros. Carlisle and Ratcliffe arecandidates for the track team. Bros. Hoover and Isbell, who pledged lastyear will turn out for baseball this spring.We have recently enjaved visits from the following Phis. Bros. Frank J.R. Mitchell, P. G, C; Eari E. Bou, Illinois Delta; Clay Allen, IllinoisAlpha; D. B, Fhiefethen; A, R. Priest, Indiana Zeta; and Ray J. Kinear,John Fripple, Max Hardman, Carl E. Morford, James A. Urquhart, LorenD. Grindstead, Washington Alpha, FRANK M. ALLVN.Seattle, February i, 1906.ALUMNI CLUBS,BOSTON.The members of * A 0in Boston were never so well organized as they areat present, and while the social gatherings are not as numerous as they mightbe, the brothers are always ready when called upon to do something for thefraternity which has been to them half of their college life. Boston mightbe called a natural retreat for six active chapters, and for purposes of studyover a score of Phis come to live within its borders or its suburbs from allsections of the country. There is Maine-Alpha at Colby to the north. NewHampshire Alpha at Dartmouth, also to the north, Vermont Alpha at theUniversity of Vermont, Massachusetts Alpha at Williams, and MassachusettsBeta at Amherst to the west, and Rhode Island Alpha at Brown to thesouthwest, from all of which members come to Boston to see how closelycollege ideals and practical affairs fit together. From these chapters comealso a great many students who attend the professional schools at HarvardUniversity, and while there is a $ A 0 Club at Harvard, its members fre-