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

THE SCROLL. 341teen months—which is an exhibition of great enterprise.Homes have been built at Maine and Columbia, and onebought at Wofford, while houses have been rented at Boston,George Washington, Virginia, Case, Arkansas, Denver, Universityof Iowa and Iowa State College. Of the 67 chapters,II own their houses and 33 rent. The Colorado chapter isbuilding a house, and the Alabama and Harvard chapters areabout ready to build. Regarding financial plans, the Recordsays of the Maine house: "The house cost $12,000. A corporationwas formed, and the money was raised by notes,with the university faculty as security. A sinking fund hasbeen established, out of which a portion of the notes is annuallypaid, with the necessary money for repairs." Of theColumbia house the Recordsa.ys: New York Mu's new housecost just short of $30,000. An organization, consisting ofmembers of New York Mu and styled the New York Mu corporation,issued 30-year bonds, of the face value of S25 each,bearing 3 per cent, interest, to members and graduates of thechapter; and the remaining necessary money was secured bya loan from our board of trustees and by a mortgage on thehouse." 2 A E is one of the very few fraternities which ownhouses at Columbia. At Colorado it will have the only houseowned by any fraternity.COLLEGIATE,Pennsylvania State College has a four years' course inforestry.A new school of railway engineering will be opened at theUniversity of Illinois next fall.Syracuse, Vermont, Northwestern and Stanford have newathletic fields, Syracuse a stadium also.During 1905 Washington and Jefferson received Si 69,710,of which S140,000 was given by J. V. Thompson.Drown Memorial Hall is being erected at Lehigh.be a club and assembly house for the student body.It willThe American School of Classical Studies in Rome announcesthat it has secured an endowment fund of Sioo,ooo.At Cornell the Goldwin Smith Hall of Humanities will bededicated next June, and the Rockefeller Hall of Physics inJuly.