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

THE SCROLL. 343The attendance at Syracuse is 325 larger than it was lastyear. Renwick "castle," recently purchased, will be usedfor the college of pedagogy to be opened next fall. Thetrustees have decided to build at once a Sioo,ooo dormitoryfor men and a $100,000 chemical laboratory.A general administration building, a medical building anda woman's building are being erected at Minnesota. The latterwill not be a dormitory but will contain a gymnasium andrecreation halls. A monument to the veterans of the Spanish-American war is to be erected opposite the armory.Andrew Carnegie has promised to give Brown $150,000 fora library building, on condition that the alumni raise $150,-000 additional. The new library will be named after JohnHay, secretary of state, who was a member of the class of'58at Brown, and a member of ® A X, who died July i, 1905.The Wharton School of Finance and Economy, Universityof Pennsylvania, by an overwhelming vote has decided tointroduce the "honor system" in that department. It will beapplicable to all classes, and if successful in the Whartonschool will probably be extended to the other departments ofthe college.Plans have been drawn for a new campus for the Universityof Georgia, which is to occupy part of a tract of 600acres, given by George Foster Peabody. The old collegegrounds are to be used as an entrance to the new and extensivecampus. The enlarged university is to include a collegeof agriculture.The attendance at the University of Kansas now reachesthe 1,500 mark. Legislative appropriations provide for completingthe law building and erecting a gymnasium. The universityhas absorbed three medical schools in Kansas City—College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medico-ChirurgicalSchool, and Kansas City Medical College.An article on athletics at Amherst in the New York Sun,February 4, says that the Barrett Gymnasium, opened atAmberst in 1859, was the first regular college gymnasium inthe United States. Twenty-five years later it was succeededby a new gymnasium, costing $60,000, probably ten times asmuch as the original building. The new natatorium will becomgled this spring.