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

THE SCROLL. 347ings. It is announced that two buildings, the veterinary andengineering buildings, will be ready for use next September.The attendance has risen from 3,096 in 1904, to 3,703 thisyear.Regular chapel services are now being held in the newThompson memorial chapel completed last year, and the oldchapel is being transformed into a recitation hall. MorganHall, partially destroyed by fire a year ago, has been rebuilt,and, with West College, is now the best dormitory on thecampus. Berkshire Quadrangle is in course of construction,and, in addition to Berkshire Hall, to cost $80,000, extensionsare being made to South College, where there havebeen interior improvements. A large swimming tank is beingconstructed in Lasell gymnasium, and the locker rooms havebeen remodeled. A baseball cage is being constructed onWeston Field. The new * A ® house is in course of constructionand A Y and A A * have remodeled and improvedtheir houses.—Williams correspondence of AY Quarterly.The University of Wisconsin, which now boasts of 2,745students in all departments, had only 436 twenty-five yearsago, when the population of Wisconsin was 1,315,497; Minnesota,with a present enrollment of 3,790 had but 271 studentsin 1880 for a population of 780,773; and Nebraska,with 2,728 now, had but 373 in 1885 for a population of atleast 675,000. The University of Oregon has 600 studentsfor a population of 418,536, and Washington something overa thousand for 518,103, facts showing that these states aredoing more educationally in proportion to their populationthan have the three prominent central states. Both of theseinstitutions are doing strictly college work, having long sinceabandoned all preparatory instruction; and both demand asmany units for entrance as do the best known among the stateuniversities.—A T Anchora.Washington University has been the recipient of severalgifts. One is .a gift of $200,000 by Mrs. McMillan for theerection of a woman's dormitory, which will be completednext September. Charles Parsons, a deceased member of theboard of directors, leaves his fine collection of works of artto the university, with $75,000 for their care and for the purchaseof other portraits. Adolphus Busch and Robert S.Brookings have presented the Saalburg collection of Romanantiquities, consisting of fortified camps, implements and