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

THE SCROLL. 349of a long vacation and breaking up the lock step of the classsystems. Energetic students were enabled to do four years'work in three. . . . A denominational college musthave a denominational president, but if a university or collegeclaims to be administered undenominationally, it isabsurd at the same time to limit its president or trustees to asingle denomination. The case of the University of Chicagois in point. At present the choice of a successor to PresidentHarper seems to be limited to two or three good men, whenthe wide world should be open to their consideration. . .. . Many names are suggested, but the logical candidateis President E. Benjamin Andrews, of the University ofNebraska. He is a Baptist, and it is unfortunately a requisitethat the president shall always be a member of that denomination.He has proved himself an able administrator, bothin the universities of Brown and Nebraska, and in the stillmore difficult position of superintendent of the public schoolsof Chicago, which he did much to rescue from graft and corruption.He has no repugnance against taking money fromRockefeller, as is shown by the building which he obtainedfrom him, in spite of the opposition of the Nebraskapopulists. He is democratic in his educational principles,radical in his sociology, and has shown himself so fearlessand frank in his public speeches that he will never be suspectedof truckling to capitalism. — The Independent.INDIANA'S COLLEGE MEN IN CONGRESS.Indiana is the only state which has a solid delegation ofcollege bred men in the two houses of congress.Heretofore the state which ranked highest in this particularwas Massachusetts. The representatives of Massachusettsin the senate from very early days were college graduates,and the same rule applied to the Massachusetts delegation inthe lower house too. Of the present delegation from Massachusetts,two members were educated at Harvard, two atDartmouth, two at Amherst, two at the Boston Universityand two at West Point and Annapolis. Four members ofthe delegation were not educated at any university or collegiateinstitution—four out of fourteen.The Indiana men, however, have an unbroken record ofcollegiate education. The representative of. the Evansvilledistrict as well as the representatives of the Muncie and