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

358 THE SCROLL.by 17 feet. The entire room will be wainscotted in whiteenamel six feet high. There will be four weathered oak,oblong tables, capable of seating eight men at each table andchairs to match. The china will be Canton blue. Thesystem of class tables in use at Cornell will be followed; thatis, a table for each class.In the smoking room will be pictures of New York DeltaColumbia captains, also smaller pictures of our C men, andfrom time to time these pictures will be added to. Onefeature of the picture decoration will be fine houses owned byPhi Delta Theta chapters. A committee has in charge atthe present time the matter of exchanging photographs withother chapters.The present officers of the association are: Clarence L.Campbell, '06, president; Lewis E. A. Drummond, '90—L,treasurer; George C. Atkins, '02, secretary; E. V. Kehrlein,'07, and George Norris, '07, directors.BERNARD M. L. ERNST, Columbia, '99.EMORY COLLEGE AND GEORGIA BETA.Emory College is located at Oxford, Georgia. This village,of some seven hundred inhabitants, is situated fortymiles east of Atlanta, about eighty miles north of Macon,the seat of Mercer University, and fifty miles south of Athens,the seat of the University of Georgia. Covington, thecounty seat of Newton, in which county Oxford also is situated,is two miles distant. With this town, Oxford is connectedb}' a street railway; and, midway between the twotowns, is the station, known as Covington, on the old GeorgiaRailroad, extending from Atlanta to Augusta, and thenceto Charleston, S. C.Oxford is a natural park, for here is to be found one of thefew large groves of the state's native oaks. The collegecampus, consisting of some twenty acres, thickly woodedwith these immense trees, presents an appearance that ismost beautiful. Scarcely has nature done so much for anyother campus in the entire south. Situated on a graniteridge, extending from Atlanta southeast across the entirestate, the town is supplied with an abundance of excellentwater, and has a health record superior, it is said, to that ofany other college town in the United States.In 1836 the Georgia Conference (Methodist) appointed