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

THE SCROLL. 411The chapter is hard at work at the present time as this is the busy seasonof the year. Our annual banquet took place on February 9, and was agreat success. Plans for the new chapter house were discussed and at presentthings look bright for the erection of a house next fall at the least.Alumni day occurs on the I5lh and we have arranged for a minstrel showand a smoker.Bros. Whitmeyer and Dexter are out for baseball positions and Bros.Murry and Weaver are on the freshman crew squad. Bro. Weaver has beenelected captain of the freshman basketball team and Bro. Grandey memberof the Onondagan board from the law college. We have recently pledgedOrle Waugh, '09, of Rochester, N. Y.Syracuse, March 10, 1906.HENRY M. DEXTER.PENNSYLVANIA ALPHA, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.All the members of the chapter have returned for the work of the springterm in excellent spirits.During the vacation the baseball team went on its annual southern trip.Although the weather made it necessary to cancel a large number of games,in the games that were played the team showed up well and gave promise ofbeing a winning one. Bros. I-ong, '08, at second base, and Brooke, '09, inthe field, were our representatives on the team.The combined musical clubs have returned from their tour of the stateand report a very pleasant and succes.sful time. Bro. Alexander, '06, isleader of the mandolin club, of which Bros. Wright, '08, and Atherton, '09are members.The bowling team although not as successful in its games away fromhome, as we had hoped, nevertheless feels sure that it will be able to give abetter account of itself on the home alleys. Bro. Kirkpatrick, '08, is managerof the team.. In the inter-fraternity bowling tournament our team finished tie for secondplace with Delta Upsilon, and the deciding game has not yet been rolled.The tournament was won by Delta Kappa Epsilon and proved itself so interestingthat it has been decided to institute another one next year.The mid winter play of the Sock and Buskin proved quite a success andwas one of the most interestingwever given by the association. Bro. Alexander,'06, and Bro. Heustis, '08, were in the cast.The prospects for a good track team are very bright. Nearly all the oldmen are back and there are a number of promising new candidates. Bro.Bolt, '09, is trying for the distance events.Easton, April 4, 1906.F. S. WELSH.PENNSYLVANIA BETA, GETTYSBURG COLLEGE.On March 15, Gettysburg added another leaf to her laurels when she wonthe first place in an inter-collegiate oratorical contest, in which Lafayette,Wisinus, Franklin and Marshall, Muhlenberg and Gettysburg were represented.This contest was held under the auspices of the inter-collegiateoratorical union, of which the above-mentioned colleges are members.The basketball season was brought to a very successful close by the defeatof Bucknell university on March 3. The team has done extremely well,winning eight out of eleven games played. Bro. Singmaster, '07, and Bro.Benjamin Philson, '09, were elected captains of their respective teams inbasketball. Bros. Donald Huber, '08, and Mahlenberg, '08, also made theirclass teams. Bro. Singmaster was our representative on the varsity squad.