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

THE SCROLL. 417good men—feel any compunction of conscience in flunking the fellow whodoes not measure up to that standard. We are proud of this high standardand we trust that the future years will witness no relaxation in the demandior sound scholarship.The baseball team played its second game of the season on April 2. Theopposing team was West Virginia University. We were beaten. The game,however, was a close one. Despite this slight reverse we feel that we havegood ground to expect flattering result from this season's record. West Virginia'svictory here was but a squaring up of last year's account, for beit said in this connection that we defeated them last year.Lexington, April 4, 1906.WILLIAM FINLEY SEMPLE.NORTH CAROLINA BETA, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.The center of most general interest here at this time of the year is ofcourse the baseball team and we are indeed glad to be able to say that ourteam has shown up remarkably well during the small part of the seasonwhich has already passed. Although the games which have been playedthus far were not the most important ones, yet in all of them we have beenvictorious and the proficiency to which the team has already attained givespromise of better things to come. The scores with the respective teamswhich the varsity has already matched are as follows; Bingham School 18 toi; Sharp's Institute, 4 to 3; Wake Forest, 6 to 5; Lafayette College, 5 to 3;and A. and M. College, 7 to 3. Capt. Stem has sufficient reason to feelproud of the team which the season has produced.On the night of April 2, Messrs. Jerome K. Jerome and Charles BattellLoomis lectured before a very large and cultured audience in Gerrard Hall.To say that the audience was entertained by these two widely gifted and universallyrenowned men of letters would express it but mildly. It was a hardquestion to decide as to which of the two was the more amusing; each in hisown individual style of humor, but they were both fully enjoyed to the utmost.The rule has recently been passed by the advisory committee that hereafterno admission fee shall be charged to any one of the several class gamesplayed here during the course of the year. A very small fee has hithertobeen charged, the proceeds to be i:sed in defraying whatever expenses theteams might have incurred and the balance to be returned to the athleticassociation for the use of the grounds. During the past year or two, however,there has either been no balance or the managers have been very laxabout turning it in. To put a stop to this the above was decreed by thecommittee not only for this reason but also in the belief that were the admissionto be made free it would have a tendency to promote a more generalinterest in class athletics among the students.And again, we are reminded of the fact that a year has slipped by ussince our last annual letter, by the call for another. It is indeed hard torealize. We are very sorry to have to report that on account of such apaucity of numbers among us we were unable to make any celebration onAlumni Day. Yet we hope that we are the only ones who failed to do soand we look forward with pleasure to the accounts of the numerous joyfulcelebrations by the other chapters, in the forthcoming issue of THE SCROLL.Bro. Stem is a candidate for the glee club which is at present planning avery extensive trip through the state. They expect to leaveon April 13 andduring the trip the following towns will be visited: Greensboro, Winston,Raleigh, Kinston, Charlotte, Salisbury, Goldsboro and one or two others,the whole trip consuming from ten to twelve days.Chapel Hill, April 4, 1906.F. M. WELLER.