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

420 THE SCROLL:good team. Coach Bailey has arrived on the mountain and hard work hasbegun. Bros. Watkins, Stone, Williams, and Shelton are on the squad.Sewanee will hold her annual debate with Vanderbilt on April 20. Itcarries with it a particular interest in that it decides the winner of the series.The southern intercollegiate oratorical association meets this year at theUniversity of North Carolina in the latter parf of May.The new university supply store, which was completed during the winter,has been recently occupied. It is a more ornate and handsome buildingthan was the former one.Owing to the fact that the university was not in session on March 15,Tennessee Beta will celebrate Alumni Day some time in May.Sewanee, April 5, 1906.R. BLAND MITCHELL.DELTA PROVINCE.OHIO ALPHA, MIAMI UNIVERSITY.The spring term of the university opened March 28 and seventeen of thechapter returned. A debate with De Pauw will be held in the early part ofMay. Bro. Newman will be one of the three men to represent Miami.The men trying for the baseball team have been practicing for severalweeks. If present indications are anything to judge from, Miami will havea ver\' strong team this year. Bro. Lloyd, who played short stop on lastyear's team, will in all probability play at the same position this year. Bro.Reed who is manager of the team, has an excellent chance to play right field,and Bro. De Maud will possibly make the team.It is the custom at Miami for the seniors to play the facultj- at baseball.A game has been arranged to be played in the near future. Bro. Reed iscaptain of the team.Ohio Alpha entertained a number of her friends with a reception at thefraternity house on the evening of February 16.Bros. Barnett, Newman and Blickensderfer attended the banquet onAlumni Day at Cincinnati, where they were very cordially entertained bythe Cincinnati alumni club.Ohio Alpha celebrated Alumni Day in a very enjoyable manner. Thealumni living in town were with us, as was Professor Hoke of IndianaGamma, a member of the faculty of the university. Bro. Blickensderferattended the banquet of the Miami alumni which was held in Hamilton onthe evening of March 3I.We have two new pledges, Mr. John Gamble of Lima, Ohio and Mr.Arthur Gee of Lawrenceville, Illinois, brother of Bro. Leslie Gee.Miami has a track meet with Cincinnati University the latter part of Mayand there is no reason why she should not win, as there are a large numberof men on the track team this year who are doing excellent work. Bro.Hildebolt won the second medal in the indoor athletic meet held March 8in the Herron gymnasium.Oxford, April 10, 1906.E. B. SOUTHWICK.OHIO GAMMA, OHIO UNIVERSITY.The college opened January 3. The outlook for a successful and wellattended term is good. The other two terms of this year have beenrecord breakers in numbers, enrolling more students than at any previousterms. The rapid increase has incited the jealousy of sister institutions, andhas made the task of obtaining the necessary appropriations from the legislaturea strenuous and arduous one. But thanks to the friends of the smaller