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

48O THE SCROLL.fives. Three Sigs are members of the present house. Isn'tit about time in publishing such lists, to retire the honoraryworthies, John G. Carlisle, L. O- C- Lamar and William Mc­Kinley, the two latter deceased?The Missouri School of Mines, a department of the stateuniversity, is located at RoUa, Mo., in miles northwest ofSt. Louis, on the St. L. & S. F. R. R. There are about225 students enrolled in the different engineering and scientificcourses. Four fraternities are represented—2 TS, K A,K 2, n K K.—Shield and Diamond of II K A.The 2 X Quarterly, quoting from a symposium on fraternitiescontributed by college presidents and professors to theNew York Tribune, says that a professor emeritus at Princetonwrote with sorrow, which was evidently genuine, that theclubs at Princeton, which seem to be identical with "locals"at other institutions, have at last ruined the two ancientliterary societies, in the interest of which fraternities havebeen barred out of Princeton for so long."Answering the charge of the 2 A E Record that K .\"picked up another honorary member," a professor in FloridaState College, the K A Journal reiotts: "Unlike 2 A E, K Ahas never had an honorary member. Our law permits theinitiation, as active members, of professors in institutions atwhich we have chapters." This may pass for a quibble, butnevertheless college professors who have been initiated intoa fraternity for college students are virtually honorary members,and the standing of a fraternity will not be raised bysuch initiations.Besides 2 X, 2 A E and B ® II, which have recentlyentered Iowa State College, there are two local societieswhich are applying for charters from national fraternities.The n B * sorority re-entered the college in February. TheArrow of II B * says: "in the ten years from 1895 to 1905the number of students has increased from 500 to 2,200, thenumber of the teaching force from 42 to 116, the support fundexclusive of the Experiment Station fund from $56,000 to$170,000, the graduates from 71 to 165. The college propertyis today worth over a billion and a half dollars."The Recordsa.ys that the song book committee of 2 A E,'after two years of endeavor, has succeeded in gettingtogether but 36 songs, and even all of these are not up to the