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

490 THE SCROLL.form the methods which are almost uniformly employed bychapters in connection with the introduction of new members.Fraternities are attempting to maintain a dignifiedposition in other fields, and the only way to command the respectof the public at large is to see, not only that nationalorganizations are conducted in a respectable and businesslikeway, but that all of the methods employed by individualchapters shall be above reproach.—2 X Quarterly.COLLEGIATE,"The College Man and the College Woman" is the nameof a book just issued by Haughton, Mifflin & Co.Over i,ooo students are enrolled in the various departmentsof the agricultural college of the University of Wisconsin.The honor system of conducting examinations at Amhersthad its first real test in the recent semester examinations andit proved a success.Two new dormitories will be built at Dartmouth duringthe coming year, to be known as North and South Fayerweather,one accommodating 45 men, the other 56.Joseph I. Irwin, of Columbus, Ind., has offered ButlerCollege $100,000, on condition that $150,000 be raised fromother sources.—Indianapolis correspondence of 2 X Quarterly.Andrew Carnegie has offered Amherst $75,000 for newbiological and geological laboratories, on condition that anequal amount be secured by the college, which doubtlesswill be done.The new edition of "College Songs" just published by theOliver Ditson Company, Boston, adds to the old and perennialfavorites a number of new ones that have attained popularityin some of our colleges.Gettysburg has received the library of 2,500 volumes whichbelonged to the late Dr. J. H. W. Stuckenburg, of Wooster,Ohio, also two desks which belonged to Alexander von Humboldt,on one of which he wrote his immortal "Cosmos."