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

THE SCROLL. 493be a monument to the work of the late William Rainey Harperas the university's president. The structure, to cost$2,500,000, will be much the largest college building of itskind in the world. It will cover an area of 80 by 216 feet onthe south side of the campus, facing the Midway Plaisance.The structure is to be in Gothic style, 100 feet high with atower in the centre rising to 260 feet. On the top floor willbe the main reading room, 75 feet wide, 216 feet long and40 feet high.The new law department of Trinity College, North Carolina,organized in the summer of 1904, has the highest entrancerequirements to be found in any law school in thesouth, completion of sophomore work being required. TheUniversity of the South requires the same entrance requirementsfor the law as it does for the academic department,this institution having the next highest requirements. TheTrinity law school requires a three years' course, the onlysouthern school demanding this much for the degree of LL.B. The plan marks a development in southern legal education.—K2 Caduceus.The 2 A E Record quotes the following from "some criticalwriter" in the Topeka Capitol, the editor of which is aPhi Delta Theta—William Allen White, Kansas, '90: "I hadalways had an idea that the undergraduate body at Harvardand the other big eastern colleges was of a sort differentfrom that with which I had been brought into familiar contact inthe fresh water colleges of the west. But the Harvard bunchhad a strangely familiar look. They were coming on everytrolley car the day we were in Cambridge, and while the proportionwas not so great as at Washburn, for instance, therewere a good many who looked as though they had yet totake their first lesson in sleeping in a nightshirt. And I concludedafter a careful scrutiny of the bunch, that the BudHickses do not all matriculate at K. U."The football rules committee have completed their work,but they have not yet gone to the root of the matter. To besure they have lengthened the distance to be gained on fourdowns from five to ten yards, they have allowed in certaininstances a forward pass, and they have increased the penaltiesfor rough play. But the ten yard gain is largely offset