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

S50 THE SCROLL.cost of between 82,000 and $3,000. The house was built ata cost of S8,ooo, the entire amount being borrowed. Thisindebtedness had been decreased by $3,000. Our situation,then, is that we have a six-year-old house to be remodeledand will still owe the original cost, or S8,ooo—a discouragingsituation and made more so by the fact that many of ouralumni and active men are San Franciscans who met with severepersonal disasters, some losing all they possessed.The university has had man}' discouragements,man}' drawbacks,but of all this is the hardest. But yet one fact standsout strongly, buildings do not make a university. It is themen and the equipment, and fortunately in this disaster thereis little or no loss in that regard. We have our books, ourmaterial and our faculty. The show buildings are gone, butthe working plant is intact. We can go back to the oldbuildings that still remain the university to former students,and once more begin the climb up to the top which we hadnearly reached. We had just about passed beyond the periodof development, the "stone age" was finished, and next yearmoney was to be appropriated for new men, salaries were to beincreased and new life and new courage were evident. Now—the struggle over again.JOHN E. MCDOWELL, Stanford,'00.INITIATES OF THE CHAPTER GRAND.Ernest Merrill Bartlett, Amherst, '04,Died January 18, 1905, at Madison, Wisconsin.In Coelo Quies Est.•Frank Adrian Leach, Amherst, '92,Died January 19, 1905, at New York City.In Coelo Quies Est.Charles Blanchard Thompson, Amherst, '03,Died September 29, 1905, at Norway, Maine.In Coelo Quies Est.•John Bugher Kuhns, Butler, '84,Died January 1906 at Baltimore, Md.In Coelo Quies Est.