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

THE SCROTAL. 47TENNESSEE ALPHA, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY.The university has opened with a very large attendance in the academicand engineering departments. The other departments open a little later.The freshman class shows an increase, which is very gratifying on accountof the university's loss by fire last April. The work of replacing the burntbuilding is progressing favorably. The basement will be ready for occupationby pharmacy and chemical departments in the middle of October.These will be their quarters only until Furman Hall is erected. Work onthe new building will begin this fall. At present there is ample room forrecitations, a number of new rooms having been fitted up in the differentbuildings.Instead .of the usual rough manner of hazing, the sophomore class hasdecided to require the freshmen to wear fantastically colored caps in token oftheir humiliation and respect; and besides stringent rules are being enforcedon the campus, requiring freshmen to stay in their rooms.Dan McGugin is back coaching our football team. For a few days-at thebeginning of practice "Hurry Up" Yost was the guest of McGugin and wason the field giving some of the instructions which have made the Michiganboys so strong. Mr. Yost attracted quite a crowd of enthusiasts from thecity and what the boys learned from the grejit coach will not soon be forgotten.At this writing McGugin has the team in fine trim. After one ortwo minor games the team will go to Ann Arbor. The result of the meetingbetween possibly the best team in the United States and the southern boyswill be watched with great interest. Besides this game Vanderbilt's scheduleincludes games with all the best teams in the south. We are ably representedon the varsity by Bro. Manier, who is starring at full back, while Bros. Halland Thompson are making some of them work hard to keep their position.At commencement last year Bro. Paul DeWitt, a brother of the editor ofthe THE SCROLL, took founder's medal in the medical department. Bro.DeWitt's grade was the second highest ever made in that institution, for thefour years, and that after a protracted illness in his senior year. Bro. Sibleywas student representative at commencement.The opening of school has been a little dull for fraternity men on accountof the pan-hellenic agreement not to spike until the beginning of the secondterm. All the fraternities seem to be keeping good faith and the arrangementought to prove a benefit to them and the university.Besides losing by graduation Bros. Sibley, Baskervill, Barrett and DeWitt,Bro. Robert Rhea has left us for Lehigh University, Bro. Keeling for theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bro. McCoUum for ColumbiaUniversity. We are glad to welcome to school again Bro. Horace Allen,who has been doing some engineering work in the west.We have had the pleasure of seeing frequently at the chapter house, Bro.Will R. Manier, of Annapolis Naval Academy, Vanderbilt, '03; Bro. Somervilleof Mississippi Alpha, who is here awaiting the opening of the Universityof Mississippi; and Bro. Corney of Kentucky Epsilon.A large and delightful opening dance was enjoyed by the chapter and itsfriends on the evening of September 23.A. G. ADAMS, JR.Nashville, September 24, 1905.TENNESSEE BETA, UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.While all of our sister universities are entering upon a new year's work,•Sewanee looks forward to her winter vacation.Bros. T. J. Walthall, Jr., of San Antonio, Texas; E. C. Gude, Hartsdale,New York, and A. A. Stone, of Dellrose, Tennessee, have been initiated.