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

THE SCROLL. 581ed of red wire-cut brick with brown stone trimmings, and three sides will besurrounded with a 12 ft. veranda. When completed it will compare mostfavorably with the best fraternity houses at State. The first floor consists ofa reception hall, parlor, music-room, smoking-room, dining-room, kitchenand pantry. The second and third floors are divided into five suits of rooms.Each suit consists of it bed-room and study and will be occupied by twomen, thus making it possible to easily accommodate twenty men in the house.The servant's apartments are separated from the rest of the house. A largehall is situated in the basement.The baseball season is now well under way and we have met and defeatedsuch teams as Virginia, Susquehanna, and Lehigh and suffered defeat atthe hands of Cornell, 2-1, after a most remarkable game of sixteen innings.We were also defeated by Dickinson in a loosely played game. Games withYale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, West Point and Lafayette will be playedduring this month.The prospects in track athletics, are very bright. We have at this datedefeated the "Indians," hut lost to Annapolis. Meets with Dickinson andWestern University of Pennsylvania are scheduled.Bro. Bates, '08, has withdrawn from college and re-entered Lehigh.Bro. Tinker,'o8, has also withdrawn but expects to re-enter in the fall. Wetake great pleasure in introducing to the fraternity. W. E. Fowler, '09,Montgomery, Pa.; initiated April 20, igo6'Bro. Housman, Pennsylvania Epsilon, a member of the Dickinson baseballteam was a visitor. Pennsylvania Theta celebrated its second anniversaryMay 10, 1906.R. SWI:NK.State College, May 14, 1906.BETA PROVINCE.VIRGINIA BETA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.Probably no one of the university schools is showing a greater advancementthan is the Medical department. The enthusiasm with which the newdean. Dr. Whitehead, has taken up his work here has infused new life intothe whole system. Dr. Alderman, by wise foresight and tireless energy,hasprevailed upon the finance committee to allow an increase of $117,500 in the "funds already expended on this department each year. This will make possible,the estaljlishment of several new full professorships besides equippinga new laboratory for physiological chemistry. The contract for a ^40,000addition to the hospital has just been let, and Sio,ooo will be expended inbetter equipping the free clinic. These facts cannot but give added prestigeto the medical school of the University of ^"irginia.\'irginia has made an enviable record in track athletics this year, and hasalso been unusually successful at baseball, winning a large percentage of thegames played.Interest in a chapter house is by no means dead, though at present thingsare pretty much at a standstill awaiting the reply of the board of visitors toour application for a lease of a building lot on the universitj' campus. Assoon as this question is settled, should ihey act favorably, immediate stepslooking to the erection of the house will be taken.A majority of the members of \"irginia Beta are planning to return nextyear and we hope to make it a record breaking year for our chapter.Charlottesville, M.-\y lu. 1906.T. DWIGHT SLOAN.