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

6oo THE SCROLL.dance hall, meeting room and billiard room in a suite of apartments inFulton's business section. On April 24 the building was destroyed by fire,taking with it nearly all our furniture and furnishings, including a piano,billiard table, pennants, etc. Our loss is estimated at $400 which we areworking hard to recover amongst ourselves and alumni.Westminster's track team, of which Bros. Powell and Mclntyre are members,meets Central College at Fayette, Mo.Bro. Lasley was elected captain of next year's baseball team, by a voteof 8 to 5. W. E. E. KOEPLER.Fulton, May 25, 1906.KANSAS ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.The University of Kansas closes on June i. The past year has been avery prosperous one for the university. The people of the state are beginningto understand more fully the importance of the university to the state and itis now possible to obtain sufficient funds for the maintainance of a fiist classuniversity.The hill upon which the university is situated is being graded and soddedand when this work is completed we will have one of the most beautifulcampuses in the West. The new gymnasium is well under way. KansasAlpha will probably return about fifteen men next year.We will be in the same house next year our efforts to secure a new housefor next year not having up to dale materialized.The baseball season which is just closing has been more successful thanusual for Kansas. We beat our old rival, Nebraska, in two out of threegames. We lost two games to Missouri but hope to make up for them inthe games that are yet to come.A new branch of athletics has just been opened here. Tennis has receiveda boom and a university tournament has just been finished in whichBros. Eaton and Newman won the doubles and Bro. Eaton won the singles.Bros. Eaton and Newman went to Baldwin May 23 to represent KansasUniversity in a tournament against Baker. They were victorious in bothdoubles and singles and are now inter-scholastic champions of Kansas.Honors which Phis of Kansas Alpha have won since the last letter are asfollows: Bro. Johnson is captain of the varsity ball team and Ben Young,a pledge, plays first base on the team. Bros. VanCleave; Cooke, Neff andBoyle played on the various class teams and Bro. Boyle was manager of thefreshman team. Bros. Eaton and Newman are champions of the universityin tennis. Bros. Neff and Newman were on the senior play committee andBro. Neff had one of the principal parts in the play.Lawrence, May 22, 1906.S. K. CooKE.COLORADO ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO.Since our last letter we have initiated five men and it is with great pleasurethat we introduce them to the fraternity at large. They are: CharlesHodson, of Galena, Illinois; Fred Castelluci, of New York City; LawrenceMcPheeters, of Natchez, Miss.; Earl Keller Carmichael, and Paul WilesCarmichael, of Trinidad, Colorado.The baseball team of this season is one of the best the university has everturned out. Bros. Sevier, Snyder and Strayer are on the team. Bros. Bonnellis manager and Bro. Hodson assistant manager. The results of thegames so far played are: Colorado g, Denver University 5: Colorado 14,Denver University 4; Colorado 12, Colorado College i; Colorado 10, Colo-