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

6Q4 THE SCROLL.trustees held their spring meeting here on April 23; following the generalidea of the president they seem to be fond of doing strenuous things. Thechairs of English and rhetoric and oratory were combined and Prof.Bishop, S A E, elected for this chair. Dr. Dupree was re-elected to thechair of Greek. The salaries of the deans were reduced to the same asthose of all professors and the election of other professors was postponedtill the June meeting of the board.Our baseball team was very successful, having taken a series from astrong team from Clinton as well as Texas and Tulane. The faculty weregenerous again and gave us a holiday on May il, so we went to Kosciuskowith the team and were entertained by the people of that town in a mosthospitable manner; while there we passed the day with Bros. Ray, R. L.Lewis, Adams, Sawyer, Kelley, Smylhe and met two pledges from OhioBeta. More than ever before was the interest manifested in field day sportswhich came off on the loth. Mississippi Alpha had but one representativebut he alone carried away more honors than the several representatives ofsome of our rivals. With no training Bro. Kimbrough took first in thehurdle race, broad jump, loo yard dash, hop step and jump, running jump,and broke the record for the pole vault which was held by Bro.~ Howze,ex-'o5. Tom Hammond, AKE, all-western full, who has played under"Hurry Up" Yost on the Michigan team for three years, has been signedto coach our football team this fall.Wiih our sister chapters commencement and closing the year's work issad because the men who have been together through college, the standbys and wheel horses of the chapter who have guided the chapter for yearsmust leave and direct their energies in other fields; with us this is true tosome extent, but we have only two seniors—Bros. Kimbrough and Yates—and there is another side, because when we return next fall we can "set"the men we have been sitting around all this year. We will return all ofthe present chapter except Bro. Kimbrough and several of the other brothershave said that they will be with us next session, which will give us aboutfifteen boys to start the year; and there are seven star freshmen who haveolder brothers in the chapter and in our next letter we hope to report themin the flock also. We are sure to be back at our former numerical strengthand our prospects are exceptionally good for » banner chapter.University, May 22, 1906.ROBERT SOMERVILLE, JR.LOUISIANA ALPHA, TULANE UNIVERSITY.We take great pleasure in presenting to the fraternity our latest initiate,Bro. Abner Charles Chappins of Rayne, La., who is attending the law department.There has been a great amount of interest manifested here in trackathletics this spring. The Tulane track team was entered in two meets.The first, a triangular meet with Vanderbilt and Texas, resulted in a tie betweenVanderbilt and Tulane, each team scoring 39 points Texas 34.Several southern records were smashed in this meet—notably the high jumpand pole vault by Texas and the 220 yard loyr hurdles by Tulane. We hadthe great pleasure of meeting Bros. Noel and Proctor of the Vanderbiltteam, and also met Bro. Wardon A. Curtis, Wisconsin, '89, and Bro. C. P.Henry of Mississippi Alpha at the track meet. Later Tulane won the interstatemeet from Louisiana State University and Southwest Louisiana Industrialand Mississippi A. & M. college, scoring twice as many points as theother three teams combined. Only one man was entered by Tulane in theS. I. A. A. meet held in Nashville, but he won second place for his university,beating Sewanee, Cumberland and Tennessee. Vanderbilt won the