1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

loo THE SCROLL.Chicago is starting a movement to do away with chargesfor admission to athletic games, and put all athletic work ona permanently endowed basis. It is believed that by banishinggate receipts many of the evils arising from athleticscan be avoided.Prof. James Mark Baldwin, of Princeton, has beenappointed head of the new department of philosophy andpsychology at Johns Hopkins and will continue to reside atPrinceton, going to Baltimore two or three times a week togive his lectures.Brown is to have a clock tower on the campus, to be ofgranite, and a hundred feet high. It is called the BajnottiMemorial Tower, being the gift of Mr. Paul Bajnotti, ofTurin, Italy, erected in memory of his wife, a former residentof Providence.It is claimed that Amherst's new observatory, to be readynext year, will contain the largest telescope in New England,the objective glass being 18 inches in diameter, andthe tube 24 feet long. The building is the gift of alumniand friends of the college.Mrs. Stanford has recently presented a most valuable andunique collection of relics, antiquities and curios lo themuseum of Stanford University. The collection is onemade by the Stanford family and is said to include manyarticles of great value and of special interest.William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette,writer of magazine articles and author of short stories,has been chosen dean of the new department of journalismin Kansas University. Mr. White is an alumnus of KansasUniversity, class of '90, and is a member of * A ®.A Students' Hospital Association has been in successfuloperation at Illinois for a year, the purpose being to accumulatea fund to pay the expenses of its members whenthey are ill enough to need hospital care. It is a voluntaryorganization and the fee is fifty cents a semester.At the annual-meeting of the Inter-collegiate Lawn TennisAssociation, held recently in Philadelphia, it was decided tosend a challenge to the English Universities, Oxford andCambridge, for a series of international matches to be playednext summer. It is likely that the British team will beasked to come to America.