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

13° THE SCROLL.lenge from the sophomores to the freshmen for a dual trackmeet and a series of football games, and the freshman classpresident accepts. All undergraduates join in the songs'Where the Vale of Onondaga' and 'Oh, Syracuse.' Whenthe crowd at last disperses, it feels it has seen the enteringclass duly initiated into college.The most important growth of the university has beenleft to the last. This is the increase in material resources.The great development in this line is due to the excellentfinancier at the head of the university, namely, ChancellorJames R. Day. He has the happy faculty of getting moneyto run the colleges, while at the same time making the moneyedmen staunch friends of the university. A brief summaryof finances for the last ten years, the time he has beenchancellor, will illustrate the point.Receipts from tuition and fees:Year ending June i, 1893 $29,548 04Year ending June i, 1903 97,000 00Total receipts from all sources including special subscriptionstoward endowment:Year ending June i, 1892 $117,045 24Year ending June i, 1902 779,3ii 00Total net resources:Year ending June i, 1892 $1,708,399 35Year ending June i, 1902 3.0S3.361 62Such is the brief but telling summary of the financialprosperity of Syracuse University. This need only becoupled with the increase in students from eight hundred totwo thousand in the last decade to complete the story.Syracuse University, possessed of an excellent faculty,fine location and splendid resources, is just coming to realizeits possibilities. Its past prosperity and its wonderful presentare but stepping stones to a grand future when it willenjoy undreamed of wealth and power.P'RATERNITY CONDITIONS.Among the men's fraternities, Delta Kappa Epsilon wasthe first to be established, in 1871. The chapter has recentlybuilt a beautiful house; it is of brick, trimmed with whitemarble. The national convention of A K E was held withthe local chapter in November. Delta Upsilon was estab-