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

THE SCROLL. 135freshman president, senior vice-president and secretary,manager sophomore athletics, 3 of 7 members Raven'sClaw (senior), 5 of 12 members Sophomore Band; footballmanager and 5 men on the team, 4 winners in field sports,captain track team, representatives on track, relay, andbasketball teams, 2 men holding records and 6 winning the'D'; 3 men in one literary society and 7 in the other; presidentand 6 members Comus club; manager and 6 membersmusical association, and a representative in the dramaticclub; business manager and an editor of the Dickinsonian,editor-in-chief and one associate on Microcosm staff, withan assistant from the law school and a pledge from theprep, school, class day orator, representatives in public debates,and 4 winners of commencement prizes. There isthe usual plethora of pictures, and some of the drawingsare very creditable; it is not clear, however, whether thelatter are original contributions of undergraduates. A pleasingtouch is given the class histories by being prefacedeach with an apostrophe to the class in blank verse; theone for '04 is by Cheesman, * A ®. A really amusing accountof glee club adventures is given in a series of letters,'Tomnjy Tennor's Daily Letters to His Brother.' The bestjoke in the book—pointed by the fact that the law schoolis treated as a thing apart, being set at the end with theprep, school—is apparently unconscious—the law membersin the fraternity lists being set in each chapter under theengaging title, Fratres in Lege.An altogether unusual excellence in the drawings is thepredominant feature of the Syllabus of Northwestern. Thegreat profusion of original pictures, illustrating every varietyof subject, and exhibiting a surprising consistency inmerit, marks this book a noteworthy production. Most ofthe illustrations were drawn by an '03 man, who was atthe same time employed professionally as an artist by aChicago newspaper. His associate in making pictures forthe book was a fellow member of the same newspaper staff,inferentially also a Northwestern man, although it is not sostated. Some of the full-page cartoons deserve specialmention for their aptness, the introductory picture to thefraternity list—a death's head formed by the smoke ofAladdin's lamp, the crevices of the skull presenting otherinteresting and shadowy forms—being particularly wellworked out and a creditable improvement over the usual