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

THE SCROLL. 137the book is of high order, and the printer showed talentand originality in the arrangement. While in a few placesthere is loss of dignity by reason of over-bold type, on thewhole the book, mechanically, is very creditable. Missouri'sathletics are on the up-grade. While the football team wasa disappointment and by a reversal of form lost the coveted.match with Kansas, the track team showed great improvementand gives promise of more. Basketball is given overentirely to the women students. The stronghold of Missouriappears to be debate, and much prominence is givento the debating teams, although the results are not alwaysmade clear to the outside reader. Annual debates are heldwith Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois, and Missouri has won9 in 14. The School of Mines at Rolla, a departinent ofthe university, has very meager representation in the book,consisting merely of two pages and those devoted, for somepeculiar reason, entirely to the sophomore class. The whereforeof the omission is not stated. By all odds, the mostremarkable thing in the book- is the arrangement of thefraternity lists, no attention whatever being paid'to chronologicalorder. HE* (1899) is first, followed by K K r(187s) ; then come K A (1891), B 0 n (1891), 2 X (1896),and in sixth place, followed by the rest, * A 0 (1870), whichaccording to long-established custom, being the oldest, shouldhave been first. There seems to have been only disregardof precedent in this, the two fraternity men on the staffbeing a * r A and a * A *, but our Missouri Alpha brotherswere surely not wide-awake to allow this right of precedenceto slip away. With a membership reduced to 14,much smaller than usual, and a majority of lower classmen,* A © makes a fair showing, though not occupying the predominantposition of former years.Buckskin covers and ties give a striking and originalappearance to The Cacttts of the University of Texas, issuedby the athletic association. This is another annualwith a * A © editor-in-chief, and in many ways it reflectscredit upon him and his staff. While there is somethingleft to be desired in the matter of typographical taste andgeneral mechanical make-up—this being rather a fault ofthe printer—on the whole the proper proportions betweenrecords and statistics, photographs and pictures, and ori9;inalcontributions, have been well observed, and an interestingbook is the result. A compliment which is well worth