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

140 THE SCROLL.$ A © is represented on the art staff. The book is not alarge volume, and much of the kind of information theordinary annual contains is not presented. It is mainly devotedto lists of the graduating classes, the fraternity chapterrolls, athletics, and original contributions of a comic orsatirical nature. The original drawings are almost all caricatures,even the picture introducing the senior lawyers beinga pudgy caricature of the figure Justice, trying the lawschool in the balance and finding it outweighed by Commonsense.From the standpoint of the printer the book is notup to the standard. It is Somewhat amateurish in^make-upand arrangement, and lacks the finish and artistic effect onehas learned to expect in college annuals. Even the smallmatter of Greek type is riot well carried out, the printer usingmakeshifts instead of providing a.larger font. Much ofthe original matter in the literary columns is in the natureof local hits and appreciable .only to K. U. undergraduates.Two or three lengthy pieces in blank verse areevidently the product of considerable effort. Two particular'grind'-ers, however, are entertaining to any reader—any who knows the college youth—'The K. U. Hall ofFame' and 'Mental Aberrations of the Omar Khayyamof K. U.,' both of which titles are suggestive enough. Thecleverest page in the book is a rough caricature of fraternitybadges, altering each in a manner to suggest the cardinalcharacteristic of its wearers. It makes a number ofvery neat hits. A certain impression gained from the Jayhawkeris the prominence of the co-eds at K. U. Out of16 members of '03 elected to * B K, 12 were women. The2 H page contains the naive statement that 'the Kansasand Yale chapters are the ones to which the fraternitypoints with most pride.' * A 0, with 3 faculty membersand 22 in the active chapter, occupies an influential position,holding various college and class offices. Five of the chapterbelong to © N E and one to * A *.The Gulielmensian, "Volume XLVII, of Williams, is asample of the highest excellence in the art of bookmaking.In its arrangement, typography, taste, and mechanical getupgeiierally it is most creditable, and the printers as wellas editors should be congratulated upon their work. Inthese days of fine printing, in sections where capable printersare available, there is no excuse for college publicationsl^eing Other than of a very high standard, for if our college