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

146 THE SCROLL.one, the Masonic Club, with thirty members. The fraternitiesplay a prominent part in college affairs and come infor many jests in the well-filled department of 'roasts.' Amedium of pointed pleasantries at the various chapters isan array of 'chapter minutes,' while the page, 'What theFrats Spike On," affords another excellent opportunity forcaricaturing prominent characteristics. The spiking argumentaccredited to 2 X was inevitable: Georgeadej ohntmccutcheonboothtarkingtonourboys{sic). The '03 Debris isdistinguished in having a * A ® editor-in-chief, as well astwo other members of the staff. $ A 0 stands well in studentaffairs generally, being represented on the weekly and'04 Debris, including president of sophomores, manager, assistantmanager and director glee and mandolin clubs, twoundergraduate elections to T B IT, two captains of cadets;and in athletics, having a director of athletic board, twomen on football team and two substitutes, two on trackteam, and one member and a substitute in basketball, besidesthe college delegate to the state athletic association.Liber Brunensis, '03, is a well-printed, well-ordered book,and shows the trained hand and the mark of tradition. Thetypographical taste is above criticism, yet it seems ,to areader of college publications that in so well edited a booka little freer rein might have been allowed to original effortin the way of arrangement, pictures, type, etc. This is notcriticism in an uncomplimentary sense, merely a suggestedregret that the Opportunity for allowing some of the subsurfacetalent to crop out was passed. -The '03 Liber is distinguishedby a valuable contribution from the pen of PresidentW. H. P. Faunce. It is a brief dissertation on 'TheFunction of Upper Classmen,' and is so very good we couldnot refrain from commending it to our readers by reprintingit elsewhere in this number of THE SCROLL. Another notablecontribution is by Professor Meiklejohn, dean and presidentof athletics, on the value of 'varsity athletics to theuniversity, in which he maintains that 'varsity athletics constitutethe most important social activity of the students, notfor the exercise it gives, nor the fun of it to the participants,nor as an advertising medium to attract students, but becauseit arouses College spirit, inspires a common enthusiasmin the whole student body, arraying them as a single corpsin competition with the students of another college; in short,the foremost of our recreations in which American students