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

THE SCROLL. 149lists of all organizations of whatever character in the university.The list of the 821 members of 1903, with photographand college record of each, would in itself make afair-sized volume. This irnmense class was divided as follows: literary, men, 142, women, 142; engineering, 83; law,243; medicine, 97; dentistry, 78; pharmacy, 21; homeopathy,15. 'Varsity athletics are accorded the place of prominenceafter the senior lists, and seventy-five pages are devotedto accounts of the various teams and their brilliantrecords. To Coach Yost, whose handhng of football atMichigan has resulted in such wonderful success for theteams and fame for himself, all praise is given; indeed hispedestal at Michigan seems a lofty and se'cure one, as theeditors pay him the high compliment of dedicating the book'To Yost.' That the football team is the pride of the universitythere can be no doubt. Every conceivable item concerningthe team, the season, the games, the players, coaches,trainers, etc^, is given and each football man is toasted andwritten up as a true hero. And each one updoubtedly is a.hero in the eyes of the Michigan men. Class baseball andfootball seem to prosper mightily; twelve baseball teams andfourteen football teams furnish effective training schoolsfor the 'varsity organizations. The devotees of cross countryrunning have a large club; there is also a fencers' club ofconsiderable size; basketball seems to be left to the women.The girls have a glee club of their own, but participate withthe men in the dramatic organizations. An event of the collegeyear, not as common in this country as might have beensupposed, is the student celebration of Washington's birthday.A noteworthy feature of the book, unique in our observation,is the alumni department. A prefatory remarkexplains that by this attention it is hoped to intensify theinterest of the alumni in the present doings of the university.Some interesting pictures are given, including thefirst two football teams, of '79 and '80, and a group of partof the class of '75. The main thing, however, is a list ofphotographs and four-line sketches of 600 and more alumni.This department will assuredly be of interest to Michigangraduates, although it would have been much better to havearranged the list in some order, so as to allow of ready reference.Mechanically the book is satisfactory; neverthelessone can hardly fail to regret that the conditions are such—.and we presume they are—as to preclude the exercise of