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

152 THE SCROLL,chapterhouse, the house being now in course of" erection onthe campus. * A ©, 0 A X, 2 N, 2 X and * A K occupyrooms and maintain eating clubs. The movement to ownchapterhouses, started by the Dekes, has set in, and otherfraternities may be expected soon to acquire permanenthouses. * A © has a strong position at Lafayette. . Representedon the board of trustees by three alumni—James R.Hogg, '78, Dr. McCluney Radchffe, '82, and Carroll-Ph.Bassett, '83—the chapter has the inspiration of a fine record.With twenty-four members, the chapter's representation. in .student enterprises is wide. Some of the honors gained were:three class officers, '03; vice-president, '04; vice-president,'06; president and another officer Round Table; managerand one committeeman Sock and Buskin; representatives onglee, banjo and mandolin clubs; associate editor .Melange;associate'editor Touchstone; president Y. M. C. A.-; juniororatory prize; captain and manager of football team; secondbaseman baseball team.The 1904 Illio, coming in an attractive, cover. of, white,and blue, has by way of introduction a highly interestingcontributionfrom the pen of President Andrew S. Draper,to whom the book is dedicated. Under the title, 'A Leaffrom a Lawyer's Note-Book,' Dr. Draper tells a story from,life—names and dates only being changed^wherein he was'led against first impulses by a chance appeal from withina state's prison to befriend a life convict, sentenced under a'conviction for robbing the mails, and to secure his eventual:release, resulting in his complete rehabilitation into honora- •ble estate, and in Dr. Draper's eyes, at least, satisfactory'establishment of his protested innocence of an unexplainedcrime. The story is an unusual one, and is a notable featureof the book. Illinois' 3,288 students, faculties aggregating315, and free scholarships numbering 339, are subdividedinto the three separate schools in Chicago—-medicine, dentistry,pharmacy—and the university proper at Champaign,embracing all the other departments. Each of the fourestablishments has its own fabric of college life—class organizations,clubs, teams, fraternities, etc., the common interestbeing the administrative head. The Illio gives space •to the three Chicago departments to the amount of seventyfivepages. Our interest naturally attaches to the life atChampaign. The University of Illinois is a wide-awake, aggressiveinstitution, and its growth has been wonderful.