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

156 THE SCROLL.ager of basketball team, two men on track team, collegegymnast, and winners inter-frat. baseball; member Studentboard, and one on staff Monthly; secretary '04 Olio board,and editor-in-chief '05 Olio.THE NEW WABASH CHAPTERHOUSE.Not a dollar raised on June i, 1903; the chapter installedin its own house on January i, 1904—such is the record ofseven vigorous months in the career of Wabash chapter. Itis a story such as one likes to tell in these days of thingsdone quickly. It is a story of energetic hustling on the partof determined undergraduates; of enthusiastic response onthe part of alumni. The active men furnished the steam—and lots of it—and their full proportion of goods; thealumni, won by the earnestness and strength of purpose oftheir younger brothers, furnished the remainder of thewherewithal. And so Wabash chapter in her fifty-fourthyear comes into possession of a home of her own, beginninglife anew, and beneath her own roof entering upon a newand fuller existence, which by virtue of an honorable anduseful career she has long justly deserved.An excellent description of the house is given in a circularletter issued to the chapter's alumni by the chapterhousecorporation:'Few, if any, of those who received our circular letterduring the summer months, dreamed at the time that achapterhouse movement would ever materialize at WabashCollege, but those who gave their support have long sincelearned of the success of the movement, and we now announceto all that the property on the corner of College andWalnut streets, known as the Goltra or Wasson Home, andwhich has been the dream of every enthusiastic fraternityman for twelve years back, is now in reality the home ofIndiana Beta chapter. This property has been for sale forsome time, and when the directors made an offer of $7,000for it, after some negotiation it was accepted. The propertyis an excellent bargain, and worth on the market at anytime the price paid. There is not in the city of Crawfordsvillea house so well adapted to the use of our chapter inevery particular. Besides being but one block from the collegecampus, it is located in the best residence district of