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

i8o THE SCROLL.Chapter Correspondence*ALPHA PROVINCE.QUEBEC ALPHA, M'GILL UNIVERSITY.As intimated in our last letter, our goat has been quite busy oflate. The following signed the Bond during the fall term and are nowintroduced to their brothers for the first time: William HoraceWood, medical, '04; Ernest Evelyn Sinclair, medical, '05; JohnAlexander McDonald, medical '05; Melville Louis Hibbard, science,'06; Alphonso Lester Sharp, science, '06; Stanley John Crocker, arts,'06; George Elliott Housser, arts, '06.Before this is read the following, of '07, will also have been dulyinitiated: Alexander Harold Taylor, arts; Ernest Hastings Jordan,science; Charles Wales Drysdale, arts.This brings our chapter strength up to twenty-one, of whom twelvelive in the house, and fifteen gather around the table.A rehearsal of our sports' record is not a very brilliant one as regardsvictories for our teams, although none of these were weak. Infootball we managed to defeat Qiieen's twice, but we" went down beforeour other rival, Toronto, whose team did not lose an intercollegiategame. Thus we had to relinquish possession of the cupafter only one year's tenure. In the intermediate series Queen's defeatedMcGill in the finals, and so this championship was also lost,although in both senior atid intermediate series it was the last gamewhich decided matters. In the intercollegiate sports Toronto competedagainst McGill at Montreal, and although we have held thiscup for the past four years Toronto scored a surprise and a victoryby a goodly margin of points.In the elections to the various offices this year, besides those previouslyreported, the following brothers have been honored: Likely,football captain '05; McDonald, secretary-treasurer junior year;Landry, medical dinner committee; Hibbard, hockey captain, science,'06; Crocker, vice-president arts, '06, president of sophomore year,class pin committee; Housser, class pin committee. Besides theseBro. Bell, '06, brought honor to himself by winning the Scott Exhibitionof $50, the only one offered to second year Science.This year we have been more in touch with other chapters thanever before, and this contact has helped us. Bro. Sellery, '04, wasour delegate to Alpha province convention, and he speaks loudly inpraise of the Syracuse brothers as entertainers, to say nothing of thesuccess of the convention as such. Besides, some of our brothershave been royally entertained at the initiation banquets of sisterchapters, Bro. Drysdale, '04, attending that at Dartmouth November30, and Bros. Crowell, '04, and Hibbard, '06, that at Verfhont December4. All report excellent times and bring back glowing andstimulating accounts of these chapters. We have enjoyed the visitsof several Phis, Bro. Dr. John B. Shaw, toastmaster at the New