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

iS4 THE SCROLL.the season. Bros. Winslow and Ormsby, '07, both earned their classnumerals in football.Bros. Woodruff, '04, King, '03, and Abercrombie, '05, have visitedthe chapter during the fall. Bro. A. P. Newell, '05, was the chapter'sdelegate to the Alpha province convention at Syracuse, whereNew York Delta gave all visiting Phis a royal welcome. Bro.Pruyn, '05, was the representative of the chapter at the initiationbanquet of Massachusetts Beta.ALBERT P. NEWELL.Williamstown, December 6, 1903.RHODE ISLAND ALPHA, BROWN UNIVERSITY.The first term is gradually drawing to a close and examinationsare upon us. It was thought for some time that Brown was to undergoan invasion of typhoid fever, but the epidemic, if it was one,,has been checked and there are only six cases in all at the presenttime, three of whom, I am sorry to state, are Phi Delta Theta men,,Bros. Huff, '06, Kelley, '06, and Marshall, '06: Bros. Huff and Marshalare gradually convalescing, but Bro. Kelley's condition is quiteserious.Bro. Mclntyre, who represented us at Syracuse, returned withglowing accounts of the province convention.We received a hasty visit from Dr. Brown, P. G. C, on November28. Only a few of the active chapter were present to welcome Bro_Brown, yet these few greatly enjoyed meeting him, and our onlyregret is that more of us could not have met him.The Br-own Union, which has been looked forward to for two orthree years, is now nearly completed and will be occupied next term.The officers who are to have the Union in hand are to be electedfrom the student body, thus making it altogether a student affair.The hockey team has begun its practice, as has the basketballteam. The hockey team is composed mostly of new men, while thebasketball team is made up wholly of last year's team, and its prospectsare good.Brown closed her football season on Thanksgiving Day with a verydisastrous defeat at the hands of Dartmouth, the score being 62-0.We must congratulate Dartmouth on her superb team. Brown wasdefeated by Princeton 29-0, by Harvard 29-0, and by Pennsylvania30-0. She won from Williams 22-0, from Vermont 24-0, and fromSyracuse 12-5.Our debating team has just returned from their annual debatewith Dartmouth, who received the decision. Bro. Mclntyre led theBrown team.The senior class elections resulted in the election of Bro. N. B.Judah as chairman of the class day committee and Bro. Mclntyre asspeaker at the class tree. Bro. Huff, '06, is vice-president of hisclass. Bro. Mclntyre was also elected chairman of the celebrationcommittee.B. H. BUXTON.Providence, December 15, 1903,