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

THE SCROLL. 209has been organized for advanced research in engineering lines. Newand extensive stone barns are to be erected for the agricultural departmentand are to be good specimens of architecture. The contractfor a woman's building has been let. More land has been bought bythe university, and when the plan has been completely worked outBurril avenue will run through the center of the campus, with thebuildings on either side.Illinois Eta has now a membership of twenty-nine, and twopledges. Storm Crie, of Chicago, and John Hazelwood were initiatedin December. Bros. Martin and Lewie Hertz, of Chicago, willnot return after the holidays.A banquet was given at the chapterhouse on Thanksgiving evening,the guests being the young ladies who were to attend the partygiven later in the evening. Our annual party is to be held on February12, and we cordially invite all our alumni and other Phis toattend the party, and also the banquet on the following evening.Illinois Eta is represented in many lines of university life. Bros.Rothgeb and Hazelwood are on the 'varsity football team. We havethree men on the class teams, three on the glee and mandolin. clubsand junior and sophomore class presidents.The alu.mni housebuilding association has been incorporated underthe state laws, officers elected and by-laws adopted. The chapterhousebuilding project is in the hands of a board of control consistingof three alumni and two members of the active chapter.Champaign, December 21, 1903.F, W. CUTLER.WISCONSIN ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.The University of Wisconsin will, no doubt, make more rapidadvancement under the policy of its new president, C. R. Van Hise,than it has in most preceding years. President Van Hise has expressedhimself as advocating the dormitory system, and attemptswill be made to secure donations to this end from other sourcesthan the state. The erection of a new $100,000 chemistry buildingwill be commenced shortly. This will prove a valuable addition,since the present building furnishes but poor accommodations to thelarge number of students taking the course.The tournament games of the newly organized inter-fraternitychess and bowling clubs are well under way, and the indications arethat the clubs will become permanent organizations.Wisconsin Alpha has been unfortunate in the loss of two activemembers this fall. Bro. James A. Walker, '04, of Rockford, 111.,who entered college this fall to complete his course in engineering,after having been absent for two years because of poor health, wasagain obliged to leave a short time after the opening of school.Bro. Robert L. Grant, '04, of Milwaukee, who has been sufferingwith pleurisy during the past month, has given up his work and willspend the winter in the South. One of our pledged men, RoumaineTolles, of Eau Claire, Wis., was unable to enter this fall and takethe work which he desired, because of a deficiency in his requiredpreparatory work. The chapter recently entertained and pledgedPaul G. Hawley, of Aurora, 111., thus increasing the number ofpledged men who will enter college next fall.Bro. Chester B. Roberts, '06, has been elected manager of the