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

214 THE SCROLL.One of the newest things in the pan-helletiic circles here was abanquet in honor of the football team, where some two hundredfraternity men gathered, singing songs, giving the college cheersand hearing toasts from our coach and former captains. This is oneof the most effective steps ever taken to get the freshmen of the differentfraternities acquainted. The hall was decorated with footballsand the university colors. The banquet will doubtless be anannual affair hereafter.Michigan, the crack team of the 'big nine' for the last two years,has proposed a game with Nebraska, whose record for the past twoseasons has been so brilliant.CHARLES STUART.Lincoln, December 4, 1903.COLORADO ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO.Colorado Alpha wishes to introduce to the fraternity Bros. Ferguson,'07, Bakersfield, Cal.; Tiffany, '07, Longmont, Colo., andAnnis, '07, Fort Collins, Colo,, who have been initiated since our lastletter to THE SCROLL. We now have sixteen active men, with thirteenin the chapterhouse.The football squad has just completed a very successful season,having easily won the state championship. Kansas defeated us bya score of 12 to 11, and Nebraska, 31 to 0. Thanksgiving the MissouriSchool of Mines was defeated at Boulder by a score of 39to o in thirty-nine minutes of play, and was so crippled that thegame had to be called four minutes after the opening of the secondhalf. Bros. Cook and Fleishman, of the Kansas team, and Black,of the Missouri School of Mines team, visited the chapter.Bro. Annis is playing on the basketball team, and Bro. Strayer iscaptain of the baseball team.The university feels deeply the loss occasioned by the deaths ofDr. Allin and Prof. Crouch. Prof. Green, late of Cornell, has takencharge of the mechanical engineering department. Dr. Ramaley hasjust left for the far East on a year's leave of absence to make a studyof the animal life found there.Louis G. KELLER.Boulder, December 17, 1903.ETA PROVINCE.MISSISSIPPI ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI.Mississippi Alpha must begin her first letter of the season with anapology for not having a letter in the October SCROLL. We lost ninemen by graduation last year, one of whom returned this year totake law. Bro. Magruder left school early last session to accept aposition as civil engineer on the road from Natchez to the gulf.Bro. Barrett, '05, went to Vanderbilt. Bro. Ethridge, '05, marriedduring the middle of the session. Bros. Draw, McCool and Bourdeauxcould not return this fall, but expect to be back again nextyear. We were much weakened by this loss, having returned butfour men, Bros. Henry, J. S. and W. G. Yerger and Kimbrough.However, we have won our full share of victories over our rivals,and take great pleasure in presenting to the fraternity Bros. Robert