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

IHE SCROLL. 225Of the senators in the Fifty-eighth Congress, fifty-eightare college graduates. Of the congressmen, 215 out of atotal of 382 are college men.Washington and Lee is to have a new $30,000 dormitory,to be ready in the fall. The enrollment passes the 300 mark,greater than for many years past.The only woman's college in western Asia and southeasternEurope is the American College for Women atConstantinople. It was founded in 1871.The University of Pennsylvania Automobile; Club has invitedYale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia toparticipate in a series of auto races for an intercollegiatecharhpionship.Miss Laura Clement, a Wellesley student, has broken thecollege women's record in the lOO-yard dash. She made thedistance in 13 1-5 seconds. The former record, 14 2-5 seconds,was held by a Vassar girl.The University of Chicago has introduced the study ofJapanese, with Professor Rashiaka as head of the department.The course is introduced for the benefit of men whoare preparing to go as missionaries to Japan.A student house, similar in idea to the Harvard Union, -isto be erected for Radcliffe from a fund of over $100,000subscribed by the friends of Mrs. Louis Agassiz. The houseis to be known as the Elizabeth Agassiz House.Statistics recently published at Indiana University showthat of the women .graduates between the years i86g and1890 more than 70 per cent, married. In the last thirteenyears the percentage has been reduced to about 30.Harvard is second only to Leland Stanford in wealth.Owing to several recent bequests, its total wealth and propertyvaluation is $17,000,000, against $40^000,000 for LelandStanford. Girard College is third, with $15,000,000.There are said to be almost as many university teachers inthe United States- as there are university students in theUnited Kingdom,. The number of professors and instructorsin the universities and colleges included in the list ofthe United States commissioner of education is 17,000. Thenumber of students in British universities and universitycolleges is about 20,500.