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

THE SCROLL. 227The University of New Zealand is an examining body,having general control over four affiliated colleges. Therewere about 1,000 undergraduates in the University of NewZealand in 1901, when the census showed that the numberof persons in the country between the ages of sixteen andtwenty-one was 102,000. The university examinations areconducted by examiners resident in England and Scotland.James H. Hyde, of New York, has established a residentfellowship for two years in Harvard, paying $600 a year,to be filled by a Frenchman selected by the Minister of PublicInstruction of the French republic. The French Ministryof Public Instruction, in friendly response, has establisheda like fellowship in the University of Paris, to befilled by a Hai^ard student or graduate on the recommendationof the president of Harvard.In order to accommodate the rapidly increasing needs ofthe summer school of civil engineering, Columbia Universityhas purchased nearly 600 acres of land at Morris, Conn.,including a farm hitherto leased, for permanent quarters forthe school. Two of the new buildings required have alreadybeen constructed, and it is hoped that the remainder may becompleted before the coming summer. Each of the newbuildings contains nineteen rooms and accommodates fiftystudents.A memorial will be erected at Purdue University to thePurdue football team killed in the Big Four railroad wrecknear Indianapolis. Nearly all of those killed in the wreckwere athletes, and a gymnasium has been suggested by thecitizens of Lafayette, Ind. (where Purdue is situated).Governor Durbin has started a subscription, heading the listof donors. The citizens of Lafayette are willing contributorsto the fund, and many of them have already signedtheir names for liberal amounts.The Syracuse Daily Orange, the student publication ofSyracuse University, is now being printed in a shop ownedand operated by students. Syracuse is the third university tohave such a plant. Brown and Columbia have shops controlledby students. The printing plant is owned by a corporationknown as the Orange Publishing Company, the directorsand stockholders of which are all students. In theprinting shop all but the foreman are students. New machineryand type to the value of $1,500 has been installed.