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

228 THE SCROLL.The athletic association of Cornell University has decidedto build racing shells as a commercial enterprise, and willundertake to fill all orders for boats. .\ skilled boat builderhas been engaged and a regular shop will be opened. Thereis at present a large demand for Cornell boats. Harvard hasordered a new eight-oared shell for her 'varsity race againstYale in June, and the University of \Vashington has ordereda new eight-oared shell. This is the first time that an Americancollege association has undertaken such an enterprise.The University of Wisconsin, at commencement in June,will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. Fivedays will be devoted to the celebration. The first class,graduated in 1854, was composed of two men; the list ofgraduates now numbers nearly five thousand. PresidentVan Hise, recently elected, will then he formally inaugurated.University presidents from all parts of the UnitedStates will be present, and distinguished scholars fromEurope will deliver addresses on special topics. A waterfete on Lake Mendota is a novel feature of the program.Yale's great dining hall, the largest of the bi-centennialstructures, which, with its equipment, cost several hundredthousand dollars, has for two years been running behind,the total deficit for the two years being about $44,000. Beginningwith a total number of students of about 1,000,. oralmost its full capacity, it has at times fallen to about 600.There have been several causes of the trouble: (i) Foodand cooking irregularly bad; (2) the development of the'tipping' system; (3) an unlooked-for rise in the cost ofstaple provisions; and (4) probably unexpected cost in theoperation of the kitchen.The committee which will control the award of theRhodes scholarships in America is being formed. Therewill be one representative from each state on the committee.Those states which have state universities will send thepresidents of these institutions to act on the committee; theother states will send the presidents of their larger institutions.The following is a list of the men who will representother states not represented by the presidents of-stateinstitutions: New York, Nicholas M. Butler, Columbia;Connecticut, Arthur T. Hadley, Yale; Massachusetts,Charles W. Eliot, Harvard; New Hampshire, William J.Tucker, Dartmouth; New Jersey, WoodrowWilson, Prince-