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

THE SCROLL. 229,ton; Rhod^ Island,. W. H. P. Faunce, Brown; Maryland,Ira Rqnsen, Johns Hopkins; Kentucky, D. B. Gray,Georgetown; Illinois, W. R. Harper, University of Chicago.Foundations are being laid for the new Harvard MedicalSchool, and it is expected that by the fall of 1905 the schoolwill be in the new buildings, which are located near theFenway in Boston. The fund was started at commencementin. 1902, when a gift of $2,000,000 from J. P. Morgan wasannounced. Subsequently donations were received fromJ. D. Rockefeller and Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, togetherwith smaller contributions from friends of the university.Altogether a fund of $5,000,000 has been secured. Therewill be six large structures, five of which will be groupedabout three sides of a court 520 feet long and 215 feet wide.The sixth building, to be used as a power house, will standapart from the main group. The buildings alone will costover $2,000,000, and it is believed they will be the finestof their kind in the world. They are to be constructed entirelyof white Vermont marble, with the exception of theirbases, which will be of pink Milford granite. The MedicalSchool faculty are planning to have many affiliated hospitalsnear by.HELLENIC.M rt A, a southern fraternity of few chapters, has disbanded.® A X has taken a chapterhouse at Boston University, thefirst there.n H *, with chapters at Ohio State and Marietta, is anewcomer in the fraternity realm.Z * is building at Bowdoin, and is the fifth of the eightfraternities there to own a house.The chapters of A K E, Z * and S N at North Carolinahave built houses during the past two years.S N is to publish a history of the fraternity, to includememoirs of its founders, reviews of its laws» etc.The, Purdue chapter of K S has been promised a newhouse next year by the father of a deceasedmemb^'fof thechapter. '