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

2 76 THE SCROLL.Maine Alpha has recently made an addition to her hall furnishing supplies.The chapter, we believe, is on the ascendant. The present yearpromises to be a very successful and prosperous one.The chapter now enrolls twenty-six members, two of the Bros, beingout of college the present term. They are Bro. Joseph U. Teogue, '06, andBro. Byron A. Wright, '07. Some of the honors taken by our men sincethe last report are as follows: Bro. Field, '05, President of the athletic association;Bro. Shepherd, '07, a member of the executive committee of theathletic association; Bro. Hoyt, '05, manager of football team for 1904;Bro. Spencer, '06, is on the 'Varsity basketball team; Bros. Coy and Fieldmade the junior honorary parts.ARTHUR L. FIELD.Waterville, February 6, 1904.MASSACHUSETTS ALPHA, WILLIAMS COLLEGE.Since the last chapter letter, Massachusetts Alpha has initiated two moremen from the class of 1907, whom we gladly present as Phis: Bros. HenryAppleton Knowles, of Boston, Mass., and George Ryer Hotaling, of NewYork City.The basketball team this season has been playing decidedly erratic ball.Opening the season by defeating Yale, they next lost to Columbia in NewYork City. Rallying again, the team twice defeated easily the strong FitchburgY. M. C. A, five, which last year's championship team won from withthe greatest difficulty. For the first time in three years, however, the hometeam lost on their own floor, Minnesota doing the trick by a score of 10-6.In the last game at the present writing, Williams defeated Syracuse by theclose score of 25-24. Williams will run against Dartmouth in the relay raceFebruary 13 at the B. A. A. meet in Mechanics hall, Boston. In the individualevents also the Berkshire college will be well represented.Owing to the winter season and mid-year examinations, college activitieshave been rather dormant. However, at the class-day elections of 1904,Bro. Squires, '05, was elected one of the five seniors on the class-day committee.On the junior relay team # A 6 had two men, Bro. U. A. Newell,'05, captain, and Bro. Ayers, '05. Bro. Crooker, '05, also represented thechapter on the class basketball team. At the regular December election ofthe Williams Weekly board, Bro. A. P. Newell, '05, was chosen assistanteditor-in-chief to succeed the present editor-in-chief after April i. Bro.U. A. Newell, '05, is one of the Williams relay team of four men who willrun against Dartmouth at the annual meet of the Boston Athletic Association.Bro. Case, '06, was selected to represent the fraternity on the sophomoreprom, committee.On January 26, Massachusetts Alpha sustained its first loss by death inrecent years. Bro. William McKenzie Russell, ex-'o5, died suddenly atIthaca, N. Y., from the effects of an operation for appendicitis. In 1901,Bro. Russell entered Williams with the present junior delegation. Havinga pronounced aptitude for mechanics, he subsequently decided to abandonthe classical course here and to register at Cornell in the engineering department.It was at this university that his unexpected death occurred. Thejunior delegation attended the funeral at the home in Great Barrington,Mass. In the death of Bro. Russell, every man in the chapter who waswith him in college feels the deepest personal loss, for in his enthusiastic lifehere he was a brother in the Bond in the truest sense.Williamstown, February ii, 1904. ALBERT P. NEWELL.