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

278 THB SCROLL.should still be kept. The board of directors of the athletic associationdecided to change the old rule, and have done so, publishing a set of resolutionsto that effect. It remains to be seen whether the board will be upheldin its action or not. The majority of the student body is behind its board.The new Brown "Union" has been running now for two months and isvery popular. The first reception in the building was held February i6 andwas largely attended, over 4cxx) invitations being sent out.Candidates for the baseball team have been called out and practice in thecage is progressing. The squad having been already reduced, numbersthirty men. The team goes South on a practice trip during the Eastervacation.Basketball has been the chief attraction in athletics this winter, and ourteam has done remarkably well, so far having defeated Williams, Wesleyan,Amherst and Harvard. Dartmouth plays here February 20.The track squad is working in the gymnasium, getting ready for thecoming mid-winter meet to be held on February 27. In the B. A. A. meetat Boston last week, Lamkie of Brown won second in the forty yard novice.The relay team in the same meet lost to Bowdoin, one of the team slippingand falling at the first turn.The hockey team has finished its schedule having been defeated by Yale,Harvard and Columbia.The "Gymnasium Ball" and the "Sophomore Ball" have come andgone, being successful in every way. Bro. Mclntyre, '06, officiated on the"Sophomore Ball" committee.A team has just been chosen for a debate with Johns Hopkins.Rhode Island Alpha holds her annual alnmni dinner on March 2 at theCrown Hotel, Providence. Bro. Stark, '07, has been chosen captain of hisclass relay team. Bro. Mclntyre, '04, has been appointed a member of theBrown banquet committee.Bro. Tift, '07, took first president premium in French.Bros. Kelley and Marshall, '06, have left college on account of their prolongedillness. They will return next year, however. B. H. BuxTON.Providence, February 19, 1904.NEW YORK ALPHA, CORNELL UNIVERSITY.At Cornell we have just passed through the midyear examinations. Thefaculty was stricter than ever this year, one hundred and six men, failing toobtain the required ten hours, were dropped from the university.Junior week followed examination week, and New York Alpha withnineteen guests, had one of the largest house parties on the hill. Tuesdayevening we gave our Annual Junior Week dance to about four hundredguests. The Sophomores Cotillion took place on Wednesday evening, Bro.deFuniak very creditably filling the position of leader. Bro. Tolin was amember of the Junior Promenade committee which deserves credit for furnishingone of the best balls ever held in the Armory. During the weekeight of her fraternities entertained the upper class men and their guests;there being five dances and three teas. The Junior Promenade and SophomoresCotillion committees turned over their net profits of about sevenhundred and fifty ($750) dollars to the Athletic association. The Masqueand Glee Club entertainments netted about three thousand ($3,000) dollars.Bro. Jennings, who is again coaching the baseball team, reports a good outlook.The team plays twenty eight games, fourteen of which are scheduledin Ithaca. At Easter time the team will take its Southern trip, but theEastern trip has been abandoned.