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

296 THE SCROLL.ILLINOIS DELTA, KNOX COLLEGE.Since our last letter to THE SCROLL, Illinois Delta has further increasedits membership by the initiation, on February 19 of Bros. Harry Ehrhart,Areola, 111., Franklin C. Howell, Iberia, Mo. and Seldon Gale Lowrie, ofNiles, Mich. Bro. H. O. Snyder has been forced to give up his school workon account of sickness and has returned to his home at Areola, III.The chapter gave its annual Christmas party in Lescher hall on the eveningof December 23, which served as an incentive for a number of graduatebrothers to return to the city for brief visits.In the Adelphi Literary Society's preliminary to the Knox-Beloit debate,Bros. Williamson, and McClelland were chosen as two out of a team ofthree men to represent the society against Gwothantic with good prospectofgetting on to the finals. In the Gwothantic society Bro. Edgerton has beenchosen as one of the four contestants in the junior oratorical contest heldduring graduation week. Bro. Edgerton is also the chapter's representativeon the Junior Prom, committee.The new semester was inaugurated on February 3 with every prospect ofupholding the high standards set in debate, oratory and athletics. Mr.Willard Lampe, representative of Knox, in the Hamilton club's prize oratoricalcontest at Chicago brought honor to his college by being awarded secondplace. The representative of Michigan University took first honors.Owing to the severity of the weather little practice in baseball has beenpossible but on the opening of the season, active work will be begun inearnest under the efficient coaching of coach Willard.Bros. Edgerton, Snohr, Shipper! and Porter are out for the team. Thereis not a bright outlook for track work this season as Knox lost a number ofits star men at the end of last year but there is good material awaitingdevelopment.Bro. McClelland will again contest in the pole vault and Bro. Marinerwill be out from the broad jump and hurdles.Founder's Day was observed on Wednesday February 17 in place ofFebruary 15, with appropriate ceremonies. At a meeting of the board oftrustees on that date it was decided to build a separate steam heating plantfor the joint heating of Beecher chapel and Whiting hall, an improvementmuch needed.Preparations are well under way for the annual Founder^s Day banquet onMarch 15.BuRT A. HEINLY.Galesburg, February 19, 1904.ILLINOIS ZETA, I-OMBARD UNIVERSITY.At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Universalist NationalConvention in Boston, our president, Bro. C. Ellwood Nash, '75, was chosento fill the newly created office of Field Secretary of the Universalist churchof America. The call was so urgent and the influence brought to bear fromall quarters upon our beloved president, was so insistent that he felt it hisduty to resign the presidency of Lombard to take up the new work. Thenew office offers a wider field for usefulness. The trustees of the collegewere soon called together and after much careful deliberation, in which theneeds of the church were weighed as well as the welfare of Lombard, theresignation was accepted to take effect at the next commencement. The lossof Dr. Nash from Lombard is keenly felt in the college circles for he haswon a prominent place among educators. His successor has not yet beenselected but he will be chosen from % list of prominent and forceful men