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

3IO THB SCROLL.The one hundredth anniversary of the University of Vermontand the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Wisconsinwill be celebrated next June.The governors of McGill have decided to create a conservatoryof music in connection with the university, and areconsidering the establishment of a railway department.Columbia has raised its tuition fee from $200 to ^250 inthe School of Applied Science and the College of Physiciansand Surgeons. Tuition at M. I. T. 158250; at Stevens, ^225.The report of the business manager of the University ofChicago shows that it has accumulated in ten years S15,128,-375.99—just about the amount that Harvard has been 268years in acquiring.During the last ten years the attendance of students at theUniversity of Maine has increased faster than at any otherNew England college; it has tripled, increasing from 180 in1894 to 525 in 1904.Governor Durbin, of Indiana, has started a subscription toraise funds with which to erect at Purdue University a memorialto the students killed in the Big Four railroad wreck atIndianapolis last fall.Dartmouth Hall, built about no years ago, and the oldestbuilding of Dartmouth College, was burned February 18.Plans have already been made for rebuilding it of stone orbrick instead of wood.Amherst students have formed a mountain-climbing cluband have elected as its president Dr. Edward Hitchcock,dean of the faculty. The doctor is 75 years old, and is agraduate of the college in the class of '49. Despite his years,he is lithe and active.The qualifications for the ideal college professor, as outlinedby President W. R. Harper in a lecture at the Universityof Chicago on "The Faculty of a College," are: (i.) Heshould be married. (2.) He should be a church member.(3.) He should mix with his students outside the class rooms.(4.) He should have a doctor's degree. (5.) He should bewilling to work hard eleven months in the year. (6.) Heshould be in sympathy with the public, and take an activeinterest in public affairs.