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

THE SCROLL. 319Two former editors of the ATA Rainbow have recentlybeen elected presidents of colleges—Rev. E. H. Hughes,D. D., President of De Pauw University, and K. C. Babcock,Ph. D., President of the University of Arizona. The latterwas President of the fraternity, 1893-99, being during thattime an instructor in the University of California. TheRainbow is now edited by F. F. Rogers, who lives at Deming,N. Mex., but it is printed in New York Cit}'.An athletic fraternity has been formed at the Universityof Iowa. At first chapters will be established only in theBig Nine," but, later, it is proposed to have chapters inpractically every American university. The chief object ofthe fraternity is to spread a bond of fellowship among collegeathletes and remove the feeling of distrust and suspicionwhich sometimes exists. Only wearers of the 'Varsity initialswill be entitled to membership.—Purdue Exponent.From the type of men a majority of their chapters seek,certain fraternities may still be loosely classified as "sporty,"athletic," literary," or musical," but even in these instancesindividual exceptions have so increased that anyattempts at general classification fails in accuracy. .Most ofthe fraternities that a decade ago could have been fairly welllabelled as "Southern," "Eastern," or "Western," have oflate years so branched out into other fields of extension that thesectional classification has been outgrown.—A T A Rainbow.* A *, the legal fraternity founded at Michigan, i860, has34 active chapters. Three of them are in New York City—inColumbia, New York University and New York Law School.Of the five members of the council of * A