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

THE SCROLL. 343country combined and swept over us with a rush of emotionthat made us forget time and space, and we thought only ofthose things which are abiding and eternal.This Greek theatre, which was the gift of William RandolphHearst, was formally dedicated in September, with addressesby President Wheeler; Mr. Weed, '94, who discovered thesituation; Mr. Howard, the architect, and Mr. Hearst. Theseexercises were followed'by a dramatic festival which continuedthrough the week. Scenes from Aristophanes' "Birds"were acted by students in the original Greek; "TwelfthNight" was presented by Charles Frohman's ' Every Man"company, and Racine's Phedre" was given in French by thestudents.In fair weather the theatre is used for the bi-monthly universitymeetings, at which the entire college comes together asa great family, and President Wheeler always brings a prominentspeaker to give us good advice. Perhaps the most spectacularview of the theatre is at a football rally. A great bonfireblazes in the level where of old the Greek chorus did itswork; a black sky shuts off all save the whiteness of the concrete;the hoarse voices of the very American orators ringout, only to be drowned out by the thundering of the collegeyells. It might well cause oiir classic ancestors to shudderin their tombs!The influence of this building, with all it stands for of thereally True and Beautiful, is already felt. The whole tone ofcollege theatricals is becoming more dignified, more in sympathywith academic ideals. The farces of the differentclasses will soon be past history, and instead there will bereproduced the best plays, and so our histrionic culture willbe finer, truer and more dignified."OMEGA" in the Kappa Alpha Theta for March.OLD FRATERNITY RECORDS.Continued from The Scroti, June, igoj.\s to the early history of Georgia Gamma, I have it in myjournals somewhere, but am not able now to find it. Thefounder of that chapter was my brother, Clinton R. Gaskill; hedid all the corresponding with it in its infancy. T. JE.Means was the first man to whom Clinton was appointed towrite, and he selected the men who did the great work ofstarting the Gamma at Emory.—C. B. Gaskill, Atlanta, Ga.,to W. B. Palmer, Dalton, Ga., July 6, 1877.