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

THB SCROLL. 373have done." Concerning Mr. Heinze's personality, he says:With the miners Heinze has always been very popular. He is temperamentallyan aristocrat, but he can play the demagogue with any walkingdelegate of them all. The miners like him because he is a hard-rock minerand knows his business, because he has shown himself to be on their sideand appeals to their class prejudices by attacking corporations and trusts.His versatility is quite itnusual. .An expert mining engineer and a businessman with a grasp for big things in all their infinite details, he is at thesame time a good linguist, something of a musician, an astonishingly cleverpolitician, and a campaigner who cannot speak without winning votes. Hissplendid physique and handsome face are reinforced by a winning magnetism.When Heinze smiles he seems to take you into his confidence as oneworthy of every consideration.TREATMENT OF NON/FRATERNITY MEN,There are still sporadic instances of contests between thenon-fraternity element and the fraternities. Whether or notthe "nons" are right in their apparent conception that theyare unjustly treated by the "arrogant fraternity set" is not tothe point with us. Thev are probably moved by merefancied grievances, and have nothing of tangible righteousnessin their opposition to college fraternities; but be that asit may, to the truly conservative fraternity the occasionalstate of affairs that amounts to a rupture between the twoelements presents a problem worthy of serious consideration.The college fraternity wants no contest with any element instudent life. One of the highest aims of the fraternity is tohave its chapters so composed and conducted that no attackfrom non-fraternity sources will be made upon it. This aimmay be attained through the manner of dealing on the part ofthe members and chapters of a fraternity with the whole collegeworld. The fraternity, having long since justified itsexistence, has become a real factor in college life, and innearly all instances has earned the unqualified approbation ofcollege authorities. The conduct of the chapter membersand the course of the chapter as an organization, if it isbroad, catholic, generous and dignified, will leave an addedimpress on the whole student body by reason of the oftenunconscious, but ever-present, respect for the fraternityideal.To take a specific matter, let us get rid of unpleasantnomenclature. The non-fraternity man should not be spokenof as a "barbarian." He is generally as fair a representativeof nineteenth-century civilization and education as hisfraternity brother. Often his failure to be a member of a