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

404 THE SCROLL.The staff of our annual. The Blue Jay, has been organized and wereceived the most important positions. Bro. Wilson is business manager,and Bro. Burch is editor-in-chief. Westminster's third annual gymnasiumexhibition took place Friday night, March 15, at Pratt's opera house. Thishas become one of the principal features of the year and the manner in whichthe men acquitted themselves shows the efficiency of the gymnasium department.The college mandolin club has been organized with Mr. James H. Bond,one of our pledges, as leader. Bros. Sevier, Hamacher, Nesbitt, and Sonleare members of it.We celebrated Alumni Day on the evening of March 25 by a smoker. Anumber of alumni were present and the occasion was a most enjoyable one.Westminster is making efforts to put out a track team this year, althoughseverely handicapped, owing to the fact that some of the men are on thebaseball squad. The athletic association will arrange for an intercollegiatemeet, and # A 0 will be well represented on the team.The declamatory contest will be held some time in April. Bro. Wilson,who is president of the joint session of the Philologic and Philalethian literarysocieties, will represent us.B 9 n and K A are in prosperous condition, but $ A 9 leads in nearlyall college enterprises.W. A. SOULE.Fulton, April i, 1904.KANSAS ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.With the beginning of the second term, February 15, Kansas Alpha losttwo of her strongest members, Bro. Louis J. Flint, who is now at Purdue,and Bro. Walter G. Herrick, who is manager of a rice plantation at Angleton,Texas. On February 27, we initiated Bro. Frank H. Relihan and now introducehim to the fraternity.Founders day was celebrated by an alumni banquet which proved a veryenthusiastic meeting. About forty Phis and alumni were present, amongthem Bros. Robert G. Elliott, Indiana, '50; George E. Campbell, Ohio Wesleyan,'73; Wilbur C. Abbott, New York, '90; Mark Banta, Wisconsin, '00;and of Kansas, E. F. Caldwell, '85; W. E. Higgins, '88; Andrew Hudson,'98; John H. Outland, '99; Carl L. Cooper, '99; Frank Banks, '00; ChesterMize, '02; Eugene H. Ware, Jr., '02; and Jesse W. Heinecke, '03. Manyappropriate toasts were given and the exercises lasted until late in the evening.The talk of Bro. Elliott, who was one of the founders of Indiana Alpha, thefirst chapter of Phi Delta Theta to receive a charter, and who was intimatelyacquainted with all of the founders of our fraternity, aroused the true Phispirit and took us back to the time when Phi Delta Theta was young, instillinginto every Phi present an added admiration and reverence tor the earlymembers, whose struggles made our fraternity possible. Bro. Elliott, wholives In Lawrence, is an early Kansas pioneer and holds a very prominentplace in the history of the state.The baseball season commences April 2 with a game against the HaskellIndians on the home grounds. A much better team than was expected hasbeen developed and under the coaching of Mr. James Durham, who playedwith the Kansas City Blues last season, should make a fine showing in theexcellent schedule which is booked. Bro. Sexton (Captain) is our only representativeon the team. Practice for the inter-fraternity games has commencedand Kansas Alpha hopes to recover the cup lost last year to the Phi'Psis. At an indoor track meet in Convention Hall at Kansas City on March18, Missouri University defeated us by four points. The meet was a decided