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

4o8 THE SCROLL.Texas Gamma will lose two men by graduation this year, Bros. Cody andWilcox; the latter has .just served a term as president of the Alamo society,and Bro. Cody has been elected president for the commencement term.K A house here looks very much improved after a fresh coat of paint andnew interior furnishings.We beg to acknowledge receipt of annual letters from several of thechapters. Ours is in the hands of the printer, and we hope to have it outsoon.IRELAND GRAVES.Georgetown, April i, 1904.THETA PROVINCE,CALIFORNIA BETA, LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY.The imiversity opened yesterday after a mid-semester recess of one week.Since our last letter there has been a re-adjustment of affairs with the strikingstone-workmen, and work on the new buildings has been resumed. OnMarch 15 the last arch of the outer quadrangle was completed: The keystonewas set in place by the senior class president, and there were otherappropriate exercises. The elaborate additions to the Florentine mosaic inthe Memorial Church have also been completed quite recently.The. Carnot debate held in Bei'kley on February 26 was won by a representativeof the university of California. The annual inter-collegiate debatewill be held April 3, in San Francisco.The first inter-cbllegiate baseball game of this series was held in Berkleyon April 2, and resulted in a California victory by a score of 6 to 2. Thisscore, we think, is not at all indicative of the relative strength of the twoteams, and we have every confidence in our ability to win the second gameof the series, which is to be played here on Salturday, April 9. There arefour fraternity men on the team—one S A B, one Z ^ Z S^, and two Phis,Bros. Chalmers and Colbert.An inter-fraternity baseball league was established early in the season.The winning-team-is to be awarded a handsome silver cup, to be kept by theteam which shall have won it three times. The last game played left butthree fraternities still contestant—S A E, AKE and * A 9.On the L6th the annual track meet with the University of ,Ca;lifornia willbe held here. Last year's meet resulted in the first Stanford victory in thehistory of the event, and although we have lost by graduation or otherwisemany of our best athletes, we have every prospect of success. On the morningof the same date the inter-collegiate tennis matches will be played. Bro.Hodge will play In the doubles and probably in the singles.A rowing club has been formed this spring and will do much toward mak--ing rowing a permanent part of our athletic system. The boathouse on thelake has been fitted up with lockers, etc., and while the lake, owing to itssmall size, will never be adequate for the training of crews, it will serve toke^p up an interest in the sport until we have a boathouse on the bay.Stanford University, April 5, 1904. GEORGE DEF. BAKNETT.WASHINGTON ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.Our alumni banquet was held at the Hotel Washington on the evening ofMarch 15 in conjunction with the local Phis in and about Seattle. Therewere about forty of us present and the banquet was one of the most ettjoyablewe have had so far. The toasts were-as follows:Toastmaster Daniel B. Trefethen, Massachusetts B., '98. # A 9's Contributionto our Life Equipment, Clay Allen, Northwestern; Theta Province,