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

THE SCROLL. 433Dr. Andrew S. Draper, who has done so much to build upthe University of Illinois, has resigned the presidency of thatinstitution to become commissioner of education in NewYork state.The company that has the roller chair concession at St.Louis is advertising for college men who are looking for achance to push their way to the front.—Washington Post. Inanother paper we notice a complaint from Washington Universitystudents that the company discriminated against themand chose students from the big eastern colleges to push thechairs.University of Pennsylvania students are making a strenuousprotest against the new ruling of the faculty regardingattendance at chapel. These are that if a student misseschapel eleven times within a term he shall be suspended for aweek; for twelve cuts the suspension is extended to a month;and for thirteen absences he is expelled for the remainder ofthe term.J. O. Heald of Orange, N. J., has offered a prize of Sioofor the words and music of a song that will best exemplifythe true Yale spirit. He is a graduate of Yale university,and says he has long been impressed with the fact that Yalehas not a song with the true ring of college life. He wants asong that will stand the test of years. Harvard, Cornell andother universities all have their songs, he says, and Princeton's"Old Nassau" holds the palm among them.Much interest has been aroused at Columbia by theattempts of some of the students thereto introduce the "honorsystem" in examinations now in vogue at Princeton, Wesleyanand several of the western and southern universities.The college seniors, juniors and sophomores have placedthemselves on record as favoring the system. The scienceseniors voted the proposition down. They object to thefeature which makes it the duty of the classmates of a manwho cheats to report his dishonesty to the faculty. -A systematicmovement, the first of the kind at Yale, has begunamong leaders of the junior class in favor of the honor systemat examinations. For the present the movement islimited to the class, and aims at the practical establishmentof an "honor spirit," in the hope that the example will extendto other classes.