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

434 • THE SCROLL.We are glad to commend any plan which will bring the fraternitiestogether in friendly intercourse. The followingfrom the Daily Maroon of the University of Chicago presentsattractive suggestions:The fraternities in the University of Iowa during the past year have beencarrying out a well defined policy of working toward pleasant interfraternityrelations. This has been manifested in many ways; there is a fraternitywhist tournament in progress at the present time. A baseball tournament isin process of formation. The very latest scheme, however, and one uniquein fraternity life, is to give an immense barbecue; a regular old fashionedone, as soon as spring opens up properly. The plans are simple—one or twobeeves; it big fire; plenty of cider, apples and other refreshments suited to abarbecue; a pleasant spot up the Iowa river; and a hundred fraternity men.Perhaps, also, the sororities will be guests of honor at the barbecue.The university registration statistics on the opposite pageare from Science for December. They show the number ofstudents and of the teaching staffs of twenty institutions. Asto enumeration of students these universities rank as follows:T, Harvard; 2, Columbia; 3, Chicago; 4, Michigan; 5, California;6, Minnesota; 7, Cornell; 8, Illinois; 9, Wisconsin;10, Yale; 11, Northwestern; 12, Pennsylvania; 13, Nebraska;14, Syracuse; 15, Ohio State; 16, Indiana; 17, Missouri; 18,Princeton; 19, Leland Stanford, Jr.; 20, Johns Hopkins.Columbia has the largest enrollment in the graduate schools,with Chicago second. Harvard third and Yale fourth. Michiganheads the list in the number of law students, followed byHarvard, Minnesota and Columbia in the order named.Columbia has the largest enrollment of any of the medicalschools enumerated, but is closely followed by Illinois, withNorthwestern and Pennsylvania occupying third and fourthplaces respectively. As to the scientific schools, Cornell isin the lead, with Yale second, California third and Michiganfourth. Harvard has by far the largest collegiate enrollmentand also had the largest summer session last year. As to therelative ranking of the teaching force in the largest institutions,Columbia now occupies first place, with Harvard second,Cornell third and Illinois fourth.After several years of effort on the part of the Pacificcoast colleges, inter-collegiate rowing is at last about tobecome a recognized branch of sport. Several months ofnegotiations for regattas and shells have culminated inarrangements for a boat race between the three largestcoast universities—California, Stanford and Washington.The first joint regatta will be held on April 23 at California.The freshmen crews of Stanford and California will