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

436 THE SCROLL.compete, but the main event will be the race between theVarsity crews of the three universities in rowing shells over amile and a half course. At this regatta a number of prominentamateur rowing clubs will also compete. This final andsuccessful effort to establish rowing will be a great step forwardfor coast colleges. Owing to the fact that Stanford andCalifornia are at a great distance from other universities,inter-collegiate relations have so far been confined mainly tothese two institutions in the south, while those to the northwesthave competed among themselves. Lately, however,the coast colleges are planning mutual relations throughout.Debating teams are now sent from these two sections, and itis interesting to note that Washington defeated Stanford inthe debating series, and also defeated California in the firstintercollegiate boat race, held last year.The class of '04 at Yale has voted to make a radical changein the annual class day exercises next June. The reading ofhistories by the four class historians will be omitted, and,instead, the class poem and oration will be read in the afternoonof class day and be followed by a humorous speech tobe prepared by the class historians and spoken by one oftheir number. The personal "grinds" on members of theclass will not be allowed, as all references in the speech toany of the class must be anonymous. The reason given forthe change is that the custom of referring to every member ofthe class has become tedious with the growth of the classes.The smoking of the class pipe and the planting of the classivy will be continued.PROFESSOR TRIGGS DISMISSED FROM CHICAGO,Referring to the dismissal by the University of Chicagotrustees of O. L. Triggs, professor of English, Unity, of Chicago,says:A long time ago the newspapers forced a notoriety upon Professor Triggsby tearing out of their proper settings certain sentences which compared thecreative power of Rockefeller and Pullman with that of Milton and Shakespeare,and which spoke of much of the material of our hymn books as doggereland gave secondary place to Longfellow among the. poets, all of whichopinions are quite consonant with the consensus of the'competent when properlyexplained. But it brought the laugh on Mr. Triggs and necessarily onthe university, and university trustees do not like to be laughed at. PresidentHarper has recently stoutly maintained that the University of Chicagois not only free from denominational bias, but also from sociological partizanship;that a professor may even feel free to criticize Rockefeller, the