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

464 THE SCROLL.A matter which has been considerably discussed, not onlyin university circles but also in the daily press throughout theprovince and in the legislature, is the granting of land andloaning of money by the board of trustees of the Universityof Toronto to aid the fraternities in building chapter houses.The point has been raised that this is giving an undue preferenceto a small body of the undergraduates, only about 4 percent, of whom are members of the various international fraternitieshere represented. It is also claimed in some quartersthat the fraternities exercise an influence which is not at•all desirable. This statement is a relic of the days, twent3'years ago, when there was but one fraternity represented inToronto, and a very violent spirit of antagonism existed.Already Kappa Alpha has built an attractive chapter houseon university property, and other fraternities have appliedfor building sites and it will be interesting to see what theaction of the trustees will be. —Toronto correspondence of A YQuarterly for March.Minnesota schools now- insist that young men who teachshall be able to train aspiring youth in football. Away withthis shilly-shallying plan of making football elective! Let itbe henceforth the universal study. Minnesota will stand nomore nonsense.—New York IVortd.Brothers who are sending the Lafayette, the Gettysburgian,the Union Concordiensis, the Purdue Exponent, the ChicagoDaily Maroon and other papers to the recent editors of THESCROLL will oblige by changing the address to that of thepresent editor.drof. J. D. Prince, of Columbia, says: "Of the twoclasses of students- who go to college, the country boys arethe more earnest, and more of them succeed, especially wherethere are many sons of wealthy men among the students."