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

486 THE SCROLL.The medical college building, which faces the park on thenorth, directly opposite the agricultural college, was guttedby fire last October. The cornerstone of a new and largerbuilding will be laid during the commencement exercises thisJuly.The gymnasium, completed in October, 1901, is the gift ofthe students, faculty and alumni of the university. Thematerial is brick and red sandstone, and with its main room,60x120 feet, running track, bowling alleys, swimming tank,armory, gallery and locker rooms is adapted to the use of amuch larger number of students than are at present in theuniversity.Besides the above buildings there are the baseball cage,the commons hall and the dormitory for the women of thecollege. The total material equipment of the university isworth over Si,000,000. The increasing number of studentsand faculty have made the expenses of maintenance so greatthat an endowment has become necessary. The alumni areat present raising $1,000,000 as an endowment to celebratethe centennial of the college, which occurs in July of thisyear.The college itself, although chartered as a university, hasnot quite the stature that its name indicates. Yet it is largerin scope than the ordinary college. There are the departmentsof arts, sciences, agriculture and medicine, all of whichare united under the administration of one board of trustees.The president is Dr. Matthew H. Buckham, of the class of1851. The faculty consists of abdiit seventy-five professorsand instructors in all departments, among whom are manymen of marked scholastic and administrative ability.The fraternities having chapters in college are, in the orderof their founding, F I (local,) 2 *, A * (local, ) * A 0, .1 T fi,K S, 2 N, and A 2 (local.) The sororities are K .V 0, A A A,n B *. The four older fraternities are the strongest andtake the lead in the activities of the college.The literary life of the students finds expression in the UniversityCynic; 2. bi-weekly, and the Ariel, an annual publishedby the junior class. A debating club is well supported by thestudents. Other organizations are the Histrionic Develings,the dramatic club whose membership is honorary, and theCotillion Club, whose members are taken from the four oldestfraternities. The various departments have clubs also. Thenumber of students at present enrolled in college is 566, ofwhom 341 are academic and 225 are medical students. About