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

48 THE SCROLL.Several changes have taken place in the teaching staff. The chairof chemistry, left vacant through the death of Prof, Wm, Elder, isfilled by Prof. Geo. F. Parmenter, who is a graduate of the MassachusettsAgricultural College, having also taken post-graduate workat Brown. The chair of mattfematics, made vacant by the retirementof Prof. L. E. Warren, is filled by Prof. Hugh R. Hatch, who isa graduate of Colby. Mr. A, D. Sorensen succeeds Dr. A. M. Frewas director of the gymnasium, and is also an instructor in the college.Mr. Sorensen is a graduate of Denison University, having alsotaken post-graduate work at Chicago. Mr. Webster Chester succeedsMr. L. E. Moore, resigned, as instructor in botany, biology andzoology. Mr, Chester is a graduate of Colgate University, and hastaken post-graduate work at Harvard.The number of Phis who have returned this fall is eighteen, asfollows : Bros. E. H. Cotton, G. D. Coy, A. L. Field. C. N. Flood,A. M. Frye, J. A. Oilman, Wm. Hoyt, M. C. Joy,T. T. Knowles, R. P.Norton, '05, and Bros. I. A. Bowdoin, C, P. Chipman, R. L. Emery,B. A Gooch, F. E, Hutchins, J. C. Lindsay, J. W, Spencer and J. U,Teague, '06.Bro. C, W. Atchley, '03, is acting as secretary to President CharlesL. White the present year.Eleven men have been pledged in the entering class.Waterville, October 6, 1903.ARTHUR L. FIELD.NEW HAnPSHIRE ALPHA, DARTHOUTH COLLEGE.Dartmouth College has entered upon its one hundred and thirtyfourthyear with the life and enthusiasm of a college 'old only in itstraditions.' The entering class numbers more than two hundred andeighty, an increase of over fifty over last year, bringing the total enrollmentof the academic department above the eight hundred mark.In the midst of this prosperity New Hampshire Alpha enters uponher twentieth year with the firm determination to keep pace withthe growth of her college.Among the changes on the faculty. Prof. G. F. Hull succeeds Prof.E, F. Nichols as head of the department of physics. Prof. Nicholshaving gone to Columbia University; Prof. Norman E. Gilbert,formerly professor of physics in Hobart College, succeeds Prof. Hullin the assistant professorship. Mr. Edward Van Deusen, a graduateof Harvard, comes to the college as instructor in Public and PrivateFinance in. the Tuck School. We are very glad to welcome Bro. H,N. Sanborn, '02, back after graduate work at Yale, as instructor inEnglish. In the department of French, Mr. George B, Weston, ofHarvard, comes as an instructor.In the opening address of the President, announcement was madethat by action of the Trustees compulsory church attendance has beenabolished. This departure from the former custom comes in responseto the feeling expressed by those most interested in the religiouswelfare of the college, that compulsory church attendance has notbeen in keeping with the free and unhampered spiritual developmentof a democratic institution. The religious needs of the studentbody are to be met in several ways in addition to the work of theY. M. C. A.The athletic outlook for the year is promising. The football seasonhas begun encouragingly with two victories, the first over Massa-