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

548 THE SCROLL.ZETA PROVINCE.^ILLINOIS ALPHA, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.The year just drawing to a close has been a happy one for Illinois Alpha.This year only two of our men, Bros. Harker and Allen, graduate. Bro.Allen will return next year to take up work in the law school and captainour 1904 football team. There is little doubt that all the rest will return.We have just moved into a new house at 2018 Orrington avenue. It islarger and more suitable for our purpose than the one which we have occupiedfor the last two years.Bros. Baird and Bin were elected to membership in Deru, the collegesenior society,"Trig," the annual production of the freshman class, will be given on theevening of May 28. Bro. Albritton has written the music and Bros.Barker, Conley and Hebblethwaite are on the cast.Northwestern University had the honor of winning first place in theseries of intercollegiate debates. This is the second year that we have heldthat position. Baseball and track athletes so far have not been very successful.Several of our best track men have been forced to leave the teambecause of low grades. Our poor showing in baseball may be accounted forby the lack of good material and experienced coaching. * A 9 has so farwon every game in the interfraternity series. There is no reason why weshould not easily win the pennant.Any mail for Illinois Alpha may be sent in charge of Bro. Robert Baird,2018 Orrington avenue, Evanston. We would greatly appreciate any informationwhich may be given us concerning good men who are sure to comeor who are thinking of coming to Northwestern next fall.A cordial invitation is extended to all Phis, who may be in this vicinityduring the remaining few weeks of college, to drop in and see us.Evanston, May 14, 1904. OLIN A. WAKEMAN.ILLINOIS BBTA, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.The University of Chicago building commission has just announced theplans for a material extension of the campus facilities for both women andmen, which will entail an expenditure of $2,000,000. The scheme includesthe erection of two solid blocks of buildings, one for each of the sexes oneither side of the present central quadrangles. Eighteen structures will occupythe new campus for women, and the architectural arrangement will besimilar to that at Oxford, England, in that the small college idea is to beminutely worked out. A clubhouse and a gymnasium, both of which willminister to the comfort and pleasure of the women as do the present Reynoldsclub and Bartlett gymnasium to the men, are important parts of thenew plan. The men's new quadrangle will be practically the same as thaterected for women. It is thought that work will begin on the buildings duringthe coming fall.The fraternity colony at Chicago was added to on April .15, when S Ngranted a charter to a local petitioning body. S N's chapter, the thirteenthchapter of a national Greek letter society to be installed here, starts life witha roll of twenty-one men; It is rumored that groups of men in the universitywill soon receive charters of A T12 and K S.This year for the first time in the university's history the fraternities unitedin a pan-hellenic dance. AKE alone failed to send members to the affair.The grounds for the refusal of this single chapter to join the association werelargely based on a rule made by the fraternities forbidding any chapter in