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

THE SCROLL. 551arrangements will probably be made for another game. The annual interscholasticmeet took place on Saturday morning. May 14. Seventy highschools were entered and crowds of high school people were here duringFriday and Saturday. On May 26, the university regiment of ten companieswill go to St. Louis to take part in the ceremonies on Illinois day.The trip will extend over three days.The minstrel show given by ^i A 9 on April 15 was a success and seemedto take well with the audience. Bro. Reynolds was taken with scarlet feveron April 17 and was taken to the hospital as soon as possible. In a week hehad recovered sufficiently to go home. On May 12 he returned and resumedhis studies. Bros. Brearley and Williams have left for Montana where theyexpect to spend the summer on a ranch. Bros. Lindgren and Hazelwoodmade the chapter a visit during the interscholastic meet.It looks now as though the new chapter house which Illinois Eta has beenplanning to build upon her two lots will be started within a short time.Arrangements have been made for a Si2,ooo loan and the plans are beingprepared in Chicago. With a new chapter house and eighteen men backnext year Illinois Eta will start the new year with bright prospects.Champaign, May 15, 1904. F. W, CUTLER.WISCONSIN ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.Since the combining of the various general courses of the university lastfall, into the college of letters and science, several important changes havebeen made. The school of commerce has until recently remained a separateschool, with the degree of B. C. S., but this too is now included in thecollege of letters and science, and graduates will receive the A. B. degree asin the other courses.The commerce department has recently issued a statement of a newcourse in business administration, to be given by Prof. D. Earle Burchell,formerly director of the school of commerce in the Agricultural College ofUtah. Mr. Burgess has been spending the past year in New Vork City inspecial preparation for this work, and expects to be in Madison for a shorttime in the early part of vacation. He will take up his permanent residencehere at the beginning of the next academic year. The course, as conductedby him, will take the place of the courses in accounting and auditing andbusiness organization and management which have been given in previousyears. It is to extend from the beginning of the sophomore year to the endof the senior year, and is designed not only to give thorough instruction inbook-keeping, accounting and auditing, and the various other branches ofbusiness administration, but also to test the student's ability to perform thevarious duties for which he is being trained. It will, therefore, be largely alaboratory and practice course in which theoretical and practical work willbe combined. The work in the sophomore year will be concerned chieflywith business forms and correspondence, book-keeping and clerical duties;in the junior year with the study of legal forms, credit instruments, fundingoperations, accounting and executive duties; and in the senior year with thework of supervision and auditing, especially in connection with passengertransportation, light and power companies, savings institutions, insurance,jobbing, the commission business, brokerage, importing and exporting.Wisconsin has a very good record for her baseball season this spring, andat present has a percentage of about 857. Thirt3''-five men reported forspring football practice this week and this is but part of the material whichthere is in the school, since baseball, track and crew are keeping awaymanv who would otherwise turn out. The crew of men have been working