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

554 THE SCROLL.movement and we shall soon be heard from in the direction of owning ourown home. Phi Gamma Delta is at present the only chapter here owning herhouse, although several others like ourselves have plans on foot.We issued our annual chapter letter on May i.Lawrence, May i, 1904.JOHN L. STARKIE.NEBRASKA ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.Several of the fraternities around school have started to pledge men in.the high school. We have to keep up our record of getting the town menso we stepped in and skimmed the pan. We have the following pledges tointroduce: George D. Lance, Houtz Gillilian, Earl Foster and Hugo Birkner.The university has taken a large growth this year not only in membershipbut in the building line. The state farm has had four new buildings withseveral thousands expended on new equipments, on the campus at the presenttime a physics building is under construction, tJie contract for the newadministration building has been let and the chemical department has beenclosed up so that work on remodeling the., building can be started at once.Nebraska Alpha expects to have the strongest chapter she has ever had.We only have three seniors and one of these is coming back and take law.In college honors we have more than held our own" in every way except inathletics; we have ten men in the military department ranking from private -^to major; out of eight university dances we have had control' of six; in classpolitics we have vice-president of the sophomore class.Our baseball team has a very good record against last year when a fraternityhad seven men out of the nine. The track team is in training allthe time and of it we know nothing as yet but the number of old men thatare out. We are sure of holding our own:Our debating team has just won from Kansas although she is to havecredit for excellent work. Our team has won every debate for the last twoyears. The interfraternity baseball season is just about closed. B 9 IIand ATA stand at the head with 1000 per cent. We come, next with 500per cent, and the rest are all below this mark.Big preparations are being made for the barbecue which is to be heldMay 17. The first one which "was held last year was' such a. grand successthat it.is to be an annual affair. ^Lincoln, May 8, 1904. CHARLES STUART.COLORADO ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OP COLORADO.Colorado Alpha has just completed a very prosperous and pleasant yearand expects the next to be even more so. But one man is lost by graduationand five men have already been pledged for next year.The university has been advertised very extensively throughout the statethis year and a big increase in the enrollment is expected in the fall. Aninterscholastic field meet was held on the university athletic field on May 14,in which twenty-four high schools competed and several state records werebroken.On May 7 a state inter-collegiate field meet was held at Colorado Springsin which the university won 59 out of 120 points. A dual meet with theUniversity of Nebraska was held at Boulder, May li, resulting in favor ofColorado by 75 points to the visitors 34.The result of the annual debate with the University of Kansas was aunanimous decision in favor of Colorado.Boulder, May 16, 1904.Louis G, KELLER.