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

52 THE SCROLL.A. Rowe, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Warren L. Swett, Gloucester, Mass.,William E. Sweeney, Attleboro, Mass., and Eugene M. Webster,Gloucester, Mass.There were seventeen prizes offered in college last year, and six ofthese were taken by Phis. The chapter represented only about onethirteenthof the college enrollment, bat carried off over one-third ofthe prizes.DAVID EMERSON GREENAWAY.Amherst, October 5, 1903.RHODE ISLAND ALPHA, BROWN UNIVERSITY.Brownopened Wednesday, September 15. The campus presented achanged aspect to those who had left it last June. There are fivenew buildings in construction, besides the several new gates to matchthe Van Wickle gates, which were new two years ago. A new dormitoryand mechanical engineering building occupy the site of the oldbaseball diamond on Lincoln Field; Rockefeller Hall, the buildingwhich is to be the center of all college activities, and the John CarterBrown Library almost complete the square of buildings on themiddle campus; while on the front campus is the Bajnotti clocktower, a hundred feet in height.Profs. Morse (* A 6j, Munroe, Greene and Everett have leaveof absence for a year. Prof. Macdonnald is taking Prof. Munroe'splace in history; Prof. Harkness has returned and is filling Prof.Greene's place in Latin, and Prof. Colvin, who has been among thefaculty of Illinois, has consented to fill the philosophical chair madevacant by Prof. Everett's absence.Brown has a fair prospect for football, although most of last year'steam have graduated. There are several good men who are not ableto play on account of their studies, and they will be missed greatly.Two games have been played already, Colby was defeated 23-0and Wesleyan ii-o. The Princeton game comes next, on Saturday,the loth, at Providence. A brass band has been formed, which isquite a feature of the games.Caspar Whitney, in his review of the college baseball season, gaveBrown first place.The matter of rushing has been brought to the attention of thefaculty, and the faculty has decided to make some investigation withregard to postponing the rushing season. Each fraternity has beenrequested to send a delegate to a meeting to be held October 7.Rhode Island Alpha is in favor of postponing the rushing season forat least one term. The outcome of this meeting is of great interestto the college at present.The Brown chapter came back rather few in numbers; in fact, onlytwelve in all. We have worked hard, however, and have succeededin pledging six freshmen and two sophomores, who, to all appearances,are strong men. The IQ06 men are Howard L. Rice andHorace Deming Stone. Mr. Rice's father has died since he waspledged, and he is undecided about returning to college. The 1907men are Edward Sumner Bailey, Carl S. Crummett, Alfred WilliamDickinson, Herbert Benjamin Shearer, Charles Rathbone Stark, Jr.,and Horace Raymond Frank Tift.Several honors have been conferred upon us since the last report.Elections to the Camarian club, composed of the twelve strongestmen in the senior class, held last June, resulted in three Phis being