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

568 THE SCROLL.to the department of state, notifying them of the whereabou^ts of' the fleet,;and Lieutenant Kane reported to Captain (now Admiral) Cotton on the.Harvard, who notified the navy department. .Shortly after the end of the war I was transferred to Patras, Greece, and ,-was located there for sonde time, subsequently resigning, as, to speak frankly,there is little or no particular future in the United States consular service asit is carried on today, owing to the fact that it is so non-permanent. Sometime—ifthey ever do make it a permanent service—I should like to re-enterit. Meanwhile I am plugging away and congratulating myself that I wasnot at Martinique at the time of the eruption.COLLEGIATE,Before the civil war about one-fifth of the Yale studentscame from the southern states, as compared with about onetwentiethnow.Hereafter Harvard will confer degrees at the end of the firsthalf year on such men as have finished by that time the requiredwork And wish to receive the degree at once.Because none of the songs submitted in the competitionstarted by John O. Heald, of Orange, N. J., with a prize of$ioo for the best Yale song, came up to his expectation, theprize will not be awarded this year.Owing to similarity in names Columbian University, Washington,D. C, has frequently been confused with ColumbiaUniversity in the City of New York. The trustees of theformer institution have recently voted to change its appella-*tion to George Washington University. There are a numberof institutions named for the father of his country, amongthem four in which * A ® is established^Washington University,the University of Washington, VVashington and Lee Universityand Washington and Jefferson College.The Cornell Daily Sun will soon publish a column of worldnews every morning-—aii innovation in college journalism.The Sun. is enabled to do this by the fact that it is publishedin a small town without a morning paper and the earliestpapers do not reach there before lo o'clock in the morning.Hence the Cornell daily expects to reach a great number ofpeople who are not interested in college news, but whoseinterest in outside news will cause them to subscribe. So faras is known the Sun is the only college paper in a position todo this.—Chicago Daily. Maroon.