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

6o THE SCROLL.In athletics Lehigh appears to be still advancing, the outlook for asuccessful football season being exceptionally bright. The gloomcast on the prospects of a winning baseball team next year by Bro.Badgley's temporary withdrawal from college has been dispelled byhis return.We have taken great pleasure, since our return to college, in entertainingBro. Thompson, of Washington & Jefferson, and Bro.Stewart, of Lafayette. We are always glad to see any of the brotherswho may be stopping in South Bethlehem. J. H. WALLACE,South Bethlehem, October 6, 1903.BETA PROVINCE.VIRGINIA BETA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.On Saturday, October 17, we initiated four men: From the lawclass, Mayo Brown; from the academic class, Samuel B. Woods, Jr.,Francis Smith and Richard Taylor.Bro. Adrian Taylor has been elected president of the Y. M. C. A.,thus adding another office in the university held by a Phi.Our football team, Bro. Scott, manager, has just returned fromRichmond, where the team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute wasencountered. The game resulted in a score of 21 to o in favor ofVirginia.This year Virginia Beta is occupying a suite of rooms in the ChancellorBuilding at the 'Corner.' We are very comfortably fixed, andany visiting Phis will be most cordially received,Chariottesville, October 26, 1903.CLAUDE M. LEE.VIRGINIA GAMMA, RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE.College opens this year with unusually good prospects for anothersuccessful session. So far about a hundred and thirty students havematriculated, while new ones come in every day or two. Only onechange has been made in the faculty—Prof. Bennett was elected tofill the chair of moral philosophy.Phi Delta Theta is flourishing. We returned only three men—Bros. Blakeney, Williams and Gravely—but Bro. Leavell, from theMissouri Beta chapter, affiliated with us, K S is our strongest rivalthis year. # K 2 and K A are both unusually weak. No initiationshave taken place as yet, on account of an agreement made by thefour fraternities in college: not to 'mention fraternity matters to anynon-fraternity man until December the first.' There is fine fraternitymaterial in college this year, and no doubt * A 0 will have hervery large share,Bros. Williams and Leavell represent us on the 'varsity eleven.Bro. Blakeney is manager of the baseball team for next spring. Mr.Cox, our coach, is from Georgetown University, and knows all aboutfootball. He thinks he can get a good team from the squad of aboutthirty men on the field—a team good enough to beat our greatestrival, Richmond College. We have a good schedule of games, thefirst being on October 2. It would be hardly correct to call last yeara successful one in athletics for us, but now the General AthleticAssociation is on a better financial as well as executive basis, and the