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

THE SCROLL. 65GAMMA PROVINCE.~ aeORQIA ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF QEORaiA.With a great deal of pleasure I send this first report to the SCROLLfor this college year. The University of Georgia opened on September15 under most favorable conditions.' The enrollment bids fair toreach a larger number than it has during any preceding year. Severalnew buildings are in course of erection on the campus, one ofwhich is the new library, the gift of Mr. Peabody. In every way theuniversity seems to be gaining precedence as a great educationalinstitution.Georgia Alpha has started out to make this year the most successfulin her history, and to try to do her duty in every way to the fraternityand its officers. The house occupied by the chapter is oneof the most desirable houses for fraternity purposes in Athens. Althoughthe enrollment was large, the number of good fraternity menamong the new students was exceedingly small. We returned eightmen from our last year's chapter, and have with us this year twoaffiliates: Bros. T. T. Turnbull, Law, '04, and Julian Willingham, '07,both from Georgia Beta. Besides these we have initiated five newbrotliers into the mysteries of Phi Delta Theta, and with a great dealof pleasure present to the sister chapters these men whom we considerto be the best who have entered college here this fall: Warren R.Woodward, Barnesville, Ga.; Aaron H. Reppord, Savannah, Ga.;Cadmus Dozier, Gainesville, Ga.; Emory Parks, Lagrange, Ga., andCleveland Pierce, Key West, Fla. We also have under considerationseveral others whom we may take in.We have had several alumni visitors at the chapterhouse, amongwhom were Bros. Burney, Lamar, Bell, Camp and Ellis.Athens, October 6, 1903.WALTER O. MARSHBURN.OeORQIA BBTA, BHORY COLLEaB.We wish to introduce seven most excellent men whom we'have initiatedand also one whom we have pledged. -They are Bros. HughP. Burton,'06, Monticello, Ga.; John O. Christian, '06,Savannah, Ga.;Andrew Quillian, '06, Milledgeville, Ga.; Gs Tracy Cunningham, '06,Oglethorpe, Ga.; Floyd W. Cox, '06, Dothan, Ala.; E.Earl King, '06,Brownsville, Tenn.; James Hinton, '06, Macon, Ga. Our pledge isWillis P. Francis, '08, Waycross, Ga.Emory College opened September 16, with about 150 new men andfraternity material was more plentiful than in several years previous.We returned eight men, and never before in Georgia Beta's historyhave the prospects been brighterfor a prosperous year. There havebeen several changes in the faculty. Prof. Turner has been electedto the chair of Latin, lately made vacant by the resignation of H. M.Arnold; Dr. Stewart Roberts has been elected to fill the chair ofbiology, and Dr. R. d. Smith that of mental and moral philosophy.Many improvements have been made in the gymnasium and on thecampus. The new science hall has been completed and is one of themost elegant of its kind in the South. Also Few and Phi Gammaliterary society halls have been remodeled and are in a splendid stateof repairs.The non-fraternity'blow-hard' is. nothing more than a malicioussensation and never can accomplish anything at Emory.