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

88 THE SCROLL.The football outlook is slightly improved over last year. Mr. Boynton,who coached Sewanee last year, has charge of the squad, andhas hopes of making a very successful team.Altogether, although we can't say things are booming here, theprospects in every direction are very good. G. L. ALLEN, JR.St. Louis, October i, 1903.rjS' r-~\ KANSAS ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS,The fall term at Kansas University opened undermost favorableauspices. The enrolment is already as large as it was at the end oflast year, notwithstanding that a tuition fee is being charged that wasnot imposed last year. A further attendance of two hundred may beexpected before the end of school. The football outlook is also veryfavorable. Coach Weeks, Michigan's captain last year, has foundmuch excellent football material, and the team promises to be avery successful one. The first game of the season on September27, with Emporia college, resulted in a victory for Kansas by a scoreof 34-0. * A 9 is represented on the 'varsity by Bro. Cooke, whoplays left-half, and Bro. Fleishman, who plays left end.The rushing season just closed has been a memorable one for KansasAlpha. We have pledged five excellent men, taking spikes fromall our principal rivals. With our new men—Walter Herrick, ofWellington, Kan.; John Fleishman, of Topeka; Frank Bangs,of Lawrence; Galen Burris, of Hutchinson ; Carlos Johnson, of ArkansasCity, and the sixteen men who returned, we find ourselves in a verysecure position.Bros. Flint and Sexton represented us last year on the 'varsity baseballnine, of which Bro. Flint was manager. Bro. Sexton was electedcaptain of this year's team. On the track team Bro. McCoy was ourrepresentative, and was elected captain of this year's team.In inter-fraternity athletics we won the,1902 football championship.Our present strength along this line has caused the other fraternitiesto start a movement to do away with inter-fraternity football. Whatsuccess they have remains to be seen.Fraternities in general have improved at Kansas by occupyingbetter houses, Kansas Alpha being the leader in the move. We nowoccupy a sixteen-room house within two blocks of the campus, builtfor us according to our own plans and completed during the summer.All of the men live at the house, which will easily accommodatetwenty. The first floor has a thirty-foot den, a large dining-roomand billiard room, besides a parlor and reception hall. The floors areof hard wood, and all the rooms can be thrown open for dancing, extrawide doors having been provided for this purpose. The kitchenis in the basement and connects with the dining-room by a dumbwaiter. On the second and third floors are ten excellent doublerooms, all of which are now occupied.On the whole, the prospects for the coming year are decidedly encouraging.' JOHN L. STARKIE.Lawrence, October 3, 1903.NEBRASKA ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA.Our chapterhouse was redecorated both inside and out during thesummer and presented quite an attractive appearance to the eighteenmembers of Nebraska Alpha who returned for the college year.