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

THE SCROLL. 89The rushing season has been successful, and we have the pleasureof introducing the following brothers, initiated October 3: RobertUpdike, Charles Duer, Elmer Lindquest, Charles Louis Meyer, MontroseLee and Allen Samuel Neilson. We have also pledged HerbertAvery, Donald Raymond and Wilfred Trimble.The enrolment of students has nearly reached the three thousandmark. The law department has found its quarters too small,and theold chapel has been utilized as temporary class rooms.Much interest is being manifested in athletics. Our football teamhas played three games, in which Nebraska's goaWine was crossedbut once, and that during the first game of the season.We have had the pleasure of recently entertaining Bro. T. J.Downen, of Michigan Alpha, who stopped over a day on his return tocollege.The chapter feels deeply its loss in the death of our beloved brother,Robert Homer Gaines. At a recent meeting resolutions were passedextending our sincerest sympathy to the bereaved family.Lincoln, October 5, 1903.GAGE SHANNON.COLORADO ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OP COLORADO.The university closed last June with a snowstorm the last day andopened, September 14, under similar conditions—a record for evenColorado.Nine Phis returned this fall and began an active rushing campaign.Our new location opposite the university campus has given us quitean advantage, and we have initiated Bros. Lightburn, '07, and Daniels,'07, both of Denver; Brown, '07, Longmont and Mitchell, "07, St.Claresville, Ohio; Claude Ferguson, '07, Bakersfield, Cal., is pledged.The chapter has received-pleasant visits from Bro. Ewing, MichiganAlpha; Bro. Maxwell, Kentucky Alpha-Delta; Bro. Ryley, MissouriAlpha; Bro. Potter, Michigan Alpha; Bro. Banta, IndianaDelta; Bro. Jameson, Ohio Alpha, and Bro. Dunshee, ColoradoAlpha.Bro. Fleniing, Kentucky Alpha, is secretary and resident professorof the law school. Bro. Stickney, Law, '03, is making an extendedtrip through the Pacific coast states, and is now at Los Angeles, Cal.Colorado has great hopes for her football squad this year. The twogames played have resulted in her favor by a score of 40 to o againstthe preparatory school, and 23 to o against the University of Utah.The new library building is nearing completion, and the campus isbeing improved by the addition of new walks and drives.Alumni visiting Boulder are cordially invited to the chapterhouse.Boulder, October 5, 1903.Louis G. KELLER.ETA PROVINCE.TEXAS BETA, UNIVERSITY OP TEXAS.Notwithstanding our great loss of men at the close of last sessionwe are twelve strong at the beginning of this, and feel equal to anyemergencies that may arise in the way of school politics, society orstudies, and, although we are twelve weaker at the beginning of thisseason than at the close of last, we feel fully equal to the task of upholdingthat standard of true, aggressive and respectable fraternitylife by which our brothers before us have measured themselves.