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

92 THE SCROLL.hundred dollars' worth of painting and renovating. We have fifteenmen living in the house, more than ever before. W, T, HALE,Berkeley, October 6, 1903.CALIFORNIA BETA. STANFORD UNIVERSITY.California Beta started the new year with twelve old men. Thefreshman class contained considerable fraternity material, and wetake pleasure in presenting the following initiates : Leigh Kelly,Fort Smith; Arkansas; Harry Robertson, San Francisco; WilliamW. Behlow, Napa, Cal,; Harold J. Heffron, Salt Lake City; AlexanderChalmers, Portland, Oregon ; Preston W, King, San Luis Obispo,Cal., and Edwin A. Lloyd, Mason City,Towa,Bros. Parker, Frisselle and Robertson are on the glee and mandolinclubs.Among last year's football team who are back is Bro, Clark, oneof the best ends Stanford has ever had. Bro. Chalmers has goodprospects of making the 'varsity. Phi Delta Theta has another representativeon the faculty in Edward C. Franklin, Kansas Alpha,making a total of seven Phis in a faculty of 130. Five new buildingshave been finished during the past summer, and two more will beready for occupancy by Christmas.Mrs. Stanford is to make a further gift to the university of a S500,-000 library building, on which work will probably be commenced inJanuary,Bro. Ralph Frisselle, who graduated in May, has a position with aSan Francisco firm engaged in the manufacture of pumps andpumping machinery. Bro. Schulz, '02, is teaching in the Universityof Southern California, at Los Angeles. FRANK A. KITCHING.Stanford, October 8, 1903.WASHINGTON ALPHA. UNIVERSITY OP WASHINGTON.The following men have been initiated, and Washington Alphatakes pleasure in introducing them to all brother Phis: Bros. Hoover,Kennedy, Lee, Allyn, Grinstead, McGlinn, Tripple, Green andWagner.The new year finds Washington Alpha in better condition thanever before. Thanks to Bro. Richard Kinnear, the chapter has beenplaced upon a sound Snancial basis. The house has been refurnishedduring the summer.The attendance at the university will probably reach the eighthundred mark this year. During the summer, large appropriationshave been spent upon the gymnasium and library.Sigma Chi has granted a charter to the crowd of applicants knownas 'The Orphans', and they have rented a house for this year.At present we have fifteen men in the house, which is the largestnumber heretofore. Bro. Twitchell, who last year attended the Yalelaw school, has returned to complete his collegiate work. Bro. Leegraduated from the University of Idaho last June and was one of thegroup of applicants there. He is attending the law school. Bro.Stevenson, '05, is at the University of Pennsylvania, attending theCollege of Dentistry. Bro. Link, '06, who is at Nome, will return intime to do his collegiate work.Bro. Joseph V. Bird, who was last year unanimously elected pres-