1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 101the classical departments, to cost $225,000; a $300,000 gymnasium for women,and a $200,000 cement grandstand and wall on Marshall Field. The grandstand will be complefed this fall and the other structures within two years.Cornell has a new athletic field, containing 60 acres, and graded at a cost of$80,000. It is to have a. stadium that will seat 7,000 people. The first section,seating 2,600, has been completed. Rapid progress is being made in restoringthe $3,000,000 churdi on the Stanford campus which was so seriously injuredby earthquake six years ago. Amherst has a new dormitory. Washburn hasa new $75,000 gymnasium. Oklahoma has a new $300,000 administration building.Syracuse is spending $75,000 on the erection of a dispensary. An auditoriumand a new dormitory are being built at Williams. A $100,000 librarybuilding is being erected at Purdue. A new dormitory and a new medicalbuilding are being erected at North Carolina. A $100,000 building for thelaw college is being erected at Nebraska.COLLEGIAN PRESIDENTSThe nomination of Woodrow Wilson, a graduate of Princeton, of PresidentTaft, who is a graduate of Yale, and of Theodore Roosevelt, who was graduatedfrom Harvard, calls attention to the prominence of college-bred men in politicallife. Of the twenty-six men who have filled tbe presidential chair, seventeenhave been college graduates. Harvard and William and Mary lead the list,each having contributed three Presidents from among her sons. John Adams,John Quincy Adams and Theodore Roosevelt all were graduated from thefamous New England institution, and Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler owned theVirginia college as their alma mater. Yale and Princeton have each had butone graduate who became President—Taft of Yale and James Madison ofPrinceton.The following colleges have each given one alumnus to the presidency:Hampden-Sidney College (Virginia), William Henry Harrison; Universityof North Carolina, Polk; Bowdoin, Pierce; Dickinson College, Buchanan; WestPoint Military Academy, Grant; Kenyon College (Ohio), Hayes; WilliamsCollege, Garfield; Union College, Arthur; Miami University, Benjamin Harrison.Of the 500 principal institutions of higher education in the United Statesthirteen have graduated men who became Presidents.The Presidents who never attended college were Washington, Jackson, VanBuren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, Johnson, Cleveland and McKinley.PYXNews of interesting events, occurring after chapter letters have been forwarded,and as late as the 20th or 25th of the month preceding the month of publication, shouldbe forwarded promptly, to appear in this department.Unlike ordinary magazines. THE SCROLL cannot afford a new cover for eachissue. Its last cover has been used since 1904, and might have been usedseveral years longer, but we were informed by the printers that the plate wasso worn that only with difficulty could they get a good impression from it.The new design which appears on this issue was suggested by the assistanteditor, and was drawn by Brother Ralph J, Williams, Knox, '97. We hope thatthe design will be considered appropriate, and we feel sure that the classicallines, the excellent drawing and the close attention to details will be much admired.Brother Williams is an architectural draftsman in the War Department,and for many years has been the very efficient secretary of the Washingtonalumni club, and his apartment has been the frequent gathering place informallyof Phis in the national capital. He has wonderful skill with a pen, as is shownby exquisite drawings he has made in the style of ancient illuminated manu-