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

164 THE SCROLLstart the work. We expect to build a $20,000 home and hope that all thealumni of Missouri Alpha will write to us and give their ideas on thepresent plans.The football team is doing very good work this year and have won everygame up to this writing. Eight of the eleven regular men are fraternity menand two of them are Phis, Brothers Kemper and Lucas.We want to thank the Phis for the many rushing letters received.Columbia, Mo,, October 16, 1912.JOSEPH H. MOORE.MISSOURI BETA, WESTMINSTER COLLEGEThe sixty-fourth annual session of Westminster College since its foundingas Fulton College in 1849 opened with one hundred and fifty men enrolled.The college has a brighter outlook than it has had for years.Missouri Beta returned eleven active men and one pledge. We have so farinitiated five men and take pleasure in introducing to the Fraternity, BrothersJohn Moore of Fulton, Harry Vaughan and Paul Barker of St. Louis, DempseyAnderson of Keytesville, and Curtis Robnett of Columbia. We havepledged Robert Andrae, Spencer Edmunds, and Estill Green of St. Louis,Norman Mozley of Bloomfield, and Donald Osher of LaBelle.Owing to the fact that the house the chapter has occupied the past twoyears has been sold, we now have a suite of rooms in the Fulton Hotel,which arrangement is proving very satisfactory. We hope to have a houseof our own soon.The first dance of the season was given by the chapter on the night ofSeptember 23. It was enjoyed by all.The chapter was fortunate in having with us during the rushing seasonBrothers Lamkin, P. G. C, McElhinney, Cofer, and Feldbush. We have hadvisits from Brother Riley, who is now at Missouri University, and BrotherDavid H. Robertson of Mexico. Brothers Olds and Jelks of the AmericanSchool of Osteopathy were here when the Osteopaths played football againstWestminster. Brother Olds is a member of the eleven. Brother Van Sant,who was last year in Central University of Kentucky, is now finishing hiscourse here.Westminster expects to have a football team equal to the champion teamof 1911. The first game of the season was played against the KirksvilleOsteopaths on Friday, October 4. The score was 20 to 7 in favor of Westminster.Missouri Beta is represented on the squad by Brothers Whitlow,J. McCampbell, Robnett, Vaughan and Edwards. Brother Wright is coachingthe second team.A. R. DALLMEYER.Fulton, Mo., October 8, 1912.MISSOURI GAMMA, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYWashington University opened during the last week of September with anincreased attendance. The chapter begins the year with seventeen men, havingreturned fourteen, and having affdiated Brothers Feldbush and McElhinney,who come to us from Missouri Beta, and Brother Rogers, from Idaho Alpha.We have pledged four new men, but by the Pan-Hellenic ruling no fraternityshall initiate until the pledge has passed two successive months work with anaverage of C, or no grade below D.Under the coaching of Brother Cayou the football team is doing exceptionallygood work. Brother Milford holds right half back.Brother Maverick is the financial manager of the athletic association thisyear, and is the president of the senior class. Brother E. Smith is the presidentof the Thyrsus Dramatic Club, and is the secretary and treasurer ofQuadrangle Club. We are represented on the students' council by Brothers F.Coste, Maverick, and Phikeia Lamm. Brother Coste has been initiated intoLock and Chain, the sophomore society.The chapter is in close touch with the many St. Louis Phis, and with their