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

THE SCROLL 195loss of several lives. Among other suggestions, that of having one of the members actas a fire marshal and be responsible for that work, is a good one. I have visited severalchapter houses built of wood, where I have found the cellars filled with paper or boxesand inflammable material of every kind, sometimes piled up around a furnace. In veryfew chapter houses is there any fire hose or other implements for fighting fire, muchless fire escapes. This is a matter of real importance, and although I bring it up inmy talks to the chapters, I wish to emphasize this matter, in the hope that, wheneverthe active members cannot be brought to see the importance to themselves of this matter,the graduates will take some stand and thus perhaps save large investments ofmoney.COLLEGIATE.Allegheny has a new $20,000 athletic field.The sum of $500,000 has recently been added to Allegheny's endowment.The University of Pennsylvania has 1,313 freshmen and a total enrollmentof 5,041.The Peabody fund has provided $40,000 for the erection of a building forthe department of education of the University of Virginia.At Union in January bids will be opened for a new gymnasium, for whichmore than $65,000 has been pledged, largely by recent graduates.The Daily lowan, of the University of Iowa, says that investigations it hasmade show that only one college engagement in eleven results in marriage.By agreement between fraternities and faculty at Allegheny, no fraternitymay bid a freshman until he has successfully passed his mid-year examination.Following are registration figures of Columbia this fall: college, 823; engineering,etc., 642; law, 451; in the whole university, 8,794, or over 1,000 morethan last year.The new museum of classical archaeology and art of the University of Illinoiswas opened on November 8. It is housed in I,incoln Hall, the new literatureand arts building.California has received from the estate of Mrs. Carrie M. Jones, of LosAngeles, $100,000 to endow scholarships for needy students who intend to takefull courses in the university.A house for. the President has been erected at Columbia, It is the first housewhich the President has occupied on the campus since the university moved toMomingside thirteen years ago.A series of ten decorative panels in terra cotta, showing in relief importantphases in the life of Abraham Lincoln, has been placed in the new LincolnMemorial Hall at the University of Illinois.Dr. Laura Drake Gill, .former dean of Barnard, is associated with a movementto establish at Sewanee within two years a women's college of high gradeto be affiliated with the University of the South.More than 40 freshmen have registered in the course in journalism at Illinoisthis year. The new school of journalism at Columbia has opened with 80students, many of them reporters with from one to four years' experience.The Methodist, Baptist, and Episcopal Churches of Urbana and Champaignare all planning dormitories for students of the University of Illinois, and anumber of other denominations have already built houses for their students.It seems possible that the honor system may have a trial at Illinois. TheSenior Society, Mawanda, the Pan-Hellenic Union, the College of AgricultureStudents' Club and several other organizations have declared in. favor of it,and several instructors are giving it a trial in their classes.