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

THE SCROLL 267The chapter closed the social functions of the term with a banquet anddance December 13 at which thirty guests were present.Hanover, Ind., December 9, 1912.L. L. HUBER.INDIANA ZETA, DEPAUW UNIVERSITYSince our last letter we have initiated two new men and Indiana Zetawishes to introduce Brothers Ellsworth Olcott and Howell Ellis.Although at the beginning of the football season the prospects looked smallfor success, three consecutive victories over Miami, Rose Polytechnic, andButler gave the season an entirely different color. The season closed most sucsessfullyfor Indiana Zeta as Brother Grady was elected to the captaincy ofnext year's team.A new honorary legal fraternity. Delta Nu Epsilon, has been installed inDePauw. Brother Jewett is president and Brothers Grady, Mintzer, and Smithare members. Brother Grady is president of the junior class. Brother Letzleris a senior member of the Student Council, Brother Mintzer is athletic editorof the Mirage, and Brother Olcott is treasurer of the freshman class. BrothersLetzler and Smith are working hard on their orations which they will deliverFriday evening, December 20, in the primary for the Indiana State Oratoricalcontest. Phi Delta Theta, with two entrants out of a total of ten in theprimary, stands a big chance of having DePauw's representative in the statecontest this year.Indiana Zeta has started upon a new era in studentship and the last reportswhich have been procured by the scholarship committee show us to be absolutelydevoid of the proverbial "flunker."Brother Chester Jewett, president of Epsilon Province, and Brothers EarleHawthorne, Charles Jewett, and Guildford Wiley paid the chapter a visit onthe occasion of the Butler football game. Brothers Remy and Neff of IndianaAlpha and Brother Coplen of Indiana Beta have also visited the chapter sinceour last letter.Greencastle, Ind., December 15, 1912. W. CLYDE ALLEN.INDIANA THETA, PURDUE UNIVERSITYSince the letter to the November SCROLL^ we have pledged two men both ofwhom we believe to be exceptionally strong and whom we think will do muchfor Phi Delta Theta in the future. These men are A. B. Leiter, Fort Wajme,Indiana, and Donald Sparks, Rushville, Indiana. The former, who is ajunior in Purdue, has already been initiated, together with V. T. Oxer, who waspledged the first of the year. The addition of these brothers raised the numberin the active chapter to fifteen, and this number was raised to sixteen by thereturn of Brother H. E. Rubin, ex-'i2, who has re-entered school with the1913 class.Purdue finished a fairly successful football season with the defeat ofIndiana University on November 23, having won two, tied one, and lost twoof the five Conference games played. The greatest thing accomplished, to ourminds, was the decisive defeat of Indiana by the score of 34 to 7. BrotherH. S. O'Brien played in all of the five Conference games, and will soon bewearing the much coveted P sweater. We certainly are very proud of BrotherO'Brien and of his fine work on the team.The official call for candidates for the basketball team was issued aboutten days ago by Coach Vaughn who has been chosen to succeed Coach Jones.Brothers Little and Berry have signed, and both are showing ap extremelywell. Brother Berry seems to have the best chance of filling the place leftby Stockton, the All-Western guard of last year's team. Brother Little hasrecently been shifted from forward to center, and has the edge on the restof the candidates for that position. Although Purdue lost three exceptionallygood men of last year's championship team, the team this year has lots of