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

270 THE SCROLLpresent out of seven members of the club Phi Delta Theta has three: BrothersNeiswanger, president, Dunn, and Crumbine, manager. The club has votedbetween five and six hundred dollars to the Washburn Campus ImprovementAssociation to be invested in building a boulder fence along the college frontagefor a block between the two entrances to the -campus. As our chapter faceson this frontage it will mean a more beautiful setting for our hDuse and asthe building of the fence entails the paving of the street it will enhance thevalue of our property.In athletics this year we have held our own. Brothers Tomlinson, captain,Lowe, Pearson and Bearg made their letters in football. Brother Tomlinsonmade All-Kansas fullback on the second team, losing out on the first teamsimply because injuries kept him out of several games. In basketball we arerepresented by Brothers Pearson and Bearg and Phikeias Troxell and Welty.Monday night, December i6, Kansas Beta held an initiation and takespleasure in introducing to the Fraternity Brothers Carkuff, Bearg, and Larrick.Topeka, Kan., December 17, igi2.WARREN J. CRUMBINE.KENTUCKY ALPHA-DELTA, CENTRAL UNIVERSITYSince our last letter affairs at Central have been running very smoothly.Our football season, which was closed with the Central-Transylvania game onThanksgiving Day, when compared with the last four or five years was ratherunsuccessful. The basketball prospects are fairly promising. We will berepresented on this team by Brothers Byron and Swope.In the class elections, which have been held to this date. Brother Bethurumhas been elected president of the freshman class and Brother Guerrant vicepresidentof the senior class. Brother McClaskey is president of the athleticassociation.Brothers Swope and Bethurum have been chosen to represent the ChamberlainLiterary Society in the annual Ernst debate, an event which holds agreat deal of interest in the college.Brothers Collins and Wisem are spending their vacation in Florida whereBrother Collins lives.We have enjoyed visits from Brother Rogers, '13, Kentucky Epsilon, andBrothers Walker and Doyle, Kentucky Alpha-Delta.Danville, Ky., December 29, 1912. W. B. GUERRANT.KENTUCKY EPSILON, KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITYThe social event of the season so far—the Pan-Hellenic dance—will be heldat the Phoenix on the night of the thirteenth. In this university where thereis a. strong an ti-fraternity spirit, the Pan-Hellenic dance takes on an added importanceand stands for nearly the same thing that the junior prom does inother places, besides being the All-Greek. We are represented in the Pan-Hellenic by Brother Harvey Edwards who is also on the dance committee.There was some discussion with members of the faculty committee on entertainmentsabout time of closing, and other matters, and it was largely due toBrother Edwards that everything was finally settled amicably. For a time itwas feared that the dance would have to be indefinitely postponed. All thefraternities in the university belong to the Pan-Hellenic except the S N.State put one of the fastest elevens that ever represented this institution onthe field this season. The Wildcats won seven of the nine games played, amassinga total of 250 points, the opponents totaling 41. It is safe to say thatState would have made a clean record this year had it not been for the factthat Park was declared ineligible on the eve of one of the hardest contestson the schedule. Could Brother Park have been in the game to do thepunting and played in his usual form the result would- probably have been•different. President Barker and Doctor Ligert, Vanderbilt '03, are in NewOrleans presenting State's claims to reinstatement in the S. I. A. A. and to