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

292 THE SCROLLSabin, H. G. C, Gray, 'oi. Burns, professor of botany at Vermont, Hayden, oneof the charter members of Vermont Alpha, Andrews, '99, Forbes, '98.Burlington, Vt., December ii, 1912.VERNON T. DOW.VIRGINIA BETA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANo letter received.VIRGINIA GAMMA, RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGEExaminations are upon us and of course we all hope to make them. Itmay be said, moreover, that we are not only hoping but working and prayingand exerting every legitimate means and pulling every possible string to do so.The football team completed a very successful year, for the third consecutivetime winning the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Association championship.We were ably represented on this team by Brother Sheffey at half andBrother Marvin Blount at fullback.Since Thanksgiving the basketball team has been called out and as far aswe can jsee Brothers Millican and Tatem will be the forwards with BrotherSheffey as a substitute.Thanksgiving brought back of the alumni "Betsy" Blanton, Claude Carroll,Rives Childs and Lee Gravely; however it may be added it was not Thanksgivingthat brought Lee Gravely back. We were also, lately, very glad to havewith us Brothers Sexton, Indiana Theta, and Frank W. Upshur. We arealways glad to have Phis visit us, and urge any who live in the vicinity, or whoare stopping over in Richmond, to come to see us.Ashland, Va., December 13, 1912. J. WESLEY CHILDS.VIRGINIA ZETA, WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITYWith a score of sixteen to six against the Agricultural and MechanicalCollege of North Carolina, Washington and Lee completed a most successfulfootball season Thanksgiving day in Norfolk. The team has been defeatedin only one game of the nine played, that with Georgetown University, and hasrolled up two hundred and two points to the fifty-nine points made againstour eleven. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute, an old rival who tied us inlast year's game, went down in a crushing defeat with a twenty to six score.The other teams defeated were the University of North Carolina, St. John's,Western Maryland, Davidson, Medical College of Virginia, and Lake Forest,while Georgetown won over us twenty to nothing. James Reilly, Yale '12,was in charge of the team, and to his excellent coaching was due the successof the team.Examinations will begin next Monday and continue through the week;these will be strenuous times but the brothers hope to pass with safe margins.The winter term will start on the third of January and soon after the newsemester begins our pledges will be initiated, as no freshman is taken in before•the Christmas examinations and then only if he has succeeded in passing twotickets.Virginia Zeta takes great pleasure in introducing to the Fraternity, BrotherWilliam Trent Neel, '13, of Galax, Virginia. He gets a Master's degree thisyear and is at present an instructor in engineering.Brother Somerville has been elected president of the 104th annual celebrationof Graham-Lee Literary Society, which takes place-^on the nineteenth ofJanuary. Brother Davis will act as chief marshall. He is an associate editorof the weekly paper, the Ring-turn Phi. Brother Saunders has been initiatedin the local ribbon society, P. A. N., and has been elected a member of thecotillion club.Phikeia Bagley was a member of the football squad, and Phikeia Goochrowed on the winning crew in a fall race between the Harry Lee and AlbertSidney crews. Brother Shelfey represented the chapter on the senior eleventhis fall.Lexington, Va., December 11, 1912.EDWARD F. SHEFFEY, JR.