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

THE SCROLL 309Through the generosity of Morris L. Clothier, the University of Pennsylvaniahas received the collection of American plays which Joseph Jackson, ofPhiladelphia, has been gathering for the past twenty-five years. The collectionembraces 363 plays, representing 192 dramatists, and is especially rich inearly American dramas.The completion of the new 37-inch refractor with its housings and the additionof 26 acres to the observatory grounds raise the observatory of the Universityof Michigan to a place among the three largest observatories in thecountry. The new instrument was planned and a large part of the workexecuted in the observatory and engineering department shops.Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois, for which the state legislatureappropriated $250,000, will be dedicated to the study of the humanities. Thededication ceremonies will take place on February 12, 1913. Work is tobegin at once on a $55,000 Y. W. C. A. building and on a new armory. Thedrill hall of the armory will be 293x311 feet, with a center height of 98 feetand a tan-bark fioor,A press dispatch from Oxford, Ga., says that the day of the old oil canand lamp, "one of the sacred institutions of Emory College," is passing, as thetown is to have electric lights. Also wells are to be discarded for a waterworkssystem, and a sewerage system will follow. Work has begun on thenew dormitory, Haygood Hall, and it will be completed by next fall. Itwill be up-to-date in every respect and will accommodate 150 men.Browns 150th anniversary will occur early in October, 1914. All importantinstitutions in America and Europe will be invited to send delegates. A pageantis planned which will show the development of Rhode Island in industry,commerce, education, and other lines. Coincident with the celebration will bethe publication of two books, one the new edition of the historical catalogueand the other the authorized history of the university, which is being preparedby Prof. W. C. Bronson.Aged, musty text books, no matter how begrimed or dilapidated, are wantedby the United States Bureau of Education. The bureau has issued an appealto those wha may have some relics from the days of the "little red schoolhouse," and who might be induced to part with their keepsakes. The intentionis to make a collection of rare textbooks and to add to the existingpedagogic library which the bureau hopes to build up until it is the bestequipped authority of its kind in the English-speaking world.Andrew Carnegie has added $2,000,000 in Steel Trust bonds to the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This gift makes three of tihiefive millions which he promised to add to his original gift of $10,000,000; and,as the foundation managed during its first years to save one million, its fundsnow amount to $14,000,000. At the annual meeting of the trustees of thefoundation in November, 48 pensions and retiring allowances to former teacherswere granted, making 398 now in force, at an annual expenditure of $570,000.An automobile course is announced by the engineering department of theUniversity of Michigan. It is expected that the new course will prove verypopular on account of the proximity of the automobile center of Detroit.—A physician appointed by the board of regents and acting under the auspicesof the Michigan Union, will hereafter look after the health of students atthe University of Michigan. A fee of two dollars is paid by each studentfor the maintenance of student dispensary on the campus and the salary ofthe physician.—'Z ^ Circle.Preliminary plans for the first unit of the group of six men's dormitoriesto be erected adjacent to Ohio Union have been approved by the trustees ofOhio State University. Final arrangements for the work vrill be pushed tocompletion, so that the building can be started this spring. Alumni havesubscribed over $20,000, enough for the first unit. Halbert E. Payne, of New