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

310 THE SCROLLYork, president of the alumni association, originated the scheme of having'the alumni raise funds for the dormitory group, and the success of the projectthus far is due to the enthusiasm he has awakened among the memberssince last June.Ohio State University registers 3,274 students, distributed as follows in theeight colleges: agriculture, 1,046; arts, 803; education, 129; engineering, 767;law, 194; pharmacy, 85; veterinary medicine, 155; graduate school, 107.There are 784 women enrolled in the university., The agricultural extensiondepartment has begun its schedule of one-week schools to be held in varioussections of the State between November 15 and March i. Instruction isgiven in crops, soil-fertility, stock-raising, horticulture, and home economics.About 50 schools will be held. The registered attendance last year at 46 schoolswas 9,485 persons.Following agitation on the subject by the Cornell Era, the Cornell UniversityChristian Association has instituted a campaign to raise $3,000 toremodel rooms in Barnes Hall in which banners and other athletic trophieswill be displayed and preserved. Neglect of the trophies in the past, necessitatedlargely by the absolute lack of space in which to store them, has causedmany of the banners to fall into irreparable decay. The fine silk and satinbanners won by the crews of the early seventies have been rolled in bundlesand laid away on dusty shelves until they have become so rotten and brittlethat they fell to pieces when unrolled.The faculty of Dickinson College has decided to give college credit forwork done in intersociety and intercollegiate debates.—Cornell University hasdecided not to have a stadium, as was originally planned. The trustees claimthat the stadia at Harvard and Syracuse have not been a success.—The Universityof Nebraska has established a cafeteria, at which all students mayobtain their meals at cost. Though it has been running but a few weeks, ithas attracted such a large patronage among the students that it is to be enlarged.Lincoln restaurant men assert that it is damaging their business, and announcethat they will appeal to the legislature to stop its operation. The universityhas operated a bookstore on the same plan for three years.—A T O Palm.In American universities, colleges and technical schools there are 860Chinese, of whom 340 belong to the Chinese Christian Students' Association.An entertainment recently given by the Chinese students at the Universityof Michigan attracted an audience that packed Newberry Hall. It was givenunder the auspices of the Cosmopolitan club and the audience included peopleof twenty nationalities. The feature of the programme was a two act play,in which new China was contrasted with old China. The play was written bytwo Chinese juniors and was acted by them and two other Chinese students,one of them a woman. The play was followed by A presentation of Chinesegames and customs, Chinese music, and Chinese refreshments, all providedby the Michigan Chinese colony.That one Wisconsin citizen in every ten has received direct instructionsfrom the University of Wisconsin, is shown by statistics just compiled by theuniversity alumni association. This estimate of the results of the university'steaching is figured on the basis of a population in the State of 2,333,860 andtakes into consideration 10,000 graduates and regular students of the universityscattered over the state ; 2,000 farm boys who have attended the short coursein agriculture; 3,000 dairy school students; 8,000 correspondence coursestudents who have been enrolled in the extension division; 155,000 who takepart in the annual farmers' courses and farmers' institutes conductetj by theuniversity in various parts of the State; 125,000 persons who have attendedthe lectures delivered by university men in all parts of the State; and 7,000citizens who.have made use of the "package libraries" sent out by the universityupon request.