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

THE SCROLL 311At Dartmouth work is being pushed on two new dormitories. North andSouth Massachusetts. Construction has begun on an apartment . house forfaculty members. It will contain four 5-room apartments besides' a publichall and servants' quarters. Sanborn Hall is to be moved to make room for.Robinson Hall, to be erected for the exclusive use of student organizationsother than athletic, at a cost of $100,000, given by Wallace F. Robinson ofBoston. Edward Tuck has given to Dartmouth a portrait, of its most distinguishedgraduate, Daniel Webster, painted by Pope about 1850, and saidto be the finest portrait of him in existence. The Dartmouth LiteraryMagazine suspended last fall, but a new publication called the Bema beganwith 1913. It will contain short stories, poems and other literary matter, butwill give attention also to general student activities.The board of visitors of the University of Virginia has approved the planto tear down the old building at the main university entrance, now housinga bookstore and the post office, and to replace it with a colonial structure.Also, a bronze gateway will be erected at the entrance. Another improvementwill be a new road back of President Alderman's home on Carr's Hill forfraternity house sites. Early in January a bronze statute of George Washingtonwas unveiled on the university grounds. It is a replica of Houdon'sstatue, which is in the state house at Richmond, and is the gift of John T.Lupton, '86. The March issue of the University Magazine will be a specialnumber devoted to President-elect Woodrow Wilson. It will carry severalfeature articles dealing with his student days at the university, written by studentfriends. Reprints will be made from the two articles contributed by himto the University Magazine while a Virginia student, one of which won thesecond prize in the writers' contest.Participation in student activities that lie outside the regular curriculumwill be regulated hereafter by faculty action in Ohio State University. Scholarshipwill be the test to determine a student's eligibility to hold office in anyorganization or to have a position on any publication board. If a student is.delinquent, either by a condition or failure in any of his studies, he is ineligibleto hold office or position of trust or honor in any organization. Thereare, at present, ninety organizations, other than social, among the studentsof this university, and the faculty believes that students often (if left unrestricted)devote time to these minor matters which should be given to theirstudies. The same eligibility qualifications will be required of students holdingoffice in these organizations that are required of students taking part in intercollegiateathletics. Hereafter all undergraduates at the University of Michiganwill be required to fill out cards giving a list of their campus activities.• This plan is the result of the desire of the faculty to have complete recordof the personnel of student organizations.EXTENSION OF THE FACULTY ADVISORY SYSTEMEighteen members of the faculty of Williams College, chosen from thosewho teach freshmen courses, have been appointed by President Garfield totake a group of eight or nine freshmen each and act as their advisers. Ithas been left to each adviser to determine his course with relation to thestudents under him. This arrangement will in no' way affect the presentregulations governing the relations of students with the dean's office. It isdesigned to have the system of advisers quite informal.:—Williams corre- ,spondence, New York Evening Post.The University Senate has adopted a modification of the old advisorysystem. Besides increasing the number of faculty advisers, with a consequentdecrease in the number of students in each advisory group, the plan willinclude three hundred upper class men as assistant advisers. The studentadvisers will render special service, during-registration and the opening days