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

348 THE SCROLLwith "Intercollegiate Fraternities" is one of the longest in the bookand it covers the whole fraternity field satisfactorily. The book alsosets out a number of tables of collegiate statistics full of informationconcerning the leading colleges and available for the use of allcollege men. A member of Phi Delta Theta finishes the. reading of"The Olympian" with feelings of pride and of gratitude. He hasseen a vivid picture of his Fraternity ahd he must be filled with gratitudefor the artist who gave him the picture.ORVILLE L. SIMMONS, Purdue, '93.*The author requests that the following notes be made of errors in the manual:Page -55. Oregon Alpha was chartered on February 22, 1912.Page 96. The word "not" should be omitted from the note following the listof Presidents of the General Council.Page 112. The last of the "Founders' Day Topics" should have been insertedunder "Alumni Day Topics."Page '210. Some of the lines following the table were accidentally dropped inmaking up the forms of the book. The paragraph should read,"In this table Miami University appears to great disadvantage. On account ofavery unpopular administration of the university, and on account of the expulsions,dismissals and withdrawals which followed 'the great snow rebellion,' referred to onpage 41, the attendance was reduced during the two collegiate years, 1848-49 and1849-50, to a much smaller number than it had been since the opening year, 1824-25,or than it was after 1849-50. See page 204."Page 241. Gabell's first name-is Royal.Page 268. The note that the illustrations of chapter houses did not include one ofPennsylvania Beta's house, because the plate for it was mislaid, should have beenomitted, as another picture of this house was secured at the last moment before thebook went to press, and it appears on page 316, making complete the illustrationsof all houses owned by chapters or chapter house associations.VERMONT'S FAMOUS PHI BATTERYProbably no college of its size has turned out so many noted ballplayers during the last twenty years as the University of Vermont,among the number being B. W. Abbey '91, who pitched for "Pop"Anson's famous Chicago club for-three years after graduating andwas later with Brooklyn and Kansas City; "Arlie" Pond '93, who forthree years was one of the star twirlers for the Baltimore club, beinga member with Jennings, McGraw and Keeler, when it was theWorld's Champions. "Eddie" Reulbach, the famous pitcher of theChicago "Cubs", who for two years was the leading pitcher of theNational League; Ray Collins, '09, and "Larry" Gardner, '09, bothmembers of the Boston Red Sox, World's Champions of 1912. Thesemen were not only splendid baseball players while in college, but alsotook a high stand in scholarship and morality and were admired andrespected by all who knew them.This year Vermont claims to have the finest college battery in thecountry in Jason M. Malcolm, '14, of Bridgeport, Conn., and HaroldA. Mayforth, '15, of Springfield, Mass., both of whom are membersof Vermont Alpha and are without doubt the strongest battery thatany chapter of Phi Delta Theta has ever produced. As a freshman,Malcolm pitched remarkable ball, striking out fourteen men each inthe Bowdoin and Tufts games and holding the latter team to one scorein ten innings. He also struck out ten men in both the Dartmouth and