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

388 THE SCROLLThe baseball season soon to open promises to be a good one for Westminster.Brother Fisher, last year's star third baseman is on hand and several of thenew men and pledges are among the most promising of the candidates.Fulton, Mo., February 21, 1913.A. R. DALLMEYER.MISSOURI GAMMA, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYMissouri Gamma performed its second initiation ceremony of the year, andwe now introduce Brothers George Hetlage, and Roland Meyers. Brother Hetlage,of the sophomore class, played in the back-field on the WashingtonUniversity eleven last fall. Brother Meyers, a freshman, claims to be anadept wielder of the tennis racket, so we are expecting to develop a runner-upat least in the coming spring tournaments. The basketball team did not doso well as we predicted in our last letter to THE SCROLL. There were none ofthe brothers on the team. A petition is being signed to reinstate baseball inthe list of the university athletics.Steps are being taken by the Pan-Hellenic to advertise the university in theupper classes of the high schools and preparatory schools in St. Louis. Theplan is to have students visit the preparatory schools and inform them of theopportunities offered here, and to invite them to attend the spring varsitycircus, free all the way through, just to show them how we can take an eveningoff from work and get together for foolish good times. This, we hope, willdraw more and better men to the university, and will meet the approval of thefaculty.Brother Russell is working hard on Student Life, and Brother Coste, Paul,cousin of Felix Coste, another one of our brothers, has been elected to representhis class on the student council.We missed none of the brothers at our first meeting after the first semesterexaminations.St. Louis, Mo., March i, 1913.CLAY PRESTON.NEBRASKA ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKASince our last letter we have added four names to the chapter roll. NebraskaAlpha takes pleasure in presenting Brothers Norris Guerney, Floyd Jennings,and Thomas Stribbling of Fremont, and John Branigan of Falls City.The interfraternity basketball league commences the season today. We playthe Phi Psis and if we defeat them, we stand a pretty good chance to win thepennant. The varsity basketball team has not lost a Missouri Valley game thisseason, has cinched the championship of the northern division, and will playthe probable winners of the southern division, Kansas, for the championshipof the valley.The big university affair of the season, the junior-senior cotillion, was heldthe evening of February 22. Everybody voted it a grand success. This isthe first year that the junior and senior classes have combined their formaldances.The latest topic of conversation here is the agitation over the new dances. Itbegins to look as if even the Boston is to be tabooed. However, "seeing isbelieving." On the evening of January 17 we held a very enjoyable housedance..The sororities have just completed their first test of second semester pledging.The fraternities are to adopt this method next year according to present plans.However it has proven rather unsuccessful, for it makes a heavy financialstrain on small chapters, rules have been openly broken, pledge day had to bepostponed, and at last the Delta Gammas became disgusted and withdrew fromthe intersorority council. The men are hoping that before next fall the "powersthat be" will have modified their present attitude.At the mid-year commencement Brother Paul Halligan received his lawdegree and Brother Lantz his A. B. degree.