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

420 THE SCROLLto the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, valued at $500,000, withan encumbrance of $245,000. The alumni association of the College of Dentistryhas petitioned the university to reopen fhe college.Ohio State University now has no dormitories for men. Ground will soonbe broken for a dormitory, fo be completed by the fall of 1914, and to be thefirst of a dormitory quadrangle, to accommodate when completed 600 men.The first building will accommodate 200, and each room will be provided withhot and cold water. The building is being financed by the alumni association.The University of Oregon is in the throes of an agitation over male attendanceat women's basketball games. One of the co-ed players declares that mencome out to the women's basketball games out of curiosity, while the assistantwomen's athletic director says that she is in favor of mixed audiences becauseshe believes that girls play better in the presence of men. The question isstill unsettled.—Z * Circle.Washington and Lee ranks third among the institutions of the country, inthe number of graduates matriculating in the medical department of JohnsHopkins University, being represented there now by eight degree men. Yalestands first with seventeen, and Princeton comes second with eleven. This isbetter understood, when it is known that the medical department has morethan it can accommodate and applicants are turned away every year.Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, professor of English in the University of Virginia,is seeking new ballads in the South. He believes that the South presents thegreatest unexplored field in this matter in the United States, and has enlistedthe aid of many teachers and students in his search for ballads among negroesand in the sparcely settled rural and mountain districts. One of his studentsdiscovered a new negro ballad last year, which is printed in the current issueof the Alumni Bulletin,Norbert Wiener, son of a professor in Slavic languages at Harvard, soonwill be able to sign himself a doctor of philosophy at the age of eighteen years.He has just completed his course in the graduate school, and he will receivehis degree of Ph. D. next June, the youngest man ever to attain this honor.Wiener entered Tufts College at eleven years of age, obtained his degree ofA. B. within three years, added the degree of A. M. at Cornell in another year,and then entered Harvard, where he has been a. university scholar, specializingin philosophy and mathematics. He plans to engage in teaching.The abolition of class clubs at Lehigh is the subject of a discussion now beingcarried on in the pages of the Burr, the monthly literary magazine of thestudents. In the January issue, Charles R. Wylie, '13, centre and ex-captain ofthe football team, has a signed contribution in which he emphatically condemnedthe clubs as tending to objectionable politics and over conviviality.The fact that the author of this attack is a member of the societies of mostsocial importance aroused intense interest in the student body generally. TheFebruary Burr contains another attack upon the various clubs.Robert P. Doremus, of New York, has left his estate, approximating invalue $1,000,000, to Washington and Lee University. Andrew Carnegie hasrecently given $25,000 to Cornell. The Carnegie Institute of Washington hasgranted $25,000 to the Dudley Observatory of Union University. Charles L.Taylor, of Pittsburgh, former partner of Andrew Carnegie, and president ofthe Carnegie Hero Fund, has. by bequest provided for a large gymnasium andstadium at Lehigh. By the will of John Fritz, the iron master, his residuaryestate amounting to about $150,000 is given to Lehigh, primarily as an endowmentfund for the maintenance of the Fritz Engineering and Testing Laboratory.Colby has received $75,000 from D. D. Stewart. Dartmouth has recentlyreceived a gift of $75,ooo, and Cincinnati one of $125,000.It has been decided to add socialism to the curriculum of Yale as one ofthe electives. The course will be in charge of Prof. Henry Crosby Emery, pro-