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

THE SCROLL 499close of school. The first was held May 3 and the second will be on May 16,Phikeia Cecil Jake is playing good ball at third on the varsity.Brother Noves has the best form of any hurdler on the track team. BrotherYoung is on the relay team. Brother W. Rogers is manager of the Pan-Hellenic league team and assures us of a brilliant outlook.Brother Harvey Edwards has been "tapped" Lamp and Cross. Arbor Dayand Tap Day exercises traditionally come on the same day when not merelythe juniors but the entire university has a half holiday.Commencement exercises will be held on the tenth of June. We willbe very sorry to lose by graduation. Brother Bill Rogers who takes the degreeof B, S. in Agriculture, However, the chapter is so much the strongerfor each new man sent out into the world to do her honor. We feel lots ofgood things are in Bill's path and only hope he 4inds them quickly,Jim Cary, , yes that long lanky, good old Jim that we all knew somuch as a senior last year came home for a visit. He has been holding downa seventy-five dollar a month job but says he will give that up, threateningto become a coal heaver on a lake freighter. His fondness for the BlackArt always has caused us to tremble.Brother Holton Cook was another old grad whose visit was greatly appreciated.For what our alumni lack in numbers we wish they would makeup in the frequency of their visits,Lexington, Ky., May 12, 1913,ADOLPH WALLER.LOUISIANA ALPHA, TULANE UNIVERSITYNow that exams are not quite a nionth away the fellows are realizingtheir follies of the year and are beginning to study so hard that one wouldalmost think they were real scholars. But this is not the case, they are afterthe Pan-Hellenic scholarship cup and as this is the first year it has beenoffered the chapter is especially anxious to have it adorn the trophy room inour new house which we hope Is to be ready for the first of October.The Tulane glee club with the mandolin, banjo and guitar club took anextended trip through Louisiana and at each place they visited they werewelcomed by the Inhabitants with more cordiality than money, evidentlyopening their hearts wider than their purses, for while the minstrels were stilla great number of cross ties away from home they wired for money becausethey were penniless and hungry and wanted to get back to home and mother.This band of minstrels have since redeemed themselves having played topacked houses. 0 A O was represented by Brother Jno. B. Dicks and MayoReiley and Phikeias C. Reiley and Billy Wheeler.The interfraternity tennis tourney for the $ A 0 cup will start on Mayfifth. The cup was offered by the chapter about five or six years ago andwas won last year by the S A E, This year everybody is expecting a closerace as the teams have been practicing for a long time and are in the best ofform. Brothers L, J, Portier and W. E. Penick compose our team.Spring football practice has been going on In earnest for some time andas Brothers H, E. Miller and E, J. Edwards are aspirants for next year'steam they are both working with the squad. Brother P. N. Charbonnet hasbeen working hard to make the crew of the St, John's rowing club eight andhe has a good chance,Tulane Night was celebrated with great success by the dramatic clubs ofTulane and Newcomb who reproduced George Ade's "County Chairman"with much credit to themselves. Brother J, B. Dicks took a very importantpart "souping" as a colored gentleman and there is no doubt but that he is asuccess as a shinner.Dr. Robert Sharp was recently elected president of Tulane Universityand is the first to rise from ranks to this position. Doctor Sharp is withoutdoubt the most popular man in our faculty and there is not a student but willsupport him in any move he makes.