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

THE SCROLL 539for trustee of the university. He has already served the university in thiscapacity.Wabash—R. H. Crozier, '93, was on April 10 appointed Assistant GeneralPassenger Agent of Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co,, Oregon ElectricRailway Co., Oregon Trunk Railway and United Railways Company with headquartersat Portland, Oregon, Brother Crozier is also vice-president of PortlandAlumni Club.Ohio State—A Course in General Chemistry has appeared from the pressof Ginn & Co., one of the authors of which is William McPherson, '87, whotogether with his co-worker on this book is the author of McPherson andHenderson's Elementary Study of Chemistry, so widely used in the secondaryschools of the country. The new book is of college grade, and is meeting withunusual favor.Cincinnati—A dispatch from Cincinnati to the New York Times of March15. I9i3» concerning a vaudeville given by the University Club of that city,says; "An act, the hit of the evening, was written and acted by Clinton Wunder,'14, and Bertram Robinson, '14, These two took some of our popularragtime and wrote parodies with screamingly funny local hits. Besides this,Robinson is an excellent pianist, while Wunder is a born comedian. Thecombination was worth the money,"Missouri—R. W. Brown, '98, who is secretary-treasurer of the AmericanGalloway Breeder's Association and who formerly had his office In Chicagohas moved to Carrollton, Mo., on account of the death of his father, Mr. W. M.Brown, Mr, W. M. Brown was a prominent farmer and breeder of Gallowayfor a number of years. Brother R, W. Brown has personally taken charge ofthe farm and will make office quarters for the Association at Carrollton asthe Association valued his services as secretary too highly to give them up.Vanderbilt—Robert S. Henry, '10, * B K, and 4> A 4", formerly reporter onthe Nashville Tennessean and then on the Nashville Banner and for sevenmonths assistant managing editor of the Nashville Tennessean and American,has quit newspaper work to accept the position of private secretary of GovernorHooper of Tennessee. In an article about him the latter paper testifies to "hiscourtly manner, genial and affable address, his high sense of honor, his manlybearing, his absolute faithfulness to each trust, his sense of duty and his brilliantmind."DePauw—Dr. Frank W. Foxworthy, '94, at a recent meeting of the Indianastate health officers, read a report as an officer of the Indiana National Guardof the government sanitary survey of the Ohio and Wabash rivers made at thetime the floods were subsiding. As a result of his observations he recommendedthat such emergency sanitation work should be under the direction of themedical department of the army, which is better eqiiipped to do the work andis more productive of immediate results because of the authority carried inthe army uniforms.Dartmouth—^E, Percy Noel, '05, is being frequently mentioned in thedaily press about the country in connection with the organization of theInternational Great Lakes Flying Boat, for which he is responsible as theeditor and publisher of the Aero and Hydro Weekly (Chicago), This novelcruise in the form a reliability contest will start from Chicago, July 8 and beconcluded at Detroit, about 12 days later. Already twelve of the best knownaviators in America have entered. They will pilot the new form of hydroaeroplane,known as the "flying boat,"Pennsylvania State and Michigan Agricultural—Hugh P. Baker, Dean ofthe New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, which by a specialact of the legislature of that state was established in April 1912, has issued avery comprehensive circular concerning the work and aims of this new school.The organic law of the college obligates it to carry on a professional course