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

THE SCROLL 551The university camp will be conducted this year for the sixteenth time bythe Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania. The camp, whichis situated about thirty-five miles -from Philadelphia, in a wild, rocky sectionof the upper Perkiomen valley, on land owned by the association will be openedimmediately after commencement.Students of more than forty colleges and universities in Ohio are much disturbedoyer an enactment of the legislature which provides that students maynot vote in counties where they attend school unless they reside in said countiesor declare their intention of residing there after having attended school. Ifthe courts uphold the constitutionality of the measure, a referendum vote willbe placed before the people under the new referendum clause placed in the Ohioconstitution last year.The Ohio legislature has enacted a bill which authorizes the city of Cincinnatito levy a one-mill tax for the benefit of the University of Cincinnati,President Dabney, addressing the Cincinnati City Club recently, said: "Highereducation has been more popularized and democratized by the University ofCincinnati than by any other institution in the country. During the lastfour years the enrollment has expanded 300 per cent, though its financialsupport has grown only 50 per cent,"Candidates for admission to the medical school of the University of Pennsylvanianow must have successfully completed work equivalent to that requiredfor admission to the junior class in a college or university recognized by theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and such work must include courses in physics,geometry, and general biology or zoology, together with the necessary amountof laboratory work in these subjects, and no condition which conflicts withthe medical curriculum is permitted in admission.Harvard is to have a new library building with a capacity of 2,500,000volumes, fourth in book capacity In this country. It is the gift of Mrs. GeorgeD, Widener, of Philadelphia, as a memorial to her son, Harry Elkins Widener,who with his father went down with the Titanic, The young man was a graduateof Harvard, and he left his collection of some 3000 rare books, valued atabout $300,000, to the university. These volumes will have a special place inthe library given by his mother.—2 A E Record.A change of some importance in Harvard's admission requirements hasbeen voted by the faculty of arts and sciences, by which the regular plan ofadmission has been cut down from a standard of 26 "points" to i6J/^ "units"or courses, to correspond with the system of reckoning generally in use in theschools. In so doing the faculty has affirmed its belief In the value of Greekand Latin as admission subjects, by allowing boys who offer these two subjectsto enter with one less unit than others, •viz., iSj^,The University of Illinois dedicated on April 16 and 17 a new commercebuilding for the courses In various lines of business—as banking, accounting,journalism. Insurance, and railway administration. It is interesting to note inthis connection that President Edmund J, James, of the University of Illinois,was a leader in this movement for commercial education more than twenty-fiveyears ago, -As director of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy, ofthe University of Pennsylvania, he developed the first school of the kind inthis country.A building in which cancer research will be conducted under the GeorgeCrocker Cancer Research Foundation is being erected at Columbia, and willbe opened next fall. The Crocker bequest left nearly $1,500,000 to the Universityfor cancer research, but the will provided that none of the moneyshould be spent for building. The building under construction will be of concrete,and will not be permanent though designed to last many years. The site