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

552 THE SCROLLof the building Is on East Field, the block lately acquired between 116th and117th Streets, Amsterdam and Morningside Avenues.The Univerity of Missouri is growing along all dines. The efficiency of eachdepartment Is being Increased and new buildings are being erected to meet thedemand of the growing enrollment. At present two new buildings are in theprocess of erection on the agricultural grounds across from our chapter house.The Department of Chemistry will occupy one, while the other will be devotedto Physics. The new buildings will make a quadrangle with the main Agriculturalbuilding and the Horticultural building. They are all of stone and inthe Oxford architecture.—Missouri correspondence, 2 X Quarterly.An inventory of the estate of the late Robert P. Doremus, the New Yorkbanker who left his property to Washington and Lee, shows that the universitywill eventually receive from the estate a little more than $2,000,000, Aprobate of the will of the late John Fritz, the oldest trustee of Lehigh, showsthat he left $150,000 for the maintenance of the Fritz Engineering Laboratorywhich he gave to the university several years ago. Andrew Carnegie haspresented $1,000,000 more to the Carnegie Technical Schools at Pittsburgh,making a. total of $3,000,000 that he has given to the endowment fund.From the Empress Eugenie a letter has come to Dr. E. C. Kirk, the deanof the dental school, congratulating the University of Pennsylvania upon therealization of Dr. Thomas W. Evans's dream of founding a dental institutein Philadelphia. The empress was a personal friend of Doctor Evans, andtook refuge in his house immediately after the fall of the second FrenchEmpire and was finally conducted by Doctor Evans over the French bordersin a closed carriage, which will be one of the objects of interest in the new$1,000,000 museum and institute, the cornerstone of which was laid on May 3.The School of Mines building burned to the ground not long ago. Therewere some valuable records lost which will be hard to replace. This makes thenineteenth building, belonging to the university, which has been destroyed byfire: Five new buildings have been recently completed here at Minnesota; twoengineering and three medical. They form the nucleus of a new campus whichwill extend about half a mile south of the present campus. Fifteen or twentyyears will elapse before its completion, but when finished it will easily rankas first throughout the entire country.—Minnesota correspondence Pfii GammaDelta.Williams College is a unique Institution in more than one respect, but itspolicy in regard to numbers is perhaps more distinctive than any other. MostAmerican institutions of learning welcome an increase in enrollment of students,and the Berkshire college is almost a separate class because it does not holdto this popular course, and because it has the courage to stand out againstquantity. No official announcement of an arbitrary line of limitation has everbeen made, but It is a common belief that the advantages of a small collegecannot be given in a. community where more than 500, or, at the most 600,students are assembled,—Williams correspondence. New York Times.President Lowell of Harvard, in a recent speech to alumni of the PhillipsAndover Academy, said: "Give us younger boys in the colleges, and we willturn out better graduates," The average age of undergraduates In their firstyear in Harvard is about eighteen; a certain number of boys enter at seventeen.With four years In college and their terms In professional schools—three yearsin the law school, four In the medical school, with a fifth in hospital work—men in these professions seldom begin work before they are twenty-five ortwenty-seven years. In President Lowell's opinion, all of these professional menbegin work too late. They should come to college a year or two earlier, spendfour years if possible, and then put In as much time as necessary in professionaltraining.