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

THE SCROLL 553Negotiations have been in progress between Harvard and the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology for an extensive cooperation between the two institutions.The general outline of the plan Is that when Technology gives up itspresent site in Boston and moves to its recently purchased land in Cambridgein 191S, the two shall cooperate In the teaching of advanced students. By thisplan, each will use to better advantage the services of its best and highesttrained professors. Probably the method will involve the giving of credit inone institution for work done in the other. At pyesent there is no expressionof any intention to carry the cooperative plan into other than the advancedfields, in which It will undoubtedly work to the advantage of both institutions,in a financial way, in saving the expense of duplicated instruction, and inproviding a higher grade of instruction.There is an old law upon the statute books of Michigan that forbids saloonkeepers to sell of their wares to students in a state Institution, So far it hasslumbered in peace; but now a determined effort is to be made to enforce it.The city council and the University of Michigan faculty, that is, a majorityof each, have promised to back each other up in the struggle that is sure toattend upon an earnest effort to enforce this stringent measure. The prosecutingattorneys have notified the saloon keepers that the law must be enforced,and that it is up to them to discover a means of distinguishing between a bewhiskeredstudent of the law or medicine, aged thirty, who may not drink, andthe town youth and favored transient who may. Vociferous protest Is alreadyheard among students of mature years who are of German extraction. Atpresent the fraternities, by their own rules, forbid liquor in their houses. Theauthorities promise a real enforcement of the law and the students a real revolt,especially in the law and medical departments where the men are ofmature years and settled habits, most of them graduate students.—Ann Arborcorrespondence. New York Times, May 4.The alumni of Harvard that live in Charleston, S, C, have decided to providea memorial to Rev. Samuel Gilman, the author of "Fair Harvard", byfitting up a room in the tower of the church in that city of which he was thepastor for forty years, and have issued an appeal for $1000 for that purpose.He was born in Gloucester, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard in i8ii.He was a member of the faculty at Harvard in 1819, when he resigned andwent to Charleston. While his contributions to literature were many, he is bestknown by his hymns. The "Union Ode," composed for the Union party ofSouth Carolina, and first sung on July 4, 1831, was a stirring poem and hada wide effect. And "Fair Harvard", sung at bi-centennial celebration in 1836,has passed into the unalterable tradition as its choral ode at the graduationexercises of its classes, at the parting hour of banquets. In hours of athletictriumphs and defeats, and on moonlit evenings of June, after an open-air concertof the glee club under the elms of the college yard. It is the "America"of Harvard College, and no boy, whether he comes from the North or South,the East or the West, ever quite forgets the thrill that passes down his spinethe first time he sings his hymn as an undergraduate.The decision of the board In control of athletics that the University ofMichigan is to return to her .place In the Western Conference vastly affects notonly the athletics of the university but the entire student body as well. Duringthe last six years, during which the Wolverine athletes have devoted practicallyall of their attention to competition with Eastern institutions, the attention andinterest of the entire student body has shifted toward the East in a.markeddegree. At the present time 50 per cent of the students of the universitycome from a point east of Ann Arbor. New York stands third in point ofrepresentation at the university and Pennsylvania is also high on the list.With the return to participation In the Western Conference, the student interestIs certain to turn in that direction in some degree. The new step