The Quill and Scroll of Kappa Delta Rho

THE QUILL AND SCROLL OF KAPPA DELTA RHO APRIL 1932 VOLUME XXII NUMBER 3 THE QUILL AND SCROLL OF KAPPA DELTA RHO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIO N O F KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATER NITY APRIL 1932 Entered as second class matter at t he post office at Rutland, Vermont under the act of March 3, 1 879. The Quill and Scroll of Kappa Delta Rho is published in .January, April, .June and November by The Tuttle Company, 11·13 Center Street, Rutland, Vermont, official printers for Kappa Delta Rho. Only life subscriptions are available at ten dollars each. CONTENTS CoNVENTION ANNouNCEMENT . 85 TESTIMONIAL To PRoFEssoR MoLER, BY WM. RoGERS . 88 ExPERIENCES IN THE FAR EAST, BY DR. EwART . 89 FouNDER's SoN INITIATED, BY HAROLD Buc KHORN 93 EQuALS WORLD's RECORD 93 CHAPTERS: Alpha 95 Beta . 95 Gamma 96 Delta . 96 Epsilon 98 Zeta 99 Eta 100 Kappa 100 Lambda 103 Nu 105 Omicron 106 Pi 107 Rho 109 Sigma 110 Tau 111 lNITIA'l'ES 112 PERSO AL 114 DETROIT ALUMNI 115 EDITORIAL 117 DIRECTORY 119 LuNcHEON NoTICEs 120 PARDEE HALL (l One of the main college buildings at Lafayette. It contains lecture rooms We'll ((Lafayette be there" Rho Chapter is anticipating the special feature of which will be a event of the 1932 Convention and baseball game between the team has already begun plans to assure now representing Rho in the intra its success. The cooperation and mural league at Lafay ~ tte and a assistance of the college has been team made up of delegates from secured with respect to the use of the other chapters. For those who a dormitory and an auditorium. do not care to participate in base Tentative arrangements call for the ball, tennis, golf, riding, bathing use of Easton Hall, a modern well and canoeing are offered. Dinner equipped dormitory recently com at the chapter house that evening pleted, as sleeping quarters for the will be followed by a formal dance large number of delegates expected. at the Nicas Brothers Roof Garden. The Little Theatre, home of La After breakfast at the chapter fayette's dramatic productions, will house on Saturday morning the serve as the central auditorium brothers will assemble in the Little where general business meetings Theatre for the second business will be held. Committee meetings conclave. Special committee meet will be held in the chapter room of ings will take place on Saturday the house. afternoon. The convention will The first day of the convention, officially close on that evening with June 16, will be taken up in the a formal banquet in one of the registration of delegates and their hotels of the city. Dr. William M . assignment to sleeping quarters. Lewis, President of Lafayette Col The first business session is planned lege, is anticipated as one of the to be held on Friday morning, June speakers 17. Friday afternoon will be given The scene of the 1932 Convention over to athletic competition, a has been particularly well chosen. 86 THE QurLr, AND ScROLL VIEWS OF LAFAYETTE CAMPUS Pardee Hall Chemistry Building The Library South College 87 Lafayette is the most centrally from Philadelphia, eighty from located of all Kappa Delta Rho Scranton, one hundred from chapters. The college is situated Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg. The on a hill overlooking the city of Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, New Easton, Pennsylvania, the center Jersey Central, Philadelphia and of an urban population of something Reading, D. L. & W., L. and H. over forty thousand inhabitants. Railways, and The Greyhound, ·The site is one of remarkable Colonial, Golden Arrow, Lakes-to beauty, immediately above the Sea bus lines afford convenient confluence of the Delaware and and rapid travel facilities. Lehigh Rivers, commanding fine This year marks the Centennial views of the Delaware Valley and of the founding of Lafayette College the hills of New Jersey. Its prom and the first anniversary of the inence as a railroad center makes acquisition of Rho's chapter house. Easton easily accessible from all The 1932 Convention climaxes a directions. It is about seventy period of progress and growth alike five miles from New York, sixty to the college and fraternity. Another View of So~tth College with Winter Settilng - K Ll P- PLAN TO ATTEND THE CONVENTION AT EASTO , JUNE 16TH, 17Trr AND ] 8 TH 88 THE QuiLL AND ScROLL TESTIMONIAL GIVEN PROFESSOR MOLER By WILLIAM RoGERs B '33 With the celebration of the 60th recognition of his contributions anniversary of Cornell's engineer to electrical industry. As the ing college, Cornell joined in the presentation was made the lights world-wide celebration of the lOOth of the hall were dimmed and the anniversary of Faraday's discovery generator was started, throwing the of the principles of electro-magne hall into light from its power. tism which marked the birth of Professor Moler has been credited the dynamo. with many inventions which include The event was of special signi an x-ray machine, a machine for ficance to Cornellians because the tracing the wave form in an elec first dynamo made and operated in trical circuit, electrical machine the western hemisphere was a to correct for lag due to sudden Cornell product. When the first changes of temperature in large description of Gramme's new dyna clocks, and many empirical for mo came from Paris in 1875, mulas in hi8 field. He also, a few Prof. W. A. Anthony and his years ago, developed a set of assistant, George S. Moler, im formulas to determine the skin mediately proceeded to built what friction on ships. was the first practical dynamo in Professor Moler, Cornell, f875, this country. For many years, was initiated as an honorary mem this now inefficient machine, pow ber of Beta in 1915. In the early ered from a waterfall near the years of our fraternity he took campus, was used to light buildings close interest in the house. His and run machinery. last visit to the house was during At this meeting of Cornell's our Christmas party, when he Engineers, Mr. E . L. Phillips, seemed to enjoy returning to scenes president of the Long Island Light so familiar to him. Though he ing Company and Mr. Bancroft has been retired from t he faculty Gherhardi, vice president of the for many years, he still has a American Telephone and Telegraph laboratory in Rockefeller hall Company, presented Professor which, we understand, he uses Moler, with a testimonial on behalf daily. of Cornell's Engineers and in -KLlP- ALL ROADS LEAD TO EASTON JUNE 16TH, 17TH AND 18TH THE QurLL AND ScROLL 89 EXPERIENCES IN THE FAR EAST By DR. FRANK C. EwART, A It has been suggested blossoms open, keeping to me that others might the dome of the tree be interested in tbe ex scarlet for a long period periences we have just and at the same time had during my recent providing a scarlet c·ar leave of absence from pet beneath. Now ima Colgate University. The gine a street lined with trip included the Cana these trees and this dian Rockies, a month scarlet carpeting and in Honolulu, two months you will get a conception in Japan, nearly a month of some of the beauty in Shanglwi, two or spots of Honolulu. To three weeks in Southern California mention only one other of the and a return home via the Pana floral beauties of the pl~ce, imagine ma Canal, Cuba and an auto trip a wall the length of two city blocks from Augusta, Georgia, to Hamil literally covered with hundreds ton, New York. and hundreds of the white, waxy I shall leave a description of the blossoms of the night blooming Canadian Rockies to those better cereus. versed than I in the use of descrip Hawaii is the melting pot of the tive phrases. We thought the nations in a far more perfect way term "Paradis€: of the Pacific" than is the United States. Almost an exceedingly apt one to describe half of the population are Japanese. Hawaii. We were there at precisely There are also many thousands the right time to see her marvelous each of Hawaiians, Portuguese, flowering trees at the height of Chinese and Filipinos besides a their glory. Imagine, for instance, few thousand each of Koreans, a fair-sized, symmetri- Porto Ricans and Span cal, dome shaped tree iards. I met a young We are glad with a slight fringe of Chinese by the name of to welcome foliage and the whole Ching who had just Dr. Ewart back dome a perfect mass of graduated from the lar to these pages scarlet blossoms. That gest High School in an d to have is but one of many kinds Honolulu. I asked him him share with of flowering trees, the about the race problem us his long poinciana regia. As the and how it affected life trip to flowers develop and fall in his school. He said, the Orient to the ground, other "There is no problem. In 90 THE QuiLL AND S cROLL our class elections, for instance, we one were to look up, one would feel never vote according to nation the fine ashes from Asama pepper alities. We always vote for the ing his face. The sight was really best candidate. It so happens that awe-inspiring, though we were eight over half of the members of my miles from the summit. However, class of 1,200 are Japanese but all on the occasion of some previous of the c,fficers are Chinese." I im eruptions, stones the size of an mediately thought to myself what egg have fallen in Karuizawa.

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