C'lr X.APPA .DELTA RHO JUNE 1937 National Organization KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATERNITY Founded at Middlebury College in the spring of 1905, by George E. Kimball, Gino A. Ratti, Chester M. Walch, Irving T. Coates, John Beecher, Thomas H. Bartley, Benjamin E . Farr, Pierce W. Darrow, Gideon R . Norton, and Roy D. Wood. EXECUTIVE OFFICES 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, New York OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS P1·esident, Leo T. Wolford, 1711 Inter-Southern Building. Louisville, Kentucky Vice-P1·esident, John 0. Boyd, 415 Lexington Avenue, New York City T1· eastt?'e?', Orrin G. Judd, 1 Wall Street, New York City Assistant T1·easm·e1·, Walter E. Burnham, Morristown School, Morristown, New J ersey Di?·ecto?·s: G. La Verne Carr, Red Hook, New York Charles L. Sanders, Jamaica High School, J amaica, New York Robert W . Stewart, care W. 0 . Grace Co., New York City. R . Merritt Rowland, 1619 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California Herbert R . Johnston, 81 Tacoma Avenue, Buffalo, New York EXECUTIVE SECRETARY HowARD B. ORTNER, 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, New York OFFICIAL PUBLICATION THE Qun.L AND ScRoLL of Kappa Delta Rho, published quarterly in the months of November, January, April and June. Editor, H . B. Ortner, 109 Irving Place, Ithaca, New York. CHAPTERS AND PROPRAETORS ALPHA-Middlebury Coll ege, RonEnlCK McDoxALD. Middlebury, Vermont BETA- Cornell U ni versity, PHIL McCARTHY, 306 Highland Road, Ithaca, New York GAMMA-New York State College for Teachers, RoBERT E. HERTWIG, 117 S. Lake Avenue, Albany, New York DELTA- Co lgate U ni versity, Bun AuNSDOilF, Hamilton, ' ew York EPSILON- Franklin Coll ege, RoBEUT HuTCHINGS, Franklin, Indiana ZETA-Penn State Co llege, RoBERT PAuL, State College, Pennsylvania ETA-University of Illinois, RoBERT l\1. MITCHELL, 1110 W'illiamson Street, Champaign, Illinois THETA- Purdue University, W. l\1. STErxFELDT, West Lafayette, Indiana IOTA- B ucknell University, JoHN Woun'l, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania KAPPA- Ohio State University, JACK GF.USTER, 190 E. 13th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio LAMBDA-University of California, C1.'lliL HAwORTH, 9599 Ridge Road, Berkeley, Cali- fornia MU-University of Michi gan, JACK BLAINE, Ann Arbor, Michigan NU-Indiana University, FREDERICK EBERLE, Chapter House, Bloomington, Indiana XI-Colby College, BERT RossiGNAL, Chapter House, Waterville, Maine PI- Gettysburg Coll ege, \ Vu.LIAM L . W .UKER, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania RHO- Lafayette College, R. H . B. WADE, Chapter House, Easton, P ennsylvania SIGMA-Oregon State, DrcK SuTHERLAND, Chapter House, 140 N. 93 rd Street, Corvallis, Oregon TAU-Carnegie Institute of Technology, \VILLIAl\1 L . LATTA, Jn., 5535 Forbes Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Pleuse turn to inside of back cove1·) & THE & QUILL AND SCROLL O FFICIAL PUBLICATION OF KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATER NITY Volume XXVII June, 1937 Number 4 CONTENTS PAGE HEAVILON HALL, PURDUE UNIVERSITY .. .. ............. Cover Heavilon Hall stands an embodiment of the spirit of Purdue. Heavilon Hall burned to the ground in 1892, just one week after the builders had fini hed. To a downcast student body in chapel the next morning, P resident J . H. Smart said, "Heavilon Hall has burned but we'll buil d it up again...,-a nd we will build it one brick hi~her . " "Build it one brick higher" is the spirit that has sent Purdue men and women to the top the world over. has sent Doilcr- mnker teams on to championships. More tradition centers about Henvilon Hall than any other part of tbe campus; Heavilon Hall's clock tower is the most familiar sight to the returning a lumnu . HORACE MANN, HUMANITARIAN E DUCATOR . !il OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN IN MOTOR TRANSPORT. 7 A SUCCESSFUL RUSH PROGRAM .................. ... ........ l !il THE COLLEGE FRATER NITY ON THE OFFENSIVE . ...... .. 1.5 PROVOST MANN TO LEAVE CORNELL ..... ......... .. ... !23 WHY FOOTBALL COACHES GET GRAY .. .. ... .......... .... 93 CHAPTER ETER 'AL ........................... .. .......... ..... !24 MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ... ... ........ .. .... .. .. .. .. .... !25 IN THE GREEK WOR LD . ...... .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .... ........ !28 W ITH THE ALUMNI ........ .......... ... ..................... 33 CHAPTER CONNUBI AL . .. .... ........ .. ............. ...... 35 CHAPTERS .. .. ....... ..... ... ...... ........ .. .... ...... .. 36 ANNUAL CONVENTIO ' AND NOTICE FROM EXECUTIVE OFFICE ......... ............ .................. .. ... ... ... 63 EDITORIAL .. .... ........ .. ....... ........... ............... 64- Entered as second class maHer ot t he Burlin gton, Vermont, post office under the act of March 3, 1879. The Quill and Scroll of Kappa Oeho Rho is published at 187 College Street, Burlington, Vermont, in January, April, Jun e and November. Onlv li fe subscriptions ore available at ten dollars each in the United Sto te.s and Canedo. Horace Mann, Humanitarian Educator By Dr. William M. French, Gamma '29 Instructor in Educotion, Stole College for Teochers, Albony, N . Y, THE 1830's were a decade of flowering humanitarianism in these United States. Released at last from a straight-jacket of a narrow Calvinistic religion of for­ mulae and repression, the best of New England thought sought to exemplify a more pr/!octical religion-the religion of the Golden Rule. Among these humani­ tarians were such figures as William El­ lery Channing, Dorothea Dix, Robert Rantoul, Theodore Parker, Samuel May, William Lloyd Garrison, and many others. Their humanitarianism led them into reforms in religion, labor conditions, civic improvement, ameli­ oration of conditions in prisons and in­ sane asylums, the campaign against slavery and improvement in education. Outstanding in the educational phase of this humanitarian movement was Horace Mann, the centennial of whose appointment to the Massachusetts Board of Education is being celebrated WILLIAlii M. FRENCH, Gwmma '29 widely this year. Horace Mann was born May 4, 1776, 141 years ago, at the town of Franklin, damnation were the central theme, and Massachusetts. Like most educational the "eternity and extremity of hell-tor­ leaders, be had a comparatively un­ ments" were made extremely vivid. At happy childhood. When Horace was the age of ten, Horace was "familiar thirteen, his father died, and upon him with the whole creed, and knew all the devolved much of the back-breaking toil arts of theological fence by which ob­ of winning one's living from an inhos­ jections to it were wont to be parried." pitable New England soil. Many years "A fine classical teacher" came across later, he was to say: the young man and prepared him in Latin. So good was his preparation "I believe in the rugged nursing of toil; but she nursed me too much." that in six months he entered Brown University as a sophomore, at the age of Even Sunday was no day of real rest twenty. It must be understood, qf for the youth. Tired physically by the course, that the entrance requirements farmer's tasks from dawn to the set of in those days were much short of the sun six days a week, he was fatigued by present sixteen academic units. At a theological bombardment every Sun­ Brown, he seldom had one shilling to day. A severe Calvinism was served up rub against another, but was well liked to terrify the youth. In this, the doc­ by his fellow students, the faculty, and trines of total depravity and infant even the president' daughter- who, 2 KAPPA DELTA RHo 3 some years later, became the first Mrs. self to the larger sphere of mind and Mann. Upon his graduation in 1819, morals. The interests of a client are small, compared with the interests the first of his class, he was engaged by of the next generation. So let me look his Alma Mater as a tutor. In 1821, he forward to the children of the next gen­ enrolled as a student in the private law eration, rather than around to the incor­ school at Litchfield, a pioneer school rigible men of this. Let the next gen­ that prepared many of the country's eration, then, be my next client!" leading lawyers. A friend said the title of "secretary" In 1827, Mr. Mann was elected to was not sufficiently dignified; to this the state legislature, where he fought Mann replied that for religious freedom, the introduction "if the title is not sufficiently honor­ of railroads and the establishment of a orable now, then it is clearly left to me state hospital for the insane. Educa­ to elevate it; and I had rather be credi­ tion, religious and political freedom and tor than debtor to the title." a broad humanitarianism were the All his friends except Doctor Chan­ watchwords of his life. All evils, he ning objected that the salary of $1,500 thought, would vanish if these objec­ was not sufficient; to this Mr. Mann tives could be attained. In 1837, as replied that president of the State Senate, he lent "I will be revenged on them; I will do his support to a bill for the establish­ them more than $1,500 worth of good." ment of a State Board of Education. The schools of Massachusetts, which Back and forth across the state, the had so auspicious a beginning in the Co­ new secretary travelled, everywhere lonial era, were now sadly in need of propagandizing in behalf of education, revival. It was felt that this could best with evangelical fervor. He spoke wher­ be brought about by a central authority ever people would gather. He preached in the state government. The bill was the cause of the common school from passed and Mann named a member of Cape Cod to the New York line where the board. When it was found advis­ he said that able to have a paid secretary, devoting "to make an impression in the Berk­ full-time to the service of education, shires in regard to the schools is like at­ tempting to batter down Gibraltar with Mann was persuaded to accept the po­ one's fist." sition. He was authorized "to collect information of the actual condition and When the few state funds were ex­ efficiency of common schools and other hausted, he held meetings at his own means of popular education and to dif­ expense.