The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-10-18
TO TAME JUNIOR PROM. :"
GREAT SOCIAL EVENT OF UNIVER-
SITY LIFE TO SUFFER FATE
OF FOOTBALL.
PRICE OF TICKETS CUT.
Board of Regents May Investigate Fra
ternities and Restriction or Abo-
lition Is Possible.

MADISON, Wis, Oct. 16-[Special. ]
In line with the tanning of football
the university has undertaken to regu-
late another college excess.
The social committee of the faculty
has decreed that hereafter only So shall
prom Hitherto the price has been
81. The change will put the function
within reach of poorer students and
make it more democratic.
AS another blow at the fraternity mo-
nopolization of the affair the committee
has also prohibited boxes which have
been quite feature of display. On ac-
count of the war now on over the
Prom several "frats" are also secretly
knocking the affair.
University to Extend.
Plans for the extension of the uni
Versity were approved at the meeting
OF the board of regents today. 1t was
decided to pursue the purchase of all
the property between Charter street and
the university farm and between the
agricultural building and Johnson street
Tor which condemnation proceedings
have been instituted. The building to
be constructed in the future will be
erected in this area. Charles Baird, tAe
Philadelphia architect, who planned
the University of Pennsylvania,
has been in consultation with
the members of the sub-commit
tee who recommended this uniform
poHcy of extension, and it is according
to his plan that the board acted The
proposed improvements will cover a pc
a ~ M tNt-n 1tN-h two lAtlf
acton is taken now 50 as to insure uni
iormlty. This means that hereafter the
university will expand westward instead
OF to the east. On University avenue,
facing Camp Randall, it is planned to
construct dormitories for the acCommo-
dation of 1900 students. Hereafter every
building that is erected will be built
with reference to every other building
thus insuring symmetry in size, architec
ture and material. he committee which
recommended the new order is composed
of w. j. McElroy, Milwaukee, w. +.
Brown, Waupaca, ana DR.. Edward
Evans, La Crosse.
Probe for Fraternities
The meeting brought forth an informal
discussion in regard to the social system
Of the university, and if the determina-
ton of an influential member of the
board materializes. there will be thor
ough investigation of fraternities sOrori-
ties and social conditions generally.
For some time past, said this men,
Der, Il have been more than passively in
terested in social conditions at the uni
versity, and from all | can observe they
are far from ideal. At present | cannot
make statement backed up by definite
date. but my impression Us Il student Of
the university and as member of the
board. is that there must be revision
in social conditions. | am going to make
a thorough investigation of fraternities
and sororitics ut Wisconsin and other
universities, and, if the facts warrant it.
mt n future meeting Il resolution to re-
strict these organizations Will be intro
duCel. 1t seems to me that they are
undrmocratic in the highest degree.
They form a cast among the students
tina. is iucXcusahle. They are expensive
To the parents. There may be something
to say about the benefits or these organ
nations. and if there is the advocates
Of the system will he given ample time
to have hearing But my present I'M
proSSionS are not at all favorable. The
proposed dormitOry system, when car
rpd into effect. will do away with the
major reason given for their existence,
1t is tile hope of many members OF the
faculty that they be restricted
An Uproar Is Probable.
There will also be something said
about the junior prom and Iik" social
functions. These too are expensive and
elaborate entertainments in Which all
cannot participate, and ought to be
miuimiZed as far as possible. HE IN
yeStigation which | will conduct will
take in this matter also. Personally
am opposed to them
If au effort is made to restrict or
abolish fraternties it will result in an
uproar by the Greek letter men. There
nre n number of fraternity men on the
board of regents and these organizations
are also well represented iD the faculty,
Former President Charles Kendall
Adams. himself a Greek letter man, was
instrumental in securing chapters for a
number of the societies now at Wis
ronsin. At present three of the most
influential members of the faculty arc
cudeavorihS to institute at Wisconsin u
chapter of their organizations.
New Appointments Announced.
New appointments in the college O.
agriculture have just been announ ed.
+. Il. Hart, of the state experimental
station at Geneva, \. u, has been made
professor of agricultural chemistry, and
ms his assistant, William +. Tattingham.
has been appointed. j. {. Brown, who
formerly held this position, has engaged
in the dairy business. Or. H. 5. Me
Lool has been appointed Il new instruct
or in soils. and Conrad Hoffman,, Wis
cousin OG, in agricultural bacteriology.
G. Schroeder, o6. assistant in animal
husbnndry, succeeds James Hutton, who
has accepted similar position at Colo
RADIO Agricultural college. f.. j. Dele
riche. 'O6, has been given immediate
charge of the Superior experimental
farms. and James G.. Milward is new
assistant in horticulture, Roy L. llar-
ris, Tor several years assistant i'll dairy
test and cheese inspection, has been made
official dairy tester. Iva \. WEIGH, '9S,
has been appointed librarian at the agri-
culture library, taking the place of Mrs.
l.. NJ Briggs, who is now in the law
library.