Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-10-19
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.l
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
be charged for tickets to the junior
prom" Hitherto the price has been
IS. 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 a 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
Verslty were approved at the meeting
OF the board OF regents today. It 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, the
Philadelphia architect, who planned
the the University of Pennsylvania,
the members of the sul.-commit-
tee who recommended this uniform
policy OF extension, and it is according
to his plan that the board acted. The
proposed improvements will cover Pc
Rod OF twenty or twenty-five years, but
| n 0fIn 10 fob
formity. 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. The committee which
recommended the new order is composed
of w. ]. McElroy, Milwaukee, W. E.
Brown, Waupaca, anu 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 materalizes, there will be a thor
ough investigation of fraternities, sorori-
ties and social conditions generally.
For some time past" said this mem
Der. II have been more than passively in
versity, and from all l can observe they
are far from ideal. At present | cannot
make statement backed up by definite
date, but my impression as a student of
the university and as member of the
board, is that there must be q revision
in social conditions. | am going to make
a thorough investigation of fraternities
and sororities at Wisconsin and other
universities, and, if the facts warrant it,
at a future meeting a resolution to re-
strict these organizations will be intro
duced. 1t seems to me that they are
undemocratic in the highest degree.
They form cast among the students
that is inexcusable. They are expensive
to the parents. There may be something
to say about the benefits of these organ
izations and if there is the advocates
of the system will be given ample time
to have a hearing. But my present I'M
pressions are not at all favorable. The
proposed dornitory system, when car
red into effect, will do away with the
major reason given for their existence.
1t is the 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 like social
functions. These too are expensive and
cannot participate, and ought to be
minimized as far as possible. The in
vestigation which l will conduct will
take in this matter also. Personally I
am opposed to them"
If an effort is made to restrict or
abolish fraternities it will result in all
uproar by the Greek letter men. There
are a number of fraternity men on the
board of regents and these organizations
are also well represented in 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
consin. At present three of the most
influential members of the faculty are
endeavoring to institute at Wisconsin a
chapter of their organizations.
New Appointments Announced.
New appointments in the college of
agriculture have just been announced.
e. B. Hart, of the state experimental
station at Geneva, n. Y, has been made
professor of agricultural chemistry, and
as his assistant, William E. Tattingham,
has been appointed. J. c. Brown, who
formerly held this position, has engaged
in the dairy business. DR.. II. S. Nc
Leod has been appointed a new instruct
or in soils, and Conrad Hoffman,, Wis
consin O6, in agricultural bacteriology.
c. Schroeder. o., assistant in animal
husbandry, succeeds James Hutton, who
has accepted a similar position at Colo
RADIO Agricultural college. L. J. Dele
viche, 'OS, has been given immediate
charge of the Superior experimental
farms and James q. Milward is a new
assistant in horticulture. Roy L. Har-
ris for several years assistant in dairy
test and cheese inspection, has been made
official dairy tester. Iva A. WEIGH '0S,
has been appointed librarian at the agri-
culture library, taking the place of Mrs.