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THE  SCROLL 


or 


PHI  DELTA  THETA 


VOLUME  XXII 


October,  1897  June,  1898 


l-DITED   AND  MANAGED  BY 

HUGH  TH.  MILLER 


'jt9  avi)p  oroctc  nyj}iy 


J  * 


INDIANAPOLIS.  IND. 

PUBLISHED  BY  THE  FRATERNITY 

1898 


VOLUME  XXn— INDEX. 

Alumni  Chapters.  .  M?>,  34,  .S'),  supp.  18,  <>4,  200.  28*;,  .S7(),  4i:^,  4S."),  o*J.'> 

American  College  Fraternities  (Baird ) 407 

Annual  Report  of  the  H.  G.  C 487 

Annuals.  College 107.  l.I.").  iJl.') 

Army  and  Navy,  Phis  in 4.51 .  .^'Jil.  ."wjo,  574 

Badge,  The 4<i(>,  o7(; 

Baldridge,  Rev.  S.  C.  (Miami,  '41> )    .")0:> 

Bestor,  G.  T.  {.Uahama,  M»8 ) 508 

Biographical  Notes,  Chapter  (jrand 500 

Boddie,  M.  M.  (  /  'amierMif.  'so  ) 504 

Boynton,  Gen.  H.  V.  N.  ( A'.  M.  /.,  ':>s) ;;(;o.  574 

Catalogue,  A  Practical  Fraternitv o-4,  5(ii> 

Chapter  Grand '. 4i>5 

Chapter  Houses S.S,  «»:;,  supp.  1(),  !»7.  i:^4.  .Si:;,  \\^:\  .VJ5 

Chapter  Houses  in  Southern  Colleges 07.    1S4 

Chapter  Roll  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  10  1 1 

Cincinnati  Chapter h'\) 

College  Annuals 107,  l.T),  :}i5 

Colleges,  Statistics  of supp.     :^5 

Convention  of  iso.'i -JO'J,  44s,  578 

Conventions,  Province 8<;,  ;)7,  01,  i;;7,  lliO.  .'H'i 

Delta  Tau  Delta  -Rainbow .T 1 

Dickinson  College 455 

Fraternities,  Stati.stics  of   supp.  o2.  4.5*2 

Fraternity  Library,  The :*.5.  :W)7 

Funston,*Col.  Frederick  (Kansas,  '02 ) ;^*70,  574 

Greek  Vandal,  A .S75 

Guilmette,  A.  K.  (Xehraska,  '02) .5(M) 

Helphrey,*Jpl>n  ^*.  { Joi^a^  U'tsinan,  'OS) 575 

Hogg.  N.  fi  {"ti'psJtiTi^/tm  lifiit  f^ti^r^}}i\  '70 ; .')05 

Illinois  K{)snk)i;,  -v/itUdrawol-bf  t^J^tl-jer  of :!4 

Initiates  and  AfiiljaJtes,  FpJ)ruarv  1.*'lS07.  to  Februarv  1.  ISOS .")00 

Kriebel,  F.  L.  (  /XilkitV^v:,:'.^^^'^' ' 57;{ 

Leonard,  Prof.*A:  ^..f(^^:>.,rsj^J 250 

Librarv,  The*«K!-«rt;;rg3tv»* ..  * ,^ , .';5,  .'Id 7 

Lifting  at  \Vi1.1ifIftJ.V^'Cd6i«i.<3e.  .  ; 252 

Lifting,  Sigma  Xiyflia-Epfii^oli** Charge  of .'uO,  MSI 

Lindley.  J.  W.  (Miami.  '50) 7 

Manual  of  Plii  Delta  Theta,  A supp.  I   47 

Miami,  Sentiment  an  Argument  for l.'>2 

Michigan  Beta,  Withdrawal  of  Charter  of .177 

Michigan  Gamma,  Withdrawal  of  Charter  of .S7S 

Misunderstanding,  A .17  1 

Morse,  Wilbur  (  /Yfifisvirania,  '00) i;;o 

Music,  Phi  Delta  Theta 4<'»4 

New  Chapter  at  Cincinnati 570 

Ohio  Delta,  Suspension  of  Charter  of l.Ni.    101 

Old  Fraternity  Records 2:;4,  25s,  :;47 

Palmer,  Frank  S.  i/unorw  '00) :a^ 

Phi  Delta  Theta  Music 4<l  1 


'•*•'*.♦       ■  »  «  .  » 


W  .  .,^  ■•  .^ 

\ 

I  *  •  •     iii       ;^ 


INDEX.                  I  *           •  •  iii       ;i 

Practical  Fraternity  Catalogue,  A J^-J4 

Proinineiit  Members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  29 

Province  Conventions 'M\,  :i7,  »»1,  1H7,  IIH),  .S8:J 

Railsback,  Rev.  Lvcurgus  (  U'ahash,  'iVl) oOT 

Randolph.  E.  H.  t.  (C  C.  X.  )'.,   S.")) olH) 

Records,  Old  Praternity 'I'M,  2.VS,  .S47 

Report  of  H.  G.  C,  Annual 487 

Ro«lgers,  Ardivan  W.  (Miami,  '.">!) 'MS) 

Roller,  B.  F.  (De  /\iu7c,  MKS) ol7 

Sentiment  an  Argument  for  Miami 11^2 

Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon's  Charge  of  Lifting 379,  884 

Sketch  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  8 

Son^s  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  2'),  257 

Statistics  of  Colleges supp.  ',\h 

Statistics  of  Fraternities supp.  82,  482 

Statistics  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 488 

Stewart,  Gen.  A.  P.  {Miami,  '42) 84(> 

Tennessee  Alpha 28 

Tributes  to  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  22 

University  of  Texas,  The 21.> 

Vandal,  A  Greek 87.') 

Van^erbilt  University  and  Tennessee  Alpha 11 

Walthall.  vSenator  E.  C.  ( Mississippi,  MS) 007 

War  With  Spain.  Phi  Delta  Theta  in  the 4."')1,  h'2(\,  ')♦)(),  .•)74 

Withdrawal  of  Charters 81,  18r),  877.  878 

Departmenvs 

Chapter  C.>rrespoii.lrTioe ::s.  i;;s.  !:;•.),  2H:;.  8s«.  .Vj; 

C(»lleges 74.  144,  80-_>.  t.v,,  rnij 

Ef- "^rial 80,  184,  2:m.  880,  528 

Fraternities 7S,  201.  8or>,  441,  5()8 

Items  of  Interest  (see  Colleges  and  Fraternities). 

Official  Communications :m.  188,  487 

Personal <'».">,   l •>.■).  2S'.>,  124,  ofiO 

The  Pyx <»1,  210,  818.  44S,  572 

ILLI'STRATIONS — 

Allegheny  Chapter,  The \A\\  589 

Allegheny  Chapter  House,  The 480 

Alpha  Tau  Omega  House  at  Sewanee 98 

Amherst  Chapter  House supp.  1 7 

Baker,  R.  S.  (  Tr.vas,  •90) 227 

Boynton,  Gen.  H.  V.  N.  ( A'.  M.  I.,  ''>><) 8(>ti 

Chapter  Groups, 

17,  24,  45,  h:^^  fU).  K\^  140,  151,  191,  584,  5.89,  551,  558 

Chapter  Houses... supp.  17,  88,  47,  90.  KM),  102,  104,  10<),  112.  48r> 

Cornell  Chapter  House supp.  17 

Delta  Psi  House  at  Mississippi 10<» 

Delta  Tau  Delta  House  at  Sewanee 104 

De  Pauw  Chapter,  The 551 

Dickinson  Chapter,  The 151 

Dickinson  College  Views 457 

Funston,  Col.  Frederick  [Kansas,  '92) 870 

Group  Pictures  of  Chapters. 

17,  24.  45,55,  00.  S8,  149.  151,  l^M,  584,  589,  551,  558 

Helphrey,  John  P.  {Iowa  Wcslcyan,  '9S) 575 

Kansas  Chapter,  The 55 


iv  INDEX, 

Kappa  Alpha  House  at  Southwestern KH) 

Kappa  Sigma  House  at  Sewanee 1  Oo 

Kriebel,  F.  L.  {Dickinso}!,  '1>S) 578 

Lafayette  Chapter,  The 5:U 

Ivee,  Tom  J.  {Texas,  'IM) 282 

Leonard,  Dr.  A.  E.  ( Ohio,  '88) 2')() 

Lindley,  J.  W.  [Miami,  '50) <>,  8 

Mammoth  Cave 874 

Missouri  Chapter,  The OO,  55S 

Morse,  Wilbur  ( Pcnnsvivatiia,  ".M)) 18«) 

Palmer,  V.  S.  (  Emory,  '9t» ) 578 

Rodgers,  A.  \V.  ( Miami,  '57  ) 81S 

Roller,  B.  F.  ( /)r/\iU7c,  'tKS] 577 

Seal  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.        2 

Sewanee  Chapter  House supp.  47,     {M> 

Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  House  at  Sewanee 104 

Smith,  R.  W.  (  7\\vas,  '87 , 227 

Stewart,  Gen.  A.  P.  :  Miami,  '42 1 84() 

Texas  Chapter,  The 88 

University  of  Texas  Views 214 

Vanderbiit  Chapter,  The 24 

Vanderbilt  Chapter  House,  The supp.  88,   102 

Vanderbiit  Universitv  Views 12 

Washington  and  Jefferson  Chapter,  The -15 

Wooster  Chapter,  The VM 

CONTRIBUTORS  TO  VOLl'ME  XXH. 

Ball,  Fred  S.  [Ohio  State,  '88) 8S 

Bastian,  W.  A.  (^/)trau:c,  'V»l ) 42o 

Bloom,  J.  G.  {( ^hio  State,  'St) ) 417 

Brown,  Dr.  J.  E.  {(>hio  H'rslrvan,  'sn 8()7,  418 

Case,  W.  W.  {.Ularfit'nv,  '84) 418 

Chaplin,  T.  C.  (  U'ashimrtou,  'V^O) 421 

Connally,  T.  T.  (  Texas,  '1>8) 215 

Covert,  Rev.  W.  C.  ( Ilauovcr,  '8.'>; 421 

Couse,  E.  P.  {AHeghniv,  'SO) 415 

DeWitt,  John  H.  (  Van'dcrfyitt,  '04) 11,  102.  41(i 

Eberhard,  L.  R.  C.  {Buchtct,  'O;',) 417 

Ehrhorn,  O.  W.  {Cotumt>ia,  '08) 2K«;,  418 

Findley,  Prof.  S.  E.  iHuchtcI,  '04) 7 

Hollingshead,  Dr.  I.  W.  ( J\nnsvlva)iia,  '04  i 41(> 

Holmes,  E.  W.  [Staufonf,  '«K)) 42;i 

Kernion,  G.  C.  H.  (  Tutanr,  ".♦7 ) 2S7 

Kriebel,  V.  L.  ( Pickinson,  'OS) 455 

Merriam,  Dr.  W.  H.  (  /  'ermont,  '80  ^ 418 

Miller,  lIughTh.  [Ituiianapolis,  '"^i^) I07,  K'.o.  8-ir),  ;;«><;,  :;75,  507 

Morgan,  W.  O.  ( California.  'S7) 422 

Morrison,  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  [Miami,  '40) 810,  8S4,  4(;-l.  508 

Owen,  F.  C.  [Alat^ama,  '00 j 50S 

Palmer,  Walter  B.  r  Wuidcrlult,  '80).  .8r>,  S(),  SS,  supp.  1,     40,  187, 

284,  252,  258-2e')0,  :{24,  847,  871,  404,  407,  5(M>,  504,  505,  520,    VO 

Poitevent,  Schuyler  (  /  'ir^inia,  'OS) :]7 

Putnam.  W.  P.  '{Biuhtcl,  '08) 28S,  -l2o 

RadcliflFe,  Dr.  McCluney  {Pennsylvania,  '82) 188,  487,  4Ss 

Shipp,  T.  R.  {Indianapolis,  '07) 800 

Sweet,  Franklin  (  Wisconsin,  '08) i\\ 

Tebault.  G.  L.  (  Tulane,  '08) 410 

Weed,  C.  B.  K.  {Sewanee,  '05) 07 

Work,  Rev.  A.  G.  {Miami,  '04) 182 


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VoL  XXII.  OCTOBER,  1897.  No.  U 

JOHN  WOLFE  LINDLEY. 

John  Wolfe  Lindley,  one  of  the  three  surviving  founders 
ot  *  A  fc),  was  born  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  August  20,  1X26. 
His  parents,  Mahlon  and  Anna  Wolfe  Lindley,  were  of  Kn- 
glish  descent  and  at  an  early  date,  when  the  country  was 
new,  removed  from  Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  to  Knox  county, 
settling  upon  the  farm  on  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  born  and  still  resides.  The  early  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  farm  work  and  in  improving  such  opportunities  for 
education  as  the  district  school  afforded.  Always  with  strong 
religious  influences  around  him  at  home,  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  became  a  member  of  the  F'irst  Presbyterian  church  of 
Fredericktown,  Ohio,  and  has  been  a  ruling  elder,  clerk  of 
session,  and  prominent  Sunday-school  worker  there  for  many 
years. 

His  eighteenth  birthday  was  just  past  when  he  entered 
Fredericktown  Academy,  and  two  years  later  he  l>egan  a 
course  at  Miami  University,  Oxford.  Ohio,  being  graduated 
there  in  is^O.  During  this  period  in  Miami's  history  oc- 
curred the  'snow  rebellion,'  which  resulted  in  the  expulsion 
of  one-half  the  students  and  created  a  breach  in  the  ranks  of 
the  faculty  that  was  never  healed.  The  presidency  of  Dr. 
MacMaster  was  brought  to  an  end  by  his  resignation,  and  I)r, 
W.  C.  Anderson  took  his  place. 

Immediately  after  leaving  Miami,  Brother  Lindley  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  professor  of  mathematics  and  I^tin  in 
Xew  Hagerstown  (Ohio»  Academy,  remaining  there  until 
called  to  the  principalship  of  the  Poplar  Grove  ( Tenn.  ) 
Academy  in  1S.V2.  The  two  years  following  '5'>  saw  him 
connected  with  the  faculty  of  Richmond  (Ohio)  College,  in 
charge  of  the  same  departments  as  at  New  Hagerstown. 
His  enviable  record  thus  far  soon  resulted  in  a  call  from  his 
native  state  to  Indiana,  where,  from  'o.")  to  *01,  he  was 
principal  of  the  Charlestown  Female  Institute.     A  similar 


iv  INDEX. 

Kappa  Alpha  House  at  Southwestern 100 

Kappa  Sigma  House  at  Sewanee 1 05 

Kriebel,  F.  L.  {Dickinson,  '98) 573 

Lafayette  Chapter,  The 534 

Ivee,  Tom  J.  {Texas,  '94) 282 

Leonard,  Dr.  A.  E.  ( Ohio,  '88 j 250 

Lindley,  J.  W.  {Miami,  '50) r>.  8 

Mammoth  Cave 374 

Missouri  Chapter,  The 60,  558 

Morse,  Wilbur  {Pnnisvlvajiia,  '99) 130 

Palmer,  F.  S.  (  Emory,  '99) 578 

Rodgers,  A.  \V.  ( Miami,  '57 ) 318 

Roller,  B.  F.  ( De/\ut7i;  '9S j 577 

Seal  of  Phi  Delta  Theta supp.  2 

Sewanee  Chapter  House supp.  47,  90 

Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  House  at  Sewanee 104 

Smith,  R.  \V.  (  Texas,  \S7 1 227 

Stewart,  Gen.  A.  P.  ( Miami,  '42 1 34(> 

Texas  Chapter,  The 83 

University  of  Texas  Views 214 

Vanderbilt  Chapter,  The 24 

Vanderbilt  Chapter  House,  The supp.  33,  102 

Vanderbilt  University  Views 12 

Washington  and  Jefferson  Chapter,  The 45 

Wooster  Chapter,  The 191 

CONTRIBUTORS  TO  VOLUME  XXII. 

Ball,  Fred  S.  [Ohio  Sfaie,  '88) 38 

Bastian,  W.  A.  ( PeTaUiU,  '91 ) 42M 

Bloom,  J.  G.  (i^hio  S/a/r,  '89) 417 

Brown,  Dr.  J.  E.  (O/iio  H'rsleyan,  'SI) 307,  418 

Case,  W.  W.  {Aliei^fieiiv,  '84) 413 

Chaplin,  T.  C.  (  Washiugion,  '90) 421 

Connally,  T.  T.  (  Texas,  '98) 215 

Covert,  Rev.  W.  C.  (Hatiover,  '85; 421 

Couse,  E.  P.  {AilegMenv,  '89) 415 

DeWitt,  John  H.  (  Wmderbilt,  '94) 11,  192,  410 

Eberhard,  L.  R.  C.  {/inehiel,  '93) 417 

Ehrhorn,  O.  W.  {Columbia,  '98; 280,  413 

Findley,  Prof.  S.  E.  {Huchtel,  '94 ) 7 

Hollingshead,  Dr.  I.  W.  (  rennsylvania,  '94  i 410 

Holmes,  E.  W.  {Stanford,  '00) 423 

Kernion,  G.  C.  H.  (  Tnlane,  '97) 287 

Kriebel,  F.  L.  {Dickinson,  '98) 455 

Merriam,  Dr.  W.  H.  (  / 'ermont,  '89) 418 

Miller,  Hugh  Th.  {Indianapolis,  'SS) 107,  1 ;'.(),  34(),  3<U>,  .",75,  .507 

Morgan,  W.  O.  ( California,  '87) 422 

Morrison,  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  [Miami,  '49) 319,  :'>S4,  404,  503 

Owen,  F.  C.  {.llahama,  '99) r^i)^ 

Palmer,  Walter  B.  i  I'anderhili,  '80).  .30,  80,  S8,  supp.  1,     40,  137, 

234,  252,  253-259,  324,  347.  371,  404,  407,  5(H),  504.  505,  520.  579 

Poitevent,  Schuyler  ( /  'irs^inia,  '9H) 37 

Putnam,  W.  P.   {Biichtel,  '93) 28S,  420 

Radcliffe,  Dr.  McCluney  (Pennsylvania,  '82) 133,  4S7,  4SS 

Shipp,  T.  R.  {Indianapolis,  '97) ;;oo 

Sweet,  Franklin  (  Wisconsin,  '93) 04 

Tebault.  G.  L.  (  Tnlane,  '93) 410 

Weed,  C.  B.  K.  {Sercanee,  '95) 97 

Work,  Rev.  A.  G.  {Miami,  '94) 132 


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THE  SCROLL. 

VoL  XXII.  OCTOBER,  J897.  No.  U 

>-< 

JOHN  WOLFE  LINDLEY. 

John  Wolfe  Liiidley,  one  of  the  three  surviving  founders 
of  <t  A  (?:),  was  born  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  August  20,  l'S26. 
His  parents,  Mahlon  and  Anna  Wolfe  Lindley,  were  of  En- 
glish descent  and  at  an  early  date,  when  the  country  was 
new,  removed  from  Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  to  Knox  county, 
settling  upon  the  farm  on  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  born  and  still  resides.  The  early  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  farm  work  and  in  improving  such  opportunities  for 
education  as  the  district  school  afforded.  Always  with  strong 
religious  influences  around  him  at  home,  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  became  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church  of 
Fredericktown,  Ohio,  and  has  been  a  ruling  elder,  clerk  of 
session,  and  prominent  Sunday-school  worker  there  for  many 
years. 

His  eighteenth  birthday  was  just  past  when  he  entered 
Fredericktown  Academy,  and  two  years  later  he  began  a 
course  at  Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  being  graduated 
there  in  1  >>')().  During  this  period  in  Miami's  history  oc- 
curred the  'snow  rebellion,'  which  resulted  in  the  expulsion 
of  one-half  the  students  and  created  a  breach  in  the  ranks  of 
the  faculty  that  was  never  healed.  The  presidency  of  Dr. 
MacMaster  was  brought  to  an  end  by  his  resignation,  and  Dr. 
W.  C.  Anderson  took  his  place. 

Immediately  after  leaving  Miami,  Brother  Lindley  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  professor  of  mathematics  and  Latin  in 
New  Hagerstown  (Ohio)  Academy,  remaining  there  until 
called  to  the  principalship  of  the  Poplar  Grove  ( Tenn.  ) 
Academy  in  isr)2.  The  two  years  following  '5')  saw  him 
connected  with  the  faculty  of  Richmond  (Ohio)  College,  in 
charge  of  the  same  departments  as  at  New  Hagerstown. 
His  enviable  record  thus  far  soon  resulted  in  a  call  from  his 
native  state  to  Indiana,  where,  from  '5")  to  '()1,  he  was 
principal  of  the  Charlestown  Female  Institute.     A  similar 


THE  SCROLL,  9 

position  he  held  from  '<>!  to  'r)2  at  Paducah  (Ky.)  Female 
Seminary,  returning  to  Ohio  soon  after  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  War  to  teach  again  in  Richmond  College.  In  '63  he 
removed  to  the  old  homestead  near  Fredericktown ,  Ohio, 
where  he  has  since  resided. 

Though  past  the  allotted  three  score  years  and  ten,  he  is 
still  able  to  undertake  all  kinds  of  farm  work  and  carry  on 
an  extensive  legal  business.  His  is  indeed  a  vigorous  old 
age.  There  are  no  signs  of  a  lessening  concern  for  the  af- 
fairs of  active  life,  but  everywhere  around  him  are  abundant 
evidences  of  a  feeling  of  mutual  interest  and  good-will  be- 
tween him  and  his  fellow- man. 

He  was  married  October  0,  l.S.")4,  to  Catherine  E.  Shelley, 
and  three  sons  and  three  daughters  have  been  born  to  them. 
Of  these,  the  oldest  son  is  in  business  in  Mansfield,  Ohio. 
The  second  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  Dr.  F.  M.  Mc- 
Murry,  dean  of  the  Teachers'  College,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Will- 
iam, the  youngest  son,  is  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  DeLand,  Florida.  The  other  son  and  two  daughters  are 
with  their  parents  at  home. 

It  was  during  the  period  in  the  histor>'  of  Miami  Univer- 
sity characterized  by  the  '  snow  rebellion  '  mentioned  above, 
that  the  subject  of  this  sketch  identified  himself  with  the 
movement  that  has  made  him  a  sharer  with  the  five  other 
founders  of  <^  A  0  in  the  gratitude  of  the  whole  Fraternity. 
Speaking  of  the  motive  that  prompted  the  new  venture,  he 
said,  at  the  Alumni  Day  banquet  at  Columbus  in  'U^),  that 
they  were  not  six  idle  boys  who  tired  of  leisure,  and  so  got 
together  to  organize  Phi  Delta  Theta.  It  was  the  outcome 
of  a  desire  to  reap  the  fullest  benefits  from  college  associa- 
tions, and  the  belief  that  they  saw  a  way  to  add  an  element 
to  their  college  culture  which  the  college  did  not  and  could 
not  of  itself  ever  give.  For  several  months  preceding  the 
actual  date  of  founding,  December  2(),  1S4S,  the  six  found- 
ers were  engaged  in  elaborating  and  perfecting  the  Bond, 
which  has  remained  our  unaltered  and  unalterable  basis  of 
union.  They  were,  naturally,  very  strongly  attached  to 
each  other  and  to  those  initiated  during  their  stay  at  Miami. 
For  a  time  meetings  were  held  at  the  rooms  of  the  various 
members,  and  in  the  summer  time  in  retreats  along  the 
neighboring  creek,  the  greatest  care  being  taken  not  to  at- 
tract the  attention  of  the  curious,  for  it  must  be  remembered 
that  the  organization  was  kept  sub  rosa  till  several  years 
later.  Aside  from  their  social  features,  these  meetings  were 
marked  by  literary  work,  and  more  than  one  production  of 
special  merit  read  at  the  chapel  exercises  owed  its  excellence 


lo  THE  SCROLL, 

to  kindly  criticism  at  the  hands  of  the  chapter  then  totally 
unknown. 

The  first  initiation  at  Miami  took  place  in  Brother  Lind- 
ley's  room  in  the  wing  of  the  college  buildinj^,  and  the 
victim  was  G.  M.  Williams,  one  of  the  brightest  and  most 
popular  students  in  school.  In  celebration  of  this  event  a 
banquet  was  held  in  one  of  the  rooms  of  McColough's  res- 
taurant, January  1,  l''>41>.  It  was  a  sumptuous  affair  and 
the  flow  of  soul  all  that  could  be  desired,  the  only  circum- 
stance to  mar  the  festivities  being  the  presence  at  the  end  of 
the  menu  of  Regalia  cigars,  which,  in  the  case  of  some  for 
whom  this  w^as  the  first  experience — and  the  last  also — pro- 
duced the  result  most  naturally  to  be  expected.  vSoon  after- 
ward Allen  A.  Barnett,  David  Swing.  John  K.  Houde,  Isaac 
S.  Lane,  and  others  were  brought  into  the  fold  and  the 
general  scope  of  the  Fraternity  was  considerably  enlarged. 
During  the  sumnier  of  1S41),  John  \V.  Lindley,  acting  under 
authority  of  the  chapter,  secured  as  members  his  brother, 
Joseph  Lindley,  and  C.  S.  Doolitell.  both  being  at  the  time 
students  of  Kenyon  College,  Ciambier,  Ohio. 

It  was  not,  however,  till  commencement  week  of  IXO'3 
that  the  Fraternity  declared  its  existence  by  announcing  a 
public  meeting,  an  event  somewhat  like  the  open  meetings 
of  our  college  literary  societies  to-day.  It  was  a  proud  day 
for  the  Phis,  and  an  important  one  in  the  history-  of  the  uni- 
versity. Dr.  K.  P.  Humphrey,  an  honorary  member,  was 
the  orator  of  the  day.  vSeveral  members  of  the  faculty  were 
Phis  and  wx)re  pins  to  make  the  occasion  as  conspicuous  as 
possible. 

After  being  graduated  from  Miami  in  l-SoO,  Brother  Lind- 
ley, through  correspondence  with  individual  members,  main- 
tained his  interest  in  the  chapter  and  gained  a  knowledge  of 
its  general  condition  and  the  additions  lo  its  roll  from  time 
to  time.  And  with  the  growth  in  membership  and  in  num- 
ber of  chapters,  the  welfare  of  the  whole  Fraternity  became 
the  object  of  his  care.  Advancing  years  have  brought  no 
diminution  in  his  loyalty  to  the  cause,  and  to-day  his  kind- 
est benediction  attends  Phi  Delta  Theta  as  she  pursues  the 
even  tenor  of  her  way.  With  keen  satisfaction  and  a  sense  of 
paternal  pride  he  reads  the  successive  issues  of  TiiK  Scr(  )IJ., 
finding  it  difficult,  at  times,  to  realize  that  the  <l>  A  (-)  of  '4S 
has  assumed  its  present  proportions  and  proved  an  inspira- 
tion to  so  many  of  the  best  men  of  our  colleges  and  universi- 
ties. Truly  it  is  no  trifling  thing  to  be  a  founder  of  such  a 
fraternity.  Samuel  Kmerson  Findlkv. 

Ohio  Epsilon,  '^/. 


THE  SCROLL,  ii 


VANDERBILT  UNIVERSITY  AND  TENNESSEE  ALPHA. 

Before  the  fine  arts  building  of  the  Tennessee  centennial 
exposition  stands  the  statue  erected  recently  by  appreciative 
alumni  and  citizens  to  the  memory  of  Cornelius  Vanderbilt. 
Later  to  adorn  the  university  grounds,  it  now  gives  expres- 
sion of  honor  and  gratitude  of  a  people  celebrating  the  cen- 
tenary of  their  statehood.  It  speaks  for  the  whole  south  its 
homage  to  the  wisdom  and  munificence  of  the  man  who, 
twenty-three  years  ago,  at  the  close  of  his  long  life,  smiled 
upon  the  completion  of  a  lofty  and  enduring  monument  to 
his  fame. 

Vanderbilt  University  is  situated  near  the  heart  of  middle 
Tennessee,  at  the  western  limit  of  the  'Athens  of  the  South,' 
as  Nashville  is  familiarly  known.  Upon  an  eminence  easily 
reached  through  a  broad  thoroughfare,  its  elegant  stone- 
trimmed  buildings  and  luxuriant  campus  of  seventy-six 
acres  are  among  the  chief  ornaments  of  the  city,  and  form 
an  attractive  introduction  to  the  charming  country  which 
lies  beyond.  In  fact,  few  college  campuses  are  more  beau- 
tiful than  this  with  its  walks  and  drives,  adorned  with  shrubs 
and  flowers  and  vShaded  by  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty 
different  kinds  of  trees. 

This  campus  was  purchased  in  1S78,  partly  with  the  do- 
nation of  $27,000  by  the  citizens  of  Nashville  for  Central 
University,  which  existed  only  in  the  dreams  of  the  South- 
ern Methodist  church.  The  great  civil  war  had  left  the 
whole  system  of  education  prostrate  in  the  south.  Time- 
honored  institutions  had  suffered  disintegration,  and  means 
were  lacking  to  restore  them  to  their  former  usefulness. 
Few  of  them  deserved  the  name  of  university,  while  none  of 
them  satisfied  the  acknowledged  w^ant  of  a  means  of  higher 
education.  In  1.^71  this  deplorable  condition  led  several 
conferences  of  the  M.  K.  Church,  South,  to  appoint  delegates 
to  a  convention  to  '  consider  the  subject  of  a  university  such 
as  would  meet  the  w^ants  of  the  church  and  the  country.' 
This  convention  met  in  Memphis  in  January,  1H72.  Among 
its  leading  members  w^ere  Bishops  Paine  and  McTyeire,  and 
the  venerable  Chancellor  L.  C.  Garland.  A  plan  was  adopted, 
a  board  of  trust  w^as  nominated  and  authorized  to  obtain  a 
charter  of  incorporation  under  the  title  of  'The  Central  Uni- 
versity of  the  M.  IC.  Church,  South.'  The  convention  de- 
clared by  resolution  '  that  51 ,000,000  w^as  necessary  to  real- 
ize completely  its  aims,'  and  refused  to  authorize  any  steps 


THE  SCROLL,  13 

toward  the  opening  of  any  department  of  the  university 
until  there  should  be  a  valid  subscription  of  $500,000. 

But  at  that  time  the  impoverished  condition  of  the  country 
soon  caused  the  projectors  of  this  scheme  to  meet  with  dis- 
couragement and  to  despair  of  ever  securing  the  needed  half 
a  million.  Doubtless  it  would  have  been  largely  abandoned, 
had  it  not  at  this  crisis  received  the  noble  benefactions  of 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt.  He  it  was  who  made  the  university 
possible  by  the  generous  contribution  of  $500,000,  which  was 
subsequently  increased  until  the  entire  donation  amounted 
to  $1,000,000.  Immediately  was  discouragement  dissipated 
by  the  enthusiasm  which  this  princely  gift  awakened.  The 
name  of  the  university  was  changed  in  appreciation  and  in 
honor  of  the  memory  of  its  founder.  From  this  time  there 
was  no  delay  in  construction  in  spite  of  the  financial  panic 
then  pervading  the  country.  In  less  than  two  years  from 
the  time  when  a  corn-field  marked  the  site,  the  imposing 
main  building  stood  as  the  nucleus  of  the  institution.  The 
corner-stone  was  laid  April  2^,  1S74,  and  the  university  was 
first  opened  to  students  in  October,  I'^To. 

In  a  letter  to  Bishop  McTyeire  concerning  the  object  of 
his  generosity,  Mr.  \^anderbilt  once  expressed  the  following 
sentiment:  'If  it  shall,  through  its  influence,  contribute, 
even  in  the  smallest  degree,  to  strengthening  the  ties  which 
should  exist  between  all  geographical  sections  of  our  com- 
mon country,  I  shall  feel  that  it  has  accomplished  one  of 
the  objects  which  led  me  to  take  an  interest  in  it.  *  A  citi- 
zen of  the  north,  his  animosities  were  over  when  the  war 
had  ceased,  dissolving  into  sympathy  for  a  people  who  were 
struggling  to  rebuild  their  fallen  fortunes  and  to  secure  for 
their  posterity  the  highest  blessings  of  Christian  civilization. 
A  distinguished  statesman  remarked :  '  Commodore  Van- 
derbilt has  done  more  for  reconstruction  than  the  Forty- 
second  Congress.'  This  sentiment  has  been  beautifully 
expressed  in  one  of  the  college  songs: 

And  when  the  time  shall  come  again, 

When  bitterness  shaU  cease, 
When  the  blushing  South  to  the  North  shall  say, 

•Thou  mayst  if  thou  wilt,* 
The  ring  for  that  bright  wedding  day 

vShall  be  our  Vanderbilt. 

The  personnel  of  those  in  charge  of  the  enterprise  has  al- 
ways been  such  as  to  insure  success.  The  board  of  trust 
has  consisted  of  leaders  in  the  church  and  in  civil  life,  who 
possessed  great  business  and  executive  ability.     Bishop  Mc- 


THE  SCROLL,  15 

Tyeire,  the  first  president  of  this  board,  continued  at  the 
head  of  the  whole  university  until  his  death,  in  ISSt).  Be- 
ing related  by  marriage  to  Mr.  Vanderbilt,  it  was  through 
his  instrumentality  that  the  funds  for  building  and  endow- 
ment were  secured.  Largely  through  his  wisdom  and  sa- 
gacity the  university  was  established  and  shaped  in  working 
order.  The  faculty  has  at  all  times  included  some  of  the 
south' s  most  distinguished  educators  and  scholars.  Most 
fittingly  Dr.  L.  C.  Garland  was  called  from  the  University 
of  Mississippi  and  made  chancellor  and  professor  of  physics 
and  astronomy.  Foremost  among  southern  scholars  and 
scientists,  he  had  held  the  presidencies  of  Randolph- Macon, 
in  Virginia,  and  the  University  of  Alabama,  besides  holding 
professorships  in  two  other  colleges.  His  eminent  services 
brought  honor  and  credit  to  Vanderbilt,  lasting  until  his 
death,  in  1805.  In  June,  l>^t)o,  his  resignation  of  the  chan- 
cellorship, offered  two  years  before,  was  accepted,  and  Dr.  J. 
H.  Kirkland,  professor  of  Latin,  elected  to  succeed  him. 
The  present  chancellor  has  not  only  fulfilled  to  the  fullest  ex- 
tent the  bright  hopes  for  the  future  of  Vanderbilt  that  were 
aroused  by  his  election,  but  has  also  demonstrated  that  few 
men  in  America  are  so  well  equipped  in  scholarship,  in  ex- 
ecutive ability,  in  the  power  to  win,  to  influence,  to  arouse 
young  men. 

The  munificence  of  the  founder  was  continued  by  his  fam- 
ily, so  that  the  university  expanded  rapidly.  University 
Hall,  the  first  building,  became  the  center  of  university  life. 
Besides  being  devoted  to  general  university  purposes,  it  is 
also  occupied  by  the  academic  department  and  by  the  de- 
partment of  pharmacy.  It  is  a  brick  structure,  with  gray 
stone  trimmings,  four  stories  in  height,  surmounted  by  two 
majestic  towers.  Besides  many  lecture  rooms,  society  halls, 
professors'  studies  and  laboratories,  it  contains  the  univer- 
sity chapel,  library  and  reading  room.  In  ISSO^  Wesley 
Hall,  the  home  of  the  theological  department,  was  built. 
It  is  a  five-story  brick  building,  in  which  the  theological 
students  find  rooms,  in  addition  to  the  apartments  reserved 
for  professors,  instructors  and  fellows.  Then  were  erected 
the  gymnasium,  Science  Hall,  and  a  complete  equipment  of 
apparatus  for  instruction  in  engineering.  All  these  were 
the  result  of  a  donation  of  $1.")0,(M)()  from  Mr.  W.  H.  Van- 
derbilt. In  iss:;,  he  added  $1(M),(MM)  to  the  university's  en- 
dowment,  and  in  his  wull,  by  a  bequest  of  $2(M),(MM),  increased 
it  to  $0(K),(MK).  The  productive  endowment  of  the  university 
is  now  $  I  ,<>•">(),()()().     During  this  time  other  build  i'"'E:s  were 


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added — the  observatory,  professors'  residences,  and  dormi- 
tories. Later  a  commodious  building,  five  stories  in  height, 
with  handsome  stone  front,  was  erected  in  the  heart  of  the 
city  for  the  law  and  dental  departments.  The  handsome 
Mechanical  Engineering  Hall  on  the  campus  was  built  in 
ISSS  in  consequence  of  a  donation  by  Mr.  Cornelius  Vander- 
bilt,  grandson  of  the  founder.  It  is  thoroughly  equipped 
for  training  in  metal  and  wood  work.  In  ISl)'),  a  new  med- 
ical building  was  put  up  in  the  city  after  the  latest  and  most 
approved  plans  ;  and  no  building  in  the  country  is  more 
complete,  or  more  thoroughly  adapted  to  its  purposes. 

Concurrent  with  this  material  growth  there  was  also  an 
educational  development.  At  first  the  university  contained 
four  departments — academic,  biblical,  law  and  medical.  Af- 
terwards, the  addition  of  three  others — pharmacy,  dental 
and  engineering — w^as  attended  with  an  increase  in  the  va- 
rious faculties.  The  founders  intended  as  far  as  possible  to 
realize  the  broadest  conception  of  a  university  :  'An  insti- 
tution where  any  person  can  find  instruction  in  any  study.' 
The  courses  now  presented  comprise  seven  departments, 
leading  to  proficiency  in  any  profession.  The  school  of  en- 
gineering includes  manual  training,  mining,  mechanical  and 
electrical,  as  well  as  civil,  engineering. 

Each  of  these  departments  was  signally  successful  from 
the  beginning.  Students  came  from  every  southern  state, 
as  well  as  a  few  from  the  north  and  west.  Several  depart- 
ments have  more  than  doubled  their  attendance.  The  first 
enrollment  included  rU)?  students,  from  sixteen  states  and 
countries;  the  attendance  last  year  amounted  to  071,  from 
twenty- four  states  and  countries.  In  ISTfi,  the  faculties 
contained  twenty-eight  members  ;  the  officers  of  instruction 
now  number  nearly  one  hundred. 

For  years  Vanderbilt  has  been  recognized  as  standing  for 
what  is  highest  and  best  in  scholarship.  This  appears  in  the 
attendance  of  many  graduates  of  other  institutions  for  ad- 
vanced work.  The  high  character  and  extent  of  the  grad- 
uate courses  have  fast  become  widely  known.  Upon  this 
feature  much  stress  has  been  laid,  especially  in  the  increase 
in  the  number  of  fellowships,  which  are  very  eagerly  sought. 
A  flourishing  graduate  club  is  maintained,  which  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Federation  of  Graduate  Clubs  of  the  United  States. 
The  undergraduate  courses  are  similar  to  those  of  the  best 
American  colleges.  The  class  system  prevails,  but  the  work 
of  the  junior  and  senior  classes  is  almost  entirely  elective. 
Monthly  examinations  are  held  in  all  branches,  and  twice  a 


THE  SCROLL,  19 

year  come  those  which  test  the  student's  fitness  for  passing 
into  a  higher  class.  The  requirements  are  not  easy,  and  are 
rigidly  insisted  upon.  The  life  of  the  successful  Vanderbilt 
student  is  rich  with  faithful  application,  and  great  in  effort 
and  attainment  is  the  meaning  of  his  coveted  degree.  In 
the  lower  classes  of  every  department,  an  assiduous  student 
may  dream  of  prizes,  medals  and  rolls  of  honor,  with  which 
the  university  laurels  his  ambition.  The  class  work  of  every 
day  is  recorded  to  go  with  the  examination  mark  in  deter- 
mining his  standing.  Instruction  is  by  the  system  of  quiz- 
zing, interspersed  with  lectures,  especially  in  the  higher 
classes.  The  university  possesses  a  useful  library,  which  is 
growing  every  year  with  carefully  selected  modern  works  of 
every  sort. 

The  spirit  of  student  life  is  altogether  manly  and  demo- 
cratic. Restrictions  upon  students  are  few,  being  only  such 
as  are  consistent  with  the  treatment  of  them  as  gentlemen 
of  honor  and  dignity.  For  those  in  the  departments  on  the 
campus  there  is  the  daily  duty  of  attending  chapel  services, 
while  for  all  is  the  obligation  to  attend  classes  regularly. 
Otherwise  they  are  mainly  self-governing.  There  is  a  re- 
markable common  fellowship  and  good  nature  among  them. 
There  are  two  great  mess  halls  where  students  are  constantly 
associated — Wesley  Hall,  the  abode  of  students  for  the  minis- 
try, and  West  Side  Row,  the  home  of  the  great  self-assertive 
and  loyal  democracy  of  the  institution.  The  latter  consists 
of  six  quaint,  comfortable  dormitories  and  a  dining-room. 
In  these  halls  every  phase  of  student  life  is  realized,  every 
emotion  of  college  spirit  finds  rampant  expression,  and  col- 
lege memories  are  perpetuated.  There  are  no  oppressive 
class  distinctions,  no  marks  of  supercilious  snobbery  ;  the 
worth  of  a  man,  his  real  character,  aside  from  money  and 
station,  secures  for  him  the  coveted  recognition  among  his 
fellows.  Perhaps  if  he  does  not  adopt  every  college  fad,  or 
exhaust  his  resources  unworthily,  it  is  because  the  previous 
training  of  his  simple  southern  home  and  the  high  moral 
and  mental  pressure  of  the  university  have  filled  his  ears 
with  the  '  stirring  of  unseen  wings '  of  his  after  life. 

This  will  force  the  conjecture  that  the  moral  tone  of  stu- 
dent life  at  Vanderbilt  is  uncommonly  high.  Indeed,  there 
are  few  college  communities  where  less  dissipation  can  be 
found.  The  religious  societies  are  well  maintained.  Their 
members  may  be  found  on  Sundays  engaged  in  mission  or 
Sunday-school  work  in  all  parts  of  the  city,  making  their 
influence  appreciable  in  its  moral  growth.     The  system  of 


THE  SCROLL,  31 

placing  students  upon  their  honor  has  always  been  in  vogue 
at  Vanderbilt,  and  its  operation  is  exceedingly  successful. 
Cheating  is  rarely  practiced,  and  when  detected  the  offender 
enjoys  no  toleration  from  his  fellow-students.  His  summary 
expulsion  from  the  university  is  made  an  effective  object- 
lesson  to  all  others  who  might  be  disposed  to  yield  to  temp- 
tation. During  examination  no  professor  is  found  scrutin- 
izing his  students  to  prevent  dishonesty,  for  the  pledge 
which  closes  his  paper  is  sufficient  guarantee  that  the  stu- 
dent has  acted  fairly. 

Outside  the  curriculum,  the  mental,  social  and  athletic 
activities  of  the  university  are  such  as  to  stimulate  the 
healthiest  student  life.  In  the  weekly  meetings  of  the  Dia- 
lectic and  Philosophic  societies,  the  ambitious  orator  may 
prepare  himself  to  contend  before  the  faculty  in  April  for  a 
place  in  the  Founder's  or  Young  medal  contests,  or  strive 
on  Washington's  birthday  for  the  honor  of  speaking  in  the 
Southern  intercollegiate  contest,  or  do  battle  for  Vanderbilt 
in  the  debate  with  Sevvanee  in  May.  There  are  weekly, 
monthly  and  annual  publications  maintained  by  the  students. 

The  graduate  club  brings  together  in  monthly  meetings 
the  graduate  students  for  social  and  intellectual  entertain- 
ment, when  they  are  addressed  by  some  distinguished 
speaker.  The  tennis  association,  with  its  handsome  build- 
ing and  nine  beautifully  terraced  courts,  has  many  enthusi- 
astic members.  The  Southern  History  society  holds  inter- 
esting monthly  meetings  at  which  papers  embodying  original 
research  are  read  by  members  of  the  society  or  by  distin- 
guished scholars.  There  are  many  organizations  and  clubs 
of  minor  importance.  Of  course,  the  cultured  society  of 
Nashville  is  a  rare  outlet  for  the  social  proclivities  of  the 
students.  One  of  the  great  occasions  of  the  year  is  on 
Thanksgiving  day,  when  the  beautiful  athletic  field  is 
thronged  with  the  gayest  and  best  of  the  city  to  witness  the 
closing  game  of  the  foot-ball  season — the  final  struggle  with 
the  old  rival,  Sewanee.  Similar  to  it  is  the  annual  field  day 
in  May,  when  athletes  from  various  colleges  contest  for 
medals  before  many  hundreds.  Other  occasions,  too,  are 
memorable,  when  the  students  and  their  fair  friends  assem- 
ble in  the  large  Gothic  chapel  to  enjoy  the  usual  literary  or 
commencement  exercises;  or  when  just  before  'finals,'  on 
May  27,  the  Founder's  birthday,  the  boisterous  student 
body  elect  the  Bachelor  of  Ugliness,  who  is  usually  the 
most  popular  gentleman  of  the  strongest  geographical  fac- 
tion.    The  degree  is  actually  conferred  in  June  by  the  pub- 


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lie  presentation  of  a  beautiful  penknife  by  the  professor  of 
Latin  to  the  successful  candidate.  This  custom  is  original 
and  peculiar  to  the  university. 

For  years  Vanderbilt  has  been  a  leader  in  athletics,  and 
has  ever  stimulated  their  growth  in  sister  institutions.     It 
was  the  first  institution  in  the  south  to  have  a  regularly  or- 
ganized athletic  association,  through  which  track  athletics 
have  been  developed  in  a  systematic  manner.     It  was  organ- 
ized in  ISSC)^  in  which  year  it  held  the  first  intercollegiate 
field  day  ever  given  in  the  south.     Annually  since  then  a 
field  day  meeting  has  been  held,  and  in  Is^Mi  and  1>^07  it  was 
merged  into  the  field  meets  of  the  Southern  intercollegiate 
athletic  association,   which   were    held    on    the    \'anderbilt 
campus.     In  l«s<l-J  the  construction  of  a  large  and  beautiful 
athletic  field  gave  a  strong  stimulus  to  enthusiasm  of  this 
sort.     Foot-ball,  base-ball  and  track  teams  are  annually  or- 
ganized, and  their  records  have  attested  the  manliness  and 
prowess  of  Vanderbilt  athletes.    The  leading  college  athletic 
authorities  in  the  east  give  the  \'anderbilt  athletic  associa- 
tion the  credit  of  having  done  more  to  develop  pure  amateur 
sport  in  the  south  than  any  other  organization.     In  the  uni- 
versity life  the  proper  place  of  athletics  is  maintained,  and 
while  athletic  spirit  is  very  strong,  the  higher  demands  of 
scholarship  are  so  firmly  impre.*J.sed  upon  the  student  body 
that  only  the  good  results  of  physical  training  are  secured, 
to  a  large  degree. 

The  student  life  of  the  university  is  enlivened  and  enriched 
by  twelve  fraternities,  which  are  filled  with  the  true  frater- 
nity spirit.  Membership  is  prized  because  of  the  deep  per- 
sonal friendships  engendered,  the  higher  tone  developed, 
and  the  mutual  assistance  and  inspiration  to  be  found.  The 
rivalry  betw^een  the  fraternities  produces  increased  activity  in 
every  phase  of  college  life,  and  is  attended  with  but  little  of 
intolerant  spirit.  Political  scheming  is  little  practiced,  and 
in  recent  years  the  merit  system  of  filling  positions  has  come 
to  be  fixed.  That  fraternity  ideals  are  high  is  attested  by 
the  widespread  cordial  spirit  and  the  intimacy  of  fraternity 
interests  w^th  those  of  the  university. 

During  the  past  session,  membership  in  the  fraternities 
was  as  follows  :  <^  A  (-),  l>1)  ;  K  A.  1!)  ;  X  <I>,  s  ;  H  (h)  n .  i;  ;  K  v 
IS  ;  ATA,  S  ;  :£AE,:i()  ;  ATIi.  IS  ;  A  K  E,  'JS  ;  v  x,  17  ;  :£N, 
1()  ;  11  K  A,  .").  These  are  in  the  order  of  their  establishment. 
There  are  also  chapters  of  C?)  N  E  and  A  0  <l>,  the  latter  being 
very  similar,  in  character  and  purpose,  to  4>  B  K.  Only  one 
chapter  owns  a  house,  and  the  others  meet  on  Saturday 


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evenings  in  lodge  rooms  in  the  city.  B  0  11  owns  a  lot  for 
a  future  chapter  home.  The  erection  of  chapter  houses  is 
tedious  because  of  the  necessity  of  purchasing  lots  outside 
of  the  campus,  but  every  chapter  cherishes  a  hope  of  a  fut- 
ure permanent  domicile. 

The  Tennessee  Alpha  chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  es- 
tablished in  1876  by  Lytton  Taylor,  who  had  been  initiated 
by  Kentucky  Alpha  at  the  national  convention  at  Danville, 
Ky.,  in  May,  1875.  Taylor's  plans,  however,  were  frus- 
trated by  the  vigilance  of  the  college  authorities  in  enforcing 
the  anti-fraternity  laws,  and  there  was  really  no  fraternity 
life  until  the  fall  of  1877.  The  chapter  was  revived  by  the 
matriculation  of  J.  B.  Reed,  of  Kentucky  Alpha,  and  J.  C. 
Smith,  of  Alabama  Alpha,  and  by  the  commencement  of 
187'^  there  were  eleven  Phis  in  the  university.  *  Though 
under  the  disadvantage  of  having  to  run  sub  rosa,  the  chap- 
ter thrived.  For  several  years  without  a  rival,  it  had  the 
pick  of  the  university,  and  very  seldom  was  a  man  spiked 
who  did  not  accept  membership.  Meetings  were  held  regu- 
larly, and  reports  were  sent  to  The  Scroi^l.  The  members 
did  not  openly  wear  badges,  but  it  became  known  that  there 
were  fraternity  men  among  the  students.  This  aroused  the 
faculty,  and  Dr.  Garland,  the  chancellor,  from  the  chapel 
rostrum,  anathematized  secret  societies.  At  the  opening  of 
the  year  ISSQ-Sl,  he  announced  that  no  student  would  be 
allowed  to  contest  for  oratorical  honors  unless  he  should 
affirm  that  he  had  not  from  that  time  been  associated  with 
fraternities.  These  threats  were  never  executed,  but  the 
Phis  were  prepared  for  contingencies.  They  organized  the 
'*  Dixie  Reading  Club,"  which  had  its  own  by-laws,  and  held 
regular  meetings.  Students,  when  admitted  to  it,  were 
pledged  to  join  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity  after  the 
following  commencement.  On  the  afternoon  of  commence- 
ment day,  all  university  exercises  having  closed,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  reading  club  were  initiated  into  the  Fraternity. 
At  commencement  in  l'SS8,  R.  F.  Jackson,  at  the  request  of 
the  reading  club  chapter,  presented  to  the  board  of  trustees 
an  elaborate  argument  in  favor  of  fraternities,  and  petitioned 
that  they  be  recognized  by  the  university.  The  following 
fall  the  faculty  repealed  the  anti-fraternity  law,  announce- 
ment to  that  effect  being  made  in  the  chapel  October  31st.'* 

The  members  of  Tennessee  Alpha  have  been  prominent 
in  every  department  of  college  life.     Membership  has  been 

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chiefly  of  academic  and  law  students,  but  other  departments 
have  furnished  valuable  men.  No  other  chapter  in  the  uni- 
versity can  present  such  a  record  of  achievements.  The 
highest  honor  each  year  in  each  department  is  the  Founder's 
medal  for  the  highest  scholarship.  This  prize  has  been  won 
by  Phis  as  follows:  academic,  >^\  law,  (>;  medical,  2;  phar- 
macy, 1.  The  Founder's  Day  medal  for  oratory  has  been 
won  five  times  by  Phis,  and  in  two  out  of  seven  of  the 
Southern  intercollegiate  oratorical  contests,  Vanderbilt  has 
been  represented  by  Phis,  who  won  in  preliminary  contests 
for  the  honor.  Out  of  more  than  a  hundred  alumni  of  Van- 
derbilt whom  the  faculty  have  chosen  to  be  fellows  or  in- 
structors in  the  university,  twenty- three  are  Phis.  Of  the 
three  alumni  thus  far  honored  by  election  to  the  university 
board  of  trust,  one  is  a  Phi.  Six  have  been  president  of 
the  alumni  association,  and  nine  have  been  alumni  orator. 
These  are  the  principal  honors  at  Vanderbilt.  The  smaller 
medals  and  prizes  that  have  also  come  to  Phis  are  too  nu- 
merous for  mention  here. 

The  Phis  have  been  foremost  in  all  student  enterprises. 
They  published  the  first  college  paper,  The  Austral,  in  ISTD, 
with  W.  B.  Palmer  as  editor-in-chief.  The  Observer,  the 
literary  magazine,  has  had  Phis  on  its  editorial  staff  during 
nearly  every  year  of  its  existence,  since  1>^>^1.  The  I'an- 
derbilt  Hustler,  the  college  weekly,  was  established  in  isss, 
and  out  of  five  editors-in-chief,  three  have  been  Phis.  The 
Covimeneement  Courier,  published  daily  during  commence- 
ment, was  originated  in  is'.M  by  a  Phi,  and  two  of  its  other 
editors-in-chief  have  been  Phis.  The  Vanderbilt  athletic 
association,  organized  in  lss(i,  has  always  received  the  live- 
liest support  from  Tennessee  Alpha.  From  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  association,  <t>  A  0  has  always  been  well  repre- 
sented upon  its  executive  board,  more  offices  having  been 
held  by  Phis  than  by  all  the  other  fraternities  combined,  as 
the  following  summary  will  show  :  secretary,  eleven  years 
out  of  twelve  ;  treasurer,  five  ;  captain  of  base- ball,  five  ; 
captain  of  foot-ball,  five  out  of  seven  ;  manager  of  field 
sports,  three  times  ;  manager  of  base-ball,  twice  ;  manager 
of  foot-ball,  once  ;  and  vice-president  of  the  association, 
once.  A  large  number  of  medals  in  athletic  contests  have 
been  won  by  Phis,  while  the  record  of  Pope  Taylor,  '^9,  is 
one  of  the  brightest  athletic  traditions  of  the  university. 
Taylor  won  thirteen  medals,  and  tied  the  American  college 
record  for  the   100  yards  dash,  making  it  in  ten  seconds. 

The  members  of  Tennessee  Alpha  have  constantly  shown 


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their  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  Fraternity  at  large.  They 
assisted  in  establishing  South  Carolina  Alpha,  Wisconsin 
Alpha  (reorganized),  Tennessee  Beta,  Texas  Beta,  besides 
many  alumni  chapters.  The  chapter  has  been  represented 
at  every  convention,  beginning  with  that  held  at  Indianapo- 
lis in  1S8(),  when  W.  B.  Palmer,  now  the  Fraternity's  pres- 
ident, was  delegate.  In  l'S>^4  the  national  convention  met 
at  Nashville  upon  the  urgent  invitation  of  the  chapter,  and 
was  memorable  for  the  work  that  was  done  and  the  social 
pleasures  enjoyed.  Ninety-four  Phis  were  present.  A 
number  of  general  fraternity  offices  have  been  filled  by 
members  of  Tennessee  Alpha.  W.  B.  Palmer  was  historian 
of  the  General  Council  from  the  creation  of  the  office,  in 
ISSO  to  1SS2.  At  the  Philadelphia  convention,  November, 
IS^M),  he  was  honored  by  a  unanimous  election  as  president 
of  the  Fraternity.  Brother  Palmer's  great  and  immensely' 
important  services  to  the  Fraternity  are  too  well  known  to 
be  recounted  here.  S.  P.  Gilbert  was  treasurer  of  the  Gen- 
eral Council,  in  l.SS()-Sl).  The  office  of  province  president 
has  been  held  by  J.  M.  Barrs,  S.  P.  Gilbert,  Glenn  Andrews 
and  Paul  M.  Jones. 

Tennessee  Alpha  enjoys  the  distinction  of  occupying  the 
first  chapter  house  in  the  south,  built  upon  ground  belong- 
ing to  the  Fraternity.  It  was  erected  in  l'S|)2,  as  the  cul- 
mination of  a  movement  begun  in  1«S85.  The  lot  is  situated 
opposite  the  front  gate  of  the  university,  and  was  purchased 
in  February,  1890.  It  has  a  front  of  one  hundred  and  nine 
feet,  facing  the  athletic  field.  The  appearance  of  the  house 
is  attractive,  and  the  interior  arrangements  are  well  adapted 
for  chapter  uses.  From  the  entrance  hall,  sliding  doors  open 
to  a  library'  and  a  parlor,  all  of  which  can  be  thrown  together 
for  entertainments.  A  wide  door  at  the  rear  of  the  hall 
opens  into  the  chapter  room,  which  is  20  x  ?>4  feet.  From  a 
side  porch  a  stairway  ascends  to  the  attic  and  an  observa- 
tory over  the  parlor.  This  observatory  has  a  conical  roof, 
supported  by  columns,  and  surmounted  by  a  flag-staff. 

The  house  was  purposely  set  far  back  on  the  lot  to  afford 
room  in  front  for  a  tennis  court.  It  is  neatly  furnished  and 
adorned  with  many  useful  and  tasteful  presents  from  corre- 
spondent members  and  friends  among  the  ladies.  Being  the 
only  chapter  house  at  Vanderbilt,  it  affords  to  Phis  a  peculiar 
enjoyment  of  fraternity  life.  On  vSaturday  evenings  they 
gather  as  a  chapter  for  delightful  association,  in  which  the 
happiest  spirit  of  comradeship  is  supreme.  The  member  of 
former  days  who  hears  them  sing  Phi  songs  and  college 


28  THE  SCROLL, 

songs  around  the  piano,  or  watches  an  initiation  in  the  large 
chapter  room,  will  easily  recall  his  old  ardor  and  be  a  stronger 
Phi  in  the  days  to  come.  Such  is  the  remarkable  loyalty 
and  vitality  of  Tennessee  Alpha.  The  unbroken  success  of 
the  chapter  is  to  be  attributed  to  its  insistence  upon  the  three 
great  purposes  of  Phi  Delta  Theta — mental,  moral  and  so- 
cial culture.  To-day  its  spirit  is  as  earnest  and  its  prospects 
as  radiant  as  even  in  those  bright  days,  when,  as  the  old  men 
declare,  *  there  were  giants  in  the  land.' 

The  chapter  is  proud  of  its  long  list  of  members,  who 
have  won  many  honors  in  business  and  professional  life. 
Of  two  hundred  and  thirty-one  living  members,  forty-two 
live  in  Nashville,  about  the  same  number  elsewhere  in  Ten- 
nessee, while  the  rest  are  widely  distributed  throughout  the 
Union.  A  few  who  might  be  mentioned  are,  W.  H.  ICllerbe, 
governor  of  South  Carolina;  J.  M.  Griggs,  representative  in 
Congress,  second  district  of  Georgia:  J.  C.  Smith,  treasurer 
of  Alabama,  l.S92-l)4;  W.  H.  Jackson,  judge  of  the  superior 
court,  Cincinnati;  H.  B.  Phillips,  judge  of  the  criminal 
court,  Jacksonville,  Fla.;  Claude  Waller,  judge  of  the  sec- 
ond circuit  court,  Nashville,  l.s9.")-<)7;  R.  H.  Marr,  judge 
of  the  city  court,  New  Orleans,  lStMMi3;  S.  P.  Gilbert, 
solicitor- general,  Columbus,  Ga.;  Lytton  Taylor,  I'nited 
States  attorney  for  Alaska,  ISU.'UM;  M.  R.  Patterson,  at- 
torney-general, Memphis,  Tenn.:  J.  H.  Dortch,  state  sena- 
tor, Tennessee,  ISSO-OO;  R.  H.  Burney,  state  senator,  Texas, 
1SS()-1)2;  Chambers  Kellar,  state's  attorney.  Hot  Springs, 
S.  Dak.  Among  teachers  are  Waller  Deering,  professor  of 
Germanic  languages  and  literature,  Western  Reserve  Uni- 
versity, Cleveland,  Ohio:  Paul  M.  Jones,  instructor  in  nat- 
ural history  and  geology,  \'anderbilt:  G.  C.  Jones,  president, 
Arkadelphia  (Ark.)  Methodist  College;  J.  P.  llanner,  pro- 
fessor of  modern  languages,  Millsaps  College,  Jackson,  Miss.; 
Marvin  West,  professor  of  English,  Kentucky  Wesleyan 
College,  Winchester:  R.  K.  Crockett,  principal  Vanderbilt 
Training  School,  Ivlkton,  Ky.:  and  T.  P.  Murrey,  president 
Morriston  (Ark. )  College.  Among  ministers  are  A.  F.  Wat- 
kins,  J.  Pv.  Harrison,  J.  H.  Moss,  and  W.  H.  Cotton,  who 
are  annually  appointed  to  the  best  charges  in  their  confer- 
ences. Among  physicians  are  S.  S.  Crockett,  professor  of 
anatomy  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Nashville;  and  W.  H.  Park,  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  vSoo- 
cham  hospital  and  superintendent  of  the  Soocham  Medical 
School,  China. 

On  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  of  the  present  month.  Ten- 


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nessee  Alpha  will  open  the  doors  of  her  heart  and  home  to 
the  Phis  of  Beta  and  Gamma  provinces,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
there  will  be  a  large  attendance  from  every  section.  The 
Tennessee  centennial  exposition  will  be  at  its  best.  The 
program  will  be  interesting  and  the  enjoyments  without 
limit.  Let  every  Phi  be  present  at  this  reunion  of  Phis  in 
the  south.  John  H.  De  Witt, 

J  'andcrbill,  'v^. 


30  THE  SCROLL. 


EDITORIAL. 

One  difficulty  experienced  by  many  chapters  is  the  slow- 
ness of  the  members  in  becoming  acquainted  with  new  men. 
This  is  especially  true  in  large  institutions,  where  students 
in  different  departments  see  little  or  nothing  of  each  other, 
even  outside  of  recitation  hours.  But  this  is  also  true  in 
smaller  colleges,  where  one  or  two  careless  members,  usually 
upper  class  men,  have  become  so  well  satisfied  with  their 
associates  of  the  preceding  years  that  they  take  no  interest 
in  the  undeveloped  new  men  coming  in,  and  throw  a  damper 
on  the  discussion  of  the  merits  of  a  candidate,  enthusiastic- 
ally endorsed  by  some  active  sophomore  who  knows  him 
well,  by  inquiring  languidly,  'Who  is  this  man,  anyway? 
Does  he  wear  faded  green  trousers  and  haunt  the  general 
delivery  window  at  the  post-office?  I  think  I've  seen  him.' 
Kvery  chapter  goes  through  the  experience  of  hearing  all 
about  some  man  from  the  members  who  have  been  thrown 
with  him  or  who  have  made  it  a  point  to  meet  him,  and  of 
finding  that  several  of  those  present  are  completely  ignorant 
of  this  man's  existence.  This  may  well  happen  once,  but 
it  is  when  it  happens  again  and  again  in  regard  to  the  same 
man  that  the  rushers  get  discouraged  or  impatient.  Some 
other  fraternity,  with  more  energy  and  system,  finally  pledges 
the  man,  perhaps,  and  the  slow  member  consolingly  says  he 
is  *  mighty  glad  we  didn't  take  that  fellow.'  This  procras- 
tination would  cease,  we  think,  if  men  realized  how  utterly 
discourteous  it  is  to  the  member  who  proposes  the  new  man, 
and  how  injurious  it  is  to  the  chapter  and  the  Fraternity. 
It  is  not  conservatism  ;  it  is  self-satisfied  laziness.  Some 
one  has  proposed  that  a  by-law  be  adopted  allowing  no  mem- 
ber to  plead  non-acquaintance  more  than  twice  or  three  times 
in  the  case  of  a  given  candidate,  but  this  would  perhaps  be 
too  radical.  Get  acquainted  with  all  the  new  men  and  stay 
acquainted  with  them,  whether  you  want  to  make  Phis  of 
them  or  not. 


THE  SCROLL.  31 

No  MEMBER  of  the  chapter  has  a  better  opportunity  to 
watch  the  new  men  as  they  come  in,  and  to  meet  them,  than 
the  man  who  lives  in  the  college  town.  No  alumnus  is  quite 
so  valuable  and  helpful,  at  times,  as  the  one  at  your  elbow. 
So  look  after  the  local  students.  And  don't  fail  to  ask  the 
local  alumni  for  aid  and  advice  when  you  need  them.  Strong 
chapters  will  almost  invariably  be  found  to  have  many  resi- 
dent active  members  2it\^/ratns  hi  itrbe.  For  example  take 
Vanderbilt,  Wisconsin,  Nebraska,  Missouri,  Pennsylvania 
and  many  more  we  might  mention. 


Another  class  of  new-comers  deserving  of  especial  atten- 
tion is  made  up  of  the  sons,  nephews,  brothers  and  cousins 
of  Phis.  Centre,  Indiana  and  several  other  older  chapters 
have  been  initiating  sons,  nephews  and  even  grandsons  for 
some  time.  Scarcely  a  year  passes  with  even  the  youngest 
chapter  but  four  or  five  brothers  or  cousins  come  in.  And 
these  men  are  nearly  always  desirable  and  easy  to  influence. 
Of  course,  no  chapter  should  be  asked  to  take  men  merely 
on  the  ground  of  relationship.  By  keeping  in  communica- 
tion with  the  alumni  through  annual  circular  letters  and 
summer  notes  of  inquiry  the  coming  of  these  men  may  be 
easily  learned  of. 


In  this  connection,  chapters  should  bear  in  mind  that  they 
can  not  afford  to  slight  the  circular  letter.  Neglect  your 
alumni,  and  they  will  neglect  you.  Care,  promptness  and 
accuracy  in  all  a  chapter's  relations  with  the  Fraternity  or- 
ganization and  with  its  correspondent  members,  will  be  re- 
warded tenfold.  We  wish  to  emphasize  Amherst's  mild 
rebuke  to  those  who  ignored  her  notes  of  inquiry  as  to  new 
men.  We  can  not  believe  that  any  of  the  alumni  involved 
were  Scroll  subscribers.  It  is  painfully  true  that  many  of 
our  reporters  are  hard  to  waken  to  response  in  the  summer, 
even  when  their  addresses  are  known,  but  Massachusetts 
Beta  should  bear  in  mind  that  it  is  very  difficult  to  reach 
any  man  by  mail  during  the  summer  vacation.  It  is  a  good 
sign  to  note  the  increasing  use  made  of  the  vacation  note  to 


32  THE  SCROLL. 

alumni.  CorneU's  is  doing  good  work.  Wisconsin  sent  out 
fifty  copies  of  the  Palladium  instead.  Southwestern  tried 
the  same  plan. 

In  influencing  new  men  to  make  the  right  decision  w^e 
predict  that  the  rushing  committee  will  make  much  use  of 
the  Manual.  A  review  of  this  invaluable  work  would  be 
out  of  place  here,  because  every  subscriber  has  received  a 
copy,  and  it  speaks  eloquently  for  itself.  The  first  edition 
was  the  rusher's  vadc  mccum  in  the  later  eighties.  This 
edition  should  be  used  well  and  saved  to  use  again.  A  few 
hundred  extra  copies  have  been  printed  and  will  be  kept  on 
sale  while  they  last,  but  that  will  not  l^e  very  long.  Be- 
come thoroughly  familiar  with  the  contents  of  the  Manual 
yourself,  then  put  it  into  the  hands  of  your  freshman.  One 
point  brought  up  in  the  Manual  calls  for  comment — the  total 
membership  of  the  Fraternity.  We  have  verified  Brother 
Palmer's  figures  and  believe  them  to  be  substantially  cor- 
rect. Our  annual  reports  from  the  H.  G.  C.  were  based  in 
the  first  place  on  the  fifth  (18S:i)  edition  of  the  catalogue, 
and  each  succeeding  report  is  based  on  its  predecessor.  It 
is  now  seen  that  the  total  given  by  the  catalogue  of  ISS') 
was  too  small  a  figure. 

We  have  had  occasion  so  often  to  express  the  gratitude 
and  appreciation  of  the  Fraternity  for  some  new  labor  of 
love  on  the  part  of  Walter  Benjamin  Palmer,  that  we  repeat 
in  spite  of  ourselves.  The  editor  has  had  an  opportunity  to 
see  some  of  the  difficulties  that  have  beset  Brother  Palmer 
in  preparing  his  work,  but  there  is  no  need  of  rehearsing 
them  to  make  its  value  appreciated.  We  merely  congratu- 
late Phi  Delta  Theta  that  the  President  of  the  General  Coun- 
cil manages  somehow  to  give  her  twenty- four  hours  a  day 
without  for  a  moment  neglecting  his  regular  duties. 


Tiiic  chapter  house  received  so  much  attention  in  the  Sep- 
tember ]\xlladii{w  that  we  are  tempted  to  let  the  subject 
pass  for  once,  especially  since  so  many  chapters  are  now 
busy  in  practical  consideration  of  the  matter  and  seem  so 


THE  SCROLL,  33 

nearly  ready  to  announce  the  best  of  good  news.  The 
Palladium  has  been  mailed  to  every  Scroll  subscriber  this 
time,  and  if  any  were  missed,  a  postal  card  will  insure  the 
rectification  of  the  omission.  We  are  pleased  to  see  that 
the  Palladium's  alumni  subscription  list  is  growing  apace. 
Whether  it  is  curiosity  or  something  better  that  prompts 
the  desire  to  subscribe,  we  have  strong  faith  that  the  results 
will  be  good  for  all  concerned.  Two  items  of  chapter  house 
news  should  not  be  overlooked.  Union  and  Nebraska  have 
just  entered  houses.  Add  these  to  the  list  given  in  the 
Manual.     We  congratulate  them  both.     Next! 


And  speaking  of  '  growing  apace,'  there  is  no  doubt  that 
our  extension  policy  is  most  conservative  where  active  chap- 
ters are  concerned,  but  see  how  the  alumni  chapter  list  in- 
creases !  On  April  11),  1S07,  the  Detroit  alumni  were  char- 
tered, on  August  2,  the  New  Orleans  alumni,  on  September 
9,  the  Milwaukee  alumni.  Buffalo  Phis  are  much  interested 
in  the  subject,  too,  and  have  been  '  holding  meetings.'  All 
readers  of  The  Scroll  are  asked  to  send  names  and  ad- 
dresses of  Phis  resident  in  or  near  Buffalo  to  Bro.  Frank  P. 
Bingham,  .")25  Niagara  street,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Please  do  this 
at  once.  There  is  still  another  organization  likely  to  be  ef- 
fected before  Thk  Scroll  comes  out  again,  but  we  must 
save  that,  so  that  it  will  be  news  in  December. 


The  review  of  college  annuals  w^hich  usually  appears,  in 
part  at  least,  in  the  October  issue,  is  postponed  until  Decem- 
ber on  account  of  the  space  required  for  the  Manual.  The 
same  thing  is  true  of  Brother  Weed's  article  on  Chapter 
Houses  at  Southern  Colleges.  And  the  very  small  number 
of  letters  presented  from  the  chapters  may  be  attributed  to 
the  same  fact.     So  you  see  what  may  be  expected  next  time. 


The  Scroll  can  not  let  pass  this  opportunity  to  express 
its  regret  at  parting  with  old  friends.  Columbus,  Ohio,  has 
been  its  home  for  eight  years — a  much  longer  time  than  it 


34  THE  SCROLL. 

had  remained  in  any  one  city  before  and  much  longer  than 
the  average  fraternity  magazine  finds  it  possible  to  abide  in 
any  place.  Messrs.  Spahr  and  Glenn  have  the  especial  grat- 
itude of  the  present  editor  for  having  made  his  assumption 
of  duty  an  easy  task,  but  their  kindnesses  and  intelligent 
interest  reach  in  equal  measure  back  many  years.  For  good, 
honest  work,  for  patience  and  painstaking  and  for  innumer- 
able minor  courtesies  Thk  vScroll  and  its  editors  have  a 
thousand  reasons  to  remember  them  gratefully. 


Thk  charter  of  Illinois  Kpsilon,  at  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, Bloomington,  Illinois,  has  been  returned  by  the 
members  of  that  chapter  in  college  during  the  past  year,  and 
Illinois  Epsilon  has  become  inactive.  This  action  was  taken 
on  the  advice  of  the  General  Council.  It  can  be  explained 
in  a  very  few  words.  With  the  University  of  Chicago  and 
the  University  of  Illinois  drawing  very  heavily  upon  the 
former  constituencies  of  all  the  smaller  colleges  in  Illinois, 
and  with  Northwestern  far  outstripping  other  Methodist 
schools  in  the  state  (as  well  as  for  other  reasons,  doubt- 
less), the  attendance  and  income  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  have  been  steadily  declining  of  late.  The  whole 
number  of  male  collegiate  students  last  year  did  not  reach 
seventy.  Phi  Delta  Theta  decided  that  it  was  to  her  best 
interest  to  withdraw.  Illinois  Kpsilon  has  furnished  many 
loyal  alumni,  scattered  over  the  country  in  positions  of  trust 
and  influence,  many  of  them  having  held  high  ofTicial  posi- 
tions in  the  Fraternity.  Of  these  we  are  proud  and  of  the 
history  of  the  chapter  they  founded  and  sustained.  That 
Illinois  Kpsilon  has  ceased  her  activity  is  no  fault  of  theirs. 
The  Fraternity  will  still  claim  and  receive  their  loyalty, 
their  interest  and  their  active  support. 


Thk  Detroit  alumni  chapter  will  hold  a  formal  installation 
banquet  so  soon  as  all  the  members  get  in  from  the  lakes  and 
the  fishing  streams. 

New  Orleans  may  have  to  wait  for  the  excitement  roused 
by  the  prevalence   of   malaria  to  subside.     The   reporter, 


THE  SCROLL.  35 

Brother  Tebault,  extends  a  very  cordial  invitation  to  the 
next  convention  to  meet  in  the  *  Paris  of  America.' 

The  Milwaukee  chapter  began  its  formal  existence  locally 
with  a  banquet  on  the  evening  of  September  14.  Its  organ- 
ization is  due  to  the  tireless  efforts  of  Bro.  Carl  F.  Geilfuss, 
reporter  of  Wisconsin  Alpha  and  a  resident  of  Milwaukee. 
Its  charter  members  are  Jared  Thompson,  Jr.,  Lawrence^ 
'59;  G.  W.  Hayes.  Wabash,  'HO;  Wisconsin—^.  J.  Hilbert, 
'84,  H.  Fehr,  '84,  W.  H.  Wasweyler,  'So,  F.  C.  Rogers,  '85, 
F.  A.  Geiger,  '88,  W.  E.  Black,  '88,  R.  C.  Brown,  '89,  J. 
H.  Turner,  '92,  R.  E.  Hilbert,  '92,  Frank  Sweet,  '93,  C.  E. 
Hilbert,  '94;  J.  J.  Wright,  'i)4,  G.  T.  Elliott,  '94;  H.  Van 
Blarcom,  Missouri,  '97. 

The  charter  members  at  New  Orleans  are  F.  W.  Parham, 
Randolph-Macon,  '11-,  Va7iderbilt—R.  H.  Marr,  '80,  E.  T. 
Menick,  '81,  J.  M.  Leveque,  '89;  Seivanec — R.  Jamison,  "^h, 
H.  T.  Cottam,  '91;  C.  L.  Horton,  Alabama,  '87;  Virgi7iia 
— G.  W.  Nott,  Jr.,  '88,  S.  Poitevent,  '1)7;  H.  H.  Flaspoller, 
Roanoke,  '89;  Southern— YL,  M.  Ansley,  '91,  W.  G.  Tebault, 
Jr.,  '99;  Tulane—Q.  M.  Brady,  '89,  H.  B.  Gessner,  '89,  C. 
H.  Tebault,  Jr.,  '90,  J.  J.  d'Aquin,'92,  W.  F.  Hardie,  '92, 
E.  P.  Brady,  '98,  C.  V.  Cosby,  '98,  H.  P.  Jones,  '98,  G.  L. 
Tebault,  '98,  Marion Souchon,  '94,  Udolpho  Wolfe,  Jr.,  '94, 
E.  J.  Murphy,  '95,  S.  S.  Prentiss,  Jr.,  '95,  A.  A.  Woods, 
Jr.,  '95,  P.  L.  Cusachs,  '9(),  F.  McN.  Gordon,  '90,  E.  C. 
Renaud,  '90. 


Our  fraternity  library,  which  is  prospering  wonderfully 
under  Doctor  J.  E.  Brown's  care,  has  received  a  most  val- 
uable addition  in  a  recent  gift  from  Brother  Alexander  Gwyn 
Foster,  Indiana,  '78,  now  of  El  Paso,  Texas.  Brother  Fos- 
ter was  an  editor  of  the  fifth  edition  of  the  catalogue  and  an 
active  worker  for  the  Fraternity  before  he  tried  to  annex 
himself  to  Mexico,  and  his  interest  does  not  slacken,  even 
so  far  away.  He  has  given  his  whole  collection  of  fraternity 
literature,  including  a  complete  file  of  The  Scroll.  His 
example  is  one  we  commend  to  all  those  who  have  manu- 
scripts, letters,  clippings,  photographs  or  publications  con- 

3 


36  THE  SCROLL. 

nected  with  or  relating  to  the  history  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  or 
of  college  fraternities  in  general.  Since  the  preceding  sen- 
tences were  written  we  have  learned  that  Brother  George 
Banta,  P.  G.  C.  from  ISSO  to  18S2,  has  signified  his  inten- 
tion of  turning  over  all  fraternity  literature  in  his  possession 
to  the  library.     Let  the  good  work  continue. 


The  Tennessee  centennial  exposition,  which  opened  May 
1,  and  continues  to  October  -U,  has  been  a  much  greater 
success,  artistically  and  financially,  than  was  expected.  In 
many  respects  it  compares  favorably  with  the  Columbian 
exposition,  and  the  electric  illumination  at  night  is  said  to 
surpass  anything  seen  at  Chicago.  The  art  building  is  a 
reproduction  of  the  glorious  Parthenon.  At  one  end  is  a 
massive  statue  of  Phi  Delta  Theta's  tutelary  goddess,  Pallas, 
and  at  the  other  is  a  bronze  figure  of  Commodore  Vander- 
bilt,  founder  of  Vanderbilt  University.  The  building  is 
crowded  with  paintings  and  statuary,  many  of  which  are 
from  foreign  countries.  Another  purely  Grecian  style  of 
building  is  the  Erechtheon,  or  history  building.  Other 
principal  buildings  are  the  commerce,  minerals,  forestry, 
machinery,  agriculture,  transportation,  U.  S.  government, 
education,  woman's,  children's,  negro,  auditorium  and  ad- 
ministration buildings.  Many  of  the  states  and  cities  have 
special  buildings.  On  'Vanity  Fair'  there  is  nearly  as 
great  a  variety  of  amusements  as  there  was  on  the  '  Midway 
Plaisance  '  at  Chicago.  Boat  rides  can  be  enjoyed  in  gon- 
dolas on  the  lakes,  one  of  which,  at  a  narrow  part,  is  spanned 
with  a  reproduction  of  the  Rialto  at  Venice. 

On  account  of  these  attractions,  as  well  as  the  pleasure  of 
meeting,  there  should  be  a  large  attendance  of  Phis  at  the 
joint  convention  and  reunion  of  Beta  and  (lamma  provinces 
at  Nashville,  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  October  1")  and  1<). 
The  railroad  rates  are  very  low.  Ten-daj'  round  trip  tick- 
ets to  Nashville  are  sold  all  over  southern  territory,  at  an 
average  of  two  and  a  quarter  cents  per  mile  in  one  direc- 
tion, or  considerably  less  for  a  return  ticket  than  the  usual 
price  for  a  ticket  one  way.     The  fare  may  be  even  less  by 


THE  SCROLL,  37 

the  middle  of  October.     The  hotels  at  Nashville  have  made 
no  increase  in  their  charges. 

The  proposed  meeting  will  be  the  first  joint  province  con- 
vention ever  held.  Friday,  October  l"),  will  be  Tennessee 
college  day  at  the  exposition.  The  Sigma  Nu  fraternity 
will  hold  a  convention  in  Nashville,  October  l'>-15.  Phi 
Gamma  Delta,  Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Pi 
Kappa  Alpha  and  Sigma  Chi  have  already  met  there  since 
the  exposition  began.  The  yellow  fever  flurry,  mind  you, 
has  nothing  to  do  with  this  convention.  Poitevent  and  the 
New  Orleans  men  will  be  kept  away,  but  everybody  else 
can  come. 


OFFIQAL  CGMMUNICATIGNS. 

As  president  of  Gamma  Province,  I  wish  to  call  the  atten- 
tion of  all  chapters  in  this  province  to  the  fact  that  the  joint 
convention  of  Beta  and  Ganmia  Provinces  will  be  held  at  the 
Tennessee  centennial,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Oct.  15-16. 

This  will  be  the  first  <t>  A  0  convention  of  any  kind  held 
since  the  national  convention  at  Philadelphia  last  November, 
and  those  managing  it  are  extremely  desirous  that  it  be  suc- 
cessful from  every  point  of  view.  And  in  order  that  it  be  a 
success,  the  co-operation  of  every  chapter  in  the  two  prov- 
inces is  needed.  lispeciall}'  is  this  true  with  reference  to 
Gamma. 

The  active  chapters,  nine  in  all,  extending  from  Georgia 
to  Texas,  are  so  scattered  and  the  members  so  seldom  know 
each  other  personally,  that  the  chapter  communications, 
other  than  ScROU.  and  annual  letters,  are  of  the  meagerest 
sort.  Moreover,  other  reasons  not  herein  stated  demand 
that  Georgia  Alpha,  Beta  and  Gamma,  Alabama  Alpha  and 
Beta,  Mississippi  Alpha,  Louisiana  Alpha,  and  Texas  Beta 
and  Gamma,  and  the  Georgia  alumni  chapters.  Alpha,  Beta 
and  Gamma,  the  Alabama  alumni  chapters.  Alpha,  Beta, 
Gamma  and  Delta,  and  the  Louisiana  alumni  chapter.  Al- 
pha,  each  have  present  one  official  delegate  and  as  many 


3S  THK  SCROLL. 

members  as  possible.  The  railroad  fares  will  be  cheap,  a 
condition  of  affairs  due  to  the  centennial  rates.  Inasmuch 
as  this  is  not  a  national  convention,  each  chapter  will  pay 
its  delegate's  way  to  and  from  the  convention  ;  and,  there- 
fore, the  treasurer  of  each  chapter  should  levy  a  per  capita 
tax  for  the  delegate's  railroad  ticket. 

At  this  writing,  the  complete  program  has  not  been  offi- 
cially announced,  but  the  delegates  should  try  to  reach 
Nashville  the  afternoon  or  night  of  the  14th.  Tennessee 
Alpha,  who  will  act  the  part  of  host,  will  appoint  committees 
to  meet  incoming  trains.  Delegates,  with  their  credentials, 
will  officially  report  at  the  headquarters  as  soon  after  their 
arrival  as  practicable. 

On  behalf  of  Gamma  Province,  I  extend  a  special  invita- 
tion to  the  General  Coinicil,  to  the  presidents  of  the  several 
provinces,  to  every  chapter  and  to  all  alumni  to  be  present 
and  to  take  part  in  the  ceremonies  ;  and  the  invitation  is 
extended  only  with  the  hope  that  it  will  be  accepted. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Ocean  Springs,  Miss.,  ScnrvLER  Poitevhnt. 

September  5,  1S97. 


By  an  oversight  the  T.  G.  C.  stated  in  the  September 
Palladium  that  the  dues  this  fall  would  be  payable  on  Octo- 
ber 1 ,  when  he  should  have  said  Noveml>er  1 .  Reporters 
will  be  governed  accordingly,  but  no  one  need  keep  back 
the  money  if  he  can  remit  it  at  the  earlier  date. 

Frkj)  S.  Haij.,  T.  G.  C. 


THE  SCROLL,  39 


Chapter  Correspondence- 

ALPHA  PROVINCE* 

NBW  HAHPSHIRB  ALPHA.  DARTHOUTH  COLLBQE. 

The  academic  year  opened  on  Thursday,  September  16.  The  fresh- 
man class,  with  an  enrollment  of  ISo,  is  the  largest  that  ever  entered 
Dartmouth. 

The  untiring  energy  and  enthusiasm  of  President  Tucker  result  in 
constant  additions  to  the  material  equipment  of  the  college.  The 
James  B.  Richardson  Hall,  a  magnificent  brick  and  stone  dormitory, 
is  now  in  process  of  erection.  Through  the  benevolence  of  the  late 
Charles  T.  Wilder,  of  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.,  the  college  comes  into 
possession  of  funds  to  be  used  for  a  new  physical  laboratory. 

Foot  ball  prospects  are  very  bright.  But  few  men  were  lost  by  grad- 
uation, and  a  large  number  of  new  men  can  be  picked  from  the  fresh- 
man class.  Brother  Turner,  '08,  is  a  prominent  candidate  for  center. 
Brother  Carr,  '98,  is  manager  of  the  team. 

Though  twelve  loyal  brothers  were  lost  by  graduation,  the  remain- 
der have  returned  full  of  enthusiasm  and  are  entering  into  the  year's 
work  with  the  greatest  heartiness. 

At  the  last  commencement  Brother  Lease,  liMX),  received  '  honorable 
mention  '  in  drawing,  and  Brother  Beal,  '1)9.  in  Latin.  Brother  Rod- 
gers,  '98,  received  the  first  Lockwood  prize,  awarded  for  excellence  in 
English  composition.  Two  '97  brothers,  Richards  and  Ward,  have 
returned  to  the  medical  college,  and  Brother  Bailey,  '97,  having  re- 
ceived a  graduate  scholarship,  is  pursuing  the  graduate  course  in 
geology. 

Brother  Tuxbury,  '93,  is  still  with  us  in  the  medical  college.  Brother 
Graham,  '99.  received  an  election  to  the  editorial  board  of  The  Dart- 
mouth Literary  Monthly  at  the  close  of  the  last  academic  year. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis  for  a  successful  college  year,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Hanover,  September  It),  1897.  Bradi.rv  C.  Rodckrs. 

VERnONT  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VERMONT. 

It  is  our  painful  duty  to  announce  to  the  Phi  world  the  death  of 
Bro.  Leon  Keeler  Wiswell,  '9.'{,  which  occurred  at  his  home  in  Hyde 
Park,  Vt.,  July  29,  1897.  Since  his  graduation  Bro.  Wiswell  had  been 
in  the  employ  of  the  Berlin  Iron  Bridge  Co.,  of  East  Berlin,  Conn. 
He  was  spending  a  short  vacation  at  home  when  he  was  stricken  down 
suddenly,  although  he  had  not  been  well  for  some  time.  Bro.  Wis- 
well will  be  remembered  by  all  who  knew  him,  as  a  most  loyal  brother 
and  most  earnest  and  sincere  follower  of  the  high  ideals  set  by  our 
Fraternity.     Five  of  the  chapter  were  present  at  the  funeral. 

We  lost  from  active  chapter  life  at  our  last  commencement  six  good 
and  true  Phis ;  their  vacant  places  will  not  be  easily  filled.  They 
were  Bros.  Allen,  Ph.  B.,  Jackson,  A.  B..  Doten.  B.  S.,  Howe,  B.  S., 
Kern,  B.  S.,  and  Lincoln,  Ph.  B.  Bro.  Doten  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  ranking  second  in  the  class  of  '97.  Bro.  Lincoln  received  the 
honor  of  'general  hi^h  standing.'  Bro.  Jackson  will  return  to  con- 
tinue his  medical  studies,  which  he  began  last  year. 

At  the  commencement  exercises  of  '97  Bro.  Lincoln  was  class  poet ; 


40  THE  SCROLL. 

Bro.  Greene,  '99,  was  our  representative  on  the  Forest  prize  speaking. 
The  eighteenth  annual  commencement  banquet  of  Vermont  Alpha 
was  an  enthusiastic  and  happy  gathering  of  alumni  and  undergradu- 
ates.    The  following  toasts  were  responded  to  : 

Toastmaster Bro.  Doten,  '97. 

Greeting Bro.  Ray,  '98. 

History  of  Vermont  Alpha Bro.  Dalrymple,  '95. 

The  Philadelphia  Convention Bro.  I^incoln,  '97. 

Anticipations Bro.  Blair,  '99. 

The  General  Fraternity Bro.  Leach,  '92. 

Phis  in  the  Law Bro.  Mower,  '92. 

The  Chapter  House Bro.  Andrews,  '99. 

New  luigland  Phis Bro.  Patrick,  '9S. 

Impromptu  speeches  were  then  made  by  the  alumni,  fifteen  of  whom 
were  present.  Such  annual  reunions  as  these  impress  deeply  upon 
the  undergraduate  a  clear  sense  of  the  strength  and  sweetness  of  our 
Bond.  It  is,  indeed,  an  inspiration  to  younger  Phis  when  their  older 
brothers  return  with  fraternal  love  not  only  undiminished  but  grown 
stronger  in  the  lapse  of  years. 

Bro.  G.  H.  Baker  enters  soon  on  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Westford,  Vt.  On  Sept.  1,  1897,  Bro.  N.  M.  Pratt,  ^9:^, 
pastor  of  the  Bethany  (Congregational)  church  in  New  York  City, 
was  married  to  Miss  Carolyn  Augusta  Paddock  at  the  bride's  home  in 
Craftsbury,  Vt. 

Eighteen  men  will  probably  report  for  duty  this  autumn.  They 
will  make  a  supreme  effort  to  secure  their  share  of  the  good  and  worthy 
from  the  class  of  1901.  The  incoming  class  promises  to  be  very  large 
and  will  doubtless  furnish  much  good  material  with  which  *  A  B  may 
swell  her  ranks.  Bro.  Emery,  '99,  on  account  of  poor  health  will  be 
obliged  to  spend  the  winter  in  California.  Bro.  Burnham,  1900,  will 
not  return  to  college. 

Bro.  Forbes,  '9S,  has  been  elected  manager  of  the  base  ball  team  for 
the  coming  season.  Bro.  Ray,  '98,  is  president  of  the  French  literary 
club.  Bro.  Andrews,  '99,  is  assistant  business  manager  of  the  '99 
Ariel  and  also  of  the  musical  clubs.  Vermont  will  begin  a  new  foot- 
ball career  this  fall.  This  game,  which  has  been  wrongfully  neglect- 
ed here  during  the  past  two  years,  will  be  taken  up  again  with  re- 
newed energy  and  on  a  new  basis. 

We  wish  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  a  very  neat  catalogue  of 
'  New  P^ngland  Phis '  published  by  the  Boston  alumni  chapter. 
With  best  wishes  for  prosperity  to  every  chapter,  I  remain. 

Yours  in  the  Bond,  | 
Burlington,  September  10,  1S97.  C.  V.  Bi^.\ir. 

nASSACMUSETTS  BETA,  AflHERST  COLLEQE.I 

Although  college  has  not  opened  at  the  time  of  this  writing,  a  letter 
to  Thk  Scroij,  will  be  useful  in  summing  up  the  odd  items  of  last 
June's  graduation  and  the  present  prospects. 

In  the  loss  of  the  '97  delegation  Massachusetts  Beta  surrendered  to 
her  alumni  a  band  of  hard-working  and  public-spirited  men.  The  '97 
brothers  were  eminently  successful  in  holding  many  important  posi- 
tions before  the  college,  and  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  received  much  honor 
at  their  hands.  At  commencement  Bro.  Ingersoll  delivered  the  class 
poem;  Bro.  Griffin  was  chairman  of  the  senior  promenade,  Bro.  Coles 
was  chairman  of  the  program  committee,  and  Bro.  Crary  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  on  committees. 


THE  SCROLL.  41 

According  to  its  usual  custom,  the  chapter  held  open  house  during 
commencement,  giving  an  enjoyable  reception  on  Tuesday  evening. 

At  the  close  of  the  year  Bro.  Brooks,  '91>,  was  awarded  both  the 
Walker  mathematics  prize  of  f%t)  and  the  first  Latin  prize  of  f2o. 

The  membership  of  the  three  remaining  delegations  will  be  slightly 
changed  for  the  coming  year.  Bros.  Herald,  IIKM),  and  Ogden,  19(.)0, 
will  not  return;  Bro.  Whitney,  formerly  of  '98,  will  re-enter  college 
with  '99,  and  Bro.  Goodrich,  formerly  of  '98,  is  expected  to  make  one 
of  the  1901)  delegation. 

We  are  looking  forward  confidently  to  a  large  and  influential  dele- 
gation from  the  entering  class.  In  this  connection  it  may  not  be  out 
of  place  to  express  the  wish  that  letters  of  inquiry  sent  to  other  chap- 
ters and  to  the  general  alumni  concerning  new  men  would  receive 
more  attention.  After  allowing  for  mistakes  of  address,  etc.,  it  seems 
certain  that  several  such  requests  for  information  have  been  neglected 
this  year.  A  slight  mention  of  this  matter  may  enforce  the  impor- 
tance which  we  attach  to  it. 

With  best  wishes,  I  remain  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  September  13,  1897.  Chrstkr  M.  Gro\  Kr. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  COLLEGE. 

New  York  Beta  returns  to  college  this  fall  with  twelve  workers 
earnest  in  the  cause.  Two  men  are  already  pledged  to  take  upon 
themselves  the  duties  and  privileges  of  Phis.  Our  members  are  now 
settled  in  the  new  home  which  the  chapter  leased  last  June.  It  is 
very  gratifying  to  be  in  a  house  and  have  all  its  advantages. 

Bros.  Lynn  M.  vScofield,  '97.  Glenn  M.  vScofield,  '97,  and  Monte  J. 
Multer,  '97,  each  received  Sigma  Xi  keys  last  June. 

The  entering  class  this  fall  numbers  about  sixty  men.  President 
Raymond's  reception  to  the  class  of  1901  was  held  on  Friday  evening 
of  the  opening  week.  All  spent  a  very  pleasant  hour.  New  York 
Beta  is  very  glad  to  welcome  Bro.  A.  D.  Ingram,  of  Ohio  State  Uni- 
versity. Bro.  Ingram  has  just  received  a  position  in  the  draughting 
department  of  the  Edison  works.  We  find  him  one  of  the  regulation 
'jolly  Phis.* 

Tlie  faculty  will  be  greatly  changed  from  that  of  last  year.  These 
changes  will  take  effect  at  once,  and  are  as  follows  : 

Prof.  T.  S.  Wright  will  have  general  direction  of  the  departments  of 
mathematics  ana  physics.  Mr.  Frank  S.  Thompson,  of  Princeton, 
has  been  appointed  his  assistant  for  the  current  year.  Prof.  J.  H. 
Stoller  has  been  given  leave  of  absence  for  one  year  for  travel  and 
study  in  Europe.  Dr.  A.  A.  Tyler,  of  Lafayette  and  Columbia,  has 
been  appointea  instructor  in  biology  during  Prof.  Stoller's  absence. 
Mr.  John  W.  H.  Pollard,  of  Dartmouth  and  Harvard,  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  instructorship  in  physical  culture,  made  vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  Dr.  Linhart.  During  his  college  course  Mr.  Pollard 
was  prominent  in  athletics,  on  the  foot  ball  team  and  the  track  team. 
The  new  instructor  in  civil  engineering  to  take  the  place  of  Mr.  Cum- 
mings  is  Mr.  E<lward  B.  Kay,  of  Rensselaer.  The  important  position 
of  instructor  in  electrical  engineering  has  been  given  to  Dr.  Bryon  S. 
Brackett,  of  Syracuse  and  Johns  Hopkins.  Mr.  N.  K.  Webster,  of 
Hamilton,  has  been  appointed  to  the  instructorship  in  the  department 
of  rhetoric  and  logic  held  last  year  by  Dr.  Reeves. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  September  21,  1897.  D.  J.  HovT. 


40  THE  SCROLL, 

Bro.  Greene,  ".M>,  was  our  representative  on  the  Forest  prize  speaking. 
The  eighteenth  annual  commencement  ban(|uet  of  Vermont  Alpha 
was  an  enthusiastic  and  happy  gathering  of  alumni  and  undergradu- 
ates.    The  following  toasts  were  responded  to  : 

Toastmaster Hro.  Doten,  '1»7. 

Greeting Hro.  Ray,  'l»s. 

History  of  Vermont  Alpha Bro.  Dalrymple,  '!»'). 

The  Philadelphia  Convention Bro.  Lincoln,  '1)7. 

Anticipations Bro.  Blair,  'l»y. 

The  General  Fraternity Bro.  Leach,  '92. 

Phis  in  the  Law Bro.  Mower,  '02. 

The  Chapter  House Bro.  Andrews,  '09. 

New  Kngland  Phis Bro.  Patrick,  '9S. 

Impromptu  speeches  were  then  made  by  the  alumni,  fifteen  of  whom 
were  present.  Such  annual  reunions  as  these  impress  deeply  upon 
the  undergraduate  a  clear  sense  of  the  strength  and  sweetness  of  our 
Bond.  It  is,  indeed,  an  inspiration  to  younger  Phis  when  their  older 
brothers  return  with  fraternal  love  not  only  undiminished  but  grown 
stronger  in  the  lapse  of  years. 

Bro.  G.  H.  Baker  enters  soon  on  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Westford,  Vt.  On  Sept.  1,  1S«C,  Bro.  N.  M.  Pratt,  '0:5, 
pastor  of  the  Bethany  ( Congregational )  church  in  New  York  Cit^, 
was  married  to  Miss  Carol vn  Augusta  Paddock  at  the  bride's  home  m 
Craftsbury,  W. 

Eighteen  men  will  probably  report  for  duty  this  autumn.  They 
will  make  a  supreme  effort  to  secure  their  share  of  the  good  and  worthy 
from  the  class  of  1001.  The  incoming  class  promises  to  be  very  large 
and  will  doubtless  furnish  much  good  material  with  which  4>  A  B  may 
swell  her  ranks.  Bro.  Emery,  '00,  on  account  of  poor  health  will  be 
obliged  to  spend  the  winter  in  California.  Bro.  Burnham,  1000,  will 
not  return  to  college. 

Bro.  Forbes,  'OS,  has  been  elected  manager  ot  the  base  ball  team  for 
the  coming  season.  Bro.  Ray,  '08,  is  president  of  the  French  literary 
club.  Bro.  Andrews,  '00,  is  assistant  business  manager  of  the  '00 
.Iricl  and  also  of  the  musical  clubs.  Vermont  will  begin  a  new  foot- 
ball career  this  fall.  This  game,  which  has  been  wrongfully  neglect- 
ed here  during  the  past  two  years,  will  be  taken  up  again  with  re- 
newed energy  and  on  a  new  basis. 

We  wish  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  a  very  neat  catalogue  of 
'  New  Kngland  Phis '  published  by  the  Boston  alumni  chapter. 
With  best  wishes  for  prosperity  to  every  chapter,  I  remain, 

Yours  in  the  Bond,  | 
Burlington,  September  10.  ls«»:.  C.  F.  Blair. 

nASSACMUSETTS  BETA.  AHHERST  COLLEGE.' 

Although  college  has  not  opened  at  the  time  of  this  writing,  a  letter 
to  Tni":  ScKoij,  will  be  useful  in  summing  up  the  odd  items  of  last 
June's  graduation  and  the  present  prospects. 

In  the  loss  of  the  '07  delegation  Massachusetts  Beta  .surrendered  to 
her  alumni  a  band  of  hard-working  and  public-spirited  men.  The  '97 
brothers  were  eminently  successful  in  holding  many  important  posi- 
tions before  the  college,  and  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  received  much  honor 
at  their  hands.  At  commencement  Bro.  Ingersoll  delivered  the  class 
poem;  Bro.  Griffin  was  chairman  of  the  senior  promenade.  Bro.  Coles 
was  chairman  of  the  program  committee,  and  Bro.  Crary  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  on  committees. 


THE  SCROLL,  41 

According  to  its  usual  custom,  the  chapter  held  open  house  during 
commencement,  giving  an  enjoyable  reception  on  Tuesday  evening. 

At  the  close  of  the  year  Bro.  Brooks,  '91),  was  awarded  both  the 
Walker  mathematics  prize  of  ^2(M)  and  the  first  Ivatin  prize  of  f2;'). 

The  membership  of  the  three  remaining  delegations  will  be  slightly 
changed  for  the  coming  year.  Bros.  Herald,  IIMH),  and  Ogden,  1900, 
will  not  return;  Bro.  Whitney,  formerly  of  '98,  will  re-enter  college 
with  *99,  and  Bro.  Goodrich,  formerly  of  '98,  is  expected  to  make  one 
of  the  1900  delegation. 

We  are  looking  forward  confidently  to  a  large  and  influential  dele- 
gation from  the  entering  class.  In  this  connection  it  may  not  be  out 
of  place  to  express  the  wish  that  letters  of  inquiry  sent  to  other  chap- 
ters and  to  the  general  alumni  concerning  new  men  would  receive 
more  attention.  After  allowing  for  mistakes  of  address,  etc.,  it  seems 
certain  that  several  such  requests  for  information  have  been  neglected 
this  year.  A  slight  mention  of  this  matter  may  enforce  the  impor- 
tance which  we  attach  to  it. 

With  best  wishes,  I  remain  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  September  13,  1897.  Chkstkr  M.  Grovkr. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  COLLEGE. 

New  York  Beta  returns  to  college  this  fall  with  twelve  workers 
earnest  in  the  cause.  Two  men  are  already  pledged  to  take  upon 
themselves  the  duties  and  privileges  of  Phis.  Our  members  are  now 
settled  in  the  new  home  which  tlie  chapter  leased  last  June.  It  is 
very  gratifying  to  be  in  a  house  and  have  all  its  advantages. 

Bros.  Lynn  M.  Scofield,  '97,  Glenn  M.  Scofield,  '97,  and  Monte  J. 
Multer,  '97,  each  received  Sigma  Xi  keys  last  June. 

The  entering  class  this  fall  numbers  about  sixty  men.  President 
Raymond's  reception  to  the  class  of  1901  was  held  on  Friday  evening 
of  the  opening  week.  All  spent  a  very  pleasant  hour.  New  York 
Beta  is  very  glad  to  welcome  Bro.  A.  D.  Ingram,  of  Ohio  State  Uni- 
versity. Bro.  Ingram  has  just  received  a  f>osition  in  the  draughting 
department  of  the  Edison  works.  We  find  him  one  of  the  regulation 
•jolly  Phis.' 

The  faculty  will  be  greatly  changed  from  that  of  last  year.  These 
changes  will  take  effect  at  once,  and  are  as  follows  : 

Prof.  T.  S.  W^right  will  have  general  direction  of  the  departments  of 
mathematics  ana  physics.  Mr.  Prank  S.  Thompson,  of  Princeton, 
has  been  appointed  his  assistant  for  the  current  year.  Prof.  J.  H. 
Stoller  has  been  given  leave  of  absence  for  one  year  for  travel  and 
study  in  Europe.  Dr.  A.  A.  Tyler,  of  Lafayette  and  Columbia,  has 
been  appointed  instructor  in  biology  during  Prof.  Stoller's  absence. 
Mr.  John  W.  H.  Pollard,  of  Dartmouth  and  Harvard,  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  instructorship  in  physical  culture,  made  vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  Dr.  Linhart.  During  his  college  course  Mr.  Pollard 
was  prominent  in  athletics,  on  the  foot  ball  team  and  the  track  team. 
The  new  instructor  in  civil  engineering  to  take  the  place  of  Mr.  Cum- 
mings  is  Mr.  Edward  B.  Kay,  of  Rensselaer.  The  important  position 
of  instructor  in  electrical  engineering  has  been  given  to  Dr.  Bryon  S. 
Brackett,  of  Syracuse  and  Johns  Hopkins.  Mr.  N.  K.  Webster,  of 
Hamilton,  has  l)een  appointed  to  the  instructorship  in  the  department 
of  rhetoric  and  logic  held  last  year  by  Dr.  Reeves. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  September  21,  1897.  D.  J.  HovT. 


42  THE  SCROLL. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA,  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

New  York  Delta  salutes  her  sister  chapters  and  the  Fraternity  at 
large,  wishing  all  a  prosperous  year.  At  this  date  of  writing  Colum- 
bia has  not  opened  for  work.  Owing  to  the  abandonment  of  the 
scheme  of  a  quasi-official  dormitory,  New  York  Delta  is  as  ^et,  alas  ! 
homeless,  but  the  zealous  efforts  of  an  efficient  committee  give  prom- 
ise that  by  the  time  this  letter  appears  we  shall  be  comfortably  housed 
in  suitable  quarters  somewhere  near  the  university  and  within  its  at- 
mosphere. The  limits  of  a  chapter  letter  do  not  permit  of  any  de- 
scription, however  meager,  of  Columbia's  new  site  and  environs,  her 
magnificent  buildings  with  their  priceless  collections  of  scientific  ap- 
paratus and  works  of  art,  nor  of  her  officers  and  instructors  with  their 
hopes  and  ambitions.  That  must  be  left  for  another  time  and  an 
abler  pen. 

At  the  commencement  held  on  the  ninth  of  June,  Bro.  Haldy,  B.  S., 
received  the  degree  of  electrical  engineer,  Bros.  Riedererand  Walden- 
berger  that  of  bachelor  of  science  in  chemistr>',  while  Bros.  Kilian  and 
Rappold  received  the  same  {  B.  S. )  in  the  course  in  architecture.  In 
the  law  school  Bro.  Hewitt  was  dubbed  a  LL.  B.,  and  in  the  school  of 
political  science  Bro.  Ehrhorn  was  made  inni^isicr  in  ariibits.  Phi 
Delta  Tlieta  was  also  represented  in  the  school  of  medicine  by  Walter 
Timme,  B.  1,.,  of  N.  Y.  Gamma,  who,  after  having  sworn  to  serve  as 
a  true  and  faithful  follower  of  Hippocrates,  was  granted  the  right  to 
add  M.  D.  to  his  name. 

The  academic  year  not  beginning  until  the  first  full  week  in  Octo- 
ber, our  men  for  the  most  part  are  still  rusticating,  and  news  of  them 
is,  at  best,  scant.  Bro.  Riederer  sailed  early  in  June  for  Europe,  where 
he  was  shortly  afterwards  followed  by  Bro.  Waldenberger.  After 
traveling  for  a  while,  they  met  at  Munich,  where  for  the  next  year 
they  will  pursue  graduate  courses  in  chemistry.  Bro.  Kilian  also,  at 
last  reports,  was  traveling  on  the  Continent,  and  as  Bro.  Bryant  like- 
wise expects  to  visit  the  ( )ld  World  upon  his  return  from  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  spent  the  summer,  New  York  Delta  is  contemplating 
the  establishment  of  a  European  branch. 

We  shall  start  the  year  with  representatives  in  the  schools  of  arts, 
law,  medicine  and  mines,  and  should  the  year  not  yield  us  a  large 
crop  of  good  Phis,  it  will  be  due  to  no  lack  of  effort,  but  rather  to  want 
of  worthy  material;  but  since  Columbia  is  now  able  to  offer  advantages 
equal  to  the  best,  there  should  be  no  dearth  of  good  men  and  true,  so 
that  everything  for  the  future  presages  well.  Yet  you  know  I^owell 
tells  us  in  the  Bigelow  Papers,  'Don't  never  prophesy  unless  you 
know.'  In  the  Bond, 

Oscar  Whi:ks  Ehkhorn. 
New  York,  September  7,  1897. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA. GETTYSBURG  COLLEGE. 

Pennsylvania  Beta  begins  the  year  under  peculiarly  auspicious  cir- 
cum.stances.  With  the  largest  freshman  class  in  the  history  of  (ict- 
tysburg  College  and  with  three  of  our  last  year's  graduates  with  us 
again,  we  bid  fair  to  enjoy  a  year  of  such  prosperity  as  it  has  seldom 
been  our  lot  to  experience. 

Bros.  Ott  and  Friday  are  taking  a  course  in  the  Theological  Sem- 
inary and  Bro.  Kain  is  instructor  in  mathematics  in  the  preparatory 
department.  But  the  chapter  at  the  same  time  loses  three  brothers  ; 
A.  B.  Coble,  *97,  who  has  accepted  a  position  as  teacher  in  the  public 


THE  SCROLL.  43 

schools  of  Lykens,  Pa.,  also  J.  E.  Smith  and  C.  S.  Smith,  both  of  '99, 
who  will  engage  in  the  hardware  business  at  their  home  in  Newport, 
Pa. 

At  the  last  commencement,  Bros.  Coble  and  Kain  were  two  of  the 
ten  commencement  orators,  and  Bros.  Friday,  Ott,  and  Kain  had 
places  on  the  class  day  program,  the  first  two  as  class  and  ivy  poet, 
respectively,  and  the  latter  as  historian.  Bro.  Coble  was  selected  to 
eulogize  'our  absent  ones  *  upon  the  same  occasion,  but  owing  to  press 
of  work,  he  was  obliged  to  resign. 

On  the  night  of  June  '1  the  annual  banquet  of  the  chapter,  which  for 
several  years  had  been  neglected,  was  held,  about  twenty  being  pres- 
ent. Where  numbers  were  lacking,  enthusiasm  was  not,  and  all  part- 
ed, promising  to  come  back  next  year  and  bring  along  all  the  other 
alumni  possible.  The  old,  reliable  subject,  the  chapter  house,  was 
discussed,  and  a  new  plan  adopted,  of  which,  if  feasible,  you  will  all 
hear  later.  Bro.  H.  H.  Weber,  '82,  acted  as  toastmaster  in  his  usual 
jolly  manner. 

In  the  inter-fraternity  tennis  tournament,  which  is  held  commence- 
ment week,  Bros.  Friday  and  Kain  succeeded  in  defeating  *  F  A,  who 
has  held  the  silver  cup  for  four  successive  years,  but  fell  before  the 
A  T  Q  team,  who  will  hold  the  cup  for  the  next  year. 

Bro.  J.  H.  Beerits,  *99,  has  been  elected  assistant  editor  of  the  Mer- 
cmy  and  assistant  business  manager  of  the  Sptrtnim,  Bro.  H.  H. 
Keilar  fills  the  position  of  base  ball  manager  for  the  class  of  1901. 

Bro.  J.  Arthur  Singmaster,  '98,  attended  the  Lehigh  commencement 
and  speaks  in  high  terms  of  the  Pan-Hellenic  reception  tendered  by 
Pennsylvania  Eta. 

Workmen  are  busily  engaged  in  erecting  a  new  dormitory,  which 
has  been  rendered  necessary  by  the  increasing  number  of  students.  It 
is  to  be  completed  by  January  1,  and  when  finished  it  will  accommo- 
date about  fifty  students.  ]>fumerous  other  improvements  have  also 
been  made  in  the  buildings  and  campus. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Fraternity  Bro.  St. 
John  McClean,  '01,  of  Gettysburg,  and  Bro.  H.  H.  Keilar,  '01,  of  Bed- 
minster,  Pa.,  both  of  whom  we  have  initiated  since  our  last  letter  to 
The  Scroll.  Melville  Iluber,  '01,  of  Gettysburg,  is  wearing  the 
pledge  button  and  will  be  initiated  soon.  With  these  three  as  a  nu- 
cleus and  several  others  whom  we  are  watching,  we  will  have  a  fresh- 
man delegation  of  which  we  may  well  be  proud.  With  best  wishes  to 
the  F'raternity,  I  remain.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

J.  Clyde  Markkl. 
Gettysburg,  September  8,  1S97. 


PENNSYLVANIA  QAnriA.  WASHINQTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE 

The  9r)th  annual  commencement  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  Col- 
lege was  one  of  the  most  pleasant  events  of  the  kind  in  the  history  of 
the  institution.  The  graduating  class  numbered  forty-two,  and  an 
unusually  large  number  look  honors.  Brothers  J.  M.  Miller  and  John 
J.  Kerr  took  honors  and  spoke  at  commencement.  In  addition  they 
represented  their  class  on  class  day,  Brother  Kerr  being  prophet  and 
Brother  Miller  being  souvenir  distributer.  Both  brothers  have  regis- 
tered for  the  study  of  law.  Brother  Hughes,  who  was  an  irregular 
member  of  '97,  is  also  reading  law. 


44  THE  SCROLL, 

A  pleasing  feature  of  commencement  day  was  the  presentation  of 
portraits.  Those  presented  this  year  were  of  Rev.  G.  P.  Hays,  D.  D., 
former  president  of  the  college,  and  Gen.  John  Frazier,  professor  of 
mathematics  in  Jefferson  college.  Dr.  Hays  is  the  father  of  Brothers 
C.  W.,  Walter  and  A.  A.  Hays,  of  Pennsylvania  Gamma.  Gen.  Fra- 
zier,  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  commanded  a  company  of  students 
who  enlisted  while  at  college  and  was  rapidly  promoted,  being  mus- 
tered out  with  the  rank  of  brevet  brigadier-general.  He  died  a  few 
vears  since. 

At  the  alumni  dinner  and  reunion  just  after  the  commencement  ex- 
ercises, Judge  James  A.  Beaver,  ex-governor  of  Pennsylvania,  presided. 
A  plan  for  increasing  the  endowment  of  the  college  by  f2'>(),(HH)  be- 
fore the  centennial  anniversarv  in  VMVl  was  started  and  several  thou- 
sand  dollars  subscribed.  The  class  of  '1>7  made  the  first  subscription 
of  i^l.OOO. 

The  new  library  building  project  is  rapidly  assuming  definite  form, 
and  ere  long  the  campus  will  be  beautified  by  a  handsome  new  struct- 
ure. The  committee  of  trustees  in  charge  favor  a  building  similar  in 
plan  to  the  congressional  library  and  one  that  will  cost  about  |100,(XK>. 

The  preparations  for  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  granting  of 
a  charter  to  Washington  and  Jefferson  College,  to  be  held  in  1902,  are 
progressing  finely.  A  conmiittee  of  the  board  of  trustees  has  the  cel- 
ebration in  charge,  and  it  promises  to  be  the  greatest  event  in  the 
educational  history  of  western  Pennsylvania. 

On  October  14  will  occur  the  joint  centennial  celebration  of  the 
founding  of  Philo  and  I'Vanklin  literary  societies  of  the  college. 
Committees  of  the  two  societies  and  of  the  college  faculty  have  been 
engaged  for  several  months  perfecting  arrangements  for  the  anni- 
versary. Col.  A.  Louden  Snowden,  ex-U.  S.  minister  to  Greece,  a  Philo, 
and  Rev.  H.  C.  McCook,  D.  D.,()f  Philadelphia,  a  Franklin  man,  will 
make  the  principal  addresses.  Brother  W.  C.  McClelland,  '82,  will 
read  a  history  of  the  societies.  Other  prominent  alumni  have  prom- 
ised to  be  present  and  speak.  The  celebration  will  be  an  all-day 
affair  and  close  with  a  torch-light  parade.  These  two  societies  are 
undoubtedly  the  oldest  organizations  of  their  kind  west  of  the  Alle- 
gheny mountains,  and  have  been  in  constant  operation  for  a  century. 

The  base  ball  season  closed  with  W.  and  J.  having  only  two  defeats 
chalked  up  against  her,  one  by  a  college  team  and  the  other  by  the 
Greensburg  athletic  club  team,  the  champions  of  western  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  team  defeated  Scio,  Otterbein,  O.  W.  U.,  O.  S.  U.,  Grove 
City  and  D  C.  and  A.  C. ,  after  the  last  ScR<  >ij,  letter.  Brothers  Hughes 
and  Eicher  were  members  of  the  team. 

P'oot  ball  practice  began  to-day  with  twenty  candidates  for  positions 
on  the  team.  Captain  Flowers  is  looking  after  the  work  this  week,  but 
coach  Woods  and  ex-captain  W.  I).  Inglis  will  take  charge  of  the  men 
on  September  W.  The  prospects  for  a  team  as  strong  as  the  champion 
eleven  of  'Or»  are  very  good.  We  have  harder  clubs  to  go  up  against 
this  year  and  may  not  be  able  to  keep  from  being  scored  against,  but 
we  will  make  a  creditable  showing,  (iames  have  been  secured  with 
Princeton  and  U.  of  P.  The  schedule  for  the  sea.son  follows:  Sep.  29, 
U.  of  P.  at  Philadelphia;  Oct.  2,  Geneva  College  at  Wa.shington;  Oct. 
i»,  I).  C.  and  A.  C.  at  Washington;  Oct.  l'>,  IVinceton  at  Princeton; 
Oct.  16,  Ohio  Wesleyan  at  Washington;  Oct.  2.'>,  Dickinson  at  Carlisle; 
Oct.  :iO,  P.  A.  C.  at  Pittsburgh;  Nov.  (),  University  of  West  Virginia 
at  Washington;  Nov.  K>.  Adelbert  at  Washington;  Nov.  17,  Oberlin  at 
Washington;  Nov.  25,  I).  C.  and  A.  C.  at  Pittsburg.  W.  and  J.  won 
the  inter-collegiate  championship  of  western  Pennsylvania  in  the  field 


46  THE  SCROLL. 

sports  at  Schenlev  Park,  Pittsburg,  on  May  81.  The  total  scores  were 
W.  and  J.,  S^\\  Geneva,  14;  Westminster,  i:{;  Grove  City,  0;  W.  U. 
P.,  0.  The  records  in  the  pole  vault,  hammer  throw  and  shot  put 
were  all  broken  by  \V.  and  J.  men. 

The  season  which  ended  with  the  field  games  was  a  most  successful 
one  for  W.  and  J.  The  foot  ball  team  was  not  scored  against,  the  l3ase 
ball  team  lost  only  two  games,  and  the  field  and  track  team  won  the 
championship.  Financially  the  athletic  association  was  never  in  bet- 
ter shape. 

The  fall  term  of  college  begins  on  September  lo.  The  prospects  are 
for  a  largely  increased  attendance  this  year.  We  liop>e  to  report  some 
new  Phis  in  our  next  letter.  Our  chapter  will  number  eleven  at  the 
opening  of  college. 

Brother  S.  S.  Baker,  'I>2,  has  been  elected  superintendent  of  the 
schools  of  Chartiers  township,  Allegheny  county,  at  a  handsome  sal- 
ary. The  position  came  to  Brother  Baker  unsolicited.  He  had  taught 
for  several  years  very  successfully  in  Washington  county.  Brother 
A.  A.  Hays,  '!)•">,  has  been  elected  for  the  third  time  principal  of  the 
Washington  high  school.  Brother  Waller  Hays.  'IM»,  who  has  been 
preaching  in  Montana  for  several  years,  is  now  in  Washington.  His 
father.  Rev.  George  P.  Hays,  I)  I).,  is  a  helpless  invalid.  Brother 
W.  B.  Sterrett,  '9'),  who  last  year  attended  the  Western  Theological 
Seminary,  Allegheny,  will  enter  Princeton  this  fall. 

We  are  sorry  to  rep>ort  the  deatli  of  Brother  John  Hasson  Carline, 
'!>'),  who  died  at  his  home  at  Braddock  on  Mav  lU.  Brother  Carline 
was  a  loyal  Phi  whose  loss  will  be  keenlv  felt.  He  was  a  brother  of 
A.  M.  Carline,  lUOO. 

Brother  C.  B.  (TrifTen,  'i»S,  was  compelled  to  leave  college  six  weeks 
before  commencement  on  account  of  sickness.  He  liafl  an  operation 
performed  for  tuberculosis  of  the  throat  and  may  be  able  to  return 
this  fall.  At  present  he  is  enjoying  good  health,  having  recovered 
entirelv  from  the  effects  of  the  operalion.     He  may  winter  in  Colorado. 

The  mother  of  Brother  C.  Ward  Kiclier,  'IMJ,  and  Alex.  Eicher,  Mm, 
died  very  suddenly  last  May.  She  was  a  most  estimable  Christian 
woman  and  had  been  a  hospitable  and  considerate  hostess  many  times 
to  members  of  Pennsylvania  Gamma. 

Hoping  that  all  our  sister  chapters  will  receive  handsome  additions 
of  good  men  to  their  membership,  I  remain. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Washington,  September  1,  1K<»7.  David  Glknn  Moore. 

BETA  PROVINCE. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA.  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

The  session  of  'W()-7  marked  the  closing  of  an  important  epoch  in 
the  history  of  this  institution  brought  about  by  the  resignation  of  its 
president.  Gen.  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  who  succeeded  in  that  capacity  his  re- 
vered father.  Gen.  Robt.  Iv  Lee. 

At  the  opening  of  the  present  session  ex-Postmaster-General  Wm. 
L.  Wilson,  who  has  been  appointed  to  succeed  him,  will  take  charge 
of  his  official  duties.  This  inauguration  will  be  a  memorable  event, 
hundreds  of  our  alumni  will  be  present,  and  many  of  the  most  emi- 
nent men  of  the  nation  will  participate. 

Congressman  H.  St.  George  Tucker  has  been  chosen  professor  of 
law  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  his  father,  the  eminent 


THE  SCROLL.  47 

lawyer,  statesman  and  'Interpreter  of  the  Constitution,'  John  Randolph 
Tucker. 

Many  changes  have  been  made  in  the  policy  of  the  institution, 
which  seems  on  the  threshold  of  an  era  of  marked  prosperity.  This 
spirit  of  advancement  seems  to  have  been  likewise  infused  into  Vir- 
ginia Zeta,  and  the  chapter  of  '97-8  will  be  doubtless  one  of  the  best 
which  4>  A  G  has  ever  maintained  here. 

Reverting  to  the  events  of  the  session  that  has  just  closed,  the  finals 
were  particularly  interesting  and  enjoyable,  the  chief  features  being 
the  winning  of  the  annual  boat  race  by  the  Harry  Lee  crew,  a  most 
successful  final  ball  and  a  brilliant  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  german.  The 
entire  committee  of  the  Albert  Sydney  boat  club  was  composed  of 
Phis.  Bro.  Marshall  represented  us  on  the  final  ball  committee,  and 
in  the  ranks  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  are  Brothers  Speers,  Campbell  and 
McLester. 

Tht'  Caiy.v  oi  '9t>-7,  dedicated  to  'The  illustrious  son  of  an  illus- 
trious father,'  Gen.  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  is  the  most  complete  and  interest- 
ing annual  ever  issued  by  the  students  of  this  college.  Conspicuous 
among  the  editorial  board  of  twelve  elected  by  popular  ballot  were 
four  members  of  our  chapter.  The  staff  was  afterward  increased  to 
sixteen  at  the  request  of  the  fraternities  who  were  excluded  in  the 
first  choice.  The  annual  is  also  of  peculiar  interest  to  Phi  Delta  Theta 
as  an  attestation  of  the  prominent  position  taken  by  the  members  of 
Virginia  Zeta  in  the  social  and  political  functions  of  the  university. 

Several  of  last  year's  graduates  will  not  return  this  session.  Speers 
has  established  a  law  office  in  Macon,  Ga.,  but  will  be  here  during  the 
first  few  weeks  of  this  term.  Leonard  and  McClintic  have  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  Missouri.  Bryan  will  be  a  student  of  Central 
University.  Home  is  in  Fayetteville,  N.  C.  McLester  will  enter 
Vanderbilt. 

With  the  returning  members  and  those  whom  we  hope  soon  to  add 
to  our  list,  we  trust  to  assemble  at  the  opening  of  the  collegiate  year 
an  enthusiastic  and  representative  chapter.  ()ne  of  our  most  valued 
acquisitions  will  be  W.  M.  Hutchins,  of  Chattanooga. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  the  members  of  our  loved  Fraternity,  I  am. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Lexington,  September  13,  1897.  Battle  McLhstkr. 


GAMMA  PROVINCE 

GEORGIA  BETA.  EMORY  COLLEGE. 

Emory  College,  venerable  and  prosperous,  has  rounded  the  three- 
score years  of  her  existence.  The  commencement  of  '97  was  one  of 
the  most  delightful  in  the  history  of  the  institution. 

As  has  been  the  custom  for  the  last  fifteen  years.  Phi  Delta  Theta 
stood  foremost  of  the  fraternities  in  representation  on  the  commence- 
ment stage.  Bro.  W.  P.  Bloodworth  was  one  of  the  senior  orators  and 
also  one  of  the  champion  debaters.  Bro.  John  S.  Tilley  bore  our  col- 
ors among  the  junior  speakers,  and  with  the  sophomores  the  badges 
of  Bros.  Robert  Campbell,  Albert  J.  Little  and  Frank  S.  Palmer  were 
in  evidence.  Of  the  ten  freshman  speakers  five  were  Phis,  Bros. 
Balling  S.  Branham,  Daniel  Lott,  William  W.  Tindall,  Leonard  R. 
Jenkins  and  W'ilkinson  C.  Wardlaw. 

Bro.  Bloodworth  captured  the  Johnston  prize  and  the  Boynton  medal 
together  with  third  honor.     Bro.  Lott  won  the  freshman  declamation 


4S  THE  SCROLL, 

medal.     Bro.  John  S.  Tilley  was  recently  elected  first  vice-president 
of  the  Georgia  state  oratorical  association. 

Georgia  Beta  has  lost  three  good  men  by  graduation.  They  are 
Bro.  Hubert  C.  Wood,  who  will  pursue  the  study  of  medicine,  Bro. 
Thomas  G.  Scott,  who  will  teach,  and  Bro.  Walter  P.  Bloodwortli, 
who  is  at  present  attending  the  Georgia  State  Normal  School,  pre- 
paratory to  teaching.  It  is  with  the  profoundest  regret  that  Georgia 
Beta  parts  with  these  worthy  sons,  but  bids  them  Godspeed  with  all 
the  love  and  pride  of  a  Spartan  mother  sending  forth  her  sons  to  battle. 

Our  prospects  for  the  coming  year  are  as  promising  as  those  of  any 
fraternity  at  Emory,  and  all  signs  betoken  another  year  of  prosperity 
for  the  chapter.  Probably  fifteen  or  more  members  will  return  in  the 
fall.  By  my  next  letter  I  hope  to  have  a  number  of  initiates  to  intro- 
duce to  TiiK  ScRoM..  Fraternally  yours, 

Frank  S.  Pai,mkr. 
Oxford,  August  27,  IS**?. 

MISSISSIPPI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSISSIPPI. 

The  session  that  has  just  closed  marks  one  of  the  most  successful  in 
the  history  of  the  I'nivcrsity  of  Mississippi  The  board  of  trustees  at 
their  last  meeting  created  a  chair  of  history  and  lullr^  Irtttrs,  which 
will  be  filled  by  F.  L.  Riley,  Ph.  D.,  of  Johns  Hopkins  irniversity. 
Owing  to  the  increasing  number  of  students  in  the  law  department,  it 
was  decided  to  create  an  associate  professorship  of  law.  It  has  not 
yet  been  determined  who  shall  fill  this  position. 

Our  first  annual,  iUc  Miss,  has  just  been  received  and  has  been 
favorably  commented  upon  by  all.  Brother  K.  B.  Williams  repre- 
sented Phi  Delta  Theta  on  the  board  of  editors 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Tin-:  Scroll,  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  won  many 
distinctions.  On  April  0  the  Hermean  literary  society  celebrated  its 
anniversary  by  a  junior  oratorical  contest,  in  which  4»  K  ^,  A  K  K  and 
*  A  B  were  represented.  Brotht^r  Lucas  proved  himself  superior  and 
was  awarded  the  medal.  ( )n  May  1  \  the  Phi  Sigma  literary  society  cel- 
brated  its  anniversary  by  a  similar  junior  contest,  in  which  -  X,  A  K  E 
and  4»  A  B  participated.  Brother  Ray  was  announced  as  the  winner 
of  this  contest.  We  think  that  <t>  A  B  has  done  something  to  be  proud 
of,  when,  with  only  two  juniors  in  the  chapter,  she  wins  both  junior 
medals  over  her  stn>ngest  rivals.  \\y  appointment,  Bros.  Richmond 
and  Wilburne  appeared  as  sophomore  speakers  at  commencement. 

In  athletics  we  were  well  represented.  Brother  K.  B.  Williams  was 
manager  of  the  base  ball  team,  a  position  which  he  had  held  with 
credit  during  the  season  of  ''.•«).  I'nder  his  management  we  secured 
the  best  team  we  have  had  for  a  number  of  years,  winning  three  out  of 
four  games,  and  scoring  WW  runs  in  all  to  our  opponents'  11.  Bro. 
Hardy  played  first  ba.se  on  the  team. 

We  were  recently  honored  by  a  visit  from  our  worthy  President, 
Bro.  W.  B.  Palmer.  His  visit  was  of  great  benefit  to  the  chapter  in 
general,  and  a  .source  of  much  pleasure  to  the  individual  members. 

It  is  with  inexpressible  sadness  that  I  announce  the  death  of  Mrs. 
B.  T.  Kimbrough,  an  honorary  member  of  our  beloved  Fraternity. 
Her  sudden  death,  which  occurred  at  her  home  in  Oxford,  Miss.,  on 
June  2,  brought  sorrow  and  grief  to  the  many  who  knew  and  loved 
her.  In  recognition  of  her  valuable  assistance  in  the  establishment 
of  our  chapter  in  1877,  she  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  our 
Fraternity  and  was  presented  with  a  beautiful  badge,  which  she  very 


THE  SCROLL.  49 

highly  prized.     The  chapter  sent  floral  offerings  and  went  in  a  body 
to  pay  the  last  honors  to  the  memory  of  their  friend. 

We  lost  by  graduation  this  year  three  of  our  most  loyal  brothers. 
Bros.  Smythe  and  Williams  received  diplomas  with  the  degrees  of 
LL.  B.,  and  Bro.  Lockard  the  degree  of  A.  M.  It  is  with  reluctance 
that  we  give  up  these  brothers,  yet  we  wish  them  unbounded  success 
in  Hfe.  We  will  return  next  year  eleven  men,  who  will  come  back 
with  the  determination  to  secure  the  best  men  and  keep  4>  A  B  in  her 
accustomed  exalted  position. 

Mississippi  Alpha  sends  her  final  greetings  for  the  year  to  all  her 
sister  chapters.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

G.  L.  Rav. 
University,  June  10,  18',»7. 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA.  TULANB  UNIVERSITY. 

Louisiana  Alpha  sends  greetings  to  her  sister  chapters  and  hopes 
tor  a  prosperous  year  for  them.  The  yellow  fever  here  will  probably 
frighten  many  from  Tulane's  doors  who  would  otherwise  enter  them. 
For  the  same  reason  we  may  not  be  able  to  send  our  representative  to 
the  province  convention  at  Nashville,  as  Nashville  has  quarantined 
against  New  Orleans.  Nevertheless,  we  hope  that  by  October  the 
scare  will  be  over.  Bros.  Gordon,  '5)G.  and  Coleman,  't^S,  were  in  Nash- 
ville during  the  latter  part  of  August  and  brought  us  glowing  accounts 
of  the  wav  they  were  treated  by  Tennessee  Alpha.  LouivSiana  Alpha 
hopes  to  be  able  to  return  the  compliment. 

I  repeat  the  request  of  Bro.  G.  L.  Tebault,  'J)3,  that  when  a  Phi 
visits  New  Orleans,  he  notify  one  of  us  at  the  college  by  either  calling 
or  sending  a  note.  It  will  reach  us  if  addressed  in  care  of  the  uni- 
versity. In  a  big  city  like  New  Orleans,  we  can  not  be  expected  to 
find  visiting  brothers  unless  we  know  they  are  here.  Especially  at 
Mardi  Gras  is  it  impossible  to  find  out  who  is  in  town,  at  a  time  when 
we  wi.sh  to  treat  royally  every  brother  in  the  Bond. 

I  can  not  say  until  collegeopens  what  will  be  the  status  of  Louisiana 
Alpha  in  membership.  Seven  men  to  return  and  two  initiates  will 
likely  be  our  number.  We  lost  one  by  graduation  :  Bro.  Geo.  C.  H. 
Kernion,  law,  '97,  who  was  class  secretary. 

Hopinfj^  to  meet  many  Phis  at  Nashville  oti  October  15  and  lO,  I  re- 
main. Yours  in  *tKc/a, 

II.  N.  Woods. 
New  Orleans,  September  lt>,  1897. 

DELTA  PROVINCE. 

OHIO  BETA,  OHIO  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

The  college  year  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University  closing  June  15, 
1897,  was  to  the  school  a  most  prosperous  one,  except  in  the  fact  that 
the  university  lost  two  professors  and  the  librarian,  all  three  of  which 
officials  have  been  connected  with  the  institution  for  many  years,  one, 
Dr.  L.  L.  McCabe,  from  its  beginning.  Phi  Delta  Theta  never  knew 
a  more  prosperous  year  in  the  memory  of  those  now  connected  with 
the  chapter.  During  the  year  we  had  men  in  all  the  representative 
places  in  the  school  ;  on  the  foot  ball  team,  in  the  glee  club,  on  the 
oase  ball  team,  and  in  the  high  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  student  body 
and  of  the  faculty. 

We  closed  the  year  with  fifteen  initiates  and  four  pledged  men,  two 


50  THE  SCROLL. 

of  whom  were  initiated  at  commencement  time.  Our  part  in  the  com- 
mencement program  was  good.  Bro.  Thomas  was  awarded  the  prize 
for  scholarship  in  German,  Bros.  Armstrong  and  Billinghurst  were  of 
the  fifteen  commencement  speakers,  and  Bro.  Vail  was  class  poet. 

We  lost  by  graduation  last  year,  Bro.  Armstrong,  now  teaching  in 
the  high  schools  of  East  LiverpKwl,  Ohio  ;  Bro.  Billinghurst,  principal 
of  the  high  school  at  Danville,  Illinois  ;  Bro.  Kline,  principal  of  the 
high  school  at  Marseilles,  Illinois ;  Bro.  Thomas,  teaching  in  Hard- 
wick  academy,  Hard  wick,  Vt. ;  and  Bro.  Vail,  who  will  take  graduate 
work  in  chemistry. 

Tlie  present  year  opens  rather  prosperously  as  compared  with  pre- 
vious years.  The  prospects  are  for  a  larger  attendance,  and  for  more 
interest  in  the  various  sports  of  the  college.  Changes  have  been 
made  in  the  faculty  and  official  force  of  the  university,  which  point  to 
better  things  both  in  the  curriculum  and  in  the  inanageinent  of  the 
institution.  Dr.  Bash  ford,  who  spent  last  year  abroad  in  search  of 
health,  has  returned  and  taken  his  place  at  the  head  of  the  institu- 
tion. 

In  the  field  of  athletics  we  are  looking  to  honors  for  our  foot  ball 
team.  The  school  is  fortunate  in  having  secured  the  services  of  Yost, 
of  last  year's  Lafayette  team,  as  coach,  the  best  coach  we  have  ever 
had.  We  claim  for  last  year  the  championship  of  the  state,  and  we 
look  this  year  to  no  less  honors,  and  are  going  to  fight  hard  for  them. 
Two  Phis  are  now  trying  for  positions  on  the  team. 

The  outlook  for  the  chapter  is  very  good.  Though  we  lost  by  grad- 
uation five  of  our  best  men,  and  three  of  the  lower  class  men  have  not 
returned,  we  still  have  nine  loyal,  hustling  Phis,  who  will  keep  up 
the  reputation  of  Ohio  Beta  for  the  P'raternity.  Many  good  men  nave 
entered  the  university,  and  we  have  not  l>een  here  for  three  or  four 
days  with  closed  eyes.  The  class  of  ".>7  was  an  exceptionally  strong 
one,  and  the  class  of  M)^<  is  comparatively  weak.  We  expect  to  hold 
our  own  in  the  rushing  season,  and  place  in  Phi  Delta  Theta  the  kind 
of  men  that  have  always  characterized  her  as  a  leading  fraternity  in 
past  years. 

With  best  wishes  to  every  chapter  and  to  every  member,  and  hop- 
ing that  when  any  Phi  may  happen  to  come  our  way  he  will  make  his 
home  with  us,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

C.  P.  Morgan. 
Delaware,  September  IG,  IS'.IT. 

OHIO  GAMMA,  OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 

The  number  of  new  students  has  far  surpassed  all  expectations,  and 
indications  promise  an  eventful  year.  The  new  administration  build- 
ing is  nearing  completion,  and  many  repairs  have  been  made  in  the 
laboratories  and  other  buildings. 

The  work  of  dredging  the  Hocking  river  for  boating  will  begin  soon, 
and  boat  racing  is  expected  to  hold  high  rank  in  the  athletics  of  the 
institution. 

The  foot  ball  team,  which  has  been  in  practice  since  September  1, 
is  in  excellent  condition,  having  several  men  trying  for  almost  ever\' 
position. 

There  have  been  two  changes  in  the  faculty  since  our  last  letter  to 
Thk  Scroll;  Prof.  Henderson  succeeds  Dr.  Fay  in  the  chair  of  chem- 
istry, and  Prof.  Phillips  assumes  charge  of  the  department  of  instru- 
mental music.  Miss  Myrtle  Stinson  having  resigned. 


THE  SCROLL.  51 

Phi  Delta  Theta  begins  tlie  year  under  very  fortunate  circumstances, 
having  retained  her  entire  enrollment  of  last  year. 

Bro.  Foster,  '95,  who  is  attending  the  law  department  of  the  Ohio 
State  University,  lias  affiliated  with  Ohio  Zeta. 

Bro.  Frank  Super,  '9o,  assistant  instructor  in  the  department  of 
physics,  spent  the  summer  touring  in  Europe  with  Bro.  R.  C.  Super, 
who  is  taking  a  two  years'  course  in  modern  languages  at  Heidelberg. 

Bro.  (jreer,  of  Georgia  Beta,  made  us  a  short  visit  at  the  close  of 
the  spring  term.  Bro.  Greer  is  a  true  Phi,  and  if  he  is  a  type  of  their 
membership,  Cjeorgia  Beta  certainly  has  a  fine  chapter. 

Skirmishing  with  the  ranks  of  the  barbarians  has  scarcely  begun  at 
this  institution,  and  it  is  very  difficult  at  this  time  to  foretell  the  re- 
sults of  the  campaign,  as  new  students  are  arriving  daily. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Athens,  September  15,  1897.  W.  K.  ScoTT. 

OHIO  ZETA,  OHIO  5TATB  UNIVERSITY. 

Our  university  opened  September  14.  Quite  an  increase  has  been 
made  over  the  enrollment  01  last  year.  Fraternity  material  does  not 
seem  to  be  scarce.  We  expect  to  report  several  additions  in  our  next 
letter.     At  present  we  are  more  than  occupied  with  our  '  rushing. ' 

Townsend  Hall,  to  be  occupied  by  the  department  of  ag^culture, 
the  armory,  and  the  new  biological  hall,  are  quite  far  from  comple- 
tion, though  work  is  at  present  being  rapidly  pushed. 

The  Makio  which  came  out  last  spring  was  perhaps  the  star  edition 
of  our  annual.     Brother  Schlesinger  served  on  the  board  as  treasurer. 

Prof.  McPherson,  an  alumnus  of  Ohio  Zeta,  received  a  promotion 
from  associate  professor  to  professor  of  chemistry  at  the  last  meeting 
of  the  board  of  trustees. 

While  our  prospects  for  foot  ball  may  have  been  better,  we  hope  to 
have  a  strong  team  this  fall.  Candidates  were  slow  in  showing  up, 
but  the  material  seems  to  be  of  a  good  quality.  A  schedule  of  unusual 
merit  is  before  us.  Mr.  Edwards,  who  served  Princeton  so  well  as 
half,  is  giving  satisfaction  as  coach. 

Ohio  Zeta  graduated  three  brothers  last  June.  Bro.  Sater  has  opened 
a  law  office  in  Columbus,  and  we  are  pleased  to  know  of  his  proximity. 
Bro.  Shank  has  swung  his  shingle  at  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  reports  some 
litigation.     Bro.  Reed  is  holding  forth  in  Hoboken,  Pa. 

We  regret  that  Bro.  Ballou  will  not  be  with  us  this  year.  He  has 
accepted  a  position  at  Bowling  Green,  Ohio. 

We  opened  with  ll]  active  men  and  1  pledged.  An  initiation  may 
be  expected  soon. 

Bros.  Smith  and  Gerke  have  moved  into  the  chapter  house. 

Brother  Davis  proved  the  university's  strongest  pitcher  last  spring. 
He  reported  excellent  chapters  at  Michigan,  Northwestern,  Indiana 
and  De  Pauw,  all  of  which  he  visited  on  his  trip. 

Phis  from  the  chapters  at  Washington  and  Jefferson,  De  Pauw,  In- 
diana and  Ohio  Wesley  an  called  on  us  when  their  teams  played  here. 
Bros.  Dodge  of  Colby,  Super  of  Ohio,  and  Odor  of  Wooster,  together 
with  several  of  our  brothers  from  Ohio  Wesleyan,  have  favored  us  by 
calling. 

Brother  Bradshaw  has  entered  college  and  plays  first  mandolin  on 
the  octette.     Bro.  Foster  has  been  elected  manager  of  the  glee  club. 

Several  brothers  enjoyed  the  commencement  banquet  of  Ohio 
Gamma,  at  Athens,  last  June. 

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52  THE  SCROLL. 

A  committee  from  our  chapter  is  assisting  in  organizing  an  alumni 
chapter  at  Columbus.     There  are  about  So  Phis  in  the  city. 

The  undersigned  has  been  initiated  into  Phi  Delta  Phi. 

The  reporter  is  pleased  to  renew  his  relations  with  the  Phi  reporters 
of  a  new  generation.  He  may  be  recalled  as  representing  Ohio  Gamma 
in  by -gone  days.  Fraternally, 

Columbus,  September  20,  1S97.  I.'M.  Foster. 

OHIO  ETA,  CA5E  SCHOOL  OF  APPLIED  5CIENCE. 

College  opened  this  week  with  eleven  active  men  back,  Bros.  Kad- 
erly,  Rice  and  Springsteen  having  been  graduated,  and  Bros.  Bates, 
'99,  and  Rayner,  '00,  not  returning.     We  shall  miss  them  all. 

Commencement  last  June  was  a  memorable  occasion  at  Case,  accom- 
panied by  more  than  the  usual  social  events.  The  speaker  was  the 
well-known  Dr.  Ira  Renisen,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

Although  Bro.  Springsteen  has  been  graduated  we  shall  not  lose 
him  ;  he  is  now  assistant  to  Dr.  Miller  in  the  physics  department  and 
has  the  freshman  mathematics  ;  Bro.  Springsteen  is  decidedly  '  with 
us  '  in  getting  our  new  men. 

Everything  points  toward  a  very  prosperous  year  for  Ohio  Eta.  We 
are  at  last  located  in  our  chapter  house,  on  I'airchild  street.  It  is  a 
rented  house,  just  oflF  the  new  boulevard  and  overlooking  the  campus 
— in  all  quite  a  desirable  house  and  location.  We  are  especially  proud 
of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  monogram  over  the  door — not  of  the  monogram 
itself,  but  of  the  right  to  put  it  there. 

Case  stock  is  above  par  in  foot-ball  this  fall,  due  to  the  fact  that 
Western  Reserve  University  was  downed  last  Thanksgiving  day. 
Three  Phis  will  probably  make  the  'Varsity  again  this  fall. 

Bro.  Gifford  was  awarded  the  faculty  medal  for  the  tennis  tourna- 
ment, having  defeated  all  his  opponents. 

For  the  third  time  in  succession  the  management  of  the  annual  has 
been  entrusted  to  our  chapter,  only  this  time  the  editor  is  also  a  Phi. 
Bro.  Diebold  is  business  manager  and  Bro.  Stephan  is  editor-in-chief 
of  99 *s  Differential.  Our  representative  on  The  lutei^ral  is  Bro.  Mc- 
Donald, 'iJ9. 

Out  of  the  five  oflicers  of  the  athletic  association  two  are  Phis,  no 
other  fraternity  being  represented. 

The  standing  of  the  fraternities  at  the  opening  of  school  is  about  as 
follows:  Phi  Delta  Theta,  11  ;  Zeta  Psi,  7  ;  Omega  Psi,  tl  ;  Lambda 
Kappa,  10. 

We  have  been  favored  by  a  short  call  from  Bro.  H.  V.  Patterson, 
Indiana  Theta,  whom  we  found  a  very  enthusiastic  Phi  and  a  good 
fellow. 

In  closing  we  wish  to  urge  all  Phis  who  may  come  to  Cleveland, 
whether  on  business  or  pleasure,  to  stop  with  us. 

In  the  Bond, 
Cleveland,  vSeptember  17,  1S'.>7.  Frank  Hii.KTT. 

INDIANA  ALPHA.  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  fall  and  winter  terms  last  year  the  chapter  averaged 
twenty-seven  members.  The  spring  session  found  us  with  twenty- 
eight,  as  Brother  SchoU,  of  Milton,  Ind.,  who  expects  to  be  in  the 
university  all  of  this  year,  came  in  for  the  term's  work.  Indiana 
Alpha  had  (jualit^  as  well  as  quantity. 

As  to  our  standing  last  year  I  wish  to  say  that  it  is  my  honest  opin- 
ion that  4>  A  8  headed  the  list  of  fraternities  in   Indiana  University. 


THE  SCROLL.  S3 

The  membership  was  made  up  of  sons  of  first  families  who  were  strong 
from  social  and  student  standpoints.  The  chapter  was  well  repre- 
sented on  the  foot  ball  and  base  ball  teams  and  on  the  glee  club.  We 
had  the  presidency  of  the  senior  class  and  offices  in  many  of  the  or- 
ganizations in  the  university.  Just  at  the  close  of  the  spring  term 
Brother  Burbank  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  lecture  association  for  the  ensuing  year.  The  chapter  had  elegant 
apartments,  free  from  debt,  in  which  to  enjoy  its  prosperity. 

Old  I.  U.  had  a  winning  base  ball  team  last  spring.  The  team  de- 
feated every  college  nine  of  note  in  Indiana.  The  boys  were  also 
victors  over  many  teams  from  outside  of  the  state.  All  of  the  Ohio 
clubs,  with  the  exception  of  the  State  University  nine,  went  down  be- 
fore Indiana's  invincibles.  Oberlin's  crack  team  was  in  the  list.  We 
defeated  that  nine  a  day  or  two  after  it  had  met  and  conquered  the 
University  of  Illinois  team,  *  the  cocks  of  the  walk '  in  Illinois. 
Brother  Newman  played  right  field  for  Indiana. 

The  glee  club,  the  pride  of  the  university,  filled  a  summer  engage- 
ment at  Mountain  I,ake  Park.  Maryland,  from  August  17  to  21.  This 
engagement  speaks  volumes  for  the  club,  as  the  boys  were  engaged 
purely  on  account  of  the  excellence  of  their  concerts.  The  club  is 
justly  proud  of  its  success.  Its  annual  tour  covered  six  states — Indi- 
ana, Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Alabama,  Florida  and  Maryland.  Six  of 
the  seventeen  members  of  the  club  were  Phis.  There  were  eleven 
fraternity  men  in  all. 

Foot  ball  practice  commenced  about  the  middle  of  September. 
Brother  Dodge,  who  was  on  our  last  year's  state  championship  team, 
is  sure  of  a  position,  as  he  is  a  clever  and  experienced  player.  I  un- 
derstand that  the  outlook  for  a  winning  team  is  very  bright.  Many 
of  the  old  players  returned  for  practice.  Coach  Gonterman,  of  Har- 
vard, has  charge  of  the  eleven  for  the  second  season. 

The  Fraternity  in  general  can  expect  to  hear  good  reports  from  In- 
diana Alpha  this  year.  It  is  thought  that  about  twenty-three  of  last 
year's  men  will  return.  One  or  two  affiliates  and  several  who  were 
out  last  year  are  to  join  the  chapter.  Indiana  Alpha  will  commence 
the  year  in  excellent  shape.  The  boys  already  have  their  eyes  on 
some  men  of  much  real  worth,  who  will  undoubtedly  be  heard  from 
later,  as  4>  A  B  is  a  sure  '  spiker. ' 

Four  men  were  lost  by  graduation  last  spring.  They  are  Brothers 
Hudson,  Ruby,  W^oods  and  your  correspondent.  Brother  Woolery 
was  graduated,  but  he  remains  to  take  graduate  work.  Brother  Hud- 
son has  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Christian  church.  Your  corre- 
spondent is  to  enter  the  Chicago  Law  School,  (.)ctober  (>. 

Brother  Krnest  P.  Wiles,  of  Martinsville,  Ind.,  is  the  reporter-elect. 
The  selection  is  a  good  one,  as  Brother  Wiles  has  much  ability. 

This,  my  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll,  has  ])een  written  with  a  feeling 
of  sadness,  as  it  marks  the  close  of  my  active  membership  in  4>  A  9 
I  have  been  a  member  of  our  grand  organization  but  two  years.  The 
first  years  of  my  college  life  were  spent  in  an  institution  where  fra- 
ternities do  not  exist.  During  my  short  connection  with  *  A  B  I  have 
found  that  its  membership  is  made  up  of  honest,  talented  and  studious 
young  men;  that  its  principles  are  grand  and  ennobling;  and  that  its 
purposes  are  for  the  betterment  of  its  members  socially,  morally  and 
intellectually.  I  leave  the  chapter  a  *  dved  in  the  wool '  Phi.  Long 
live  *  A  B  ! 

With  best  wishes,  Yours  for  4>  A  B, 

THADDKl'S  W.  RODKCKER. 

Bloomington,  September  18,  181»7. 


54  THE  SCROLL. 

INDIANA  QAMMA,  BUTLER  COLLEGE.  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANAPOLIS. 

School  opens  at  Butler  with  unusually  bright  prospects.  The  cur- 
riculum has  been  both  broadened  and  dtepencd.  The  departments  of 
philosophy  and  pedagogy  and  of  social  science  and  economics  have 
been  made  autonomous  and  placed  under  the  control  of  Profs.  E.  S. 
Ames,  Ph.  I).,  and  J.  I).  Forrest,  A.  M.,  both  of  Chicago  University. 
Two  of  our  Phi  members  on  the  faculty  leave  us.  T.  M.  Iden,  of  the 
department  of  chemistry,  goes  to  the  State  Normal  School,  Kmporia, 
Kansas,  and  B.  M.  Davis  will  have  charge  of  the  department  of^  biol- 
ogy in  California  State  Normal  School,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  Their 
places  will  be  taken  by  Dr.  Karslakc,  of  Johns  Hopkins,  and  Dr. 
Bruner,  who  has  lately  returned  from  Geimany. 

Many  indications  seem  to  warrant  the  sanguine  hopes  current 
among  the  university  officials  that  this  will  he  the  most  successful 
year  ever  experienced  by  old  BulUr.  This  wave  of  ])rospfcrity  strikes 
Indiana  Gamma  just  at  the  right  time,  for  she  had  begun  to  feel  that 
the  loss  which  she  suffered  at  the  hands  of  the  honrd  ot  directors  when 
they  graduated  her  seven  seniors  last  June  might  be  hard  to  endure. 
But  with  the  assistance  of  the  boom  the  boys  who  are  left  feel  that 
they  can  probably  more  than  fill  the  vacated  places. 

Of  last  year's  chapter,  Brcs.  Clarke,  Olive  and  Brown  will  be  in 
the  law  school,  Bro.  Shipp  will  be  with  the  Indianapolis  AVvt'jr,  Bro. 
Bull  with  the  Union  Cement  and  Ijme  Co.,  Sellersburg,  Ind.;  Bro. 
Lister  goes  to  Chicago  University,  and  Bro.  Blount  will  do  graduate 
work  at  Butler.  Bro.  Mace  expects  to  attend  Purdue.  Bro.  Riocb 
took  what  might  be  considered  the  most  desperate  step  of  all.  He 
was  so  reckless  as  to  visit  his  parents  in  Canada  in  company  with  a 
young  lady  who  just  about  filled  their  idea  of  a  daughter-in-law.  One 
evening  Bro.  Riocli  came  home  to  find  the  hou.se  liandsomely  deco- 
rated in  flowers  and  purple  ribbon  (the  university  colors),  and  to  be 
informed  that  it  would  be  his  own  fault  if  Miss  Minnie  Henley  instead 
of  Mrs.  David  Rioch  went  back  to  Indianapolis.  It  suffices  to  say  the 
latter  lady  arrived  late  in  the  summer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rioch  will  leave 
for  India  next  year,  where  they  will  take  up  their  life  work  as  mis- 
sionaries. 

The  Sigma  Chis  have  announced  their  intention  of  building  a  house 
for  social  and  meeting  purposes  on  the  campus,  and  we  are  seriously 
considering  the  advisability  of  doing  the  same  thing. 

Among  our  alumni,  Horace  Ellis.  'ST,  took  his  A.  M.  last  June,  and 
Prof.  D.  C.  Brown,  '7l»,  has  taken  unto  himself  a  wife.  Prof,  and  Mrs. 
Brown  are  in  Europe,  but  will  return  by  the  beginning  of  the  second 
teim. 

Hoping  that  the  year  now  begun  may  be  filled  with  deeds  redound- 
ing to  the  honor  and  fame  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Irvington,  September  'JO,  1S'.>7.  \ViM,is  M.  Bi.oi'NT. 

INDIANA  EPSILON.  HANOVER  COLLEGE. 

The  outlook  for  the  present  college  year  is  exceedingly  gratifying  to 
those  interested  in  Indiana  Kpsilon  and  in  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Two  of 
our  number  have  not  returned  Bro.  I'Aans,  who  has  gone  to  Clarks- 
ville,  Tennessee,  and  Bro.  J.  L.  Rogers  who  enters  Indiana  University 
this  fall,  but  our  accessions  balance  our  losses  in  the  return  of  Bro. 
Bridges,  formerly  of  ''.>!»,  who  re-enters  'Oo,  and  the  entrance  of  Bros. 
W.  G.  and  J.  L.  Rogers  into  the  fold  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.     We  take 


^6  THE  SCROLL. 

great  pleasure  in  introducing  these  new  brothers  to  our  sister  chapters 
along  with  our  newly  pledged  man,  Mr.  Robt.  Dugan.  We  feel 
that  they  will  prove  an  honor  to  the  Fraternity  and  to  our  chapter. 
Tlie  college  has  matriculated  the  largest  number  of  students  received 
for  several  years,  aniongthem  being  quite  a  large  amount  of  fraternity 
timber.  In  our  next  letter  we  hope  to  ]>e  able  to  report  success  in  all 
the  cases  under  present  consideration.  I*hi  Delta  Theta  will  be  rep- 
resented in  all  the  branches  of  college  life,  having  four  men  on  the 
foot  ball  team  and  two  in  the  mandolin  club.  Hro.  Whallon  will  as- 
sume the  presidency  of  the  state  oratorical  association,  vacated  by  the 
absence  or  Hro.  Evans.  An  effort  is  being  made  to  return  the  college 
to  the  position  she  once  occupied  in  state  athletics,  and  the  outlook 
is  favorable.  A  new  running  track  has  been  laid,  just  outside  the 
foot  ball  field,  and  many  other  improvements  are  to  be  reported.  The 
social  life  of  the  year  opens  with  a  reception  given  to  the  new  stu- 
dents on  the  evening  of  the  seventeenth. 

Wishing  success  to  every  chapter  at  this  trying  period  of  the  year. 
I  remain  Yours  in  the  I^oiid, 

T.  C.  Whau^on. 
Hanover,  September  17,  1S97. 

INDIANA  ZETA,  DE  PAUW  LNIVERSITY. 

The  college  session  of  ''.Ml-'DT  was  another  year  of  success  and  pros- 
perity at  De  Pauw.  Our  base  ball  record  shows  the  good  foundation 
of  our  claim  to  the  state  championship.  We  lost  to  Ohio  Wesleyan, 
Ohio  State,  Otterbein,  and  Indiana  State,  and  won  two  games  each 
from  Indiana  State,  Purdue  and  Wittenberg,  and  one  each  from  Ohio 
Wesleyan,  Ohio  State,  and  Rose  Polytechnic  Institute. 

The  intercollegiate  debate  at  Richmond,  Ind.,  between  Ivarlham 
and  De  Pauw,  was  won  by  the  latter. 

Indiana  Zeta  has  received  her  share  of  college  honors.  Bro.  Stults 
was  elected  business  manager  of  the  '!)'.♦  Mirai^w  Bro.  Prosser  was 
elected  to  4>  B  K.     Bro.  Ruick  played  third  ])asL'  on  the  'Varsity  nine. 

At  the  state  field  day,  Bro.  Roller  won  first  ])lace  in  the  shot  put, 
and  second  place  in  the  same  event  at  the  interstate  meet  at  Chicago. 
A  feature  of  the  local  field  day  was  a  ball  game  between  the  faculty 
and  the  senior  class.  <|i  A  H  was  represented  on  the  faculty  nine  by 
Bros.  Priest,  Steven.son  and  Henderson. 

A  few  weeks  before  commencement,  ten  men  aj)peared  on  the  cam- 
pus, wearing  the  colors  of  Theta  Nu  Ivpsilon.  A  T  and  A  K  V.  had  one 
each»  and  B  ()  II,  A  T  A.  1  .\  and  1>  A  O  had  two  apiece.  One  of  the 
Sigs  was  'Babe'  Williamson,  wlio  was  a  H  N  K  at  The  University  of 
Chicago.      Bros.  Ruick  and  Slults  represented  '1^  A  (>. 

By  graduation  the  chapter  loses  two  good  men  who  have  done  much 
for  the  fraternity  Bro.  S.  K.  Ruick  and  Bro.  Chas.  A.  Prosser,  who 
has  been  professor  of  physics  in  the  New  .Mbany  high  school  during 
the  past  year. 

Bro.  R.  S.  Henderson,  '('«'»,  who  has  been  instructor  in  mathematics 
here  since  his  graduation,  will  enter  the  junior  class  of  the  jNIassachu- 
setts  Institute  of  Technology  in  the  fall. 

Bros.  A.  Iv.  (»ary,  ''.)•"),  C.  I).  Newlin,  ''.M"),  and  !•:.  G.  Scotten,  once  of 
'97,  visited  the  chapter  during  commencement  week. 

The  fall  opening  will  find  most  of  our  number  convenientl}'  located 
in  a  nice  home  about  half  a  block  from  Center  Campus.  All  our  fif- 
teen men  will  return  in  the  fall  except,  perhaps,  Bro.  Collings.  who 


THE  SCROLL.  S7 

may  not  return  till  later  in  the  year.  Prospects  are  favorable  for  a 
strong  freshman  class,  and  we  are  looking  forward  to  another  pros- 
perous year.  Yours  in  4>t-K€fo. 

Chas.  B.  Campbell. 
Greencastle,  September  7,  1897. 

MICHIGAN  QAMMA.  HILLSDALE  COLLEQB. 

College  opens  under  more  favorable  conditions  than  for  many  years. 
Many  new  students  and  many  old  ones  are  here  ready  for  the  fall  work. 

During  the  summer  Worthing  Divinity  Hall  has  been  refitted,  and 
this  fall  quite  a  number  of  the  seminary  students  are  quartered  there. 
The  seminary  is  thus  enabled  better  to  hold  its  place  with  other  sem- 
inaries. 

Miss  Sloan  resigned  as  lady  principal  last  spring.  Her  place  is  filled 
by  Mrs.  E.  A.  Copp,  who  for  one  year  acted  as  alumni  professor,  and  who 
at  various  times  has  done  a  great  amount  of  teaching  in  the  college. 
During  the  two  years*  illness  of  her  husband  she  taught  all  of  his 
work.     She  is  a  valuable  addition  to  the  teaching  force. 

The  foot  ball  is  already  seen  on  the  campus.  Several  dates  are  ar- 
ranged, and  prospects  are  better  than  last  year.  The  new  students 
bring  several  players  from  other  schools. 

Our  chapter  is  small  this  fall.  Forest  Baker,  Verne  Myers  and  Shi- 
loh  Smith  constitute  the  entire  number  of  active  members.  The  re- 
porter, of  the  class  of  'Oo,  will  be  here  during  the  year,  teaching  a 
little  and  doing  work  among  the  young  people's  societies  of  the  de- 
nomination. 

Bro.  Charles  Marks,  '90,  and  B.  F.  Green,  '94,  were  present  at  our 
first  meeting  and  are  avSsisting  in  rushing.  We  have  one  man  ready 
to  initiate,  and  our  chances  of  a  second  are  more  than  favorable. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Hillsdale,  September  20,  1897.  Harry  S.  Myers. 

EPsiLON  province: 

ILLINOIS  DELTA.  KNOX  COLLEGE. 

Illinois  Delta  begins  the  new  school  year  with  a  most  favorable  out- 
look, for,  though  the  chapter  has  lost  seven  men  by  graduation,  and 
three  under  class  men  have  not  returned,  the  men  who  remain  are 
showing  more  interest  than  ever  before  in  the  welfare  of  the  chapter. 
Owing  to  the  good  financial  condition  in  which  the  year  opens  we 
have  been  able  to  paper  and  refurnish  our  entire  suite  of  rooms. 

The  college  itself,  under  the  able  leadership  of  Dr.  John  H.  Finley, 
is  more  prosperous  than  ever  before.  Mr.  Wilfred  Arnold,  an  alumnus 
of  the  college,  has  been  secured  for  foot  ball  coach  and  is  rapidly 
rounding  the  men  into  form.  Among  the  most  promising  candidates 
are  Bros.  Adcock,  Martin  and  C.  Mead  ;  the  two  former  were  on  last 
year's  'Varsity,  while  Bro.  Mead  played  behind  the  line  on  his  acad- 
emy team.  Tlie  first  number  of  the  Knox  Studcut,  of  which  Bro. 
Blodgett  is  manager,  appeared  last  week. 

Already  we  have  pledged  Herman  Potter  of  the  freshman  class,  who 
is  a  fine  man  and  will  be  a  credit  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  In  our  next 
letter  we  shall  present  to  the  Phi  world  other  valuable  men  whom  we 
have  spiked  but  have  not  yet  pledged.  Phi  Gamma  Delta  is  the 
stronger  of  our  rivals.  Delta  Delta  Delta  has  secured  a  very  cosy 
suite  of  rooms  this  fall  and  is  busy  getting  them  in  shape. 

One  of  the  new  professors,  Dr.  Griffith,  who  occupies  the  chair  of 


58  THE  SCROLL. 

chemistry,  is  a  Phi.  He  is  a  man  of  great  ability,  and  materially 
strengthens  the  facultv.  The  ranks  of  resident  alumni  Phis  has  been 
augmented  by  the  return  of  Bro.  Amos  Townsend,  '06,  who  will  read 
law  in  this  city.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Wiij.  Mathkr  Lkwis. 
Galesburg,  September  20.  isOT. 

ILLINOIS  ZETA,  LOriBARD  UNIVERSITY. 

Illinois  Zeta  begins  the  present  year's  work  and  pleasures  with  eight 
of  last  year's  chapter  absent.  ()f  these,  we  expect  Bros.  Trego,  Weeks 
and  Brown  to  return.  The  others  are  taken  from  active  membership 
by  graduation,  and  they  are  now,  with  the  exception  of  Bro.  Tapper, 
who  expects  to  continue  his  studies  at  Harvard,  engaged  in  their 
chosen  lines  of  work.  Bros.  Rogers  an<l  Ashworth  have  taken  minis- 
terial charges  at  Decatur,  ^lich..  and  Mt.  Gilead,  Ohio,  respectively; 
Bro.  Warner  {'  Doc ' )  is  practicing  dentistry  at  Avon,  111.,  while  Bro. 
Anderson  is  teaching  school  at  Yates  City,  ill. 

Our  chapter  now  comprises  nine  loyal  Phis.  But  among  the  new 
men  is  good  material  of  which  Phis  are  made,  and  we  have  selected 
several  whom  we  believe  will  be  of  credit  to  Phidom.  With  our  next 
letter  we  trust  they  may  be  introduced. 

During  the  autumn  one  of  Galesburg's  famous  brick  pavements 
will  be  laid  past  Ilar.sh  Hall-  our  chapter  house  and  the  university 
grounds.  This  completes  a  line  of  pavement  connecting  us  with  the 
business  part  of  the  city,  a  mile  and  a  half  away.  It  will  be  a  boon 
to  bicyclists,  and  lessen  the  cost  of  carriages  between  the  university 
and  'town';  hitherto  we  have  been  more  or  less  dependent  on  the 
trolley  cars.  This  is  all  ver^-  nice,  except  the  city  pavement  assess- 
ment. 

Old  Lombard  is  on  the  right  road,  and,  we  believe,  traveling  very 
swiftly.  On  the  *2")tli  of  the  present  month  will  occur  the  formal 
opening  of  our  beautiful  new  gymnasimn,  which  has  been  erected  on 
the  campus  a  short  distance  from  the  university  buihling.  The  day 
will  be  an  important  one  in  the  histor}-  of  Lombard.  vSenator  Mason, 
of  Illinois,  Prof.  A.  A.  Stagg,  director  of  athletics  and  physical  cul- 
ture in  the  Chicago  University,  and  several  other  eminent  men  will 
take  part  in  the  program.     A  reception  will  be  given  in  the  evening. 

Some  changes  have  been  made  in  the  faculty.  Dr.  V.  H.  Fowler, 
Ph.  D.  (Johns  Hopkins),  Ix)mbard,  '89,  now  occupies  the  chair  of 
literature.  The  nmsical  department  was  found  to  need  an  additional 
instructor,  and  !\Irs.  D.  G.  Sykes,  of  Clearwater,  Wis.,  has  been  selected 
to  fill  the  place. 

Our  brothers  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  athletics.  Organized 
work  will  soon  begin,  and  a  foot  ball  team  will  be  put  in  the  field. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Galesburg,  vSeptember  i;>,  isDT.  Waltkr  A.  Johnson. 

ILLINOIS  ETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Illinois  Ivta  commenced  the  fall  term  with  but  ten  men.  At  the 
last  commencement  seven  seniors  received  degrees.  Bros.  P'ulton, 
Zilly  and  Jackson  have  not  returned,  and  Bro.  Bert  Harker  has  entered 
the  United  States  Naval  Academy. 

We  were  glad  to  welcome  home  Bro.  Piatt,  '92,  who  has  just  re- 
turned from  Europe  after  a  year's  leave  of  absence.  Bro.  Piatt  holds 
the  chair  of  Romance  languages. 


THE  SCROLL.  59 

Although  our  numbers  are  depleted  the  other  fraternities  are  in  the 
same  condition.  We  have  initiated  two  men  :  Carl  Bernhardi,  '01.  of 
Rock  Island,  and  Henry  H.  Goodrich,  '<,)8,  of  Chicago.  Four  men  are 
wearing  the  colors  of  the  Fraternity,  and  we  hope  to  introduce  them 
in  our  next  letter. 

Foot-ball  is  the  absorbing  topic  in  university  affairs.  About  sixty 
candidates  are  in  training  under  the  efficient  coaching  of  Smith,  quar- 
ter of  Princeton's  'Ih;  team,  and  our  own  *  G  '  Huff.  Illinois  intends 
to  produce  a  winning  team  by  the  time  she  meets  the  Carlisle  Indians 
at  Chicago,  Novenil>er  20.  Bro.  Walker  is  manager  and  Hro.  Good- 
rich assistant  manager  of  the  team. 

The  university  received  an  appropriation  of  5-121,000  from  the  state 
at  the  last  session  of  the  legislature,  and  in  consequence  many  changes 
and  improvements  are  being  made.  A  new  central  heating  and  light- 
ing plant  is  in  course  of  erection.  A  department  of  law  has  been  es- 
tablished, and  many  students  are  registered  in  that  college.  A  new 
library  school  has  been  founded.  The  advantages  of  this  school  are 
augmented  by  the  equipments  in  the  magnificent  new  library  building 
which  was  dedicated  last  June.  This  building  is  considered  one  of 
the  finest  college  buildings  in  the  central  states.  Altogether  the  pros- 
pects for  a  prosperous  year  are  exceedingly  bright,  and  the  financial 
panic  through  which  the  university  passed  is  heard  of  no  more. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Champaign,  September  21,  1807.  A.  N.  IL\zmtt. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

Although  ten  more  days  intervene  before  the  opening  of  the  uni- 
versity, still  I  think  I  may  predict  one  of  Wisconsin's  usual  prosper- 
ous years.  We  shall  feel  keenly  the  loss  of  our  '97  graduates  and 
those  who  have  decided  not  to  return  this  fall.  Of  last  year's  gradu- 
ates, Bro.  A.  W.  Fairchild  is  studying  law  in  the  office  of  his  father 
at  Green  Bay.  He  contemplates  entering  one  of  the  eastern  law  col- 
leges next  year.  Bro.  Bacon  is  located  at  his  home  in  La  Crosse. 
Bro.  Manson  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Warsaw,  and  was 
recently  elected  justice  of  the  peace.  Bro.  Mann,  who  was  elected 
foot  ball  manager  for  this  year,  lias  accepted  a  position  with  the  Chi- 
cago and  Northwestern  road  at  Manuette  and  will  not  return  as  he 
expected.  Bro.  Mac  Donald  is  practicing  law  at  Dart  ford  under  the 
firm  name  of  MacDonald  and  Mather.  Bro.  Tallnian  will  return  to 
the  university  for  law.  Bro.  Moore,  ex- '98,  has  taken  his  old  position 
with  Moore  and  Gallaway  of  I'ond  du  Lac.  Bro.  Potter,  ex-'OO,  is  sec- 
retary of  the  Necedah  Flour  Mill  Co.  Bro.  Anson,  ex-'99,  is  associ- 
ated with  his  father  in  the  Gilkey  and  Anson  Lumber  Co.,  of  Merrill. 
Bro.  Thompson,  19<X),  has  entered  Minnesota. 

We  expect  to  start  the  rush  with  twelve  actives  and  hope  to  have 
several  of  the  last  few  years'  grads  back  to  help  us.  Three  of  our 
pledged  men,  H.  J.  Blakley,  of  Milwaukee,  Elbridge  Bacon,  of  La 
Crosse,  and  Mark  Newman,  of  Madison,  will  enter  this  fall.  Reports 
from  all  over  the  state  indicate  a  very  large  incoming  freshman  class. 

Our  foot  ball  prospects,  at  the  present  writing,  do  not  appear  very 
bright,  but  I  hope  that  Bro.  Phil  King,  who  is  again  coaching  the 
team  this  year,  will  be  able  to  turn  out  an  eleven  sufficiently  strong 
to  defeat  Minnesota  on  October  30. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  other  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Madison,  September  17,  1897.  Carl  F.  Geiu'U.ss. 


6o  THE  SCROLL. 

IOWA  ALPHA,  IOWA  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 

In  writing  niy  last  letter  to  Tiiic  Sckoi.l  I  have  some  little  twinges 
of  conscience  at  not  having  done  my  duty  as  faithfully  as  1  might 
perhaps  ;  but  this  has  meant  no  less  regard  for  my  Fraternity. 

Conmienoement  at  our  university  last  spring  brought  with  it  the 
usual  rush  of  entertainments.  Literary,  society  and  class  graduating 
exercises  followed  in  close  succession,  in  all  of  which  Phis  were  prom- 
inent.  The  conservatory  of  music  gave  thrt* e  very  high  grade  concerts, 
one  of  which  was  Mendelssr^hn's  oratorio,  the  iJijah,  The  perform- 
ance was  the  finest  of  its  class  that  has  ever  been  given  to  Mt.  Pleasant 
people  and  was  a  great  treat  to  all  lovers  of  music  who  were  permitted 
to  be  present.  A  number  of  Phis  were  present  commencement  week, 
visiting  old  friends  and  renewing  college  associations.  Bros.  Wm. 
Shearer,  Kd.  Hearn,  Chas.  Frant/ and  Wm.  Jeffrey  were  in  attendance. 
We  lost  seven  good  men  by  graduation,  Bros.  Rommel,  Robinson, 
Rogers.  Kamphoefner,  Lambert,  Lute  and  Smith. 

The  prospects  for  the  coming  year  are  si)lendid  for  Iowa  Wesleyan. 
New  students  are  coming  in  even  now,  and  many  ohl  ones  are  return- 
ing. Iowa  Alpha  is  determined  to  work  hard  this  year  and  to  keep 
«l>  A  ()  on  top — where  she  belongs.  Our  tennis  court  is  in  excellent 
condition.  Our  hall  has  been  improved.  And  better  than  these  out- 
ward signs  is  the  inward  purpose  and  enthusiasm  that  is  showing  itself 
among  all  Phis.  Yours  in  *l>i-^c(o, 

\m     ffcj  Cii.\s.  N.  P.\CK. 

Mt.  Pleasant,  September  1 1,  18!>7. 

MISSOURI  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  .MISSOURI. 

The  twenty-seventh  cotnmencement  reception  of  Missouri  Alpha  was 
given  at  the  Music  Hall,  Monday  evening.  May  twenty-eighth.  It  was 
a  most  enjoyable  affair  and  a  tlionnigh  success. 

This  year  the  faculty  lo.ses  Dr.  (L  W.  Cutler,  ])rofes.sor  of  physical 
culture  and  director  of  the  gymnasium  ;  Dr.  H.  M.  Holton,  professor 
t)f  bacteriology  and  ])atlu)logy  ;  Prof.  (t.  C.  r>roarlhead,  professor  of 
geology  and  mineralogy  :  an<l  A.  H.  Place.  A  K  K,  instructor  in  draw- 
ing. Dr.  F.  C.  Hicks,  professor  of  history  and  political  economy,  and 
assistant  professor  J.  M.  Burnam.  of  the  Latin  department,  have  re- 
turned from  tri])s  to  Ivurope.  Prof.  C  M.  Marx,  professor  of  meclian- 
ic.'il  engineering,  is  now  in  l-!urope.  His  department  is  in  charge  of 
Bro.  II.  T.  Cory,  professor  of  rivil  engineering.  Bro.  C.  1{.  W^iite 
succeeds  Dr.  Cutler  as  gymnasium  director. 

A  new  club  buihling  to  cost  v')(miu(»  i^;  being  ]nit  up  on  the  site  of 
the  old  Ficklin  residence. 

Bros.  Roberts  and  Woods  were  graduated  in  law  last  year.  Bro. 
Pjiglish  took  the  degree  of  A.  !►.,  but  he  is  back  to  study  law  and  to 
work  for  his  master'.s  ilegree.  Bro.  R.  H.  Swit/.ler  was  awanled  the 
Rollins  s(.:lu)larship  in  the  A.  B.  course. 

of  the  brothers  in  last  year's  chajjter  wlio  have  not  returned,  Bro. 
Seibert,  'Uo,  has  gone  to  Westmin*;ler  College.  He  i.^  a  good  addition 
to  Missouri  Beta.  Bro.  See.  'IM),  is  in  the  rattle  business  in  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  state.  Bro.  Shouse,  '^''J,  is  doing  journalistic  work  in 
Mexico,  Mo.  Bro.  Conley,  **.«s,  is  in  Los  Angeles,  California.  Bro. 
Roberts,  ".>7,  is  in  Texas.  Jiro.  Woods,  '1»7,  has  a  position  in  a  bank 
at  Versailles,  Mo.  Bro.  G.  C.  Broadhead,  Jr..  *t»-l,  has  a  po.sition  with 
the  Missouri  River  Connnis.sion. 


62  THE  SCKOLL. 

We  have  with  us  in  the  senior  law  class  Hro.  M.  R.  Conlev,  '9*J,  and 
Bro.  K.  R.  Johnson,  '94. 

On  the  visitor's  book  are  the  n.inies  of  A.  L.  Johnson,  '81,  W.  W. 
Clendenin,  '8r. ;  Paul  H.  White,  California  Heta,  '1*.');  L.  W.  Groves, 
'9t> ,  and  K.  K.  vSee,  '99. 

w  X  has  nine  men  back.  They  have  taken  in  four  men — three  be- 
fore college  opened.  B  H  II  returns  '>  ;  K  A,  9  ;  i)  X,  12  ;  4>  A  H,  14. 
-  A  E  occupies  a  rented  house  this  year,  with  a  chapter  of  14  men. 

We  have  initiated  Kdward  Livinj^stone  Drum,  Marble  Hill,  Mo.,  and 
Harry  William  Smith,  Ivlizabeth,  New  Jersey. 

Missouri  Alpha  is  wide-awake  on  the  chapter  house  (juestiou  and 
hopes  to  be  able  soon  to  report  further  progress  in  the  direction  of 
getting  a  house. 

With  warmest  greetings  for  all  Phi.s,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Hond, 
Columbia,  September  IS,  1S97.  Chari.k.s  Shumwav  Riki-nkr. 

NEBRASKA  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Nebraska  Alpha  began  the  school  year  with  a  membership  of  thir- 
teen. This  has  not  proven  an  uiducky  number,  however,  for  with 
this  number  we  have  accomplished  the  object  toward  which  we  have 
been  striving  for  the  last  few  years.  We  are  now  located  in  a  com- 
fortable chapter  house.  We  feel  that  the  chapter  has  taken  a  big 
step,— one  that  has  not  only  aided  us  in  securing  men,  but  one  that 
will  serve  to  bring  to  us  victories  along  other  lines.  On  Saturday 
evening,  the  isth,  we  held  the  first  initiation  of  the  year,  and  it  pleases 
me  greatly  to  introduce  to  the  Fraternity  Brother  Karl  Randall,  *97, 
and  Brothers  Sherman,  Tukey  and  Welshans,  of  1901.  We  are  proud 
of  our  initiates  and  think  we  have  started  the  vear  well. 

Five  active  members  of  the  chapter  were  graduated  in  June.  Brother 
Parmelee,  whom  we  expected  back  to  take  liis  fellowship  in  chemistry, 
accepted  a  position  in  the  Beatrice  high  school.  Brothers  Creigh  and 
Ivindquist  do  not  return.  Bro.  Hay  ward  will  be  here  a  part  of  the 
year,  at  least,  and  Brother  Oury  enters  the  law  school. 

Nebraska's  outlook  for  a  successful  season  for  foot  ball  is  certainlv 
a  very  promising  one.  To  begin  with,  we  are  expecting  Robinson, 
our  last  year's  coach,  to  renew  his  former  excellent  work  for  the  team  ; 
then  we  have  more  material  than  we  had  last  year.  There  will  be 
very  few  places  to  be  fdlcd  with  new  men.  Brother  Hayward  will 
play  tackle,  his  old  position  two  years  ago.  Brother  Oury  manages 
the  team  ;  so  we  Phis  think  we  are  well  represented.  We  are  looking 
forward  to  some  very  interesting  games,  amt)ng  them  the  games  to  be 
held  here  with  Missouri  and  Kan.sas.  We  are  always  glad  when  these 
teams  play  here,  for  we  often  have  very  pleasant  visits  from  Kansas 
and  Missouri  Phis  as  a  result.  If  I  am  not  mistaken,  the  four  man- 
agers of  the  western  league  are  Phis. 

There  have  been  few  changes  in  the  Fraternity  world  here  since  the 
last  letter  to  TiiK  Scroll.  Beta  Tlieta  Pi  occupies  our  former  rooms 
and  has  given  up  a  house.  Alpha  Tau  <  )mcga  established  a  chapter 
here  the  last  of  May.     They  .started  out  with  nine  members. 

It  would  be  very  unpatriotic  to  the  university  not  to  mention  the 
brilliant  tennis  champion,  Miss  Louise  Pound,  who  won  both  the  in- 
ternational and  western  championship  cups  in  singles.  She  is  an 
alumna  of  the  university,  and  her  playing  certainly  speaks  well  for  our 
tennis  association  here. 

The  university  authorities  expected  to  have  our  new  mechanics  build- 


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ing  well  under  way  by  this  time,  but  owing  to  difficulties  with  the 
contractor,  it  is  not  yet  commenced. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Lincoln,  September  10,  1897.  Chas.  H.  Truk. 

CALIFORNIA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

Although  the  chapter's  hopes  regarding  a  house  of  its  own  are  not, 
as  yet,  fulfilled,  California  Alpha  is  in  extremely  comfortable  quar- 
ters, having  leased  for  one  year  the  house  of  Bro.  T.  Allen  Smith.  '07. 
The  location  is  in  the  pleasantest  part  of  Berkeley,  the  house  being 
on  the  corner  of  Bancroft  avenue  and  College  Way,  only  one  block 
from  one  of  the  principal  entrances  to  the  university  grounds.  The 
house  con.sists  of  two  stories,  is  distinctly  modern,  and  is  well  fur- 
nished. An  excellent  tennis  court  is  not  the  least  enjoyable  feature 
of  the  place. 

As  regards  membership,  the  chapter  continues  to  maintain  a  strong 
position  in  the  student  body  of  the  university.  We  began  the  year 
with  an  active  membership  of  ten,  including  Bro.  Garrison,  formerly 
'98,  who  has  returned,  after  a  leave  of  absence  of  one  year,  to  be 
graduated  with  '90.  To  this  number  we  have  added  the  names  of 
Brothers  Clarence  Creed  and  Maxwell  Taft,  1901.  Thus  our  active 
membership  is  now  twelve,  with  excellent  prospects  of  a  further  in- 
crease in  the  near  future.  The  rushing  season  this  year  is  a  hard  one, 
and  the  Phis  have  done  and  are  doing  their  share  to  make  it  so.  The 
incoming  class  is  about  as  large  as  that  of  last  year  and  taxes  the  ex 
panding  resources  of  the  university  to  the  utmost. 

One  thing  of  note  it  has  already  been  the  means  of  accomplishing. 
On  account  of  the  general  roughness  that  prevailed  during  the  annual 
rush  between  the  sophomores  and  freshmen,  and  more  particularly 
becau.se  of  the  severe  injuries  received  on  that  occasion  by  one  of  the 
freshmen,  Mr.  Kurtz,  rushing  has  been  abolished  in  the  University  of 
California.  Both  the  associated  students  and  the  facultv  have  taken 
measures  to  prevent  all  class  scrimmages  in  the  future.  The  sensa- 
tional press,  of  course,  did  its  worst  in  exaggerating  the  unpleasant 
circumstances  of  the  affair,  and  we  hope  that  full  credence  will  not 
be  given  to  some  of  the  reports  that  have  appeared  in  eastern  news- 
papers. The  Chicago  Times- Herald  contained  a  grossly  exaggerated 
version  of  the  occurrence. 

Signs  of  the  improved  financial  condition  of  our  university  surround 
the  campus.  The  agricultural  building,  which  was  destroyed  by  fire 
last  term,  has  been  replaced  by  a  larger  and  better  planned  structure, 
and  three  other  buildings,  entirely  adequate  to  the  purposes  for  which 
they  are  designed,  are  being  erected.  These  are  a  class  building,  a 
botany  building  and  a  psychological  laboratory.  These  are  all  sub- 
stantial frame  structures,  but  they  will  probably  give  way  within  the 
next  twenty  years  to  the  more  permanent  structures  that  are  to  be 
built  with  the  four  million  dollars  that  have  been  given  for  that  pur- 
pose. Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Berkeley,  September  14,  1S07.  Ai.bert  J.  Brown. 

CALIFORNIA  BETA.  LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY. 

Stanford  University  opened  for  the  fall  semester  on  vSeptember  :>. 
A  large  freshman  class  registered.  This  fact  is  worthy  of  note,  as  the 
classes  at  our  rival,  Berkeley,  and  at  some  eastern  colleges,  are  below 
the  average  in  numbers.     More  students  came  from  the  east  to  Stan- 


64  THE  SCROLL. 

ford  this  year  than  heretofore.  Many  came  on  account  of  the  attrac- 
tions of  California's  climate  and  on  account  of  the  elective  system  of 
study. 

The  foot  ball  team  is  now  in  active  training,  and  the  prospects  are 
that  Stanford  will  have  the  strongest  team  this  year  that  has  ever  been 
put  on  the  gridiron  on  the  Pacific  coast.  The  management  has  been 
tortunate  in  securing  Brooks,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  as 
coach.  Mr.  Brooks  was  Caspar  Whitney's  choice  for  full-back  on  the 
All  America  team  of  '9r». 

The  Stanford  chapter  of  <t>  A  O  occupies  the  same  house  as  last  year. 
At  the  beginning  of  this  year  the  house  was,  in  ^real  part,  refurnished, 
and  we  feel  that  we  have  a  most  suitable  place  in  which  to  rush  fresh- 
men. Up  to  the  present  we  have  initiated  three  men  :  Howard  Hill, 
Warren  Klnier  and  Clarence  Day. 

Hoping  that  all  chapters  are  meeting  with  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Stanford  University,  September  Hi,  18W7.  Bf.xj.  K.  Pack. 

WISCONSIN  BETA  ALUMNI,  MILWAUKEE. 

On  Tuesday  evening.  September  fourteenth,  the  Milwaukee  mem- 
bers of  the  Fraternity  met  and  organized  the  Wisconsin  Beta  Alumni 
Chapter.  The  meeting  was  held  in  the  parlors  of  the  Deutscher  Club 
and  was  preceded  by  a  supper.  Brother  Herman  Fehr,  H'isrof/sifi,  '81, 
upon  being  elected  president,  made  a  very  pleasant  speech,  in  w^hich 
he  was  ably  assisten  at  times  by  Bros.  Wasweyler  and  A.  J.  Hilbert. 
It  gave  the  younger  men  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  have  liro.  Geo.  W. 
Hayes,  ll'ahash,  '♦'»(),  at  the  tupper  and  meeting,  though  they  had  at 
the  same  time  to  regret  the  absence  of  Bro.  Jared  Thompson,  Lazc- 
rctu'Cy  '59,  who  at  the  last  moment  was  unable  to  attend.  The  chap- 
ter will  naturally  draw  most  of  its  members  from  the  University  of 
Wisconsin,  and  as  the  chapter  there  was  discontinued  during  the  war 
and  only  revived  in  1880,  there  is  of  necessity  (juite  a  gap  in  its  ranks 
of  alumni. 

After  the  supper  and  meeting  a  couple  of  very  pleasant  hours  were 
spent  sitting  under  the  trees  of  the  club's  beautiful  grounds  partaking 
of  that  which  made  Milwaukee  famous,  while  members  of  different 
classes  spun  beautiful  fairy  tales  of  the  doings  of  their  college  days. 
At  last,  however,  a  particularly  sanguinary  tale  by  Bro.  Hlliott  broke 
up  the  meeting.  The  chapter  will  hold  another  one  during  the  Christ- 
mas holidays,  with  the  idea  of  getting  as  many  of  the  undergraduates 
as  possible  to  attend,  as  well  as  members  of  the  I'raternity  living  in 
neighboring  cities. 

It  is  really  too  bad  that  Bro.  Armin  Harms,  lliinois,  ''.>">,  who  has 
been  in  the  city  the  past  year  and  a  half,  could  not  be  with  us,  as  he 
had  been  such  a  particular  friend  of  the  Milwaukee  members  while 
here.  He  left  a  few  weeks  ago  to  accept  a  position  in  a  mine  at  San 
Luis  Potosi,  Mexico. 

The  name  of  the  charter  members  are  given  in  another  place.  To 
these  should  be  added  A.  Iv.  Haldernian,  Indiana,  '88,  and  R.  H. 
Hackney,   irisconsin,  ".»:*>. 

Three  of  the  active  chapters  of  Wisconsin  Alpha,  Carl  Geilfuss,  H. 
Reinhart,  and  Dwight  Sanborn,  were  present.  The  bureau  of  infor- 
mation for  visiting  members  will  be  found  in  the  office  of  G.  T.  Elliott, 
120G  Pabst  Building,  or  in  the  office  of  C.  K.  Hilbert,  lOPi  same  build- 
ing. The  members  send  best  wishes  to  the  chapters  and  hopes  for 
success  in  the  fall  rush  now  about  to  begin,  knowing  that  if  they 
were  only  there  they  would  know  exactly  how  to  do  it. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Milwaukee,  September  21,  1897.  Frankux  Swkkt. 


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3 


PERSONALS. 

loica  Weslcyan — Rev.  W.  R.  Jeffrey,  '*>0,  is  pastor  of  the 
M.  E.  church  at  Moulton,  Iowa. 

Randolph' Macon — Warner  Peatross,  '90,  is  teaching  in  the 
Knoxville  (Tenn.)  Classical  School. 

Sonihwesiern — \V.  S.  Fleming,  '^^■),  is  professor  of  English 
and  history  in  the  Searcy  College  at  Searcy,  Ark. 

Amherst — Sidney  R.  Fleet,  '91,  was  married  to  Miss  Ag- 
nes Fulton  Barker,  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  August  IS,  lSi)7. 

Colby — Rev.  H.  Everett  Farnham,  'SU,  is  professor  of 
Greek,  German  and  French  at  Tabor  College,  Tabor,  Iowa. 

Ihdianapolis — Oliver  C.  Norris,  'S-l,  of  Rushville,  Ind., 
lost  his  daughter  Lenore,  aged  nine,  by  drowning  on  June  :^->. 

Illinois — Floyd  Whittemore,  '97,  has  been  appointed  to  a 
clerkship  in  the  state  treasury  department  at  Springfield,  111. 

Kansas — Neil  C.  Brooks,  '^Ml,  is  an  instructor  in  the  de- 
partment of  Germanic  languages  at  Harvard  for  the  coming 
year. 

Washhij^ton  and  Lee — L.  C.  Speers,  'i)7,  is  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law  in  Macon,  Ga.  His  address  is  SIS  Second 
street. 

Washington  a7id  Jeffersofi — David  Glenn  Moore,  't»8,  was 
local  editor  of  the  Washington  Observer  during  the  summer 
vacation . 

Amherst — Raymond  V.  IngersoU,  't)7,  has  accepted  a 
position  as  teacher  of  English  in  the  Central  High  School, 
Duluth.  Minn. 

Miami — The  board  of  trustees  of  Miami  Universit}',  on 
June  17,  1S*)7,  conferred  the  degree  of  D.  D.  upon  Rev. 
Robert  Morrison,  '41). 

Dartmouth,  '^7 — Franklin  E.  Heald  and  B.  F.  Adams  are 
editors  of  a  handsomely  printed  pamphlet  entitled  About 
Dartmouth,  issued  during  the  last  college  year  and  contain- 
ing a  number  of  views  and  portraits. 


66  THE  SCROLL, 

California — William  O.  Morgan,  'S7,  is  again  in  business, 
He  is  with  the  Hartford  Insurance  Co.,  at '»i:>  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 

Illinois  Wesleyaji — T.  H.  Simmons,  'SS,  some  time  prov- 
ince president,  has  left  Chicago  and  settled  in  Bloomington, 
Ind.,  for  the  practice  of  law. 

Indianapolis— K^\,  David  Utter,  M)7,  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  a  recent  number  of  The  Neic  World,  sets  forth  the  char- 
acter of  '  Mormonism  To-day.' 

loica  IW'sltyan — W.  A.  Longnecker,  MK),  was  graduated 
at  Boston  Theological  Institute  last  spring  and  takes  work 
this  fall  in  the  Iowa  conference. 

Kansas — William  Allen  White,  '*H),  is  a  candidate  for  the 
Republican  nomination  for  congress  in  the  fourth  district  of 
Kansas,  to  succeed  Charles  Curtis. 

Michigan  State— Vxoi.  L.  H.  Bailey,  'Sl\  of  Cornell,  de- 
livered the  commencement  address  this  year  at  his  alma 
viater.     He  spent  the  summer  in  Europe. 

Randolph- Macon — Andrew  S.  Martin,  *S-S,  has  renounced 
the  life  of  a  commercial  tourist  and  is  now  connected  with 
the  Drummond  Tobacco  Co.,  Danville,  Va. 

Colby — George  A.  Gorham,  '01 ,  one  of  the  young  lawyers 
of  Aroostook,  delivered  the  Memorial  Day  address  this  year 
before  the  Grand  Army  post  at  Blaine,  Me. 

Woostcr — Preston  Willis  Search,  '7(),  has  been  re-elected 
superintendent  of  schools  for  a  term  of  two  j^ears  at  Hol- 
yoke,  Mass.,  at  a  salary  of  $3,.')00  per  annum. 

Lombard — Margaret  Dillon  Wild,  daughter  of  D.  P.  Wild. 
'92,  was  born  at  Sycamore,  111.,  June  11,  1>^07.  Brother 
Wild  is  with  the  banking  firm  of  Daniel  Pierce  <S:  Co. 

Centre — Kd.  S.  De  Long,  Jr.,  '07,  died  in  New  York,  June 
11,  1S97.  President  (ruerrant,  of  Beta  Province,  will  speak 
of  his  life  and  character  in  the  Chapter  Grand,  next  June. 

(iCttysburir—Vi^v.  Millard  F.  Troxell,  D.  I).,  'SO,  is  pastor 
of  Grace  Lutheran  church  of  Springfield,  111.  He  is  a  tire- 
less and  energetic  worker,  and  through  his  efforts  the  Luth- 
erans have  one  of  the  finest  church  edifices  in  the  west.  Dr. 
Troxell  was  at  one  time  editor  of  The  Scroll. 


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RichmoJid — J.  Luther  Brown,  '8U,  who  was  until  recently 
the  representative  of  the  Drummond  Tobacco  Co. ,  at  Nor- 
folk, Va.,  is  now  with  the  Standard  Oil  Co.,  in  New  York. 

Miami — A.  G.  Work,  '94,  was  ordained  and  installed  on 
September  28  as  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  churches  of 
Brookston  and  Chalmers,  Ind.  His  address  will  be  Brook- 
ston. 

\'a7iderbilt — John  H.  De  Witt,  '94,  who  was  graduated 
from  the  law  department  of  Columbian  University,  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  will  begin  the  practice  of  law  in  Nashville 
this  winter. 

loica  Wesleyan — Rev.  Dr.  J.  T.  McFarland,  '72,  who  was 
president  of  Iowa  Wesleyan  University,  1SS4-U1,  has  been 
since  January  pastor  of  the  New  York  avenue  M.  E.  church, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Lombard — E.  J.  Edwards,  '74,  founder  of  the  Society  of 
American  Wars,  is  turning  the  energies  of  his  organization 
at  home  to  the  raising  of  funds  to  erect  a  monument  to 
Abraham  Lincoln. 

Wisconsin — Matthew  A.  Hall,  'S«S,  is  president  of  the  Vic- 
toria Diamond  Jubilee  Association  of  Nebraska  and  Iowa, 
formed  to  commemorate  Her  Majesty's  jubilee  by  raising  a 
fund  for  local  charities. 

North  Carolina — E.  Stephenson  Askew,  '*><'^,  who  repre- 
sented his  chapter  at  the  Philadelphia  convention,  is  out  of 
college  this  session,  having  accepted  the  principalship  of  the 
academy  at  his  home,  Windsor,  N.  C. 

V^anderbilt — The  governor  of  Tennessee  has  appointed 
Richard  A.  Barr,  M.  D.,  '*.>2,  physician  at  the  state  peni- 
tentiary at  Nashville.  He  has  the  reputation  of  being  one 
of  the  most  brilliant  young  surgeons  in  the  state. 

Lombard — Walter  A.  Johnson  founded  an  ornithological 
journal,  The  Ospny,  a  little  over  a  year  ago.  He  has  se- 
cured Dr.  Elliott  Coues  as  patron  and  sponsor  and  is  mak- 
ing the  magazine  quite  a  success  in  every  respect. 

loica  Wesleyan — Rev.  Freeman  A.  Havighorst,  '89,  who 
has  been  pastor  of  the  First  Methodist  church  of  Springfield, 
111.,  has  resigned  his  charge  to  accept  the  chair  of  history 
and  economics  in  Lawrence  University,  Appleton,  Wis. 

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68  THE  SCROLL. 

Frajiklin  —  Otis  A.  Caldwell,  '*>4,  was  married  to  Miss 
Cora  Burke,  of  Portland,  lud.,  August  25,  18i>7,  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  parents.  Mr.  Caldwell  is  instructor  in 
botany  at  the  University  of  Chicago  for  the  coming  year. 

Miami — J.  E.  Morey,  '07,  and  W.  K.  Evans,  '<)*.^  were 
already  members  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Miami,  and  now 
Governor  Bushnell  has  appointed  Harry  Weidner,  ''"^N,  late 
consul  at  Grenoble,  France,  as  a  member  of  the  same  body. 

Allegheny,  'Sj — *  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Jones  has  the  honor  to 
announce  the  marriage  of  her  niece,  Mary  Frances  Watkins, 
to  Mr.  William  Bignell,  on  Wednesday,  July  fourteenth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-seven,  Randolph,  New  York.' 

Missouri,  \Sj — 

Mr.  J.  S.  Snoddy,  professor  of  luiglish  language  and  literature  at 
Woodson  In.stitute,  Richmond.  Mo.,  has  made  a  collection  of  verses 
by  Missouri  poets  and  has  published  them,  together  with  brief  biogra- 
phies of  the  writers,  in  a  volume  entitled  'A  Little  Book  of  Missouri 
Vense. '     Sf.  Louis  i^obc-ncinocrat. 

Missouri ,  \S(^ — 


The  October  number  of  The  .  \t  Ian  tic  Monthly  will  celebrate  the  for- 
tieth anniversary  of  that  excellent  periodical.  Among  the  more  im- 
portant articles  to  appear  on  this  memorable  occasion  there  is  an- 
nounced 'The  Latest  Discoveries  in  the  Historv  of  the  Universe,'  by 
Dr.  T.  J.  J.  See.     ^      •      •      The  Critic,  Aug.  7. 

Colin — George  K.  Ooogins,  'S6,  has  moved  his  law  office 
from  Milbridge  to  Bar  Harbor.  Mr.  Googins  created  some 
stir  in  the  political  world  of  eastern  Maine  last  year  by 
leaving  the  Republican  party  to  preach  the  doctrine  of  free 
silver. 

Sou  ill  Carolina — W\  W.  Ball,  '><7,  is  now  editor  of  the 
daily  and  semi-weekly  A^ncs  at  (ireenville,  S.  C.  For  this 
he  says  he  receives  '  a  small  weekly  stipend  and  the  anathe- 
mas of  Tillmanites  and  free-silverites,  goldbugs  being  ranr 
aves '  in  tho.se  regions. 

Missouri — Dr.  T.  J.  J.  See,  '>^0,  has  been  working  at  Flag- 
staff, Arizona,  since  April,  but  the  party  of  which  he  is  a 
member  will  .soon  leave  for  Peru,  to  be  absent  several  years. 
While  in  Mexico  Dr.  See  measured  and  determined  the 
orbits  of  over  -iOO  double  and  triple  stars,  more  than  half  of 
which  were  new.  His  report  on  this  work  will  be  the  most 
important  addition  made  to  southern  stellar  astronomy  since 
the  work  of  Sir  John  Herschel,  sixty  years  ago. 


THE  SCROLL.  69 

lotva  Wesley  an — W.  H.  Perdew,  *94,  who  has  been  at- 
tending the  Boston  Theological  Institute  for  the  past  year, 
came  back  to  Iowa  this  summer  and  was  married  to  a  former 
classmate  and  graduate  of  Iowa  Wesieyan.  They  returned 
to  Boston  to  resume  studies. 

irisconsi/i,  'Sj — *  Flexure  of  Telescopes'  by  Milton  Up- 
degraff,  professor  of  astronomy  in  the  University  of  Mis- 
souri, is  a  late  publication  of  The  Academy  of  Science  of  St. 
Louis,  it  being  in  part  the  substance  of  a  paper  read  before 
that  body  at  a  recent  meeting. 

Nebraska — Arcule  E.  Guilmette,  Mi:*),  w^as  drowned  in  the 
Hudson  river  while  sailing,  on  Sunday  afternoon,  June  !•>. 
He  had  started  out  with  his  sister  and  cousin,  when  a  squall 
struck  the  boat  and  capsized  it.  The  young  woman  was 
saved,  but  only  with  great  difficulty. 

Stanford — Charles  E.  Chadsey,  M)2,  one  of  the  chapter's 
charter  members,  took  his  Ph.  1).  at  Columbia  this  year  with 
a  thesis  on  *  The  Struggle  Between  President  Johnson  and 
Congress  over  Reconstruction.'  He  took  his  A.  M.  at  Co- 
lumbia in  1N94  and  at  Stanford  in  isOo. 

Ohio  State— Vx^A  S.  Ball,  'SS,  on  an  appeal  to  the  Ala- 
bama supreme  court,  obtained  a  decision  on  July  2S  in  favor 
of  his  client,  reversing  a  decision  of  the  Montgomery  chan- 
cery court  in  an  important  case  involving  the  right  of  the 
city  council  to  divert  public  park  lands  from  their  proper  use. 

Miami — Benjamin  Harrison,  '52,  was  re-elected  president 
of  the  Indiana  state  bar  association  at  its  annual  meeting  in 
Indianapolis  on  June  23.  At  the  banquet  in  the  evening, 
where  he  acted  as  toastmaster,  John  vS.  Duncan,  Indianapo- 
lis, '()5,  responded  on  *  How  to  explain  the  loss  of  a  case  to 
a  client.' 

Washington  and  Jeff crsoji — John  Hasson  Carline,  *9r),  a  son 
of  Major  A.  M.  Carline,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  Braddock, 
Pa.,  died  May  31,  of  tuberculosis  of  the  bowels.  He  was 
a  law  student,  studj^ng  with  Major  R.  E.  Stewart,  Esq.,  of 
Braddock,  whose  office  is  in  Pittsburgh,  and  would  have  taken 
his  last  examination  in  about  one  month.  Mr.  Carline  was 
born  in  Sutersville  in  1^70,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first 
class  of  the  Braddock  borough  high  school  in  1S87.  He  was 
graduated  at  Washington  and  Jefferson,  where  he  was  a 
popular  student  and  an  athlete  of  considerable  ability. 


70  THE  SCROLL, 

Colby — Rev.  Woodman  Bradbury,  *S7,  for  six  years  pastor 
of  the  First  Baptist  church  at  Laconia,  N.  H.,  has  received 
a  call  from  the  Pleasant  Street  Baptist  church  at  Worcester, 
Mass.  Rev.  Mr.  Bradbury  is  a  graduate  of  Newton  Theo- 
logical Institution  and  has  become  one  of  the  most  popular 
divines  in  the  Baptist  church. 

Illinois — Armin  Harms,  '\^'\  late  of  Milwaukee,  is  now  at 
San  Luis  Potosi,  Mexico,  with  the  Compania  Metalurgica 
Mexicana.  He  may  be  addressed  there,  Apartado  del  Cor- 
reo,  l-)2.  We  shall  expect  a  movement  for  an  alumni  char- 
ter from  him  and  Brother  (Rev.)  Jackson  B.  Cox,  So  it //i- 
2ccsfcrn,  'O'),  who  is  also  in  that  city. 

Illinoiis  Wcslvyan — I.  N.  Van  Pelt,  '>^>^,  was  married  on 
June  i),  1><*.)7,  to  Miss  Fannie  Burr,  at  Bloomington,  Illinois. 
After  a  trip  through  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Van  Pelt  went  to  Chicago,  where  they  will  live.  Bro. 
Van  Pelt  is  in  business  at  >*-  South  Water  street,  with  W. 
F.  McLaughlin  &  Co. ,  coiTee  importers. 

Mississippi — United  States  Senator  James  Z.  George,  an 
honorary  member  of  the  chapter,  died  at  Mississippi  City  on 
August  11,  is'.^T.  He  fought  in  the  war  with  Mexico  and 
later  on  the  side  of  the  southern  confederacy.  He  was  chief 
justice  of  the  state  supreme  court  when  chosen  senator  in 
1S«'^1.     His  third  term  would  have  expired  in  \>^W, 

Randolph- Mixcon — James  Jamieson  Hickey,  '92,  was  mar- 
ried on  April  21,  at  New  Orleans,  to  Miss  Marie  Stoddard 
Cooke,  of  that  city,  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  lyouisiana 
officiating.  The  honeymoon  was  spent  at  Pass  Christian, 
Miss.,  and  at  Old  Point  Comfort,  \'a.  Bro.  Hickey  had 
been  studying  law  at  Yale.  He  and  his  bride  will  make 
their  home  at  Danville,  \'a. 

Indianapolis — Demarchus  C.  Brown,  '7^.>,  professor  of 
Greek  in  Butler  College,  was  married  on  September  first  to 
Miss  Jessie  Lanier  Christian.  The  marriage  took  place  in 
the  Central  Christian  church,  Indianapolis,  Rev.  John  E. 
Pounds  officiating.  Laz  Noble,  ".^0,  and  Hugh  Th.  Miller, 
'>>>5,  were  two  of  the  UvShers.  Miss  Christian  was  a  graduate 
from  Butler  with  the  class  of  '1>7  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  new  chapter  of  H  B  <^.  Professor  Brown  is  a  brother  of 
Hilton  U.  Brown,  '>^0,  once  president  of  the  (rcneral  Coun- 
cil. Prof,  and  Mrs.  Brown  left  at  once,  via  Hamburg  and 
Munich,  for  Athens,  where  they  will  remain  until  Christmas. 


THE  SCROLL,  71 

Hauovcf\  '8^ — The  Louisville  Courier-Journal  of  Juue  '24 

says : 

Much  of  the  credit  for  the  winning  race  run  by  Mr.  Morton  V.  Joyes 
for  county  attorney  is  due  to  Mr.  Frank  D.  Swope,  who  organized  the 
city  and  county  in  Mr.  Joyes'  behalf.  He  began  the  organization  as 
soon  as  Mr.  Joyes  received  the  nomination  at  the  Music  Hall  conven- 
tion last  April  and  spread  it  out  into  every  precinct.  Both  Mr.  Joyes 
and  Mr.  Swope,  with  their  assistants,  deserve  much  praise  for  their 
clean,  manly  campaign. 

Kansas,  'po — Scribyier' s  Magazine  announces  among  the 
features  of  its  fall  numbers  an  article  entitled  '  The  Great 
Farm  '  by  William  Allen  White.  Brother  White  has  made 
a  special  trip  to  the  big  farms  of  Dakota  in  preparing  this 
article.  In  McClurv' s  Magazine  for  June  a  story  entitled 
*  A  Recent  Confederate  Victory  '  appeared  over  his  name.  In 
the  Atlantic  for  August  he  described  *A  Typical  Kansas 
Community.*  In  .}fcClure's  for  September  he  has  another 
story. 

Illinois  —  Frank  Foster  Gilchrist,  '97,  died  on  May  1, 
1897,  after  a  very  brief  illness  of  pneumonia,  at  Kenosha, 
Wis.,  where  he  was  connected  with  the  Sterling  Bicycle 
Works.  The  funeral  took  place  at  his  home,  •■)400  Wash- 
ington Ave.,  Chicago.  He  was  twenty-one  years  old  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  A  charter  member  of  Illinois  Eta,  he 
was  one  of  that  chapter's  most  beloved  and  honored  mem- 
bers. He  was  later  affiliated  with  the  Michigan  chapter. 
His  loss  will  be  keenly  felt. 

Hanover,  'S<^ — 

That  clever  young  artist,  Mr.  II.  Vance  Swope,  will  have  an  exhi- 
bition of  his  pictures  at  Klauber's  from  August  .*>1  to  September  4  that 
will  be  well  worth  a  visit.  His  artistic  education  began  in  the  art 
schools  of  Cincinnati  and  New  York,  and  then  he  spent  three  years  in 
Paris.  His  vacations  were  spent  at  Auvern-sur-Oise,  Chartres,  \'enice 
and  in  Switzerland.  Many  of  the  water-colors  which  he  will  exhibit 
were  done  in  Venice.  He  is  strong  on  color,  and  these  Venetian 
sketches  especially  are  delicate  and  charming.  He  has  about  thirty 
or  forty  delightful  pictures.  Mr.  Swope  will  also  show  a  dozen  or 
more  miniatures.  He  worked  a  great  deal  in  that  line  last  winter  in 
New  York,  and  was  very  successful  with  these  beautiful  small  jx)r- 
traits,  the  style  of  work  on  which  so  much  of  St.  Memin's,  the  cele- 
brated painter  of  Washington's  time,  reputation  rests.  Mr.  Swope's 
work  is  very  similar  to  that  of  this  noted  French  artist.  Mr.  Swope  is 
a  very  agreeable  man,  and  met  many  interesting  people  while  abroad. 
While  at  Chartres,  Joseph  Pennell,  who  has  just  begun  in  the  Century 
a  series  of  articles  upon  the  cathedrals  of  Europe,  was  there  doing  the 
famous  Gothic  cathedral,  and  he  and  Mr.  Swope  became  the  best  of 
friends  and  spent  many  evenings  together.  Mr.  Pennell's  skill  lies 
greatly  in  indicating  the  architecture  of  the  cathedrals  by  a  few  lines 


73  THE  SCROLL, 

and  dashes  here  and  there,  and  one  evening,  in  Mr.  Swope's  room,  he 
took  a  toothpick,  applied  it  in  ink,  and  in  Mr.  Swope's  sketch-book 
rapidly  drew  a  few  lines  and  splotches  of  black  and  white,  which  fully 
illustrate  his  talent.  When  Mr.  Swope  left  Venice  the  artists  of  dif- 
ferent nationalities  made  up  a  gondola  party  to  escort  him  to  the 
station.  As  they  passed  along  the  Grand  Canal,  Mr.  Swope,  who  has 
a  superb  voice,  sang  some  American  songs  then  popular  in  this  coun- 
try. As  he  finished  there  was  a  great  burst  of  applause  from  the  shore, 
doubtless  from  some  party  of  Americans,  who  could  doubly  appreciate 
songs  in  their  own  tongue  in  that  far-off  land.  Mr.  Swope's  studio  is 
in  New  York,  and  he  returns  there  early  in  September. — Louisville 
Couricr-Jounial,  August  2'.>. 

Randolph- Macon — Prof.  James  Carsou  Martiu,  Jr.,  '^"^^ 
was  married  on  the  morning  of  June  21),  at  Culpeper,  Vir- 
ginia, to  Miss  Mary  Lee  Fitz  Hugh.  The  best  man  was 
Mr.  Andrew  S.  Martin,  'NX,  of  Richmond,  brother  of  the 
groom  and  likewise  a  Phi.  After  the  ceremony  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Martin  took  the  noon  train  for  a  honeymoon  trip  north, 
extending  to  Amesbury,  Mass.  The}'  are  now  living  in 
Norfolk.  J.  C.  Martin,  Jr.,  and  A.  S.  Martin  are  brothers 
of  Herbert  M.  Martin,  Worthy  Grand  >Scribe  of  Kappa  Sig- 
ma, of  Danville,  Va. 

Cenirc — D wight  N.  Marble,  'N2,  some  time  historian  of 
the  General  Council  and  until  recently  connected  with  the 
New  York  office  of  the  American  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Co.,  changed  his  abode  the  latter  part  of  July  to  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.  He  is  district  inspector,  with  headquarters  at  Pitts- 
burgh, in  charge  of  the  installation  and  maintenance  of  all 
exchanges,  switch  boards,  test  stations,  cables  and  apparatus 
of  the  long  distance  telephone  lines  in  western  New  York 
and  Pennsylvania,  eastern  Ohio  and  most  of  West  Virginia. 
He  may  be  addressed  at  the  Telephone  Building,  26  and  2S 
Seventh  avenue,  in  care  of  the  American  Telephone  and 
Telegraph  Co. 

Missouri,  '<SVy — 

Under  the  title,  '  Researches  on  the  Iwolution  of  the  Stellar  Sys- 
tems'  (Nichols  Press,  Lynn,  Mass.),  Professor  T.  J.  J.  See,  of  the 
Lowell  Astronomical  Observatory,  presents  a  compilation  of  researches 
valuable  to  the  student  of  physical  astronomy,  but  not  to  be  recom- 
mended to  the  layman  for  seaside  reading.  Prefacing  with  a  general 
account  of  double- star  investigations  'from  Herschel  to  Hurnham,* 
and  an  acute  mathematical  discussion  of  the  methods  by  which  deli- 
cate observations  are  translated  into  delineations  of  orbits,  Professor 
See  has  collated  the  observations,  wherever  made,  upon  forty  binary 
stars,  and  presents  the  diagrams  of  their  orbits.  In  each  case,  a  star 
in  the  remote  heavens,  found  to  be  separable  into  components  only  by 
telescopes  of  the  finest  definition  when  used  by  eyes  of  the  acutest 
perception,  has  Ixien  by  various  persons  {separately  observed,  and  the 


THE  SCROLL,  73 

relative  distances  of  the  companion  from  its  central  sun  have  been 
determined,  as  well  as  its  corresponding  angular  positions.  These 
data,  duly  discussed  and  accurately  platted,  show  that  the  compan- 
ion moves  in  a  planetary  orbit  about  a  masterful  central  body,  and 
that  the  laws  of  gravitation,  as  discovered  by  Newton  and  formulated 
by  Kepler,  are  dominant  at  those  remote  distances  in  the  celestial 
universe  as  certainly  as  where  the  moon  cycles  its  monthly  circuit 
about  the  earth,  and  the  planets  weave  their  annual  tracery  upon  the 
zodiac.  Conclusions  of  this  sort  produce  the  profoundest  impression 
upon  the  unprofessional  reader. —  The  Dial,  Aug.  1. 

Indiana — Charles  Banta,  '81,  son  of  the  late  Judge  D.  D. 
Banta,  'o5,  died  Sunday,  August  15,  1897,  at  Marion,  Ind., 
of  typhoid  fever.  For  a  number  of  years  he  had  been  in- 
spector for  the  Continental  Insurance  Company  of  New  York, 
and  it  was  while  engaged  in  the  duties  of  his  office  at  Marion 
that  he  was  stricken  with  the  fever  that  resulted  in  his 
death.  It  came  unexpected,  as  he  was  thought  to  be  im- 
proving. His  brother  George  Banta,  '76,  left  him  on  Satur- 
day to  return  to  his  home  in  Wisconsin.  Sunday  Mr.  Banta 
was  taken  with  hemorrhages,  and  death  relieved  his  suffer- 
ings. The  funeral  took  place  at  Franklin,  Ind.,  on  Wed- 
nesday, August  IS.  Rev.  D.  B.  Banta,  of  Spencer,  con- 
ducted the  services.  The  funeral  was  indeed  a  sad  one, 
especially  from  the  fact  that  his  wife  and  two  little  children 
could  not  be  present.  Mrs.  Banta  is  a  sufferer  from  con- 
sumption and  has  been  in  Colorado  for  the  last  two  years 
for  the  benefit  of  her  health,  and  was  unable  to  leave.  Bro. 
Banta  was  born  in  Franklin,  October  16,  1859.  He  was 
reared  there  and  was  a  graduate  of  Indiana  University.  He 
was  an  exemplary  young  man  of  exceptional  business  abil- 
ity. His  sudden  and  untimely  death  is  matter  for  large 
regret. 


74  THE  SCROLL, 


ITEMS  OF  INTEREST. 

COLLEGES. 

Ohio  University  re|X)rts  more  new  students  than  ever  be- 
fore— nearly  100. 

The  total  enrollment  at  Dartmouth  is  about  TOO,  with 
almost  200  freshmen. 

With  the  freshman  class  at  Harvard  an  Apache  Indian 
has  entered  :  at  Cornell  a  blind  man  is  a  member  of  IDOl . 

Ohio  Wesleyan  will  found  a  new  professorship  with  $->7,- 
000  received  at  the  close  of  the  college  year  from  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Robt.  Hay  ward,  of  Fairfield,  111. 

The  University  of  Chicago  will  lose  her  athletic  field  by 
expiration  of  the  lease  on  January  1 ,  unless  some  benefactor 
comes  forward  with  $1'")0,(HK)  to  buy  the  ground. 

It  is  reported  that  ex- President  Cleveland  will  in  Novem- 
ber be  formally  tendered  the  office  of  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia.  Heretofore  the  chairman  of  the  faculty 
has  been  at  the  head  of  the  university. 

The  general  library  building  of  the  X University  of  Iowa 
was  struck  by  lightning  on  June  19  and  burned.  The  loss 
was  $100,000,  with  no  insurance.  The  physical  laboratory 
was  in  this  building  and  was  destroyed. 

Miss  Sarah  Barnwell  Klliott,  author  of  *  Jerry  '  and  a 
number  of  short  stories,  has  a  novelette  beginning  in  the 
September  Scrihncr' s,  in  which  the  Tennessee  mountaineers 
are  contrasted  wuth  the  luiiversity  types  at  Sewanee. 

This  year  has  witnessed  an  epidemic  of  dismissal  or  *  in- 
vestigation '  of  college  professors  on  the  charge  of  heretical 
political  or  economic  teachings,  beginning  at  Kansas  Agri- 
cultural College  and  extending  to  Texas,  Brown,  Missouri 
and  Stanford. 

At  Sew^anee  in  June  an  effort  was  made  to  abolish,  by 
action  on  the  part  of  the  students,  the  form  of  hazing  known 
as  '  toe-pulling.'  Resolutions  to  that  effect,  however,  were 
'  tabled  indefinitely  '  by  a  large  majority,  and  freshman  toes 
will  still  be  pulled. 


THE  SCROLL.  75 

Dickinson  enrolls  seventy  new  collegiate  students  (sixty 
freshmen),  with  an  increase  of  sixty  in  the  preparatory  de- 
partment. Bro.  Harry  M.  Stephens,  '92,  heretofore  phys- 
ical director  and  assistant  in  chemistry,  will  direct  the  de- 
partment of  biology. 

Lafayette  has  100  freshmen — a  record-breaking  number. 
Class  rushes  have  been  forbidden.  The  college  coach,  Bro. 
Parke  Davis,  of  Princeton,  suggested  as  a  substitute  cane 
sprees,  which  will  be  entered  into  by  light,  middle  and 
heavy-weight  representatives  of  each  class. 

Amherst  opened  on  September  1<>  with  an  enrollment  of 
408.  The  whole  number  for  1890-97  was  407.  The  resid- 
uary estate  of  Mr.  Fayerweather  has  made  payment  under 
the  decree  of  the  court  of  $75,000.  The  whole  amount  of 
gifts  to  the  college  since  1890  is  now  $050,000. 

The  University  of  California  had  enrolled  418  freshmen 
on  August  '^0,  the  session  having  begun  on  August  12. 
Last  year  there  were  481  in  the  entering  class  ;  in  '9"),  482  ; 
in  '94,  419  ;  in  'O)),  :)0.').  The  young  women  students  com- 
prise 41.02  per  cent,  of  the  entire  student  body. 

James  K.  Powers  has  been  chosen  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Alabama,  of  which  he  is  a  distinguished  alumnus. 
He  is  a  practical  business  man  as  well  as  an  accomplished 
and  experienced  educator,  and  was  the  almost  unanimous 
choice  of  the  alumni  of  the  institution  for  the  presidency. 

The  board  of  trustees  established  at  their  last  meeting  a 
scholarship  in  ceramics,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  National 
Brick  Manufacturers'  Association.  Ohio  State  University  is 
the  only  institution  in  the  United  States  possessing  a  depart- 
ment of  ceramics. — O.  S.  U.  correspondence  Beta  Thcta  Pi. 

On  the  day  before  the  recent  class  rush  at  California,  so 
vividly  reported  all  over  the  country.  President  Kellogg  had 
intimated  that  he  might  tolerate  *  open,  pre-arranged  '  rush- 
ing, but  subsequent  events  led  him  to  change  his  mind  de- 
cidedly. There  is  little  room  for  half-way  ground  in  class 
rushing. 

At  Columbia  this  year  the  lectures  begin  on  the  half  hour 
and  conclude  at  twenty  minutes  after,  giving  the  students 
ten  minutes  to  go  from  one  recitation -room  to  another,  in- 
stead of  five,  as  was  the  case.  The  increased  distances  of  the 
various  rooms  and  buildings  at  the  new  site  make  the 
change  imperative. 


^6  THE  SCROLL. 

Johns  Hopkins  and  Lehigh  are  both  seriously  crippled  in 
the  same  manner.  The  former's  endowment  consists  in  Bal- 
timore and  Ohio  railroad  stock,  and  the  latter's  in  Lehigh 
Valley,  both  of  which  roads  have  been  wrecked  and  no  longer 
pay  dividends.  The  Pennsylvania  legislature  has  appropri- 
ated $1.")(),0(X)  to  help  Lehigh  through  her  present  difficulties. 

The  University  of  California's  proposed  new  buildings, 
her  magnificent  campus  and  her  brilliant  prospects  occupy 
one  page  of  text  and  two  of  illustrations  in  Harper's  Weekly 
for  September  1 1 .  Regent  J.  B.  Reinsteiu,  California  Alpha, 
'7.5,  is  g^ven  full  credit  for  realizing  this  architectural  dream, 
whose  complete  fulfillment  will  involve  an  exp)enditure  of 
fifteen  millions. 

The  Episcopal  association  of  church  schools,  colleges  and 
seminaries  gave  three  prizes  of  $800  each  in  June  to  juniors 
in  church  colleges  passing  the  best  examinations  in  the 
classics,  English  and  mathematics.  Students  of  Trinity, 
Hobart,  Kenj^on,  and  vSt.  Stephen's  were  among  the  com- 
petitors, but  all  three  prizes  went  to  students  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South. 

The  natural  history  building  at  the  University  of  Illinois 
was  struck  by  lightning  on  June  17  and  damaged  by  fire  and 
water  to  the  extent  of  $10,000.  The  loss  to  apparatus  was 
over  $50,000.  The  building  was  completed  in  1>>93  at  a  cost 
of  $85,000,  and  was  one  of  the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in 
America.  In  August,  ISIKI,  the  chemical  laboratory  at 
Champaign  was  struck  by  lightning,  and  the  loss  amounted 
to$4(),(K)0. 

yiie  Century  Mnjyazine  will  offer  twelve  prizes  of  $250 
each,  three  a  year,  for  four  successive  years,  to  college 
graduates  receiving  the  degree  of  bachelor  of  arts,  for  the 
best  poem,  the  best  essay,  and  the  best  short  story.  Grad- 
uates must  submit  their  work  before  June  1  of  the  year  suc- 
ceeding graduation,  and  the  young  men  and  women  who 
came  out  of  college  in  June,  l''^*>7,  are  to  have  first  chance 
at  the  prizes. 

The  freshman  class  at  Williams  is  expected  to  fall  below 
one  hundred  and  to  be  smaller,  conseciuently,  than  the  last 
three  or  four  classes.  This  will  be  due  to  the  new  policy  of 
raising  the  requirements  for  the  scientific  course,  and  of 
offering  less  aid  to  students.  The  requirements  for  the 
classical  course,  already  high,  will  be  made  more  rigid  here- 
after. Harper  s  Week/y  expresses  the  hope  that  Williams 
may  become  our  great  classical  school. 


THE  SCROLL,  77 

A  writer  in  Scribyier's  Magazine  for  June  claimed  lor 
Princeton  the  honor  of  originating  *  siss-booni-ah  I '  as  a 
college  slogan.  To  this  the  Mobile  Register  objects,  and 
sets  up  the  claim  of  Mr.  Gerard  Smith,  formerly  mayor  of 
New  Orleans,  who  introduced  the  sky-rocket  yell  as  a  sort 
of  addendum  to  '  three  cheers*  as  far  back  as  18-")S,  while 
Princeton  did  not  make  use  of  it  until  the  first  year  of  the 
civil  war.  The  magazine  writer,  however,  has  replied  with 
some  warmth  to  the  claim. 

The  presidents  of  western  universities  appointed  a  com- 
mittee in  January  to  consider  and  report  on  college  athletics. 
This  report  was  made  public  at  commencement  time,  and 
calls  for  better  organized  boards  of  control,  strict  rules  in 
regard  to  eligibility  of  players,  and  a  change  in  foot  ball 
rules  making  the  ball  dead  where  it  strikes  the  ground  when 
a  man  is  down,  with  a  penalty  of  fifteen  yards  for  creeping 
with  it.  This  last  recommendation  is  to  prevent  the  defen- 
sive team  from  piling  on  a  man  who  has  the  ball. 

The  legislature  of  Ohio  recently  doubled  the  state  tax  for 
the  benefit  of  the  State  University,  and  the  total  income  of 
the  institution,  including  amounts  from  congressional  land 
grants,  etc.,  falls  little  short  of  $2.')0,(M)0  a  year.  There 
were  during  lS9<)-97  an  even  1 ,00()  students.  No  tuition 
fees  are  charged.  The  campus  lying  within  the  city  of 
Columbus  consists  of  more  than  -iOO  acres,  of  which  110 
acres  are  parked  and  used  for  the  campus  proper.  There 
are  ten  buildings  devoted  to  instruction,  and  three  are  now 
being  erected:  a  $70,000  building  for  the  college  of  agri- 
culture, an  $^0,000  armory  and  gymnasium,  and  a  $^>'),000 
biological  building. 

The  legislature  of  Illinois  more  than  made  good  the  losses 
of  the  State  University  resulting  from  the  Globe  Bank  fail- 
ure at  Chicago.  The  state  charged  itself  with  the  endow- 
ment fund  of  %A\ZJ)W,  and  appropriates  $2o,(H)0  annually 
as  interest  thereon.  An  appropriation  of  $4r)(),712  was  made 
to  meet  the  expenses  of  the  next  two  years,  and  $02,049 
was  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  institution  to  cover  the 
amount  of  cash  lost  through  the  treasurer  of  the  university. 
The  institution  receives  annually  from  the  United  States 
government  $1-'),(K)0  for  the  experimental  station  and  $28,- 
000  under  the  Morrill  land  grant.  A  handsome  new  stone 
library  building,  costing  $ir)(),00(),  was  dedicated  last  com- 
mencement. The  graduating  class  numbered  ninety-seven, 
the  largest  in  the  history  of  the  university. 


7S  THE  SCROLL. 


FRATERNITIES. 

K  2  has  issued  a  directory  and  A  T  A  a  catalogue. 

2  X  and  K  ^  returned  one  man  each  at  Randolph- Macon. 

II  K  A  has  revived  her  chapters  at  \'anderbilt  and  William 
and  Mary. 

0  A  X  had  one  man  left  in  her  chapter  at  Kenyon  at  com- 
mencement. 

2  X  owns  a  house,  and  A  Y  and  F  *  B  rent  houses  at 
Northwestern. 

A  A  4>  and  AAA  have  petitions  before  them  from  the 
University  of  Wisconsin. 

2  H,  the  honorary  scientific  scholarship  societ}',  has  en- 
tered the  l^niversity  of  Nebraska. 

The  constitution  of  *  K  4^  requires  that  all  members  of 
alumni  associations  subscribe  for  The  Shield. 

ATA  closed  the  year  at  Lehigh  wuth  five  men.  Many 
other  chapters  there  are  equally  reduced  in  numbers. 

©  E's  chapter  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 
has  withdrawn  from  the  other  three  chapters  composing  that 
fraternity. 

A  T  i2  and  2  N  have  chapters  at  Rose  Polytechnic.  There 
is  also  a  local  society,  <1>  2  <^.  <t  K  4^  is  the  only  fraternity  at 
Brooklyn  Polytechnic. 

*  K  4^  built  a  house  at  Minnesota  four  years  ago,  when 

the  chapter  had  but  twenty- two  alumni.     She  now  has  fif- 
teen chapters  occupying  houses. 

2  N  owns  or  leases  houses  at  Stanford  and  California  and 
rents  at  Indiana,  Mt.  Union,  Purdue,  Missouri,  Chicago, 
Lehigh,  Washington  and  Lee  and  I)e  Pauw. 

The  AWt'  Ltiiiiand  Magaziuc  for  September  contains  an 
article  on  '  Greek-letter  Societies  in  American  Colleges '  by 
Eugene  H.  L.  Randolph,  New  York  Gannna,  '>^"). 

The  Purdue  chapter  of  2  X  has  voluntarily  severed  all 
connection  with  inter- fraternity  or  class  societies,  *  thus  an- 
ticipating the  kick  from  headquarters  concerning  similar  or- 
ganizations. ' 


THE  SCROLL.  79 

K  *  Y  is  the  name  recently  chosen  by  an  organization  at 
the  University  of  Minnesota,  which  is  said  to  have  been 
working  for  several  years  for  a  charter  from  a  fraternity 
better  known  down  east. 

*  r  A's  deserting  chapter  at  vStanford,  ^  P  H,  has  been  en- 
tertaining three  members  of  A  A  *,  said  to  have  been  sent 
west  by  the  last  named  fraternity  to  investigate  the  desira- 
bility of  locating  a  chapter  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

B  0  n  held  her  convention  at  Niagara  Falls  this  year,  July 
l<)-20.  No  business  of  general  interest  was  transacted,  the 
revised  constitution  and  social  features  filling  up  the  time. 
The  next  convention  will  be  held  at  Cincinnati. 

B  0  11  at  Stanford  has  been  building  a  house  this  summer, 
having  secured  a  loan  of  $'),000  from  one  of  the  *  Beta  moth- 
ers,' in  addition  to  some  alumni  subscriptions.  The  house 
will  be  on  the  campus  and  is  to  cost  about  $8,000. 

A  writer  from  Roanoke  in  the  last  Phi  (tannna  Delta 
Quarterly  asserts  that  the  charter  of  Virginia  Alpha  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta  was  *  revoked  on  account  of  a  lack  of  proper 
spirit  among  her  members,'  which  was  not  the  case. 

*  K  4^  at  Dartmouth  is  contemplating  the  purchase  of  a 
chapter  house,  as  a  very  desirable  house  is  now  on  the  mar- 
ket there.  She  expects  to  have  a  new  house  ready  to  enter 
at  Stanford  on  November  1 ,  and  one  at  Cornell  about  the 
same  time. 

The  Wittenberg  correspondent  of  The  Beta  Theta  Pi  says 
that  ^the^K^^'s  have  given  up  their  large  chapter  house, 
leaving,  as  is  currently  reported,  several  hundred  dollars  un- 
paid rent,  and  are  now  occupying  a  smaller  house  on  a  less 
prominent  street.' 

2  X  at  Texas  proposes  to  secure  a  chapter  house,  to  be 
ready  for  occupancy  at  the  opening  of  the  session.  A  house 
is  arranged  for  at  Stanford  and  '  negotiations  made  '  at  Co- 
lumbia ;  the  Minnesota  chapter  is  *  considering  the  subject ' 
while  Michigan  is  '  pushing  the  matter. ' 

K  A  (southern)  has  just  revived  her  chapter  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  California.  It  was  established  in  1«S9.")  and  died 
in  1S96.  But  one  of  the  original  charter  members  is  found 
in  the  reorganized  chapter,  which  contains  two  seniors,  three 
juniors,  one  sophomore  and  one  freshman. 


So  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Beloit  chapter  of  *  K  ^^  has  adopted  the  ten-year-note 
plan  for  raising  a  chapter  house  fund,  allowing  twenty  years 
to  those  who  prefer  that  form.  The  use  of  this  plan  has  been 
spreading  rapidly  among  the  chapters  of  *  A  0  since  her 
Vanderbilt  chapter  inaugurated  it,  six  years  ago. 

B  (^)  II,  'for  the  first  time  in  many  years,'  had  no  applica- 
tion for  charters  at  her  convention  at  Niagara  Falls  this 
summer.  Of  late  years  many  of  the  alumni,  including  the 
editor  of  The  Heta  TJuia  Pi,  have  favored  a  cautious  exten- 
sion policy,  but  the  undergraduates  refuse  to  extend. 

i  A  E  and  A  T  il  continue  to  receive  frequent  mention  in 
the  fraternity  editorial  w^orld  for  their  honorary  initiation  of 
President  McKinley  and  Bishop  \'incent,  and  more  espe- 
cially for  their  disposition  to  head  their  lists  of  honored  sons 
with  the  names  of  these  gentlemen,  initiated  at  the  age  of 
fifty  or  sixty. 

The  board  of  visitors  of  Virginia  has  rescinded  its  action 
of  two  years  ago,  prohibiting  the  existence  of  the  Eli  Banana 
ribbon  society,  since  known  as  Peter  Magill.  The  downfall 
of  ICli  Banana  is  said  to  have  been  brought  about  by  the 
chapter's  appearing  at  church  when  unanimously  and  hilar- 
iously drunk. 

The  Key  of  K  K  r  for  July  breaks  the  record  by  giving  26 
chapter  groups.  In  the  20  chapters  432  young  women  were 
enrolled  last  year.  The  October  number  gives  an  account 
of  the  installation  of  the  new  chapter  at  the  University  of 
California.  The  revival  of  this  chapter  was  announced  in 
the  June  Scroll. 

The  Record  of  2  A  E  publishes  chapter  letters  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  received.  The  object  is  to  give  public 
honor  to  the  chapters  that  send  in  their  letters  promptly. 
A  Y  prints  the  letters  according  to  the  alphabetical  arrange- 
ment of  the  names  of  the  chapters,  A  T  12  in  the  alphabet- 
ical order  of  the  names  of  states. 

A  T  A's  president,  Mr.  K.  C.  Babcock,  discusses  the  ini- 
tiation of  professional  students  in  the  June  Rahihoic.  He 
believes  it  to  be  inadvisable  save  in  special  cases,  thinks  that 
such  initiations  should  never  at  any  one  time  amount  to 
more  than  one- fourth  of  the  chapter's  membership,  and 
would  give  the  Arch  Chapter  authority  to  forbid  such  ini- 
tiations save  by  special  dispensation. 


THE  SCROLL.  8i 

The  editor  of  The  Phi  Gamma  Delta  Quarterly  remon- 
strates with  the  Grand  Chapter  (of  New  York  city)  and 
with  eastern  Fijis  generally  because  of  their  uniformly  un- 
favorable attitude  toward  proposals  for  extension  in  the 
west.  Their  suspicions,  he  thinks,  are  *  based  on  incom- 
plete knowledge  coupled  with  some  prejudice.' 

K  A  ©  enrolled  last  year  377  active  members  in  22  chap- 
ters, the  average  membership  being  17  and  the  average  num- 
ber of  initiates  between  (>  and  7.  The  chapter  at  Hanover 
is  smallest,  with  4  members,  the  one  at  Indiana  University 
largest,  with  85.  The  twelfth  biennial  convention  of  the 
fraternity  will  be  held  at  Madison,  October  5-<S. 

K  2,  4>  K  S  and  II  K  A  are  reported  as  dead  at  Washing 
ton  and  Lee,  with  one  or  two  more  nearly  so.  The  attend- 
ance shows  a  marked  decrease,  due  to  abolition  of  the  pre- 
paratory department,  to  the  loss  of  G.  W.  C.  I^ee's  name 
and  to  President  Wilson's  opposition  to  free  silver.  <l>  A  0 
returned  one  old  man  and  one  pledged  man,  but  both  will 
be  in  for  at  least  two  years,  and  there  will  be  others  with 
them. 

Miss  Ina  Firkins,  for  almost  ten  years  editor  of  the  Anchora 
of  A  r,  retired  from  active  service  at  the  last  convention. 
She  is  to  be  succeeded  by  Miss  Zoe  Anna  Brown,  of  Bal- 
timore. The  convention  at  Ithaca  legislated  to  encourage 
the  formation  of  alumnae  chapters,  of  which  A  r  has  none, 
and  refused  all  applications  for  charters.  The  chapter  es- 
tablished at  Stanford  last  year  was  the  first  chartered  in  six 
years. 

The  editor  of  The  Beta  Thcta  Pi,  in  the  issue  for  June, 
criticises  the  tendency  to  waste  over  much  time  at  Beta  con- 
ventions in  discussing  the  Harvard  chapter.  *  This  is  pe- 
culiarly distressing,'  he  adds,  *  from  the  fact  that  the  few 
who  understand  the  situation  at  Cambridge  know  that  it  is 
a  hopeless  task  to  explain  it  within  a  limited  time,  and  so 
they  do  nothing,  and  the  Harvard  chapter  is  ever  misun- 
derstood.* 

4>  X  is  a  new  medical  fraternity,  founded  during  the  ses- 
sion of  '1)4-5,  at  Louisville,  Ky.  It  now  has  four  chapters, 
all  in  Louisville  medical  colleges,  but  wider  extension  is 
contemplated.  The  badge  is  a  skull  and  cross-bones  and 
the  colors  olive  green  and  white.  There  is  a  local  medical 
society  of  the  same  name  at  the  XTniversity  of  Vermont ;  a 
pharmaceutical  society  founded  at  Michigan  in  18S3,  is  also 
called  *  X. 


Si  the  scroll, 

A  T  n  entered  the  University  of  Nebraska  on  June  1 
with  nine  initiates.  The  application  had  been  pending  for 
three  years.  When  K  ^i  entered,  in  February,  the  corre- 
spondent of  The  Beta  llieta  Pi  reported  that  she  was  re- 
ceived by  the  other  fraternities  *  with  as  good  a  grace  as 
possible.'  He  added:  *  In  the  light  of  a  few  more  similar 
events,  one  w-ill  be  tempted  to  ask  if  it  is  not  possible  to  get 
too  much  of  a  good  thing. ' 


Three  \'anderbilt  men  now  occu]^y  prominent  positions  in 
the*  Miami  Triad.'  Dr.  W.  L.  Dudley,  formerly  of  Cincin- 
nati, but  for  several  years  professor  of  chemistry  at  Vander- 
bilt,  has  been  elected  (irand  Consul  of  vSigma  Chi;  Dr.  C.  L. 
Thornburg,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  \'anderbilt  chapter 
of  Beta  Theta  Pi,  and  now  professor  of  mathematics  at  Le- 
high, is  National  Treasurer  of  his  fraternity  ;  and  \V.  B. 
Palmer,  \'anderbilt,  *N(),  is  President  of  the  General  Coun- 
cil of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

During  the  past  year  the  A  T  12  /*alm  has  published  letters 
from  three  alumni  associations  out  of  thirteen.  A  fine  of 
five  dollars  is  imposed  on  any  chapter  failing  to  send  a  letter 
for  each  number  of  the  magazine.  Thirteen  chapters  had 
letters  in  each  issue  for  IMKi-T,  eleven  missed  once  in  four 
times,  eleven  failed  twice,  four  appeared  but  once,  three 
sent  no  letters  at  all.  The  editor  says  that  if  the  fines  were 
all  collected  they  would  amount  to  $2>^">,  but  we  judge  from 
his  *  if '  and  *  would  '  that  they  are  not  always  paid. 

II  H  <I>  had  last  June  '»7s  active  members  in  11  chapters. 
The  smallest  chapter  (Stanford )  ninnbered  six,  and  the  two 
largest  (vSyracuse  and  Michigan)  2-i  members.  The  last 
convention  voted  to  charter  the  local  sorority,  A  <l>  ^,  at  the 
University  of  Indianapolis.  This  convention  w^as  to  meet 
in  Denver,  but  was  transferred  to  Madison,  where  it  assem- 
bled, July  7.  Only  one  chapter  was  inirepresented — Tulane. 
The  next  convention  goes  to  Denver.  TIw  .  Inv7t\  through 
the  generosity  of  an  alumna,  offers  prizes  for  the  best  article 
and  the  best  chapter  letter  sent  in  during  '1>7-M)S.  The 
'article'  will  hardly  be  a  story,  if  the  judges  agree  with  a 
contributor  in  the  last  issue,  who  tells  us  that  'the  magazine 
of  one  of  our  leading  fraternities,  unusually  good  in  its  gen- 
eral make  up,  has  several  times  cheapened  itself  and  lowered 
its  tone  by  publishing  tenth-rate  amateur  stories — fraternity 
stories,  to  be  sure,  but  stories  which  could  not  in  any  sense 
of  the  word  be  called  literature.'     We  expect  one  of  the 


84  THE  SCROLL. 

prizes  to  go  to  the  young  woman,  who,  in  one  of  the  recent 
annual  examinations  on  fraternity  matters,  responded  to  a 
request  for  suggestions  to  improve  the  fraternity  with  the 
assurance,  '  Pi  Phi  is  all  right,  she  is  the  only  peach-tree  in 
the  orchard.' 

*  K  4^  levies  a  special  tax  to  create  a  fund  to  be  used  in 
preparing  and  printing  a  history  of  the  fraternity.  When 
this  fund  amounts  to  $1,500  the  historian,  C.  L.  Van  Cleve, 
promises  to  be  ready  with  his  book ,  *  a  handsome  cloth  bound 
duodecimo  of  200  pages.'  He  has  abundant  material  on 
hand,  covering  the  following  points  :  early  history,  remin- 
iscences of  early  members,  chapter  histories,  distinguished 
members,  publications  and  enterprises,  chapter  houses  and 
the  perpetuity  of  the  fraternity  system.  This  work  was 
committed  to  Mr.  Van  Cleve  by  the  convention  of  l'S96. 
The  Shield  is  to  be  made  a  monthly  once  more  as  soon  as 
possible.     It  now  issues  seven  numbers  a  year. 

2  A  E  held  a  joint  province  convention  at  Nashville,  July 
1 ,  2  and  3.  The  Ameriean  reported  that  every  chapter  in 
the  fraternity  save  two — Boston  and  Denver — was  repre- 
sented. About  100  were  present.  Sessions  were  held  in 
the  senate  chamber  of  the  state  capitol.  A  reception  was 
given  the  first  evening  at  the  University  Club,  the  banquet 
came  on  the  following  night  at  the  Duncan  Hotel,  and  on 
the  afternoon  of  the  last  day  a  reception  was  tendered  in 
the  Woman's  Building.  The  last  day  was  2t  A  E  day  at  the 
exposition;  the  flag  was  unfurled  from  the  dome  of  the 
auditorium,  front  seats  were  reserved  for  members,  and  the 
fraternity  badge  was  included  in  the  pyrotechnic  display. 

ATA  held  her  biennial  convention  at  the  Victoria  Hotel, 
Chicago,  August  25-27.  This  was  the  thirty-fifth  karnea, 
or  convention.  Thirty- three  chapters  out  of  thirty-seven 
were  represented.  At  the  ban(iuet  125  'members  and 
guests '  were  present.  An  outing  on  the  lake  and  a  tally-ho 
ride  were  other  social  features.  Mr.  K.  C.  Babcock,  of  the 
University  of  California,  was  re-elected  president;  F.  C. 
Hodgdon,  of  New  York,  late  treasurer,  was  elected  vice- 
president;  C.  R.  Churchill,  of  New  Orleans,  late  vice-presi- 
dent, was  elected  historian;  Henry  T.  Brooks,  of  Maryland, 
is  the  new  secretary  and  Alvin  \\.  Duerr,  of  Philadelphia, 
the  new  treasurer.  The  next  convention  will  be  held  in 
August,  1S99,  in  Chicago.  Rev.  E.  H.  Hughes,  of  Maiden, 
Mass.,  was  re-elected  editor  of  the  Rainboic. 


THE  SCROLL.  85 

The  Delta  Upsilon  Quarterly  deplores  a  tendency  to  speak 
of  *  D.  U.'s'  raiher  than  of  *  Delta  U.'s/  when  referring  to 
members  of  Delta  Upsilon.  The  chronicler  of  the  inter- 
fraternity  war  at  Michigan,  against  the  Palladium  societies 
and  against  the  '  inner  ring '  in  the  Palladium  circle,  says 
that  Phi  Delta  Theta  changed  sides  in  the  final  struggle, 
and  he  refers  to  this  change  as  a  *  contemptible  flop.'  He 
says  that  Delta  Upsilon  was  the  original  occasion  of  the  war 
and  the  leader  in  winning  the  fight  against  exclusiveness. 

In  an  article  on  the  ritualistic  and  constitutional  sources 
of  Sigma  Chi,  a  recent  writer  in  the  Quarterly  comments  on 
the  fact  that  that  fraternity  had  a  decided  literary  cast  in 
the  beginning.  He  says  :  *  There  seems  to  be  a  tendency 
at  present  to  make  the  object  of  the  order  entirely  social  and 
fraternal.  This  lack  of  the  literary  element  in  chapters  is 
one,  from  the  writer's  standpoint,  which  is  to  be  regretted, 
and,  if  not  remedied,  we  believe  it  will  be  a  source  of  danger 
to  our  system  in  the  future.'  He  says  the  fraternities  have 
ruined  the  old  literary  societies  and  yet  fail  to  supply  the 
need  these  organizations  met. 

M  IT  A,  so  reports  the  Washington  and  Lee  correspondent 
of  The  Sigma  Chi  Quarterly,  '  has  chapters  at  most  of  the 
leading  institutions — north,  south,  east  and  west.*  The 
onl)'  other  institution  where  we  had  heard  of  M  n  A  was  the 
University  of  Virginia.  The  West  Virginia  correspondent 
of  the  Quarterly,  after  mentioning  the  fact  that  six  frater- 
nities now  have  chapters  at  that  school.  Alpha  Lex  Omega 
(law)  being  the  latest  comer,  wishes  all  these  success,  and 
*  considers  the  higher  the  general  standing  of  the  fraterni- 
ties of  the  college  the  more  perfectly  satellitious  will  be  their 
orbits  to  that  of  the  centripetal  Sigma  Chi.'  ( !) 

n  K  A  held  her  *  eighth  annual '  convention  in  Nashville, 
June  17-lS.  This  fraternity  restricts  its  activity  to  the 
south.  Only  six  chapters  were  represented  in  the  first  day's 
session,  but  others  came  in  later.  The  chief  matter  of 
business  was  revision  of  the  constitution,  which  was  carried 
out  somewhat  radically,  thereby  simplifying  the  system  of 
government.  The  plan  adopted  is  essentially  the  one  used 
by  Phi  Delta  Theta  since  ISSO.  The  national  convention 
has  supreme  governing  power,  and  between  conventions  af- 
fairs are  entrusted  to  an  executive  council,  n  K  A's  coun- 
cil consists  of  four  members,  one  being  an  advisory  officer, 
merely. 


86  THE  SCROLL. 

4>  r  A  held  her  forty-niuth  annual  convention  at  Nash- 
ville, June  80,  July  1  and  2.  Meetings  were  held  in  the 
senate  chamber  and  supreme  court  room  at  the  state  capitol. 
At  the  opening  session  fifty  delegates  were  reported  present 
from  twenty-eight  chapters  out  of  forty-three.  The  address 
of  welcome  was  delivered  by  Maj.  J.  W.  Thomas,  l^nioii 
(Tenn. ),  '57,  who  has  the  management  of  the  centennial. 
A  reception  was  given  the  first  evening  at  the  Maxwell. 
On  the  second  day  the  delegates  went  by  special  train  to 
visit  Belle  Meade  and  banqueted  in  the  evening  at  the  Dun- 
can. The  official  acts  of  the  convention  were  not  made 
public. 

The  biennial  convention  of  Kappa  Alpha  was  in  session 
at  Price's  College  Hotel,  Nashville,  Tenn..  June  14-1(>,  1S97. 
Twenty-seven  chapters  out  of  thirty-seven  were  represented, 
two  by  proxies,  and  three  alumni  chapters  out  of  eleven. 
The  committee  on  legislation,  to  which  was  referred  a  resolu- 
tion relating  to  ribbon  societies  or  pseudo- fraternities,  made 
a  report  which  caused  a  great  deal  of  discussion.  The  report 
was  signed  by  delegates  from  Virginia,  West  Virginia, 
Tennessee,  vSouthern  and  Tulane. 

The  report  cited  the  fact  that  section  l(>()  of  the  constitu- 
tion debars  all  members  of  the  Kappa  Alpha  fraternity  from 
joining  the  following  organizations:  Boar's  Head,  at  Tu- 
lane; Golden  Helmet,  Golden  Dragon  and  Junior  Secret 
Society,  at  Sewanee:  Gim  Gould,  Pi  Sigma,  N.  Society  and 
Gorgon's  Head,  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina:  1«S-K, 
Zeta  Tan  Kappa  and  Vukpali,  at  the  University  of  Georgia; 
Tilka,  Zeta  and  Peter  Magill,  at  the  University  of  Virginia; 
vSkeleton  Hand,  at  the  University  of  Texas,  and  all  similar 
organizations,  and  recommended  that  all  Kappa  Alphas  now 
connected  with  such  organizations  shall  be  compelled  to 
withdraw  at  once. 

By  a  vote  of  27  to  2  the  convention  adopted  the  report. 
This  is  a  step  which  had  been  contemplated  for  some  time» 
and  it  is  one  of  the  most  decisive  acts  ever  passed  by  a  col- 
lege fraternity.  The  following  grand  officers  were  re-elected 
for  the  ensuing  two  years:  Knight  Commander,  S.  Z.  Am- 
men,  editor  Baltimore  Su)i\  Grand  Purser,  Augustus  Ben- 
ners,  Birmingham:  Kditor  of  the  Kappa  Alpha  Journal,  V. 
M.  Jones,  Nashville.  Mr.  Annnen  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  order  in  18r>."),  and  is  still  a  most  zealous  and  energetic 
worker  for  the  fraternit}'.  During  the  past  tw^o  years  Mr. 
Jones  has  fully  sustained  the  high  standard  of  the  Journal 
established  by  his  predecessor.  \Ir.  Keeble,  and  in  recogni- 


THE  SCROLL.  87 

tion  of  his  valuable  services  he  was  elected  by  this  conven- 
tion a  member  of  the  Council  of  Honor.  This  is  an  honorary 
office  for  life,  and  only  one  member  is  elected  to  it  by  each 
convention.  The  following  were  elected  as  members  of  the 
electoral  commission  of  alumni:  W.  C.  McLeod,  of  Tu- 
lane;  Judge  Warner  Grice,  of  Mercer;  R.  E.  L.  Ray,  of 
Southwestern;  J.  E.  Willoughby,  of  Alabama;  C.  N.  Burch, 
of  Vanderbilt.  Preston  S.  Davis,  of  Bentonville,  Okl.,  was 
elected  to  compile  a  Kappa  Alpha  song  book.  Robert  A. 
Law,  of  Wofford,  was  awarded  the  medal  for  the  prize  es- 
say. Invitations  for  the  next  convention  were  received 
from  Washington,  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  New  Orleans,  but 
no  selection  was  made. 

A  4>  has  nine  college  chapters  and  five  of  alumnae.  The 
latter  have  the  management  of  the  Oiiartcrl\\  the  governing 
board,  the  initiative  in  extension  and  a  vote  as  well.  Each 
alumnae  chapter  has  a  letter  in  the  May  Quarterly,  The 
editor,  however,  believes  it  impossible  to  carry  on  these 
chapters  on  the  same  basis  as  the  college  chapters,  as  they 
are  sure  to  fail  to  meet  some  of  the  many  demands  made  of 
them.  The  editor  makes  a  statement  we  are  tempted  to 
copy  :  '  It  is  unfair,  unbusiness-like,  unkind  and  impolite 
to  fail  to  answer  promptly  a  business  communication,  or, 
being  unable  to  give  the  required  information  immediately, 
to  fail  to  send  an  explanation  in  its  stead.' 

The  Dartmouth  correspondent  of  the  2  X  Quarterly  is 
grieved  over  the  number  of  recent  additions  to  the  chapter 
roll :  West  Virginia,  Michigan,  Pennsylvania,  Missouri  and 
Chicago.  He  says,  '  While  we  believe  in  beneficial  exten- 
sion to  the  fraternity,  yet  it  must  be  remembered  that  a  too 
bulky  organization  never  runs  smoothly  [a  statement  sin- 
gularly like  those  made  by  western  Sigs  in  noting  the  size 
of  the  chapters  at  Dartmouth] .  When  we  remember  that 
there  are  about  five  hundred  colleges  in  the  United  States, 
the  fraternity  should  be  very  careful  how  it  plants  chapters 
in  colleges  which  have  no  past  and  a  rather  questionable 
future.  Sigma  Chi  has  already  too  many  chapters  in  small 
colleges,  which  are  practically  on  a  par  with  eastern  fitting 
schools.  College  fraternities  to  succeed  must  be  conserva- 
tive. Sigma  Chi  may  well  congratulate  itself  on  entering 
such  a  prosperous  institution  as  the  University  of  Chicago, 
but  let  us  guard  our  membership  jealously.' 


88  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Sigma  Chi  convention  met  at  Nashville,  August  25- 
2«S.  The  sessions  were  held  in  the  state  capitol,  and  a  rous- 
ing address  of  welcome  was  delivered  by  Governor  Taylor. 
Here  was  a  splendid  opportunity  to  make  him  an  honorary 
member,  but  happily  the  convention  firmly  resisted  the 
tempation  to  follow  the  precedent  set  in  electing  ex-Presi- 
dent Cleveland  a  few  years  ago.  Delegates  were  present 
from  all  of  the  fifty  active  college  chapters  of  Sigma  Chi, 
except  those  at  the  Universities  of  Kansas  and  Nebraska, 
and  they  had  two  of  the  general  officers  as  proxies.  A  few 
other  college  chapters  were  represented  by  graduates.  In 
addition,  five  alunmi  chapters  had  delegates,  and  nearly  all 
of  the  alumni  who  have  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
administration  of  Sigma  Chi  during  recent  years  were  pres- 
ent. The  debate  over  adopting  a  new  constitution  was  some- 
what freely  reported  in  the  following  paragraphs  from  the 
Nashville  American: 

The  committee  on  revision  of  the  constitution  reported  that  a  meet- 
ing had  been  held  at  Put-in-Bay,  and  the  committee,  after  careful  con- 
sideration, had  formally  revised  the  constitution,  and  their  findings 
had  been  printed  in  the  TUillctiti  for  last  December.  The  committee 
asked  that  their  recommendations  be  adopted  without  change,  but 
objection  was  raised  by  Delegate  F.  A.  Monroe,  who  stated  that  he 
had  been  instructed  by  tlie  Tulane  chapter  to  vote  against  any  meas- 
ure that  made  it  easy  for  a  new  charter  to  be  obtained.  He  moved  to 
amend  the  constitution  by  providing  that  at  least  one  of  the  three 
nearest  chapters  to  the  one  seeking  admission  have  the  right  to  make 
a  protest  against  the  granting  of  a  charter.  After  spirited  debate  the 
amendment  was  defeated.  The  Grand  Consul,  Gen.  Ben.  P.  Runkle, 
U.  S.  A.,  advocated  the  granting  of  chapters  to  the  smaller  colleges, 
setting  forth  the  great  good  that  had  been  done  by  these  colleges,  and 
he  said  that  some  of  the  best  men  in  tlie  fraternity  had  come  from  the 
chapters  at  the  smaller  colleges.  It  was  chiefly  due  to  the  impression 
made  by  Gen.  Runkle  that  the  amendment  was  tabled.  The  Grand 
Tribune,  Charles  Ailing,  Jr.,  of  Chicago,  moved  that  a  three-fourths 
vote  of  the  Grand  Council,  re(|uired  by  the  old  constitution  in  order 
to  admit  a  new  chapter,  be  retained,  instead  of  a  two-thirds  vote,  as 
recommended  by  the  committee.     The  motion  was  carried. 

The  report  was  also  amended  by  a  provision  in  the  case  of  transfers 
from  one  chapter  to  another,  to  allow  such  transfers  to  be  admitted 
into  the  new  chapter  on  a  favorable  vote  by  the  majority  of  its  mem- 
bers. Delegate  C.  V.  Delbridge,  of  Michigan,  .said  that  the  transfer 
ought  to  receive  a  unanimous  vote  before  admission  into  the  new 
chapter,  and  he  moved  in  lieu  of  the  above  amendment  to  leave  the 
admission  of  transfers  to  a  vote,  as  provided  in  the  present  laws.  The 
motion  was  carried.  After  these  amendments  the  report  of  the  com- 
mittee was  unanimously  adopted. 

The  main  points  in  which  the  new  constitution  differs  from  the  old 
are  these:  The  Grand  Tribune  and  the  Grand  Ivditor  are  made  mem- 
bers of  the  Grand  Council.  The  fraternity  is  also  ordered  to  be  incor- 
porated under  the  charter  of  Illinois,  which  means  that  the  headquar- 
ters will  remain  at  Chicago.     The  Triumvirs  are  given  power  to  look 


THE  SCROLL,  89 

after  this,  both  [.v/r]  of  whom  were  present,  and  their  influence  prob- 
ably brought  about  the  decision. 

The  Grand  Qua.*stor,  J.  C.  Nate,  of  Chicago,  announced  that  the 
certificates  of  delegates  were  all  in,  and  there  would  be  ample  funds 
to  pay  all  railroad  fares.  The  credit  of  having  such  a  fund  in  exist- 
ence is  due  to  Mr.  Nate,  the  father  of  the  measure  and  the  man  who 
has  made  this  fund  a  particular  feature  of  the  Sigma  Chi  fraternity. 

The  Grand  Chaplain,  Rev.  R.  W.  Springer,  of  Fort  Thomas,  Ky., 
reported  the  new  ritual  of  the  fraternity,  which  was  adopted  and  a 
vote  of  thanks  given  its  author. 

The  white  rose,  the  emblem  of  purity  and  love  and  faith,  was 
adopted  as  the  fraternity's  flower.  [This  flower  was  adopted  by  Sigma 
Nu  some  time  ago,  and  Alpha  Tau  Omega  claims  the  'white  tea  rose.' 
Beta  Theta  Pi,  by  the  way,  claims  all  the  roses.] 

The  election  of  the  Grand  Consul  had  been  looked  forward  to  with  a 
great  deal  of  interest  by  every  delegate  to  the  convention,  and  frater- 
nities, like  politicians,  are  not  altogether  free  from  wire-pulling.  The 
field  of  candidates  had  been  carefully  picked  over,  and  when  the  time 
for  balloting  came,  there  were  three  men  available  who  were  consid- 
ered most  fitted  for  the  position.  These  were  Dr.  S.  L.  Zeigler,  of 
Philadelphia,  George  D.  Harper,  of  Cincinnati,  and  Dr.  W.  L.  Dudley, 
of  Nashville.  After  several  spirited  and  closely  contested  ballots.  Dr. 
Dudley  was  declared  elected. 

Other  officers  were  elected  as  follows:  Charles  Ailing,  Jr.,  (^rand 
Tribune;  J.  C.  Nate,  Grand  Quiustor;  Herbert  C.  Arms,  Grand  Anno- 
tator;  Newman  Miller,  Editor-in-chief  of  the  Quarterly:  Frank  Cro- 
zier.  Grand  Historian.  Mr.  Crozier  is  the  retiring  editor  of  the  Quar- 
terly. Mr.  Miller,  the  new  editor,  is  an  Albion  man  of  the  class  of 
'93,  now  in  the  University  of  Chicago.  He  was  Grand  Pnetor  from 
1893  to  1890,  and  Grand  Annotator  from  1895  to  1897. 

A  day  or  two  before  the  convention  met  several  Chicago 
dailies  had  articles  about  a  combination  of  eastern  Sigs  to 
remove  the  fraternity  headquarters  from  Chicago  to  New 
York  or  Washington,  and  it  was  said  that  twenty  Chicago 
Sigs  had  gone  to  Nashville  to  defeat  the  plan.  From  the 
foregoing  report  it  appears  that  they  were  entirely  success- 
ful. The  headquarters  remain  in  Chicago,  and  all  the  offi- 
cers elected  or  re-elected  reside  in  that  city,  except  Dr.  W.  L. 
Dudley,  who  was  chosen  as  Grand  Consul.  Doubtless  the 
grand  consulship  could  have  been  captured,  too,  had  not 
the  proverbial  modesty  of  the  Chicago  representatives  caused 
them  to  refrain  from  claiming  that  office  also.  Dr.  Dudley, 
who  came  from  Cincinnati  to  Nashville,  fills  the  chair  of 
chemistry  at  Vanderbilt,  and  has  the  reputation  of  being 
the  most  popular  professor  among  the  students  in  the  uni- 
versity. For  years  he  has  been  president  of  the  Vanderbilt 
athletic  association,  and  of  the  glee  club.  He  is  also  one  of 
the  principal  officers  in  the  Tennessee  centennial  exposition, 
and  he  is  a  man  of  fine  address  and  marked  executive  ability. 

Socially  the  delegates  must  have  enjoyed  themselves  thor- 
oughly.    An  evening  reception  for  their  benefit  was  given 


90  THE  SCROLL, 

in  the  woman's  building,  and  the  following  evening  the 
banquet  was  held  at  ihe  Casino  roof  garden  on  the  exposi- 
tion grounds.  The  fireworks  for  that  evening  included  a  set 
piece  representing  the  Sigma  Chi  badge  —  a  compliment 
doubtless  from  Dr.  Dudley.  The  convention  photograph 
was  taken  with  the  members  grouped  befoie  the  Parthenon 
or  art  building.  The  delegates  also  visited  the  famous 
Belle  Meade  stock  farm  near  Nashville. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  how  far  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  been 
in  advance  of  vSigma  Chi  in  important  legislation.  Phi  Delta 
Theta  provided  for  paying  the  railroad  fares  of  delegates  by 
per  capita  dues  as  early  as  1>^73  (being  the  first  college  fra- 
ternity to  adopt  the  system  ) ,  was  incorporated  in  l^^l ,  adopt- 
ed a  flower  in  1><01,  and  made  the  editor  of  the  magazine 
a  member  of  the  Council  in  l>^0(>.  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  also 
legislated  in  regard  to  the  affiliation  of  transfers,  but  that  is 
considered  a  private  matter  among  ourselves.  It  may  be 
added,  however,  that  if  what  is  reported  concerning  Sigma 
Chi's  constitution  be  true,  the  reciuirements  for  granting  a 
charter  are  much  less  rigid  than  with  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

2  N  has  had  chapters  killed  in  the  past  year  at  South  Car- 
olina and  Central  (P'ayette,  Mo. )  by  anti-fraternity  laws  or 
rules.  Her  chapter  at  Pennsylvania  is  dead,  and  the  chap- 
ter at  Southwest  Kansas  College  has  emigrated  in  a  body, 
because  of  faculty  opposition,  to  a  Lutheran  college  in  the 
same  town  (Winfield). 

Princeton  has  enrolled  .'JoO  new  students  :  Cornell  reports 
1,500  the  first  week,  indicating  a  total  of  l,>>oO  or  l.^HK}  for 
the  year  ;  Rutgers  has  fewer  freshmen  than  usual  ;  Williams 
has  a  larger  freshman  class  than  was  expected — 110  with  <»0 
sophomores,  ^.H)  juniors,  ^K)  seniors,  •^>0  graduates  and  irreg- 
ulars :  Kenyon  has  the  largest  freshman  class  with  one  ex- 
ception in  *50  years  ;  \'assar  has  i-H)0  freshmen  ;  Syracuse 
falls  slightly  below  last  year  with  •)()")  freshmen  in  three  of 
the  four  colleges  ;  North  Carolina  breaks  her  record  w-ith 
">00  students  enrolled  to  date.  These  items  came  in  too  late 
to  appear  with  the  college  news. 


THE  SCROLL.  91 


THE  PYX. 

The  full  name  of  Horace  M.  Whaling,  Virginia  Delta,  '70, 
is  Horace  Morland  Whaling.  This  information  is  furnished 
by  Bro.  Robert  J.  McHryde,  Jr.,  Virginia  Zeta,  '05. 

The  full  name  of  Robert  O.  Strong,  Ohio  Alpha,  '67,  is 
Robert  Oliver  Strong.  He  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.  B. 
by  the  Cincinnati  Law  vSchool.  He  died  January  7,  1876. 
Bro.  A.  C.  Shaw,  Ohio  Alpha,  '97,  secured  these  items. 

This  reduces  to  seventeen  the  number  of  names  not  given 

in  full  in  the  sixth  edition  of  the  catalogue. 

^\»  ^'^  ^'j*  *j* 

<^  *.■•  ^* 


-1' 


The  daguerreotype  of  Bro.  Lindley,  given  in  this  issue, 
was  taken  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  1853,  we  have  just  learned. 

"vl*  *•>  •.!*  *•> 

'V*  ^i*  'J*  •■»'• 

Chapters  that  have  not  already  done  so  will  please  send 
in  at  once  the  name  and  address  of  this  year's  reporter,  to- 
gether with  the  number  of  attendant  members. 

i!'  -i'  ->  »> 

'%•'  'i-  I*  'i« 

The  Alpha  Province  convention  to  be  held  with  the  Brown 
chapter  at  Providence,  October  28  and  29,  was  announced 
in  the  September  Palladium.  We  advise  Alpha  Province 
Phis  to  read  again  President  Moore's  letter  in  the  issue  re- 
ferred to. 

•j»  'f*  ^'  H* 

Hotel  rates  at  Nashville  will  be  as  follows:  Maxwell 
House — rooms  one  dollar,  meals  seventy- five  cents;  Tulane 
— rooms  one  dollar,  meals  fifty  cents;  Price's  College  Hotel 
— rooms  seventy-five  or  fifty  cents,  meals  and  room  one 
dollar  and  fifty  cents  (room  and  two  meals  one  dollar  and 

twenty-five  cents). 

%if  »•.  «'»  «i* 

<-  '1*  'I*  »?* 

Her  many  friends  will  be  glad  to  know  that  Mrs.  John 
Kdwin  Brown  has  now  fully  recovered  from  the  effects  of 
her  severe  illness  of  pneumonia. 

^  ^  -A-^  ^^ 

It  is  very  late  now,  but  The  Scroll  wishes  to  acknowledge 
the  receipt  of  very  dainty  invitations  to  Missouri  Alpha's 
commencement  reception,  on  May  31,  to  Indiana  Delta's 
annual  reception,  on  June  8,  and  to  Ohio  Gamma's  annual 
banquet,  on  June  16.  These  courtesies  are  appreciated  by 
the  editor,  even  though  he  may  seem  to  be  almost  discour- 
teous in  his  tardy  acknowledgments. 


93  THE  SCROLL. 

The  editor  had  a  very  brief  call  at  commencement  from 
Rro.  G.  H.  Ashworth,  of  Lombard,  who  was  on  his  w^ay  to 
his  home  in  Ohio,  having  just  been  graduated  at  Galesburg. 
Lombard  has  forty  new  students  this  session,  by  the  way. 


Among  the  telegrams  of  congratulation  to  5  A  E's  con- 
vention at  Nashville  w-as  one  from  the  '  i  A  E  sorority. ' 
Several  fraternities  seem  to  have  a  fondness  for  organizing 
ladies'  auxiliaries;  w-e  even  hear  of  something  of  the  kind 
now  and  then  from  Phi  chapters.  Organized  or  not,  the 
young  women  who  wish  any  chapter  well  prove  most  effect- 
ive helpers.  But  the  editor  wishes  to  mention  some  good 
work  on  the  part  of  Phi  sisters  that  appeals  to  him  very 
strongly.  A  number  of  interesting  personal  items  in  this 
number  were  sent  him  by  three  young  women  from  as  many 
points  of  the  compass.  We  warn  the  boys  to  be  careful 
to  do  their  best,  for  it  is  evident  that  the  girls  are  watch- 
ing them. 

-JC-  *  i-i  -^ 

And  in  the  same  connection  we  wish  to  acknowledge  many 
courtesies  of  like  nature  from  Mr.  Herbert  M.  Martin,  of 
the  Caduceus  of  Kappa  Sigma. 


A  few  hundred  extra  copies  of  the  Manual  have  been 
printed  and  will  be  furnished  at  twenty-five  cents  each,  pre- 
paid, so  long  as  the  supply  lasts. 

'K  'i'  H^  H* 

Roehm  and  vSon,  of  Detroit,  have  brought  out  a  new 
pledge  button,  this  time  in  full  agreement  with  the  official 
regulations. 


;s 


Franklin  spent  her  second  season  in  camp  on  Driftwood, 
near  Taylorsville,  Ind.,  this  summer.  Case  went  into  camp 
on  the  lake;  so  did  Ohio.  A  number  of  Iowa  Wesleyan 
men  went  north  together.  Every  chapter  will  soon  have  its 
summer  camp. 

.<.  .■>  >•.  .</• 

'.'  •;••  »f»  'I- 

The  commencement  issue  of  The  Ihiivcrsity  Forum  makes 
a  great  showing  for  vSyracuse  in  every  way.  Her  attend- 
ance has  grown  in  three  years  from  777  to  1,174,  and  her 
faculty  from  00  to  121,  something  unparalleled  among  New 
York  colleges.     Brother  Albert  Leonard,  O/n'o,  '>^^,  is  the 


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new  vice-chancellor  and  dean.  The  state  championship  in 
base  ball  was  won  by  a  team  managed  by  a  Phi,  captained 
by  a  Phi,  with  four  Phis  playing  in  every  game.  New  York 
Epsilon  seems  to  have  some  reason  to  feel  elated  in  this  re- 
spect, especially  as  Bro.  Voorhees,  '9S,  was  chosen  captain 
for  '97-'y8. 

H*  *{»  »i»  •{» 

The  Ohio  University  J/tnor  has  Bro.  C.  G.  O'Bleness  as 
editor-in-chief.  Bros.  B.  G.  Carpenter  and  M.  W.  Allen 
are  editor-in-chief  and  business  manager,  respectively,  of 
the  Lombard  Review.  Bro.  Linn  Bowman  is  editor-in-chief 
of  The  Diekinsojiian ,  being  one  of  six  Phis  on  an  editorial 
board  of  twelve. 

^  '?•  'i^  'I* 

We  notice  from  letter-heads,  chapter  correspondence  and 
other  sources  that  the  crop  of  Phi  editors-in-chief  and  busi- 
ness managers  is  to  be  as  large  as  ever  this  year.  We  shall 
have  more  to  say  on  that  point  later.  Meanwhile,  put  The 
Scroll  on  the  mailing  list  of  your  college  paper  at  once,  or 
take  your  own  copy,  after  you  have  read  it,  mark  all  items 
of  interest  and  mail  it  to  the  editor.  He  is  still  very  grate- 
ful for  favors  of  this  kind  shown  him  last  year  and  begs  that 
they  be  continued.  He  is  very  grateful,  too,  for  the  large 
number  of  annuals  sent  him,  but  the  next  issue  will  give 
him  an  opportunity  to  express  his  gratitude. 

^:  i|c  ;|s  ;|c 

Brother  Caleb  B.  K.  Weed,  of  Sewanee,  has  been  appoint- 
ed one  of  the  two  university  proctors,  and  has  been  obliged 
to  resign  as  business  manager  of  the  Sewanee  Purple. 

*?•  'i^  'I*  'K 

Bro.  Royall  H.  Switzler,   Missouri,   '9«S,  has  been  given 
charge   of   the   new  department  of    '  Fraternities '    in  the 
Western  College  Magazine,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

.«.  >•,  .'»  »i* 

'T'  'I*  'i-  »l» 

The  report  that  K  2i  and  IT  K  A  are  dead  at  Washington 
and  Lee  was  premature.  Each  returned  two  men,  who  have 
made  no  initiations  so  far. 

«•<  •<<  >><  >]/• 

<r-  '•»  '1*  -T* 

Georgia  Alpha  is  no7c  at  home  in  the  handsomest  chapter 
house  in  Athens,  Brother  Weed  will  have  to  revise  his 
article  on  southern  chapter  houses. 


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The  season  promises  to  bring  out  as  many  Phi  foot  ball 
stars  as  ever.  Captain  Roller,  of  I)e  Pauw,  has  about  deter- 
mined to  do  his  own  coaching  and  retire,  after  four  years  of 
hard  work,  from  active  service.  Manager  Walker,  of  Illi- 
nois, has  stolen  a  march  on  the  rest  of  the  west  by  securing 
the  Carlisle  Indians  for  a  game  on  November  20  at  Chicago. 
Bro.  Carr  is  manager  at  Dartmouth,  Bro.  Oury  at  Nebraska, 
Bro.  Mann  at  Wisconsin,  Bro.  Boogher  is  captain  at  Vander- 
bilt. 


limory  has  initiated  six  good  men  after  a  hard  fight  for 
them,  giving  us  a  chapter  of  twenty-two:  Wooster  returned 
but  three  men,  having  lost  one  to  Princeton  and  one  to  Mi- 
ami; Iowa  returns  twelve:  Miami  now  has  the  colors  on  six 
new^  men  :  Wabash  returned  eight,  initiated  one  and  pledged 
three  :  Mercer  returned  eleven,  initiated  six,  pledged  two, 
expecting  to  add  three  or  four  more  :  Franklin  calls  for  ten 
copies  of  The  Scroll  ;  \'anderbilt  has  six  initiates  so  far  ; 
De  Pauw  returned  twelve  initiates  and  three  pledged  men 
and  has  six  new  men  to  initiate  :  Allegheny  will  have  tw^enty 
men  :  Virginia  reports  nine  old  men  back,  with  two  or  three 
more  coming. 


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VoL  XXIL  DECEMBER,  J897,  No.  2. 

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CHAPTER  HOUSES  IN  SOUTHERN  COLLEGES. 

The  growth  and  development  of  the  chapter  house  idea  is 
an  interesting  subject  to  all  fraternities,  and  I  trust  a  short 
sketch  of  such  houses  as  are  found  in  southern  colleges  will 
prove  of  interest  to  the  readers  of  The  vScroll. 

All  that  has  been  done  in  the  way  of  erecting  chapter 
houses  in  the  south  has  been  achieved  since  1«S84,  when  the 
present  house  of  Tennessee  Beta,  at  the  University  of  the 
South,  was  built.  The  house  is  a  modest  Queen  Anne  cot- 
tage of  two  good- sized  rooms,  which  is  now  too  small  for 
the  chapter's  purposes.  The  chapter  expects  to  remedy  this 
fault  in  the  near  future  by  the  addition  of  a  large  room. 
Tennessee  Beta  is  proud  of  the  fact  that  her  house  was  not 
only  the  first  chapter  house  of  4>  A  0  in  the  south,  but  was 
also  the  first  chapter  house  of  any  fraternity  ever  built  in 
the  south.  For  some  reason  or  other  Sewanee  life  seemed 
to  be  especially  adapted  to  the  chapter  house  idea.  The 
first  house  was  hardly  completed,  when  in  rapid  succession 
five  other  similar  houses  were  constructed — two  of  these  be- 
ing built  of  the  pink  sandstone  from  the  university's  quar- 
ries, while  the  others  are  pretty  cottages  of  two  or  four 
rooms.  These  belong  to  A  T  O,  ^  A  E,  K  ^  and  A  T  A.  The 
K  A  house  was  burned  to  the  ground  last  spring,  but  a  move- 
ment is  on  foot  to  erect  a  stone  building  upon  the  site  of 
their  first  house.  The  value  of  these  houses  is  anywhere 
from  $1,500  to  $8,000  each.  They  are  used  for  general 
chapter  purposes,  and  not  as  lodges.  They  are  all  hand- 
somely furnished,  and  two  of  them  are  supplied  with  billiard 
tables,  which  furnish  much  pleasure  to  the  members  and 
their  guests.  Most  of  the  houses  have  their  own  tennis 
courts,  and  all  take  pride  in  keeping  their  grounds  in  good 
order;  thus  they  add  a  great  deal  to  the  general  appearance 
of  the  university. 

Before  leaving  Tennessee,  I  will  speak  of  the  only  other 
chapter  house  in  the  state.  It  is  the  house  of  Tennessee 
Alpha  of  *  A  0,  at  Vanderbilt  University.     This  house  was 


THE  SCROLL,  99 

built  in  181>2  and  is  valued  at  $4,000.  It  is  a  very  pretty 
house  of  four  or  five  rooms,  just  off  of  the  university  cam- 
pus, facing  the  main  entrance  of  the  university  grounds.  It 
is  not  used  as  a  lodge,  although  the  chapter  expects  to  make 
it  into  one  before  many  days.  All  the  other  chapters  at  \'an- 
derbilt  rent  halls  or  rooms  in  the  city,  but  there  are  some 
movements  among  them  towards  the  erection  of  permanent 
homes. 

For  convenience  I  will  take  the  slates  in  the  order  of  our 
provinces  as  nearly  as  possible.  While  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity can  hardly  be  termed  a  southern  institution,  yet  it 
is  enough  so  to  come  within  the  limits  of  this  sketch.  The 
K  A  and  A  A  4>  chapters  there  have  houses.  The  K  A's  rent 
their  house  and  use  it  for  a  lodge.  I  am  not  informed  as  to 
whether  the  A  A  *'s  own  or  rent  their  house.  These  are 
the  only  chapter  houses  there,  so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to 
ascertain. 

At  the  University  of  X'irginia  the  outlook  is  promising; 
though  there  are  no  chapters  which  own  their  houses,  there 
are  some  that  expect  to  do  so  very  soon.  Most  of  the 
chapters  rent  halls  for  chapter  purposes,  while  only  two 
have  houses.  These  are  the  K  A's,  who  rent  a  lodge,  and 
the  Z  ^''s,  who  manage  to  get  all  the  rooms  in  one  of  the 
dormitory  houses,  and  thus  practically  have  their  own  lodge. 
The  A  K  E  chapter  has  already  bought  a  valuable  piece  of 
property  and  has  almost  enough  money  to  begin  building. 
The  X  4>'s  are  also  accumulating  a  building  fund,  and  the 
B  0  II*s  have  secured  the  privilege  of  building  a  $10,000 
house  on  the  university  grounds  so  soon  as  the  funds  are 
raised.  The  A  T  O's  have  a  building  fund  and  hope  soon  to 
get  a  house  started.  All  the  other  chapters  have  halls  out- 
side the  university  grounds,  except  in  the  cases  of  A  K  E  and 
4*  A  0,  who  are  fortunate  in  having  halls  in  the  very  heart 
of  the  university.  This  is  all  the  definite  information  I 
have  been  able  to  secure.  I  understand  that  there  are 
movements  on  foot  in  all  the  leading  fraternities  represented 
to  build  houses. 

The  prohibition  on  the  part  of  the  facult}'  of  Washington 
and  Lee  University  regarding  chapter  houses  has  kept  the 
movement  there  from  making  itself  felt.  This  has  been 
modified  now.  The  faculty  have  taken  a  more  rational 
view  of  the  subject.  The  2  N  chapter  occupies  a  rented 
house,  and  the  K  A  chapter,  with  the  general  fraternity,  is 
now  accumulating  a  fund  with  which  they  expect  to  build  a 
*  Memorial  House*  to  the  founders  of  their  fraternity.  They 
hope  to  accomplish  this  in  a  year  and  a  half. 


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There  are  no  other  chapter  houses  in  \'irgiuia,  although 
some  of  the  chapters  at  Roanoke  and  Randolph- Macon  are 
working  on  house  funds. 

In  North  Carolina  the  chapter  house  idea  seems  to  have 
taken  a  finn  hold.  There  are  in  all,  according  to  report, 
five  houses  at  Chapel  Hill,  and  it  is  a  regret  that  *  A  0 
should  not  be  among  the  number.  The  A  T  fi  house  and 
property  there  are  valued  at  about  $3,0()0.  The  Z  4^  house 
cost  about  $800,  and  the  *  K  ^  house  about  $-300,  although 
they  have  no  chapter  there  at  present.  The  other  house  is 
that  of  A  K  E,  the  value  of  which  I  do  not  know.  The 
house  idea  seems  to  have  been  well  inaugurated,  and  North 
Carolina  Beta  can  hardly  afford  to  be  left  behind  in  this  race. 

Kentucky,  although  the  home  of  several  old  and  good 
chapters,  has  been  very  slow  to  accept  or  to  push  the  house 
idea.  The  only  chapter  house  in  the  state  is  the  2  N  house 
at  Central  University,  and  this  is  rented.  Some  building 
funds  are  being  raised. 

In  South  Carolina,  at  Wofford  College,  there  are  two 
houses  rented  and  used  as  lodges.  These  seem  to  be  the 
only  chapter  houses  in  the  state.  They  belong  to  K  A  and 
K  5.  The  University  of  South  Carolina  prohibits  chapter 
houses. 

In  Georgia  there  are  five  chapters  occupying  houses. 
Four  of  these  are  at  the  University  of  Georgia.  K  .V  was 
the  first  to  venture  upon  the  lodge  experiment.  The  enter- 
prise was  successful,  and  now  2t  A  E,  X  4>  and  *  A  C-)  are  all 
very  comfortably  housed  within  short  distances  of  the  uni- 
versity campus.  These  houses  are  all  rented,  but  have  all 
been  very  handsomely  furnished  and  form  ideal  homes  for 
college  men. 

At  Emory  College  the  X  4>'s  rent  a  home,  and  the  K  A's 
are  strongly  considering  the  experiment.  <I>  A  0  has  been 
the  recipient  of  a  building  lot,  the  gift  of  one  of  her  loyal 
sons,  and  the  chapter  has  a  building  fund  of  between  $2,000 
and  $8,000,  so  we  may  expect  a  house  there  before  very  long. 

There  are  two  houses  occupied  by  chapters  in  Alabama. 
2  A  E  rents  a  house  at  the  University  of  Alabama,  at  Tuska- 
loosa.  The  University  will  not  permit  the  fraternities  to 
build  upon  the  college  grounds,  but  they  may  build  else- 
where in  the  town,  if  they  so  desire.  K  A  owns  a  house  and 
lot  in  Auburn,  valued  at  $2,5r)0.  This  is  an  old  brick  build- 
ing of  two  stories.  The  lower  floor  is  rented  to  the  post- 
office,  while  the  upper  floor  serves  for  chapter  purposes.  The 
other  chapters  are  all  in  rented  halls,  but  two  of  the.se  at  lea.st 
are  looking  forward  to  having  their  own  houses.    The  A  T  O's 


THE  SCROLL.  103 

own  a  lot  in  the  college  grounds  and  the  4>  A  (£)'s  are  work- 
ing on  a  chapter  house  fund. 

The  A  *  house  is  the  only  chapter  house  in  Mississippi. 
This  is  at  the  University  of  Mississippi,  at  Oxford.  It  is  a 
two-story  pressed-brick  building,  ."iOxoO  feet,  on  the  uni- 
versity campus.  It  was  erected  in  IS^T  at  a  cost  of  about 
$4, (MM),  which  was  raised  by  subscriptions  from  the  alumni. 
The  house  was  designed  for  a  lodge,  but  is  not  used  for  one. 
The  A  K  E's  and  the  Phis  are  thinking  very  seriously  of 
building  during  this  year,  although  nothing  definite  has  been 
done  as  yet,  other  than  to  work  upon  the  building  funds, 
which  are  steadily  increasing.  The  Phis  have  over  $1,000 
already.  With  this  in  hand  a  chapter  house  ought  to  be 
realized  in  the  near  future,  considering  the  fact  that  a  plat 
in  the  college  campus  would  not  cost  anything,  nor  w^ould  it 
be  subject  to  taxation.  One  loyal  brother  has  offered  a  car- 
load of  lumber  to  start  the  building. 

Louisiana  can  boast  of  two  chapter  houses.  These  are 
both  at  the  State  University,  at  Ha  ton  Rouge.  K  A  owns  a 
lodge  valued  at  $1,500.  The  other  house  is  owned  by  K  S. 
There  are  no  chapter  houses  at  Tulane  University.  This  is 
probably  due  to  the  fact  that  the  faculty  will  not  give 
permission  to  erect  anything  but  a  stone  or  brick  structure 
on  the  university  grounds.  Many  of  the  chapters  are  work- 
ing on  chapter  house  funds,  but  at  present  they  must  con- 
tent themselves  with  rented  plub  rooms  in  the  city. 

There  are  four  chapter  houses  in  Texas.  There  are  two 
rented  houses  at  the  University  of  Texas.  These  are  used 
as  lodges.  One  is  occupied  by  K  A  and  one  by  ^  N.  The 
K  A's  at  the  Southwestern  University  own  the  only  chapter 
house  there.  It  is  a  four-room  cottage  used  as  a  lodge,  and 
valued  at  $1,500.  The  Phis  at  Southwestern  have  had  a 
building  lot  given  them  on  the  condition  that  they  will  raise 
the  building  fund.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  this  fund  is 
being  rapidly  raised,  and  soon  they  hope  to  have  their  own 
home.     At  vSherman  the  A  T  I2*s  rent  a  house. 

Missouri  is  struggling  over  the  problem.  The  2  N  chapter 
at  the  University  of  Missouri  stands  alone,  occupying  the 
only  chapter  house  in  the  state,  and  this  is  rented.  It  was 
especially  built  for  the  chapter  by  an  alumnus.  The 
B  0  II's  rented  a  house  here  two  seasons  ago,  but  did  not 
seem  to  like  the  experiment,  as  they  only  retained  the  house 
for  four  months.  The  Phis  here  are  working  on  their 
plans,  and  hope  to  put  them  into  operation  very  .soon.  The 
B  0  II's  are  said  to  be  accumulating  a  building  fund.  Noth- 
ing in  the  way  of  chapter  houses  can  be  expected  at  Wash- 


lAITKK  HoVSK,  SHWANKK. 


DKI.Ta  TaI'  Dki.Ta  ClIAITKk  IIOfSK,  Skwa] 


nil-.    SCROLL.  i(>s 

ingtou  Uiiiversily,  St.  Ixtiiiii,  tintil  the  university  removes 
to  its  new  site.  In  the  meantime  the  chapters  are  accuinu- 
latiug  building  funds  and  fornmlatiug  plans  for  the  erection 
of  handsome  lodges.  The  Phis  are  nut  behind  in  this  mat- 
ter, as  they  have  a  very  good  building  fund,  which  is  increas- 
ing from  year  to  year.  At  Westminster  College,  h'ulton,  as 
yet  there  are  no  chapter  houses.  The  Phis  there  have  gone 
so  far  as  to  ask  their  faculty  for  a  building  site  on  the 
campus,  and  have  l>een  granted  the  first  choice  in  the  selec- 
tion. 

This  ends  the  list  of  chapter  houses  in  use  in  the  south, 
so  far  as  I  have  t>een  able  to  gain  reliable  information. 
Probably  some  chapters  Jiave  been  overlooked,  although  an 
effort  has  been  made  to  hear  from  each  house  and  give  it 
due  reference.  It  is  f^ratifying  to  sec-  that  such  a  real  and 
healthful  interest  is  being  manifested  in  all  the  leading  col- 
leges in  this  most  iniporlant  feature  of  the  college  fraternity 
of  the  present  day.  Surely  it  would  .seem  as  if  the  day  were 
not  far  distant  when  all  the  chapters  in  Hie  south  will  have 
their  own  houses,  and  this  will  enable  them  to  do  much 
better  work  than  thev  at  present  are  able  to  do. 

CvLi'ii  U.  K.  Wkkd. 


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V    Al.l'HA     Hl'SII.IIS    ChAITKR    IIorSH,  SliWASRK. 


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THE  SCKOI.I.. 


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itigtou  Uiiiversity,  St.  l^ouis,  until  the  university  : 
to  its  Dew  site.  In  the  meantime  the  chapters  are  a 
latiug  building  funds  and  formulating  plans  for  the  erection 
of  handsome  lodges.  The  Phis  are  not  behind  in  this  mat- 
ter, as  they  have  a  very  good  Ijuilding  fund,  which  is  increas- 
ing from  year  to  year.  At  Westminster  College,  Fulton,  as 
yet  there  are  no  chapter  houses.  The  Phis  there  have  gone 
so  far  as  to  ask  their  faculty  for  a  building  site  on  the 
campus,  and  have  been  granted  the  first  choice  in  the  selec- 
tion. 

This  ends  the  list  of  chapter  houses  in  use  in  the  south, 
so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  gain  reliable  infonuation. 
Probably  some  chapters  have  been  overlooked,  although  an 
effort  has  been  made  to  hear  from  each  house  and  give  it 
due  reference.  It  is  gratifying  to  see  that  such  a  real  and 
healthful  interest  is  being  manifested  in  all  the  leading  col- 
leges in  this  most  important  feature  of  the  college  fraternity 
of  the  present  day.  Surely  it  would  seem  as  if  the  day  were 
not  far  distant  when  all  the  chapters  in  the  south  will  have 
their  own  houses,  and  this  will  enable  them  to  do  much 
better  work  than  they  at  oresent  are  able  to  do. 

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COLLEGE  ANNUALS- 

Oracle ^  Colby.  Cornet^  Vauderbilt. 

^gis^  Dartmouth.  Zodiac,  Emory. 

Ariel ^  Vermont.  Corolla,  Alabama. 

Olio^  Amherst.  Glomerata,  Alabama  Polytech- 

Liber  BruncnsiSy  Brown.  nic. 

Cornelliany  Cornell.  Ole  Miss,  Mississippi. 

Gartiet,  Union.  Jambalaya,  Tulane. 

Oiiondagan,  Syracuse.  Cactus,  Texas. 

Spectruvi,  Gettysburg.  Index,  Wooster. 

Pandora,   Washington    and  Makio,  Ohio  State. 

Jefferson.  Differential,  Case. 

Kaldron,  Allegheny.  Arbutus,  Indiana. 

Microcosm,  Dickinson.  Debris,  Purdue. 

Record,  Pennsylvania.  Michiiranensiayi,  Michigan. 

Corks  and  Curls,  Virginia.  Badger,  Wisconsin. 

Lemon  and  Black,  Randolph-  Savitar,  Missouri. 

Macon.  Searchlight,  Westminster. 

Calyx ^  W^ashington  and  I^ee.  Sejiior  Annual,  Kansas. 

Hellenian,  North  Carolina.  Sombrero,  Nebraska. 

Eccentric,  Centre.  Blue  and  Gold,  California. 

Perhaps  no  feature  of  The  Scroij.  during  the  last  ten 
years  has  afforded  the  careful  and  appreciative  student  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta's  current  history  more  pleasure  or  profit 
than  have  Dr.  Brown*s  reviews  of  college  annuals.  The 
art  of  presenting,  in  attractive  guise,  a  long  array  of  facts  and 
figures,  however  interesting  these  may  be  from  their  im- 
portance, is  not  given  to  every  man,  alas!  and  the  reviewer 
who  now  undertakes  this  pleasant  task  for  the  first  time 
is  glad,  out  of  his  many  disadvantages,  to  be  able  to  men- 
tion one  lone  point  in  which  the  eleventh  review  will 
excel  its  predecessors — in  the  number  reviewed.  This 
proves  on  closer  acquaintance  to  be  a  misfortune  in  disguise, 
for  it  serves  only  to  elaborate  and  emphasize  the  many  de- 
ficiences  readers  of  a  reminiscent  turn  will  discover  on  every 
page.  Consciousness  of  being  unequal  to  his  task  can  not 
detract,  however,  from  the  editor's  personal  pleasure  in  hav- 
ing been  thus  so  generously  favored,  and  he  wishes  in  the  be- 
ginning to  express  his  gratitude  to  seven-and-thirty  faithful 
Phis  who  have,  out  of  their  loyalty  to  alma  mater  and  their 
home  chapter,  and  from  their  courteous  interest  in  TnR 
Scroll  and  its  success,  managed  to  load  our  shelves  wnth 
their  charming  burden.     To  the  chapters  who  have  remem- 


loS  THE  SCROLL. 

bered  their  duty  before  the  edition  was  exhausted,  to  the 
reporters  who  have  scoured  the  local  stores  for  one  last  for- 
gotten book,  to  that  ubiquitous  and  irresistible  being  whom 
our  friends  at  Virginia  profanely  call  'calico,'  who  was  in 
several  cases  found  to  be  the  possessor  of  the  only  available 
copy  but  who  took  pity  on  the  neglected  editor,  and  to  sev- 
eral good  Phis  who  were  unable  to  secure  another  one  for 
money,  but  who  have  loaned  us  theirs  for  love — to  all  we 
wish  here  to  express  our  sincere  gratitude,  and  a  hope  that 
we  may  be  even  belter  remembered  this  year.  Which  per- 
sonalities we  trust  the  impatient  reader  who  forgot  to  send 
us  his  own  annual  will  pardon  and  pass  by. 

Some  of  our  exchanges  have  said  that  annuals  are  inter- 
esting to  the  reader  at  first  hand  only — never  in  descrip- 
tions. There  is  more  than  a  grain  of  truth  in  this,  but  they 
are  always  so  ver}'  interesting  at  first  hand  that  the  reader 
believes  he  can  render  a  portion  at  least  of  their  elusive 
charm — believes  until  he  tries  it. 

We  hope  that  the  custom  of  exchanging  annuals,  inaugu- 
rated some  years  since  by  several  chapters,  may  be  kept  up. 
Every  chapter  should  lend  its  active  support  to  the  publica- 
tions of  its  alma  mater,  and  help  to  make  them  creditable 
in  all  respects. 

The  Colby  Oracle,  in  dark  blue  and  white,  dedicates  its 
thirty-first  volume  to  an  honored  alumnus,  Dr.  William 
Matthews,  critic  and  essayist,  of  the  class  of  ''>5.  Two  Phis 
and  two  Delta  U.  's  are  on  the  board  of  editors,  the  other  chap- 
ters having  one  representative  each.  Bro.  W.  F.  Titcomb, 
'07,  is  managing  editor,  and  Hro.  A.  K.  Linscott,  'OS^  an  as- 
sociate editor.  In  the  senior  class  20  men  and  10  women 
are  enrolled;  in  the  junior,  11  and  17,  respectively;  in  the 
sophomore,  •>•>  and  20;  in  the  freshman,  87  and  27;  of  the 
men  all  but  fourteen  are  Greeks,  and  one  of  these  is  pledged. 
Of  the  >»0  women  all  but  fourteen  belong  to  the  two  local 
societies.  The  local  term  for  spiking  is  'fishing.*  A  K  E  has 
a  chapter  of  27;  Z^l'haslS;  AY  enrolls  28;  <1>A0.  28;  A  T  n, 
17.  There  is  also  a  chapter  of  4>  H  K.  The  Phis  are  repre- 
sented in  all  the  college  organizations  rather  better  than 
any  of  their  rivals.  They  are  especiall}^  influential  in  music, 
athletics  and  the  college  publications.  All  the  illustrations 
in  this  volume  were  done  'at  home,'  the  editors  proudly 
tell  us. 

The  first  comer  of  the  year  was  the  Dartmouth  .-^^/>,  the 
fortieth  issue.  This  is  an  exceptionally  early  comer,  mak- 
ing its  appearance  in  December.     Like  most  of  its  neighbors 


THE  SCROLL,  109 

on  our  shelves  it  is  issued  by  the  junior  class,  and  this  time 
it  is  dedicated  in  sarcasm  or  anticipation  to  *The  Co-eds  of 
Dartmouth. '  Each  of  the  nine  chapters  has  one  represent- 
ative, and  the  non-fraternity  men  have  a  member  on  the 
board.  Bro.  Carr  is  business  manager.  The  total  attend- 
ance last  year  at  Dartmouth  was  a  little  over  (iOO,  and  .^20 
of  these  were  fraternity  men.  Large  chapters  are  the  rule: 
*Y,  ;32;  KKK,  Z'i<-,  A  A  4>,  ?A\  AKE,  41;  0  A  X,  41);  *  A  (-), 
40;  B  0  11.  25;  ^  X,  34;  4>  K  ^,  27.  Of  these  K  K  K  has  a 
house  and  AKE  and  A  A  O  halls;  the  house  question  is  just 
entering  a  serious  phase  at  Dartmouth.  0  N  E  has  a  chap- 
ter here;  the  accompanying  chapter  list  locates  2')  branches 
of  that  society.  New  Hampshire  Alpha  leads  in  athletics, 
is  strong  in  dramatics,  the  press  and  musical  organizations. 
She  had  the  business  manager  in  foot  ball,  on  the  college 
paper,  the  dramatic  club  and  the  annual,  and  holds  the  inter- 
fraternity  whist  championship.  The  'chinning'  season  began 
in  189(),  on  November  IS,  this  year  on  October  2.").  The 
initiations  always  follow  in  a  week  or  two. 

This  is  volume  XI.  of  the  Vermont  Arid,  and  the  juniors 
dedicate  it  to  H.  O.  Houghton,  of  the  class  of  '4().  Bro. 
Roy  L.  Patrick  is  business  manager.  A  T  12,  A  1,  AAA  and 
K  2  are  not  represented  on  the  board.  The  university  has 
adopted  a  new  yell.  An  event  which  seems  to  have  occa- 
sioned much  excitement  vsince  the  issue  of  the  last  Ariel  is 
the  kidnaping  of  the  president  and  prophet  of  the  freshman 
class  by  the  inevitable  sophomores.  The  whole  story  is  viv- 
idly recounted,  with  appropriate  illustrations.  As  a  result 
of  this  incident  the  faculty  has  issued  some  stringent  edicts 
on  the  subject  of  hazing,  to  which  reference  may  be  found  in 
the  Vermont  letter  of  this  number.  There  are  155  fraternity 
men  at  Vermont  out  of  some  200  in  the  college  proper;  there 
are  about  50  co  eds.  Besides  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  three  medi- 
cal societies  and  two  sororities,  there  are  three  local  frater- 
nities, Lambda  Iota,  Delta  Psi  and  Alpha  Phi,  enrolling  1), 
22  and  17  men,  respectively.  Sigma  Phi  has  1(>  men;  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  24;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  23;  Kappa  Sigma,  24. 
The  Phis  are  equally  prominent  in  all  departments  of  col- 
lege activity;  Bro.  Lincoln  is  editor-in-chief  of  the  Cynic, 
and  Bro.  Ray  won  the  Forest  prize  in  oratory. 

The  Amherst  Olio  comes  in  December,  too.  Its  editors 
are  juniors,  the  several  fraternities  and  the  non-fraternity 
men  having  one  each.  The  business  manager  seems  to  be 
chosen  afterward.  Bro.  Strong  is  the  Phi  editor.  The  ed- 
itors declare  by  way  of  preface  that  the  faultfinder  always 


no  THE  SCROLL, 

does  his  college  more  harm  than  good,  and  that  they  will 
have  naught  to  do  with  him.     One  of  the  first  illustrations 
refers  to  an  attempt  to  revive  the  college  senate — a  hopeless 
task,  apparently.     The  senate  is  represented  by  a  row  of 
owls,  hanging  heads  down  from  a  roost  with  which  wires 
from  a  battery  have  been  connected.     The  dedication  is  to 
Sabrina,  a  bronze  statute  once  in  the  campus,  but  now  kept 
hidden  by  successive  classes  and  later  given  away  by  them 
or  captured  from  them.     Out  of  about  400  students  all  but 
75  are  fraternity  men.     The  chapters,  given  here,  as  else- 
where, in  order  of  establishment,  enroll  the  following  mem- 
bers:    A  A  *,   3(');    ^  Y,   :55;    A  K  E,   ;jl;  A  Y,   27;  X  ^,  2(>; 
X  4>,  27;    B  0  II,  2i8;    0  A  X,  81;  4>  A  0,  28;   4>  T  A,  18  (but 
one  freshman);  ^  K  ^,  ;)4.     Theta  Xu  Epsilon  is  not  men- 
tioned, though  Amherst  appears  on  that  society's  roll.    The 
Phis  have  representatives  everywhere,    being   particularly^ 
strong  in  the  press  and  musical  organizations.     Bro.  Crary 
is  manager  of  the  monthly,  and  Bro.  Wright   is  '  college 
gymnast.' 

'  To  our  friends  the  faculty,  to  our  contemporaries  the 
co-eds,  to  our  ancestors  the  alumni,  and  to  our  severest 
censors  the  student  body,  but  in  particular  to  those  sturdy 
pioneers  in  the  field  of  student  publication  who,  forty  years 
ago,  presented  to  the  college  world  the  initial  number  of  a 
Brown  annual,  this  volume  is  respectfully  and  loyally  dedi- 
cated.'— So  says  Liber  Brnnensis,  issued  by  'The  Greek- 
letter  fraternities  of  Brown  University.'  Bro.  Lewis  is  our 
representative.  In  this  volume,  contrary  to  the  usual  cus- 
tom, the  fraternity  lists  precede  the  class  rolls.  Alpha  Delta 
Phi  has  28  men;  Delta  Phi,  2();  Psi  Upsilon,  26;  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  28;  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  22;  Zeta  Psi,  19;  Theta  Delta 
Chi,  18;  Delta  Upsilon,  2U;  Chi  Phi,  18;  Phi  Delta  Thetn, 
29;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  81;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  15;  total,  289, 
out  of  751  men.  There  are  157  women;  among  them  are 
two  local  sororities  and  a  chapter  of  Kappa  Alpha  Theta. 
The  chapter  of  Chi  Phi  is  the  one  which  a  few  years  since 
expelled  all  the  other  chapters  of  that  fraternity  and  which 
now  constitutes  'the  whole  thing.'  The  quarrel  was  over 
the  question  of  limiting  membership  to  lineal  descendants 
of  Chi  Phis.  In  the  graduating  class  is  Mr.  J.  D.  Rocke- 
feller, Jr.,  whose  surname  was  used  so  lavishly  in  connec- 
tion with  the  resignation  of  President  Andrews.  He  is  an 
Alphi  Delta  Phi.  The  Phis  have  their  share  of  all  the  hon- 
ors; White  manages  the  Bninonian,  and  Briggs  the  Daily 
Herald, 


THE  SCROLL.  m 

The  Comellian  is  a  delight  to  the  eye  mechanically,  and 
the  system  of  prize  offers  has  called  out  some  interesting 
literary  contributions.  The  juniors  dedicate  this  volume 
'  To  the  Victors  of  the  Hudson,  the  'Varsity  Crew  of  '96,' 
whose  pictures  follow.  Eight  members  of  '98  produce  the 
book,  and  one  of  these  is  Bro.  J.  H.  Wynne.  Cornell  en- 
rolled 1,763  students  last  year;  1,284  of  them  were  in  the 
four  college  classes,  the  freshmen  numbering  500.  There 
are  26  fraternities  and  sororities,  (5  class  societies  and  the 
honorary  societies  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Xi.  The 
number  in  the  several  chapters  is  as  follows:  Zeta  Psi,  19; 
Chi  Phi,  22;  Kappa  Alpha,  23;  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  19;  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  18;  Chi  Psi,  26;  Delta  Upsilon,  27;  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  28;  Theta  Delta  Chi,  22;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  25; 
Beta  Theta  Pi,  24;  Psi  Upsilon,  23;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta, 
24;  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma,  15;  Delta  Gamma,  21;  Alpha 
Tau  Omega,  2();  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  27;  Phi  Delta  Phi,  22; 
Alpha  Phi,  18;  Phi  Sigma  Kappa,  19;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  23; 
Sigma  Phi,  18;  Sigma  Chi,  19;  Delta  Chi,  27;  Delta  Phi, 
14;  Kappa  Sigma,  K);  total,  575,  including  graduate  mem- 
bers. Eight  Phis  are  members  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon.  The 
roll  of  chapters  given  for  that  society  stops  with  the  first  17 
on  the  Dartmouth  roll  of  25.  The  Phis  are  strongest  in  the 
numerous  social  clubs,  in  athletics  and  in  music.  Bassford 
was  quarter-back  on  the  'varsity,  and  Whiting  and  Demp- 
sey  were  substitutes;  Lines  led  the  banjo  club  and  Weller 
the  mandolin  club;  Haskell  and  Bassford  were  on  the  nine, 
and  Zeller  and  Whittemore  on  the  track  team. 

The  '98  Garyiet  is  dedicated  to  Sidney  G.  Ashmore,  pro- 
fessor of  Latin  at  Union.  At  this  first  home  of  the  frater- 
nity system  it  is  pleasant  to  see  such  a  strong  chapter  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta.  Bro.  C.  D.  Griffith  is  editor-in-chief  of  the 
annual,  Bro.  W.  L.  Terry  is  manager  of  the  track  team. 
Brown  and  Cullen  were  two  of  the  six  speakers  on  the  prize 
debate,  and  all  the  literary,  social  and  athletic  organizations 
seem  to  have  drawn  on  New  York  Beta.  Garnet  is  the  col- 
lege color:  the  seniors  wear  garnet  and  pink,  the  juniors 
garnet  and  yellow,  the  sophomores  garnet  and  white,  the 
freshmen  garnet  and  gold.  The  sophomores  who  started 
out  to  salt  the  freshmen  in  the  fall  are  said  to  have  been 
routed  with  tomatoes.  It  is  the  aim  of  each  class  at  Union 
to  paint  in  its  class  colors  a  shapeless  statue  on  the  campus. 
The  paint  is  said  now  to  be  several  inches  thick,  and  the 
statue  far  more  shapeless  than  at  first.  Kappa  Alpha  had 
last  year  10  men;  Sigma  Phi,  9;  Delta  Phi,  9;  Psi  Upsilon, 


112  THE  SCROLL, 

16;  Delta  Upsilon,  16;  Chi  Psi,  IS;  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  lo; 
BetaTheta  Pi,  Ki;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  15  (a  freshman  dele- 
gation of  four  seems  to  have  become  an  inevitable  feature 
of  New  York  Beta);  Phi  Cxamma  Delta,  18;  total,  142,  out 
of  221  college  students.  There  are  medical  and  law  fraterni- 
ties, besides  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Sigma  Xi  and  Theta  Nu  Ep- 
silon.  The  chapter  list  of  the  latter  stops  with  nineteen  and 
does  not  agree  with  other  lists  as  to  the  names  of  nine  of 
these.  Theta  Delta  Chi  is  the  only  one  of  the  six  fraterni- 
ties founded  at  Union  without  a  chapter  there  at  present. 

The  juniors  of  Syracuse  dedicate  this  year's  annual  to  the 
trustees.  It  is  the  fourteenth  volume  of  the  Onondagan^ 
and  there  are  sixteen  editors.  C.  W.  Mills  represented 
4>  A  (-).  vSeven  of  the  editors  are  ladies,  one  a  'neutral'  and 
the  others  from  the  six  sororities  of  Alpha  Phi  ( ^M  members ), 
Gamma  Phi  Beta  ('*>8),  Kappa  Kappa  (lamma  (29),  Kappa 
Alpha  Theta  (8:j),  Pi  Beta  Phi  (28),  and  Delta  Delta  Delta 
(17).  Of  these  Alpha  Phi  and  Gamma  Phi  Beta  were 
founded  at  Syracuse.  The  fraternities  are  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  (81),  Delta  Upsilon  (24),  Psi  Upsilon  (26),  Phi 
Kappa  Psi  (:;6),  Phi  Delta  Theta  (26),  Beta  Theta  Pi  (20). 
Besides  these  there  are  chapters  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Phi 
Kappa  Alpha  (a  new  senior  society  with  two  Phis  as  charter 
members),  Theta  Nu  Kpsilon  and  Beta  Delta  Beta,  a  fresh- 
man society  founded  at  Syracuse  and  now  existing  in  six 
colleges.  At  Syracuse  it  seems  to  be  a  feeder  of  Theta  Nu 
Epsilon.  No  attempt  is  made  to  give  a  chapter  list  for  the 
latter.  The  Phis  at  vSyracuse  have  been  especially  strong 
in  athletics,  the  base  ball  team,  captain,  manager  and  all, 
seeming  to  be  a  branch  of  Xew  York  Epsilon.  There  are 
two  Phi  class  presidents,  and  Bro.  Dolph  is  leader  of  the 
glee  club.  Bro.  Nichols  is  president  of  the  Kent  law  club. 
Syracuse  enrolled  over  1,100  students  last  year,  474  in  the 
college  of  liberal  arts.  The  sororities  draw  heavily  on  the 
department  of  fine  arts,  which  enrolls  "iK*.  There  are  168 
Greeks  among  the  men  and  174  among  the  women.  Bro. 
P>nner  is  business  manager  of  't'D's  Onondai^an. 

The  Spedrinn  begins  with  an  interesting  double-page  half- 
tone of  the  (icttysburg  campus,  showing  all  the  buildings, 
old  and  new.  This  is  followed  by  views  of  the  campus  in 
1892  and  18S2,  speaking  eloquently  of  the  schooPs  growth. 
But  seven  of  the  sixteen  juniors  on  the  board  are  fraternity 
men.  The  book  is  dedicated  to  a  member  of  the  faculty 
and  gives  many  views  of  the  college,  a  list  of  the  alumni, 
pictures  of  the  faculty  and  several  historical  tables.     From 


THE  SCROLL,  113 

one  of  these  we  learn  that  the  size  of  the  graduating  class 
has  increased  by  decades  as  follows:  18')4-1),  7;  1S40-9,  11 ; 
1850-9,14;  18(50-9,10;  187(M),  IS;  1880-9,21;  189()-(>, 
•^0.  Since  1890,  o7  fraternity  men  and  l-i8  *nons*  have  been 
graduated,  from  1S80  to  1«S89  these  figures  were  almost  ex- 
actly reversed.  Phi  Kappa  Psi  has  graduated  120  men  since 
18-")5,  Phi  Gamma  Delta  119  since  1858,  Sigma  Chi  51  since 
1863,  Phi  Delta  Theta  59  since  1^75,  Alpha  Tau  Omega  84 
since  1882.  The  number  of  students  last  year  was  218,  7<) 
being  in  the  preparatory  department.  There  are  56  Greeks: 
Phi  Kappa  Psi,  8;  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  13;  Sigma  Chi,  12; 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  13;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  10.  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  has  three  preps,  and  Sigma  Chi  four.  Pictures  of  the 
Phi  Psi  and  Sig  houses  are  given.  The  Phis  have  one  man 
on  the  Mercury^  one  on  the  glee  club,  and  one  on  the  foot 
ball  team.  This  is  Bro.  J.  W.  Ott,  '97.  They  are  more 
numerously  represented  in  class  offices  and  teams  and  in 
tennis.  They  have  no  representative  on  the  Spcdnim, 
There  are  five  local  class  societies,  and  the  literary  society 
still  flourishes  at  Gettysburg.  Since  the  class  of  '92  there 
have  been  20  co-eds  at  Gettysburg;  of  these  «S  are  now  in 
attendance  and  3  have  been  graduated. 

The  thirteenth  volume  of  Washington  and  Jefferson's 
Payidora  is  dedicated  to  Prof.  Alonzo  Linn,  for  forty  years 
a  member  of  the  faculty.  Bro.  D.  Glenn  Moore  is  editor- 
in-chief,  the  first  Phi  to  hold  that  position.  There  is  only 
one  other  Greek  on  the  board,  a  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  who  is 
business  manager,  but  we  understand  that  even  two  fra- 
ternity men  are  not  usually  found  on  a  Pandora  board. 
For  one  of  the  illustrations  a  picture  from  Truth  has  been 
systematically  decapitated  and  heads  of  the  faculty  substi- 
tuted. W.  and  J.  enrolled  last  year  228  college  students 
and  72  preps.,  3()<^  in  all;  248  were  from  Pennsylvania,  20 
from  Ohio,  15  from  West  Virginia  and  18  from  11  other 
states.  The  Scotch- Irish  are  as  much  in  evidence  here  as 
are  the  Germans  at  Gettysburg.  Beta  Theta  Pi  enrolls  13; 
Phi  Gamma  Delta,  11;  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  12;  Phi  Kappa 
Sigma,  10;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  9;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  14;  total, 
68,  or  about  30  per  cent,  of  the  whole.  Beta  Theta  Pi  has 
a  house.  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  gives  a  chapter  list  of  29,  get- 
ting out  of  the  tangle  that  ensues  when  such  lists  are  com- 
pared by  giving  two  Kappa  chapters.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is 
represented  here,  as  well  as  in  the  flourishing  literary  socie- 
ties. Bro.  Moore  was  also  editor-in-chief  of  the  Washing' 
ton-Jeffersonia^i.     The  chapter  had  one  man  on  the  instru- 


114  THE  SCROLL, 

mental  club,  one  on  the  eleven  and  two  on  the  nine. 
Washington  and  Jefferson  is  the  home  of  Phi  Kappa  Psi 
and  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  but  Phi  Delta  Theta  apparently 
holds  her  own  against  these  as  well  as  with  the  others. 

Allegheny's  Kaldron  is  marked  *  '*>?,'  but  the  editors  do 
not  seem  to  be  confined  to  that  class  or  to  be  taken  equally 
from  the  fraternities.  Phi  Gamma  Delta  has  four  men  on 
the  board.  W.  P.  Heazell  represents  Phi  Delta  Theta.  The 
frontispiece  discloses  the  editors  poking  and  stirring  an  im- 
mense kettle  full  of  MSS.  The  tailpieces  to  the  class  lists 
are  interesting.  '00  has  a  nest  of  featherless  birds,  all  open 
mouths;  '91>  is  a  set-to  between  two  game  cockerels,  and  so 
on.  Foot  ball  is  introduced  by  a  pigskin-headed  convict 
dragging  '  faculty  rules '  by  a  chain  fastened  to  his  ankle. 
Allegheny  had  182  students  in  the  four  classes  and  147 
preps.  Seventy-two  are  fraternity  initiates  and  1 2  pledged. 
The  sororities  have  41 ,  with  iS  pledged.  Of  these  Phi  Kappa 
Psi  has  1(>;  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  lo;  Delta Tau  Delta,  1(>;  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  20;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  18:  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon,  17;  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma,  11;  Alpha  Chi  Omega, 
18.  The  last  is  a  musical  society  with  six  chapters.  Theta 
Nu  Epsilon  does  not  seem  to  be  very  active,  and  attempts 
no  chapter  list,  even  failing  to  give  the  letter  claimed  by  the 
Allegheny  chapter.  This  letter  is  Omicron  in  some  lists, 
though  others  assign  that  to  Rutgers  and  to  Lehigh.  The 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  chapter  group  is  made  from  a  number 
of  photographs  trimmed  down  and  fitted  together.  The  fact 
is  painfully  apparent,  however,  and  one  of  the  heads  is  about 
one-fourth  the  size  of  the  rest.  There  are  two  literary  so- 
cieties here,  to  one  of  which  several  of  the  Phis  belong,  one 
having  been  president.  Phis  preside  over  the  oratorical 
association  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  one  was  toastmaster  at  the 
Pan-Hellenic  and  another  editor-in-chief  of  The  Campus. 

The  eighth  volume  of  the  Dickinson  Microcosm  comes 
close  up  to  the  largest  in  number  of  pages.  It  is  dedicated 
to  W.  B.  Lindsay,  professor  of  chemistry.  Two  hundred 
and  nine  were  enrolled  in  the  college  and  one  hundred  in 
the  preparatory  school.  The  latter  has  its  freshman,  soph- 
omore, junior  and  senior  classes,  colors  and  a  vigorous  3*ell. 
Phi  Kappa  Sigma  leads  the  fraternity  list  with  IS  men; 
Phi  Kappa  Psi  has  14;  Beta  Theta  Pi,  18;  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
2."»;  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  21;  Sigma  Chi,  4  (this  chapter, 
Omicron,  has  had  no  letter  in  the  Sigma  Chi  Ouajtcrly  for  a 
long  time;  two  of  the  four  Sigs  are  seniors  and  two  sopho- 
mores); total,  1)8 — nearly  50  per  cent.     Kappa  Gamma  is  a 


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class  society  said  to  have  been  founded  at  Wesleyan  and  to 
have  established  chapters  at  Syracuse  and  Cornell,  though 
the  Syracuse  and  Cornell  annuals  ignore  the  fact.  Theta 
Nu  Epsilon  gives  a  badly  mixed  list  of  28  chapters,  one  of 
which  is  credited  to  *  Stephen's '  Institute  of  Technology. 
Theta  Delta  Chi,  whose  chapter  died  recently,  has  one 
junior,  two  seniors  and  a  law  student.  There  is  a  chapter  of 
Delta  Chi  in  the  law  school.  Among  the  17  co-eds  is  a 
local  sorority,  with  six  members.  The  ladies  dormitory  is 
known  as  the  'Henroost.*  Phi  Beta  Kappa  has  a  chapter. 
The  literary  societies  are  very  strong  at  Dickinson,  and  in 
these,  as  elsewhere,  the  Phis  are  active.  They  are  especially 
numerous  among  the  prize-winners  and  on  the  publications, 
having  editor-in-chief  and  six  associates  on  The  Dickijisoiiian 
and  three  on  the  Microcosin  board — McNeal,  Bowman  and 
Stonesifer.  They  have  one  or  two  on  each  musical  organiza- 
tion and  several  athletes,  including  the  base  ball  captain. 
One  of  the  last  illustrations  shows  the  artists  *  who  drew  and 
now  withdraw,*  pursued  by  their  enraged  victims. 

The  Record  comes  in  Pennsylvania's  familiar  red  and  blue 
with  800  pages  of  text  and  nearly  60  of  advertisements. 
This  is  the  seniors'  book,  dedicated  to  class  spirit,  and  the 
history  of  the  class  is  given  in  great  detail.  On  the  board 
of  editors  4>  A  0  has  Bro.  E.  B.  Essig,  president  of  the  class, 
and  Bro.  A.  E.  Willauer,  chairman  of  the  illustration  com- 
mittee. Bro.  Willauer  has  done  many  of  the  illustrations  him- 
self. Bro.  Essig  will  be  remembered  by  every  delegate  and 
visitor  to  the  last  convention  for  his  brilliant  success  with 
the  social  arrangements  committed  to  his  care.  He  was 
four  years  on  the  class  eleven  and  three  on  the  crew,  was 
custodian  of  the  class  bowl  and  second  honor  man.  The 
Sf)Oon  man  of  '07  is  a  O  K  2.  Pennsylvania  Zeta  is  repre- 
sented in  the  glee  club,  the  Garrick  club  and  the  literary 
societies.  She  does  not  seem  to  have  run  much  to  athletics 
last  year.  Bro.  McClenthen  was  last  year  junior  editor  and 
is  now  senior  editor  of  Red  and  Blue.  The  fraternities  with 
their  respective  numbers  are:  A  *,  22;  Z  ^.  29;  ^  K  2,  3(>; 
A  ^,  ^>S'^  2  X,  30;  4>  K  ^,  27;  B  0  n,  :]5;  ^  T  A,  24;  AT  n, 
21 ;  *  A  0,  20;  4>  A  4>  (law),  14;  A  Y,  :*»9;  N  2  N  (medical), 
17;  *  A  2  (medical),  28;  K  K  r,  10;  *  Y,  31;  K  2,  30;  A 
2  A  (dental),  32;  A  T  A,  11.  No  mention  is  made  of  Rho 
chapter  of  0  N  E,  supposed  to  exist  here.  Besides  these 
there  is  the  Phi  Phi  chapter  of  A  X  P,  a  local  medical  fra- 
ternity, A  M  n  n,  and  the  engineering  fraternity,  M  O  A. 
These  have  23,   27  and  20  members,  respectively.     This 


ii6  THE  SCROLL, 

g^ves  a  total  of  oHo  Greeks.  There  were  last  year  1 ,07X 
literary  students,  35s  in  law,  'H)«s  in  medicine  and  '>7'>  in 
dentistry.  The  net  total  was  2,S11.  Co-education  is  al- 
lowed but  not  very  popular,  evidently. 

The  tenth  volume  of  Corks  and  Curls  is  quite  justified  in 
dedicating  itself  to  itself,  as  it  does.  The  charming  pictures 
of  life  at  the  University  of  Virginia  given  us  by  Bro.  Poite- 
vent  last  June  all  stand  out  vividly  as  we  take  up  this  fin- 
ished product  of  The  Republic  Press,  with  its  illustrations 
in  colors,  its  wigs  and  shoe- buckles  and  snuff-boxes,  its  an- 
tique type  and  reminiscent  tables  of  final  orators  and  foot 
ball  victories  and  chairmen  of  the  faculty.  The  total  en- 
rollment last  year  is  given  as  l*>-i,  235  of  these  being  aca- 
demic students.  The  fraternity  list  runs  as  follows:  4>  K  2, 
12:  A  K  E,  14:  4>  K  vk,  i:;;  B  w  II.  24:  X  4>,  11:  S  A  E,  K); 
*  r  A,  9:  A  vk,  1();  K  :i,  10:  ^  X,  14;  A  T  12.  IS;  11  K  A,  5; 
Z  vk,  9;  :L  N,  10:  <t>  A  (-),  21:  K  A,  2(;;  M  II  A,  8.  Then  we 
have  4>  A  <l>,  a  medical,  an  academic  society,  the  'ribbons* 
and  the  clubs.  The  chapters  strongest  in  academic  mem- 
bership are  B  0  11  (1:5),  A  T  12  (12 ),  ::i  X  (9),  A  ^  (S )  and 
2  A  E  (S).  ^  K  2  has  all  her  men  but  one  in  the  profes- 
sional departments,  so  has  II  K  A;  <l>  F  A  has  but  two  aca- 
demics, and  2  N  and  K  2  three  each.  The  Pi  Phi  chapter 
of  0  N  E  is  evidently  dead:  it  receives  no  mention.  Vir- 
ginia  Beta  shows  up  well:  Davis  is  on  the  eleven,  Poite- 
vent  won  the  Mai^niiNe  medal,  J.  P.  Bruns  is  editor-in- 
chief  of  the  Mai^azinc  (having  been  at  the  head  of  College 
Topics  the  year  before),  R.  M.  Bruns  is  editor-in-chief  of 
Coll(xe  Topics,  J.  P.  Bruns  and  Mathews  are  in  4>  A  ^, 
Dykes  in  II  M,  Bosher  in  A  il,  and  so  on. 

The  Lemon  and  J) lark,  from  Randolph- Macon,  is  a  book- 
let intended  primarily  to  influence  prospective  students  to 
come  to  Ashland.  It  is  a  continuous  narrative  of  the  doings 
of  an  imaginary  new  student,  and  sets  forth  fully  all  the  ad- 
vantages of  each  department  and  of  Randolph-Macon  in 
general.  The  class  of  1S97,  sixteen  in  number,  forms  the 
frontispiece,  and  there  are  many  half-tones.  A  'calithump' 
seems  to  be  a  winter  evening  charivari  to  which  each  mem- 
ber of  the  faculty  is  treated  in  turn,  usually  followed  by  a 
bonfire. 

The  Calyx  is  dedicated  to  Washington  and  Lee's  retiring 
president,  Gen.  George  Washington  Custis  Lee.  On  its 
board  of  editors,  elected  by  general  ballot  among  the  stu- 
dents, are  three  members  of  Virginia  Zeta — McClintic,  Jen- 
kins and  McLester.     One  of  the  first  pictures  discloses  a 


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diploma  among  the  clouds  and  the  students  below,  chained 
to  pillars  of  the  college  building  which  bear  the  names  of 
various  studies:  'weary  of  study  and  laden  with  our  sin,  we 
look  at  Heaven  and  long  to  enter  in' — so  runs  the  inscrip- 
tion. The  academic  graduating  class  numbered  lo  and  in- 
cluded no  Phis.  There  were  172  students,  almost  one-third 
of  them  being  in  the  law  school.  Of  the  Greeks  there  were 
81:  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  9;  Kappa  Alpha,  9;  Sigma  Chi,  <>; 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  o;  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  7;  Sigma  Nu, 
11;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  9;  Kappa  Sigma,  7;  Alpha  Tau 
Omega,  <S;  Pi  Kappa  Alpha,  <'>;  Mu  Pi  Lambda,  6;  Delta 
Tau  Delta,  S.  For  the  first  time  we  find  here  a  chapter  roll 
of  Mu  Pi  Lambda.  Virginia,  Harvard  and  Missouri  are 
given  besides  the  parent  chapter  at  Washington  and  Lee. 
They  are  named  as  we  name  our  own — 'Virginia  Alpha,* 
etc.  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  has  a  list  of  82  chapters,  the  one  at 
W.  and  L.  calling  itself  Omicron,  a  name  given  in  other 
lists  to  Rutgers,  Lehigh  and  Allegheny.  Virginia  Zeta  has 
men  on  the  glee  club,  the  nine,  the  eleven,  the  committees, 
in  the  ribbon  societies,  the  literary  societies.  Speers  is' 
editor-in-chief  of  the  Coiltxiaji,  Campbell  is  captain  in  foot 
ball.  *Callithump'  is  known  here,  too,  and  'calico'  is  short- 
ened to  *calic.' 

North  Carolina  colors  are  the  same  as  Phi  Delta  Theta' s. 
The  Hellenian  gives  yells  galore  and  songs  and  colors,  as 
the  Virginia  annuals  do.  The  eighth  volume  is  dedicated 
to  an  alumnus.  Col.  J.  S.  Cunningham.  The  twelve  frater- 
nities publish  the  Hellenian,  and  E.  S.  Askew  represents 
*  A  0.  Bro.  Askew  is  on  the  glee  club,  Bro.  Kenney  on 
the  Tar  Heel,  Bro.  Winston  on  the  nine  (captain  for  next 
year):  Bro.  Johnston  is  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The 
university  had  about  'JOO  collegiate  students  and  about  100 
laws  and  medics.  The  twelve  fraternities  are  :  A  K  E,  i:^; 
B  0  IL  8;  or  A,  2;  ^  A  E,  26;  Z  ^,  17;  K  2,  5;  A  T  n,  (>; 
K  A,  T);  OA0,  8;  :S  N,  8;  2  X,  8;  II  K  A,  :5;  total.  111. 
2  A  E  has  15  sophomores.  0  N  E's  chapter  list  runs  to  2V), 
but  the  compiler  could  find  no  letters  for  the  last  four,  mixed 
the  others  and  duplicated  Kappa  and  Pi.  The  North  Car- 
olina chapter  claims  Psi,  which  others  give  to  Ohio  State. 
There  is  the  honorary  society  of  A  0  O,  founded  here,  and 
four  ribbon  societies  flourish.  It  seems  possible  for  one 
man  to  belong  to  three  out  of  the  four,  but  the  Gorgon's 
Head  and  the  Gimghouls  are  mutually  exclusive. 

The  initial  number  of  \h^Eeeenfne,  bound  in  Centre's 
white   and   yellow,  is   modestly  called   a   pamphlet   by  its 


ii8  THE  SCROLL, 

editors  and  dedicated  to  *  our  mothers-in-law.'  On  the 
board,  chosen  by  the  senior  class,  are  three  Phis,  two  Kappa 
Alphas  and  one  Beta  Theta  Pi.  The  Phis  are  Bros.  Welsh, 
Cook  and  Sulser.  As  this  is  the  first  issue,  much  history 
and  many  views  of  the  campus  and  buildings  are  given. 
Bro.  Bethel  contributes  an  article  on  '  The  Fraternity  Sys- 
tem.' Kentucky  Alpha  has  representatives  on  the  nine, 
the  eleven,  the  monthly  and  the  literary  society  honor  lists. 
There  are  217  collegiate  and  law  students  and  40  academic 
seniors.  B  (s)  II  has  16  men,  <t>  A  0?),  hS;  :S  X,  8;  K  A,  16.  Seven 
of  the  Phis  were  seniors  and  but  two  freshmen.  B  0  II 
seems  strong  in  local  alumni,  but  the  others  give  no  lists. 
A  page  is  taken  up  with  a  sketch  of  ^  A  0  and  Kentucky 
Alpha. 

The  Comcf  s  title  page  discloses  a  Greek  temple,  standing 
out  in  the  comet's  nucleus  far  up  a  mountain  side.  Below, 
a  student,  in  cap  and  gown,  stretches  out  his  arms  long- 
ingly. The  book  is  dedicated  *  with  respect  and  reverence 
to  the  memory  of  the  man  whose  generosity  made  it  possi- 
ble.' The  frontispiece  is  the  statue  of  Commodore  Vander- 
bilt  of  which  a  picture  was  given  in  the  October  Scroi^l. 
W.  S.  Fitzgerald  is  the  Phi  editor,  being  chairman  of  the 
literary  committee.  The  Phis  head  the  chapter  rolls  with 
21)  men — s  from  Nashville  and  5  from  Missouri ;  Kappa 
Alpha  has  1*) — 4  from  Nashville  ;  Chi  Phi  7 — 4  from  Nash- 
ville ;  Beta  Theta  Pi,  6 — 1  Nashville  man  ;  Kappa  Sigma, 
IN— 2  from  Nashville  ;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  S— 3  Tennessee 
men  ;  Sigma  Alpha  Kpsilon,  21 — (>  local  ;  Alpha  Tau 
Omega,  IS — \  local;  D.  K.  Iv,  2.S — 2  from  Nashville;  Sigma 
Chi,  17 — 6  from  Nashville  and  6  from  Louisville  ;  Sigma 
Nu,  16 — one  Nashville  man  and  no  freshmen  ;  Pi  Kappa 
Alpha,  '").  Theta  Nu  Kpsilon' s  new  chapter  is  ignored. 
The  academic  seniors  number  25,  there  being  233  academic 
students  in  all.  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  several  class  offices, 
including  the  president  of  '^.)'S,  many  medals  and  scholar- 
ships, musicians,  a  chess  champion,  members  of  Alpha 
Theta  Phi,  editors,  including  the  editor-in-chief  of  the  com- 
mencement daily,  two  men  on  the  eleven  with  the  captain 
for  97-8,  three  on  the  nine,  and  other  athletes  of  every 
kind.  lught  of  the  \'anderbilt  records  are  held  by  Phis. 
Many  of  the  verses  in  this  volume  are  by  Tennessee  Alpha 
men.  'Co-ed  '  is  explained  etymologicallv  thus  :  *  courted,' 
*  CO' ted,'  'co-ed.' 

The  fifth  volume  of  the  Zodiac  is  dedicated  to  President 
Candler,  of  Emory.     It  is  said  by  way  of  preface  that  for 


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its  many  excellencies  thanks  are  due  the  exceedingly  large 
number  who  maintained  its  high  standard  by  not  contrib- 
uting. On  the  board  of  editors  4>  A  0  is  represented  by  W. 
P.  Bloodworth.  Each  fraternity  has  one  editor,  and  the 
non-fraternity  students  have  two ;  all  are  seniors.  Chi 
Phi  has  18  men  ;  Kappa  Alpha,  19  ;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  24  ; 
Alpha  Tau  Omega,  25  (one  sub- freshman);  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon,  21;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  18;  Sigma  Nu,  22  (one  sub- 
freshman);  total,  142.  There  are  90  non- fraternity  men  in 
the  college  classes;  one  of  these  is  Mr.  Kia  Tsing  Tsoong. 
Phi  Delta  Theta  comes  out  strong  in  class  teams  and  in 
class  offices,  in  debate  and  the  literary  societies,  which  are 
well  kept  up  at  Emory.  Georgia  Beta  has  three  men  in  the 
orchestra,  but  none  on  the  Phcvjiix,  The  illustrations  to  ac- 
company club  lists  are  interesting  ;  the  Smith  club  has  Poca- 
hontas in  bloomers,  wheeling  in  to  rescue  Captain  John, 
whose  hair  stands  bristling  with  terror.  Among  the  bio- 
graphical sketches  of  distinguished  sons,  we  notice  L.  Q.  C. 
Lamar,  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  and  our  Bro.  W.  A. 
Keener,  dean  of  the  Columbia  University  Law  School. 

The  Corolla  is  dedicated  to  'the  mother  of  colleges,  the 
home  of  the  graces,  the  seat  of  culture,  Tuskaloosa,  whose 
matchless  women  and  chivalrous  men  have  made  her  name 
a  magic  one,  ever  to  be  fondly  remembered  by  Alabama's 
students.'  The  editor-in-chief  of  volume  V.  is  Bro.  Palmer 
Pillans;  this  is  another  senior  annual.  A  unique  feature  of 
the  arrangement  is  the  grouping  of  all  matter  into  seven 'days' : 
opening  day,  Greek-letter  day.  Thanksgiving  day,  class  day, 
April  Fools'  day,  field  day  and  commencement  day.  The 
illustrations  are  by  an  undergraduate.  In  the  preface  there  is 
strong  reference  to  the  unfavorable  attitude  of  the  board  of 
trustees  toward  foot  ball.  Two  members  of  the  board,  pre- 
sumably not  an ti- foot-ball  men,  are  honored  with  pict- 
ures and  biographies.  One  is  Bro.  Daniel  Pratt,  *85.  Two 
of  the  four  members  of  the  alumni  association's  executive 
committee  are  Phis.  It  seems  that  the  denominational 
schools  of  Alabama  have  been  waging  war  on  the  state  uni- 
versity. A  vigorous  rebuttal  is  given  of  charges  in  refer- 
ence to  lack  of  high  moral  influences  and  of  high  academic 
standard.  An  extended  comparison  is  made  between  Van- 
derbilt's  curriculum  and  Alabama's,  showing  them  to  be 
generally  equivalent.  Alabama  Alpha  seems  to  have  things 
largely  her  own  way,  with  the  captain  and  manager  of  the 
nine,  captain  and  manager  of  the  track  team,  two  men  on 
the  eleven,  captain  of  two  class  elevens,  president  of  *97, 


I20  THE  SCROLL, 

first  honor,  two  men  on  the  nine,  managers  of  two  class 
nines,  and  captains  of  two,  military  honors,  commencement 
honors  and  german  leaders.  Alabama  can  play  no  inter- 
collegiate games  abroad,  so  the  class  teams  and  games  count 
for  much.  "H  A  E  had  18  men  :  <t>  A  W,  21  ;  A  T  (2,  18:  2  N, 
2(i,  A  K  E,  KJ;  K  A,  \)  ;  total,  108  out  of  1(55.  There  are 
five  women  students. 

The  class  of  '*.)?  has  issued  the  first  annual  to  appear  at 
Alabama  Polytechnic,  (rlonierafa.  It  is  dedicated  to  Presi- 
den  \V.  L.  Brown.  The  six  fraternities  have  one  editor 
each,  and  there  is  one  non- fraternity  editor.  Bro.  J.  B. 
Hobdy  is  business  manager.  The  editors  declare  the  book 
has  been  compiled  for  friends  and  not  for  critics  and  so 
make  no  excuses.  Nor  need  they,  for  it  is  an  unusually 
creditable  first  issue.  Faculty  pictures  and  biographies 
are  all  given,  as  well  as  chapter  groups.  Phi  Delta  Theta 
leads  the  chapter  lists  with  19  men;  Alpha  Tau  Omega  has 
l");  Kappa  Alpha,  24;  Sigma  Alpha  Rpsilon,  28;  Sigma 
Nu,  14;  Pi  Kappa  Alpha,  12;  total,  107,  out  of  80G  students. 
Uniforms  prevail  in  all  the  student  group  pictures.  Ala- 
bama Beta  has  thirteen  officers  in  the  corps,  the  senior  ger- 
man leader,  athletes  of  all  kinds,  musicians,  a  prize  orator 
and  an  editor  of  Onnn^c  and  Blue.  The  school  is  very 
proud  of  its  base  ball  and  foot  ball  records.  There  are 
twelve  women  students. 

Ole  Miss,  too,  conies  from  the  hands  of  the  fraternities  at 
the  University  of  Mi.ssissippi  this  year  for  the  first  time. 
The  familiar  look  of  its  make-up  is  explained  w^hen  we  find 
it  comes  from  the  press  of  Thk  vScroll'soM  printers,  Spahr 
and  Glenn.  This  is  another  very  charming  dcbuiatite.  It 
is  dedicated  'to  the  "  University  Greys,"  who,  under  the 
leadership  of  that  gallant  student- soldier,  William  Benjamin 
LowTy,  resigned  their  college  labors  to  battle  for  the  cause 
of  their  fathers.'  It  is  publivShed  by  the  fraternities  and 
sororities,  A  ^  having  the  editor  in -chief.  \\.  B.  Williams 
represents  4>  A  0.  The  faculty  portraits  are  all  given. 
Sigma  Tau  and  Tau  Delta  Theta  are  two  sororities  with  1 7 
and  18  members,  respectively.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
A  r  was  founded  here.  The  fraternities  enroll:  A  K  E,  30; 
A  ^,  85;  <^  K  4^,  17;  :^  X,  28  ;  ::t  A  E,  15;  <^  A  0,  18;  B  0  II, 
7;  ATA,  20;  total,  1<)0,  of  whom  24  are  law  students.  The 
total  enrollment  is  29<),  42  being  in  the  law^  school.  0  N  E 
is  credited  with  25  chapters,  Mississippi's  being  Alpha 
Gamma.  Omega  is  applied  to  a  chapter  at  Minnesota.  The 
motto.  'K  p/uribits  vii^^itifi  (juhitjue,'  explains  the  omission  of 


THE  SCROLL.  121 

the  names  of  other  chapters,  however.  O  A  0  has  4  mem- 
bers. Mississippi  does  not  seem  to  be  editorially  or  music- 
ally inclined,  but  in  athletics  and  the  literary  societies 
makes  a  good  showing.  Bro.  Williams  is  manager  of  the 
nine.  The  B  0  II  chapter  is  dead  this  fall.  A  ^  has  a  hand- 
some house;  she  has  13  sophomores.  There  is  one  lone 
barbarian  in  the  senior  class. 

Volume  II.  oi  Javibalaya  is  dedicated  *to  the  memory  of 
Randall  Lee  Gibson,  soldier,  statesman,  scholar  and  first 
president  of  the  board  of  administrators  of  Tulane.'  The 
book  is  named  from  a  favorite  local  dish,  which  is  noted, 
we  believe,  for  its  high  seasoning.  The  illustrations  are 
unusually  well  done,  almost  without  exception.  It  seems 
strange  that  a  New  Orleans  annual  should  have  been  printed 
in  Nashville.  The  chapter  rolls  run  as  follows:  Kappa 
Alpha,  25;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  11;  Sigma  Chi,  17;  Delta 
Tau  Delta,  18;  Kappa  vSigma,  26;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  14;  Sigma 
Nu,  18;  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  IS;  total,  187,  of  whom  15 
are  laws  and  49  medics.  Kappa  Sigma  has  14  of  the  latter 
and  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  11 ;  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  4.  There 
are  241  academic  students,  75  in  law  and  840  in  medicine. 
Pi  Beta  Phi  has  21  members.  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  attempts 
no  chapter  list.  The  'Boards  Head'  is  made  up  of  5  Alpha 
Tau  Omegas  and  8  Kappa  Alphas,  who  have  possibly  lost 
their  heads  by  this  time.  Bro.  Kernion  is  on  Olive  and 
Blue,  the  weekly,  and  College  Spirit,  the  daily.  Bro.  Bowl- 
ing is  on  the  eleven  and  is  the  Phi  editor  oi  Jamba faya. 

The  class  of  '07  sends  out  volume  IV.  of  the  Caetus  from 
Texas:  with  a  dazzling  white  back  ground,  throwing  the 
plant  into  strong  relief,  we  have  a  very  artistic  cover.  It  is 
dedicated  to  Philip  Hatzfeld,  but  we  are  given  no  very  strong 
clue  as  to  who  Mr.  Hatzfeld  is.  We  find  a  Greek  poem 
addressed  to  Aphrodite  and  one  in  Latin  to  Mercury.  4>  A  © 
is  not  represented  on  the  board  of  editors.  The  university 
enrolled  last  year  4()5  students;  of  these  144  are  Greeks: 
^  A  0.  14;  B  0  II,  15:  K  2,  81;  2  a  E,  0;  2  X,  25;  K  2,  18; 
2  N,  12;  X  4),  10;  *  *  ^,  10.  We  had  hoped  to  see  a  chap- 
ter list  of  the  last-named  fraternity,  but  none  is  given.  The 
Texas  chapter  is  called  Alpha  Gamma.  Women  students 
are  fairly  numerous,  and  a  few  are  found  in  the  medical 
classes,  which  shows  that  Texas  is  far  more  northern  in 
spirit  than  most  other  southern  universities.  *2'  is  a  ribbon 
society  among  the  medics,  and  the  seven  members  of  the 
'Skeleton  Hand'  are  photographed  with  a  young  woman  as 
a  background  for  each  member.     The  ladies  are  actively  in- 


122  THE  SCROLL, 

terested  in  tennis  and  boating,  and  co-education  is  carried 
into  both  these  branches  of  study.  Texas  Beta  has  the  pres- 
ident of 'iH),  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  of  the  Rusk  literary 
society;  editor-in-chief  of  the  Mi\irazinc  and  an  editor  of  the 
Alcalde,  athletes  and  orators. 

The  hostile  attitude  of  the  president  and  a  part  of  the 
faculty  of  Wooster  toward  athletics  and  fraternities  is  largely 
to  blame,  we  suppose,  for  the  fact  that  '9^  has  made  the 
eighteenth  volume  of  the  Index  2.  series  of  'roasts.*  The 
dedication  is  'to  those  who,  finding  their  names  herein,  with 
charges  more  or  less  true — will  accept  the  rebuke  grace- 
fully, will  meditate  thereon  carefully  and  will  love  the  ///- 
dex  board  as  hard  as  ever. '  The  board  adds  that  it  decided 
to  pay  no  attention  to  petitions  from  the  faculty,  asking 
that  the  Index  be  dedicated  to  them — 'especially  Prof.  Xot- 
estein's,  which  contained  several  misspelled  words.'  The 
faculty  list  gives  each  member  a  nickname  and  spells  it 
backward.  There  are  4S  juniors,  of  whom  about  half  are 
women,  most  of  them  being  from  Wooster.  The  men  are 
chiefly  from  small  towns  in  Ohio.  In  '99,  81  members  out 
of  GO  are  women,  and  22  of  them  are  from  Wooster.  On 
the  freshman  class  roll  of  ^u  the  four  fraternities  claim  9 
men  in  all.  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  and  Kappa  Alpha  Theta 
have  large  and  excellent  chapters.  Beta  Theta  Pi  has  10 
men;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  10;  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  20  (S  seniors 
and  2  preps.);  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  IS.  Theta  Nu  Epsilon 
has  a  'pig  pile'  group  and  a  chapter  list  of  ')3,  including 
Wittenberg  and  Mt.  Union,  the  institution  whence  came 
the  initiators  of  Bishop  \"incent  and  President  McKinley. 
Beta  Delta  Beta  is  here  called  a  junior  society,  not  fresh- 
man, as  at  Syracuse,  where  it  w^as  founded.  The  chapter 
list  agrees  with  the  list  in  the  Onondagan  less  than  half 
way.  ,  Mu  Alpha  Phi  is  a  feminine  Theta  Nu  Epsilon, 
which  says  it  is  'very  conserv^ative,  granting  charters  only 
to  those  colleges  and  universities  in  w'hich  the  Greek  fra- 
ternities have  a  high  standard  of  excellence.'  Wooster 
seems  to  be  the  only  such  institution,  so  far.  The  badge 
and  colors  show  (-)  N  E  influences.  Bro.  Calvin's  name  ap- 
pears in  the  Shakspeare  club,  the  choir,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  Beta  Delta  Beta.  Baldwin,  Endsley  and  Sloneker  are 
0  N  E's.  One  page  is  headed  'Athletic  Organizations,'  and 
in  its  centre  bears  the  lone  word  NIT  I  Opposite  is  a  pic- 
ture of  a  gymnasium  in  ruins.  Under  the  heading  'What  I 
Came  to  Wooster  for,'  we  read:  ' Baldicin.  To  curse  the  waj' 
things  are  run.'     This,  indeed,  seems  to  be  the  business  of 


THE  SCROLL,  123 

all  the  chapters,  if  the  annual  is  counted  an  Index,  It  is 
really  the  bitterest  book  we  have  read  in  many  a  day;  there 
doesn't  seem  to  be  a  particle  of  good  humor  in  any  of  the 
fun. 

The  fraternities  and  literary  societies  of  the  Ohio  vState 
University  dedicate  the  sixteenth  volume  of  the  Makio  to 
Dr.  W.  H.  Scott,  once  president  of  the  university.  Here, 
again,  we  recognize  the  careful  handiwork  of  our  old  friends, 
Spahr  and  Glenn.  Bro.  H.  N.  Schlesinger  is  treasurer  of 
the  board  of  editors  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  publica- 
tion. The  difference  in  spirit  between  the  Makio  and  the 
Index  is  as  striking  as  it  is  refreshing.  O.  S.  U.  is  but  24 
years  old  and  has  one  of  our  modern,  ^hustling'  presidents, 
so  that  the  volume  is  breezy,  enthusiastic  and  self-satisfied. 
*A  Symposium*  reviews  the  past,  forecasts  the  future,  deals 
with  the  state,  the  trustees,  the  faculty  and  the  campus; 
and  there  are  lots  of  pictures.  The  literary  portion,  *Fun, 
Fact  and  Fiction,'  is  mostly  a  collection  of  'grinds.'  O.  S.  U. 
is  well  provided  with  fraternities.  *  r  A  has  21  members; 
*  K  *,  10;  2X,  10;  *  A  0.  1«);  X  ^,  13;  B  (^  IT,  28;  K  K  T, 
10;  K  A  0,  17;  2  N,  10;  A  T  Q,  18;  2  A  E,  21;  *  A  *,  25; 
n  B  *,  1;');  ATA,  10;  K  2,  13;  AAA,  1(»;  total,  270  out 
of  009  students.  There  is  a  chapter  of  0  N  E,  but  no  list  of 
chapters  or  of  members  is  given.  *  A  *  has  four  Phis. 
Bro.  Reed  was  foot  ball  captain;  Bro.  Schlesinger,  treasurer 
of  the  athletic  board;  Bro.  Barringer,  banjo  soloist;  Bro. 
Sater,  business  manager  of  the  glee  club  and  of  the  dramatic 
club.  We  note  that  the  girls'  study  hall  is  called  the  *gab 
room.' 

The  Differential  comes  in  seal  brown  leather,  in  honor  of 
Case's  colors,  and  is  the  only  one  thus  bound.  This  volume 
(not  numbered)  is  dedicated  by  'OS  to  that  'hard-working, 
toiling,  laboring  body,  to  those  who  will  some  day  startle 
the  scientific  world  with  their  brilliancy — the  students.' 
There  are  three  non-fraternity  men,  three  other  fraternity 
men,  and  three  Phis  on  the  board  of  nine:  the  Phis  are  C. 
D.  Hoyt,  Frank  Hulett  and  O.  F.  French.  Among  the  fra- 
ternities, Zeta  Psi  has  10  men  and  40  resident  alumni;  Phi 
Delta  Theta  has  10  men  and  40  resident  alumni.  The  two 
local  fraternities,  Omega  Psi  and  Lambda  Kappa,  have  14 
each.  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  appears  for  the  first  time  and 
seems  to  have  followed  the  usual  rule  of  taking  enough 
names  of  colleges  to  fill  a  page,  writing  some  Greek  letters 
before  them  and  calling  this  a  chapter  list.  The  Wooster 
chapter,  which  calls  itself  Tau,  is  here  named  Rho.     We 


124  THE  SCROLL, 

understand  Ohio  Kta  has  voted  not  to  allow  her  members  to 
become  <=)  N  E's.  The  chapter  has  a  man  on  the  Integral 
board,  many  athletes  of  all  kinds,  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.,  four  members  of  the  senate  out  of  twelve. 

The  seniors  at  Indiana  University  send  us  volume  IV.  of 
the  Arbutus.  It  is  dedicated  to  President  Swain  and  his 
wife,  both  of  their  pictures  being  given  in  the  frontispiece. 
The  Phis  are  not  represented  on  the  editorial  board.  On 
the  first  page  of  distinguished  alumni  ( biographies  and  por- 
traits) we  find  two  Indiana  Alpha  men — John  W.  Foster, 
'•V),  and  David  D.  Banta,  'V).  There  were  <>•><>  men  en- 
rolled, VX.\  being  Greeks:  Beta  Theta  Pi,  IS;  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  1^7;  vSigma  Chi,  -20;  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  '22;  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  Vl\  Delta  Tau  Delta,  17;  Sigma  Nu,  17.  Phi  Kappa 
Psi  and  Sigma  Nu  are  the  only  ones  who  seem  to  have  dis- 
covered much  fraternity  material  in  the  freshman  class.  The 
four  sororities  are  organized  into  a  *pan-thygatric'  associa- 
tion: Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  .*^f>;  Kappa  Kappa  Ciamma,  26; 
Pi  Beta  Phi,  20;  Alpha  Zeta  Beta,  14;  total,  00  out  of  :W8 
women  in  the  university.  The  non-fraternity  students  have 
two  literary  societies.  There  are  three  inter-fraternity  so- 
cieties, the  'J^^vbones,'  the  'vSkuUs'  and  Delta  Alpha  Delta 
(law).  Phis  belong  to  all  of  them.  They  preside  over  the 
senior  class  and  the  French  club,  have  five  men  on  the  glee 
club,  and  are  represented  in  the  eleven,  the  nine,  the  ora- 
torical board,  the  lecture  board  and  the  dramatic  club. 

Purdue's  Pcbris  is  published  by  the  senior  class  and  dedi- 
cated to  the  black  and  old  gold.  The  white  cover  has  been 
discarded.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  not  represented  on  the 
board,  nor  are  Sigma  Chi  and  Kappa  vSigma.  The  book  sets 
forth  the  equipment,  prospects  and  work  of  Purdue  fully 
and  entertainingly.  It  is  a  business-like  publication.  The 
enrollment  last  year  was  GoH,  of  whom  Si)  were  fraternity 
men:  2  X,  14;  K  :£,  1:5;  2^  N,  22;  <l>  A  0,  19;  2  A  E,  18. 
The  faculty  places  restrictions  on  the  pledging  of  freshmen. 
Indiana  Theta  has  an  editor  and  business  manager  of  the 
Lxponcnt,  assistant  managers  of  the  mandolin  and  of  the 
glee  clubs,  president  of  the  mechanical  engineering  society, 
three  in  Tau  Beta  Pi  (honorary  scientific)  and  three  in  the 
'Skulls  of  l-'>.'  The  vSigma  Chi  chapter  has  announced  that 
it  will  henceforth  not  allow  its  members  to  join  the  latter 
organization. 

The  Mkhiiiancusian,  successor  to  the  Palladium  and  Cas- 
talian  of  other  and  belligerent  days,  is  unlike  all  the  rest  of 
our  annuals  in  form,  having  much  the  same  dimensions  as 


THE  SCROLL.  125 

the  average  500  page  duodecimo.  The  pages  are  not 
numbered,  however.  It  is  a  delight  to  the  eye,  printed  in 
black  and  red  and  illustrated  in  two  or  three  other  colors. 
It  is  issued  by  the  senior  literary,  law  and  engineering 
classes,  and  is  not  dedicated  to  anybody.  Each  fraternity 
has  a  chapter  list,  an  heraldic  plate,  a  list  of  members  and  a 
cut  of  its  house.  Chi  Psi  has  14  members;  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  28  (including  Mr.  Pingree,  Jr.);  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
27;  Sigma  Phi,  17;  Zeta  Psi,  17;  Psi  Upsilon,  36;  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  34;  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  24;  Delta  Upsilon,  28;  Delta 
Tau  Delta,  i);  Phi  Delta  Theta,  27;  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon, 
20;  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Ki;  Sigma  Chi,  30;  Phi  Delta  Phi,  22 
(of  whom  12  are  Greeks);  Kappa  Sigma,  IH;  Delta  Chi,  2r>; 
total,  380.  Of  the  sororities,  Gamma  Phi  Beta  has  15  mem- 
bers; Delta  Gamma,  18;  Sorosis,  21J;  Pi  Beta  Phi,  15;  Kappa 
Kappa  Gamma,  21 ;  Alpha  Phi,  2r>;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  i:>; 
Delta  Delta  Delta,  12;  Alpha  Epsilon  Iota  (medical),  20; 
total,  1(>1).  Omega  Psi  is  another  feminine  Theta  Nu  Epsi- 
lon, with  chapters  at  Northwestern  and  Michigan.  Upsilon 
chapter  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  is  not  mentioned.  Besides 
these  we  have  Nu  Sigma  Xu  (medical),  Delta  Sigma  Delta 
(dental),  Chi  Psi  Phi  (dental),  Phi  Chi  (pharmacal)  and 
Mu  Sigma  Alpha,  the  last  being  the  only  one  in  all  the  list 
of  .*>2  without  a  house.  So  that  a  Greek  joining  Phi  Delta 
Phi  usually  becomes  an  inactive  member  of  his  old  chapter 
if  he  can  and  moves  into  the  house  of  the  professional  fra- 
ternity. The  enrollment  of  all  fraternities,  without  deducting 
for  names  repeated,  reaches  080.  The  whole  number  of  stu- 
dents enrolled  last  year  was  2,97."),  1,1 80  being  academic. 
Bro.  Hoover  is  on  the  mandolin  club;  Brother  Foster  is 
manager  and  a  member  of  the  '00  mandolin  club;  Bro. 
Hardy,  general  treasurer  of  the  junior  hop;  Bros.  Starr  and 
Foster,  on  freshman  committees  and  Bro.  Brooks  on  the 
toast  list  at  the  banquet;  Bro.  Woodward  is  chairman  of  the 
senior  memorial  committee;  Bro.  Matthews  is  senior  base 
ball  manager. 

The  Badger  is  dedicated  by  the  class  of  '08  'to  the  people 
of  Wisconsin,  who  by  their  generosity  make  possible  our 
education.  *  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  not  represented  on  the  board 
of  editors.  This  is  another  perfect  product  of  the  press,  re- 
plete with  charming  views  of  Wisconsin's  beautiful  campus, 
running  over  with  lists  of  organizations  and  pictures  of  va- 
rious *teams.'  Phi  Delta  Theta  heads  the  chapter  rolls  with 
25  members;  Beta  Theta  Pi  has  2r);  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma, 


126  THE  SCROLL, 

14;    PM  Kappa  Psi,  1:5;  Chi   Psi,   2');    Delta  Gamma,  24; 
Sigma  Chi,   17;  Gamma  Phi  Beta,   19;  Delta  Upsilon,  25; 
Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  13;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  18;  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  19;  Pi  Beta  Phi,  16;  Theta  Delta  Chi,  21 ;  Psi  Upsilon. 
24,  (12  in  law).  Alpha  Phi,  14.     This  gives  a  total  of  213 
men  and  100  women.    There  are  990  literary  and  engineer- 
ing students  and  211*)  in  law\     Theta  Nii  Epsilon  has  several 
seniors  but  only  one  junior;  something  must  have  happened 
last   year.     Wisconsin    Alpha   had    Bro.   Anderson  on  the 
eleven,  whose  coach  was  Bro.  Phil  King  of  Princeton.     Bro. 
MacDonald  was  leader  of  the  banjo  club  and  athletic  director. 
Bro.   Manson  was  tennis  champion;  Bro.   Mann,  assistant 
manager  of  the  eleven  and  manager  for  1897.     Bro.  Sanborn 
had  a   chairmanship  on  the  junior  promenade  committee. 
And  there  are  class  and  other  offices  and  appointments  in 
profusion,  to  say  nothing  of  the  fact  that  Phi  Delta  Theta 
tied    for  first   place  on   the   inter-fraternity  athletic  meet. 
Boating   receives   much   attention,  evidently.     The  coeds 
seem   to  have  whatever  they  want  in  society  at  Madison; 
they  have,  too,  their  crews,  athletic  teams,  debating  clubs, 
and  glee  club. 

To  Governor  Stephens  the  juniors  at  Missouri  dedicate 
the  third  volume  of  the  Savitar.     The  editors  explain  that 
the  name  was  chosen  on  account  of  its  'size  and  sound,  and 
because  its  associations  bore  with  them  appropriately  sug- 
gestive meanings.'     Savitar  is  the  sun  god  of  the  Rig  Veda. 
The  Phis  have  no  representative  on  the  board,  a  Sigma  Nu 
being  editor-in-chief  and  a  Sigma  Alpha  Kpsilon  business 
manager.     The  Phis  have  several  athletic  officers,  manager 
and  left  guard  of  the  eleven,  a  pitcher  on  the  nine,  an  editor 
on   the  hidrpi'udent,  several  prize-wnnners,  the  leader,  the 
manager  and  four  out  of  nine  men  on  the  glee  club,  one  on 
the  banjo  club,  two  men  in  Theta  Nu  Kpsilon  and  two  in 
Phi  Delta  Phi.     The  former  attempts  to  give  no  chapter  list. 
Phi  Delta  Theta  leads  the  fraternity  list  here  again.     She 
has  22  men;  vSigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  21 ;  vSigma  Nu,  19;  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  12;  vSigma  Chi,    19   {\\  academic);  Kappa  Kappa 
Gamma,  10;  total,  103  out  of  701  students.     There  is  more 
it  would  be  pleasant  to  say  about  the  Savitar  and  Missouri 
Alpha,  but  space  is  beginning  to  fail  us.     A  word  should 
be  added,  however,  about  the  trip  of  the  eleven  to  Mexico, 
under  Bro.  English's  management — a  new  departure  in  col- 
lege athletics,  and  one,  we  remember,  the  faculty  at  Missouri 
had  something  to  say  about,  if  the  newspapers  are  to  be  be- 
lieved.   The  very  interesting  account  of  this  trip  is  from  the 


THE  SCROLL,  127 

pen  of  a  Phi.     Sigma  Nu  has  the  only  chapter  house  at  Mis- 
souri. 

The  Searchlight  is  turned  on  us  from  Westminster  by  two 
Phis  and  a  non-fraternity  man  of  the  class  of  *97.  Bro. 
Jacks  is  editor-in-chief  and  Bro.  Van  Meter  associate.  We 
understand  they  made  the  venture  a  financial  success,  as  it 
certainly  is  in  other  respects.  It  is  dedicated  to  William 
Sausser,  *to  whose  beneficence  Westminster  is  greatly  in- 
debted.' Mr.  Sausser's  gift  to  Westminster  is  said  to  be 
the  largest  ever  made  in  Missouri  by  a  single  person  at  one 
time  to  any  educational  institution.  There  are  but  eight 
members  in  'U7  and  five  of  these  are  Phis;  they  consequently 
hold  five  offices — all  there  are.  They  have  all  the  junior 
officers,  as  well.  They  are  left  out  in  oratory  (Bro.  Fer- 
guson won  the  contest  this  year)  and  music,  but  come  out 
strong  in  athletics  with  three  men  on  the  nine,  including 
the  captain  and  the  battery,  and  the  president  of  the  as- 
sociation. They  are  actively  interested  in  the  literary  so- 
cieties, and  the  editor-in-chief  of  the  Student  is  a  Phi.  The 
Beta  Theta  Pi  chapter  has  14  men;  ours,  ir>;  Kappa  Al- 
pha's, 14.  Westminster  enrolled  11  o  men  last  year,  so  that 
the  Greeks  are  not  quite  40  per  cent,  of  the  whole  number. 

The  Senior  Aiimcal  from  Kansas  contains  photographs  and 
biographies  of  the  class,  chapter  groups,  pictures  of  the  teams 
and  the  university  buildings,  with  the  yell  and  the  cast  of  the 
senior  play.  Among  the  seniors  are  given  three  Phis,  Bros. 
Brooks,  Reed  and  Smith,  though  we  understood  that  five  or 
six  more  were  enrolled  in  '97.  Bro.  Smith  wears  the  key 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  Bro.  Reed  is  foot  ball  manager  for 
1897.  Counting  faces  in  the  groups,  it  would  seem  that  the 
chapters  enrolled:  Beta  Theta  Pi,  21:  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  16; 
Pi  Beta  Phi,  23;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  lo;  Phi  Gamma  Delta, 
12;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  19;  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma,  22;  Sigma 
Nu,  14;  Sigma  Chi,  IS.  The  Betas  and  Phi  Psis  have 
chapter  houses. 

The  juniors  of  Nebraska  dedicate  the  Sombrero  to  Chan- 
cellor McLean.  Bro.  P.  W.  Russell,  delegate  to  the  Phila- 
delphia convention,  is  business  manager,  and  Bro.  C.  H.  True 
is  an  associate  editor.  Delta  Tau  Delta  has  the  editor-in- 
chief.  One  of  onr  f rat  res  in  urbe,  Bro.  L.  A.  Westerman,  has 
furnished  some  of  the  illustrations.  Like  the  annuals  of  most 
of  the  state  universities,  the  Sombrero  has  much  to  say  of 
Nebraska's  rapid  growth  in  equipment  and  attendance.  The 
different  departments  are  written  up  fully.  Nebraska  Alpha 
is  'way  up  in  military  circles,  and  the  army  is  considered 


128  THE  SCROLL. 

second  to  nothing  in  importance  at  Lincoln.  Bro.  Oury  is 
manager  of  the  eleven,  and  there  are  many  Phis  in  the  class 
teams.  The  girls'  basket  ball  team,  by  the  way,  has  its  pict- 
ure above  the  boys*.  Bro.  True  is  on  the  junior  prom,  com- 
mittee. The  literary  societies  flourish,  presumably  among  the 
non- fraternity  students,  however.  In  the  fraternity  lists 
we  find  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Phi  Delta  Phi,  but  the  Theta 
Nu  lipsilon  chapter  is  coolly  ignored.  All  the  chapter 
whistles  are  given,  and  pictures  of  the  houses  of  Sigma  Chi 
and  Phi  Kappa  Psi.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  the  first  fraternity, 
chronologically,  with  15  members;  Sigma  Chi  has  20;  Kappa 
Kappa  Gamma,  17:  Beta  Theta  Pi,  11);  Delta  Gamma,  19; 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  20;  Delta  Tan  Delta,  IS;  Delta  Delta 
Delta,  lo;  Pi  Beta  Phi,  20;  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  21;  Alpha 
Theta  Chi  (petitioning  Zeta  Psi),  17;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta, 
11;  Kappa  Sigma,  11;  Sigma  Xi,  and  Alpha  Tan  Omega 
were  installed  after  the  Sombn?o  came  out.  There  are, 
then,  131  Greeks  among  the  men  and  SO  among  the  women 
students;  S92  men  are  enrolled  in  the  university  and  7(U 
women. 

Our  last  volume  is  another  beautiful  one,  California's 
lUue  a  fid  (told.  The  juniors  dedicate  it  'to  that  formidable 
conspiracy  of  sham,  dullness  and  fun  which  philanthropists 
call  college  humor.*  The  editors,  whose  *hair  is  gray,  but 
not  with  years,'  count  no  Phis  among  them.  These  editors 
have  views  and  express  them  in  the  preface.  They  have 
'rigorously  abstained  from  striving  after  literary  effect,' 
have  omitted  class  histories  as  'a  venerable  and  decrepit  in- 
stitution.' They  have  made  the  pages  the  same  size  as  in 
1890,  and  beg  their  successors  to  help  in  establishing  a 
uniform  size,  *so  that  the  collection  in  the  library  may  re- 
cover from  its  unhappy  state  of  long,  short,  fat  and  lean.' 
They  have  also  established  an  exchange  with  eastern  an- 
nuals, which,  we  are  sure,  will  in  no  case  be  to  the  disad- 
vantage of  the  oriental  publication.  Mrs.  Phoebe  Hearst, 
who  purposes  doing  so  much  for  the  university,  and  who 
has  done  so  much  already,  is  honored  with  a  portrait  as 
frontispiece  and  with  a  biographical  sketch.  The  pictures 
of  the  campus  lead  us  to  recant  what  we  were  on  the  point 
of  saying  in  half  a  dozen  cases  before  this  and  to  declare 
now  that  California's  surroundings  must  be  the  most  pict- 
uresque of  any  American  institution;  and  speaking  of  the 
other  good  pictures — those  of  the  girls  of  '1^8  seem  to  us 
worth  looking  at  twice.  The  enrollment  last  year  at  Berke- 
ley was  1,4.')0;  of  these  27B  were  Greeks,  221  men  and  55 


THE  SCROLL,  129 

women.  The  chapters  are:  Zeta  Psi,  13;  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
20;  Chi  Phi,  23;  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  28;  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
28;  Sigma  Chi,  12;  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  20;  Sigma  Nu,  22; 
Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  22;  Gamma  Phi  Beta,  18;  Sorosis 
(since  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma),  15;  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon, 
17;  Chi  Psi,  12;  Delta  Upsilon,  26.  Besides  these  there  are 
three  professional  fraternities  and  Theta  Nu  Epsilon.  Bro. 
Reinhardt  was  foot  ball  manager,  Bro.  Creed  managing  ed- 
itor of  the  Berkeleyan,  with  two  or  three  others  on  the  staff; 
Bros.  Smith  and  Hanna  were  on  the  glee  club,  and  there 
were  various  class  and  military  honors  besides.  We  find 
pictures  of  the  tents  in  which  the  overflowing  freshman 
classes  recited  in  the  fall  of  1896,  and  of  all  the  fraternity 
houses  (of  which  there  are  thirteen,  Sorosis  alone  having 
none).  Kappa  Alpha's  dormant  chapter  receives  no  men- 
tion. No  chapter  lists  are  given;  Sigma  Nu  has  the  only 
book  plate  and  Beta  Theta  Pi  the  only  group  picture. 
The  co-eds  play  an  important  part  in  student  circles.  Cali- 
fornia girls  are  very  conservative,  however;  they  wear  their 
hats  and  gloves  in  the  class  room  always. 

Two  others  would  have  been  added  to  this  list  but  for 
special  reasons.  The  entire  edition  of  the  Columbian  was 
sold  out  before  Bro.  Ehrhorn  became  reporter,  or  Columbia 
would  have  been  represented.  The  class  of  '98  at  Minne- 
sota had  civil  war  of  the  in  tensest  sort  over  the  Gopher,  and 
every  fraternity  man  took  a  solemn  oath  never  to  buy  a 
copy  of  the  edition  issued  by  the  barbarians  or  to  aid  it  in 
any  way — and  the  barbarians  did  not  send  us  a  copy.  This 
was  an  off  year  in  several  colleges  which  usually  publish 
annuals.  Among  them  we  may  mention  Sewanee,  Wabash, 
DePauw,  Northwestern  and  Chicago.  We  had  hoped  to  re- 
ceive the  Stanford  Quad,  the  Knox  Gale,  the  Illinois  Illio, 
the  Ohio  Wesleyan  Bijou,  the  Georgia  Pandora,  the  Lehigh 
Epitome,  the  Lafayette  Melange  and  the  Williams  Guliel- 
mensian,  but  the  reporters  forgot  us.  We  have  not  learned 
whether  Mercer  and  Iowa  Wesleyan  issued  annuals  or  not. 
What  will  be  the  novel  feature  next  year?  The  freshman's 
diary  and  letter  to  his  father  are  wearing  out.  Rush  Ash- 
more  is  aging  fast,  the  faculty  records  (standing  broad  grin 
and  the  like)  are  already  old,  and  next  year  the  Yellow  Kid 
will  be  grown  up.  But  there  will  be  something  new,  rest 
assured,  and  the  old  features,  with  new  applications,  will 
be  just  as  interesting  as  ever,  we  suspect. 


THE  SCROLL. 


WILBUR  MORSE,  HARVARD,  '00. 

The  inter-collegiate  debate  is  taking  the  college  world 
captive  more  than  ever  this  winter.  It  is  a  contest  purely 
intellectual,  but  a  contest,  for  ail  that,  involving  all  the  op- 
portunities for  biilliani  attack  and  sturdy  defense  found  in 
the  battles  that  have  been  waged  this  fall  on  the  gridiron, 
or  that  are  to  be  decided  next  spring  on  the  track  or  dia- 
mond. The  oldest  and  most  important,  perhaps,  of  all  the 
debates  of  this  kind  is  the  one  that  occurs  annually  between 
Harvard  and  Vale.  Two  debates,  one  at  Cambridge  and 
one  at  New  Haven,  were  held  in  1><92,  1  Ml-!  and  18!)4.  Since 
1S1I5  a  freshman  debate  is  held  at  one  place  after  the  big 
contest  has  been  decided  at  the  other.  This  year  the  fresh- 
men win  meet  at  Cambridge,  while  the  regular  teams  faced 
each  other  at  New  Haven  on  the  evening  of  December  3. 
The  question  was 

'Resolved.  That  the  United  States  should  annex  the  Ha- 
waiian Islands.'  A  large  number  of  distinguished  visitors 
was  present,  and  conspicuous  in  the  audience  were  the  dip- 
lomatic representatives  and  several  citizens  of  Hawaii.     In 


THE  SCROLL.  131 

the  first  two  debates  no  decision  was  given.  Harvard  won 
the  first  five  after  judges  came  in,  then  Yale  turned  the 
tables  and  won  the  last  two;  so  that  the  struggle  this  year 
was  even  more  exciting  than  usual,  affording  Harvard  an 
opportunity  to  retrieve  her  lost  opportunities  in  the  great 
game  a  few  weeks  before,  and  Yale  a  chance  to  show  once 
more  that  the  sons  of  old  Eli  are  as  quick  with  their  wits 
and  tongues  as  with  their  heels  and  oars. 

One  member  of  the  brilliant  Harvard  team  is  an  interest- 
ing figure  to  all  Phis.  Those,  particularly,  who  were  at  the 
national  convention  of  Thanksgiving,  181)6,  will  remember 
him.  Wilbur  Morse  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  lo, 
ISTO.  He  received  his  early  education  there,  being  graduated 
from  the  Central  High  School  in  1894,  as  valedictorian, 
third  honor  man  and  class  poet.  That  fall  he  entered  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Pennsylvania  Zeta  gathered 
him  in  with  her  *98  delegation.  That  year  he  took  a  prize 
in  declamation  and  in  debate  and  was  a  member  of  the  win- 
ning team  in  the  Philomathean-Zelosophic  debate.  The 
comic  weekly,  Be^i  Franklin,  was  started  that  year,  and  Bro. 
Morse  was  editor-in-chief.  The  next  fall  he  entered  Har- 
vard with  the  class  of  '99  and  was  a  member  of  the  fresh- 
man debating  team  that  defeated  the  Yale  freshmen.  May 
15,  1890  (on  his  twentieth  birthday). 

Last  year  he  was  out  of  college  but  as  busy  as  ever,  work- 
ing on  the  staff  of  the  Philadelphia  Press,  for  which  he  wrote 
his  excellent  reports  of  our  national  convention,  and  reading 
law  with  George  Quintard  Horwitz,  one  of  the  brilliant 
young  lawyers  of  the  Philadelphia  bar — a  partner  of  Judge 
W.  W.  Porter. 

This  fall  found  Brother  Morse  at  Harv^ard,  a  sophomore 
with  '00,  and  the  preliminary  contest  in  debate  gave  him 
one  of  the  three  coveted  places  on  the  team  sent  to  New 
Haven.     There  were  forty-seven  men  in  the  primary  debate. 

Brother  Morse  is  writing  regularly  for  the  New  York 
Evening  Post  and  for  several  other  New  York  and  Philadel- 
phia papers.  During  his  summer  vacations  he  manages  and 
edits  (in  partnership  with  a  college  friend)  the  society  paper 
of  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  called  Par  Harbor  Life — a  20-page 
illustrated  weekly.  He  expects  to  read  law  with  Mr.  Hor- 
witz after  graduation  and  to  engage  in  the  practice  of  that 
profession  in  his  native  city.  H.  Th.  M. 


132  THE  SCROLL, 


SEKTIMENT  AN  ARGUMENT  FOR  MIAML 

I  notice  that  at  the  recent  convention  of  Alpha  province 
resolutions  were  passed  recommending  that  the  convention 
be  held  in  one  of  the  large  cities  in  the  state  of  Ohio,  'be- 
cause there  is  apparently  nothing  but  a  reason  of  sentiment 
inspired  by  the  parent  chapter,'  to  call  the  convention  to 
Oxford. 

Now  it  does  seem  to  me  that  sentiment  furnishes  the 
strongest  argument  for  holding  the  next  convention  at  Ox- 
ford. Sentiment  rules  us  to  a  large  degree,  anyway.  What 
is  it  that  makes  so  many  tourists  every  year  visit  the  house 
where  Shakspeare  lived?  Or  again,  w^hat  is  it  that  makes 
Mount  \^ernon  and  Monticello  shrines  where  all  Americans 
love  to  pay  their  homage  ?  What  is  it  that  takes  Phi  Gamma 
Delta's  semi-centennial  convention  next  year  to  a  small  col- 
lege towm  rather  than  to  the  large  city  so  near  in  the  same 
state  ?  What,  again,  is  it  that  leads  the  old  soldier  to  tramp 
over  the  battle-fields  where  the  civil  w-ar  was  fought  ?  We 
answer,  nothing  but  a  'reason  of  sentiment.'     That  is  all. 

It  is  just  this  'reason  of  sentiment*  that  should  give  every 
Phi  a  desire  to  visit,  at  some  period  in  life,  the  birth-place 
of  his  Fraternity;  to  see  the  room  where  Robert  Morrison 
thought  out  the  grand  principles  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  and 
building  to  meet  the  need  of  his  own  college  life,  'built  far 
wiser  than  he  knew^  *  And  what  better  time  to  make  this 
visit  than  when  we  come  together  to  celebrate  our  semi- 
centennial ? 

Now  no  one  maintains  that  Oxford  is  a  large  place,  or 
that  the  hotel  accommodations  are  adequate,  but  these  things 
have  been  taken  into  consideration.  Oxford  is  indeed  a 
small  place,  but  the  people  have  large  hearts.  They  know 
how  to  care  for  students  and  strangers.  It  is  a  typical  col- 
lege town,  where  three  institutions  of  wide  reputation  flour- 
ish side  by  side — Miami  I'niversity,  Western  College  and 
Oxford  College.  Over  the  latter  institution  our  own  Bro. 
Faye  Walker  presides.  And  he  has  generously  offered  to 
place  his  well-appointed  college  building  at  the  disposal  of 
the  delegates.  We  don't  need  a  hotel,  for  here  we  can  have 
home  comforts.  Here  w^e  can  deliberate,  fellowship,  sleep 
and  eat  under  one  roof,  in  true  brotherly  love. 

Of  course  Oxford  has  few  outside  attractions  such  as  a 
city  would  offer,  but  who  will  say  that  this  is  an  objection  ? 
Bro.  Palmer  says  an  effort  must  be  made  at  this  convention 


THE  SCROLL.  133 

to  get  the  delegates  better  acquainted.  This  can't  be  done 
in  a  large  city  where  every  one  goes  sight-seeing.  But  at 
Oxford  they  could  not  possibly  get  away  from  each  other, 
for  they  would  meet  on  every  street  corner,  and  the  conse- 
quences would  be  that  they  would  all  know  each  other  be- 
fore the  convention  closed. 

Let  us  bear  in  mind  the  character  of  this  convention.  It 
is  to  be  our  semi-centennial.  From  the  nature  of  the  case 
the  exercises  will  be  largely  reminiscent  in  character.  Why 
not  get  upon  historic  ground  ?  Instead  of  going  to  some 
city  and  then  making  a  pilgrimage  to  Oxford — in  which 
there  would  be  few  pilgrims,  why  not  go  there  at  once  and 
camp? 

Of  course  we  want  Father  Morrison  to  be  there,  and  I  am 
sure  it  would  do  his  soul  good  to  get  back  to  'old  Miami' 
and  lead  us  young  Phis  about  the  old  walks  where  he  went 
fifty  years  ago. 

Yes,it  is  nothing  but  *a  reason  of  sentiment,*  but  it  is  strong 
enough  to  yield  to.  Oxford  is  certainly  the  proper  place  for 
the  semi-centennial  convention,  and  we  firmly  believe  it  will 
add  greatly  to  the  interest  and  impressiveness  of  the  exer- 
cises if  it  is  held  there.  Ashkr  G.  Work. 

Brookston,  Ind. 


OFnOAL  COMMUNICATION. 

To  Chapter  Historians : 

I  desire  to  call  attention  to  a  mistake  in  my  circular  letter 
in  reference  to  the  date  for  issuing  the  annual  chapter  re- 
ports. It  is  there  given  as  December  1,  1807.  It  should 
be  February  /,  rSgS,  You  will  therefore  carefully  preserve 
blanks  until  that  date,  and  then  fill  them  out  in  accordance 
with  the  printed  instructions  and  return. 

In  the  Bond, 
McClunkv  Radclifkk,  H.  G.  C. 


134  THf^  SCROLL. 


EDITORIAL. 

And  now  that  the  freshman  is  initiated,  what  are  you 
going  to  do  with  him  and  what  is  he  going  to  do  ?  He  will 
do  nothing  and  he  will  be  nothing  unless  you  g^ve  him 
opportunities  and  direction.  Put  one  freshman  on  every 
committee  at  once,  making  your  appointments  in  accord- 
ance with  individual  fitness.  One  man  is  a  born  rusher; 
let  the  membership  committee  use  him  in  landing  more 
freshmen.  One  has  a  good  business  head;  make  him  the 
treasurer's  agent  and  confidential  secretary.  One  is  enam- 
ored of  facts  and  figures;  let  the  historian  give  him  all  en- 
couragement in  his  power  and  the  reporter  make  use  of  him 
in  need.  Another  has  the  rare  combination  of  qualities 
which  makes  a  man  prompt,  tactful  and  enthusiastic,  able 
to  write  well  without  becoming  either  conventional  or  bom- 
bastic— a  man  who  knows  an  item  of  important  news  when 
he  hears  it,  knows  how  to  tell  it  and  how  to  use  it.  Let 
the  reporter  look  after  this  man;  let  him  become  correspond- 
ent for  some  local  or  home  newspaper;  have  him  write  a 
chapter  letter  once  or  twice  when  the  reporter  is  busy,  but 
not  too  busy  to  look  over  the  letter  and  make  suggestions 
and  corrections.  Then,  next  year,  or  year  after,  make  this 
man  your  reporter.  The  freshmen  want  to  work;  encour- 
age them  to  try  for  class  teams  and  the  musical  clubs,  help 
them  to  prepare  their  debates  and  essays  and  orations — and 
give  every  one  of  them  some  fraternity  work  to  do. 


Brother  Weed's  article  will  have  to  be  modified  in  one 
or  two  slight  respects,  to  make  it  absolutely  correct,  but  he 
has  our  thanks  for  the  good  results  of  his  very  careful  inves- 
tigation. At  Johns  Hopkins,  we  are  told.  Kappa  Alpha, 
Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi  and  Phi 
Gamma  Delta  all  rent  houses.  This  information  is  probably 
correct,  but  it  did  not  reach  Brother  Weed  until  after  his 
article  was  in  print.     Kappa  Alpha  at  \'anderbilt  has  just 


THE  SCROLL.  135 

obtained  a  house,  as  our  readers  will  see  from  the  depart- 
ment of  fraternity  news.  The  south  deserves  credit  for 
having  initiated  the  chapter  house  movement  in  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  but  she  has  since  been  far  eclipsed  by  New  England, 
by  New  York,  by  Pennsylvania,  by  the  far  west.  Georgia 
has  just  taken  up  the  good  work  so  well  begun  by  Tennes- 
see, and  we  want  the  next  convention  to  see  houses  owned 
by  both  Texas  chapters,  Mississippi,  Alabama,  Auburn,  Cen- 
tre, Central  and  Emory,  and  rented  by  all  the  others. 

Some  chapters  have  said  recently  that  *  rooms  suit  their 
needs  better  than  a  house. '  A  hall  and  rooms  form  a  pre- 
liminary stage  through  which  many  have  to  pass,  but  the 
chapter  that  is  up  to  date  has  a  house.  A  suite  of  seven 
rooms  will  cost  as  much  as  a  house  in  the  long  run.  Read 
the  article  on  that  subject  in  the  last  Palladium,  It  takes 
time  to  accumulate  a  building  fund,  to  get  the  alumni  inter- 
ested, to  perfect  plans,  but  the  time  to  beg^n  is  now.  Most 
fraternities  have  outgrown  the  initiation  of  preparatory  stu- 
dents and  of  honorary  members.  There  were  once  times 
and  places  where  both  these  practices  were  the  rule  and 
seemed  often  excusable  and  occasionally  necessary.  But 
they  are  no  longer  so.  Among  the  leading  Greek-letter  so- 
cieties of  ten  years  hence  a  homeless  chapter  will  be  counted 
a  reproach. 

The  review  of  annuals  in  this  number  may  seem  to  many 
long  drawn  out.  Last  year  two  issues  of  The  Scroll  were 
used,  but  it  was  thought  best,  for  purposes  of  comparison, 
to  notice  all  the  volumes  at  once.  We  have  refrained  from 
calling  attention  to  data  to  be  found  in  Bro.  Palmer's  Man- 
ual, such  as  Phi  members  of  the  faculty,  but  have  found  it 
desirable  to  mention  the  enrollment  in  each  case,  to  make  it 
possible  to  see  at  a  glance  the  relative  size  of  the  fraternity 
and  the  non- fraternity  student  body.  The  article  is  in- 
tended to  be  read  not  as  literature  but  as  statistics,  and  as 
such  is  commended  to  the  perusal  of  all  careful  fraternity 
students.    The  Manual  should  be  followed  at  the  same  time. 

To  Phi  editors  and  contributors  this  year  we  have  one  sug- 


136  THE  SCROLL, 

gestion  to  offer.  Make  up  your  chapter  list  in  accordance 
with  the  Scroll  directory  of  the  last  issue  of  this  volume, 
not  from  the  18*)0  Baird  or  from  last  year's  annual.  The 
chapter  lists  of  all  fraternities  were  found  to  be  very  imper- 
fect. We  have  noted  the  variations  in  the  case  of  Theta 
Nu  Epsilon.  Nobody  seems  to  know  how  many  chapters 
there  are  of  this  organization.  Finally,  we  urge  all  Phis, 
no  matter  whether  their  chapter  seems  to  have  what  it  de- 
serves on  the  board  or  in  the  book,  or  not,  to  support  their 
college  annual  loyally  in  every  way  possible. 


The  charter  of  Ohio  Delta,  at  the  University  of  Wooster, 
has  been  suspended  by  the  General  Council.  The  quality  of 
the  male  student  body  has  been  steadily  deteriorating  for 
several  years  past,  but  three  new  men  having  been  initiated 
this  fall  by  all  the  chapters  from  the  freshman  class;  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  Sigma  Chi  and  Delta  Tau  Delta  have  found  it 
necessary  to  withdraw  .since  181)1,  and  now  Phi  Delta 
Theta  has  decided,  after  consultation  between  the  active 
members  and  visiting  alumni  of  Ohio  Delta  and  the  general 
officers  of  the  Fraternity,  that  the  action  mentioned  above 
should  be  taken.  The  Wooster  chapter  has  given  us  a  host 
of  loyal  and  gifted  alumni,  and  for  their  sake  we  hope  that 
conditions  may  change  before  it  is  too  late.  If  they  do  not, 
the  chapter  will  remain  stricken  from  our  roll. 


This  is  the  month  for  the  annual  circular  letter.  Too 
many  chapters  look  on  this  as  a  mere  requirement  of  the 
constitution  for  the  benefit  of  the  statistically  inclined.  It 
is  intended  as  a  means  of  communication  between  the  chap- 
ters and  their  alumni,  keeping  the  graduate's  interest,  both 
.sentimental  and  financial,  active  and  intense.  A  chapter 
must  keep  track  of  its  correspondent  members  for  many 
reasons,  and  the  letter  is  the  best  means  of  accomplishing 
this  end.  Have  yours  printed  at  once,  and  print  enough 
copies.  Read  the  directions  in  the  proposed  constitution 
and  code,  and  make  this  your  most  profitable  expenditure 


THE  SCROLL.  137 

of  time  and  money  in  the  chapter's  interest.     Don't  forget 
to  give  the  reporter's  address. 


The  Phis  in  Georgia  are  accustomed  to  call  themselves 
*Thetas,'  and  members  of  the  Fraternity  elsewhere  have 
wondered  what  was  the  reason  for  the  habit.  The  Fraternity 
has  never  sanctioned  the  use  of  the  last  letter  in  its  name  to 
designate  its  members.  There  are  three  other  fraternities 
whose  names  begin  with  Phi — Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma.  Members  of  the  first  men- 
tioned, when  not  described  as  'Fijis,'  are  called  Deltas, 
which  is  the  term  used  in  the  literature  of  the  fraternity. 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  however,  uses  the  first  instead  of  the 
third  letter  for  this  purpose,  and  our  convention  of  1882  de- 
clared that  Phi  Delta  Theta  should  be  pronounced  'Phy 
Delta  Thayta,'  and  members  should  be  called  Phis,  pro- 
nounced *Phys.'  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  another  fraternity  whose 
name  begins  with  Phi,  calls  its  members  Phi  Psis,  so  no 
confusion  is  caused  by  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  calling 
themselves  Phis  simply.  Members  of  Phi  Kappa  Sigma  are 
known  by  their  full  name,  as  Phi  Kaps  or  as  'Skulls,'  from  their 
emblem.  The  habit  of  Georgia  Phis  in  styling  themselves 
*Thetas'  seems  to  have  originated  at  Mercer,  and  the  rea.son 
probably  was  the  existence  of  a  Phi  Delta  literary  society 
there.  It  is  noticeable,  also,  that  there  is  a  Phi  Kappa 
literary  society  at  the  University  of  Georgia  and  a  Phi 
Gamma  literary  society  at  ICmor^*.  Literary  societies  form 
a  large  element  in  college  life  in  the  south,  but  no  misun- 
derstandings would  arise  from  Phis  calling  themselves  Phis, 
because  the  members  of  the  literary  societies  at  Mercer,  for 
instance,  call  themselves  Phi  Deltas.  The  (jeorgians  should 
break  off  this  habit  of  dubbing  themselves  'Thetas,'  for  in 
regard  to  nomenclature,  as  well  as  other  general  fraternity 
observances,  it  is  desirable  for  custom  to  be  uniform  and 
universal. 


The  success  of  our  two  October  province  conventions  is  a 
matter  for  congratulation,  particularly  in  the  case  of  the 


138  THE  SCROLL. 

southern  chapters,  who  met  this  year  for  the  first  time.  It 
is  an  old  story  for  Alpha  province  to  hold  a  large  and  en- 
thusiastic meeting.  The  social  advantage  of  such  gather- 
ings is  inestimable;  the  amount  of  business  to  be  transacted 
is  not  large  enough  to  monopolize  the  time  of  the  delegates, 
and  the  delegates  and  visitors  have  much  better  opportunity 
to  become  well  acquainted  than  at  a  national  convention. 
No  sihall  amount  of  important  business  was  considered, 
however,  at  these  meetings.  They  were  wisely  managed, 
as  well  as  royally  entertained. 


Ai'TKR  all,  the  Fraternity  is  most  active  and  living  in  its 
college  chapters.  The  alumni  are  swallowed  up  in  the 
maelstrom  of  workaday  life,  and  the  undergraduate  Phis  are 
at  once  the  life  and  the  source  of  renewed  life  for  future 
days.  The  chapter  letter  is,  therefore,  of  deep  interest  to 
ever>'  member  of  the  Fraternity  who  follows  its  progress 
closely.  The  other  chapters  gain  inspiration  from  it. 
The  alumni  find  in  it  their  3'outh  renewed.  So  we  have 
thought  it  worth  while,  at  the  expense  of  a  few  days* 
deiay,  and  of  a  few  letters  and  telegrams,  to  attempt  to  pre- 
sent in  this  issue  a  letter  from  every  active  chapter  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta.  Heretofore,  this  has  not  been  practicable, 
because  of  limited  space,  but  this  time  other  things  must 
wait,  while  we  hear  from  the  chapters.  There  is  a  keen 
personal  satisfaction  in  doing  something  no  person  else  has 
done,  and  when  we  offer  sixty-five  letters  from  the  sixty-five 
chapters  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  we  have  the  added  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  no  person  else  could  do  this — at  present, 
anyway.  We  are  very  grateful  to  our  faithful  correspond- 
ents who  have  made  this  achievement  possible,  and  we  for- 
give the  loiterers  freely.  The  first  form  had  to  go  to  press 
before  two  or  three  Alpha  and  Beta  province  letters  were  in 
type  and  before  two  more  had  arrived.  These  will  be  found 
following  the  Stanford  letter 


THE  SCROLL.  139 


Chapter  Correspondence/ 

ALPHA  PROVINCE. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  ALPHA.  DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE. 

The  rapidity  with  which  the  material  equipment  of  Dartmouth  is 
being  increased  awakens  the  enthusiasm  and  excites  the  admiration 
of  every  loyal  alumnus.  The  foundations  of  the  mathematical  hall  and 
the  physical  laboratory  are  nearing  completion,  and  the  buildings  will 
be  put  up  in  the  spring.  A  chemical  laboratory  will  also  be  erected 
next  spring,  and  a  central  heating  station. 

Ex  President  Bartlett  will  celebrate  his  eightieth  birthday  on 
Thanksgiving  day.  On  the  following  evening  he  will  address  a  gath- 
ering of  his  immediate  friends  and  neighbors  and  the  students  of  the 
college.  His  interest  in  them  all  is  warm  and  hearty,  and  his  address 
will  be  sure  to  abound  in  many  delightful  reminiscences  of  tlie  town 
and  college. 

Last  Saturday  Dartmouth  defeated  Amherst  at  Hanover  by  the 
enormous  score  of  54  to  0.  This  makes  the  fifth  successive  year  that 
Amherst  has  been  defeated  in  foot  ball,  and  as  your  reporter  writes 
these  words,  the  news  comes  from  Williamstown  that  Dartmouth  has 
defeated  Williams  by  a  score  of  02  to  U,  thereby  winning  the  tri-col- 
legiate  pennant  for  the  fifth  successive  season. 

Each  winter  season  at  Dartmouth  is  enlivened  by  the  lecture  course. 
The  course  was  opened  last  week  with  a  concert  by  Reeve's  American 
Band  of  Providence,  R.  I.  During  the  winter  the  following  lecturers 
will  speak:  John  B.  Gordon,  Dr.  Frank  Gunsaulus  and  Mr.  Robarts- 
Harper. 

Early  in  the  fall  term,  Bro.  A.  A.  McKenzie,  '91,  for  some  years  in- 
spector of  buildings  at  Hanover,  was  offered  the  position  of  first  as- 
sistant engineer  by  the  Nicaragua  Canal  Commission.  Bro.  McKen- 
zie did  not  accept,  however. 

The  chapter  is  represented  this  year  on  The  Dartmouth  by  Bro. 
Musgrove,  '99,  and  Bro  Rodgers,  '98,  the  latter  being  editor  of  the 
alumni  department.  Bro.  Wood,  '01,  one  of  our  new  initiates,  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  board  to-day.  Since  writing  the  last  letter, 
Bro.  Graham,  '99,  has  made  the  mandolin  club,  and  Bro.  Thayer.  '01, 
another  of  our  new  members,  has  become  first  tenor  on  the  glee  club. 
Bros.  Chase  and  Child,  '99,  represent  the  chapter  in  the  trial  debates 
for  the  Williams- Dartmouth  debate  next  spring.  Bro.  Barney,  '99, 
is  vice-president  of  the  dramatic  club,  and  Bro.  Tirrell,  '00,  is  treas- 
urer. Bros.  Barney  and  Sanborn,  'IM),  were  our  delegates  to  the  Al- 
pha province  convention,  and  they  brought  back  fine  reports  of  the 
state  of  the  province,  and  lots  of  enthusiasm  for  the  work  of  New 
Hampshire  Alpha. 

In  the  next  letter  we  can  report  our  new  members,  and  give  some 
account  of  the  year's  work. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

B.  C.  RODGKRS. 

Hanover,  November  20,  1897. 

*  Letters  not  coming  in  their  regular  order  may  be  found  following  the  Hpsilou 
province  letters. 


I40  THE  SCROLL. 

VERMONT  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  VERMONT. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  pledged  and  initiated  eight  of  the  most 
desirable  men  from  the  freshman  and  sophomore  classes.  They  are 
Royden  KugeneBeebe,  1900,  Burlington,  Vt. ;  and  Samuel  Sibley  Den- 
nis, Jr.,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Vernon  Waterman  Dodge,  Morrisville,  Vt. ; 
Carroll  Putnam  Marvin,  Montpelier,  Vt. ;  Roy  Sydney  Morse,  Monl- 
pelier,  Vt. ;  ICarl  Elkins  Parker,  Barre,  Vt. ;  Dean  Homer  Perry,  Barre, 
Vt.;  and  Albert  Frank  Ufford,  Fairfax,  Vt.,  all  of  191)1.  The  initia- 
tion ceremonies  were  held  Friday  evening,  October  22,  and  were  fol- 
lowed immediately  by  our  annual  initiation  banquet  at  the  Hotel  Bur- 
lington. Alumni  present  at  the  initiation  and  banquet  were  G.  H. 
Baker,  '92,  C.  H  Mower,  '9;{.  G.  11.  Dalrymple,  W.  F.  Daggett  and 
C.  W.  Doten,  '9r>,  K.  M.  Harvey,  '9<>,  F.  K.  Jackson,  \V.  P.  Kern  and 
F.  R.  Farrington,  '97.  We  were  especially  pleased  to  have  with  us 
for  this  occasion  a  representative  from  our  sister  chapter,  New  Hamp- 
shire Alpha,  Bro.  W.  C.  Rodgers,  Ihirtuiouth,  '98. 

While  successful  in  'horse-shedding',  we  have  been  receiving  our 
full  share  of  college  honors.  Bnxs.  Ray,  '9S,  Andrews,  '99,  and  Dodge, 
1901,  are  presidents  of  their  respective  classes.  On  the  'varsity  foot 
ball  team  Vermont  Alpha  is  represented  by  Bros.  Forbes  and  Keeler, 
'98,  and  Lincoln,  1900.  On  the  musical  clubs,  as  they  are  now  con- 
stituted, are  liros.  Andrews  and  Blair,  '99,  and  Dodge  and  Parker, 
1901.  Bro.  Gould,  1900,  has  been  appointed  avSsistant  librarian  in  the 
Billings  library.  In  the  university  battalion  several  Phis  hold  prom- 
inent positions:  Bros.  Ray  and  Patrick,  '98,  are  captains,  Bro.  Dodd, 
'98,  is  second  lieutenant,  and  Bro.  Andrews,  '99,  sergeant  ma^or. 

During  the  past  two  months  wedding  bells  have  been  ringing  con- 
tinually among  our  alumni.  Among  the  most  recent  benedicts  are 
Bros.  J.  C.  Turk,  '8:5,  H.  J.  Kilbourn,  '93,  M.  C.  Lovell,  ex-'90,  and 
I.  J.  Vail,  ex-'98.  The  engagement  of  Bro.  H.  M.  W^ilbur,  'S(),  to  Miss 
Dorothy  Dix  Elliott,  both  of  Portland,  Oregon,  has  been  announced; 
the  engagement  is  also  announced  of  Wxo.  C.  II.  Mower,  '9.S,  to  Miss 
Louise  Galusha,  l)oth  of  Burlington,  Vt.  Bro.  Turk  has  a  position 
with  the  Union  Iron  Bridge  Co.,  of  New  York;  Bro.  Kilbourn  is  pas- 
tor of  the  first  Congregational  church  at  Alburg,  Vt. ;  Bro.  C.  C. 
Briggs,  '94,  was  recently  admitted  to  the  Vermont  bar;  Bro.  W.  P. 
Kern,  '97,  is  now  in  the  employ  of  the  (Quaker  City  Morocco  Company, 
of  Philadelphia;  Bro.  F.  F.  Lincoln,  '97,  is  a  reporter  on  the  New 
York  Sun:  Bro.  Sabin,  '90,  will  enter  the  medical  department  of  the 
university  next  January  ;  Bro.  Dalrymple,  '95,  during  the  *  horse- 
shedding  '  season  gave  the  chapter  a  very  pleasant  afternoon  excur- 
sion on  Lake  Champlain  in  his  steam  yacht  'Ariel.' 

The  university  still  continues  in  the  path  of  growth  and  prosperity. 
In  the  military  department  Lieut.  Bailey  succeeds  Capt.  H.  E.  Tuth- 
erly.  The  freshman  class  numbers  ninety-seven.  The  annual  fresh- 
man-sophomore cane  rush,  which  has  for  many  years  occurred  at  the 
beginning  of  the  college  year,  was  strictly  prohibited  this  fall  by  the 
faculty.  But,  notwithstanding  this  restriction,  a  pitched  battle  was 
fought  on  one  of  the  principal  streets  of  the  city  between  the  sopho- 
mores and  freshmen,  the  latter  having  gone  down  town  in  a  body  to* 
secure  class  canes.  The  rush  was  declared  a  draw,  and  the  sopho- 
mores who  took  part  in  it  have  been  placed  on  probation  by  the  fac- 
ulty. Vermont  is  making  her  first  earnest  attempt  this  year  to  pro- 
duce a  'varsity  foot  ball  team  worthy  of  the  institution.  Many  oiffi- 
culties  presented  themselves  in  the  beginning,  but  these  seem  now  to 


THE  SCROLL.  141 

have  been  overcome.  The  team  has  played  no  big  college  games  this 
season,  but  in  several  games  with  some  of  the  strongest  teams  in  the 
state  has  been  thus  far  undefeated.  Dr.  Farrar,  Pennsylvania^  '95,  is 
coaching  the  team.  Our  game  with  Middlebury  College,  in  which 
Vermont  won  easily  by  the  score  of  14-0,  has  been  the  most  important 
of  the  season.  The  first  military'  hop  of  the  season  will  be  given  by 
the  university  battalion,  Friday  evening,  November  19,  in  the  armory. 
Bro.  Patrick,  '98,  and  Bro.  Brooks,  nHX),  are  members  of  the  hop  com- 
mittee. These  dances  are  among  the  most  pleasant  features  of  our 
social  life. 

Bro.  Ray,  '98,  was  the  delegate  of  Vermont  Alpha  to  the  Alpha 
province  convention  at  Providence.  He  was  accompanied  by  Bro. 
Jackson,  '97. 

The  chapter  is  deeply  indebted  to  Bro.  Walter  B.  Palmer  for  his  ex- 
cellent Manual  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  which  assisted  us  greatly  in  'horse- 
shedding'  and  will  ever  be  a  valuable  work. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Burlington,  Novembers,  1897.  C.  F.  Bi^air. 


HASSACHUSETTS  ALPHA.  WILLIAMS  COLLEQE. 

Massachusetts  Alpha  returned  sixteen  men  this  fall.  Since  the  be- 
ginning of  the  term  we  have  initiated  Bros.  Harold  Chapman  Brown, 
of  Springfield,  Mass.;  Harry  Warren  Mead,  of  Auburn,  N.  V.;  Nor- 
man Peck,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  and  I^ewis  Squires,  of  Plainfield,  N. 
J.,  all  from  the  class  of  1901.  The  entering  class  this  fall  numbers 
about  one  hundred  and  fifteen  men.  This  number  is  somewhat  less 
than  that  of  last  year,  probably  on  account  of  the  higher  standard  the 
college  has  set  in  respect  to  the  requirements  for  entrance. 

The  faculty  has  been  greatly  changed.  Doctor  Handcock  has  taken 
the  place  of  Doctor  Mather,  who  is  continuing  his  studies  abroad.  Mr. 
Huntington  and  Mr.  Sutphen  have  courses  in  mathematics  and  Latin. 
Mr.  Curtis  and  Mr.  Wilhams  are  assistants  in  biology  and  chemistry. 

Some  of  the  honors  conferred  upon  the  members  of  Massachusetts 
Alpha  since  our  last  letter  to  The  ScRorx  follow:  Bro.  Treat,  '97, 
was  elected  to  <l>  B  K  ;  Bro.  Denison,  '97,  was  treasiu^er  of  the  class 
day  committee.  Bros.  Treat  and  Denison  received  commencement 
appointments,  Bro.  Denison  having  a  philosophical  oration  and  taking 
prizes  in  history  and  German.  Bros.  Fifer,  '98,  and  Waterman,  '98, 
were  elected  to  the  Gargoyle.  Bro.  Fifer  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  athletic  team,  of  which  Bro.  Waterman  is  manager  for  this  year. 
Bro.  Graff,  '98,  is  president  of  the  chemical  society.  Bro.  Fitz,  '99, 
was  re-elected  leader  of  the  banjo  club,  and  is  a  director  in  the  chem- 
ical society.  Bro.  Baker,  '99,  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  lyceum 
of  natural  history.  Bro.  Waterman,  '98,  is  on  the  finance,  and  Bro. 
Vary,  '9t),  on  the  music  committee,  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Bros.  Bates 
and  Stoddard  were  on  the  cane  committee  for  the  class  of  liMX).  Bro. 
Stoddard  was  elected  to  the  weekly  board,  and  was  on  his  class  supper 
committee.  Bro.  Doland,  1900,  was  on  the  committee  for  the  March 
17  celebration.  Bro.  Mead,  1901,  is  playing  on  his  class  foot  ball  team, 
and  Bro.  Brown,  of  the  same  class,  is  on  the  mandolin  club. 

The  chapter  lost  three  men  by  graduation,  Bro.  Denison,  who  is 
studying  law  in  Columbia  University,  Bro.  Northrup  and  Bro.  Treat. 
Bro.  Doland,  1900,  left  college  and  entered  the  biological  department 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 


142  THE  SCROLL. 

Massachusetts  Alpha  was  pleased  to  receive  as  visitors  this  fall 
Bros.  Buell,  '96,  Canedy, '%,  Irish,  '%,  Westen,  '96,  and  Denison,  '97. 
With  best  wishes,  I  remain,  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

M.  A.  Graff. 
Williamstown,  November  20,  1897. 

MASSACHUSETTS  BETA.  AHHERST  COLLEGE. 

Amherst  is  at  present  busy  in  enlarging  her  already  wide  stretch  of 
campus.  The  entire  Boltwood  estate  is  being  graded  and  laid  out  in 
landscape  form;  when  it  is  completed  it  will  offer  a  fine  sweep  of  lawn 
stretching  from  Maple  street  to  the  laboratory.  Several  streets  will  be 
built  across  it. 

The  foot  ball  season  at  Amherst  has  closed  with  a  defeat  by  Dart- 
^louth  of  54-0.  With  the  material  which  offered  itself  in  September, 
a  surprisingly  strong  team  was  built  up,  of  which  no  idea  can  be  gained 
from  the  score  which  the  far  heavier  Dartmouth  team  succeeded  in 
making.  Although  the  Williams  game  ended  in  a  tie,  owing  to  a 
fluke,  It  is  conceded  by  every  one  that  Amherst  outplayed  her  oppon- 
ents. Bro.  Whitney,  '99,  was  elected  captain  of  the  team  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  season  and  did  much  to  develop  it,  instituting  a  new  system 
of  second  elevens  and  finding  new  material. 

Massachusetts  Beta  is  in  a  flourishing  condition.  The  rushing  sea- 
son was  a  fierce  competition,  and  our  chapter  is  proud  to  introduce 
these  new  Phis:  Jesse  E.  Baker,  Keokuk,  Iowa;  Arthur  R.  Couch, 
Northampton,  Mass. ;  Clare  J.  Crary,  Sheffield,  Pa. ;  John  E.  Denham, 
Westboro,  Mass.;  George  B.  Ennever,  Montclair,  N.  J.;  Harry  W. 
Gladwin,  Westfield,  Mass.;  Andrew  F.  Hamilton,  Athol,  Mass.;  John 
A.  Marsh,  New  Milford,  Conn.;  Leonard  L.  Roden,  Attleboro,  Mass.; 
Jay  H.  Stevens,  Hornellsville,  N.  Y.  All  are  of  the  class  of  1901;  an- 
other man  of  the  same  class,  and  three  men  of  1902,  are  pledged. 

Bro.  Marsh,  1901,  has  taken  the  JoOO  admission  prize.  Bro.  Baker, 
1901,  is  leader  of  the  freshman  mandolin  club.  Bro.  Gladwin,  1901, 
is  athletic  director  of  his  class.  The  upper  delegations,  too,  have  by 
no  means  been  quiet.  In  the  senior  elections,  Bro.  Porter  was  made 
class  secretary,  Bro.  Trefethen  permanent  class  secretary,  Bro.  McAll- 
ister choregus.  Bro.  Klaer,  1900,  is  athletic  director  of  his  class  for 
the  coming  year.  On  the  glee  club  we  have  Bros.  Porter,  '98,  Smith, 
'99,  and  Brooks,  '90.  Bro.  Sharp,  '99,  and  Bro.  Baker,  1901,  represent 
us  on  the  mandolin  club. 

We  wish  to  express  our  appreciation  of  the  work  done  by  Bro. 
Palmer  in  his  successful  edition  of  the  Manual,  and  offer  our  con- 
gratulations.    With  best  wishes  to  all,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  November  15,  1897.  Chkster  M.  Grover. 


RHODE  ISLAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

Rhode  Island  Alpha  lost  last  June  by  graduation  ten  loyal.  Phis. 
When  we  returned  this  fall  we  numbered  only  fifteen.  Since  then  we 
have  affiliated  Bro.  Multer  of  Union,  and  after  a  successful  rushing 
season  initiated  Bros.  Boynton  and  Stillman  from  '00  and  Bros.  Hap- 
good,  Lane  and  Melendy  from  '01. 

On  October  28  and  29  the  Alpha  province  convention  met  with  us, 
and  for  two  or  three  days  we  had  the  privilege  of  meeting  and  enter- 


THE  SCROLL.  14 

taining  a  number  of  brothers  from  the  other  chapters.  It  would  have 
given  us  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  if  more  might  have  been  able  to 
come.  On  the  evening  of  the  29th  we  held  the  most  successful  and 
best  attended  banquet  ever  enjoyed  by  our  chapter.  About  forty-five 
Phis  were  present,  and  Bro.  Moore  presided  as  toastmaster. 

We  feel  that  this  convention  has  Seen  and  will  be  of  great  advan- 
tage to  us  in  our  work  at  Brown.  Last  spring  Alpha  Delta  Phi  held 
her  convention  here,  and  on  the  18th,  19th  and  20th  of  November, 
Delta  Phi  holds  hers  with  the  Beta  chapter  here. 

Rhode  Island  Alpha  is  an  active  force  in  the  life  of  the  college. 
We  are  represented  on  the  faculty  by*Bros.  Slociun,  Morse,  Kenerson, 
Wheeler  and  Bullard.  Bro.  Gifford  is  assistant  manager  of  the  foot 
ball  team,  and  Bros.  Wheeler,  Hall,  Hapgood  and  Melendy  are  in  the 
team.  Bro.  Greene  is  on  the  Brunoinan  and  Bro.  Putney  is  the 
biisiness  manager,  a  position  which  Bro.  C.  E.  White  held  last  year. 
Bro.  Gifford  and  Bro.  C.  C.  White  are  on  the  Herald  staff.  Bro. 
Greene,  our  senior  representative  on; the  Liber ^  is  president  of  the 
board  of  editors. 

At  the  election  of  officers  of  the  senior  class  last  month.  Phi  Delta 
Theta  obtained  two  offices  out  of  three  representatives  in  the  class. 
Bro.  Greene  was  elected  to  give  the  address  to  the  undergraduates  on 
class  day  afternoon.  Bro.  Multer  was  elected  class  orator  for  the  same 
day.  No  other  fraternity  in  college  obtained  so  many  offices  in  pro- 
portion to  the  number  of  their  representatives  in  the  class. 

With  the  most  earnest  wishes  for  the  continuance  of  the  prosperity 
of  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Providence,  November  17,  1897.  HowKLi.  G.  Wilcox. 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA,  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY. 

As  usual,  at  this  season  of  the  year,  the  all-absorbing  topic  at  Cor- 
nell is  foot  ball.  Thus  far  we  have  played  two  games,  winning 
both,  which  was  to  be  expected.  The  first  game  was  with  Colgate; 
score,  6-0.  Yesterday's  game  with  Syracuse  University  resulted  in  a 
score  of  16-0  in  Cornell's  favor.  These  scores  are  small,  but  the  fact 
is  due  largely  to  the  many  changes  made  in  the  line-up  of  the  team. 
*Pop'  Warner,  the  famous  Cornell  guard,  is  rapidly  getting  the  line 
men  into  good  shape,  while  'Joe'  Beachani,  last  year's  captain,  has 
charge  of  the  backs.  The  material  on  hand  this  fall  looks  very  prom- 
ising, and  with  the  aid  of  these  two  able  coaches  Cornell  should  put  a 
strong  team  on  the  field  this  year.  We  have  five  zealous  candidates 
out  hustling  for  positions,  some  of  whom  will  undoubtedly  earn  the 
privilege  of  wearing  a  'C  Bros.  Whiting  and  Bassford  are  after  the 
position  of  quarter-back;  Hackett  is  playing  a  good  steady  game  at 
tackle,  and  would  make  the  position,  hands  down,  if  he  only  had  the 
advantage  of  a  little  more  weight;  Short  is  back  trying  for  his  old 
position  at  end,  while  Starbuck  is  making  a  good  fight  for  left  half, 
showing  much  of  the  dash  his  brother  displayed  before  him.  All 
these  men  have  already  had  a  trial  on  the  'varsity  in  the  two  games 
played,  so  it  may  well  be  expected  that  they  will  be  heard  from  again. 

The  rushing  season  is  certainly  upon  us  at  Cornell.  Owing  to  the 
large  number  of  faternities  here  it  is  always  necessary  to  be  awake  to 
secure  enough  good  men  in  the  fall.  However,  New  York  Alpha  has 
been  very  fortunate  so  far  and  it  is  with  great  pleasure  that  I  intro- 
duce to  the  Fraternity  at  large  William   Harrison  Miller,  Pottsville, 


144  THE  SCROLL, 

Pa. ;  Irving  Clinton  Brower,  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  Chas.  Winn  Coit,  Hol- 
yoke,  Mass.  We  were  also  pleased  to  affiliate  Bro.  C.  B.  English,  of 
Pennsylvania  Epsilon.  Besides  these  men  we  have  three  more  pledged 
and  hope  to  be  able  to  add  several  others  to  the  list  in  a  very  short 
time. 

It  might  be  interesting  to  otlier  chapters  to  say  that  this  last  sum- 
mer we  sent  out  over  one  hundred  cards  to  graduate  Phis,  asking  them 
to  fill  in  the  blanks  with  the  names  of  any  friends  who  were  coming  to 
Cornell,  and  who  might  wish  to  join  a  fraternity.  In  this  way  we 
were  able  to  get  in  the  game  early,  and  through  the  scheme  secured 
some  of  our  best  men.  I  would  advise  all  chapters  to  try  it.  The  ex- 
pense amounts  to  practically  nothing. 

The  boat  races  at  Poughkeepsie  were  so  fully  reported  in  the  daily 
papers  and  the  magazines  that  anything  I  could  say  here  would  prob- 
ably prove  uninteresting.  It  is  useless  to  say  we  were  overjoyed  at 
the  results,  especially  as  Yale  had  to  bow  to  our  superiority  on  the 
water.  Our  chapter  was  again  represented,  Bro.  Ihlder  pulling  the 
stroke  oar  of  the  freshman  boat. 

With  greetings  to  all  sister  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  October  ;>,  1897.  H.  Harrison  Haskkli*. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

The  rushing  season  is  over,  and  New  York  Beta  has  secured  a  fine 
delegation  of  four  men  from  the  freshman  class:  Leroy  Shelly,  Am- 
sterdam; Harry  A.  Barrett,  Albany;  John  Ludden,  Troy;  Everett  G. 
Grout,  Cooperstown. 

Bro.  M.  J.  Multer,  '97,  is  now  professor  of  mathematics  and  sciences 
at  the  Delaware  Literary  Institute,  Franklin,  N.  Y.  Bro.  W.  ly.  Terry, 
*96,  has  been  elected  professor  of  science  in  the  Kentucky  Military 
Institute  with  rank  of  captain. 

Bro.  A.  J.  Hornsby,  '99,  is  assistant  business  manager  of  The  Garnet. 

Bro.  Van  Gelder,  Brown,  '97,  has  accepted  a  position  in  the  Edison 
works.  New  York  Beta  is  always  pleased  to  welcome  Phis  who  come 
to  make  their  homes  in  the  city. 

Union  commenced  the  foot  ball  season  this  fall  with  a  very  weak 
team,  but  through  the  untiring  efforts  of  our  coach  and  captain  we 
closed  with  success,  our  opponents  being  unable  to  score  in  the  last 
three  games. 

The  junior  class  has  decided  to  give  a  series  of  hops  instead  of  the 
usual  promenade.     Bro.  Hoyt  is  a  member  of  the  committee. 

Owing  to  our  living  this  year  in  a  chapter  house,  we  find  ourselves 
capable  of  entertaining  with  success,  and  as  a  consequence  our  social 
standing  among  the  fraternities  has  been  raised.  We  gave  our  first 
reception  during  the  latter  part  of  October.  In  the  Bond, 

J.  I.  Gayetty, 

Schenectady,  November  2(»,  1S97.  R.  C.  Gambee. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA,  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

Once  again  has  New  York  Delta  a  roof  over  her  head,  and  more 
than  a  month's  occupancy  of  her  quarters  has  served  to  bring  order 
out  of  chaos,  so  that  the  chapter  is  running  smoothly  and  prospering 
day  by  day.  Emulating  the  example  set  her  by  Columbia  University, 
New  York  Delta's  new  home  is  larger,  more  commodious  and  pre- 


THE  SCROLL.  145 

tentious  than  heretofore  and  most  admirably  adapted  for  both  meeting 
and  living  purposes.  It  comprises  eight  large  rooms  and  bath,  on  the 
parlor  floor  and  basement  of  a  handsome  apartment  house,  and  at 
present  it  shelters  Bros.  Egner,  Vinton  and  Baker. 

The  last  named  gentleman  is  a  new  initiate  whom  we  hereby  intro- 
duce to  the  Phi  world  with  the  prediction  that  he  will  prove  worthy 
of  the  honor  accorded  him. 

Nine  of  last  year*s  chapter  returned  in  October,  and  Bro.  HoUoway, 
of  Alabama  Gamma,  has  affiliated.  Bro.  Parish,  whom  we  had  ex- 
pected to  return  this  year,  disappointed  us,  for  he  has  joined  our 
European  contingent,  his  last  communication  being  postmarked  Buda- 
Pesth.  It  seems  that  he  traveled  during  the  summer  extensively 
through  Mexico  and  the  southwestern  states,  and  with  seven  months 
of  European  travel  he  should  have  some  rare  stories  to  tell  upon  his 
return.  Next  year  he  enters  the  school  of  mines,  and  np  doubt  will 
do  good  work  there  both  scholastically  and  fraternally.  As  I  wrote 
in  September,  Bro.  Bryant  sailed  for  Europe  and  is  now  in  Dresden, 
which  he  will  make  his  winter  headquarters. 

The  last  month  has  been  taken  up  with  class  and  society  elections, 
and  in  the  whirl  Phis  have  come  in  for  their  share.  Bro.  Egner  was 
elected  president  of  the  Webster  Law  Club,  Bro.  Denison,  president 
of  the  MX)  law  class,  while  Bros.  Vinton  and  Hinrichs  will  manage  the 
fiscal  affairs  of  their  classes     '1)8  and  '99,  college,  respectively. 

In  athletics  Bro.  Vinton  will  continue  his  good  work  as  centre  on 
the  '98  foot  ball  team,  and  in  the  '99  team,  which  is  being  organized, 
Bro.  Hackett  will  undoubtedly  be  heard  from. 

Bro.  Hackett  is  now  interested  in  university  settlement  work,  and 
his  rare  executive  talent  and  tireless  energy  manifest  themselves  in 
the  class  to  which  he  acts  as  mentor. 

Faculty  changes  are  few  when  we  consider  Columbia's  large  corps 
of  instructors.  Bro.  Van  Cielder,  who  was  on  the  faculty  of  medicine, 
was  transferred  to  a  superior  position  in  the  chemical  department,  and 
in  the  law  school  we  note  with  particular  interest  the  aodition  of  Bro. 
Terry  as  lecturer  on  contracts.  Bro.  Terry  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  New  York  A,  and  his  sound  legal  knowledge  will  do  much  to  en- 
hance the  value  of  the  law  school  course. 

In  closing,  we  would  acknowledge  the  visits  of  many  Phis,  among 
them  Bro.  God  ell,  of  Amherst,  Bro.  Denison,  of  Williams,  and  Bros. 
Woodward  and  Hardy,  of  Ann  Arbor  (the  latter  now  attending  the 
New  York  Law  School ) . 

In  the  Bond, 

New  York,  November  20,  1897.  Oscar  Wkkks  Ehrhorn. 

NEW  YORK  EPSILON.  SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY. 

For  Syracuse  University  the  opening  of  the  present  college  year  was 
very  auspicious  indeed.  About  four  hundred  students  are  enrolled  in 
the  class  of  '01,  furnishing  good  material  for  fraternity  rushing.  The 
faculty  has  been  greatly  strengthened  by  the  addition  of  several  new 
men,  not  least  of  whom  is  Bro.  A.  E.  Leonard,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D.,  Ohio 
Gamma,  '88,  who  has  been  elected  to  the  office  of  dean  of  the  college 
of  liberal  arts  and  also  to  the  professorship  of  pedagogy.  Bro.  Leon- 
ard comes  to  Syracuse  from  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  where  for  several 
years  he  has  been  principal  of  the  high  school.  \Ve  are  glad  to  wel- 
come Bro.  Leonard  to  Syracuse  University  and  hope  that  his  connec- 
tion with  us  will  be  mutually  agreeable  and  profitable. 


146  THE  SCROLL. 

The  new  university  block  is  nearing  completion.  This  is  to  be  the 
home  of  the  law  college,  when  finished  will  have  cost  about  a  half  a 
million  dollars,  and  will  be  one  of  the  finest  edifices  of  our  city.  A 
new  science  hall  is  to  be  erected  in  the  spring. 

New  York  Epsilon  commenced  the  year  in  a  very  encouraging  con- 
dition. We  came  back  to  college  numbering  seventeen  men  in  the 
active  chapter,  every  one  of  whom  was  determined  to  pledge  to  Phi 
Delta  Theta  only  the  best  men.  Fraternity  competition  was  very 
strong,  but  we  came  out  at  the  end  of  the  season  with  ten  men  who 
will,  both  in  college  and  after  life,  reflect  great  credit  on  the  Frater- 
nity. We  take  pleasure  in  introducing  Bros.  Harry  B.  Reddick,  M>9; 
Damon  A.  Hagedorn,  '(X>;  H.  Spencer  Perry,  '00;  Allen  D.  Burnham, 
*00;  Thomas  H.  Low,  '01;  Weslev  Tisdale,  'Ol;  Harry  E.  Anthony, 
'01;  Louis  D.  Palmer.  '01;  Claude' M.  Merriott,  '01;  H.  Hutchinson, 
'01.  We  held  our  initiation  banquet  at  the  Vanderbilt,  October  19. 
Bro.  Nichols* was  toastniaster,  and  Dr.  Leonard  and  Dr.  Sibley  were 
among  the  speakers. 

Our  new  men  are  all  taking  hold  of  fraternity  work  in  earnest,  and 
we  have  good  reason  to  congratulate  ourselves  upon  our  choice  of 
men.  Bro.  Lipes,  who  for  two  years  has  been  taking  a  course  in  the 
liberal  arts  college,  entered  the  medical  school  this  fall  with  tlie  class 
of  '01.  Bro.  Voorhees,  who  also  was  in  the  liberal  arts  college  last 
year,  entered  law  this  fall  with  '08.  Bro.  Kinne,  10(M),  did  not  return 
this  fall,  but  entered  the  New  York  City  medical  college.  We  also 
regretted  that  Bros.  Cregg,  HMM),  Munro,  'iM).  Waffle,  '1H>,  and  Mills, 
'98,  did  not  return  to  finish  their  courses.  Bro.  Mills  is  at  present  en- 
gaged in  journalism  at  his  home  in  Sodus,  X.  Y.  Our  chapter  lost  by 
graduation  last  year  Bros.  Larkin,  '94,  medicine,  '97,  Morgan  and 
Nichols,  '94.  law,  '97. 

Our  delegates  to  the  Alpha  province  convention  held  with  Rhode 
Island  Alpha  were  Bros.  King  and  Fenner.  They  returned  filled  with 
enthusiasm  and  loud  in  their  praises  of  the  hospitality  of  the  Phis  at 
Brown.     The  convention  of  1S99  is  to  be  held  with  us. 

Friday  evening,  November  12,  the  active  chapter  gave  a  reception 
to  the  resident  alumni  in  honor  of  Bro.  A.  E.  Leonard,  and  on  Thurs- 
day evening.  November  18,  we  opened  the  society  season  with  an  in- 
formal reception  to  about  forty  of  our  friends  among  the  ladies,  held 
at  our  chapter  house  on  Irving  avenue. 

With  the  best  wishes  of  New  York  Epsilon  to  all  the  chapters  for  a 
successful  year,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Syracuse,  November  l!>,  1807.  M.  C.   Smith. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ALPHA. LAFAYETTE  COLLEQB. 

Pennsylvania  Alpha  greets  her  sister  chapters,  the  Fraternity  and 
our  worthy  editor,  wishing  all  a  most  prosperous  year.  We  bejEjan  the 
college  year  with  nine  names  on  our  roster.  Bro.  Turner,  '99,  is  read- 
ing law  in  Easton.  and  Bro.  Poole,  '99,  has  affiliated  with  Pennsylvania 
Zeta.  We  lost  three  men  Iw  graduation.  We  introduce  the  following 
new  men  to  the  world  of  Phis:  Bros.  Harry  Rhea  Douglas,  Shirleys- 
burg,  I'a.,  and  W.  liruner  Roscnberger,  Colmar,  Pa.,  of  the  class  of 
19(K);  and  T.  Campbell  Fassitt,  Easton,  Pa.,  D.  Mackey  Hinkle.  Ev- 
ansville,  Ind.,  Jos.  Henry  Vanliam,  Nickel,  Tex.,  George  B.  Robb, 
Newark,  N.  J.,  and  ICarl  Saxe,  Lansdale,  Pa.,  all  of  '01.  Bro.  Saxe  at 
guard,  together  with  Bros.  Bray,  '00,  at  full  back,  and  Pierce,  '98,  at 
half  back,  are  Pennsylvania  Alpha's  representatives  on  the  gridiron. 


THE  SCROLL.  147 

Bro.  Hubley,  *00,  who  played  on  last  year's  eleven,  is  under  the 
parental  ban.  Bro.  McDougal  is  manager  of  the  team.  The  *97  team, 
although  not  so  successful  as  was  the  eleven  of  'IX >,  nevertheless  is 
an  excellent  one.  They  have  been  beaten  only  by  the  teams  repre- 
senting Princeton  and  the  U.  of  P.  The  eleven  of  the  latter  institu- 
tion fell  before  Lafayette  last  year  and  that  of  the  former  was  not  able 
to  score  on  our  'varsity.  Cornell's  team  is  the  only  other  that  has 
crossed  Lafa^ette*s  goal  line  this  season.  The  game  with  Cornell  re- 
sulted in  a  tie  score,  4-4.  Cornell  was  enabled  to  score  chiefly  through 
the  ground-gaining  propensities  of  Bro.  Whiting,  Cornell's  right  half, 
who  is  looked  upon  here  as  l)eing  one  of  the  speediest  and  best  men 
in  that  position  of  the  year.  Caspar  Whitney  will  think  twice  before 
passing  Bro.  Whiting  in  his  selection  of  the  'All- American.'  We  had 
the  pleasure  of  meeting  Bros.  Whiting,  Hackett  and  Dempsey,  of  the 
Cornell  eleven. 

Lafayette  has  been  so  fortunate  as  to  have  again  secured  the  services 
of  Bro.  Davis  as  director  of  athletics  for  the  coming  year.  Prof.  Fran- 
cis Andrew  March,  Jr.,  president  of  the  alumni  athletic  advisory  com- 
mittee, pays  a  beautiful  tribute  to  Bro.  Davis  and  his  work  at  Lafayette: 
*  The  Lafayette  College  athletic  committee  desires  to  state  that  with 
the  co-operation  of  Dr.  Warfield  it  has  been  so  fortunate  as  to  make 
arrangements  with  Mr.  Parke  Davis  to  remain  at  Lafayette  during  the 
ensuing  year  as  coach  of  the  athletic  team.  The  committee  thorough- 
ly appreciate  Mr.  Davis'  splendid  work,  which,  besides  tlie  successes  of 
previous  seasons,  has  given  Lafayette  tliis  fall  a  foot  ball  team,  which, 
in  spite  of  an  extraordinary  succession  of  misfortunes,  outclasses  the 
teams  of  all  colleges  of  her  size  and  is  only  inferior  to  the  teams  of  the 
**  big  four".* 

While  in  Philadelphia  lately  we  had  the  pleasure  of  being  with  Penn- 
sylvania Zeta  at  an  initiation  and  were  most  hospitably  entertained. 
Too  high  commendation  can  not  be  paid  Pennsylvania  Zeta  and  her 
alumni  for  their  perseverance  in  the  matter  of  a  chapter  house.  The 
plans  of  their  new  house,  which  is  to  be  completed  in  season  for  occu- 
pancy next  fall,  indicate  one  of  the  most  beautiful,  convenient  and 
costly  fraternity  homes  to  be  found  anywhere.  We  were  also  very 
pleasantly  entertained  by  the  Lehigh  chapter  on  the  occasion  of  a 
recent  visit.  Pennsylvania  Kta  is  pleasantly  located  in  a  beautiful 
new  house.  They  deserve  great  credit  for  an  heroic  struggle  in  the 
last  ditch,  when,  returning  with  but  three  men,  they  speedily  raised 
the  number  on  their  roll  to  eight.  We  say  'AH  praise  and  honor  and 
success  to  our  brothers  up  the  valley.  May  equal  success  be  with  our 
lone  brother  at  Washington  and  Lee  !  ' 

Bro.  L.  J.  Shlesinger,  Case,  '95,  honored  us  with  a  fraternal  call 
recently.  In  the  Bond, 

Harry  B.  Moon. 

Easton,  November  18,  1897. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA.  QETTYSBURQ  COLLEGE. 

Although  we  have  not  added  any  initiates  since  our  last  letter,  we 
expect  to  introduce  a  new  brother  immediately  after  the  Christmas 
holidays,  and  notwithstanding  the  late  day  for  rushing,  we  have  still 
several  men  in  view  and  are  trying  to  decide  whether  they  will  make 
fraternity  men  or  not. 

In  athletics  this  year  we  are  not  quite  up  to  our  standard,  although 
our  team  was  much  stronger  than  last  year.     In  the  early  part  of  the 


148  THE  SCROLL, 

season  they  played  with  several  much  stronger  teams,  and  quite  a  num 
ber  of  our  best  players  were  badly  injured. 

The  new  dormitory  is  now  nearing  completion  and  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  by  the  first  of  the  year.  It  is  a  very  fine  building  and 
adds  much  to  the  beauty  of  the  campus.  Arrangements  have  been 
made  for  the  construction  of  others  adjoining  as  they  become  neces- 
sary. 

On  Sunday,  November  7,  the  college  church,  which  for  the  last  four 
months  has  been  undergoing  some  extensive  improvements,  was  dedi- 
cated. Rev.  L.  S.  Black,  '8<S,  of  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  preached  the  ser- 
mon on  the  occasion. 

Bro.  J.  W.  Krafft,  '98,  has  been  appointed  physical  instructor  in  the 
gymnasium.     He  also  plays  the  guitar  on  one  of  the  musical  clubs. 

The  class  of  1 1)00  has  chosen  your  reporter  as  its  vice-president. 

The  chapter  was  recently  honored  by  visits  of  several  Phis:  E.  G. 
Denson,  N.  C.  Beta,  MH);  J.  S.  Wise,  Penna.  Zeta,  '98;  and  Louis  J. 
Shlesinger,  Ohio  Eta,  '^X),  were  among  those  who  called  to  see  us. 
Bro.  A.  B.  Coble,  '97,  of  Lykens,  Pa.,  spent  several  days  with  us  re- 
cently. 

It  has  been  rumored  that  an  effort  is  being  made  to  establish  a  chap- 
ter of  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  here,  but  so  far  nothing  definite  can  be 
learned.  Yours  in  *  A  B, 

J.  Clyde  Markei*. 

Gettysburg,  November  17,  1897. 


PENNSYLVANIA  DELTA.  ALLEGHENY  COLLEGE. 

On  September  21  Allegheny  College  began  what  promises  to  be  the 
most  prosperous  year  since  its  establishment.  At  least  one  hundred 
and  fifty  new  students  have  come  in.  The  freshman  class  furnishes 
quite  a  number  of  desirable  men,  but  some  of  the  chapters  here  have 
been  unfortunate,  and  so  far  there  have  been  comparatively  few  ini- 
tiations. 

Pennsylvania  Delta  finished  last  year  with  a  membership  of  four- 
teen, and  six  men  pledged.  All  of  our  initiated  men  returned  this 
fall  with  the  exception  of  our  three  graduates,  Bro.  George  Grant, 
who  is  preaching  in  Pittsburgh;  Bro.  Arthur  S.  Maitland,  who  is  in 
New  Jersey  with  a  surveying  corps,  and  Bro.  \V.  Preston  Beazell,  who 
is  working  on  the  Pittsburgh  Leader.  Two  other  brothers  failed  to 
return,  Bro.  J.  S.  Reitz,  pledged,  and  Bro.  Fred  Grauel,  pledged. 
Bro.  Todd,  pledged,  who  has  been  out  of  college  for  two  years,  is  with 
us  again. 

P'our  of  our  pledged  men  became  freshmen  and  were  initiated  in 
full:  Bros.  Robert  L.  Swearer,  191)0,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  John  H.  Wol- 
stoncroft,  190],  iMttsburgh,  Pa.;  J.  Ch^uncey  Byers,  1901,  West  Mid- 
dlesex, Pa.,  and  Charles  E.  Douglass,.  1901,  Punxsutawney,  Pa.  We 
have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  Bros.  Charles  C. 
Couse,  '99,  Greenville,  Pa.;  Paul  B.  Masters,  1901,  Warren,  Ohio; 
Oliver  S.  Hoffmann,  1901,  Beaver,  Pa.;  John  H.  Moore,  ItKK),  Mercer, 
Pa.;  Charles  W.  Stillson,  1901,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  Irwin  Campbell, 
New  Castle,  Pa.,  pledged.  Consequently  we  have  twenty  members 
and  two  pledged  men.  Since  we  are  now  stronger  than  ever  l)efore 
we  may  hope  for  a  still  more  prosperous  year  than  we  experienced 
last  year. 

The  fraternities  in  Allegheny  College  rank  in  numbers  as  follows: 


150  THE  SCROLL. 

Phi  Delta  Theta,  22;    Phi  Kappi  Psi,  11;    Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  10; 
Phi  Gamma  Delta,  10;  Delta  Tau  Delta,  r». 

Our  men  are  taking  quite  a  prominent  place  in  college  athletics. 
Bro.  Weyand.  M)S,  has  just  been  elected  president  of  our  athletic  as- 
sociation, consisting  of  one  hundred  and  ninety  members.  Bro. 
Douglass,  HKll,  and  Bro.  Hyers,  P.m)|,  are  on  the  college  foot  ball  team, 
and  we  expect  our  chapter  to  be  represented  on  the  college  basket 
ball  team.  Pennsylvania  Delta  wishes  the  best  of  success  to  every 
chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Wm.  L.  Wilkknson. 

Meadville,  October  2:5,  1HH7. 

PENNSYLVANIA  EPSILON.  DICKINSON  COLLBQB. 

Pennsylvania  Epsilon  entered  upon  the  work  this  year  with  twenty 
of  her  old  men,  thus  securing  for  herself  prestige  and  the  opportunity 
for  conservative  work  during  the  rushing  season.  So  far  our  success 
has  been  very  llattering,  eight  worthy  men  having  been  initiated, 
who  give  promise  of  taking  prominent  places  in  college  activity.  We 
introduce  to  the  Phi  world  Bros.  Mahlon  F.  Ivins,  IJHJl,  Camden,  N.  J.; 
Charles  S.  Kline.  P.MII,  Catawissa,  Pa.;  Steward  Imager  Shiffer,  11K)1, 
Stroudsburg,  Pa.;  Malconi  Sterrett,  VMM),  Washington,  Pa.;  E.  Jones 
Presby,  PM)!,  Erma,  N.  J.;  Jere  Hoover,  HK)],  Hagerstown,  Md. ;  Rob- 
ert Loose,  M.HM,  Hamburg,  Pa.;  Norman  Branthaver,  P.M)1,  Marks,  Pa. 

Last  June  we  lost  two  by  graduation,  and  two  others  left  to  attend 
professional  and  technical  schools.  Bro.  J.  G.  K.  Smedley  was  gradu- 
ated as  valedictorian  of  his  class,  after  having  taken  each  year  of  his 
course  prizes  for  scholarship,  besides  receiving  honors  at  the  disposal 
of  his  class.  At  present  he  is  assistant  principal  of  the  Johnstown 
(Pa. )  high  school.  During  the  rushing  season  he  was  with  us  a  few 
days  and  aided  very  much.  Bro.  Gay  ICldon  was  another  of  last  year*s 
graduates.  At  the  class  day  exercises  he  had  the  Reed  oration.  Bro. 
Wintersteen,  'l»l>,  has  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  and  Bro.  I'^nglish,  HMM),  is  taking  a  course  in 
mining  engineering  at  Cornell. 

A  temporary  change  has  been  made  in  the  faculty,  on  account  of  a 
leave  of  absence  ^rante<l  Prof.  Dare,  s(^  as  to  allow  him  to  recover 
completely  from  his  illness  of  last  spring.  Rev.  M.  J.  Cramer,  D.  D., 
LL.  D.,  formerly  a  professor  in  Boston  University  and  later  in  Drew 
Theological  Seminary,  has  been  filling  the  vacancy  referred  to  above. 
Many  changes  have  also  been  made  in  the  curriculum,  providing  a 
larger  elective  list  for  the  upper  classes. 

On  the  foot  ball  field  our  team  has  not  been  .so  successful  as  had 
been  expected.  Yet,  we  have  scored  nearly  twice  as  many  points  as 
our  opponents.  Bro.  West.  *1'*.».  has  been  playing  ({uarter-back  in  sev- 
eral games.  Among  our  other  representative  atliletes  are  Hubler,  *98, 
Wert/.  ".Ml.  Ivins,  I'.mH,  captain  of  the  second  eleven,  and  Bro.  Steven- 
son. MH.>.  Bn>.  Ivins  last  year  was  captain  of  the  team  at  Bordentown 
(N.  J.)  Military  Academy. 

In  literary  circles  we  have  our  share  of  honors.  The  Dickiusonian^ 
weekly  and  monthly,  has  among  its  eight  editors  five  Phis;  Bro.  Linn 
Bowman,  ''.»S.  is  the  editor-in-chief.  Bro.  Hubler.  'i)s,  is  president  ol 
Bclles-Lettres  literary  society.  Bro.  Kriebcl,  ''.>S,  is  class  president. 
The  juni<>r  chairmanship,  a  class-day  oHice,  fell  to  Bro.  Mallalieu,  'W. 
Bro.  Keeler.  '•.»S,  aii<l  Bro.  Adams,  MIS,  will  represent  us  on  class  day, 
the  former  as  poet  and  the  latter  as  historian. 


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152  THE  SCROLL, 

Dickinson  has  organized  a  choral  society,  with  the  intention  of  later 
establishing  a  permanent  chair  of  vocal  culture.  Bro.  Adams  was 
elected  president  of  this  organization.  Bro.  McNeal,  'OS,  has  been 
made  treasurer  of  the  joint  organization  of  the  glee  club  and  orches- 
tra, and  is  our  representative  on  the  last  mentioned  organization. 
Bro.  Kline,  HH)1,  was  one  of  the  successful  men  to  secure  a  position 
on  the  glee  club. 

Pennsylvania  Epsilon  spent  a  very  enjoyable  evening  on  November 
4,  when  she  tendered  her  annual  bancjuet  to  the  new  men.  Thirty-one 
Phis,  including  three  members  of  the  faculty,  were  present. 

Wishing  all  our  sister  chapters  pleasant  vacations,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

J.  R.  STc^NESII'JCR. 

Carlisle,  November  II,  1S<)7. 

BETA  PROVINCE. 

VIRGINIA  GAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLEQE. 

Virginia  Gamma  began  the  session  of  '5)7  -M>S  with  only  six  of  last 
year's  chapter  of  thirteen  back,  but  still  we  hope  to  make  this  year 
as  successful  in  every  respect  as  the  preceding  one.  Suitable  spiking 
material  was  not  very  plentiful  at  Randolph-Macon  this  year,  but  we 
were  successful  in  getting  our  share  of  the  new  men.  We  have  so  far 
initiated  three:  Warner  I*.  Carter  and  Hunter  Peatross,  of  Danville, 
Virginia,  and  David  A.  Clements,  of  Crumpton,  Md.,  the  brother  of 
Merrick  Clements.  We  hafl  a  hard  struggle  for  Bros.  Carter  and 
Peatross,  winning  them  from  two  other  fraternities.  They  are  all 
three  excellent  fellows,  and  we  feel  sure  that  they  will  be  a  credit  to 
the  Fraternity.  Bro.  Carter  carried  off  the  highest  scholarship  prize, 
and  the  Oreek  medal  at  Danville  Military  Institute  last  year.  Of  Bro. 
David  Clements  nothing  more  need  be  said  than  that  he  is  every  whit 
as  good  a  man  as  his  brother. 

As  usual,  the  Phis  have  their  full  quota  of  college  honors.  We  are 
represented  on  the  foot  ball  team  by  Bros.  DoUey,  captain  and  right 
half  back;  Merrick  Clements,  right  tackle;  and  Janney,  substitute 
guard.  I  am  sorry  to  report,  however,  that  in  our  first  game  witli 
Richmond  College,  Bro.  DoUey,  who  was  playing  the  game  of  his  life, 
had  his  left  hip  dislocated,  and  will  be  unable  to  play  any  more  this 
season.  Bros.  Davis  and  Peatross  represent  us  in  the  glee  club.  Bro. 
Janney  is  president  of  the  athletic  association  and  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
and  an  associate  editor  of  the  Mouthly.  Bro.  DoUey  is  one  of  the  five 
directors  of  the  athletic  association. 

Our  delegate  to  the  Nashville  convention,  Bro.  Kern,  returned  with 
glowing  accounts  of  his  trip,  and  his  report  inspired  us  all  to  con- 
tinue in  our  endeavors  to  keep  up  the  high  standard  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta. 

Bro.  Boyle,  '9<>,  and  Bros.  Chilton  and  Piggott,  of  last  year's  chap- 
ter, paid  us  short  visits  at  the  beginning  of  the  session. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  sister  chapters,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland.  November  10,  1897.  8.  M.  Janney. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA,  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

The  opening  of  the  present  session  will  ever  be  memorable  in  the 
history  ot  Washington  and  Lee,  from  the  imposing  ceremonies  con- 
nected with  the  installation  as  president  of  Hon.  Wm.  L.  Wilson. 


THE  SCROLL.  153 

It  is  the  belief  of  all  who  give  the  matter  serious  thought,  that 
Washington  and  Lee  is  upon  the  threshold  of  an  era  of  prosperity 
such  as  her  past  record  so  well  deserves.  One  indication  of  a  more 
progressive  management  of  affairs  is  that  the  foot  ball  team  has  been 
permitted  to  take  a  trip  through  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  West  Vir- 
ginia, playing  Central  University  and  Kentucky  State  College  at  Lex- 
ington, Ky.,  Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  West  Virginia  at  Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Virginia  Zeta  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  return  only  one  man  this 
year,  but  as  he  expects  to  be  back  next  year,  she  may  well  hope  to 
build  up  a  chapter  equal  to  any  in  the  university.  [See  Tennessee 
Alpha's  letter  in  this  issue.]  Owing  to  the  decrease  in  the  number  of 
students  this  session,  caused  by  the  introduction  of  entrance  exam- 
inations, men  who  are  generally  desired  by  fraternities  have  not  been 
as  numerous  as  usual.  Still  many  good  men  have  been  initiated  into 
the  different  fraternities. 

*  K  ^  has  secured  four  new  men,  giving  her  a  chapter  of  twelve. 
K  A,  by  affiliates  and  initiates,  now  has  a  chapter  of  eleven.  2  X,  by 
the  initiation  of  three  new  men,  now  numbers  eight.  A  T  i2  has  seven 
men.  2  \  has  a  chapter  of  eight;  <l>  r  A,  of  six;  2)  A  E,  of  five;  K  il, 
of  two;  n  K  A,  of  two;  A  T  A,  of  seven;  M  II  A,  of  six.  4>  K  IS  has  no 
representative  this  year. 

While  apparently  idle  at  present,  Virginia  Zeta  can  promise  better 
things  for  the  next  session.  Witli  two  hundred  and  fifty  or  three 
hundred  students  on  the  roll  in  I8*J8,  all  will  be  well. 

Before  leavinjj  on  the  trip  through  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  West 
Virginia,  Washington  and  Lee  defeated  Columbian  University,  12  to  2, 
and  Allegheny  Institute,  30  to  0,  On  Saturday,  October  30,  Central 
University  was  defeated  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  by  a  score  of  22  to  0.  The 
reporter,  as  full  back,  represents  *  A  0  on  the  team.  As  the  foot  ball 
team  passed  through  Kentucky  I  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  many 
enthusiastic  Phis.  Out  of  the  score  whom  I  met  may  be  mentioned 
some  of  those  on  the  Central  University  team:  Bro.  Speed,  captain, 
Bros.  Booker,  Huffaker,  Booker  and  Blanton.  Although  on  the  losing 
side,  Bro.  Speed  played  the  star  game  of  the  day,  not  once  missing  a 
tackle  or  allowing  his  end  to  be  circled.  One  can  not  fail  to  feel  a 
deeper  interest  in  one's  fraternity  after  meeting  such  Phis  as  are  al- 
ways found  in  Kentucky. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  Fraternity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  November  2,  1897.  R.  G.  Campbeu.. 

NORTH  CAROLINA  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

North  Carolina  Beta  has  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  the  Phi  world 
three  new  brothers,  initiated  this  month:  A.  A.  Shuford,  Isaac  Harris 
and  J.  J.  Asberry,  all  of  the  class  of  n>00.  According  to  the  regulations 
of  the  trustees  of  our  university,  no  chapter  can  pledge  any  man  until 
the  first  of  October  of  his  sophomore  year.  Consequently,  on  the 
night  of  the  thirtieth  of  September  rUvShing  was  in  order,  and  <l>  A  O 
went  in  for  her  share,  securing  all  the  men  she  invited. 

Our  chapter  now  numbers  nine  men,  all  the  old  men  having  returned 
except  Bro.  Askew.  Bro.  Roberson  has  come  back  to  take  law,  and 
Bro.  Patterson  is  still  in  business  in  the  village.  So,  on  the  whole, 
our  prospects  for  the  year  are  very  bright  indeed.  Bro.  Winston  has 
been  elected  captain  of  next  year's  base  ball  team. 


154  THE  SCROLL. 

We  have  changed  our  chapter  hall  to  a  more  convenient  and  quieter 
place,  and  everything  is  now  moving  along  smoothly. 

There  has  been  great  rejoicing  over  the  marked  increase  in  the 
number  of  students  in  college  this  year.  In  size  now  our  university 
ranks  foremost  among  southern  institutions,  having  at  present  on  *The 
Hiir  four  hundred  and  seventy-two  men. 

With  this  growth  has  also  been  seen  increased  enthusiasm  for  ath- 
letics. Our  foot  ball  team  has  not  been  scored  against  this  year,  and 
we  are  again  hoping  for  the  championship  of  the  south. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Chapel  Hill,  October  29,  1897.  Chas.  H.  Johnston. 

KENTUCKY  ALPHA.  CENTRE  COLLEQE. 

Centre  College  had  her  usual  propitious  opening  this  fall,  gaining 
almost,  if  not  quite  enough,  new  men  to  fill  the  large  gap  made  by  the 
graduation  of  last  year's  class.  In  spite  of  the  number  of  new  men, 
however,  there  was  a  marked  falling  off  in  that  particular  class  from 
which  Kentucky  Alpha  has  been  accustomed  to  select  her  members. 
Still,  we  feel  that  we  are  to  be  congratulated  for  our  splendid  success. 
Beginning  the  year  with  seven  old  men  and  one  affiliate,  Bro.  Owsley 
Brown,  Virginia  Beta,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  we  have  gained  by  initia- 
tion Bros.  James  Campbell,  Paducah,  Ky.;  Maurice  Mayes,  Mayfield, 
Ky.,  and  Johnson  and  Witherspoon,  Lawrenceburg,  Ky. 

Three  members  of  the  class  of  '97,  Bros.  Cook,  Welsh  and  Sulser, 
have  returned  to  attend  the  law  school.  Our  chapter  roll  at  present 
is  smaller  than  it  has  been  for  several  years,  but  we  flatter  ourselves 
that  the  high  rank  and  standard  of  excellence  attained  in  the  past  by 
Kentucky  Alpha  will  in  no  way  be  allowed  to  suffer  at  our  hands. 

We  had  with  us  at  the  opening  of  college,  Bros.  Peyton  B.  Bethel, 
'97,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  who  by  his  genial  presence  and  strong  influ- 
ence did  much  toward  starting  things  off  well. 

Centre's  foot  ball  team,  although  weakened  by  the  absence  of  many 
of  her  time-tried  veterans,  is  still  up  to  the  usual  standard,  and  the 
battle  at  Louisville  on  December  4  with  the  University  of  Virginia  for 
the  championship  of  the  south  promises  to  be  a  hard  fought  one.  We 
are  represented  on  the  team  by  Bro.  Cook,  who  was  unanimously 
chosen  captain. 

With  the  hope  that  all  of  our  sister  chapters  have  fared  as  well  as 
we,  and  with  best  wishes  for  their  success  in  the  future,  I  am 

Very  truly  yours  in  the  Bond, 

Danville,  November  17,  1897.  Gordon  Si'LSER. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA,  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

On  the  eighth  of  »September,  the  university  opened  with  more  new 
men  and  brighter  prospects  than  ever  before.  Five  old  Phis  came  back 
ready  for  work,  and  >ve  did  not  work  in  vain,  as  we  have  initiated 
three  worthy  men  and  pledged  one  or  two  others.  We  have  been 
most  fortunate  in  having  several  old  men  come  back  after  the  univer- 
sity had  opened.  Bro.  Speed,  of  Virginia  Beta,  affiliated  with  us. 
Bro.  Allen,  who  was  here  in  '9o-'9G,  returned.  Bro.  Mourning  re- 
turned to  take  a  special  course  and  prepare  for  the  study  of  medicine. 
Bro.  L.  M.  Smith,  who  was  here  in  '95,  is  attending  the  college  of 
law,  which  is  a  new  branch  of  the  university.     The  men  we  have  in- 


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itiated  are  Bros.  S.  E.  Booker,   F.   P.  Bowles  and  J.  R.  Clark,  all  of 
Louisville,  Ky. 

With  our  present  chapter  we  are  confident  that  we  can,  as  usual, 
more  than  hold  our  own  in  every  way.  We  have  always  taken  the 
lead  in  athletics,  and  this  year  we  are  more  than  keeping  up  our 
reputation.  Bro.  Jones  was  elected  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
athletic  association,  and  Bro.  Blanton  manager  of  the  second  foot 
ball  team.  Bro.  Speed  is  captain  of  the  'varsity  team.  Four  Phis 
have  made  the  'varsity:  Bros.  Speed,  captain;  Huffaker,  S.  E.  Booker 
and  F.  Booker.  Two  have  made  the  second  team:  Bros.  Smith  and 
Blanton.  Although  our  team  has  made  a  poor  showing  in  the  games 
we  have  played,  we  have  been  fortunate  in  meeting  Phis  on  our  trips. 
We  played  in  Nashville  during  the  <l>  A  O  reunion  and  enjoyed  an  ini- 
tiation at  the  Vanderbilt  chapter  house.  We  had  five  of  our  chapter 
with  us,  so  Kentucky  Delta  was  well  represented. 

We  were  very  much  disappointed  that  Bros.  Brink,  Douglas  and 
Hines  failed  to  return  to  college.  The  foot  ball  team  misses  Brink, 
and  his  place  there  is  hard  to  fill  as  he  filled  it. 

Although  foot  ball  has  taken  up  much  of  the  time  of  our  members, 
we  succeeded  in  giving  a  very  pretty  little  dance  in  our  hall  a  few  weeks 
ago.  Without  a  doubt  the  prettiest  girls  in  Kentucky  are  in  Rich- 
mond, and  we  appreciate  very  highly  the  way  they  treat  our  boys. 

Yours  fraternally, 

Richmond,  November  o,  1897.  Harry  M.  Bi^vxton. 

TENNESSEE  ALPHA,  VANDERBILT  UNIVERSITY. 

The  college  year  opened  September  1')  with  the  brightest  prospects 
possible  for  the  university,  since  Vanderbilt  has  now  the  largest  num- 
Der  of  students  in  her  history. 

This  year  found  all  the  professors  in  their  old  places,  but,  unfortu- 
nately for  the  university,  there  was  an  almost  general  exodus  of  assist- 
ants and  instructors.  Among  this  number  was  Bro.  C.  P.  Williams, 
'9'),  instructor  in  Latin,  who  now  is  teaching  in  a  training  school  for 
boys  in  Ivittle  Rock,  Ark.;  his  place  here  is  filled  by  Bro.  Andrew 
Sledd,  Virginia  Gamma,  •9*2,  who  was  last  year  at  Harvard. 

Although  we  felt  keenly  the  loss  of  thirteen  of  our  last  year's  chap- 
ter, our  thinned  ranks  were  soon  repleted  by  our  initiates  and  afllliates. 
It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  introduce  the  following  new  Phis  to  the 
fraternity:  Cicero  Nichols,  '99,  Asheville,  N.  C;  W.  W.  Brockman, 
1900,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Beard,  '01,  Hardinsburg,  Ky.;  G.  Baskervill,  '01, 
Staunton,  Tenn.;  Rice,  '01,  Nashville,  Tenn.;  C.  Pilcher,  '01,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.;  N.  S.  Hendrix,  '01.  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  H.  V.  Jones,  '01, 
Kansas  City,  Mo.;  and  Macon  Reed,  '01,  Nashville,  Tenn.  Bro.  Reed 
took  the  prize  of  fifty  dollars  for  the  best  entrance  examination  in 
Greek  and  Latin.  We  also  heartily  welcome  among  us  Bro.  McLester, 
of  Virginia  Zeta,  and  Bro.  Jackson,  of  Mississippi  Alpha.  There  are 
several  other  Phis  from  elsewhere  in  attendance  at  the  university,  but 
they  do  not  intend  to  affiliate  with  us. 

On  October  1^0,  at  the  request  of  Virginia  Zeta,  Tennessee  Alpha 
had  the  pleasure  of  assisting  the  former  chapter  in  the  initiation  of 
Mark  Hutchins,  of  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  From  what  we  saw  of  Bro. 
Hutchins  we  feel  sure  he  would  be  a  valuable  addition  to  any  chapter, 
and  we  congratulate  our  sister  chapter  on  her  success  in  securing  him. 

October  11,  Vanderbilt  day  at  the  Tennessee  centennial  exposition, 
will  long  be  remembered  as  a  red-letter  day  in  the  history  of  the  uni- 


156  THE  SCROLL. 

versity.  The  students  in  all  the  departments,  being  given  a  holiday, 
turned  out  en  masse  to  take  part  in  the  celebration.  Major  Thomas, 
president  of  the  centennial  exposition,  in  behalf  of  the  citizens  of 
Nashville,  formally  presented  a  bronze  statue  of  the  late  Cornelius 
\'anderbilt  to  the  university.  After  a  short  speech  of  acceptance  by 
Chancellor  Kirkland,  the  oration  of  the  day  was  delivered  by  the  Hon. 
Chauncey  M.  Depew,  who  made  the  remarkable  old  Commodore  the 
subject  of  a  most  appropriate  address.  It  is  unnecessary  to  say  that 
he  handled  his  subject  in  a  masterly  and  niOvSt  entertaining  manner. 
We  quote  as  follows  from  the  Vanderbilt  Ohscnrr:  *The  unveiling 
of  the  bronze  statue  of  the  late  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  by  some,  not 
without  reason,  will  be  considered  the  most  important  event  of  the 
centennial  in  its  entire  six  months.  As  was  tersely  shown  by  Chan- 
cellor Kirkland  in  his  speech  of  acceptance,  the  munificence  of  the 
Vanderbilt  family  in  establishing  a  great  university  in  Tennessee  has 

?erhaps  meant  more  to  her  than  any  other  single  fact  in  her  history.' 
he  statue  has,  since  the  close  of  the  exposition,  been  removed  from 
its  place  on  the  centennial  grounds  west  of  the  Parthenon  to  its  |>er- 
manentsite  directly  in  front  of  University  Hall. 

In  spite  of  quarantines  and  other  hindrances,  the  double  province 
reunion  of  Phi  Delta  Tlieta  was  by  no  means  a  failure,  there  being 
more  delegates  present  than  we  had  anticipated  under  the  circum- 
stances. All  delegates  reported  chapters  in  a  flourishing  condition; 
all  happily  seemed  to  be  impressed  with  the  importance  of  the  chapter 
house  question,  and  nearly  all  of  the  chapters  seem  to  have  made  some 
move  in  that  direction. 

Tennessee  Alpha  has  naturally,  on  account  of  the  centennial,  had 
the  opportunity  of  meeting  many  Phis;  among  them  may  l>e  men- 
tioneci  Hros.  Earnest  Hallman,  of  Atlanta,  Ga. ;  Speers,  of  Macon,  Ga.; 
Jones,  of  Washington  City,  who  was  connected  with  the  government 
exhibit  at  the  centennial;  and  Little,  of  the  Chicago  Tnhuue,  We 
were  especially  fortunate  in  having  Hro.  h'red  S.  Hall,  T.  G.  C,  with 
us  several  times;  Hro.  Hall  and  his  wife  spent  about  three  weeks  in 
Nashville,  being  detained  here  on  account  of  the  yellow  fever  at  their 
home. 

Vanderbilt  has  an  unusually  strong  foot  ball  team  this  year,  which 
is  making  for  itself  an  enviable  record.  We  have  not  yet  been  scored 
against  this  season,  and  have  defeated  the  following  teams,  all  games 
being  played  on  our  athletic  field:  Kentucky  University,  22-0;  Cen- 
tral University.  14-<>;  X'irginia  Military  Institute,  12  0;  Kentuckv 
vState  College,  oO-O;  and  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  31-0.  We 
have  a  game  scheduled  with  the  University  of  the  South  for  Thanks- 
giving, and  we  will  play  the  T'niversity  of  Virginia  on  December  (>. 
Hoogher,  the  captain,  and  Louis  Farrell  represent  <t>  A  8  on  the  team. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Nashville,  November  14,  1S1>7.  Hrnkst  vS.  JoNitS. 


TENNESSEE  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  THE  SOUTH. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  the  following  men,  whom  I 
take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Fraternity:  C.  W.  Gaskell, 
London,  Ivng. ;  R.  H.  Hrake,  M.  D.,  Findlay,  Ohio;  Douglas  Haggard, 
Nashville,  Tenn.;  M.  P.  DuHose,  Sewanee,  Tenn.,  and  M.  W.  Invert, 
Mark,  La.  Hrother  Gaskell  is  a  violinist  of  great  repute,  being  a 
graduate  of  the  Royal  Conservatory  of  Music,  Dresden.      Hro.  J.  B. 


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Guthrie,  of  Louisiana  Alpha,  is  with  us,  and  we  now  have  an  enroll- 
ment of  twenty. 

Foot  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  well  rep- 
resented on  the  team.  Bro.  Wilder  is  captain  and  quarter  back,  and 
your  correspondent  plays  right  end.  l^ros.  Brake  and  Guthrie  are 
substitutes.  We  have  an  unusually  good  team,  and  on  October  JU)  we 
met  the  strong  Auburn  team  and  played  them  to  a  standstill,  the  final 
score  being  0  to  0.  The  game  that  counts  for  all  to  Sewanee  men, 
however,  is  the  annual  Thanksgiving  match  between  Vanderbilt  and 
Sewanee.  It  is  a  coincidence  that  the  captains  of  the  two  teams  are 
both  Phis. 

Beta  and  Gamma  Provinces  held  a  joint  convention  in  Nashville, 
October  1')  and  KJ,  and  from  every  standpoint,  excepting  a  numerical 
one,  the  convention  was  a  success.  The  yellow  fever  prevented  quite 
a  number  of  Gamma  men  from  attending.  Bro.  G.  B.  Thomas  acted 
as  toastmaster  at  the  banquet  in  his  usual  brilliant  manner.  Bro. 
Weed  responded  to  his  favorite  theme,  '  »Southern  Chapter  Houses, '  and 
Bro.  Haggard  eulogized  'The  Sewanee  Girl.'  It  was  a  great  pleasure 
to  be  able  to  extend  the  grip  to  Brother  Walter  W.  Palmer. 

With  greetings  and  best  wishes  for  all  sister  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Sewanee,  November  10,  18i»7.  Tom  S.  Parrott. 

GAMMA  PROVINCE. 

QBORaiA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  GEORGIA. 

Georgia  Alpha  opened  this  year  with  the  brightest  prospects.  Sep- 
tember lo  found  us  snugly  lodged  in  our  beautiful  new  chapter  house 
— the  first  in  our  history.  Many  of  the  old  brothers  and  several  visit- 
ing Phis  spent  the  opening  week  with  us.  Among  these  were  Bros. 
Myrick,  Sanford,  Keen,  Dunlap,  Hallman,  Ivongeno  and  Wilkins. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  had  the  pleasure  of  initiating  the  fol- 
lowing men  into  the  mysteries  of  4>  A  B:  Richard  Martin  Lester,  Sa- 
vannah, Ga. ;  Josiah  Roy  Nunnally,  Monroe,  Ga.;  Nathaniel  Macon 
Dudley,  Americus,  Ga. ;  Colonel  Clifford  Clay,  Americus,  Ga.,  and 
Hamilton  McWhorter,  I^xington,  Ga. 

By  graduation  or  withdrawal  from  college,  we  have  lost  the  follow- 
ing: Bros.  Moreno,  White,  Brodwell,  Sanford,  Comak,  Culver,  P. 
Smith,  Conner,  Myrick  and  J.  Price.  Bro.  Moreno,  who  has  been 
with  us  for  the  past  seven  years,  first  as  a  student  and  later  as  a  tutor, 
has  left  us  for  Clark  University,  where  he  is  pursuing  a  course  in 
mathematics,  his  chosen  profession.  Bros.  White  and  Brodwell  are  at 
present  in  the  State  Normal  School,  in  this  city.  liro.  Sanford  has 
now  entirely  recovered  from  his  recent  severe  illness  caused  by  his 
being  thrown  from  a  buggy.  Bro.  Comak  is  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  law  in  this  city,  and  has  already  proven  himself  one  of  the  foremost 
members  of  the  Athens  bar.  Bro.  Myrick  is  practicing  law  in  Savan- 
nah, where  is  associated  with  Hon.  Fleming  Du  Bignon. 

Bro.  B.  D.  Watkins,  M»S,  has  been  compelled  to  withdraw  from  col- 
lege because  of  sickness.  The  latest  news  from  him  informs  us  of  his 
rapid  improvement.  We  hope  to  have  him  with  us  again  after  Christ- 
mas. 

The  sad  termination  of  our  foot  ball  career,  by  the  death  of  Mr. 
Gammon  in  the  Virginia  vs.  Georgia  game,  has  cast  a  gloom  over  the 
whole  college.     Base  ball  practice  has  begun,  however,  as  a  substitute 


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for  foot  ball,  and  a  preliminary  series  of  class  games  is  now  being 
played. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  prosperous  year  to  Thk  Scroli,,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Athens,  November  10,  1897.  U.  H.  Davknport. 

QEORQIA  BETA.  EMORY  COLLEGE. 

The  fall  term  o|>ened  very  auspiciously  last  September  for  Emory 
College  and  Georgia  Beta.  An  utiusually  large  attendance  was  on 
hand,  and  the  total  enrollment  will  foot  up  something  over  three 
hundred  students.  Desirable  fraternity  material  was  in  abundance, 
and  never  was  chapter  rivalry  more  active,  or  the  spiking  season 
more  lively  and  brisk.  Phi  Delta  Theta  may  well  congratulate  her- 
self on  the  success  of  the  ICmory  contingent.  Nine  men  are  the  re- 
sult of  our  work,  and  worthy  Phis  they  are:  Chas.  A.  Wilkins,  At- 
lanta; Alviii  H.  Underwood,  Atlanta;  Gray  yuinney,  Waynesboro; 
Alfred  C.  Broom,  Newnan — all  of  the  class  of  1001;  I.  S.  Hopkins,  Jr., 
Atlanta;  Jesse  M.  Wood,  Atlanta;  Houston  P.  Houser,  Perry — of  the 
class  of  1000;  and  A.  Perry  Griffin,  Oxford,  (ia.,  of  '00.  I  have  the 
pleasure  also  of  introducing  our  pledged  member,  Walter  Meadow, 
Atlanta,  of  1002.  This  completes  our  list  of  initiates,  and  we  now 
lean  back  and  felicitate  ourselves  on  securing  nine  such  deserving  men. 

The  chapter  roster  now  records  the  names  of  twenty-two  members, 
all  zealously  and  harmoniously  striving  toward  the  upbuilding  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta's  cause.  I  regret  to  note  the  Jibsence  of  Bros.  Jenkins 
and  Mumford,  lOOO,  and  trust  their  retirement  from  college  is  not 
permanent.  The  constituents  of  the  chapter  are  found  prominent  in 
all  the  walks  of  college  life.  In  the  class-room,  the  debating  societies 
and  on  the  athletic  field  the  Phis  are  numerously  represented.  I  will 
not  enter  into  detail  or  enumeration  of  the  honors  Phi  Delta  Theta  is 
winning  here;  suffice  it  to  say  with  all  equity  and  freedom  from  vaunt- 
ing, Georgia  Beta  stands  abreast  of  the  foremost  chapter  at  Emor\'  and 
acknowledges  no  superior. 

Brother  Bradley,  '08,  is  our  representative  on  the  Zodiac  staff. 

The  new  college  library  is  rapidly  nearing  completion  and  is  a 
beautiful  ornamtrnt  to  our  campus. 

We  enjoyed  a  visit  at  the  opening  from  Bro.  Ivarnest  Hallman,  '9<>, 
of  .A.tlatita,  the  most  enthusiastic  Phi  I  have  ever  met,  who  gave  the 
chapter  invaluable  assistance  and  advice  during  the  spiking  season. 

With  heartiest  greetings  to  all  sister  chapters,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

Oxford,  November  17,  ISOT.  r'RANK  S.  P.\i^mkr. 

GEORGIA  GAMMA,  MERCER  UNIVERSITY. 

Mercer  I'niversity  opened  September  'I'l  with  by  far  the  largest  at- 
tendance she  has  ever  had. 

The  faculty  has  been  increased  by  three  new  professors,  one  of 
whom.  Dr.  B.  I).  Ragsdale,  professor  of  theology,  is  an  alumnus  of 
Georgia  (jainma.  Bro.  Pollock,  an  initiate  of  Georgia  Gamma,  who 
was  formerly  chairman  of  the  faculty,  has  been  chosen  president  of 
the  university.  Dr.  Pollock  is  one  of  the  leading  educators  of  the 
south,  and  is  eminently  fitted  for  the  high  position  he  occupies. 

Georgia  Gamma  lost  four  influential  men  by  graduation  last  year. 
At  commencement  Bro.  Pearson  reflected  great  honor  upon  the  Fra- 


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temity  as  a  champion  debater  for  the  Phi  Delta  literary  society.  We 
were  represented  on  the  staff  of  the  college  annual  by  Bros.  Whitney, 
De Vaughn  and  Pearson. 

The  opening  of  this  term  has  been  one  of  unusual  interest  to  frater- 
nities here.  There  has  been  much  good  material,  and  the  rushing 
has  been  spirited.  We  were  very  successful  in  obtaining  new  men 
and  wish  to  introduce  the  following  Phis:  Bros.  J.  A.  Kirven  and 
Newsom  Cooper,  Columbus,  Ga. ;  C.  E.  Murphey,  Hamilton,  Ga.;  W. 
C.  Gunn,  Byron,  Ga.;  W.  T.  Ledbetter  and  Walter  Pollock,  Rome, 
Ga.;  T.  B.  Pearson,  Lumpkin,  Ga.;  Eugene  Stetson  and  G.  C.  Price, 
Macon,  Ga.;  and  J.  M.  Clark,  Augusta,  Ga.  Of  the  above  mentioned 
Bro.  Pollock  is  the  brother  of  our  esteemed  President. 

Bros.  B.  M.  Callaway  and  P.  S.  Pearson  have  been  forced  to  leave 
college  on  account  of  severe  illness.  This  is  a  matter  of  sincere  re- 
gret, and  we  trust  they  will  be  able  to  return  next  term. 

Bro.  C.  T.  Turner  was  elected  by  the  Phi  Delta  society  as  orator  for 
founders*  day,  on  December  1(). 

Owing  to  the  accident  in  the  Georgia- Virginia  foot  ball  game,  which 
resulted  in  the  death  of  one  of  Georgia's  players,  the  game  is  prac- 
tically dead.  Great  interest  was  centered  in  our  prospects,  and  justly 
so,  for  our  future  was  more  promising  than  ever.  We  were  represent- 
ed on  the  team  by  Bros.  Turner,  captain,  Ledbetter  and  Kirven. 

It  was  a  matter  of  great  pleasure  to  us  to  have  with  us  as  visitors  and 
co-workers  Bros.  Masseeand  Hughes,  also  Bro.  Speers,  of  Virginia  Zeta. 

With  best  wishes  for  success  to  all,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Macon,  November  19,  1897.  W.  T.  Lkdbktter. 


ALABAMA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  ALABAMA. 

The  university  opened  October  sixth  with  fine  prospects  and  an  in- 
creased attendance.  At  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  in  June  a  chair  of 
biology  was  established,  and  the  following  were  elected  to  fill  chairs 
in  the  university:  James  K.  Powers,  LL.  D.,  president;  John  Y.  Gra- 
ham, Ph.  D.,  professor  of  biology;  George  S.  Wilkins,  Ph.  1).,  pro- 
fessor of  civil  engineering;  and  William  B.  Saffold,  Ph.  D.,  professor 
of  Greek  and  Latin. 

Last  June  we  lost  eleven  men  by  graduation.  The  Phis,  as  usual, 
took  off  their  share  of  the  honors.  Bros.  George  Searcy  and  Palmer 
Pillans  were  orators  on  commencement  day.  Bros.  Bestor,  Dunlap 
and  Moody  were  entitled  to  contend  for  speakers'  places,  but  were  ex- 
cused at  their  own  request. 

The  rushing  season  has  closed,  and  as  a  result  of  hard  work  we  take 
the  greatest  pleasure  in  presenting  to  the  Phi  world  the  following: 
Bros.  A.  C.  Garber,  Lanesville;  B.  K.  Craig,  Selma;  R.  M.  vSnow, 
Tuskaloosa;  J.  C.  Burns,  Burnsville— all  of  IIHX),  and  J.  B.  Garber, 
Lanesville;  R.  B.  Robertson,  Fayette;  P.  L.  Milhous,  Martin  Station', 
J.  R.  Foeman,  Springville — all  of  19(M.  D.  H.  Minge,  Faunsdale,  has 
affiliated. 

Great  interest  is  being  manifested  this  year  in  the  two  literary  so- 
cieties, and  thejr  are  both  doing  excellent  work.  We  are  well  repre- 
sented in  the  list  of  officers,  Bro.  White  being  president  of  the  Ero- 
sophic,  and  Bro.  Owen  vice-president  of  the  Philomathic.  The  classes 
have  had  their  elections  of  officers,  and  the  Phis  carried  off  more  than 
their  share  of  honors.     Bro.  Bestor  is  vice-president  of  '98;  Bro.  Clem- 


i6o  THE  SCROLL. 

ents  is  president  of  190();  Rro.  J.  B.  Garber  is  president  of  11K)1;  and 
Bro.  Rooertson  is  vice-president  of  1901. 

I  regret  to  announce  that  our  foot  ball  team  will  not  be  allowed  to 
travel  this  year.  As  a  result  the  boys  are  losing  all  interest  in  athlet- 
ics, and  college  spirit  seems  to  have  received  a  death  blow. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  Phis,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Tuskaloosa,  November  1,  1897.  Prank  C.  Owkn. 

ALABAMA  BETA,  ALABAMA  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE. 

There  was  a  great  difference  between  the  opening  of  college  this 
session  and  last,  so  far  as  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  concerned.  For,  profit- 
ing by  our  experience  of  a  year  ago,  we  had  eleven  energetic  Phis  on 
hand  the  day  before  college  opened,  and  such  energy  as  they  displayed 
has  never  been  excelled  in  the  history  of  this  chapter  or  any  other  at 
Auburn.  As  a  result  of  our  efforts,  I  feel  proud  to  say  that  we  have 
captured  all  that  we  desired  and  could  ask  no  more.  So  it  is  with  the 
greatest  pleasure  that  I  present  to  the  Phi  world  the  following  worthy 
brothers:  Jas.  A.Ward,  Jr.,  MM»,  Huntsville,  Ala. ;  A.  M.  Boyd,  '99,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn.;  Emmet  S.  George,  '99,  Demopolis,  Ala.;  Carlyle  Nisbet, 
'()0,  Macon,  Ga. ;  R.  S.  Finch,  '00,  Montgomery,  Ala.;  J.  J.  Flowers, 
'00,  Boiling,  Ala.;  E.  W.  Thompson.  '01,  Tuskegee,  Ala.;  F.  P.  Fol- 
mar,  '01,  Troy,  Ala.;  W.  L.  Burnett,  '01,  Kufaula,  Ala. 

Bros.  High  tower,  Ivandman,  Rano,  J.  A.  Matthews  and  W.  E.  Mat- 
thews, Minge  and  Chapman  have  not  as  yet  returned,  but  we  are  in 
hopes  that  only  a  few  days  will  pass  before  some,  if  not  all  of  them, 
will  be  with  us.  We  number  at  present  nineteen,  which  ^ves  us  a 
splendid  chapter—  one  that  by  no  means  falls  short  of  our  high  stand- 
ard. 

It  is  with  the  tenderest  and  saddest  feelings  that  I  chronicle  the 
death  of  Bro.  James  Aiken,  Jr.,  '0(»,  who  died  at  his  home  in  Gadsden, 
Ala.,  June  10,  1897.  Bro.  Aiken  was  one  of  our  most  promising  men, 
both  in  the  chapter  and  in  the  college.  The  vacancy  he  has  left  in 
our  hearts  and  in  our  chapter  can  never  be  filled. 

Bro.  J.  B.  Hobdy,  who  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  '97,  is  back 
with  us  as  graduate  student  in  botany.  He  has  charge  of  the  gymna- 
sium and  was  manager  of  the  foot  ball  team  before  it  disbanded,  a 
Eosition  held  by  a  Phi  ever  since  foot  ball  has  been  played  here.  Au- 
urn's  'varsity  this  year  was  by  far  the  best  that  she  has  ever  turned 
out.  But  owmg  to  the  cancellation  of  our  Thanksgiving  game  with 
Georgia,  and  the  amount  of  expense  the  athletic  association  would 
have  had  to  incur  to  finish  up  tiie  season,  it  was  deemed  best  to  dis- 
band for  this  year.  Foot  ball  is  by  no  means  dead  here,  however,  and 
next  year  will  find  Auburn  represented  by  a  strong  team,  as  usual. 

At  commencement  last  session  two  of  our  brothers  were  the  favored 
ones  at  the  two  leading  social  events.  Bro.  J.  B.  Hobdy  led  the  senior 
class  german,  and  Bro.  J.  B.  Shivers  filled  the  same  role  for  the  jun- 
iors. The  gymnasium,  which  is  a  spacious  hall,  was  used  on  both 
occasions,  and  never  were  prettier  gennans  danced. 

Of  the  ten  men  that  we  returned  to  college,  promotion  in  the  mili- 
tary department  gave  each  an  office,  so  at  present  every  old  man  in 
the  chapter  is  adorned  with  the  insignia  of  rank. 

We  were  represented  at  the  Gamma  province  convention  by  Bro.  A. 
McB.  Ransom,  who  returned  to  us  highly  delighted  with  his  trip  and 
singing  praises  of  Tennessee  Alpha. 


THE  SCROLL,  i6i 

Taking  it  all  in  all,  this  promises  to  be  a  red-letter  year  for  us.  I 
have  never  seen  such  enthusiasm  displayed  as  now  characterizes  our 
boys.  The  new  hall,  the  pride  of  each  one  of  us,  seems  to  have  done 
a  great  deal  in  this  direction.  At  any  time  two  or  three  boys  can  be 
found  in  the  hall,  and  never  on  our  street  do  you  see  a  Phi  who  is  not 
accompanied  by  others.  With  such  an  interest  in  each  other  and  the 
Fraternity  in  general  we  are  bound  to  make  for  the  j^ear  a  record  that 
may  be  looked  back  upon  wuth  pride  and  pleasure. 

With  best  wishes  for  Thk  Scroij.  and  our  sister  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Auburn,  November  20,  1S97.  I.  F.  McDonnfxi.. 

MISSISSIPPI  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSISSIPPI. 

The  University  of  Mississippi  opened  on  November  15,  after  a  delay 
of  two  months,  caused  by  the  rigid  quarantine  in  force  on  account  of 
the  prevalence  of  yellow  fever  in  the  southern  portion  of  the  state. 
However,  the  attendance  on  the  opening  day  was  larger  than  last  ses- 
sion, and  everything  points  to  a  most  prosperous  year. 

Mississippi  Alpha  returned  eight  active  men  and  by  diligent  rushing 
we  have  added  eight  new  ones  to  our  chapter.  It  is  with  pleasure  that 
I  introduce  to  the  Phi  world  the  following:  S.  S.  Witherspoon,  IIMH, 
of  Meridian;  John  M.  Broach,  1901,  of  Meridian;  Shelby  Rouch,  1901, 
of  Edwards;  Joseph  A.  Spann,  1901,  of  Pelahatchie;  Walter  Weath- 
erby,  law,  't»9,  of  Durant;  W.  O.  Pniitt,  '*»9,  of  Houston;  Richard  N. 
Whitfield,  1900,  of  vSteen's  Creek;  H.  Lynn  McCleskey,  '99,  of  Atlanta, 
Miss.  These  men  will,  no  doubt,  prove  to  be  worthy  wearers  of  the 
sword  and  shield,  and  will  reflect  credit  upon  the  Fraternity.  We 
now  have  a  chapter  of  sixteen  enthusiastic  Phis,  and  this  year  bids 
fair  to  be  the  most  successful  in  the  history  of  Mississippi  Alpha.  We 
hope  to  be  able  to  report,  the  initiation  of  another  barbarian  in  our 
next  letter. 

The  gulf  states  inter-collegiate  oratorical  association,  composed  of 
the  University  of  Mississippi,  the  University  of  Alabama,  the  Univers- 
ity of  Georgia,  and  Tulane  University,  will  hold  its  second  annual  con- 
test here  next  spring.     We  hope  to  see  <l>  A  O  well  represented. 

On  account  of  the  late  opening  we  will  not  have  a  regular  'varsity 
foot  ball  team,  but  we  hope  to  make  good  our  loss  there  by  putting 
forth  an  unusually  strong  oase  ball  team  next  season. 

We  extend  a  cordial  invitation  to  all  Phis  to  make  us  a  visit  when 
in  Oxford. 

Wishing  all  the  chapters  continued  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

I'niversity,  November  2*2,  IH97.  Gkor(»k  Latham  Rav. 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA,  TULANB  UNIVERSITY. 

Louisiana  Alpha  is  in  a  very  curious  position.  Tulane  may  not 
open  before  January  1,  1S9.S,  or  it  may  open  next  week.  Until  it  does 
open,  we  can  do  nothing.  All  our  active  members  are  out  of  the  city, 
with  the  exception  of  Bros.  Ludlow  and  H.  Woods.  We  have  been 
constituted  a  spiking  committee,  and  have  seen  several  desirable  men, 
whom  we  expect  to  get. 

Our  strength  will  be  about  the  same  this  year  as  last — ten  or  twelve 
men.  So  soon  as  college  opens  we  expect  to  put  through  at  least  three 
or  four. 


i62  THE  SCROLL, 

We  have  not  yet  heard  anything  from  the  alumni  chapter  here. 
We  hope  they  will  help  in  the  work  when  college  opens. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  welfare  of  our  brothers  in  <l>  A  B,  I  am 

Yours  in  *t-Ke(a, 
New  Orleans,  November  7,  18iC  H.  N.  Wooiks. 

TEXAS  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEXAS. 

The  University  of  Texas  opetied  her  doors  on  vSeptember  2^>  for  the 
year  181  >7 -8,  with  more  favorable  prospects  than  ever  before.  Texas 
is  very  young  but  it  is  fast  assuming  an  important  position  in  the 
educational  world.  The  favorable  outlook  for  the  university  in  no- 
wise discounted  that  of  Texas  Heta  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Kight  men 
were  on  hand  at  the  beginning,  and  each  was  ready  and  anxious  for 
the  work. 

Fraternity  rivalry  fret|uently  becomes  very  heated  at  this  institution, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  there  are  only  about  three  hundred  and  fifty 
male  students,  while  there  are  ten  fraternities  whose  membership 
must  come  from  this  number.  This  spirit  of  rivalry  was  unusually 
high  this  year,  but  Texas  Beta  has  accomplished  all  that  the  most 
sanguine  could  hope  for.  Such  fraternities  as  Heta  Theta  Pi,  Sigma 
Alpha  HpsiloU;  Kappa  Alpha  and  Kappa  Sigma  were  met  in  contest 
and  defeated.  These  fraternities  are  among  the  l)est,  and  to  win  when 
pitted  against  such  opp>onents  is  no  easy  task.  Within  a  week  six 
men  were  pledged,  and  six  better  men  could  not  be  picked  from  the 
incoming  students.  On  October  o  the  chapter  initiated  Bros.  Waddey 
W.  Battle,  Edmond  Thornton  Miller,  Rufus  Lonsor  Hardy,  Leonard 
Marshall  Dumas,  Edgar  H.  Witt  and  Harry  Peyton  Steger,  whom  we 
are  pleased  to  introduce.  Of  these  initiates  Bro.  Battle  is  a  senior, 
having  entered  on  a  certificate  from  another  college,  likewise  Bro. 
Miller  became  a  junior;  Bro.  Hardy  is  a  junior  law,  while  Bros.  Du- 
mas, Witt  and  Steger  are  freshmen. 

The  Phis  are  represented  in  every  class  in  the  university;  we  have 
one  in  the  graduate  department,  one  senior,  five  juniors,  one  sopho- 
more, three  freshmen,  three  senior  laws  and  one  junior  law. 

Bro.  I^max,  who  was  graduated  last  June,  is  with  us  again  this 
year.  lie  is  the  presiding  genius  of  the  registrar's  office,  and  in  addi- 
tion to  his  work  for  the  university,  is  pursuing  graduate  studies.  Bro. 
Donaldson,  another  of  last  year's  graduates,  is  practicing  law  in  San 
Marcos  with  good  prospects  of  a  lucrative  clientage.  Bro.  Barker,  our 
delegate  to  the  Philadelphia  convention,  has  just  returned  to  the  uni- 
versity within  the  last  few  days.  He  was  detained  at  home  by  the 
illness  and  death  of  his  mother,  which  came  near  rendering  his  re- 
turn impossible.  His  arrival  has  made  our  roll  number  fifteen,  with 
prospects  that  before  this  is  printed  others  may  be  added  to  the  list. 

A  spirit  of  enthusiasm  pervades  Texas  Beta  that  has  been  sadly 
lacking  in  years  past,  and  alumni  say  that  our  chapter  is  in  better 
condition  to-dav  than  for  manv  years. 

We  did  not  enter  a  house  this  fall  because  of  circumstances  that 
rendered  the  scheme  impracticable  at  this  time. 

However,  we  have  determined  to  procure  a  hall  in  which  to  hold 
our  meetings,  if  such  is  possible.  Arrangements  were  made  for  a  suite 
of  rooms  in  one  of  the  most  conveniently  appointed  office  buildings  in 
this  city,  but  owing  to  a  transfer  of  the  property  our  plans  were 
bafTled.  But  we  are  going  to  make  another  trial,  and  feel  confident 
that  our  efforts  will  bring  better  results. 


THE  SCROLL,  163 

Texas  lieta  was  highly  honored  the  latter  part  of  October  by  a  visit 
from  Bro.  R.  A.  D.  Wilbanks,  prominent  in  fraternity  affairs  just 
after  the  war.  Bro.  Wilbanks  spent  several  days  in  Austin  on  busi 
ness,  and  more  than  once  in  an  informal  way  entertained  the  boys  with 
reminiscences  of  the  old  days  while  the  Fraternity  was  yet  in  its  in- 
fancv. 

In  October,  '31,  the  chapter  held  a  special  meeting  in  honor  of  our 
visiting  brother,  and  the  autumn  evening  was  made  short  by  his  in- 
teresting stories  of  fraternity  life  during  the  civil  war  and  of  the  days 
when  there  only  existed  four  chapters,  with  Centre  College  as  Grand 
Alpha. 

The  whole  Fraternity  has  probably  read  of  the  founding  of  the 
chapter  at  the  old  University  of  Chicago,  but  such  a  written  account  is 
devoid  of  interest  when  compared  to  the  manner  in  which  Bro.  Wil- 
banks related  how  he  secured  the  charter  and  alone  initiated  the 
entire  chapter.  Bros.  Kohlsaat  and  Smith,  cuts  of  whom  appeared 
in  a  recent  Scroi^l,  were  among  those  whom  Bro.  Wilbanks  thus 
transformed  from  barbarians  into  Greeks  in  a  single  hour. 

Just  after  the  war  Bro.  W'ilbanks  was  the  ruling  spirit  in  Phi  Delta 
Theta  affairs  and  in  this  capacity  became  intimately  acquainted  with 
William  F.  Vilas,  Adlai  Stevenson,  Jos.  C.  S.  Blackburn  and  all  others 
who  were  then  prominently  identified  with  the  Fraternity. 

Texas  Beta  was  greatly  benefited  by  the  visit  of  our  distinguished 
brother,  and  his  enduring  loyalty  to  the  Fraternity  will  ever  be  emu- 
lated. 

The  year  1890-7  added  the  Phi  Phi  Phi  fraternity  to  the  list  of 
Greek  letter  societies  in  the  University  of  Texas,  and  now  the  year 
1897-8  ushers  in  still  another,  making  the  total  number  ten.  The  last 
fraternity  to  enter  the  university  is  Alpha  Tan  Omega.  The  local 
chapter  has  an  active  membership  of  four,  with  several  resident  mem- 
bers. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  successful  year  for  l*hi  Delta  Theta,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Austin,  November  20,  1897.  Tom  T.  Connaij.y. 


TEXAS  QAMMA.  SOUTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

It  gives  us  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  report  the  present  standing  of 
our  chapter.  It  has  never  been  very  large  in  numbers,  and  we  feel 
the  loss  of  any  member  very  keenly.  Last  June  our  five  oldest  men 
were  graduated  from  the  university  with  honor  to  themselves  and  the 
Fraternity.  Bro.  Holmes  was  salutatorian  of  his  class  and  won  the 
senior  orator's  medal.  Bro.  Herren,  for  the  Alamo  society,  was  winner 
of  the  championship  debate  by  a  unanimous  vote.  Bro.  Henderson 
was  elected  one  of  the  senior  orators  for  commencement.  Bros.  Rucker 
and  Biggs,  two  of  the  next  oldest  men,  did  not  return  to  the  univer- 
sity, and  the  success  of  the  chapter  for  this  year  was  dubious.  Four 
freshmen,  one  senior  and  one  pledged  man  constituted  Texas  Gamma 
two  days  before  school  opened. 

The  members  devoted  themselves  diligently  to  the  selection  of  new 
material,  and  rejoice  to  be  able  to  introduce  Bros.  Ralph  A.  Graves, 
Wm.  G.  Swenson  and  Harry  O.  Knight.  The  first  report  of  this  year 
has  already  shown  that  we  were  fortunate  in  the  addition  of  these  three. 
Bro.  Chas.  W.  Brooks,  an  initiate  of  '94 -'9.),  has  just  re-entered  the 
university  and  adds  much  strength  and  intercvSt  to  the  chapter. 


i64  THE  SCROLL. 

We  are  under  many  obligations  to  our  province  president,  Bro. 
Schuyler  Poitevent,  for  his  letters  of  encouragement  and  advice.  The 
chapter  is  on  a  sure  foundation  for  many  years  to  come.  Wishing  the 
greatest  success  to  the  Fraternity  this  year,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Georgetown,  November  3,  18l»7.  J.  H.  McLkan. 

DELTA  PROVINCE. 

OHIO  ALPHA.  MIAMI  UNIVERSITY. 

Owing  to  some  misunderstanding  on  the  part  of  the  reporter  as  to 
when  copy  should  be  sent  in,  Ohio  Alpha's  first  letter  to  Thk  Scroix 
was  too  late  for  publication  in  the  October  issue,  but  we  hope  to  reach 
our  sister  chapters  in  this  issue  and  let  them  know  of  our  success. 

Miami  opened  her  doors  on  September  fifteenth  with  an  increased 
enrollment.  (Generally  speaking,  a  greater  number  of  desirable  men 
entered  than  for  some  years  previous.  Of  these,  Ohio  Alpha  was  not 
backward  in  claiming  her  share. 

Though  we  are  not  the  fortunate  possessors  of  a  chapter  house  at 
present,  we  expect  to  be  comfortably  situated  in  a  house  before  the 
close  of  this  school  year  if  a  good  house  can  possibly  be  secured. 

On  Saturday,  September  eighteenth,  we  initiated  into  the  mysteries 
of  *  A  8  Horace  Cooper  Shank,  special,  Hamilton,  Ohio;  Stanley 
Farren  Van  Pelt,  UH)1,  Wilmington,  Ohio;  Charles  McChristie  Hen- 
dricks, liX)l,  Gratis,  Ohio.  On  Saturday,  October  second,  we  added  to 
our  chapter  list  by  initiation,  Stanley  Heery  Van  Deman,11HX),  Wash- 
ington C.  H.,  Ohio;  Hugh  Daniel  Schell,  HK)1,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and 
Carl  Herman  Mason,  liM)l,  Hamilton,  Ohio.  After  the  initiation  cer- 
emonies we  were  served  with  a  sumptuous  banquet,  at  which  Bro.  R. 
J.  Shank,  Ohio  Zeta,  'HT,  acted  as  toastmaster.  We  have  also  pledged 
F.  M.  Rowen,  11>01,  Logan,  Ohio,  and  H.  A.  Heall,  Augusta,  Oa.  Ohio 
Alpha  is  now  on  the  high  road  to  success,  and  we  claim  to  have  one 
of  the  most  congenial  chapters  of  4>  A  O  anywhere. 

We  opened  our  social  season  with  a  dance  on  September  twenty- 
fourth,  which  afforded  our  new  men  an  opportunity  of  meeting  our 
loyal  Phi  girls. 

Bro.  George  F.  Jackson,  of  Ohio  Delta,  has  entered  Miami  and  ex- 
pects to  be  affiliated  with  us  shortly. 

We  take  pleasure  in  acknowledging  visits  since  the  beginning  of 
the  year  from  Brothers  R.  J.  .Shank,  S.  I).  (Viffen  and  F.  D.  Temple, 
of  Hamilton,  Ohio;  A.  C.  vShaw  and  CV.  R.  Eastman,  of  Eaton,  Ohio; 
C.  A.  Kumler  and  F.  B.  Yingling,  of  Seven  Mile,  Ohio,  and  C.  A. 
Macauley,  of  Dayton,  Ohio. 

The  many  friends  of  Bro.  H.  H.  Marti ndale  will  be  surprised  to  hear 
of  his  marriage  in  Milwaukee,  where  he  is  now  living. 

Miami's  foot  ball  team  is  doing  excellent  work  this  year.  Numer- 
ous dates  have  been  secured,  and  we  expect  to  make  a  fine  showing. 
We  are  represented  on  the  team  by  Bros.  Shank  and  Van  Pelt. 

t|>  A  B  is  also  well  represented  on  the  coUe^^e  publication,  Tht'  J//- 
anii  Stuiirfit,  Bro.  Stokes  being  editor-in-chief  and  Bro.  Zwick  an 
associate. 

Trusting  that  our  sister  chapters  of  *  A  O,  and  especially  Ohio  Eta, 
have  been  as  successful  as  we  in  starting  the  new  college  year,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Oxford,  October  li>,  1SV>7.  Karl  H.  Zwick. 


THE  SCROLL,  165 

OHIO  BETA.  OHIO  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

We  have  initiated  into  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  take  great  pleasure  in 
introducing,  C.  R.  Cary,  Millersburgh,  O. ;  E.  H.  Cherington,  Sedalia, 
O.;  J.  F.  McAnally,  Carbondale,  111.;  and  F.  B.  Cherington,  Delaware, 
O.  Fraternity  material  has  been  scarce,  but  we  have  secured  the  best 
of  it,  not  once  having  been  '  let  down.'  We  have  succeeded  in  pledg- 
ing W.  W.  Blackman,  Waseon,  O.,  and  B.  Bowker  and  D.  Bowker, 
Delaware,  O.,  who  will  make  good  Phis. 

Bro.  Kohl,  president  of  the  local  debating  league,  has  been  elected 
vice-president  of  the  inter-collegiate  league  of  Ohio. 

Foot  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic  at  Ohio  Wesleyan  this  fall.  Never 
before  in  the  history  of  the  school  has  such  enthusiasm  been  shown, 
and  never  before  have  the  wearers  of  the  red  and  black  been  so  victo- 
rious. Only  once  have  we  been  beaten  and  then  not  overwhelmingly. 
Coach  Yost,  of  the  last  year's  champion  Lafayette  team,  has  more 
than  fulfilled  all  expectations.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  represented  by  D. 
Bowker,  as  quarterback.  He  is  playing  a  magnificent  game,  and  the 
general  consensus  of  opinion  is  that  O.  W.  U.  has  never  had  a  better 
quarter.     Bro.  Morgan  is  substitute  end. 

We  have  enjoyed  a  visit  from  Brother  T.  Watson,  M)7,  of  Berea,  O., 
formerly  of  Ohio  Delta,  and  from  Brother  DeWitt  of  Ohio  Zeta. 

Phi  Gamma  Delta  has  seen  fit  to  expel  one  of  her  members.  No 
reasons  have  been  given,  and  the  chapter  seems  to  be  in  considerable 
turmoil. 

Should  any  of  our  brothers  in  the  Bond  chance  to  be  in  Delaware, 
we  will  a.ssure  them  a  true  Phi  welcome.  Our  latch-string  is  always 
on  the  outside. 

Ohio  Beta  extends  her  best  wislies  to  every  sister  chapter  in  our 
grand  old  Fraternity;  may  they  be  successful  in  all  their  efforts! 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Delaware,  November  2*2,  18*.)7.  C.  P.  Morgan. 

OHIO  QAMMA.OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 

The  fall  term  now  drawing  to  a  close  has  been  one  of  the  most  im- 
|>ortant  in  O.  U.  's  history.  A  standard  has  been  reached  in  athletics 
which  compares  favorably  with  that  of  the  best  colleges  and  universities 
of  the  west.  Our  foot  ball  team  holds  the  championship  of  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  to  have  played  Ohio  Wesleyan  University  here  De- 
cember 4,  for  the  championship  of  Ohio.  O.  W.  I'.'  frankly  ac- 
knowledged that  it  was  afraid  of  being  defeated  and  forthwith  broke 
the  agreement,  and  Ohio  now  claims  championship  honors.  Our  team 
in  nine  hard  fought  battles  with  the  best  college  teams  of  the  state 
has  scored  lo*2  points  to  opponents'  'US.  The  team  has  been  under  the 
direction  of  coach  W.  S.  Ford,  of  Colgate.  Ohio  Gamma  had  but  one 
applicant  for  the  team  this  year,  Bro.  Ralph  O'Bleness,  who  is  looked 
up>on  as  one  of  the  strongest  foot  ball  men  in  college. 

Dr.  Arthur  Allin,  who  held  the  chair  of  psychology  and  pedagogy, 
resigned  to  fill  a  similar  position  in  the  I'mversity  of  Colorado.  The 
vacancy  lias  not  yet  been  filled.  Prof.  Phillips  has  recently  organized 
a  choral  society,  in  which  Ohio  Gamma  is  represented  by  ten  brothers. 
The  chapter  was  very  successful  in  her  campaign  against  the  barbar- 
ians this  term  and  feel  justly  proud  in  presenting  to  the  Fraternity 
five  worthy  men:  Bros.  Door,  C.  Casto,  James  P.  Wood,  Dwight  L. 
Witman,  Ralph  O'Bleness,  and  Herbert  J.  Herrold;  pledged.  Max 
Mathues  and  Eugene  Tinker. 


1 66  THE  SCROLL. 

Our  hall  is  undergoing  numerous  changes  and  repairs  in  the  way  of 
fancy  arches,  painting,  heating  apparatus,  etc.,  so  that  by  January  1st 
Ohio  Gamma  will  have  a  hall  of  which  she  may  be  justly  proud.  Our 
hall  is  situated  at  the  entrance  of  the  campus,  where  we  will  be  glad 
to  welcome  all  visiting  Phis,  and  all  brothers  who  expect  to  attend  the 
state  oratorical  contest  to  be  held  here  next  February. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Athens,  November  m,  18U7.  W.  K.  Scott. 

OHIO  ZETA,  OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

While  the  foot  ball  season  did  not  open  very  promisingly,  there  was 
hope  for  rapid  development  of  the  raw  material.  However,  anticipa- 
tions along  this  line  have  not  been  realized.  Seldom  have  we  haa  a 
team  whicli  was  compelletl  to  struggle  against  such  heavy  odds.  First 
we  lost  a  large  number  of  experienced  players,  then  the  faculty  pro- 
mulgated rules  as  to  class  standing  and  freshmen,  which  deprived  the 
team  of  several  strong  men.  As  a  consequence,  the  team  has  not  a 
single  victory  to  its  credit,  with  but  the  Thanksgiving  game  before  us. 
We  entertain  hope  of  defeating  our  old  friends  from  Ohio  Wesleyan 
on  that  day. 

On  the  other  hand,  base  ball  seems  to  be  in  a  most  favorable  condi- 
tion. The  schedule  is  about  filled  and  will  contain  few  foreign  en- 
gagements, owing  to  the  faculty's  decree.  The  team  has  lost  but  two 
old  men. 

The  Makio  board  has  experienced  considerable  inconvenience  in 
organizing  this  fall.  After  about  four  .skirmishes,  it  has  been  finally 
selected,  and  we  can  expect  a  good  number  for  this  year. 

We  learn  with  a  degree  of  regret  of  the  withdrawal  of  the  charter 
from  Ohio  Delta.  Our  history  of  recent  years  has  been  interwov^en 
to  quite  a  degree  with  that  of  Ohio  Delta.  But  we  should  feel  confi- 
dent that  the  General  Council  has  discharged  its  duty  for  the  Frater- 
nity's weal. 

We  think  Columbus  should  commend  itself  to  all  as  the  most  con- 
venient location  within  Ohio  for  the  convention  of  1898.  Columbus 
contains  about  40  Phis,  who  are  organizing  themselves  into  an  alumni 
chapter.  Ohio  Zeta  would  gladly  join  them  in  sharing  the  honors  of 
entertaining  the  semi-centennial  convention. 

We  introduce  the  following  as  our  cjuota  of  new  Phis  since  our  last 
communication:  II.  P.  Senter,  11)01,  Columbus,  Ohio;  C.  G.  Bond,  '99, 
Columbus,  Ohio;  R.  C.  Reed,  'OS,  Norfolk.  Va.;  K.  B.  Grant,  1901, 
Grooveport,  Ohio,  pledged. 

Bro.  Erdman  has  been  made  second  lieutenant.  Bro.  Schlesinger 
is  law  school  reporter  on  77/^'  Lauttru,  Bro.  DeWitt  is  treasurer  of 
the  athletic  association.  Bro.  Bock  was  elected  president  of  the  senior 
class  after  (|uite  a  .spirited  contest.  Bro.  Bond  represents  us  on  the 
Makio  board. 

Bro.  J.  C.  Hughes,  of  Washington  and  Jefferson,  has  entered  the 
law  school  and  will  aftiliate  with  us.  He  is  expected  to  make  the 
'varsity  base  ball  team  this  year.  Bro.  Barringer  is  leader  of  the  uni- 
versity banjo  club.     Bro.  Schlesinger  was  elected  to  Phi  Delta  Phi. 

We  are  plea.sed  to  announce  visits  from  following  Phis:  Dr.  T.  L. 
Hughes,  of  Piqua,  a  charter  member  of  Ohio  Gamma;  ex-H.  G.  C. 
Marble,  Bro.  and  Mrs.  F.  S.  Ball,  and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  K.  Brown.  We 
wish  all  Phis  to  feel  free  to  call  upon  us  when  in  Columbus. 

Fraternally, 

Columbus,  November  10,  1897.  I.  M.  Foster. 


THE  SCROLL.  167 

OHIO  BTA,  CASE  5CH00L  OF  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

The  rushing  season  at  Case  is  now  practically  over,  and  Ohio  Eta 
has  had  two  initiations.  We  feel  that  in  our  new  role  a  chapter  of 
the  leading  Greek  fraternity—  our  task  of  getting  the  best  men  who 
come  here  has  been  infinitely  lessened;  for  we  now  stand  upon  an 
equal  footing  in  every  respect  with  the  local  chapter  of  Zeta  Psi. 

On  October  15  we  held  our  first  initiation,  at  which  we  were  hon- 
ored and  ably  assisted  by  S.  Emerson  Findley,  our  former  province 
president,  who  acted  as  master  of  ceremonies,  L.  C.  McLouth,  Mich- 
igan Beta,  Dr.  W.  H.  Merriam,  Vermont  Alpha,  W.  B.  Tiffany,  Ohio 
Beta,  E.  Iv.  Findley,  Ohio  Epsilon,  E.  B.  Baltzley,  Ohio  Delta,  L.  R. 
C.  Eberhard,  Ohio  Epsilon,  and  three  of  our  own  alumni.  The  usual 
banquet  followed  the  initiation,  Bro.  Shlesinger,  '1)0,  acting  as  toast- 
master.  The  initiates  so  far  are  D.  W.  Jones,  '9S,  J.  P.  Alexander,  '90, 
C.  B.  Clyne,  '00,  Lawrence  Basset,  Bertram  Quarrie  and  Malcolm 
Cleveland,  of  '01;  we  present  them  as  worthy  brothers  in  the  Bond. 
We  have  pledged  Wilbur  Watson,  '98,  George  Yost,  '01,  and  Rolin 
Lusk,  '01. 

Bro.  Hoyt,  '98,  has  left  us  to  accept  a  position  in  the  government 
service  as  an  assistant  assay  er  at  Dead  wood,  S.  Dak. 

We  were  recently  favored  by  a  visit  from  Bro.  Dwight  N.  ^Marble, 
ex-H.  G.  C,  who  chanced  in  on  us  during  our  regular  meeting.  Bro. 
Greers,  Georgia  Beta,  was  in  the  city  for  a  short  time  and  attended 
our  meetings  while  here. 

Case  has  a  strong  foot  ball  team  this  fall.  The  following  are  the 
results  of  games  played  up  to  date:  Case,  4,  Balwin  Wallace,  0;  Case, 
14,  Ohio  State,  0;  Case,  70,  Wittenberg,  0;  Case,  r>0,  Kenyon,  0;  Case, 
10,  Oberlin,  16.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  well  represented  on  the  team  by 
five  out  of  the  eleven  men. 

The  local  society.  Omega  Psi,  has  been  extremely  unfortunate  in 
the  loss  by  death  of  three  of  her  members  this  last  year. 

The  Epsilon  Epsilon  chapter  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  seems  to  be 
going  backward  this  fall;  one  would  hardly  know  that  it  existed  here. 

Bro.  Quarrie  has  been  elected  president  of  the  freshman  class.  Mr. 
Yost  is  secretary  and  Bro.  Cleveland  is  senator  of  the  same  class. 

In  closing  we  wish  to  urge  all  Phis  who  may  come  to  Cleveland, 
whether  on  business  or  pleasure,  to  stop  with  us. 

In  the  Bond, 

Cleveland,  November  20,  1897.  Frank  Hur^ETT. 

INDIANA  ALPHA.  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  indeed  a  pleasure  to  be  able  to  say  in  this  my  first  letter  to  The 
ScROLi*  that  Indiana  University  holds  her  high  rank  this  year  as  be- 
fore among  the  great  universities  of  the  west,  and  that  Indiana  Alpha 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta  keeps  pace  with  the  rapid  vStrides  of  tlie  university. 

The  enrollment  this  year  exceeds  that  of  any  previous  year,  and  by 
the  end  of  the  spring  term  we  expect  to  pass  the  long  coveted  number 
of  one  thousand  students.  We  have  a  foot  ball  team  that  can  make  a 
game  interesting  for  any  team  in  the  state,  and  of  which  we  are  all 
duly  proud. 

Indiana  University  will  send  out  this  year  by  far  the  best  glee  and 
mandolin  club  and  male  quartette  she  has  ever  had.  The  club  will 
make  a  tour  through  Illinois  during  the  Christmas  vacation,  giving 
fifteen  concerts.  In  the  spring  vacation  it  will  probably  go  througli 
northern  Indiana. 


1 68  THE  SCROLL. 

Our  chapter  numbers  only  seventeen  men  this  term,  which  is  six  or 
eight  fewer  than  we  usually  have.  However,  we  are  coming  in  for  a 
good  share  of  university  honors.  We  have  four  Phis  on  the  glee  club, 
one  on  the  male  (|uartette,  three  in  the  mandolin  club,  one  on  the 
chapel  quartette,  three  in  the  college  band,  one  each  on  the  foot  ball 
team,  the  lecture  board  and  the  student  advisory  board. 

Bro.  Ruby,  '*.>7,  is  doing  graduate  work  and  is  a  tutor  in  Greek.  Bro. 
Crow,  '*.>4,  is  taking  the  law  course. 

I  am  glad  to  introduce  three  noble  men  who  have  recently  donned 
the  sword  and  shield:  Bro.  J.  Karl  Woodbury,  Union  City.  Ind.,  Bro. 
B.  l*rank  Miller,  Vermont,  Ind.,  and  Bro.  Otto  Klein,  Mt.  Vernon. 
Ind.  Bro.  Woodbury  is  a  good  musician,  and  will  either  be  leader  or 
solo  cornetist  of  the  collej^e  band.  Bro.  Miller  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Indiana  State  Normal  and  is  a  strong  student.  Bro.  Klein,  for  a  young 
man,  has  had  a  very  extensive  experience  in  European  travel. 

In  a  social  way  Indiana  Alpha  keeps  up  her  old  standard,  and  three 
or  four  times  this  term  our  halls  have  witnessed  the  merry  scenes  that 
always  distinguish  a  Phi  gathering. 

We  have  our  eyes  open  for  more  new  men,  and  I  believe  we  shall 
be  able  next  time  to  intro<luce  some  of  them. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Bloomington,  November  (i,  1S«>7.  Hrnkst  P.  Wn,ES. 

INDIANA  BETA.  WABASH  COLLEGE. 

Wabash  College  began  the  present  year  with  increased  attendance, 
much  college  spirit  and  excellent  material  for  the  fraternities.  This 
year  we  support  no  foot  ball  team  but  have  turned  our  attention  to 
track  athletics;  on  October  10  we  held  our  fall  field  meet,  in  w^hich 
Phi  Delta  Theta  was  well  represented.  A  college  band,  glee  club  and 
mandolin  club  have  been  organized,  in  all  of  which  Phis  are  interested. 

All  of  our  men  returned  this  year  with  the  exception  of  Bro.  Malone, 
who  was  graduated,  and  Bro.  Mull,  'tH».  A  long  and  hard  fought 
spiking  season  has  just  been  brought  to  a  close,  and  *  A  8  has  received 
more  than  her  share  of  the  spoils.  We  have  initiated  and  beg  to  in- 
troduce Karl  Courtland  Banks,  special,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Josephs.  liar- 
tholomew,  HUM,  Valparaiso,  Ind.;  John  Miles  Mitchell,  M)8,  Charles- 
ton, 111.;  Michael  P^mmet  Foley, '*.M),  Wingate,  Ind.  We  have  pledged 
Kester  Bruce  .Shields,  PH)2,  Seymour,  Ind.;  William  Wilbors  Wilson, 
special,  Roachdale,  Ind.;  and  Rufus  Winesett  Romine,  HK)1,  South 
Bend, Ind. 

Ivast  year  closed  with  4>  A  H  in  the  lead:  We  held  both  batting  and 
fielding  averages  on  the  base  ball  team,  besides  having  Bro.  Byers  as 
manager.  Bro.  Malone  won  the  standing  broad  jump  at  the  state  field 
meet;  Bro.  Byers  won  the  junior  Austin  prize  debate;  Bro.  Foley,  the 
sophomore  oratorical  contest;  and  Mr.  Meisenhelder,  pledged,  was 
one  of  the  contestants  in  the  senior  preparatory  contest.  This  year 
found  us  with  a  good  lead  in  the  way  of  offices,  and  we  have  already 
added  greatly  to  the  list.  Bro.  Byers,  having  served  so  well  as  base 
ball  manager,  has  been  re-elected  for  the  coming  season.  He  is  also 
business  manager  of  The  Wahash,  manager  of  the  glee  club  and  of 
the  maiulolin  club  and  is  vice-president  of  the  state  oratorical  associa- 
tion. Bro.  lianks  is  in  the  band  and  the  glee  club,  as  well  as  the 
(juartette.  Bro.  Bartholomew  is  also  in  the  glee  club  and  quartette. 
Bro.  Ivnsminger  is  in  the  glee  club  and  the  band.  Mr.  Romine  is  in 
the  glee  club.     Bro.  Mitchell  is  president  of  the  Y.  !M.  C.  A.  and  as- 


THE  SCROLL.  169 

sistant  business  manager  of  The  H'ahash.  Hro.  Hayes  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  sophomore  class.  Bro.  Griesel  is  treasurer  of  the  junior 
class,  college  correspondent  for  the  Indianapolis //>///•;/(//  and  f  raternit}' 
editor  on  the  Ouiatcnon  board.  Trusting  that  all  chapters  have  been 
faring  equally  well,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Marshall  Vaxmetkr  Robh. 
Crawfordsville,  November  14,  WM . 

INDIANA  GAMMA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANAPOLIS. 

Entrance  examinations.  Thanksgiving  and  Christmas  the  three 
milestones  in  the  first  term's  work  !  The  second  we  have  just  passed, 
and  Indiana  Gamma  has  no  occasion  to  feel  that  she  has  loitered  by 
the  way,  for  she  has  proven  her  right  to  the  assertion  that  she  is  'first 
in  spiking,  first  in  peace  and  first  in  the  hearts  of  the  Butler  girls. ' 

We  lost  seven  men  by  graduation  and  one  failed  to  return,  Almon 
Mace,  who  is  now  at  Purdue.  Thus  far  this  year  <{>  A  B  has  six  new 
Butlerites  worshiping  at  her  shrine,  whom  I  now  gladlv  introduce  to 
the  Phi  world:  Bros.  Harvey  Hadley,  '01,  Herbert  K.  Wiley,  '01,  and 
Lawrence  B.  Davis,  '00,  all  of  Indianapolis;  Bro.  John  Williams,  '01, 
Wabash,  and  Bro.  John  Cunningham,  '01,  Fincastle.  We  have  also 
pledge<i  Lew  Wallace,  '02,  Brownstown,  Ind.,  making  a  total  of  thir- 
teen men,  including  Bros.  Lister  and  Blount,  '97,  who  are  pursuing  a 
graduate  course. 

As  usual  *  A  B  opened  the  social  season  with  an  informal  reception 
and  dance  on  Hallowe'en.  About  twenty- five  couples  were  present, 
and  all  had  a  royal  time.  A  few  evenings  after  Thanksgiving  the  Phi 
rooms  were  the  scene  of  a  ^ood  old-fashioned  taffy  pulling,  the  decora- 
tions and  refreshments  bemg  in  keeping  with  the  occasion. 

Our  foot  ball  team,  like  many  a  Klondike  claim,  'didn't  pan  out 
very  well,'  the  distance  between  the  various  departments  of  the  uni- 
versity making  it  impossible  to  get  the  men  together  for  regular  prac- 
tice. 

It  is  with  the  greatest  pleasure  that  we  record  the  calls  of  Bro.  Mull 
of  Wabash  and  Bro.  Whallon  of  Hanover.  We  appreciate  them  and 
extend  to  all  wandering  Phis  a  hearty  invitation  to  partake  of  the  hos- 
pitality of  Indiana  Gamma.  In  the  Bond, 

ViRiriL  Dalrymplk. 

Irvington,  November  30,  1807. 

INDIANA  DELTA.  FRANKLIN  COLLEGE. 

Franklin  opened  this  fall  with  a  smaller  number  of  Phis  enrolled 
than  for  a  number  of  years,  only  six  active  men.  We  accordingly 
spiked  hard  and  were  successful  in  taking  three  men  from  our  rivals, 
while  we  lost  only  one  to  them.  We  have  initiated  Guy  Guthrie, 
11H)1,  of  Greensburg,  Harry  Paskins,  1!>01,  and  Will  W.  Wilson,  UK>1. 
both  of  Franklin,  and  have  pledged  Harry  Bowser,  1008,  of  Fort 
Wayne,  and  Roy  Hinchman,  1001,  of  North  Vernon,  Ind.  The  latter 
we  will  initiate  the  first  of  next  term. 

We  have  the  promise  of  an  enclosed  athletic  park  before  spring,  the 
money  having  been  raised  by  the  formation  of  a  stock  company  com- 
posed mostly  of  the  alumni  of  the  college,  and  we  await  only  the  se- 
lection of  the  groimds  and  the  incorporation  of  the  company. 

The  college  paper,  The  Kodak ^  which  for  the  past  year  has  not  been 
published,  has  been  revived,  and  the  first  number  will  appear  before 


I70  THE  SCROLL. 

this  letter  does.  Bro.  Moore,  '98,  was  selected  as  business  manager 
and  was  also  chosen  as  the  representative  of  the  students  on  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  new  athletic  association.  Bro.  Kenney  has  been 
elected  president  of  the  class  of  '*.»1^  Bro.  Monroe,  M)S,  has  succeeded 
to  the  place  of  Bro.  Noland  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  state 
oratorical  association,  Bro.  Noland  not  having  returned  this  fall. 

Bro.  Clark  R.  I'arker,  ".17,  is  completing  a  course  at  the  Boston  Con- 
servatory of  Music,  and  will  next  spring  succeed  Prof.  Dungan,  in  the 
chair  of  music.    Phi  Delta  Theta  will  then  have  five  men  on  our  faculty. 

Bro.  Jesse  L.  Holman,  who  was  elected  reporter,  will  return  to  col- 
lege in  a  few  days.  Yours  in  the  Bond  of  4>  A  O, 

P.\RLEv  W.  Monroe. 

Franklin,  November  18,  1S97. 

INDIANA  EPSILON,  HANOVER  COLLEQE. 

Near  the  opening  of  the  term  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  move  our 
quarters,  and  as  a  result  the  old  Phi  'corner  brick'  now  stands  vacant, 
to  the  unfeigned  delight  of  our  former  neighbors  and  the  expressed 
sorrow  of  our  new  ones.  But  slumber  deferred  should  increase  its  ap- 
preciation. The  coziness  and  completeness  of  our  new  home  needs  no 
description.  We  announce  our  success  in  spiking  by  the  following 
list:  Bro.  T.  H.  Jenkins,  Warren,  Pa.,  and  Bro.  H.  G.  (jarber,  Madi- 
son, Ind.,  initiated;  T.  H.  Masterson,  Rockport,  Ind.,  pledged,  and  M. 
H.  Garber,  Madison,  Ind.,  who  will  be  initiated  in  the  near  future, 
making,  with  those  announced  in  our  last  letter,  an  accession  of  seven 
for  the  year.  Opening  with  six  we  now  hold  thirteen,  the  unlucki- 
ness  of  which  number  has  in  no  wise  made  itself  apparent.  During 
the  term  we  have  had  visits  from  Bros.  Nelson,  Deibler,  Bridges,  For- 
bes and  Bowman,  all  formerly  of  Hanover,  part  of  whom  were  with 
us  to  a.ssist  in  our  initiatory  ceremonies.  A  banquet  following  the  in- 
itiation tended  to  sooth  the  hicerated  feelings  of  our  initiates. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  has  not  taken  a  hidden  position  of  late.  Bro.  Old- 
father  has  been  elected  editor-in-chief  of  the  college  annual  and  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  college  journal.  Bro.  Whallon  was  again  elected 
manager  of  the  f(K)t  ball  team,  while  on  it  we  are  further  represented 
by  four  regular  and  two  substitute  players.  The  presidency  of  the 
college  oratorical  association  is  held  by  a  Phi,  and  in  the  coming  con- 
test we  will  be  represented  by  one  of  our  chai)ters.  Our  foot  ball  team 
has  only  played  two  games  as  yet,  but  in  neither  have  we  been  de- 
feated, having  thirty  points  to  four  of  our  opponents.  We  have  two 
Phis  on  the  mandolin  club.  Bro.  Pearson  went  as  a  delegate  to  the 
state  Y.  M.  C.  A.  convention  at  Tvvansville  the  past  week. 

During  the  present  week  a  reception  will  be  held  in  honor  of  our 
new  men.  Our  chapter  is  .stronger  than  for  several  years  past,  and 
with  our  numerical  strength  and  a  prospective  loss  of  but  one  by 
graduation,  we  can  see  no  shallows  ahead.  We  are  always  glad  to 
meet  fellow  Phis  and  extend  a  hearty  invitation  to  all  to  visit  us,  as- 
suring them  a  cordial  reception.  Yours  fraternallv, 

T.  C.  Whalkon. 

Hanover,  November  S,  ISt^T. 

INDIANA  ZETA.  DBPAUW  UNIVERSITY. 

At  the  opening  of  the  college  year  in  Septeml>er,  Indiana  Zeta  re- 
turned 12  initiates  and  4  pledged  men.  I'rom  l!H)l  we  secure<i  0  men, 
the  pick  of  the  ela.ss,  and  did  not  lose  a  spike. 


THE  SCROLL.  171 

The  following  men  have  been  initiated  into  the  mysteries  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta:  A.  N.  Doyle,  Van  Buren,  Ind.;  L.  D.  Macey,  E.  Roller 
and  H.  L.  Hancock,  Newman,  111.;  X.  H.  Edwards,  Fairmount,  Ind.; 
Earl  C.  Walker,  New  Albany,  Ind. ;  Fred  L.  Sims,  Charles  H.  Baird 
and  Forest  Cartwright,  Portland,  Ind. 

Of  last  year's  men  who  have  not  returned,  Bro.  Reat  is  teachinfi^ 
school  at  Mt.  Meridian,  Ind.;  Bro.  Collings  is  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Cicero;  Bro.  Crowder  is  preaching  at  Russelville. 

Bro.  Sims  has  been  elected  president  of  the  freshman  class;  Bro. 
Hancock,  captain  of  the  freshman  foot  ball  team;  Bro.  Smith  is  secre- 
tary of  the  oratorical  association. 

The  foot  ball  team  has  labored  under  the  disadvantages  of  faculty 
opposition  and  student  indifference,  and  has  not  come  up  to  its  usual 
high  standard.  We  defeated  the  Indianapolis  Training  School  22  to 
0,  and  lost  to  Purdue  and  Notre  Dame  by  scores  of  8  to  0  and  4  to  0, 
respectively.  Bro.  F.  Roller  is  captain  and  guard,  Bro.  Foxworthy, 
sub.  guard;  Bro.  F.  Cartwright  played  half  back  the  early  part  of  the 
season. 

In  the  military  department,  Bro.  Mead  is  first  lieutenant  and  adju- 
tant; Bro.  Doyle  is  a  sergeant;  Bro.  F.  Roller  is  lieutenant  in  the  ar- 
tillery. 

Bro.  Ruick,  '97,  is  at  Yale.  Bro.  Prosser,  '97,  is  professor  of  physics 
in  the  New  Albany  high  school.  Yours  in  *t-#fc/o, 

Chas.  B.  Cam.pbeli*. 

Greencastle,  November  4,  1897. 


INDIANA  THETA.  PURDUE  UNIVERSITY. 

Indiana  Theta  lost  by  graduation  five  of  the  best  men  who  ever  en- 
tered Purdue.  They  were  prominent  in  both  social  and  college  life 
and  are  greatly  missed  in  the  chapter.  We  wish  them  the  highest 
success  in  life,  and  the  positions  they  already  occupy  indicate  that 
they  are  well  started  on  the  wa^.  Bro.  Kirk  is  an  electrician  at  Jack- 
sonville, 111. ;  Bro.  Moore,  assistant  city  engineer,  I/a  Fayette,  Ind. ; 
Bro.  Morse,  with  the  Wabash  Bridge  Works,  Wabash,  Ind.;  Bro. 
Wheeler,  with  the  La  Fayette  Bridge  Works;  and  Bro.  Tschentscher,  a 
student  at  Cornell. 

The  race  after  men  has  resulted  in  a  decisive  victory  for  *  A  O.  We 
have  initiated  Jay  Byron  Dill,  Jr.,  190(),  and  Herbert  Martin  Woolen, 
IfMX),  and  pledged  Harry  Rudolf  Wilson,  ItK)l,  all  of  Indianapolis, 
men  of  whom  Indiana  Theta  is  justly  proud,  and  who  were  desper- 
ately sought  after  by  all  the  fraternities. 

In  university  affairs  Purdue  has  been  rather  quiet  this  fall,  the  calm 
being  disturbed  only  now  and  then  by  a  victory  or  a  defeat  of  our 
rather  unlucky  foot  ball  team.  Church,  the  famous  Princeton  tackle, 
and  Poe,  the  Princeton  half  back  and  coach,  have  each  coached  our 
men,  but  we  lack  the  material  for  a  western  championship  team  and 
are  out  of  the  race  for  this  year.  The  second  week  in  November  wit- 
nessed the  arrival  of  our  new  Schenectady  locomotive  for  the  me- 
chanical engineering  department.  It  is  of  a  special  design  by  Prof. 
W.  F.  M.  Goss  of  Purdue,  and  its  principal  feature  is  its  adaptability 
for  either  simple  or  compound  running.  It  takes  the  place  of  'Sche- 
nectady No.  1*  in  oinr  locomotive  experimental  laboratory,  which  is 
the  only  completely  equipped  plant  of  its  kind  in  the  world.  The 
results  obtained  from  tests  on  tne  old  locomotive  have  proven  inval- 


172  THE  SCROLL. 

uable  to  the  builders  and  railroad  men  alike,  and  a  very  useful  career 
is  in  store  for  'No.  2.' 

With  best  wishes  and  a  hearty  welcome  to  all  Phis,  from  Purdue's 
loyal  chapter,  1  remain  Yours  in  <f»t-«ce/o, 

Percy  H.  Batten. 

La  Fayette,  November  14,  1S97. 

MICHIQAN  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MICHIGAN. 

The  university  opened  on  October  1,  and  the  attendance  has  steadily 
increased  until  the  number  stands  somewhere  over  3,200— higher  by 
200  than  ever  before.  Of  this  number  there  are  some  3.)0  eligible  men 
(literary  and  engineering  students)  in  the  freshman  class. 

The  fraternity  year  opened  somewhat  earlier,  for  we  put  our  house 
in  order  and  pledged  4  men  before  college  opened,  and  since  then  we 
have  pledged  4  more.  Of  these,  o  are  initiated,  so  that  with  the 
12  men  who  returned  to  active  membership,  the  roll  counts  17.  The 
chapter  has  been  unusually  well  represented  this  year  in  the  profes- 
sional fraternities,  Bros.  Matthews  and  Thayer  having  joined  *  A  * 
and  Bro.  George  Lowrie  N  2i  N,  a  fraternity  which  has  absolute  choice 
of  men  in  the  medical  department  of  tlie  university. 

This  year  witnesses  the  first  change  for  many  years  in  the  occujwnt 
of  the  executive  chair  of  the  university.  Prof.  H.  B.  Hutchins,  fonn- 
erly  dean  of  the  law  department,  is  now  acting  president  during  the 
absence  of  Dr.  Angell  as  U.  S.  minister  to  Turkey.  No  change  is 
noticeable,  however,  in  the  government  of  the  institution.  In  fact, 
the  administrative  board  displays  the  same  determination  this  year 
that  it  did  last,  to  break  up  the  organization  of  the  'varsity  glee,  man- 
dolin and  banjo  clubs.  The  fact  that  the  clubs  have  been  refused  per- 
mission to  give  a  single  concert  outside  of  town  this  year  is  of  consid- 
erable interest  to  us,  as  Bro.  Palmer  is  leader  of  this  year's  banjo  club, 
and  as  we  have  three  other  men  on  the  various  clubs. 

Foot  ball,  however,  suffers  from  no  such  discouragements,  for  not 
only  does  the  faculty  withhold  almost  all  restrictions,  but  the  financial 
support  of  the  student  body  has  been  greater  than  ever  before.  Our 
foot  ball  representation,  on  the  'varsity,  at  least,  is  a  thing  of  tlie  fu- 
ture. At  present,  we  have  four  men  on  the  freshman  team,  but  it 
might  be  well  to  add  that  their  accomplishments  are  not  limited  to 
that  one  field. 

Of  last  year's  four  graduates,  the  two  who  did  not  return  to  follow  a 
professional  course  are  now  enjoying  excellent  positions:  Bro.  Miller, 
as  instructor  in  chemistry  in  the  Kansas  City  Manual  Training  School, 
and  Bro.  Woodward,  as  assistant  to  an  expert  mining  and  mechanical 
engineer. 

There  are  more  than  the  usual  number  of  Phis  from  other  chapters 
in  attendance  here  this  year.  At  the  present  time  Bro.  Chapin,  of 
Michigan  Beta,  and  Bro.  Young,  of  Iowa  Beta»  are  our  only  affiliates. 

In  conclusion,  just  a  word  concerning  the  note  in  the  last  Scroli*, 
taken  from  the  Delta  Upsilon  Quarterly.  It  charges  us  with  having 
changed  sides  in  an  inter-fraternity  struggle  and  calls  this  a  *con- 
temptible  flop.'  We  do  not  consider  a  defense  necessary,  but  wish  to 
state  the  facts.  In  the  'final  struggle'  we  were  7cUh  Delta  Upsilon, 
and  not  until  after  our  victory  and  in  the  general  readjustment  which 
followed  did  we  become  associated  with  some  of  the  old  Palladium 
fraternities,  while  Delta  Upsilon  was  in  a  similar  way  associated  with 
other  members  of  the  old  organization.     In  charging  us  with  having 


THE  SCROLL.  173 

changed  sides,  Delta  Upsilon  evidently  regards  herself  as  a  sort  of 
land-mark,  and  in  so  doing  gives  further  proof  of  the  egotism  dis- 
played when  she  claimed  to  have  been  the  leader  of  tlie  winning  side. 

Wishing  Phis  the  world  over  a  Merry  Christmas  and  Happy  New 
Year,  and  reminding  them  that  the  latch-string  is  always  out  at  the 
door  of  Michigan  Alpha,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ann  Arbor,  November  19,  1897.  Frkd  R.  Hoover. 

MICHIGAN  BETA.  MICHIGAN  STATE  COLLEGE. 

We  begin  the  college  year  with  the  largest  freshman  class  in  our 
history.  Good  material  is  not  wanting.  We  have  initiated  three  men 
and  are  looking  up  several  whom  we  expect  to  pledge.  We  take  great 
pleasure  in  introducing  our  new  brothers,  Frank  Gunn,  '00,  and  Arthur 
Lyons  and  Lucian  Kendrick,  '01.  We  feel  they  will  prove  an  honor 
to  the  Fraternity  and  our  chapter. 

We  lost  two  men  last  year  by  graduation.  Brother  Walter  Amos  is 
now  instructor  in  mechanical  drawing  in  Detroit,  and  Bro.  Chas. 
Hermann  is  engaged  in  business  with  his  father.  Bro.  Cornelius 
Chapin  left  at  the  end  of  the  last  winter  term.  He  entered  the  U.  of  M. 
this  year  to  take  a  course  in  electrical  engineering.  We  understand 
he  affiliates  with  Michigan  Alpha. 

Bros.  Morgan  Morgans,  '0(),  Frank  Smith,  '00,  and  Frank  Long- 
year,  *00,  did  not  return  to  college  this  year. 

Bro.  Chas.  Alvord,  *9o,  has  been  appointed  by  the  state  board  of 
agriculture  to  fill  the  place  left  vacant  b^y  Prof.  A.  A.  Crozier  in  the 
experimental  station.     We  enjoy  an  occasional  visit  from  him. 

The  foot  ball  season  has  been  a  success.  The  men  have  been  in 
active  training  since  the  beginning  of  the  year  under  the  competent 
instruction  ota  U.  of  M.  coach.  This,  together  with  the  excellent 
material,  makes  the  strongest  eleven  we  have  ever  placed  on  the  grid- 
iron.    We  are  represented  by  Bro.  E.  J.  Price,  '00,  as  left  guard. 

An  appropriation  of  $o,000  has  been  allowed  for  the  erection  of  a 
new  electric  light  plant.  Henceforth  we  hope  to  have  our  rooms 
lighted  by  electricity. 

Arrangements  have  been  made  whereby  the  street  car  line  now  enters 
the  college  grounds,  and  we  are  therefore  conveniently  connected  with 
Lansing,  three  miles  away^ 

By  our  next  letter  we  expect  to  have  a  number  of  other  initiates  to 
introduce. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lansing,  November  18,  1897.  A.  B.  Krkntei*. 

MICHIGAN  GAMMA.  HILLSDALE  COLLEGE. 

Although  only  three  of  last  year's  members  returned  to  college  this 
fall,  and  we  have  been  somewhat  handicapped  by  unavoidable  circum- 
stances, we  are  now  hustling  and  can  predict  a  strong  chapter  by  the 
winter  term.  We  have  pledged  one  of  the  best  all-around  men  in 
college  and  expect  soon  to  put  the  button  on  one  or  two  more.  At 
present  we  have  three  active  and  six  pledged  men. 

Next  term  Bros.  Smith  and  Campbell  will  be  in  college,  and  two 
pledged  members  will  be  eligible  for  initiation.  We  expect  to  rent  a 
suite  of  rooms,  which  we  will  use  as  we  did  our  house. 


174  THE  SCROLL, 

H.  S.  Myers,  *9o,  our  reporter,  has  been  seriously  ill  since  the  sec- 
ond week  of  the  fall  term,  but  is  now  some  better. 

Thanksgiving  day  we  enjoyed  a  visit  from  President  Palmer,  who 
was  passing  through  Hillsdale.  In  the  evening  we  had  a  very  fraternal 
visit  w4tli  him  at  the  hotel. 

The  college  has  more  and  a  better  class  of  students  than  last  year. 
Our  prospects  for  the  year  are  looking  brighter,  and  with  hard  work 
we  will  have  a  strong  chapter. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Hillsdale,  November  2(5,  1897.  Vkrne  G.  Myers. 

EPSILON  PROVINCE. 

ILLINOIS  ALPHA.  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

Illinois  Alpha  lost  seven  men  last  June,  and  the  chapter  began  this 
fall  with  six  members.  Last  Friday  night  we  initiated  the  following: 
Joseph  Hrown,  1900;  George  Moore,  1900;  Kdward  Hammett,  1901; 
Neal  D.  Tomy,  1901;  Claude  Seek,  1901;  Center  Case,  1901;  Frank 
Phelps,  1901.  We  expect  to  be  able  to  add  to  this  list  in  the  next 
letter.  The  men  we  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  get  this  fall  are 
the  pick  of  the  new  comers,  and  their  accession  again  places  the  chap- 
ter at  the  head  of  the  eight  chapters  at  Northwestern.  Besides  our- 
selves, this  year  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Sigma  Chi  have  been  successful  in 
getting  men.  The  other  five  fraternities  have  fallen  below  their  stand- 
ards. 

We  have  rented  for  the  year  a  cozy  suite  of  rooms  at  1008  H  Orring- 
ton  avenue,  facing  Fountain  square,  in  the  center  of  Evanston.  We 
are  planning  a  tally-ho  party  for  the  Thanksgiving  game  between 
Northwestern  and  Wisconsin.  The  recent  faculty  decree  that  no  or- 
ganization shall  give  more  than  one  evening  party  during  the  year 
will  be  observed  by  our  chapter.  The  general  chairmanship  and  lead- 
ership of  the  Pan-Hellenic  promenade  falls  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  this 
year.  Our  party  will  be  given  in  February,  probably  at  the  Country 
club  house. 

Bro.  Conner,  '97,  is  now  teaching  Greek  in  the  Academy;  Bro.  F. 
W.  McCasky,  '97,  is  engaged  in  business  in  Minneapolis;  Bro.  C.  A. 
Stewart,  '97,  is  in  business  in  Chicago;  Bro.  E.  S.  Hutchins,  '97,  is 
studying  medicine  in  Cliicago;  Bro.  T.  M.  Fowler,  ex-'97,  is  in  busi- 
ness in  Evanston;  Bro.  R.  A.  Noble,  ex-'98,  is  at  the  Northwestern 
Medical  School;  Bro.  Ward  Marble,  ex- 1900,  is  in  business  at  Crown 
Point,  Ind. 

Northwestern  University  is  prospering  this  year.  The  enrollment 
is  larger  than  ever  before.  A  few  changes  have  been  made  in  the 
faculty.  In  the  chair  of  Continental  history  Prof.  Stanclift  has  been 
replaced  by  Prof.  James,  of  Cornell,  Iowa,  and  in  the  department  of 
French  Prof.  Wheeler  is  succeeded  by  Prof.  Balliot,  of  Indiana  Uni- 
versity. Prof.  Hatfield,  who  spent  last  year  traveling  in  Germany, 
has  returned  and  taken  up  this  work  as  head  of  the  department  of 
German.  The  university  has  been  the  recipient  of  a  large  sum  from 
the  Fayerweather  estate,  and  a  new  academy  building  and  gymnasium 
are  things  of  the  near  future.  Improvements  have  been  made  at  Shep- 
pard  field  for  the  acconnnodation  of  the  foot  ball  team,  which,  though 
not  as  successful  as  might  have  been  desired,  has  given  a  good  account 
of  itself,  considering  the  fact  that  most  of  the  men  are  new  at  the 
game. 


THE  SCROLL.  175 

Our  chapter  is  located  so  near  Chicago  that  we  might  reasonably 
expect  even  more  calls  than  we  receive  from  the  Phis  residing  in  and 
visiting  the  city.  We  know  that  there  are  a  great  many  living  near 
us  that  we  have  never  met.  With  a  chapter  in  Chicago  and  a  chapter 
at  Northwestern,  no  Phi  in  or  near  Chicago  need  feel  that  he  has  no 
place  to  go  where  he  will  be  made  welcome  and  shown  a  good  time. 
Come  to  see  us. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Evanston,  November  1,  1897.  George  Elmer  Moore. 

ILLINOIS  BETA.  THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  CHICAGO. 

The  first  term  of  the  winter  quarter  at  The  University  of  Chicago 
has  just  closed,  and  with  it  passes  a  period  of  unusual  activity  in  the 
development  of  Illinois  Beta.  During  this  time  we  have  experienced 
all  the  vicissitudes  of  house  seeking  and  furnishing  in  the  midst  of  a 
rushing  season  which  our  competitors  have  made  unusually  trving, 
and  now,  having  added  two  men  to  our  number,  and  being  comforta- 
bly established  in  a  cozy  fiat,  we  are  looking  hopefully  forward  to  a 
year  of  growth  and  prosperity  such  as  hitherto  we  have  hardly  dared 
nope  for. 

Illinois  Beta  returned  but  four  men  this  fall,  being  greatly  handi- 
capped at  the  outset  by  the  temporary  withdrawal  from  the  university 
of  Bros.  Brayton,  '00,  and  Hales,  '00,  who  found  it  to  their  advantage 
to  continue  their  occupations  of  the  summer.  Bro.  Brayton  will  be 
with  us  next  quarter  and  Bro.  Hales  will  return  in  October,  1898,  and 
complete  his  course  without  further  interruption. 

Five  men  are  now  living  in  our  house:  Bros.  Wilson,  Ickes,  Mosser, 
Stockey  and  Sawyer.  Bro.  Wilson,  '97,  is  pursuing  a  course  in  the 
Chicago  College  of  Law,  and  Bro.  Ickes,  '97,  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
Chicago  Record.  Bro.  Mosser  is  leader  of  the  glee  club  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Apollo  club  and  university  choir;  Bro.  Sawyer  is  university 
correspondent  for  the  Chicago  Tribune^  member  of  the  glee  club, 
member  of  the  dramatic  club  and  on  the  Cap  and  Goivn  board;  Bro. 
Flanders  is  on  the  mandolin  club,  and  your  correspondent  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  university  choir,  a  member  of  the  glee  club  and  its  secre- 
tary. 

On  the  twenty-second  of  October  we  held  our  first  initiation  of  the 
year,  taking  in  two  men:  F.  H.  Calhoun,  '98,  captain  of  the  track 
team,  and  R.  E.  Graves,  '98,  a  scholarship  man.  Bro.  Shepardson, 
Illinois  Eta,  was  among  our  guests.  We  have  since  pledged  three 
more  men,  one  of  whom  is  on  the  mandolin  club  and  another  of  whom 
promises  to  do  wonders  in  track  athletics  next  spring. 

Illinois  Beta  sent  six  men  to  attend  the  fall  initiation  at  Northwest- 
em  University,  on  October  29,  and  a  most  enjoyable  time  was  report- 
ed. A  large  number  of  Phis  were  present  and  much  credit  is  due 
Illinois  Alpha  for  the  cordial  hospitality  extended  to  all  her  guests. 

We  have  had  several  pleasant  visits  from  members  of  the  Fraternity 
during  the  summer  and  fall,  especially  during  the  summer  quarter, 
when  a  number  of  Phis  from  various  colleges  took  special  work  in  the 
university.  Among  the  yellow  fever  refugees  who  sought  shelter  in 
Chicago  we  were  glad  to  welcome  Bro.  Coleman,  of  Tulane  University. 
Bros.  Palmer  and  Miller,  of  the  General  Council,  have  been  with  us 
several  times  during  the  past  six  months,  and  both  have  been  zealous 
in  assisting  us  to  get  a  good  start  this  fall.     We  are  also  greatly  in- 


176  THE  SCROLL. 

debted  to  the  members  of  the  local  alumni  chapter,  who  have  gener- 
ously contributed  much  to  our  material  welfare,  and  to  whose  efforts 
mainly  we  owe  our  present  comfortable  quarters. 

The'  prospects  for  the  growth  of  our  chapter  during  the  present  year 
are  better  than  ever  before.  We  have  met  with  good  success  thus  far 
and  expect  to  do  better  in  the  future.  I  tliink  Phis  in  other  institu- 
tions little  realize  what  we  have  to  contend  with  in  the  line  of  adverse 
faculty  rulings  at  The  University  of  Chicago.  All  chapters  here  are 
forbidden,  under  penalty  of  forfeiting  their  charters,  to  bid  or  pledge 
freshmen  until  such  men  have  been  in  attendance  at  the  university 
six  months.  This  rule  necessarily  forces  us  to  continue  our  rushing 
season  with  unabated  zeal  throughout  the  year,  and  leaves  us  at  the 
end  of  the  school  year,  especially  if  we  have  been  unfortunate  in  bid- 
ding men,  in  a  condition  of  mental,  physical  and  financial  exhaustion. 
The  freshman,  meantime,  is  tossed  aoout  from  one  chapter  to  another, 
fSted  and  feasted  like  a  king  for  six  months,  and  then  expected  to 
join  the  fraternity  offering  him  the  biggest  inducements. 

The  Omega  club  has  just  been  granted  a  charter  by  4^  T,  for  which 
it  has  been  fighting  for  the  past  five  years.  The  new  chapter  will 
come  in  with  about  ten  men.  There  is  also  a  rumor  current  to  the 
effect  that  A  T  will  soon  establish  a  chapter  here  with  five  or  more 
charter  members.  If  this  be  true  we  shall  have  seven  fraternities  to 
compete  with  next  year. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Chicago,  November  20,  1897.  C.  F.  Stockky. 

ILLINOIS  DELTA,  KNOX  COLLEQB. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  pledged  three  men,  Scott  Ingle,  '01, 
and  Walter  and  Frank  Williams,  '02.  All  of  these  men  are  very  pop- 
ular in  their  classes.  Scott  Ingle  is  well  known  in  athletics,  both  here 
and  at  Oberlin.  He  is  the  'varsity  pitcher,  as  well  as  full  back  on  the 
eleven.     The  Williams  brothers  are  also  athletes  of  promise. 

We  have  given  two  parties  this  year,  both  of  which  have  been  most 
enjoyable  affairs.  We  also  anticipate  combining  with  the  alumni  in 
a  formal  party  at  Christmas. 

The  Knox  foot  ball  team  has  enjoyed  a  very  successful  season,  hav- 
ing won  five  out  of  seven  games  played.  Bro.  Adcock  at  end  has  been 
making  a  great  reputation  for  himself.  At  the  last  game,  with  Mon- 
mouth, the  three  t rater nities  gave  box  parties. 

Bro.  Johnson  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  sophomore  class  recently. 
Bro.  Holland  is  at  work  on  the  '99  year  book,  or  which  he  is  editor,  and 
from  present  indications  it  will  be  the  best  book  ever  issued  at  Knox. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Galesburg,  November  17,  1897.  WiLi^  Mather  Lewis. 

ILLINOIS  ZETA.  LOHBARD  UNIVERSITY. 

So  few  of  our  boys  returned  to  live  in  the  chapter  house  this  year 
that  we  were  a  trifle  concerned  at  first,  but  all  is  serene  now;  we  would 
not  give  up  the  house  for  anything. 

Bro.  Walter  Johnson  has  accepted  a  position  under  McClure,  of  New 
York,  as  editor  of  The  Osprey.  Bro.  Johnson  has  made  this  neat  little 
publication  what  it  is,  and,  with  these  new  advantages,  we  predict  for 


THE  SCROLL,  177 

him  a  bright  future.     While  we  are  sorry  to  see  him  go  from  us  we 
rejoice  at  his  success. 

On  the  evening  of  November  6  our  chapter  held  its  nineteenth  an- 
nual stag  banquet  in  the  chapter  house,  and  only  those  chapters  who 
have  a  house  can  know  what  a  joy  it  is  upon  such  occasions.  The 
boys  served  the  banquet  themselves,  as  is  our  custom. 

Our  new  gymnasium  is  now  completed,  and  for  its  size  is  one  of  the 
best  in  the  west.     We  are  justly  proud  of  it. 

With  very  best  wishes  for  all  the  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Galesburg,  November  18,  1897.  R.  G.  Carpenter. 

ILLINOIS  BTA,  UNIVERSITY  OP  ILLINOIS. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroti*  Illinois  Kta  has  initiated  three 
men:  A.  R.  Johnston,  1900,  G.  Huntoon  and  L.  Huffman.  In  addi- 
tion we  have  three  men  pledged  and  more  in  sight.  Bro.  Johnston, 
the  crack  'varsity  half  back,  was  compelled  to  quit  the  game  owing 
to  a  severe  injury  which  he  received  in  the  Chicago  game. 

Bro.  Walker  is  at  present  a  busy  man,  for  he  is  arranging  the  game 
between  the  Carlisle  Indians  and  Illinois.  These  two  teams  play  in 
Chicago  at  the  Coliseum,  Saturday  night,  November  20.  Our  chapter 
will  be  present  in  a  body  and  will  occupy  two  boxes.  Bro.  Goodrich 
has  recently  been  elected  assistant  foot  ball  manager. 

Bro.  Fulton,  captain  of  the  'varsity  base  ball  team,  will  return  after 
Christmas  and  will  assist  Coach  Huft  in  coaching  the  candidates  for 
the  team.  Last  spring  we  had  Ave  Phis  on  the  championship  team 
and  we  expect  to  have  the  same  number  this  year. 

Bro.  Palmer  paid  the  chapter  a  delightful  visit  and  favored  us  with 
an  excellent  talk  on  rushing  new  men.  Several  Purdue  Phis  visited 
us  on  October  23,  when  Illinois  accomplished  what  she  has  striven  to 
do  for  several  years — defeat  Purdue.  Bro.  Johnston  was  easily  the 
star  of  the  day. 

Phi  Gamma  Delta  has  been  introduced  into  the  university.  This 
chapter  starts  with  fifteen  men  and  bids  fair  to  become  a  strong  rival 
of  the  older  fraternities.  Bro.  Walker  responded  to  a  toast  at  their 
initiation  banquet. 

The  new  central  heating  and  lighting  plant  is  rapidly  nearing  com- 
pletion, and  a  new  conservatory  is  gradually  assuming  form.  The  old 
mechanical  shops  are  being  transformed  into  a  modem  gymnasium. 
A  large  building  for  the  school  of  music  is  under  consideration,  and 
when  these  improvements  are  completed,  Illinois  will  stand  on  a  level 
with  any  university  in  the  west. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  our  chapters,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Champaign,  November  18,  1897.  A.  N.  Hazlitt. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

This  year's  rush  was  commenced  with  twelve  old  men  back,  and  as 
a  result  of  their  efforts  the  following  were  pledged:  Henry  J.  Blakely, 
Milwaukee;  Elbridge  Bacon,  La  Crosse;  Neely  K.  Pardee,  Wausau; 
William  H.  Biersach,  Milwaukee;  Samuel  Robbins,  Carthage,  111.; 
Frank  R.  Barns,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Mark  Newman,  Madison,  Wis.;  Sam- 
uel B.  Gregg,  Danville,   la. ;  George  Hardgrove,  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis. ; 


178  THE  SCROLL, 

John  L.  Ragland,   Missouri — ten  in  all.     I  wish  to  introduce  Bros. 
Blakely,  Bacon,  Pardee  and  Biersach  to  the  Phi  world. 

Wisconsin  was  fortunate  in  having  Bro.  Phil  King  back  this  year  as 
foot  ball  coach,  as  the  work  of  the  western  champions  will  show.  We 
were  all  sorry  to  bid  good-by  to  Bro.  King,  but  hope  to  have  him  back 
again  next  year. 

The  members  who  attended  the  game  with  Minnesota  at  Minneap- 
olis on  October  30,  are  enthusiastic  in  their  praises  of  the  hospitalities 
shown  them. 

Bro.  Bacon,  '01,  was  recently  elected  a  member  of  the  glee  club. 
The  undersigned  was  assistant  manager  of  the  foot  ball  team.  Bro. 
Phil  Fox  was  captain  of  the  '00  track  team. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Madison,  December  2,  1897.  Carl  V.  Geilfuss. 

MINNESOTA  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MINNESOTA. 

We  always  have  to  sink  to  conventionalisms  in  trying  to  express 
our  most  individual  thoughts  or  feelings.  How  much  more  difficult, 
then,  would  it  be  for  me  to  find  new  words  and  unused  phrases  to  tell 
the  Fraternity  that  Minnesota  Alpha  has  her  share  of  all  the  prosper- 
ity that  she  could  possibly  wish  for  *  A  O  everywhere. 

Some  time  during  the  summer  a  mighty  impulse  struck  two  of  our 
most  active  workers,  and  when  the  boys  drifted  back  Bros.  Condit 
and  Sherburn  had  a  surprise  in  store  for  them.  They  halted  in 
astonishment  at  the  door,  and  our  pet  'freshman,'  Esterley  (he  isn't 
really  a  freshman,  you  know),  stammered  out  a  word  of  apology, 
stumbled  away  dazed  and  l>egan  a  new  hunt  for  the  old  chapter 
rooms.  Every  room  has  been  refitted.  Each  one  has  its  character- 
istic color  and  furnishings.  Some  at  first  claimed  that  the  poster 
room  had  been  desecrated,  but  when  they  saw  that  beautiful  and  ap- 
propriate pictures  had  taken  the  place  of  the  time-worn  and  somewhat 
passi'  poster  all  were  satisfied  and  pleased.  I  wish  I  could  describe 
our  quarters,  but  I  shall  have  to  content  myself  with  the  statement 
that  a  certain  crowd  of  co-eds  has  threatened  to  appropriate  our  smok- 
ing-room for  its  own  purposes. 

We  have  so  far  initiated  four  men,  and  are  satisfied  that  *  A  O  will 
always  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  Ralph  E.  Weible,  Weible,  N.  D. ; 
Ed  Stong,  Minneapolis;  Ivouis  Wright,  Minneapolis,  and  Joseph 
Smith,  Minneapolis.  Most  of  the  old  men  are  back,  so  that  we  are 
well  represented  in  every  department  in  the  university.  In  addition 
to  our  already  large  representation  in  the  faculty,  we  have  the  pleas- 
ure of  welcoming  a  new  brother,  who  holds  the  position  of  assistant 
professor  in  the  I^atin  department.  Br9.  Fred  Huxley  has  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  in  the  medical  department. 

In  a  social  way  the  Phis  have  had  a  royal  time  this  fall,  but  the 
greatest  event,  from  our  standpoint,  was  the  banquet  given  by  our 
chapter  and  the  alumni  to  the  Wisconsin  Alpha  chapter  on  the  eve- 
ning of  October  30  at  the  Commercial  Club.  The  following  notes 
appeared  in  the  city  papers: 

'  Little  informal  fraternity  gatherings  in  honor  of  visitors  from 
Madison  were  numerous  Saturday  evening.  All  of  these  were  very 
enjoyable,  perhaps  none  more  so  than  the  banquet  tendered  by  the 
I*hi  Delta  Thetas  of  Minnesota  to  their  brother  Greeks  from  Madison. 
The  Phi  Delts  gathered  at  the  Commercial  Club,  where  Dietrich 
catered  for  them  in  his  best  style.     Members  of  Wisconsin  Alpha, 


THE  SCROLL.  179 

who  were  among  the  Madison  rooters,  were  the  guests.  Phil  King, 
the  "little  corporal,"  who  coached  the  Badgers  to  victory,  is  a  Phi,  but 
was  detained  from  the  gathering  by  other  engagements.  After  the 
dinner  James  G.  Wallace,  of  the  alumni  chapter,  introduced  several 
of  the  brothers  for  informal  speeches.  The  chief  speech  was  made  by 
Rev.  E.  H.  Wilson,  of  Faribault,  a  Phi  from  back  in  the  ''>0*s,  who 
comes  from  Centre  College,  Kentucky,  where  the  third  chapter  of 
the  Fraternity  was  organized.  With  special  appropriateness  to  the 
time  the  menu  cards,  which  are  always  planned  to  make  souvenirs 
of  the  occasion  at  these  Phi  Delt  gatherings,  were  ovals  printed  with  a 
design  made  by  H.  L.  Murray,  of  the  alumni.  Two  stocky  foot  ball 
players  in  the  uniforms  of  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  hold  between 
them  a  slate  upon  which  each  guest  inscribed  the  score.  The  figures 
are  colored  in  water  colors. ' 

Yours  in  *  A  O, 
Minneapolis,  December  3,  1897.  H.  N.  T.  Allkn. 

IOWA  ALPHA,  IOWA  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 

School  opened  with  ten  Phis  present.  The  chapter  numbered  twen- 
ty-three at  the  close  of  last  year.  Seven  were  lost  by  graduation  and 
some  others  have  not  returned. 

Elizabeth  Hershey  Hall  was  opened  for  women  students  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  term  and  is  an  assured  success.  Incidentally  we  might 
mention  the  fact  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  does  not  lack  for  warm  friends 
among  its  occupants. 

An  excellent  lecture  course  has  been  secured.  Six  numbers  will  be 
given,  each  one  of  decided  merit. 

Lieutenant  Kalk  has  been  placed  in  charge  of  the  military  depart- 
ment, and  has  won  the  respect  and  good  will  of  the  students.  The 
department  is  larger  than  last  year  and  will  assuredly  prosi>er,  for  a 
majority  of  the  swords  are  worn  by  Phis.  Bro.  Heskill  is  band  leader. 
At  present  he  is  suffering  with  an  attack  of  congestion  of  the  lungs, 
from  which  it  is  hoped  he  will  speedily  recover. 

Preparations  are  now  being  made  for  the  local  oratorical  contest, 
held  for  the  purpose  of  selecting  delegates  to  the  state  contest.  Bro. 
Rex  is  secretary  of  the  local  association.  Bro.  Helphrey,  as  president 
of  the  interstate  oratorical  association,  has  brought  honor  to  our  chap- 
ter and  will  be  a  credit  to  the  institution. 

After  beginning  his  senior  year  Bro.  Brown  was  unexpectedly  com- 
pelled to  give  up  his  work.  On  his  resignation  as  manager  of  the  foot 
oall  team  Bro.  Helphrey  was  elected  to  the  position.  One  of  the  best 
teams  in  the  history  of  the  institution  is  now  bringing  victories  to  I. 
W.  U.  Only  one  game  has  been  lost  and  that  to  the  far-famed  Mis- 
souri Tigers.  The  games  played  and  scores  are  as  follows:  Knox, 
18-0;  Wapello  Indians,  ()0-0;  Missouri  Tigers,  4-(»;  Penn,  36-4.  The 
Penn  game  came  on  Saturday,  November  6,  and  was  attended  by  the 
Phis  in  a  carriage  party.  After  the  game  and  a  ten -mile  drive  we  took 
supp>er  at  the  Jackman  House,  in  New  London.  Several  informal  re- 
ceptions and  socials  have  been  given  in  our  parlors,  and  overflowing 
merriment  was  the  result. 

We  have  no  new  initiates  to  announce  as  yet,  but  it  is  only  because 
under  our  college  rules  there  are  no  available  men  of  the  kind  of  which 
Phis  are  made.  During  the  year  we  will  be  able  to  announce  a  num- 
ber of  new  men  of  choice  quality. 

Sorrow  came  to  our  chapter  the  past  week  when  Bros.  George  and 


i8o  THE  SCROLL, 

Fred  Smith  were  called  home  to  the  death  bed  of  their  mother.  They 
arrived  too  late  to  see  her  alive.  By  our  brothers*  loss  we  all  feel 
saddened.  In  the  Bond  of  *  A  G, 

JKSSK  McF.  Bkck. 
Mt.  Pleasant,  November  8,  1897. 

IOWA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  IOWA. 

The  university  began  the  fall  term  with  several  large  new  buildings, 
several  new  instructors,  an  increased  attendance  over  any  former  year, 
with  the  financial  prospects  of  the  athletic  association  looking  brighter, 
and  with  indications  that  our  foot  ball  and  track  teams  will  be  the  best 
that  we  have  ever  had. 

Our  chapter  began  the  year  in  new  halls,  pleasantly  located  near  the 
university,  consisting  of  six  large  rooms  and  a  dance  hall,  newly  fur- 
nished throughout  and  supplied  with  water,  gas  and  steam  heat. 

We  appreciate  the  steam  heat  perhaps  more  than  anything  else,  for 
the  pleasure  and  enjoyment  to  be  derived  from  cold  rooms  is  well 
known  to  us.  One  room  is  fitted  up  for  a  library,  and  if  the  interest 
in  it,  and  the  donations  to  it  continue  as  they  have  begun,  we  will 
soon  have  a  library  of  which  the  Fraternity  may  be  proud,  and  which 
will  be  a  great  benefit  as  well  as  source  of  pleasure  to  its  members. 

All  last  year's  members  are  back  but  six.  Bro.  Wakefield  is  prac- 
ticing law  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  and  Bro.  Barker  in  Cresco,  Iowa.  Bro. 
Simmons  is  an  editor  on  the  Ottumwa  Courier,  Bro.  Young  is  attend- 
ing school  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  and  Bros.  Mulky  and  Pittenger  are 
at  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago.  We  have  taken  in  but  one  new 
member  thus  far,  and  have  pledged  four  who  will  come  in  soon.  There 
are  two  or  three  Phis  from  other  schools  here  whom  we  exect  to  afHli- 
ate.  So,  considering  the  fact  that  we  have  thirteen  of  our  old  mem- 
bers, we  do  not  need  to  be  in  any  hurry  to  take  in  new  men. 

Though  not  as  well  fixed  financially  as  we  might  wish,  yet  it  is  not 
worrying  us  any  or  interfering  with  the  social  enjoyment  of  our  new 
halls.  The  subject  of  a  chapter  house  has  been  discussed  in  our  meet- 
ings for  the  last  two  years,  and  we  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
halls  such  as  we  have  at  present  are  better  suited  to  the  needs  of  our 
chapter  than  any  house  which  we  would  be  able  to  get.  None  of  the 
other  fraternities  here  have  a  house,  and  I  do  not  think  that  a  house 
would  suit  them  as  well  as  a  hall  in  this  town. 

Iowa  Beta  wishes  to  extend  greetings  to  all  sister  chapters,  and  to 
assure  all  Phis  a  hearty  welcome  if  they  should  ever  have  occasion  to 
visit  our  city.  Fraternally  yours, 

Albert  A.  Paisley. 

Iowa  City,  October  21,  IS<)7. 

MISSOURI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroll  we  have  initiated  W.  Neal 
Winter,  of  Greenville,  Mississippi,  thereby  gaining  a  victory  for  Phi 
Delta  Theta.  With  pardonable  pride  we  look  upon  Missouri  Alpha's 
record  during  the  rushing  season.  We  have  asked  six  men  to  join 
our  Fraternity  and  have  not  met  with  a  single  refusal,  while  in  most 
of  the  cases  they  refused  others  in  order  to  join  us. 

We  have  more  than  our  share  of  the  honors  this  year.  In  the  battal- 
ion of  cadets,  Bro.  English  is  major.  We  also  have  the  adjutant,  a 
first  lieutenant,  a  sergeant  and  a  corporal.     Bro.  Maitland  and  Bro. 


THE  SCROLL,  i8i 

Peper  are  respectively  the  presidents  of  the  junior  and  sophomore  en- 

fineering  classes,  and  Bros.  Edmunds  and  Burruss  are  the  vice-presi- 
ents  of  the  corresponding  academic  classes.  Six  brothers  are  on  the 
glee,  banjo  and  mandolin  clubs,  of  which  Bro.  English  is  secretary 
and  treasurer,  as  well  as  leader  of  the  glee  club.  Bro.  Ruffner  is  vice- 
president  of  the  associated  clubs  and  leader  of  the  banjo  club.  On  the 
staff  of  the  Independent  is  Bro.  Drum,  one  of  our  new  men.  Bro. 
Switzler  has  charge  of  the  fraternity  department  of  the  Westef-n  Col- 
le^e  Maf;azine^  and  Bro.  Ruffner  is  the  local  correspondent  of  the 
same. 

The  inter-society  oratorical  contest,  held  November  thirteenth,  was 
won  by  Mr.  Harris,  of  the  law  school.  He  was  promptly  challenged 
by  Bro.  Thompson,  who  won  last  year. 

Missouri's  foot  ball  team  has  been  very  unfortunate  this  year,  hav- 
ing lost  most  of  the  games,  but  we  hope  to  make  a  better  showing  on 
Thanksgiving.  Early  in  the  season  Bro.  Smith  received  injuries 
which  prevented  his  playing.  Bro.  White,  having  been  appointed 
director  of  the  gymnasium,  could  not  play,  and  his  absence  greatly 
weakened  the  team. 

The  university  council  has  created  a  body  to  be  known  as  the  ath- 
letic board,  to  control  all  athletic  matters.  The  board  consists  of 
members  of  the  faculty,  alumni  and  undergraduates.  President  Jesse 
is  ex-officio  chairman.  The  representation  on  the  board  is  to  be  as 
follows:  Four  members  of  the  faculty,  one  alumnus — to  be  elected  by 
the  executive  committee  of  the  alumni  association,  and  the  captains 
of  the  foot  ball,  base  ball  and  track  teams. 

To-night  Missouri  Alpha  celebrates  with  an  oyster  supper  her  twen- 
ty-seventh birthday.  We  will  have  with  us  Bros.  Anderson,  'JK5,  AUee, 
»95,  S.  L.  Watson,  '95,  Ed.  Watson,  '95,  K.  R.  Johnson,  '94,  C.  L. 
Switzler,  '94,  and,  we  hope,  others  of  our  alumni. 

In  accordance  with  the  reminder  in  The  Palladium^  the  circular 
letter  will  be  issued  on  time. 

Bro.  Helphrey,  as  manager  of  the  Iowa  Wesleyan  foot  ball  team, 
was  here  some  weeks  ago.  Several  Missouri  Beta  men  came  over 
with  their  foot  ball  team.     We  always  enjoy  having  Phis  visit  us. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Columbia,  November  20,  1897.       Charles  Shumway  Ruffner. 

MISSOURI  BETA,  WESTfllNSTER  COLLEGE. 

Owin^  to  a  slight  misunderstanding  on  the  part  of  the  reporter, 
Missouri  Beta  failed  to  have  her  customary  communication  in  the  Oc- 
tober Scroll,  which  fact  necessitates  the  recital  of  the  record  we  have 
made  from  the  opening  of  school. 

Bros.  Smiley,  instructor  in  Kemper  Family  School;  Jacks,  with  the 
St.  Louis  Republie ;  Van  Meter,  ot  the  banking  firm  of  Van  Meter  and 
Smith — all  last  year's  graduates — were  early  on  the  ground  to  lend 
their  aid  and  encouragement  in  the  annual  opening  rush.  At  the  out- 
set we  were  slightly  handicapped  by  the  comparative  youthfulness  of 
the  entire  chapter,  but  thanks  to  its  excellent  reputation  and  the  timely 
assistance  of  our  alumni,  each  and  every  man  honored  with  an  invita- 
tion now  wears  the  sword  and  shield.  We  take  pleasure  in  introduc- 
ing Bros.  A.  L.  Gordon,  Fulton,  Mo.;  R.  G.  Cousley,  Sedalia,  Mo.; 
Duncan  McGregor,  Fulton,  Mo.,  and  G.  A.  Campbell,  Jackson,  Mo. 
We  are  also  glad  to  state  that  Bro.  Seibert,  formerly  of  Missouri  Alpha, 
is  with  us. 


1 82  THE  SCROLL, 

On  the  foot  ball  team,  of  which  Bro.  Cousley  is  captain  and  right 
half  back,  we  are  well  represented  with  Stratton  and  Gordon  as  ends 
and  Campbell  at  tackle.  Bro.  Gordon  is  president  of  the  athletic 
association  and  occupies  a  similar  position  in  the  literary  society  of 
which  he  is  a  member.  In  the  recent  contest  to  determine  who  should 
represent  Westminster  in  the  coming  inter-collegiate  oratorical  con- 
test, the  reporter  was  chosen.  If  we  continue  to  be  as  successful  dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  the  year  as  we  have  been  thus  far,  there  will  be 
but  little  left  to  comfort  our  rivals. 

Our  membership  is  now  12,  with  one  man  pledged,  whom  we  hesi- 
tate to  pass  alone  through  the  triple  gates,  lest  his  addition  bring  upon 
us  the  evils  commonly  associated  with  a  certain  luckless  number. 

Wishing  a  successful  year  to  the  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  fraternally, 

Fulton,  November  18,  1897.  M.  N.  FERGUSON. 

M1550UR1  QAMMA.  WASHINQTON  UNIVERSITY. 

We  have  lost  but  two  of  last  year's  attendant  members.  Bro.  John 
G.  Cole,  MM),  has  gone  to  Harvard,  and  Bro.  Wm.  G.  Clark,  *98,  has 
left  us  to  complete  his  engineering  education  at  Columbia. 

We  take  pleasure  in  presenting  to  the  Fraternity  our  new  initiates: 
Silas  Bent  Phillips,  1900,  engineering  school;  Thurston  Wright,  *01, 
college  (a  brother  of  Bro.  Thomas  H.  Wright,  *98);  and  Henry  Ware 
Eliot,  Jr.,  '01,  college.  Bro.  Eliot  is  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Wm.  G.  Eliot, 
an  eminent  Unitarian  clergyman,  who  was  for  many  years  the  hon- 
ored chancellor  of  the  university.  We  are  very  glad  to  have  Bro. 
Trescott  F.  Chaplin,  '9fi,  back  again  with  us  after  a  year  in  the  grad- 
uate school  of  The  University  of  Chicago.  He  has  entered  the  law 
department  of  this  university  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  our 
work.  Bro.  James  L.  Stuart,  '98,  took  a  summer  course  at  Chicago 
and  reports  a  very  pleasant  time  with  the  members  of  Illinois  Beta. 
Bro.  Albert  B.  Lawver,  '96,  intends  to  return  shortly  to  take  a  gradu- 
ate course. 

Among  the  faculty  there  have  been  a  few  changes.  Henry  S.  Pritch- 
ett,  professor  of  astronomy,  has  been  appointed  by  the  president  to 
the  important  position  of  superintendent  of  the  United  States  coast 
and  geodetic  survey,  with  headquarters  at  Washington.  While  it  is 
a  great  honor  for  Prof.  Pritchett,  the  loss  to  the  university  will  be 
keenlv  felt. 

Mr.  Henri  Dumay,  instructor  in  French,  has  gone  to  New  York  as 
the  editor  of  a  journal  there,  and  Mr.  Gaston  Douay,  late  of  Columbia, 
has  taken  his  place. 

Bro.  Orville  L.  Sinmions,  Indiana  Theta,  '98,  instructor  in  crypto- 
gamic  botany,  has  .severed  his  connection  with  the  university  and 
gone  to  Texas.  Bro.  Henry  W.  Stuart,  California  Alpha,  '93,  who 
was  instructor  last  year  in  economics,  has  left,  and  Mr.  H.  R.  Hatfield 
has  returned  to  his  former  position. 

Bro.  John  B.  Pitman,  Tennessee  Alpha,  '98,  is  in  the  medical  de- 
partment, and  we  hope  to  have  him  affiliate  with  us.  The  medical 
school,  by  the  way,  has  increased  the  course,  so  that  it  now  requires 
four  years  for  graduation,  and  as  the  numerous  other  medical  schools 
in  the  city  require  only  three  years,  we  hope  to  get  a  better  class  of 
students  than  formerly,  from  which  we  can  select  some  men  worthy 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Bro.  Jacobs,  Ohio  Alpha,  has  visited  us  once  or  twice  this  year.     He 


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is  in  business  in  the  city.     We  all  regretted  very  much  that  we  were 
unable  to  meet  Bro.  Palmer  when  he  was  in  the  city  a  short  time  ago. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
St.  Louis,  November  11,  1897.  Chas.  P.  Pettus. 

KANSAS  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS. 

Only  ten  of  our  men  returned  this  year,  and  of  these  Bro.  Reed  has 
gone  home,  leaving  us  but  nine  old  members.  We  have  initiated  two 
men  so  far,  and  pledged  three  others. 

We  lost  by  graduation  last  June  Bros.  Smith,  Reed,  Limbocker, 
Brooks,  Freeland  and  Crum,  and  by  failure  to  return,  Bros.  Watson, 
Sierer,  Crooks,  Nimocks  and  Sanford. 

We  have  so  far  given  but  one  hop,  which  was,  however,  quite  suc- 
cessful. Our  fifteenth  annual  stag  banquet  in  commemoration  of  the 
founding  of  the  chapter  was  held  on  the  evening  of  November  20.  It 
was  a  very  enjoyable  affair  and  a  success  in  every  way.  Among  those 
who  were  present  were  Bros.  Nichols,  Higgins,  Playter,  Nimocks, 
Caldwell,  Jones  and  Learnard. 

The  glee  and  banjo  clubs  are  to  make  a  tour  of  the  state  during  the 
holidays.  Bros.  Lee  and  Cooper  are  members  of  the  organizations, 
Bro.  Cooper  being  president  of  the  combined  clubs. 

Last  June  Bro.  Smith  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Bro.  Crooks  is  playing  quarter-back  on  the  Kansas  City  Medical 
College  eleven. 

Wishing  success  to  Phi  Delta  Theta,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lawrence,  November  28,  1897.  H.  W.  McLaughlin. 


NEBRASKA  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Now  that  the  rushing  season  is  over,  the  members  of  Nebraska 
Alpha  feel  that  they  have  had  their  share  of  the  spoils.  We  have 
taken  men  from  several  of  our  rivals  and  lost  none.  Since  the  last 
letter  to  Thk  Scroti,,  we  have  held  but  one  initiation,  and  that  in 
honor  of  Bro.  Abbott,  of  1901.  This  makes  a  total  of  five  new  mem- 
bers this  year. 

The  foot  ball  season  for  Nebraska  bids  fair  to  close  successfully. 
Among  others  we  have  played  Ames,  Tarkio,  Missouri  and  Kansas. 
Our  first  game — and  our  first  and  last  defeat — we  played  at  Ames,  the 
latter  winning,  12-0.  In  explanation,  we  plead  that  the  team  had  had 
about  two  weeks'  practice,  and  Ames  had  had  three  or  four  before  we 
commenced.  On  the  eighteenth  of  October  we  defeated  Tarkio,  IG-O, 
on  the  campus  field.  On  the  thirtieth  we  beat  Missouri,  41-0.  This 
was  the  first  league  game,  and  naturally  we  felt  very  proud  of  the 
team.  On  the  thirteenth  of  November,  Kansas  came  up,  feeling  very 
confident  of  victory,  for  she  had,  two  weeks  before,  defeated  Iowa, 
champion  last  year,  55-0.  Nebraska  won,  6-.5,  after  a  bitterly  con- 
tested game.  If  the  officials  had  not  been  for  Kansas,  the  score  would 
have  been  10-0.  Nebraska  has  protested  the  five  points  credited  to 
Kansas.  We  are  looking  forward  to  the  Iowa  game  on  Thanksgiving, 
and  are  hopeful  of  winning  this,  also.  The  Phis  are  represented  on 
the  team  by  Brother  Hayward,  who  plays  right  tackle,  and  in  the 
management  by  Brother  Oury.  Brother  Welch  showed  his  loyalty  to 
the  team  by  presenting  them  with  stockings.     We  can   not  speak 


1 84  THE  SCROLL, 

highly  enough  of  coach  Robinson,  and  we  feel  that  Nebraska's  success 
is  due  largely  to  his  constant,  patient  efforts. 

The  glee  club  is  planning  two  trips  for  this  year,  one  just  before  the 
holidays  and  a  second  trip  later  in  the  year.  Bros.  Mueller  and  Sum- 
ner represent  us  there. 

In  a  military  way  we  have  met  with  considerable  success.  So  many 
registered  for  drill  this  year,  that  two  battalions  of  three  companies 
each  had  to  be  formed.  Bros.  Haggard  and  True  are  captains,  and 
Bro.  Weber  is  first  lieutenant.  Bros.  Stebbins  and  Whedon  are  first 
sergeants,  while  Bro.  Sumner  as  ranking  second  sergeant  is  sure  to 
get  something  good  next  year.  Brother  Oury  is  captain  of  the  Pershing 
Rifles,  a  select  company  of  the  best  drilled  men  of  the  regiment. 
Brother  Russell  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  before  the  bat- 
talion was  formed  into  a  regiment,  but  resigned,  as  he  does  not  expect 
to  return  next  semester.  The  regiment  mourns  the  loss  of  its  com- 
mandant, Lieutenant  Jackson,  Wth  U.  S.  Cavalry,  who  died  on  Friday, 
November  11). 

On  November  20  the  chapter  entertained  the  fathers  of  the  Lincoln 
Phis.  Bros.  Hay  ward  and  Welshans,  in  their  celebrated  monkey  act, 
were  heartily  encored. 

This  is  our  first  year  in  a  chapter  house,  and  to  say  that  we  are 
pleased  with  chapter  house  ways  is  but  half  expressive  enough. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ch.\s.  H.  True. 

Lincoln,  November  21,  1SV)7. 


CALIFORNIA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  CALIFORNIA. 

The  end  of  the  fall  term  is  now  near  at  hand,  and  California  Alpha 
looks  back  upon  it  with  considerable  satisfaction.  Though  we  have 
not  yet  succeeded  in  entirely  replacing  the  ten  brothers  lost  last  term, 
we  hope  by  the  beginning  of  next  year  to  have  very  nearlj-  done  so. 
Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroti.  Bros.  Frank  W.  Bugbe'e,  '00,  and 
Homer  A.  Bouslcy,  '01,  have  been  initiated,  making  our  total  number 
of  new  men  for  this  year  four,  and  the  total  strength  of  the  chapter 
fourteen.  We  will  probably  have  Bro.  Bousley  with  us  only  two  years, 
and  then  will  send  him  back  to  our  brothers  in  New  York  Delta  at 
Columbia.  Bro.  Guy  L.  Baylcy,  '98,  left  college  soon  after  the  op)en- 
ing  of  the  term  to  accept  a  good  position  at  the  Union  Iron  Works  in 
San  Francisco. 

This  term  has  not  been  a  very  good  one  for  the  fraternities  as  a 
whole,  the  new  class  containing  very  little  first-class  fraternity  mate- 
rial. Sigma  Chi  obtained  only  one  man,  Beta  Tlieta  Pi,  Zeta  Psi  and 
Phi  Gamma  Delta,  two.  Chi  Phi  and  Kappa  Alpha  Theta  have  three 
new  members,  while  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Upsilon,  Sigma  Nu,  Chi 
Psi  and  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  each  captured  four.  Delta  Kappa  Ep- 
silon.  Kappa  Kappa  Ganmia  and  Gamma  Phi  Beta  were  the  most  for- 
tunate, obtaining  six  apiece.  A  chapter  of  Kappa  Alpha  (southern) 
has  been  reorganized  with  a  membership  of  seven.  Bros.  Weniple, 
ex- '91),  and  Reinhardt,  '07,  are  charter  members  of  Pi  Sigma  Tau, 
and  Bro.  T.  A.  Smith,  '07,  of  Zeta  Oniicron.  These  are  both  new  fra- 
ternities which  have  been  established  in  the  medical  department  of 
the  university. 

The  active  chapter  is  working  hard  to  make  our  new  chapter  house 
for  next  year  a  certainty.     The  local  chapter  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 


THE  SCROLL,  1S5 

has  commenced  its  new  house.     Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Zeta  Psi  already 
own  chapter  houses  here. 

As  Thanksgiving^  approaches  interest  in  foot  ball  is  becoming  in- 
tense. Our  team  this  year  is  thought  to  be  stronger  than  last,  though 
we  miss  Ransome,  last  year's  captain,  who  is  now  at  Yale,  where  he 
has  succeeded  in  demonstrating  the  fact  that  we  do  know  a  Utile  about 
foot  ball  out  here  in  the  west.  We  departed  from  our  usual  custom 
this  year  in  not  having  an  eastern  coach  for  the  team,  employing  in- 
stead Mr.  Nott,  formerly  of  Brown  and  now  an  assistant  instructor  in 
the  university.  Probably  by  the  time  this  letter  appears  in  print  it 
will  be  known  whether  we  have  won  a  glorious  victory  or  suffered 
ignominious  defeat  at  the  hands  of  our  rival,  Stanford. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Berkeley,  November  17,  1897.  J.  R.  Moui,Throp. 

CALIFORNIA  BETA.  LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UN1VER5ITY. 

Never  before  has  Stanford  University  registered  so  many  students 
as  this  fall.  There  are  now  eleven  hundred  in  regular  attendance,  and 
every  department  of  the  university  is  crowded.  As  a  result  of  this 
the  Doubtful  Case  committee  has  been  playing  havoc  with  the  fresh- 
man class,  and  they  have  impressed  the  fact  that  *  the  indolent  or  un- 
worthy will  not  be  retained  in  the  institution. ' 

The  principal  event  of  the  past  month  has  been  the  faculty  Kirmess, 
which  was  given  in  the  museum  for  the  benefit  of  the  Hildebrand 
Library  fund.  The  most  interesting  feature  of  the  entertainment  was 
a  farce  written  and  acted  by  the  faculty.  Three  repetitions  were  nec- 
essary to  accommodate  the  people  who  came  in  crowds  from  San 
Francisco,  San  Jos^,  and  all  the  neighboring  towns.  About  eighteen 
hundred  dollars  were  realized  for  the  library. 

California  Beta  commenced  this  college  year  with  six  men.  We  now 
have  ten  active  members,  and  two  more  are  pledged.  All  of  the  mem- 
bers are  taking  an  active  interest  in  the  chapter,  and  we  hope  to 
strengthen  ana  build  it  up.  We  are  now  agitating  the  house  question, 
and  it  is  very  probable  that  we  will  build  this  year. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  two  more  freshmen,  Harrison 
H.  Hill  and  Edward  T.  Maples.  Both  of  them  played  on  the  freshman 
foot  ball  team  that  defeated  the  Berkeley  freshmen,  10-8.  Bro.  Hill 
is  also  a  prominent  candidate  for  a  position  on  the  'varsity  eleven. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Stanford  University,  November  7.  1897.  Benj.  E.  Page. 

ALPHA  PROVINCE-  Concluded. 

MAINE  ALPHA.  COLBY  UNIVERSITY. 

The  college  year  opened  Thursday,  September  22,  with  every  pros- 
pect of  a  successful  year,  and  already  this  prospect  is  being  fulfilled 
m  a  remarkable  manner.  Within  a  few  weeks  two  gifts  of  five  thous- 
and dollars  each  have  been  made  to  the  building  fund  of  the  uni- 
versity. It  is  hoped  that  another  year  will  see  Colby  supplied  with  a 
much  needed  building  for  the  biological  department,  and  a  ladies' 
dormitory. 

In  athletics  we  have  been  more  than  usually  successful.  Our  foot 
ball  team  is  the  first  Maine  team  to  have  beaten  B.  A.  A. ,  and  for  the 
first  time  in  our  foot  ball  history  we  have  beaten  Bowdoin. 


1 86  THE  SCROLL, 

Only  seventeen  Phis  returned  this  fall  for  'fishing,'  and  though  we 
have  initiated  four  loyal  freshmen  we  miss  greatly  those  whom  we 
have  been  accustomed  to  have  with  us.  Bro.  House  came  back  for  a 
few  days  but  was  obliged  by  severe  illness  to  return  home  for  a  year's 
rest.     Bro.  Tolman  hopes  to  l>e  with  us  later  in  the  year. 

On  October  25  we  initiated  the  following  members  of  1901:  Guy 
Wilber  Chipman,  William  Coleman  McCue,  William  Henry  Sturtevant 
and  Harry  Albert  Tozier.  Bro.  President  J.  Clark  Moore,  who  made  a 
visit,  short  but  much  enjoyed  by  us,  was  present  at  the  ceremony  and 
banquet. 

The  Phis  are  represented  in  nearly  all  the  branches  of  college  activ- 
ity. Bro.  Brown  is  manager  of  the  glee  club,  in  which  we  are  also 
represented  by  Bros.  Linscott  and  Doughty.  Bros.  Farbush  and  Lins- 
cott  are  members  of  the  banjo  and  guitar  club.  Bros.  Tozier  and 
Towne  hold  important  positions  on  the  'varsity  eleven.  Bro.  Linscott 
is  appointed  as  one  of  the  speakers  on  the  public  debate  of  the  term, 
and  l^ro.  Towne  has  just  been  elected  vice-president  and  assistant 
business  manager  of  the  Colby  Echo  publication  society. 

With  the  best  of  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Water^nlle,  November  22,  1897.  W.  \\.  Chase. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAMHA.  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  97th  year  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  college  began  very 
auspiciously  with  an  increased  attendance  over  last  year.  The  new 
freshman  class,  which  will  be  the  U)Oth  class  to  be  graduated  by  the 
college,  numbers  nearly  75.  The  sophomore  and  junior  classes  each 
lengthened  their  class  roll.  The  latter  is  the  largest  class  in  college. 
The  senior  class  is  the  smallest  for  several  years  and  received  no  ad- 
ditions to  its  membership.  Several  men  did  not  return  this  fall,  so 
that  only  about  30  will  be  graduated.  The  preparatory  department  is 
also  large. 

The  fall  campaign  has  been  a  rather  lively  one  among  the  fraterni- 
ties, and  nearly  all  have  initiated  several  new  men.  The  freshman 
class  contained  a  very  desirable  lot  of  men,  while  several  of  the  new 
members  of  other  classes  were  not  to  be  passed  by.  Pennsylvania 
Gamma  has,  as  yet,  initiated  no  one,  but  we  have  three  of  the  best 
members  of  1901  pledged,  who  will  come  into  full  membership  after 
Thanksgiving.  We  did  not  engage  as  actively  in  rushing  this  fall  as 
did  our  sister  fraternities,  and,  on  the  whole,  it  seems  that  we  pursued 
the  wiser  course.  We  have  lost  no  good  men  and  have  run  no  risk  of 
securing  a  wrong  class  of  members.  There  is  already  some  dissatis- 
faction among  the  other  fraternities  because  of  too  hasty  initiation  of 
new  men.  Our  course  this  fall,  which  I  think  was  a  trifle  too  con- 
servative, has,  after  all,  been  beneficial  to  us  in  more  ways  than  one. 
The  impression  has  gained  prominence  among  the  new  men  that  we 
are  a  very  conservative  and  select  crowd,  and  so  deeply  is  this  im- 
pression grounded  that  we  can  secure  almost  any  man  we  want.  An- 
other thing  that  speaks  well  for  our  chapter  is  the  high  standing  our 
members  have  in  the  college.  There  is  not  another  fraternity  here 
whose  members  make  as  high  individual  records  in  the  class-room  as 
does  Pennsylvania  (ramnia.     That  has  been  the  case  for  years. 

The  opening  of  the  college  year  found  our  roll  sadly  depleted,  and 
of  fourteen  men  at  commencement  only  seven  returnea  this  fall. 
Brothers  Hughes,  Kerr  and  Miller,  '97,  are  now  reading  law.    Brother 


THE  SCROLL.  187 

Hughes  is  at  Ohio  State  University,  and  has  cast  his  lot  with  Ohio 
Zeta.  Brother  Kerr  is  in  an  office  at  home,  East  Liverpool,  O.,  and 
Brother  Miller  with  an  uncle  in  Pittsburg.  Brother  C.  B.  Giffen,  *98, 
and  Brother  S.  E.  Giffen,  1900,  are  at  home  in  Wheeling,  w.  Va., 
both  being  in  business  with  their  father.  Brother  G.  L.  Caldwell,  '98, 
is  reading  law  at  his  home  at  Wheeling,  and  Brother  C.  M.  Kelso, 
1900,  is  in  a  bank  in  Dayton,  O. 

Although  we  are  'only  seven,'  we  have  gathered  more  than  our 
share  of  college  honors.  Brother  Rule  is  business  manager  of  the 
college  glee  association.  Brother  Baker  is  a  member  of  the  banjo 
club,  Brother  Logan  of  the  mandolin  club,  and  Miller  (pledged)  is  the 
*  basso  profundo '  of  the  glee  club.  We  have  the  largest  representa- 
tion of  any  fraternity  in  the  glee  association.  In  athletics  we  hold  our 
own  with  any  of  them.  Brothers  Eicher  and  Moore  are  members  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  college  athletic  association,  which 
controls  all  athletic  teams  and  the  glee  association.  Brother  Eicher 
is  vice-president  of  the  association.  Brother  Carline  is  assistant  man- 
ager of  the  base  ball  club  and  will  be  manager  in  '()9.  Duff  and 
Miller  (pledged )  are  members  of  the  freshman  foot  ball  team.  Brother 
Hicher  is  right  end  of  the  'varsity  team,  and  is  one  of  the  best  in  that 
position  in  the  state.  He  is  a  member  of  the  '99  Pandora  board. 
Brother  Moore  is  essayist  for  Philo  and  Union  literary  society  at  the 
next  annual  contest  with  Franklin  and  Washington  society.  Our 
members  are  well  represented  on  class  offices. 

The  foot  ball  season  so  far  has  been  very  successful,  and,  with  the 
single  exception  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  no  team  has 
crossed  our  goal  line  this  year.  This  almost  duplicates  last  year's 
record,  when  the  final  score  stood,  W.  and  J.  188  to  opponents*  0,  for 
the  entire  season.  The  team  was  coached  by  the  Rev.  Clinton  Tyler 
Wood,  Princeton,  '92,  and  ex-Captain  Inglis,  W.  and  J.  '97.  This  is 
Mr.  Wood's  second  year  with  the  team.  The  second  game  of  the 
season  was  with  the  U.  of  P.,  and  W.  and  J.  accomplished  the  feat  of 
scoring  on  the  Quakers  and  keeping  their  record  down  to  three  touch- 
downs. The  scores  of  games  played  follow,  our  own  preceding  in  each 
case  :  With  Bethany,  5(>-() ;  U.  of  P.,  4- 18  ;  Geneva,  12-0  ;  Westmin- 
ster, 16-0  ;  Pittsburgh  College,  24-0 ;  West  Virginia  University,  12-0  ; 
Pittsburgh  Athletic  Club,  8-0;  Pittsburgh  College,  \M\-K)  \  Adelbert,  (i-O  ; 
Waynesburg,  22-0 ;  total,  W.  and  J.,  2()(» ;  opponents,  18. 

Only  one  game  remains  to  be  played,  that  with  the  Duquesne 
Country  and  Athletic  Club  of  Pittsburgh  at  Exposition  Park,  in  that 
city,  on  Thanksgiving  day.  This  game  will  decide  the  amateur 
championship  of  western  Pennsylvania,  as  W.  and  J.  has  already  won 
the  collegiate  championship.  The  game  will  be  watched  with  interest, 
as  D.  C.  and  A.  C.  will  be  'loaded  '  with  Wharton,  Farrar,  Uppenheinier 
and  other  great  stars  of  the  gridiron.     [W.  and  J.  won.— Editor.] 

During  the  sessions  of  the  Pittsburgh  conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  which  was  held  here  the  last  of  September,  we  had 
the  pleasure  of  meeting  a  number  of  Phis  who  were  in  attendance  as 
delegates.  One  evening  we  held  an  informal  reception  in  honor  of 
our  visitors,  which  was  a  very  pleasant  affair.  They  came  up  to  the 
hall  frequently,  laid  aside  their  ministerial  dignity  for  the  time  being 
and  showed  themselves  to  be  typical,  jolly  Phis. 

Pennsylvania  Gamma  will  be  twenty-two  years  old  on  December  4, 
and  in  accordance  with  our  annual  custom,  the  active  and  correspon- 
dent members  will  celebrate  the  event  by  a  banquet. 

The  celebration  of  the  100th  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  Philo 


iS8  THE  SCROLL, 

and  Union  and  Franklin  and  Washington  literary  societies,  which 
was  to  have  occurred  this  fall,  was  necessarily  {X)Stponed  until  Tues- 
day of  commencement  week  in  1S1)S.  Brother  Moore  is  a  member  of 
the  committee  in  charge  of  the  celebration. 

Brother  C.  C.  Sterrett,  '91,  who  has  been  practicing  law  here  for 
some  time,  and  was  recently  admitted  to  practice  before  the  supreme 
court  of  the  state,  has  renounced  Blackstone  and  entered  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary,  Allegheny,  Pa. 

Brother  A.  A.  Hays,  '9"),  is  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  hall.  He  is 
principal  of  the  high  school  here. 

The  Rev.  George  P.  Hays,  D.  D.,  father  of  Brothers  C.  W.,  Walter 
and  A.  A  Hays,  died  at  his  home  here  on  September  G.  Dr.  Hays 
was  president  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  college  from  1870  until 
18S1.  He  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  'o7  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  Presbyterian  ministers. 

The  Rev.  Clinton  Tyler  Wood,  Princeton,  '9*2,  Princeton  seminary, 
*97,  who  was  coach  of  the  '9(i  and  '97  foot  ball  teams,  will  leave  New 
York  December  11  for  Wellington,  Cape  Colony,  South  Africa,  where 
he  will  labor  as  a  missionary  under  the  Dutch  collegiate  church  of 
New  York  city. 

Before  another  issue  of  The  Scroij,  our  three  pledged  men  will 
have  donned  the  sword  and  shield,  and  we  hope  to  have  landed  sev- 
eral more  good  men  that  we  are  cultivating. 

Our  latch-string  is  always  out,  and  we  are  always  glad  to  entertain 
any  Phi  who  may  drop  in  on  us.  Though  we  have.no  chapter  house, 
we  will  make  a  visitor  just  as  welcome  and  entertain  him  just  as  well. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  Phis,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond  of  4>  A  8, 

Washington,  November  2*2, 1897.  David  Glenn  Moore. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ZETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Pennsylvania  Zeta  sends  her  greeting  to  the  Fraternity  and  regrets 
that  she  has  not  been  represented  in  The  Scroll  earlier  in  the  year. 
We  are  very  busy  and  have  been  so  all  fall.  The  necessity  of  find- 
ing a  new  house  kept  the  committee  very  much  occupied,  until 
we  finally  settled  at  214  S.  .'57th  street.  The  house  is  small  and  cozy 
and  does  very  well  for  a  transition  from  our  old  ruin  at  32o0  Chestnut 
to  the  elegant  new  home  we  hope  to  have  next  fall. 

The  chapter  is  in  very  good  condition,  twenty -two  men  in  attend- 
ance, of  whom  fourteen  were  left  from  last  year.  Six  men  have  been 
initiated,  and  two  have  affiliated.  Bro.  Doland  of  Williams,  and  Bro. 
Poole  of  I^afayette,  have  joined  the  chapter,  and  are  living  in  the 
house.  The  initiates  are  Bros.  Paxton,  Acker  and  Jayne,  1901,  col- 
lege, Bro.  Stilz,  '98,  college,  who  enters  the  law  school  next  year,  and 
liros.  Stiles  and  Dorey,  '99,  law.  We  are  not  through  with  our  work 
yet,  and  hope  to  have  several  more  names  to  announce  later. 

In  college  life  Phis  are  prominent  as  ever.  Bro.  Willauer,  '97,  archi- 
tecture, is  taking  graduate  work  in  his  subject,  and  has  been  elected 
to  the  teaching  staff  of  the  department.  Bros.  McKinley,  Davison 
and  Dorey  all  hold  class  offices,  and  Bro.  Dorey  is  an  editor  of  the 
law  school  magazine.  Bro.  Wise  was  'varsity  coxswain  last  June,  and 
has  been  coxswain  of  his  class  crew  and  of  '99,  medical,  during  the 
recent  inter-class  regatta.  Bro.  McKinley  is  playing  with  the  mando- 
lin club. 

Pennsylvania's  foot  ball  championship  is  undoubted  this  year.   After 


THE  SCROLL,  189 

having  administered  decisive  defeats  to  all  comers,  particularly  Har- 
vard, the  comparative  scores  leave  no  reason  for  doubt  as  to  Pennsylva- 
nia's right  to  the  honor.  We  are  very  glad,  of  course,  and  our  pleasure  is 
increased  by  the  fact  that  Bro.  Outland  has  played  such  a  distinguished 
l^ame  all  the  season  at  right  lackle,  and  has  finally  been  rewarded  by 
receiving  the  captaincy  for  next  year. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am        Very  sincerely, 

Wii,i,iAM  Adams  McClenthen. 

Philadelphia,  November  27,  1S07. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ETA.  LEHIQH  UNIVERSITY. 

Pennsylvania  Eta  commenced  the  fall  term  with  but  three  men, 
seven  seniors  having  received  degrees  at  the  last  commencement. 
On  Friday  night  of  the  first  week  five  men  were  initiated:  John  J. 
Brice,  1900;  Andrew  T.  Rrice,  1900;  William  B.  Grubbe,  1900;  Her- 
man A.  Straub,  UK)1;  George  W.  Welsh,  1901.  The  house  occupied 
before,  which  belonged  to  some  of  the  alumni,  has  been  given  up,  and 
a  new  one  rented  in  the  most  desirable  portion  of  the  town — a  corner 
house  on  a  large  lot.  The  new  house  is  on  Delaware  avenue,  the  finest 
street  in  South  Bethlehem.  On  the  first  floor  is  a  large  reception  hall, 
a  parlor,  a  library  or  smoking  room,  and  a  billiard  room.  In  the  two 
upper  stories  there  are  six  large  bed  rooms,  bath  room  and  a  chapter 
room. 

This  year's  freshman  class  numbered  about  J  00,  and  has  some  good 
fraternity  material.  We  have  one  man  pledged  and  our  chances  of 
getting  two  others  are  very  good. 

Bro.  William  S.  Franklin,  Kansas  Alpha,  has  taken  the  chair  of 
physics  here. 

By  the  next  issue  of  The  Scroll  we  hope  to  let  you  have  a  picture 
of  our  new  chapter  house. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

South  Bethlehem,  November  29,  1897.  William  B.  Grubbe. 

BETA  PROVINCE  -  Concluded, 

VIRGINIA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VIRQINIA. 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  report  to  the  Fraternity,  through  The 
Scroll,  the  condition  of  Virginia  Beta.  Our  active  membership  this 
year  has  been  increased  over  that  of  last  year  by  four,  the  total  mem- 
bership now  being  sixteen;  and  there  is  every  indication  that  the  ses- 
sion of  1897-98  will  be  more  prosperous  for  the  chapter  than  any  other 
session  has  been  for  the  past  few  years. 

We  returned  at  the  beginning  of  the  year  ten  old  men:  Bros.  Eu- 
gene Davis,  Burrow,  Furniss,  Jones,  Lea,  McLester,  Poitevent,  Siler, 
Stearns,  and  Sutherland.  And  we  were  further  strengthened  by  five 
Phis  from  other  chapters,  of  whom  Bros.  Frederick  and  Martin,  both 
of  Georgia  Beta,  have  been  duly  afliliated.  This  gave  a  working  chap- 
ter of  twelve,  and  the  record  established  last  year  of  not  having  lost  a 
man  to  any  other  fraternity  remains  unbroken;  we  have  thus  far  in- 
itiated four  men. 

The  first  '  goating  *  was  Saturday,  October  9,  when  Timothy  Avery 
Paul,  of  Walla  Walla,  Washington,  and  Ernest  Morgan  Watts,  of 
Huntington,  West  Virginia,  were  dubbed  Phis.     They  are  both  tak- 


ujo  THE  SCROLL. 

ing  the  law  course.  Our  second  initiation  was  Saturda)-,  November 
20.  Two  academic  students  were  the  candidates,  and  I  take  pleasure 
in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  liros.  James  Woods  Price  and  Rodger 
A.  Walke,  l>oth  of  Virginia. 

After  the  initiation  Saturday  night,  the  chapter  enjoyed  the  annual 
fall  banquet.  Bro.  Stearns  was  toast-master,  and  among  those  who 
responded  to  toasts  was  Bro.  Wall,  Ky.  A,  MM),  who  was  with  us  for 
the  evening. 

By  graduation  last  spring  Virginia  Beta  lost  several  loyal  members. 
Bro.  Boshcr,  who  took  the  <legre^  of  M.  A.,  is  studying  me<licine  in 
the  Richmond  College  of  Medicine,  where  Bro.  lyancaster  is  also  in 
attendance.  Bro.  Pierce  Bruns  received  the  degree  of  B.  L.,  and  is 
now  located  in  Baltimore.  Bro.  Martin  Bruns  is  studying  medicine  at 
Johns  Hopkins.  Bro.  Dykes  is  now  practicing  medicine  near  Atlanta. 
He  was  one  of  the  few  men  who  were  graduated  with  honors  in  the 
medical  profession  last  spring.  Bro.  I^ink  is  out  in  Arkp.nsas.  Bros. 
Gordon  Mathews  and  Dabney  Davis  are  practicing  law  together  at 
Lewisburg,  W.  Va.  I?ro.  Speed  is  now  a  member  of  Ky.  A,  while 
Bro.  Owsley  Brown  has  affiliated  with  Ky.  A. 

Our  chief  honor  this  year  lies  in  the  magnificent  foot  ball  playing 
of  Bro.  Kugene  Davis  at  right  guard.  Thus  far,  he  has  played  Vir- 
ginia's star  game. 

Work  on  the  new  buildings  is  nearing  completion,  and  the  buildings 
themselves  will  be  ready  for  complete  occupancy  by  January  J.  The 
three-term  system  has  been  introduced  into  the  university  this  year, 
and  it  bids  fair  to  meet  with  the  approbation  of  the  student  body. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  November  'J'i,  181)7.  John  P.  Lka. 


THE  PROVINCE  CONVENTIONS. 

ALPHA  PROVINCE. 

The  report  of  the  Alpha  ])rovince  convention  herewith  presented 
was  intended  to  emphasize  the  social  features  and  supplement  the  ac- 
count of  business  transacted  published  in  the  November  Palladium. 
Not  until  the  editor  took  up  the  mi  mites  of  the  convention  in  order  to 
draw  off  such  an  account  from  them,  did  he  realize  that  data  were  lack- 
ing. It  is  too  late  to  obtain  what  we  had  hoped  to  present,  and  we 
assure  the  Alpha  province  men  who  had  places  on  the  toavSt  list,  and 
our  hospitable  Brown  chapter,  that  it  is  a  matter  of  sincere  regret  to 
Tiiic  ScKoi^i.  and  its  readers  that  we  have  l)een  favored  with  the  offi- 
cial account  only  as  recorded  in  the  journal  of  the  convention.  We 
are  able  to  state,  however,  from  other  sources,  that  Rhode  Island  Alpha 
fairlv  outdid  herself  as  a  generous  host,  and  that  the  theater  party, 
the  foot  ball  game  and  the  banquet  were  as  eminent  successes  and 
sources  of  as  much  pleasure  as  the  corresponding  events  at  Nashville  a 
fortnight  earlier. 

The  convention  owes  nmch  to  the  president  of  Alpha  province,  Bro. 
J.  Clark  Moore,  Jr.,  who  left  no  stone  unturned  in  his  efforts  to  secure 
a  large  attendance  and  a  maximum  of  combined  profit  and  pleasure. 
At  his  own  expense  he  notified  all  the  alumni  ot  New  England  and 
New  York  of  the  approaching  meeting,  and  during  the  week  preced- 
ing he  visited  a  number  of  chapters  in  different  parts  of  the  province. 

The  convention  met  in  the  hall  of  Rhode  Island  Alpha,  at  Provi- 


192  THE  SCROLL. 

dence,  on  the  morning  of  October  28.  President  Moore  took  the  chair, 
and  Bro.  J.  Leonard  Barney,  Dartmouth,  '99,  was  made  secretary. 
After  an  opening  prayer  by  Prof.  W.  M.  Munson,  Michigan  Statt\  *88, 
Bro.  Moore  addressed  the  convention  on  the  matters  of  business  to 
come  before  it.  Bro.  W.  E  Greene,  Brown,  '98,  welcomed  the  dele- 
gates and  visitors  in  behalf  of  the  local  chapter  and  alumni  The  re- 
jx)rts  from  chapters  showed  the  province,  without  exception,  to  be  in 
a  prosperous  condition.  The  only  point  at  which  weakness  had  been 
apprehended  was  at  Lehigh,  where  but  three  members  returned,  but 
five  men  have  been  initiated  there  already  and  another  pledged,  and 
a  new  house  has  been  secured.  The  total  enrollment  at  the  convention 
was  exactly  fifty,  forty-two  being  present  at  the  banquet.  Headquar- 
ters were  at  the  Narragansett  Hotel,  where  a  group  picture  was  taken 
at  the  close  of  the  second  day's  session.  Resolutions  were  passed  ex- 
tending thanks  to  Rhode  Island  Alpha  for  her  'welcome  and  royal 
treatment*  of  the  convention  and  for  the  'generous  cordiality  and 
courtesy'  manifested.  The  next  convention  was  appointed  for  1899, 
at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  the  exact  date  to  be  determined  later  by  the  pres- 
ident of  Alpha  province  and  New  York  Epsilon.  A  number  of  imj>or- 
tant  matters  of  business  were  discussed  and  acted  upon.  The  Novem- 
ber Pat  tad  i  UNI  makes  a  full  report  on  these. 

A  number  of  older  alumni  came  to  the  convention:  G.  H.  G.  Mc- 
Grew,  Ifidiafiapotis,  73;  P.  W.  Search,  IVooster,  76;  W.  W.  Case, 
Allegheny,  '84;  F.  H.  Clapp,  Vermont,  '8<);  W.  M.  Munson,  Michigan 
State,  '88.  Bro.  McGrew  lives  in  Cambridge  and  is  engaged  on  the 
lecture  platform ;  Bro.  Search,  editor  of  the  first  edition  of  the  song 
book,  is  superintendent  of  the  Holyoke,  Mass.,  schools;  Bro.  Clapp  is 
a  physician  at  North  Grafton,  Mass. ;  Bro.  Munson  is  a  member  oi  the 
faculty  of  the  University  of  Maine.  The  complete  list  of  those  pres- 
ent follows: 

Pennsylvania — J.  Clark  Moore,  Jr.,  '93;  Alle^henv — W.  W.  Case, 
'84;  Dickinson  W.  G.  Souders,  '98;  Cornell— ]'.VJ.  Young,  '99;  Case 
— L.  J.  Shlesinger,  '9();  \Vooster—V.  W.  Search,  '76;  Indianapolis— O. 
H.  G.  McGrew,  '73;  Michigan  State  -\W.  M.  Munson,  '88;  Dartmouth 
— L.  H.  Blanchard,  '97;  M.  W.  Smith,  '98;  J.  L.  vSanborn,  '99;  J.  L. 
Barnev, '99;  rermont—F.  H.  Clapp,  'S();  F.  K.  Jackson,  '97;  P.  O. 
Ray,  ''98;  Amherst  C.  E.  Tillev,  '9l>;  R.  Horton,  '98;  C.  A.  Strong, 
♦98;  R.  W.  Smith,  '99;  Syracuse'  -U  M.  Fenner,  '99;  G.  W.  King,  '00; 
Broicn-V.  E.  Carpenter,  '89;  Fred  Slocuni,  '95;  W.  H.  Kenerson,  '9(>; 
P.  R.  Bullard,  '97;  A.  M.  McCrillis,  '97;  F.  E.  Horton,  '97;  F.  A. 
Greene,  '97;  S.  L.  Multer,  '98;  H.  G.  Wilcox,  '98;  N.  T.  Ewen,  N.  H. 
Gifford,  D.  H.  Hall,  T.  M.  Phellerplace,  F.  Putnev,  Jr.,  and  E.  F. 
Viles,  all  of  '99;  G.  G.  Bass,  E.  H.  Boynton,  L.  'V.  Calder,  J.  W. 
Downs,  R.  F.  Hanson,  A.  E.  Horton,  C.  K.  Stillman,  D.  E.  Trues- 
dell  and  C.  C.  White,  all  of  '00;  E.  G.  Hapgood,  W.  C.  Lane  and  J. 
G.  Melendy,  all  of  '01. 

BETA  AND  QAMMA  PROVINCES. 

The  first  Phi  Delta  Theta  convention  in  the  south  since  the  Atlanta 
Exposition  in  1895  was  held  at  Nashville  on  October  15  and  16,  1897. 
The  fortunate  Phis  who  shared  its  pleasures  have  been  emphatic  in 
their  expressions  regarding  its  success.  But  for  the  yellow  fever, 
which  kept  away  many  of  those  who  had  long  anticipated  the  reunion, 
it  is  certain  that  the  attendance  would  have  been  from  wider  fields. 
When  it  became  known  that  such  prominent  and  zealous  southern 
Phis  as  Bros.  Ball,  Guerrantand  Poitevent  could  not  attend,  and  that 


THE  SCROLL.  193 

many  others  would  be  missed,  the  Nashville  Phis  suffered  considera- 
ble aiscouragement.  But  Bro.  Palmer  was  here,  with  tlie  chapter  be- 
hind him;  alumni  became  interested,  and  then  came  delegates  from 
other  chapters.  What  further  comment  is  necessary?  It  went  far 
beyond  our  hopes. 

Convention  headquarters  were  at  the  handsome  Tulane  Hotel.  In 
the  hotel  assembly  hall  the  sinele  business  meeting  began  at  10:30 
o'clock  on  the  morning  of  Friday,  October  15.     Walter  B.  Palmer, 

g resident  of  the  General  Council,  called  the  convention  to  order,  and 
e  was  continued  permanently  in  the  chair.  J.  H.  DeWitt  was  chosen 
secretary,  and  the  address  of  welcome  was  given  by  Firman  Smith, 
Esq.,  of  the  Nashville  bar.  A  full  report  of  the  business  session  has 
been  given  in  the  November  issue  of  J  he  Palladium. 

The  intervening  hours  until  the  next  gathering  were  spent  by  the 
visitors  at  the  Tennessee  centennial  exposition,  so  that  there  was  no 
lack  of  enjoyment.  On  Friday  evening,  Tennessee  Alpha  threw  open 
her  hospitable  home,  and  there  was  a  Phi  love  feast  in  which  fifty 
Phis  participated.  The  main  feature  of  entertainment  was  the  initia- 
tion of  two  candidates — Cicero  Nichols,  of  Asheville,  N.  C,  and  W. 
W.  Brockman,  of  Atlanta,  Ga.  The  ceremony  was  conducted  by  Hill 
McAlister,  of  Nashville,  who  knows  it  perfectly,  and  performs  it  in  a 
most  impressive  manner.  While  the  older  alumni  were  disposed  to 
think  that  too  much  roughness  was  introduced  in  the  second  act,  sev- 
eral of  them  who  are  members  of  other  orders,  declared  that  they  had 
never  witnessed  a  finer  ritualistic  performance  than  the  first  and  third 
acts,  and  among  those  who  so  expressed  themselves  was  Bro.  Thomas, 
who  has  taken  every  degree  in  Masonry  save  one.  After  the  initia- 
tions, there  were  impromptu  speeches  from  many  Phis,  while  mirth, 
laughter  and  the  best  of  good  comradeship  prevailed.  One  of  the 
happiest  speeches  was  from  Bro.  Brockman,  one  of  the  initiates  of  the 
evening,  and  a  brother  of  F.  S.  Brockman,  Tennessee  Alpha,  '91,  who 
is  national  college  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. ,  with  headquarters  at 
New  York  city. 

Saturday  afternoon  there  was  a  foot  ball  game  between  Central  and 
Vanderbilt  on  the  Vanderbilt  campus,  another  game  between  Sewanee 
and  the  University  of  Nashville  on  the  latter's  campus,  and  a  third 
game  within  the  exposition  grounds.  Saturday  evening  the  pleasures 
of  the  Phis  culminated  iu  the  banquet  given  by  Tennessee  Alpha  to 
Phis  at  the  roof  garden  caf^  of  the  Woman's  Building  of  the  exposi- 
tion. Early  in  the  evening  the  members  assembled  to  watch  the 
fireworks  from  the  steps  of  the  Parthenon.  Then  in  the  auditorium 
they  heard  a  grand  concert  by  the  Bellstedt-Ballenbergband,  and  gave 
the  Phi  yell  from  the  gallery  before  six  thousand  people.  Forty- 
seven  were  present  at  the  banquet,  and  no  one  who  mingled  with  that 
splendid  and  devoted  company  of  fellows  failed  to  experience  a 
deeper  and  more  loyal  appreciation  of  our  dear  old  Fraternity.  From 
nine  o'clock  until  midnight  there  were  interchanges  of  wit  and  out- 
bursts of  fraternity  enthusiasm,  such  as  can  be  found  only  in  a  Phi 
Delta  Theta  gathering.  Letters  of  greeting  and  congratulation  were 
read  from  Brothers  Miller,  editor  of  Thk  Scroix;  Ball,  treasurer  of 
the  General  Council;  Guerrant  and  Poitevent,  presidents  of  Beta  and 
Gamma  provinces,  respectively.  Bro.  Miller  recommended  that  a 
province  convention  be  held  in  the  south  in  1899,  and  it  was  decided 
to  meet  in  the  summer  or  fall  of  that  year  at  Chattanooga  and  Look- 
out mountain.  Bro.  McLester  stated  that  there  was  a  number  of 
Phis  in  Chattanooga,  all  of  whom  should  be  organized,  and  therefore 


194  THE  SCROLL. 

a  motion  proposed  by  him  favoring  an  alumni  chapter  at  Chattanooga 
was  adopted. 

The  toasts  were  interspersed  with  the  college  yells  of  the  va- 
rious speakers,  found  in  Bro.  Palmer's  new  'Manual  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta. '  Among  songs  which  also  came  between  speeches  were, 
'Our  Cause  Speeds  On,'  'Phi  Delta  Theta  All  Revere,'  and  'Phi 
Delta  Theta  Dear,'  the  latter  being  Bro.  Palmer's  new  song  to  the  air 
of  'America,'  first  published  in  the  'Manual,'  and  by  him  heard  sung 
at  this  banquet  for  the  first  time.     The  toast  list  was  as  follows: 

'Greeting,'  Dr.  G.  B.  Thomas,  toastmaster,  Mobile,  Ala. 

'Rush  Line  and  Rushing,'  H.  H.  Huffaker,  Central  University. 

*A  Proctor's  Lot  Is  Not  a  Happy  One,'  C.  B.  K.  Weed,  Sewanee. 

'Phis  and  F.  F.  V's,'  A.  vSledd,  Randolph-Macon  College. 

'The  Shotgun  Quarantine,'  W.  M.  Richmond,  University  of  Mis- 
sissippi. 

'Nashville  Girls,'  W.  S.  I'Mtzgerald,  Vanderbilt. 

'Sewanee  Summer  Girls,'  Douglas  Haggard,  Sewanee. 

'Initiation  Ceremony     Act  II.,'  W.  W.  Brockman,  Vanderbilt. 

'Beta  and  Gamma  Provinces,'  W.  B.  Palmer,  Nashville. 

'Chicago,  1893;  Nashville,  1897,'  R.  H.  Little,  Chicago  Tribune. 

'Chattanooga,  18^9,'  Battle  McLester,  Vanderbilt. 

•Au  Revoir,'  J.  H.  DeWitt,  Nashville. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  this  must  be  closed  without  some  description 
of  the  banquet  speeches,  particularly  those  of  Brothers  Little  and 
Thomas,  which  gave  rise  to  round  after  round  of  laughter.  But  to 
conclude,  the  following  is  a  list  of  all  present  at  the  various  meetings: 

Lafayette,  Charles  S.  Jones;  Illinois  Wesleyan^  Richard  H.  LitUe; 
Centre,  J.  D.  Russell,  Jr.;  Alabama,  Oscar Teague*;  Washington  and 
Lee,  Battle  McLester*;  Vipginia,  George  Bruce  Thomas,  Keats  Speed; 
Randolph-Macon ,  LeRoy  E.  Kern,  A.  Sledd*;  Auburn,  A.  McB.  Ran- 
som, George  P.  Coopert;  SouthTcestern,  O.  B.  Staples*,  W.  F.  Dun- 
kle*;  Mississippi,  W.  M.  Richmond,  G.  L.Jackson*,  Firman  Smitht ; 
Central,  W.  F.  Booker,  S.  E.  Booker,  G.  K.  Speed,  H.  H.  Huflfaker, 
T.  H.  Jones;  Seroanee,  Caleb  B.  K.  Weed,  R.  S.  Jamison,  Charles  J. 
Slack,  Marion  P.  DuBose,  Telfair  Hodgson,  W.  A.  Buntin,  Douglas 
Haggardt;  landerbilt,  W.  F.  Bradshaw*,  C.  R.  Baskervill'*';  Camp- 
bell Pilcher*t,  Stuart  C.  Pilchert.  S.  M.  Reed'^t,  D.  A.  Breard*,  A.  L. 
Breard*,  Thomas  R.  Foster*,  Nathan  S.  Hendrix*,  Herbert  Carr*, 
Lewis  Farrell*t,  A.  W.  Harris,  Jr.*t,  G.  A.  Wyeth*,  Cicero  Nichols*, 
W.  W.  Brockman*,  R.  B.  C.  Howell*t.  E.  M.  Underwood*,  H.  M. 
Anderson*t,  H.  Grantland  Rice*t,  W.  S.  Fitzgerald*t,  Herbert  V. 
Jones*,  Ernest  S.  Jones*,  Paul  M.  Jones*,  W.  J.  Kellar,  Fred  J.  Ful- 
ler!, Hill  McAlistert,  W.  R.  Maniert,  J.  W.  Manier,  Jr.t,  Pope  Tay- 
lort,  L.  R.  Campbellt,  W.  B.  Palmerf,  J.  II.  DeWittt. 

The  total  attendance  was  sixty.  Those  marked  with  an  asterisk  are 
connected  with  Vanderbilt  University.  Dr.  P.  M.  Jones  and  A.  Sledd 
as  instructors.  Those  marked  with  a  dagger  are  residents  of  Nash- 
ville. Bro.  Kellar  is  an  alumnus  from  Gallavon,  S.  C.  All  of  the 
meetings  were  well  reported  by  the  Nashville  daily  papers. 

John  H.  DeWitt. 


THE  SCROLL.  195 


PERSONALS. 

Union — Lynn  M.  Scofield,  *97,  is  construction  engineer  at 
the  Knox  street  viaduct  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Amherst — Burt  L.  York,  *9<>,  was  married  to  Miss  Clara 
B.  Olney  at  Putnam,  Conn.,  July  27,  1897. 

Amherst — Wesley  R.  Bumham,  '95,  was  married  to  Miss 
Alice  Ford  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  June  29,  1897. 

Fran kt hi — Harry  Bridges,  *00,  was  married  in  Franklin 
on  October  20,  1897,  to  Miss  Katherine  Vaught. 

Washington — Philo  S.  Stevenson,  *94,  has  returned  to 
Flora,  111.,  as  the  principal  of  the  high  school  there. 

Union — Harry  P.  Willis,  ex-'97,  now  at  Schenectady, 
N.  Y. ,  is  slowly  recovering  from  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever. 

California — Ross  Morgan,  '91,  was  married  at  Lakeville, 
California,  on  Saturday,  October  30,  1897,  to  Miss  Elizabeth 
Bodwell. 

Miami,  '5^ — Ex- President  Harrison  has  accepted  the  pres- 
idency of  the  new  university  club  now  being  organized  at 
Indianapolis. 

Vanderbilt — Howell  E.  Jackson,  '*K),  after  several  years* 
residence  in  Alabama,  Texas  and  West  Tennessee,  has  re- 
turned to  Nashville. 

Hillsdale— L,,  P.  Davis,  '96,  delegate  to  the  Philadelphia 
convention,  is  with  Marshall  Field  &  Co.,  Chicago.  His 
address  is  1841  Wabash  ave. 

Washington — Dr.  Frederick  B.  Hall,  '94,  medical,  who 
became  the  father  of  a  boy  last  summer,  has  lately  left  St. 
Louis  and  gone  to  Seneca,  Mo. 

Washington — ^James  Harrison,  '9o,  has  gone  to  Pittsburgh 
to  superintend  the  manufacture  of  the  underground  cables 
for  the  Kinloch  Telephone  Co.  of  that  city. 

Franklin,  '6/ — The  Christmas  Frank  Leslie's  contains  an 
article  on  'The  Baptists,'  by  Gen.  T.  J.  Morgan,  D.  D., 
corresponding  secretary  of  the  American  Baptist  home  mis- 
sionary society.  This  is  the  first  of  a  series  on  the  religious 
denominations  of  America. 


196  THE  SCROLL. 

Washington — Lockett  G.  Coleman,  '98,  is  captain  of  the 
Weld  rowing  club  of  Harvard,  which  came  in  second  in  one 
of  the  races  at  the  national  regatta  at  Philadelphia  last  sum- 
mer. 

Of  the  four  men  now  in  the  field  as  traveling  secretaries 
for  the  student's  volunteer  movement  for  foreign  missions, 
two  are  Phis — Robert  E.  Lewis,  Vermont,  *92,  and  Fletcher 
S.  Brockman,   \^anderbilt,  '91. 

Randolph' Macon — Andrew  S.  Martin,  '?s?^,  has  purchased 
a  half  interest  in  the  wholesale  drug  firm  of  Walker  &  Will- 
iams, Norfolk,  Va.,  and  the  style  of  the  firm  is  now  Walker 
&  Martin.     He  resides  at  20()  York  St. 

Vanderbilt—Th^  English  Grammar  by  J.  W.  Sewell,  *90, 
professor  in  the  Nashville  high  school,  and  published  by 
the  American  Book  Company,  has  been  adopted  for  the  pub- 
lic school  system  of  Greater  New  York. 

Wabash— W\\hm  C.  Abbott,  '92,  Cornell,  '93,  who  last 
year  held  a  traveling  fellowship  from  Cornell  at  Oxford, 
England,  has  returned  and  accepted  a  position  as  instructor 
in  history  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

Indiana — Gen.  John  W.  Foster,  *o5,  has  been  appointed 
by  President  McKinley  as  special  plenipotentiary  to  treat 
with  the  prime  minister  of  Canada  or  his  representatives  on 
all  matters  pending  between  the  two  countries. 

Amherst — The  marriage  of  Herbert  E.  Riley,  '96,  to  Miss 
Gertrude  L.  Stone,  occurred  October  0  at  the  Congregational 
church,  Florence,  Mass.  Bros.  Warren,  '95,  and  McAllis- 
ter, '98,  acted  as  ushers.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Riley  will  reside  in 
Florence. 

Vanderbilt — Dr.  Harry  S.  Vaughn,  '94,  is  practicing  den- 
tistry at  the  Altman  Building,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  not  at 
Denver  as  previously  announced.  His  interest  in  Phi  Delta 
Theta  is  unabated,  as  evidenced  to  his  chapter  in  various 
practical  ways. 

Missouri,  '8g — The  Grand  Canyon  Hotel  at  FlagstafiF, 
Arizona,  was  burned  on  the  morning  of  September  14,  1897. 
Bro.  T.  J.  J.  See  lost  his  entire  library,  many  manuscripts, 
letters,  pictures  and  personal  effects.  He  succeeded,  how- 
ever, in  saving  the  records  of  the  observatory  and  his 
general  manuscript  catalogue  of  double  stars  within  75 
degrees  of  the  south  pole. 


THE  SCROLL.  197 

Lafayette — The  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.  was  conferred 
on  Rev.  Francis  H.  Moore,  '77,  by  his  alma  mater  2X  com- 
mencement in  June.  The  Doctor  spent  the  summer  travel- 
ing in  Europe.  He  is  pastor  of  the  Middletown,  Del. ,  Pres- 
byterian church. 

Ohio  State — Hubert  H.  Ward,  '90,  is  now  general  agent 
of  the  State  Mutual  Life  Assurance  Co.  of  Worcester,  Mass. , 
for  northern  Ohio.  He  was  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Frank  L.  Ford  &  Co. ,  and  on  the  sudden  death  of  Mr.  Ford 
last  September  was  given  sole  charge  of  the  agency. 

Michigan — Dr.  W.  L.  Dunn,  '94,  who,  since  graduation, 
has  practiced  medicine  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  was  a  guest  at 
the  chapter  house  Thanksgiving  week,  and  on  December  7 
he  sailed  from  New  York  for  Hamburg.  He  will  spend  a 
year  or  two  studying  advanced  surgery  at  the  University  of 
Berlin. 

Indiana — Hon.  G.  M.  Overstreet,  Jr.,  '08,  died  of  con- 
sumption at  his  home  in  Franklin,  Ind.,  on  November  2, 
1897,  aged  55  years.  He  fought  with  conspicuous  bravery 
at  Gettysburg  and  had  been  honored  with  many  positions  of 
trust  and  dignity  in  civic  life,  having  been  twice  mayor  of 
his  native  city.  He  had  been  an  earnest  worker  in  the 
Presbyterian  church  for  40  years.  A  wife  and  four  children 
survive  him. 

Centre y  'p/ — A  wedding  in  which  nearly  all  the  partici- 
pants were  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  celebrated  on 
September  29  in  Kentucky,  as  described  in  the  clipping 
below.  Frank  D.  Curry  is  one  of  five  brothers,  all  of  whom 
are  Kentucky  Alpha  boys.  Miss  Louise  Forsythe  is  herself 
an  ardent  Phi,  and  a  sister  to  Dunbar  Forsythe,  of  Ken- 
tucky Delta,  '94.  Reed  Curry  and  Charles  Pearson  are 
also  Kentucky  Delta  men,  and  Wiley  Forsythe  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Missouri  Beta.  Frank  Curry  is  one  of  the  most  pop- 
ular boys  in  Kentucky  and  his  bride  is  one  of  the  very  pret- 
tiest and  most  charming  daughters  of  the  old  Blue  Grass 
state: 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Frank  D.  Curry  and  Miss  Louise  Forsythe,  of 
Harrodsburg,  Wednesday  evening,  was  a  most  fashionable  affair.  It 
took  place  at  the  First  Presbyterian  church.  Rev.  J.  G.  Hunter,  the 
pastor,  being  assisted  by  Rev.  W.  O.  Goodloe.  *  *  *  The  grooms- 
men were  Mr.  Reed  Curry,  best  man;  Messrs.  Wiley  Forsythe,  Ver- 
sailles; Charles  Tebbetts,  Lexington;  D.  J.  Curry,  Charles  Pearson, 
Dunbar  Forsythe.  An  elegant  reception  at  the  home  of  the  bride 
followed  the  ceremony.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Curry  will  reside  at  Harrods- 
burg, after  visiting  Asheville,  Washington  City  and  other  points  east. 


1 98  THE  SCROLL, 

The  groom  is  a  graduate  of  Centre  College  and  a  member  of  the  whole- 
sale grocery  firm  of  D.  J.  Curry  &  Son. — Dauvillc  Advocate. 

Georiria,  'gy — The  Atlanta  Constitution  of  June  21,  last, 
comments  on  the  remarkable  record  of  Bro.  Thos.  B.  Con- 
ner, of  Cartersville,  Ga.,  who  was  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Georgia  this  year.  In  his  freshman  year  at 
Mercer,  Bro.  Conner  made  a  general  average  of  100.  At 
the  university  he  led  his  class  through  both  the  junior  and 
senior  years,  taking  every  prize  open  to  him  the  last  year, 
the  Bible  study  prize,  the  only  senior  essayist's  place,  the 
ready  writer's  medal,  the  two  Wilcox  prizes  of  $50  each  for 
work  in  French  and  German,  and  first  honor  in  the  bachelor 
of  arts  course.  The  faculty  consider  him  one  of  the  bright- 
est men  who  ever  attended  the  university. 

Vanderbiit — A  matrimonial  epidemic  is  raging  among  the 
alumni  of  Tennessee  Alpha. 

On  November  H,  1S97,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
mother,  in  Nashville,  Rev.  Fennell  P.  Turner,  '91,  was 
married  to  Miss  Rosa  Vaughan.  John  H.  UeWitt,  '94,  was 
best  man.  The  groom  is  general  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  for  the  United  States,  with  headquarters  in  New  York 
city. 

On  November  12,  Hon.  T.  Leigh  Thompson,  '80,  was 
married  at  the  home  of  the  bride  to  Miss  Nellie  Kly.  The 
bride  is  a  noted  beauty  and  a  real  colonel  on  the  staff  of 
Governor  Taylor — the  only  woman  ever  appointed  to  such 
an  office  in  Tennessee.  She  is  secretary  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  Confederacy.  Bro.  Thompson  has  been  twice  elected  to 
the  legislature  and  is  president  of  the  state  association  of 
Sons  of  Confederate  Veterans.  Among  the  wedding  pres- 
ents was  an  exquisite  silver  tea-service.  On  the  tray  was 
engraved:  *  To  Colonel  Nellie  Ely-Thompson,  from  Gov- 
ernor Taylor  and  his  staff. '  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson  will 
reside  at  •>21  North  Vine  St.,  Nashville. 

On  November  18,  at  the  First  Presbyterian  church  in 
Nashville,  Dr.  Richard  Alexander  Barr,  '92,  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth  Kirkpatrick.  W.  Frank  Harris,  '88, 
was  best  man.  Dr.  Barr  is  a  member  of  the  facultv  of  the 
Vanderbiit  Medical  College,  of  which  he  is  an  alumnus,  and 
was  recently  appointed  state  prison  physician. 

On  November  21),  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  father,  Judge 
Ed  Baxter,  Judge  Robert  H.  Marr,  '80,  was  married  to  Miss 
Lucile  Baxter,  of  Nashville.  The  secrecy  with  which  the 
engagement  and  the  marriage  were  guarded  gave  a  tinge  of 
romance  and  unusual  interest  to  the  event.  Judge  Marr  is 
now  district  attorney  for  the  parish  of  New  Orleans. 


THE  SCROLL.  199 


ITEMS  OF  INTEREST. 


COLLEGES. 

Chicago  and  Columbia  will  debate  at  New  York  in  Feb- 
ruary. 

It  costs  the  state  of  Wisconsin  $2()0  for  each  student  edu- 
cated in  the  State  University. 

Ohio  Wesleyan  has  received  a  bequest  of  $85,000  for  the 
purpose  of  endowing  a  new  chair. 

Prof.  Geo.  D.  Herron,  of  Iowa  Wesleyan,  is  being  charged 
with  teaching  socialism  to  his  classes. 

The  only  anti-foot-ball  bill  passed  so  far  in  any  state  has 
been  vetoed  by  the  governor  of  Georgia. 

President  McKinley  will  deliver  the  oration  on  the  22d  of 
February,  1898,  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  total  registration  at  Harvard  so  far  is  3,045,  against 
2,802  last  year;  1,814  are  in  the  college  classes,  there  being 
471  freshmen. 

'  The  attendance  at  the  University  of  Berlin  this  semester 
is  the  largest  on  record — over  0,000.  About  000  of  these 
are  Americans,  forty- three  being  women. 

Another  dormitory  for  women  is  to  be  built  at  The  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  so  soon  as  $75,000  can  be  raised  for  that 
purpose.  There  are  three  women's  halls  on  the  campus 
already. 

The  American  University  which  the  Methodists  are  found- 
ing at  Washington  will  probably  be  opened  to  students  be- 
fore long.  The  hall  of  history  will  be  completed  by  the  end 
of  this  year. 

The  University  of  Missouri  receives  $23,02^>  from  the  es- 
tate of  the  late  John  C.  Conley,  under  the  operation  of  a  law 
recently  passed  by  the  legislature  which  provides  that  if  a 
man  dies  leaving  no  father,  mother  or  direct  lineal  descend- 
ants a  certain  per  cent,  of  his  estate,  excluding  any  amount 
left  for  charitable  or  religious  purposes,  must  go  to  the  state 
university. 


200  THE  SCROLL. 

A  new  scientific  club  at  Michigan  is  called  the  Cathol- 
epistemiad.  This  was  the  name  originally  given  the  uni- 
versity in  1817  and  retained  till  1821,  when  the  change  was 
made  to  the  present  title. 

At  Cornell  this  year  the  A.  B.  degree  will  be  given  to  all 
graduates,  which  means  that  all  work  is  elective.  Contrary 
to  expectation  the  classics  were  not  injured  nor  were  the 
sciences  materially  strengthened  by  the  change. 

Dartmouth  has  received  a  bequest  of  between  $75,000  and 
$100,000,  of  which  $50,000  will  go  to  build  a  new  laboratory 
for  the  physics  department.  Lafayette  received  gifts  amount- 
ing to  $95,000  during  the  college  year  of  lNl>6-97. 

The  Bradley  Polytechnic  Institute,  at  Peoria,  111.,  which 
is  to  be  a  feeder  for  The  University  of  Chicago,  was  opened 
October  4.  The  number  of  students  enrolled  was  150.  The 
director,  Py.  O.  Sisson,  is  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

The  number  of  students  matriculated  at  the  end  of  the 
first  fortnight  at  Columbia  this  year  was  1,780;  at  the  same 
time  last  year  it  was  1,64<).  On  the  same  day  Brown  had 
88U  enrolled,  as  against  908  a  year  ago;  Michigan  had  2,1K)9 
instead  of  2,011. 

A  new  oratorical  league  is  being  formed  by  Ohio  State 
University  and  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  formerly  mem- 
bers of  the  Ohio  state  oratorical  association.  The  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  has  joined  them,  and  it  is  the  intention  to  add 
three  or  four  more  universities. 

The  New  York  Sittt  says  that  genuine  college  life  and 
spirit  have  commenced  to  develop  among  the  students  of 
Columbia  since  the  removal  to  Morningside  Heights.  Social 
life  was  out  of  the  question  down  town;  few  students  joined 
fraternities  or  literary  societies,  or  took  active  interest  in 
other  college  organizations.  The  change  is  ascribed  to  the 
common  life  of  the  students  in  the  boarding  houses,  dining 
halls  and  fraternity  houses.  The  freshmen  have  displayed 
unprecedented  class  spirit.  In  the  list  of  fraternities  given 
in  the  Sim,  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  named  first.  The  others  are 
Psi  Upsilon,  Delta  Upsilon,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Delta  Phi, 
Delta  Psi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Kappi  Psi,  Theta  Delta  Chi 
and  Sigma  Alpha  Elpsilon.  Phi  Kappa  Beta,  a  junior  so- 
ciety, is  a  burlesque  on  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  On  the  back  of 
its  key  badge  a  mug  of  beer  replaces  the  lamp  of  learning 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.     All  the  chapters  are  said  to  have  houses 


THE  SCROLL.  201 

or  rooms  en  suite,  where  at  least  a  few  of  the  members  have 
sleeping  quarters. 

Wesleyan  has  112  freshmen,  Bowdoin,  62.  The  total 
enrollment  at  Oberlin  is  1,237;  at  Beloit,  230.  Yale  has 
296  freshmen,  against  855  last  year  and  331  the  two  years 
before,  the  chief  falling  off  seeming  to  be  in  the  New  Eng- 
land states  outside  of  Connecticut. 

The  sale  of  liquors  at  the  Princeton  Inn  has  called  out  a 
resignation  from  the  faculty,  resolutions  from  several  syn- 
ods, a  statement  from  ex- President  Cleveland,  some  intem- 
perate language  from  a  prohibition  editor  and  conflicting 
testimony  enough  from  newspaper  correspondents  to  prove 
anything  anybody  would  like  to  believe. 

The  new  Williams  catalogue  shows  an  attendance  of  20 
graduates,  60  seniors,  91  juniors,  101  sophomores  and  112 
freshmen;  total,  384.  Williams  has  definitely  abolished 
rushes,  and  instead  a  reception  is  given  to  the  freshmen  by 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  Amherst  sophomores  have  passed 
resolutions  condemning  hazing,  we  may  add. 

President  Raymond,  of  the  University  of  West  Virginia, 
is  only  twenty-nine  years  old.  Fifteen  years  ago  he  was  a 
Chicago  newsboy.  He  saved  money  enough  to  enable  him 
to  learn  stenography,  by  the  aid  of  which  art  he  paid  his 
way  while  a  student  at  Northwestern.  He  was  graduated 
there  in  1892  and  is  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi. 


FRATERNITIES. 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  is  to  have  a  house  at  Missouri. 

Kappa  Sigma  mentions  eleven  chapter  houses  in  her  di- 
rectory. 

Senator  Wilson,  of  Washington,  is  a  member  of  Delta 
Tau  Delta. 

Theta  Delta  Psi  is  a  new  sorority  at  Bucknell  with  a  shield 
shaped  badge. 

Alpha  Tau  Omega  has  entered  the  University  of  Texas. 
Four  men  were  initiated. 

The  Chicago  chapter  of  Sigma  Chi  has  initiated  a  member 
of  the  faculty,  and  the  Washington  and  Jefferson  chapter  of 
Beta  Theta  Pi  has  taken  in  the  coach  of  the  foot  ball  team. 


202  THE  SCROLL, 

Maybury,  the  famous  Wisconsin  sprinter,  has  been  initi- 
ated by  Phi  Gamma  Delta. 

West  Virginia  University  has  adopted  the  Chicago  system 
of  four  quarters  and  will  remain  open  the  year  through. 

Nu  Sigma  Nu  no  longer  has  a  clear  field  in  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  Its  new  rival  is 
Phi  Alpha  Sigma. 

The  Mississippi  chapter  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  has  surrendered 
its  charter.  Only  three  members  of  the  Vanderbilt  chapter 
returned  this  fall. 

Ten  chapters  failed  to  send  delegates  to  the  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  convention  at  Nashville  last  summer.  The  October 
Quarterly  says  that  but  three  of  these  are  excusable. 

The  Wooster  correspondent  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  says: 
'There  are  only  about  five  fraternity  fellows  among  the  new 
students,  and  only  one  of  these  have  we  seen  fit  to  invite.* 

Three  of  the  six  commencement  orators  at  Harvard  this 
year  were  members  of  Delta  Upsilon.  Out  of  thirty- one 
chapters  in  that  fraternity  eighteen  own  houses.  Another 
is  to  be  built  at  Colby  soon. 

At  the  Kappa  Sigma  reunion  at  Nashville,  October  15 
and  1(),  resolutions  were  adopted  recommending  to  the 
Grand  Chapter  a  rule  prohibiting  membership  in  Theta  Nu 
Kpsilon  and  similar  societies. 

Beta  Theta  Pi  took  Alpha  Tau  Omega  to  task  recently 
for  failing  to  distinguish  honorary  from  regular  members  in 
her  new  catalogue.  We  have  been  told  that  the  last  Beta 
catalogue  is  open  to  exactly  the  same  objection. 

Phi  Gamma  Delta  moved  into  new  houses  this  fall  at  Le- 
high, Johns  Hopkins  and  Allegheny.  In  the  last  year  she 
has  refused  applications  for  charters  from  Centre,  William 
and  Mary,  Rutgers,  Missouri  and  Washington  State. 

Phi  Kappa  Psi  has  adopted  a  pledge  button  consisting  of 
a  small  shield  with  the  lamp  and  lxx)k  feature  of  the  regular 
badge.  This  supersedes  an  unauthorized  button,  the  chief 
objection  to  which  was  that  it  bore  the  letters  *  4>  K  ^I'.' 

A  Chicago  paper,  in  announcing  a  province  convention  of 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  to  be  held  in  that  city  in  January,  says: 
'  President  McKinley  was  a  member  of  the  fraternity  at  Union 
College,  and  will  be  invited  to  be  present  at  the  ceremonies.' 


THE  SCROLL,  203 

Delta  Phi  held  her  'seventieth'  national  convention  with 
the  Brown  chapter  on  November  18,  19  and  20.  On  the 
evening  of  the  first  day  a  dance  was  given  in  Lyman  Gym- 
nasium, to  which  the  senior  delegations  of  the  other  fraterni- 
ties were  invited. 

The  Palm,  the  Rainbow  and  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta  Quar- 
terly have  reached  us  a  month  late,  and  the  Delia  of  Sigma 
Xu  and  Shield  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  were  two  or  three  months 
behind  time;  so  don't  expect  The  Scroll  to  escape  the 
contagion  entirely. 

This  fall  Kappa  Sigma  returned  three  men  at  Virginia, 
Southwestern  and  S.  W.  Presbyterian,  four  at  Centenary, 
five  at  Hampden-Sidney,  Kentucky  and  Wabash.  Smaller 
chapters  seem  to  be  the  rule  this  year  in  many  fraternities 
and  many  colleges. 

It  is  reported  that  local  societies  are  applying  for  charters 
to  Zeta  Psi  at  Minnesota  and  Nebraska,  to  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon  at  Gettysburg,  to  Delta  Upsilon  at  Illinois  and  Chi- 
cago, to  Alpha  Delta  Phi  at  Stanford  and  Wisconsin,,  to 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  at  Case. 

Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  held  her  'fifty-first'  convention  at 
the  Palmer  House,  in  Chicago,  on  November  22,  23  and 
24.  Twenty-nine  chapters  out  of  thirty-five  were  repre- 
sented. The  absentees  were  Alabama,  Mississippi,  North 
Carolina,  Virginia,  Adelbert  and  Kenyon. 

The  Alpha  Tau  Omega  Palvi  complains  because  the  new 
catalogue  does  not  sell.  Five  hundred  and  six  copies  were 
sent  out  to  the  chapters,  and  of  these  only  144  have  been 
paid  for,  while  258  copies  have  neither  been  paid  for  nor 
returned.  The  editor  says,  'There  is  great  need  of  better 
support  on  the  part  of  alumni,  also.' 

The  first  article  in  the  Sigma  Chi  Quarterly  for  Novem- 
ber is,  *What  and  Who  [sic]  We  Did  at  Nashville';  it  is  a 
picturesque  account  of  the  late  convention.  The  total  at- 
tendance of  delegates  and  visitors  was  107;  at  Cincinnati,  in 
1895,  it  was  147;  at  Indianapolis,  in  1S92, 110.  The  convention 
established  an  endowment  fund.  But  four  men  returned  at 
Hobart  this  fall;  one  came  back  at  Centre,  but  he  has  in- 
itiated six.  At  Randolph- Macon  one  old  man  returned, 
and  four  have  been  initiated,  while  at  Hampden-Sidney 
four  returned  and  initiated  one.  Not  a  single  member  re- 
turned at  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  but  an  alumnus  has 
initiated  six  men. 


204  THE  SCROLL, 

Members  of  Delta  Tau  Delta  were  forbidden  by  enact- 
ment of  the  Chicago  convention  in  August  to  join  Theta 
Nu  Bpsilon  and  kindred  societies.  Th^'iiiMctission  on  the 
motion  was  prolonged  and  exciting.  The  new  Delta  Tau 
catalogue  has  been  issued,  the  last  edition  having  appeared 
in  1«S84.     The  present  edition  contains  nearly  H,00(J  names. 

At  the  request  of  President  Harper,  the  senior  council, 
one  of  the  two  representative  bodies  among  the  students  of 
the  University  of  Chicago,  has  set  on  foot  negotiations  look- 
ing toward  the  establishment  of  a  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  is  *in'  at  Northwestern,  Nebraska,  Iowa, 
Minnesota  and  Kansas,  and  the  faculty  hopes  for  a  success- 
ful issue. 

Delta  Tau  Delta's  Williams  chapter  has  ceased  to  exist. 
The  Allegheny  chapter  returned  three  old  members  this 
fall;  the  largest  chapter  reported  is  at  Minnesota,  twenty- 
two  strong.  Vanderbilt  began  with  five  and  initiated  nine. 
Iowa  began  with  four,  as  did  Washington  and  Lee,  and 
there  were  six  at  the  start  at  Washington  and  Jefferson, 
Hillsdale  and  Rensselaer. 

Phi  Gamma  Delta  installed  a  chapter  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  on  October  I").  There  were  22  charter  members,  of 
whom  17  are  now  active.  Among  them  are  several  promi- 
nent students,  inchiding  the  editor-in-chief  of  the  *99  Illio, 
The  chapter's  sponsor  was  Dr.  David  Kinley,  dean  of  the 
college  of  literature,  who  was  a  Fiji  at  Johns  Hopkins.  At 
the  installation  banquet  the  other  chapters  were  represented 
by  one  member  each,  and  Bro.  Rufus  Walker,  Jr.,  in  their 
behalf,  welcomed  the  new  chapter. 

According  to  lists  given  in  the  annuals  reviewed  in  this 
issue,  chapters  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  have  been  established  at 
the  following  institutions:  Wesleyan,  Syracuse,  Union, 
Cornell,  Rochester,  California,  Colgate,  Kenyon,  Adelbert, 
Hamilton,  Rensselaer,  vStevens,  Lafayette,  Williams,  Am- 
herst, Allegheny,  Lehigh,  Washington  and  Lee,  Pennsyl- 
vania State,  Dickinson,  Pennsylvania,  U.  C.  N.  Y.,  Kansas, 
Wooster,  Michigan,  Rutgers,  Dartmouth,  C.  C.  N.  Y., 
Ohio  vState,  North  Carolina,  Swarthmore,  Maine  State, 
Case,  Northwestern,  Iowa,  Minnesota,  Washington  and 
Jefferson,  Bowdoin,  Missouri,  Hampden- Sidney,  Nebraska, 
Chicago,  Virginia,  Tulane,  Mississippi,  Mt.  Union,  Witten- 
berg, Wisconsin,  DePauw,  Washington,  Vanderbilt,  David- 
son; total,  52.  Many  of  these,  however,  have  died  or  been 
killed  by  fraternity  chapters  or  the  faculty. 


THE  SCROLL.  205 

The  administration  building  at  the  Tennessee  centennial 
exposition  will  soon  occupy  a  conspicuous  position  on  West 
End  avenue,  having  been  bought  by  the  Kappa  Alpha  fra- 
ternity, who  will  remove  it  to  a  lot  opposite  Vanderbilt  cam- 
pus just  as  soon  as  it  is  vacated.  It  will  be  occupied  as  a 
dub  house  by  this  thriving  fraternity  of  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity. Besides  being  a  very  convenient  building  for  such 
a  purpose,  it  is  also  a  pleasing  reminder  of  the  exposition. — 
Nashville  American,  Nov.  23,  1807. 

At  Kentucky  University  last  June  the  non-fraternity  stu- 
dents to  the  number  of  150  asked  the  curators  to  abolish 
fraternities  there,  claiming  that  they  were  killing  the  liter- 
ary societies,  forming  cliques  and  creating  dissensions.  The 
Kappa  Sigmas  and  Kappa  Alphas  sent  men  to  debate  the 
question  with  the  barbarians  before  the  curators,  who  re- 
ferred the  matter  to  the  faculty,  who  took  no  action,  leav- 
ing no  restrictions  on  the  chapters.  They  are  not  allowed 
to  initiate  theological  students,  however. 

The  New  York  Evening  Post  of  November  18  says  that: 

Of  the  fifteen  fraternities  having  chapters  at  Lehigh  fourteen  occupy 
houses  which  they  either  own  or  rent,  and  out  of  the  total  of  .'M9  reg- 
istered students,  exclusive  of  the  non-resident  graduate  students,  169 
are  fraternity  men.  Of  this  number  128  live  in  fraternity  houses, 
while  the  remainder  of  fraternity  men,  like  the  non-fraternity  stu- 
dents, rent  rooms  throughout  the  towns  of  Bethlehem  and  South 
Bethlehem.  In  this  connection  it  may  be  stated  that  the  expense  of 
living  is  about  the  same  in  a  fraternity  house  as  elsewhere,  the  aver- 
age being  fQ  per  month  for  a  room  and  P*  to  ^  a  week  for  board. 

Kappa  Sigma  has  been  taking  the  Washington  and  Lee 
chapter  of  Kappa  Alpha  to  task  for  initiating  graduates  of 
the  Virginia  Military  Institute  immediately  after  commence- 
ment. V.  M.  I.  has  become  incensed  at  this  practice,  and 
now  requires  students  to  pledge  themselves  to  join  no  fra- 
ternity, not  only  while  students,  but  for  one  year  after 
graduation,  as  well.  The  Caduceus  intimates  that  Kappa 
Alpha  loses  in  dignity  in  thus  *  scrambling  for  members '  at 
an  institution  which  prohibits  fraternities. 

Zeta  Psi,  Delta  Psi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta  and  perhaps  other 
fraternities  have  certificates  of  enrollment,  handsomely  en- 
graved and  suitable  for  framing.  The  Phi  Gamma  Delta 
certificate  is  entirely  in  Greek,  and  each  member  is  required 
to  purchase  one,  the  price  being  $1 .50.  A  similar  certificate 
has  been  proposed  in  the  Shield  of  Phi  Kappa  Psi.  A  cer- 
tificate of  membership  is  included  among  the  forms  appended 
to  our  proposed  constitution,  printed  in  1896,  which  will 
come  before  our  1898  convention  for  adoption. 


2o6  THE  SCROLL, 

The  Shield  of  Phi  Kappa  Psi  for  December  has  an  inter- 
esting description  of  *Phi  Kappa  Psi  Realty. '  Pictures  of  the 
eight  houses  now  owned  by  the  fraternity  are  given.  They 
are  at  Michigan,  Beloit,  Colgate,  Kansas,  Syracuse,  Am- 
herst, Gettysburg  and  Minnesota.  Cornell  is  now  building, 
and  Bucknell  and  Stanford  own  lots.  The  value  of  the 
realty  now  owned  is  said  to  be  more  than  $100,000.  It  is  a 
most  creditable  showing.  Houses  are  rented  at  Columbia, 
Franklin  and  Marshall,  Johns  Hopkins,  Wittenberg,  De 
Pauw,  Chicago,  Wisconsin  and  Nebraska.  We  are  glad  to 
correct  an  item  copied  from  the  Beta  Theta  Pi,  which  said 
that  the  Wittenberg  chapter  was  forced  by  financial  embar- 
rassment to  take  a  more  modest  house.  The  change  was 
made  on  account  of  the  difference  in  age  and  conveniences 
of  the  two  houses,  and  the  chapter  has  no  debts. 

The  Omega  club,  organized  at  The  University  of  Chicago 
in  1<S94,  for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  charter  from  Psi  Up- 
silon,  has  succeeded  in  its  object.  Some  chapters  objected 
to  the  charter  being  granted,  and  early  in  1896,  certain  Chi- 
cago alumni  undertook  to  force  things  by  initiating  the  mem- 
bers of  Omega  into  Psi  Upsilon ,  but  the  members  soon  dis- 
carded their  Psi  U.  badges  and  resumed  their  Omega  pins. 
The  necessary  vote  having  been  obtained,  the  chapter  was 
formally  instituted  on  the  evening  of  November  24,  1897. 
The  following  account  of  the  exercises  is  from  the  Chicago 
Inter- Ocean: 

The  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity  installed  tlie  Omega  chapter  at  The  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  yesterday.  The  secret  exercises  were  held  in  the 
Auditorium  hotel  at  (J  o'clock,  twenty -three  men  being  initiated  under 
the  direction  of  Herbert  L.  Bridgeman,  president  of  tlie  Executive 
Council  and  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  Siafiitant- Union.  Immediately 
afterward  120  Psi  U.'s  sat  down  to  a  dinner  given  in  the  banquet  hall 
by  the  alumni  association  of  the  northwest. 

It  was  founders'  day,  the  sixty-fourth  anniversary,  and  the  frater- 
nity felt  itself  fortunate  in  being  able  to  gaze  upon  the  face  of  one  of 
the  founders,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Goodale  of  Columbus,  Neb. 

Rev.  Dr.  William  M.  Lawrence,  Amherst,  '71,  acted  as  toastmaster. 
He  said :  '  I  was  one  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  old  Chicago  uni- 
versity, and  I  went  down  with  the  concern;  and  I  felt  a  g^eat  sorrow 
at  the  suspension  of  the  Omega  chapter,  which  went  down,  too.  But 
now,  as  the  new  university  is  far  greater  than  the  old  ever  was,  we 
may  hope  that  the  new  Omega  chapter  will  also  be  far  greater  than 
the  old. ' 

Rev.  Dr.  Sanmel  Goodale,  Union,  'J^ti,  responding  to  'The  Sixty- 
fourth  Anniversary  of  Psi  Upsilon;  Its  Pounder, ' said  that  at  a  reunion 
in  New  York  last  year  he  had  said  he  hoped  he  migjht  live  long  enough 
to  see  a  chapter  of  I'si  U.  in  the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  one  in 
The  University  of  Chicago;  but  he  had  hardly  expected  to,  being  then  83 
years  old.     This,  therefore,  was  truly  a  Thanksgiving  jubilee  to  him. 

The  Psi  U.  had  begun  humbly,  with  a  few  young  men  not  very  ac- 
complished, sitting  round  a  table  up  under  the  roof  of  Union  College. 


THE  SCROLL.  2oy 

There  were  Hadley,  Tuttle,  and  Martindale,  still  living  and  probably 
pretty  much  used  up,  as  he  was,  and  they  liad  formed  the  fraternity 
to  escape  the  Kappa  Alphas,  who  were  after  them. 

In  this  Omega  chapter  the  fraternity  had  reached  the  limit  of  the 
Greek  alphabet,  and  now  perhaps  it  would  have  to  begin  on  the  He- 
brew. Bishop  Nichols  had  regretted  that  California  had  no  Psi  U. 
chapter  the  last  time  he  had  seen  him. 

The  other  speakers  were  Herbert  ly.  Bridgeman,  Amherst,  '(^6,  Geo. 
C.  Rowland,  Amherst,  '80,  Frederick  W.  C.  Hayes,  Chicago,  '80,  M. 
Dwight  Mclntyre»  Chicago,  '98,  H.  H.  C.  Miller,  Michigan,  '68,  Ston- 
dish  Backus,  Michigan,  '98,  and  William  T.  Underwood,  Michigan,  '72. 

At  the  convention  of  Delta  Upsilon  at  Amherst  in  October, 
111  delegates  and  visitors  registered,  27  of  these  being  ac- 
tive members  of  the  Amherst  chapter.  No  applications  for 
charters  were  approved,  but  the  editor  of  the  Qiiarierly  says 
that  two  will  probably  be  granted  later.  We  want  our  re- 
porters to  make  their  best  bow  to  the  editor  of  the  Quar- 
terly, for  this  is  what  he  says:  *The  Phi  Delta  Theta  Scroli^ 
for  October  contains  many  items  of  interest  concerning  the 
fraternity  world.  It  is  remarkable  how  much  fresh  infor- 
mation concerning  Greekdom  The  Scroll  secures  for  each 
issue.  The  secret  of  it  must  be  that  the  Phi  Delta  Theta 
chapter  correspondents  are  keenly  alive  to  the  situations 
in  other  fraternities.  It  is  evident  that  they  are  making  a 
careful  study  of  the  existing  conditions  in  the  colleges 
where  they  are  placed,  and  the  results  of  these  investiga- 
tions are  systematically  sent  to  the  editor  of  The  Scroll. 
In  consequence  The  Scroll  always  prints  the  latest,  fullest, 
and,  apparently,  the  most  reliable  information  concerning 
the  different  fraternities.' 

Theta  Nu  Epsilon  receives  attention  at  the  hands  of  Wal- 
ter S.  Holden,  secretary  of  the  executive  council  of  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  in  the  last  number  of  the  Shield,  He  says  that 
the  arguments  in  favor  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  are:  First, 
that  it  forms  inter- fraternity  friendships  and  dispels  clan- 
nishness;  second,  it  is  an  honor  to  be  elected  to  the  society. 
He  admits  that  there  is  some  force  in  the  first  argument, 
but  believes  that  it  would  be  no  reflection  on  Phi  Kappa 
Psis  who  were  not  asked  to  join,  if  their  fraternity  had  a  law 
against  such  action.  His  arguments  against  the  society  are: 
First,  ill-feeling,  jealousies  and  divisions  are  created  within 
the  chapter;  second,  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  takes  part  in  college 
politics,  and  in  doing  so  sometimes  opposes  Phi  Kappa  Psi; 
third*  its  initiatory  escapades  are  unmanly  and  undignified; 
fourth,  Phi  Kappa  Psi  has  a  right  to  all  the  time  and  money 
at  a  member's  disposal  for  fraternity  purposes.  He  cites  a 
case  where  a  man  wore  a  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  pin  but  none  of 


2o6  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Shield  of  Phi  Kappa  Psi  for  December  has  an  inter- 
esting description  of  *Phi  Kappa  Psi  Realty.  *  Pictures  of  the 
eight  houses  now  owned  by  the  fraternity  are  given.  They 
are  at  Michigan,  Beloit,  Colgate,  Kansas,  Syracuse,  Am- 
herst, Gettysburg  and  Minnesota.  Cornell  is  now  building, 
and  Bucknell  and  Stanford  own  lots.  The  value  of  the 
realty  now  owned  is  said  to  be  more  than  $100,000.  It  is  a 
most  creditable  showing.  Houses  are  rented  at  Columbia, 
Franklin  and  Marshall,  Johns  Hopkins,  Wittenberg,  De 
Pauw,  Chicago,  Wisconsin  and  Nebraska.  We  are  glad  to 
correct  an  item  copied  from  the  Beta  Theia  Pi,  which  said 
that  the  Wittenberg  chapter  was  forced  by  financial  embar- 
rassment to  take  a  more  modest  house.  The  change  was 
made  on  account  of  the  difference  in  age  and  conveniences 
of  the  two  houses,  and  the  chapter  has  no  debts. 

The  Omega  club,  organized  at  The  University  of  Chicago 
in  1894,  for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  charter  from  Psi  Up- 
silon,  has  succeeded  in  its  object.  Some  chapters  objected 
to  the  charter  being  granted,  and  early  in  1896,  certain  Chi- 
cago alumni  undertook  to  force  things  by  initiating  the  mem- 
bers of  Omega  into  Psi  Upsilon,  but  the  members  soon  dis- 
carded their  Psi  U.  badges  and  resumed  their  Omega  pins. 
The  necessary  vote  having  been  obtained,  the  chapter  was 
formally  instituted  on  the  evening  of  November  24,  1897. 
The  following  account  of  the  exercises  is  from  the  Chicago 
Inter- Ocean: 

The  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity  installed  the  Omega  chapter  at  The  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  yesterday.  The  secret  exercises  were  held  in  the 
Auditorium  hotel  at  6  o'clock,  twenty-three  men  being  initiated  under 
the  direction  of  Herbert  ly.  Bridgeman,  president  of  the  Executive 
Council  and  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  Standard-Union.  Immediately 
afterward  120  Psi  U.'s  sat  down  to  a  dinner  given  in  the  banquet  hall 
by  the  alumni  association  of  the  northwest. 

It  was  founders*  day,  the  sixty-fourth  anniversary,  and  the  frater- 
nity felt  itself  fortunate  in  being  able  to  gaze  upon  the  face  of  one  of 
the  founders,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Goodale  of  Columbus,  Neb. 

Rev.  Dr.  William  M.  Lawrence,  Amherst,  71,  acted  as  toastmaster. 
He  said :  '  I  was  one  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  old  Chicago  uni- 
versity, and  I  went  down  with  the  concern ;  and  I  felt  a  great  sorrow 
at  the  suspension  of  the  Omega  chapter,  which  went  down,  too.  But 
now,  as  the  new  university  is  far  greater  than  the  old  ever  was,  we 
may  hope  that  the  new  Omega  chapter  will  also  be  far  greater  than 
the  old.' 

Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Goodale,  Union,  '30,  responding  to  'The  Sixty- 
fourth  Anniversary  of  Psi  Upsilon;  Its  Founder, '  said  that  at  a  reunion 
in  New  York  last  year  he  had  said  he  hoped  he  mig^ht  live  long  enough 
to  see  a  chapter  of  Psi  U.  in  the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  one  in 
The  University  of  Chicago;  but  he  had  hardly  expected  to,  being  then  83 
years  old.     This,  therefore,  was  truly  a  Thanksgiving  jubilee  to  him. 

The  Psi  U.  had  begun  humbly,  with  a  few  young  men  not  very  ac- 
complished, sitting  round  a  table  up  under  the  roof  of  Union  College. 


THE  SCROLL.  207 

There  were  Hadley,  Tuttle,  and  Martindale,  still  living  and  probably 
pretty  much  used  up,  as  he  was,  and  they  had  formed  the  fraternity 
to  escape  the  Kappa  Alphas,  who  were  after  them. 

In  this  Omega  chapter  the  fraternity  had  reached  the  limit  of  the 
Greek  alphabet,  and  now  perhaps  it  would  have  to  begin  on  the  He- 
brew. Bishop  Nichols  had  regretted  that  California  had  no  Psi  U. 
chapter  the  last  time  he  had  seen  him. 

The  other  speakers  were  Herbert  ly.  Bridgeman,  Amherst,  *<)G,  Geo. 
C.  Rowland,  Amherst,  '80,  Frederick  W.  C.  Hayes,  Chicago,  '80,  M. 
Dwight  Mclntyre»  Chicago,  '98,  H.  H.  C.  Miller,  Michigan,  '68,  Stan- 
dish  Backus,  Michigan,  '98,  and  William  T.  Underwood,  Michigan,  '72. 

At  the  convention  of  Delta  Upsilon  at  Amherst  in  October, 
111  delegates  and  visitors  registered,  27  of  these  being  ac- 
tive members  of  the  Amherst  chapter.  No  applications  for 
charters  were  approved,  but  the  editor  of  the  Quarterly  says 
that  two  will  probably  be  granted  later.  We  want  our  re- 
porters to  make  their  best  bow  to  the  editor  of  the  Quar- 
terly, for  this  is  what  he  says:  *The  Phi  Delta  Theta  ScROix 
for  October  contains  many  items  of  interest  concerning  the 
fraternity  world.  It  is  remarkable  how  much  fresh  infor- 
mation concerning  Greekdom  The  Scroli,  secures  for  each 
issue.  The  secret  of  it  must  be  that  the  Phi  Delta  Theta 
chapter  correspondents  are  keenly  alive  to  the  situations 
in  other  fraternities.  It  is  evident  that  they  are  making  a 
careful  study  of  the  existing  conditions  in  the  colleges 
where  they  are  placed,  and  the  results  of  these  investiga- 
tions are  systematically  sent  to  the  editor  of  Thk  Scroll. 
In  consequence  The  Scroll  always  prints  the  latest,  fullest, 
and,  apparently,  the  most  reliable  information  concerning 
the  different  fraternities.' 

Theta  Nu  Epsilon  receives  attention  at  the  hands  of  Wal- 
ter S.  Holden,  secretary  of  the  executive  council  of  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  in  the  last  number  of  the  Shield.  He  says  that 
the  arguments  in  favor  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  are:  First, 
that  it  forms  inter- fraternity  friendships  and  dispels  clan- 
nishness;  second,  it  is  an  honor  to  be  elected  to  the  society. 
Readmits  that  there  is  some  force  in  the  first  argument, 
but  believes  that  it  would  be  no  reflection  on  Phi  Kappa 
Psis  who  were  not  asked  to  join,  if  their  fraternity  had  a  law 
against  such  action.  His  arguments  against  the  society  are: 
First,  ill-feeling,  jealousies  and  divisions  are  created  within 
the  chapter;  second,  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  takes  part  in  college 
politics,  and  in  doing  so  sometimes  opposes  Phi  Kappa  Psi ; 
third,  its  initiatory  escapades  are  unmanly  and  undignified; 
fourth,  Phi  Kappa  Psi  has  a  right  to  all  the  time  and  money 
at  a  member's  disposal  for  fraternity  purposes.  He  cites  a 
case  where  a  man  wore  a  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  pin  but  none  of 


2o8  THE  SCROLL. 

Phi  Kappa  Psi.  He  has  investigated  different  colleges  and 
finds  that  chapters  are  weakest  where  the  outside  societies 
are  strongest.  He  also  opposes  allowing  membership  in 
professional  societies  and  says  that  his  chapter  (  Michigan ) 
now  forbids  such  membership.  He  is  a  member  of  a  pro- 
fessional society  but  is  *  firmly  convinced  that  a  double  alle- 
giance is  never  advantageous.  The  graduate's  advice  is 
very  helpful  to  the  chapter.' 

Referring  to  the  convention  of  B  ©  II  at  Niagara  Falls  last 

July,  the  October  Beta  Theta  Pi  says: 

The  convention  was  remarkable  for  the  large  number  of  chapters 
represented.  All  but  two  had  at  least  one  delegate.  These  two  were 
Beloit  and  Brown,  each  strong  chapters. 

The  innovation  of  having  the  convention  begin  at  the  end  of  the 
week  and  extend  over  Sunday  was  a  decided  success.  It  broke  up  the 
rush  of  business,  gave  an  opportunity  for  rest  and  thought,  made  all 
of  the  boys  better  acquainted,  and  did  much  to  avoid  a  rush  at  the 
last  hours  of  the  convention. 

The  keynote  for  the  business  of  the  convention  seems  to  have  been 
struck  in  the  magnificent  report  of  the  general  secretary,  when  he  de- 
clared that  so  far  as  could  be  seen  the  fraternity  was  now  large  enough, 
and  that  our  path  in  the  future  led  us  to  building  up  within. 

Our  constitution  adopted  in  1879  survives  in  principle  and  operation 
in  the  one  adopted  in  1S97,  and  the  curious  student  of  our  affairs  will 

find  many  of  its  familiar  expressions  in  the  constitution  of  1889 

As  a  matter  of  fact  the  constitution  and  code  of  laws  set  forth  less  a 
revision  than  a  codification The  fraternity  has  reason  to  con- 
gratulate itself  upon  the  fact  that  of  late  years  no  seal  of  secrecy  has 
been  imposed  upon  the  members  regarding  its  constitution,  laws,  sys- 
tem of  administration,  or  manner  of  government This  reflec- 
tion is  apropos  of  the  publication  of  the  constitution  and  code  of  laws 
adopted  at  the  July  convention.  We  do  not  conceal  their  contents, 
and  college  authorities  everywhere  who  have  supervision  over  our 
active  members  are  welcome  to  all  proper  information  concerning 
these  regulations,  but  we  do  not  expect  our  chapters  to  freely  gfive  out 
copies  to  other  Greeks,  or  those  who  have  no  good  reasons  for  desir- 
ing to  see  them. 

We  are  glad  to  chronicle  one  change  in  the  laws,  viz.,  that  making 
the  order  of  the  'committee  of  the  whole  on  the  state  of  the  fraternity* 
more  conspicuous  at  conventions.  The  administrative  business  of 
conventions,  and  in  fact  much  of  their  legislative  work,  could  be  much 
more  wi.sely  dispensed  with  than  the  searching  viva  voce  examination 
into  the  condition  of  chapters  implied  in  this  order.  The  changed 
procedure  makes  it  the  first  important  order  of  general  business  for 
the  convention. 

A  special  committee  was  appointed  to  examine  into  the  chapter 
house  question.  This  is  but  one  more  indication  of  the  strong  current 
towards  chapter-house  life  among  our  chapters.  Weslevan  has  re- 
cently purchased  the  house  in  which  the  chapter  has  lived  for  four  or 
five  years,  and  the  St.  I^awrence  and  Stanford  chapters  are  building 
their  houses,  and  expect  to  have  them  ready  for  occupancy  before  the 
close  of  the  first  term  of  this  college  year.  The  purchase  of  a  chapter 
house  gives  an  assurance  of  permanence  to  a  chapter  as  nothing  else 
can.  The  members  of  chapters  in  smaller  colleges  must  face  the  situ- 
ation.    They  must  see  that  the  ever-increasing  tendency  to  raise  the 


THE  SCROLL,  209 

standard  of  the  fraternity  will  each  year  relatively  place  them  in  a 
more  inferior  position,  unless  this  pledge  of  the  chapter's  faith  in  their 
continued  existence  and  prosperity  takes  visible  form.  In  many  towns 
where  some  of  our  smaller  chapters  are  located,  like  those  at  Hanover, 
Ohio,  Wittenburg,  Wabash,  Bethany,  Hampden-Sidney,  Iowa  Weslej'- 
an,  Westminster  or  Centre,  chapter  houses  can  be  purchased  or  built 
for  relatively  small  sums  of  money.  All  of  the  chapters  named  have 
long  rolls  of  loyal  alumni,  who  can  be  appealed  to  in  proper  form  for 
assistance  in  this  behalf,  and  with  whose  aid  all  of  these  chapters 
should  soon  find  themselves  house  owners. 

The  suggestion  was  made  at  the  banquet  to  purchase  back  Wooglin- 
on- Chautauqua  by  subscription,  and  to  re-establish  it  as  a  Beta  home. 
All  hail  to  the  noble  alumni  who  have  such  an  idea,  but  are  we  not 
face  to  face  with  a  great  necessity  ?  Verily,  we  think  so.  As  children 
should  see  to  it  that  those  should  never  want  who  gave  them  life,  is  it 
not  our  first  duty  to  build  homes  for  the  chapters  that  gave  us  Beta 
blood?  Crying  for  a  place  of  shelter,  we  hear  many  of  those  noble 
brothers  calling  to  us.  Here  it  seems  is  a  field.  Aid  and  assist  them 
first  and  bright  homes  will  open  to  Betas  throughout  the  land.  Then, 
if  we  still  desire  to  do  so,  let  us  build  our  larger  home. 

Mr.  Junius  E.  Beal,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  publisher  of 
the  B  ©  n  catalogue,  contributes  an  article  about  Wooglin, 
from  which  it  is  learned  that  nineteen  acres  of  land  on  Lake 
Chautauqua  were  purchased  in  1883,  and  a  large  club  house 
was  erected  in  1884.  In  1891  the  property  was  oflBcially 
estimated  at  $J^6,(K)0.  The  annual  conventions  were  held 
in  the  club  house  usually  up  to  1894.  Then  there  was  a 
mortgage  foreclosure,  and  the  property  was  bought  by  a 
New  York  stock  company.  The  building  is  finely  fitted  up 
as  a  hotel  and  is  called  *  Wooglin  Inn,*  but  the  patronage 
does  not  seem  to  be  large,  and  the  company  would  sell  the 
property,  and  offer  it  at  a  low  figure. 

Mr.  J.  Cal.  Hanna,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  general  secretary 
and  catalogue  editor,  announces  that  the  chapter  lists  of  all 
chapters  from  Miami  to  Columbia  have  been  put  in  type, 
making  732  pages,  but  these  lists  do  not  include  the  names 
of  members  initiated  since  July  1,  1894,  which  names  are  to 
be  added  separately.  The  total  membership  to  September, 
1897.  is  estimated  at  10,520.  The  total  membership  of  4>  A  © 
on  February  1,  1897,  as  shown  in  the  '  Manual '  was  9,134, 
and  in  September  it  was  probably  9,200,  or  about  1 ,300  less 
than  B  0  n.  It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  our  attendant 
membership  in  1890-97,  as  shown  in  the  H.  G.  C.'s summary 
of  chapter  reports  in  the  June  Scroll,  was  exactly  the  same 
as  B  0  n*s,  viz.,  1,06'),  as  shown  in  a  statistical  table  in  the 
October  Beta  Theta  PL  Mr.  Wm.  R.  Baird,  of  New  York 
City,  author  of  *  American  College  Fraternities,'  continues 
as  editor  of  the  Beta  magazine,  which  insures  that  it  will  be 
made  a  valuable  organ  of  B  0  n  and  interesting  to  the  whole 
fraternity  world. 


2IO  THE  SCROLL. 


THE  PYX. 

He  sure  to  send  a  copy  of  your  annual  for  next  year's  re- 
view before  the  edition  is  exhausted. 

*  *  ij-'  :}: 

Bro.  Earnest  G.  Hallman,  of  Atlanta,  was  host  at  a  din- 
ner of  twenty  Phis  on  Thanksgiving  day  at  the  Hotel 
Aragon. 

Bro.  Walter  H.  Sherburne,  4l>  N.  12th  St.,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  wishes  to    exchange    monograms  with   every  Phi 

chapter. 

'?•  'I*  *{'  'i* 

The  ;")'Sth  anniversary  of  the  P'ew  literary  society  was 
held  at  Emory  on  October  29.  Bro.  John  vS.  Tilley  delivered 
the  anniversary  address. 

'I*  -K  'f»  H* 

The  first  circular  letter  to  arrive  was  the  one  from  Case, 
exactly  on  time,  and  followed  closely  by  those  from  Syra- 
cuse, Allegheny  and  Southwestern. 

•i*  H*  V  H* 

Ohio  Gamma  sent  out  a  new  card  with  white  and  blue 
ribbons  'In  Honor  of  the  New  Phis' — Bros.  Costo,  Witman, 
O'Bleness,  Wood  and  Herrold,  and  Messrs.  Tinker  and 
Mathews,  pledged. 

'S  'K  V  »i* 

E.  A.  Wright  has  designed  a  new  plate  for  college  annu- 
als, a  modification  of  the  one  used  as  frontispiece  in  The 
Scroll  for  October,  1S96,  which  was  a  design  made  by  him 
from  suggestions  of  Dr.  J.  E.  Brown. 

:•:  :i<  >;:  :}c 

Chicago  has  pledged  Garrey,  end  on  this  year's  'varsity, 
making  four  men  pledged  besides  the  two  initiated  this 
fall;  Hillsdale  has  two  initiates;  Case  has  initiated  two 
since  her  letter  was  written;  Indiana,  three;  Tulane  started 
on  November  29  with  seven  old  men  and  two  pledged. 

*  M;  -^  ijc 

The  fourth  paragraph  on  page  1 S  of  the  November  Pal- 
ladium  should  be  read  again  by  the  reporters  of  the  chapters 
at  Washington  and  Jefferson,  Pennsylvania ,  Washingtoji  and 
Lee,  Centre,  Alabama,  Northivestern  and  Iowa, 


THE  SCROLL.  2n 

The  winner  of  the  Illinois  state  oratorical  contest  is  a 
Beta  Theta  Pi  from  Knox;  Bro.  M.  N.  Ferguson  repre- 
sented Westminster  in  the  Missouri  state  contest,  and  Bro. 
T.  C.  Whallon  comes  up  from  Hanover  to  the  Indiana  con- 
test. 

*  *  *  * 

The  President  of  the  General  Council  made  a  trip  through 
Michigan  during  Thanksgiving  week,  visiting  the  chapters 
at  Ann  Arbor,  Lansing  and  Hillsdale.  Previously  during 
the  fall  he  had  visited  the  chapters  at  Vanderbilt,  Illinois, 
Chicago  and  Northwestern. 

*  *  *  * 

The  movement  inaugurated  during  the  session  of  *96- 
'97,  to  place  in  the  new  library  of  the  University  of  Virginia 
a  suitable  monument  to  Edgar  Allan  Poe,  is  now  being  ac- 
tively pushed,  in  order  that  the  bust  may  be  begun  at  once. 
Prof.  Charles  W.  Kent  is  president  of  the  association  having 
this  matter  in  charge,  and  Bro.  Schuyler  Poitevent  is  vice- 
president. 

*  *  *  * 

We  are  under  many  obligations  to  reporters  at  Dickinson, 
Lehigh,  Lombard,  Ohio,  Washington,  Knox,  Iowa  Wes- 
ley an.  Case,  Miayni  and  De  Pauw  for  their  college  maga- 
zines. Let  us  have  more.  P^ach  of  these  papers  has  one 
or  more  Phis  on  the  staff.  Bro.  Bowman  is  editor-in-chief 
of  The  Dickinsonian ,  Bro.  Carpenter  of  the  Lombard  Re- 
view,  Bro.  0*Bleness  of  the  Mirror,  Bro.  Lewis  of  the 
Coup  d'  Etat,  Bro.  Stokes  of  the  Student, 

*  *  *  * 

Bro.  John  H.  Outland,  Kansas,  '98,  now  in  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  has  been 
chosen  captain  of  the  U.  of  P.  eleven  for  1S08.  He  was  a 
star  half  back  at  Kansas,  played  half  back  and  captained 
the  scrub  last  year  at  Pennsylvania  (being  ineligible  for  the 
'varsity  on  account  of  the  one-year  rule),  and  has  played  a 
great  game  at  right  tackle  this  year  on  the  'varsity.     The 

Philadelphia  Times  of  November  2f>  says: 

He  was  placed  at  right  tackle  to  strengthen  the  weakest  point  in 
the  team,  although  he  was  a  stronger  player  at  half  back.  The  readi- 
ness with  which  he  acquiesced  in  the  change,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
it  meant  a  complete  sacrifice  of  all  opportunity  for  personal  glory  for 
the  good  of  the  team,  is  but  a  mark  of  the  traits  ot  character  which 
particularly  fit  him  for  the  position. 

As  a  player  Outland  is  destined  to  become  one  of  the  stroii|a;est 
backs  that  ever  played  on  the  gridiron.  His  natural  qualifications 
are  of  the  most  promising  nature,  and  his  adaptability  to  the  necessi- 


212  THE  SCROLL. 

ties  of  the  game  is  already  demonstrated.  Outland  will  doubtless 
make  one  of  the  most  successful  captains  that  Pennsylvania  has  ever 
had. 

*  *  *  * 

Missouri  Alpha  wants  the  following  numbers  of  The 
Scroll:  All  numbers  of  volumes  I.-V. ;  Nos.  1 ,  •>  and  5-0, 
of  volume  VI.;  Xos.  2,  *-\  and  o-O  of  volume  VII.;  Nos.  1, 
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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEXAS. 

A  sketch  of  the  University  of  Texas  and  its  student  life 
oecessariiy  contains  B  brief  glance  at  the  university's  sur- 
roundings and  a  passing  notice  of  many  things  that  arc  char- 
acteristic of  Texans. 

The  university  is  situated  in  Austin,  which  is  not  only 
the  center  of  government  but  is  only  a  short  distance  south 
of  the  geographical  center  of  Texas.  A  more  pleasiug  loca- 
tion for  the  head  of  the  free  school  system  of  the  state  could 
not  have  been  chosen.  The  fact  that  .\ustin  is  situated  on 
the  Colorado  river  might  suggest  that  its  citizens  inhabit 
the  lowlands,  but  such  is  not  the  case ;  residing  on  the  banks 


THE  SCROLL. 


FEBRUARY,  1897. 


SEVKNTH  LAI 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEXAS. 

A  sketch  of  the  University  of  Texas  and  its  student  life 
necessarily  contains  a  brief  glance  at  the  university's  sur- 
roundings and  a  passing  notice  of  many  things  that  are  char- 
acteristic of  Texans. 

The  university  is  situated  in  Austin,  which  is  not  only 
the  center  of  government  but  is  only  a  short  distance  south 
of  the  geographical  center  of  Texas.  A  more  pleasing  loca- 
tion for  the  head  of  the  free  school  system  of  the  state  could 
not  have  been  chosen.  The  fact  that  Austin  is  situated  on 
the  Colorado  river  might  suggest  that  its  citizens  inhabit 
the  lowlands,  but  such  is  not  the  case:  residing  on  the  banks 


2i6  THE  SCROLL. 

of  a  great  water-course  they  dwell  amidst  the  hills.  Unlike 
Rome  the  citv  sits  not  on  seven  hills  but  on  thrice  seven. 
Surmounting  the  highest  peak  the  great  state  capitol  lifts 
its  spire  ol  1  feet  towards  the  heavens,  and  three-quarters  of 
a  mile  to  the  north,  adorning  the  next  highest  hill,  stands 
the  state  university,  exemplifying  the  idea  of  our  Texas 
fathers,  that  state  education  was  to  be  of  next  importance 
to  the  existence  of  the  state  itself. 

Aside  from  the  natural  beauty  of  the  surroundings,  the 
location  has  many  other  advantages.  The  healthfulness  of 
the  locality  can  be  excelled  in  few  places  in  Texas,  and,  in- 
deed, many  health-seekers  come  here  annually  to  enjoy  the 
high  dry  atmosphere  that  surrounds  us. 

To  the  student  there  is  much  in  the  surroundings  that  is 
interesting.  The  heads  of  all  the  departments  of  govern- 
ment are  located  here,  and  much  that  is  instructive  and 
beneficial  may  be  obtained  from  attendance  on  the  sessions 
of  the  legislature,  the  supreme  court,  the  railroad  commis- 
sion and  other  state  institutions.  The  state  library  affords 
excellent  advantages  to  those  inclined  to  the  study  of  Texas' 
early  days  and  history,  while  the  departments  of  agriculture 
and  geology  furnish  interesting  material  for  the  student  of 
science. 

The  department  of  education  familiarizes  one  with  the 
magnitude  and  workings  of  our  free  school  system,  while 
the  land  office  is  a  rich  field  for  investigation  into  our  land 
system,  which  is  peculiarly  our  own  and  greatly  compli- 
cated, owing  to  former  relations  with  Spain  and  Mexico. 

The  institutes  for  the  deaf  and  dumb,  for  the  blind  and 
for  the  insane  are  located  here,  and  come  in  for  their  share 
of  interest  and  study.  To  the  engineering  student  the 
granite  capitol,  second  in  size  only  to  the  national  capitol, 
and  the  great  dam  that  transforms  the  Colorado  into  a  lake 
twenty-five  miles  in  length,  are  studies  in  themselves. 

I^ake  McDonald  is  as  pretty  a  body  of  water  as  can  be 
found  in  the  south,  and  is  useful  as  well  as  beautiful;  it  not 
only  furnishes  water  for  the  city  but  supplies  the  necessary 
power  for  the  electric  light  plant  and  the  street  railway  sys- 
tem. Upon  this  lake  in  the  not  far  distant  future  we  ex- 
pect to  see  many  an  inter-collegiate  boat  race  between  the 
best  teams  in  the  country. 

The  surroundings  are  such  that,  as  can  be  readily  seen,  the 
choice  of  the  site  of  the  university  manifested  a  keen  insight 
on  the  part  of  the  founders  into  the  advantages  to  be  derived 
from  such  a  location.     Perhaps  it  would  be  interesting  to 


THE  SCROLL.  217 

know  somethiug  of  those  men  who  selected  the  present  site 
and  set  apart  the  campus  which  they  hoped  some  day  would 
be  dotted  with  buildings. 

In  1881>  the  congress  of  the  Republic  of  Texas  set  apart 
fifty  leagues  of  land  for  the  construction  and  maintenance 
of  the  university,  and  designated  the  present  site  as  the  fu- 
ture home  of  the  projected  university.  This  took  place 
while  Texas  was  yet  a  republic;  the  war  for  independence 
had  scarcely  closed  and  the  fortunes  and  homes  that  were 
wrecked  by  that  struggle  had  not  yet  been  restored  when 
the  Texas  fathers  turned  their  minds  towards  founding  an 
institution  where  the  youth  of  the  country  might  be  edu- 
cated. The  men  who  had  met  Santa  Anna  on  many  a  bloody 
field,  those  who  had  been  with  Rusk  and  Lamar,  and  the 
heroes  who  had  stood  beside  Sam  Houston  at  San  Jacinto, 
knew  that  liberty  was  born  of  knowledge,  and  fresh  in  the 
enjoyment  of  freedom,  they  set  about  devising  ways  and 
means  to  perpetuate  it. 

Those  who  founded  the  university  were  brawny  pioneers; 
they  were  dressed  in  buck- skin  suits  and  coon- skin  caps;  they 
carried  at  their  side  the  trusty  bowie-knife  and  kept  close 
at  hand  the  unerring  rifle,  yet  most  of  them  came  from 
eastern  colleges  and  universities.  Many  young  men  just 
out  of  college  came  to  Texas  in  the  early  days  to  seek  their 
fortunes,  and  just  such  men  were  those  who  set  about  to 
provide  for  the  future  university.  It  is  surprising  to  find 
that  such  a  large  percentage  of  the  soldiers  in  the  Texan 
armies  were  college  men,  men  who  afterwards  took  promi- 
nent parts  in  the  affairs  of  state. 

The  next  step  towards  realizing  the  ambition  of  the  found- 
ers was  taken  in  1858,  when  the  state  set  apart  much  more 
land  and  at  the  same  time  appropriated  money  and  author- 
ized the  organization  of  the  university.  In  a  short  time  the 
Ciyil  War  came  on  and  delayed  any  progress  until  a  later 
day.  The  exigencies  of  war  demanded  that  the  funds  set 
apart  be  used  for  other  purposes,  and  the  result  was  that  at 
the  end  of  four  years  of  strife  the  university  was  almo.st 
stripped  of  the  princely  endowment  that  had  been  bec[ueathed 
to  it  years  before.  After  a  long  struggle  a  part,  but  not 
nearly  all,  of  the  endowment  was  recovered  from  the  state. 

The  constitution  of  Texas  adopted  in  1870  contained  the 
clause  :  '  The  legislature  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable,  es- 
tablish, organize  and  provide  for  the  maintenance,  support 
and  direction  of  a  university  of  the  first  class.  *  Five  years 
later,  in  1881,  the  legislature  enacted  the  laws  that  the  con- 


Tm;  Gmkvt  Dam  Acruss  Tin;  Ci.ohai.o  Ri\ 


THE  SCROLL.  219 

stitution  directed,  and  in  September,  188^^,  the  University 
of  Texas  opened  her  doors  and  the  dreams  of  her  founders 
had  commenced  to  be  realized  after  a  lapse  of  forty-four 
years. 

The  university,  when  first  organized,  consisted  of  the  de- 
partments of  literature,  science  and  arts,  and  law.  Rem- 
iniscences of  the  early  days  are  interesting  in  the  extreme. 
The  buildings  afforded  meager  advantages,  and  professors 
and  students  were  forced  to  submit  to  many  inconveniences. 

Besides  the  regular  professional  degrees  conferred  in  law, 
medicine  and  engineering,  the  university  provides  courses 
in  the  department  of  literature,  science  and  arts  leading  to 
the  degrees  B.  A.,  B.  Sc,  B.  Lit.,  and  graduate  degrees  M. 
A.  and  M.  S.  The  degrees  conferred  in  the  academic  de- 
partment are  recognized  by  the  leading  universities  of  Amer- 
ica as  of  standard  excellence  and  merit.  Alumni  of  Texas 
have  demonstrated  their  excellent  undergraduate  training 
by  distinguishing  themselves  in  independent  research  and 
investigation  in  both  Germany  and  America.  Within  the 
last  three  years  fellowships  have  been  won  in  Harvard,  Yale, 
Cornell,  Columbia,  Johns  Hopkins  and  the  University  of 
Chicago  by  graduates  of  the  University  of  Texas. 

Ever  since  its  establishment  the  law  department  has  been 
noted  for  the  thoroughness  of  its  work.  It  has  steadily 
gained  prestige  and  strength  until  it  now  stands  in  the  front 
rank  of  law  schools.  The  number  of  students  in  this  school 
alone  is  over  one  hundred. 

The  department  of  medicine  was  established  in  1<S90.  Its 
g^wth  and  development  have  been  phenomenal.  In  1897 
the  school  of  medicine  had  an  attendance  of  nearly  three 
hundred  students.  The  course  of  study  has  been  improved 
until  it  now  covers  a  period  of  four  years.  Specialists  are 
employed  in  every  branch,  and  the  medical  department  is 
already  eclipsing  many  of  the  older  schools  of  the  central 
and  south  central  states.  Galveston  is  the  location  of  the 
medical  branch,  and  was  chosen  on  account  of  its  many  ad- 
vantages for  hospital  work  and  clinical  study. 

Tuition  is  free  in  all  departments  of  the  University  of 
Texas.  The  only  fees  required  consist  of  a  nominal  matric- 
ulation fee  and  laboratory  fees  sufficient  to  compensate  for 
materials  actually  used  by  students.  No  distinction  is  made 
between  Texas  students  and  those  from  other  states  as  to 
the  matter  of  fees;  all  are  welcome. 

The  university  buildings  in  Austin  consist  of  the  main 
building,   the  chemical  laboratory,   the  power   house  and 


2  20  THE  SCROLL, 

Bracken  ridge  Hall.  An  eastern  wing  will  be  added  to  the 
main  building,  while  more  laboratories  and  halls  will  be 
built  as  rapidly  as  the  development  of  the  institution  de- 
mands. 

Brackenridge  Hall  was  given  to  the  university  by  Geo. 
W.  Brackenridge,  of  San  Antonio,  one  of  the  regents  of  the 
university.  Mr.  Brackenridge  has  been  one  of  the  univer- 
sity's most  faithful  friends  and  has  maie  various  other  do- 
nations to  the  institution. 

During  the  past  year  additions  have  been  made  to  the 
university  library,  until  at  present  its  volumes  number  more 
than  forty  thousand.  Until  the  session  of  '9G-7,  the  general 
library  consisted  of  only  about  fifteen  thousand  voUimes, 
barring  the  law  and  medical  libraries.  It  was  increased  to 
its  present  size  through  the  munificence  of  one  man. 

Sir  Swante  Palm,  a  native  of  vSweden,  and  Swedish  vice- 
consul  at  this  place,  was  our  benefactor.  Having  received 
the  best  of  educational  advantages  in  his  youth,  his  whole 
life  has  been  given  to  the  acquisition  of  knowledge,  and  the 
library  which  he  gave  to  the  youth  of  Texas  represents  a 
quarter  of  a  century  of  arduous  toil  in  collecting  and  pre- 
serving the  volumes  he  valued  so  highly.  A  great  part  of 
the  Palm  library  is  composed  of  volumes  of  peculiar  interest 
and  value.  Many  of  the  books  are  out  of  print,  and  copies 
can  hardly  be  obtained  at  any  price,  while  not  a  few  contain 
original  manuscripts  and  signatures  that  can  not  be  dupli- 
cated. Sir  Swante  Palm  is  a  lover  of  art,  and  many  are  the 
volumes  whose  pages  are  replete  with  all  that  is  interesting 
to  the  painter  and  the  sculptor.  The  Palm  library,  together 
with  the  general  library  and  the  law  library  of  several  thou- 
sand volumes,  places  the  total  number  of  books  something 
near  half  a  hundred  thousand. 

In  this  connection  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  another 
son  of  vSweden  has  manifested  in  a  substantial  manner  his 
kindly  feeling  toward  the  state  university.  The  Swenson 
collection  of  coins  and  medals,  presented  to  the  university 
by  Mr.  Swenson,  now  of  New  York  but  formerly  of  Texas, 
is  one  of  the  most  complete  collections  of  its  kind  in  this 
country.  Coins  and  medals  bearing  the  insignia  and  stamps 
of  scores  of  kingdoms  and  powers  can  be  found  here  in  one 
aggregation. 

The  university  is  managed  and  controlled  by  a  board  of 
regents,  consisting  of  eight  members  appointed  by  the  gov- 
ernor of  the  state,  for  terms  of  eight  years.  All  professors 
and  instructors  are  elected  bv  them  on  recommendation  of 


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233  THE  SCROLL, 

the  president,  aud  their  decision  is  final  in  all  matters  per- 
taining to  the  administration  of  university  affairs.  This 
board  has  complete  control  of  lauds  belonging  to  the  uni- 
versity and  the  disposition  of  all  funds  appropriated  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  institution.  The  income  from  the  lands 
and  securities  held  by  the  board  of  regents,  when  added  to 
the  legislative  appropriation,  amounts  to  something  near 
$110,000  annually. 

It  was  in  lSU(>-7  that  the  University  of  Texas  had  her 
first  president.  Up  to  that  time  the  university  was  similar 
to  the  University  of  Virginia  in  that  a  chairman  of  the  fac- 
ulty administered  the  duties  of  a  president.  In  June,  1890, 
the  board  of  regents  tendered  Dr.  Geo.  T.  Winston  the 
presidency,  and  in  September  following  he  resigned  a  sim- 
ilar position  in  the  University  of  North  Carolina  and  entered 
upon  his  work  in  Texas.  Dr.  Winston  was  educated  in 
Cornell  University,  and  is  familiar  with  the  modes  of  govern- 
ment and  organization  of  the  greatest  universities  in  the 
United  States. 

His  deep  learning  and  previous  experience  as  college 
president  singularly  fit  him  for  the  position  he  occupies,  and 
every  department  of  the  university  has  felt  the  influence  of 
his  presence.  His  administration  of  affairs  exhibits  marked 
executive  ability,  and  has  resulted  in  calling  the  attention  of 
the  people  of  Texas  to  the  university  in  a  manner  that  has 
been  productive  of  much  good.  It  is  the  purpose  of  Dr. 
Winston  to  bring  the  university  into  close  touch  with  the 
free  schools  and  the  public  generally,  and  to  that  end  much 
of  his  time  is  spent  in  traveling  and  delivering  addresses 
before  high  schools  and  academies  throughout  the  state. 

It  is  the  policy  of  the  regents,  as  well  as  of  the  president, 
to  affiliate  with  the  university  all  high  schools  of  sufficient 
grade,  and  to  permit  graduates  of  these  approved  schools  to 
enter  the  university  without  examination.  This  plan  has 
been  highly  successful  and  already  fifty  or  more  schools 
have  arranged  their  courses  of  study  satisfactorily  and  are 
in  complete  affiliation.  This  movement  has  proven  a  great 
stimulant  to  the  public  schools,  and  all  are  advancing  their 
courses  so  that  sooner  or  later  they  may  enjoy  the  advan- 
tages of  such  an  arrangement.  It  is  hoped  by  the  university 
management  that  the  number  of  affiliated  schools  will  reach 
into  the  hundreds  within  the  next  few  years. 

What  the  success  of  this  plan  of  affiliation  will  result  in 
may  be  readily  seen.  It  means  that  the  free  school  system 
will  be  organized  and  graded  with  the  university  at  its  head; 


THE  SCROLL,  223 

that  the  state  will  furnish  free  education  from  the  first 
reader,  through  the  public  schools,  through  college,  and 
through  a  profession  if  such  is  desired.  The  magnitude  of 
the  enterprise  can  hardly  be  appreciated,  and  what  it  means 
for  the  upbuilding  and  broadening  of  the  university  of  the 
Lone  Star  State  can  be  expressed  when  it  is  said  that  the 
Constitution  of  '7fi  will  be  obeyed  and  Texas  will  have  a 
'university  of  the  first  class.' 

There  are  at  present  fifty-seven  instructors  and  professors 
in  the  University  of  Texas.  The  idea  of  promotion  and  re- 
ward is  thoroughly  in  keeping  with  the  spirit  of  the  insti- 
tution, and  to  this  is  largely  attributed  the  fact  that  few  en- 
joy the  distinction  of  full  professorships.  The  authorities 
are  unwilling  to  entrust  to  new  men  the  highest  positions 
and  salaries,  and  they  are  only  won  by  faithful  and  meri- 
torious service. 

The  number  of  students  in  attendance  at  the  university 
during  '9(>-7  was  751.  Thus  far  705  students  have  enrolled 
for  '97-S.  By  the  end  of  the  year  these  figures  will  pass 
the  750  mark.  Attendance  in  the  medical  department  has 
fallen  off  nearly  one  hundred  this  year  on  account  of  the 
yellow  fever  epidemic;  but  on  the  other  hand  the  academic 
department  has  a  largely  increased  attendance.  Over  two 
hundred  students  are  now  in  the  law  and  academic  depart- 
ments who  have  never  been  in  the  university  before. 

Probably  the  best  way  in  which  to  direct  the  attention  of 
the  reader  to  the  characteristics  of  the  University  of  Texas 
would  be  to  describe  some  of  the  enterprises  and  organiza- 
tions which  are  of  sufficient  interest  to  enlist  the  energies 
of  students  and  professors. 

The  Texas  Academy  of  Science  is  dominated  and  con- 
trolled by  university  thought,  though  some  of  its  members 
are  in  no  way  connected  with  the  institution.  This  is  an 
organization  for  scientific  research  and  investigation  whose 
membership  is  chiefly  composed  of  university  professors. 
The  most  prominent  member  of  the  Texas  Academy  of 
Science  is  Dr.  George  Bruce  Halsted,  professor  of  mathe- 
matics. Dr.  Halsted  is  of  international  reputation  and  his 
mathematical  ability  is  recognized  throughout  the  Union. 

The  Texas  State  Historical  Association  is  an  organization 
whose  members  reside  in  different  parts  of  the  state,  but 
whose  home  is  in  the  university.  All  the  records,  relics  and 
manuscripts  belonging  to  this  organization  are  in  the  cus- 
tody of  the  School  of  History. 

Most  prominent  of  those  enterprises  that  are  guided  by 


THE  SCROLL.  225 

the  genius  of  the  students  are  the  university  publications, 
which  mirror  the  ideals,  fancies,  and  whims  of  the  student 
mind  more  accurately  than  any  other  agency. 

The  Press  Club  is  an  organization  that  has  lately  sprung 
into  existence.  Its  purpose  is  to  enlighten  the  public  con- 
cerning the  workings  and  progress  of  the  university.  All 
bona  fide  newspaper  correspondents,  who  send  communica- 
tions at  least  once  each  month  to  their  home  paper  concern- 
ing the  doings  in  the  capital  city,  are  eligible  to  member- 
ship. 

The  University  of  Texas  Magazine  is  a  monthly  journal 
published  by  the  literary  societies,  and  affords  an  opportu- 
nity for  the  development  of  literary  talents  in  both  prose 
and  verse.  Often  rare  bits  of  college  wit  appear  in  the 
Magazine  that  go  the  whole  round  of  college  journalism  be- 
fore they  grow  wearisome. 

The  Ranger  makes  its  appearance  weekly,  and  chronicles 
the  actual  news  of  the  university  and  the  college  world. 

The  Cactus  is  the  name  of  the  annual,  and  up  to  this 
time  four  volumes  have  appeared  with  marks  of  improve- 
ment in  each  succeeding  issue.  Each  senior  class  in  the  uni- 
versity has  three  representatives  on  the  editorial  board,  the 
other  classes  have  one  editor  each.  The  editors  elect  the 
editor-in-chief  from  their  number. 

Closely  akin  to  the  university  publications  and  of  scarcely 
less  importance  are  the  literary  societies.  The  Athenaeum 
and  Rusk  are  as  old  as  the  university,  and  many  are  the  in- 
teresting events  that  have  occurred  throughout  their  his- 
tory. Both  were  born  of  the  spirit  of  rivalry,  and  on  occa- 
sions of  debates  and  contests  the  cheers  of  enthusiastic 
partisans  show  that  rivalry  still  exists.  The  Ashbel  is  the 
name  of  the  society  whose  destiny  is  guided  by  woman. 
Quite  a  number  of  the  young  ladies  belong  to  this  organ- 
ization, and  by  their  zeal  have  made  the  Ashbel  a  synonym 
for  literary  excellence  and  culture. 

The  Athenaeum  and  Rusk  societies  have  entered  into  an 
agreement  whereby  they  constitute  the  *  Oratorical  Asso- 
ciation of  the  University  of  Texas.'  The  selection  of  an 
orator  to  represent  Texas  is  delegated  to  the  oratorical  as- 
sociation. A  contest  is  held  annually  and  the  winner  is 
entitled  to  represent  the  university.  Last  year  the  south- 
ern intercollegiate  contest  was  held  here,  but  owing  to  the 
great  distance  only  two  colleges  sent  representatives,  Van- 
derbilt  and  Sewanee. 

Another  event  of  equal  importance  to  Texas  will  be  the 


2  26  THE  SCROLL. 

annual  debate  with  Tulane,  which  is  to  be  initiated  next 
year.  Last  year  plans  were  formulated  and  an  agreement 
reached  whereby  Texas  and  Tulane  were  to  meet  in  debate 
some  time  during  '97->),  but  owing  to  the  delayed  opening 
of  Tulane,  the  debate  had  to  be  postponed.  The  rules  regu- 
lating the  debate  are  similar  to  those  which  are  used  by 
Harvard  and  Yale. 

Among  the  various  organizations  that  are  the  offspring  of 
student  enterprise  the  Dramatic  Club  occupies  a  unique 
position.  This  club  was  organized  during  THI-T  and  made 
its  initial  appearance  in  'Richelieu'  in  the  Hancock  Opera 
House,  this  city.  Dramatic  talent  is  not  lacking  among  the 
students,  and  quite  a  number  are  there  whose  abilities  in 
this  art  are  exceptional.  The  Dramatic  Club  is  under  the 
direction  of  Prof.  T.  R.  Hamberlin,  and  the  success  of  the 
organization  is  due  in  a  large  degree  to  his  efforts  and  in- 
dustry. 

The  musical  interest  of  the  university  is  centered  in  the 
two  glee  clubs.  The  men's  glee  club  is  under  the  direction 
of  Prof.  K.  P.  Selock,  while  the  celebrated  Ludwig  waves 
the  baton  for  the  four  vocalists  that  compose  the  women's 
glee  club.  The  men's  club  will  make  a  tour  of  the  cities  of 
Texas  sometime  during  the  spring  months. 

That  part  of  college  life  that  elicits  more  enthusiasm  and 
interest  than  any  other  has  yet  to  be  told  of.  Until  this 
year  the  enthusiasm  for  athletics  was  confined  almost  ex- 
clusively to  foot  ball,  but  with  the  coming  of  a  physical 
director  interest  has  been  aroused  in  other  departments  of 
athletics;  not  only  will  Texas  be  represented  on  the  grid- 
iron, but  the  diamond,  the  tennis  court  and  the  race  track 
will  know  the  prowess  of  her  athletes. 

Although  Texas  began  the  foot  ball  season  of  '97  under 
unfavorable  circumstances,  she  has  retrieved  every  defeat 
and  still  wears  the  honor  of  the  championship  of  Texas. 
W.  F.  Kelly,  of  Dartmouth,  was  the  coach,  and  he  had  no 
easy  task  in  transforming  raw  material  into  a  good  team. 
About  half  the  team  were  new  men  who  had  never  played 
the  game  before,  and  it  is  surprising  that  Texas  made  such 
a  good  showing. 

The  distance  is  so  great  to  other  universities  that  it  is  ex- 
tremely difficult  for  Texas  to  arrange  games  outside  the 
state.  In  '96  the  team  went  to  Louisiana  where  they  played 
Tulane  and  Baton  Rouge,  defeating  the  former  but  going 
down  before  the  latter.  The  same  year  Missouri  visited 
Texas  and  another  Waterloo  was  experienced  by  our  team. 


228  THE  SCROLL, 

After  the  game  here,  the  Missouri  and  Texas  teams  went 
on  a  tour  through  Mexico,  playing  a  series  of  games  on  the 
route.  No  games  outside  of  the  state  have  been  played 
this  year. 

Early  in  the  season  the  university  was  defeated  at  Dallas 
by  the  Dallas  Athletic  Club,  and  at  Fort  Worth  by  the  Fort 
Worth  Athletic  Club,  but  on  their  return  home  the  Texas 
team  downed  Add-Ran  at  Waco.  Later  Fort  Worth  and 
Dallas  both  visited  Austin  and  the  'Varsity  boys  visited  re- 
venge on  their  opponents.  Several  other  games  were  played 
all  of  which  resulted  in  a  victory  for  the  'Varsity. 

On  the  occasion  of  a  foot  ball  game  every  loyal  'Varsity 
man  dons  the  *  orange  and  white '  and  hies  himself  to  the 
gridiron,  ready  and  willing  to  sing  and  yell  himself  hoarse 
in  cheering  on  the  team.  The  young  women  are  not  im- 
pervious to  the  spirit  of  enthusiasm,  and,  decorated  with  the 
college  colors,  they  are  always  on  hand  to  inspire  with  their 
presence  the  struggling  team. 

As  the  university  team  comes  on  the  field  the  *  rooters  * 
greet  them  with  the  official  yell : 

Hullabaloo — Hooray — Hooray 
Hullabaloo — Hooray — Hooray 
Hoo-ray — Hoo-ray 
'Varsity— 'Varsity  U.  T.  A. 

Each  rooter  is  furnished  a  copy  of  various  songs  and  the 
chief  mogul  of  the  'rootororial  club'  waves  his  tin  horn  and 
the  mirth  begins.     As  long  as  the  contest  lasts  the  grand- 
stand rings  with  the  songs  and  ytWs  of  the  *  rooters,'  while 
those  on  the  side  lines  chime  in  on  the  chorus: 
Rickety — Rockety — Cis  boom  ah — 
Texas,  Texas,  Rah!  Rah  I  Rah  I 
and 

Je  he — Je  ho — Je  ha,  ha,  ha — 
Texas ! 
and  various  other  yells  improvised  for  the  special  occasion 
roll  across  the  field  with  frequency. 

Base  ball  is  rapidly  gaining  popularity  in  the  University 
of  Texas.  Last  year  our  team  took  two  trips,  and  this  year 
will  go  on  several  tours  more  than  last  season.  Base  ball  is 
handicapped  by  the  fact  that  the  league  games  detract  from 
the  interest  in  collegiate  base  ball,  and  then,  too,  base  ball 
does  not  net  as  great  an  income  as  does  foot  ball.  Those 
interested  in  the  national  game  are  actively  at  work,  and  if 
good  material  is  not  lacking  the  season  of  '98  will  be  a 
memorable  one.     Bro.   Botsell  is  captain  of  the  base  ball 


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nine,  and  has  done  a  great  deal  towards  increasing  the  in- 
terest in  this  manly  sport. 

Track  athletics  have  never  flourished  here,  but  '98  will 
see  a  better  team  here  than  has  ever  before  existed  in  the 
university.  The  gymnasium  instructor  is  experienced  in 
this  department  of  athletics  and  will  train  a  good  team  for 
'98.  Tennis  is  quite  a  favorite  with  the  students,  so  much 
so  that  several  tennis  clubs  are  now  in  existence.  Several 
courts  are  kept  in  good  condition  and  every  afternoon  are 
occupied  by  lovers  of  the  game. 

To  have  a  fine  rowing  team  is  the  dream  of  many  an  ath- 
lete, and  with  the  excellent  advantages  of  Lake  McDonald 
we  may  be  permitted  to  hope  that  such  a  dream  will  some 
day  be  realized.  With  the  erection  of  a  university  boat- 
house  enthusiasm  will  be  aroused  to  such  a  pitch  as  to  insure 
a  fine  rowing  team.  The  day  when  Texas  shall  contend 
with  the  universities  of  the  north  and  east  for  supremacy  on 
the  water  is  awaited  with  impatience. 

The  athletic  council  has  control  of  foot  ball,  base  ball, 
tennis,  track  athletics  and  all  contests  in  these  sports.  The 
council  is  composed  of  three  members  of  the  faculty,  three 
students,  and  three  alumni,  and  to  their  judgment  and  dis- 
cretion all  the  interests  of  the  athletic  association  are  en- 
trusted. 

The  university  is  a  member  of  the  Southern  Inter-collegi- 
ate Athletic  Association.  This  association  has  on  foot  plans 
to  reform  the  rules  of  foot  ball  so  as  to  eliminate  as  many 
objectionable  features  as  possible.  H.  G.  Blacklock,  the 
'Varsity  quarter  back,  represents  Texas  on  the  committee 
of  re\nsion. 

The  religious  sentiment  of  the  university  finds  expression 
in  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  a  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Both  these  associations 
contribute  to  the  support  of  missions  and  various  other  kinds 
of  religious  work. 

Ever  since  its  founding  the  University  of  Texas  has  been 
CO- educational,  and  no  distinction  is  made  between  the  sexes. 
Though  only  one-fourth  of  the  student  body  is  composed  of 
women,  this  small  proportion  demonstrates  its  ability  to  cope 
with  the  intellects  of  men  without  invidious  results.  The 
plan  of  self-control  applies  as  well  to  the  young  women  as  it 
does  to  the  male  students.  Independence  and  self-restraint 
characterize  the  conduct  of  both  men  and  women.  The 
young  women  of  the  university  exert  quite  an  influence  over 
the  male  student;  their  presence  in  the  institution  tempers 
his  conduct  and  in  a  remarkable  degree  restrains  his  dispo- 
sition to  err. 


230  THE  SCROLL, 

Above  all  things  the  student  body  of  the  University  of 
Texas  is  cosmopolitan.  Sons  of  farmers,  merchants,  ranch- 
men and  brokers  may  be  found  in  the  same  classes.  We 
have  every  type  of  student  from  the  weak-eyed  Johnny  to 
the  robust,  sombreroed  cowboy;  from  the  spectacled  dude 
to  the  individual  appropriately  dubbed  Reuben.  Among 
others  there  are  teachers,  preachers,  clerks  and  men  of  vari- 
ous professions  attending  the  university.  There  are  in  at- 
tendance German,  French,  Swedish,  vSpanish  and  Bohemian 
students,  and  it  is  expected  that  within  a  few  years  the 
number  of  Mexican  students  will  be  very  large.  All  kinds 
of  students  may  be  found  in  the  university  except  negroes, 
and  the  negro  can  never  be  admitted  on  an  equality  with  the 
white  man. 

Maverick  is  a  term  essentially  Texan,  and  signifies  that 
type  of  student  that  has  the  air  suggestive  of  western  life 
and  customs;  something  of  that  spirit  of  abandon  and  free- 
dom that  characterizes  the  cow-boy  and  the  road  agent. 
The  university  has  a  large  share  of  Mavericks,  and  is  proud 
of  them.  Broad-brimmed  hats  are  worn,  and  an  attempt  to 
abolish  this  custom  would  result  disastrously.  There  are 
many  students  who  dislike  to  relinquish  their  spurs  and 
leggins  on  entering  the  university,  and  the  sombrero  is  all 
that  remains  to  remind  them  of  home  and  old  associations. 

Some  mav  be  at  a  loss  to  know  what  becomes  of  the  Tex- 
an's  six-shooter  when  he  enters  college.  This,  unlike  the 
spurs  and  leggins,  can  not  be  abolished,  but  is  ever  in  hand 
if  trouble  is  in  the  air.  What  would  life  be  to  a  Texan 
without  a  six-shooter  ? 

The  almost  total  absence  of  lawlessness  and  vice  among 
the  students  of  the  university  is  remarkable.  An  occasional 
'hurrah,'  the  result  of  someone  imbibing  too  much  amber 
liquid  or  the  outcome  of  one  draught  too  much  of  Kentucky 
dew,  is  noticed,  but  such  a  thing  as  continual  dissipation  is 
a  curiosity.  True,  sometimes  a  few  students  may  break  up 
a  poker  game  by  forcing  the  dealer  to  the  wall  and  causing 
the  banker  to  make  an  assignment,  but  at  this  student  vice 
ceases.  Taken  all  in  all  the  University  of  Texas  is  remark- 
ably moral  in  its  atmosphere  and  life,  and  the  eastern  colle- 
gian who  has  only  seen  Texas  through  exaggerated  news- 
paper accounts,  will  be  agreeably  surprised  when  he  sets 
foot  in  Texas  and  finds  that  only  a  few  students  wear  horns 
and  still  fewer  persist  in  .shooting  tender  feet  to  see  them  kick. 

Yes,  we  have  fraternities  here — here  in  the  land  of  the 
cactus  and  antelope.     Here  fraternities  exist  and  prosper  in 


THE  SCROLL.  231 

the  university,  the  oldest  of  which  is  Phi  Delta  Theta,  which 
was  established  in  1883.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon,  Kappa  Sigma,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Chi  Phi, 
Sigma  Nu,  Phi  Phi  Phi,  Alpha  Tau  Omega  have  chapters 
here.  Unlike  the  custom  in  some  colleges  the  spirit  of  fra- 
ternity life  does  not  encourage  large  memberships.  Kappa 
Sigma  has  seventeen  members,  while  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Phi 
Delta  Theta  have  fifteen  each.  The  other  fraternities  vary 
in  membership  from  fourteen  to  six. 

The  anti-fraternity  spirit  rarely  exists  here,  but  when  the 
lines  are  drawn  the  contest  between  the  fraternity  men  and 
the  *anti-frats'  becomes  very  bitter.  All  the  fraternities 
seem  to  look  with  disfavor  upon  anti- fraternity  fights,  and  it 
rarely  occurs  that  any  dispute  is  engaged  in  by  two  frater- 
nities. The  Greeks  all  seem  to  be  bound  in  some  kind  of 
relation;  if  a  man  joins  a  fraternity  all  fraternity  men  begin 
to  feel  more  kindly  toward  him  than  if  he  had  remained  a 
*  barbarian.* 

Fraternities  sometimes  play  an  important  part  in  college 
politics.  Frequently  two  or  three  fraternities  combine  to 
elect  one  person  from  each  fraternity  to  various  positions  ; 
each  fraternity  throws  its  strength  to  the  men  agreed  upon 
in  consideration  of  the  support  given  their  candidates. 

And  as  to  college  politics  there  is  very  little  to  be  said,  ex- 
cept that  the  allotment  of  honors  and  positions  is  generally 
planned  a  long  time  before  the  date  of  the  elections. 

Great  political  activity  is  noticeable  on  the  occasion  of  the 
election  of  a  Final  Ball  president.  The  Final  Ball  is  the 
great  social  event  of  the  year,  and  the  honor  of  presiding  on 
this  occasion  is  eagerly  sought  by  aspiring  society  heroes. 
All  the  fraternity  banquets  and  balls  are  given  during  com- 
mencement, and,  taken  all  in  all,  the  last  days  of  each  year 
are  spent  in  one  continual  round  of  gaiety.  Visiting  alumni 
and  distinguished  men  from  over  the  state  are  often  the 
guests  of  honor  on  these  occasions,  and  all  that  is  charming 
tends  to  make  glorious  the  closing  of  the  year.  The  climax 
of  all  these  festivities  is  reached  in  the  Final  Ball,  which  is 
the  society  event  of  the  whole  of  Texas.  On  the  last  evening 
of  the  college  year  the  grace  and  beauty  as  well  as  the  gal- 
lantry of  the  whole  state  assemble  to  do  honor  to  the  close 
of  the  session,  and  amidst  a  blaze  of  glory  the  curtain  falls 
and  another  college  year  is  ended. 

We  have  seen  the  university  as  it  is,  may  we  not  spend  a 
moment  in  contemplating  what  it  is  to  be  in  the  years  to 
come?     With  an  endowment  of  two  million  acres  of  land, 


232 


THE  SCROLL. 


which  is  yearly  increasing  in  value,  and  with  legislative  ap- 
propriations, the  university  will  soon  be  upon  a  basis  of  per- 
fect stability.  Each  year  the  number  of  students  is  increas- 
ing, thereby  necessitating  the  employment  of  more  professors 
and  instructors.  New  departments  are  being  added  and  the 
older  schools  are  being  strengthened;  in  fact,  a  spirit  of  life 
and  activity  pervades  the  whole  institution. 

With  the  consummation  of  the  plan  of  the  aihliatioD  of 
high    schools    will  come  such  an    influx  of  students  that 


T"M  J-  LEK,  TkxvS.  '!M. 

more  buildings  and  laboratories  will  have  to  be  erected,  f  A 
presid£^nt  keenly  alive  to  the  needs  of  a  growing  iustitntion 
and  loyal  alumni  all  over  the  state  are  constantly  making 
the  university  more  popular,  and  to  what  it  will  attain  in 
the  future  can  only  be  known  by  patient  waiting.  With 
all  of  these  advantages  and  with  milUous  of  people  and  the 
majority  of  the  Lone  Star  State  standing  beside  her,  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  will  ultimately  be  what  its  founders  de- 
sired it  to  be,  'a  university  of  the  first  class.' 

In  connection  with  this  sketch  of  the  University  of  Texas, 


THE  SCROLL.  233 

it  gives  Texas  Beta  great  pleasure  to  present  the  cuts  of 
three  of  her  prominent  alumni.  Brothers  Smith,  Lee  and 
Baker  were  all  thoroughly  identified  with  Phi  Delta  Theta 
affairs  while  in  the  college,  and  since  leaving  the  university 
have  not  forgotten  their  connection  with  the  fraternity. 

R.  Waverley  Smith  entered  the  university  in  18.S3,  and 
graduated  four  years  later  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  He 
was  a  charter  member  of  Texas  Beta,  and  was  the  chapter's 
first  president.  Great  responsibility  rested  upon  him  as 
president  of  the  infant  chapter,  and  to  his  judgment  and 
foresight  is  due  much  of  the  later  success  of  Texas  Beta. 

After  leaving  college  Bro.  Smith  studied  law  in  Galves- 
ton, Tex.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889  ;  he  is  now 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Scott,  Levi  and  Smith,  whose 
commercial  and  corporation  practice  is  quite  extensive.  In 
1895  he  was  elected  city  attorney  of  Galveston,  and  is  now 
holding  this  position. 

In  October,  1897,  Bro.  Smith  was  appointed  lecturer  on 
medical  jurisprudence  in  the  University  of  Texas  and  is 
now  serving  in  that  capacity  with  honor  and  credit. 

Tom  J.  Lee  was  a  prominent  fraternity  man  all  during 
his  university  career.  Having  taken  his  academic  degree 
he  entered  the  law  department  in  '92  and  graduated  with 
the  class  of  '94.  Bro.  Lee  still  takes  an  active  interest  in 
Phi  Delta  Theta  and  keeps  himself  informed  as  to  the  con- 
dition of  the  fraternity's  affairs. 

After  leaving  the  university  he  located  in  Waco,  Texas, 
for  the  purpose  of  practicing  his  profession.  Two  years  ago 
the  board  of  regents  appointed  him  agent  for  all  lands  be- 
longing to  the  university.  This  position  he  still  holds  to 
the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  regents. 

Rhodes  S.  Baker  is,  a  representative  Texas  Phi.  Gradu- 
ating in  the  law  class  of  '9(>,  he  located  in  Dallas,  Texas, 
where  he  has  since  practiced  his  profession. 

While  in  college  Bro.  Baker  was  not  only  the  guiding 
spirit  of  Texas  Beta,  but  was  prominent  in  many  depart- 
ments of  college  life.  He  was  editor-in-chief  of  the  I  ■ni- 
ifersity  of  Texas  Magazine  on^  term,  editor-in-chief  of  Cac- 
tus, '96,  and  represented  his  class  on  graduation  day. 

Bro.  Baker  begins  his  legal  career  with  flattering  pros- 
pects, and  Texas  Beta  predicts  for  this  young  Texan  a  long 
life  of  success  and  usefulness.  Texas  Beta. 


2  34  '^HE  SCROLL, 


OLD  FRATERNITY  RECORDS- 

In  the  years  from  L^NT  to  1.S92  iuclusive,  a  large  number 
of  fraternity  records,  mostly  old  letters,  were  published 
in  The  Scroll.  These  records,  which  bear  dates  from 
l'S48,  the  year  the  Fraternity  was  founded,  to  18()1>,  were 
collected  by  me  from  various  sources.  The  archives  of 
several  chapters  were  searched,  including  those  of  Indi- 
ana Alpha  and  Kentucky  Alpha,  which  contain  (or  did) 
many  Ohio  Alpha  papers. --^  Our  ever  loyal  founder,  Rev. 
Robert  Morrison,  I).  D.,  furnished  a  large  number  of  old 
letters  relating  to  the  early  years  of  the  Fraternity,  and  an- 
other large  quantity  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  correspondence  was 
obtained  from  Archibald  Wilson,  brother  of  John  McMillan 
Wilson,  deceased,  who  also  was  a  founder.  These  old  doc- 
uments are  intensely  interesting  to  members  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  and  they  throw  a  flood  of  light  on  the  history  of  the 
first  twenty  years  of  the  Fraternity. 

Since  the  publication  of  the  old  records  in  Thk  Scroll, 
I  have  collected  a  good  many  more,  relating  to  the  period 
subsequent  to  LSfJU.  Most  of  them  were  obtained  from 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  who  was  the  pioneer  Phi  in  Georgia, 
and  who  for  several  years,  beginning  in  1^71,  conducted  a 
very  extensive  fraternity  correspondence,  which,  fortunately, 
he  has  carefully  preserved.  I  have  not  been  able  to  obtain 
much  from  Charles  ().  Perry,  Charles  T.  Jamieson,  George 
Banta,  A.  Gwyn  Foster,  George  W.  Cone  and  Clarence  J. 
Reddig,  who  were  very  prominent  Phi  workers  in  the  '70's 
and  their  loss  of  old  correspondence  illustrates  how  papers 
of  historic  importance  are  liable  to  disappear,  unless  collect- 
ed and  preserved  in  a  safe  place. 

With  this  issue  of  The  Scroll,  the  publication  of  *  Old 
Fraternity  Records '  is  resumed,  and  the  new  series,  relating 
to  the  years  from  lS(;i)  to  1S78  inclusive,  will  be  printed  as 
space  will  permit.  It  is  not  claimed  that  the  records  of  the 
tliird  decade  of  the  Fraternity  are  as  interesting  as  the  rec- 
ords of  the  first  two  decades,  but  it  seems  very  desirable  to 


♦Ohio  Alpha  suspended  in  18o7.  Indiana  Alpha  was  'l^rand  Alpha,' or  presid- 
ing chapter.  1858^:  and  Kentucky  Alpha,  18flO-«R,  which  accounts  for  Ohio  Alpha 
records  coming  into  the  possession  of  these  chapters. 


THE  SCROLL.  235 

print  all  papers  which  help  to  fill  out  gaps  in  the  history  up 
to  1878,  when  The  Scroll  was  permanently  established.* 

Walter  B.  Palmer. 

1861). 

University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  Nov.  15,  ISGU. 
Mr.  S.  T.  Quick,  Bloomington,  Ind.,  Dear  Sir:  In  reply  to 
yours  of  the  8th  inst.,  I  am  sorry  to  inform  you  that  the 
Michigan  Alpha  of  ^  A  0  no  longer  exists.  Hoping  that  no 
other  chapter  may  suffer  the  same  fate,  I  remain,  yours 
truly,  J.  Wm.  Johnson. 

Your  letter  of  inquiry  is  received.  We  have  seven  active 
members,  besides  several  members  of  other  chapters  who  re- 
side in  the  city  and  meet  with  us.  We  are  in  fine  working 
order;  will  take  in  two  or  three  more  good  boys  soon.  Our 
chapter  is  the  *  Indiana  Eta  of  the  ^  A  0.'  I  am  one  of  the 
charter  members  and  formerly  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
Gamma  at  Northwestern  Christian  University,  Indianapolis. 
Our  boys  would  like  to  hear  from  Mother  Alpha. — Wm.  H. 
Wiley,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  to  S.  T.  Quick,  Indiana  Univer- 
sity, Nov.  18,  1S69. 

Franklin,  Ind.,  Nov.  30,  1809.  S.  T.  Quick,  Dear  Sir: 
My  attention  was  called  to  the  matter  about  which  you  in- 
quire on  last  evening,  and,  after  such  investigation  as  I 
have  been  able  to  make,  am  able  to  say  that  the  charter  of 
the  Franklin  chapter  is  not  to  be  found  at  this  time.  It  was 
organized,  I  think,  in  the  early  part  of  the  year  1858  or  1859, 
but  almost  immediately  thereafter  the  college  was  suspended 
and  nothing  was  ever  done.  Where  the  charter  is  I  have 
no  means  of  ascertaining.  There  are  two  members  of  our 
Fraternity  at  Franklin  College  at  this  time,  one  of  whom, 
Daniel  W.  Herriott,  is  extremely  anxious  to  organize  a 
chapter.  A  charter  having  already  been  granted  to  Frank- 
lin College  and  never  revoked,  it  strikes  me  as  unnecessary 
to  grant  a  new  one;  still  I  hardly  see  what  else  can  be  done 
in  the  absence  of  the  old  one.     There  is  a  Beta  student  here 


*Thb  Scroll  was  first  issued  in  January,  1875 :  it  suspended  in  September,  1876, 
•nd  it  was  not  published  a^ain  until  September,  1878.  Since  1878,  Thk  Scroll 
itself  supplies  a  very  good  history,  or  at  feast  the  material  for  a  \^vy  good  history 
of  the  Fraternity.  In  1886  a  complete  classified  index,  together  with  a  review,  of 
the  first  ten  volumes,  was  issued,  and  in  18}Mi  a  similar  index  and  review  of  the 
second  ten  volumes. 

Bach  chapter  should  delegate  some  member  or  a  committee  to  write  its  history, 
with  the  aid  of  documents  in  its  archives,  information  furnished  by  correspond- 
ent members,  and  a  file  of  Thk  Scroll.  The  two  ten-year-indexes  refer  to  tv- 
erything  of  importance  relating  to  each  chapter  that  has  appeared  in  The  Scroll 
since  the  first  issue.  Bach  chapter  should  endeavor  to  complete  its  file  of  the 
magazine.  Alumni  members  should  be  requested,  in  the  annual  circular  letters, 
or  in  personal  letters,  to  supply  missing  copies.  The  Fraternity  librarian  proba- 
bly can  famish  some  copies  that  may  be  needed. 


2^6  THE  SCROLL, 

at  this  time  and  the  Phis  apprehend  that  he  will  proceed  at 
once  to  the  organization  of  a  Beta  chapter.  I  trust  our 
members  may  in  some  manner  be  empowered  to  go  at  once 
to  work.     Yours  in  the  Bond,  D.  D.  Banta. 

Your  postal  of  27th  making  inquiry  in  regard  to  the  time 
I  joined  the  *  A  (s)  Fraternity  at  Indiana  Asbury  University, 
and  how  long  I  was  an  active  member  of  same,  is  at  hand, 
and,  in  reply,  will  say  that  I,  with  four  others,  viz. :  Charles 
O.  Perry,  Tom  Brant,  Dan  Elder  and  Dave  Floyd,  was  duly 
initiated  into  the  mysteries  of  said  order  February  25,  1S68, 
and  I  continued  an  active  member  of  same  until  within  two 
or  three  weeks  of  my  graduation,  which  occurred  the  latter 
part  of  June,  1>^6V).  I  can  not  say  positively  that  I  am  a 
member  of  the  *  A  0  Fraternity  at  this  time,  because,  about 
two  or  three  weeks  before  I  left  college,  I  became  dissatisfied 
with  its  workings,  or  rather  with  some  of  the  'boys*  in  it, 
and  told  them  I  did  not  intend  to  have  anything  more  to  do 
with  them,  or  the  Fraternity  either.  1  did  not  attend  any 
more  of  their  meetings,  and  never  heard  whether  they  took 
any  action  in  regard  to  me  or  not.  If  they  did  not,  I  sup- 
pose I  am  still  a  member;  if  they  did,  why,  I  am  not.  I 
wrote  to  Samuel  D.  Puett,  of  Rockville,  this  state,  several 
months  ago,  asking  him  whether  the  chapter  at  Asbury  had 
ever  taken  any  action  in  regard  to  me  for  conduct  already 
referred  to,  but  he  did  not  know  anything  about  it.  Mr. 
Puett  continued  in  school  the  next  year,  lSf)9-70,  and  it 
seems  strange  to  me  that  he  did  not  know  something  about 
it.  He  was  not  a  member  of  the  Fraternitv  at  the  time  I 
was,  but  joined  after  I  left  school.  John  R.  Miller,  who 
was  considered  a  charter  member,  though  not  present  at 
time  of  the  initiation  of  those  just  mentioned,  possibly  could 
tell  you  something  in  regard  to  my  case;  also  Jim  Nutt,  both 
of  Greencastle,  Ind.  Mr.  Nutt  belonged  at  Bloomington, 
the  State  University.  Messrs.  Mahan  and  Parsons,  of  the 
same  chapter,  granted  us  our  charter.  I  have  given  you 
the  facts  in  my  case,  and  I  am  willing  that  you  should  pass 
judgment  as  to  whether  I  am  still  a  member  of  the  ^  A  © 
Fraternity  or  not.  I  can't  say  that  I  am  or  that  I  am  not. 
My  idea  about  the  matter  would  be  that  I  am,  for  the  rea- 
son that  the  chapter  at  Asbury  did  not  do  any  good  after 
ISGO,  and  possibly  did  not  strike  my  name  from  the  roll  in 
consequence. — T.  C.  Bartl,  Alfordsville,  Ind.,  to  R.  C.  Dun- 
can, Washington,  Ind.,  April  oO,  1880. 


THE  SCROLL.  237 

1870. 

We  have  sought  long  and  in  vain  for  the  old  charter,  and 
at  our  last  meeting  it  was  voted  that  we  should  send  to  you 
for  a  copy  of  it.  We  hope  to  receive  it  as  soon  as  it  will  be 
convenient  for  you  to  send  it.  We  are  prospering  as  a  so- 
ciety very  well.  We  have  no  correspondent  members,  ow- 
ing to  the  recent  revival  of  the  college  from  a  slumbering 
state.  We  are  hoping  to  awaken  some  of  the  old  Phis  and 
hear  from  them  ere  long. — C.  H.  Hall,  secretary  Indiana 
Delta,  to  S.  T.  Quick,  Indiana  University,  Feb.  20,  1870. 

The  Ohio  Alpha  is  in  a  most  flourishing  condition  at  pres- 
ent, and  the  indications  now  are  that  the  chances  for  long 
life  are  better  than  ever  before.  We  have  just  moved  into 
a  new  hall  which  we  have  secured  after  long  waiting  and 
much  exertion,  and  are  now  making  an  effort  to  get  it  fur- 
nished in  good  style  before  the  convention  meets. — Harvey 
Lee,  Miami  University,  to  Indiana  Alpha,  March  14,  1870. 

To  begin  with  the  beginning:  I  received  a  letter  dated 
September  29,  1870,  from  E.  R.  Walker,  at  that  time  a 
student  at  Hanover,  Ind.,  inquiring  about  the  chances  of 
forming  a  chapter  of  the  *  A  0  in  Missouri.  After  some 
conversation  with  Randall  and  James  H.  Dryden,  Eugene 
Field  and  others,  at  that  time  students  in  the  university,  I 
answered  his  letter.  We  all  signed  the  Bond  of  secrecy, 
which  I  forwarded  to  Walker.  I  next  received  a  letter  from 
Walker  setting  out  more  fully  the  object  and  general  nature 
of  the  Order;  this  letter  bears  date  of  October  17,  1870.  He 
then  put  me  in  correspondence  with  D.  E.  Platter,  of  Ox- 
ford, Ohio,  from  whom  we  received  our  charter.  As  soon 
as  we  received  it  we  organized  with  the  above  named  per- 
sons as  members.  I  think  I  was  the  principal  officer  during 
the  first  year.  During  this  year  we  initiated  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Johnson  who  took  the  first  honors — Stephens  medal 
and  law  prize  in  the  class  of  1871. — Clark  Craycroft,  Joplin, 
Mo.,  to  Henry  W.  Clark,  Missouri  University,  Feb.  4,  1887. 

1871. 

I  was  not  aware  that  it  was  necessary  to  send  an  annual 
report  to  the  Alpha  of  the  state.  I  knew  it  was  in  the  Art- 
icles of  Union,  but,  as  we  had  never  complied  with  the  rule, 
we  presumed  probably  it  had  been  done  away  with.  I  think 
something  of  this  sort  is  necessary  to  prevent  errors  in  the 
future,  for  I  agree  with  you  there  are  a  good  many  errors 
in  the  catalogue  just  out. — J.  L.  Fletcher,  Recording  Secre- 


23^  THE  SCROLL, 

tary  Indiana  Epsilon,  to  Ed.  Mooney,  Indiana  University, 
Jan.  19,  1871. 

(Sub  Rosa. )  Roanoke  College,  Salem,  Va. ,  March  <>,  1871. 
Messrs.  Gaskill  and  McDowell,  Dear  Sirs:  Your  letter  dated 
February  24th  was  duly  received.  As  we  are  in  duty  bound 
to  inquire  diligently  into  the  merits  of  all  candidates  for 
membership,  I  wrote  immediately  on  the  reception  of  your 
letter  to  Dr.  Wills,  your  president  ( of  counse  without  stat- 
ing to  him  my  object),  from  whom,  I  am  happy  to  say,  I 
received  the  highest  recommendations  as  to  your  moral 
character,  etc.  At  our  next  meeting,  I  will,  therefore, 
place  your  application  before  the  Fraternity,  and  will  then 
make  application  to  the  Grand  Alpha  for  a  charter,  as  it  is 
not  in  our  power  to  organize  chapters  out  of  our  own  state 
without  their  direction.  Permit  me  to  say  that  wx  are 
proud  of  your  call,  and  hope  soon  to  hail  you  as  fraters.  I 
write  this  note  to  let  you  know  that  we  have  received  and 
are  favorably  disposed  toward  your  call.  In  a  day  or  two  I 
will  write  again,  giving  definitely  manner  of  procedure,  etc. 
Very  truly  and  sincerely  yours,  F.  H.  Terrill,  Secretary 
Virginia  Alpha,  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

(Confidential. )  Ohio  Alpha  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Mi- 
ami University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  March  12,  1871.  Mr.  Chas. 
B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  My  Dear  Sir:  This  morning  I  am 
in  receipt  of  your  communication  to  the  Virginia  Alpha  of 
our  Fraternity,  asking  that  a  college  of  the  said  Fraternity 
be  established  at  Oglethorpe  University.  From  the  papers 
enclosed,  your  institution  bids  fair  to  stand  high  in  the  list 
of  colleges;  and,  such  being  the  case,  there  will  probably  be 
no  difficulty  in  the  securing  of  your  wish.  Our  college  be- 
ing the  Grand  Alpha  of  the  United  States,  we  alone  can 
grant  you  a  charter.  But  before  we  do  this  some  prelimi- 
nary steps  must  be  taken  in  the  matter.  Enclosed  you  will 
find  a  pledge  of  secrecy,  which  if  you  will  sign  and  return 
to  us,  we  will  send  you  the  necessary  papers.  It  is  custom- 
ary to  send  a  man  to  establish  colleges,  but  your  distance 
from  us  is  so  great  that  the  expense  would  come  too  heavy. 
We  ask  you  first  to  give  us  thCvSe  pledges,  not  because  we 
doubt  your  honor,  for  in  that  case  we  would  pay  no  heed  to 
your  petition,  but  because  the  nature  of  the  case  demands 
such  precautions.  After  sending  us  this  pledge  wuth  your 
names  attached,  we  will  send  you  r.  copy  of  our  Bond  and 
Constitution,  which,  if  you  accept,  you  will  signify  the  same 
to  us,  and  this  wnll  constitute  you  members  of  the  Frater- 


THE  SCROLL,  239 

nity.  Then  you  can  send  us  a  petition  for  a  charter,  consti- 
tuting you  a  college  of  the  *  A  0,  the  form  of  which  petition 
we  will  send  you  in  due  time.  But  if  after  reading  the  Bond 
and  Constitution,  you  can  not  accept  them,  you  will  be  un- 
der obligation  by  your  pledge  to  return  them.  But  I  do  not 
fear  your  inability  to  accede  to  the  demands  of  the  Bond  and 
Constitution.  There  is  nothing  in  either  but  what  any  chris- 
tian or  gentleman  can  accede  to.  By  signing  this  pledge 
and  returning  it  immediately,  if  all  goes  well,  you  can  be 
ready  to  go  to  work  by  the  1st  of  April.  Hoping  that  I 
may  hear  from  you  at  no  distant  day,  I  am  most  sincerely 
yours,  D.  E.  Platter. 

Your  letter  dated  March  22d  has  been  received.  Bro. 
Platter,  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Alpha,  informed  me  in  his 
last  letter  that  he  had  sent  you  papers  to  sign,  and  if  you 
signed  them  he  would  immediately  send  you  the  Bond, 
Constitution,  etc.,  so  I  suppose  ere  this  you  have  been  duly 
initiated  into  the  mystic  order  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta.  I 
am  sorry  you  have  been  so  long  in  getting  your  charter,  etc. , 
but  it  could  not  be  avoided.  The  distance  being  so  great, 
we  could  not  send  a  member  to  your  college,  and  conse- 
quently, in  proceeding  by  letter,  we  had  to  be  very  careful. 
These  circumstances  I  know  you  will  appreciate.  Our 
chapter  numbers  fourteen  or  fifteen,  and  all  but  one  have 
pins. — F.  H.  Terrill,  Roanoke  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gas- 
kill,  Oglethorpe  University,  March  27,  1871. 

Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  March  29,  1871.  Breth- 
ren of  the  Georgia  Alpha  of  the  *  A  0:  Welcome  to  our 
fraternal  union.  With  pleasure  I  received  your  letter  of 
acceptance  this  morning,  and  I  hasten  to  greet  you  as  Phis 
of  the  *royal  blood.'  Already  I  am  proud  of  the  Georgia 
Alpha,  and  trust  that  ere  long  it  will  be  followed  by  the 
Georgia  Beta  if  there  is  room.  Now  that  the  feelings  gen- 
erated by  our  fratricidal  strife  are  dying  away,  I  want  to 
see  the  young  men  of  the  North  and  the  South  linked  closer 
together,  and  with  charity  and  brotherly  love,  together  put- 
ting their  shoulders  to  the  wheel,  and  together  rolling  along 
the  great  work  which  the  present  age  has  placed  upon  them. 
You  are  now  at  liberty  to  'swing  out*  your  badges,  and  if 
you  will  designate  to  me  the  number  you  want,  I  can  send 
them  immediately.  Our  grip  will  be  made  known  to  you 
when  we  send  you  your  charter.  Little  dependence  can  be 
put  on  grips,  because  they  are  almost  invariably  discovered. 
If  you  wish  to  swing  out  before  getting  your  badges,  you 


240  THE  SCROLL. 

can  come  out  in  our  colors,  which  are  blue  and  white.  Get 
the  Greek  letters  *  A  0  printed  on  the  white  ribbon,  and 
pin  to  the  lapel  of  your  vest.  The  effect  would  be  better 
though,  perhaps,  if  you  should  wait  for  your  badges,  then 
swing  both  together.  The  badge  is  a  sure  sign  of  recogni- 
tion, whereas  the  grip  can  be  counterfeited  if  discovered. 
Chapters  are  sometimes  compelled  to  adopt  their  own  grips. 
All  further  information  will  be  forwarded  with  your  charter. 
I  am  glad  you  will  have  a  place  in  which  to  meet,  because  a 
nice  hall  presents  many  attractions  to  members.  We  have 
adopted  the  plan  of  each  class  of  graduates  having  their 
pictures  framed  and  hung  in  our  hall.  I  will  send  you  a 
catalogue  of  our  Fraternity,  which  will  tell  you  where  to 
find  your  brothers.  Besides  the  chapters  mentioned  in  the 
catalogue,  there  are  two  strong  chapters  in  Illinois,  founded 
this  year.  One  is  at  Monmouth  College,  and  the  other  at 
Knox  College,  Galesburg,  111.  The  Missouri  Alpha  is  now 
strong,  and  the  Ohio  Beta  has  twenty  members.  In  the 
next  issue  I  shall  be  proud  to  see  the  Georgia  Alpha.  If  you 
have  friends  or  acquaintances  at  any  other  southern  institu- 
tions, please  let  me  have  their  names  and  addresses.  Our 
national  convention  meets  at  Indianapolis,  with  the  Gamma 
of  that  state,  on  the  second  Wednesday  of  May  next.  J.  Z. 
Moore,  a  young  and  talented  lawyer  of  Kentucky,  will  de- 
liver the  oration,  and  Rev.  J.  M.  Oldfather  the  poem.  By 
writing  to  Beeler  &  Curry,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  you  can  get 
paper  of  any  kind  or  quality,  stamped  with  our  design  as 
you  see  on  the  catalogue,  either  in  the  paper  or  in  ink  as 
you  prefer.  Hoping  that  prosperity  is  in  store  for  you,  I 
subscribe  myself,  most  sincerely  your  brother  in  the  Bond, 
D.  K.  Platter. 

We  are  glad  to  hear  you  are  prospering  so  well.  You 
certainly  have  been  doing  good  work  to  get  eight  men  in 
your  chapter  in  so  short  a  time.  You  now  have  more  men 
than  we  have.  At  the  first  of  the  session  we  numbered  four- 
teen. Two  since  then  have  left  the  college;  we  expelled 
two  in  the  last  week  or  two  for  immorality  (drunkenness  and 
profanity ) ,  and  we  compelled  four  others  to  resign  because 
we  disliked  to  expel  them.  So  you  see  we  have  had  a  quite 
exciting  time  in  the  Virginia  Alpha  lately.  I  enclose  a 
picture  of  the  Fraternity  taken  last  year,  which  you  can 
look  at  and  return,  as  it  is  the  only  copy  I  have  on  hand. 
This  is  the  way  we  have  our  picture  taken.  If  you  can  we 
would  like  for  you  to  have  yours  taken  in  the  same  way. 


THE  SCROLL,  241 

It  cost  us  about  two  dollars  apiece. — F.  H.  Terrill,  Roanoke 
College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  April 
20,  1871. 

This  morning  I  ordered  four  badges  engraved  as  you  de- 
sire, and  will  send  them  by  express  in  a  few  days.  Why 
don't  you  send  your  application  for  a  charter?  I  sent  you 
the  form  among  the  former  papers.  Sign  and  send  it  to  us; 
then  we  will  grant  you  a  charter,  and  also  send  you  full  in- 
structions in  regard  to  establishing  chapters.  To  the  Alpha 
chapter  of  each  state  is  entrusted  the  power  of  establishing 
other  chapters  in  that  state  and  granting  charters  to  the 
same.  But  till  you  get  your  own  charter  you  can  not  go 
ahead.  Certainly  if  you  have  a  good  opening  at  Franklin 
(literary  department  of  the  University  of  Georgia,  called 
Franklin  College. — W.  B.  Palmer),  by  all  means  establish  a 
chapter,  but  send  for  your  own  charter  first,  because,  until 
you  receive  that,  you  are  not  a  chapter  of  the  <^  A  0  accord- 
ing to  the  rules  and  Articles  of  Union.  You  can  be  busy 
ascertaining  what  can  be  done  at  the  State  University,  and, 
as  you  are  not  very  distant,  it  would  be  best  for  you  to  send 
a  man  when  you  get  ready  for  operations. — D.  K.  Platter, 
Miami  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, April  22,  1871. 

As  it  is  probable  that  some  important  changes  will  be  made 
in  the  Articles  of  ITnion  at  the  convention,  which  meets  this 
week,  I  will  defer  sending  them  till  I  return.  If  you  wish 
to  establish  a  chapter,  proceed  in  the  same  manner  we  did 
with  you.  I  will  write  you  immediately  on  my  return  from 
the  convention.  I  will  send  your  charter  to-morrow. — I).  E. 
Platter,  Miami  University,  to  Charles  B.  Ciaskill,  Oglethorpe 
University,  May  8,  1871. 

University  of  Georgia,  Athens,  May  10, 1871 .  Mr.  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Dear  Sir:  Your  communication  of 
9th  inst.  was  received  this  afternoon,  and  its  contents  duly 
considered.  I  shall  keep  inviolably  the  trust  committed  to 
my  charge,  and  if  you  succeed  in  establishing  your  Frater- 
nity here,  I  hope  you  may  never  regret  having  imposed  this 
confidence  in  me.  I  think  we  have  plenty  of  nice  young 
men  to  constitute  a  respectable  brotherhood  at  'Old  Frank- 
lin,* though  there  are  four  secret  societies  already  here. 
The  new  one,  of  which  I  spoke  in  my  last  to  Mr.  Smith, 
came  out  last  Sunday  morning.  I  suppose  it  is  a  chapter  of 
a  regular  organized  society.  The  letters  on  the  badge  are 
*  r  A.     Hoping  to  hear  from  you  soon,  and  trusting  that 


242  THE  SCROLL. 

'all  things  may  work  together  for  good,*  I  am  most  respect- 
fully, J.  M.  Mason. 

We  were  disappointed  in  not  having  your  chapter  repre- 
sented at  the  convention.  I  send  you  a  copy  of  the  Indi- 
anapolis Journal  giving  a  brief  account  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  convention.  However,  the  'woman  question,'  which 
the  Journal  says  was  postponed  until  our  next  convention, 
was  'quashed'  on  the  last  day  of  this  convention.  You  will 
receive  the  minutes  of  the  convention  as  soon  as  the  secre- 
tary of  Grand  Alpha  can  transcribe  them.  The  grip  has 
been  changed,  and  pass  words  instituted,  all  of  which  you 
will  receive  in  due  time,  as  it  was  thought  best  not  to  com- 
mit them  to  paper.  In  a  word,  the  convention  was  a  de- 
cided success,  and  I  think  that  from  this  convention  will 
date  the  rapid  advancement  of  the  Fraternity.  Steps  were 
taken  to  organize  chapters  in  the  leading  colleges  of  the 
east.  Let  us  hear  from  you  soon.  Write  to  the  different 
chapters,  especially  the  following:  Illinois  Gamma,  (xales- 
burg,  111.;  Ohio  Gamma,  address  George  Florea,  Delaware, 
Ohio;  Georgia  Alpha,  Atlanta,  (la. — A.  B.  Thrasher,  Sec- 
retary Indiana  Gamma,  to  Kentucky  Alpha,  May  lo,  ISTl. 

In  reply  to  your  letter,  I  beg  to  say  that  there  are  several 
secret  societies  already  in  existence  here.  I  regret  that  I 
can  not  comply  with  your  wishes,  but  I  do  not  think  it  ad- 
visable to  consent  to  the  organization  of  any  new  society  of 
this  kind. — Andrew  A.  Lipscomb,  President  I^niversity  of 
Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill  and  Robert  N.  Smith,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  May  2'),  1S71. 

I  am  glad  that  your  club  selected  Mr.  Mason  to  manage 
affairs,  not  because  I  did  not  feel  inclined  to  accept  the  posi- 
tion ( for  I  would  have  accepted  it,  and  would  have  done  all 
in  my  power  to  please  you),  but  then  I  think  Mr.  Mason  is 
more  competent  to  fill  the  position  than  I  am,  both  on  ac- 
count of  his  age  and  influence;  and  I  do  not  think  your 
club  could  have  chosen  a  person  more  worthy  of  the  position 
or  one  that  would  fill  it  better  than  Mr.  Mason  can  if  he 
will,  and  Mr.  Clayton  writes  me  that  Mason  is  willing  to  do 
all  in  his  power.  I  will  see  Mr.  Mason  to-day  if  possible 
and  offer  my  assistance.  If  anything  is  to  be  done  it  ought 
to  be  commenced;  these  other  clubs  are  increasing  gradu- 
ally. I  have  spoken  to  only  one  of  my  friends  on  the  subject 
and  I  think  he  will  help  me. — Kdward  I.  Smith,  University 
of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University, 
May  20,  1S71. 


THE  SCROLL.  243 

I  saw  Mason  and  told  him  what  you  said  in  regard  to  es- 
tablishing a  chapter  here,  and  I  succeeded  in  persuading 
him  to  work  with  me,  and  we  have  together  been  able  to 
get  six  of  our  friends,  who  we  think  are  deserving  men,  to 
join  us.  After  we  get  our  chapter  once  established  we 
will  be  able  to  take  in  more.  If  you  still  desire  to  establish 
a  chapter  of  your  Fraternity  at  our  university,  please  send 
the  necessary  papers  immediately,  and  directions  to  com- 
mence. By  that  means  you  may  be  able  to  prevent  the  ex- 
pense it  would  necessarily  take  in  sending  a  man. — Edward 
I.  Smith,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  May  ol,  1871. 

I  forward  to  you  by  this  mail  a  copy  of  the  constitution 
of  the  *  A  0,  as  revised  at  our  late  convention  held  at  In- 
dianapolis.    You  will  observe  that  the  Bond  has  not  been 
altered,  but  the  constitution  has  been  thoroughly  revised, 
and  the  Articles  of  Union  have  been  merged  into  it.     I  did 
not  fill  out  in  full  the  forms  appended  to  the  constitution  in 
regard  to  application  for  charter,  etc.,  as  they  remain  the 
same  as  before,  and  you  can  fill  them  out  in  full  when  you 
transcribe  them  into  a  book.     The  grip  and  signs  of  recogni- 
tion have  been  changed ,  and  it  was  ordered  not  to  have  them 
put  in  writing;  so  I  can  not  communicate  them  to  you  by 
letter,  but  will  endeavor  to  make  you  acquainted  with  them 
as  soon  as  possible  in  some  manner  or  other.     We  have  not 
received  the  minutes  of  proceedings  of  the  convention  as 
yet  for  some  reason,  but  as  soon  as  received  will  send  you  a 
copy.     Our  next  convention  meets  with  the  Indiana  Alpha 
chapter  at  Bloomington.     I  send  you  a  list  of  our  chapters 
with  their  addresses,  and  hope  you  will  make  it  a  point  to 
carry  on  a  correspondence  with  them,  as  I  believe  it  adds 
much  to  the  interest  of  our  society  to  have  a  regular  corre- 
spondence between  all  our  chapters:     Ohio  Alpha,  Oxford, 
J.  H.  Gilmore;  Ohio  Beta,  Athens,  H.  W.  Coultrop;  Ohio 
Gamma,  Delaware,  G.  C.  Florea;  Indiana  Alpha,  Blooming- 
ton,  Ed.  Mooney;  Indiana  Beta,  Crawfordsville.  R.  O.  Post: 
Indiana  Gamma,  Indianapolis,  J.   B.   Dill;  Indiana  Delta, 
Franklin,  G.  M.  Lambertson;  Indiana  Epsilon,  Hanover,  E. 
B.  Walker;  Indiana  Zeta,   Greencastle,  Tom  Hartley;   In- 
diana Eta,  Terre  Haute,  John  Gordon;  Kentucky  Alpha, 
Danville,  A.  W.  Ringland;  Virginia  Alpha,   Salem,  D.  B. 
Floyd;  Georgia  Alpha,   Atlanta,   C.    B.   Gaskill;    Missouri 
Alpha,  Columbia,  Clark  Cravcroft;  Illinois  Alpha,  Chicago, 
F.  A.  Smith;  Illinois  Beta,  Monmouth,  H.  J.  Bigger;  Illi- 


244  THE  SCROLL, 

nois  Gamma,  Galesburg;  Iowa  Alpha,  Mt.  Pleasant.  I  do 
not  know  the  addresses  of  the  Illinois  Gamma  and  Iowa  Al- 
pha, as  they  have  just  been  established.  I  am  at  present 
recording  secretary  of  our  chapter.  I  am  of  the  class  of  '72, 
but  as  I  do  not  propose  returning  here  next  year,  I  give  you 
the  name  of  Bro.  Gilmore  as  recording  secretary.  Please 
let  me  hear  from  you  as  soon  as  you  receive  this,  as  I  shall 
feel  anxious  to  know  whether  you  receive  the  paf)ers  safely. 
— Francis  K.  Raymond,  Miami  University,  to  Charles  B. 
Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  June  2,  ISTI. 

Our  membership  at  present  is  not  very  large,  numbering 
only  seven.  At  the  first  session  we  had  the  popular  man  of 
the  college,  H.  J.  Bigger,  but  he  left  Hanover  and  w^ent  to 
Monmouth,  and  established  chapters  at  Monmouth  and 
Galesburg,  111.,  and  one  in  Iowa.  He  has  been  doing  a  big 
thing  for  us.  The  <^  F  As  at  Monmouth  have  gone  to  smash, 
and  the  ^  A  (-)  took  in  some  of  their  best  men.  We  are 
growing  as  a  Fraternity  very  rapidly.  At  the  opening  of  the 
year,  there  were,  I  think,  but  thirteen  chapters,  and  now 
we  have  at  least  tw^enty-one  chapters  in  different  parts  of 
the  Union,  and  at  least  ten  Alpha  chapters.  I  am  glad  I  was 
so  fortunate  as  to  get  in  a  society  of  this  kind  and  such  a 
good  one. — CharlesT.  Jamieson,  Hanover  College,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  June  o,  ISTl. 

We  held  our  first  meeting  on  last  Monday  night.  We 
opened  with  seven  men.  Temporary  officers  were  elected, 
to  hold  their  offices  until  the  next  meeting,  w^hich  will  take 
place  as  soon  as  we  receive  the  other  necessary  papers  from 
you.  Mr.  Clifford  Clayton — as  he  was  elected  temp>orary 
secretary — wrote  to  Tom,  and  sent  him  a  copy  of  the  Bond, 
wuth  the  names  of  the  club  affixed.  He  sent  it  by  registered 
letter;  please  reply  to  it  and  send  the  other  papers  immedi- 
ately. We  desire  working  in  private  until  we  obtain  all  the 
good  men  left;  then  we  will  come  out  in  force  and  surprise 
the  natives. — Edward  I.  Smith,  University  of  Georgia,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  June  S,  iSTl. 

We  were  somewhat  surprised  to  hear  that  we  had  been 
discovered.  They  can  kfwit'  nothing  about  us,  conjeciure 
what  they  please.  Bro.  Mason  has  been  quite  unwell,  but 
I  hope  he  ma^^  be  out  by  vSaturday  night.  We  are  anxious 
that  you  should  send  on  everything  before  that  time,  as  we 
will  get  in  some  new  members  shortly. — Charles  M.  Beck- 
with,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  June  13,  1S71. 


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As  you  have  all  the  facts  of  our  proceedings  from  our  act- 
ing secretary,  it  would  be  useless  for  me  to  recapitulate. 
We  designed  last  Saturday  night  for  our  first  regular  meet- 
ing, at  which  time  we  intended  to  elect  officers  preparatory 
for  working,  but  as  I  was  unwell  and  did  not  meet  with  the 
body,  it  did  not  elect,  but  decided  to  meet  again  next  Sat- 
urday night,  by  which  time  the  committee,  if  possible,  will 
obtain  a  hall,  our  meetings  heretofore  having  been  held  in 
one  of  the  brothers*  room.  We  have  some  very  nice  boys 
in  view,  some  of  whom  we  expect  to  get  in  next  Saturday 
night.  We  are  doing  the  best  we  can  under  the  circum- 
stances, and  will  be  glad  at  any  time  to  receive  instructions, 
advice,  etc.,  from  your  chapter  or  you  individually. — J.  M. 
Mason,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  June  13,  1^71. 

We  were  rejoiced  to  learn  of  such  splendid  successes  we 
are  having  through  the  instrumentality  of  energetic  and  en- 
thusiastic Phis  in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Hardly  a 
letter  has  come  to  us  without  the  news  of  some  new  chapters 
being  formed  or  in  contemplation.  We  knew  there  was  a 
Georgia  Beta  in  contemplation,  but  when  we  received  the 
news  to-night  of  a  Georgia  Gamma  we  were  greatly  and 
pleasantly  enough  surprised.  Instead  of  pushing  gradually 
south,  we  have  made  a  bold  and  sudden  leap,  and  w^e  hope 
by  combining  our  northern  and  southern  forces  to  fill  up  the 
gap  that  now  intervenes  between  them.  In  establishing 
chapters  our  policy  should  be  to  locate  them  in  only  good 
colleges  and  to  take  in  none  but  the  best  of  men. — Charles 
T.  Jamieson,  Hanover  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  June  K^,  1871. 

Yours  of  the  i)th,  7th  and  i^th  received,  also  one  to  Bro. 
Allen,  of  the  8th.  I  heartily  congratulate  the  Georgia  Al- 
pha upon  her  success  in  establishing  the  Georgia  Beta  and 
Gamma,  and  sincerely  trust  that  they  may  prove  themselves 
worthy  members  of  the  4>  A  0  Fraternity.  I  forward  you 
by  this  mail  six  catalogues  of  our  Fraternity,  which  you  can 
distribute  among  the  boys  as  you  think  best.  You  would 
probably  better  forward  one  each  to  your  Beta  and  Gamma 
chapters.  At  the  convention  it  was  ordered  that  all  of  our 
badges  should  be  made  at  Indianapolis  hereafter,  hence  I 
can  not  order  any  more  made  here.  Those  which  I  send 
you  are  some  the  jeweler  had  on  hand,  and  we  promised  to 
dispose  of  them  for  him.  The  object  in  having  them  all 
made  in  one  place  is  to  have  them  all  of  uniform  size.     I 


246  THE  SCROLL. 

prefer  the  small  to  the  large  size.  I  am  sorry  to  hear  of  the 
state  of  affairs  at  Chicago.  I  have  not  heard  officially  from 
them  since  the  convention,  but  presume  I  shall  hear  soon, 
as  I  have  written  to  Bro.  F.  A.  Smith.  In  regard  to  stand- 
ing in  class  of  our  boys  in  the  senior  class,  I  would  say  that 
of  the  four  Phis  only  two  were  eligible,  the  other  two  being 
absent  from  college  more  than  six  weeks  during  their  last 
two  years  and  hence  not  eligible  to  honors.  Bro.  Surface 
took  the  second  honor,  and  all  four  of  the  boys  are  permitted 
to  speak  on  commencement,  which  is  considered  quite  an 
honor.  We  have  not  received  the  minutes  of  the  conven- 
tion from  Indiana  Gamma  yet,  although  we  have  written 
them  concerning  it  three  times.  If  we  do  not  receive  them 
soon  we  will  not  forward  them  to  you  until  next  fall,  as  I 
presume  your  college  will  be  closed. — Francis  K.  Raymond, 
Miami  ITniversity,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, June  H,  1871. 

We  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  procure  an  old  school- 
house  for  our  place  of  meeting.  It  is  in  a  retired  portion  of 
town,  and  is  one  of  the  best  places  we  could  po.ssibly  have 
obtained.  We  hold  our  next  meeting  to-morrow  night.  W^e 
have  only  seven  members  at  present;  we  expect  to  get  four 
more  soon.  Bro.  Mason  has  been  sick,  but  we  think  he  will 
be  able  to  meet  us  to-morrow  night.  I  saw  the  badge  you 
.sent  Beckwith,  and  I  think  it  is  beautiful. — Kdward  J.  Smith, 
University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe 
University,  June  1(>,  1^71. 

We  looked  for  our  charter  last  week  but  it  did  not  come. 
We  did  nothing  vSaturday  night  but  read  the  constitution 
and  appoint  a  committee  to  draw  up  a  code  of  by-laws. — J. 
M.  Mason,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Oglethorpe  University,  June  l^.^  1S71. 

I  will  speak  first  of  that  which  no  doubt  interests  3'ou 
most — the  Beta.  It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  state  that  on 
last  Saturday  evening  we  initiated  into  our  mystic  order  two 
young  men,  both  of  the  very  highest  standing:  Mr.  Pea- 
body,  of  the  senior  class,  who  is,  by  the  way,  a  student  of 
the  ministry,  and  Mr.  Bibb,  of  the  high  school,  who  will 
enter  the  sophomore  class  next  term.  This  raises  our  num- 
ber to  nine.  Mr.  Dupree,  of  the  senior  class,  has  consented 
to  become  one  of  us.  He  is  a  man  of  the  highest  moral 
character  and  stands  high  in  his  class.  We  hope  to  raise 
our  number  to  twelve  this  term.  We  can  not  hope  to  take 
many  honors  this  term,  on  account  of  our  starting  so  late; 
next  term  will  show  what  we  are.     livery  man  is  perfectly 


THE  SCROLL.  247 

devoted  to  the  order,  and  I  can  safely  say  the  *  A  0  society 
will  never  be  ashamed  of  any  of  us.  We  have  not  been  re- 
fused by  a  single  man,  unless  he  had  made  up  his  mind  to 
connect  himself  with  no  secret  society,  or  else  had  made 
positive  promises  to  others. — Charles  M.  Beckwith,  Univer- 
sity of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Univer- 
sity, June  25,  1871. 

We  received  the  badges  and  letters  to-night,  and  notwith- 
standing the  advice,  we  have  decided,  for  reasons  that  we 
think  good,  to  wait  until  all  that  have  ordered  badges  have 
received  them  before  we  'come  out.' — R.  S.  Saulsbury,  Km- 
ory  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University, 
June2G,  1871. 

We  are  looking  anxiously  for  our  badges.  So  soon  as 
they  arrive  we  will  come  out.  It  will  be  a  great  surprise 
to  many  outsiders:  they  have  no  idea  of  our  number  and 
strength. — Charles  M.  Beckwith,  University  of  Georgia,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  July  11,  1871. 

I  merely  write  to  ask  you  something  about  our  badges; 
please  tell  me  exactly  when  they  will  be  here.  I  hope  most 
sincerely  that  they  will  not  be  delayed  one  moment  longer 
than  what  is  absolutely  necessary.  We  are  very  impatient  to 
swing  out  our  colors.  Do  write  to  Bro.  Dill  again,  and  tell 
him  to  send  the  badges,  even  if  he  can't  get  them  here  until 
the  rSOth,  as  some  of  us  will  be  here  at  that  time  and  can 
forward  them  to  the  rest. — Charles  M.  Beckwith,  University 
of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University, 
July  19,  1871. 

Slay  ton  and  Lovejoy  have  come  out  as  Phis,  to  the  sur- 
prise and  displeasure  of  the  other  secret  societies,  for  Slay- 
ton  has  been  asked  this  term  by  the  Chi  Phis  and  Lovejoy 
by  the  Kappa  Alphas;  both  refused  and  joined  us  immedi- 
ately afterward.  We  have  as  good  a  stand  in  college  as  any 
secret  society  in  it. — Green  B.  Battle,  Emory  College,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  l^niversity,  Sept.  2,  1871. 

We  are  getting  along  first  rate.  Appointed  the  committee 
on  catalogue  at  our  last  meeting  and  hope  to  have  it  out  on 
time  this  year  and  more  complete  than  last  year. — J.  H. 
Gilmore,  Miami  University,  to  M.  T.  vScott,  Centre  College, 
Oct.  7,  1871. 

Bro.  Saulsbury  is  anticipating  a  trip  to  Macon  during  the 
fair  and  has  expressed  a  desire  to  establish  a  chapter  there. 
He  thinks  that  he  can  secure  little  Jackson,  formerly  a  stu- 
dent at  Emory. — B.  E.  Anderson,  Emory  College,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Oct.  12,  1871. 


24S  THE  SCROLL. 

Our  chapter  has  eight  members  back  this  term,  and  we 
think  of  initiating  several  more  before  long.  We  can  get 
about  whom  we  please  here.  Four  of  the  professors  are 
Phis,  two  in  the  law  college  and  two  in  the  literary.  We 
have  heard  from  most  of  our  Indiana  chapters  lately,  and 
they  were  never  in  a  more  flourishing  condition.  There 
has  lately  been  an  alumni  chapter  started  in  the  city  by 
the  resident  Phis,  most  of  them  lawyers.  Some  of  you 
write  to  the  Indiana  Kta  at  Green  castle,  Asbury  University. 
If  you  would  address  a  letter  to  Charles  A.  Murray,  Green- 
castle,  Ind.,  you  would,  I  think,  secure  a  very  interesting 
correspondent. — A.  B.  Thrasher,  Northwestern  Christian 
University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University, 
Oct.  li>,  1S71. 

Bro.  Robert  Saulsbury  left  Oxford  Wednesday  morning, 
prepared  to  establish  a  chapter  of  the  <l>  A  0  at  Macon  on 
one  condition,  and  that  was  that  he  could  get  good  men. 
I  think  he  will  succeed,  as  he  is  quite  popular  among  the 
Macon  boys. — B.  K.  Anderson,  Kmory  College,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Oct.  2(;,  IS71. 

Our  membership  is  eleven:  three  seniors,  two  juniors, 
one  sophomore,  and  the  rest  in  the  freshman  class.  This 
chapter  is  the  Eta;  the  Zeta  is  at  Hanover,  Ind. — C.  A. 
Murray,  Indiana  Asbury  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Oglethorpe  University,  Oct.  .SO,  1S71. 

We  came  here  this  year  with  only  three  members,  and  I 
am  sorry  to  say  that  we  have  only  four  now  at  college. 
Brothers  Hargrave,  Miller,  Tyree  and  myself.  W^e  will 
take  in  another  student  at  our  next  meeting.  Do  not  un- 
derstand that  we  are  discouraged.  We  will  make  a  desper- 
ate effort  to  rebuild  our  once  glorious  old  chapter  here.  We 
have  the  sign  of  recognition  and  grip,  which  I  received  from 
the  Indiana  boys  last  summer.  The  last  convention  deter- 
mined that  they  should  not  be  written  upon  paper,  there- 
fore I  can  not  send  them  to  you.  We  heard  from  some  of 
the  other  chapters  in  Georgia  that  you  were  anticipating 
establishing  another  chapter  in  your  state,  at  Mercer  Uni- 
versity. Mr.  Smith,  of  whom  you  spoke,  I  believe  is  there. 
—I).  Bittle  Kloyd,  Roanoke  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill. 
Oglethorpe  University,  Nov.  10,  1871. 

The  Illinois  Beta  sends  greetings  to  the  Georgia  Alpha 
and  reports  prosperity.  We  number  ten  members,  which 
we  think  doing  remarkably  well,  considering  the  fact  that 
we  have  three  other  fraternities  with  which  to  contend  in 
college.     The  Illinois  Gamma  at  Galesburg,  111.,  is  not  in 


THE  SCROLL,  249 

just  as  prospering  a  condition  as  it  should  be,  as  some  of  the 
members  of  last  year  did  not  return  this  session,  and  in  con- 
sequence left  it  rather  weak  as  regards  numbers,  but  strong 
in  Hope  and  energy.  Our  Iowa  Alpha  numbers  some  four- 
teen or  fifteen  members  and  is  flourishing  finely.  We  were 
greatly  pleased  to  hear  from  you  of  the  prosperity  of  the 
Georgia  Beta  and  Gamma. — H.  J.  Bigger,  Monmouth  Col- 
lege, to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Nov. 
11,  1871. 

We  have  lived  in  *  A  0  bonds  only  about  six  months. 
Our  chapter  is  strong,  numbering:  seniors  seven,  juniors 
six,  sophomores  two,  freshmen  one,  preparatory  two,  alum- 
ni four.  The  first  and  second  honors  of  the  senior  class  be- 
long to  <l>  A  0.  We  were  visited  a  few  weeks  since  by  two 
delegates  of  the  Illinois  Alpha.  We  had  a  never-to-be-for- 
gotten banquet.  The  B  0  II's  are  our  rivals  here. — Charles 
F.  Knowlton,  Iowa  Wesleyan  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gas- 
kill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Nov.  1'),  1871. 

*Tis  with  great  sorrow  I  am  compelled  to  rehearse  to  you 
the  sad  fate  of  our  chapter.  Three  weeks  ago  we  had  twelve 
boys  wearing  the  sword  and  shield;  at  present  not  any,  and 
only  four  who  are  still  true  to  the  Bond  which  we  accepted. 
There  was  some  dissatisfaction  on  the  part  of  some  of  the 
boys,  as  they  thought  the  others  were  not  doing  their  part. 
They  tendered  their  resignations,  which  caused  a  striking 
discord  among  the  rest,  and  they  all  resigned  save  four,  who 
say  they  will  stand  by  the  Bond  and  advocate  its  cause  till 
the  wheels  of  time  shall  cease  to  roll.  We  wrote  the  Grand 
Alpha  of  our  trouble,  and  they  sent  Mr.  Lee,  one  of  their 
best  alumni,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Darnell,  of  Greencastle, 
to  see  if  the  boys  could  not  be  reconciled,  but  their  labors 
proved  fruitless,  and  they  went  away  yesterday  and  left  us 
as  they  found  us.  The  names  of  those  who  are  still  Phis 
are:  E.  A.  Hamilton,  D.  A.  Chenoweth,  H.  G.  Bradford 
and  Beverly  Gregory.  We  are  now  going  to  work  secretly 
until  we  get  a  lot  of  good  men,  and  then  we  will  again  swing 
our  badges.  I  do  not  know  what  to  say  about  our  conven- 
tion, but  Mr.  Lee  .says  we  must  have  it.  here  now  by  all 
means. — Beverly  Gregory,  Indiana  University,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Nov.  "20,  1S71. 

As  to  the  chapter  in  New  York,  Bro.  Potter  has  simply 
been  laying  the  foundations  for  one  at  Cornell  University. 
It  will  probably  be  started  next  January  or  February.  It 
will  be  a  great  honor  to  us.  We  have  a  new  chapter  at 
Wooster,  Ohio.     The  men  necessary  have  l^een  initiated,  but 


250  THE  SCROLL, 

the  charter  has  not  been  procured.  Bro.  Robert  H.  Mc- 
Clelland is  the  founder.  He  has  taken  in  the  next  to  the 
best  senior  and  expects  to  get  the  best.  It  will  be  in  running 
order  by  the  first  of  next  term.  The  chapter  at  Ann  Arbor, 
Mich.,  is  not  fully  under  way  yet.  Bro.  A.  Dwight  Bald- 
win, late  of  the  Ohio  Alpha,  is  there. — Charles  T.  Jamieson, 
Hanover  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Univer- 
sity, Dec.  7,  1S71. 

I  request  chapters  and  individual  Phis  to  examine  their 
old  fraternity  papers,  and  to  loan  me  those  that  may  be  of 
interest,  or  to  send  me  copies  of  same,  or  of  such  portions 
as  are  of  importance.  The  materials  for  a  history  prior  to 
187«s  (when  The  Scroll  was  permanently  established),  are 
meager,  and  almost  any  letter  relating  to  <^  A  0  before  that 
time  would  be  of  value  in  filling  out  gaps  in  the  record. 
This  notice  does  not  apply  to  the  chapters  at  Miami,  Indiana, 
Centre,  Wisconsin,  Lafayette  and  Wooster.  whose  archives 
I  have  examined.  Walter  B.  Palmer,  Editor  of  the  History 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  '>11  South  Spruce  street,  Nashville, 
Tenn. 


ALBERT  LEONARD,  OHIO,  '88* 

Albert  Leonard,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D. ,  Ohio  Gamma,  'S.''^,  who 
has  entered  upon  the  duties  of  dean  of  the  college  of  liberal 
arts  and  professor  of  pedagogy  in  Syracuse  University,  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.,  w^as  born  at  Logan,  Ohio,  and  is  a  compara- 
tively young  man,  being  but  a  little  over  forty  years  of  age. 
His  preparatory  work  was  done  at  the  Ohio  Central  Normal 
School.  In  1S8.S  he  was  graduated  with  high  honor  from 
Ohio  University,  Athens,  Ohio,  having  completed  both  the 
classical  and  pedagogical  courses.  For  a  time  he  was  in- 
structor in  Ohio  University,  but  soon  became  principal  of 
the  high  school  of  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.  He  resigned  in  1893  to 
accept  the  principalship  of  the  high  school  of  Bingham  ton, 
N.  Y. ,  from  whence  after  four  years  of  successful  w^ork  he 
was  chosen  to  succeed  the  late  Dean  John  R.  French,  LL.  D. , 
of  Syracuse  University.  Dr.  Leonard  fills  this  difficult  posi- 
tion with  dignity  and  tact  and  has  already  won  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  all. 

The  degree  of  A.  M.  was  conferred  upon  him  /;/  ciirsu  by 
Ohio  University.  His  doctor's  degree  was  earned  from 
Hamilton  College  for  graduate  w^ork  in  English  literature. 
He  w^as  one  of  the  foimders  of  The  Journal  of  Pedagogy  and 
for  the  last  six  years  has  l:)een  its  sole  editor  and  proprietor. 
It  will  be  the  official  organ  of  the  department  of  pedagog>' 
of  Syracuse  University. 


2-^2  J  HE  SCROLL, 


Atf  ^  «tf 


A  CASE  OF  LIFTING  AT  WILLIAMS. 

The  S/iitid  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  gives  an  extended  and  in- 
teresting account  of  a  case  of  '  lifting,'  in  which  northern 
Kappa  Alpha  played  a  very  discreditable  part.  The  trouble 
was  caused  by  the  initiation  of  James  B.  Piatt,  by  the  Will- 
iams Chapter  of  Kappa  Alpha,  while  he  was  still  a  member 
of  Theta  Delta  Chi.  The  editor  of  the  Shield  states  the 
case  thus  : 

A  young  man  entered  collej^e,  and  during  his  freshman  year  did 
not  join  any  society.  He  received  attentions  from  all  and  bids  from 
some.  After  careful  deliberation,  he  decided  that  he  would  like  to 
join  Theta  Delta  Chi.  From  the  <leliberation  he  exercised,  he  ought 
surely  to  have  known  whether  the  move  would  be  satisfactory  or  not. 
For  a  time  all  was  well,  but  suddenly  the  boy  tendered  his  resigna- 
tion. It  was  not  accepted,  because  it  is  not  possible  for  a  man  to 
sever  his  connection  after  having  taken  the  vows. 

A  special   deputy  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Theta  Delta  Chi 

visited  Williamstown  to  investigate  the  matter  and  advise 

the  chapter,  or  'charge*  as  it  was  called.     The  following  is 

from  his  report  of  an  interview  with  Piatt : 

I  demanded  from  him  whether  he  had  any  complaint  against  any 
member  of  Theta  Delta  Chi.  He  said  that  he  had  no  fault  to  find 
wnth  any  of  them,  and  that  his  condition  was  simply  that  he  did  not 
believe  himself  worthy  to  be  a  member  of  the  fraternity,  as  he  could 
not  feel  for  it  that  enthusiasm  and  loyalty  which  he  should  give.  I 
then  (questioned  him  in  regard  to  his  associates  outside  of  the  charge. 
He  admitted  that  a  senior  named  Flock,  his  room  mate,  was  his  most 
intimate  friend.  Searching  in  this  for  Tlatt's  motive.  I  questioned 
him  very  closely  as  to  his  relations  with  T'lock  and  the  Kappa  Alphas, 
and  charged  him  with  the  purpose  of  joining  that  fraternity.  This 
he  repeatedly  and  emphatically  denied,  and  he  said  that  his  rela- 
tions with  the  Kappa  Alphas  and  Flock  had  nothing  to  do  with  his 
action  or  desires.  On  his  request  that  he  be  allowed  to  resign,  I  in- 
formed him  that  there  did  not  exist  in  the  fraternity  any  provision  for 
the  release  of  a  member  by  the  exceptancc  of  a  proffered  voluntary 
resignation.  Such  a  provision.  I  showed  him,  would  be  of  itself  a 
nullification  of  the  fundamental  law  of  the  fraternity. 

The  chapter  could  not  accept  Piatt's  resignation,  because 

the  laws  of  the  fraternity  forbade;  neither  could  it  expel 

him,  unless  he  had  committed  some  overt  act.     It  decided, 

however,  to  relieve  him  from  attendance  and  other  chapter 

duties;  therefore  the  following  agreement,  which  was  to  be 

made  public  in  college,  was  entered  into  between  him  on  the 

one  hand  and  the  chapter  on  the  other: 

Brother  James  B.  Piatt  offered  his  resignation  from  Theta  Delta 
Chi,  basing  it  upon  the  fact  that  he  was  totally  lacking  in  fraternal 
feeling,  and  that  he  felt  he  was  acting  the  part  of  a  hypocrite  in  re- 
maining a  member  of  the  fraternity  under  the  circumstances.     This 


THE  SCROLL,  253 

proffered  resignation  was  read,  but  was  laid  on  the  table,  and  not 
voted  on,  it  appearing  that  there  was  no  authority  under  the  law  of 
the  fraternity,  either  in  the  charge  or  in  the  grand  lodge,  whose  rep- 
resentative was  present,  to  accept  the  resignation  of  a  member  from 
the  fraternity;  that  expulsion  is  the  only  method  by  which  a  member 
can  cease  to  be  a  Theta  Delt;  that  in  order  for  Brother  Piatt  to  be  ex- 
pelled, and  so  sever  his  connection  with  the  fraternity,  the  commis- 
sion by  him  of  some  act  of  dishonorable  nature  would  be  necessary. 
Under  an  understanding  with  the  members  of  the  Iota  Deuteron 
charge,  Brother  Piatt,  at  his  request,  has  been  relieved  from  all  at- 
tendance, and  is  excused  from  wearing  the  fraternity  pin  and  from  all 
duties  to  the  charge;  but  the  friendly  relations  between  Brother  Piatt 
and  the  individual  members  of  said  charge  continue. 

Several  weeks  later,  one  P.  M.  Brown,  a  member  of  Kappa 

Alpha,  called  at  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  house  and  announced 

that  Piatt  had  been  pledged  to  the  Kappa  Alphas.    Of  what 

then  occurred,  Charles  H.  Davis,  Theta  Delta  Chi,  writes  : 

Brother  Kellogg  and  myself  called  on  Brown  and  asked  him  what 
they  were  trying  to  do  with  one  of  our  men.  He  said  that  he  was  not 
sure,  and  that  under  the  laws  of  this  commonwealth,  no  organization 
could  prohibit  a  man  from  resigning.  He  said  that  Piatt  had  told 
him  what  he  had  done,  and  that  we  had  practically  refused  his  resig- 
nation, and  that  he  (Piatt)  considered  himself  a  free  or  a  neutral  man. 
We  had  quite  a  few  words  of  less  importance,  but  told  him  that  we 
did  not  consider  Piatt  a  free  man,  and  that  he  7cas  still  a  member  of 
our  fraternity.  He  wanted  to  know  if  I  meant  to  call  Piatt  a  liar,  and 
I  told  him  that  Piatt  had  broken  his  word,  and  that  he  could  call  it 
what  he  wished  to.  Also  we  gave  him  to  understand  that  we  consid- 
ered that  the  Kappa  Alpha  society  had  broken  all  fraternity  laws  and 
etiquette  in  the  actions  they  had  taken  with  Piatt.  He  said  that  if 
Piatt  was  not  a  free  man,  that  was  for  us  to  settle  with  Piatt. 

Subsequently  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  chapter  received  the 

following  formal  statement  from  the  Kappa  Alpha  chapter  : 

After  due  consideration  of  the  statement  made  bv  the  Theta  Delta 
Chi  fraternity  in  relation  to  James  B.  Plait,  whom  the  Kappa  Alpha 
society  has  seen  fit  to  elect  to  its  membership,  this  society  would  state- 
that  its  members  have  arrived  at  the  decision  that  no  sufficient  reason 
exists  to  alter  their  action,  and  that  the  Kappa  Alpha  society  consid- 
ers James  B.  Piatt  an  entirely  free  man,  and  under  no  further  obliga- 
tions to  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity,  of  which  he  was  formerly  a 
member,  other  than  his  oath  of  secrecy.  The  principle  determining 
this  action  is  that  neither  the  dictates  of  precedents  nor  reason  justify 
the  hindering  of  any  man  from  revsigniiig  from  any  organization,  un- 
less under  oath  never  to  resign,  and  from  taking  any  subsequent  action 
he  might  choose  in  relation  to  any  other  organization. 

Referring  to  this  communication,  Charles  H.  Davis  writes: 

We  read  this  witli  some  care,  and  at  once  picked  out  the  last  sen- 
tence. We  thought  on  it  a  while,  and  then  went  over  to  the  Kappa 
Alpha  house.  We  asked  Brown  if  they  meant  what  they  wrote.  He 
answered  in  the  affirmative,  and  we  asked  him  if  he  did  not  consider 
a  man  bound  by  his  oaths.  He  said  yes,  and  that  a  man  would  be 
disbarred  to  break  them.  That,  you  see,  gives  their  idea  of  Piatt. 
Then  we  asked  him  if  they  would  continue  their  action  if  such  oath 


254  7 //A  SCROLL, 

existed.     He  said  yes,  and  added  that  it  was  a  matter  to  be  settled 
with  Piatt  and  did  not  concern  them. 

Piatt  then  wrote  to  Davis  as  follows  : 

The  main  reason  for  my  feeling  as  I  do  is  that  I  do  not  think  a  man 
can  be  forever  bound  to  a  mistake.  When  a  man  can  no  longer  carry 
out  an  oath  in  the  spirit  in  which  it  was  made,  I  think  he  is  no  longer 
bound  by  it,  or  if  he  is  technically  bound  by  it  he  is  justified  in  break- 
ing it.  But  this  matter  was  considered,  discussed  and  decided  over  a 
month  ago.  If  there  was  an  oath  breaking  it  was  done  when  I  with- 
drew from  the  fraternity.  I  do  not  see  that  the  present  question  is  at 
all  affected  by  it.  The  oath  was  not  that  I  should  never  join  any  other 
fraternity. 

After  quoting  this  letter,  Charles  H.  Davis  writes  : 

The  next  day  I  had  a  long  talk  with  Piatt,  and  told  him  that  his 
note  proved  nothing.  We  were  at  it  for  about  an  hour,  and  some  very 
plain  talk  came  out.  All  he  would  say  was  that  he  was  sorry  we 
looked  at  it  that  way  and  thought  him  a  liar.  I  told  him  that  no 
other  conclusion  could  be  drawn  from  his  actions  and  words.  That 
was  our  last  talk.  The  Friday  before  he  had  returned  his  pin.  A  few- 
days  afterward  we  heard  he  had  been  initiated  into  Kappa  Alpha,  and 
the  same  day  we  saw^  him  wearing  a  Kappa  Alpha  key.  We  consid- 
ered this  sufficient  evidence,  and  Monday  night,  December  l.'J,  we  ex- 
pelled him,  and  the  following  morning  sent  notices  to  that  effect  to 
the  other  fraternities. 

Commenting  on  the  whole  matter,  the  editor  of  the  Shield 

makes  the  following  just  observations  : 

The  course  followed  by  the  Kappa  Alpha  chapter  at  Williams  has 
been  dishonorable  to  themselves,  and  discourteous  to  our  Iota  Deu- 
teron  charge,  as  well  as  to  every  other  fraternity  represented  there. 
They  initiated  James  B.  Piatt,  knowing  him  to  be  a  member  of  Theta 
Delta  Chi,  upon  their  own  confession.  We  lack  words  to  express  our 
indignation  at  such  an  outrage  to  fraternity  courtesy.  It  is  not  often 
that  we  have  been  called  upon  to  suffer  from  this  evil.  It  is  an  abso- 
lute rule  with  Theta  Delta  Chi  never  to  take  into  membership  any  one 
who  has  been  a  member  of  another  college  fraternity.  It  is  true  that 
some  fraternities  do  accept  and  initiate  members  of  other  fraternities 
who  have  been  expelled  therefrom,  or  who  have  severed  their  connec- 
tion with  their  first  love,  so  far  as  it  was  in  their  power  to  do  so,  for 
the  express  purpose  of  joining  a  second.  How  long  are  the  governing 
bodies  of  reputable  fraternities  going  to  allow  such  things  to  happen? 
Were  such  practices  prevalent  in  any  considerable  degree,  member- 
ship in  a  fraternity  would  not  be  worth  a  row  of  buttons.  Reasoning 
on  common  sense  grounds,  it  ought  to  be  embodied  in  the  constitu- 
tion of  every  college  fraternity  that  no  man  could  belong  to  more  than 
one  fraternity,  and  that  no  fraternity  has  the  right  or  power  to  initiate 
any  man  who  belongs  to  or  has  been  a  member  of  any  other  college 
fraternity. 

The  editor  of  the  Shield  has  done  well  in  presenting  the 
facts  in  this  case  so  fully,  for  they  are  instructive  to  other 
fraternities.  Kappa  Alpha  has  brought  deserved  odium 
upon  herself  by  inducing  a  man  to  become  a  traitor  to  the 
fraternity  whose  vows  he  first  voluntarily  assumed  and  then 
basely  violated.  All  honest  men  in  all  fraternities  will  con- 
gratulate Theta  Delta  Chi  that  she  is  rid  of  such  a  renegade. 


THE  SCROLL.  255 


EDITORIAL. 
Annual  Alumni  Day,  March  15,  1898. 

The  subject  proposed  by  the  (ieueral  Council  for  discussion. 

Phi  Delta  Theta^s  progress  in  fifty  years  and  her  prospects 
for  years  to  come« 

The  increased  interest  which  alumni  Phis  show  for  the 
Fraternity  is  very  gratifying.  Unquestionably  there  has 
been  a  great  advance  in  this  respect  during  the  past  ten 
years.  There  are  now  many  correspondent  members  in 
every  section  of  the  country  who  not  only  evince  a  very 
strong  attachment  for  the  ^  A  0,  but  who  can  be  depended 
on  to  perform  any  duty  which  the  Fraternity  may  require 
of  them.  The  influence  and  strength  of  the  Fraternity  in 
large  measure  depends  on  her  loyal  sons  who  have  left  col- 
lege walls,  and  it  is  a  most  encouraging  indication  that  they 
are  more  numerous  now  than  ever  before.  Phis  generally 
have  learned  that  they  can  derive  not  only  great  social  en- 
joyment but  also  many  practical  benefits  from  continuing 
their  fraternity  associations. 

The  marked  increase  of  fraternity  spirit  among  alumni  is 
due  to  a  considerable  extent  to  the  establishment  of  Alumni 
Day  in  18S9.  The  reunions  held  annually  since  then  have 
awakened  the  loyalty  of  Phis  in  the  various  cities  where 
alumni  chapters  are  organized.  It  is  certainly  a  most  ad- 
mirable plan  to  gather  around  the  festive  board,  to  renew 
acquaintances  with  brothers  in  the  Bond,  and  to  recount  the 
deeds  of  those  to  whom  <I>  A  0^  is  indebted  for  the  great  pros- 
perity it  has  enjoyed.  However,  not  all  alumni  have 
adopted  this  custom.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  reunions  will 
be  held  this  year  wherever  there  is  an  alumni  chapter,  and 
even  where  only  two  or  three  may  be  gathered  together. 
Where  there  is  an  alumni  chapter  and  a  college  chapter  in 
the  same  city,  they  should  join  in  celebrating  the  birthday 
of  our  venerable  founder,  Robert  Morrison,  who,  on  March 


256  THE  SCROLL, 

lo,  189S,  will  complete  his  seventy- sixth  year.  Province 
Presidents  should  make  a  special  effort  to  organize  the 
alumni  in  cities  where  annual  reunions  have  not  been  held 
heretofore.  Once  the  custom  is  established  at  any  place, 
there  is  little  probability  of  its  discontinuance.  The  Scroll 
hopes  that  a  great  many  reports  of  pleasant  and  profitable 
meetings  will  be  forwarded  for  publication  in  the  next  issue; 
they  should  be  forwarded  promptly  to  insure  their  appear- 
ance in  the  April  number.  Every  college  chapter,  whether 
it  has  the  co-operation  of  neighboring  alumni  or  not,  should 
have  exercises  in  recognition  of  the  day  which  has  become 
so  important  in  our  fraternity  calendar.  The  ritualistic 
ceremony  for  Alumni  Day  can  be  used  this  year  for  the  first 
time. 


Do  NOT  neglect  the  men  who  failed  to  attract  your  atten- 
tion the  first  term  they  were  in  college.  Many  of  them 
would  make  good  Phis.  Every  year  men  enter  college  who 
at  first  do  not  appear  to  be  particularly  brilliant,  but  who 
develop  into  excellent  fraternity  material.  In  Scriptural 
phrase,  also  in  Masonic  language,  *  The  stone  which  the 
builders  rejected  is  become  the  head  of  the  corner. '  You  may 
be  a  good  judge  of  human  nature,  but  it  is  impossible  for 
you,  within  a  few  weeks,  or  even  months,  to  properly  appre- 
ciate all  the  good  elements  of  character  possessed  b}^  all  the 
new-comers  at  college.  Many  a  boy,  who  has  done  little 
good  during  his  freshman  year,  surprises  all  his  fellows  with 
his  improvement  in  sophomore  year,  and  some  who  stood 
low  the  first  year  graduate  near  the  top  of  their  respective 
classes. 

Therefore,  be  ever  on  the  watch  for  developing  talent. 
Do  not  rest  satisfied  because  you  initiated  a  good  delegation 
last  fall.  Do  not  be  content  if  there  are  any  good  men  yet 
to  be  obtained.  Do  not  wait  too  long  in  cultivating  the  ac- 
quaintance of  non-fraternity  students,  especially  if  rivalry  is 
close,  else  good  men  may  go  off  to  other  fraternities.  Con- 
stantly bear  in  mind  how  many  members  will  graduate  next 
commencement,  how  many  will  fail  to  return  next  fall,  and 


THE  SCROLL.  257 

how  many  members  there  will  be  at  the  opening  of  the  next 
collegiate  year,  making  liberal  allowance  for  those  who  will 
drop  out  of  college  unexpectedly.  If  your  chapter  is  first 
among  the  fraternities  at  your  college,  don't  take  any 
chances  of  occupying  third  or  fourth  rank  next  year,  on  ac- 
count of  numerical  weakness.  Don't  get  careless.  Don't 
be  indifferent  to  men  whom  you  were  inclined  to  overlook  at 
the  opening  of  the  ruishing  season.  Watch  them  closely,  for 
you  will  find  probably  that  some  of  them  are  not  so  unpre- 
possessing after  all.  Do  not  limit  your  chapter  member- 
ship by  any  arbitrary  number.  Maintain  a  high  standard 
for  admission,  and  be  sure  to  preserve  a  homogeneous  mem- 
bership, but  remember  that  a  large  chapter  is  stronger  and 
more  influential  than  a  small  chapter.  Always  keep  wide 
awake  for  the  interests  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  present  and 
future,  and  lastly  don't  get  too  conservative.  Many  a  fine 
chapter  has  been  wrecked  on  the  rock  of  ultra-conservatism. 


Phi  Delta  Theta  has  entered  upon  its  semi-centennial 
year,  and  this  fact,  it  seems,  should  supply  inspiration  for 
songs  or  odes  dedicated  to  the  Fraternity.  We  already  have 
an  excellent  collection  of  songs,  but  some  good  new  ones 
would  be  very  acceptable.  The  fourth  (189o )  edition  of  the 
song-book  contains  eighty-seven  songs,  the  production  of 
about  twenty  years.  Every  generation  of  Phis,  that  is  every 
college  generation  of  four  years,  should  provide  its  quota  of 
songs,  but  the  last  generation  or  two  has  done  scarcely  any- 
thing in  this  line.  It  really  seems  that  the  progress  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta  during  half  a  century,  and  the  prosperity  and 
prominence  the  Fraternity  now  enjoys,  furnish  a  splendid 
theme  for  additions  to  our  hymnology.  We  advise  rising 
Phi  poets  to  write  verses  inscribed  to  the  Fraternity,  adapt- 
ing them  to  familiar  airs.  It  would  be  better  to  select  other 
airs  than  those  to  which  songs  previously  written  are  sung, 
or  original  music  would  be  better  still.  The  Scroll  will 
gladly  give  space  for  any  creditable  verses  that  may  be  of- 
fered for  publication,  and  after  appearing  in  these  pages  they 
may  be  included  in  future  editions  of  the  song-book. 


25S  THE  SCROLL, 

The  'Old  Fraternity  Records,'  collected  and  edited  by 
Brother  Palmer,  and  published  in  previous  volumes  of  Thb 
vScROLL,  furnished  a  great  many  important  and  interesting 
details  regarding  the  first  two  decades  of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 
Whatever  may  happen  to  the  originals,  printed  copies  of 
them  will  remain,  and  will  be  valuable  for  supplementing 
the  history  of  the  Fraternity.  With  this  issue  of  The 
Scroll,  publication  of  these  records  is  resumed,  and  the 
new  series  will  embrace  the  third  decade,  from  l.S()9  to  1878. 
In  the  latter  3'ear,  Thk  Scroll  (first  published  in  1875) 
was  permanently  established,  and  a  file  of  the  magazine 
from  that  time  supplies  most  of  the  materials  needed  for  a 
history  of  the  fourth  and  fifth  decades. 

The  letters  written  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago, 
which  appear  in  this  issue,  tell  of  the  suspension  of  the  Ann 
Arbor  chapter  in  18()1)  (revived  in  1S87),  the  reorganization 
of  the  Franklin  chapter  in  ISfJO,  the  establishment  of  the 
Missouri  chapter  in  1870,  and  of  the  establishment  of  the 
Monmouth,  Knox,  Iowa  Wesleyan,  and  the  (Georgia  chap- 
ters in  1^71,  Mercer  not  being  chartered  until  1872.  Men- 
tion is  made  of  movements  that  led  to  the  establishment  of 
the  Wooster  and  Cornell  chapters  in  1872.  About  1-^70, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  entered  upon  a  wonderful  era  of  develop- 
ment, never  equalled  by  any  other  college  Fraternity. 
Some  of  the  old  letters  give  information  about  the  convention 
held  at  Indianapolis  in  1>^71,  when  the  constitution  was  re- 
vised, the  old  articles  of  union  being  merged  into  it. 

The  attention  of  readers  is  directed  to  the  last  paragraph, 
in  which  chapters  and  individual  Phis  are  requested  to  ex- 
amine their  fraternity  collections,  with  a  view  to  unearthing 
other  important  records,  copies  of  which  Brother  Palmer 
asks  to  be  sent  to  him.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  chapters  will 
adopt  the  suggestion  that  each  should  appoint  some  member 
or  a  committee  to  write  its  history,  with  the  aid  of  docu- 
ments in  its  archives,  information  obtained  from  alumni,  and 
a  file  of  The  Scroll,  complete  indexes  to  which  were  pub- 
lished in  188(>  and  1896. 


THE  SCROLL,  259 

The  Beta  Theta  Pi  for  February  contains  an  interesting 
discussion  of  the  question,  'Shall  the  alumni  or  the  under- 
graduates grant  and  withdraw  charters  ?  '  The  arguments 
in  favor  of  vesting  such  power  in  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  fraternity  alone  are  presented  in  the  following  condensed 
extracts: 

E\'er  since  our  fraternity  was  founded,  apparently,  the  most  im- 
portant subject  to  be  dealt  with,  it  seems  to  me,  has  been  that  of  the 
granting  and  withdrawal  of  charters  :  and,  during  the  fifty-eight  years 
of  the  fraternity's  existence,  this  matter  has  been  entirely  left  to  the 
judgment  of  the  undergraduate  members,  although,  at  the  present 
time,  the  alumni  outnumber  the  undergraduates  in  the  proportion  of 
nine  to  one.  At  times  during  the  years  past,  the  fraternity  has  been 
swept  by  alternate  waves  of  expansion  and  conservatism.  When  the 
wave  of  expansion  was  at  its  height,  every  petition  for  a  charter  was 
promptly  gjranted,  and  with  little  inquiry  into  the  real  merits  of  the 
applicants  or  the  standing  of  the  institution  from  which  they  hailed. 
Again,  when  the  spirit  of  conservatism  prevailed,  the  merit  of  the  ap- 
plicants and  the  standing  of  the  college  were  scarcely  taken  into  ac- 
count at  all. 

At  the  present  time,  as  for  the  past  twenty  years,  in  order  to  grant 
or  take  away  a  charter,  the  required  vote  must  be  so  nearly  unanimous 
that  the  combined  vote  of  a  few  chapters  only  is  needed  to  prevent 
the  granting  of  a  charter,  and  we  have  recently  seen  that,  similarly, 
when  a  few  chapters  combined  to  prevent  it,  no  charter  could  be  with- 
drawn, the  consequence  is  a  deadlock.  A  suflBcient  number  of  chap- 
ters are  of  the  opinion  that  no  new  chapter  should  be  established  ef- 
fectually to  prevent  any  growth  of  any  kind  in  the  fraternity,  and  a 
similar  number  are  equally  determined  that  no  chapters  shall  be  de- 
prived of  their  charters.  The  majority  of  the  chapters  holding  to 
neither  opinion,  and  desirous  of  a  healthy  growth,  and  the  cautious 
pruning  of  weak  branches,  are  powerless  to  affect  the  policy  of  the 
fraternity  in  either  direction. 

For  a  number  of  years  it  has  been  the  unwritten  law  of  the  fra- 
ternity that  the  administrative  officers,  such  as  members  of  the  board 
of  trustees,  the  chiefs  of  the  districts,  the  general  secretary,  general 
treasurer,  editor  and  business  manager  of  the  magazine,  should  be 
6lled  by  alumni.  The  board  of  trustees,  as  at  present  constituted,  is 
made  up  of  two  attorneys  in  active  practice,  a  chief  adjuster  of  a 
prominent  fire  insurance  company,  a  principal  of  a  high  school,  a  col- 
lege professor,  and  an  editor  of  a  daily  newspaper.  It  goes  without 
argument  that  tlie  judgment  of  these  six  men  is  apt  to  be  far  better, 
and  their  conclusions  sounder,  than  those  of  (>2  college  undergradu- 


26o  THE  SCROLL. 

ates,  from  as  many  different  colleges,  DO  per  cent,  of  whom  attend  a 
convention  but  once. 

As  the  board  of  trustees  has  a  reasonably  fixed  tenure  in  office,  it 
can  make  plans  for  a  considerable  time  ahead,  and  can  see  that  its 
plans  are  carried  out.  For  instance,  if  a  petition  from  a  growing  state 
university,  sure  in  time  to  become  a  large  institution,  were  under  ad- 
visement, it  could  say  to  the  petitioners  that  when  they  had  accom- 
plished certain  results — for  instance,  secured  a  certain  number  of  men, 
built  a  house  or  the  like  -then  they  would  receive  a  charter.  By 
making  such  definite  agreements  with  petitioners,  much  better  work 
would  be  accomplished,  and  the  petitioners  would  know  that,  just 
as  soon  as  their  part  of  the  contract  was  fulfilled,  they  would  be 
given  a  charter,  and  they  would  not  have  to  take  the  chances  of  an 
uncertain  vote  of  cliapters,  as  is  now  the  case.  The  board  of  trustees 
could  also  call  to  account  any  chapter  which  it  considered  was  below 
our  standard,  and  give  them  a  certain  time  to  improve,  or  accomplish 
certain  results,  or  their  charter  would  be  revoked.  The  result  would 
be  that  charters  would  be  granted  and  withdrawn  solely  upon  the 
merits,  and  not  because  neighboring  colleges  were  friendly  or  hostile, 
or  because  the  students  at  one  institution  were  said  to  be  more  'high- 
toned'  than  at  the  other.  Relevant  evidence  affecting  the  question 
would  always  be  acceptable. 

The  foregoing,  which  was  written  by  an  alumnus,  is  an- 
swered by  another  alumnus,  a  district  chief,  whose  main 
points  are  shown  in  the  following  condensed  extracts: 

To  begin  with,  the  fraternity  is  an  organization  of  college  men,  and 
primarily  of  students  in  active  college  affiliation.  The  percentage  of 
alumni,  as  compared  with  college  students,  who  take  an  active  interest 
in  the  fraternity,  will  be  found  to  be  about  in  the  reversed  proportion 
to  the  number  composing  the  two  classes — one-tenth  alumni  to  nine- 
tenth  students.  Therefore,  the  (question  of  where  we  are  to  have  chap- 
ters should  be,  to  my  mind,  as  it  is  now,  directly  subject  to  the  vote 
of  the  active  chapters  represented  at  the  convention.  The  college 
men  are  the  ones  who  have  to  come  in  the  closest  contact  with  the 
different  colleges,  and,  therefore,  the  places  where  we  are  to  be  repre- 
sented is  of  paramount  importance  to  them,  while  hardly  one  alumnus 
in  a  hundred  takes  the  trouble  to  ascertain  about  the  location  of  the 
several  chapters.  It  is  also  none  the  less  right  that  those  who  come 
in  contact  with  the  active  chapter  should  be  the  ones  to  judge  where 
and  when  a  charter  should  be  revoked. 

The  charge  that  some  chapters  are  prejudiced  and  vote  from  such  a 
standpoint,  certainly  can  not  be  taken  as  a  general  rule,  for  such  is 
not  the  case.  If  a  delegate  comes  to  the  convention  pledged,  it  will 
be  found  in  nearly  every  instance  to  be  the  expression  of  a  chapter 


THE  SCROLL.  261 

that  is  thoroughly  posted,  and  that  has  acted  after  careful  considera- 
tion of  the  subject.  If  there  were  less  of  dictatorial  spirit  exhibited 
on  the  part  of  different  alumni,  these  matters  would  pursue  a  very 
much  easier  course  at  conventions.  It  is  my  contention  that  it  is  not 
the  proper  sphere  of  an  officer  of  the  fraternity  to  dictate  its  policy, 
but  to  act  simply  in  the  light  of  an  adviser.  It  is  for  the  convention 
to  decide  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  government  of  the  fraternity, 
and  it  is  to  that  body  that  its  officers  should  report  in  the  light  of  ex- 
perienced counsellors  and  not,  I  repeat,  with  the  exhibition  of  threats 
and  such  like,  as  have  been  given  in  recent  conventions. 

Where  petitions  have  been  rejected  of  late  years,  no  one,  unless  he 
be  prejudiced,  can  say  that  the  fraternity  has  acted  unwisely.  The 
policy  of  exclusion  and  conservatism,  although  only  partly  prosecuted, 
has  shown  clearly  the  wisdom  of  such  a  course.  The  spread  of  the 
fraternity,  without  the  close  safeguard  which  we  now  have,  would  re- 
sult in  the  introduction  at  many  institutions  of  uncongenial  elements, 
which  would  surely  tend  to  create  friction  in  time.  The  safeguard  at 
present  for  the  granting  of  charters  is  deemed  sufficient  against  the 
introduction  of  other  than  tlie  most  worthy  petitioners,  but  it  has 
been  the  opinion  of  quite  a  large  number  tliat  it  should  require  the 
unanimous  consent  of  the  convention  before  any  charter  should  be 
granted.  The  clearest  argument  that  might  be  presented  against  al- 
lowing the  trustees  to  control  the  granting  and  revoking  of  charters  is 
shown  by  the  working  of  the  recently  wiped-out  dispensation  clause 
in  our  constitution.  Why  was  that  done  ?  Merely  to  place  greater 
safeguards  against  the  introduction  of  petitioners  to  whom  the  con- 
vention would  refuse  a  charter.  It  had  been  tried  for  years,  and  the 
action  of  the  executive  committee  in  several  instances  received  deter- 
mined and  widespread  disapproval  from  a  large  element  of  the  frater- 
nity. Such  cases  are  sure  to  result  in  decided  bad  feeling,  and  tend 
towards  anything  but  a  feeling  of  harmony  and  good-fellowship  among 
the  numerous  chapters  of  the  fraternity. 

It  seems  to  me  that  it  is  much  safer  to  have  the  revoking  of  chap- 
ters left  with  sixty  men,  representing  1000  others,  then  to  leave  it  to 
five  men  who  act  simply  as  they  personally  judge  best.  It  is  hoped, 
therefore,  that  the  matter  of  charges  in  our  constitution  and  by-laws 
will  be  passed  by,  at  least  for  a  few  years,  as  not  needing  further  dis- 
cussion at  our  conventions,  that  time  may  be  devoted  rather  to  the 
discussion  of  the  improvement  among  our  chapters  and  of  matters 
concerning  fraternity  life  in  general. 

The  editor  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi,  who  is  Mr.  Wm.  R. 
Baird,  author  of  'American  College  Fraternities,'  says  he 
has  not  yet  drawn  any  conclusion  about  the  matter.  Never- 
theless he  seems  to  be  more  in  favor  of  alumni,  rather  than 


263  THE  SCROLL, 

undergraduate  control,  and  he  makes  the  following  state- 
ment : 

We  do  not  agfree  with  the  argument  that  our  system  of  government, 
having  l>een  perfected  (?),  should  not  be  meddled  with,  because  we 
do  believe  that  improvement  is  by  no  means  impossible  in  many  di- 
rections. 

The  revision  of  the  constitution  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  was 
completed  at  the  convention  last  year.  From  the  foregoing 
it  would  appear  that  in  balloting  on  granting  or  revoking  of 
charters  the  delegates  from  the  02  college  chapters  only  are 
allowed  to  vote.  If  the  Betas  should  give  alumni  chap- 
ters equal  representation,  and  allow  the  general  officers, 
who  are  usually  alumni,  to  vote  in  conventions,  the  plan 
might  be  found  to  work  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  parties, 
and  result  in  benefit  to  the  fraternity.  If  all  power  should 
be  delegated  to  the  alumni  exclusively,  the  undergraduates 
would  lose  interest,  and  no  good  fraternity  workers  would  be 
developed  from  their  ranks.  On  the  contrary,  if  all  power 
be  centered  in  the  undergraduates  exclusively,  the  alumni 
would  lose  interest,  and  would  not  be  so  apt  to  attend  con- 
ventions, where  their  experience  and  counsel  would  be 
greatly  missed.  The  articles  from  which  the  foregoing  ex- 
tracts are  taken  indicate  that  in  Beta  Theta  Pi,  the  alumni 
are  more  generally  in  favor  of  extension,  while  the  under- 
graduates constitute  the  conservative  party,  which  division 
is  hardly  what  might  be  expected. 


The  convention  of  iSc^S  tcUl  be  held  at  Columbus^  O.  The 
exact  date,  proirram  and  railroad  and  hotel  arrangements  7ciU 
be  announced  in  later  issues  t'/*TnK  Scroll. 


THE  SCROLL,  263 


Chapter  Correspondence* 

ALPHA  PROVINCE* 

VERnONT  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VERMONT. 

One  of  the  greatest  successes  of  this  college  year  was  the  'Kullud 
Koons*  Kake  Walk/  given  in  the  armory,  Friday  evening,  November 
12,  for  the  benefit  of  the  foot  ball  association.  A  large  and  enthusi- 
astic audience  witnessed  the  performance,  in  which  over  one  hundred 
students  appeared  in  costumes  and  specialty  acts  and  walked  for  the 
cake.  The  proceeds  of  the  '  Kake  Walk'  will  enable  the  foot  ball 
management  to  start  next  year  free  of  debt. 

The  foot  ball  season  closed  November  20,  with  an  interesting  game 
between  the  freshman  and  sophomore  classes,  which  resulted  in  a  tie, 
24-24.  Bros.  Brooks  and  Murray  played  with  1900,  and  Rro.  Morse 
with  1901. 

All  the  academical  fraternities  at  the  University  of  Vermont  have 
now  held  their  initiations,  and  rank  in  numbers  as  follows  :  Lambda 
Iota  (local),  11;  Sigma  Phi,  16;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  19;  Alpha  Phi 
(local ),  19;  Delta  Psi  (local),  21 ;  Kappa  vSigma,  28;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  2'). 

Mid-year  examinations  begin  here  February  1.  It  was  rumored 
some  time  ago  that  the  faculty  intended  to  abolish  the  honor  system, 
which  has  been  several  years  in  vogue  at  the  University  of  Vermont, 
and  return  to  the  old  custom  of  *  watching '  in  '  exams. '  This  report 
occasioned  some  excitement,  and  there  were  hot  debates  in  two  col- 
lege meetings  held  to  consider  the  subject.  Finally  a  set  of  resolu- 
tions, which,  it  is  hoped,  will  relieve  the  difficulty  if  put  into  opera- 
tion, has  been  passed  and  presented  to  the  faculty.  It  is  the  general 
desire  to  prevent,  if  possible,  the  disgrace  of  losing  an  honor  system 
in  'exams'  which  has  been  tried  several  years  and  found  wanting  only 
because  of  the  dishonesty  of  a  small  part  of  the  student  body. 

The  conference  committee,  designed  to  provide  for  a  mutual  under- 
standing between  faculty  and  students  in  all  matters  of  common  in- 
terest, has  been  received  after  a  year  of  disuse. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Burlington,  January  22,  1898.  C.  F.  Blair. 

MASSACHUSETTS  ALPHA.  WILLIAMS  COLLEGE. 

The  season  of  foot  ball  at  Williams  was  one  of  disappointment,  but 
the  tie  with  Amherst  was  of  great  satisfaction.  The  candidates  for 
the  base  ball  team  are  at  work  in  the  gymnasium,  and  although  five 
players  were  lost  by  graduation,  there  is  abundant  material  for  a  good 
team.  Bro.  Smith,  '99,  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  basket  ball 
association,  which  has  just  been  organized.  4>  A  B  is  represented  on 
the  athletic  team  by  Bros.  Fifer,  '98,  and  F.  vSquires,  1900,  both  in  the 
pole  vault.  The  college  is  proud  of  the  team,  and  a  good  record  is  ex- 
pected. 

Massachusetts  Alpha  celebrated  her  initiation  banquet  at  the  '  Idle- 
wild,'  in  South  Williamstown.  The  prospect  of  buying  a  house  was 
enthusiastically  discussed,  and  the  fact  that  the  A  K  K  house  has  just 


264  THE  SCROLL. 

been  completed,  together  with  several  other  good  reasons,  makes  it 
almost  a  necessity  for  this  chapter  to  have  a  house  of  its  own. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Williamstown,  February  o,  1898.  M.  A.  Graff. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA.  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  the  date  of  the  last  letter,  New  York  Delta  has  held  two  suc- 
cessful smokers,  which  were  well  attended  by  graduates  and  attendant 
members.  Refreshments  were  served  and  a  most  enjoyable  evening 
passed. 

In  the  December  communication  we  failed  to  note  the  fact  that  Bro. 
Hackett,  '99,  College,  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  Columbia 
University  Press  Club,  and  that  Bro.  Egner,  '98,  Law,  continues  as 
chairman  of  the  Dictionary  Committee  of  the  American  Dialect  Society 
( Columbia  branch ) . 

Later  in  the  year  the  chapter  will  suffer  a  loss  in  the  departure  from 
the  city  of  Bro.  Hinrichs,  '99,  College,  who,  having  captured  the 
Brooklyn  cadetship,  will  leave  to  prepare  himself  for  West  Point. 

For  the  last  few  months  Bro.  Shelly,  of  Pennsylvania  Zeta,  has  been 
in  New  York  on  business,  during  the  major  portion  of  which  time  he 
has  stopped  at  the  chapter  rooms,  adding  one  more  to  our  chapter 
residents.  On  the  29th  he  left  us  for  his  village  home  in  Philadelphia, 
carrying  the  best  wishes  of  our  members  for  Pennsylvania  Zeta's  con- 
tinued prosperity. 

The  New  York  alumni  have  recently  bestirred  themselves  to  a  de- 
gree hitherto  unattained,  and  the  coming  fortnight  will  no  doubt  de- 
velop an  'anticipated  surprise.'         In  the  Bond, 

Oscar  Wekks  Ehrhorn. 

New  York,  January  .SI,  1S98. 

NEW  YORK  EP3IL0N.  5YRACU5E  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroix  New  York  Kpsilon  has  kept  on 
in  the  even  tenor  of  her  way,  having  no  outside  troubles  to  worry  her. 
The  chapter  has  been  striving  to  strengthen  itself  internally  and,  by 
getting  thoroughly  accjuainted  with  our  new  brothers,  to  enlist  their 
sympathies  more  strongly  with  the  common  interests  of  the  chapter. 

Our  new  men  are  all  that  we  could  desire  them  to  be  and  are  rapidly 
acc^uiring  that  spirit  and  enthusiasm  in  fraternity  work  which  charac- 
terizes Phis  the  world  over.  In  this  class  work  they  are  attaining  a 
high  degree  of  scholarship,  and  already  in  the  several  receptions 
which  we  have  given  they  have  demonstrated  their  social  qualities. 
In  fact,  we  are  fully  convinced  that  we  have  received  the  best  delega- 
tion from  '01  that  has  been  pledged  to  any  fraternity  at  Syracuse,  and 
through  them  we  look  for  great  strength  to  come  to  the  chapter. 

The  social  season  in  college  circles  now  is  at  its  height.  Syracuse 
Phis  always  have  been  considered  the  best  of  entertainers,  and  this 
year  we  have  certainly  confirmed  our  reputation  in  the  social  events 
which  we  have  already  given. 

Invitations  will  be  issued  soon  for  an  annual  mid-winter  reception, 
which  is  set  for  February  1(5.  Our  annual  alumni  banquet  is  to  be 
held  this  year  at  the  Yates  Hotel,  the  night  of  February  18.  Bro.  Al- 
bert H.  Leonard,  dean  of  the  liberal  arts  college,  will  act  as  toastmas- 
ter,  and  we  expect  an  unusually  large  number  of  our  alumni  members 
to  be  present.  It  is  the  eleventh  anniversary  of  the  organization  of 
our  chapter. 


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The  night  of  February  19  occurs  the  annual  city  concert  of  our 
musical  clubs,  at  the  Welting  Opera  House.  This  is  the  most  fash- 
ionable event  of  the  whole  college  year  and  our  men  will  not  be  lack- 
ing in  their  loyalty.  There  are  six  Phis  on  the  glee  club,  and  Bro. 
Bumham  is  president  of  the  organization. 

Prospects  are  bright  for  one  of  the  most  successful  seasons  in  base 
ball  that  Syracuse  has  ever  known.  About  twenty-five  games  have 
been  arranged  with  most  of  the  best  colleges  in  the  east.  The  sea- 
son's work  includes  an  eastern  trip  of  several  days,  playing  four  games 
in  New  York  city  and  a  trip  south  as  far  as  Washington,  D.  C.  Bro. 
Voorhees  is  captain  of  the  team  and  is  one  of  the  pitchers,  while  four 
or  five  of  the  other  positions  on  the  diamond  will  be  played  by  Phis. 
We  also  anticipate  a  brilliant  season  in  track  athletics,  having  ar- 
ranged dual  meets  with  Cornell,  Williams  and  Rochester,  besides  the 
regular  intercollegiate  games. 

The  new  Law  College  will  be  ready  for  occupancy  the  first  of  May, 
and  earlv  in  the  spring  ground  will  be  broken  for  the  new  Science 
Hall,  which  will  cost  about  |:i 00,000. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Syracuse,  February  1 ,  1898.  M.  C.  Smith. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA.  PENNSYLVANIA  COLLEGE. 

On  the  fourth  of  January,  Pennsylvania  Beta  began  the  winter  term 
with  eight  members.  Since  then,  Melville  T.  Huber,  '01,  of  Gettys- 
burg, has  been  initiated,  and  we  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing 
him  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  handsome  new  dormitory,  which  was  completed  during  the 
Christmas  holidays,  is  already  filled  with  students.  The  college  roll  is 
still  on  the  increase,  a  number  of  new  students  having  entered  this 
term. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees,  recently,  steps  were  taken  to- 
ward the  erection  of  a  new  building  for  the  preparatory  department. 
Adjoining  the  campus  proper  there  are  about  forty  acres  of  land  owned 
by  the  college.  It  was  proposed  at  this  meeting  to  have  it  laid  out  in 
a  park  with  clusters  of  trees,  walks,  driveways  and  sites  for  proposed 
buildings,  to  be  arranged  according  to  the  best  methods  of  landscape 
gardening.  The  president  was  instructed  to  engage  an  exjjert  to  pre- 
pare such  a  plan,  so  that  we  hope  in  the  near  future  we  shall  have  a 
large  addition  to  our  beautiful  campus. 

The  students,  alumni  and  friends  of  the  institution  are  contributing 
to  a  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  bronze  statue  of  Prof.  S.  S.  Schmucker, 
D.  D.,  the  founder  of  Pennsylvania  College.  The  figure  will  be  the 
best  quality  of  bronze,  heroic  size,  full  rehef,  with  a  suitable  pedestal 
bearing  an  appropriate  inscription.  It  is  to  be  placed  on  a  command- 
ing site  on  the  campus,  and  is  to  be  dedicated  ouring  commencement 
week. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  athletic  association,  Bro.  Beerits,  '99, 
was  elected  assistant  base  ball  manager,  so  that  next  year  he  will  be- 
come manager.     He  is  also  vice-president  of  Philo  Literary  Society. 

The  2  X  chapter  has  recently  initiated  five  'preps.,'  so  that  over  a 
third  of  their  membership — 14  is  preparatory  students.  A  T  0,  with 
one  *prep.,'  is  the  only  other  chapter  here  which  has  any  but  regular 
college  men  among  its  members. 

On  December  27,  the  Greek  letter  fraternity  men  of  York,  together 
with  a  few  of  the  alumni  of  the  '  Big  Four,'  held  a  banquet,  ana  steps 


266  THE  SCROLL. 

were  taken  toward  a  permanent  organization.  <l»  A  8  was  represented 
by  the  Rev.  H.  H.  Weber.  '82,  who  acted  as  toastmaster,  and  G.  H. 
Kain,  '1)7,  both  of  this  chapter. 

During  the  Christmas  holidays,  Bro.  Singmaster,  '98,  paid  a  very 
pleasant  visit  to  Pennsylvania  Eta,  at  Lehigh. 

With  best  wishes  of  the  Fraternity  1  am 

Yours  in  <J>  A  O, 

Gettysburg,  February  7,  1898.  J.  Clvdk  Markei.. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAMMA,  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  winter  term  at  'old  W.  and  J.'  began  on  January '>  with  several 
new  students  and  nearly  all  the  old  ones  back  in  their  accustomed 
places.  The  total  enrollment  for  this  year  will  be  larger  than  last 
year,  being  considerably  over  three  hundred.  This  term  very  little 
occurs  to  arouse  general  interest  outside  of  .studies  and  literary  society 
work.  All  athletic  work  is  confined  to  the  gymnasium.  Class  drills 
are  held  three  times  a  week,  and  members  of  the  freshman,  sophomore 
and  junior  classes  are  compelled  to  attend.  A  competitive  drill  will 
be  held  at  the  end  of  the  term.  The  seniors  are  excused  from  class 
drill,  but  must  do  individual  work  in  the  gymnasium.  Basket  ball  is 
arousing  a  great  deal  of  interest  this  winter,  and  a  series  of  inter-class 
games  have  been  arranged.  Bros.  Rule  and  Bell  are  on  the  senior 
team ;  Bro.  Hicher  on  the  junior,  and  Bro.  Ralston  on  the  freshman 
team. 

The  foot  ball  season  closed  most  auspiciously  for  Washington  and 
Jefferson.  The  team  was  the  best  the  college  ever  had,  and  won  the 
championship,  inter- collegiate  and  amateur,  of  Western  Pennsylvania 
and  West  Virginia.  The  Thanksgiving  game  with  D.  C.  and  A.  C.  at 
I*ittsburg  was  a  fitting  climax  to  tlie  season,  W.  and  J.  winning  '  hands 
down,' 

Shortly  after  the  Thanksgiving  game  the  team  met  and  elected  Bro. 
Richer,  '99,  captain  of  the  '98  eleven.  Bro.  Eicher  is  the  youngest 
man  on  the  team,  and  has  played  right  end  for  two  seasons.  Coach 
Wood  regarded  him  as  one  of  the  best  ends  in  the  business,  and  all 
the  players  spoke  highly  of  his  playing.  He  is  also  one  of  the  lightest 
men  on  the  team.  Bro.  Eicher  is  the  second  Phi  to  be  captain  of  the 
college  eleven,  which  is  considered  the  greatest  honor,  athletically 
speaking,  any  one  can  secure  since  foot  ball  was  introduced  into  W. 
and  J.  Bro.  James  P.  Linn,  '95,  was  the  other  man  to  hold  the  posi- 
tion. The  prospects  for  next  year's  eleven  are  good.  A  coach  has  not 
yet  been  chosen,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  a  Princeton  man  will  be  the 
choice  of  the  management. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  a  number  of  good  men,  whom 
it  gives  us  pleasure  to  introduce  to  the  Phi  world.  Thev  are  Thomas 
Chalmers  Duff ,  1901,  Allegheny,  Pa.;  William  Everett  Ralston,  P.HJl, 
Wilkinsburg,  Pa.;  James  vSlocum  Craft,  Merrittstown,  Pa.;  and  Robert 
White  Lindsay,  Allegheny,  Pa.,  who  are  pursuing  special  courses. 
Bro.  Ralston  is  a  member  of  the  freshman  basket  ball  team,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  freshman  foot  ball  team,  as  was  also  Bro.  Duff.  Bro. 
Lindsay  is  a  member  of  the  glee  club. 

The  senior  commencement  committees  were  announced  recently. 
Bro.  Bell  is  on  the  invitation  conmiittee,  and  Bro.  Baker  is  a  member 
of  the  '  hop  '  committee.  The  fight  for  positions  on  the  last  named 
committee  was  very  hot,  but  as  usual  the  best  man  a  Phi-won. 

The  chief  event  of  intere.st  to  the  entire  college  this  tenn  is  the  inter- 


THE  SCROLL,  267 

society  contest,  to  be  held  on  March  31.     Bro.  Moore  is  essayist  for 
the  Pbilo  and  Union  Literary  Society. 

The  glee  and  instrumental  clubs,  under  the  management  of  Bro. 
Rule,  *98,  took  a  trip  through  Ohio  during  the  Christmas  vacation. 
The  clubs  traveled  in  a  special  car.  The  trip  was  a  great  success,  and 
reflects  gfreat  credit  on  Bro.  Rule's  business  ability.  The  clubs  this 
year  are  the  best  we  have  had  for  several  years. 

Base  ball  practice  has  begun  in  the  cage.  The  prospects  for  a  goo<l 
team  are  bnght.  The  pitching  force,  which  has  been  weak  hereto- 
fore, will  be  strong  this  year.  There  are  four  good  men  for  this  posi- 
tion. The  schedule  is  about  made  out.  Two  games  a  week  will  be 
played,  and  an  eastern  trip  has  been  arranged  for.  Bro.  Richer  will 
be  short-stop  of  the  team  -  a  position  he  has  held  for  two  seasons.  The 
prospects  for  a  good  track  team  are  good. 

On  December  4  we  celebrated  the  twenty-second  anniversary  of  the 
founding  of  Pennsylvania  Gamma  chapter  by  a  banquet.  A  number 
of  correspondent  members  were  present,  and  all  had  a  royal  good 
time. 

The  brothers  all  compliment  Thk  Scroix'vS  new  dress,  and  consider 
it  a  great  improvement.  We  are  certain  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  the 
best  fraternity  organ  and  the  most  enterprising  editor. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Washington,  February  2,  18iW.  David  Glkxx  Moork. 

PENNSYLVANIA  DELTA. ALLEGHENY  COLLEGE. 

Pennsylvania  Delta  begins  the  winter  term  with  nineteen  men  and 
one  pledged  member.  Although  we  lost  at  the  end  of  the  fall  term 
one  of  our  new  men,  we  are  still  the  strongest  chapter  in  college. 

In  the  class  elections  this  year  the  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  re- 
ceived quite  a  number  of  offices.  Bro.  Wright  is  ladder  orator  of  the 
senior  class,  Bro.  Oakes  is  historian  and  Bro.  Casteel  *  replier '  of  the 
junior  class,  Bro.  Stolzenbach  is  historian  of  the  sophomore  class  and 
Bro.  Moorehead  is  salutatorian  of  the  same  class. 

Pennsylvania  Delta  is  also  well  represented  on  the  Philo  Franklin 
Literary  Society  contest  team.  Of  the  four  places  on  the  team  three 
are  filled  by  Phis.  Bro.  Lowstuter,  '98,  was  chosen  essayist,  Bro.  Wey- 
and.  '98,  orator  and  Bro.  Swisher,  '(X),  declaimer. 

We  begin  to  see  carried  into  effect  our  hope  of  having  a  chapter 
house.  We  are  in  a  house  now,  but  it  is  small,  and  we  have  been  try- 
ing to  secure  a  larger  one.  We  have  succeeded.  The  lease  was  signed 
a  month  ago,  and  we  expect  to  move  in  at  the  beginning  of  the  spring 
term.  Later  we  shall  send  a  more  definite  account  of  it.  We  were 
glad  to  see  so  many  chapters  represented  by  letters  in  the  December 
Scroll.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Wm.  L.  Wilkenson. 

Meadville,  January  31,  1898. 

PENNSYLVANIA  EPSILON.  DICKINSON  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thp:  Scroll,  'Old  Dickinson'  ended  one  of 
her  most  successful  foot  ball  seasons  by  defeating  Pennsylvania  State 
College,  at  Sunbury.  Never  in  the  history  of  the  institution  has  there 
been  displayed  such  enthusiasm  by  the  student  body  as  in  this  game 
and  the  one  immediately  preceding,  played  with  Franklin  and  Mar- 


268  THE  SCROLL, 

shall.     No  doubt  much  of  the  victory  may  be  attributed  to  the  hearty 
cheering  of  the  students  as  well  as  to  the  hard  playing  of  the  team. 

The  scores  for  the  season  were  as  follows: 

Dickinson.    Opponents. 

University  of  Susquehanna 18  0 

Carlisle  Indians 0  36 

Haverford <i  o 

Swarthniore 20  4 

Lehigh 0  ") 

Lafayette 0  111 

St.  Mary's 0  0 

Villa  Nora .")2  0 

Franklin  and  Marshall 42  0 

State  College (>  0 

Total 144  t>9 

At  the  annual  election  of  officers  for  the  athletic  association,  held 
in  December,  Bro.  McNeal  was  elected  base  ball  manager  and  Bro. 
Kline  assistant  foot  ball  manager  for  the  coming  seasons.  The  pros- 
pects for  a  successful  base  ball  season  are  bright,  several  men  having 
entered  college,  bringing  with  them  very  commendable  records. 

President  Reed,  who  for  several  months  jmst  has  been  very  ill  and 
unable  to  fill  his  official  duties,  after  spending  a  few  weeks  at  Old 
Point  Comfort,  Va.,  has  greatly  improved  in  health  and  is  again  with  us. 

During  the  Christmas  vacation  Dr.  B.  O.  Mclntire,  professor  of  En- 
glish, was  married  to  Miss  May  Florence  Park,  who  has  been  for  sev- 
eral years  a  successful  teacher  in  Hasbrook  Institute,  Jersey  City. 

The  collections  of  biological  specimens  in  the  museum  have  been  re- 
cently enlarged  by  the  generous  contributions  of  Dr.  T.  C.  Smith,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees,  who  procured  from  the  Smithsonian 
and  Medical  Museums,  for  the  college,  a  human  skeleton  and  a  dozen 
typical  animal  forms,  all  well  mounted  and  articulated,  besides  more 
than  a  hundred  marine  vertebrates. 

The  course  of  lectures  for  the  public  will  be  greatly  augmented  this 
year  by  several  members  of  the  faculty.  Dr.  Reed,  Dr.  Prince,  Dr. 
Mohler,  Dr.  Cramer  and  Prof.  Sellers  are  among  those  who  will  lect- 
ure on  various  topics. 

The  chapter  was  greatly  pleased  with  the  visit  of  Bro.  F.  S.  Brock- 
man,  Tennessee  Alpha,  who  was  at  the  college  for  a  few  days  in  the 
interests  of  the  student  volunteer  movement. 

The  boys  are  evincing  much  interest  in  our  plans  for  a  chapter 
house,  and  although  we  have  suffered  more  or  less  disappointment,  we 
are  striving  to  have  our  house  ready  for  occupancy  for  the  opening  of 
college  next  fall. 

At  one  of  our  recent  meetings  Bro.  Stonesifer,  on  account  of  extra 
work  resigned  his  office  as  reporter  of  the  chapter.  The  present  writer 
was  elected  to  that  position. 

With  the  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  everj'  chapter  of  our  noble 
Fraternity,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Wilbur  V.  Maixauku. 

Carlisle,  January  17,  1S*)S. 

BETA  PROVINCE 

NORTH  CAROLINA  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

Since  the  beginning  of  the  spring  term  we  have  initiated  Samuel  R. 
Buxton,   Jackson,  N.  C,  and  Fred  Jackson  Coxe,  Liter\'ille,  N.  C. 


THE  SCROLL.  269 

Bro.  Buxton  is  a  member  of  the  law  class.  He  is  a  brother  of  a  foniier 
member  of  this  chapter.  Bro.  Coxe  is  vice-president  of  the  junior 
class.  We  feel  assured  that  these  men  will  make  loyal  members,  and 
we  are  glad  to  introduce  them  to  all  Phis.  We  have  ten  enthusiastic 
members,  and  our  prospects  are  brighter  than  ever  before. 

The  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  on  the  27th  was  an  important 
one.  President  Alderman's  annual  report  showed  that  the  university 
has  made  great  progress  in  the  standard  of  scholarship.  We  now  have 
over  500  students,  including  the  summer  school.  The  enrollment  is 
over  700.  Several  additional  professors  were  elected  at  this  meeting. 
Prof.  Gore  was  made  dean  of  the  faculty  to  act  during  the  absence  of 
President  Alderman,  who  will  sail  February  5,  for  a  four  months'  trip 
to  Europe  and  Palestine. 

The  trustees  authorized  President  Alderman  to  secure  a  teacher  of 
expression,  who  will  act  as  critic  in  the  literary  societies,  and  will 
also  train  the  commencement  speakers. 

The  corner-stone  of  the  new  alumni  building  will  be  laid  June  J . 
The  building  is  to  be  completed  during  the  summer. 

A  new  hotel  is  to  be  built  on  the  site  of  the  old  Chapel  Hill  Hotel, 
which  will  cost  J6,000,  and,  according  to  contract,  w^ill  be  finished  by 
April  1. 

Since  the  last  issue  of  The  Scroll,  Bro.  Johnston  has  been  elected 
editor-in-chief  of  the  Hellenian.  He  is  also  an  inter-society  debator 
for  February  22.  The  annual  debate  with  Georgia  will  take  place  here 
in  March;  we  are  confident  of  winning. 

We  already  have  material  for  a  good  base  ball  team,  yet  our  best 
players  have  not  come.  The  pitchers  and  catcher  will  come  in  a  few 
days;  others  will  come  in  during  the  month  of  February.  Our  best 
games  will  be  with  Princeton,  Harvard,  Pennsylvania,  Johns  Hopkins, 
University  of  Virginia  and  Lafayette  College. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Chapel  Hill,  Januarj-  2fi,  1808.  R.  G.  Kittrkll. 

KENTUCKY  ALPHA, CENTRE  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  communication  Kentucky  Alpha  has  been  so  unfor- 
tunate as  to  lose  one  of  her  late  initiates -Bro.  James  Campbell,  of 
Paducah,  Ky.  We  greatly  regret  the  loss  of  one  of  the  most  promis- 
ing members  of  our  present  chapter,  but  trust  that  he  will  be  able  to 
return  at  the  opening  of  the  next  college  year. 

On  January  15,  we  initiated  Wm.  Robinson  Huguely,  of  Danville, 
Ky.  We  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  him  to  the  members  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  and  commend  him  most  heartily  to  the  good-fellow- 
ship of  all  Phis. 

On  January  12,  Kentucky  Alpha  entertained  with  cards  and  dancing 
in  the  chapter  hall.  It  was  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  features  of  the 
winter's  entertainments. 

College  opened  after  the  Christmas  holidays  with  a  considerable  in- 
crease in  attendance. 

As  yet  no  one  has  been  elected  to  fill  the  place  left  vacant  by  the 
death  of  President  Dr.  Wm.  C.  Young,  lender  the  efficient  manage- 
ment of  the  dean  and  the  faculty,  however,  the  institution  has  not 
materially  suffered  on  that  account.  It  is  confidently  expected  that 
a  choice  will  be  made  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

The  prospects  for  the  base  ball  team  this  spring  are  flattering.  At 
a  recent  meeting  of  the  athletic  association  your  correspondent  was 


270  THE  SCROLL, 

chosen  manager  of  the  team  for  the  coming  season,  and  Bros.  Rey- 
nolds, Dickens  and  Hale  are  practically  sure  of  places,  so  Kentucky 
Alpha  will  have  quite  her  usual  share  of  the  honors  in  that  direction. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  continued  welfare  of  our  sister  chapters, 
I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Gordon  Silser. 

Danville,  January  ;J0,  1898. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA,  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroij,  we  have  met  with  quite  a  sad 
misfortune.  During  the  Christmas  holidays,  while  all  but  two  of  our 
members  were  out  of  town,  our  hall  was  destroyea  by  fire.  It  was 
beautifully  decorated  and  furnished,  and  was  the  pride  of  each  and 
every  member.  All  the  furniture  and  draperies  were  in  the  Fraternity 
colors,  and  the  hall  was  a  'beauty.'  Nearly  everything  was  a  com- 
plete I0.SS.     By  good  luck  we  saved  the  bond  and  ritual. 

After  Christmas  Bro.  Douglas,  who  was  with  us  last  year,  returned 
to  take  up  his  studies  at  the  university.  Bros.  Blanton  and  Mourning 
left  for  the  department  of  dentistry  and  medicine,  which  are  situated 
in  Louisville. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  athletic  association  Bro.  Speed,  who  was  captain 
of  our  foot  ball  team,  was  elected  captain  pro  tcm.  of  the  'i)8  base  ball 
team.  Several  of  the  boys  will  be  candidates  for  positions  both  on  the 
ball  team  and  the  track  team. 

We  are  represented  in  every  department  of  the  university,  and  are 
in  better  condition  than  ever  before  except  for  our  recent  misfortune. 
Soon  we  hope  to  have  this  trouble  cleared  up  and  to  be  comfortable 
either  in  another  hall  or  in  a  house. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  Phis  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Richmond,  January  31,  18i)8.  W.  Fred  Bookkr,  Jr. 

TENNESSEE  ALPHA,  VANDERBILT  UNIVERSITY. 

The  success  of  the  university  foot  ball  team  continued  to  the  last, 
the  team  finishing  the  season  by  defeating  the  University  of  the  South, 
on  Thanksgiving,  10  to  0,  and'  by  playing  a  tie  game  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  on  December  6,  the  score  being  0  to  0.  That  the 
latter  game  should  have  resulted  in  a  tie  is  to  be  regretted  since  the 
championship  of  the  south  on  this  account  remains  undecided. 

During  the  Christmas  holidays  the  glee  club  took  its  usual  trip,  this 
lime  it  being  confined  to  the  state  of  Kentucky.  The  club  reports  a 
successful  trip.  There  are  four  Phis  in  the  club,  namely:  Carr,  How- 
ell, Nichols  and  Fitzgerald.     Carr  is  also  vice-president  of  the  club. 

As  reported  in  the  last  ScRoij,,  the  Kappa  Alphas  have  bought  the 
house  used  as  the  Administration  Building  during  the  Centennial,  but 
they  have  not  as  yet  been  able  to  secure  a  desirable  location  for  it; 
consequently  the  building  is  still  on  the  exposition  grounds. 

The  *Dekes'  have  rented  a  suitable  two-story  brick  house,  in  Gar- 
land avenue,  just  south  of  the  campus,  which  they  now  use  both  as  a 
lodge  and  a  meeting  hall.  Only  eight  men  of  the  chapter  live  in  the 
house,  .several  of  the  rooms  being  reserved  as  parlors,  reading  rooms, 
etc. 

The  list  of  the  fraternities  having  chapters  at  Vanderbilt,  and  their 
numerical  strength,  is  as  follows:   *  A  6,  2(;;  K  A,  24;  X  *,  12;  B  9  n, 


THE  SCROLL,  371 

:5;  K  2:,  21;  AT  A,  14;  S  A  E,  26;  A  T  %  19;  A  K  E,  27;  2  X,  10;  2  N, 
14,  and  11  K  A,  7. 

The  university  has  recently  sustained  a  great  loss  in  Mr.  Andrew 
Sledd,  instructor  in  Latin,  who  has  gone  to  fill  the  chair  of  Latin  in 
Emory  College,  Georgia.  Bro.  Sledd,  who  is  a  most  enthusiastic  Phi, 
was  an  excellent  and  popular  teacher  while  here,  and  we  were  all 
sorry  to  have  him  leave  us,  though  we  congratulate  him  upon  his 
good  fortune. 

W.  W.  Brockman,  1900,  was  at  the  annual  election  of  the  Y.  M,  C. 
A.  elected  president  for  the  year  189S.  P^  M.  Underwood,  l^KK),  was 
recently  elected  captain  of  the  track  team  for  this  year.  At  the  last 
track  meet  of  the  southern  intercollegiate  athletic  association,  held  in 
Nashville,  Bro.  Underwood  won  first  place  in  the  440-yd.  dash  and 
second  place  in  the  880-yd.  run.  The  next  meeting  of  the  S.  I.  A.  A. 
will  probably  be  held  in  Atlanta,  next  May. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Nashville,  January  21,  1898.  HrnivST  S.  Jonks. 

GAMMA  PROVINCE, 

ALABAMA  BETA.  ALABAMA  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE. 

The  holidays  are  over  and  most  of  our  boys  have  returned  and  set 
tied  down  to  earnest  work,  after  a  leave  of  absence  of  ten  days. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroij,,  Alabama  Beta  has  continued 
her  career  with  credit  to  herself,  and  still  adds  new  names  to  the  roll 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Lucias  Kelly  Simmons,  '99,  Deniopolis,  Ala., 
Henry  Moss  Copeland,  '00,  Troy,  Ala.,  and  John  Percy  Reide,  '99, 
Marion,  Ala.,  are  our  new  initiates. 

Bro.  E.  S.  George  has  resigned  college,  and  gone  into  business  with 
his  father  in  Marion,  Ala.  Bro.  Geo.  M.  Wheeler,  who  was  prevented 
from  returning,  when  college  first  opened  after  Christmas,  owing  to  a 
painful  accident  which  he  suffered  during  the  holidays,  has  returned, 
much  to  the  delight  of  his  many  friends. 

Although  our  college  heretofore  has  not  made  quite  so  brilliant  a 
record  on  the  diamond  as  on  the  gridiron,  our  outlook  is  good,  and 
owing  to  the  efforts  of  Bro.  A.  M.  Boyd,  who  is  captain  of  this  year's 
base  ball  team,  together  with  the  manager,  we  hope  to  make  things 
interesting  for  our  rivals  in  the  different  contests  in  which  we  may 
engage. 

In  the  selection  of  officers  of  the  senior  class  to  take  part  in  exer- 
cises on  February  22,  Bro.  Shivers  was  elected  orator  and  Bro.  Jno.  S. 
Paden,  prophet.  Bro.  Paden  and  Bro.  Shivers  have  also  been  pro- 
moted in  the  military  department,  Bro.  Paden  to  adjutant  of  battalion, 
and  Bro.  Shivers  to  first  lieutenant  of  Company  A. 

As  usual  the  winter  term  at  college  is  rather  quiet.  The  minstrel 
and  glee  club,  which  Bro.  Ilobdy  is  reorganizing,  expects  to  take  an 
extensive  trip  during  the  month  of  February. 

Wishing  a  prosperous  year  to  Thk  Scroll  and  sister  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Auburn,  January  15,  1898.  I.  F.  McDonnkll. 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA.  TULANE  UNIVERSITY. 

Louisiana  Alpha  sends  her  best  wishes  for  a  happy  and  a  prosperous 
New  Year  to  all  Phis.  It  is  rather  late  to  do  so  but  circumstances 
have  prevented  our  sending  them  earlier. 


272  THE  SCROLL. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  our  new 
brother,  Thos.  Gifmore,  *01. 

Louisiana  Alpha  of  4»  A  6  has  taken  her  share  of  honors  at  Tulane 
this  year.  We  had  no  'varsity  foot  ball  team,  but  had  a  class  league. 
We  had  four  men  on  the  junior  team  and  one  on  the  freshman  team, 
Bros.  Ludlow,  Landry,  Woods  and  Gasquet  were  on  the  junior  team 
and  Bro.  Gilniore  was  full-back  on  the  freshman  team. 

Bro.  Ludlow  is  vice-president  of  the  junior  class.  Bro.  Landry  is 
manager  of  the  *98  'varsity  base  ball  team.  Bro.  Woods  is  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Tulane  German  Club. 

We  should  consider  it  a  great  favor  if  when  visiting  New  Orleans 
Phis  would  call  at  the  university  or  send  word  to  the  reporter  where 
they  are  stopping.  In  a  large  city  like  New  Orleans  it  is  almost  im- 
possible to  ascertain  whether  one  is  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  or 
not,  unless  he  first  approaches  us. 

If  any  Phi  intends  entering  Tulane,  let  us  know,  and  let  him  affiliate 
with  us. 

Hoping  that  all  Phis  will  aid  us  in  this  respect,  I  am 

Yours  in  *  A  B, 

New  Orleans,  January  11,  189S.  H.  N.  Woods. 

TBXA3  GAMMA,  SOUTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

We  have  just  passed  through  the  intermediate  examinations,  and 
are,  of  course,  prepared  to  enjoy  ourselves  and  everything  else  more 
than  usual.  The  distinction  list  of  the  several  departments  has  not 
been  made  out  yet,  but  Phi  Delta  Theta  will  be  fairly  represented 
whenever  it  does  come  out.  This  we  know  for  certain,  that  several  of 
the  Phi  boys  made  the  highest  grades  in  school  on  their  examination 
papers. 

Bro.  Creager  has  just  been  elected  by  the  San  Jacinto  Society  to  be 
their  leader  on  the  champion  debate  at  commencement  next.  This 
has  been,  time  immemorial,  one  of  the  highest  if  not  the  highest  honor 
in  school. 

We  have  initiated  since  our  last  report,  Bros.  John  W.  Snyder,  J. 
W.  Black  and  S.  P.  Ulrich.  Bros.  Black  and  Ulrich  are  both  juniors. 
We  were  certainly  very  fortunate  in  the  addition  of  these  older  men. 
They  are  two  of  the  very  kind  Phi  Delta  Theta  needs. 

We  continue  to  work,  though  rather  slowly,  on  our  chapter  house 
fund.     We  intend  to  have  a  house  before  our  minds  are  easy. 

With  the  very  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  the  boys  this  second 
term,  I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

J.  H.  McLkan. 

Georgetown,  January  24,  lSi»s. 

DELTA  PROVINCE 

OHIO  ALPHA.  MIAMI  UNIVERSITY. 

This  year  has  certainly  been  one  of  the  most  prosperous  in  the  his- 
tory of  Ohio  Alpha.     Our  successes  have  been  unbounded  in  all  lines. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  vScroij^,  Bro.  S.  F.  Van  Pelt  has  been 
elected  manager  of  the  Miami  University  band,  and  Bro.  C.  H.  Mason, 
poet  of  the  class  of  1901. 

We  are  enjoying  society  this  year  to  its  fullest  extent ;  with  our 
numerous  '  Phi  girls  '  we  are  able  to  have  various  social  entertainments. 


THE  SCROLL.  273 

especially  dancing  parties.     Ours  is  the  only  '  frat.'  in  the  school  that 
can  successfully  give  dances,  which  fact  is  due  to  our  spacious  hall. 

We  take  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  Bros.  Francis 
Meade  Bowen,  Logan,  O.;  Paul  James  Van  Pelt,  Wilmington,  O.; 
William  Barnes  Cullen  and  Earl  Gardner  Beauchamp,  both  of  Hamil- 
ton, O.     These  brothers  were  initiated  on  the  night  of  January  15. 

We  regret  exceedingly  the  loss  of  Bro.  P.  J.  Van  Pelt,  who  has  left 
us  to  take  up  a  course  in  business  college.  Although  in  the  chapter 
but  a  short  time  he  had  won  the  hearts  of  all  of  us. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  pledged  Clifford  McDill  and  Louis  Gil- 
bert Flower,  both  of  Oxford,  O. 

Cordially  inviting  all  Phis  to  visit  us  whenever  the  opporunity  af- 
fords itself,  In  the  Bond, 

Karl  H.  Zwick. 

Oxford,  February  TJ,  1898. 

OHIO  GAMMA.  OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 

The  enrollment  for  the  winter  term  of  Ohio  University  shows  a 
slight  increase  over  the  fall  term.  More  college  spirit  is  manifested 
than  ever  before. 

The  beautiful  Lux  Hall  was  opened  to  the  public  for  the  first  time 
February  17,  by  the  Ohio  state  oratorical  association,  and  is  an  ac- 
quisition of  which  the  university  may  be  justly  proud. 

There  was  not  the  interest  manifest  at  the  contest  this  year  as  in 
former  years.  Only  small  delegations  were  sent  from  the  eight  col- 
leges composing  the  association,  showing  a  gradual  decline  in  oratory 
under  the  rising  influence  of  debate.  As  a  result  of  the  contest  J.  A. 
Bamett,  Beta,  of  Wooster  College,  received  first  honors. 

Base  ball  will  not  be  supported  at  the  university  this  spring,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  the  city  is  to  have  one  of  a  semi-professional  nature. 

Ohio  Gamma  celebrated  the  opening  of  her  new  hall  with  an  in- 
formal reception  to  the  local  chapters  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Delta  Tau 
Delta.  Whist  was  expected  to  be  the  chief  amusement  of  the  evening, 
but  upon  the  introduction  of  boxing  gloves  a  hurried  adjournment  was 
made  to  the  exercising  room,  where  contests  were  speedily  arranged 
and  for  one  hour  battle  raged  with  Greek  vs.  Greek,  at  the  end  of  which 
luncheon  was  served.  Extemporary  toasts  were  responded  to  by  each 
chapter  and  the  guests  departed,  each  expressing  himself  as  highly 
pleased  with  the  reception  tendered. 

It  is  with  the  utmost  sorrow  that  Ohio  Gamma  announces  the  death 
of  Cydnor  Tompkins,  '02,  pledged,  of  Columbus,  O.  Funeral  services 
were  held  at  the  home  of  Maj.  J.  M.  Welch,  in  this  city.  The  chap- 
ter attended  in  a  body. 

Bro.  I.  M.  Foster,  of  Ohio  Zeta.  was  at  his  home  in  this  city  for  a 
few  days  during  February,  on  account  of  illness. 

Ohio  Gamma  is  glad  to  note  the  general  prosperity  of  the  Fraternity 
as  indicated  in  the  annual  letters  received. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Athens,  February  19,  1898.  W.  K.  ScoTT. 

OHIO  ZETA,  OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

Our  university  is  now  undergoing  a  dedicatory  period.  Townsend 
Hall,  the  elegant  and  commodious  quarters  for  the  agricultural  school, 
was  formally  dedicated  on  the  r2th  inst.  It  is  situated  at  the  extreme 
west  of  the  quadrangle. 


274  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Armory. Gymnasium  is  to  be  dedicated  on  Washington's  Birth- 
day anniversary.  It  is  the  veritable  pride  of  the  entire  institution. 
Its  architecture  is  magnificent  and  imposing.  It  is  at  the  north-east 
of  tlie  quadrangle.  It  is  hoped  that  the  new  athletic  field  may  be  lo- 
cated to  the  immediate  north  of  this  building. 

The  base  ball  season  is  near  at  hand.  In  this  line  of  athletics  we 
have  bright  prospect  for  an  unusually  strong  team.  Though  the  strict 
enforcement  of  the  faculty's  ruling  on  class  standing  has  robbed  the 
squad  of  a  few  particularly  strong  men,  it  may  be  confidently  expected 
that  a  good  team  will  be  forthcoming.  Our  chapter  will,  in  all  prob- 
ability, furnish  three  of  the  regular  team — Bros.  Davis,  Hughes  and 
Bond. 

Ohio  Zeta  experienced  a  very  pleasant  evening  on  January  21,  in 
the  nature  of  its  monthly  'hop.'  Professor  and  Mrs.  Wm.  McPherson 
acted  as  chaperons.  An  unusually  large  attendance  of  local  graduate 
Phis  was  welcomed.  Bro.  Philip  Welch,  of  Ohio  Gamma,  was  also 
present. 

In  college  honors  permit  us  to  note  the  following:  Bro.  Dowd  is 
president  of  the  Germania  Society,  Bro.  Hrdman  has  been  selected 
fencing  instructor  in  the  gymnasium,  Bro.  Bond  is  our  fifth  member 
of  Phi  Delta  Phi,  Bro.  Schlesinger  is  on  the  '99  social  committee. 

We  have  pledged  Mr.  Leonard  Clark,  1901,  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

We  have  been  honored  with  calls  from  following  brothers:  Slone- 
ker,  Ohio  Delta;  Schlesinger,  Ohio  Kta;  O'Bleness  and  McCune,  Ohio 
Gamma.     We  sincerely  hope  for  calls  from  our  brothers  in  the  Bond. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Columbus,  January  21,  1897.  Isr.\kl  Foster. 

OHIO  ETA,  CASE  SCHOOL  OF  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

On  last  Thanksgiving  day  we  finished  up  the  foot  ball  season  by 
defeating  Western  Reserve  University  by  a  score  of  14  to  0.  This 
game  is  our  most  important  one  each  year  and  always  attracts  a  great 
deal  of  attention  among  the  local  foot  ball  enthusiasts.  This  game 
also  puts  Case  in  a  position  among  the  first  in  the  state  and  many 
foot  ball  men  concede  that  Case  finished  with  the  strongest  team  in 
Ohio,  although  she  had  been  beaten  once  and  had  not  played  Ohio 
Wesleyan. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  is  to  have  the  captain  for  '98;  Bro.  Nieding,  '(X), 
was  recently  elected  to  that  position;  Bro.  I'Yench  was  again  awarded 
a  *C  '  and  Bros.  Quarrie  and  Lusk  (pledged)  won  their  'C's*  for  the 
first  time. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  TnH  ScRoij,  we  have  initiated  into  the  se- 
crets of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Wilbur  J.  Watson  and  George  Yost,  who  we 
feel  sure  will  prove  excellent  Phis.  This  makes  the  chapter  eighteen 
in  number. 

One  of  the  most  enjoyable  and  successful  '  events'  thus  far  for  the 
local  chapter  was  a  '  quilting  party  '  which  was  arranged  for  us  by 
one  of  our  Phi  sisters.  We  say  successful  because  about  that  time  we 
were  much  in  need  of  quilts  and  bedding,  and  this  proved  to  be  a  very 
happy  way  to  obtain  them. 

The  chapter  gave  a  party  on  the  fourth  of  this  month,  immediately 
after  a  lecture  to  the  public  by  our  president.  Dr.  Cady  Staley.  The 
lecture  and  party  together  made  a  very  pleasant  affair. 

Ohio  Gamma  alumni  chapter  has  been  strengthened  by  the  addi- 
tion to  its  roll  of  Bro.   Mansfield,  of  Amherst,  '97,  who  is  teaching 


THE  SCROLL.  275 

physics  at  Central  High  School.  Bro.  Mansfield  makes  the  fifth  Phi 
at  Central,  and  Principal  Harris,  who  is  a  '  Deke, '  is  credited  with  say- 
ing that  he  will  shoot  the  next  Phi  who  comes. 

We  deem  ourselves  fortunate  in  being  on  the  line  of  the  Long  Dis- 
tance Telephone  Company,  for  that  brings  us  Bro.  Marble  quite  regu- 
larly every  two  months.  Bro.  Marble,  although  a  busy  man,  is  just 
as  earnest  in  Phi  Delta  Theta  as  ever. 

It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  read  the  good  wishes  and  regards  ex- 
pressed for  our  chapter  by  Ohio  Alpha  in  her  letters  to  The  Scroll, 
and  they  may  be  assured  that  they  have  the  best  wishes  of  the  new 
chapter. 

In  conclusion  we  wish  to  invite  all  Phis  who  may  come  to  Cleveland, 
whether  on  business  or  pleasure,  to  come  and  stay  with  us. 

With  kindest  regards  for  sister  chapters  in  Phi  Delta  Theta, 

In  the  Bond, 

Cleveland,  January  20,  1898.  Frank  HuletT. 

INDIANA  ALPHA,  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  my  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  three  more  men  of  superior  type 
have  signed  their  names  to  the  bond  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  I  take  great 
pleasure  in  presenting  to  the  brotherhood  Bros.  Harry  and  Charles 
Dickey,  of  Tipton,  Ind.,  both  of  the  class  of  1901,  and  Thomas  Karsell, 
of  Bloomington,  Ind.,  junior  law,  '99.  I  am  sure  they  are  and  will 
continue  to  be  worthy  Phis.  Bro.  Karsell  is  one  of  the  second  bassos 
on  the  glee  club. 

Bros.  Folsom,  '99,  and  Glen  Gifford,  '99,  returned  at  the  beginning 
of  the  winter  term.  Bro.  Trook,  who  has  been  attending  the  law 
school  of  the  University  of  Indianapolis,  entered  I.  U.  just  a  few  days 
ago  and  will  graduate  with  the  class  of  '98. 

Our  glee  club  made  its  usual  Christmas  holiday  tour,  giving  19  con- 
certs throughout  southern  Illinois  and  southern  Indiana,  clearing  over 
six  hundred  dollars.  The  club  will  also  make  a  spring  tour  of  about 
the  same  number  of  concerts,  under  the  management  of  the  Inter- 
State  Lyceum  Bureau. 

On  January  20  the  annual  'Foundation  Day'  exercises  were  held  at 
the  men's  new  gymnasium.  Governor  Mount  was  present,  and  acted 
as  chairman  of  the  day.  Several  prominent  speakers  addressed  the 
audience,  and  many  distinguished  guests  were  present.  President 
Jesse,  of  Missouri,  made  the  prominent  address.  In  the  evening  the 
Students'  Dramatic  Club  presented  Shakespeare's  *Much  Ado  About 
Nothing. '     Bro.  Glen  Burbank  took  the  part  of  Don  Pedro. 

Onr  annual  debate  with  the  ITniversity  of  Indianapolis  will  soon 
take  place  in  Bloomington,  and  very  naturally  we  ex|>ect  to  win. 

At  present  the  university  interest  centers  on  spring  athletics.  There 
are  fine  prospects  for  a  winning  base  ball  team  and  track  team.  The 
new  athletic  field  is  being  pushed  to  completion,  and  with  its  many 
improvements  it  will  be  first-class.  A  revival  in  tennis  will  be  made 
and  the  university  will  build  a  number  of  new  courts. 

In  a  word,  we  are  prospering  every  day,  and  each  week  we  grow 
prouder  of  our  university. 

Indiana  Alpha  is  constantly  on  the  alert;  and  she  never  fails  to  land 
a  man  in  every  prominent  movement  in  which  the  university  is  con- 
cerned. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  the  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Bloomington,  February  19,  1898.  Ernicst  P.  Wiles. 


276  THE  SCROLL, 

INDIANA  BETA.  WABASH  COLLEOB. 

Since  our  last  letter,  Indiana  Beta  has  initiated  and  begs  to  intro- 
duce William  Wilboro  Willson,  '01,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  Bro.  Willson 
has  already  proven  himself  a  worthy  wearer  of  the  sword  and  shield, 
and  is  making  an  enviable  reputation  for  himself  as  an  orator. 

On  December  lo,  our  chapter  was  favored  with  a  call  by  Bro.  John 
C.  Black,  of  Chicago,  Indiana  Beta,  '02.  We  have  also  received  visits 
from  Bro.  Parry,  ex-'lH>,  and  Bro.  Mull,  ex-'9?>. 

Our  college  oratorical  contest  was  stubbornly  fought,  and  it  was  by 
accident  only  tliat  Bro.  Byers  lost  first  place.  At  the  state  contest, 
Wabash  was  represented  by  a  large  delegation,  accompanied  by  the 
college  band.  Bro.  Hays  was  elected  secretary  of  the  state  associa- 
tion at  this  time. 

Bro.  Foley  was  invited  to  be  present  at  the  Jackson  Day  celebration, 
at  Lifayette,  and  made  a  speech  which  was  highly  commented  on  by 
the  papers. 

A  mandolin  club  is  the  latest  addition  to  our  already  long  list  of 
musical  organizations.  *  A  H  is  represented  by  Bro.  Meisenhelder  and 
Bro.  Byers,  who  is  manager. 

The  base  ball  schedule  has  been  arranged.  We  have  our  first  game 
with  the  I'niversity  of  Indianapolis,  April  *J3.  Bro.  Mull  expects  to 
return  in  order  to  fill  his  former  position  on  the  team. 

With  best  wishes  for  sister  chapters,  and  all  members  of  the  Frater- 
nity, I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

M.\RSHArj,  V.  ROKB. 

Crawfordsville,  February  1,  181>8. 

INDIANA  QAMMA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANAPOLIS. 

The  University  of  Indianapolis  is  just  recovering  from  the  annual  cel- 
ebration of  Washington's  birthday  by  the  students  of  the  university. 
It  was  a  success  in  every  way.  Nearly  TOO  students  from  the  four  de- 
partments of  the  university,  headed  by  the  University  of  Indianapolis 
band,  marched  in  the  parade.  Indianapolis  was  decorated  for  the 
occasion  with  royal  purple,  the  university  color.  Tomlinson  Hall, 
the  largest  in  the  city,  was  crowded  at  the  exercises  in  the  afternoon. 
Bro.  Addison  Clay  Harris,  Vi'i,  and  the  Rev.  J.  A.  Milburn,  pastor 
of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church,  of  Indianapolis,  addressed  the 
assembled  students.  After  the  speeches  came  a  '  love-feast. '  The  floor 
was  cleared  and  the  students  danced  till  dark.  In  the  evening  the 
students  attended  the  theater. 

On  the  general  committee,  which  had  in  charge  the  making  of  the 
plans  for  the  celebration,  were  Bro.  A.  B.  Clarke,  '97,  Bro.  Virgil 
Dalrymple,  'i)8,  and  Bro.  Carl  McGaughey,  '01. 

We  are  glad  to  report  the  return  from  abroad  of  one  of  the  strongest 
members  of  our  faculty,  Bro.  I).  C.  Brown,  '70.  Bro.  Lister,  '07,  who 
has  been  pursuing  a  graduate  course,  has  accepted  a  position  in  Kureka 
College. 

Bro.  Williams,  '01,  who  was  compelled  to  return  to  his  home  in 
Wabash  on  account  of  a  severe  attack  of  the  grip,  is  again  in  school. 

Bro.  Hugh  Th.  Miller,  whose  illness  has  cast  a  shadow  over 
every  loyal  Phi  heart,  is  convalescent,  and  the  prospects  are  that  be- 
fore the  next  i.ssue  of  The  ScKorj,  he  will  have  resumed  his  labors  in 
behalf  of  *  A  B. 

Since  our  last  letter  Indiana  Gamma  has  won  one  of  the  greatest 
victories  in  her  history,  as  a  result  of  which  I  am  now  enabled  to  in- 


THE  SCROLL,  277 

troduce  to  the  Phi  world  Robert  W.  Hobbs,  MKi,  of  Indiana|)olis,  who 
has  been  spiked  by  every  fraternity  in  college.  Bro.  Hobbs  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  team  for  the  U.  of  I.-  1.  U.  debate. 

With  hearty  greetings  to  all  Phis  everywhere.  I  am 

In  the  Bond, 

Irvington,  February  28,  1898.  Virgil  Dai^rymplk. 

INDIANA  DELTA.  FRANKLIN  COLLEGE. 

The  second  term  began  January  I),  with  all  of  the  brothers  who 
were  with  us  last  term  present,  and  several  new  students  in  college. 
Much  interest  is  taken  in  furnishing  the  gymnasium  with  new  and 
superior  apparatus. 

After  the  very  interesting  class  fight  of  January  17,  resulting  in  a 
complete  victory*  for  seniors  and  sophomores,  those  classes  which  had 
not  yet  organized  hastened  to  do  so.  Bro.  Wilson  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  freshman  class,  which  gives  us  two  class  presidents — Bro. 
Kenny  being  president  of  the  junior  class. 

There  has  been  quite  a  revival  of  interest  in  literary  work  in  the 
college  this  year,  and  the  Phis  have  been  prominent  in  the  movement. 
At  the  last  election  of  the  Periclesian  Literary  Society,  Bro.  McAlpin 
was  chosen  president  and  Bro.  Edwards,  secretary. 

On  the  evening  of  the  twenty-fifth  a  very  happy  and  enthusiastic 
party  of  some  thirty  Phis,  students  and  alumni,  with  our  loyal  support- 
ers— the  ladies — gathered  around  the  banquet  table  at  the  Iceland 
Hotel,  of  this  city.  The  tables  and  rooms  were  very  handsomely  and. 
artistically  decorated  with  the  Fraternity  colors  and  flowers.  The  fol- 
lowing toasts  were  responded  to  : 

Toastmaster,  Bro,  Neal,  '92. 

•The  Present  Occasion,'  Bro.  Moore,  '98. 

*The  Sword  and  the  Shield,'  Bro.  Owens,  '9li. 

'The  Fraternity  Man,'  Miss  Bertha  Miller,  '99. 

'  The  "  Grad.,"  '  Bro.  Hudson,  Indiana  Alpha,  '97. 

•  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  Miss  Mary  Payne,  '99. 

•The  Ladies,'  Bro.  Harry  J.  Martin,  '95. 

Impromptu  speeches  were  then  made  by  several  of  the  alumni. 
The  occasion  will  long  be  remembered  by  all  present  as  a  most  enjoy- 
able one. 

We  have  been  pleased  to  receive  short  visits  from  Bro.  C.  L.  Morse, 
Vermont  Alpha,  '80,  and  Bro.  Swilzler,  Missouri  Alpha,  '94. 

Bro.  Edward  Middleton,  '97,  has  received  the  appointment  of  city 
engineer  of  Franklin. 

Since  the  beginning  of  the  term  we  have  pledged  John  W.  Williams, 
'00,  who  will  become  one  of  us  the  first  of  next  year. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  Bro.  Roy 
Hinchman,  class  of  1901,  of  Vernon,  Ind.,  whom  we  initiated  into  the 
mysteries  of  *  A  9  on  January  8. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Franklin,  January  2<),  1898.  JKSSE  L.  Hoi,man. 

INDIANA  EPSILON.  HANOVER  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  three  of  our 
chapter,  Bro.  W.  G.  Rogers  and  Bro.  M.  E.  Garber,  by  reason  of  sick- 
ness, and  Bro.  C.  M.  Pearson,  who  has  left  to  enter  Penn  College,  Iowa. 
Their  loss  will  be  keenly  felt. 


27S  THE  SCROLL. 

Several  of  our  recent  meetings  have  been  in  the  nature  of  reunion 
meetings,  we  having  had  several  of  our  alumni  and  former  members 
with  us. 

Bro.  Whallon  has  been  elected  president  of  the  state  athletic  asso- 
ciation, Bro.  Oldfather,  vice-president  of  the  state  oratorical  associa- 
tion, and  Bro.  Deibler,  secretary  of  the  college  athletic  association. 

In  the  coming  Voris  oratorical  contest  we  will  be  represented  by 
Bros.  Deibler  and  Jenkins.  Bro.  Reap  officiated  as  president  at  the 
recent  oratorical  contest  at  Indianapolis.  The  'mumps*  has  made  its 
appearance  here,  having  'initiated'  two  men,  both  Phis,  but  from  the 
looks  of  many  others,  it  is  very  probable  that  many  will  be  'pledged' 
ere  long.  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

T.  C.  WHALI.ON. 

Hanover,  February  1,  18^*8. 

INDIANA  ZETA,  DE  PAUW  UNIVERSITY. 

The  second  term  opened  January'  4,  with  an  increased  attendance  in 
all  departments,  especially  in  the  school  of  art  and  music.  As  a  re- 
sult of  the  labors  of  our  vice-chancellor,  Dr.  Hickman,  the  endow- 
ment fund  has  been  increased  by  vSeveral  large  donations  during  this 
term. 

The  annual  state  oratorical  contest  was  held  in  Indianapolis,  Janu- 
ary 21,  and  resulted  in  an  easy  victory  for  De  Pauw. 

Since  our  last  letter,  we  have  initiated  Porter  Smith,  '01,  Tilden. 
Ind.,  and  Earle  Parker,  '01.  La  Grange,  Ind. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  is  represented  on  the  glee  club  by  L.  R.  and  F.  S. 
Cartwright,  Stults,  F.  V.  Smith,  Hodges,  Edwards,  and  B.  F.  Roller  ; 
on  the  mandolin  club  by  F.  V.  and  Porter  Smith,  Hodges,  and  L.  R. 
and  F.  S.  Cartwright. 

B.  F.  Roller  is  physical  director  of  the  gymnasium,  and  secretary 
of  the  state  athletic  association.  Bro.  Meade  has  been  chosen  as  one 
of  the  representatives  of  De  Pauw  in  the  intercollegiate  debate  to  be 
held  with  Earlham  in  April. 

Bro.  F.  V.  Smith  is  treasurer  of  the  state  oratorical  association. 
The  athletic  board  has  chosen  Bro.  Ruick,  '07,  Yale,  '08,  to  coach  the 
foot  ball  team  next  fall. 

With  best  wishes  to  Phis,  everywhere,  I  remain. 

Yours  in  4>t-#se/a, 

Chas.  B.  Campbkli.. 

Greencastle,  February  S,  180s. 

INDIANA  THETA,  PURDUE  UNIVERSITY. 

The  new  year  finds  us  in  possession  of  the  most  desirable  fraternity 
house  in  Lafayette.  This  house,  known  as  *  Marstellar  Place,'  is  situ- 
ated at  State  and  Sheetz  streets,  facing  the  campus,  of  which  we  have 
a  commanding  view.  It  has  been  the  home  of  numerous  Phis  in  re- 
cent years,  but  not  until  January  1  did  we  come  into  complete  posses- 
sion. We  still  retain  our  hall  in  the  business  district  of  the  city  and 
it  is  the  scene  of  many  pleasant  informals  during  the  season. 

Bros.  John  and  Miles  O'Brien  left  Christmas  to  accept  lucrative  posi- 
tions offered  them  in  the  east,  in  which  we  wish  them  the  gp^eatest 
success.  We  have  pledged  Hubert  B.  Clapp,  of  Chicago,  and  have 
two  other  very  desirable  men  '  on  the  string. ' 

In  athletics,  the  spirit  of  the  student  body  was  never  better.     Sev- 


THE  SCROLL.  279 

enty-six  men  answered  the  call  for  track  team  candidates,  and  there 
is  an  abundance  of  good  base  ball  material  in  view. 

The  series  of  railway  engineering  lectures,  which  is  being  given 
here  this  year,  has  attracted  considerable  attention  from  the  general 
public  and  especially  from  railway  men.  The  lectures  so  far  have 
been  by  J.  T.  Brooks,  vice-president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railway; 
Melville  E.  Ingalls,  president  of  the  Big  Four;  Bro.  Addison  C.  Harris, 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railway;  John  W.  Noble,  ex-secretary  of  interior; 
Robert  Quayle,  C.  &  N.  W.  Ry.,  and  Angus  Sinclar,  of  the  Engineer- 
ing News,  Bro.  Penj.  Harrison  was  present  at  the  lecture  of  John 
W.  Noble,  who  was  secretary  of  interior  under  his  administration,  and 
although  on  account  of  the  shortness  of  his  stay  he  was  unable  to 
meet  us  formally,  he  expressed  his  appreciation  of  our  invitation  to 
a  reception  and  sent  his  best  wishes  to  the  chapter. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lafayette,  January  ;n,  1898.  Percy  H.  Battkn. 

MICHIGAN  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MICHIGAN. 

Nothing  of  extreme  importance  presents  itself  for  inscription  in  the 
present  letter,  for  fall  athletics  are  over  and  spring  athletics  have  not 
yet  begun.  Moreover,  this  year  witnesses  no  such  inter-fraternity 
brawls  as  have  occurred  in  the  last  few  years  at  just  this  time. 

On  the  contrary  we  may  say  that  the  smoothness  with  which  prep- 
arations are  being  made  for  the  '  Junior  Hop  '  is  a  matter  for  congrat- 
ulation. In  that  one  thin^,  at  least,  the  literary  fraternities  of  the 
university  are  bound  by  an  iron-clad  constitution  of  such  strength  as 
to  allow  no  discord.  The  'hop'  is  booked  for  February  18,  and  from 
present  indications  we  will  be  represented  by  about  fifteen  men. 

The  result  of  the  final  debate  contest  in  the  university  a  few  days 
ago  was  one  that  should  interest  all  fraternity  men.  The  three  win- 
ners, who  will  represent  the  university  in  the  Chicago-Michigan  con- 
test, belonged  respectively  to  A  X,  Z  4^,  and  A  T  Q. 

A  university  whist  club  has  been  growing  in  size  and  importance  in 
the  last  few  months,  and  Bros.  Gorenflo  and  Ray  nor  have  been  dis- 
tinguishing themselves  in  that  field. 

It  is  understood,  generally,  that  Dr.  Angell  will  return  to  the  univer- 
sity next  year  and  resume  his  work  in  the  capacity  of  president. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am  yours  in  the  Bond, 

Frhi)  R.  Hoover. 

Ann  Arbor,  January  31,  1898. 

MICHIGAN  GAMMA.  HILLSDALE  COLLEGE. 

Vacation  has  passed  and  we  have  had  one  meeting  this  term. 

During  vacation  we  took  the  opportunity  of  having  an  initiation, 
while  Bros.  Burt  and  Geo.  Green,  Austin,  Gilbert,  March  and  Kelley 
were  in  town.  We  now  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  the  Phi 
world  Charles  Adams  Sheldon,  of  Hillsdale.  After  the  initiation  we 
were  invited  to  meet  the  Pi  Beta  Phis,  who  were  meeting  that  even- 
ing, and  a  very  enjoyable  time  was  spent. 

Before  this  letter  appears  we  will  have  initiated  Harry  L.  Guggen- 
heim, a  freshman,  and  we  hope  that  soon  some  of  the  pledged  men 
will  be  ready  for  initiation.  Of  the  new  men  we  expect  Phi  Delta 
Theta  will  have  her  share  of  the  best. 

We  now  have  a  suite  of  very  pleasant  rooms  in  a  house  facing  the 


28o  THE  SCROLL. 

east  campus.  Here  we  have  our  meetings,  and  also  use  the  rooms  for 
studying  and  visiting,  and  find  it  just  the  place  for  rushing  men.  It 
is  also  a  good  study-room  for  the  fellows  who  live  down  town,  and  in 
fact,  is  a  regular  rendezvous  for  Phis. 

The  college  received  for  a  Christmas  gift,  ^1,150,  from  a  friend  in 
Wisconsin,  and  for  a  New  Year's  gift,  J4, 258.80,  from  a  friend  in  Hills- 
dale, also  a  bequest  note  of  ^2,000,  from  Mrs.  Frances  Jackson  Kies. 

Athletic  training  for  Miclrtgan  intercollegiate  field  day  has  begun 
in  the  gymnasium.  F.  H.  Wood  worth  pledged)  has  charge  of  the 
wrestling  class.  The  election  of  the  athletic  association  officers  occurs 
on  January  11,  1898. 

We  were  informed  lately  that  there  are  many  more  new  students 
than  ever  before. 

Trusting  that  our  circular  letter  has  reached  you,  and  that  the 
alumni  of  Michigan  Gamma  who  read  The  Scroll  will  write  us  con- 
cerning it,  I  remain  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Vhrni*:  G.  Mvkrs. 

Hillsdale,  January  3,  180S. 


EPSILON  PROVINCE, 

ILLINOIS  ALPHA.  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

Illinois  Alpha  has  pledged  two  men  in  the  academy  since  our  last 
letter  to  Thk  Scroll. 

Bro.  Mott  P.  Mitchell,  '98,  has  been  appointed  to  the  Gage  prize 
contest  in  extemporaneous  speaking.  Bro.  Cooke,  'i>l),  is  on  the  Syl- 
labus board  as  committee  on  fraternities  and  organizations.  Bro. 
Webb,  '00,  one  of  the  foremost  members  of  the  Thaliau  Dramatic  Club, 
played  a  leading  part  in  'A  Proposal  Under  Difficulties,'  at  Swift 
Hall,  February  8.  Bro.  Sturgeon,  '(K),  carried  off  two  prizes  at  the  in- 
door athletic  meet,  held  at  the  2d  Regiment  Armory,  Chicago,  Janu- 
ary 2i)  Bro.  Buntain,  '99,  is  chairman  and  leader  of  the  Pan  Hellenic 
promenade.  Phi  Delta  Theta  will  have  the  largest  representation  of 
any  fraternity  at  the  promenade  this  year. 

Bro.  Bruce  B.  Powell,  ex- '97,  will  be  married  Thursday  evening, 
February  10,  to  Miss  Grace  E.  Hartshorn,  of  Evanston,  at  the  home 
of  her  parents.     Bro.  Powell  is  practicing  law  at  Gilman,  111. 

The  glee,  banjo,  and  mandohn  clubs  gave  their  annual  concert  at 
the  First  Methodist  Church,  January  21.  The  concert  was  followed 
by  an  informal  reception  in  the  University  Guild  room.  The  clubs 
will  take  a  trip  this  week,  filling  dates  at  Mt.  Carroll,  111.,  W^arren, 
111.,  Independence,  la.,  and  Waterloo,  la. 

The  prospects  for  a  good  base  ball  team  this  year  are  splendid. 
About  thirty-five  candidates  are  practicing  in  the  gymnasium,  and 
plenty  of  first  class  men  can  be  found  among  them. 

The  first  semester  at  Northwestern  has  just  closed,  and  the  faculty 
and  students  express  themselves  as  well  satisfied  with  the  new  system. 

We  shall  have  something  to  say  at  another  time  in  regard  to  the 
article  that  appeared  in  the  Chicago  Eveniuir  Posi^  of  January  29,  al- 
leging that  an  attempt  had  been  made  by  Illinois  Alpha  to  lift  the 
local  chapter  of  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Evanston,  February  8,  1898.  Gkorge  E.  Moore. 


THE  SCROLL,  281 

ILLINOIS  ZETA.  LOHBARD  UNIVERSITY. 

I  am  pleased  to  introduce  to  the  world  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Bro. 
George  Morris,  who  has  recently  been  initiated  into  the  Fraternity  by 
Illinois  Zeta. 

The  chapter  is  growing  stronger  continually,  and  has  every  prospect 
for  a  bright  and  profitable  future.  The  college  is  as  strong  as  usual, 
and  everything  is  being  done  by  the  faculty  to  better  the  opportuni- 
ties already  afforded  at  Lombard. 

In  the  mandolin  and  guitar  club  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  represented  by 
Bros.  Allen,  Fletcher  and  Bullock.  Several  other  Phis  are  on  the  lad- 
der and  soon  expect  to  join  the  club. 

Under  the  able  instruction  of  Mrs.  Anna  Chappell  Gunnell,  the 
drama,  'A  Scrap  of  Paper'  was  successfully  presented  upon  the  gym- 
nasium stage,  and  on  the  evening  of  February  1  o  will  be  given  in  the 
auditorium.  Two  of  the  members  of  Illinois  Zeta  are  in  the  cast  of 
characters. 

On  the  football  team  of  last  season  Bros.  Weeks  and  McRlvaine  were 
the  star  half-backs,  and  won  many  a  victory  for  Lombard.  Both  are 
good  sprinters,  and  at  line  bucking  are  especially  good. 

Illinois  Zeta  greatly  feels  the  absence  of  Bro.  Walter  A.  Johnson, 
who  recently  went  to  New  York. 

On  the  evening  of  the  initiation  of  Bro.  Morris,  our  president,  Bro. 
Wiswell,  gave  a  banquet  at  one  of  the  down-town  restaurants.  We 
regret  very  much  that  Bro.  Wiswell  will  not  be  in  school  next  term. 

With  the  best  of  greeting  to  all  the  chapters  of  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
I  am  Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Fay  A,  Bullock. 

Galesburg,  February  2,  1898. 

ILLINOIS  BTA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Illinois  Eta  commenced  the  winter  term  with  sixteen  initiated  men 
and  five  pledged.  Three  of  the  pledged  men  will  be  Phis  by  the  time 
this  letter  is  published.  The  men  are  I.  H.  Hill,  '^^9,  of  Joliet;  R.  W. 
Mills,  'IKJ,  of  St.  Louis,  the  university  champion  half  and  quarter  mile 
runner,  member  of  mandolin  club  and  band;  Bruce  Fulton,  '01,  Hart- 
ford City,  Ind.,  who  bids  fair  to  outrival  his  brothers  in  base  ball. 

It  is  with  regret  that  I  announce  that  Bro.  Huntoon,  '01,  has  been 
compelled  to  leave  us  on  account  of  sickness.  We  hope  that  he  will 
be  aole  to  return  in  the  spring. 

On  February  11,  Illinois  Eta  holds  her  anniversary  ball  and  banquet. 
We  expect  many  of  our  alumni  to  be  present  with  us  on  that  most  en- 
joyable occasion.  We  have  been  the  first  chapter  to  adopt  patronesses, 
and  the  other  fraternities,  as  usual,  have  followed  our  example. 

Our  chapter  had  the  pleasure  of  entertaining  Miss  Mary  French 
Field,  January  II.  Miss  Field  gave  a  reading  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Alethenai  Literary  Society,  and  our  chapter  attended  in  a  body. 

About  7o  base  ball  candidates  have  begun  active  training  under  the 
guidance  of  Coach  Huff  and  Captain  Fulton.  Eight  of  last  year's 
team  have  returned,  and  the  existing  vacancy  will  probably  be  filled 
by  Bro.  Fulton,  '01,  this  making  five  Phis  on  the  team.  Illinois  ex- 
pects to  win  the  western  championship  this  spring.  The  Rockford 
team  of  the  Western  Association  will  be  here  April  1,  and  play  a  series 
of  12  games  with  our  team,  hence  by  the  time  the  western  champion- 
ship season  opens,  Illinois  will  have  a  well  seasoned  team. 


283  THE  SCROLL, 

Among  the  honors  Illinois  Eta  has  recently  received  I  note  the  fol 
lowing  :  S.  R.  Duffy,  .'Ho,  graduate  member  of  tlie  advisory  board  of 
the  athletic  association;  Bro.  Fulton,  '98,  captain  of  base  ball  team, 
president  of  students'  dancing  club,  reporter  ////;//.■  Bro.  Hatch,  'i*8, 
secretary  athletic  association,  assistant  editor  ////>//,  secretary  M.  E. 
and  E.  E.  Society;  Bro.  Harker,  president  mandolin  club;  Bros.  Grif- 
fiths, '99,  and  Gillette,  '01,  hold  offices  in  their  respective  classes. 

Bro.  Walker  has  submitted  his  report  as  manager  of  tlie  foot  ball 
team  of  '97.  His  report  shows  a  balance  of  |2,')(X),  this  being  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  Illinois  athletics  that  so  great  a  balance  has 
been.  This  clears  the  association  from  debt  and  leaves  a  snug  sum  in 
the  treasury. 

Illinois  Eta  acknowledges  receipt  of  many  chapter  letters,  but  there 
are  a  few  that  we  would  like  very  much  to  see. 

The  university  has  recently  purchased  40, (HH)  volumes  for  the  new 
library,  this  making  a  total  of  over  KKJ.OOO  volumes  now  owned  by  the 
university. 

Our  new  gjmnasium  will  1^  ready  for  occupancy  about  April  1. 
The  horticulture  building  was  completed  last  month. 

Bro.  Swenson,  'SO,  has  charge  of  the  moving  of  the  dynamos, 
motors  and  other  electrical  appliances  into  the  new  central  heating 
and  lighting  plant. 

President  Draper  has  returned  from  a  sojourn  in  the  south  and 
lower  California. 

With  best  wishes  and  kindest  regards  to  our  sister  chapters,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Itond, 

Champaign,  January  .'M,  ISOS.  A.  N.  Hazutt. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

Since  the  December  issue  of  Tm-:  Scroll  we  have  initiated  four 
new  men,  and  it  affords  us  great  pleasure  to  introduce  Brothers  Barns, 
Hardgrove,  Ragland  and  Robins  to  the  Phi  world.  Besides  these  we 
have  two  pledged  men,  Newman  and  Gregg,  whom  we  hope  to  dub 
Phis  before  the  next  Scroll. 

Our  fall  party  proved  to  be  a  success  in  all  respects,  and  the  brothers 
were  well  satisfied  with  the  results. 

The  first  semester  is  rapidly  drawing  to  a  close  and  the  final  exam- 
inations on  the  half  year's  work  are  close  at  hand.  We  are  keeping 
a  sharp  lookout  for  new  men,  as  many  students  enter  the  university 
at  the  beginning  of  the  second  semester. 

The  annual  'Junior  Prom.'  occurs  on  the  10th  of  February  and  the 
junior  class  is  busy  in  making  the  necessary  preparations.  W^e  are 
well  reprcvsented  on  the  'Prom.'  committees.  Brother  Pooler  is  chair- 
man of  the  decoration  committee  and  Brother  Geilfuss  is  treasurer. 
As  this  is  always  the  chief  social  event  of  the  year  many  of  the  alumni 
are  present  and  it  is  an  excellent  opportunity  for  the  old  Phis  to  meet 
the  new  ones. 

The  editors  of  Phikcia  Annual  have  been  elected,  and  material  is 
being  gathered  for  its  second  edition.  The  first  issue,  printed  ten 
years  ago,  proved  such  a  success  that  w^e  have  determined  to  get  out 
a  second  one,  and  we  hope  to  make  it  as  great  a  success. 

Ice  boating  has  been  at  its  height  for  the  last  few  weeks,  but  the 
recent  heavy  storms  have  spoiled  it  to  some  extent.  The  chapter 
owns  three  boats  which  are  all  fast  sailers. 

We  have  had  several  pleasant  visits  from  Bros.  Bacon,  Barnes,  Sweet 
and  Mann. 


THE  SCROLL,  2S3 

Bro.  Elwell,  law,  '9(»,  has  opened  a  law  office  in  La  Crosse,  Wis. 
Bro.  Bacon,  '97,  holds  a  good  position  on  the  Republican  and  Leader y 
in  La  Crosse.  Bro.  Hubbel,  law,  '98,  has  left  us  and  has  entered  the 
hardware  business  in  Duluth,  Minn.  Bro.  Manson,  law,  '97,  was  re- 
cently elected  justice  of  the  peace  in  Wausau,  Wis. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Madison,  January  27,  1H9S.  Bkrnard  C.  Dorset. 

IOWA  ALPHA,  IOWA  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

The  most  important  local  event  of  recent  occurrence  was  the  annual 
oratorical  contest  which  we  are  glad  to  report  was  won  by  Bro.  Pace, 
*99.  Taking  advantage  of  a  technicality  our  rival,  B  6  II,  attempted 
to  prevent  the  appearance  of  Bro.  Pace  on  the  program.  The  result 
was  one  of  the  bitterest  fraternity  fights  in  the  history  of  the  univers- 
ity. After  a  week  of  raging  conflict  the  Phis  emerged  from  the  scene 
of  battle  with  the  supp>ort  of  75  per  cent,  of  the  girls,  a  handsome  ma- 
jority in  the  oratorical  association,  and  the  sanction  of  the  faculty,  to 
whom  the  matter  was  carried.  The  evening  following  Bro.  Pace  won 
the  contest,  making  the  phenomenal  record  of  receiving  five  firsts  on 
delivery  from  as  many  judges.  He  will  represent  the  university  in  the 
state  contest,  February  24. 

We  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  three  men,  worthy  of  the  privi- 
leges of  *  A  0,  who  have  donned  the  sword  and  shield  since  our  last 
report.  They  are,  C.  F.  Nevins,  Burlington,  la.,  Ralph  StafiFord  and 
Archie  Day,  of  Mt.  Pleasant,  la.  We  are  truly  proud  to  call  these  men 
brothers.  Bro.  Stafford  is  the  son  of  the  president  of  the  institution, 
who  was  a  Beta.     Our  securing  him  was  thus  a  signal  victory. 

Bro.  Nevins  is  temporarily  out  of  school.  Bro.  Guylee,  our  'funny 
man,'  has  recently  made  an  extended  trip  to  Kansas.  We  welcome 
him  back.  Bro.*  Robinson,  '97,  is  taking  post-graduate  work  here 
and  his  presence  with  the  chapter  is  appreciated. 

The  Beta  Theta  Pi  chapter  here  numbers  ten  men.  Thus  far  they 
have  had  no  initiation  this  year.  They  will  have  some  additions  by 
the  close  of  the  year,  but  will  lose  six  by  graduation. 

Some  of  the  honors  not  yet  reported,  held  by  Phis,  are  as  follows: 
Bros.  Helphrey  and  Beck  are  the  presidents  of  the  two  gentlemen's 
collegiate  literary  societies;  Bro.  Pace  is  president  of  the  junior  class; 
Bro.  Crawford  is  secretary  of  the  athletic  association. 

In  the  military  department  Bro.  Geo.  Smith  is  captain  of  Company 
B;  Bro.  Pace  is  1st  lieutenant  and  ordnance  officer;  Bros.  Hearne  and 
Crawford  are  1st  lieutenants,  and  Throop,  2d  lieutenant,  while  Beck  is 
sergeant  major.   Our  new  men,  Bros.  Stafford  and  Day,  are  sergeants. 

On  the  Wesleyan  staff  Beck  is  subscription  agent  and  Throop,  ad- 
vertising agent. 

Under  the  efficient  management  of  Prof.  McCauley  the  commercial 
department  is  in  a  highly  prosperous  condition. 

On  the  debate  between  the  literary  societies  we  were  represented  by 
Bros.  Pace  and  Helphrey.  In  the  oratorical  contest  these  two,  in  ad- 
dition to  Beck,  were  our  representatives  on  program. 

Our  chapter  was  glad  of  the  opportunity  to  meet  Bro.  F.  S.  Brock- 
man,  of  Tennessee  Alpha,  while  lie  was  visiting  our  institution  on  his 
tour  of  the  northwest  in  the  interest  of  the  student  volunteer  move- 
ment and  missions. 

May  prosperity  in  its  superlative  degree  attend  all  sister  chapters. 

Yours  in  4»  A  0, 

Mt.  Pleasant,  January  22,  1898.  J.  McF.  Beck. 


284  THE  SCROLL, 

niSSOURl  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  MISSOURI. 

The  last  semester  has  been  most  prosperous  for  Missouri  Alpha.  In 
scholarship,  in  athletics,  and  in  literary  work  we  feel  that  we  have 
maintained  our  former  prestige,  and  have  moreover  set  a  new  pace 
for  Phis  that  are  to  come.  We  have  now  a  membership  of  li»,  of 
whom  Bros.  Harrv  W.  Smith,  '99,  Edward  L.  Drum,  '01,  George  F. 
Maitland,  '99,  Arthur  W.  Brent,  '01,  Dudley  T.  Dunlop,  '00,  and  W. 
Neal  Winter,  '01,  were  initiated  this  year. 

We  regret  to  announce  that  Bro.  George  Richard  Tyler,  '91,  of 
Nevada,  Mo.,  has  joined  the  Chapter  Grand. 

Bro.  Broderick  was  recently  elected  captain  of  the  base  ball  team, 
and  by  virtue  of  this  office  he  is  a  member  of  the  board  which  con- 
trols athletics  in  general.  Bro.  Smith  will  try  for  the  track  team, 
which  now  gives  promise  of  record-breakers.  It  is  but  just  to  Bro. 
White,  gymnasium  director,  to  say  that  the  excellent  condition  of  the 
team  is  largely  due  to  his  painstaking  efforts. 

Bro.  H.  T.  Cary,  '94,  professor  of  civil  engineering,  was  recently 
granted  a  leave  of  absence  until  September  1,  and  leaves  to-day  for 
Europe. 

Bro.  T.  J.  J.  See,  'S9,  recently  'renewed  his  pledges  in  *  A  B*  while 
here.  He  delivered  a  lecture  before  the  scientific  association  of  the 
university  on  January  13,  and  was  ^ven  a  banquet  bv  the  university 
council,  an  honor  never  before  given  an  alumni  of  the  university. 
Bro.  See  was  present  at  a  meeting  of  Missouri  Alpha,  and  favored  us 
with  some  very  pleasing  remarks.  After  the  meeting  he  was  the 
guest  of  honor  at  a  Phi  oyster  supper. 

Missouri  Alpha  will  fittingly  celebrate  Alumni  Day. 

Yours  fraternally, 

Columbia,  February  1,  1898.  Chari,ks  Shumwav  Rifknkr. 

MISSOURI  BBTA,  WESTMINSTER  COLLEGE. 

Since  the  last  edition  of  The  Scroll,  Missouri  Beta  has  been  the 
recipient  of  rare  good  fortune  in  shape  of  the  unexpected  reappear- 
ance of  three  former  associates  of  this  chapter  on  the  field  of  action. 
It  is  seldom,  indeed,  that  a  fraternity  can  rely  upon  second  term 
matriculants  for  its  support,  much  less  can  it  hope  at  that  time  for  the 
arrival  of  comrades  of  former  years.  This,  however,  happily  falls  to 
the  lot  of  our  chapter  this  year.  Van  Meter,  B.  L.,  '97,  has  quenched 
his  burning  desire  for  mercantile  pursuits,  sold  his  interest  in  a  bank- 
ing institution,  and  returned"  to  his  Alma  Mater  to  resuine  his  seden- 
tary occupation  at  Westminster,  and  incidently  to  attach  an  A.  B.  to 
his  name  in  June.  Bro.  Brown,  who  has  been  imbued  with  similar 
sentiments  for  the  period  of  a  year  and  a  half,  is  with  us  with  his  ac- 
customed enthusiasm  Bro.  Baker,  being  duly  repentant  of  certain 
murderous  designs  on  Old  Father  Time,  is  again  in  the  class-room. 
With  these  additions,  coupled  with  our  now  strong  and  active  body  of 
Phis,  the  prospect  for  the  remainder  of  the  year  is  exceedingly  bright. 

Bro.  Henderson,  representative  of  D.  L.  Auld,  with  whom  nearly  everj^ 
chapter  in  the  Fraternity  is  acquainted,  and  who  in  former  days  was 
an  active  member  of  Missouri  Beta,  lent  his  presence  to  our  last  regu- 
lar meeting  and  gave  us  the  benefit  of  his  advice,  based  u|K>n  many 
years  of  experience  and  observation,  not  only  with  the  chapters  of  our 
own  Fraternity,  but  also  our  rivals.  Bro.  Henderson  is  as  earnest  and 
enthusiastic  to-day  as  when  actually  engaged  in  the  strifes  and  strug- 
gles of  the  chapter  of  which  he  is  a  member. 


*  THE  SCROLL,  .  285 

The  pledge  button,  which  has  been  in  vo^ue  in  many  chapters  long 
since,  made  its  initial  appearance  in  fraternity  circles  at  Westminster 
on  a  future  Phi.  Its  presence  on  a  man  who  had  been  rushed  by 
other  fraternities  elicited  no  slight  degree  of  interest.  The  pledge 
button  system  seems  to  possess  quite  an  advantage  over  the  ancient 
sub  rosa  observance,  in  that  it  enables  the  prospective  candidate  to 
enjoy  the  society  of  his  future  brothers,  without  laying  himself  liable 
to  the  accusation  of  pressing  himself  upK)n  a  fraternity's  notice. 

Since  our  last  letter.  Dr.  E.  C.  Gordon,  who  for  a  number  of  years 
has  performed  so  successfully  the  arduous  duties  of  president  of  the 
college,  has  resigned,  and  J.  J.  Rice,  A.  M.,  LL.  I).,  who  for  thirty 
years  has  occupied  the  chair  of  political  science  in  this  institution,  is 
acting  president  until  further  action  upon  the  part  of  the  board  of 
trustees. 

The  base  ball  season  is  rapidly  approaching,  and,  while  in  all  prob- 
ability Westminster  may  never  boast  of  as  fine  a  pitcher  as  she  pos- 
sessed in  the  shape  of  Bro.  Jacks,  we  hope  to  strengthen  in  other  Imes 
and  thereby  sustain  our  enviable  reputation  of  the  diamond.  Bro. 
Gordon,  with  his  long  experience  on  the  field,  will  doubtless  be  the 
mainstay  of  the  team,  while  Bros.  Baker  and  McGregor  will  be  the 
chief  strength  in  the  pitching  department.  All  members  of  Missouri 
Beta  have  successfully  crossed  the  Rubicon  of  examinations,  and  are 
entering  upon  the  second  term  with  all  the  customary  and  time-worn 
resolutions  of  future  diligence. 

Wishing  each  and  every  chapter  the  highest  meed  of  success. 

Yours  fraternally, 

Fulton.  January  28,  1898.  M.  N.'  FKR(ir.S()N. 

ICAN5A5  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS. 

Brother  Cooper  has  been  elected  treasurer  of  '  The  Masque, '  a  dra- 
matic club  recently  organized.  Ikother  Lee  is  a  member  of  the  edi- 
torial board  of  the  Senior  Annual. 

Brother  Funston  has  returned  from  Cuba,  having  been  captured  and 
paroled  by  the  Spanish.  He  passed  through  here  on  his  way  to  his 
home  in  lola,  Kas.,  where  he  will  remain  for  some  time  until  his 
wounds  are  healed. 

Financially  we  are  in  better  shape  than  for  some  time. 

Our  annual  circular  letter  will  be  out  in  a  short  time.  The  com- 
mittee finds  much  difficulty  in  getting  accurate  information  as  to  the 
addresses  of  alumni. 

Our  annual  spring  party  takes  place  April  29.  The  reporter  is  au- 
thorized to  announce  that,  owing  to  the  recent  action  of  the  sororities 
upon  the  liquor  question,  the  punch  will  not  be  'spiked.' 

We  have  recently  pledged  Melvin  H.  Taylor,  of  Lyons,  Kas. 

Yours  in  the  liond, 

Lawrence,  February  1,  189S.  H.  W.  McLAr(;Hi,iN. 

CALIFORNIA  BBTA.  LBLAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY. 

Stanford  University  opened  for  the  second  semester  on  Wedncvsday, 
January  11,  and  the  long  term  of  five  months  is  fairly  upon  us.  Great 
improvements  are  being  made  on  the  campus.  Houses  are  being 
bmlt,  trees  are  being  set  out,  and  streets  improved. 

The  members  of  me  Stanford  chapter  of  *  A  B  have  made  the  best 
record  of  any  fraternity  here  in  their  studies. 


286  HIE  SCROLL, 

We  now  have  a  house  committee  at  work,  and  it  is  ven*  probable 
that  we  will  be  in  a  house  of  our  own  by  the  begin ninji[  of  next  year. 
We  are  ready  for  suggestions  and  help  from  our  alumni. 

It  was  with  great  sorrow  that  we  received  the  news  of  the  death  of 
Francis  W.  Lake,  M)7.  Bro.  Lake  died  of  consumption,  at  Grand 
Island,  Neb.,  December  1().  He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men 
ever  at  Stanford,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  growth  and  prosperity 
of  *  A  e. 

The  members  of  California  Beta  are  trying  to  locate  their  alumni, 
and  it  will  save  us  considerable  trouble  if  the  old  members  will  vol- 
untarily send  us  their  present  addresses. 


Stanford  University,  January  14,  1S9S. 


Bknj.  K.  Pac.e. 


ALUMNL 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  NEW  YORK. 

In  pursuance  to  a  call  issued  by  several  members  of  the  New  York 
Alpha  alumni  chapter  a  meeting  of  Phis  in  the  Metropolitan  district 
was  arranged  for  the  evening  of  December  1">,  1807,  and  notwithstand- 
ing the  unpropitious  weather  many  responded. 

The  meeting  was  entirely  informal  and  as  a  result  of  the  suggestions 
offered  a  committee  on  incorporation  was  appointed  by  the  temporary 
chairman,  with  authority  to  call  a  second  meeting.  When  that  nec- 
essary preliminary  had  been  attended  to,  Bro.  D.  R.  Horton  was  ex 
officio  chairman,  and  as  a  result  of  his  and  the  committee's  labors, 
articles  of  incorporation,  after  approval  by  Justice  Freedman,  of  the 
New  York  supreme  court,  were  duly  filed  with  the  secretary  of  state 
at  Albany,  and  a  call  for  a  second  meeting  issued. 

This  was  held  on  the  evening  of  February  4,  1898.  The  by-laws, 
after  a  few  changes,  were  approved  and  signed  by  those  present. 
Some  thirty  members  is  the  imcleus,  which  it  is  confidently  believed 
will  grow  to  a  hundred  or  a  hundred  and  fifty  in  a  few  weeks'  time. 
Letters  and  telegrams  were  read  from  many  Phis  wishing  .success  and 
promising  support,  and  the  prospect  is  bright.  All  members  of  the 
Fraternity  whose  addresses  were  known  were  notified,  but  the  precau- 
tion of  notifying  the  press,  which  responded  with  notices,  resulted  in 
several  good  brothers  appearing  in  person  or  by  letter,  who  had  but 
lately  settled  within  our  city. 

Temporary  officers  have  been  elected  who  will  hold  office  until  the 
annual  dinner  on  March  1.'),  189.S,  when  a  fiscal  year  beginning,  ac- 
cording to  the  by-laws,  new  officers  will  be  elected  for  the  ensuing 
twelve  months. 

Dues  are  510  per  year  for  resident,  and  l^")  a  year  for  non-resident 
members,  payable  in  advance.  Brothers  residing  outside  a  radius  of 
2')  miles  from  the  city  hall,  in  Manhattan  borough,  may  become  non- 
resident members,  but  this  shall  not  prevent  them  from  becoming  res- 
ident members.  They  have  the  same  club  and  voting  privileges, 
save  that  office-holding  is  restricted  to  resident  members. 

The  club  hopes  very  shortly  to  acquire  a  club  and  chapter  house 
which  will  be  up  to  date,  and  hearty  co  operation  upon  the  part  of 
Phis  interested  will  tend  materially  to  hasten  its  undoubted  success. 
Checks  may  be  made  payable  to  Arthur  P.  Van  ( lelder,  instructor, 
Columbia  University,  by  whom  receipt  will  be  promptly  acknowledged. 

In  the  Bond, 

New  York,  Februarj-  o,  1898.  Oscar  Wkhks  Ehrhorn. 


THE  SCROLL,  287 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  NEW  ORLEANS. 

On  Wednesday,  February  9,  Bro.  W.  G.  Tebault  entertained  at  sup- 
per in  his  elegant  mansion,  in  Canal  street,  coniplimentar}'  to  the  New 
Orleans  alumni  chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  now  in  its  infancy.  The 
crowd  seated  around  the  festive  board  was  as  true  and  enthusiastic  a 
set  of  *frat*  men  as  ever  assembled  together.  True  to  his  spirit  the 
host  had  not  forgotten  the  active  chapter,  and  well  may  we  say  was  it 
represented,  every  man  of  it  being  present.  The  object  of  the  gather- 
ing was  to  celebrate  the  glorious  event  of  the  unanimous  granting  by 
the  General  Council  of  a  charter  to  the  alumni  Phis  of  New  Orleans. 
The  feast  was  one  long  to  be  remembered,  the  flow  of  wit  and  humor 
beine  as  free  as  that  of  the  wine  which  ever  filled  the  emptied  glasses. 

Before  the  repast  an  impromptu  meeting  of  the  alumni  present  was 
held  to  devise  ways  and  means  by  virtue  of  which  the  alumni  chapter 
could  be  placed  on  a  solid  working  basis.  On  motion  of  Bro.  Brady, 
duly  seconded,  Bro.  Cosby  was  called  to  the  chair  to  preside  at  the 
first  meeting  of  the  new  organization.  The  deliberations  were  short 
and  to  the  point.  The  fact  that  no  charter  had  been  forwarded  the 
new  chapter,  though  one  had  been  unanimously  granted  by  the  Gen- 
eral Council,  was  commented  upon,  until  finally,  at  the  suggestion  of 
Bro.  Cosby,  the  motion  was  put  before  the  house  to  elect  a  committee 
of  three  to  draft  suitable  by-laws  and  constitution  for  the  new  organ- 
ization and  to  communicate  with  the  General  Council  with  regard  to 
the  forwarding  of  the  charter  granted  by  them. 

The  nominations  being  in  order  Bro.  Cosby  selected  Bros.  Grantland 
L.  Tebault,  Lloyd  Coleman,  and  George  C.  H.  Kernion  to  serve  on  it, 
which  action  met  with  the  approval  of  those  present. 

Then  with  the  hope  of  being  soon  able  to  meet  in  the  local  of  the 
new  alumni  chapter  the  loyal  Phis,  with  sharpened  appetites,  repaired 
to  the  supper  room,  where  a  spread  that  would  have  graced  the  table 
of  Lucullus  himself  was  in  waiting  for  them.     It  consisted  of: 

Hon il Ion  a  la  I  'olaille 
Poissou 
Pampano  grilU  a  la  West  End  Pomwcs  an  hcunr 

St.  Julien  Entries 

Mayonnaise  l\'iits  pois  de  Erancc 

HoHclu'cs  ()  /a  Reine 

Dindc  rCiti  fan!  aii.v  h  nit  res 
Sautcrne  Saladc  dc  crevcttc 

(f  laces 
I  'an  i  lie  el  /raises 
Punch  glace  Pel  its  fours 

Xoi.x'  Froniages 

Pit'ces  inonli'es 
Olii'es  Fruits 

Caf<    noir 

At  the  end  of  the  feast  a  toast  was  offered  the  host  by  Bro.  L.  S. 
Prentiss  in  a  very  felicitous  manner.  Bro.  Cosby  gave  a  humorous 
recitation.  The  prospects  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  in  the  queen  city  of  the 
south  was  freely  discussed  and  all  left  decided  at  heart  to  make  their 
best  effort  to  elevate  the  already  high  standing  of  4>  A  0  and  to  infuse 
into  the  hearts  of  all  its  members  in  New  Orleans  that  admirable  fra- 
ternity spirit  which  is  essential  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  a 


288  THE  SCROLL. 

chapter.  Those  present  were:  Among  the  alumni,  Bros.  W.  G.  Te- 
bault,  John  ConnifiF,  Grady,  Hamilton  Jones,  Leon  Cusachs,  Wilkin- 
son, S.  S.  Prentiss,  Lloyd  R.  Coleman,  V.  McN.  Gordon,  Robert  Jami- 
son, Grantland  L.  Tebault,  Leon  Lewis,  Alex.  Allison,  Chas.  Cosby, 
and  George  C.  H.  Kernion,  and  of  the  active  brothers,  F.  V.  Gasquet, 
Harry  Ludlow,  Louis  Landry,  Hal  Woods,  Tom  Gilmore,  Frank  Copp 
and  Frank  Lewis. 

Just  as  the  assembly  was  about  to  disperse  a  message  was  received 
from  Bro.  Leveque,  Tennessee  Alpha,  expressing  his  regrets  at  not 
being  able  to  attend  on  account  of  professional  duties. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

GicoRcvK  C.  H.  Kkrnion,  M»7. 

New  Orleans,  February  14,  IS^KS. 

MICHiaAN  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  DETROIT. 

On  Monday  evening,  November  22,  the  Phis  of  Detroit  met  in  the 
parlors  of  the  Cadillac  Hotel  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  the  Alpha 
almnni  chapter  of  Michigan,  the  charter  having  been  granted  during 
the  early  summer  months. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  a  stormy  night  was  scheduled  for  this 
meeting,  a  fairly  good  representation  was  present  to  participate  in  the 
exercises,  which  were  very  informal. 

The  meeting  was  presided  over  by  liro.  A.  H.  Kessler,  Michigan 
Alpha,  '*.)."),  the  writer  acting  as  secretary.  The  following  officers  were 
elected:  President,  L.  S.  McCoUester,  Ohio  Epsilon,  *81;  vice-presi- 
dent, P.  T.  Davis,  Illinois  Alpha,  '<.»8;  secretary,  W.  P.  Putnam,  Ohio 
Epsilon,  ''.Ki;  treasurer,  A.  H.  Kessler,  Michigan  Alpha,  '9''). 

The  following  were  appointed  on  a  banquet  committee  to  make  ar- 
rangements for  an  informal  dinner  in  the  near  future  and  for  the  an- 
nual banquet  on  March  15.  1<S«»8:  liro.  L.  vS.  McCollester,  Ohio  E.,  'Si ; 
Bro.  G.  S.  Hammond,  Ohio  B.,  '7r»;  Bro.  C.  M.  Preston,  Michigan  A.; 
Bro.  A.  J.  Stringer,  Michigan  A.;  Bro.  Theo.  Kaderly,  Ohio  Eta,  '97. 

It  is  the  intention  of  this  committee  to  make  the  annual  banquet 
one  that  will  not  only  attract  attention  from  rival  fraternities,  but  also 
add  strength  to  our  own  organization. 

To  this  banquet  we  invite  any  Phi  who  may  be  in  these  parts  at  that 
time.  Fonnal  invitations  will  be  sent  to  the  chapters  of  the  state,  and 
a  good  time  in  general  is  in  store  for  those  who  are  fortunate  enough 
to  be  with  us. 

The  following  list  includes  all  Phis  known  by  this  chapter  to  be  in 
the  city.  Should  any  Phi  who  reads  this  list  know  of  any  brother 
who  lives  here,  but  whose  name  docs  not  appear  below,  he  will  con- 
fer a  favor  upon  this  chapter  by  informing  the  undersigned,  giving 
address  of  any  person  so  mentioned. 

P.  T.  Davis.  Illinois  Alpha,  '9.S;  J.  C.  Hallock,  Michigan  Alpha,  '94: 
G.  S.  Hammond,  Ohio  Beta,  '7<);  E.  D.  Hutton,  Michigan  Beta,  'H-'J; 
A.  H.  Kessler.  Michigan  Alpha,  M»o;  L.  S.  McCollester,  Ohio  Eta,  '81; 
J.  C.  Patrick,  Michigan  Beta,  '94;  H.  W.  Quinby,  Michigan  Beta,  '89; 
B.C.  Robbins,  Indiana  Delta,  '78;  A.  J.  Stringer,  Michigan  Alpha;  C. 
M.  Preston,  Michigan  Alpha;  Theo.  Kaderly,  Ohio  Eta,  '97;  F.  E. 
Searle,  Massachusetts  Alpha,  '9:>;  R.  I).  Steele,  Michigan  Alpha,  M>f»; 
J.  M.  Payne,  Michigan  Alpha,  9i».  Fraternally, 

W.  P.  Putnam. 

Detroit,  February,  1898. 


THE  SCROLL.  289 


PERSONALS. 

Hanover — Thomas  C.  Potter,  '74,  is  a  druggist  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

Ohio  State — S.  R.  Bolin,  ex-M)i),  has  entered  the  Yale  law 
school. 

Ohio  State — R.  J.  Shank,  '97,  is  practicing  law  in  Ham- 
ilton, O. 

Missouri — Joseph  C.  Tipton,  'W,  is  Indian  agent  at  Flag- 
staff, Arizona. 

South  Caroliyia — W.  C.  Cochran,  '94,  is  practicing  law  in 
Greenville,  S.  C. 

(reorgia — Moses  Wright,  '85,  is  solicitor  general  of  the 
Rome,  Ga.,  circuit. 

Frajikliyi,  '8^ — Edward  J.  Beardsley,   M.  D.,  is  an  ocu- 
list at  Champaign,  111. 

South  Carolina — W.  T.  A^xock,  '8^.>,  has  begun  to  practice 
law  in  Columbia,  S.  C. 

Hillsdale — N.    B.  Sloan,   'i)7,  is  teaching  science  in   the 
Flint,  (Mich.)  high  school. 

Hillsdale —S.  E.  Kelley,  '^>4,  has  been  elected  traveling 
agent  for  Hillsdale  College. 

Ohio  State — Douglas  Ingram,  '97,  is  engaged  in  electrical 
work  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Illinois   Wesleyan — William  J.  Mathews,  '9(),  is  now  prac- 
ticing law  in  Springfield,  111. 

Richmond — Cecil  H.  Baker,  'St),  is  teaching  in  the  Knox- 
ville  (Tenn.)  Classical  School. 

Amherst — George  R.   Mansfield,  '97,  is  teaching  in  the 
high  school  at  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

South  Carolina — Dr.  George  Walker,  '89,  is  now  practic- 
ing his  profession  in  Baltimore. 

Miami — Rev.  Henry  L.  Brown,  '50,  is  pastor  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church  at  Somers,  Wis. 


290  THE  SCROLL. 

Syracuse — A.  G.  Vredenburg,  '90,  is  director  of  music  at 
Galloway  College.  Searcy,  Ark. 

Hillsdale— VJ,  R.  Wood,  *97,  is  pastor  of  the  Free  Baptist 
church  at  Unadilla  Forks,  N.  Y. 

Wabash. — Edgar  W.  Olive,  *94,  has  accepted  the  position 
of  instructor  in  botany  at  Harvard. 

Minnesota — Helmus  W.  Thompson,  \S8,  has  moved  from 
La  Crosse,  Wis.,  to  Eugene.  Oregon. 

De  Pauw — L.  C.  Bentley,  *04,  was  married  to  Miss  Jo- 
sephine Eads,  *9i),  December  30,  181)7. 

loiva  Wesley  an — Rev.  Frank  W.  Adams,  'To,  is  professor 
of  Greek  at  Iowa  Wesleyan  University. 

Wabash. — Frank  G.  Evans,  ex-'98,  was  recently  married 
to  Miss  Etta  Crabbs,  of  Crawfordsville. 

Mississippi. — W.  A.  Lucas,  '95,  is  professor  of  Latin  and 
Greek  in  the  Jefferson  Military  Institute. 

lozca  Wesleyan — Ed.  Roth,  't)5,  has  been  re-elected  super- 
intendent of  schools  of  Henr>^  county,  Iowa. 

Amherst — Henry  M.  Moses,  '97,  is  teaching  physics  in 
the  Brooklyn  (N.  Y.)  Polytechnic  Institute. 

Unioji — Glenn  M.  Scofield,  *97,  is  draughtsman  for  the 
Youngstown  Bridge  Co.,  Youngstown,  Ohio. 

De  Paiiiv — John  Emory  Jenkins,  M.  D.,  \S5,  died  of  typhoid 
fever,  at  Charleston,  111.,  September  25,  1897. 

Missouri — L.W.  Graves,  '90,  \i2c&\yoM^\.i\i^ Sweet Sprijigs 
(  Mo. )  Herald,  of  which  he  will  be  editor-in-chief. 

Hillsdule — M.  L.  Palmer,  '91 ,  was  elected  secretary  of  the 
Michigan  state  teachers*  association,  December  oO. 

Hanover — William  A.  Caldwell,  '74,  is  instructor  in  the 
California  School  for  the  Deaf  and  Blind,  at  Berkeley. 

(iCttysburi^ — M.  L.  Holloway,  Ph.  G.,  '84,  is  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  16th  and  Brown  Sts.,  Philadelphia. 

Buchtel — Arthur  A.  Stearns,  '79,  is  secretary  of  the  Cleve- 
land bar  association,  of  which  H.  A.  Kelle}'  is  also  a  mem- 
ber. 


THE  SCROLL.  391 

Buchtel — Gerald  H.  Brown,  '00,  a  grandson  of  Ossawat- 
tomie  Brown,  is  business  manager  of  The  Buchteltte  this  year. 

Union — Prof.  E.  S.  Harris,  '86,  formerly  of  Schuylerville, 
N.  Y.,  is  now  superintendent  of  schools  at  Poughkeepsie, 
N.  Y. 

Uniofi — Monte  J.  Multer,  M)7,  is  instructor  in  mathematics 
and  science  in  the  Delaware  Literary  Institute,  Franklin, 
N.  Y. 

South  Carolina — Laurens  W.  Boyd,  '90,  represents  a  Cin- 
cinnati publication,  *  Looking  Southward,'  at  Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Ohio  Siaie—Vved  S.  Ball,  Ohio,  '88,  of  Montgomery,  Ala., 
is  general  counsel  for  the  Alabama  and  Tombigbee  Railroad 
Company. 

IVadash. — Ira  Wyncoop  and  Lloyd  Hammond,  both  of 
'95,  are  attending  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
at  Chicago. 

Hillsdale — Ernest  S.  Bowen,  '88,  is  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Fay  &  Bowen,  manufacturers  of  bicycle  pumps,  at 
Auburn,  N.  Y. 

Hillsdale — G.  G.  Kenny,  '90,  is  in  the  office  of  the  col- 
lector of  customs  for  the  port  of  San  Francisco.  His  address 
is  11 0()  Bush  St. 

Northtvcsiern — Clay  Buntain,  '00,  was  one  of  the  pall- 
bearers at  the  funeral  of  Frances  E.  Willard,  in  Evanston, 
on  February  24. 

Cornell — Wells  S.  Gilbert,  'Oo,  is  assistant  manager  of  the 
Russell- Miller  Milling  Co.,  of  West  Superior,  Wis.  He 
still  lives  in  Duluth. 

Vanderbilt — Allen  R.  Carter,  '87,  is  president  of  the  Dis- 
patch Publishing  Company,  Louisville,  Ky.,  which  publishes 
the  morning  Dispatch . 

Indiana — George  H.  Pendleton,  '91,  is  practicing  medi- 
cine in  Indianapolis.  His  office  is  at  166  Ft.  Wayne  Ave. 
He  was  recently  married. 

WashingtoJi  and  Lee — R.  J.  McBryde,  Jr.,  '95,  delegate 
to  Indianapolis  in  1894,  is  principal  of  the  Episcopal  Male 
Academy,  at  Houston,  Va. 


292  THE  SCROLL, 

Hillsdale — George  March,  '98,  is  special  agent  for  the 
Imperial  Fire  Insurance  Co.  for  the  New  England  states, 
with  headquarters  at  Boston. 

Lafayetle — Rev.  E.  J.  Knox,  D.  D.,  '77,  is  presiding  elder 
of  the  Allegheny  district,  M.  E.  church.  His  residence  is 
15  Esplanade  St.,  Allegheny,  Pa. 

South  Carolina — ^J.  B.  Patton,  '.s7,  engineer  U.  S.  N..  is 
detailed  by  the  navy  department  to  inspect  armor  plate  at  the 
Carnegie  steel  works,  Pittsburgh. 

Amherst — Rev.  J.  Romeyn  Danforth,  '8S,  has  removed 
from  Mystic,  Conn.,  to  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  where  he  is  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational  church. 

Syracuse — Rev.  Theophilus  S.  Devitt,  '90,  is  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  church  at  Branford,  Conn.,  and  super- 
intendent of  schools  of  the  same  city. 

Missouri. — W.  W.  Clendenin,  '8(5,  professor  of  geology 
in  the  University  of  Louisiana,  spent  last  fall  at  Columbia  a 
fugitive,  it  is  said,  from  yellow  fever. 

Michigan,  ' g^ — Dr.  John  D.  Dunham,  practicing  at  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  is  professor  of  bacteriology  in  the  Ohio  Med- 
ical University  and  city  bacteriologist. 

\'a7iderbilt — W.  R.  Manier,''Sl,  is  head  of  the  firm  of 
Manier,  Denton  &  Co.,  jobbers  and  manufacturers  of  boots 
and  shoes,  at  'UO  Court  Square,  Nashville. 

Alabama — ^J.  M.  Dedman,  '87,  formerly  proprietor  of  Red 
Boiling  Springs  Hotel,  is  now  in  charge  of  the  Bethel  House, 
a  large  and  handsome  hotel  at  Columbia,  Tenn. 

Indianapolis — John  Campbell  Morrison,  '88,  is  a  member 
of  the  junior  class  of  the  Indiana  Law  School,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Indianapolis.     He  is  president  of  his  class. 

Michigan  State — Frank  J.  Annis,  '7o,  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  chapter,  is  secretary  of  the  Colorado  state 
board  of  agriculture,  his  residence  being  at  Ft.  Collins. 

North7vester7i — The  marriage  of  Paul  T.  Davis,  ex-'93, 
and  Miss  Mary  Hitchcock  occurred  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Hitchcock,  Detroit,  on  Thurs- 
day, November  25,  1807.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  are  now  at 
home  at  70  Hendrie  Avenue,  Detroit. 


THE  SCROLL.  293 

Hafiover — ^J.  C.  Garritt,  '83,  is  spending  his  vacation  at 
Hanover.  He  has  been  engaged  in  work  in  the  mission 
fields  of  China.     He  will  return  the  latter  part  of  the  year. 

Lombard — Edwin  S.  Swigart,  '86,  delegate  from  his  chap- 
ter at  the  Richmond  convention,  18H2,  has  been,  since  1890, 
cashier  of  the  Citizens'  Banking  Company,  Champaign,  111. 

Wabash  — Thomas  L.  Still  well,  ex- '08,  one  of  Indiana 
Beta's  strongest  members,  was  drowned  August  1,  1897. 
His  untimely  death  was  a  great  shock  to  his  many  friends. 

Vanderbilt — Dr.  W.  J.  Kellar,  captain  of  the  famous  Van- 
derbilt  foot  ball  team  of  '98  and  '94,  is  practicing  medicine 
at  Gallavon,  S.  C.  He  attended  the  recent  province  con- 
vention at  Nashville. 

Richmo7id — Rev.  Wm.  F.  Harris,  '78,  a  charter  member 
of  Virginia  Delta,  is  a  Baptist  minister  at  Carthage,  Mo., 
and  is  state  recording  secretary  of  the  Missouri  Baptist 
Young  People's  Union. 

Stanford — Francis  W.  Lake,  '97,  died  at  Grand  Island, 
Neb.,  December  16,  1897,  of  consumption.  He  was  buried 
at  his  home  in  Jamestown,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  bright  student 
and  was  exceedingly  popular  at  Stanford. 

Indianapolis — ^John  T.  Lister,  '97,  who  has  been  doing 
graduate  work  in  Butler  this  year,  will  go  to  Eureka  Col- 
lege, Eureka,  111.,  in  March,  where  he  is  to  be  professor  of 
French  and  German  in  place  of  Carl  Johann. 

Vanderbilt — In  January  the  Nashville  city  council  elected 
Edwin  A.  Price,  '82,  city  attorney  for  two  years.  The  of- 
fice has  been  held  previously  by  two  other  Vanderbilt  Phis 
— Lytton  Taylor,  '76,  and  Claude  Waller,  '84. 

Io7va  Wesley  an — At  the  last  session  of  the  Iowa  annual 
conference,  at  Oskaloosa,  the  following  Phis  were  present: 
W.  A.  Longuecker,  '92,  A.  C.  Thornley,  '9:',.  W.  S.  Shearer, 
'94.  F.  B.  Tucker,  '94,  and  W.  R.  Jeffries,  '90. 

C  C  N,  Y. — Eugene  H.  L.  Randolph,  'So,  former  editor 
and  manager  of  The  Scroll,  editor  of  the  catalogue,  His- 
torian and  President  of  the  General  Council,  died  at  Pasa- 
dena, Cal.,  December  20,  of  consumption.  A  sketch  of  his 
life  by  Walter  B.  Palmer  will  appear  in  the  Chapter  Grand 
of  the  June  Scroll. 


394  THE  SCROLL, 

Hajiover — W.  B.  Barr,  '75,  is  general  agent  for  the  Wis- 
consin and  Michigan  Ry.  Co.  and  Lake  Michigan  Car  Ferry 
Transportation  Co. ,  with  his  oflSce  in  the  Railway  Exchange 
building,  at  Fourth  and  Chestnut  streets,  St.  Louis. 

Franklin — E.  L.  Hendricks,  i)4,  is  superintendent  of  the 
Johnson  county  (Ind. )  schools.  Will  Featherngill,  '87,  is 
superintendent  of  the  Franklin  city  schools,  and  Alva  O. 
Neal,  '92,  teacher  of  Latin  in  the  Franklin  high  school. 

Columbia — George  P.  Bryant,  Dartmouth,  *91,  is  in  Dres- 
den, Saxony,  teaching  Latin  and  Greek,  and  incidentally 
learning  German  himself.  He  will  remain  abroad  nine 
months  or  longer.     His  address  is  24  Liittichau  Strasse. 

Randolph' Macon — The  \'irginia  conference  of  the  M.  E. 
church  recently  assigned  G.  H.  Lambeth,  '90,  to  West  End 
church,  Hampton;  S.  J.  Battin,  '98,  to  Farnham;  J.  I).  Lang- 
ley,  '93.  to  Belmont  and  Rose  Hill,  near  Charlottesville. 

Franklin — On  December  15,  Frank  Martin,  '95,  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Elizabeth  Payne,  of  this  city,  who  was  also 
a  member  of  the  class  of  '95.  Mr.  Martin  and  wife  reside 
in  Indianapolis,  where  he  holds  a  position  as  deputy  auditor 
of  state. 

Indianapolis — Robert  A.  Bull,  '97,  has  gone  to  the  Klon- 
dike. He  is  one  of  a  party  of  prospectors  sent  by  the 
Hoosier  Gold  Mining  Company,  of  New  Albany,  Ind.  He 
fills  the  positions  of  treasurer,  cashier  and  secretary  of  the 
prospecting  party. 

Hanover — Frank  I).  vSwope,  'S5,  has  formed  a  law  part- 
nership with  Morton  V.  Joyes  and  William  Jarvis,  at  Louis- 
ville. Mr.  Joyes  is  county  attorney  and  received  his  nom- 
ination at  the  Democratic  primaries  largely  through  the  ef- 
forts of  Bro.  Swope. 

Alhxhcny — Chauncey  F.  Bell,  '94,  who  won  second  hon- 
ors last  year  in  the  inter-state  oratorical  contest  at  Columbia, 
Mo. ,  is  this  year  president  of  the  oratorical  association  at  the 
University  of  Colorado,  and  literary  editor  of  Silver  and 
(iold,  the  university  weekly. 

Buchtel — vS.  \\.  Findley,  '94,  has  charge  of  the  department 
of  Latin  in  the  Akron  ( O. )  high  school.  His  brother,  E. 
L.  Findley,  '91,  who  had  taught  (ireek  in  the  Wesleyan 
(Mass. )  academy  since  leaving  Johns  Hopkins,  is  teaching 
Latin  in  the  Cleveland  high  school. 


THE  SCROLL.  295 

Richmond — Clay  brook  James,  '90,  and  Miss  Martha  Storrs 
Bllerson,  of  Richmond,  were  married  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian church,  of  that  city,  on  December  1,  1897.  Upon 
their  return  from  a  trip  of  sight-seeing,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James 
will  be  at  home  to  their  friends  at  Asheville,  N.  C. 

Central — Frank  P.  Kenney,  '93,  for  eight  years  connected 
with  the  Lexington  Trotting  Association,  has  been  appointed 
secretary  of  the  Louisville  Driving  and  Fair  Association. 
He  has  been  connected  with  trotting  horse  interests  all  his 
life,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  best  posted  men  in  the 
country. 

Dickinson — Professor  Wilbur  M.  Stine,  '86,  professor  of 
physics  in  the  Armour  Institute  of  Technology,  Chicago, 
had  an  interesting  article  in  the  October,  '97,  issue  of  the 
Indiana  Medical  J  out  nal,  entitled  '  Roentgen  Rays  as  an  Aid 
to  the  Physician.*  The  artide  has  been  republished  in  a 
number  of  medical  journals. 

Ohio  Wesley  an — Dr.  J.  E.  Brown,  '84,  has  been  elected 
editor  and  manager  of  the  Colmnbus  Medical  Journal  ^  with 
which  he  has  been  associated  since  1889.  The  magazine  is 
now  entirely  in  his  control,  and  he  has  on  the  staff  two 
other  Phis,  Dr.  Theodore  L.  Chadbourne,  Michigan,  '91, 
and  John  Dudley  Dunham,  Ohio  State,  '94. 

Lofnbard — Walter  A.  Johnson  is  in  the  office  of  S.  S.  Mc- 
Clure,  publisher  of  McClure's  Magazine,  in  New  York. 
Bro.  Johnson  is  twenty-five  years  old,  and  has  been  for  two 
years  past  editor  of  the  Osprey,  the  official  organ  for  orni- 
thologists in  several  states.  The  Osprey  will  hereafter  be 
published  by  Mr.  McClure,  with  Bro.  Johnson  as  editor. 

Columbia — Fred  Hinrichs,  Jr.,  '99,  will  be  Brooklyn's 
next  representative  at  West  Point.  He  recently  beat  seven 
competitors  in  the  mental  examination  for  the  place.  He 
had  previously  passed  a  physical  examination.  He  is  a  son 
of  F.  W.  Hinrichs,  the  well-known  Brooklyn  lawyer  and 
orator.     He  will  leave  Columbia  for  West  Point  in  June. 

Washington  and  Jefferson — David  G.  Moore,  '98,  has  writ- 
ten for  The  Saturday  Supper  Table  a  review  of  a  book  en- 
titled *A  Life  for  Africa,'  which  is  a  sketch  of  Bro. 
Adolphus  Clemens  Good,  Ph.  D.,  '79,  who  for  12  years  was 
a  missionary  in  Equatorial  West  Africa.  Dr.  Good  died  at 
the  age  of  38  after  accomplishing  a  great  work  in  Africa. 


296  THE  SCROLL. 

Case  — There  are  five  Phis  teaching  in  the  Cleveland  (O. ) 
high  schools.  At  the  Central  High  School  are:  Charles  P. 
Lynch,  Allegheny,  '86;  Herbert  C.  Wood,  Amherst,  '93; 
E.  S.  Findley,  Buchtel,  '94,  and  George  R.  Mansfield,  Am- 
herst, '97.  At  the  Central  Manual  Training  School,  Lewis 
C.  McSouth,  Michigan  State,  '.S9,  is  principal.  In  all  there 
are  twelve  Phis  teaching  in  Cleveland. 

Indianapolis — Prof.  Demarchus  C.  Brown,  '79,  who  was 
married  in  September  to  Miss  Jessie  Lanier  Christian,  '97, 
and  went  to  Europe  on  his  wedding  tour,  returned  to  Indi- 
anapolis February  14.  Professor  Brown  was  taken  ill  with 
appendicitis  in  Rome,  but  came  on  to  New  York,  where  he 
underwent  a  surgical  operation.  He  is  much  improved  in 
health  and  will  again  take  charge  of  his  Greek  classes. 

Pennsylvania — Among  other  ^potentates'  (to  quote  from  a 
recent  issue  of  the  Philadelphia  Times )  who  have  attended 
the  university,  Seyichiro  Terashima,  '93,  is  a  prince  of  the 
present  royal  family  of  Japan.  Kenjiro  Matsumoto,  '95, 
lieutenant  in  the  Japanese  army  and  son  of  the  present  com- 
missioner of  railroads,  was,  until  recently,  a  student  at  the 
university,  but  was  called  back  to  Japan  to  his  position  in 
the  army. 

Randolph-Macon — Andrew  Sledd,  *92,  assistant  in  Latin 
at  Vanderbilt,  has  been  elected  to  the  chair  of  Latin  at 
Emory.  Of  the  four  men  under  consideration  for  the  posi- 
tion, all  were  Phis.  This  makes  four  Phis  on  the  faculty  at 
Emory:  Rev.  Morgan  Calloway,  D.  D.,  vice-president  and 
professor  of  English  (honorary);  Rev.  H.  S.  Bradley, 
Eviory,  '90,  professor  of  biology;  W.  B.  Grifiin,  Jr.,  Emory, 
'8<>,  adjunct  professor  of  ancient  languages:  Andrew  Sledd, 
professor  of  Latin. 

■ 

Amherst — Alpheus  Sherwin  Cody,  'S9,  is  now  in  Chicago. 
After  graduation  he  was  a  reporter  on  the  Boston  Herald  for 
two  years.  During  this  time  he  was  asked,  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  a  well-known  editor,  for  aid  in  writing  stories. 
His  instructions  proved  so  helpful  that  he  was  prevailed 
upon  to  issue  them  in  book  form.  This  was  done  in  Lon- 
don, in  1^9.").  Prof.  Dowden,  Prof,  (xenung,  I.  Zangwill  and 
many  other  critics  have  praised  the  book  highly.  Mr.  Zang- 
will said:  *It  is  the  most  sensible  treatise  on  the  short  story 
that  has  yet  appeared  in  England.'  Bro.  Cody  has  pub- 
lished a  novel,  *In  the  Heart  of  the  Hills,'  and  is  actively 
engaged  in  newspaper  and  other  literary  work. 


THE  SCROLL,  li)^ 

Michigan  State — Prof.  L.  H.  Bailey,  ''^2,  is  editor  of  two 
series  of  books  on  agriculture  and  horticulture  published  by 
the  Macmillan  Company.  Five  of  the  volumes  have  been 
written  by  him.  Besides  these  he  is  author  of  a  collection 
of  evolution  essays  entitled  *  The  Survival  of  the  Unlike/ 
and  is  preparing  a  text-book  on  botany  and  a  volume  on 
*  The  Evolution  of  Our  Native  Fruits. '  His  trip  abroad  last 
summer  viras  in  search  of  some  incidental  material  for  the 
last  named  work.  The  professor  is  also  editor  of  an  Ency- 
clopedia of  American  Horticulture,  which  is  to  appear  in 
1900. 

Lombard — Edwin  Hurd  Conger,  '02,  has  been  appointed 
by  President  McKinley  to  be  envoy  extraordinary  and 
minister  plenipotentiary  of  the  United  States  to  China,  at  a 
salary  of  $12,000  a  year.  He  was,  previous  to  his  last  of- 
ficial appointment.  United  States  minister  to  Brazil.  He 
was  born  in  Knox  county,  Illinois,  in  1843.  After  his 
graduation  from  college  in  18()2,  he  enlisted  in  the  war,  and 
served  till  its  close.  He  later  studied  law,  and  was  once 
state  treasurer  of  Iowa.  He  has  also  served  in  three  ses- 
sions of  congress.  He  stands  very  high  in  Iowa  as  a  man 
of  affairs. 

Ohio  Wesley  an — At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Albion  College  in  December,  Dr.  John  P.  Ashley,  '90,  was 
elected  president  of  that  college.  Dr.  Ashley  was  born  at 
Stoke-on-Trent,  England,  April  14, 1S62.  His  parents  hav- 
ing died  in  his  childhood,  he  came  to  America.  He  lived 
at  Brooklyn  until  1884,  and  after  a  short  stay  in  Zanesville, 
O.,  he  entered  the  O.  W.  U.,  in  1>^85.  Here  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1890,  afterwards  receiving  a  Ph.  D.  from  this  insti- 
tution. 

While  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta 
Fraternity.  He  was  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  the 
Euterpean  musical  society,  of  the  Homiletic  club,  and  of 
Chrestomathean  literary  society. 

In  1890  Dr.  Ashley  entered  Boston  University  and  pur- 
sued the  full  regular  course  of  the  degree  of  S.  T.  B.  In 
1898  he  was  honored  with  an  appointment  to  a  traveling 
fellowship,  and  under  the  supervision  of  Professor  Borden 
P.  Browne,  pursued  studies  in  the  universities  of  Jena, 
Leipzig,  Berlin  and  Oxford.  In  1S94  he  was  admitted  to 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  and  in  iSOo  he  became 
president  of  Genesee  Wesleyan  Seminary,  at  Lima,  N.  Y. 

On  September  19,  1895,  Dr.  Ashley  was  married  to  Miss 


298  THE  SCROLL. 

Delia  Lease  Gust.     She  was  also  a  graduate  of  O.  W.  U.,  of 
the  class  of  '90. 

Dr.  Ashley  has  given  his  life  to  hard  study  and  hard 
work,  and  is  fitted  in  everyway  for  the  position  to  which  he 
has  been  elected.  He  is  filled  with  enthusiasm  and  is  a 
man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability.  Everything  with  which 
he  has  been  connected  has  been  a  great  success,  and  his 
election  as  president  of  Albion  College  insures  that  college 
a  great  advancement  in  the  next  few  years. — College  Tran- 
so  ipt. 

Vajiderbilt — A  biography  of  Judge  J.  D,  Goodpasture,  de- 
ceased, has  been  written  and  published  by  his  sons,  A.  V. 
and  W.  H.  Goodpasture,  of  Nashville.  It  is  a  volume  of 
HO<S  pages,  and  it  includes  the  genealogy  of  the  Goodpasture 
family.  It  also  contains  an  extended  account  of  the  trip  to 
Europe,  during  the  winter  of  1H85-S(),  of  Judge  Goodpas- 
ture, W.  H.  Goodpasture,  '81,  R.  F.  Jackson,  '81,  L.  R. 
Campbell,  '80,  and  W.  B.  Palmer,  '80,  the  latter  four  being 
Phis.  The  Goodpasture  brothers  own  the  most  complete 
collection  of  books  relating  to  Tennessee  in  existence,  and 
A.  V.  Goodpasture  is  writing  a  history  of  the  state. 

Miami — The  laborious  and  useful  work  which  our  ven- 
erated founder,  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  Morrison,  '49,  has  done 
for  the  Presbyterian  Church  is  attested  by  the  report  of  the 
standing  committee  of  home  missions  to  the  sixty-fifth  an- 
nual session  of  the  Synod  of  Missouri,  held  at  St.  Louis, 
October  12,  1897.  Summing  up  the  work  of  the  year  then 
closing,  the  chairman,  Rev.  Dr.  R.  P.  Karris,  says: 

During  the  year  a  most  important  work,  tlie  value  of  which,  the 
Synod  should  thoughtfully  ponder,  has  been  done  by  our  painstaking, 
indefatij^able  colporteur,  the  venerable  Dr.  Morrison.  Though  this 
conscientious  brother  is  minded  like  Tennyson's  brook,  to  *go  on  for- 
ever,' in  spite  of  torrid  heat,  and  arctic  cold,  and  tropic  rain  and  fath- 
omable mud,  yet  his  work  has  been  much  hindered  through  several 
months  by  extraordinary  and  long  continued  downpours  and  impassa- 
ble roads  and  especially  by  a  protracted  wasting  illness  that  seized 
him  in  joiu^neying  and  brought  him  nigh  to  death.  Nevertheless  he 
has  traveled  in  his  own  conveyance  nearly  *2,fMX)  miles,  made  1,141 
visits,  sold  copies  of  our  publications  to  the  amount  of  i<MO,  besides 
many  copies  of  the  Bible  and  the  Confession  of  Faith,  given  away  $I»0 
worth  of  such  literature,  and  preached  .'►!  times.  This  is  a  satisfactory 
record.  Good  fruit  in  perpetual  abundance  is  bound  to  grow  from  the 
sowing  of  such  seed.  But  what  is  one  sower  in  so  large  a  field  as 
ours! 

The  minutes  of  the  session  of  the  synod  held  in  October, 
1895,  speaking  of  Brother  Morrison's  work  during  the  pre- 


THE  SCROLL,  299 

vious  year  says:  *An  admirable  work  and  admirably  done.* 
Brother  Morrison  is  also  recognized  as  a  great  benefactor  to 
Westminster  College,  as  shown  by  the  following  extract 
from  the  Searchlight,  the  college  annual  for  180(): 

The  college  has  had  to  contend  with  great  financial  hindrances.  Its 
original  plan  of  endowment  was  by  scholarship  notes.  Mainly  by  this 
plan  the  endowment  was  raised  nearly  to  $100,000  before  the  civil 
war.  When  the  war  closed,  many  of  these  notes  were  found  to  be 
worthless,  and  the  college  became  seriously  involved  in  debt,  in  part 
by  the  board  borrowing  from  its  permanent  fund  to  maintain  its  con- 
tingent fund  and  partly  by  borrowing  from  other  sources.  Vigorous 
efforts  were  made  through  financial  agents  to  increase  the  endowment 
and  remove  the  debt.  Among  these  agents  who  did  faithful  and  suc- 
cessful work  may  be  mentioned  Rev.  John  Karris  and  Rev.  Robert 
Morrison.  It  was  by  the  heroic  toil  of  the  last  named  that  a  burden- 
some debt  [$15,000]  was  removed  and  the  college  started  on  a  new 
financial  career. 

Indiana — Amos  W.  Butler, '  SI ,  has  been  chosen  from  among 
thirty- five  candidates  as  secretary  of  the  Indiana  state  board 
of  charities,  to  succeed  E.  P.  Bicknell,  Phi  Gaijima  Delta, 
who  goes  to  Chicago  to  be  general  superintendent  of  the 
bureau  of  associated  charities.  Indiana's  board  of  charities 
and  its  work  are  among  the  very  best  in  the  country,  sur- 
passing in  many  respects  those  of  the  larger  states.  Prof. 
D.  C.  Brown,  Indiana  Gamma,  '79,  is  a  member  of  the  board. 
Bro.  Butler  has  resided  in  Brookville,  Ind.,  all  his  life,  being 
engaged  in  manufacturing;  at  the  same  time,  however,  he 
is  active  in  science,  literature  and  sociology,  being  president 
of  the  Indiana  Academy  of  Science  and  of  the  Western  As- 
sociation of  Writers.     He  is  an  authority  on  ornithology. 

Pennsylvania — George  Lockhart  Darte,  '9.5,  has  received 
the  appointment  of  consul  to  Martinique,  West  Indies. 
While  in  the  university  he  was  prominent  in  athletics,  and 
occasionally  pitched  for  the  base  ball  team.  He  is  the  son 
of  L.  C.  Darte,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Wilkesbarre, 
and  the  nephew  of  Judge  Alfred  Darte,  former  commander 
of  the  G.  A.  R.  of  Pennsylvania.  Bro.  Darte  has  literary 
tastes  and  decided  ability.  A  short  time  ago  he  published 
a  volume  of  short  stories  of  college  life,  entitled  *An  Odd 
Eight,*  which  was  well  received.  He  is  also  a  contributor 
to  several  monthly  magazines.  Bro.  Darte  is  one  of  the 
numerous  descendants  of  the  pilgrims  who  landed  at  Ply- 
mouth, being  the  grandson  of  the  sixth  generation  of  the 
Alden  family.  The  Darte  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  families 
in  the  Wyoming  Valley. 


300  THE  SCROLL. 

Kayisas  — Colonel  Frederick  Funston,  '92,  son  of  former 
Congressman  E.  H.  Funston,  of  lola,  Kas.,  has  returned 
from  fighting  in  Cuba.  At  the  time  of  his  departure  from 
the  island  he  held  the  highest  position  of  any  American  of- 
ficer in  the  Cuban  army  since  the  death  of  Col.  Gordon. 
He  went  to  Cuba  on  a  filibustering  expedition  in  August, 
1890.  On  landing  he  took  command  of  Gomez's  artillery, 
with  the  rank  of  captain.  His  valiant  services  in  behalf  of 
the  insurgents  soon  brought  him  to  the  notice  of  the  higher 
officials,  and  he  was  promoted  rapidly  until  he  reached  the 
rank  of  lieutenant  colonel  and  chief  of  artillery. 

Bro.  Funston  has  been  the  recipient  of  numerous  atten- 
tions since  his  return  to  the  United  States,  and  his  adven- 
tures have  been  much  exploited  in  both  newspapers  and 
magazines.  He  is  modest,  but  the  newspaper  reporters 
have  managed  to  obtain  several  good  *  stories'  from  him, 
which  are  thrilling  in  the  extreme. 

He  was  at  the  siege  of  Guenaro,  where  Winchester  Os- 
good, the  famous  American  foot  ball  player,  was  killed. 
Upon  the  death  of  Osgood  he  became  chief  of  artillery  with 
the  rank  of  major.  He  took  part  in  twenty-two  battles  in 
eastern  Cuba.  He  fired  the  Dudley  dynamite  gun  when  it 
was  first  used  in  the  insurgent  army.  In  May  of  last  year, 
at  the  battle  of  Sima,  he  was  shot  through  both  lungs,  but 
his  wonderful  constitution  brought  him  through.  Before 
this  he  had  been  shot  through  the  arm.  Last  August  his 
horse  fell  upon  him,  crushing  both  his  legs. 

In  this  condition  he  started  for  the  United  States  for  med- 
ical treatment.  He  obtained  a  permit  to  leave  from  General 
Garcia,  which  stated  his  rank  in  the  Cuban  army.  While 
on  his  way  out  of  the  country  he  ran  into  a  picket  of  six 
Spanish  soldiers,  who  captured  him.  They  were  about  to 
shoot  him  on  the  spot,  but  by  telling  them  he  was  a  pres- 
entado  coming  to  surrender  he  persuaded  them  to  hold  him 
prisoner.  As  he  rode  along  with  them  he  succeeded  in  com- 
pressing his  permit,  signed  by  General  Garcia,  into  a  little 
wad,  and  swallowed  it,  thus  destroying  all  evidence  of  his 
position.  If  this  paper  had  been  found  on  him  he  would  un- 
doubtedly have  been  shot,  as  commissioned  officers  always 
are.  He  was  taken  before  a  special  board  of  inquiry  at  Puerto 
Principe,  where  his  case  was  investigated  and  he  was  re- 
leased, after  having  taken  oath  never  to  take  up  arms  against 
Spain.  By  thus  swearing  he  saved  his  life,  but  may  not  re- 
turn to  Cuba. 


THE  SCROLL,  301 

He  then  prcx:eeded  to  Havana,  where  he  obtained  a  pass 
from  Consul  General  Lee  and  arrived  in  New  York  January  10. 

A  dinner  at  the  Hotel  Normandie,  at  St.  Louis,  was  given 

to  Bro.  Funston,  February  (>,  by  Miss  Mary  Norris  Berry. 

In  an  article  describing  the  dinner  and  the  military  guest  of 

honor  the  St.  Louis  Republic  says: 

The  striking  characteristics  of  Col.  Funston  are  his  modesty  and 
aversion  to  discussing  his  experiences.  He  would  never  be  taken  for  a 
fighting  man,  but  anyone  would  be  justified  in  mistaking  him  for  a 
lawyer  or  physician.  His  eyes  are  dark  blue  and  have  a  most  pleasing 
expression.  The  hot  sun  has  given  his  face  and  hands  a  tawny  color — 
even  his  short,  pointed  beard  looks  sunburned.  Although  only  32 
years  old,  he  has  had  experiences  that  do  not  come  to  some  men  who 
live  a  century.  Twice  he  has  been  on  government  expeditions  to  the 
Arctic  regions.  He  was  assistant  botanist  on  the  government  expedi- 
tion through  Death  Valley  in  the  Mojave  desert  in  California.  On  this 
trip  he  suffered  hardships  from  heat  and  thirst  that  would  have  killed 
others.  In  1893  and  1894  he  visited  the  Yukon  regions  and  camped 
for  two  weeks  on  the  Klondike  river.  Gold  was  then  being  mined  on 
Forty-Mile  Creek,  but  no  big  discoveries  had  been  made.  He  is  a  reg- 
ular contributor  to  the  eastern  magazines  and  was  at  one  time  a  re- 
porter. 

He  is  now  at  his  home  in  lola,  Kas. ,  recuperating  from 
his  military  experiences. 

The  following  Phis  are  instructors  in  various  educational 
institutions  at  Nashville:  John  Daniel,  A.  M.,  *84,  profes- 
sor of  physics,  Vanderbilt  University;  P.  M.  Jones,  D.  Sc, 
'92,  instructor  in  biology,  Vanderbilt  University;  W.  H. 
Witt,  M.  D. ,  '94,  demonstrator  of  anatomy,  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity; R.  A.  Barr,  M.  D.,  '94,  demonstrator  of  gyneco- 
logical operations  and  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy, 
Vanderbilt  University;  Harrington  Marr,  M.  D.,  assistant 
demonstrator  of  anatomy,  Vanderbilt  University;  Firman 
Smith,  LL.  B.,  '88,  lecturer  on  dental  jurisprudence,  Van- 
derbilt University;  S.  S.  Crockett,  M.  D.,  '85,  professor  of 
obstetrics,  University  of  Nashville;  Larkin  Smith,  M.  D., 
'88,  professor  of  pathology  and  clinical  lecturer  on  diseases 
of  children,  University  of  Nashville;  W.  G.  Frierson,  M.  D., 
'07,  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy,  University  of  Nash- 
ville; J.  H.  DeWitt,  LL.  B.,  '97,  lecturer  on  dental  juris- 
prudence. University  of  Tennessee;  J.  W.  Sewell,  '90,  in- 
structor in  English  and  German,  Nashville  High  School. 
Of  the  above  John  Daniel  is  a  member  of  Alabama,  Firman 
Smith  of  Mississippi,  Larkin  Smith  of  Setvanee,  and  the  re- 
mainder of  yanderbill  chapter.  Andrew  vSledd,  A.  M.,  '92, 
Randolph- Macon,  was  adjunct  professor  of  Latin  at  Vander- 
bilt University  last  fall,  but  became  professor  of  Latin  at 
Emory  College  in  January. 


300  THE  SCROLL. 

Kayisas  — Colonel  Frederick  Funston,  '1)2,  son  of  former 
Congressman  E.  H.  Funston,  of  lola,  Kas. .  has  returned 
from  fighting  in  Cuba.  At  the  time  of  his  departure  from 
the  island  he  held  the  highest  position  of  any  American  of- 
ficer in  the  Cuban  army  since  the  death  of  Col.  Gordon. 
He  went  to  Cuba  on  a  filibustering  expedition  in  August, 
1890.  On  landing  he  took  command  of  Gomez's  artillery, 
with  the  rank  of  captain.  His  valiant  services  in  behalf  of 
the  insurgents  soon  brought  him  to  the  notice  of  the  higher 
officials,  and  he  was  promoted  rapidly  until  he  reached  the 
rank  of  lieutenant  colonel  and  chief  of  artillery. 

Bro.  Funston  has  been  the  recipient  of  numerous  atten- 
tions since  his  return  to  the  United  States,  and  his  adven- 
tures have  been  much  exploited  in  both  newspapers  and 
magazines.  He  is  modest,  but  the  newspaper  reporters 
have  managed  to  obtain  several  good  'stories'  from  him, 
which  are  thrilling  in  the  extreme. 

He  was  at  the  siege  of  Guenaro,  where  Winchester  Os- 
good, the  famous  American  foot  ball  player,  was  killed. 
Upon  the  death  of  Osgood  he  became  chief  of  artillery  with 
the  rank  of  major.  He  took  part  in  twenty- two  battles  in 
eastern  Cuba.  He  fired  the  Dudley  dynamite  gun  when  it 
was  first  used  in  the  insurgent  army.  In  May  of  last  year, 
at  the  battle  of  Sima,  he  was  shot  through  both  lungs,  but 
his  wonderful  constitution  brought  him  through.  Before 
this  he  had  been  shot  through  the  arm.  Last  August  his 
horse  fell  upon  him,  crushing  both  his  legs. 

In  this  condition  he  started  for  the  United  States  for  med- 
ical treatment.  He  obtained  a  permit  to  leave  from  General 
Garcia,  which  stated  his  rank  in  the  Cuban  army.  While 
on  his  way  out  of  the  country  he  ran  into  a  picket  of  six 
Spanish  soldiers,  who  captured  him.  They  were  about  to 
shoot  him  on  the  spot,  but  by  telling  them  he  was  a  pres- 
entado  coming  to  surrender  he  persuaded  them  to  hold  him 
prisoner.  As  he  rode  along  with  them  he  succeeded  in  com- 
pressing his  permit,  signed  by  General  Garcia,  into  a  little 
wad,  and  swallowed  it,  thus  destroying  all  evidence  of  his 
position.  If  this  paper  had  been  found  on  him  he  would  un- 
doubtedly have  been  shot,  as  commissioned  officers  always 
are.  He  was  taken  before  a  special  board  of  inquiry  at  Puerto 
Principe,  where  his  case  was  investigated  and  he  was  re- 
leased, after  having  taken  oath  never  to  take  up  arms  against 
Spain.  By  thus  swearin]^  he  saved  his  life,  but  may  not  re- 
turn to  Cuba. 


THE  SCROLL.  301 

He  then  prcx:eeded  to  Havana,  where  he  obtained  a  pass 
from  Consul  General  Lee  and  arrived  in  New  York  January  10. 

A  dinner  at  the  Hotel  Normandie,  at  St.  Louis,  was  given 

to  Bro.  Funston,  February  <j,  by  Miss  Mary  Norris  Berry. 

In  an  article  describing  the  dinner  and  the  military  guest  of 

honor  the  St.  Louis  Republic  says: 

The  striking  characteristics  of  Col.  Funston  are  his  modesty  and 
aversion  to  discussing  his  experiences.  He  would  never  be  taken  for  a 
fighting  man,  but  anyone  would  be  justified  in  mistaking  him  for  a 
lawyer  or  physician.  His  eyes  are  dark  blue  and  have  a  most  pleasing 
expression.  The  hot  sun  has^iven  his  face  and  hands  a  tawny  color — 
even  his  short,  pointed  beard  looks  sunburned.  Although  only  32 
years  old,  he  has  had  experiences  that  do  not  come  to  some  men  who 
live  a  century.  Twice  he  has  been  on  government  expeditions  to  the 
Arctic  regions.  He  was  assistant  botanist  on  the  government  expedi- 
tion through  Death  Valley  in  the  Mojave  desert  in  California.  On  this 
trip  be  suffered  hardships  from  heat  and  thirst  that  would  have  killed 
others.  In  1893  and  1894  he  visited  the  Yukon  regions  and  camped 
for  two  weeks  on  the  Klondike  river.  Gold  was  then  being  mined  on 
Forty-Mile  Creek,  but  no  big  discoveries  had  been  made.  He  is  a  reg- 
ular contributor  to  the  eastern  magazines  and  was  at  one  time  a  re- 
porter. 

He  is  now  at  his  home  in  lola,  Kas.,  recuperating  from 
his  military  experiences. 

The  following  Phis  are  instructors  in  various  educational 
institutions  at  Nashville:  John  Daniel,  A.  M.,  '84,  profes- 
sor of  physics,  Vanderbilt  University;  P.  M.  Jones,  D.  Sc, 
'92,  instructor  in  biology,  Vanderbilt  University;  W.  H. 
Witt,  M.  D. ,  '94,  demonstrator  of  anatomy,  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity; R.  A.  Barr,  M.  D.,  '*^4,  demonstrator  of  gyneco- 
logical operations  and  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy, 
Vanderbilt  University;  Harrington  Marr,  M.  D.,  assistant 
demonstrator  of  anatomy,  Vanderbilt  University;  Firman 
Smith,  LL.  B.,  '88,  lecturer  on  dental  jurisprudence,  Van- 
derbilt University;  S.  S.  Crockett,  M.  D.,  '85,  professor  of 
obstetrics,  University  of  Nashville;  Larkin  Smith,  M.  D., 
*88,  professor  of  pathology  and  clinical  lecturer  on  diseases 
of  children.  University  of  Nashville;  W.  G.  Frierson,  M.  D., 
'07,  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy,  University  of  Nash- 
ville; J.  H.  DeWitt,  LL.  B.,  '07,  lecturer  on  dental  juris- 
prudence, University  of  Tennessee;  J.  W.  Sewell,  '00,  in- 
structor in  English  and  German,  Nashville  High  School. 
Of  the  above  John  Daniel  is  a  member  of  Alabama,  Firman 
Smith  of  Mississippi,  Larkin  Smith  of  Seivanee,  and  the  re- 
mainder of  Vanderbilt  Q)\2i^K^x .  Andrew  Sledd,  A.  M.,  '02, 
Randolph' Macon,  was  adjunct  professor  of  Latin  at  Vander- 
bilt University  last  fall,  but  became  professor  of  Latin  at 
Emory  College  in  January. 


304  THE  SCROLL. 

The  New  York  J  ^oice  has  been  devoting  itself  to  an  inves- 
tigation of  student  life  at  Harvard,  Princeton  and  Yale.  It 
finds  a  good  deal  of  conviviality  at  Princeton,  and  a  condi- 
tion of  general  rottenness  at  Yale,  while  at  Harvard,  ten 
years  of  prohibition  have  wonderfully  elevated  the  moral 
standard.  Anthony  Comstock,  in  order  to  verify  the  state- 
ments of  77ie  roue,  has  sent  agents  to  New  Haven,  who 
have  found  75  liquor-selling  places  within  a  radius  of  two 
blocks  from  the  campus  and  green.  T/ie  J  'oUe  has  investi- 
gated Dartmouth  and  found  the  moral  standard  there  un- 
usually high. 

The  University  of  North  Carolina  has  this  year  the  larg- 
est enrollment  of  students  in  its  history,  the  total  being  over 
•")00.  There  appears  to  be  a  revival  of  educational  interest 
in  this  state,  especially  in  higher  educational  circles,  for  all 
of  the  leading  colleges,  particularly  the  highest  grade  of 
male  colleges,  such  as  Trinity  (Methodist),  Wake  Forest 
(Baptist),  and  Davidson  (Presbyterian),  have  the  highest 
number  of  students  they  ever  had.  The  increased  attend- 
ance at  the  two  agricultural  and  mechanical  colleges,  also, 
one  for  whites  (at  Raleigh),  and  one  for  negroes  (at  Greens- 
boro), is  notable. 

Cornell  University  upper  classmen  have  adopted  a  few  . 
new  rules  for  the  guidance  of  freshmen.     Among  them  are 
the  following: 

1.  Freshmen  shall  be  prohibited  from  the  smoking  of  pipes  upon 
streets  of  Ithaca,  nor  shall  they  smoke  upon  the  campus. 

2.  Freshmen  shall  not  be  allowed  in  the  three  restaurants  known  as 
Connelley's,  Calkin's  and  Theo.  Zinck's,  after  7  p.  m.,  unless  accom- 
panied by  upper  classmen.  This  rule  shall  not  apply  to  the  dinners 
of  the  freshman  bancjueting  clubs. 

.'{.  Freshmen  shall  not  carry  canes  unless  successful  in  the  under 
class  contests,  nor  in  any  case  shall  they  carry  them  on  the  campus. 
They  shall  not  wear  silk  hats  in  Ithaca. 

A  freshman  shall  be  considered  as  one  who  is  spending  his  first  year 
in  the  university.  Men  who  have  entered  from  other  colleges  are  ex- 
cepted. 

In  a  leading  article  regarding  Mrs.  Hearst*s  plan  for  the 
University  of  California,  the  London  Spectator  pronounces  it 
to  be  a  'grand  scheme,  reminding  one  of  those  famous  compe- 
titions in  Italy,  wherein  Brunelleschi  and  Michael  Angelo 
participated.'  'There  is,'  the  Spectator  says,  'the  making 
or  marring  of  a  magnificent  idea  in  the  project.'  Apropos 
the  Spectator  discourses  at  length  on  the  striking  contrasts 
in  America,  'where  so  many  men  of  wealth,  whose  money 


THE  SCROLL.  305 

has  been  derived  from  coal,  iron  or  railways,  are  not  gov- 
erned merely  by  utilitarian  conditions  when  they  endow  the 
public  with  their  surplus  wealth,'  and  adds  :  *  This  is  a  sign 
of  the  idealist,  which,  as  Lowell  said,  lay  hid  in  the  Ameri- 
can character. '  • 

At  the  Princeton  dinner,  which  took  place  at  New  York 
city,  in  January,  President  Patton  said  :  *A  great  institution 
of  learning  should  be  separate,  independent,  and  governed 
by  laws  of  its  own  making.  It  should  be  free  from  political 
complications,  and  it  should  be  free  from  ecclesiastical  en- 
tanglements. I  do  not  undervalue  the  moral  tone  that  ex- 
ists between  Princeton  and  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  I 
am  loyal  to  my  church,  but  I  can  not  consent  to  have  the 
law  of  any  church  imposed  on  Princeton  University  (cheers). 
While  I  hold  my  place  at  the  head  of  your  alma  mater,  I 
will  do  what  in  me  lies  to  keep  the  hand  of  ecclesiasticism 
from  resting  on  Princeton  University. '  (Tremendous  cheer- 
ing.) 

FRATERNITIES. 

The  average  membership  in  Sigma  Chi's  50  chapters  this 
year  is  10.5. 

r  *  B  has  established  her  eighth  chapter  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Denver. 

K  A  0*s  new  house  at  Indiana  will  make  four  chapter 
houses  there  now. 

*  K  2  held  her  convention  this  year  with  the  Washington 
and  JefiFerson  chapter,  on  January  7  and  8. 

Hereafter  Michigan  will  open  on  the  Tuesday  before  the 
last  Wednesday  in  September,  instead  of  October  1. 

Judge  Cooney,  congressman  from  the  Seventh  district,  is 
a  member  of  the  old  Missouri  Alpha  chapter  of  Phi  Kappa 
?«. 

Herbert  B.  Moyer,  of  Xorristown,  Pa.,  is  at  work  on  a 
manual  for  the  2  A  E  fraternity  on  the  plan  of  Bro.  Palmer's 
of  <&  A  0. 


3o6  THE  SCROLL. 

The  De  Pauw  chapter  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta  has  initiated 
the  U.  S.  officer  in  charge  of  the  military  department  of  the 
university. 

A  local  foundling  called  Pi  Rho  Beta,  at  the  University  of 
Wisconsin,  is  waiting  for  some  benevolent  old  gentleman 
fraternity  to  adopt  it. 


The  B  0  IT  house  at  Berkeley  has  been  lost  to  that  fra- 
ternity owing  to  inability  to  meet  payments,  although  the 
chapter  still  occupies  it. 

At  St.  Lawrence  University  last  year  73  students  out  of 
8U  were  Greeks.  The  societies  having  chapters  there  are 
B  (H)  11,  A  T  12,  K  K  r  and  AAA. 

Several  young  women  at  Cornell  are  paying  their  way  by 
the  manufacture  of  candies,  which  they  place  on  sale  in 
stores  frequented  by  the  students. 

Hon.  John  Reily  Knox,  the  founder  of  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
and  familiarly  called  'Pater  Knox,'  died  at  his  home  at 
Greenville,  Ohio,  February  7,  18V)S. 

Delta  Delta  Delta  had  last  year  22.")  active  members;  she 
wishes  to  be  called  a  'fraternity'  and  not  a  'sorority'  or  *so- 
rosis.'     Her  total  membership  is  now  •')G-'). 

Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  and  Delta  Gamma  have  arranged 
to  send  their  magazines  to  each  other's  chapters.  Delta 
Gamma  and  Kappa  Alpha  Theta  have  houses  at  Albion. 

Principal  Harris,  of  the  Central  High  School,  Cleveland, 
recently  delivered  an  address  before  his  pupils  on  'College 
Fraternities,'  in  which  he  distinctly  favored  Greek  letter 
organizations.     He  is  a  member  of  A  K  E. 

The  University  of  Illinois  opened  last  fall  a  school  of  lit- 
erary instruction,  the  only  one  of  its  kind  in  the  w^est.  The 
course  will  cover  four  years.  It  is  in  charge  of  Miss 
Katherine  Sharp,  late  president  of  the  K  K  T  fraternity. 
Miss  Sharp  is  a  graduate  of  Chicago,  has  been  giving  literary 
instruction  at  Armour  Institute,  and  is  said  to  be  the  most 
thoroughly  equipped  woman  librarian  in  the  country. 


THE  SCROLL.  307 

The  last  convention  of  A  T  12  adopted  a  pledge  button, 
and  a  fraternity  whistle,  or  rather  two  whistles,  a  challenge 
and  a  response.  *  A  0  adopted  a  pledge  button  in  1801, 
and  was  the  first  fraternity  to  adopt  a  whistle,  in  1894. 

Twenty-five  students  at  Yale  are  correspondents  for  out- 
side papers.  One  man  recently  paid  the  expenses  of  his 
entire  college  course  in  this  way,  earning  S2,5()0  in  his 
senior  year.  He  'syndicated'  his  work,  particularly  in  foot 
ball  news  and  comment. 

Hobart  reports  a  'large  increase'  in  attendance,  the  total 
number  of  students  being  now  95 — 13  seniors,  14  juniors, 
18  sophomores,  39  freshmen,  11  graduates  and  special  stu- 
dents. Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Phi,  Theta  Delta  Chi  and 
Sigma  Chi  have  chapters  there. 

Should  the  charter  of  the  suspended  Stanford  chapter  of 
*  r  A  be  revived  there  will  probably  be  a  lively  war  over 
precedence,  as  the  local  society  of  2  P  H ,  which  was  formed 
by  the  ex-members  of  A  2  of  <l>  P  A,  was  allotted  the  same 
order  in  the  Stanford  annual  of  this  year  which  *  P  A  for- 
merly occupied. 

Mr.  Wm.  R.  Baird  was  forced  to  suspend  work  on  the 
preparation  of  a  new  edition  of  *  American  College  Frater- 
nities '  on  account  of  professional  duties,  and  also  because 
some  of  the  leading  fraternities  would  not  contribute  neces- 
sary information.  He  hopes  to  be  able  to  take  up  the  work 
again  soon,  but  possibly  may  not  do  so. 

The  rapid  growth  of  the  chapter  house  movement  in  the 
south  is  shown  by  A  K  E  renting  a  two-story  brick  house  in 
the  rear  of  the  Vanderbilt  campus,  and  Kappa  Alpha  pur- 
chasing the  administration  building  from  the  centennial  ex- 
position grounds.  It  is  said  that  the  report  that  a  lot  has 
been  purchased  for  the  house  is  premature. 

The  Shield  says  that  the  Grand  Arch  Council  of  Phi  Kappa 
Psi.  to  be  held  at  Washington  next  April,  will  be  the  most 
important  convention  in  the  annals  of  the  fraternity.  The 
newly-revised  constitution  and  a  new  ritual  will  be  present- 
ed for  adoption,  and  the  '  accredited  list '  of  proposed  new 
chapters  will  be  either  revised,  renewed  or  abolished. 


3oS  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Kpiscopaliaus  will  establish  dormitories  for  members  of 
that  church  at  the  University  of  Colorado,  will  found  scholar- 
ships and  support  a  lecture  course.  In  general,  the  church 
intends  to  support  the  university  as  its  recognized  institu- 
tion of  higher  education  within  the  diocese.  The  Presby- 
terians have  made  similar  arrangements,  as  they  have  done 
already  at  Stanford. 

At  Boston  University  five  sororities  had  117  members  last 
year,  while  but  01  fraternity  men  were  in  attendance.  At 
Northwestern  there  were  liio  women  and  112  men  in  the 
nine  sororities,  and  eight  fraternities  represented.  The  total 
number  of  members  in  all  Greek-letter  societies  was  053  at 
Michigan,  507  at  Cornell,  503  at  Pennsylvania,  the  number 
of  chapters  at  these  three  universities  being  respectively  ol, 
20  and  22.     Michigan's  nine  sororities  enrolled  100  members. 

The  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity  formally  dedicated  a  new  chap- 
ter house  at  Syracuse  University,  January  30.  Among 
other  members  of  the  fraternity  representatives  of  the  gen- 
eral council  and  prominent  alumni  were  present.  The 
dedicatory  rites  were  followed  by  a  banquet  in  the  new 
house.  The  toastmaster  was  chosen  from  among  the  insti- 
tutors  of  the  chapter  in  1^75.  At  present  there  are  eigh- 
teen men  housed  in  the  new  building,  and  there  are  accom- 
modations for  more. 

The  Beta  Omega  chapter  of  Delta  Tau  Delta  was  organ- 
ized at  the  University  of  California  on  February  '>.  The 
members  were  initiated  by  the  Stanford  chapter.  The  new 
chapter  starts  out  with  a  membership  of  fourteen  men  and 
with  prospects  for  a  successful  career.  The  announcements 
to  the  chapters  of  the  other  fraternities  at  Berkeley 
were  engraved  and  sent  as  coming  from  the  arch  chapter, 
and  were  accompanied  by  a  menu  and  a  toast  list  of  the  in- 
stallation dinner.  The  new  chapter  has  four  seniors,  five 
juniors,  four  sophomores  and  one  freshman.  Among  the 
initiates  is  the  'varsity  foot  ball  captain.  They  will  take  no 
house  until  next  term.  The  success  of  the  new  chapter  is 
largely  due  to  the  efforts  of  K.  C.  Babcock,  instructor  in  the 
department  of  history  at  Berkeley,  who  is  president  of  the 
arch  chapter  of  Delta  Tau  Delta,  and  who  is  very  popular  at 
the  university.  This  makes  thirteen  fraternities  now  at 
Berkeley,  in  addition  to  two  in  the  dental,  two  in  the  medical. 


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one  in  the  law  department,  and  three  women's  fraternities. 
This  gives  Delta  Tau  Delta  3S  chapters  once  more,  Beta 
Omega  taking  the  place  of  the  recently  deceased  Williams 
chapter. 

An  article  on  'Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  in  the  South/  in  the 
A  K  E  Quarterly  for  June,  states  that  the  North  Carolina  chap- 
ter has  a  house  of  its  own,  the  Virginia  chapter  has  bought  a 
lot  and  has  almost  money  enough  to  build,  the  Central  and 
Mississippi  chapters  are  accumulating  building  funds,  while 
the  Vanderbilt  chapter  it  seems  has  done  but  little  in  that 
direction.  A  K  E  has  a  total  of  six  Southern  chapters.  The 
article  referred  to  above  says: 

Our  fraternity  is  conservative,  but  we  should  not  stagnate.  Care 
should  be  taken  to  select  progressive  institutions  where  the  conditions 
are  favorable  to  successful  careers.  We  believe  there  are  several  such 
in  the  South,  by  entering  which  our  order  would  be  greatly  strength- 
ened, and  it  may  not  be  invidious  to  say  that  chief  among  them  are 
Washington  and  Lee  University,  University  of  the  South,  University 
of  Georgia,  ITniversity  of  Texas  and  Tulane  l^niversity. 

The  December  Shield  contained  announcements  for  the 
semi-centennial  convention  of  Theta  Delta  Chi,  at  the 
Windsor  Hotel,  New  York  city,  February  «S,  0  and  10.  The 
presence  of  the  two  living  founders  of  the  fraternity,  Abel 
Beach  and  Andrew  H.  Green,  was  expected.  A  morning 
session  in  the  convention  hall  was  to  be  devoted  to  the  his- 
tory of  the  fraternity  for  fifty  years,  the  first  period  by  Col. 
Wm.  L.  Stone,  and  the  second  by  Prof.  Duncan  C.  Lee.  In 
the  afternoon  of  the  same  day.  President  Capen,  of  Tufts 
College,  was  to  deliver  the  semi-centennial  oration,  and  Rev. 
Cameron  Mann  recite  an  original  poem,  followed,  if  time 
permitted,  by  an  informal  reception  to  the  founders.  One 
evening  the  convention  was  to  be  entertained  by  the  Theta 
Delta  Chi  graduate  club  of  New  York,  and  on  the  last  even- 
ing there  was  to  be  a  banquet.  A  memorial  volume  relat- 
ing to  the  semi-centennial  will  be  published  and  sold  for  $5 
a  copy,  but  the  history  of  the  fraternity  will  be  published 
serially  in  the  March,  June,  September  and  December  issues 
of  the  Shield,  so  that  when  completed  it  can  be  separated 
and  bound. 

Our  New  York  correspondents,  who  were  watching  the 
papers  for  notices  of  the  convention,  report  the  following 
clipping  from,  the  Su7i  as  the  result — and  the  sole  result — 
of  their  search: 

The  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity  finished  yesterday  at  the  Windsor 


3IO  THE  SCROLL. 

Hotel  a  three-day  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  founda- 
tion of  the  society.  Altogether  about  500  members  have  attended  the 
anniversary  ceremonies.  At  yesterday's  meeting  Bishop  Gilbert  of 
Minnesota  presided.  The  Rev.  Cameron  Mann  of  Kansas  City  read  a 
poem.  Col.  William  L.  Stone  told  the  history  of  the  fraternity's  first 
twenty-five  years,  and  Prof.  Duncan  Campbell  Lee  of  Cornell  of  the 
second  twenty-five.  One  of  the  founders  of  the  fraternity,  Abel  Beach 
of  Iowa  City,  made  a  speech.  President  Capen  of  Tufts  Collie  also 
spoke.  Last  evening  there  was  a  banquet  at  which  there  were  twenty- 
nine  toasts,  to  twenty-two  of  which  there  were  two  responses  each. 

In  an  account  of  the  B  0  IT  chapter  at  Stanford,  the  Beta 
Theta  Pi  gives  a  description  and  picture  of  the  handsome 
chapter  house  erected  there  last  summer.  The  adult  mem- 
bers formed  a  corporation  under  the  laws  of  the  state.  The 
mother  of  one  of  the  members  built  the  house  and  sold  it 
(secured  by  mortgage  of  course)  to  the  corporation,  to  be 
paid  for  according  to  a  schedule  of  partial  payments.  The 
corporation  rents  the  house  to  the  active  chapter.  Funds 
obtained  by  the  sale  of  shares  are  applied  to  the  partial  pay- 
ments, and  the  rental  from  the  chapter  provides  the  interest 
due  on  the  outstanding  obligation.  It  is  said  that  in  run- 
ning the  house  some  profit  is  made,  which  is  used  in  reduc- 
ing the  obligation.  The  B  0  n  chapter  house  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  also  was  built  according  to  this  financial 
plan,  which  is  worthy  of  consideration. 

The  AVrc'  York  World  oi  December  12  contains  an  article 
of  several  columns  about  students  of  the  University  of  Cin- 
cinnati being  branded  with  nitrate  of  silver  in  the  course  of 
secret  society  initiations.  A  picture  is  given  of  the  foot  of 
a  young  l&dy,  on  which  appears  the  letters  *V.  C.  P.,*  that 
being  the  name  of  a  local  sorority.  Owing  to  the  evapora- 
tion of  the  water  with  which  the  nitrate  was  prepared,  the 
solution  was  much  stronger  than  was  supposed,  and  it  caused 
the  fair  initiate  great  pain  and  incapacitated  her  for  three 
weeks.  Pictures  are  given  also  of  Andrew  and  Smith  Hick- 
enlooper,  with  'B  0  H'  branded  on  the  forehead  of  each. 
The  young  men  are  sons  of  Gen.  Andrew  Hickenlooper, 
president  of  the  Cincinnati  Gas  Light  and  Coke  Company. 
It  is  said  that  the  branding  will  not  be  a  permanent  disfig- 
urement, and  also  that  it  was  not  a  part  of  the  regular 
ritual,  but  the  bright  idea  of  some  local  Beta.  The  Beta 
correspondent  from  Cincinnati  in  the  February  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  says  the  reports  came  from  a  *  sorehead'  non- fraternity 
student,  now  out  of  school,  and  that  the  branding  was  done 
wnth  iodine. 


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The  Beta  Alpha  chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  was  established 
at  Brown  University,  February  22.  The  new  chapter  has 
one  senior,  four  juniors,  four  sophomores  and  four  freshmen. 
It  is  a  strong  chapter  and  has  good  men,  some  of  whom 
have  been  rushed  by  other  fraternities  at  Brown.  The  in- 
stallation of  the  chapter  took  place  at  the  Narragansett,  in 
Providence.  Rooms  have  been  secured  in  the  Banigan 
building.  At  the  installation  of  the  new  chapter  there  were 
present  representatives  of  the  fraternity  from  the  University 
of  Vermont,  Bucknell  University,  University  of  Maine, 
Bowdoin  College  and  the  alumni  association  of  Boston. 
Kappa  Sigma  has  at  present  45  chapters.  The  other  New 
England  chapters  are  at  Maine,  Vermont  and  Bowdoin.  The 
one  at  South  Carolina  suspended  last  June. 

The  forthcoming  catalogue  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  will  contain 
the  names  of  members  of  societies  that  have  united  with  that 
fraternity,  numbering  perhaps  a  thousand  or  more.  When 
the  union  occurred  the  alumni  of  such  societies  were  noti- 
fied of  said  event,  and  requested  to  signify  their  willingness 
to  be  enrolled  as  members  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  The  editor  of 
the  Beta  catalogue  says  : 

Only  those  alumni  will  be  omitted  who  have  declined  to  be  identi- 
fied with  Beta  Theta  Pi.  The  list  includes  the  Alpha  Si^ma  Chi 
(Maine,  Rutgers,  Stevens,  Cornell,  St.  Lawrence  and  Princeton); 
Mystical  Seven  (Wesleyan,  Syracuse,  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  Dav- 
idson, Georgia,  Emory,  Cumberland  and  Mississippi);  Sigma  Delta  Pi 
(Dartmouth);  Zeta  Phi  (Missouri);  Torch  and  Crown  (Amherst).  Of 
course  also  the  alumni  members  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Alpha,  Adelphi 
and  Independent  societies,  situated  respectively  at  Brown,  Colgate 
and  Dickinson,  who  have  been  admittea  into  Beta  Theta  IM,  will  ap- 
pear. 

The  plan  of  chapters  sending  circular  letters  to  alumni, 
an  excellent  system  for  keeping  alumni  and  their  chapters 
in  touch  with  one  another,  was  originated  by  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
and  in  1886  was  adopted  by  Phi  Delta  Theta,  but  instead  of 
issuing  such  letters  semi-annually,  as  Beta  Theta  Pi  chap- 
ters did  up  to  1892,  the  chapters  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  have  is- 
sued them  annually.  In  1892  the  method  in  Beta  Theta  Pi 
was  changed,  the  semi- annuals  were  abandoned,  and  since 
then  a  special  number  of  the  Beta  Thefa  Pi  has  been  issued 
annually,  containing  a  letter  from  each  chapter.  Judging 
from  the  reports  of  general  officers,  the  innovation  has  not 
been  successful.  One  disadvantage  of  the  new  plan  is  that 
the  letters,  all  of  which  are  edited  by  the  general  secretary. 


312  THE  SCROLL. 

have  a  monotonous  sameness,  instead  of  the  distinctive  char 
acteristics  of  letters  issued  by  the  chapters  themselves.  Th< 
idea  was  to  send  the  annual  or  special  issue  of  the  magazine 
to  every  living  alumnus  of  the  fraternity.  This  makes  th< 
cost  very  considerable,  and  imposes  on  the  magazine  mana 
ger  enormous  labor  in  mailing  copies  to  say  10,000  mem 
bers.  The  result  was  that  the  special  issue  has  been  sent  t< 
magazine  subscribers  only,  so  that  many  thousands  of  Beta; 
fail  to  hear  from  their  chapters  at  all.  At  a  recent  conven 
tion  the  editor  of  the  magazine  reported  : 

It  is  absolutely  impossible  to  send  the  annual  to  all  of  the  alumni 
as  required  by  the  laws.  In  the  first  place,  there  is  no  money  to  pa] 
for  a  sufficient  number  of  copies;  and  in  the  second  place,  as  it  is  n< 
one's  duty  to  furnish  the  addresses  of  the  alumni,  we  are  without  th< 
means  of  sending  out  even  those  copies  which  we  have. 


THE  SCROLL.  313 


THE  PYX. 

E.  A.  Wright  has  sent  out  a  number  of  new  monograms 
and  other  designs  for  Phi  stationery,  some  of  which  are  un- 
usually attractive. 

«  «r  «  « 

A  number  of  chapters  that  have  issued  circular  letters 
have  neglected  to  send  copies  to  the  editor  of  The  Scroll. 
as  well  as  to  the  Fraternity  Librarian.  There  will  be  further 
remarks  on  this  subject  in  the  March  Palladiuvi. 

«  «r  «  « 

Our  kind  friends  who  have  done  so  much  to  keep  us  sup- 
plied with  personals  are  especially  requested  to  send  us  a 
double  portion  at  once  for  the  April  number,  which  is  in- 
tended to  be  of  particular  interest  to  the  alumni. 

«r  «  «r  « 

The  usual  chapter  house  editorial  is  omitted  this  time, 
and  in  its  stead  we  invite  our  readers  to  turn  to  the  letter 
from  Purdue.  The  youngest  chapter  in  Indiana  is  the  first 
to  take  a  house!     But  then  Purdue  was  a  hustler  from  the 

very  first. 

*  *  tt  * 

The  editor  is  under  obligations  to  the  reporters  at  Ala- 
bavia.  Central,  Hillsdale,  California  and  Northwestern  for 
their  college  papers.  The  Crimsoii-  White  is  a  new  bi-weekly, 
which  makes  a  fine  showing  in  its  several  departments  for 
Alabama  Alpha. 

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Of  the  five  seniors  chosen  in  the  first  drawing  for  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  at  Nebraska,  three  were  members  of  fraterni- 
ties: one  of  K  A  ©,  one  of  A  0  X  (local),  and  one  of  4>  A  0. 
Our  man  is  Bro.  Philip  W.  Russell,  who  was  delegate  to  the 
Philadelphia  convention. 

*  *  *  * 

Chapters  should  not  delay  in  remitting  to  the  Treasurer  of 
the  General  Council  for  the  Fraternity  dues  that  were  paya- 
ble on  the  first  day  of  February,  as  well  as  for  all  previous 
arrears.  Any  delinquency  of  members  this  year  who  will 
not  return  next  fall  will  have  to  be  paid  by  the  members 
then  in  college.  This  is  not  a  year  when  chapters  can  af- 
ford to  get  behind,  for  at  the  convention  there  must  be  a 
settling  up  of  all  accounts. 


314  THE  SCROLL, 

The  editor's  illness  is  uow  completing  its  ninth  week,  and 
The  Scroll  is  only  four  weeks  late.  Its  appearance  has 
been  made  possible  largely  through  the  invaluable  aid  of 
Bro.  Walter  B.  Palmer,  P.  G.  C.  and  Bro.  Thomas  R. 
Shipp,  Indianapolis,  '07,  of  The  fndianapolis  Neu^s, 

Is  He  ^  * 

The  Palladium  may  be  expected  within  about  a  week  or 
ten  days.  Letters  for  the  April  Scroll  are  desired  from 
every  chapter  not  represented  in  this  issue.  vSend  them  in 
by  March  to.  Reporters  of  alumni  chapters  will  please  be 
very  prompt  in  sending  in  their  accounts  of  the  celebration 

of  Alumni  Day. 

*  *  *  * 

One  of  the  pleasant  features  of  a  rather  tedious  convales- 
cence has  been  the  reception  of  a  box  of  exquisite  flowers 
from  the  Beta  Zeta  chapter  of  Delta  Tan  Delta.  While  this 
may  possibly  not  have  been  intended  as  an  inter-fraternity 
courtesy,  we  take  this  occasion  to  assure  Bro.  Hughes,  of 

the  Rainbow,  that  his  chapter  at  Indianapolis  is  all  right. 

*  *  *  * 

The  Indiana  state  contest  in  oratory  was  held  January  21 , 
the  winner  is  a  A  K  E,  from  De  Pauw.  Indiana  was  repre- 
sented by  a  B  0  n ;  Franklin  by  a  ^  A  E,  and  Hanover  by  a  * 
A  0.     The  inter  state  contest  is  to  be  held  at  Beloit  this  year. 

The  Ohio  state  contest,  held  at  Athens,  February  18,  re- 
sulted in  a  victory  for  Wooster.     Ohio  Wesleyan  and  Ohio 

State  are  out  of  the  association  this  year. 

*  *  *  * 

For  the  tenth  year  in  succession  the  Phis  of  Indiana  have  a 
majority  of  the  officers  in  the  state  inter-collegiate  oratorical 
association.  In  fact  there  have  been  but  two  years  in  all  the 
twenty- four  since  the  association  was  formed  that  they  have 
not  had  their  share  of  the  spoils.  There  are  seven  colleges 
in  the  association,  one  of  which  is  a  college  in  which  there 
are  no  fraternities.  The  offices  which  fell  to  the  six 
colleges  in  which  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  chapters  are  now 
held  by  the  following  Phis :  President,  Jesse  L.  Holman, 
Franklin:  vice-president,  W.  A.  Oldfather,  Hanover;  re- 
cording secretary.  Will  H.  Hays,  Wabash:  interstate  dele- 
gate, Carl  McGaughey,  Butler:  treasurer,  Foster  Smith, 
De  Pauw:  executive  committeeman,  Glenn  Gifford,  Indiana. 

In  the  same  connection  we  may  state  that  the  inter-colle- 
giate athletic  association  of  Indiana  has  for  its  president, 
Bro.  T.  C.  Whallon,  Hanover,  and  for  its  secretary,  Bro. 
Frank  Roller,  De  Pamv, 


THE  SCROLL.  315 

The  editor  desires  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  an  invi- 
tation to  the  fifth  annual  promenade  of  the  Pan-Hellenic 
Association  of  Northwestern  University,  Evanstou,  Friday 
evening,  Februarv  18.  The  association  is  composed  of  the 
following  fraternities:  B  0  H,  2  X,  4>  K  5,  *  K  4^  and  <I>  A  0. 
Bro.  Buntain  is  president  of  the  association.  The  promenade 
ended  promptly  at  midnight  this  year,  in  accordance  wnth 
the  new  rules  of  the  Northwestern  faculty.  Dancing  began 
at  0:30,  consequently;  at  eight  o'clock  Bro.  Buntain  and 
Miss  Alice  Ballinger  led  the  grand  march.  Among  the 
chaperons  we  note  the  names  of  Bros.  Curtis  H.  Remy,  /;/- 

dianapolis,  'Tl,  and  W.  E.  O'Kane,  Ohio  Weslevan,  'ST. 

♦  ♦  ♦  ♦       ' 

The  Amherst  Olio  was  the  first  annual  to  arrive  this 
year,  being  followed  closely  by  the  Columbiaji.  We  hope  re- 
porters will  not  fail  to  secure  a  copy  for  The  Scroll  in 
each  case  before  the  edition  is  exhausted.  Phi  editors  of 
annuals  that  have  not  yet  appeared  will  do  wtII  to  read  the 
remarks  on  chapter  lists  in  the  December  Scroll.  The 
chapter  list  in  the  Colmnbian  would  have  to  be  changed  in 
eight  or  ten  places  to  be  correct.  In  having  chapter  cuts 
made  for  annuals  bear  in  mind  that  Thk  Scroll  will  be 
glad  to  use  them,  and  that  (>x4  is  the  proper  size  to  appear 
well,  anything  larger  being  difficult  to  use  along  with  names 
of  the  individual  members.     There  is  a  general  desire  to 

have  the  names  all  appear  with  each  cut. 

*  *  *  * 

The  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity  chapter  house,  near  Van- 
derbilt  University,  was  the  scene  of  a  very  merry  and  suc- 
cessful dance  last  evening.  It  was  probably  the  largest  and 
most  enjoyable  affair  that  has  been  given  this  season  by 
this  set  of  young  men  who  are  so  popular  with  the  fair  sex. 
De  Pierri's  orchestra  furnished  the  music.  Among  those 
present  were,  Misses  Rachel  Thomas,  May  Lindsley,  Medora 
Cheatham,  Mary  Ready  Weaver,  PVances  Pilcher,  Louise 
Jackson,  Fanny  Lewis,  Eleanor  Buford,  Elizabeth  Howell, 
Caroline  Morris,  Louise  Bransford,  Rachel  Overton,  Mary 
Ewing  Beard,  of  Lebanon,  and  Carter,  of  Murfreesboro; 
Messrs.  Norman  and  Louis  Farrell,  Charles  and  Allison 
Buntin,  Stuart  and  Campbell  Pilcher,  Howard  Boogher, 
Herbert  Carr,  Hill  McAlister,  Vaulx  Crockett.  Battle  Mc- 
Lester,  W.  F.  Bradshaw,  G.  A.  Wyeth,  F.  J.  Fuller,  D.  A. 
Breard,  A.  L.  Beard,  E.  M.  Underwood,  H.  V.  Jones,  H. 
G.  Rice,  N.  S.  Hendrix,  G.  L.  Jackson,  J.  C.  Crizer.  A.  W. 
Harris,  Jr.,  and  C.  R.  Baskervill. — Nashville  Avierican,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1898. 


3i6  THE  SCROLL, 

A  welcome  visitor  to  our  exchange  table  is  the  Daily  Cal- 
if omian^  a  college  newspaper  that  is  thoroughly  up  to  date 
and  of  peculiar  interest  to  eastern  readers.  The  editor-in- 
chief  is  Bro.  Wigginton  E.  Creed,  '98.  One  of  his  associ- 
ates is  Bro.  Duncan  McDuffie,  '99,  and  one  of  his  assistants 

Bro.  C.  L.  Creed.  '01. 

*  *  *  « 

When  a  chapter  elects  a  new  reporter  the  editor  should  be 
explicitly  informed  of  the  fact.  Reporters  who  are  over- 
whelmed with  work  sometimes  ask  another  member  of  the 
chapter  to  write  a  letter,  which  is  all  right  and  excellent 
training  for  a  future  reporter.     But  the  editor  should  be 

informed  whether  this  is  the  case  or  not. 

*  *  *  * 

An  unusual  degree  of  interest  is  being  manifested  at  Co- 
lumbia in  the  debate  to  be  held  with  the  University  of 
Chicago  in  March.  Twenty-five  candidates  presented  them- 
selves at  the  preliminary  trial  to  select  speakers,  ten  of 
whom  were  chosen  to  take  part  in  a  second  trial  debate. 
From  these  six  were  selected  as  team  and  substitutes.  One 
of  the  number  is  Bro.  Oscar  Weeks  Ehrhorn,  '98,  reporter 
of  New  York  Delta.  The  question  for  debate  is:  *  Resolved, 
That  the  policy  of  increasing  the  United  States  navy  is 
wise,  and  should  be  continued.' 


Established  1849. 


OFFICIAL 
JEWELERS 


DETROIT,  Mich. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 

Tliorc*  is  no  line  of  badKo.s  manufactured  that  can  corn- 
pan'  with  ours  for  beauty,  conforming  to  rPKuhition,  qual- 
ity of  jeweling,  variety  and  workmanship. 

Tlie  above  statement  is  a  broad  one,  but  insjx»ction  of 
the  samples  shown  by  our  travelers  and  **  silent  drum- 
mers' (ai>provaI  packages),  will  prove  the  assertion. 

We  have  been  originators  and  leaders  in  fraternity  jew- 
elr>'  for  years,  and  exiH^rience  has  taught  us  the  wants  of 
students.  Wait  till  you  st»e  our  giMxls.  You  will  not  be 
disap|M)inted. 

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No.  4. 


ARDIVAN  VALKER  RODGERS. 

Embarrassment  sometimes  comes  to  a  writer  from  a  super- 
abundance of  material.  His  trouble  then  is  to  make  a  judi- 
cious selection.  My  difficulty  is  from  a  scarcity  of  material. 
That  fact,  however,  does  not  show  a  lack  of  character  or 
merit  in  the  subject.  The  biography  of  one  of  the  best 
men  that  ever  lived  on  our  planet  was  by  divine  guidance 
condensed  into  a  few  sentences.  That  was  the  life  of 
Enoch,  who  was  the  first  man  that  entered  heaven  without 
dying. 

GKNEALOGY. 

Victor  Hugo  is  credited  with  saying  that  if  you  would 
have  a  model  man,  you  must  begin  by  training  his  grand- 
mother. Ancestry  has  much  to  do  with  a  man's  well-being, 
physical,  intellectual  and  moral.  In  the  case  of  Mr.  Rodgers 
we  are  able  to  trace  his  pedigree  to  his  great-grandfather, 
William  Rodgers,  who  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  His  grandfather,  Matthew  Rodgers,  lived  in  what  is 
now  Juniata  county,  Pa.,  and  was  the  captain  of  a  company 
that  marched  to  Lake  Erie  during  the  war  of  ISl'i,  at  the 
time  of  Commodore  Perry's  victory  there. 

Thomas  Rodgers,  his  father,  was  a  plain,  substantial  coun- 
try farmer,  but  said  to  be  a  man  of  indomitable  will.  He 
was  born  April  20,  17*.M),  in  what  is  now  called  Juniata  coun- 
ty, Pa. ;  thence  he  removed  to  a  farm  near  Piqua,  Ohio,  where 
he  lived  several  years,  which  was  his  home  when  Ardivau 
went  to  Oxford.  From  that  place  he  moved  his  family  to 
Brighton,  Iowa,  where  he  died,  March  7,  18(>0. 

Jane  Rodgers  (;//>•  Campbell )  was  born  near  Carlisle,  Pa., 
May  28,  1701,  and  died  also  at  Brighton,  Iowa,  February 
13,  1S72.  Thomas  Rodgers  and  Jane  Campbell  were  mar- 
ried April  S,  1817,  and  had  eight  children,  of  whom  Ardi- 
van  was  the  fifth  in  order:  there  were  five  other  boys  and 
two  girls. 


320  THE  SCROLL. 

William  J.,  the  eldest,  was  born  February  3,  1818,  and  is 
still  living  at  Beloit,  in  Kansas;  he  has  had  two  sons  and 
three  daughters. 

Margaret  W.  was  born  September  20,  1811);  married  W. 
J.  Townley,  had  three  children,  and  died  at  Brighton, 
Iowa,  December  1,  LSol. 

Matthew  L.  was  born  March  21,  1821;  had  two  children,  a 
son  and  a  daughter;  the  son  is  dead,  and  the  father  died  at 
Piqua,  Ohio,  September  18,  1S57. 

Elizabeth  E.  was  born  November  11,  1822,  and  died  De- 
cember 21,  1828. 

Ardivan  Walker  was  born  October  20,  1824,  near  Piqua, 
Ohio. 

John  Scott  was  born  April  14,  1827:  he  had  three  sons 
and  two  daughters.     The  daughters  are  dead. 

Biram  was  born  January  2.S,  1829;  he  died  at  Brighton, 
Iowa,  November  28,  l«S5(v.  he  had  one  son,  now  dead;  the 
widow  lives  at  Piqua,  Ohio. 

Losado  was  bom  April  29,  1832;  he  attended  college  at 
Oxford  for  a  short  time  and  died  at  Piqua,  Ohio,  November 
20,  1.S51. 

BIOGRAPHY. 

Mr.  Rodgers  was  born  and  reared  on  a  farm.  His  muscles 
were  made  strong  by  hard  work,  and  his  health  promoted 
by  active  out-door  exercise.  In  the  early  months  of  184(>  he 
taught  a  public  school,  and  October  7,  1846,  he  entered 
Miami  University  in  the  sub-freshman  class.  There  and 
then  our  acquaintance  began,  as  I  had  attended  the  univer- 
sity during  the  last  thirteen  weeks  of  the  session  ending 
August  13,  184(5.  Hence  I  set  into  college  work  on  May 
11,  noi  June  1><,  1S4(),  as  the  college  records  are  said  to 
show. 

Mr.  Rodgers  was  six  feet,  two  inches  in  height,  well  pro- 
portioned, perfectly  erect,  with  black  eyes,  and  a  healthy 
complexion  suited  in  color  to  such  eyes  and  black  hair.  He 
had  a  winsome  face  and  a  pleasant  manner,  which  his  eld- 
est brother  says  was  a  heritage  from  his  mother.  He  was 
just  twenty-two  years  of  age,  and  while  large  and  strong, 
he  was  lithe  as  an  athlete.  He  and  Andrew  Watts  Rogers 
stood  at  about  the  same  height  in  the  world.  They  were 
classmates  in  college,  and  of  course  much  together.  They 
were  indeed  in  appearance  and  in  heart /dr  nobilc  fratrnjn. 
The  college  boys  admired  them  and  called  them  *0i  Poycpoc.' 

Mr.  Rodgers  was  a  professor  of  religion  at  home,  and  when 


THE  SCROLL.  321 

he  went  to  college  he  took  his  religion  with  him.  Though 
he  was,  as  Andrew  Rogers,  who  knew  him  well,  writes  re- 
cently of  him,  *a  Christian  through  and  through,'  he  did 
not  parade  his  religion  to  be  seen  by  men,  nor  did  he  hide 
it  under  a  bushel.  He  was  cheerful,  without  frivolity;  ear- 
nest and  dignified,  but  not  haughty  or  repellent  either  in 
appearance  or  in  fact. 

His  most  prominent  characteristic,  however,  was  his  pro- 
found conscientiousness.  This  regulated  his  every  act  and 
word.  He  had  no  moods  nor  spells.  Those  who  knew  him, 
always  knew  where  to  find  him.  His  conscientiousness  gave 
symmetry,  power  and  beauty  to  his  life.  His  intellect  was 
not  brilliant,  but  it  was  well  balanced.  His  scholarship  was 
accurate  and  careful;  it  was  honest  at  every  point.  He  was 
more  nearly  an  all-around  man  than  most  men.  It  was  not 
wonderful  that  he  was  a  general  favorite;  nor  that,  after- 
wards, when  in  his  sophomore  year  the  Phi  Delta  Theta 
Fraternity  was  being  organized,  he  was  wanted.  I  re- 
member well  that,  on  the  night  of  the  organization,  when  all 
the  original  six  were  present,  and  on  being  called  on,  one 
by  one,  all  had  agreed  to  enter  into  such  an  arrangement, 
after  a  pledge  of  secrecy  upon  honor  had  been  made  by  all 
present,  so  far  as  that  night's  proceedings  were  concerned, 
Drake  and  Rodgers,  who  were  regarded  as  least  likely  to 
unite  in  such  a  bond,  were  called  on  last.  Drake,  in  a  few 
quiet  words,  expressed  his  assent.  Then,  last  of  all,  the 
name  of  Rodgers  was  called ;  all  of  us  five  waited  with  some 
anxiety  to  hear  his  answer.  However,  as  our  eyes  met  his, 
we  noticed  a  merry  sparkle,  which  was  followed  by  his 
speech:  'Boys,  I  have  always  been  opposed  to  secret  socie- 
ties, but  as  this  society  is  not  a  secret  one  to  me,  I  like  it.' 
From  that  hour  began  the  life  and  work  of  the  Fraternity  in 
which  Rodgers  was  interested  to  the  day  of  his  death. 

An  every-day  faithfulness  to  his  obligations  marked  his 
course  in  college,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  in  1S51,  and  three  years  later  he  was  honored  by 
his  alma  mater  vfith  A.  M. 

In  the  fall  of  I'^Sl  he  opened  a  select  school,  which  he 
taught  with  excellent  success  for  three  years  in  Piqua,  Ohio. 
During  this  interval  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Sawyer, 
of  Piqua,  July  27,  18o2.  There,  too,  September  1,  185:], 
his  eldest  child,  John  Sawyer,  was  born  and  tarried  with  his 
parents  until  October  0,  1858.  A  second  son  was  born  there 
September  17,  1854,  and  lived  until  October  7,  1855.  He 
was  named  Walter  Lowrie,  in  honor  of  a  distinguished  mis- 
sionary murdered  in  China. 


32  2  THE  SCROLL. 

In  the  autumn  of  1854  Mr.  Rodgers  went  to  St.  Mary's, 
Ohio,  to  take  the  superintendence  of  the  Union  School  of 
that  place,  which  he  held  for  two  years.  At  St.  Mary's  was 
born  a  third  son,  Ardivan  Walker,  Jr.,  March  8,  ISoG. 

On  June  4,  18o<),  Mr.  Rodgers  left  Ohio  with  his  wife  and 
surviving  child,  on  a  visit  to  his  father  at  Brighton,  Iowa, 
expecting  while  there  to  get  a  position  as  teacher,  but  being 
stricken  with  typhoid  fever,  he  lingered  long  and  died  De- 
cember 11,  1<S5(>.^^ 

Thus  passed  away  in  the  morning  of  life,  in  the  flush  and 
prime  of  his  days,  the  first  of  the  six  founders  of  the  4>  A  0. 

It  was  an  early  call,  but  he  was  ready.  God  never  makes 
mistakes.  He  never  dismisses  one  of  his  witnesses  until  his 
testimony  is  finished.  The  quality  rather  than  the  quantity 
decides  its  value.  Abel  was  most  likely  young  when  he  fin- 
ished his  brief  testimou}',  but  his  voice  has  been  sounding  as 
the  years  go  by  more  widely  than  while  he  was  living,  for 
*he  being  dead  yet  speaketh.'  So,  too,  with  other  youthful 
witnesses,  and  if  so,  why  notwnth  the  subject  of  this  paper? 

What  his  particular  words  or  thoughts  were  as  he  neared 
the  great  dark  river,  tow^ards  which  we  are  all  rapidly  hast- 
ening, we  know  not,  but  we  do  know  the  character  of  his 
life.  That  is  more  valuable  testimony  than  words  could  be, 
if  not  endorsed  by  consistent  and  continuous  acts.  His  serv- 
ice to  the  Great  Master  was  not  a  secret  one,  or  an  unknown 
quantity. 

We  have  another  illustration  of  his  conscientiousness  and 
good  sense,  in  this  fact.  He  waited  long  and  worked  hard 
in  order  to  be  thoroughly  prepared  for  the  high  calling 
that  was  his  aim,  the  ministry  of  the  I'nited  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  tried  to  be  useful  while  he  was  teaching, 
but  that  was  also  a  means  to  an  end;  to  obtain  money  to  at- 
tend a  theological  seminary,  and  to  further  aid  in  obtaining 
that  high  qualification  he  desired,  he  read  and  studied  as 
best  he  could,  in  the  ^v^  years  of  his  teaching,  after  his 
college  life  was  over.  It  was  not  his  ambition  to  eagerly 
rush  in  where  angels  might  fear  to  tread,  as  so  many  un- 
fledged callow  youths  are  hastening  now  to  do. 

He  was  not  .satisfied  with  any  but  the  best  preparation 
possible,  for  any  work  into  which  he  felt  it  a  duty  to  go. 
He  had  constantly  in  view  the  direction  to  another  young 
preacher:  *  Study  to  show  thyself  approved  unto  God,  a 

♦  Mr.  Wni.  J.  Rodgers.  brother  of  Ardivan  Walker  Rodgers,  writes  that  he  died 
December  1 1, 1856,  and  that  that  is  the  date  inscribed  on  his  tombstone  at  Brighton. 
Iowa.  It  is  also  the  date  in  the  general  catalogue  of  Miami.  The  widow  of  the 
deceased,  however,  writes  that  he  died  December  10,  IK  j6.  that  being  the  date  re- 
corded in  the  family  Hible. 


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workman  that  needeth  not  to  be  ashamed,  rightly  dividing 
the  word  of  truth.' 

The  old  Hebrews  thought  that  of  all  parts  of  speech,  God 
liked  adverbs  best.  Their  view  was,  that,  while  many  things 
may  be  done  in  hatred,  or  to  be  seen  of  men,  or  because  they 
have  to  be  done,  yet  they  may  appear  to  men  all  right,  though 
not  so  to  the  All-seeing  One.  The  service  may  be  lovingly, 
thoughtfully  and  faithfully  rendered  to  receive  the  welcome 
plaudit  from  the  righteous  Judge  :  'Well  done,  good  and 
faithful  servant !  *  That  award  we  are  confident  has  been 
passed  on  our  brother  beloved,  whose  life-story  has  been 
briefly  told  above. 

Ardivan  Rodgers  and  Biram,  his  brother,  died  within  two 
weeks  of  each  other.  Their  bodies  were  laid  side  by  side, 
and  the  same  monument  tells  the  life  story  of  each.  And  a 
verse  of  the  Holy  Word,  graven  in  the  marble,  refers  to 
them  jointly  :  *  They  were  lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives, 
and  in  death  they  were  not  divided.' 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Rodgers,  his  widow  married  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Henderson,  of  the  Methodist  Church.  He  is 
now  deceased,  and  his  widow  lives  at  Fairfield,  Iowa. 

Ardivan  Walker  Rodgers,  Jr.,  died  at  Birmingham,  Iowa, 
August  21.  1805. 

The  writer  is  indebted  for  the  details  of  the  foregoing  pa- 
per to  our  indefatigable  and  patient  historian,  Bro.  Walter 
B.  Palmer.  They  were  mostly  obtained  from  Mr.  William 
J.  Rodgers,  Beloit,  Kansas;  from  Mrs.  Mary  Henderson  and 
Mr.  T.  B.  Rodgers,  Topeka,  Kansas,  a  cousin  of  Ardivan 
Walker,  who  is  now  preparing  a  history  of  the  Rodgers 
family  for  publication.  The  portrait  accompanying  this 
sketch  is  from  a  photograph  of  a  daguerreotype  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  William  J.  Rodgers.  This  photograph, 
together  with  one  of  a  daguerreotype  in  the  possession  of 
Mrs.  Henderson,  have  been  forwarded  to  the  Fraternity  Li- 
brarian. 

This  completes  the  biographical  sketches  of  the  six  found- 
ers of  Phi  Delta  Theta  that  have  appeared  in  The  vScroll. 
The  issue  for  December,  1SS6,  contained  a  sketch  of  John 
McMillan  Wilson,  *4i),  by  his  brother,  Archibald  Wilson;  the 
issue  for  April,  18S7,  a  sketch  of  Robert  Thompson  Drake, 
'50,  by  Robert  Morrison;  the  issue  for  April,  1^97,  an  auto- 
biographical sketch  of  Robert  Morrison,  '49;  the  issue  for 
June,  1897,  a  sketch  of  Andrew  Watts  Rogers,  'ol ,  by  Royall 
H.  Switzler;  the  issue  for  October,  1897,  a  sketch  of  John 
Wolfe  Lindley,  MO,  by  S.  Emerson  Findley. 

Robert  Morrison, 

Fulton.  Mo..  March  15,  1S98.  Ohio  Alpha,  '49. 


324  IHE  SCROLL, 


A  PRACTICABLE  FRATERNITY  CATALOGUE. 

Six  editions  of  the  catalogue  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  have 
been  issued,  published  in  the  years  18()0,  1S70,  1872.  1878, 
1888  and  l'S04.  The  sixth  (1S94)  edition  contains  no 
names  of  members  initiated  since  1892,  and  in  the  lists  of 
the  older  chapters  in  the  first  part  of  the  book  there  are  no 
names  of  members  initiated  since  1800.  It  seems,  there- 
fore, that  it  is  time  for  us  to  begin  to  make  provisions  for  a 
new  edition.  As  the  last  edition  was  a  very  severe  tax 
upon  the  resources  of  the  Fraternity,  it  behooves  us,  before 
entering  upon  another  such  enterprise,  to  consider  carefully 
and  mature  plans  for  bringing  out  a  book  that  will  be  prac- 
tical and  useful,  and  the  expense  of  which  will  not  be  too 
great  for  a  college  organization  to  undertake. 

It  takes  time  to  produce  a  book  of  this  character.  Our 
1878  catalogue  was  four  years  in  preparation,  our  1888 
edition  five  years,  our  last  (1894)  edition  six  years.  At 
this  rate  it  would  require,  say  seven  or  eight  years,  to  get 
out  the  next  edition,  if  it  should  be  as  comprehensive  as  the 
last.  The  whole  number  of  names  in  the  last  edition  was 
7,286,  but  the  membership  of  the  Fraternity  in  1894  was 
several  hundreds  in  excess  of  this.  *  The  Manual  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta  *  gives  the  total  membership  on  February  1 , 
1897,  as  9,184.  Taking  the  average  number  of  initiations 
for  several  years.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  increasing  at  the  rate 
of  485  per  annum.  Under  even  the  most  favorable  circum- 
stances, a  new  edition  could  hardly  be  prepared  before  the 
year  1901,  and  then  the  enumeration  of  the  Fraternity  will 
approximate  the  enormous  total  of  1 1 ,000. 

My  object  in  writing  this  article  is  (a)  to  show  that,  in- 
creasing in  membership  so  rapidly,  we  can  never  afford  to 
issue  another  catalogue  on  the  plan  of  the  188^>  and- 1894 
editions;  {b)  to  indicate  what  details  should  be  omitted  to 
bring  the  book  within  reasonable  limits,  and  (c)  to  urge  the 
establishment  of  the  permanent  office  of  catalogue  compiler, 
to  collect  and  systematically  arrange  catalogue  materials,  so 
that  when  a  new  edition  is  decided  upon,  it  can  be  issued 
within  a  much  shorter  time  than  heretofore,  and  without  in- 
volving such  an  enormous  expenditure  of  labor  and  money, 
even  though  our  membership  is  becoming  so  large. 


THE  SCROLL.  325 

THE  FATHER  OF  MODERN  CATALOGUES. 

This  title  might  be  awarded  to  Mr.  Charles  W.  Smiley, 
editor  of  the  1879  catalogue  of  Psi  Upsilon.  Up  to  that 
time  the  editors  of  catalogues  had  been  content  to  furnish 
more  or  less  complete  lists  of  members,  their  occupations 
and  addresses.  Mr.  Smiley  set  the  example  of  giving  a  full 
biographical  record  for  each  member.  Of  course  a  great 
deal  of  labor  was  necessary  to  collect  such  detailed  informa- 
tion, and  the  book  in  which  it  was  printed  was  much  more 
voluminous  and  handsome  than  any  college  fraternity  cata- 
logue that  had  ever  previously  been  published.  The  frater- 
nity world  was  struck  with  wonder  and  admiration.  The 
praises  of  Mr.  Smiley  were  loudly  sung,  and  every  other 
fraternity  became  ambitious  to  equal  the  effort  of  Psi  Upsi- 
lon. Elaborate  works  were  projected  along  the  same  lines. 
It  was  hardly  thought  that  any  improvement  could  be 
made.  At  least  two  fraternities  within  a  few  years  issued 
catalogues  slavishly  imitating  Mr.  Smiley *s  model,  even  in 
typography,  while  all  others  tried  to  equal  it  in  fullness  of 
detail.  In  fact  all  fraternities  went  wild  on  the  subject  of 
catalogue-making,  and,  as  a  result,  most  of  them  have 
learned  severe  lessons. 

The  1879  Psi  Upsilon  catalogue  is  a  book  of  468  pages,  con- 
taining 4,928  names.  Alpha  Delta  Phi  appeared  in  the  field 
in  1882  with  the  semi-centennial  (twelfth)  edition  of  her  cat- 
alogue, a  book  of  782  pages,  containing  5,452  names.  Psi 
Upsilon  broke  the  record  again  in  1 888  by  issuing  a  volume 
of  1,038  pages  (pages  one- fourth  larger  than  those  of  the 
1879  edition),  containing  6,778  names.  There  were  an  edi- 
tor-in-chief and  an  associate  editor,  and  the  preface  ac- 
knowledges the  clerical  labors  of  seven  men  in  the  summers 
of  1886  and  1887.  In  1891  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  capped  the 
climax  by  publishing  a  tome  of  1,750  pages  (counting  pre- 
liminary pages  and  unnumbered  insets),  containing  elabo- 
rate records  of  10,584  members.  When  one  looks  at  this 
huge  volume  one  wonders  how  such  a  book  was  compiled. 
Here  is  the  explanation  given  by  the  D,  A'.  E.  Quarterly, 
October,  1890: 

To  these  gentlemen  then  the  credit  of  the  present  catalogue  is  due. 
On  every  working  day  during  the  past  three  years  at  least  one,  and 
often  two  of  them,  has  si>ent  from  five  to  fourteen  hours  on  work  of 
the  same  kind,  which  sends  so  many  insane  from  the  United  States 
statistical  bm'eaus,  and  all  during  this  time  from  three  to  six  clerks 
have  been  steadily  employed  on  purely  clerical  work.  No  one  unfa- 
miliar with  this  class  of  work  can  form  any  idea,  from  the  completed 
volume,  of  the  labor  necessary  to  produce  it.   About  50,000  letters  and 


326  THE  SCROLL. 

circulars  have  been  sent  out,  in  some  cases  as  many  as  eight  auto- 
graph letters  to  a  single  individual,  and  an  average  of  five  communica- 
tions to  every  man  in  the  fraternity. 

From  this  statement  it  appears  that  the  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  catalogue  was  compiled  by  from  four  to  seven  men, 
who  worked  at  it  continuously  for  three  years,  from  1887  to 
1890.  But  this  catalogue  was  begun  in  18S3.  In  1887  a 
hundred  and  fifty  pages  that  had  gone  through  the  press 
were  abandoned  because,  during  a  long  suspension  of  work, 
the  printed  information  had  become  largely  obsolete.  Though 
the  preface  is  dated  December,  1800,  the  book  was  not 
issued  until  late  in  1891,  eight  years  after  it  had  been  be- 
gun. 

Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa 
Psi,  Chi  Psi,  Delta  Upsilon  and  other  fraternities  emulated 
Psi  Upsilon 's  example,  each  trying  to  get  out  as  big  a  book 
as  possible.  Phi  Kappa  Psi  began  the  preparation  of  a  new 
catalogue  in  1SS7  or  earlier.  After  a  hundred  or  more  pages 
had  been  printed,  a  long  suspension  of  work  occurred,  as  in 
the  case  with  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  the  delay  necessitated 
so  many  changes  that  the  printed  pages  were  abandoned  and 
the  printers  began  at  the  first  again.  When  about  half  the 
book  had  gone  through  the  press,  the  printed  portion  and 
some  of  the  copy  were  destroyed  by  the  fire  in  Spahr  & 
Glenn's  establishment  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  which  burned 
out  The  Scroll  in  January,  isi)2.  The  book  was  finally 
issued  in  1S94. 

Up  to  about  this  time  it  seemed  to  be  the  prevalent  idea 
that  a  fraternity  which  could  not  exhibit  a  big  catalogue, 
expensively  printed,  illustrated  and  bound  would  drop  to 
the  rear  ranks.  I  confess  that  I  was  infatuated  with  this 
hallucination  myself.  The  187*.>  Psi  Upsilon  catalogue  was 
the  inspiration  to  me  to  get  out  a  book  that  might  be  com- 
pared with  it,  and  taking  up  work  which  others  had  begun, 
I  became  co-editor  of  our  1883  edition.  It  is  a  book  of  230 
pages,  containing  3,460  names.  I  still  have  a  vivid  recol- 
lection of  the  months  and  years  of  toil  that  I  spent  on  that 
work,  with  no  monetary  recompense  whatever.  This  book, 
of  which  Brother  A.  Gwyn  Foster  and  I  were  editors 
(Brother  George  Banta  being  associated  with  us  for  a  time), 
was  the  first  attempt  to  give  complete  names  of  all  members 
of  the  fraternity,  biographical  data  concerning  each,  a  table 
of  consanguinity  and  a  residence  directory.  Besides,  after 
each  chapter's  list  there  appeared  college  and  fraternity 
honors,  a  feature  included  in  the  catalogue  of  no  other  frater- 
nity. 


THE  SCROLL.  327 

The  drudgery  of  accumulating  information  about  thou- 
sands of  widely  scattered  persons  can  be  comprehended  only 
by  those  who  have  had  experience  with  such  work.  To  be- 
gin with,  the  addresses  of  many  persons  are  unknown,  and 
many  others,  through  sheer  neglect,  fail  to  respond  to  re- 
peated communications.  When  all  the  materials  have  been 
collected,  the  weary  editors  must  enter  upon  the  second  part 
of  their  herculean  task,  that  is  the  preparation  of  copy,  and 
the  greatest  painstaking  is  necessary  to  bring  all  the  details 
into  uniform  and  systematic  arrangement.  On  account  of 
proper  names,  Greek  letters,  abbreviations  and  other  pecu- 
liarities, the  editors  must  most  closely  and  carefully  read 
the  proof  several  times.  Then  the  arrangement  of  thou- 
sands of  names  in  exact  order  for  the  residence  directory 
and  alphabetical  index  is  most  tedious  work. 

But  our  18S3  catalogue,  being  a  new  departure  for  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  was  imperfect  in  many  ways.  The  utmost  ef- 
forts of  the  editors  failed  to  obtain  information  about  some 
members  from  either  their  chapters  or  themselves.  Broth- 
ers Eugene  H.  L.  Randolph  and  Frank  I).  Swope  became 
actuated  with  a  laudable  desire  to  issue  a  catalogue  that 
would  measure  up  in  every  way  to  the  standard  of  the 
times.  The  work  of  gathering  data  began  in  March ,  1 888 ,  and 
thereafter  was  prosecuted  assiduously  and  continuously,  in 
spite  of  the  precarious  health  of  both  of  the  editors.  About 
three  years  later,  or  to  be  exact,  in  January,  1801,  the  first 
copy  was  sent  to  the  printers.  For  lack  of  money,  the  work 
became  embarrassed,  and  printing  was  practically  suspended 
during  the  summer  of  1S!)1.  At  the  convention  in  October, 
it  was  reported  that  1 1()  pages  had  been  set  in  type,  of  which 
96  pages  were  printed.  The  convention  made  provisions  for 
continuing  the  work,  but  these  provisions  were  not  carried 
into  effect.  Arrangements  having  been  finally  perfected, 
the  printers  were  put  to  work  again  in  June,  1892.  With 
such  incidental  delays  as  are  liable  to  happen  in  most  print- 
ing houses,  amounting  in  this  case  to  three  or  four  months, 
the  mechanical  work  proceeded  until  April,  1894,  when  the 
book  was  completed — full  six  years  after  its  inception.  A 
more  extended  account  of  the  difficulties  encountered  in  get- 
ting out  this  book  appears  in  The  Scroll  for  February, 
1S94. 

We  may  with  profit  examine  into  the  experience  of  Beta 
Theta  Pi  in  cataloRue-making,  which  has  been  similar  to 
that  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  A  Beta  catalogue  was  issued  in 
1881 ,  which  was  an  attempt,  like  our  1883  edition,  to  be  as 


326  THE  SCROLL. 

circulars  have  been  sent  out,  in  some  cases  as  many  as  eight  auto- 
graph letters  to  a  single  individual,  and  an  average  of  five  communica- 
tions to  every  man  in  the  fraternity. 

From  this  statement  it  appears  that  the  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilou  catalogue  was  compiled  by  from  four  to  seven  men, 
who  worked  at  it  continuously  for  three  years,  from  1887  to 
1890.  But  this  catalogue  was  begun  in  18S3.  In  1887  a 
hundred  and  fifty  pages  that  had  gone  through  the  press 
were  abandoned  because,  during  a  long  suspension  of  work, 
the  printed  information  had  become  largely  obsolete.  Though 
the  preface  is  dated  December,  1800,  the  book  was  not 
issued  until  late  in  1801,  eight  years  after  it  had  been  be- 
gun. 

Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa 
Psi,  Chi  Psi,  Delta  Upsilon  and  other  fraternities  emulated 
Psi  Upsilon 's  example,  each  trying  to  get  out  as  big  a  book 
as  possible.  Phi  Kappa  Psi  began  the  preparation  of  a  new 
catalogue  in  1SS7  or  earlier.  After  a  hundred  or  more  pages 
had  been  printed,  a  long  suspension  of  work  occurred,  as  in 
the  case  with  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon,  and  the  delay  necessitated 
so  many  changes  that  the  printed  pages  were  abandoned  and 
the  printers  began  at  the  first  again.  When  about  half  the 
book  had  gone  through  the  press,  the  printed  portion  and 
some  of  the  copy  were  destroyed  by  the  fire  in  Spahr  & 
Glenn's  establishment  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  which  burned 
out  Thk  Scroll  in  January,  1.S92.  The  book  was  finally 
issued  in  l'S94. 

Up  to  about  this  time  it  seemed  to  be  the  prevalent  idea 
that  a  fraternity  which  could  not  exhibit  a  big  catalogue, 
expensively  printed,  illustrated  and  bound  would  drop  to 
the  rear  ranks.  I  confess  that  I  was  infatuated  with  this 
hallucination  myself.  The  187*>  Psi  Upsilon  catalogue  was 
the  inspiration  to  me  to  get  out  a  book  that  might  be  com- 
pared with  it,  and  taking  up  work  which  others  had  begun, 
I  became  co- editor  of  our  1883  edition.  It  is  a  book  of  280 
pages,  containing  '),^()0  names.  I  still  have  a  vivid  recol- 
lection of  the  months  and  years  of  toil  that  I  spent  on  that 
work,  with  no  monetary  recompense  whatever.  This  book, 
of  which  Brother  A.  Gwyn  P'oster  and  I  were  editors 
(Brother  George  Banta  being  associated  with  us  for  a  time), 
was  the  first  attempt  to  give  complete  names  of  all  members 
of  the  fraternity,  biographical  data  concerning  each,  a  table 
of  consanguinity  and  a  residence  directory.  Besides,  after 
each  chapter's  list  there  appeared  college  and  fraternity 
honors,  a  feature  included  in  the  catalogue  of  no  other  frater- 
nity. 


THE  SCROLL,  .^27 

The  drudgery  of  accumulating  information  about  thou- 
sands of  widely  scattered  persons  can  be  comprehended  only 
by  those  who  have  had  experience  with  such  work.  To  be- 
gin with,  the  addresses  of  many  persons  are  unknown,  and 
many  others,  through  sheer  neglect,  fail  to  respond  to  re- 
peated communications.  When  all  the  materials  have  been 
collected,  the  weary  editors  must  enter  upon  the  second  part 
of  their  herculean  task,  that  is  the  preparation  of  copy,  and 
the  greatest  painstaking  is  necessary  to  bring  all  the  details 
into  uniform  and  systematic  arrangement.  On  account  of 
proper  names,  Greek  letters,  abbreviations  and  other  pecu- 
liarities, the  editors  must  most  closely  and  carefully  read 
the  proof  several  times.  Then  the  arrangement  of  thou- 
sands of  names  in  exact  order  for  the  residence  directory 
and  alphabetical  index  is  most  tedious  work. 

But  our  18H3  catalogue,  being  a  new  departure  for  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  was  imperfect  in  many  ways.  The  utmost  ef- 
forts of  the  editors  failed  to  obtain  information  about  some 
members  from  either  their  chapters  or  themselves.  Broth- 
ers Eugene  H.  L.  Randolph  and  Frank  D.  Swope  became 
actuated  with  a  laudable  desire  to  issue  a  catalogue  that 
would  measure  up  in  every  way  to  the  standard  of  the 
times.  The  work  of  gathering  data  began  in  March,  18<s8.  and 
thereafter  was  prosecuted  assiduously  and  continuously,  in 
spite  of  the  precarious  health  of  both  of  the  editors.  About 
three  years  later,  or  to  be  exact,  in  January,  181)1,  the  first 
copy  was  sent  to  the  printers.  For  lack  of  money,  the  work 
became  embarrassed,  and  printing  was  practically  suspended 
during  the  summer  of  1S<)1.  At  the  convention  in  October, 
it  was  reported  that  IK)  pages  had  been  set  in  type,  of  which 
96  pages  were  printed.  The  convention  made  provisions  for 
continuing  the  work,  but  these  provisions  were  not  carried 
into  effect.  Arrangements  having  been  finally  perfected, 
the  printers  were  put  to  work  again  in  June,  1892.  With 
such  incidental  delays  as  are  liable  to  happen  in  most  print- 
ing houses,  amounting  in  this  case  to  three  or  four  months, 
the  mechanical  work  proceeded  until  April,  1.S94,  when  the 
book  was  completed — full  six  years  after  its  inception.  A 
more  extended  account  of  the  difficulties  encountered  in  get- 
ting out  this  book  appears  in  The  Scroij.  for  February, 
1894. 

We  may  with  profit  examine  into  the  experience  of  Beta 
Theta  Pi  in  catalogue-making,  which  has  been  similar  to 
that  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  A  Beta  catalogue  was  issued  in 
1881,  which  was  an  attempt,  like  our  1S83  edition,  to  be  as 


328  THE  SCROLL. 

full  and  thorough  as  that  of  Psi  Upsilon  in  1879.     But  Beta 

Theta  Pi,  like  Phi  Delta  Theta,  was  not  content  with  this 

effort.     A  supplement  to  the  Beta  catalogue  of  1881  was 

issued  in  1886.     A  circular,  dated  November  15,  1888,  and 

signed  by  Mr.  J.  Cal.  Hanna,  a  prominent  official  in  his 

Fraternity,  begins  thus: 

The  forty-ninth  annual  convention  of  our  fraternity,  held  at 
Wooglin-on-Chautauqua,  July  24-.S1,  1888,  ordered  the  publication  of 
a  catalogue  of  the  fraternity  that  should  suitably  mark  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  the  foundation  of  our  order,  occurring  next  year.  The  un- 
dersigned was  appointed  catalogue  editor,  and  is  working  in  the  hope 
of  publishing  the  most  complete  and  accurate  fraternity  catalogue 

ever  put  forth It  is  earnestly  desired  that  the  catalogue 

be  issued  from  the  press  in  the  early  part  of  1889. 

In  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  for  May,  1892,  three  and  a  half  years 

later,  appeared  the  following  announcement  by  Mr.  Hanna: 

The  catalogue  editor  has  decided  to  go  to  press  with  the  semi-cen- 
tennial catalogue  without  further  delay,  ana  to  push  the  work  by 
printing  and  binding  rapidly  to  completion Copy,  ac- 
cording to  our  present  plans,  will  begin  to  go  to  the  printer  about  the 
15th  of  June. 

This  was  very  positive,  but  the  same  magazine  for  Octo- 
ber, 181)3,  contained  the  following  editorial: 

The  report  of  the  catalogue  editor,  J.  Cal.  Hanna,  to  be  found  in 
the  convention  minutes,  should  be  read  with  unusual  interest  by  every 
member  of  the  fraternity.  The  work  connected  with  preparing  the 
new  catalogue  has  been  notliing  short  of  collossal.  Hanna  has  done 
this  work  to  his  own  detriment.  He  has  done  no  grumbling,  but  has 
tried  by  all  honorable  means  to  elicit  the  interest  of  every  Beta,  in  the 
hope  that  the  work,  when  completed,  would  contain  all  the  informa- 
tion the  most  exacting  individual  might  desire.  Owing  to  the  utter 
lack  of  sympathy  exhibited  by  some,  data  will  be  found  wanting  in 
some  instances.  This  fault  rests  with  these  individuals  themselves, 
and  should  not  be  laid  at  the  feet  of  the  catalogue  editor 

This  work  must  be  done  speedily  if  at  all.  Arrangements  have 
been  made  to  send  the  catalogue  to  press,  and  the  day  is  not  far 
distant  when  it  will  be  ready  for  distribution.  When  it  does  appear 
we  will  have  a  catalogue  which  should  be  the  constant  companion  of 
every  Beta  who  really  wants  to  know  the  actual  status  of  uie  frater- 
nity. Considerable  comment  has  been  made  on  the  delay  in  getting 
out  the  new  volume.  To  those  who  are  growing  restive  we  commend 
for  perusal  the  golden  rule.  Fraternity  catalogues  are  not  made  in  a 
day,  as  those  who  h^ve  produced  them  will  bear  evidence. 

Owing  to  difficulties,  both   editorial  and   financial,   Mr. 

Hanna  did  not  begin  sending  copy  to  the  printers  until 

1894.     Following  are  interesting  extracts  from  his  report  to 

the  convention  held  in  July,  printed  in  the  Beta   Theta  Pi 

for  September,  1804  : 

This  catalogue  is  like  the  last  catalogue — it  has  been  on  hand  for 
several  years.  Everybody  is  extremely  weary  on  account  of  the 
delay.     Nobody  is  or  can  be  as  weary  as  the  writer  of  this  paper.     It 


THE  SCROLL,  329 

has  been  a  most  depressing  and  harassing  burden  for  years.  The 
patience  of  the  chapters  and  alumni  in  waiting  so  long  for  the  book 
which  they  needed  is  duly  appreciated  by  the  editor.  There  have 
been  many  kind  expressions  of  appreciation  and  sympathy.  Without 
these  the  burden  would  have  been  unbearable.  There  have  been 
many  jokes,  but  these  were  kindly,  and  hurt  nobody.  There  have 
been  a  very  few  demands  for  the  book  or  money  refunded,  coming  in 
nearly  every  instance  from  men  who  evidently  were  in  very  great 
ignorance  of  the  facts  in  regard  to  the  catalogue  and  its  publication, 
and  thoughtlessly  looked  upon  the  affair  at  first  just  as  they  would  if 
they  had  paid  in  advance  to  a  publisher  for  *  Through  Darkest  Africa,* 
or  for  the  'International  Comprehensive  Cyclopedia,'  forgetting  that 
this  business  enterprise  had  no  capital 

A  start  has  been  made  on  the  reading  of  the  proof.  The  remainder 
of  this  summer  and  probably  all  of  September  will  be  very  full  of  the 
work  of  printing  and  proof-reading.  It  is  my  confident  expectation 
that  the  bound  volume  can  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  subscribers  dur- 
ing the  fall  term.  Of  course,  the  question  has  arisen  in  the  minds  of 
many,  *Why  has  there  been  so  long  a  delay?'  There  are  many 
reasons.     I  will  refer  to  a  few  of  them : 

When  the  publication  of  the  catalogue  was  put  in  my  hands  it  had 
been  declined  by  almost  every  man  in  the  fraternity  who  was  sup- 
posed to  be  specially  fitted  for  it  by  knowledge  and  experience.  It 
was  only  a  year  until  the  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  fraternity,  when  everybody  thought  a  catalogue  ought  to 
appear.  There  was  great  perplexity  as  to  what  should  be  done. 
Everybody  seemed  to  think  that  we  must  have  a  very  large  and  com- 
plete catalogue,  with  data  as  full  as  or  fuller  than  any  other  ever 
published.  We  must  beat  the  Psi  Upsilon  and  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi — 
that  was  the  cry. 

No  doubt  many  presume,  as  the  writer  did,  that  four-fifths  of  the 
living  membership  would  respond  promptly  in  furnishing  data,  and 
that  cash  subscriptions  woula  roll  in  rapidly  enough  to  meet  the 
expenses,  and  that  the  book  could  be  gotten  out  within  the  j^ear  and 
a  half  before  1889  should  close.  These  hopes  were  all  blasted.  Not 
one-fourth  of  the  membership  supplied  data  within  the  year;  only  a 
comparatively  few  cash  subscriptions  came  in  promptly,  and  dis- 
couragement began  to  creep  in.  It  would  be  hard  to  convince  you 
that  thousands  of  alumni  utterly  ignored  the  blanks  sent  to  them; 
that  hundreds  of  men  did  so  on  whom  their  own  chapters  rely  as  most 
loyal  Betas;  that  scores  of  men  did  so  whose  names  are  very  familiar 
to  you  as  prominent  and  loyal  silver  greys;  that  men  did  so  who  had 
been  general  officers  of  the  fraternity  for  years.  Yet,  such  was  the 
fact. 

These  men  did  not  intend  to  be  negligent  and  troublesome.  They 
merely  procrastinated,  and  so  the  burden  of  responsibility  for  the 
delay  rests  on  a  good  many  shoulders.  I  have  had  men  criticise  me 
for  tardiness  in  this  matter  who  themselves  at  the  time  had  never  put 
pen  to  paper  to  supply  their  own  data  for  the  catalogue,  and  had 
never  advanced  a  cent  toward  the  heavy  preliminary  expenses  of  pub- 
lication. This  seems  incredible,  but  it  is  true.  I  refer  to  it  merely  to 
show  something  of  the  difficulty  of  the  task.  Repeated  appeals  were 
made  to  the  alumni  by  circular  letters,  through  the  chapter  semi- 
annuals,  through  the  convention  minutes,  through  the  magazine 
Much  time  and  money  and  toil  was  spent  in  these  efforts 

I  have  had  no  vacation  since  1888,  except  convention  week,  and 


330  THE  SCROLL. 

that,  as  you  may  surmise,  is  not  exactly  a  time  for  rest.  I  had  learned 
to  look  upon  catalo^e  work  as  something  which  could  be  taken  up 
whenever  I  was  too  tired  to  do  anything  else.  At  our  house  '  that  cat- 
alogue '  was  like  '  the  poor  * — it  was  *  always  with  us.  *  The  children 
learned  the  word  and  its  oppressive  meaning  very  early  in  their  lives. 
But  here  was  a  change,  a  chance,  a  hope,  a  ray  of  light.  We  held  a 
jubilee  forthwith.  Fortune,  long  delayed  and  fickle  fortune,  favored 
the  enterprise  in  another  way.  The  best  I  could  do,  it  seemed  impos- 
sible to  find  enough  hours  in  a  day  to  accomplish  what  was  absolutely 
necessary  before  going  to  press.  Moreover,  there  was  much  of  it  that 
could  be  done  better  by  two  working  together. 

Mr.  Ralph  K.  Jones  (Maine  State,  ^1^^)^  the  alumni  secretary  of  the 
fraternity,  who  had  lived  in  Kindlay,  Ohio,  for  several  years,  I  knew 
to  be  in  many  particulars  specially  fitted  to  assist  in  this  work,  and  to 
be  deeply  interested  in  it.  January  last  found  him  otherwise  unoccu- 
pied for  a  time.  At  my  earnest  request,  he  consented  to  give  his  time, 
and  it  is  done  at  a  mere  nominal  salary,  only  partially  paid,  to  help- 
ing me  get  the  catalogue  out.  He  removed  to  Columbus,  and  re- 
mained there  for  just  eight  months,  giving  his  whole  time  to  the 
work.  I  worked  with  him  every  spare  hour.  The  latter  half  of  my 
afternoons  and  all  of  my  evenings  have  mainly  been  occupied  in  that 
way.  Ten  o'clock  was  *  quitting  time,'  but  more  frequently  the  type- 
writer clicked  until  eleven. 

When  vacation  came,  about  the  middle  of  June,  we  were  able  to  do 
more.  To  the  pedagogue  a  long  vacation  conies — a  time  of  rest  and  rec- 
reation and — no  income,  unless  he  avails  himself  of  institutes  and  pri- 
vate pupils,  etc.  The  rest  and  recreation  and  the  private  pupils,  with 
the  accompanying  collateral,  have  been  strictly  ruled  out  of  court  for 
many  years,  but  Brother  Jones  and  I  found  that  this  close  application, 
and  this  complete  sacrifice  of  other  interests,  were  absolutely  neces- 
sary, under  present  conditions,  to  getting  the  catalogue  out-  and  nat- 
urally we  want  it  to  come  out,  want  it  very  much.  And  it  is  coming 
out — really,  this  time — if  fire  don't  burn  it  all  up,  as  it  did  the  last  Phi 
Kappa  Psi  catalogue  when  just  ready  for  the  binder. 

The  Beta  Theta  Pi,  at  intervals  since  1894,  has  published 
explanations  of  the  unavoidable  delays  in  issuing  the  cata- 
logue. In  the  number  for  October,  1897,  Mr.  Hanna  an- 
nounced that  732  pages  had  been  set  in  type,  but  there  re- 
mained to  be  set  many  chapter  lists,  as  well  as  all  of  the 
residence  directory,  alphabetical  index,  consanguinity  chart 
and  other  tables.  The  total  membership  of  Beta  Theta  Pi 
to  September,  1897,  was  estimated  at  10,520,  or  probably 
about  1,300  more  than  Phi  Delta  Theta  had  at  that  time. 
The  Beta  Theta  Pi  for  last  February  announced  that  the 
catalogue  probably  would  be  ready  for  the  convention  which 
is  to  meet  in  July  of  this  year. 

FINANCIAL    DIFFICULTIES. 

After  all,  the  vital  trouble  about  getting  out  a  catalogue 
is  the  difficulty  of  financiering  the  project.  Doubtless  the 
long  delays  in  publishing  the  last  catalogues  of  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta 


THE  SCROLL.  z^i 

and  other  fraternities  were  due  to  this  reason.  I  know  this 
was  tme  with  regard  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  at  least.  There  is 
no  question  that  these  great  catalogue  projects  are  too  much 
for  the  resources  of  a  college  organization.  The  Delta 
Kappa  Espilon  catalogue  is  said  to  have  cost  $16,000,  and, 
with  some  knowledge  of  catalogue-making  and  the  printing 
business,  I  do  not  consider  that  an  over  estimate.  Another 
fraternity  is  reported  to  have  had  internal  dissensions  which 
threatened  its  disbandonment  because  an  assessment  of  $1 1 
per  capita  was  levied  to  pay  for  an  edition  of  its  catalogue. 
It  has  been  rumored  that  another  fraternity  repudiated  a 
large  debt  incurred  in  publishing  its  catalogue,  throwing 
the  obligation  on  the  alumni  who  had  made  the  contract 
with  the  printers.  It  should  be  remembered  that  in  such 
enterprises  somebody  of  good  financial  standing  must  make 
a  contract  with  the  printers,  binding  himself  personally, 
because  the  printers  will  not  deal  with  a  fraternity  whose 
treasury  is  empty,  in  a  matter  involving  many  thousands  of 
dollars. 

The  cost  of  printing,  postage  and  other  expenses  of  col- 
lecting materials  before  the  book  goes  to  press  is  enormous. 
For  such  expenses  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  catalogue  cost  about 
$1,750,  before  the  first  copy  was  sent  to  the  printers  four 
years  ago,  when  Mr.  Junius  E.  Beal,  of  that  fraternity,  as- 
sumed the  risk  connected  with  printing  and  binding  the 
book,  counting  on  future  sales  to  make  him  financially 
whole.  What  was  the  preliminary  cost  of  our  last  catalogue 
I  can  not  now  say,  but  it  was  a  very  large  amount,  though 
scarcely  anything  was  paid  for  clerical  work,  the  editors 
doing  nearly  all  of  it  themselves.  Neither  am  I  able  to  give 
the  total  cost  of  the  publication,  not  having  all  the  accounts 
before  me,  but,  from  the  report  of  the  editors  to  our  1891 
convention,  I  see  that  the  cost  per  l()-page  form  was  $112* 
for  composition,  paper  and  presswork,  or  $7  per  page.f  As 
there  are  475  pages,  the  cost,  on  this  basis,  was  $3,325,  not 
including  binding  or  expense  of  collecting  data.     We  very 

•Included  in  this  was  $2l),  the  average  cost  per  form  for  corrections.  The  edi- 
tors had  adopted  the  excellent  but  laborious  plan  of  sending  to  each  member  a 
proof  of  his  entrv  in  the  catalogue.  Returns  were  received  from  about  90  per 
cent,  of  the  members,  and  many  were  thus  induced  to  furnish  data  who  had  been 
requested  repeatedly  before  to  furnish  it,  but  without  compliance.  This  plan 
-was  not  followed  with  the  more  recently  established  chapters,  but  it  shoula  be 
adopted  by  the  editors  of  the  next  edition.  The  corrections  necessary  to  be  made 
in  tne  type  with  this  process  are  expensive,  but  add  immensely  to  the  accuracy  of 
the  book. 

fThis  was  on  an  edition  of  8,500  copies,  which  was  too  many,  but  it  was  then  be- 
lieved that  half  the  members  of  the  fraternity  would  purchase  the  book,  which 
proved  to  be  a  greatly  mistaken  estimate.  The  paper  was  needlessly  heavy 
and  costly,  but  the  aim  of  all  fraternities  then  was  to  produce  as  big  and  showy 
a  book  as  possible. 


33^  THE  SCROLL. 

well  know  that  we  did  not  get  through  paying  for  the  book 
until  181)7 — three  years  after  it  came  from  the  press.  In- 
deed the  subject  is  such  a  painful  one  that  I  dislike  to  bring 
it  up  again. 

PROPER  SCOPE  FOR  A  CATALOGUE. 

It  seems  that  all  fraternities  have  made  mistakes  in  get- 
ting out  too  big  catalogues.  As  we  have  seen,  it  took  Phi 
Delta  Theta  six  years  to  issue  its  last  edition,  Delta  Kappa 
P!)psilon  eight  years,  while  Beta  Theta  Pi  has  been  at  work 
ten  years.  In  ISTO  it  was  said  that  Mr.  Smiley  had  spent 
two  years  in  preparing  the  catalogue  of  Psi  Upsilon.  I 
remember  that  I  then  marveled  at  this  great  personal  sacri- 
fice," yet  we  see  how  much  greater  sacrifices  have  been  made 
since  by  editors  of  catalogues  of  several  fraternities.  Con- 
sidering the  vast  expenditure  of  time,  labor  and  money 
required  to  produce  one  of  these  huge  books,  it  is  folly — 
worse,  it  is  insanity — to  imagine  that  this  thing  can  keep 
on.  If  a  fraternity's  membership  were  a  fixed  quantity  it 
might  devise  some  practical  plan  for  issuing  a  large  cata- 
logue every  ten  years,  but  Phi  Delta  Theta,  for  instance,  is 
increasing  at  the  rate  of  435  a  year,  and,  should  we  publish 
a  catalogue  in  1901,  it  will  contain  11, 000  names,  or  50  per 
cent,  more  than  our  edition  of  1894. 

We  have  reached  the  limit  in  the  size  of  such  publications. 
The  last  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  catalogue  is  bigger  than  any 
ordinary  state  report,  and  nearly  as  large  as  any  department 
report  issued  by  the  government  at  Washington.  With  re- 
gard to  the  census,  the  federal  government  itself  has  reached 
a  point  that  college  fraternities  have  reached  with  regard  to 
catalogues.  The  government,  with  all  its  resources,  can  not 
publish  the  voluminous  mass  of  statistical  information  gath- 
ered by  enumerators  and  special  agents  until  it  is  about 
time  to  begin  on  a  new  census,  and  when  the  information  is 
so  old  that  it  has  little  value.  The  last  census  cost  some- 
thing like  $11,(KK),()0(),  and  there  are  many  strong  demands 
that  the  ceosus  of  1900  be  greatly  abbreviated. 

The  scope  of  fraternity  catalogues  must  be  largely  cur- 
tailed or  it  will  become  impossible  to  get  persons  to  assume 
the  giant  task  of  editing  such  publications  ;  or,  if  this  were 
possible,  the  fraternities  will  surely  bankrupt  themselves  in 
issuing  such  expensive  works.  It  has  dawned  on  the  minds 
of  some  of  us  that  Mr.  Smiley' s  catalogfue  is  not  the  proper 
model  after  all.  As  Psi  Upsilon  in  1879  had  less  than  5,000 
members,  this  was  not  evident  then  as  it  is  now,    nearly 


THE  SCROLL,  333 

twenty  years  later.  He  should  be  highly  commended  for 
his  thoroughness  and  accuracy,  but  his  plan  includes  too 
many  personal  details  for  a  fraternity  with  twice  the  mem- 
bership Psi  Upsilon  then  had.  He  is  an  original  man,  and 
I  believe  that  if  he  were  editing  a  new  edition  now  he 
would  change  his  plan.  Really  there  is  no  sufficient  reason 
why  a  fraternity  should  try  to  issue  a  catalogue  that  amounts 
to  being  a  biographical  encyclopaedia.  The  catalogue  of  the 
future  will  be  boiled  down — boiled,  boiled,  roiled. 

Several  years  ago  the  Century  dictionary  was  published, 
defining  225,000  English  words  in  six  volumes.  The  rapid 
growth  of  the  language  was  strikingly  illustrated  by  the 
publication  later  of  the  Standard  dictionary,  defining  oO(),  000 
words,  but  all  included  within  only  two  volumes,  and  some 
people  consider  it  a  better  dictionary  in  every  way.  The 
same  principle  of  condensation  and  elimination  of  unes- 
sential things  must  be  pursued  by  the  fraternities  in  get- 
ting out  their  catalogues. 

In  a  paper  on  '  Fraternity  Catalogue-Making,'  read  before 
the  Congress  of  Fraternities,  World's  Fair  Institute,  Chi- 
cago, 1S9:],  Brother  Frank  D.  Swope  was  the  first  person  to 
call  attention  to  the  fact  that  fraternity  catalogues  were  too 
big  and  expensive,  and  that  their  contents  should  be  re- 
stricted. The  paper  was  printed  in  The  Scroll  for  Decem- 
ber, 1893,  and  excerpts  are  below  quoted.  It  should  be  read 
by  future  catalogue  editors  : 

Up  to  the  present  time  the  scope  of  the  fraternity  catalogue  has  been 
constantly  widening.  For  this  reason  a  catalogue  editor  could  not 
much  rely  upon  earlier  editions.  It  was  necessary  for  him  to  decide 
for  himself  the  scope  of  his  book.  This  is  a  much  more  important 
matter  than  at  first  glance  would  appear,  and  is  of  necessity  the  first 
thing  to  be  decided  upon.  All  the  work  of  accumulating  materials 
must  be  predicated  directly  upon  the  scope  of  the  book.  It  will  not  do 
to  begin  at  random  to  collect  material,  for  one  of  two  things  would 
result :  Either  some  important  data  will  be  found  to  have  been  omit- 
ted after  it  is  too  late  to  obtain  them,  or,  as  is  most  likely  to  be  the 
case,  a  great  mass  of  useless  information  will  be  collected,  greatly  add- 
ing to  the  difficulties  of  compilation,  and  having  a  tendency  to  creep 
in  where  it  is  not  wanted. 

It  is,  of  course,  only  a  matter  of  time  until  the  catalogues  must  be 
contracted  in  their  scope.  Already  they  are  beginning  to  be  enormous 
in  size,  and  in  some  cases  they  contain  a  great  deal  that  is  not  only 
useless,  but  also  lacks  the  merit  of  being  interesting.  The  rate  of 
increase  in  the  fraternities  is  very  much  greater  now  than  ever  before. 
The  number  of  initiates  each  year  ranges  from  2()0  to  400,  making  an 
increase  of  2,000  to  4,0<X)  names  every  decade,  and  at  this  rate  it 
would  not  take  long  to  make  a  book  too  large  and  unwieldy  for  a 
single  volume. 

It  is  certain  that  in  the  future  catalogues  must  be  carefully  pruned 


334  THE  SCROLL. 

down  to  bring  them  within  reasonable  limits  as  to  size.  A  wide  field 
for  this  is  presented  in  the  matter  of  biographies.  It  is  not  a  matter 
of  interest  to  the  owner  of  a  catalogue  to  know  that  a  man  unknown 
to  him  is  married  or  to  whom  he  is  married.  Most  men  marry  sooner 
or  later,  just  as  most  men  eat  three  meals  a  day.  Likewise  the  fra- 
ternity at  large  is  not  interested  in  knowing  that  one  of  its  members 
is  a  minister  and  has  preached  at  fifteen  different  places  during  his 
life,  and  sometimes  filled  three  pulpits  in  the  same  year.  In  the  same 
way,  no  one  cares  to  know  that  a  man  was  a  clerk  from  '70  to  '72,  a 
bookkeeper  from  '7*2  to  '7t),  a  traveling  salesman  from  '70  to  '79,  and 
a  hardware  merchant  since  '79. 

In  other  words,  the  biography  should  not  attempt  to  present  a 
chronological  account  in  detail  of  each  man's  life.  If  a  man's  life  has 
been  uneventful  his  present  occupation  should  be  sufficient;  if  his  life 
has  been  devoted  to  the  preaching  of  the  gospel,  mention  of  the 
important  and  notable  charges  which  he  has  held  is  sufficient.  Besides, 
it  is  impossible  to  compile  a  catalogue  containing  all  exact  chrono- 
logical biography  in  detail  of  each  member.  Frequently  some  mem- 
bers will  be  found  to  have  been  engaged  in  no  less  than  ten  or  fifteen 
occupations,  and  the  catalogue  editor  is  forced  to  prune  his  biography 
to  a  reasonable  shape.  Other  members  can  not  possibly  be  induced 
to  give  a  complete  chronological  biography,  and  the  book  must  neces- 
sarily be  incomplete  to  that  extent. 

The  true  aim  of  the  catalogue  should  be  to  show  with  the  utmost 
fairness  what  the  members  of  the  fraternity  have  accomplished  in  the 
world.  To  this  end  it  should  give  the  most  credit  and  the  most  space 
to  the  biographies  of  those  wlio  have  been  the  most  successful  and 
achieved  the  most.  If  one  member  has  been  successful  in  business 
life,  let  the  catalogue  show  briefly  his  occupation;  if  another  has 
served  the  country  or  the  public,  let  the  catalogue  give  him  the  same 
credit  which  the  public  accords  to  a  public  man.  This  is  a  safe  guide, 
and  will  assist  materially  in  reducing  the  bulk  of  the  book. 

The  history  of  a  modern  catalogue  is  a  long  story  of  trials,  disap- 
pointments, delays  and  hard  work.  The  difficulties  encountered  are 
enormous.  Until  recently  catalogues  have  been  compiled  by  the  men 
who  edited  them,  with  such  voluntary  assistance  as  they  might  be 
able  to  secure  from  the  local  chapters.  Sometimes  this  assistance 
would  be  very  valuable,  sometimes  it  would  amount  to  nothing.  The 
catalogue,  in  consequence,  dragged  along  until  the  editors  were  able 
to  complete  it  largely  by  their  own  efforts.  This  imposed  upon  them 
an  enormous  amount  of  purely  clerical  work,  and  delayed  the  publi- 
cation until  a  great  deal  of  the  matter  accumulated  had  become  stale. 
This  condition  of  affairs  was  brought  about  by  inadequate  financial 
provisions  which  were  scarcely  sufficient  to  meet  the  bare  cost  of  pub- 
lication. 

The  catalogue  editor  of  the  future  should  be  required  only  to  super- 
vise the  work.  He  should  have  at  his  command  a  competent  corps  of 
clerks  and  stenographers  who  would  perform  all  the  clerical  work 
under  his  direction.  Those  who  hereafter  attempt  to  publish  a  cata- 
logue without  paid  clerical  assistance  will  find  before  their  tasks  are 
finished  that  they  have  acted  foolishly.  The  catalogue  editor  should 
have  at  his  command  all  the  clerical  force  that  he  can  use.  This 
should  be  a  condition  precedent  and  absolute. 

Unfortunately  both  for  the  fraternities  and  the  editors  of  catalogues 
it  is  impossible  to  get  men  with  business  experience  to  undertake  the 
making  of  a  catalogue.     It  is  usually  delegated  to  those  who  have 


THE  SCROLL.  335 

just  finished  their  college  course,  and  whose  knowledge  of  business 
methods  is  very  slight.  Consequently  they  make  many  mistakes,  the 
work  is  protracted,  much  of  it  must  be  done  over  again,  and  the  edit- 
ors ^et  a  valuable  experience  after  it  is  practically  too  late  to  be  of 
service  to  them. 

A  great  many  of  these  difficulties  due  to  inexperience  would  be  obvi- 
ated by  the  appointment  of  a  board  of  catalogue  managers,  not  to 
exceed  five  in  number,  composed  of  older  members,  who  have  had 
some  editorial  experience,  some  connection  with  the  publishing  busi- 
ness, or  some  knowledge  of  statistical  work — men  of  sound  judgment 
and  permanent  interest  in  fraternity  affairs.  They  should  hold  office 
from  the  beginning  to  the  completion  of  the  catalogue.  They  should 
be  entrusted  with  absolute  authority  concerning  the  catalogue,  from 
the  selection  of  its  editors  to  the  sale  of  the  printed  volume,  and  the 
editors  should  be  responsible  solely  to  this  board  of  managers.  All 
preliminary  plans,  and  the  limits  set  upon  the  scope  of  the  book, 
should  receive  the  approval  of  this  board,  and  the  catalogue  editors 
would  greatly  profit  by  the  experience  and  suggestions  or  its  mem- 
bers. 

In  conclusion,  it  may  be  said  that  such  experienced  advice, 
coupled  with  a  sound  financial  policy,  if  inaugurated  in  time  would 
reduce  the  difficulties  of  catalogue  making  to  a  minimum.  It  would 
result  in  better  books,  produced  with  less  cost  of  labor  and  money  and 
in  a  much  shorter  time.  It  must  be  remembered  that  past  efforts  are 
but  the  primers  of  catalogue-making,  and  the  heretofore  slip-shod 
management  will  not  suffice  for  the  real  books  which  are  to  follow. 
The  present  decade  will  witness  the  culmination  of  growth  of  frater- 
nity catalogues,  and,  unless  they  are  begun  on  a  basis  of  careful 
planning  and  thoughtful  management,  it  will  contain  the  record  of 
many  failures. 

In  this  paper  Brother  Swope  advocated  the  accumulation 
of  a  catalogue  publishing  fund  by  a  tax  imposed  on  mem- 
bers at  initiation.  The  last  convention  of  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
however,  adopted  a  provision  for  setting  aside  a  certain  per 
cent,  of  the  annual  fraternity  dues  to  make  a  book  publish- 
ing fund,  to  be  kept  separate  and  distinct  for  that  purpose. 
Editorials  in  various  journals  show  that  other  fraternities 
are  awakening  to  the  fact  pointed  out  by  Brother  Swope, 
that  the  limits  of  catalogues  should  be  more  restricted. 
The  following  appeared  in  the  D.  K.  E,  Quarterly  for  No- 
vember, 1^96: 

It  has  become  the  unwritten  law  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  frater- 
nity to  issue  a  new  catalogue  every  ten  years.  The  last  one  issued 
was  in  1890,  and  the  time  is  rapidly  approaching  when  a  new  one 
should  be  undertaken.  The  year  IIHK)  should  see  a  new  catalogue.  It 
should  be  small  in  size,  neatly  bound,  convenient  to  handle,  and  it 
should  contain  only  catalogue  matter,  strictly  speaking—  the  name, 
address  and  profession  or  business  of  each  member.  With  the  aid  of 
the  last  catalogue  such  a  work  could  be  gotten  out  auicklv  and  at  a 
comparatively  small  expense. 

In  March,  1897,  the  editor  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi\  in  expla- 
nation of  the  delay  in  issuing  the  Beta  catalogue,  said  : 


3^6  THE  SCROLL, 

The  condition  of  the  enterprise  is  in  reality  due  to  the  scope  of  the 
publication.  In  our  opinion  the  day  of  elaborate  catalogues  passed 
when  the  fraternity*s  membership  passed  the  8,0(X)  mark.  A  simple 
name-list  is  amply  sufficient  for  general  purposes.  The  name,  ad- 
dress, occupation  and  most  prominent  fact  concerning  each  member  is 
all  that  should  be  published  at  the  expense  of  the  fraternity.  All  else 
should  be  left  to  the  enterprise  of  the  individual  chapters.  This 
name-list  could  be  published  once  in  four  years,  or  at  the  utmost  in 
five  years,  and  it  is  to  be  desired  that  our  future  catalogues  will  be  in 
that  form. 

Mr.  William  R.  Baird,  editor  of  the  Beta  Tlieta  Pi,  and 
author  of  *  American  College  Fraternities,'  once  told  me  he 
could  print  a  good  enough  Beta  catalogue  in  two  numbers  of 
his  magazine,  and  I  believe  he  was  not  far  wrong  in  his  cal- 
culation. As  an  illustration  of  the  unnecessary  and  unim- 
portant details  that  are  crowded  into  fraternity  catalogues,  it 
may  be  mentioned  that  one  of  the  editors  of  the  last  (1888 ) 
Psi  Upsilon  catalogue  entered  the  following  about  himself  : 
'  Vice-President  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Cornell 
University,  187(J-77  ;'  and  the  other  made  the  following  note 
kbout  himself  :  *  Life  Trustee  of  the  Norman  Williams 
Public  Library  of  Woodstock,  Vt.'  vSuch  minutia?  abound  in 
the  later  catalogues  of  all  of  the  larger  fraternities.  They 
are  utterly  out  of  place,  for  but  very  few  persons  take  any  in- 
terest whatever  in  them.  In  the  1891  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
catalogue,  the  date  and  place  of  a  man's  marriage  is  given, 
together  with  his  wife's  maiden  name  ;  and  not  only  are 
fathers,  sons  and  brothers  in  the  fraternity  mentioned,  but 
also  uncles,  nephews  and  cousins.  In  some  catalogues  busi- 
ness partners,  who  are  also  fraternity  associates,  are  re- 
corded. In  the  forthcoming  Beta  Theta  Pi  catalogue  there 
are  to  be  both  *  major  data '  and  minor  data. 

ABSOLUTK    NKCKSSITV    KOR    CONDENSATION. 

The  difficulties  that  all  fraternities  have  encountered  in 
issuing  catalogues  during  the  last  twenty  years  teach  us,  not 
that  no  more  catalogues  should  be  published,  but  that  there 
should  be  a  radical  reform  in  their  contents.  The  practical 
catalogue  should  more  nearly  approach  a  simple  name  list 
than  a  biographical  encyclopaedia.  Outside  of  name,  ad- 
dress and  occupation  of  each  member,  only  the  most  notable 
facts  regarding  him  should  be  entered. 

I  have  given  this  matter  careful  study,  and  I  shall  now 
explain  what  I  think  our  next  catalogue  should  include.  In 
doing  so,  I  shall  refer  particularly  to  our  sixth  (1894)  edi- 
tion, but  I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  criticising  its 
editors.     As  co-editor  of  our  fifth  ( 188»^>)  edition,  I  was  mis- 


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led  by  the  apparent  attractiveness  of  Mr.  Smiley 's  elaborate 
catalogue  plan,  and  I  adopted  many  of  its  features.  The 
editors  of  our  1804  edition  paid  me  the  compliment  of  taking 
the  1883  edition  as  a  pattern,  changing  the  scope  and  typo- 
graphical style  very  little,  and  throughout  their  work  they 
evinced  a  willingness  to  receive  my  suggestions  with  favor. 
But  the  1894  edition  contains  more  than  twice  as  many 
names  as  the  1S88  edition,  and  it  was  not  until  the  Wd\ 
edition  had  gone  to  press,  and  difficulties,  financial  and 
otherwise,  were  experienced,  that  any  of  us  realized  that  a 
serious  mistake  had  been  made  in  planning  the  book  on  too 
big  a  scale. 

The  style  of  typography  in  our  1894  edition  is  cheaper 
than  that  of  any  other  catalogue.  According  to  size,  the 
book  contains  more  condensed  matter  than  any  similar  w^ork 
ever  published.  The  chapter  lists  in  most  catalogues  are 
set  in  two  sizes  of  type,  the  name,  degrees,  etc.,  in  a  larger 
size  and  the  biographical  notes  in  a  small  size,'"  but  in  our 
1894  edition  all  chapter  lists  are  set  in  brevier  only.  Where 
two  sizes  are  used  printers  charge  for  composition  on  the 
basis  of  the  price  for  setting  the  smaller  size.  Printers  are 
very  fond  of  what  is  called  '  fat '  work — that  is,  lines  widely 
leaded,  deep  side  indentations  and  many  paragraphs,  as  the 
blank  spaces  can  be  filled  with  leads  and  quads  much  more 
quickly  than  with  small  types,  while  the  price  is  the  same 
for  open  composition  as  for  solid  matter.  In  a  book  of  such 
enormous  cost  every  economy  should  be  consulted;  there- 
fore, there  should  be  but  few  leads,  little  side  indentation 
and  as  few  paragraphs  as  possible — not  over  one  to  each 
name  entry. 

What  I  consider  the  essentials  that  should  appear  in  a 
chapter  list  are  the  full  name,  occupation,  address  and  col- 
lege degrees.  In  addition  should  be  mentioned  one  or  two 
of  the  most  prominent  facts  in  a  man's  life,  if  he  has  really 
become  prominent,  'but  all  notice  of  little  2  by  4  offices 
should  be  omitted.  A  rule  I  would  establish  would  be  to 
include  concerning  each  member  only  what  would  interest 
the  Fraternity  at  large,  not  merely  his  own  chapter  or  his 
comparatively  few  intimate  friends.  The  Fraternity  simply 
can  not  afford  to  print  a  mass  of  data  about  each  member 
for  the  benefit  of  himself,  his  family,  or  even  of  his  own 
chapter.  The  facts  presented  must  be  of  general  interest 
and  importance,  and  superfluous  details   must   be  rigidly 

♦This  was  the  style  of  our  1883  edition,  but  the  editors  of  the   1894  edition 
adopted  my  recommendation  to  have  only  one  size  of  type  for  chapter  lists. 


338  THE  SCROLL. 

eliminated.  In  my  opinion  no  attempt  should  be  made  to 
give  dates  with  greater  exactness  than  simply  years.  Even 
in  recording  the  time  of  a  man's  death,  I  think  it  is  suf- 
ficient to  state  the  year  only.  The  month  and  day  are  of 
interest  to  nobody  except  his  surviving  family  and  personal 
friends,  and  they,  of  course,  are  informed.  For  similar 
reasons  I  do  not  regard  it  necessary  to  mention  the  place  or 
cause  of  death  unless  in  exceptional  instances.  These 
omissions,  besides  saving  some  type-space,  would  save  the 
editors  a  world  of  trouble,  for  the  facts  about  deceased  mem- 
bers are  obtained  with  unusual  difficulty.  My  idea  of  a 
chapter  list  would  look  something  like  this: 

Class  of  IBoJ. 

X.    Allen  Augustus  Barrett,  A.  B. ;  A.  M.  'o4.     Phys.,  Jerseyville,  111. 

1.    Joseph  Minter  Gregory.    Atty.,  48  *i  Madison  st.,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

*2.  Andrew  Jackson  Reynoldst,  A.  B.,  Woodward  Col.,  '51;  A.  M., 
Miami,  1)0.  Grad.  Princeton  Theo.  Seni.,  ';V).  Presb.  min.,  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. 

Class  of  ISoi. 

*.    John  Knox  Boude,  A.  B.;  A.  M.,  '5<i;   M.  I).,  U.  of  Pa.,  '57.     U.  S. 

A.,  llSth  ni.   Inf.,  '02;  Asst.  Surg.,   '(52-5.     Phys.,  Pension  Office, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
^.    Benjamin  Harrison,  A.  B.;  A.  M.,  '55;  LL.  D.,  Hanover,  *84;  do., 

Princeton,   'Hi).     U.  vS.  A.,  2d  Lt.  Co.  A,  70th  Ind.  Inf..  '62;  Capt. 

do.,  '<)2;  Col.  do.,  '02-5;  Brev.  Brig. -Gen.,  1st  Brig.,  Army  of  Cumb., 

'<>5.    Rep.  cand.  Gov.  Ind.,  *70.    U.  S.  Sen.  from  Ind.,  '81-7.     Pres. 

U.  S.,  *H<M»3.     Atty.,  094  N.  Delaware  St..  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
X.   Isaac  Stanley  Lane,  A.  B. ;  A.  M.,  '55.     Atty.,  Xenia,  Ohio.     *'5i). 
X.    Lewis  Williams  Ross,  A.   B.;  \.  M.  '55.     Mem.  la.  Sen.,   '04-8. 

Chan.  Law  dept.,  U.  of  la.,  '81-7.     Atty.,  Council  Bluffs,  la. 
*.    David  Swing,  A.  B. ;  A.  M.,  '00*    Independ.  min.,  Chicago,  111.*    '94. 

Class  of  1800. 

4'.  George  Baber.  Kd.  Ky.  /auc  Journal^  '81-4.  Atty.,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

X.  James  Bell  Bullitt,  A.  B.  C.  S.  A.,  2d  Ky.  Cav.,  '0:'>.  Louisville, 
Ky.     *Killed  while  bearing  a  flag  of  truce,  near  Lebanon,  Ky.,  't»3, 

X.    Fleming  Paris.     Atty.,  Burlington,  Ky. 

4>.  Kdward  Owings  Guerrant,  A.  li. ;M.  D.,  Bellevue,  '07;  D.  D.,  Aus- 
tin, '80.  C.  S.  A.,  Capt.  and  Asst.  Adj.-Crcn.,  1st  Brig.  Ky.  Cav., 
'02-5.     Presb.  min.,  Wilmore,  Kv. 

^.  Robert  Miller,  A.  B.;  A.  M.,  '05;  M.  D.,  Jefferson,  '1)4.  Phys.. 
Louisville,  Ky.     *'07. 

4^.    John  Newton  Rankin,  A.  B.     Presb.  min.,  Kdgerton,  Ky. 

*.  Adlai  Ewing  Stevenson.  U.  S.  Ho.  of  Rep.  from  111..  '77-81. 
Asst.  P.-M.-Gen.,  '85-9.  V.-Pres.  U.  S.,  'lKi-7.  Atty.,  Blooming- 
ton,  111. 

The  foregoing  names  are  taken  from  the  Miami  classes  of 
'•')1  and  '52  and  the  Centre  class  of  T)!).  The  names  are  set 
according  to  length  of  lines  in  The  Scroll,  but  there  is 
more  economy  of  space  in  a  narrower  measure,  as  the  two 


THE  SCROLL.  339 

columns  to  the  page  in  the  1S94  catalogue.  The  names  are 
put  in  lower  case  characters  instead  of  small  capitals,  for  the 
latter  being  larger  take  up  more  room,  enough  often  to 
make  a  line  run  over.  The  matter  is  set  solid,  except  a 
lead  above  and  below  class  of  1851,  etc.  This  is  close  set- 
ting, but  it  should  be  understood  that  the  book  is  not  in- 
tended for  a  work  of  art  or  an  editioji  dc  luxe,  but  for  prac- 
tical use  as  a  reference  book,  which  should  be  printed  as 
cheaply  as  possible.  The  dagger  following  A.  J.  Reynold's 
name  indicates  that  he  never  attended  the  institution  where 
his  chapter  is  located,  and  its  significance  should  be  ex- 
plained in  the  preface  of  the  book.  It  is  shown  that  he 
received  his  A.  M.  from  Miami,  as  he  was  not  a  student 
there.  In  all  other  cases  where  no  institution  is  named  after 
a  degree,  it  was  conferred  where  the  chapter  is  located.  The 
asterisk  of  course  signifies  death.  I  would  use  only  one 
symbol,  the  one  representing  the  branch  of  a  tree,  but  as 
The  Scroll  printers  have  no  type  for  this  symbol  it  is 
omitted  here.  If  all  but  this  symbol  be  omitted,  it  may  be 
inquired  why  not  omit  the  Greek  letters  also?  Because 
they  look  well  in  the  catalogue  of  a  Greek-letter- fraternity, 
and  they  excite  the  curious  interest  of  the  uninitiated  fresh- 
men. They  take  up  little  room,  and  in  this  arrangement 
they  are  a  catch  for  the  eye,  showing  the  beginning  of  a 
name. 

By  comparing  the  entries  here  with  those  in  the  1894 
catalogue,  the  reader  can  see  how  much  space  may  be  saved 
by  eliminating  comparatively  unimportant  data.  It  should 
be  remembered  that  what  is  of  greatest  importance  in  one 
man's  life  would  be  of  minor  importance  in  another's,  hence 
facts  about  ex -President  Harrison  which  are  omitted  might 
be  included  in  the  entry  of  a  less  distinguished  personage. 
No  entry  in  the  whole  book  should  be  longer  than  his,  and 
most  entries  should  be  as  short  as  those  of  Barrett,  Gregory, 
etc.  The  army  records  of  the  soldiers  in  the  war  are  re- 
tained, as  the  Fraternity  is  proud  of  them. 

Abbreviations  for  occupations,  etc. ,  should  be  used  as  far 
as  is  consistent  with  clearness.  At  the  outset  a  list  of  ab- 
breviations should  be  adopted  so  as  to  secure  absolute  uni- 
formity in  this  respect.  There  is  a  good  list  of  this  kind  in 
the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  catalogue,  also  in  Bradstreet's  an- 
nual business  report.  In  Dun's  annual  report  there  is  a 
system  of  signs  for  occupations  which  saves  space,  and  which 
it  might  be  well  to  adopt.  A  catalogue  editor  should  exam- 
ine these  reports  to  see  how  compactly  they  are  printed,  no 


340  THE  SCROLL. 

space  being  wasted.  As  to  occupations,  I  should  say  that 
it  is  enough  to  state  that  a  man  is  a  merchant,  without  de- 
fining what  kind  of  a  merchant. 

Of  late  years  a  peculiar  habit  has  become  prevalent  of  a 
man  who  has  only  one  given  name  adopting  a  letter  which, 
in  his  signature,  looks  like  a  middle  initial,  and  in  such 
cases  our  catalogue  says  *  letter  only.  *  It  would  be  better 
to  print  these  middle  letters  without  periods  ;  then,  to  save 
confusion  of  such  names  with  those  of  members  whose  full 
names  are  unknown,  the  names  of  the  latter  should  be 
specially  mentioned  in  the  preface  to  the  book.  Of  the 
7,2^S8  names  in  our  1804  catalogue  full  names  are  given  in 
all  but  twenty-one  cases, "'^  which  proves  the  wonderful 
thoroughness  and  the  conscientious  and  painstaking  effort  of 
the  editors  to  make  their  work  complete. 

After  long  consideration  I  have  reached  the  conclusion 
that  where  members  go  from  one  college  where  there  is  a 
chapter  to  another  where  there  is  a  chapter,  their  member- 
ship should  not  be  transferred  on  the  rolls  of  the  Fraternity. 
This  was  suggested  by  Brother  William  O.  Morgan  in  The 
ScROU.  for  April,  1S97.  In  our  1S8:^  and  1894  catalogues, 
transfers  are  listed  only  with  the  last  chapters  with  which 
they  were  connected.  By  this  system  many  chapters  lose 
large  numbers  of  members  from  their  lists,  and  almost  all 
suffer  some  loss.  The  names  of  even  charter  members  are 
omitted  from  the  lists  of  some  chapters.  \'irginia.  Alpha, 
Gamma,  Delta,  Epsilon  and  Zeta  are  decimated  to  furnish 
recruits  to  the  Beta  at  the  University.  The  men  who  affili- 
ate with  other  chapters  are  generally  among  the  members 
who  reflect  most  credit  on  the  chapters  that  initiated  them, 
and  it  is  an  injustice  to  the  original  chapters  to  entirely  re- 
move such  members  from  their  lists.  When  this  is  done, 
what  a  chapter  has  accomplished  during  its  career  can  not 
be  properly  estimated  from  the  catalogue  record.  When  the 
revision  of  the  constitution  is  under  consideration  at  the 
next  convention,  an  amendment  will  be  offered  providing 
that  a  transfer  may  afiiliate  at  the  second  college  he  attends, 
but  only  for  the  time  of  his  attendance  there,  during  which 
time  he  shall  be  under  the  jurisdiction  of  both  his  first  and 
second  chapters,  paying  dues  to  the  latter,  and  after  which 
time  he  shall  be  under  the  jurisdiction  solely  of  his  first 

♦It  took  28  letters  to  a  certain  Phi  to  fetch  his  middle  name.  More  than  one  hun- 
dred communications  were  sent  out  to  find  trace  of  Krvy  L.  (ioodrich,  Michig^an 
Alpha,  '70.  Since  the  catalogue  was  published  in  1894,'  full  names  hare  been 
learned  of  four  more  members,  reducing  the  number  of  incomplete  names  in  the 
l>ook  to  17.  See  The  Scroll,  February.  1H94,  page  221;  June,  lw7,  page  684,  Octo- 
ber, 1897,  page  91. 


THE  SCROLL.  341 

chapter,  with  whose  members  he  shall  always  be  catalogued. 
If  this  amendment  be  adopted,  it  will  save  future  catalogue 
editors  much  trouble.  I  do  not  deem  it  necessary  to  men- 
tion all  the  educational  institutions  a  man  has  attended  ;  if 
he  has  been  graduated  at  one  of  them  it  is  enough  in  most 
cases  to  mention  that  fact.  However,  if  he  has  attended 
another  institution  where  there  is  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  chap- 
ter, and  especially  if  he  has  been  affiliated  with  the  chapter, 
his  attendance  there,  or  the  fact  of  his  affiliation,  should  be 
brought  out  some  way. 

As  to  honorary  members,  at  least  three- fourths  of  them 
shouli  be  dropped.  The  election  of  such  members  was  pro- 
hibited years  ago,  and  only  a  few  chapters,  mostly  the  older 
chapters,  have  any.  All  should  be  discarded  except  the 
few  who  have  had  some  active  connection  with  the  Frater- 
nity. The  chapters  that  elected  them  may  continue  to 
claim  them  if  desired,  but  they  should  not  longer  appear  on 
the  rolls  of  the  Fraternity.  In  most  cases  there  was  an  hon- 
orary election,  a  written  acceptance  as  a  matter  of  form,  and 
thereafter  the  honore  forgot  all  about  the  incident.  The 
names  of  those  that  are  retained  should  be  grouped  together 
at  the  end  of  the  chapter  lists,  so  that  outsiders,  as  well  as 
Phis,  in  examining  the  catalogue,  could  not  mistake  the  fact 
that  they  are  honorary  members.  In  the  catalogue  of  Delta 
Upsilon  such  members  are  thus  grouped ,  while  in  the  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  catalogue  their  names  are  italicized.  Other  fra- 
ternity catalogues  fail  to  distinguish  unmistakably  between 
regular  members  and  honorary  members.  Of  course  persons 
who  were  initiated  a  year  or  two  after  graduation,  while 
they  were  tutors  in  college,  or  who  have  had  active  relations 
with  their  chapters,  should  not  be  classed  as  honorary  mem- 
bers. 

In  the  1894  catalogue  members  of  Tennessee  Beta  are  ar- 
ranged according  to  years  of  initiation,  but  there  is  no  good 
reason  why  the  arrangement  should  be  different  from  that 
of  all  other  chapters.  The  University  of  the  South  has  the 
elective  course  system,  like  most  institutions  in  Virginia. 
Where  there  are  no  classes,  the  most  practical  plan  is  to  di- 
vide a  chapter's  list  by  the  years  the  members  were  gradu- 
ated or  withdrew  from  college.  The  years  for  members  of 
Tennessee  Beta  could  be  obtained  from  a  file  of  the  univer- 
sity catalogues  in  the  university  library.  Annual  reports  to 
the  H.  G.  C.  also  show  years  of  withdrawal. 

Where  the  name  of  a  college  or  the  location  of  a  college 
has  been  changed,  the  change,  with  the  year  it  was  made. 


342  THE  SCROLL. 

should  be  noted  at  the  head  of  the  chapter  list.  This  is 
done  in  one  instance  in  the  sixth  edition,  a  note  being  made 
under  Texas  Alpha  Prime*  that  Austin  College  was  re- 
moved from  Huntsville,  Texas,  to  Sherman,  Texas,  in  1876. 
When  a  chapter  after  a  suspension  has  been  rechartered,  the 
names  of  the  new  charter  members,  as  well  as  the  date  of 
the  new  charter,  should  be  given. 

All  college  and  fi-ateruity  notes  should  be  omitted.  There 
is  no  room  for  such  matter.  Such  omission  would  have 
saved  fifty  pages  in  the  180 1  edition.  Every  college  has  its 
own  peculiar  system  of  honors,  the  value  of  which  is  not 
understood  anywhere  else,  as  no  two  systems  are  alike. 
The  chapters  can  keep  these  items  in  their  own  record 
books,  but  they  should  not  encumber  the  fraternity  cata- 
logue. The  important  fraternity  honors  will  appear  in  the 
history  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  now  in  preparation.  Alpha 
Delta  Phi,  Delta  Upsilon,  Sigma  Chi,  Southern  Kappa  Alpha 
and  some  other  fraternities  publish  a  large  amount  of  his- 
torical matter  in  connection  with  their  catalogues,  but  a 
combined  history  and  catalogue  make  too  bulky  and  costly 
a  book  for  any  of  the  larger  fraternities  to  undertake  here- 
after. 

I  do  not  think  much  improvement  can  be  made  in  the 
table  of  consanguinity,  which  should  be  restricted  to  grand- 
fathers, fathers,  sons  and  brothers.  This  table  will  be 
found  very  useful  hereafter  in  tracing  many  members  whose 
addresses  are  unknown.  If  the  address  of  one  member  of  a 
family  be  known,  the  whereabouts  of  his  relatives  who  are 
Phis  may  be  ascertained  from  him.  The  residence  direc- 
tory and  alphabetical  arrangement  are  about  as  condensed 
as  they  can  be  made,  but  considerable  space  might  be  saved 
by  eliminating  the  foot-note  references  to  the  pages  of 
chapter  lists  and  pasting  such  references  inside  both  covers 
of  the  book,  where  they  could  be  turned  to  readily.  I  sug- 
gest the  word  'pagination'  for  the  sentence:  *The  paging 
of  college  chapters  is  as  follows. '  The  alphabetical  arrange- 
ment (which  cumbersome  phrase  I  think  should  be  changed 
to  the  fraternity  roll)  should  follow,  not  precede  the  resi- 

*  Unfortunately  our  chapter  nomenclature  has  becocue  mixed,  as  a  result  of 
Jiving  the  titles  of  short-lived  chapters  to  active  chapters,  hence  in  some  cases 
live  chapters  and  dead  chapters  have  the  same  titles.  Where  confusion  might 
arise,  the  editors  of  the  1894  catalogue  inserted  the  word  'Prime'  after  the  title  of 
a  dead  chapter.  This  was  done  on  my  advice,  but  I  now  think  that  it  is  awkward, 
and  should  be  omitted  hereafter,  even  at  the  risk  of  some  confusion.  This  addi- 
tiou  to  chapter  titles  has  never  been  sanctioned  by  the  National  Convention.  I 
should  be  very  glad  to  see  our  chapter  titles  rearranged  according  to  the  Greek 
alphabet  and  the  natural  chronological  order,  but  understand  that  some  of  the 
interested  chapters  object,  perhaps  on  the  ground  that  they  consider  the  letters 
at  the  top  of  the  alphabet  more  desirable.  See  Tub  Scroll,  October,  1895,  pageStf. 


THE  SCROLL.  343 

dence  directory.  The  surnames  in  the  alphabetical  arrange- 
ment should  be  set  in  minion,  which  is  a  size  larger  than 
nonpareil,  in  which  the  initials,  chapter  and  class  are  set,  so 
that  the  surnames  would  be  plainer  to  the  eye  in  looking 
over  a  page.  A  surname  which  appears  near  the  bottom  of 
a  column  should  not  be  repeated  at  the  top  of  the  next 
column.  Under  each  town  in  the  residence  directory  the 
names  should  be  arranged  not  alphabetically,  but  according 
to  chapters  and  classes,  oldest  first,  so  that  all  the  members 
of  the  same  chapter  would  appear  together.  There  is  no 
use  in  keeping  the  names  of  deceased  members  in  the  resi- 
dence directory,  and  their  omission  would  save  considerable 
space.  Regarding  alumni  chapters,  I  suggest  that  'frater- 
nity notes'  be  omitted  and  that  the  entry  of  each  chapter 
be  made  thus: 

INDIANA  BETA  ALUMNI,  Indianapoijs,  Ind.  Charter  granted 
Sept.,  17,  1879,  to  B.  Harrison,  Ohio  Alpha,  M2;  B.  K.  Elliott,  Ohio 
Alpha  *.>>;  J.  B.  Elam,  Ohio  Alpha,  '70;  W.  H.  Ripley,  Indiana 
Beta,  *73;  C.  D.  Whitehead,  Indiana  Beta,  '73;  A.  C.  Harris,  Indiana 
Gamma,  '02,  and  C.  Byfield,  Indiana  Delta,  '00. 

In  the  catalogues  of  some  fraternities,  especially  that  of 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  there  are  more  statistical  tables  than 
are  useful  or  even  interesting.  Besides  tabular  work  is  very 
expensive,  costing  two  to  three  times  as  much  as  straight 
composition.  It  might  be  well,  as  in  the  Psi  Upsilon,  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  and  Chi  Phi  catalogues,  to  have  condensed  sum- 
maries of  occupations,  civil  honors  and  distribution  of  mem- 
bers by  states,  and  in  cities  containing  25  or  more  Phis,  each 
summary  not  to  exceed  a  page,  but  these  summaries  are  not 
really  essential,  being  matters  of  only  curious  interest,  and 
scarcely  justify  the  enormous  labor  which  the  editors  must 
expend  in  their  compilation.  However,  I  think  the  cata- 
logue should  contain  a  summary  of  the  membership  of  the 
fraternity  by  chapters,  as  shown  in  each  of  the  preceding 
editions,  like  that  which  appeared  in  The  Scroll  for  Octo- 
ber, 1895,  and  that  in  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  catalogue. 

The  last  pages  of  our  188'^  catalogue  contained  additions 
and  corrections  received  during  the  time  the  book  was  in 
press.  This  feature  was  omitted  from  the  1894  edition,  in 
order  to  lessen  the  cost  of  publication,  but  it  was  unwise  econ- 
omy, for  these  additions  and  corrections  may  be  lost  or  de- 
stroyed before  they  are  incorporated  in  the  next  edition,  and 
most  of  them  could  not  be  obtained  again  without  much 
trouble.  In  fact,  all  such  information  received  by  Brother 
Randolph  during  the  course  of  publication,  and  all  the  circu- 


344  THE  SCROLL, 

lars  and  other  materials  used  in  compiling  his  portion  of 
the  18t)4  edition,  were  destroyed  by  the  fire  which  burned 
his  dwelling  at  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  in  181K>. 

In  an  edition  of  several  thousand  copies  of  a  book  of  sev- 
eral hundred  pages,  a  great  saving  in  cost  would  be  made 
by  using  thinner  paper  tlian  that  on  which  our  181)4  cata- 
logue was  printed.  The  paper  should  be  clear,  strong  and 
well  finished,  but  of  lighter  weight,  and  hence  less  expen- 
sive. The  margins  also  need  not  be  so  broad  as  in  the 
last  edition.  This  would  make  a  book  of  much  more  con- 
venient size.  The  paper  used  in  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  cata- 
logue is  thin  but  of  good  quality.  A  handsome  and  appro- 
priate addition  to  the  book  would  be  a  steel  engraving  of 
the  coat-of-arms  for  a  frontispiece,  as  in  the  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon  and  other  catalogues. 

A   PERMANENT   CATALOGUE    COMPILER. 

In  explaining  my  plan  for  a  condensed  catalogue,  I  have 
consumed  so  much  of  The  Scroll's  valuable  space,  that  I 
must  be  comparatively  brief  in  writing  about  the  importance 
of  having  a  permanent  officer,  called  a  catalogue  compiler  or 
editor,  whose  duty  it  should  be  to  collect  such  information 
as  would  be  useful  in  getting  out  a  new  edition  of  the  cata- 
logue. This  officer  should  be  gathering  catalogue  material 
all  the  time,  and  he  should  receive  all  the  assistance  that 
can  be  given  to  him  by  the  Historian  of  the  General  Coun- 
cil, the  Editor  of  The  Scroll,  the  Fraternity  Librarian  and 
other  officers.  He  should  obtain  from  every  institution 
where  there  is  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  chapter  a  copy  of  each  is- 
sue of  its  annual  catalogue  and  each  issue  of  its  alumni  cat- 
alogue. The  information  concerning  members  derived  from 
these  sources,  from  The  Scroll  and  The  Palladium  ^  from 
annual  circular  letters  and  the  annual  reports  of  chapters, 
and  from  other  reliable  sources,  should  be  promptly  and 
systematically  recorded  by  him,  so  that  at  any  time  a  new 
edition  of  the  fraternity  catalogue  may  be  issued  with  the 
least  possible  delay.  The  National  Convention,  when  it 
considers  a  new  edition  desirable,  should  make  provision  for 
the  publication,  and  the  catalogue  editor,  with  the  approval 
of  the  General  Council,  should  be  empowered  to  choose  an 
assistant  or  assistants. 

Unless  an  office  like  this  is  established  I  predict  more 
trouble  about  issuing  a  catalogue.  Should  we  delay  longer 
it  will  not  be  easy  to  find  a  man  who  will  be  willing  to  as- 
sume the  task  of  preparing  a  new  edition  for  the  press.    He 


THE  SCROLL,  345 

would  have  to  hunt  up  many  old  records,  widely  scattered 
and  incomplete.  Every  year  the  work  of  keeping  informed 
about  the  changes  of  members  becomes  greater,  as  the  mem- 
bership increases  so  rapidly.  Therefore,  it  would  certainly 
be  wise  for  the  Fraternity  to  have  an  officer  whose  special 
business  it  would  be  to  collect  data  against  the  time  it  will 
be  needed  for  a  new  catalogue.  If  this  is  done  a  new  edition 
could  be  published  with  little  annoyance,  short  delay,  and 
really  a  considerable  saving  in  the  cost  of  the  preliminary 
work. 

Before  concluding,  I  wish  to  urge  that  chapters  should  be 
supplied  with  roll-books  of  uniform  design.  Our  National 
Convention  in  1891  adopted  a  resolution  directing  that  such 
books  should  be  printed  and  a  copy  furnished  each  chapter. 
On  account  of  the  expense,  the  General  Council  has  not 
carried  this  resolution  into  effect.  The  object  of  the  book 
is  to  provide  a  place  for  entering  every  important  fact  con- 
cerning a  member.  Much  of  the  data  needed  to  perfect  a 
member's  record  can  be  recorded  during  his  stay  at  college, 
and  a  number  of  the  more  important  facts  should  be  en- 
tered on  the  night  of  his  initiation.  Most  chapters  have 
very  incomplete  lists  of  members,  in  some  cases  only  the 
signatures  to  the  Bond,  which  usually  are  not  full  names. 
Years  after  a  man  has  left  college  it  may  be  very  hard  to 
ascertain  his  full  name.  The  chapter  minutes  must  be  re- 
ferred to  for  dates  of  initiation.  Often  the  minutes  are  im- 
perfectly kept,  and  sometimes  they  are  lost.  I  opine  that 
the  reason  the  Historian  of  the  General  Council  has  so  much 
trouble  in  getting  chapter  historians  to  fill  the  annual  sta- 
tistical reports  every  year  is  that  the  historians  have  to  hunt 
for  the  facts  in  so  many  places.  But  if  each  chapter  had  a 
properly  ruled  book,  with  a  space  for  every  necessary  per- 
sonal entry,  the  historian  doubtless  would  take  some  degree 
of  pride  in  following  the  instructions  to  record  promptly  im- 
portant information  about  members  as  soon  as  received;  and, 
with  this  book  at  hand,  it  would  be  a  very  easy  matter  for 
him  to  make  out  a  statistical  report  for  the  H.  G.  C.  A 
pattern  for  such  a  book  will  be  presented  to  the  next  con- 
vention, and,  if  copies  are  furnished  to  all  chapters,  they 
will  do  much  to  systematize  the  keeping  of  chapter  records 
and  to  lighten  the  labors  of  future  catalogue  editors. 

Walter  B.  Palmkr. 


THI-:  SCRO!.}.. 


GEN.  ALEXANDER  PETER  STEWART,  OHIO  ALPHA,  '52. 


r.tneral  A.  I'.  Stewart  is  a  Tfiinesfiet-aii,  born  at  Rogers- 
vilk'  and  reared  near  Winch  ester.  He  entered  the  class  of 
lN;i'<  at  West  I'oint  and  was  gradnated  in  IS-I^.  Gen.  John 
Pojie.  Cien.  Wni.  S,  Koseorans,  Oen.  Abner  Doubleday,  Gen. 
James  I.ongstreet  and  others  were  graduates  in  his  class.  In 
the  last  two  years  of  his  cadeiship.  Gen.  Stewart,  Gen.  John 
I'ojie  and  Longstrect  roomed  together. 

In  IHi:'.  he  was  sent  back  to  the  iiiihtary  academy  as  an 
a.ssistant  to  the  profes.sor  of  mathematics.      He  resigned  in 


THE  SCROLL.  347 

1S45  on  account  of  bad  health,  and  went  to  Cumberland  Uni- 
versity, Lebanon,  Tenn.  It  was  while  here  that  he  became 
a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Robert  Morrison  having  in- 
terested him  and  R.  P.  Decherd  in  the  project  of  establish- 
ing a  chapter  at  Cumberland. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  was  major  of  a  regiment 
of  artillery  formed  by  the  state  for  her  own  defense,  but 
transferred  to  the  Confederate  service  when  Tennessee  se- 
ceded. Soon  after  the  battle  of  Belmont  he  was  made  brig- 
adier-general and  commanded  a  brigade  at  Shiloh,  Perry  ville 
and  Murfreesboro.  In  18<>:>  he  became  lieutenant-general, 
after  having  fought  Gen.  Hooker  at  New  Hope  Church. 

General  Stewart's  promotions  came  rapidly.  He  won  his 
spurs  by  satisfying  his  commanders  that  he  was  deserving. 
Quiet,  modest,  but  withal  a  positive  soldier  of  high  moral 
character,  his  command  was  properly  managed,  yet  scarcely 
did  he  give  an  order.  At  Resaca  he  had  three  horses  shot 
under  him.  He  was  wounded  at  Chickamauga  and  at  At- 
lanta. His  counsels  were  so  much  looked  up  to  that  the 
soldiers  nicknamed  him  'Old  Straight,*  as  significant  of  their 
respect.  He  is  now  one  of  the  Chickamauga  commissioners, 
and  is  absorbed  in  arranging  the  national  military  park  there. 


OLD  FRATERNITY  RECORDS* 

COIXKCTKD   AND   EDITED    l\\   WaI^TKR   B.    PaLMER.'^ 

[Continued  from  the  February  ScROij,.] 

I  organized  the  chapter  at  Emory  College,  Oxford,  Ga. 
In  the  early  spring  of  1«^71  I  received  a  letter  from  the  sec- 
retary of  Georgia  Alpha,  asking  me  to  aid  in  establishing  a 
secret  order  at  Emory.  After  some  correspondence,  I  agreed 
to  set  about  the  undertaking.  Georgia  Alpha  was  then  at 
Oglethorpe  University,  Atlanta,  Ga.  It  had  been  founded 
by  Charles  B.  Gaskill.  Georgia  Beta  was  at  the  University 
of  Georgia,  so  our  chapter  was  to  be  the  Gamma.  I  shall 
never  forget  the  caution  used  in  selecting  the  first  half  a  dozen 
members  for  a  beginning.     Chapters  of  Chi  Phi  and  Kappa 

•I  request  chapters  and  individual  Phis  to  examine  their  old  fraternity  papers, 
and  to  loan  nie  those  that  may  be  of  interest,  or  to  send  me  copies  of  same,  or  of 
such  portions  as  are  of  importance.  The  materials  for  a  history  prior  to  1H78 
(when  TiiK  Scroll  was  permanently  established),  are  meager,  and  almost  any 
letter  relating:  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  before  that  time  would  be  of  value  in  filling  out 
gaps  in  the  record.  This  notice  does  not  applv  to  the  chapters  at  Miami.  Indi- 
ana. Wabash.  Centre,  Wisconsin.  Lafayette  and  Wooster.  whose  archives  I  have 
examined.  Waltkr  B.  Palmkr,  Editor  of  the  History  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  oil 
South  Spruce  street,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


348  THE  SCROLL, 

Alpha  had  been  established  at  Emory,  but  the  board  of  trus- 
tees and  some  members  of  the  faculty  were  opposed  to  secret 
societies,  as  they  had  a  tendency  to  form  rings  in  the  literary 
societies.  So  at  the  beginning  no  possible  publicity  could 
be  allowed,  or  we  would  put  ourselves  in  a  position  to  be 
asked  to  desist  by  the  faculty.  Now  to  approach  a  person 
without  arousing  suspicion,  and  should  I  find  him  unfavor- 
ably inclined,  to  retreat  without  having  him  suspect  my 
real  motive,  was  the  point  I  handled  with  great  care. 
Eventually  I  secured  six  fine  fellows,  and  wrote  Clinton  R. 
Gaskill  to  come  down  at  night,  which  he  did.  Every  ap- 
plicant left  his  boarding-house  alone  that  night,  and  all  col- 
lected at  a  deserted  house  in  an  old  field  half  a  mile  from 
the  station.  I  met  Mr.  Gaskill  at  the  station  and  conducted 
him  to  this  place.  With  matches  and  candles  we  soon  were 
inside  the  house  and  to  business.  In  a  short  while  we  were 
on  our  way  back  to  college  and  Gaskill  on  his  return  to  At- 
lanta. We  exercised  great  care  in  keeping  our  existence  a 
secret  until  the  board  of  trustees  met.  Should  we  fail  to 
secure  their  approval  we  would  be  fit  subjects  for  jeers  from 
the  student  bod^-.  Besides  we  felt  that  we  would  be  more 
successful  before  the  board  by  keeping  them  absolutely  in 
the  dark  until  they  were  in  session.  The  chapter  met  at 
unseasonable  hours  at  all  sorts  of  places  for  about  six  weeks, 
succeeding  in  keeping  down  all  suspicion  until  commence- 
ment. We  took  Rev.  Alexander  Means,  D.  D.,  a  member 
of  the  board  and  a  resident  of  Oxford,  into  our  confidence, 
initiated  him  into  the  order,  and  secured  his  services  in 
championing  our  cause  before  the  board.  This  grand  old 
man  made  a  gallant  fight  for  us,  and  had  us  indorsed  by  the 
board,  over  some  very  vigorous  protests  on  the  part  of  sev- 
eral of  the  trustees.  We  had  a  rally  the  night  after  we 
were  given  the  privilege  of  becoming  a  lawful  adjunct  of 
the  college,  and  all  the  members  pledged  themselves  to  make 
a  record  worthy  of  commendation,  and  while  I  was  in  col- 
lege we  kept  that  pledge.  I  have  written  purely  from  mem- 
ory. I  have  kept  no  records  and  can  not  give  any  exact 
dates.  Your  letter  reminds  me  that  I  am  older  now  than 
I  was  in  1871.  My  then  raven  locks  are  streaked  with  g^ay. 
— T.  Al,  Means,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  Walter  B.  Palmer,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  Feb.  12,  189S. 

1872. 

Mr.   Bradford  reported  that  at  last  the  catalogues  had 
come.     Mem.  from  Indiana  Alpha  minutes,  Jan.  8,  1872. 


THE  SCROLL.  349 

We  now  have  ten  members.  We  are  trying  to  organize  a 
chapter  in  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  and  I  think  we  will  suc- 
ceed.— Clifton  R.  Anderson,  Centre  College,  to  Charles  B. 
Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Jan.  12,  1872. 

The  Phi  Delta  Thetas  are  doing  very  well  here  now.  We 
have  initiated  three  boys  since  I  last  wrote  to  you,  and  there 
are  plenty  of  boys  we  could  get,  but  our  maxim  is  'quality 
rather  than  quantity.'  The  resident  members  in  the  city 
have  started  an  alumni  chapter  and  have  about  forty  mem- 
bers, among  whom  are  several  judges,  prominent  lawyers, 
physicians,  etc. — Allen  B.  Thrasher,  Northwestern  Christian 
University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University, 
Jan.  22,  1872. 

We  have  been  fortunate  in  procuring  a  room  that  is  nearer 
and  more  retired  than  the  one  we  occupied  last  term,  and 
what  is  another  great  item,  the  person  from  whom  we  ob- 
tained it  will  charge  us  nothing  for  it.  There  is  a  brother 
from  Oxford  in  the  junior  class  here.  His  name  is  Slay  ton 
and  he  appears  to  be  quite  a  smart  boy.  Do  you  still  intend 
going  to  the  convention?  As  you  know,  we  have  elected 
Mason  to  represent  us;  he  is  truly  a  noble  fellow. — Ed. 
Smith,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  Jan.  23,  1872. 

We  received  a  letter  from  our  brother,  Mr.  Chenault,  and 
he  said  that  we  could  not  organize  in  Georgetown ;  that  the 
best  boys  in  college  belonged  to  another  society. — Clifton 
R.  Anderson,  Centre  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  Jan.  27,  1872. 

When  I  last  wrote  to  you  our  chapter  was  in  a  very  dilap- 
idated condition,  but  it  has  been  revived  since  then,  and  we 
have  six  noble  boys  here  now,  who  will  not  see  the  cause 
trailed  in  the  dust. — Beverly  Gregory,  Indiana  University, 
to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Jan.  27,  1872. 

I  heard  the  other  day,  indirectly,  that  you  had  established 
another  chapter — at  Macon,  I  believe.  We  are  doing  finely 
now;  have  increased  our  number  to  seven  good  fellows,  with 
a  good  prospect  of  getting  a  few  others  yet.  We  have  been 
doing  our  ver>'  best  to  re-establish  ourselves  upon  a  firm 
basis  again.  The  chapter  at  our  last  meeting  determined, 
by  a  unanimous  vote,  to  hold  a  correspondence  with  at  least 
as  many  chapters  as  we  have  members  of  our  own.  I  took 
your  chapter,  besides  I  correspond  with  several  others.  The 
Fraternity  seems  to  be  on  the  increase;  several  new  chapters 
have  been  established.     We  endeavored  to  plant  a  chapter 


352  THE  SCROLL, 

we  have,  and  I  think  the  Gamma  is  next.  The  Delta  is  not 
doing  anything  now.  The  college  ran  out  of  money  and 
had  to  suspend,  but  it  will  reopen  next  year.  We  had  a 
very  good  chapter  there  ;  the  boys  say  they  will  set  it  up 
again.  The  Illinois  Alpha  is  dead.  We  have  three  boys 
there  who  went  from  Franklin,  but  they  think  they  can  not 
do  anything  as  they  are  all  three  seniors  and  will  not  have 
long  to  stay  there.  I  have  received  a  splendid  letter  from 
brother  J.  W.  Homer,  who  says  that  the  Missouri  Alpha  is 

in  a  very  flourishing  condition Oh!  yes,  the  Phi 

colors  are  floating  in  the  breeze  here  again. — Beverly 
Gregory,  Indiana  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  Feb.  20,  1872. 

My  good  brother,  I  well  remember  the  birth  of  your  noble 
chapter.  Bro.  Terrill  was  then  our  secretary,  and  all  of  us 
with  his  indomitable  energy  worked  for  your  success.  I 
well  remember  the  good  report  we  got  from  your  president, 
to  whom  we  wrote  making  inquiries  into  your  characters, 
class  standing*  etc.,  because,  you  see,  we  knew  nothing  of 
you.  After  his  account  of  you,  also  of  Mr.  McDowell,  we 
worked  hard  for  you,  wrote  immediately  to  the  Grand  Al- 
pha, and,  sir,  to-day  the  Georgia  chapters — three  of  them 
established  by  your  chapter — are  ornaments  to  the  *  A  0.  I 
know  of  no  four  chapters  that  have  done  and  will  do  more 
honor  to  the  cause  than  the  Georgia  chapters.  You  wanted 
the  origin  and  history  of  the  Mrginia  Alpha.  I  suppose  I 
can  tell  you  as  well  as  any  one  in  the  chapter,  because  I  was 
the  first  man  in  it.  I  came  here  in  lSGS-9.  I  belonged  to 
the  Indiana  Eta  chapter,  established  at  Indiana  Asbury  Uni- 
versity. The  latter  part  of  the  session  here  I  concluded  to 
pry  into  things.  Though  I  had  an  offer  to  be  initiated  into 
the  best  established  fraternity  in  this  college  at  that  time.  I 
refused  because  I  belonged  to  the  <l>  A  0  and  was  determined 
to  belong  to  no  other.  I  got  my  most  beloved  friend,  F.  H. 
Terrill,  to  join  with  me,  then  Smeltzer  (whom  we  have  since 
expelled  )  and  O.  D.  Miller  and  W.  F.  Dyer.  After  obtain- 
ing the  consent  of  these  four,  I  sent  to  the  Grand  Alpha, 
then  located  at  Chicago,  in  order  to  get  the  Bond  and  Con- 
stitution, w^hich  I  obtained  chiefly  through  the  influence  of 
the  secretary,  F.  A.  Smith,  as  noble  a  man  as  ever  lived. 
Then  I  initiated  the  four  specified.  In  a  few  days  afterward 
we  got  the  Virginia  Alpha  charter,  signed  by  Smith,  as 
president.  This  is  the  origin  of  the  chapter.  We  have 
worked  on  manfully  and  I  think  will  have  no  more  trouble. 
The  Virginia  Alpha  has  now  eleven  members,  and  they  are 


THE  SCROLL.  353 

as  thorough  going  Phis  as  you  ever  saw.  We  stand  as 
strong  intellectually,  morally,  and  with  as  much  popularity 

now  as  any  other  fraternity  in  college Bro.  Will 

Fisher  of  the  Ohio  Alpha — Grand  Alpha — wrote  me  the 
other  day  that  the  Executive  Committee,  of  which  I  am  a 
member,  intended  to  change  the  place  of  the  next  conven- 
tion, and  that  the  Ohio  Alpha  wanted  to  be  invested  with 
the  authority  to  locate  the  place  of  meeting — it  being  too 
near  the  time  of  meeting  and  too  inconvenient  for  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  to  come  together — so  he  asked  me  for 
my  vote  for  Crawfordsville,  which  I  gave  him. — D.  B.  Floyd, 
Roanoke  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, Feb.  23,  1872. 

We  received  a  letter  from  Brother  D.  E.  Platter,  Chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  desiring  that  the  convention 
should  be  held  in  Danville.  We  have  accepted  it,  and  so  I 
suppose  it  will  be  held  here.  We  now  have  thirteen  mem- 
bers and  prospects  for  one  or  two  more. — Clifton  R.  Ander- 
son, Centre  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, Feb.  23,  1X72. 

I  can  not  tell  you  where  the  next  convention  will  meet, 
for  I  can't  find  out  anything  from  the  Grand  Alpha.  There 
are  several  reasons  why  the  Bloomington  boys  don't  want 
the  convention;  such  as  their  inability  to  accommodate  the 
delegates,  no  good  hall  to  meet  in  or  hotel  to  prepare  the 
banquet,  but  the  main  thing  is  that  they  lack  confidence  in 
themselves.  I  have  at  length  succeeded  in  getting  the  Cor- 
nell boys  on  the  road  to  a  chapter.  Four  of  them  have  sent 
a  petition  to  the  Grand  Alpha.  We  have  elected  one  of  the 
boys  a  member  of  this  chapter,  and  if  you  would  write  to 
him  you  would  hear  directly  how  they  are  progressing.  Ad- 
dress Wm.  E.  Lucas,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.     He  is  all  right 

Wm.  O.  Bates,  *  A  0,  is  my  room  mate. — Allen  B.  Thrasher, 
Northwestern  Christian  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Oglethorpe  University,  Feb.  2o,  1872. 

Since  my  last  letter,  a  matter  of  some  considerable  impor- 
tance having  arisen,  I  am  forced  to  write  you  again.  The 
Bloomington  chapter  having  gone  almost  to  nothing,  it  has 
been  thought  expedient  not  to  have  the  convention  there, 
and  the  Executive  Committee,  of  which  you  are  a  member, 
seem  divided  between  two  places  :  Danville,  Ky. ,  and  Craw- 
fordsville, Ind.  Both  places  hold  out  inducements,  and  each 
chapter  is  very  anxious  to  have  it  held  at  its  place,  but  the 
facts  are  just  these  :    If  we  have  it  at  Danville  we  must  have 


354  THE  SCROLL. 

it  by  the  24th  of  April.  Now,  as  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  publishing  catalogue,  I  wish  to  remind  you  of  the  fact 
that  the  reports  are  slow  always,  but  this  year  some  of  them 
seem  not  to  be  forthcoming  at  all,  so  that  the  catalogue  can 
not  be  published  by  that  time ;  and  under  these  condi- 
tions, others  being  equal,  I  would  ask  your  vote  in  favor 
of  Crawfordsville,  as  all  the  others  save  one  are  voting  for 
it.  Our  chapter  is  getting  along  finely.  Our  fellows  are  the 
most  popular  among  those  whom  we  call  independents,  and 
hence  our  never- failing  success  on  election  days.  We  have 
taken  more  honors  in  the  last  four  or  five  years  than  any 
two  other  societies  in  our  college.  I  would  again  urge  you 
to  be  up  and  doing  in  the  cause,  and  wherever  you  find  a 
college  standing  well — graduating  men  you  would  not  feel 
ashamed  to  extend  friendly  greetings  to  in  all  circumstances 
of  life — try  to  carry  the  loadstone  of  our  brotherly  policy 
there.  You  do  not  know  how  much  I  should  like  to  see  our 
Fraternity  established  in  every  good  college  all  over  the 
south — much  more  than  in  the  north,  I  mean  the  east. — 
Holly  R.  Buckingham,  Miami  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gas- 
kill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Feb.  28,  1872. 

Since  writing  to  you  last  the  Delta  has  increased.  The 
name  of  our  new  member  is  J.  C.  H  in  ton,  of  Macon.  We 
met  last  Friday  but  did  little  business.  We  have  no*  hall, 
but  it  will  not  be  long  before  we  have  a  proper  place  of 
meeting.  All  the  secret  societies  seem  to  be  in  trouble  as 
to  halls.  It  will  be  impossible  for  the  Delta  to  be  repre- 
sented in  the  convention. — Alexis  A.  Marshall,  Mercer  Uni- 
versity, to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  Feb. 
29,  1872. 

Our  hall  is  a  neat  little  room  nicely  papered  and  curtained, 
but  not  yet  finished,  although  we  are  making  some  progress 
toward  it.  We  have  a  custom,  which  I  think  is  a  very  good 
one,  of  having  each  class  taken  in  a  group,  the  same  framed 
and  hung  in  our  hall.  Here  we  gather  every  two  weeks. 
We  are  noisy,  and  all  talk  at  once  until  some  one  sings  out 
*  I  move  the  Prex  takes  the  chair  ! '  We  quiet  down ,  and 
after  the  invoking  of  Providence  by  some  of  those  who  pro- 
fess (we  have  several  such),  the  roll  is  called  and  trouble 
begins. — Holly  R.  Buckingham,  Miami  University,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  March  2,  1872. 

Our  chapter,  Indiana  Theta,  is  connected  with  the  State 
Normal  School.  At  present  we  have  six  members,  Brothers 
H.   Sandison,  W.   W.  Parsons,  A.  Sheets,  B.  V.   Marshall, 


THE  SCROLL,  ^  355 

H.  G.  Thompson  and  C.  H.  Gordon.  I  graduated  in  1S70. 
We  who  have  left  school  make  it  our  object  to  attend  all 
chapter  meetings  possible,  and  do  all  we  can  to  further  the 
interests  of  the  order. — George  W.  Wade,  Terre  Haute, 
Ind.,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  March 
4,  1872. 

Being  a  new  member,  of  course  I  know  personally  only 
those  of  the  <^  A  0  who  are  here.  As  yet  there  are  only 
four  of  us  :  Lucas.  Washburne,  Carpenter  and  myself.  As 
soon  as  we  get  our  charter  we  will  begin  our  meetings  in 
earnest. — Nelson  W.  Cady,  Cornell  I'niversity,  to  Charles  B. 
Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  March  D,  1<S72. 

Indianapolis,  Ind.,  March  10,  1872.— Mr.  D.  S.  White, 
Danville,  Ky.,  Dear  Brother:  I  am  indeed  glad  that  your 
chapter  has  come  forward  to  the  rescue,  for  during  a  month 
or  so  past  the  prospects  looked  very  dark  for  a  convention. 
The  Bloomington  boys  could  not  take  it,  and  the  Terre 
Haute  chapter  would  not,  so  the  convention  was  almost 
obliged  to  take  the  character  of  *  Pussy'  in  the  somewhat 
celebrated  game  of  'Pussy  wants  a  corner.'  But  now  your 
chapter  comes  forward  with  genuine  Kentucky  hospitality, 
without  previous  preparation,  and  says,  'we  will  take  it  at 
the  appointed  time. '  Such  promptness  will  not  be  forgot- 
ten by  the  Fraternity.  You  will  find  that  it  is  quite  an  un- 
dertaking, requiring  considerable  previous  preparation.  You 
will  have  to  watch  the  financial  part,  or  you  may  have 
trouble,  as  we  have  had.  Do  you  correspond  with  the 
Grand  Alpha?  We  have  written  them  several  times,  and 
have  received  but  one  letter,  and  if  I  am  not  mistaken  this 
is  the  experience  of  most  of  the  chapters.  They  should  re- 
member that  it  is  not  an  impossibility  to  change  the  Grand 
Alpha  to  some  other  location.  How  do  you  like  the  pins 
manufactured  here  ?  Our  boys  here  are  well  satisfied  with 
them.  Some  of  the  boys  here  and  elsewhere  have  been 
talking  of  shirt  studs  consisting  of  three  small  shields  with 
*  on  one,  A  on  another,  and  0  on  the  third,  the  letters  to  be 
carved  very  heavy  and  perhaps  black  enameled.  I  spoke  to 
our  jeweler  about  it,  and  he  said  he  could  get  them  up  in 
heavy  gold  for  from  $5  to  $(*>,  after  he  was  ready  for  it.  He 
did  not  want  to  do  it  though  unless  he  could  have  some  as- 
surance that  he  would  continue  to  receive  the  patronage  of 
the  Fraternity.  What  do  you  think  about  it  ?  The  con- 
vention will  have  power  to  change  it  if  they  see  fit.  We 
are  prosperous,  and  as  a  Fraternity  happy.     Do  you  often 


356  THE  SCROLL, 

hear  from  the  Georgia  boys?  I  like  them.  We  get  letters 
from  them  often.  We  are  establishing  a  chapter  in  Cornell 
University,  Ithaca,  X.  Y.  Yours  *  A  0  etically,  W.  O. 
Bates. 

Lucas  and  I  are  from  Indiana,  Carpenter  from  Ohio  and 
Washburue  from  this  state.  We  are  at  present  all  the  mem- 
bers. Our  charter  has  been  granted  but  has  not  yet  ar- 
rived. When  that  shall  be  in  our  possession  we  shall  begin 
regular  meetings,  and  we  have  strong  hopes  of  becoming 
firmly  established.  There  is  quite  a  strong  anti-secret  soci- 
ety feeling  here,  and  of  course  this  makes  plenty  of  excite- 
ment in  elections  of  class  officers  and  Era  editors.  The 
barbarians  have  organized  and  dubbed  themselves  the  Inde- 
pendents.— Nelson  W.  Cady,  Cornell  l^niversity,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  March  23,  1872. 

There  are  now  eight  of  us  in  college,  two  or  three  of  our 
boys  are  out  for  this  term.  Our  chapter  is  in  good  working 
order;  we  are  going  to  initiate  three  or  four  before  the  term 
closes.  I  am  glad  you  have  chosen  the  fairest  damsel  in 
your  city  for  me  at  the  entertainment ;  please  accept  my 
thanks.  I  am  the  delegate  from  the  Eta  chapter.  We 
elected  Rev.  J.  W.  Green  as  honorary  member.  I  suppose 
you  know  that  Franklin  College  has  *  busted  up.'  You  can 
write  to  T.  C.  Potter,  Hanover  ;  G.  R.  Crafts,  Terre  Haute; 
H.  G.  Bradford,  Bloominj^ton  ;  F.  J.  Stanley  or  W.  H.  Rip- 
ley, Crawfordsville.  If  you  want  to  write  to  the  New  York 
Alpha  you  can  address  C.  E.  Washburne  or  W.  E.  Lucas, 
Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.  If  you  have  not  an  Ohio 
name  I  refer  you  to  R.  H.  McClelland,  Wooster,  Ohio. — 
H.  Clay  Darnall,  Indiana  Asbury  University,  to  L.  M.  Rue, 
Centre  College,  April  o,  1S72. 

Two  different  chapters  claim  the  honor  of  founding  this 
chapter,  the  Indiana  Epsilon  at  Hanover,  and  the  Indiana 
Gamma  at  Indianapolis.  Bro.  Lucas  was  a  Phi  before  he 
came  here,  and  Bro.  Carpenter  was  pledged.  Each  knew 
about  the  other,  but  they  failed  to  find  each  other  because 
they  did  not  know  each  other's  name.  At  last  they  met 
and  began  to  work  as  soon  as  their  initiation  was  completed, 
and  founded  our  present  chapter. — Nelson  W.  Cady,  Cor- 
nell University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Univer- 
sity, April  11,  1872. 

I  am  sorry  to  .say  that  at  this  time  ours  is  the  only  chapter 
in  the  state,  but  hope  it  will  not  be  the  case  long.  W^e  in- 
tend planting  our  order  at  every  respectable  institution  in 


THE  SCROLL,  357 

the  state  where  such  organizations  are  allowed  if  it  be  pos- 
sible. I  can  not  say  now  for  certain  whether  we  will  send 
a  delegate  to  the  convention  or  not.  Several  of  the  boys 
are  anxious  that  I  shall  go,  and  I  guess  if  we  send  a  delegate 
it  will  fall  to  my  lot,  but  the  great  obstacle  in  the  way  is 
this:  the  convention  will  take  place  just  at  the  time  when 
we  are  reviewing,  and  I  am  afraid  that  if  I  should  lose  much 
time  I  should  not  be  able  to  pass  the  examinations. — Wm. 
Miller,  Roanoke  College,  to  L.  M.  Rue,  Centre  College, 
April  13,  1872. 

I  suppose  you  are  fully  aware  by  this  time  of  the  location 
of  the  convention  at  Danville,  Ky.  Our  delegate  is  S.  J. 
Tomlinson.  I  had  thought  of  attending  the  convention  if 
held  in  this  state,  but  it  is  so  far  away  that  I  will  hardly  be 
there  now,  although  I  should  like  to  see  all  of  the  boys  very 
much.  Our  boys  at  Cornell  are  getting  along  very  nicely, 
and  I  have  great  hopes  for  their  future  success.  We  have 
three  boys  at  Yale,  and  I  don't  see  why  they  can't  start  a 
chapter  there.  I  should  like  to  see  a  chapter  of  the  <^  A  0  in 
every  good  college  in  the  country.  But  we  have  one  chap- 
ter in  this  state  which  is  doing  us  a  positive  injury,  not  be- 
cause there  are  not  good  boys  connected  with  it,  but  because 
of  the  school  in  which  it  is  located.  I  refer  to  the  Terre 
Haute  chapter.  I  can't  understand  how  the  chapter  got  its 
charter  in  the  first  place,  nor  how  it  holds  it  now.  I  hope 
that  matter  will  be  attended  to  at  the  convention.  I  under- 
stand that  the  catalogue  has  gone  to  press  with  925  names. 
We  ought  to  have  had  1,000  I  think,  although  that  is  a  large 
increase  over  last  year. — Allen  B.  Thrasher,  Northwestern 
Christian  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, April  14,  1(S72. 

There  will  be  a  proposition  before  the  convention  to  move 
our  Grand  Alpha  farther  west.  We  all  can  see  the  impro- 
priety of  such  a  change,  so  be  on  your  guard  and  put  other 
chapters  on  guard.  This  has  only  been  hinted  at  to  some 
extent.  I  have  considered  the  matter  from  all  standpoints, 
and  think  it  best  for  the  Fraternity  for  our  headquarters  to 
remain  where  they  are.  First,  the  origin.  Second,  the  Ohio 
Alpha  is  our  strongest  chapter,  and  being  strong  the  mem- 
bers are  more  able  to  do  the  work  there  is  to  do  by  the  head 
chapter.  I  think  they  are  pretty  punctual  in  the  discharge 
of  their  duties.  Third,  Miami  is  more  central.  These  are 
some  reasons  why  I  think  the  Grand  Alpha  ought  not  to 
be  changed — let  well  enough  alone.     I  can  not  go  to  the 


35^  THE  SCROLL, 

convention,  but  one  of  my  classmates  will  be  there.  I  have 
three  subjects  to  lay  before  the  convention.  First,  I  think 
we  should  have  a  second  degree,  making  pretty  high  quali- 
fications for  advanced  standing.  Many  students  try  very 
hard  until  they  get  into  a  fraternity,  and  afterwards  become 
very  careless.  Here  I  think  is  the  secret  of  success  of  other 
secret  orders.  It  would  unite  us  more  closely.  Second, 
start  a  monthly  paper  at  headquarters  expressly  for  the 
good  of  the  fraternity,  every  issue  to  contain  a  report  from 
every  chapter.  Third,  organize  the  chapters  in  each  state 
for  the  purchase  of  books.  For  example,  the  chapters  of  our 
state  would  combine  and  say  to  some  of  the  Cincinnati  book 
dealers,  *If  you  will  furnish  us  books  at  a  proper  rate,  we 
will  patronize  you  ;  if  not  we  will  try  some  other  store.' 
This  would  also  benefit  our  alumni,  who  would  take  more 
interest  in  the  Fraternity  after  leaving  college.  These 
things  are  some  of  my  own  originating.  Investigate  for 
yourself,  and  if  you  think  they  are  worth  trying  I  hope  you 
will  assist  our  delegate  who  will  lay  them  before  the  con- 
vention.— V.  C.  Stiers,  Ohio  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gas- 
kill,  Oglethorpe  University,  April  l'),  1S72. 

You  say  you  can  not  account  for  our  chapter  being  the 
Theta.  We  have  an  undoubted  right  to  that,  as  it  was  our 
name  given  to  us  by  our  charter  in  L^nO.  The  Asbury 
chapter  is  the  Eta.  You  have  been  led  astray  by  the  last 
catalogue,  which  was  very  badly  printed  in  regard  to  our 
chapter. — George  W.  Wade,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  April  15,  1<S72. 

In  my  opinion  we  should  have  a  series  of  secret  Greek 
letters,  such  as  are  used  in  the  catalogues  of  A  K  E,  B  0  n, 
<I>  r  A,  etc.  I  believe  we  lack  something  of  the  kind  very 
much.  Of  course  it  should  be  entirely  different  from  theirs, 
and  known  only  to  Phis.  What  are  your  views  as  to  pub- 
lishing a  <I>  A  (f-)  magazine,  and  also  a  history  of  the  rise  and 
progress  of  our  order,  as  a  Fraternity,  and  by  chapters,  in 
pamphlet  form  ?  I  have  been  brooding  over  this  subject  for 
a  long  time.  I  w-ant  our  Fraternity  to  be  first  to  issue  a 
magazine.  The  Indiana  Gammas  have  been  talking  to  us 
about  a  history  for  some  time,  and  I  would  be  in  favor  of 
putting  both  publications  in  charge  of  that  chapter. — Charles 
T.  Jamieson,  Hanover  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  April  22,  1S72. 

Many  circumstances  prevented  me  from  answering  sooner 
your  last  favor,  among  which  I  might  mention  the  getting 


THE  SCROLL.  359 

out  of  the  catalogue,  which  I  am  happy  to  inform  you  is 
now  in  press,  and  will  contain  some  nine  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five names  and  twenty-three  chapters.  The  convention 
will  be  held  at  Danville,  Ky.,  May  8.  We  have  not  yet 
chosen  delegates,  but  will  the  first  of  this  week.  Make  an 
effort  to  send  or  have  sent  a  delegate  from  every  Georgia 
chapter;  choose  your  best  men,  and  come  with  business 
heads,  empty  stomachs  and  light  feet — these  are  the  requi- 
sites. In  the  election  just  held  we  came  out  victorious  as 
usual. — Holly  R.  Buckingham,  Miami  University,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  April  2U,  1872. 

The  official  Republican  paper  of  the  state,  the  Indiayiapolis 
Journal,  came  out  yesterday  with  a  flaming  editorial  on  the 
brilliant  prospects  of  the  'National  Phi  Delta  Theta  conven- 
tion,* which  created  quite  a  stir  in  Greek  circles  here.  The 
*  r  As  are  in  session  at  Indianapolis  this  week.  A  move- 
ment will  probably  be  made  in  the  convention  to  remove  the 
charter  from  the  Zeta  chapter,  located  at  Terre  Haute.  I 
don't  know  why  it  was  ever  granted  in  the  first  place,  but 
I  do  know  that  it  injures  our  cause  in  this  state  very  mate- 
rially. We  have  instructed  our  delegate  to  work  for  its  re- 
moval, in  spite  of  our  feelings  for  it,  being  so  near.  I  ask 
you  as  one  who  I  know  has  the  true  interests  of  the  Frater- 
nity in  view,  to  use  your  influence  for  the  same  end. — C.  A. 
Murray,  Indiana  Asbury  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Oglethorpe  University,  May  2,  1872. 

We  all  regretted  very  much  indeed  that  Mason  could  not 
accompany  you  to  the  convention.  He  was  willing  to  go 
without  permission  from  the  faculty,  but  the  club  knew 
what  the  consequences  would  be,  and  unanimously  vetoed 
the  proposition. — Kd.  vSmith,  University  of  Georgia,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethrope  I^niversity,  May  17,  1872. 

We  have  appeared  in  our  pins  and  they  have  made  quite 
an  impression. — Nelson  W.  Cady,  Cornell  Universitv,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  May  IS,  1872. 

Brother  Rankin's  account  of  the  convention,  read  before 
our  chapter  at  the  last  meeting,  discovered  to  us  the  many 
good  steps  taken,  as  well  as  the  hospitality  of  Kentucky 
Alpha.  I  expect  to  be  at  Athens  if  in  college  next  year; 
indeed  about  half  our  chapter  will  go.  Our  catalogue  will 
be  out  next  week  or  the  week  after.  We  want  to  get  in  the 
tax  so  as  to  distribute  copies  before  commencement,  four 
weeks  hence.  I  need  hardly  show  you  the  necessity  of  send- 
ing on  your  tax  immediately.     It  will  be  $8.25. — Holly  R. 


360  THE  SCROLL. 

Buckingham,  Miami  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Ogle- 
thorpe University,  May  21,  1872. 

An  application  for  a  charter  for  Ohio  Epsilon  at  Granville, 
Ohio,  has  been  made.  The  founder  is  from  the  Indiana  Delta, 
and  he  says  he  has  some  of  the  best  men  in  the  college.  I 
have  received  from  the  Illinois  Gamma  a  catalogue  of  Knox 
College,  and  from  it  I  report  the  following  statistics:  *  A  0, 
21;  *  FA,  10;  B  «  II,  G.— Charles  T.  Jamieson,  Hanover 
College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  May 
27,  1872. 

Brothers  Tingley  and  Tomlinson  speak  very  highly  of  you 
and  express  themselves  much  pleased  with  your  acquaint- 
ance. I  can  shake  hands  with  you  over  the  demolishing  of 
the  Terre  Haute  chapter,  but  I  believe  you  have  had  my 
sentiments  on  that  question.  In  regard  to  the  minutes  of 
the  convention,  it  is  the  business  of  the  Grand  Alpha  to 
send  a  copy  to  the  Alpha  of  each  state,  and  for  each  Alpha 
to  send  a  copy  to  every  other  chapter  in  the  state.  At  least 
that  was  the  way  it  was  done  last  year,  and  I  think  it  the 
proper  way.  What  reason  have  you  to  fear  that  you  will 
not  receive  the  minutes  ?  Your  trip  to  the  convention  was 
quite  long  and  must  have  involved  considerable  expense. 
Now  I  don't  think  it  right  for  one  chapter  to  be  compelled 
to  pay  more  for  a  representation  in  the  convention  than  an- 
other. It  seems  to  me  that  the  whole  fraternity  should  be 
taxed  per  capita  for  defraying  the  total  expenses  of  the  con- 
vention, including  the  expenses  of  one  delegate  from  each 
chapter.  This  would  divide  the  burden,  so  that  it  would 
not  fall  heavily  on  any  chapter,  and  then  every  chapter  in 
the  Fraternity  would  be  certain  to  be  represented,  for  if  not 
of  course  it  would  forfeit  the  money  due  it  for  defraying  the 
expenses  of  its  delegate.  You  will  remember  that  Bro.  C. 
O.  Perry  was  one  of  the  committee  on  raising  a  Permanent 
Fund.  He  has  collected  near  $500  in  this  place  alone,  which 
is  now  drawing  from  10  to  12  per  cent,  interest  for  the  *  A0 
Fraternity.  I  consider  this  one  of  the  best  things  which  you 
did.  The  fund  should  be  raised  to  $2,000  this  year,  and  three 
times  that  next,  which  will  make  a  sufficient  sum  to  defray 
all  the  expenses  of  the  Fraternity  and  place  us  above  any 
other  Greek  fraternity. — Allen  B.  Thrasher,  Northwestern 
Christian  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  Uni- 
versity, June  2,  1872. 

The  Delta  still  retains  her  number,  six,  but  next  term  we 
will  have  more  members.    Bro.  S.  R.  Stevens,  of  the  Gamma, 


THE  SCROLL.  3^1 

will  be  with  us  next  October.  One  of  the  Delta,  Bro.  Jack- 
son, will  join  the  Beta  next  term.  We  hate  very  much  to 
give  him  up  for  he  is  a  good  member.  All  the  rest  of  our 
boys  will  be  back. — Alexis  A.  Marshall,  Mercer  University, 
to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  June  14, 1872. 

I  can  give  you  no  news  of  our  chapter  here,  for  we  have 
none.  It  was  murdered  (no  other  word  will  express  it)  in 
convention,  May  9,  1872.  The  convention  declared  our 
charter  illegal,  and  in  the  same  breath  declared  us  legal 
members  of  the  Indiana  Alpha.  All  archives,  records  and 
papers  of  the  Theta  chapter  have  been  committed  to  the 
flames. — George  W.  Wade,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Oglethorpe  University,  June  17,  1872. 

I  suppose  youjhave  heard  of  our  grand  success  at  Indiana 
University.  I  am  informed  that  we  have  the  best  chapter 
there  now  we  ever  have  had,  and  that  is  saying  a  great  deal. 
I  think  much  praise  is  due  those  four  loyal  ones  who  obeyed 
the  mandates  of  our  Bond  with  such  fidelity.  They  have 
shown  not  only  pluck  and  bravery,  but  tact  and  wisdom. 
They  have  also  carried  off  second  honor,  the  Latin  saluta- 
tory. My  Indiana  Alpha  correspondent,  E.  A.  Hamilton, 
is  the  recipient.  At  the  close  of  the  year  ^  A  0  had  10  mem- 
bers, B  0  n  15,  2  X  20,  *  K  *  16,  *  r  A  14  and  A  T  A  13.— 
Charles  T.  Jamieson,  Batavia,  Ohio,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  2,  1872. 

Our  term  ended  very  pleasantly ;  we  had  a  class  of  twenty- 
five  to  graduate.  On  class  day  the  orator  was  a  Phi;  he  also 
took  the  second  honors  of  the  class  and  delivered  the  Latin 
salutatory.  The  Phis  had  a  lively  time  during  commence- 
ment; quite  a  number  in  town  and  we  made  a  big  show. 
When  college  closed  we  had  nine  members  in  the  chapter; 
we  will  have  eight  to  start  with  next  fall.  I  would  not  go 
back  the  first  term  if  it  were  not  that  I  am  so  strongly  at- 
tached to  my  Fraternity  and  chapter.  You  know  we  had  a 
hard  time  this  year,  but  I  think  we  have  our  chapter  on  a 
foundation  on  which  it  can  stand.  We  will  soon,  as  we  have 
in  the  past,  take  our  place  at  the  head  of  fraternities  in  In- 
diana University,  and  I  think  we  will  remain  there.  We 
expect  two  that  were  with  us  last  year  to  be  back  next ;  they 
were  here  during  commencement  and  were  very  enthusiastic. 
....  I  suppose  you  have  heard  of  the  Grand  Alpha  refus- 
ing a  charter  to  Moncrief  at  Granville,  Ohio.  It  caused  quite 
a  sensation  here,  as  Moncrief  was  from  the  Indiana  Delta, 
and  we  all  knew  him  to  be  a  man  of  talent  and  good  judg- 


362  THE  SCROLL, 

ment.  We  felt  sure  that  he  would  establish  a  chapter  that 
would  reflect  credit  upon  the  Fraternity,  and  we  did  not  like 
to  see  him  treated  thus.  I  do  not  know  that  the  Grand  Al- 
pha had  any  good  reason  for  refusing  a  charter.  The  excuse 
was  that  it  was  too  late  in  the  year;  that  was  the  only  reason 
given.  Moncrief  had  eight  good  men  and  they  had  ordered 
badges.  Granville  has  a  first-class  college.  We  think  the 
matter  will  be  fixed  up  this  fall. — Beverly  Gregory,  Brook- 
lyn, Ind.,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  11,  1872. 

I  got  acquainted  with  H.  R.  Buckingham  of  Ohio  Alpha 
last  Friday;  he  is  a  fine  man.  He  brought  the  new  cata- 
logue over.    It  is  a  far  better  one  than  that  of  1871 

I  tell  you  there  will  be  fun  in  these  parts  if  a  charter  is  re- 
fused to  the  Granville  boys.  It  T?iHst  be  granted. — Charles 
T.  Jamieson,  Batavia,  Ohio,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  Aug.  6,  1S72. 

You  will  remember  that  I  was  elected  treasurer  of  the 
society,  and  that  as  such  all  funds  and  assessments  paid  to 
me  will  be  properly  receipted  for.  You  can  remit  to  me  the 
amount  of  your  assessments  and  your  subscription  to  the 
Permanent  Fund,  and,  upon  presentation  to  me  of  any  of 
the  outstanding  accounts  against  the  society,  properly 
vouched  for,  I  will  pay  them,  and  be  responsible  to  the  so- 
ciety. The  Permanent  Fund  is  doing  well;  we  have  over 
$500  subscribed,  and  most  of  it  paid  in.  You  will  please 
remit  the  amount  of  your  subscription  and  make  an  effort 
to  send  us  a  good  large  list  from  your  state. — Charles  O. 
Perry,  Treasurer  ^  A  0,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  to  Charles  B. 
Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Sept.  2,  1S72. 

We  have  started  very  fairly  this  term.  My  brother  Jed 
has  become  a  Phi,  and  W.  O.  Bates,  from  the  Indiana 
Gamma,  is  with  us,  so  that  we  now  number  six. — Nelson 
W.  Cady,  Cornell  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  At- 
lanta, Ga.,  Oct.  12,  1S72. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  flourishing  condition,  numbering 
twelve  active  members,  with  the  prOvSpect  of  two  or  three 
more.  Our  college  met  with  quite  a  severe  shock  in  the 
resignation  of  our  president  and  three  professors.  We  had 
a  loss  of  five  members  from  our  chapter,  but  we  are  once 

more  on  a  good  footing The  Beta  chapter  was 

formerly  at  Monmouth,  but  it  has  become  the  Alpha,  the 

Alpha  at  Chicago  having  become  defunct Please 

acknowledge  the  greeting  of  the  Illinois  Beta  to  the  Georgia 
Alpha. — J.  D.  Miller  Hamilton,  Knox  College,  to  Charles 
B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Oct.  14,  1872. 


THE  SCROLL.  363 

Our  chapter  has  not  done  anything  so  far,  but  I  will  wake 
it  up  immediately.  We  have  five  of  the  pick  of  the  college 
to  start  with,  and  I  have  no  fears  as  to  the  result.  My  old 
room-mate,  W.  O.  Bates,  has  gone  to  Cornell  University;  he 
was  warmly  welcomed  by  the  New  York  Alpha.  He  writes 
me  that  the  Phi  prospects  there  are  good.  He  was  elected 
secretary  of  the  class  of  '75,  and  Lucas  lacked  only  three 
votes  of  getting  the  presidency;  the  one  who  did  get  it  leans 
rather  toward  the  Phis,  and  they  are  working  for  him. 
Nelson  Cady*s  address  is  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
I  have  heard  from  Hanover,  Bloomington,  Wabash  and 
Greencastle.  With  the  latter  exception  they  are  doing  bet- 
ter than  ever  before.  Darnell  has  left  the  Greencastle 
chapter  from  some  cause.  I  will  have  the  particulars  shortly, 
and  will  then  advise  you  of  them. — Allen  B.  Thrasher, 
Northwestern  Christian  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  OcJ.  15,  1872. 

We  are  at  last  ready  to  distribute  the  catalogues  of  *  A  ®. 
Perhaps  a  word  of  explanation  is  due,  in  view  of  this  delay. 
The  committee  appointed  to  prepare  the  last  catalogue  was 
composed  of  Messrs.  Fisher,  Rankin  and  Buckingham.  The 
two  first  were  members  of  last  year's  Senior  class,  and  con- 
sequently are  not  in  college  this  year.  Mr.  Buckingham 
did  not  return  to  college  until  a  few  days  ago.  No  other 
member  of  the  chapter  was  well  enough  informed  to  attend 
to  the  business,  hence  nothing  could  be  done  until  Bucking- 
ham returned.  The  committee  were  promised  the  catalogues 
by  the  publishers  before  the  close  of  last  year,  and  hoped  to 
distribute  them  before  last  vacation,  but  they  did  not  arrive 
in  time.  Send  the  number  of  catalogues  your  chapter  desires 
and  the  address,  and  we  will  forward  them  at  once.  We 
have  just  come  out  of  an  election  with  honor  to  *  A  0.  We 
took  in  four  new  members  last  meeting. — George  F. 
O* Byrne,  Miami  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  Oct.  1(>,  1872. 

Our  chapter  is  doing  finely.  We  have  eleven  members, 
as  follows:  Juniors,  three;  Sophomores,  five;  Freshman, 
one;  Preparatory,  two.  Although  most  of  our  boys  are  new 
members,  they  are  taking  hold  in  earnest.  This  chapter  is 
now  known  as  the  Illinois  Alpha.  For  some  cause  unknown 
to  us  the  Chicago  chapter,  which  was  the  Alpha  of  this  state, 
gave  up  its  charter,  and  our  Beta  became  the  Alpha.  The 
Gamma  chapter  (now  the  Beta)  is  established  at  Galesburg, 
111.     At  present  there  are  only  two  chapters  in  this  state. 


364  THE  SCROLL, 

and  they  are  but  sixteen  miles  apart.  Thus  you  see  *  A  0 
includes  but  a  small  portion  of  places  of  education  in  Illinois. 
There  are  three  fraternities  in  Monmouth  College,  but  the 
^  A  0  has  the  best  hold. — John  H.  Mason,  Monmouth  Col- 
lege, to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Nov.  2,  1872. 

The  Alpha  is  in  a  very  flourishing  condition  at  this  time. 
We  have  eight  men  and  some  more  on  the  road,  and  we  are 
getting  along  very  well  in  every  way. — Beverly  Gregor>% 
Indiana  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Nov. 
7,  1872. 

To-day  I  forwarded  to  your  address  per  express  fifteen 
catalogues  marked  C.  O.  D.  $12.  That  was  the  tax  assessed 
on  your  chapter.  The  reason  of  this  high  tax  is  the  pub- 
lishers charged  us  $1')5,  instead  of  $125  as  we  expected;  but 
they  got  us  up  a  magnificent  catalogue  and  we  are  not  sorry. 
The  tax  was  distributed  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  mem- 
bers in  each  chapter.  We  thought  it  best  to  reserve  one 
hundred  copies.  Should  the  Georgia  Alpha  or  any  individ- 
ual member  desire  a  catalogue  we  will  forward  it  upon  appli- 
cation free  of  charge. — George  F.  O* Byrne,  Miami  Univer- 
sity, to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Nov.  9,  1872. 

It  is  sad  about  Old  Oglethorpe.  What  do  the  boys  gen- 
erally think  of  its  suspension  ?  L<et  her  go  for  the  present 
at  least.  Do  any  of  the  Georgia  Alpha  boys  intend  entering 
other  colleges?  If  so,  see  if  they  can't  do  something  where 
they  go.  You  should  keep  the  books  of  the  Alpha,  and  not 
permit  them  to  be  scattered  about;  there  is  no  other  place 
where  they  will  be  as  safe  as  where  they  are. — Clinton  R. 
Gaskill,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  Nov.  25,  1872. 

I  will  give  you  a  short  history  of  our  chapter  since  I  joined 
it.  Last  April  we  had  five  members,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
session  we  had  fourteen.  At  the  beginning  of  this  session 
ten  of  the  old  members  returned,  and  we  have  taken  in  three, 
and  two  are  going  to  join  at  our  next  meeting.  I  think  that 
is  rapid  progress.  Last  year  we  received  more  honors  than 
any  other  fraternity  in  college.  We  had  a  called  meeting 
last  night  to  take  into  consideration  the  propriety  and  the 
manner  of  establishing  a  chapter  at  Randolph- Macon  Col- 
lege. I  do  not  think  there  is  any  doubt  about  our  estab- 
lishing it.  We  have  been  corresponding  with  a  young  man 
there  who  is  preparing  himself  for  the  ministry,  and  he  says 
he  has  succeeded  in  getting  two  other  splendid  young  men 
to  promise  to  join  if  we  would  establish  a  chapter  there. 


THE  SCROLL.  365 

which  I  think  is  sufficient  encouragement  for  a  beginning. 
I  received  a  letter  from  a  member  of  the  Missouri  chapter 
last  week.  They  are  just  carrying  things  right  along;  have 
twenty  members,  and  expect  to  take  in  several  more  at  their 
next  meeting. — J.  H.  Bear,  Roanoke  College,  to  Charles  B. 
Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Nov.  26,  1872. 

The  membership  of  the  societies  is  as  follows:  Chi  Phi, 
five;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  eleven;  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  four- 
teen. The  Chi  Phis  will  give  us  their  votes,  as  they  are  too 
weak  to  do  anything. — Alexis  A.  Marshall,  Mercer  Uni- 
versity, to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Nov.  30,  1872. 

Our  present  number  is  eight,  with  a  prospect  of  three 
more  before  the  term  closes.  We  have  engaged  a  hall  and 
are  having  it  fitted  up.  The  committee  to  secure  a  hall  did 
a  great  deal  of  work,  for  halls  are  scarce  in  this  town.  How- 
ever, we  have  secured  a  good  one,  size  24  x  20,  with  four 
windows,  in  the  third  story  of  a  new  building. — Nelson  W. 
Cady,  Cornell  University,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  Dec.  2,  1872. 

Brother  Murrell  expects  to  go  to  Randolph- Macon  Col- 
lege Christmas  to  initiate  those  who  are  about  to  become  our 
fraters  in  the  organization  of  a  chapter  at  that  place. — J.  H. 
Bear,  Roanoke  College,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga., 
Dec.  6,  1872. 

I  see  by  the  papers  that  Oglethorpe  University  has  sus- 
pended for  a  time.  I  regret  that  exceedingly.  We  had  a 
fine  chapter  there,  and  the  loss  will  not  be  small.  Do  you 
think  the  boys  will  come  to  Athens  ?  Try  to  influence  them 
to  that  end.  We  of  the  Beta  need  some  men,  and  we  would 
be  most  happy  to  welcome  them  to  our  chapter. — Charles  M. 
Beckwith,  University  of  Georgia,  to  Charles  B.  Gaskill, 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  Dec.  13,  1872. 

Brothers  Murrell  and  Whitehurst  are  going  to  start  to 
Randolph- Macon  College  Thursday  to  establish  the  chapter 
there  which  I  spoke  of  in  ray  last  letter.  We  succeeded  in 
making  the  requisite  arrangements  for  the  establishment  of 
that  chapter  sooner  than  I  had  any  idea  of  when  it  was  first 
mentioned  among  the  members  here.  We  intend  to  try  the 
University  of  Virginia  soon;  if  we  do  not  succeed  this  year 
I  have  no  doubt  that  we  will  next,  as  several  of  our  mem- 
bers expect  to  go  there. — J.  H.  Bear,  Roanoke  College,  to 
Charles  B.  Gaskill,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Dec.  15,  1872. 


THE  SCROLL. 


NToN.  Kkntvckv  Beta, 

HENRY  VAN  NESS  BOYNTON,  KENTUCKY  BETA,  '58. 

General  H.  \'.  N.  Boynton  was  born  July  22,  18:^5.  at  West 
Stockbridge,  Mass.  ;  removed  to  Cincinnati  in  1S46  ;  was 
graduated  at  Woodward  College,  in  that  city,  and  subse- 
quently attended  and  was  graduated  from  Kentucky  Military 
Institute.  While  here  he  was  initiated  into  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
After  graduation  he  entered  the  faculty  as  professor  of  me- 
chanics and  astronomy,  and  received  the  degree  of  civil  en- 
gineer. 

He  entered  the  Union  army  in  18(il  as  major  of  the  Thirty- 
fifth  Ohio  Infantry  ;  was  lieutenant-colonel  in  command  of 
the  regiment  in  July,  l>'(iii,  and  commanded  it  to  the  end  of 
its  service,  except  when  disabled  by  wounds.     Hewasmus- 


THE  SCROLL.  367 

tered  out  in  September,  1864,  because  of  disability  from 
wounds  received  at  Missionary  Ridge.  He  was  brevetted 
brigadier- general  for  his  part  in  that  battle,  and  has  been 
given  the  congressional  medal  of  honor  for  it. 

Gen.  Boynton  has  been  engaged  in  journalism  in  Wash- 
ington since  December,  18()5.  He  originated  the  plan  of 
the  Chickamauga  and  Chattanooga  national  military  park, 
and  drew  the  bill  establishing  it,  which  incorporated  his 
plans.  He  is  the  chairman  and  historian  of  the  national 
park  commission.  The  plan  for  the  dedication  of  the  park, 
as^incorporated  in  the  law  providing  for  it,  was  also  his. 

A  Confederate  officer,  writing  in  the  Chattanooga  Times, 
says  of  this  work  of  Gen.  Boynton 's  : 

It  was  an  inspiration,  born  of  a  noble  mind,  whose  patriotic  breadth 
overlapped  the  extensive  battle-fields  and  reached  from  ocean  to 
ocean,  comprehending  in  its  scope  all  the  noble  attributes  that  belong 
to  the  very  highest  American  manhood. 

It  was  Gen.  Boynton 's  aspiration  to  memorialize  perpetually  and 
permanently  in  bronze,  marble,  and  steel  the  heroism  of  both  armies, 
causing  our  children  and  grandchildren  and  posterity  through  all 
coming  time  to  realize  the  height,  breadth,  and  depth  of  American 
valor. 


THE  FRATERNITY  LIBRARY. 

At  the  National  Convention  at  Philadelphia,  in  1890,  the 
Fraternity  saw  fit  to  create  the  office  of  librarian,  and 
elected  the  undersigned  to  that  position.  He  had  just 
closed  the  term  of  seven  years  service  as  editor  of  The 
ScROtrtr,  and  therefore  had  in  his  possession  a  great  many 
things  of  fraternity  interest  that  it  would  have  taken  a  long 
time  to  have  otherwise  accumulated.  Notwithstanding  this, 
however,  his  ideas  as  to  the  duties  entailed  by  such  an  office 
and  the  possibilities  of  the  library  to  the  Fraternity  were  de- 
cidedly vague.  Now,  after  something  more  than  a  year's 
time  has  elapsed  since  the  library  was  founded,  there  is 
dawning  a  better  conception  of  the  purposes  which  it  can 
serve,  and  what  things  it  may  gather  together  that  will  en- 
rich its  history  and  archives  to  our  successors.  Where  at 
first  a  few  shelves  in  a  store-room  were  expected  to  accom- 
modate amply,  it  is  now  found  that  three  large  book  cases 
in  the  officer's  library  are  already  filled,  while  the  store-room 
is  already  crowed  with  the  material  which  it  is  not  essential 
should  be  kept  on  accessible  shelves. 

The  statutes  of  the  Fraternity  specify  the  various  materi- 
als which  it  is  desired  shall  be  treasured  up  in  the  library. 
Of  these  it  now  may  be  said  that  we  have  a  fair  representa- 
tion.    The  file  of  The  Scroll  is  complete  from  Volume  I., 


368  THE  SCROLL. 

No.  1 ,  to  the  latest  issue,  while  duplicate  copies  of  all  the 
early  and  less  readily  obtained  issues  are  at  hand.  It  is  ex- 
pected to  make  complete  a  duplicate  file,  and  then  after  that 
all  other  copies. can  be  made  to  serve  chapters  and  others 
who  are  desiring  to  complete  their  files  of  this  publication. 
So,  too,  there  are  complete  files  of  the  Fraternity's  cata- 
logues and  song  books.  The  department  in  which  the 
library  is  most  incomplete  is  that  of  the  books,  monographs 
and  papers  of  which  members  of  the  Fraternity  are  the  au- 
thors. As  yet  but  few  such  have  been  collected.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  the  library  will  be  given  the  cordial  support 
of  all  members,  so  that  whenever  such  a  work  shall  come  to 
their  knowledge  a  copy  of  it  shall  be  placed  in  the  fraternity 
collection.  Outside  of  the  librarian's  personal  collection  of 
fraternity  photographs,  which  includes  quite  a  large  list, 
there  are  practically  no  contributions  in  this  line.  This  is 
an  important  department,  and  one  that  should  be  no  longer 
neglected.  Every  chapter  should  deposit  a  copy  of  its  an- 
nual photograph  in  the  library,  which  photograph  should  be 
accompanied  with  a  key  and  index  showing  the  names  of 
the  members  in  the  group.  The  value  of  such  collection  in 
a  few  years  would  be  inestimable.  It  is  hoped  that  every 
chapter  will  make  note  of  this  suggestion,  and  see  that 
proper  action  is  taken  which  will  insure  such  contribu- 
tions each  year.  Individual  photographs  in  the  case  of  un- 
dergraduates are  not  so  important,  but  those  of  prominent 
alumni  are  desired  equally  with  chapter  groups.  All  pho- 
tographs thus  sent  in  are  properly  indexed  and  preserved. 
The  collection  of  college  annuals  embraces  about  300  copies 
covering  a  period  of  eleven  years.  It  is  hoped  that  with  the 
assistance  of  the  editor  of  The  Scroll  this  collection  can 
be  enlarged  from  year  to  year. 

Coming  to  the  publication  of  other  fraternities  there  is  in 
the  library  at  least  one  edition  of  the  catalogue  of  practically 
every  general  college  fraternity.  The  list  for  each  frater- 
nity is  in  no  wise  complete,  and  in  a  great  many  cases  the 
copy  is  not  that  of  the  last  edition  published.  Here,  again, 
it  is  hoped  that  in  the  course  of  the  next  few  years  this  col- 
lection may  be  made  complete  by  securing  copies  that  will 
represent  practically  all  the  editions  issued:  especially  must 
this  be  made  complete  with  reference  to  late  publications. 
The  files  of  Greek-letter  fraternity  periodicals  is  no  limited 
one,  although  not  as  complete  as  it  promises  to  be  in  the 
near  future.  Efforts  are  now  being  made  to  fill  up  gaps  in 
files,  and  run  the  same  back  to  an  early  period.  These 
files  run  back  to  the  college  years  of  1S88-84,  the  time  that 


THE  SCROLL,  369 

Brother  W.  B.  Palmer  assumed  the  editorship  of  The 
Scroll.  Brother  Palmer  made  a  very  complete  collection 
during  his  term  of  editorship,  and  has  endeavored  to  add  to 
it  as  he  could  from  year  to  year. 

The  files  are  more  or  less  broken  from  1886  to  1888.  In 
the  last  named  year  the  undersigned  became  exchange  editor 
of  The  Scroll,  and  from  that  on  there  are  no  more  breaks 
than  those  occasioned  by  the  changes  in  management  of  the 
exchange  journals.  The  periodicals  of  which  we  have  the 
most  complete  files  are  those  of  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Delta  Kappa 
Kpsilon,  Kappa  Alpha  and  Phi  Kappa  Psi. 

Besides  these  there  are  numerous  miscellaneous  books  and 
pamphlets  issued  by  various  societies.  It  is  perfectly  safe 
to  estimate  that  the  library  now  contains  oOO  bound  vol- 
umes, and  not  less  than  1,200  pamphlets  and  magazines. 

In  this  connection  it  is  desired  to  acknowledge  the  gener- 
ous contributions  which  have  been  made  by  three  well- 
known  Phis.  At  the  beginning  of  the  year  Brother  Walter 
B.  Palmer  turned  over  to  the  library  his  magnificent  collec- 
tion of  fraternity  publications.  From  this  collection  our 
file  of  fraternity  periodicals  has  been  made  more  complete. 
From  it  came  our  entire  collection  of  fraternity  catalogues 
and  the  great  majority  of  the  miscellaneous  publications  of 
Greek-letter  societies.  Brother  Palmer's  collection  deserves 
to  rank  as  one  of  the  valuable  ones  among  college  men,  and 
was  no  doubt  the  most  complete  in  the  possession  of  any 
member  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  To  Brother  George  Banta  we 
are  indebted  for  a  very  complete  file  of  The  Scroll  from 
the  beginning,  several  editions  of  the  early  catalogues  of 
the  Fraternity  and  other  pamphlet  publications.  This  col- 
lection donated  by  Brother  Banta  was  that  of  his  deceased 
brother,  Charles,  a  member  of  the  Fraternity  who  died  but 
a  year  ago,  and  who  had  also  taken  a  marked  interest  in  all 
Phi  Delta  Theta  affairs.  The  other  collection  was  from 
a  source  very  similar.  Brother  A.  G.  Foster,  El  Paso, 
Texas,  was  an  associate  of  Brother  Banta  in  fraternity  work. 
He,  too,  had  a  brother,  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Samuel  Foster,  formerly  of  Villa  Vista,  Louisiana.  At  his 
death  his  collection  of  fraternity  periodicals  was  turned 
over  to  his  brother,  A.  G.  Foster,  and  these,  with  his  own. 
Brother  Foster  has  now  donated  to  the  library. 

All  contributions  to  the  library  are  properly  labeled,  show- 
ing the  name  of  the  member  giving  them,  and  the  time  that 
they  were  received.  It  is  hoped  this  resume  of  the  contents 
of  the  library  will  bring  it  more  particularly  to  the  attention 
of  the  Fraternity,  and  be  the  means  of  bringing  in  other 
contributions.  J.  E.  Brown. 


THE  SCROLL. 


The  accompanying  portrait  of  Colonel  Funston  appeared 
in  Harper's  Wii-kly  for  March  "i,  1H',)S^  aloug  with  a  bio- 
graphical notice  of  him.  To  this  issue  he  contributed  a 
spirited  sketch  of  the  battle  of  Desraayo,  '  The  Cuban  Bala- 
klava,'  in  which  he  took  part.  Here  47'-J  Cuban  cavalry 
were  sent  by  General  Gomez  against  2,ol)0  Spanish  infantry, 
losing  U">0  of  their  number  killed  and  wounded,  while  half 
the  sur\'ivors  had  their  horses  shot  under  ihem. 

Bro.  I-'unston,  to  whose  romantic  adventures  The  Scroll 
referred  at  length  in  April,  18517,  and  February,  18i>8,  is 
now  speaking  in  Kansas  in  behalf  of  the  Cubans. 


THE  SCROLL,  371 


^A  MISUNDERSTANDING/ 

The  *  Manual  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  issued  as  a  supplement 

to  The  Scroll  for  October,  1897,  contains  a  sketch  of  *  A  0, 

in  which  is  the  following  paragraph  : 

In  1885  the  active  members  of  the  \V.  W.  W.,  or  Rainbow  chapter, 
at  the  University  of  Texas  were  initiated  into  the  chapter  of  *  A  G,  and 
the  Southwestern  chapter  of  4>  A  6  was  formed  by  initiating  the  South- 
western chapter  of  W.  W.  W.  Both  of  these  Rainbow  chapters  had 
refused  to  accept  the  conditions  which  had  been  accepted  by  the  other 
chapters  of  their  fraternity  in  uniting  with  ATA. 

Under  the  heading  *A  Misunderstanding,'  the  editor  of 

the  Rainbow  of  A  T  A  says  in  the  issue  for  January,  181)8  : 

We  do  not  think  this  statement  covers  the  whole  case,  nor  did  IVIr. 
Palmer  intend  probably  that  it  should.  It  does,  however,  admit  the 
one  point  supposed  to  be  in  controversy,  which  is  that  the  Rainbow 
fraternity,  as  a  fraternity,  accepted  the  conditions  and  united  with 
ATA.  It  is  only  fair  to  state  that  our  fraternity  hoped  to  have  the 
University  of  Texas  chapter  of  W.  \V.  W.;  at  any  rate  that  insti- 
tution was  not  in  the  list  of  those  from  which  we  requested  the  Rain- 
bow fraternity  to  withdraw  before  the  union  took  place.  The  chapter 
at  the  Southik'estern  University^  hoicever^  Teas  tiepriied  of  its  charter 
by  the  Rainboic  fraternity.  This  zcas  done  at  the  request  of  our  cow- 
mittee.  Southwestern  University  was  in  the  list  of  four  institutions 
from  which  the  Rainbow  fraternity  withdrew  as  one  of  our  conditions 
of  uniting.  There  remained,  therefore,  three  chapters  of  W.  W.  W. 
The  fraternity,  as  a  fraternity  y  came  to  A  T  A  ;  the  University  of  Texas 
chapter,  through  circumstances  that  we  do  not  care  to  discuss,  joined 
*  AG. 

The  statement  quoted  from  the  *  Manual  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta '  is  exactly  true,  and  the  statement  that  the  W.  \V. 
W.  chapter  at  Southwestern  was  forced  out  of  the  ATA 
Rainbow  coalition  is  not  true,  as  can  be  proven  by  A  T  A  as 
well  as  *  A0  publications.  First,  however,  as  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  chapter.  In  The  Scroll  for  January, 
1886,  Constance  Pressels  gives  the  following  account  of 
members  of  W.  W.  W.  joining  the  University  of  Texas 
chapter  of  *  A  0  : 

Those  readers  of  The  Scroll  who  have  kept  abreast  of  fraternity 
news  are  aware  that,  for  the  last  year  or  more,  rumors  of  the  consol- 
idation of  W.  W.  W.  (Rainbow)  and  ATA  have  been  circulated.  vSev- 
eral  chapters  of  W.  W.  W.  refused  to  enter  ATA.  Among  these  was 
the  D.  V.  chapter  of  the  l;niversity  of  Texas.  The  members  of  the 
D.  V.  chapter  surrendered  their  charter,  and  being  no  longer  Romans, 
were  anxious  to  become  Greeks.  Thev  solicited  admission  into  4>  A  B, 
and  as  they  numbered  some  of  the  best  and  most  prominent  students 
of  the  university,  were  duly  admitted  and  initiated. 

As  to  the  Southwestern  chapter,  it  was  established  by  W. 
W.  W.  in  1882.     The  following  account  of  how  it  became  a 


37^  THE  SCROLL. 

chapter  of  *  A  0  was  written  by  Robert  A.  John,  and  ap- 
peared in  The  Scroll  for  May,  1886  : 

Sometime  in  May,  1S85,  we  were  informed  that  negotiations  had 
been  opened  between  ATA  and  our  fraternity  ( W.  W.  W.)  with  a  view 
to  consolidation.  At  the  opening  of  the  college  session  in  the  fall 
of  1885,  our  head  chapter  (at  Vanderbilt  I'niversity)  informed  us  that 
the  hybrid  would  be  called  the  'A  T  A-Rainbow,*  with  an  union  con- 
stitution, an  union  badge,  and  an  union  ritual — in  other  ^irords,  a  new 
fraternity,  half  Greek  and  half  Roman,  would  be  built  on  the  wreck 
of  both.  Internally  the  W.  W.  W.  was  a  weak  organization  ;  it  lacked 
ritual ;  it  taught  doctrines  that  the  war  had  settled,  and  was  distaste- 
ful to  true  republican  spirit.  Hoping  to  better  and  strengthen  our 
organization,  our  L.  S.  chapter  of  the  Southwestern  University  tele- 
graphed the  I.  P.  chapter  at  Vanderbilt  that  we  would  accept  those 
conditions  of  consoliciation.  I'pon  the  heels  of  this  we  received  from 
Nashville  the  following  official  communication  : 

Nashville,  Tknn.,  Oct.  13,  188r>. 
L.  S.  Chapter,  Rainhow  Fraternity. 

Tinttht'i's  ill  thf  Itttinhoir  Frolirnitii : 
Dear  Sirs  :  Find  within  terms  of  consolidation  between  the  W.  W.  W.s  and 
the  Delta  Tau  Deltas,  all  of  which  articles  have  been  ratified  by  the  Delta  Tau 
Delta  except  the  last  one,  which  will  undoubtedly  be  ratified  by  them  very  soon, 
as  we  were  informed  by  their  committee.  These  articles  have  been  agreea  to  by 
the  I.  P.  chapter  of  Vanderbilt  University ;  and,  in  behalf  of  the  I.  P.,  I  ask  you 
to  take  action  upon  them  as  soon  as  possible  and  let  us  hear  the  result.  By  doing 
so  you  wili  greatly  oblige.  Your  brother  in  W.  W.  W., 

Preston  Vaughan,  D.  V. 

The  tenns  of  consolidation  were  as  follows,  to  wit : 

Terms  of  consolidation  of  the  Rainbow  and  Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternities  : 

Article  1.  The  names  of  the  consolidated  fraternities  shall  be  Delta  Tau  Delta. 

Article  2.  The  fraternity  shall  be  divided  into  four  f^rand  divisions,  the  first 
of  which  shall  be  known  as'the  Rainbow  division,  and  this  shall  be  perpetual  ami 
shnll  im'luflrfilf  thf  nrit/intil  rfiapfrrs  of  tlw  Rainbmr  friitt-rnily. 

Article  .'t.  The  grand'  chapter  of  the'  Rainbow  division  .shall  be  located  with 
the  Vanderbilt  University  chapter,  unless  ordered  elsewhere  by  a  vote  of  said 
Rainbow  division,  and  then  shall  go  only  to  an  old  Rainbow  chapter. 

Article  4.  The  original  Rainbow  chapters  shall  always  have  at  least  one  rep- 
resentative in  the  executive  council. 

Article  5.  The  name  of  the  Delta  Tau  Delta  journal  shall  be  changed  from  the 
( 'rci^crnf  to  the  Rainlunr.  This  is  to  take  effect  upon  the  consolidation  of  the  two 
fraternities,  and  to  be  perpetual. 

These  terms  were  diametrically  opposed  to  those  we  had  been  led 
to  expect  would  be  made,  and  of  such  humiliating  nature  that  our 
chapter  determined  that  it  could  with  more  credit  to  itself  *  swap*  our 
Romanism  to  better  advantage,  and  treat  with  a  Grecian  order  more 
congenial  to  Texas  soil  than  the  ATA.  If  we  were  to  surrender  the 
old  obsolete  order  of  W.  W.  W.  unconditionally,  we  claimed  the  right 
to  say  to  whom  of  the  conquering  host  it  should  be.  About  this  time 
we  learned  that  the  Rainbow  members  at  Vanderbilt  wore  ATA  badges 
and  colors. 

Our  Austin  chapter  came  to  our  rescue  and  suggested  the  *  A  G. 
This  fraternity  was  the  largest  in  Texas ;  two  of  our  faculty  were 
loyal  Phis,  and  we  had  been  told  it  was  second  to  none  in  the  United 
States.  On  the  other  hand,  the  ATA  was  unknown  to  us,  there  being 
no  chapter  in  the  state  and  very  few  in  the  south.  Our  decision  was 
unanimous.  We  wrote  to  the  I.  P.  chapter  to  withdraw  our  charter  ; 
this  they  treated  with  silence.  We  then  bundled  charter  and  para- 
phernalia up  in  a  little  brown  package,  and  mailed  it  to  Nashville, 
and  sent  in  our  petition  to  the  *  A  6  for  a  charter. 

Our  reason  for  joining  the  *  A  O  is  plainly  this  :  we  preferred  it  to 


THE  SCROLL.  373 

any  other.  We  meant  no  discourtesy  to  A  T  As ;  their  merits  were 
un Known  to  us — this  may  arg^ue  ourselves  unknown.  But  as  it  was  a 
choice  of  Greek  letters,  we  chose  the  4>  A  8,  and  since  joining  her, 
have  been  signally  converted  to  the  precepts  and  practices  of  our  pres- 
.  cnt  order.  We  wish  success  to  all  the  A  T  As,  whether  old  Rainbows 
or  not ;  we  will  try  to  win  success  for  ourselves  as  4>  A  8s. 

fl 

These  statements  have  been  unchallenged  for  nearly  twelve 
years.  The  letter  from  the  head  Rainbow  chapter  at  Van- 
derbilt,  to  the  Southwestern  chapter,  as  well  as  the  third 
.  article  of  agreement  that  'all  the  original  chapters  of  the 
Rainbow  fratertiity '  should  be  included  in  the  new  Southern 
or  Rainbow  division,  is  sufficient  contradiction  of  the  asser- 
tion of  the  present  editor  of  the  Rainbow  that  the  South- 
western chapter  of  W.  W.  W.  was  excluded  from  join- 
ing in  the  union  with  ATA.  The  present  editor  of  the 
Rainbow  seems  to  seek  to  discredit  Southwestern  Univer- 
sity, as  if  it  were  not  up  to  the  ATA  standard.  Yet  ATA 
did  not  stick  at  Emory  and  Henry  College,  a  little  Virginia 
institution,  not  nearly  so  well  equipped  or  attended  as  South- 
western, and  where  the  chapter  died  very  soon  after  the 
consolidation.  And  it  appears  that  ATA  was  willing  then 
to  swallow  even  more  insignificant  schools. 

The  consolidation  was  consummated  on  March  27,  1886, 
that  being  the  date  when  the  Vanderbilt  Rainbows  were  in- 
itiated by  the  Sewanee  A  T  As.  An  editorial  account  of 
'the  consolidation  of  the  ATA  and  Rainbow'  was  published 
in  the  Crescent  of  A  T  A  for  March,  1886.  In  this  account 
nothing  whatever  is  said  about  withdrawal  from  Southwest- 
ern University.  Three  years  later,  in  March,  1889,  the 
Rainbow  of  A  T  A  published  a  similar  article  by  a  former 
member  of  W.  W.  W.,  who  said  that  W.  W.  W.  ratified  the 
articles  of  agreement  in  March,  1«S85,  *and  the  general  sec- 
retary of  A  T  A,  estimating  the  votes  of  a  few  of  their  chap- 
ters not  heard  from,  declared  the  consolidation  consummated.  * 
The  matter  becoming  known  was  commented  on  in  the 
Greek  press,  The  Scroll  giving  first  information.  The 
writer  continues: 

The  result  was  a  premature  explosion  on  the  part  of  some  of  the 
ATA  chapters.  This  had  the  effect  of  undoing  the  work  done,  and 
by  reason  of  the  delay  incident  to  going  through  the  work  anew,  the 
chapters  of  Rainbow  of  the  University  of  Texas,  University  of  Ten- 
nessee, Chamberlain-Hunt  Institute^  and  Southivcstern  University, 
were  lost.  One  of  the  causes  of  the  delay  in  negotiations  was  the  un- 
wise selection  of  name  for  the  conjoint  body  by  the  committee,  it  be- 
ing a  mixed  Greek  and  Roman  name,  ATA  -Rainbow.  The  con- 
solidation was  finally  effected  during  the  winter  of  188(),  but  the 
Emory  and  Henry  chapter  was  weak,  died  and  has  never  been  re- 


THE  SCROLL.  375 

vivcd.  Although  the  society  had  at  different  times  established 
fourteen  chapters  and  two  alumni  associations,  and  although  seven  of 
the  active  chapters  were  in  existence  at  the  time  of  the  consolidation 
with  ATA,  yet  the  University  of  Mississippi  and  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity chapters,  as  Pi  and  Lambda  of  A  T  A,  now  represent  to  the 
fraternity  world  all  that  remains  of  Rainbow  as  a  college  society. 

From  the  foregoing  it  is  evident  that  the  Southwestern 
chapter  of  W.  W.  W.  was  lost  to  ATA,  and  unwillingly 
lost.  The  documents  quoted  are  still  in  existence  and  they 
beyond  question  establish  the  fact  that  has  heretofore  been 
unquestioned,  viz.,  that  the  Southwestern  chapter  of  W.  W. 
W.  refused  to  enter  the  A  T  A — Rainbow  combine,  though 
urged  to  do  so.  It  should  be  noticed  that  4>  A  ©  did  not  in- 
terfere with  the  negotiations  between  W.  \V.  W.  and  ATA 
and  did  not  treat  with  the  two  Rainbow  chapters  in  Texas 
until  after  they  had  resigned  their  W.  W.  W.  charters. 

Waltkr  B.  Palmer. 


A  GREEK  VANDAL. 

The  return  trip  from  the  Atlanta  convention  was  mem- 
orable for  many  reasons.  Most  of  the  adventures  of  the 
party,  whose  constantly  decreasing  numbers  were  charac- 
terized by  even  more  rapidly  rising  hilarity,  have  been  re- 
ferred to  in  the  pages  of  The  Scroll.  The  party  has  since 
had  two  delightful  reunions,  the  first  with  Mrs.  John  Edwin 
Brown  and  Miss  Swope  as  hostesses,  at  Indianapolis,  in 
1894,  and  the  second  with  Mrs.  Brown,  at  Philadelphia,  in 
1890.  One  of  the  best  remembered  portions  of  this  journey 
was  the  part  that  lay  through  Mammoth  Cave.  Walter 
B.  Palmer  and  Eugene  H.  L.  Randolph,  some  years  before 
had  laid  the  foundation  of  the  4>  A  0  cairn,  and  at  the  time 
their  visits  were  made  the  guides  were  already  careful  to 
enjoin  abstinence  from  smoking  or  scratching  the  walls  with 
names  and  dates  ;  so  that  the  three  familiar  letters  standing 
out  so  prominently  on  the  rock  photographed  on  the  oppo- 
site page,  must  have  been  placed  there  in  early  times.  Who 
did  it  ? 

The  pictures  are  from  'The  Mammoth  Cave  of  Kentucky, 
an  Illustrated  Manual,'  by  H.  C.  Hovey,  D.  D.,  and  R.  C. 
Call,  Ph.  D.  The  book  is  published  by  John  P.  Morton  and 
Co.,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  whose  courtesy  we  acknowledge  in 
the  loan  of  the  accompanying  cut. 


376  THE  SCROLL. 


EDITORIAL. 

The  reports  from  our  alumni  chapters  show  that  the  ten- 
dency toward  a  more  general  and  more  regular  celebration 
of  Alumni  day  is  to  be  noted  this  year  as  in  1897.  Indeed, 
now  we  should  be  as  much  surprised  to  hear  of  the  suspen- 
sion or  decay  of  one  of  our  strongest  college  chapters  as  we 
should  be  to  find  that  Boston  or  San  Francisco,  to  take  two 
extreme  examples,  had  failed  to  report  an  annual  meeting. 
This  year  Los  Angeles  becomes  wide-awake  again,  and  bids 
fair  to  play  an  active  part  henceforth  in  Phi  Delta  Theta*s 
history  on  the  coast.  Cincinnati  and  Detroit  seem  about  to 
return  to  our  original  plan  of  monthly  meetings.  The 
alumnus  as  reporter  is  very  much  like  his  undergraduate 
brother,  however,  and  we  have  been  unable  to  secure  ac- 
counts of  two  or  three  successful  meetings,  of  which  hints 
came  to  us  from  outside  sources.  There  are  still  a  few  chap- 
ters that  have  suffered  the  loss  of  their  organizer  or  his  suc- 
cessor, but  the  general  officers  will  endeavor  to  reduce  fur- 
ther the  number  of  the  dormant  before  the  next  convention 
meets.  It  seems  that  the  Columbus  Phis  are  in  a  fair  way 
to  be  chartered,  and  we  have  rumors  of  like  tenor  from 
Providence  and  Syracuse  and  Buffalo.  It  is  evident  that 
Phi  Delta  Theta's  alumni  members  have  retained  to  a  large 
degree  the  undergraduate  loyalty  and  enthusiasm  to  which 
our  chapter  letters  bear  witness  from  issue  to  issue  of  The 
Scroll. 


One  thing  a  few  of  our  alumni  chapters  have  yet  to  learn 
is  how  to  adapt  oneself  to  circumstances.  If  a  city  is  given 
to  formal  banquets,  and  its  professional  and  business  men 
find  time  to  dress  elaborately  and  eat  nine-course  dinners, 
celebrate  in  this  way,  by  all  means.  But  if,  as  is  more  of- 
ten the  case,  time  is  the  scarcest  article  on  the  market,  and 
formality  rather  dreaded  than  reverenced,  why  not  lunch 


THE  SCROLL,  377 

informally  at  noon  at  some  well-known  restaurant  or  hotel, 
or  dine  at  six  in  business  dress?  Among  Phis  why  should 
an  engraved  announcement  and  three  weeks'  warning  be  re- 
quired? One  very  successful  meeting  was  held  recently, 
where  the  members  were  all  notified  by  telephone  from  the 
reporter's  office  two  hours  before,  and  mine  host  consulted 
after  this  had  been  done.  If  the  object  is  to  meet  and  to 
enjoy  the  meeting  there  is  no  valid  excuse  for  either  failure 
or  postponement. 


The  charters  of  Michigan  Beta  and  Michigan  Gamma  have 
been  withdrawn,  this  action  taking  effect  on  commence- 
ment day,  1898.  The  General  Council  was  instructed  by 
the  Philadelphia  convention  to  investigate  the  condition  and 
standing  of  the  two  institutions  at  which  these  chapters  are 
located,  and  to  act  as  circumstances  demanded.  After  a 
careful  investigation  and  a  visit  of  a  member  of  the  General 
Council  at  Hillsdale  and  Lansing,  the  action  indicated  above 
was  decided  upon,  and  it  has  been  approved  by  the  chapters 
of  Delta  province. 

The  charter  of  Michigan  Beta  is  withdrawn  because  of  the 
low  standard  of  the  school.  When  the  chapter  was  estab- 
lished there,  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  the  requirements 
for  admission  were  not  materially  lower  than  those  of  many 
western  institutions,  and  the  understanding  and  expectation 
were  that  they  would  be  raised.  It  was  thought  that  at  Lan- 
sing the  state  of  Michigan  would  build  up  a  great  school  of 
technology,  and  at  Ann  Arbor  a  college  of  liberal  arts. 
The  school  has  never  been  permitted,  however,  by  the  legis- 
lature of  Michigan  to  raise  its  requirements  for  admission, 
and  though  the  work  done  in  the  class  room  is  of  excellent 
quality  and  the  equipment  fairly  complete,  the  amount  of 
work  offered  and  required  in  the  literary  departments  is  not 
what  it  should  be.  The  chapter  occupies  a  handsome  suite 
of  rooms  and  has  an  excellent  record  for  loyalty  and  prompt- 
ness. It  has  graduated  many  men  who  are  known  through 
the  whole  Fraternity  and  the  college  world  generally.  For 
these  reasons,  action  was  long  delayed  and  only  taken  with 


378  THE  SCROLL. 

great  regret.  We  shall  not  lose  these  alumni,  however,  nor 
our  interest  and  pride  in  them,  and  we  shall  realize  that  we 
have  done  our  duty.  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  the  last  general 
fraternity  at  Lansing,  if  we  except  the  engineering  frater- 
nity of  Tau  Beta  Pi.  There  are  several  literary  societies 
which  are  practically  local  fraternities,  however. 

Michigan  Gamma's  charter  is  withdrawn  on  account  of 
the  decrease  in  attendance  at  Hillsdale  and  lack  of  suitable 
fraternity  material.  When  the  charter  was  granted,  sixteen 
years  ago,  the  attendance  was  between  700  and  800  in  the 
whole  school,  and  176  were  enrolled  in  the  four  college 
classes.  A  T  A  was  the  only  men's  fraternity  there.  Last  year 
the  attendance  in  all  departments  was  303  and  the  number 
in  the  four  college  classes  barely  90.  This  gives  fifty  male 
students  for  three  fraternities  to  select  from.  The  require- 
ments for  admission  and  for  graduation  at  Hillsdale  are 
high.  The  work  done  is  good.  The  chapter,  though  weak 
in  numbers  because  of  its  constant  determination  to  initiate 
none  but  good  men,  has  been  faithful  in  all  its  duties.  It 
has  sent  out  many  prominent  alumni,  several  of  whom  are 
not  now  credited  to  Michigan  Gamma,  as  they  should  be, 
because  they  affiliated  later  with  other  chapters.  The  chap- 
ter had  a  house  last  year  and  occupies  part  of  one  at  the 
present  time.  Delta  Tau  Delta  and  Alpha  Tau  Omega  have 
chapters  there,  as  have  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  and  Pi  Beta 
Phi. 

Phi  Delta  Theta,  after  June  17,  will  have  sixty-three 
chapters  on  her  roll,  and  it  is  voicing  the  sentiment  of  the 
Fraternity,  though  the  editor  makes  the  statement  on  his 
own  responsibility,  to  say  that  we  have  no  fears  now  for  the 
future  of  any  of  these  or  of  the  institutions  in  which  they 
are  located.  In  the  last  two  and  a  half  years  eight  charters 
have  been  withdrawn  or  surrendered:  Richmond,  Roanoke, 
Southern,  Buchtel,  Illinois  Wesleyan,  Wooster,  Michigan 
State  and  Hillsdale.  Of  these  Wooster  and  Buchtel  are 
suspended  until  the  next  convention,  when  they  will  be 
definitely  withdrawn,  unless  conditions  have  so  far  improved 
as  to  justify  their  revival. 


THE  SCROLL,  379 

Readers  of  The  Scroll  who  live  in  those  benighted  re- 
gions where  Chicago  newspapers  are  not  read,  have  doubtless 
been  curious  to  know  the  details  of  a  matter  referred  to  in  the 
last  paragraph  of  Illinois  Alpha's  chapter  letter  in  the  Feb- 
ruary issue.  Inasmuch  as  this  affair  seems  to  have  consisted 
more  largely  of  comments  than  of  facts,  it  is  perhaps  more 
proper  to  mention  it  here  than  among  our  news  items. 

The  Chicago  Post  of  January  29  contained  an  article  got- 
ten up  in  the  sensational  style  so  familiar  of  late,  in  which 
it  was  stated  with  much  elaboration  of  detail  that  Illinois 
Alpha  of  Phi  Deta  Theta  had  tried  unsuccessfully  to  lift  the 
Northwestern  chapter  of  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  whose  mem- 
bership had  become  reduced  to  five  men.  The  article  in 
question  bore  so  many  2  A  E  ear-marks;  the  position  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta  in  regard  to  lifting  and  the  record  of  Illi- 
nois Alpha  as  an  honorable  chapter  were  so  well  known,  that 
the  General  Council  saw  no  occasion  for  serious  concern. 
In  view,  however,  of  the  gravity  of  the  charge  and  the  pub- 
licity given  it,  Illinois  Alpha  was  asked  for  all  the  facts  in 
the  case,  so  far  as  known  to  her,  for  presentation  to  the 
members  of  the  Fraternity  through  The  Scroll  and  for 
reference  to  the  next  convention. 

Some  days  after  the  publication  of  this  article  in  the  Post 
the  chief  executive  officer  of  2  A  E,  known  in  that  fraternity 
as  the  Eminent  Supreme  Archon,  wrote  to  the  President  of 
the  General  Council  of  4>  A  0,  'requesting'  him  to  'seek  out 
and  punish'  all  Phis  who  'took  part  in  this  act.'  The  Secre- 
tary of  the  General  Council  informed  the  Eminent  Supreme 
Archon  that  it  is  not  the  business  of  Phi  Delta  Theta' s 
executive  officers  to  'punish'  individual  members,  but  that 
the  matter  would  certainly  be  sifted,  and  the  facts  reported 
to  the  next  convention. 

Meanwhile,  the  March  number  of  the  2  A  E  Record  was 
delayed  some  time  (how  long  we  can  not  tell,  as  The  Scroll 
was  not  favored  with  a  copy  until  the  editor  wrote  for  it, 
having  met  quotations  therefrom  in  other  exchanges)  in 
order  to  permit  the  preparation  of  eight  pages  of  matter  on 
this  subject,  a  portion  of  which,  consisting  of  the  0  A  X 


380  THE  SCROLL. 

Shield's  account  of  a  recent  lifting  by  K  A,  had  been  given 
in  the  February  Scroll  with  comments  which  should  have 
left  no  doubts  in  the  mind  of  the  average  reader  as  to 
4>  A  ©'s  views  on  lifting.  The  Record  gives  an  account  of 
the  alleged  attempt  as  furnished  by  the  Evanston  2  A  Es, 
together  with  the  other  developments  we  have  noted,  and 
proceeds  to  place  before  4>  A  0  a  dilemma,  with  which  the 
traditional  devil  and  deep  sea  or  frying  pan  and  fire  are  weak 
and  watery  comparisons.  The  editor  sees  no  escape  for  us 
except  an  acknowledgment  that  the  Fraternity  authorizes  or 
allows  lifting,  or  that  Illinois  Alpha  is  a  dishonorable  and 
disgraced  chapter.  He  generously  forbears  to  condemn  ab- 
solutely either  4>  A  0  or  Illinois  Alpha,  though  he  has  *lost 
what  respect  he  had  for  the  prosperity  and  influence  of  the 
Phi  Delta  Theta  and  her  members. '  This  self-restraint  seems 
to  be  a  marked  characteristic  of  2  A  E,  for  the  same  editor, 
though  *  urged  to  write  a  stinging  article  of  rebuke  for  the 
benefit  of  the  fraternity  world,'  is  disposed  to  give  4>  A  0  '  a 
chance  to  explain.'  The  Northwestern  2  A  E  chapter,  too, 
after,  according  to  its  story,  having  waited  twenty- four 
hours  to  give  an  oral  answer  to  4>  A  0,  decided  to  follow  this 
up  with  a  written  one.  Their  'first  impulse  was  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  chance  to  write  some  communication  expres- 
sive of  their  contempt,'  but  on  deliberation  they  restrained 
themselves  and  drew  up  a  dignified  document. 

If  the  editor  of  the  Record  is  really  curious  to  know  the  at- 
titude of  *  A  0  toward  lifting,  let  him  ask  some  of  his  brother 
editors  who  are  more  familiar  with  the  fraternity  history 
of  the  last  decade  what  Thk  Scroll  had  to  say  about 
lifting  apropos  of  ^  Y  at  Wisconsin  or  of  A  K  E  at  Minnesota, 
for  example,  to  ignore  the  0  A  X-K  A  matter  discussed  in 
the  last  issue.  We  are  pleased  to  know  that  2  A  E  now 
has  laws  which  would  not  allow  her  to  form  a  chapter,  as 
she  did  at  Mt.  Union,  in  IS.S'),  from  former  members  of  an- 
other existing  general  fraternity.  We  trust  she  may  soon 
have  laws  forbidding  the  initiation  of  honorary  members, 
and  thus  make  further  progress. 

As  for  Illinois  Alpha,  that  chapter  also  has  a  record  and 


THE  SCROLL,  381 

convictions  against  lifting.  The  first  letter  that  came  to  the 
editor  was  from  its  president,  who  said  that  no  attempt  to 
lift  the  2  A  E  chapter  had  been  either  acted  upon  or  consid- 
ered, and  that  he  knew  nothing  of  this  affair  until  after  it 
was  reported  to  have  occurred,  and  however  ^honorable'  and 
*splendid*  the  history  and  record  of  2  A  E  may  be  at  North- 
western, to  use  the  adjectives  employed  by  the  2  A  E  cor- 
respondent of  the  Post,  we  think  Illinois  Alpha's  history  and 
record  entitle  her  to  equal  respect  and  her  official  statements 
to  equal  credence,  to  say  the  least. 

The  member  of  the  chapter  who  is  alleged  to  have  been 
concerned  in  an  attempt  to  lift  tells  us  that  the  2  A  E  chap- 
ter of  five  had  been  twice  reported  to  be  about  to  send  in  its 
charter  and  seek  other  fraternity  affiliations.  They  claim  to 
have  had  bids  from  two  or  three  leading  Northwestern  chap- 
ters before  *  A  0's  alleged  offer.  Their  one  pledged  man 
resigned  and  was  taken  into  4>  K  2.  So,  in  a  purely  in- 
formal and  personal  conversation  a  2  A  E  was  asked  as  to 
the  truth  of  these  rumors  of  dissolution,  and  he  replied  in 
the  same  spirit,  not  denying  the  reports  but  intimating  that 
the  matter  was  still  under  advisement.  He  further  said  that 
the  chapter  had  found  itself  seriously  handicapped  by  the 
rumors  afloat  and  that  he  was  glad  to  be  asked  openly  about 
them,  as  it  gave  2  A  E  a  chance  to  answer  without  making 
her  position  worse.  Our  correspondent  believes  that  it 
was  simply  a  desire  on  the  part  of  2  A  E  to  improve  her 
position  in  Northwestern  fraternity  circles  that  led  to  the 
writing  and  publication  of  that  after-thought  letter.  As  to 
what  the  Chicago  Posi  printed,  we  trust  the  Record  and  our 
exchanges  will  not  regard  too  seriously  the  productions  of  a 
man,  an  alumnus  of  2  A  E,  who  was  last  year  forced  by  the 
Northwestern  faculty  to  retract  false  and  scandalous  reports 
he  had  published  about  the  university,  and  who  thus  alone 
saved  himself  from  expulsion. 

We  can  hardly  blame  the  Record  for  its  inclination  to  be- 
lieve 2  A  E  witnesses.  Possibly  we  may  be  allowed  the  same 
confidence  in  our  own.     We  are  perfectly  willing  to  let  the 


382  THE  SCROLL, 

rest  of  the  fraternity  world  choose  between  them,  taking 
into  consideration  what  we  have  just  set  forth. 

We  trust  that  we  have  at  least  made  it  clear  that  4>  A  0  is 
not  among  the  fraternities  that  still  tolerate  lifting,  and  that 
Illinois  Alpha  is  in  full  accord  with  the  Fraternity  on  the 
question.  We  do  believe  that  it  was  very  indiscreet  for  any 
Northwestern  Phi  to  have  discussed  with  a  member  of 
another  fraternity  the  subject  of  surrendering  a  charter,  as 
such  conversations  are  only  too  likely  to  be  misrepresented 
and  used  for  advertising  purposes.  We  think,  too,  that 
fraternity  men  anywhere  are  unjust  in  circulating  damaging 
rumors  about  weak  chapters.  If  there  was  internal  dissen- 
sion, as  was  alleged  in  this  case,  it  would  work  out  its  own 
penalty  very  soon;  if  not,  such  gossip  was  cruelly  unfair. 
We  can  not  see,  however,  that  the  weak  chapter  betters  its 
position  by  seeking  to  climb  back  to  importance  through 
means  best  known  to  yellow  journalism. 


Before  the  rush  of  commencement  comes,  there  are  two 
or  three  important  matters  that  should  claim  the  attention  of 
every  chapter.  We  take  it  for  granted  that  the  publication 
in  this  issue  of  the  names  of  those  delinquent  with  historian's 
reports  will  result  in  this  matter  being  cleared  up  at  once. 
The  numbers  of  circular  letters  received  is  now  considerably 
above  what  it  was  last  year,  and  we  shall  expect  to  hear 
from  most  of  the  remaining  chapters  during  April  and  May. 
The  chapter's  finances,  however,  must  be  looked  after  im- 
mediately. All  local  bills  which  fall  due  between  now  and 
October  1  should  be  provided  for  this  month,  and  a  receipt 
in  full  secured  from  the  Treasurer  of  the  General  Council.  It 
is  so  well  known  to  every  college  man  that  collections  can 
scarcely  ever  be  made  the  last  few  weeks  of  the  college  year, 
or  from  men  who  have  left  college,  that  we  wonder  why  we 
repeat  it  here,  but  chapters  and  their  treasurers  go  on 
making  this  mistake  from  year  to  year,  none  the  less.  Be 
business  like.  Save  yourselves  trouble  and  expense  next 
fall,  for  you  who  return  will  have  to  settle  every  one  of  these 
accounts.     Now  is  the  best  time  to  do  it. 


THE  SCROLL,  383 

Another  thing  that  should  receive  attention  this  term  is 
the  training  of  the  freshmen.  They  will  be  your  best  rush- 
ers next  fall,  with  a  little  direction  from  the  class  of  1900, 
and  this  is  the  time  to  see  that  they  know  the  history  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  her  purposes  and  achievements^  her  geogra- 
phy and  biography,  her  position  among  her  rivals.  A  care- 
ful study  of  the  Manual  will  secure  this,  and  every  chapter 
should  provide  itself  with  copies  enough  to  supply  every 
rusher  and  every  man  rushed. 


This  is  the  time,  too,  to  make  definite  chapter  house 
plans  for  next  fall.  We  have  had  enough  'discussion'  and 
'enthusiasm'  and  'movements'  from  some,  and  talk  of  'local 
conditions'  and  'impracticability'  from  others.  We  have 
chapters  enough  housed  now  to  know  how  the  thing  can  be 
done.  Write  to  Wisconsin,  to  Union,  to  Vanderbilt,  and  find 
how  they  managed  it,  if  your  own  plans  do  not  satisfy  you. 
But  have  definite  plans,  and  keep  at  work  in  accordance 
with  them.  One  man  who  pushes  a  chapter  house  scheme 
steadily  for  two  years  can  make  it  a  success  anywhere.  The 
trouble  is  there  is  too  much  talk  and  too  little  work,  and 
what  work  is  done  is  too  spasmodic.  Perfect  your  chapter 
house  plans  now. 


The  chapters  of  Epsilon  province  will  meet  on  May  12,  13 
and  14  with  Nebraska  Alpha,  at  Lincoln.  All  the  chapters 
in  the  province  were  notified  early  in  March,  so  that  no 
official  announcement  is  considered  necessary  at  this  time. 
Bro.  J.  G.  Wallace,  president  of  the  province,  authorizes 
The  Scroll,  however,  to  extend  a  cordial  invitation  to  all 
western  Phis,  undergraduates  and  alumni,  to  attend  the  ses- 
sions of  the  convention.  Every  chapter,  save  the  two  in 
California,  is  confidently  expected  to  send  a  delegate,  and 
we  trust  there  will  not  be  one  delinquent.  We  may  be  doing 
the  California  and  Stanford  chapters  injustice,  however,  and 
if  they  want  to  learn  what  a  rousing  welcome  is,  let  them 
be  represented. 


384  THE  SCROLL, 

The  Scroll  is  inclined  to  think  that  there  has  been  too 
much  passing  of  war  resolutions  by  colleges  and  fraternities, 
too  free  tenders  of  military  service.  If  these  resolutions  and 
offers  were  not  to  be  given  to  the  daily  papers,  and  if  they 
were  sure  to  be  taken  literally  and  accepted  bj'  the  govern- 
ment, they  would  not  be  so  numerous.  Cuba  must  be  freed, 
but  it  is  pitiful  to  see  political  parties  and  newspapers  and 
colleges  and  fraternities  trying  to  help  themselves  along 
while  ostensibly  trying  to  help  Cuba.  The  same  tendency 
was  manifested  during  the  war  of  Greece  with  Turkey  last 
year.  If  fraternities  and  colleges  wish  to  contribute  to  re- 
lieve distress  among  Greek  refugees  or  starving  Cubans,  or 
to  help  build  a  monument  to  the  men  who  perished  on  the 
Maine,  or  if  individuals  enlist,  well  and  good.  But  the  true 
American  does  his  duty  where  circumstances  place  him,  and 
in  a  war  with  Spain  is  as  potent  a  factor,  though  perhaps  si- 
lent, in  his  shop  or  office  or  class  room,  as  on  the  deck  of  a 
battleship.  It  is  no  proof  of  patriotism  to  burn  men  in  effigy 
or  call  them  names  at  a  safe  distance. 


4>  K  2  at  Evanston  is  gaining  an  unenviable  reputation 
for  her  lifting.  The  recent  offense  against  2  X  was  by  no 
means  her  first.  The  fact  that  the  two  men  lifted  were  soon 
afterward  expelled  from  the  university  shows  what  sort  of 
men  are  most  likely  to  disregard  their  initiation  oath.  No 
chapter  loses  in  having  a  man  lifted:  it  is  well  rid  of  him. 
But  the  man  himself  and  the  guilty  chapter  lose  a  great  deal 
from  their  connection  with  such  a  disgraceful  performance. 

A  LETTER  FROM  ROBERT  MORRISON. 

Fulton,  Missouri,  March  19,  1S98. 

My  Dear  Brother:  The  fifteenth  of  this  month  was  indeed 
a  red-letter  day  to  me  ! 

The  morning's  mail  brought  a  letter  from  Bro.  J.  E.  Brown 
stating  that  there  had  just  been  sent  by  express  '  a  package 
containing  what  is  hoped  will  be  a  most  pleasant  reminder 
of  your  birthday  and  what  it  means  to  the  members  of  the 
Phi  Delta  Theta.     It  carries  with  it  the  warm  love  and  es- 


THE  SCROLL,  385 

teem  of  the  hundreds  and  thousands  of  the  brothers  in  the 
Bond  who  have  followed  you  in  the  faith  of  Phi  Delta  Thela.' 

The  express  office  was  promptly  visited,  and  behold  a 
book  !  a  beautiful,  magnificent  and  unique  volume  !  unique 
for  it  is  hardly  probable  that  on  earth  there  are  many  like 
it,  but  superb,  as  it  is,  what  it  vieans  is  a  thing  of  greater 
interest  and  value,  as  it  is  a  symposium  of  testimonials  of 
regard  and  kind  feeling  from 

The  Chapters,  Ofi&cers  and  Members 
of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity, 
embracing  in   their   ranks   many   of   the  choicest   men   in 
America. 

I  accept  this  elegant  souvenir,  waiving  its  extravagant 
words  of  eulogy,  knowing  as  I  do  that  they  were  not  uttered 
by  triflers  or  men  of  double  tongues. 

While  I  do  so,  however,  with  the  deepest  gratitude  of  my 
heart,  I  know  well  that  I  do  not  deserve  such  a  royal  tribute. 
I  have  done  a  little,  very  little,  for  the  advancement  of  the 
Order,  certainly  not  more  than  my  duty,  and  doing  that, 
though  only  in  a  small  degree,  I  was  rewarded  at  the  time 
by  the  approbation  of  a  good  conscience,  and  that  is  no  slight 
pleasure.  I  do  not  deserve  more  than  that  ;  and  I  dare  not 
be  satisfied  with  less. 

Such  a  fraternity,  so  grand  and  so  honored  in  so  many 
ways,  deserves  to  have  such  a  founder  as  they  who  have 
never  seen  or  known  me  fancy  that  I  am,  because,  in  their 
imaginations,  I  ought  so  to  be, — a  founder  much  greater 
and  wiser  than  the  poor,  plain,  matter-of-fact  man  that  I 
happen  to  be. 

I,  however,  feel  thankful  to  (lOd  that  he  has  permitted 
me  to  have  any  place  of  usefulness  in  such  a  noble  brother- 
hood :  though  alas  !  my  work,  all  the  time,  has  been  very 
imperfect. 

To  the  chapters  of  undergraduates  and  alumni,  to  the  Gen- 
eral Council  and  to  all  the  individual  members  of  4>  A  0  I 
to-day,  through  Thk  Scroll,  with  uncovered  head,  make 
a  thrice  profound  bow  for  such  a  birthday  gift. 

And  that  the  Grand  Pilot  of  the  universe,  who  has  brought 
our  good  ship  Phi  Delta  Theta  safely  through  stormy  waters 
and  dangerous  quicksands  for  half  a  hundred  years  may  con- 
tinue at  the  helm  to  guide  us  until  we  all  reach  the  haven 
of  eternal  rest  and  blessedness,  is  the  sincere,  ardent  prayer  of 

Robert  Morrison,  Ohio  Alpha,  '40. 

To  the  P:ditor  of  The  vScroll. 


3^6  THE  SCROLL, 


Chapter  Correspondence. 

ALPHA  PROVINCE. 

MAINE  ALPHA.  COLBY  UNIVERSITY. 

The  realization  of  the  sum  of  sixty  thousand  dollars,  for  which  Colby 
has  been  making  vigorous  efforts,  brings  the  university  to  what  seems 
to  be  the  beginning  of  an  era  of  prosperity.  It  is  expected  that  as 
soon  as  the  present  plans  for  improvement  are  completed  a  new  effort 
will  be  made  to  add  a  much  larger  sum  to  the  established  fund  of  the 
university.  Already  plans  are  being  prepared  for  the  new  chemical 
and  biological  laboratory,  and  as  soon  as  the  season  permits  the  foun- 
dations will  be  laid  for  one  of  the  finest  scientific  buildings  in  Maine. 
The  ladies'  dormitory  is  soon  to  follow. 

The  recent  death  of  Prof.  W.  A.  Rogers  has  cast  a  feeling  of  sadness 
over  the  entire  college.  Prof.  Rogers  was  called  to  the  chair  of  phys- 
ics and  astronomy  in  1886,  having  already  made  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion as  a  teacher  and  original  investigator.  From  that  time  until  his 
recent  illness  he  gave  himself  to  the  duties  of  his  department  and  to 
his  favorite  lines  of  investigation  in  such  a  manner  as  to  add  much  to 
the  fame  of  the  university.  He  was  peculiarly  beloved  by  the  students 
and  by  all  who  associated  with  him.  His  successor  in  the  department 
will  be  Prof.  Gordon  E.  Hull,  of  Chicago  University. 

The  Colby  glee  club,  under  the  management  of  Bro.  H.  S.  Brown, 
has  just  returned  from  an  extended  trip  through  the  northern  part  of 
the  state.  Not  only  have  good  audiences  and  popularity  met  them  at 
every  point,  but  an  unusual  degree  of  pecuniary  success  has  been  the 
result  of  the  trip.  Several  shorter  trips  will  be  taken  during  the  com- 
ing term. 

The  debating  contest  between  Bates  and  Colby  was  one  of  the  finest 
that  has  taken  place  here  for  a  long  time.  A  turn  of  the  argument 
obliged  the  final  speaker  on  the  Colby  team  to  abandon  half  what  he 
had  prepared  and  speak  extemporaneously.  This  was  done  in  a  man- 
ner which  won  the  compliments  of  many  who  did  not  know  the  diffi- 
culty in  which  he  was  placed.  The  debate  was  won,  and  well  won, 
by  Colby. 

In  the  senior  class  elections  for  18iKS  Bro.  Foye  was  made  chaplain, 
Bro.  Cook,  prophet,  and  Bro.  Fuller,  marshal;  in  the  junior  class  Bro. 
Chase  was  chosen  historian,  Bro.  Waldron,  marshal,  and  Bro.  Brown, 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  Bro.  Cook  was  one  of  the 
speakers  in  the  senior  prize  contest  in  composition,  and  Bro.  Chase 
has  received  an  appointment  as  one  of  the  junior  prize  debaters. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  every  chapter  and  Phi,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Waterville,  March  21,  1898.  W.  B.  Chase. 

NEW  HAHPSHIRE  ALPHA,  DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE. 

The  winter  term  closes  at  Dartmouth  on  April  7.  The  only  events  of 
particular  interest  during  the  winter  have  been  the  lectures  by  Rob- 
ert Harper  and  Colonel  Walterson,  and  the  indoor  meets  in  Boston 
during  February,  to  which  Dartmouth  sent  relay  teams  to  compete 
with  Brown  and  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 


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During  the  past  week  the  last  vestige  of  four  feet  of  snow  has  disap- 
peared from  the  campus,  and  every  afternoon  the  place  is  alive  with 
candidates  for  the  base  ball  and  track  athletic  teams.  It  is  too  early 
to  make  any  forecast  of  our  prospects,  but  every  effort  is  being  made 
to  put  winning  teams  into  the  field,  and  with  the  loss  of  but  few  strong 
men  by  graduation,  Dartmouth  has  hopes  of  winning  her  usual  share 
of  athletic  laurels. 

Since  our  last  letters  we  have  initiated  seventeen  new  members,  and 
we  take  pride  in  presenting  to  the  Fraternity  :  Carl  Maynard  Owen, 
Jacksonville,  111.,  and  Channing  Tewksbury  Sanborn,  Concord,  N.  H., 
of  the  class  of  1900  ;  and  Bernard  Quincy  Bond,  Littleton,  N.  H.;  Sel- 
wyn  Kenson  Dearborn,  Clinton,  Mass.;  Edgar  Hayes  Hunter,  Somer- 
ville,  Mass.;  Homer  Chandler  Ladd,  Brookfield,  Mass.;  Richard  Ed- 
wards Leach,  Denver,  Colo.;  James  Edward  McCarten,  Lancaster,  N. 
H.;  Edward  Neil  McMillan,  Hyde  Park,  Mass. ;  Leon  Orlando  Merrill, 
Gilmanton,  N.  H.;  Guy  Clifton  Ricker,  Croton,  Me.;  Daniel  Ashton 
Rollins,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Simon  Henry  Salomon,  Groveton,  N.  H.; 
Leon  Alfred  Salinger,  Rochester,  N.  H. ;  Royal  Bradford  Thayer,  So. 
Braintree,  Mass.;  Harry  Orbert  Washburne,  Hartford,  Vt.;  Theodore 
Newton  Wood,  Middleboro,  Mass.,  all  of  the  class  of  1901. 

All  of  our  new  brothers  are  entering  with  great  zest  into  fraternity 
and  college  work.  Several  are  accomplished  pianists,  and  Bro.  Thayer 
sang  first  tenor  in  the  glee  club  this  winter.  Bro.  Hunter  led  his  class 
in  scholarship  for  the  first  term.  Bro.  Ladd  played  on  his  class  foot  ball 
team  last  fall,  and  Bros.  Washburne  and  McCarten  on  their  class  base 
ball  team.  The  last  two  and  Bro.  Fairfield,  1900,  are  promising  can- 
didates for  the  'varsity  nine.  Bro.  Leach  is  one  of  our  most  genial 
assistants  in  the  college  library,  having  had  considerable  experience 
in  library  work  in  the  Denver  public  library  before  entering  Dart- 
mouth. Bros.  Merrill  and  Ricker  received  the  first  and  third  prizes 
at  our  annual  fraternity  prize  speaking  last  week,  Bro.  Sawin,  '98, 
receiving  second  prize. 

At  the  annual  'class  of  '06  and  Rollins'  prize  speaking  held  this 
month,  Bro.  Chase,  '99,  took  the  first  prize  in  origmal  orations,  and 
Bro.  Sawin,  '98,  secured  a  place  in  the  extemporaneous  debate  for  the 
seniors.  Bro.  Barney  Musgrove,  '99,  and  Tirrell,  1900,  have  parts  in 
the  play  to  be  presented  by  the  Buskin  next  week.  Bro.  Barney  rep- 
resented Dartmouth  at  the  third  international  convention  of  the  stu- 
dent volunteer  movement  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  February  23-27.  He 
returned  reporting  a  most  cordial  reception  and  entertainment  by  our 
brothers  of  the  Case  School.  Bro.  Musgrove  was  elected  assistant  ed- 
itor of  The  Dartmouth  early  in  the  month,  and  will  be  editor-in-chief 
next  year. 

We  greatly  miss  Bros.  H.  H,  Lewis,  '99,  and  Balkam,  1900.  Bro. 
Lewis  has  just  left  us  to  accept  an  excellent  position  in  the  engineer- 
ing department  of  the  New  England  Railroad  Company  at  Boston. 
He  expects  to  return  next  year  and  enter  the  Thayer  School  of  Civil 
Engineering.  Bro.  Lewis  was  one  of  our  best  athletes  and  will  be 
missed  at  the  meet  in  Worcester  next  May.  He  practically  won  the 
meet  for  us  last  year.  Bro.  Balkam  was  obliged  to  leave  us  at  Christ- 
mas time  on  account  of  his  eyes,  and  does  not  know  yet  whether  he 
can  return  next  year.  Bro.  Tirrell,  1900,  is  leader  of  the  Dartmouth 
orchestra. 

Our  meetings  have  been  very  enthusiastic  the  past  winter.  The  fur- 
nishings of  our  rooms  have  been  renewed,  and  every  afternoon  and 
evening  find  a  jolly  crowd  of  Phis  gathered  there  to  chat,  play  games 


3S8  THE  SCROLL. 

and  discuss  general  college  and  fraternity  questions.  We  have  been 
greatly  pleased  to  receive  visits  this  winter  from  a  number  of  our 
alumni,  and  from  several  who  are  now  in  the  medical  college  at  Han- 
over.    Bro.  Bates,  of  Colby,  is  among  the  latter  number. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Hanover,  March  26,  1898.  B.  C.  RODGERS. 


VERHONT  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VERHONT. 

The  mid-^ear  examinations,  one  of  the  most  critical  periods  in  the 
student's  life  at  the  University  of  Vermont,  were  held  on  February 
1-21,  inclusive,  and  in  a  few  cases,  as  usual,  they  worked  disastrous  re- 
sults. For  the  most  part  our  new  honor  system  proved  efficient,  much 
less  cribbing  than  formerly  being  observed.  But  to  insure  a  complete 
abolition  of  this  evil,  more  anti-cribbing  resolutions  were  adopted  by 
the  student  body  on  February  28,  in  addition  to  those  respecting  the 
honor  system  adopted  on  January  20.  Henceforth  any  student  re- 
ported to  be  a  cribber  shall  be  tried  by  the  student  members  of  the 
conference  committee;  if  he  is  convicted  bvan  unanimous  vote  of  this 
jury,  his  name  shall  be  published,  and  he  shall  be  deprived  of  the 
right  to  participate  in  class  or  college  affairs.  Bro.  Blatr,  '99,  repre- 
sents us  on  the  conference  committee. 

The  annual  junior  prom.,  the  leading  event  of  the  winter  in  society 
circles  in  Burlington,  look  place  Friday  evening,  February  18,  at  the 
armory,  and  was  the  splendid  success  that  former  events  of  the  kind 
have  led  those  who  attend  to  expect. 

The  musical  clubs  have  had  a  very  successful  season  during  the  past 
winter.  Fifteen  concerts  have  been  given  throughout  the  state,  in- 
cluding a  joint  concert  in  Burlington  with  the  McGill  University 
clubs  of  Montreal.     Vermont  Alpha  has  four  members  on  the  clubs. 

January  27  was  observed  as  the  day  of  prayer  for  colleges.  Bro. 
G.  L.  Richardson,  irHliains,  \SS,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  church  at 
Bennington,  Vt.,  was  the  speaker  on  this  occasion.  Bro.  Ufford,  '01, 
was  V.  M.  C.  A.  delegate  to  the  student  volunteer  convention  at  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  February  2o  27. 

Our  base  ball  team  has  a  bright  outlook  for  the  season.  Bro.  Forbes, 
as  manager,  has  arranged  for  two  extended  trips  and  for  fourteen 
games  on  the  home  grounds  with  the  strongest  college  teams.  Ver- 
mont will  be  weaker  than  usual  in  the  box,  but  coach  Abbey,  former)}' 
of  the  Chicago  league  team,  is  coaching  the  team  especially  in  batting 
and  fielding.  Bro.  Murray,  'OO,  who  played  on  last  year's  team,  and 
Bro.  Lincoln,  '00,  are  among  the  candidates. 

Alumni  day  was  observed  March  lo  by  the  undergraduates  and 
several  alumni  of  Vermont  Alpha  :  Bros.  Sinclair.  '82 ;  Mower.  '94  ; 
Doten,  '95;  Sabin,  '9«j  ;  and  Jackson,  Doteii,  and  Farrington,  '97.  A 
musical  and  literary  programme  was  rendered,  and  remarks  from  the 
alumni  were  listened  to  with  much  interest.  Light  refreshments 
were  served  on  this  occasion,  and  a  highly  appreciated  gift  was  re- 
ceived by  the  chapter  from  Bro.  C.  E.  Briggs,  '94.  It  was  a  sword  and 
shield  carved  most  artistically  from  wood. 

Expecting  enthusiastic  reports  in  the  next  Scroll  from  every 
stronghold  of  Phidom,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Burlington,  March  21,  1898.  C.  F.  Blair. 


THE  SCROLL,  3^9 


MASSACHUSETTS  BETA.  AMHERST  COLLEGE. 

Amherst  is  shortly  to  have  a  new  observatory.  With  the  ;^15,0U() 
bequest  of  Chas.  T.  Wilder,  land  has  already  been  bought  for  its  site, 
near  Blake  field.  By  the  will  of  Amos  R.  Eno,  which  has  been  ad- 
mitted to  probate  recently,  Amherst  will  perhaps  receive  |oO,0<K) 
more,  though  the  disposal  of  it  has  not  yet  been  decided.  The  col- 
lege has  been  permitted  this  tenn  to  listen  to  two  lectures  in  the 
course  on  'College  Thought  and  Public  Interest';  one  by  Albert  Shaw 
on  'Greater  New  York  under  the  New  Charter,'  and  the  other  by 
H.  E.  Krehbiel,  on  'How  to  Listen  to  Music.' 

The  students'  interests  during  the  winter  term  seem  to  center  around 
social  attractions.  The  junior  promenade  on  February  18  was  unusu- 
ally successful  and  enjoyable.  Nearly  all  of  the  various  fraternities 
have  held  dances  and  receptions  at  their  chapter  houses.  Massitchu- 
setts  Beta  gave  a  very  pleasant  informal  reception  on  the  afternoon  of 
March  9,  at  which  young  ladies  were  present  from  Smith  and  Mt. 
Holyoke  Colleges.  The  house  was  tastefully  decorated  and  refresh- 
ments served.  It  is  the  custom  in  our  chapter  to  relieve  the  monotony 
of  the  term  somewhat  by  holding  what  we  call  'Saturday  night  set- 
ups,' tendered  in  turn  by  each  delegation  to  the  rest  of  the  chapter. 
At  the  junior  'set-up'  we  enjoyed  the  presence  of  Bros.  Leach,  '92, 
Andrews,  '9o,  Moses,  '97,  and  Crary,  '97. 

The  college  has  participated  in  two  indoor  athletic  meets,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Boston  athletic  association  and  Boston  College.  The 
interest  centered  in  both  meets  around  the  relay  races  between  Am- 
herst and  Williams.  Bros.  Strong,  '98,  and  Gladwin,  '01,  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Amherst  team.  Basket-ball  games  have  called  forth  quite 
a  little  class  spirit  and  rivalry,  and  the  freshmen  have  proved  to  have 
the  strongest  team.  On  the  '9S  team  we  were  represented  by  Bros. 
Trefethen,  Porter  and  Strong;  on  the  '99  team  by  Bros.  Brooks  and 
Whitney;  while  Bro.  Ennever  was  a  substitute  on  the  '01  team. 

The  musical  associations  and  .senior  dramatics  cast  are  preparing  for 
their  Easter  vacation  trips  through  the  principal  cities  of  southern 
New  England.  Bro.  Strong  is  property  manager,  and  has  been  as- 
signed a  role  in  the  dramatics. 

The  chapter's  goat-meetings  have  been  very  interesting  and  helpful. 
On  the  evening  of  February  17>  we  had  the  privilege  of  listening  to  a 
talk  by  Prof.  Sterrett,  our  brother  ///  /(unliafi\  who  gave  us  an  ac- 
count of  his  personal  experiences  and  observations  during  the  recent 
war  in  Greece.  The  term  will  close  with  the  presentation  of  a  farce 
entitled  'Freezing  a  Mother-in-Law,'  by  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  troupe. 

Bro.  Bliss,  '98,  represented  Massachusetts  Beta  at  the  annual  banquet 
ot  the  Rhode  Island  Alpha,  and  reported  a  very  hospitable  reception 
and  fine  banquet.  Bro.  Porter,  '9S,  will  be  our  delegate  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Alpha  Alumni  bancjuet,  March  is.  Our  own  Alumni  day  ex- 
ercises were  in  every  way  interesting  and  helpful.  There  were  three 
addresses  by  the  active  members.  Bro.  Porter,  '98,  spoke  in  review 
of  the  fifty  years  of  the  Fraternity,  emphasizing  the  peculiar  qualities 
which  have  enabled  it  to  outstrip  so  many  ohler  rivals.  Hro.  Whit- 
ney's remarks  were  also  retrospective,  but  confined  to  the  past  ten 
years  of  Massachusetts  Beta,  its  progress,  and  its  debt  to  its  alumni. 
Bro.  Bliss,  '98,  outlined  clearly  our  standing  to-day,  our  advantages 
and  our  weaknesses,  and  our  duty  and  hope  for  the  future.  Bro. 
Leach,  '92,  was  present.  I^ro.  Leach's  proximity  to  Amherst  has  en- 
abled him  to  know  personally  every  member  but  two  of  Massachu- 


390  THE  SCROLL, 

setts  Beta's  roll  call  since  its  founding  in  1888;  so  that  his  remarks 
were  particularly  well  received.  He  traced  the  efforts  of  the  early 
members  to  place  the  chapter  upon  a  secure  footing,  and  related  some 
interesting  experiences  of  their  struggle  which  were  new  to  us.  The 
speeches  were  interspersed  with  well-rendered  selections  by  the  chap- 
ter's quartette.  The  inspiring  fraternity  yell,  given  in  the  open  air, 
rounded  out  the  exercises  of  the  evening. 

With  best  wishes  for  continued  prosperity  of  all  the  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  March  12,  1898.  Chkster  M.  Grover. 

RHODE  ISLAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

On  February  25,  Rhode  Island  Alpha  held  her  ninth  annual  ban- 
quet; While  not  so  largely  attended  as  some  of  its  predecessors,  it 
was  an  enjoyable  and  hearty  meeting  of  Phis.  Several  of  the  alumni, 
as  is  usual,  were  with  us  to  renew  former  acquaintances  and  to  meet 
the  younger  members.     The  literary  program  was  as  follows: 

Toastmaster,  Bro.  Multer.  'What  Are  We  Here  For,'  Bro.  Greene; 
Oration,  Bro.  White;  History,  Bro.  Wilcox;  Toast,  Bro.  Hapgood; 
Poem,  Bro.  Putney;  Prophecy,  Bro.  Stillman;  'Wheels as  I  Have  Stud- 
ied Them,' Bro.  Phetteplace;  responses  by  delegates;  impromptus  by 
the  alumni. 

For  some  time  the  foundation  of  an  alumni  chapter  in  Providence 
has  been  agitated,  and  on  March  1,  a  meeting  of  alumni  was  held  to 
consider  what  should  be  done.  We  hope  soon  to  be  able  to  report  a 
strong  alumni  chapter,  which  shall  not  only  give  aid  and  encourage- 
ment to  the  local  chapter  but  also  advance  materially  the  interests  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta  in  Providence  and  vicinity. 

The  spring  term  opened  March  21).  The  base  ball  squad,  consisting 
of  about  twenty  men,  was  called  together  for  outdoor  practice  during 
the  spring  recess,  and  the  prospects  are  bright  for  a  strong,  reliable 
team,  of  which  Brown  may  justly  be  proud,  and  which  will  uphold 
the  enviable  position  won  by  the  teams  of  the  past  two  years. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Providence,  April  1,  1898.  H.  G.  Wirxox. 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA,  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  the  membership  list  of  New  York  Alpha  has 
been  swelled  by  the  addition  of  the  following  names:  William  H. 
Morrison,  1901,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  Charles  E.  Stevens,  1901,  of 
Hornellsville,  N.  Y.;  Clarence  H.  Fay,  H)01,  of  Bath,  N.  Y.;  William 
Waldo  Pellet,  1900,  of  Watkins,  N.  Y.;  Archie  E.  MacBride.  1901,  of 
Deckertown,  N.  J.;  and  Eugene  A.  Kinsey,  1901,  of  La  Salle.  N.  Y. 
Bro.  Morrison,  who  heads  the  list,  has  already  distinguished  himself, 
having  in  spite  of  lively  competition  secured  a  position  on  the 
*  Masque,'  Cornell's  dramatic  club. 

In  college  affairs,  athletic  and  social,  Phi  Delta  Theta  occupies  a 
prominent  place.  Bros.  A.  E.  Whiting,  Hackett  and  Dempsey  were 
members  of  last  fall's  foot  ball  team,  Bros.  Thomson  and  Zeller  are 
on  the  track  team  (Bro.  Thomson  captained  the  relay  runners),  Bros. 
Starbuck  and  Coit  were  the  half  backs  of  the  1900  foot  ball  eleven, 
Bro.  Short  was  full  back  of  the  second  team,  and  Bros.  Bassford  and 
Hackett  won  the  heavy  weight  and  middle  weight  championships  re- 
spectively at  the  university  boxing  meet  held  in  March.     Bros.  Has- 


THE  SCROLL.  391 

kell  and  Bassford,  members  of  last  season's  base  ball  team,  are  again 
trying  for  their  positions,  and  a  number  of  our  freshmen  are  hard  at 
work,  under  the  eye  of  Charlie  Courtney,  with  the  intention  of  row- 
ing on  the  freshman  crew.  On  the  glee  club  we  are  represented  by 
Bro.  Wynne  (leader)  and  Bro.  A.  K.  Whiting.  The  banjo  club  is  led 
by  Bro.  Bassford.  Bro.  Coit  was  a  member  of  the  sophomore  cotillion 
committee;  Bro.  Wynne  is  a  member  of  the  'Memiaid,*  the  senior  ban- 
queting club;  Bros.  Haskell  and  Whiting,  of  the  'Round  Table;'  Bro. 
Young,  of  the  'Monastery;'  Bro.  Short,  of  the  'Mummy,'  and  Bros. 
Pellet  and  Andrews,  of  the   Elf.' 

During  'junior  week,'  into  which  are  crowded  most  of  the  social 
events  of  the  college  year,  our  lodge  was  filled  with  a  merry  party  of 
guests.  On  the  evening  preceding  the  sophomore  cotillion  we  enter- 
tained with  a  dancing  party  for  which  about  two  hundred  invitations 
were  issued.     It  was  a  pronounced  success. 

On  the  evening  of  March  11  we  held  our  twenty-seventh  annual 
banquet  at  the  Oriental  cafe.  After  the  dinner  was  disposed  of,  Bro. 
Whiting,  acting  as  toastmaster,  introduced  the  following  toasts  and 
speakers: 

The  Fraternity,  C.  F.  Hackett,  '98;  The  Faculty,  Prof.  L.  H.  Bailey; 
Our  Chapter,  S.  E.  Whiting,  '98;  Reminiscences,  Prof.  W.  F.  Durand; 
My  College  Days,  A.  E.  Whiting,  '98;  Cornell  Music,  J.  H.  Wynne, 
'98;  Society  as  I  Have  Found  It,  A.  Bassford,  Jr.,  '98;  Cornell  Politics, 
W.  H.  H.  Miller,  UH)1;  Life  of  a  Non-Graduate  Resident,  W.  B.  New- 
ton, ex-'97;  The  Future,  R.  F.  Andrews,  IIKK);  The  Eccentricities  of  a 
Philosopher.  H.  H.  Haskell,  '98;  Nocturnal  Ramblings,  J.  W.  Young, 
'1W. 

Like  our  dance,  the  bancjuet  was  a  pronounced  success. 

Altogether  the  year  has  thus  far  been  exceedingly  pleasant  and  suc- 
cessful for  New  York  Alpha. 

Hoping  that  all  our  other  chapters  have  enjoyed  equal  prosperity, 
I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  April  3,  1898.  Roland  Franklyn  Andrews. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

We  celebrated  Alumni  day  with  the  same  old-time  spirit.  Several 
alumni  were  in  the  city.  All  day  long  a  feeling  of  pride  seemed  to  be 
present  among  the  fellows,  and  with  anticipation  we  all  awaited  the 
gathering  of  Phis  in  the  evening.  Every  one  wore  the  fraternity  col- 
ors during  the  day.  At  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  Bro.  Fisher,  our 
worthy  president,  called  us  to  order,  and  after  the  regular  order  of 
Alumni  day  ceremonies  was  over  some  very  interesting  speeches  were 
listened  to.  Brother  Shelley  favored  us  with  a  tenor  solo,  which  was 
highly  appreciated.  Bro.  Griffith  read  a  very  timely  paper  on  the 
cause  for  which  <I>  A  0  stood  an<l  the  circumstances  that  led  to  its  organ- 
ization. Bro.  Gambee,  who  has  just  been  elected  assistant  base  ball 
manager,  spoke  on  the  chapter's  history  since  he  knew  it.  Bro.  Law- 
ton,  '94,  spoke  of  our  chapter's  alumni  and  its  history  for  the  past  ten 
years.  Bro.  Cullen,  with  his  vivid  imagination,  gave  us  visions  of  the 
chapter's  future.  Bro.  Grout,  '01,  told  of  his  first  impressions  in 
<I>  A  e.  Bro.  Waygood,  pastor  of  the  East  Avenue  Presbyterian  church, 
spoke  on  the  benefits  of  *  A  9  after  graduation,  and  said,  among  other 
things,  that  a  feeling  of  pride  is  one  of  the  greatest  benefits,  for  the 
individual  pride  of  a  Phi  is  of  an  exalted  kind,  and  ever  impels  him 


390  THE  SCROLL. 

« 

setts  Beta*s  roll  call  since  its  founding  in  1888;  so  that  his  remarks 
¥rere  particularly  well  received.  He  traced  the  efforts  of  the  early 
members  to  place  the  chapter  upon  a  secure  footing,  and  related  some 
interesting  expjeriences  of  their  struggle  which  were  new  to  us.  The 
speeches  ¥rere  interspersed  with  well-rendered  selections  by  the  chap- 
ter's quartette.  The  inspiring  fraternity  yell,  given  in  the  open  air, 
rounded  out  the  exercises  of  fie  evening. 

With  best  wishes  for  continued  prosperity  of  all  the  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  March  12,  1898.  Chester  M.  Grovbr. 

RHODE  ISLAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

On  February  25,  Rhode  Island  Alpha  held  her  ninth  annual  ban- 
qucti  While  not  so  largely  attended  as  some  of  its  predecessors,  it 
was  an  enjoyable  and  hearty  meeting  of  Phis.  Several  of  the  alumni, 
as  is  usual,  were  with  us  to  renew  former  acquaintances  and  to  metrt 
the  younger  members.    The  literary  program  was  as  follows: 

Toastmaster,  Bro.  Multer.  'What  Are  We  Here  For,*  Bro.  Greene; 
Oration.  Bro.  White;  History,  Bro.  Wilcox;  Toast,  Bro.  Hapgood; 
Poem,  Bro.  Putney;  Prophecy,  Bro.  Stillman;  'Wheels as  I  Have  Stud- 
ied Them,*  Bro.  Phetteplace;  responses  by  delegates;  impromptus  by 
the  alumni. 

For  some  time  the  foundation  of  an  alumni  chapter  in  Providence 
has  been  agitated,  and  on  March  1,  a  meeting  of  alumni  was  held  to 
consider  what  should  be  done.  We  hope  soon  to  be  able  to  report  a 
strong  alumni  chapter,  which  shall  not  only  give  aid  and  encourage- 
ment to  the  local  chapter  but  also  advance  materially  the  interests  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta  in  Providence  and  vicinity. 

The  spring  term  opened  March  29.  The  base  ball  squad,  consisting 
of  about  twenty  men,  was  called  together  for  outdoor  practice  during 
the  spring  recess,  and  the  prospects  are  bright  for  a  strong,  reliable 
team,  of  which  Bipown  may  jusUy  be  proud,  and  which  will  uphold 
the  enviable  position  won  by  the  teams  of  the  past  two  years. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Providence,  April  1,  1898.  H.  G.  Wiixox. 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA.  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  the  membership  list  of  New  York  Alpha  has 
been  swelled  by  the  addition  of  the  following  names:  WilUam  H. 
Morrison,  1901,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  Charles  E.  Stevens,  1901,  of 
Hornellsville,  N.  Y.;  Clarence  H.  Fay.  11K)1,  of  Bath,  N.  Y.;  William 
Waldo  Pellet,  1900,  of  Watkins.  N.  Y.;  Archie  E.  MacBride.  1901,  of 
Deckertown,  N.  J.;  and  Eugene  A.  Kinsey,  UK)1,  of  La  Salle,  N.  Y. 
Bro.  Morrison,  who  heads  the  list,  has  already  distinguished  himself, 
having  in  spite  of  lively  competition  secured  a  position  on  the 
'  Masque,*  Comell's  dramatic  club. 

In  college  affairs,  athletic  and  social,  Phi  Delta  Theta  occupies  a 
prominent  place.  Bros.  A.  E.  Whiting,  Hackett  and  Dempsey  were 
members  of^  last  fall's  foot  ball  team,  Bros.  Thomson  and  Zeller  are 
on  the  track  team  (Bro.  Thomson  captained  the  relay  runners),  Bros. 
Starbuck  and  Coit  were  the  half  backs  of  the  11KX)  foot  ball  eleven, 
Bro.  Short  was  full  back  of  the  second  team,  and  Bros.  Bassford  and 
Hackett  won  the  heavy  weight  and  middle  weight  championships  re- 
spectively at  the  university  boxing  meet  held  in  March.     Bros.  Has- 


THE  SCROLL.  391 

kell  and  Bassford,  members  of  last  season's  base  ball  team,  are  again 
trying  for  their  positions,  and  a  number  of  our  freshmen  are  hard  at 
work,  under  the  eye  of  Charlie  Courtney,  with  the  intention  of  row- 
ing on  the  freshman  crew.  On  the  glee  club  we  are  represented  by 
Bro.  Wynne  (leader)  and  Bro.  A.  K.  Whiting.  The  banjo  club  is  led 
by  Bro.  Bassford.  Bro.  Coit  was  a  member  of  the  sophomore  cotillion 
committee;  Bro.  Wynne  is  a  member  of  the  'Mennaid,'  the  senior  ban- 
queting club;  Bros.  Haskell  and  Whiting,  of  the  'Round  Table;'  Bro. 
Young,  of  the  'Monastery;'  Bro.  Short,  of  the  'Mummy,'  and  Bros. 
Pellet  and  Andrews,  of  the  'Elf.' 

During  'junior  week,'  into  which  are  crowded  most  of  the  social 
events  of  the  college  year,  our  lodge  was  filled  with  a  merry  party  of 
guests.  On  the  evening  preceding  the  sophomore  cotillion  we  enter- 
tained with  a  dancing  party  for  which  about  two  hundred  invitations 
were  issued.     It  was  a  pronounced  success. 

On  the  evening  of  March  11  we  held  our  twenty-seventh  annual 
banquet  at  the  Oriental  cafe.  After  the  dinner  was  disposed  of,  Bro. 
Whiting,  acting  as  toastmaster,  introduced  the  following  toasts  and 
speakers: 

The  Fraternity,  C.  F.  Hackett,  '98;  The  Faculty,  Prof.  L.  H.  Bailey; 
Our  Chapter,  S.  E.  Whiting,  '98;  Reminiscences,  Prof.  W.  F.  Durand; 
Mv  College  Days,  A.  E.  Whiting,  '98;  Cornell  Music,  J.  H.  Wynne, 
'98;  Society  as  I  Have  Found  It,  A.  Bassford,  Jr.,  '98;  Cornell  Politics, 
W.  H.  H.  Miller,  IWl;  Life  of  a  Non-Graduate  Resident,  W.  B.  New- 
ton, ex-'97;  The  Future,  R.  F.  Andrews,  1900;  The  Eccentricities  of  a 
Philosopher,  H.  H.  Haskell,  '98;  Nocturnal  Ramblings,  J.  W.  Young, 
'99. 

Like  our  dance,  the  banquet  was  a  pronounced  success. 

Altogether  the  year  has  thus  far  been  exceedingly  pleasant  and  suc- 
cessful for  New  York  Alpha. 

Hoping  that  all  our  other  chapters  have  enjoyed  equal  prosperity, 
I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  April  3,  1898.  Roland  Franklyn  Andrkws. 

NEW  YORK  BETA.  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

We  celebrated  Alumni  day  with  the  same  old-time  spirit.  Several 
alumni  were  in  the  city.  All  day  long  a  feeling  of  pride  seemed  to  be 
present  among  the  fellows,  and  with  anticipation  we  all  awaited  the 
gathering  of  Phis  in  the  evening.  Every  one  wore  the  fraternity  col- 
ors during  the  day.  At  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  Bro.  Fisher,  our 
worthy  president,  called  us  to  order,  and  after  the  regular  order  of 
Alumni  day  ceremonies  was  over  some  very  interesting  speeches  were 
listened  to.  Brother  Shelley  favored  us  with  a  tenor  solo,  which  was 
highly  appreciated.  Bro.  Griffith  read  a  very  timely  paper  on  the 
cause  for  which  *  A  0  stood  and  the  circumstances  that  led  to  its  organ- 
ization. Bro.  Gambee,  who  has  just  been  elected  assistant  base  ball 
manager,  spoke  on  the  chapter's  history  since  he  knew  it.  Bro.  Law- 
ton,  '94,  spoke  of  our  chapter's  alumni  and  its  history  for  the  past  ten 
years.  Bro.  Cullen,  with  his  vivid  imagination,  gave  us  visions  of  the 
chapter's  future.  Bro.  Grout,  '01,  told  of  his  first  impressions  in 
*  A  e.  Bro.  Waygood,  pastor  of  the  East  Avenue  Presbyterian  church, 
spoke  on  the  benefits  of  *  A  B  after  graduation,  and  said,  among  other 
things,  that  a  feeling  of  pride  is  one  of  the  greatest  benefits,  for  the 
individual  pride  of  a  Phi  is  of  an  exalted  kind,  and  ever  impels  him 


392  THE  SCROLL. 

to  keep  his  best  side  forward  and  his  beloved  Fraternity  untarnished. 
Bro.  Van  Gelder,  Broicn^  '97,  told  us  about  his  chapter  and  said  he 
hoped  it  would  entertain  all  Phis  who  visited  Providence  as  well  as  he 
haa  been  treated  by  New  York  Beta  since  he  had  been  in  Schenectady. 
Bro.  Ripley,  '00,  in  his  jovial  way,  instilled  into  us  great  anticipations 
of  the  proposed  <I>  A  9  camp  on  Otsego  Lake  next  August.  (In  regard 
to  this  camp  and  the  more  definite  arrangements,  I  would  say  to  all 
Phis,  do  not  forget  to  read  about  it  in  the  June  ScROi^i^.) 

Bro.  Ingram,  Ohio  State,  and  Bro.  Blessing,  Ufiion,  '94,  added  their 
presence  to  the  jolly  company.  At  the  close  of  the  exercises  all 
renewed  the  inner  man  with  refreshments,  which  were  prepared  in 
the  dining  hall.  During  the  evening  New  York  Beta  sent  greetings  to 
the  New  York  City  *  A  9  club,  which  was  being  organized  that  evening 
at  New  York  Delta's  chapter  house. 

Bro.  Bain,  of  Michigan  Beta,  has  left  his  position  in  the  Edison 
works  and  accepted  a  higher  one  in  Oil  City,  Pa.  Bro.  Conover, 
Union ^  '89,  at  the  law  firm  of  Conover  &  Fisher,  of  Amsterdam,  N.  Y., 
has  been  appointed  corporation  counsel  for  his  city. 

Bro.  G.  M.  Scofield,  Union ^  '97,  formerly  with  the  Youngstown  (^O.) 
Bridge  Co.,  has  gone  to  New  York  to  take  charge  of  the  eastern  office 
of  the  same  company  at  150  Nassau  street. 

Bro.  Gillespie,  Union,  '93,  now  physician  in  the  Binghamton  Hos- 
pital, gave  us  all  a  hearty  hand-shake  the  other  day.  Bro.  Gayetty, 
Union,  '98,  has  accepted  a  position  on  the  state  survey  of  the  Erie 
canal  at  Syracuse  and  has  left  college. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  April  4,  1898.  D.  J.  HoYT. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA,  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

In  this  letter  we  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Fraternity 
two  new  acquisitions  to  New  York  Delta:  Bros.  Richard  Gordon 
Simpson,  '99,  and  Clarence  Francis  Bell,  '99,  both  of  whom  are  not 
unknown  in  Columbia  life,  the  latter  especially  as  now  being  substi- 
tute catcher  on  the  'varsity  nine  with  promise  of  great  development. 

Bro.  Hailey,  '99,  medical,  who  has  been  constantly  ailing  dunngthe 
year,  was  subjected  to  an  operation  in  January,  which  was  fortunately 
successful,  but  he  had  lost  so  much  in  his  studies,  further  prosecution 
of  which  was  forbidden  him  by  his  physician,  that  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  Indian  Territory,  whence  several  letters  have  been  received 
informing  us  of  his  continuing  convalescence. 

On  the  evening  of  the  fourth  of  March  the  chapter  was  entertained 
by  Bro.  Edward  A.  Darling,  Cornell,  'go,  superintendent  of  buildings 
of  Columbia  University,  and  Mrs.  Darling  in  their  charming  home  on 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  university  grounds.  Bro.  Fred  A.  Goetze, 
Jr.,  '97,  assistant  superintendent  of  buildings,  was  also  present,  and 
•in  instrumental  music,  songs  and  stories  the  hours  flitted  by.  At 
half  past  ten  we  repaired  to  the  dining-room,  where  a  tempting  supper 
of  a  most  substantial  character  was  served.  'Liberty  Hall,'  Bro.  Dar- 
ling bade  us  consider  it,  and  we  complied.  Over  the  cigars  which 
we  puffed,  some  in  the  library  and  others  in  the  music  room,  Phis  in 
and  about  Columbia  were  discussed  until,  midnight  having  arrived,  we 
took  our  leave  with  a  final  Rah  !  Rah !  Rah  I  Phi-kei-a  ! — which 
broke  the  stilly  morn,  reverberating  along  the  shores  of  the  Hudson 
and  amid  its  fringing  hills  unhindered  and  unchallenged. 

In  the  Bond, 

New  York,  April  1,  1898.  Oscar  Wkkks  Ehrhorn. 


THE  SCROLL,  393 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA.  PENNSYLVANIA  COLLEGE. 

The  second  term  is  about  drawing  to  a  close,  and  the  boys  are 
eagerly  looking  forward  to  vacation,  which  extends  from  the  first  to 
the  twelfth  of  April.  During  this  time  the  glee,  mandolin  and  guitar 
clubs  expect  to  take  their  annual  trip.  In  these  *  A  9  is  represented 
by  Bros.  Ott  and  Krafft. 

The  new  cage  has  just  been  completed,  and  the  candidates  for  the 
base  ball  team  are  hard  at  work  preparing  for  the  coming  season.  We 
hope  to  have  a  strong  team  this  year,  though  we  were  very  sorry  to  lose 
Burns,  '01,  who  has  signed  with  the  New  York  league  team.  The 
season  opens  on  April  l.*J,  with  Syracuse  University  at  Gettysburg 

At  the  recent  inter-collegiate  oratorical  contest  at  Lafayette,  Gettys- 
burg succeeded  in  capturing  second  honor,  the  first  having  been  taken 
by  Lafayette. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  March  16,  we  celebrated  Alumni  day  with 
appropriate  exercises.  Afterward  we  adjourned  to  a  neighboring 
restaurant,  where  we  had  a  very  informal  banquet.  All  of  us,  together 
with  a  number  of  alumni  who  were  present,  spent  a  very  pleasant 
evening. 

Our  interest  in  securing  our  chapter  house  seems  to  be  on  the  in- 
crease, and  we  are  putting  forth  all  our  efforts  to  have  the  building 
started  as  soon  as  possible. 

We  were  very  much  pleased  to  have  Bro.  J.  Clark  Moore  spend  a 
short  time  with  us  lately. 

Wishing  all  Phis  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Gettysburg,  March  28,  1898.  J.  Ci^yde  Markka. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAMMA.  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  winter  term  at  Washington  and  Jefferson  closed  on  March  30, 
and  the  spring  term  will  open  April  0.  Commencement  will  be  held 
on  June  22.  This  will  be  tne  97th  commencement  of  Washington  and 
Jefferson  College.  The  past  term  was  an  unusually  successful  one. 
Athletic  work  was  kept  up  in  the  gymnasium  throughout  the  term, 
the  track  and  base  ball  teams  training  regularly.  The  inter-class  bas- 
ket ball  series  was  won  by  '99.  Brother  Eicher  was  a  member  of  the 
winning  team.  Ninety-nine  also  won  the  inter-class  gymnasium  drill 
contest  after  one  of  the  prettiest  exhibitions  in  the  history  of  the  col- 
lege. Base  ball  work  is  progressing  finely,  and  the  team  has  indulged 
in  much  outdoor  practice.  The  schedule  this  year  is  the  largest  ever 
made  out  and  includes  twenty-eight  games.  The  team  will  take  two 
trips  away  from  home,  one  through  eastern  Pennsylvania  and  another 
through  eastern  Ohio.  The  track  team  is  in  good  shape.  E.  M.  Pow- 
ers was  sent  to  the  National  Guard  games  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in 
February  and  took  third  in  the  mile  run.  He  holds  the  western  Penn- 
sylvania record  for  the  mile  and  half-mile.  A  team  of  four  men  will 
be  sent  to  the  relay  races  at  U.  of  P.  The  western  Pennsylvania  inter- 
collegiate athletic  association  meet  will  be  held  in  Pittsburgh  the  last 
of  May,  and  W.  and  J.'s  team  will  show  up  well. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  was  held  on  March  30, 
and  reports  showed  the  college  to  be  in  a  good  condition.  A  bequest 
of  Jo, 600  made  by  the  late  W.  R.  Murphy,  of  Allegheny,  Pa.,  was  re- 
ported and  will  be  applied  to  a  memorial  of  some  sort  in  honor  of  the 
donor.  The  new  library  building  project  is  progressing  finely,  and 
the  plan  to  double  the  endowment  fund  of  the  college  by  an  addition 


394  THE  SCROLL, 

of  |250,000  by  the  centennial  year,  1902,  is  meeting  with  favor,  nearly 
one-half  the  amount  being  already  subscribed.  It  is  thought  the 
fund  will  exceed  the  amount  asked  for.  The  college  is  progressing 
along  every  line,  and  the  curriculum  is  already  of  as  high  a  standard 
as  that  of  any  eastern  college. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  William  Wallace  Hamilton, 
1901,  of  Beaver,  Pa.,  whom  it  gives  us  pleasure  to  introduce. 

Your  reporter  was  a  delegate  to  the  student  volunteer  convention  in 
Cleveland.  While  there  it  was  his  privilege  and  pleasure  to  meet  a 
number  of  Phis  from  other  colleges.  The  brothers  of  Ohio  Eta  were 
typical  Phis  and  did  everything  in  their  power  to  make  our  visit  a 
pleasant  one.  The  Case  boys  are  nicely  located  in  a  fine  chapter  house 
and  have  a  right  royal  welcome  for  any  Phi  who  may  visit  them.  The 
baby  chapter  of  our  Fraternity  is  about  the  liveliest,  most  loyal  and 
progressive  of  all  our  chapters,  and  we  older  ones  can  learn  much  from 
the  Phis  of  Ohio  Eta. 

We  did  not  celebrate  Alumni  day  by  any  sp>ecial  obsen'ance  beyond 
wearing  the  colors.  We  always  observe  the  anniversary  of  the  found- 
ing of  our  chapter  by  special  exercises  and  a  banquet.  Brothers  Rule 
and  Logan  attended  the  banquet  of  the  Pittsburgh  alumni  association. 

Pennsylvania  Gamma  is  pleased  to  see  so  many  colleges  knocking 
at  our  doors.  We  are  in  favor  of  chapters  at  at  least  two  of  the  insti- 
tutions named  in  the  March  Palladium. 

The  members  of  the  chapter  join  with  the  reporter  in  wishing  Bro. 
Miller  a  complete  and  sjjeedy  recovery  from  his  prolonged  illness. 

We  would  esteem  it  a  favor  if  Phis  on  base  ball  teams  that  are  to 
play  W.  and  J.  this  season  would  inform  the  reporter.  Brother  Eicher 
IS  a  member  of  the  W.  and  J.  team. 

Senior  examinations  begin  on  May  23  and  end  on  May  25,  when 
grades  will  be  announced.  We  lose  four  men  by  the  graduation  of 
*98,  including  the  reporter.  Brother  Arthur  Kerr  Brown,  formerly  of 
'98,  who  has  been  out  of  college  two  years,  will  enter  1900  next  term. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Washington,  March  31,  1898.  David  Glenn  Moore. 

PBN^SYLVANIA  EPSILON.  DICKINSON  COLLEGE. 

During  the  early  part  of  this  term,  Dickinson  College  met  with  a 
sad  loss  in  the  death  of  M.  J.  Cramer,  S.  T.  D.,  who  was  temporarily 
filling  the  chair  of  philosophy  in  the  absence  of  Prof.  Dare.  He  died 
suddenly  of  angina  pectoris  on  the  morning  of  January  23.  A  memor- 
ial service  was  held  in  the  Allison  M.  E.  church,  and  his  body  was 
then  taken  to  his  home  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  for  burial.  Bro.  Kriebel, 
'98,  was  selected  to  represent  the  student  body  at  the  funeral.  The 
Doctor's  short  stay  among  the  students  had  endeared  him  to  the 
hearts  of  all.  The  work  in  philosophy  is  now  being  conducted  by 
George  A.  Wilson,  Ph.  D.,  a  graduate  of  Boston  University,  and  a  fel- 
low of  Jena. 

The  anniversaries  of  the  two  literary  societies  this  year  maintained 
their  usual  degree  of  excellence,  the  programs  being  most  interesting. 
Bro.  Guttshall,  '00,  was  one  of  the  speakers  in  debate.  Washington's 
birthday  was  fittingly  celebrated  by  an  assembly  meeting  of  the  liter- 
ary societies,  at  which  E.  L.  Hubbard,  Ph.  D.,  of  Baltimore,  gave  an 
address  on  'Washington  Squared.'  The  societies  will  soon  conduct 
the  inter-society  debate,  and  the  discussion  promises  to  be  of  an  unusual 


THE  SCROLL.  395 

warmth.  The  subject  will  be,  ^Rcsolzrdy  That  Congress  should  estab- 
lish a  national  university.'  Bros.  Kriebel,  'i>8,  and  Hubler,  M»8,  will 
represent  Phi  Delta  Theta  from  Belles  Lettres  society.  Arrangements 
have  just  been  completed  for  a  three  years'  contract  in  inter-collegiate 
debate  with  Pennsylvania  State  College.  Bro.  Kriebel  will  serve  as  a 
representative  from  Dickinson  in  this  year's  debate. 

The  college  has  recently  added  the  Revs.  J.  P.  Wright  and  R.  H. 
Gilbert  to  its  lecture  course,  and  our  president,  Dr.  Reed,  has  obtained 
a  promise  from  President  McKinley  to  be  present  at  our  commence- 
ment exercises. 

The  annual  mid-winter  sports,  held  in  the  gymnasium,  attracted  a 
large  audience  and  were  extremely  interesting.  The  class  of  'iH^  by 
scoring  the  greatest  number  of  points,  secured  the  cup,  the  gift  of 
Bro.  Stephens,  '92.  In  the  outdoor  sports,  base  ball  promises  an  ex- 
cellent season.  The  team  is  as  yet  not  selected,  but  several  Phis  are 
trying  hard  to  make  it.  In  the  Union  Philosophical  society  election, 
Bro.  Stonesifer,  '98,  was  elected  president,  Bro.  Mallalieu,  '99,  vice- 
president,  and  Dorey,  '00,  was  chosen  as  elected  editor  to  the  Dickiu- 
sonian  board.     Bro.  Sterrett,  '(X),  was  made  assistant  librarian. 

We  have  been  favored  recently  with  visits  from  Bros.  Wintersteen, 
ex-'99,  Weidenhamer,  '9(5,  and  Cleaver,  '94.  In  the  elections  might 
be  mentioned  that  of  Bro.  Guttshall,  '00,  to  the  editorship-in-chief  of 
the  '00  Microcosm. 

Alumni  day  promises  to  be  an  exceptionally  pleasant  event  in  that 
we  will  be  honored  with  the  presence  of  Bro.  J.  Clark  Moore,  the  presi- 
dent of  Alpha  province.  The  banquet  will  be  served  at  Hartzell's 
Caf^. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Carlisle,  March  L"),  189^.  Wii.kur  V.  Maij.aijku. 

BETA  PROVINCE, 

VIRGINIA  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  VIRGINIA. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  there  has  been  so  little  news  of 
interest  to  the  Fraternity  at  large  that  no  letter  from  us  appeared  in 
the  February  issue.  But  it  should  not  be  judged  from  this  that  Vir- 
ginia Beta  is  inactive  or  is  a  dead  letter.  On  the  contrary,  internal 
improvement  has  been  the  characteristic  feature  of  the  chapter  for  the 
past  few  months. 

Plans  have  been  formulated  and  are  nearing  completion  by  which 
the  chapter  expects  within  a  reasonably  short  time  to  accomplish 
what  only  two  other  fraternities  Z  ^  and  A  ^)  have  already  done 
here,  and  that  is  to  secure  a  chapter  house.  At  the  beginning  of  next 
session  we  hope  to  announce  the  culmination  of  these  plans  and  the 
further  progress  of  the  movement  now  afoot  to  build  a  lodge. 

The  cnapter  has  recently  been  made  politically  prominent  by  the 
nomination  of  Bro.  Davis  for  president  of  the  general  athletic  associa- 
tion. The  election  is  held  on  the  last  Saturday  in  May,  and  the  office 
is  the  highest  gift  within  the  power  of  the  students.  The  result,  which 
will  be  closely  contested  by  an  opposition  ticket,  will  probably  be  in 
our  favor.  And  if  we  do  win,  it  will  be  the  first  time  in  the  history  of 
Virginia  Beta  that  a  Phi  has  been  thus  honored. 

Last  week,  Bro.  Peyton  B.  Bethel,  Centre,  '97,  spent  a  day  and 
night  with  us,  and  the  chapter  was  glad  to  entertain  the  chairman  of 


39^  THE  SCROLL, 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Rouss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  J10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
buildings  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroli^'s  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lea. 

VIRGINIA  GAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBGB. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  Scroli^,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundrea  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  has  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  great  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  give  reduced  rates,  and  every  thing  will  be  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros,  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  Dolley  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  '  Ike '  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sunshine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  *  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  Janney. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA.  WASHINGTON  AND  LEB  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  S  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL.  397 

session  of  *98-'99.  Several  changes  have  been  introduced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  body  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  (usually)  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  Prance  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States,'  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  government  business  at  Washing- 
ton.* These  addresses  are  reported  m  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  L.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  met. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
firmer  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  1898,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
been  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8— V.  M.  I.  G;  at  Lynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1 — Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  April  (>,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbki^i,. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA.  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  reporter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  of  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especiallj^  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  efforts  very  much.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  be  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.'s  prospects  tor  the  year.     We 


396  THE  SCROLL. 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Ronss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  J10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
buildings  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroli^'s  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lea. 

VIRGINIA  QAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBOB. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  Scroll,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundred  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  has  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  great  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  give  reduced  rates,  and  everything  willbe  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros,  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  Dolley  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  *  Ike '  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sunshine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  *  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  Jannkv. 

VIRGINIA  ZBTA.  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  S  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL.  397 

session  of  '98- '99.  Several  changes  have  been  introduced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  body  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  (usually)  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  France  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States,*  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  government  business  at  Washing- 
ton.* These  addresses  are  reported  in  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  h.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  fact. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
firmer  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  1898,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
been  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8 — V.  M.  I.  6;  at  Lynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1  Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  April  6,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbkli*. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA.  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  reporter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  of  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especially  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  enorts  very  much.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  he  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.  's  prospects  for  the  year.     We 


396  THE  SCROLL. 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Rouss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  J10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
building  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroll's  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lea. 

VIRGINIA  GAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBGB. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  Scroll,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundred  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  has  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  great  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  give  reduced  rates,  and  everything  will  be  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros,  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  DoUey  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  '  Ike  *  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sinishine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  4>  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  Janney. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA,  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  S  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL,  397 

session  of  *98-'99.  Several  changes  have  been  intrwluced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  lx)dy  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  ( usually )  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  Prance  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States.*  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  government  business  at  Washing- 
ton.* These  addresses  are  reported  in  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  L.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  fict. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
firmer  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  IHUH,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
been  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8 — V.  M.  I.  G;  at  Lynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1  Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  April  0,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbell. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA.  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  reporter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  01  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especiall}^  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  efforts  very  much.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  be  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.  's  prospects  for  the  year.     We 


396  THE  SCROLL. 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Rouss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  |10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
buildings  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroli/s  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lea. 

VIRQINIA  QAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBQE. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  Scroll,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundred  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  lias  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  g^eat  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  gfive  reduced  rates,  and  everything  will  be  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros.  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  Dolley  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  '  Ike '  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sunshine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  *  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  Jaxney. 

VIRQINIA  ZBTA.  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  2  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL,  397 

session  of  *98-'99.  Several  changes  have  been  introduced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  body  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  (usually)  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  France  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States.'  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  ^^overnment  business  at  Washing- 
ton.* These  addresses  are  reported  in  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  L.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  fact. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
firmer  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  1H98,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
been  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8— V.  M.  I.  0;  at  Cynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1 — Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

I^xington,  April  0,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbkll. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA,  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  reporter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  01  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especially  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  efforts  very  much.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  be  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.  's  prospects  for  the  year.     We 


396  THE  SCROLL, 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Rouss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  |10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
buildings  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroll's  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lka. 

VIRGINIA  QAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBQB. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  Scroll,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundred  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  has  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  great  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  give  reduced  rates,  and  everything  will  be  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros.  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  Dolley  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  *  Ike '  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sunshine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  *  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  Jannev. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA,  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  2  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL.  397 

session  of  *98-'90.  Several  changes  have  been  introduced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  body  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  ( usually )  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  Prance  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States.*  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  government  business  at  Washing- 
ton.' These  addresses  are  reported  in  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  L.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  fact. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
firmer  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  1898,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
b»en  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8 — V.  M.  I.  6;  at  Lynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1  Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  April  fi,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbkll. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA.  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  reporter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  01  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especiall)^  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  efforts  very  mucli.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  be  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.  's  prospects  for  the  year.     We 


3^4  THE  SCROLL. 

The  Scroll  is  inclined  to  think  that  there  has  been  too 
much  passing  of  war  resolutions  by  colleges  and  fraternities, 
too  free  tenders  of  military  service.  If  these  resolutions  and 
offers  were  not  to  be  given  to  the  daily  papers,  and  if  they 
were  sure  to  be  taken  literally  and  accepted  by  the  govern- 
ment, they  would  not  be  so  numerous.  Cuba  must  be  freed, 
but  it  is  pitiful  to  see  political  parties  and  newspapers  and 
colleges  and  fraternities  trying  to  help  themselves  along 
while  ostensibly  trying  to  help  Cuba.  The  same  tendency 
was  manifested  during  the  war  of  Greece  with  Turkey  last 
year.  If  fraternities  and  colleges  wish  to  contribute  to  re- 
lieve distress  among  Greek  refugees  or  starving  Cubans,  or 
to  help  build  a  monument  to  the  men  who  perished  on  the 
Maine,  or  if  individuals  enlist,  well  and  good.  But  the  true 
American  does  his  duty  where  circumstances  place  him,  and 
in  a  war  with  Spain  is  as  potent  a  factor,  though  perhaps  si- 
lent, in  his  shop  or  office  or  class  room,  as  on  the  deck  of  a 
battleship.  It  is  no  proof  of  patriotism  to  burn  men  in  effigy 
or  call  them  names  at  a  safe  distance. 


<I>  K  2  at  Evanston  is  gaining  an  unenviable  reputation 
for  her  lifting.  The  recent  offense  against  2  X  was  by  no 
means  her  first.  The  fact  that  the  two  men  lifted  were  soon 
afterward  expelled  from  the  university  shows  what  sort  of 
men  are  most  likely  to  disregard  their  initiation  oath.  No 
chapter  loses  in  having  a  man  lifted:  it  is  well  rid  of  him. 
But  the  man  himself  and  the  guilty  chapter  lose  a  great  deal 
from  their  connection  with  such  a  disgraceful  performance. 

A  LETTER  FROM  ROBERT  MORRISON. 

Fulton,  Mlssouri,  March  10,  1S98. 

My  Dear  Brother:  The  fifteeuth  of  this  month  was  indeed 
a  red-letter  day  to  me  ! 

The  morning's  mail  brought  a  letter  from  Bro.  J.  E.  Brown 
stating  that  there  had  just  been  sent  b\'  express  '  a  package 
containing  what  is  hoped  will  be  a  most  pleasant  reminder 
of  your  birthday  and  what  it  means  to  the  members  of  the 
Phi  Delta  Theta.     It  carries  with  it  the  warm  love  and  es- 


THE  SCROLL,  385 

teem  of  the  hundreds  and  thousands  of  the  brothers  in  the 
Bond  who  have  followed  you  in  the  faith  of  Phi  Delta  Theta. ' 

The  express  office  was  promptly  visited,  and  behold  a 
book  !  a  beautiful,  magnificent  and  unique  volume  !  imique 
for  it  is  hardly  probable  that  on  earth  there  are  many  like 
it,  but  superb,  as  it  is,  what  it  means  is  a  thing  of  greater 
interest  and  value,  as  it  is  a  symposium  of  testimonials  of 
regard  and  kind  feeling  from 

The  Chapters,  Officers  and  Members 
of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity, 
embracing  (u   their   ranks   many   of   the  choicest   men  in 
America. 

I  accept  this  elegant  souvenir,  waiving  its  extravagant 
words  of  eulogy,  knowing  as  I  do  that  they  were  not  uttered 
by  triflers  or  men  of  double  tongues. 

While  I  do  so,  however,  with  the  deepest  gratitude  of  my 
heart,  I  know  well  that  I  do  not  deserve  such  a  royal  tribute. 
I  have  done  a  little,  very  little,  for  the  advancement  of  the 
Order,  certainly  not  more  than  my  duty,  and  doing  that, 
though  only  in  a  small  degree,  I  was  rewarded  at  the  time 
by  the  approbation  of  a  good  conscience,  and  that  is  no  slight 
pleasure.  I  do  not  deserve  more  than  that  ;  and  I  dare  not 
be  satisfied  with  less. 

Such  a  fraternity,  so  grand  and  so  honored  in  so  many 
ways,  deserves  to  have  such  a  founder  as  they  who  have 
never  seen  or  known  me  fancy  that  I  am,  because,  in  their 
imaginations,  I  ought  so  to  be, — a  founder  much  greater 
and  wiser  than  the  poor,  plain,  matter-of-fact  man  that  I 
happen  to  be. 

I,  how^ever,  feel  thankful  to  Ood  that  he  has  permitted 
me  to  have  any  place  of  usefulness  in  such  a  noble  brother- 
hood ;  though  alas  !  my  work,  all  the  time,  has  been  very 
imperfect. 

To  the  chapters  of  undergraduates  and  alumni,  to  the  Gen- 
eral Council  and  to  all  the  individual  members  of  ^  A  0  I 
to-day,  through  The  Scroll,  with  uncovered  head,  make 
a  thrice  profound  bow  for  such  a  birthday  gift. 

And  that  the  Grand  Pilot  of  the  universe,  who  has  brought 
our  good  ship  Phi  Delta  Theta  safely  through  stormy  waters 
and  dangerous  quicksands  for  half  a  hundred  years  may  con- 
tinue at  the  helm  to  guide  us  until  we  all  reach  the  haven 
of  eternal  rest  and  blessedness,  is  the  sincere,  ardent  prayer  of 

Robert  Morrison,  Ohio  Alpha,  '40. 

To  the  Editor  of  The  Scroll. 


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Chapter  Correspondence- 

ALPHA  PROVINCE. 

MAINH  ALPHA.  COLBY  UNIVERSITY. 

The  realization  of  the  sum  of  sixty  thousand  dollars,  for  which  Colby 
has  been  making  vigorous  efforts,  brings  the  university  to  what  seems 
to  be  the  beginning  of  an  era  of  prosperity.  It  is  expected  that  as 
soon  as  the  present  plans  for  improvement  are  completed  a  new  effort 
will  be  made  to  add  a  much  larger  sum  to  the  established  fund  of  the 
university.  Already  plans  are  being  prepared  for  the  new  chemical 
and  biological  laboratory,  and  as  soon  as  the  season  permits  the  foun- 
dations will  be  laid  for  one  of  the  finest  scientific  buildings  in  Maine. 
The  ladies'  dormitory  is  soon  to  follow. 

The  recent  death  of  Prof.  W.  A.  Rogers  has  cast  a  feeling  of  sadness 
over  the  entire  college.  Prof.  Rogers  was  called  to  the  chair  of  phys- 
ics and  astronomy  in  18H(),  having  already  made  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion as  a  teacher  and  original  investigator.  From  that  time  until  his 
recent  illness  he  gave  himself  to  the  duties  of  his  department  and  to 
his  favorite  lines  of  investigation  in  such  a  manner  as  to  add  much  to 
the  fame  of  the  universitj*.  He  was  peculiarly  beloved  by  the  students 
and  by  all  who  associated  with  him.  His  successor  in  the  department 
will  be  Prof.  Gordon  K.  Hull,  of  Chicago  University. 

The  Colby  glee  club,  under  the  management  of  Bro.  H.  S.  Brown, 
has  just  returned  from  an  extended  trip  through  the  northern  part  of 
the  state.  Not  only  have  good  audiences  and  popularity  met  them  at 
every  point,  but  an  unusual  degree  of  pecuniary  success  has  been  the 
result  of  the  trip.  Several  shorter  trips  will  be  taken  during  the  com- 
ing term. 

The  debating  contest  between  Bates  and  Colby  was  one  of  the  finest 
that  has  taken  place  here  for  a  long  time.  A  turn  of  the  argument 
obliged  the  final  speaker  on  the  Colby  team  to  abandon  half  what  he 
had  prepared  and  speak  extemporaneously.  This  was  done  in  a  man- 
ner which  won  the  compliments  of  many  who  did  not  know  the  diffi- 
culty in  which  he  was  placed.  The  debate  was  won,  and  well  won, 
by  Colby. 

In  the  senior  class  elections  for  1808  Bro.  Foye  was  made  chaplain, 
Bro.  Cook,  prophet,  and  Bro.  Fuller,  marshal;  in  the  junior  class  Bro. 
Chase  was  chosen  historian,  Bro.  Waldron,  marshal,  and  Bro.  Brown, 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  Bro.  Cook  was  one  of  the 
speakers  in  the  senior  prize  contest  in  composition,  and  Bro.  Chase 
has  received  an  appointment  as  otie  of  the  junior  prize  debaters. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  every  chapter  and  Phi,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Waterville,  March  21,  1898.  W.  B.  Chase. 

NEW  HAHPSHIRE  ALPHA,  DARTMOUTH  COLLEQE. 

The  winter  term  closes  at  Dartmouth  on  April  7.  The  only  events  of 
particular  interest  during  the  winter  have  been  the  lectures  by  Rob- 
ert Harper  and  Colonel  Watterson,  and  the  indoor  meets  in  Boston 
during  February,  to  which  Dartmouth  sent  relay  teams  to  compete 
with  Brown  and  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 


THE  SCROLL.  3^7 

During  the  past  week  the  last  vestige  of  four  feet  of  snow  has  disap- 
peared from  the  campus,  and  every  afternoon  the  place  is  alive  with 
candidates  for  the  base  ball  and  track  athletic  teams.  It  is  too  early 
to  make  any  forecast  of  our  prospects,  but  every  effort  is  being  made 
to  put  winning  teams  into  the  field,  and  with  the  loss  of  but  few  strong 
men  by  graduation,  Dartmouth  has  hopes  of  winning  her  usual  share 
of  athletic  laurels. 

Since  our  last  letters  we  have  initiated  seventeen  new  members,  and 
we  take  pride  in  presenting  to  the  Fraternity  :  Carl  Maynard  Owen, 
Jacksonville,  111.,  and  Channing  Tewksbury  Sanborn,  Concord,  N.  H., 
of  the  class  of  11)0() ;  and  Bernard  Quincy  Bond,  Littleton,  N.  H.;  Sel- 
wyn  Kenson  Dearborn,  Clinton,  Mass.;  Edgar  Hayes  Hunter,  Somer- 
ville,  Mass.;  Homer  Chandler  Ladd,  Brookfield,  Mass.;  Richard  Ed- 
wards Leach,  Denver,  Colo.;  James  Edward  McCarten,  Lancaster,  N. 
H.;  Edward  Neil  McMillan,  Hyde  Park,  Mass. ;  Leon  Orlando  Merrill, 
Gilmanton,  N.  H.;  Guy  Clifton  Ricker,  Croton,  Me.;  Daniel  Ashton 
Rollins,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Simon  Henry  Salomon,  Groveton,  N.  H.; 
Leon  Alfred  Salinger,  Rochester,  N.  H. ;  Royal  Bradford  Thayer,  So. 
Braintree,  Mass.;  Harry  Orbert  Washburne,  Hartford,  Vt.;  Theodore 
Newton  Wood,  Middleboro,  Mass.,  all  of  the  class  of  1901. 

All  of  our  new  brothers  are  entering  with  great  zest  into  fraternity 
and  college  work.  Several  are  accomplished  pianists,  and  Bro.  Thayer 
sang  first  tenor  in  the  glee  club  this  winter.  Bro.  Hunter  led  his  class 
in  scholarship  for  the  first  term.  Bro.  Ladd  played  on  his  class  foot  ball 
team  last  fall,  and  Bros.  Washburne  and  McCarten  on  their  class  base 
ball  team.  The  last  two  and  Bro.  Fairfield,  19(X),  are  promising  can- 
didates for  the  'varsity  nine.  Bro.  Leach  is  one  of  our  most  genial 
assistants  in  the  college  library,  having  had  considerable  experience 
in  library  work  in  the  Denver  public  library  before  entering  Dart- 
mouth. Bros.  Merrill  and  Ricker  received  the  first  and  third  prizes 
at  our  annual  fraternity  prize  speaking  last  week,  Bro.  Sawin,  '98, 
receiving  second  prize. 

At  the  annual  'class  of  '66  and  Rollins'  prize  speaking  held  this 
month,  Bro.  Chase,  '99,  took  the  first  prize  in  original  orations,  and 
Bro.  Sawin,  '98,  secured  a  place  in  the  extemporaneous  debate  for  the 
seniors.  Bro.  Barney  Musgrove,  '99,  and  Tirrell,  19()0,  have  parts  in 
the  play  to  be  presented  by  the  Buskin  next  week.  Bro.  Barney  rep- 
resented Dartmouth  at  the  third  international  convention  of  the  stu- 
dent volunteer  movement  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  February  2i^-27.  He 
returned  reporting  a  most  cordial  reception  and  entertainment  by  our 
brothers  of  the  Case  School.  Bro.  Musgrove  was  elected  assistant  ed- 
itor of  The  Dartmouth  early  in  the  month,  and  will  be  editor-in-chief 
next  year. 

We  greatly  miss  Bros.  H.  H.  Lewis,  '99,  and  Balkam,  1900.  .Bro. 
Lewis  has  just  left  us  to  accept  an  excellent  position  in  the  engiiieer- 
ing  department  of  the  New  England  Railroad  Company  at  Boston. 
He  expects  to  return  next  year  and  enter  the  Thayer  School  of  Civil 
Engineering.  Bro.  Lewis  was  one  of  our  best  athletes  and  will  be 
missed  at  the  meet  in  Worcester  next  May.  He  practically  won  the 
meet  for  us  last  year.  Bro.  Balkam  was  obliged  to  leave  us  at  Christ- 
mas time  on  account  of  his  eyes,  and  does  not  know  yet  whether  he 
can  return  next  year.  Bro.  Tirrell,  1900,  is  leader  of  the  Dartmouth 
orchestra. 

Our  meetings  have  been  very  enthusiastic  the  past  winter.  The  fur- 
nishings of  our  rooms  have  been  renewed,  and  every  afternoon  and 
evening  find  a  jolly  crowd  of  Phis  gathered  there  to  chat,  play  games 


3S8  THE  SCROLL. 

and  discuss  general  college  and  fraternity  questions.  We  have  been 
greatly  pleased  to  receive  visits  this  winter  from  a  number  of  our 
alumni,  and  from  several  who  are  now  in  the  medical  college  at  Han- 
over.    Bro.  Bates,  of  Colby,  is  among  the  latter  number. 

With  best  wishes,  1  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Hanover,  March  2(3,  18^8.  B.  C.  RoDGERS. 


VERHONT  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  VERnONT. 

The  mid-^'ear  examinations,  one  of  the  most  critical  periods  in  the 
student's  life  at  the  Universitv  of  Vermont,  were  held  on  Februarv 
1-21,  inclusive,  and  in  a  few  cases,  as  usual,  they  worked  disastrous  re- 
sults. For  the  most  part  our  new  honor  system  proved  eflficient,  much 
less  cribbing  than  formerly  being  observed.  But  to  insure  a  complete 
abolition  of  this  evil,  more  anti-cribbing  resolutions  were  adopted  by 
the  student  body  on  FebruarA*  28,  in  addition  to  those  respecting  the 
honor  system  adopted  on  January  20.  Henceforth  any  student  re- 
ported to  be  a  cnbber  shall  be  tried  by  the  student  members  of  the 
conference  committee;  if  he  is  convicted  by  an  unanimous  vote  of  this 
jury,  his  name  shall  be  publislied,  and  he  shall  be  deprived  of  the 
right  to  participate  in  class  or  college  affairs.  Bro.  Blatr,  'yi»,  repre- 
sents us  on  the  conference  committee. 

The  annual  junior  prom.,  the  leading  event  of  the  winter  in  society 
circles  in  Burlington,  look  place  Friday  evening,  February  18,  at  the 
armory,  and  was  the  splendid  success  that  former  events  of  the  kind 
have  led  those  who  attend  to  expect. 

The  musical  clubs  have  had  a  very  successful  season  during  the  past 
winter.  Fifteen  concerts  have  been  given  throughout  the  state,  in- 
cluding a  joint  concert  in  Burlington  with  the  McGill  University 
clubs  of  Montreal.     Vermont  Alpha  has  four  members  on  the  clubs. 

January  27  was  observed  as  the  day  of  prayer  for  colleges.  Bro. 
G.  L.  Richardson,  Will  tains,  \v.n\  rector  of  the  Episcopal  church  at 
Bennington,  Vt.,  was  the  speaker  on  this  occasion.  Bro.  Ufford,  '01, 
was  V.  M.  C.  .V.  delegate  to  the  student  volunteer  convention  at  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  February  2">  27. 

Our  base  ball  team  has  a  bright  outlook  for  the  season.  Bro.  Forbes, 
as  manager,  has  arranged  for  two  extended  trips  and  for  fourteen 
games  on  the  home  grounds  with  the  strongest  college  teams.  Ver- 
mont will  be  weaker  than  usual  in  the  box,  but  coach  Abbey,  formerly 
of  the  Chicago  league  team,  is  coaching  the  team  especially  in  batting 
and  fielding.  Bro.  Murray,  'OO,  who  played  on  last  year's  team,  and 
Bro.  Lincoln,  '00,  are  among  the  candidates. 

Alumni  day  was  observed  March  1~>  by  the  undergraduates  and 
several  alunmi  of  Vermont  Alpha  :  Bros.  Sinclair,  '82 ;  Mower,  '1»4 ; 
Doten,  '05  ;  Sabin,  'Oii ;  and  Jackson,  Doten,  and  Farrington,  '07.  A 
musical  and  literary  programme  was  rendered,  and  remarks  from  the 
alumni  were  listened  to  with  much  iiiterest.  Light  refreshments 
were  served  on  this  occasion,  and  a  highly  appreciated  gift  was  re- 
ceived by  the  chapter  from  Bro.  C.  K.  Briggs,  '04.  It  was  a  sword  and 
shield  carved  most  artistically  from  wood. 

Expecting  enthusiastic  reports  in  the  next  Scroll  from  every 
stronghold  of  Phidoni,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Burlington,  March  21,  180S.  C.  F.  Blair. 


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MASSACHUSETTS  BETA.  AMHERST  COLLEGE. 

Amherst  is  shortly  to  have  a  new  observatory.  With  the  $15,000 
bequest  of  Chas.  T.  Wilder,  land  has  already  been  bought  for  its  site, 
near  Blake  field.  By  the  will  of  Amos  R.  Eno,  which  has  been  ad- 
mitted to  probate  recently,  Amherst  will  perhaps  receive  $50,000 
more,  though  the  disposal  of  it  has  not  yet  been  decided.  The  col- 
lege has  been  permitted  this  term  to  listen  to  two  lectures  in  the 
.course  on  'College  Thought  and  Public  Interest';  one  by  Albert  Shaw 
on  'Greater  New  York  under  the  New  Charter,'  and  the  other  by 
H.  E.  Krehbiel,  on  'How  to  Listen  to  Music' 

The  students'  interests  during  the  winter  term  seem  to  center  around 
social  attractions.  The  junior  promenade  on  February  IS  was  unusu- 
ally successful  and  enjoyable.  Nearly  all  of  the  various  fraternities 
have  held  dances  and  receptions  at  their  chapter  houses.  Massitchu- 
setts  Beta  gave  a  very  pleasant  informal  reception  on  the  afternoon  of 
March  9,  at  which  young  ladies  were  present  from  Smith  and  Mt. 
Holyoke  Colleges.  The  house  was  tastefully  decorated  and  refresh- 
ments served.  It  is  the  custom  in  our  chapter  to  relieve  the  monotony 
of  the  term  somewhat  by  holding  what  we  call  'Saturday  night  set- 
ups,' tendered  in  turn  by  each  delegation  to  the  rest  of  the  chapter. 
At  the  junior  'set-up'  we  enjoyed  the  presence  of  Bros.  Leach,  '92, 
Andrews,  '95,  Moses,  '97,  and  Crary,  '97. 

The  college  has  participated  in  two  indoor  athletic  meets,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Boston  athletic  association  and  Boston  College.  The 
interest  centered  in  both  meets  around  the  relay  races  between  Am- 
herst and  Williams.  Bros.  Strong,  '98,  and  Gladwin,  '01,  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Amherst  team.  Basket-ball  games  have  called  forth  quite 
a  little  class  spirit  and  rivalry,  and  the  freshmen  have  proved  to  have 
the  strongest  team.  On  the  '9S  team  we  were  represented  by  Bros. 
Trefethen,  Porter  and  Strong;  on  the  '99  team  by  Bros.  Brooks  and 
Whitney;  while  Bro.  Ennever  was  a  substitute  on  the  '01  team. 

The  musical  associations  and  senior  dramatics  cast  are  preparing  for 
their  Easter  vacation  trips  through  the  principal  cities  of  southern 
New  England.  Bro.  Strong  is  property  manager,  and  has  been  as- 
signed a  rt)le  in  the  dramatics. 

The  chapter's  goat-meetings  have  been  very  interesting  and  helpful. 
On  the  evening  of  February  15  we  had  the  privilege  of  listening  to  a 
talk  by  Prof.  Sterrett,  our  brother  /';/  facilitate,  who  gave  us  an  ac- 
count of  his  personal  experiences  and  observations  during  the  recent 
war  in  Greece.  The  term  will  close  with  the  presentation  of  a  farce 
entitled  'Freezing  a  Mother-in-Law,'  by  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  troupe. 

Bro.  Bliss,  '98,  represented  Massachusetts  Beta  at  the  annual  banquet 
ot  the  Rhode  Island  Alpha,  and  reported  a  very  hospitable  reception 
and  fine  banquet.  Bro.  Porter,  '98,  will  be  our  delegate  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Alpha  Alumni  banquet,  March  18.  Our  own  Alumni  day  ex- 
ercises were  in  every  way  interesting  and  helpful.  There  were  three 
addresses  by  the  active  members.  Bro.  Porter,  '98,  spoke  in  review 
of  the  fifty  years  of  the  Fraternity,  emphasizing  the  peculiar  qualities 
which  have  enabled  it  to  outstrip  so  many  older  rivals.  Bro.  Whit- 
ney's remarks  were  also  retrospective,  but  confined  to  the  past  ten 
years  of  Massachusetts  Beta,  its  progress,  and  its  debt  to  its  alumni. 
Bro.  Bliss,  '98,  outlined  clearly  our  standing  to-day,  our  advantages 
and  our  weaknesses,  and  our  duty  and  hope  for  the  future.  Bro. 
Leach,  '92,  was  present.  Bro.  Leach's  proximity  to  Amherst  has  en- 
abled him  to  know  personally  every  member  but  two  of  Massachu- 


390  THE  SCROLL, 

setts  Beta's  roll  call  since  its  founding  in  1888;  so  that  his  remarks 
were  particularly  well  received.  He  traced  the  efforts  of  the  early 
members  to  place  the  chapter  upon  a  secure  footing,  and  related  some 
interesting  experiences  of  their  struggle  which  were  new  to  us.  The 
speeches  were  interspersed  with  well-rendered  selections  by  the  chap- 
ter's quartette.  The  inspiring  fraternity  yell,  given  in  the  open  air, 
rounded  out  the  exercises  of  the  evening. 

With  best  wishes  for  continued  prosperity  of  all  the  chapters,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  March  12,  189S.  Chester  M.  Grover. 

RHODE  ISLAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

On  February  2.3,  Rhode  Island  Alpha  held  her  ninth  annual  ban- 
quet. While  not  so  largely  attended  as  some  of  its  predecessors,  it 
was  an  enjoyable  and  hearty  meeting  of  Phis.  Several  of  the  alumni, 
as  is  usual,  were  with  us  to  renew  former  acquaintances  and  to  meet 
the  younger  members.     The  literary  program  was  as  follows: 

Toastmaster,  Bro.  Multer.  'What  Are  We  Here  For,'  Bro.  Greene; 
Oration,  Bro.  White;  History,  Bro.  WMlcox;  Toast,  Bro.  Hapgood; 
Poem,  Bro.  Putney;  Prophecy,  Bro.  Stillnian;  'Wheels  as  I  Have  Stud- 
ied Them,'  Bro.  Phetteplace;  responses  by  delegates;  impromptus  by 
the  alumni. 

For  some  time  the  foundation  of  an  alumni  chapter  in  Providence 
has  been  agitated,  and  on  March  1,  a  meeting  of  alumni  was  held  to 
consider  what  should  be  done.  W^e  hope  soon  to  be  able  to  report  a 
strong  alumni  chapter,  which  shall  not  only  give  aid  and  encourage- 
ment to  the  local  chapter  but  also  advance  materially  the  interests  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta  in  Providence  and  vicinity. 

The  spring  term  opened  March  21>.  The  base  ball  squad,  consisting 
of  about  twenty  men,  was  called  together  for  outdoor  practice  during 
the  spring  recess,  and  the  prospects  are  bright  for  a  strong,  reliable 
team,  of  which  Brown  may  justly  be  proud,  and  which  will  uphold 
the  enviable  position  won  by  the  teams  of  the  past  two  years. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Providence,  April  1,  ISHS.  H.  G.  Wii,cox. 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA,  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  la.st  letter  the  membership  list  of  New  York  Alpha  has 
been  swelled  by  the  addition  of  the  following  names:  William  H. 
Morrison,  1901,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  Charles  E.  Stevens,  MK)1,  of 
Hornellsville,  N.  Y.;  Clarence  H.  Fay,  1901,  of  Bath,  N.  Y.;  William 
Waldo  Pellet,  1900,  of  Watkins,  N.  Y.;  Archie  E.  MacBride,  1901,  of 
Deckertown,  N.  J.;  and  Eugene  A.  Kinsey,  1901,  of  La  Salle,  N.  Y. 
Bro.  Morrison,  who  heads  the  list,  has  already  distinguished  himself, 
having  in  spite  of  lively  competition  secured  a  position  on  the 
•  Masque,'  Cornell's  dramatic  club. 

In  college  affairs,  athletic  and  social,  Phi  Delta  Theta  occupies  a 
prominent  place.  Bros.  A.  Iv.  Whiting,  Hackett  and  Dempsey  were 
members  of  last  fall's  foot  ball  team,  Bros.  Thomson  and  Zeller  are 
on  the  track  team  (Bro.  Thomson  captained  the  relay  runners),  Bros. 
Starbuck  and  Coit  were  the  half  backs  of  the  1900  foot  ball  eleven, 
Bro.  Short  was  full  back  of  the  second  team,  and  Bros.  Bassford  and 
Hackett  won  the  heavy  weight  and  middle  weight  championships  re- 
spectively at  the  university  boxing  meet  held  in  March.     Bros.  Has- 


THE  SCROLL.  391 

kell  and  Bassford,  members  of  last  season's  base  ball  team,  are  again 
trying  for  their  positions,  and  a  number  of  our  freshmen  are  hard  at 
work,  under  the  eye  of  Charlie  Courtney,  with  the  intention  of  row- 
ing on  the  freshman  crew.  On  the  glee  club  we  are  represented  by 
Bro.  Wynne  (leader)  and  Bro.  A.  E.  Whiting.  The  banjo  club  is  led 
by  Bro.  Bassford.  Bro.  Coit  was  a  member  of  the  sophomore  cotillion 
committee;  Bro.  Wynne  is  a  member  of  the  'Mermaid,'  the  senior  ban- 
queting club;  Bros.  Haskell  and  Whiting,  of  the  'Round  Table;'  Bro. 
Young,  of  the  'Monastery;'  Bro.  Short,  of  the  'Mummy,'  and  Bros. 
Pellet  and  Andrews,  of  the  'Elf.' 

During  'junior  week, '  into  which  are  crowded  most  of  the  social 
events  of  the  college  year,  our  lodge  was  filled  with  a  merry  party  of 
guests.  On  the  evening  preceding  the  sophomore  cotillion  we  enter- 
tained with  a  dancing  party  for  which  about  two  hundred  invitations 
were  issued.     It  was  a  pronounced  success. 

On  the  evening  of  March  11  we  held  our  twenty-seventh  annual 
banquet  at  the  Oriental  cafe.  After  the  dinner  was  disposed  of,  Bro. 
Whiting,  acting  as  toastmaster,  introduced  the  following  toasts  and 
speakers: 

The  Fraternity,  C.  F.  Hackett,  '98;  The  Faculty,  Prof.  L.  H.  Bailey; 
Our  Chapter,  S.  E.  Whiting,  '98;  Reminiscences,  Prof.  W.  F.  Durand; 
My  College  Days.  A.  E.  Whiting.  '98;  Cornell  Music,  J.  H.  Wynne, 
•98;  Society  as  I  Have  Found  It,  A.  Bassford,  Jr.,  '98;  Cornell  Politics, 
W.  H.  H.  Miller,  19()1 ;  Life  of  a  Non-Graduate  Resident,  W.  B.  New- 
ton. ex-'97;  The  Future,  R.  F.  Andrews,  1900;  The  Eccentricities  of  a 
Philosopher,  H.  H.  Haskell,  '98;  Nocturnal  Ramblings,  J.  W.  Young, 
'99. 

Like  our  dance,  the  banquet  was  a  pronounced  success. 

Altogether  the  year  has  thus  far  been  exceedingly  pleasant  and  suc- 
cessful for  New  York  Alpha. 

Hoping  that  all  our  other  chapters  have  enjoyed  equal  prosperity, 
I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  April  3,  1898.  Roland  Franklyn  Andrews. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

We  celebrated  Alumni  day  with  the  same  old-time  spirit.  Several 
alumni  were  in  the  city.  All  day  long  a  feeling  of  pride  seemed  to  be 
present  among  the  fellows,  and  with  anticipation  we  all  awaited  the 
gathering  of  Phis  in  the  evening.  Every  one  wore  the  fraternity  col- 
ors during  the  day.  At  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  Bro.  Fisher,  our 
worthy  president,  called  us  to  order,  and  after  the  regular  order  of 
Alumni  day  ceremonies  was  over  some  very  interesting  speeches  were 
listened  to.  Brother  Shelley  favored  us  with  a  tenor  solo,  which  was 
highly  appreciated.  Bro.  Griffith  read  a  very  timely  paper  ou  the 
cause  for  which  *  A  0  stood  and  the  circumstances  that  led  to  its  organ- 
ization. Bro.  Gambee,  who  has  just  been  elected  assistant  base  ball 
manager,  spoke  on  the  chapter's  history  since  he  knew  it.  Bro.  Law- 
ton,  '94,  spoke  of  our  chapter's  alumni  and  its  history  for  the  past  ten 
years.  Bro.  CuUen,  with  his  vivid  imagination,  gave  us  visions  of  Ihe 
chapter's  future.  Bro.  Grout,  '01,  told  of  his  first  impressions  in 
♦  A  e.  Bro.  Waygood,  pastor  of  the  East  Avenue  Presbyterian  church, 
spoke  on  the  benefits  of  *  A  B  after  graduation,  and  said,  among  other 
things,  that  a  feeling  of  pride  is  one  of  the  greatest  benefits,  for  the 
individual  pride  of  a  Phi  is  of  an  exalted  kind,  and  ever  impels  him 


392  THE  SCROLL. 

to  keep  his  best  side  forward  and  his  beloved  Fraternity  untarnished. 
Bro.  Van  Gelder,  Broicn,  '97,  told  us  about  his  chapter  and  said  he 
hoped  it  would  entertain  all  Phis  who  visited  Providence  as  well  as  he 
had  been  treated  by  New  York  Beta  since  he  had  been  in  Schenectady. 
Bro.  Ripley,  '00,  in  his  jovial  way,  instilled  into  us  great  anticipations 
of  the  proposed  *  A  6  camp  on  Otsego  I^ake  next  August.  (In  regard 
to  this  camp  and  the  more  definite  arrangements,  I  would  say  to  all 
Phis,  do  not  forget  to  read  about  it  in  the  June  ScROix.) 

Bro.  Ingram,  Ohio  S/a/t\  and  Bro.  Blessing,  Utiion^  '94,  added  their 
presence  to  the  jolly  company.  At  the  close  of  the  exercises  all 
renewed  the  inner  man  with  refreshments,  which  were  prepared  in 
the  dining  hall.  During  the  evening  New  York  Beta  sent  greetings  to 
the  New  York  City  *  A  B  club,  which  was  being  organized  that  evening 
at  New  York  Delta's  chapter  house. 

Bro.  Bain,  of  Michigan  Beta,  has  left  his  position  in  the  Kdison 
works  and  accepted  a  higher  one  in  Oil  City,  Pa.  Bro.  Conover, 
f'niou,  '80,  at  the  law  firm  of  Conover  c<:  Fisher,  of  Amsterdam,  N.  Y., 
has  been  appointed  corporation  counsel  for  his  city. 

Bro.  G.  M.  Scofield,  f'ftiofi^  '07,  formerly  with  the  Youngstown  (O.) 
Bridge  Co. ,  has  gone  to  New  York  to  take  charge  of  the  eastern  office 
of  the  same  company  at  1»*)0  Nassau  street. 

Bro.  Gillespie,  Cuioti,  '9i^,  now  physician  in  the  Binghamton  Hos- 
pital, gave  us  all  a  hearty  hand-shake  the  other  day.  Bro.  Gayetty, 
Union ^  '98,  has  accepted  a  position  on  the  state  survey  of  the  Erie 
canal  at  Syracuse  and  has  left  college. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  April  4,  1898.  D.  J.  HoyT. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA,  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

In  this  letter  we  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Fraternity 
two  new  acquisitions  to  New  York  Delta:  Bros.  Richard  Gordon 
Simpson,  '90,  and  Clarence  Francis  Bell,  '90,  both  of  whom  are  not 
unknown  in  Columbia  life,  the  latter  especially  as  now  being  substi- 
tute catcher  on  the  'varsity  nine  with  promise  of  great  development. 

Bro.  Hailey,  '99,  medical,  who  has  been  constantly  ailing  during  the 
year,  was  subjected  to  an  operation  in  January,  which  was  fortunately 
successful,  but  he  had  lost  so  much  in  his  studies,  further  prosecution 
of  which  was  forbidden  him  by  his  physician,  that  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  Indian  Territory,  whence  several  letters  have  been  received 
informing  us  of  his  continuing  convalescence. 

On  the  evening  of  the  fourth  of  March  the  chapter  was  entertained 
by  Bro.  Edward  A.  Darling,  Cornell.,  'gr;,  superintendent  of  buildings 
of  Columbia  University,  and  Mrs.  Darling  in  their  charming  home  on 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  universitj^  grounds.  Bro.  Fred  A.  Goetze, 
Jr.,  '07,  assistant  superintendent  of  buildings,  was  also  present,  and 
•in  instrumental  music,  songs  and  stories  the  hours  flitted  by.  At 
half  past  ten  we  repaired  to  the  dining-room,  where  a  tempting  supper 
of  a  most  substantial  character  was  served.  'Liberty  Hall,'  Bro.  Dar- 
ling bade  us  consider  it,  and  we  complied.  Over  the  cigars  which 
we  puffed,  some  in  the  library  and  others  in  the  music  room.  Phis  in 
and  about  Columbia  were  discussed  until,  midnight  having  arrived,  we 
took  our  leave  with  a  final  Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  I  Phi-kei-a  ! — which 
broke  the  stilly  morn,  reverberating  along  the  shores  of  the  Hudson 
and  amid  its  fringing  hills  unhindered  and  unchallenged. 

In  the  Bond, 

New  York,  April  1,  1808.  Oscar  Wheks  Ehrhorn. 


THE  SCROLL,  393 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA,  PENNSYLVANIA  COLLEGE. 

The  second  term  is  about  drawing  to  a  close,  and  the  boys  are 
eagerly  looking  forward  to  vacation,  which  extends  from  the  first  to 
the  twelfth  of  April.  During  this  time  the  glee,  mandolin  and  guitar 
clubs  expect  to  take  their  annual  trip.  In  these  <l>  A  9  is  represented 
by  Bros.  Ott  and  Krafft. 

The  new  cage  has  just  been  completed,  and  the  candidates  for  the 
base  ball  team  are  hard  at  work  preparing  for  the  coming  season.  We 
hope  to  have  a  strong  team  this  year,  though  we  were  very  sorry  to  lose 
Burns,  *01,  who  has  signed  with  the  New  York  league  team.  The 
season  opens  on  April  13,  with  Syracuse  University  at  Gettysburg 

At  the  recent  inter-collegiate  oratorical  contest  at  Lafayette,  Gettys- 
burg succeeded  in  capturing  second  honor,  the  first  having  been  taken 
by  Lafayette. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  March  16,  we  celebrated  Alumni  day  with 
appropriate  exercises.  Afterward  we  adjourned  to  a  neighboring 
restaurant,  where  we  had  a  very  informal  banquet.  All  of  us,  together 
with  a  number  of  alumni  who  were  present,  spent  a  very  pleasant 
evening. 

Our  interest  in  securing  our  chapter  house  seems  to.be  on  the  in- 
crease, and  we  are  putting  forth  all  our  efforts  to  have  the  building 
started  as  soon  as  possible. 

We  were  very  much  pleased  to  have  ]5ro.  J.  Clark  Moore  spend  a 
short  time  with  us  lately. 

Wishing  all  Phis  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Gettysburg,  March  28,  1898.  J.  Ci.yde  Markka. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAMMA.  WASHINQTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  winter  term  at  Washington  and  Jefferson  closed  on  March  30, 
and  the  spring  term  will  open  April  0.  Commencement  will  be  held 
on  Tune  22.  This  will  be  tne  97th  commencement  of  Washington  and 
Jefferson  College.  The  past  term  was  an  unusually  successful  one. 
Athletic  work  was  kept  up  in  the  gymnasium  throughout  the  term, 
the  track  and  base  ball  teams  training  regularly.  The  inter-class  bas- 
ket ball  series  was  won  by  '99.  Brother  Eicher  was  a  member  of  the 
winning  team.  Ninety-nine  also  won  the  inter-class  gymnasium  drill 
contest  after  one  of  the  prettiest  exhibitions  in  the  history  of  the  col- 
lege. Base  ball  work  is  progressing  finely,  and  the  team  has  indulged 
in  much  outdoor  practice.  The  schedule  this  year  is  the  largest  ever 
made  out  and  includes  twenty-eight  games.  The  team  will  take  two 
trips  away  from  home,  one  through  eastern  Pennsylvania  and  another 
through  eastern  Ohio.  The  track  team  is  in  good  shape.  E.  M.  Pow- 
ers was  sent  to  the  National  Guard  games  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in 
February  and  took  third  in  the  mile  run.  He  holds  the  western  Penn- 
sylvania record  for  the  mile  and  half-mile.  A  team  of  four  men  will 
be  sent  to  the  relay  races  at  U.  of  P.  The  western  Pennsylvania  inter- 
collegiate athletic  association  meet  will  be  held  in  Pittsburgh  the  last 
of  May,  and  W.  and  J.'s  team  will  show  up  well. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  was  held  on  March  30, 
and  reports  showed  the  college  to  be  in  a  good  condition.  A  bequest 
of  |o,600  made  by  the  late  W.  R.  Murphy,  of  Allegheny,  Pa.,  was  re- 
ported and  will  be  applied  to  a  iiiemorial  of  some  sort  in  honor  of  the 
donor.  The  new  library  building  project  is  progressing  finely,  and 
the  plan  to  double  the  endowment  fund  of  the  college  by  an  addition 


394  THE  SCROLL. 

of  $250,000  by  the  centennial  year,  1 W2,  is  meeting  with  favor,  nearly 
one-half  the  amount  being  already  subscribed.  It  is  thought  the 
fund  will  exceed  the  amount  asked  for.  The  college  is  progressing 
along  every  line,  and  the  curriculum  is  already  of  as  high  a  standard 
as  that  of  any  eastern  college. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  William  Wallace  Hamilton, 
1901,  of  Beaver,  Pa.,  whom  it  gives  us  pleasure  to  introduce. 

Your  reporter  was  a  delegate  to  the  student  volunteer  convention  in 
Cleveland.  While  there  it  was  his  privilege  and  pleasure  to  meet  a 
number  of  Phis  from  other  colleges.  The  brothers  of  Ohio  Rta  were 
typical  Phis  and  did  everything  in  their  power  to  make  our  visit  a 
pleasant  one.  The  Case  boys  are  nicely  located  in  a  fine  chapter  house 
and  have  a  right  royal  welcome  for  any  Phi  who  may  visit  them.  The 
baby  chapter  of  our  Fraternity  is  about  the  liveliest,  most  loyal  and 
progressive  of  all  our  chapters,  and  we  older  ones  can  learn  much  from 
the  Phis  of  Ohio  Hta. 

We  did  not  celebrate  Alumni  day  by  any  special  obser\-ance  beyond 
wearing  the  colors.  We  always  observe  the  anniversary  of  the  found- 
ing of  our  chapter  by  special  exercises  and  a  banquet.  Brothers  Rule 
and  Logan  attended  the  banquet  of  the  Pittsburgh  alumni  association. 

Pennsylvania  Gamma  is  pleased  to  see  so  many  colleges  knocking 
at  our  doors.  We  are  in  favor  of  chapters  at  at  least  two  of  the  insti- 
tutions named  in  the  March  Pal  la  Jin  in. 

The  members  of  the  chapter  join  with  the  reporter  in  wishing  Bro. 
Miller  a  complete  and  speedy  recover>'  from  his  prolonged  illness. 

We  would  esteem  it  a  favor  if  Phis  on  base  ball  teams  that  are  to 
play  W.  and  J.  this  season  would  inform  the  reporter.  Brother  Eicher 
is  a  member  of  the  W.  and  J.  team. 

Senior  examinations  begin  on  May  23  and  end  on  May  25,  when 
grades  will  be  annoimced.  We  lose  four  men  by  the  graduation  of 
'98,  including  the  reporter.  Brother  Arthur  Kerr  Brown,  formerly  of 
'98,  who  has  been  out  of  college  two  years,  will  enter  ItKX)  next  term. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Washington,  March  31,  1898.  David  Glenn  Moore. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BPSILON.  DICKINSON  COLLEQE. 

During  the  early  part  of  this  term,  Dickinson  College  met  with  a 
sad  loss  in  the  death  of  M.  J.  Cramer,  S.  T.  D.,  who  was  tem|X)rarily 
filling  the  chair  of  philosophy  in  the  absence  of  Prof.  Dare.  He  died 
suddenly  of  ani^ina  pcclons  on  the  morning  of  January  2.3.  A  memor- 
ial service  was  held  in  the  Allison  M.  E.  church,  and  his  body  was 
then  taken  to  his  home  in  Kast  Orange,  N.  J.,  for  burial.  Bro.  Kriebel, 
'98,  was  selected  to  represent  the  student  body  at  the  funeral.  The 
Doctor's  short  vStay  among  the  students  had  endeared  him  to  the 
hearts  of  all.  The  work  in  philosophy  is  now  being  conducted  bv 
George  A.  Wilson,  Ph.  D.,  a  graduate  oi  Boston  University,  and  a  fel- 
low of  Jena. 

The  anniversaries  of  the  two  literary  societies  this  year  maintained 
their  usual  degree  of  excellence,  the  programs  being  most  interesting. 
Bro.  Guttshall,  '(K),  was  one  of  the  speakers  in  debate.  Washington's 
birthday  was  fittingly  celebrated  by  an  assembly  meeting  of  the  liter- 
ary societies,  at  which  R.  L.  Hubbard,  Ph.  D.,  of  Baltimore,  gave  an 
address  on  'Washington  Squared.'  The  societies  will  soon  conduct 
the  inter-society  debate,  and  the  discussion  promises  to  be  of  an  unusual 


THE  SCROLL.  395 

warmth.  The  subject  will  be,  'Resolvt'd,  That  Congress  should  estab- 
lish a  national  university.'  Bros.  Kriebel,  '98,  and  Hubler,  '98,  will 
represent  Phi  Delta  Theta  from  Belles  Lettres  society.  Arrangements 
have  just  been  completed  for  a  three  years'  contract  in  inter-collegiate 
debate  with  Pennsylvania  State  College.  Bro.  Kriebel  will  serve  as  a 
representative  from  Dickinson  in  this  year's  debate. 

The  college  has  recently  added  the  Revs.  J.  P.  Wright  and  R.  H. 
Gilbert  to  its  lecture  course,  and  our  president,  Dr.  Reed,  has  obtained 
a  promise  from  President  McKinley  to  be  present  at  our  commence- 
ment exercises. 

The  annual  mid- winter  sports,  held  in  the  gymnasium,  attracted  a 
large  audience  and  were  extremely  interesting.  The  class  of  '99,  by 
scoring  the  greatest  number  of  points,  secured  the  cup,  the  gift  of 
Bro.  Stephens,  '92.  In  the  outdoor  sports,  base  ball  promises  an  ex- 
cellent season.  The  team  is  as  yet  not  selected,  but  several  Phis  are 
trying  hard  to  make  it.  In  the  Union  Philosophical  society  election, 
Bro.  Stonesifer,  '98,  was  elected  president,  Bro.  Mallalieu,  '99,  vice- 
president,  and  Dorey,  '(H),  was  chosen  as  elected  editor  to  the  Pickiu- 
sonian  board.     Bro.  Sterrett,  '(K),  was  made  assistant  librarian. 

We  have  been  favored  recently  with  visits  from  Bros.  Wintersteen, 
ex-'99,  Weidenhamer,  '9f),  and  Cleaver,  '94.  In  the  elections  might 
be  mentioned  that  of  Bro.  Guttshall,  '(M),  to  the  editorship-in-chief  of 
the  '00  Microcosm. 

Alumni  day  promises  to  be  an  exceptionally  pleasant  event  in  that 
we  will  be  honored  with  the  presence  of  Bro.  J.  Clark  Moore,  the  presi- 
dent of  Alpha  province.  The  banquet  will  be  served  at  Hartzell's 
Caf^. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Carlisle,  March  lo,  J89&.  Wnjiuu  V.  Mali.aijku. 

BETA  PROVINCE, 

VIRGINIA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VIRGINIA. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroll  there  has  been  so  little  news  of 
interest  to  the  Fraternity  at  large  that  no  letter  from  us  appeared  in 
the  February  issue.  But  it  should  not  be  judged  from  this  that  Vir- 
fi^inia  Beta  is  inactive  or  is  a  dead  letter.  On  the  contrary,  internal 
improvement  has  been  the  characteristic  feature  of  the  chapter  for  the 
past  few  months. 

Plans  have  been  formulated  and  are  nearing  completion  by  which 
the  chapter  expects  within  a  reasonably  short  time  to  accomplish 
what  only  two  other  fraternities  { Z  4^  and  A  4^ )  have  already  done 
here,  and  that  is  to  secure  a  chapter  house.  At  the  beginning  of  next 
session  we  hope  to  announce  the  culmination  of  these  plans  and  the 
further  progress  of  the  movement  now  afoot  to  build  a  lodge. 

The  chapter  has  recently  been  made  politically  prominent  by  the 
nomination  of  Bro.  Davis  for  president  of  the  general  athletic  associa- 
tion. The  election  is  held  on  the  last  Saturday  in  May,  and  the  office 
is  the  highest  gift  within  the  power  of  the  students.  The  result,  which 
will  be  closely  contested  by  an  opposition  ticket,  will  probably  be  in 
our  favor.  And  if  we  do  win,  it  will  be  the  first  time  in  the  history  of 
Virginia  Beta  that  a  Phi  has  been  thus  lionored. 

Last  week,  Bro.  Peyton  B.  Bethel,  Centre,  '97,  spent  a  day  and 
night  with  us,  and  the  chapter  was  glad  to  entertain  the  chairman  of 


39^  THE  SCROLL, 

the  grievance  committee  of  the  last  convention.  And  yesterday  and 
to-day  the  chapter  had  the  honor  to  have  with  it  two  of  the  Lafayette 
base  ball  team,  Bros.  E.  J.  Bray  and  W.  W.  Hubley. 

The  new  physical  laboratory  has  recently  received  from  Charles 
Broadway  Rouss,  the  blind  millionaire  of  New  York,  an  additional 
gift  of  {10,000.  This  laboratory,  which  bears  his  name,  is  said  to  be 
the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  south.  The  new  academic 
buildings  and  the  Rotunda  have  been  completed,  and  the  former  are 
now  being  used,  while  the  latter  is  in  all  readiness  to  receive  the 
library.  The  buildings  will  be  formally  dedicated  at  commencement 
in  June.  Virginia  Beta  hopes  that  all  Phis  passing  through  Char- 
lottesville at  that  time  will  arrange  to  stop  over  for  these  ceremonies. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  chapters  and  for  The  Scroix*s  success,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  April  3,  1898.  John  P.  Lka. 

VIRGINIA  QAMMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBQB. 

It  was  our  intention  at  the  beginning  of  the  session  to  have  Virginia 
Gamma  represented  in  each  issue  of  The  ScRorj^,  but  owing  to  cir- 
cumstances which  we  could  not  alter,  we  have  been  unable  to  do  so. 
We  find,  however,  that  very  few  things  have  taken  place  recently 
which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Phi  world. 

The  Randolph-Macon  system  consists  of  six  institutions  with  about 
eight  hundred  students.  Chancellor  W.  W.  Smith  has  decided  to 
have  a  joint  commencement  at  Lynchburg,  Va.,  in  June.  This  will 
be  a  great  event  in  the  history  of  our  college.  The  different  railroads 
will  give  reduced  rates,  and  everything  will  be  made  attractive  in  order 
to  draw  a  large  number  of  the  friends  of  our  college  there.  Our  chan- 
cellor is  an  energetic,  progressive  man,  and  we  are  sure  that  he  will 
make  it  a  great  success.  The  Phis  on  that  occasion  will  be  well  rep- 
resented. Bros.  Clements  and  Kern  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  the 
graduating  class  exercises.  Bro.  Lavinder  will  be  on  the  rostrum  rep- 
resenting Frank  Hall,  of  our  institution.  Bro.  Janney  will  be  one  of 
the  contestants  for  the  Southerland  medal  for  oratory. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  in  good  trim,  made  up  of  men  of  good  fast 
records,  and  we  expect  great  things  of  them.  Bros.  Kern,  DoUey  and 
Lavinder  are  holding  down  the  right  field,  center  field  and  third  base, 
respectively. 

Bros.  Ray  Carpenter  and  '  Ike '  Zimmerman  paid  us  a  flying  visit 
some  time  ago.  These  brothers  bring  sunshine  and  joy  with  them, 
and  we  are  always  glad  to  have  them. 

On  the  third  of  March  we  led  through  the  mystic  portals  Bro.  P. 
Rucker,  whom  it  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  introduce.  He 
is  a  good  man,  and  we  did  well  to  get  him. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  good  condition  in  every  way. 

With  best  wishes  for  <l>  A  B's  success  and  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ashland,  April  4,  1898.  S.  M.  J.\N'NKY. 

VIRGINIA  ZETA,  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

During  the  past  month  a  province  convention  of  S  X  was  held  here, 
and  it  was  a  complete  success. 

Although  the  attendance  at  W.  and  L.  is  low  this  year  it  is  believed 
by  every  one  that  there  will  be  a  great  increase  in  the  number  for  the 


THE  SCROLL.  397 

session  of  •98-'99.  Several  changes  have  been  introduced  by  President 
Wilson.  Attendance  at  chapel  every  Wednesday  morning  has  been 
made  compulsory.  At  these  meetings  of  the  student  body  addresses 
are  delivered  either  by  some  member  of  the  faculty  or  ( usually )  by 
Mr.  Wilson  upon  some  current  topic  of  general  interest;  as,  'the  Zola 
trial  and  the  government  of  France  as  compared  with  that  of  the  United 
States.'  or  'the  mode  of  conducting  government  business  at  Washing- 
ton.' These  addresses  are  reported  in  most  of  the  leading  papers,  thus 
bringing  W.  and  L.  into  notice  more  than  it  has  been  her  good  fortune 
to  be  in  past  years. 

The  library  of  the  university  has  been  renovated  and  fitted  for  in- 
dividual work  in  political  science.  Several  of  the  class  rooms  have 
been  remodeled  and  furnished  with  modern  appliances.  Contribu- 
tions for  the  Tucker  Memorial  Hall  are  flowing  in  rapidly,  and  the 
erection  of  the  building  seems  to  be  an  assured  fact. 

In  athletics  improvements  may  also  be  noticed.  An  athletic  asso- 
ciation has  been  formed  on  a  new  plan,  which  will  put  athletics  on  a 
finiier  financial  basis  in  the  future.  The  new  base  ball  field  has  been 
further  improved  by  the  addition  of  a  grand  stand.  Great  things  are 
expected  from  the  base  ball  team  of  1808,  upon  which  Virginia  Zeta  is 
represented  by  Campbell  at  short  stop.  Thus  far  only  two  games  have 
been  played:  At  Lexington,  W.  and  L.  8 — V.  M.  I.  G;  at  Lynchburg, 
W.  and  L.  1  -Boston  league  team  6.  The  last  game  was  called  on  ac- 
count of  rain  after  the  seventh  inning. 

On  the  whole,  things  are  moving  along  more  progressive  lines,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  hope  that  the  university  is  entering  an  era  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lexington,  April  6,  1898.  R.  G.  Campbki,l. 

KENTUCKY  DELTA,  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

It  is  the  regret  of  your  rei>orter  that  he  can  not  give  a  glowing  ac- 
count of  the  observance  of  Alumni  day.  We  were  in  the  midst  o?  ex- 
aminations and  had  not  at  the  time  our  new  hall  furnished.  These 
circumstances,  with  others,  made  it  impossible  for  the  chapter  to  pre- 
pare a  program  that  could  be  successfully  carried  out.  Yet  we  were 
not  wholly  unmindful  of  the  day,  and  our  hearts  were  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  the  spirit  of  fraternal  love  and  reunion. 

After  our  recent  misfortune  we  feel  we  are  especially  blest  in  being 
able  to  refurnish  a  new  hall.  Our  new  quarters  have  just  undergone 
considerable  improvement,  being  newly  papered  and  painted  through- 
out. We  appreciate  the  result  of  our  efforts  very  nmcli.  We  also  have 
a  fund  raised  to  defray  the  expense  of  putting  down  a  hard  wood  floor. 
So  in  the  future  we  hope  to  be  able  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  the 
Fraternity  and  will  be  ever  ready  to  celebrate  all  occasions.  We  give 
each  year  a  number  of  receptions  and  dances,  which  prove  a  social 
success  in  every  way.  Though  the  past  few  months  have  been  some- 
what gloomy,  we  have  pulled  through  all  right  and  expect  smoother 
sailing  in  the  future. 

Since  examinations  college  matters  have  resumed  once  more  their 
normal  state.  Most  of  the  chapter  came  through  this  trying  ordeal 
in  a  highly  creditable  manner,  so  far  as  we  can  hear.  But  of  late  there 
have  been  some  organized  cuts  that  we  fear  will  go  hard  with  the 
whole  student  body. 

In  college  circles  base  ball  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  great  en- 
thusiasm now  exists  in  regard  to  C.  U.  's  prospects  for  the  year.     We 


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have  very  fine  material  and  under  the  efficient  coaching  of  Cunning- 
ham, the  clever  twirler  of  the  Colonels,  we  hope  to  present  a  team 
which  will  much  surpass  any  one  of  former  years.  Bro.  Speed  was 
recently  elected  captain,  and  the  fine  condition  of  the  team  is  due 
largely  to  his  efforts  and  enthusiasm  as  a  base  ball  man.  Crames  are 
now  scheduled  with  the  five  leading  colleges  of  Kentucky,  which  con- 
stitute the  state  league,  and  the  team  will  also  make  a  southern  tour 
if  dates  can  be  arranged. 

Our  state  oratorical  contest,  held  in  Lexington,  April  1,  was  the 
most  successful  in  the  history  of  the  association.  G.  W.  Hunter,  C.U.'s 
orator,  carried  oflF  the  honors. 

We  have  lost  a  strong  supporter  in  Bro.  W.  Fritz  Booker.  He  re- 
cently accepted  an  important  position  with  the  Louisville  Varnish  Co. 
This  was  a  severe  blow  to  us,  as  liro.  Booker  was  unquestionably  one 
of  the  strongest  men  of  his  class  intellectually,  and  the  interest  which 
he  always  manifested  in  this  chapter  was  such  that  he  can  not  be  re- 
placed. 

Our  annual  for  '98  bids  fair  to  be  one  of  the  l>est  ever  issued  by  a 
Kentucky  institution,  or  any  other  in  the  south.  We  are  represented 
on  the  editorial  staff  by  Bro.  Huffaker,  of  the  academic  department, 
and  Bro.  Smith,  of  the  law  department. 

Bro.  Frank  Kenney,  'S9,  now  secretary  of  the  Louisville  trotting 
association,  recently  spent  a  few  days  with  us,  visiting  Phi  friends 
and  renewing  old  acquaintances.  We  cordially  invite  every  Phi  who 
may  come  this  way  to  meet  with  us.  We  will  be  delighted  to  have 
you  as  our  special  guests. 

With  warmest  regards  for  all  Phis,  I  have  the  pleasure  to  be 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Richmond,  April  5,  1.S08.  H.  A.  DouciLAS. 

TeNNe55Ee  beta,  university  of  the  south. 

The  University  of  the  South  o|>ened  March  17,  with  brighter  pros- 
pects than  ever  before,  both  in  regard  to  quality  and  number  of  stu- 
dents. The  medical  department,  which  opens  in  May,  already  is  sure 
of  three  times  as  many  students  as  were  enrolled  last  year  ;  in  fact 
every  department  of  the  university  has  a  larger  number  enrolled  than 
at  any  period  of  last  session. 

Work  has  been  begun  on  a  new  dormitory  for  the  academic  stu- 
dents. The  cost  of  this  building  will  be  i^lO.OCK),  which  amount  was 
left  for  this  purpose  by  the  late  Dr.  HoflFman,  of  New  York. 

We  have  every  reason  to  predict  for  this  year  a  great  success  in 
athletics.  Of  last  year's  strong  base  ball  team  we  have  with  us  again 
six  of  the  old  men,  and  never  before  have  we  had  as  many  good  new 
players,  some  of  whom,  it  is  said,  will  make  the  veterans  work  for 
their  places  of  last  season. 

Since  the  opening  our  chapter  has  been  very  busy  rushing.  As  a 
result  of  this  work  we  have  so  far  welcomed  Bros.  Chas.  E.  Buntin,  of 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  Douglas  W.  Nash,  of  Paducah,  Ky.,  both  of 
whom  we  are  confident  wnll  greatly  strengthen  Tennessee  Beta.  The 
good  material  has  not  yet  been  exhausted.  Of  this  we  have  good 
prospects  of  getting  our  full  share. 

This  year  we  are  very  fortunate  in  having  an  unusually  large  pro- 
portion of  the  old  men  with  us  again.  These,  with  our  new  material, 
insure  us,  with  our  university,  a  brighter  future  than  ever. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  Fraternity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Sewanee,  March  28,  1898.  Robert  S.  Jqmison. 


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GAMMA  PROVINCE. 

QEORQIA  BETA,  EMORY  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroi^i,  Georgia  Beta  has  received  into 
her  fold  two  worthy  brothers.  I  take  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the 
Phi  world  Howard  P.  Park,  '99,  and  Edward  Lovett,  '02  (pledged). 
They  make  a  valuable  acquisition  to  the  chapter. 

In  the  base  ball  season,  which  has  opened  here,  the  Phis  are  well 
represented  on  the  class  teams.  Bros.  Bradley  and  Tilley  are  on  the 
senior  nine;  Bros.  Smith,  Griffin  and  the  reporter  belong  to  the 
ninety-nine  nine;  Bro.  Branhani  holds  the  big  mit  for  the  sophomores, 
and  Bros.  Underwood  and  Ininney  are  on  the  freshman  team. 

Of  the  orators  who  are  to  speak  at  the  approaching  commencement, 
Bro.  Tilley  is  champion  debater  from  Few  literary  society  and  also 
one  of  the  senior  speakers.  In  the  junior  class,  of  the  twelve  speakers 
appointed,  five  are  Phis,  viz. :  Bros.  Campbell,  Little,  Fort,  Smith  and 
Jorman.  The  contest  for  sophomore  and  freshman  speakers'  places 
will  occur  shortly,  and  in  conformity  with  our  precedent  established 
ten  years  ago,  we  expect  to  lead  the  van  in  this  department  of  the 
college. 

I  wish  to  express  Georgia  Beta's  sympathy  to  the  editor  of  The 
ScROLi^,  and  the  trust  that  he  may  early  be  restored  to  health  and  his 
work. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

Oxford,  March  31,  1898.  Frank  S.  Pai^mer. 

QEORQIA  QAMMA.  MERCER  UNIVERSITY. 

On  account  of  Bro.  Ledbetter's  unavoidable  absence  from  college 
for  awhile,  it  has  been  necessary  to  elect  a  reporter  in  his  place. 

It  is  with  real  pleasure  that  we  announce  a  valuable  accession  to  the 
Fraternity  since  our  last  letter  in  Bro.  Feagin,  of  Wellston,  Ga., 
whom  we  gladly  introduce  to  all  Phis. 

Our  boys  have  been  chosen  to  quite  a  number  of  college  offices  re- 
cently. Bro.  Turner  was  made  manager  of  the  track  team;  Bro.  Burney, 
orator  of  the  senior  class  and  an  editor  of  the  college  annual;  Bro. 
Whitney,  manager  of  the  base  ball  team;  Bro.  Pearson,  a  contestant 
for  the  ready  speaker's  medal;  Bro.  Callaway,  an  editor  of  the  annual. 
We  will  also  be  well  represented  in  the  field  sports  and  on  the  dia- 
mond. 

These  honors,  however,  were  entirely  unsought,  and  are  pleasing 
indications  of  the  confidence  which  the  students  have  in  our  boys' 
ability  to  fill  such  positions.  But  our  highest  aim  has  been  to  main- 
tain a  true  fraternal  spirit.  We  realize  that  our  success  outside  de- 
pends largely  upon  our  work  within  the  chapter. 

Mercer  is  now,  under  the  leadership  of  Bro.  Turner,  zealously  pre- 
paring for  a  field  day  with  the  (Georgia  School  of  Technology  and  the 
State  University.  Our  prospect  for  success  is  splendid.  Our  base 
ball  team,  too,  which  is  even  stronger  than  before,  bids  fair  to  sustain 
its  former  reputation,  having  lost  only  one  game  within  the  past 
several  years. 

To  The  Scroi:,^  and  all  our  sister  chapters  Georgia  Gamma  extends 
her  very  best  wishes  for  their  future  success. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Macon,  March  28,  1898.  T.  U.  Conner,  Jr. 


400  THE  SCROLL. 

ALABAHA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  ALABAHA. 

Quite  a  number  of  changes  are  being  made  in  the  appearance  of  our 
campus.  Trees  are  being  set  out,  walks  laid  off;  and  a  track  one-third 
of  a  mile  in  length  is  being  constructed  on  the  east  side.  Improve- 
ment is  also  being  made  on  the  university  avenue. 

The  examinations  have  at  last  been  passed,  and  a  feeling  of  relief 
has  settled  upon  the  student  body.  The  faculty  allowed  only  one 
week  for  examinations  this  session  instead  of  two  as  heretofore.  We 
have  learned  that  it  takes  hard  study  during  the  term  to  make  the  re- 
quired mark. 

I  fear  that  our  prospects  in  athletics  are  not  as  encouraging  this  year 
as  they  should  be.  The  authorities  still  say  that  the  team  shall  not 
travel.  That  interest  and  enthusiasm  which  has  every  year  before 
characterized  the  approach  of  the  base  ball  season  seems  to  be  entirely 
absent.  And  I  predict  that  unless  these  restrictions  are  removed  one 
more  such  year  will  wipe  out  athletics  entirely. 

But  notwithstanding  these  drawbacks,  we  are  going  to  have  a  base 
ball  team  this  year.  Bro.  Black  is  manager,  and  surely  the  business 
affairs  could  not  be  in  better  hands. 

I  am  glad  to  rej>ort  that  our  two  literary  societies  are  now  in  a  most 
flourishing  condition.  We  intend  soon  to  have  a  public  debate.  There 
is  nothing  more  inspiring  to  society  work  than  these  debates.  At  a 
recent  meeting  of  the  Philomathic  society  your  correspondent  was  elect- 
ed president  and  Bro.  Burns  secretary  and  treasurer.  Bro.  Bestor  is 
one  of  the  orators  for  commencement  day. 

Bro.  White  is  business  manager  of  our  college  annual.  The  Corotla. 

We  are  beginning  to  look  forward  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to 
the  social  events  at  commencement.  The.  Phis  are  going  to  give  a 
morning  german  in  the  city  hall. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Tuskaloosa,  April  5,  1898.  Frank  C.  Owen. 

niSSISSIPPI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  MISSISSIPPI. 

The  fraternity  world  here  has  been  considerably  excited  over  college 
politics  for  some  time  past,  and  ill  feeling  existed  for  awhile,  but 
the  breaches  are  now  healed  and  everything  is  once  more  moving 
smoothly. 

Bro.  Hardy  was  elected  captain  of  the  *98  base  ball  team,  and  Bro. 
Henry  manager  of  the  '99  team.  Bro.  Hardy,  at  first  base,  represents 
us  on  the  'varsity  team.  Bro.  Weatherby  is  vice-president  of  the 
junior  law  class.  Bro.  Hardy  is  the  business  manager  of  Ole  Jfiss 
for  '98. 

Bro.  McCain,  ex-'9o,  won  the  apj>ointment  over  thirteen  competitors 
for  the  West  Point  cadetship.     He  will  enter  next  June. 

The  numerical  standing  of  the  fraternities  in  the  order  of  their  es- 
tablishment is :  A  T  A,  20  ;  A  K  E,  27  ;  A  4^,  20  ;  2:  X,  26  ;  *  K  4^,  14  ; 
4>  A  e,  lo  ;  >:  A  E,  11.  The  sororities,  TAB  and  S  T,  have  16  and  11, 
respectively.  There  is  a  chapter  of  Theta  Nu  Hpsilon  here.  Bros. 
Henry,  Ray,  Hardy,  Weatherby  and  Witherspoon  are  members. 

We  have  recently  received  visits  from  Bros.  Henderson,  Missouri 
Beta,  and  Grear,  Georgia  Beta.  They  are  both  fine  fellows,  and  it  is 
indeed  a  pleasure  to  be  with  such  true  and  loyal  Phis. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  continued  prosperity  of  the  Fraternity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Oxford,  March  16,  1898.  Gkorge  Latham  Ray. 


THE  SCROLL,  401 

TBXAS  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  TEXAS. 

The  examinations  of  the  winter  term  are  just  over,  and  only  one  other 
remains  to  decide  who  shall  receive  diplomas  and  whether  or  not  he 
that  is  a  freshman  shall  be  a  freshman  still.  Our  Phis  were  very  suc- 
cessful, several  receiving  the  highest  grades  given. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  Bro.  Lomax.  who  was  pursuing 
graduate  work,  has  withdrawn  from  the  university.  However,  he 
still  holds  the  position  of  registrar  and  to  all  intents  and  purposes 
continues  an  active  member  of  the  Fraternity. 

Two  weeks  ago  work  was  begun  on  the  east  wing  of  the  university, 
and  within  six  months  the  proposed  structure  will  be  ready  for  use. 
The  whole  of  the  first  floor  of  the  east  wing  will  be  assigned  to  the 
law  department,  while  the  rest  of  the  building  will  be  divided  between 
the  academic  and  engineering  departments.  The  erection  of  the  new 
wing  will  fill  a  long-felt  want,  as  the  institution  has  been  hampered 
on  account  of  lack  of  room  for  several  years. 

The  university  is  to  have  a  summer  school  this  year  which  promises 
to  be  very  successful .  Not  only  will  instruction  be  given  in  regular 
university  courses,  but  special  attention  will  be  paid  to  pedagogy  and 
school  management.  In  this  way  it  is  sought  to  bring  a  great  number 
of  teachers  from  all  parts  of  the  state  to  the  summer  school  and  in  this 
manner  to  interest  them  in  the  university  and  its  work. 

Work  on  Cactus  of  '98  has  about  been  completed,  and  it  will  be  sent 
to  the  printer  in  a  few  days.  Our  annual  promises  to  be  exceptionally 
fine  this  year,  both  as  to  engravings  and  literary  matter. 

Base  ball  is  more  popular  here  this  year  than  for  several  seasons. 
A  good  team  has  been  organized,  and  thorough  training  has  brought 
it  up  to  a  high  standard  of  excellence.  In  a  few  days  the  nine  will 
leave  for  northern  Texas,  where  several  games  will  be  played  with 
college  teams. 

In  a  recent  contest  in  which  those  who  should  be  allowed  to  contest 
for  the  honor  of  representing  Texas  in  the  southern  inter-collegiate 
oratorical  association  were  selected,  out  of  five  successful  contestants 
two  were  Phis. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  all  Phis 
individually,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Austin,  March'28,  1898.  Tom  T.  Conn  ally. 

DELTA  PROVINCE. 

OHIO  BETA,  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  we  have  added  to  our  number 
two  initiates,  whom  we  introduce  with  pleasure  :  Louis  Britton  Bowker, 
'01,  Bryan,  O.,  and  Arthur  J.  Curren,  '01,  Delaware,  O.  On  March  11, 
a  banquet  was  held  in  our  hall  in  honor  of  Brother  Britton  Bowker, 
who  has  left  us  to  teach  school  at  his  home.  Bro.  Bowker  had  hardly 
appreciated  the  amount  of  respect  and  love  that  he  had  instilled  into 
our  hearts,  until  he  became  the  subject  of  inspiring  impromptu  toasts 
from  all  of  the  boys.  We  enjoyed  the  evening  very  much.  In  Bro. 
Bowker's  departure  the  chapter  has  lost  one  of  the  best  of  men  and 
truest  of  brothers. 

The  inter-collegiate  debating  league  of  Ohio  is  now  in  effect  and  is 
proving  a  very  strong  organization.  On  March  4,  we  met  Western 
Reserve  University  at  Delaware.     Though  we  lost  the  decision,  we 


402  THE  SCROLL. 

are  unwilling  to  acknowledge  defeat.  Our  opponents  handled  the 
question  from  an  entirely  different  standpoint,  and  refuted  none  of 
our  arguments. 

Our  alumni  banquet  on  March  lo,  was  a  brilliant  success.  Seven- 
teen of  the  brothers  were  present  and  enjoyed  to  the  full  extent  the 
feast  and  the  toasts  which  followed.  Rro.  Jack  Edwards,  *95,  and  Bro. 
Walter  Clark,  '96,  represented  our  alumni.  Several  letters  were  read 
from  the  boys  who  were  unable  to  be  present,  expressing  regjrets.  The 
program  was  as  follows  : 

Phi  Delta  Theta,  Bro.  Morgan,  '00 ;  Our  Chapter,  Bro.  Pauly,  '9^» ; 
Our  Alumni,  Bro.  Clark,  '<.M> ;  Our  Seniors,  Bro.  Cherington,  '99 ;  Re- 
sponse, Bro.  Kohl,  '98 ;  Our  Girls,  Bro.  Mc Anally,  '01  ;  Anticipations 
of  a  Prep.,  William  R.  Bayes,  '02.     Ohio  Beta  Ye'll : 

*Beta!  Beta!  Beta! 
Phi  Delta  Theta! 

Blue  and  White — they're  all  right! 
Phi  Delta  Theta!' 

Not  being  able  to  have  'our  girls'  with  us,  we  sent  them  a  feast  at 
the  •  sem.'  They  had  an  enthusiastic  Phi  banquet  and  joined  us  loy- 
ally in  our  celebration. 

We  have  enjoyed  very  much  a  visit  from  Bro.  F.  S.  Brockman,  Ten- 
nessee Alpha,  '91.  Bro.  Brockman  is  secretary  of  the  student  volun- 
teer movement.  He  has  done  a  great  deal  of  good  at  Ohio  Wesleyan, 
having  stirred  up  the  students  to  an  appreciation  of  their  duty. 

Professor  Conner  of  Oberlin  College  was  also  with  us  at  the  time  of 
the  debate. 

Base  ball  is  on  the  boom  at  Wesleyan  now.  While  we  lost  last  year 
some  of  the  best  men  the  school  has  known,  a  quality  of  new  material 
is  at  hand  which  bids  fair  to  be  a  strong  rival  to  the  old  team.  Bro. 
Gales  is  captain  of  the  team  and  is  one  of  the  strongest  players  in  the 
school.  This  is  the  fifth  successive  year  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  has 
held  the  captaincy.  Bros.  Whitney,  Brown  and  Morgan  are  on  the 
diamond  trying  for  the  team.  A  strong  list  of  dates  has  been  made, 
and  to  sustain  our  reputation,  the  boys  will  have  to  work  hard.  Our 
track  team  promises  this  j^ear  to  be  the  strongest  that  we  have  had  for 
some  time.  Much  enthusiasm  has  been  shown,  and  the  boys  seem 
determined  to  bring  this  branch  of  college  athletics  up  to  its  proper 
position.  We  are,  however,  sadly  in  need  of  a  new  gymnasium,  and 
hope  that  the  school  may  be  so  fortunate  as  to  secure  one  soon.  The 
state  track  meet  will  be  held  at  Dayton  this  year. 

Ohio  Beta  extends  to  all  her  sister  chapters  the  best  of  wishes. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Delaware,  March  22,  1898.  Ch.\rlks  Morgan. 

OHIO  ETA,  CASB  SCHOOL  OF  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

On  February  1")  Professor  Barnard,  the  astronomer,  lectured  to  the 
students  and  friends  of  college,  and  in  the  evening  he  gave  a  similar 
lecture  to  the  faculty  and  their  friends.  One  seldom  has  the  oppor- 
tunity of  hearing  a  lecture  such  as  the  professor  gave. 

The  chapter  gave  a  card  party  on  February  2r>,  at  which  there  were 
fifty-four  Phis  and  ladies  present. 

The  student  volunteer  movement  held  its  convention  in  Cleveland 
during  the  last  week  of  February.  Many  Phis  were  sent  as  delegates 
from  the  various  colleges,  and  Phi  Delta  Theta  may  justly  be  proud 
of  the  representation  that  she  had  at  this  convention,  for  besides  the 


77^5:  SCROLL,    '  403 

delegates  present,  four  of  the  most  prominent  officers  of  the  move- 
ment are  Phis.  Our  chapter  had  the  pleasure  of  making;  the  acquain- 
tance of  the  following  delegates  :  Bros.  H.  B.  Reddick  and  C.  T. 
Bates,  of  Syracuse  University  ;  Edmund  D.  Soper  and  Chas.  S.  Davi- 
son, of  Dickinson  College;  Paul  Weyand,  of  Allegheny  College;  D.  G. 
Moore,  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  College ;  and  F.  S.  Brockman,  of 
Vanderbilt  University. 

This  chapter  and  its  friends  were  entertained  at  the  home  of  Senator 
Alexander,  at  Akron,  on  March  o. 

Since  the  last  letter  Bro.  Gleason,  '99,  has  been  elected  chairman  of 
the  junior  prom,  committee  ;  Bro.  Jones,  manager  of  the  base  ball 
team  ;  Bro.  Clyne,  assistant  manager  of  the  eleven. 

Bro.  Ward,  our  province  president,  Bro.  Brockman,  Vanderhilt,  ^gi^ 
Bro.  Mansfield,  Amherst^  ^gjy  and  Bro.  Banks,  Wabash^  '99,  have  been 
the  recent  visitors  at  our  regular  meetings.  The  chapter  always  de- 
rives much  benefit  and  pleasure  from  these  visits. 

Alumni  day  was  celebrated  jointly  by  the  Ohio  Gamma  Alumni  and 
Ohio  Eta  in  our  chapter  house.  The  house  was  filled  with  Phis  -forty- 
three  of  them,  representing  twelve  chapters  of  the  Fraternity — and  we 
can  report  an  unusually  good  time.  The  new  Alumni  day  ceremony 
was  used  for  the  first  time. 

In  conclusion  we  wish  to  invite  all  Phis  who  may  come  to  Cleve- 
land, whether  on  business  or  pleasure,  to  come  and  stay  with  us. 

In  the  Bond, 

Cleveland,  March  17,  1898.  Frank  Hulett. 

INDIANA  DELTA.  FRANKLIN  COLLEQE. 

Owing  to  the  recent  floods,  many  of  the  students  were  very  late  in 
returning  to  college  this  term.  We  are  disappointed  in  not  having 
Brothers  Paskins  and  Guthrie  with  us.  Both  of  them,  however,  in- 
tend to  return  next  year. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world  Bro.  Omer 
Covert,  1900,  of  Hopewell,  Indiana,  whom  we  initiated  into  the  mys- 
teries of  Phi  Delta  Theta  on  April  2. 

At  Franklin,  as  at  most  colleges,  this  is  the  term  of  athletics  and 
spring  love  affairs,  in  both  of  which  Indiana  Delta  will  have  her  usual 
strong  representation.  At  the  last  election  of  the  college  athletic  as- 
sociation Bro.  Paskins  received  the  vice-presidency,  while  Bro.  Wilson 
was  elected  secretary  and  Bro.  Lacy  manager  for  the  annual  field  day. 
The  base  ball  team  under  the  management  of  Bro.  Lacy  is  progressing. 
The  positions  on  the  college  team  have  not  yet  been  assigned,  but 
several  Phis  will,  without  doubt,  occupy  places.  The  track  team  is 
hard  at  work,  and  we  hope  to  have  several  good  men  ready  for  state 
field  day. 

The  juniors  are  extremely  busy  preparing  their  annual,  which  prom- 
ises to  be  the  best  issued  from  Franklin  for  several  years. 

Bro.  Lacy  holds  a  place  on  the  Periclesian  debating  team  for  the 
annual  inter-society  entertainment,  and  Bro.  Holnian  represents  the 
college  as  president  of  the  state  oratorical  association. 

It  IS  with  great  anxiety  that  we  have  heard  of  the  continued  illness 
of  Bro.  Miller,  and  we  rejoice,  with  all  Phis,  in  his  convalescence  and 
hope  for  an  early  recovery. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Franklin,  April  2,  1898.  JKSSK  L.  Holman. 


404  77^5*  SCROLL, 

INDIANA  ZETA,  DB  PAUW  UNIVBRSITY. 

The  second  temi  of  the  college  year  was  one  of  comparative  quiet 
and  of  hard  work  at  De  Pauw.  During  this  term  the  glee  and  mando- 
lin clubs  made  a  tour  of  central  Indiana,  which  was  attended  with  great 
success.  Class  spirit  has  been  higher  than  for  several  years,  thus  giv- 
ing rise  to  increased  rivalry  in  the  different  departments  of  college  life. 
To  stimulate  interest  in  oratory,  the  oratorical  association  has  arranged 
for  annual  contests  in  the  freshman  and  sophomore  classes. 

The  outlook  for  another  championship  base  ball  team  this  spring  is 
very  encouraging.  Three  positions  are  to  be  filled  from  last  year's 
subs  and  from  the  new  material.  The  schedule  includes  games  with 
Chicago,  Notre  Dame,  Wabash,  Purdue,  Rose  Polytechnic  and  others. 

Bro.  Collings,  MK),  will  be  in  school  again  this  term.  Owing  to  the 
sickness  of  his  mother,  Bro.  K.  B.  Parker,  '01 ,  has  been  compelled  to 
leave  college.  Since  our  last  letter  we  have  pledged  Mr.  S.  A.  Dove, 
•02,  of  Tower  Hill,  111.,  and  Mr.  J.  Elmer  Thomas,  '(H),  of  Vevalia,  Ind. 

Yours  in  <l>t-/cc/a, 

Greencastle,  March  28,  1898.  Chas.  B.  Campbki.l. 

EPSILON  PROVINCE. 

ILLINOIS  ALPHA.  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

Fraternity  circles  were  given  a  decided  sensation  two  weeks  ago 
when  Chester  C.  Sloane,  '(H),  and  Floyd  Condict,  '01,  left  Sigma  Chi 
and  joined  Phi  Kappa  Sigma.  Sloane  had  been  full  back  on  the  uni- 
versity foot  ball  team  and  had  won  prominence  in  college.  He  said 
that  he  had  been  dissatisfied  with  Sigma  Chi  for  some  time.  The  Sigs 
claimed  that  he  and  Condict  had  broken  their  fraternity  vows,  and 
that  they  had  been  expelled  from  Sigma  Chi  at  a  special  meeting  held 
an  hour  before  they  were  initiated  into  Phi  Kappa  Sigma. 

An  added  sensation  was  furnished  a  few  days  later  when  the  faculty 
investigated  Sloane  and  Condict,  and  expelled  them  from  the  univer- 
sity for  immorality.  This  alleged  immoral  conduct  was  known  to  Phi 
Kappa  Sigma  before  it  initiated  Sloane  and  Condict.  The  faculty  fol- 
lowed its  action  with  an  investigation  of  both  Sigma  Chi  ana  Phi 
Kappa  Sigma.  Several  members  from  each  of  these  fraternities  were 
summoned  before  the  faculty.  They  are  both  under  close  surveillance 
at  present. 

Brother  Clay  Buntain  has  a  leading  part  in  the  annual  junior  play 
to  be  given  April  U>. 

Bro.  Trego  and  Bro.  Washburn,  both  of  Tvombard  University,  were 
recent  visitors.  We  have  received  calls  from  a  number  of  brothers 
from  the  University  of  Chicago.  Among  the  alumni  who  have  visited 
the  chapter  recently  are  Robert  Noble,  F.  W.  Gillette,  T.  M.  Fowler. 
F.  W.  McCasky,  J.  W.  R.  Conner,  F.  J.  R.  Mitchell,  W.  R.  Kay, 
J.  Arthur  Dixon.  We  have  a  number  of  young  alumni  in  town  who 
take  an  active  interest  in  the  chapter  and  attend  all  our  gatherings. 

Bro.  W.  E.  O'Kane,  Ohio  WesUyati,  'S7,  and  Mrs.  O'Kane  enter- 
tained the  members  of  the  chapter  and  their  friends  March  19.  We 
have  had  several  social  gatherings  during  the  term. 

Bro.  Francis  J.  Webb  has  been  compelled  on  account  of  sickness  to 
go  to  his  home  at  Lancaster,  Wis.,  for  a  few  weeks. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Hvanston,  April  1,  1898.  Gko.  E.  Moore. 


THE  SCROLL,  405 

ILLINOIS  BETA.  THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  CHICAQO. 

Our  quarterly  initiation  was  held  at  the  fraternity  rooms  last  Friday 
evening  Two  men  were  received,  Bros.  L.  Case,  '01,  and  B.  G.  Lake, 
*01,  whom  we  take  pride  in  introducing  to  the  world  of  Phis.  Both 
are  members  of  the  university  track  team,  and  Bro.  Lake  has  already 
won  honors  for  himself  and  the  university  in  athletics.  Bros.  Smith, 
Gallup,  Caldwell  and  Harsh  assisted  in  the  initiation,  and  Bro.  Harsh 
pledged  himself  that  evening  to  affiliate  with  us. 

Illinois  Beta  now  has  an  active  membership  of  ten.  Bros.  Flanders 
and  Stockey  have  just  received  their  degrees,  but  may  continue  with 
us  during  the  spring  quarter.  Bro.  Flanders  is  taking  work  in  arch- 
itectural drawing  at  the  art  institute,  and  will  probably  enter  the  Bos- 
ton Tech.  next  fall.  Bro.  Sawyer  is  doing  literary  work  in  Spring- 
field, 111.  Bro.  Garrey,  '99,  left  this  quarter  to  accept  a  position  in 
the  Aurora  high  schools.  He  will  return  in  October,  as  will  also  Bro. 
Hales,  '99,  who  has  spent  the  past  year  in  teaching.  Bro.  Mosser, 
leader  of  the  glee  club,  will  remain  with  us  this  summer  as  university 
correspondent  for  the  Chicago  Record,  Bro.  Wilson,  '97,  who  has 
lived  with  us  since  receiving  his  de^ee,  is  pledged  to  <l>  A4»  (^law). 
Bro.  Ickes,  *97,  is  still  with  us,  and  is  now  commercial  editor  for  the 
Chicago  Tribune.  Most  of  our  men  will  remain  with  us  during  the 
summer,  and  we  expect  many  visiting  Phis  who  will  take  the  special 
summer  courses.  We  shall  occupy  our  present  quarters  until  June  and 
then  give  them  up,  hoping  to  secure  better  accommodations  next  fall. 

A  secret  society  beanng  the  name  of  the  Black  Dragon  has  just  been 
organized  here  with  a  membership  of  ten.  It  is  rumored  that  they 
contemplate  securing  a  charter  of  A  T  A,  but  the  rumor  can  not  be  ver- 
ified. 

Yours  in  <l>  A  G, 

Chicago,  April  11,  1898.  C.  F.  Stockky. 

ILLINOIS  ZETA.  LOnBARD  UNIVERSITY. 

In  past  years  there  has  been  a  disagreeable  and  unwholesome 
feeling  between  the  fraternities  in  Lombard  University,  but  this  year 
we  are  glad  to  say  that  onl^  a  proper  and  healthy  rivalry  exists.  This 
change  of  spirit  was  especially  noticeable  at  a  reception  given  on  the 
evening  of  April  8th  by  the  Pi  Beta  Phi  and  Alpha  Xi  Delta  sororities 
to  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  Sigma  Nu  boys.  The  occasion  was  a  very 
happy  one.  This  year  we  have  in  attendance  a  member  of  Alpha  Tau 
Omega. 

B)r  graduation  we  will  lose  one  man,  Bro.  M.  W.  Allen,  who  is  our 
president  for  this  year. 

Not  long  since  the  Phis  gave  an  informal  hop  in  the  chapter  house. 
Such  occasions  have  not  been  very  numerous  at  Lombard  this  year, 
and  this  last  dance  seemed  to  be  especially  enjoyed. 

Lombard  is  making  large  preparations  for  commencement.  A  num- 
ber of  noted  men  are  to  be  invited  to  attend  the  exercises,  and  it  is 
hoped  that  1898  will  be  a  red  letter  year  in  the  history  of  the  univer- 
sity. Governor  Grout,  once  a  student  at  Lombard,  will  be  present, 
and  it  is  expected  that  his  brother,  General  Grout,  will  also  come. 
Invitations  have  also  been  extended  to  Senator  Mason  and  Governor 
Tanner. 

A  joint  field  meet  has  been  arranged  for  between  Knox  College  ami 
Lombard,  in  which  Phi  Delta  Theta's  chapters  at  each  college  will  be 
strongly  represented. 


4o6  THE  SCROLL. 

Bro.  Fred  L.  Washburn  recently  went  to  Chicago  to  live.     He  is 
employed  by  the  Swift  Packing  Co. 
With  l>est  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 
Galesburg,  April  9,  1898.  Fay  A.  Buij.rcK. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OP  WISCONSIN. 

Wisconsin  Alpha  duly  celebrated  Alumni  day  with  a  spread.  Ap- 
propriate toasts  were  responded  to  by  the  brothers,  and  the  evening 
was  very  pleasantly  spent. 

On  March  20  the  chapter  gave  an  informal  party  at  Dary's  Hall, 
and  a  very  enjoyable  evening  was  passed  by  all. 

The  fine  weather  of  the  past  few  days  has  enabled  the  base  ball  team 
to  practice  on  the  lower  campus.  Mr.  Humphreys,  who  caught  for 
Princeton  in  18915,  has  been  secured  as  coach. 

The  preliminary  competitive  drill  of  the  battalions  occurs  next 
week,  and  the  final  competitive  drill  takes  place  early  in  April.  The 
crack  company  will  then  be  chosen. 

The  U.  W.  minstrels  commence  their  trip  the  first  week  after  the 
Kaster  vacation.     Bro.  Bacon,  '01,  has  been  assigned  a  solo. 

An  invitation  has  been  extended  the  crew  to  compete  in  the  an- 
nual races  at  Poughkeepsie  by  Cornell,  Pennsylvania  and  Columbia. 
The  invitation  includes  both  the  freshman  and  'varsity  crews.  The 
races  will  be  held  about  June  .'U),  1898. 

The  '99  Badger  will  soon  be  completed  and  will  be  put  on  sale 
shortly  after  Easter.  Brother  Pardee,  '01,  was  awarded  first  prize  by 
the  Badf^er  board  for  the  best  story  of  university  life. 

Wisconsin  Alpha  wishes  to  extend  her  sympathy  to  the  brothers  of 
Kentucky  Delta  in  the  loss  of  their  chapter  hall. 

Yours  in  *  A  B, 

Madison,  March  26,  1898.  Bkrnard  C.  Dorset. 

MINNESOTA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  MINNESOTA. 

The  college  year  drawing  to  a  close  has  brought  to  Minnesota  Alpha 
all  the  success  and  ])rosperity  so  confidently  predicted  last  fall.  We 
have  nothing  to  report  but  steady  progress.  Our  chapter  is  stronger 
than  it  has  been  in  years  in  both  personality  and  influence. 

The  student  body  of  our  university,  as  well  as  all  interested  in  col- 
lege affairs,  has  for  several  years  been  dissatisfied  with  the  manner  in 
which  athletics  in  general  and  foot  ball  in  particular  have  been  man- 
aged. The  particularly  inefficient  and  perhaps  dishonest  manner  in 
which  these  affairs  were  carried  on  last  fall  roused  all  to  action  at  last, 
and  the  old  system  of  close  association,  combine  elections,  ring  man- 
agement and  spoils  system  of  settlement  was  overthrown.  The  asso- 
ciation was  entirely  reconstructed  and  business  principles  adopted. 
And  when  the  time  came  for  the  election  of  officers  the  university 
knew  where  to  look  for  its  men.  Bro.  Harding  was  unanimously 
elected  president  of  the  association  and  president  of  the  board  of  con- 
trol. Bro.  L.  L.  Twitchell  was  elected  foot  ball  manager,  the  most 
important  office  in  the  gift  of  the  students,  and  Bro.  W.  C.  Leary, 
•Old  Sport' of  football  fame,  he  of  the  red  whiskers  and  fog-horn 
voice,  by  the  way,  he  and  Harding  are  the  fastest  team  of  whist 
players  that  the  East  Side  boasts, — was  elected  by  the  alumni  associa- 
tion to  represent  them  on  the  board  of  control.     Years  ago,  before  my 


THE  SCROLL.  4^7 

time,  when  Leary,  Madigan,  'Soutliy*  and  Harding  used  to  insure  suc- 
cess in  every  foot  ball  game,  and  Minnesota  was  undisputed  champion 
of  the  west,  when  brains  and  generalship  won  the  game,  I  under- 
stand that  Minnesota  Alpha  was  called  the  'foot  ball  frat.,*  and  it 
seems  from  the  hold  that  we  have  on  the  game  now  as  though  that 
name  might  still  apply. 

The  banquet  with  the  Twin  City  alumni  association  on  Alumni  day 
was  thoroughly  enjoyed  and  was  a  great  inspiration  to  all  who  heard 
the  addresses. 

The  boys  are  planning  for  what  they  are  sure  will  be  the  most  en- 
joyable event  of  tlie  college  year,  to  occur  in  the  near  future.  On 
April  15  Minnesota  Alpha  will  give  a  reception  and  ball  at  the  West 
Hotel.  All  efforts  are  being  made  and  no  pains  spared  on  the  part  of 
the  committee  to  make  this,  the  first  social  affair  after  Lent,  the  most 
successful  and  longest  to  linger  among  the  pleasant  memories  of  those 
who  are  present. 

Since  the  last  letter  we  have  initiated  Alexander  Victor  Ostrom,  of 
Minneapolis,  law,  1900,  who  completes  the  best  freshman  delegation 
secured  by  any  fraternity  in  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

We  have  pledged  one  man  who  will  enter  from  Minneapolis  next 
year,  and  also  have  a  number  of  prospective  freshmen  on  our  visiting 
list.  As  most  of  our  old  men  will  return  next  year,  Minnesota  Alpha's 
success  and  prosperity  bid  fair  to  continue. 

Bro.  Frank  A.  Ball,  who  was  compelled  to  leave  college  during  the 
spring  term  last  year  on  account  of  illness,  is  with  us  again,  having 
returned  since  our  last  letter.  He  looks  well  enough  now,  so  healthy, 
in  fact,  that  I  should  like  to  tell  you  what  we  call  him,  but  he  might 
object  to  seeing  it  in  The  Scroll. 

Yours  in  *  A  B, 

Minneapolis,  March  29,  1898.  H.  N.  T.  Allen. 

MISSOURI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI. 

Student  interest  at  the  University  of  Missouri  is  at  present  centered 
upon  inter-collegiate  debate.  The  more  important  debates  are  those 
with  the  universities  of  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  The  debate  with  the 
former  was  to  have  occurred  in  Lawrence,  March  25,  but  was  post- 
poned on  account  of  the  unfortunate  accident  at  the  University  of 
Kansas,  which  resulted  in  the  temporary  suspension  of  university  work. 
The  M.  S.  U.  representatives  in  this  contest  represent  the  M.  S.  U.  de- 
bating club  only,  and  are  not  fraternity  men,  few  if  any  members  of 
the  club  being  members  of  fraternities.  The  debate  with  Nebraska 
will  occur  in  Columbia  some  time  in  May.  The  Missouri  representa- 
tives in  this  debate  represent  tile  whole  university,  having  been  chosen 
by  a  series  of  trial  debates  open  to  all  students.  Bro.  English  repre- 
sents us,  having  been  awarded  first  place  in  the  final  trial.  The  other 
two  representatives  are  Highley,  2)  X,  and  Coppedge,  non-frat. 

A  most  interesting  event  in  university  circles  was  the  lecture  of 
President  Schurman,  of  Cornell  University,  in  the  chapel  on  March  18. 
In  recent  years  Dr.  Schurman  has  been  especially  friendly  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri,  and  it  was  desired  by  students  and  faculty  to  give 
him  a  cordial  welcome  and  to  make  his  ap|>earance  here  the  event  of 
the  college  year.  Accordingly  he  was  greeted  by  the  banner  audience 
of  the  season.  Each  academic  class  attended  in  a  body,  the  seniors 
making  it  the  occasion  of  their  initial  appearance  in  cap  and  gown, 
and  the  other  departments  being  represented  by  large  delegations. 


4oS  THE  SCROLL. 

After  the  lecture  Dr.  Schurman  was  tendered  a  large  reception  in  the 
university  parlors  and  was  otherwise  entertained  during  his  stay. 

The  base  ball  season  is  about  to  open,  and  M.  S.  U.  will  be  repre- 
sented by  a  fairly  good  team.  Bro.  Broderick,  captain,  will  be  the 
mainstay  of  the  team  in  the  pitching  department.  The  most  impor- 
tant games  are  those  with  Nebraska  here,  and  with  Kansas  at  Law- 
rence. Base  ball  at  M.  S.  U.  has  not  been  on  the  same  plane  with 
foot  ball  for  years.  It  is  hoped  that  the  season  this  year  will  be  suc- 
cessful, and  will  thereby  permanently  strengthen  our  base  ball  inter- 
ests. Inter-fraternity  base  ball  matches  are  promised.  [4»  A  6  won 
from  2  X,  23-17.  and  now  has  challenges  galore  from  other  chapters, 
from  classes  and  departments.  Ed.]  The  annual  field  day  for  track 
and  field  events  is  set  for  May  2.  Bro.  White,  gymnasium  director, 
and  Captain  Perry,  of  the  track  team,  have  the  affair  in  charge.  A 
proposition  from  Washington  University  to  hold  a  joint  field  day 
meet  will  likely  be  declined,  owing  to  unfavorable  circumstances. 
Interest  in  basket  ball  is  being  developed  among  the  young  women 
and  a  successful  team  has  been  organized. 

In  the  recent  trouble  resulting  from  an  attempt  on  the  part  of  upper 
classmen  to  interfere  with  a  freshman  reception,  Missouri  Alpha  re- 
ceived a  considerable  share  of  the  punishment.  We  trust  that  the 
previous  record  of  the  brother  implicated  will  result  in  his  complete 
reinstatement. 

The  Pipe  club,  a  social  organization,  has  sprung  into  existence  here, 
with  a  membership  of  twenty-five.  It  is  composed  mainly  of  fratern- 
ity men.  Brothers  Williams,  Brent  and  PMmunds  are  members,  the 
latter  being  president. 

Our  rival  chapters  maintain  their  same  relative  standing:  £  N  has 
\S)  men;  S  A  E  has  21);  K  A  is  next  with  15;  B  0  II  with  18  is  not  so 
strong  as  formerly;  2  X,  the  youngest  chapter  here,  has  lo;  K  K  F  has 

10  members,  her  usual  number;  4>  A  4>  (law)  has  18,  and  G  X  E,  1(). 
Missouri  Alpha  has  19,  besides  8  alumni  in  the  professional  schools. 

11  II  B  is  a  social  organization,  whose  members  are  freshmen  and 
sophomores.  Bro.  Dunlop  is  one  of  its  six  members.  It  is  rumored 
that  a  number  of  lower-class  men  are  petitioning  K  2,  and  that  their 
efforts  will  soon  be  crowned  with  success. 

Missouri  Alpha's  representation  in  the  battalion  of  cadets  was  re- 
cently strengthened  by  the  promotion  of  Bro.  Tiedeman  to  be  ser- 
geant-major, an  office  almost  never  reached  by  a  first  year  man,  as  in  this 
case.  The  offices  of  major,  first  lieutenant  and  adjutant,  first  lieuten- 
ant, sergeant-major  and  sergeant  are  now  held  by  members  of  4»  A  O. 

A  feature  of  Missouri  Alpha's  social  life  this  year  was  an  *At  Home' 
given  to  the  chapter  at  the  delightful  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
W.  Lawson,  of  Columbia,  complimentary  to  Bro.  H.  W.  Smith,  on  the 
evening  of  January  29.  It  was  decidedly  a  pleasant  affair  and  was 
highly  enjoyable  to  the  members  of  the  chapter. 

Alumni  day  was  appropriately'  celebrated  by  the  chapter  on  the 
evening  of  March  14,  with  a  reunion  and  smoker  in  the  chapter-rooms. 
The  feature  of  the  evening  that  is  pleasantest  to  record  is  the  material 
addition  to  the  chapter  house  funa  and  the  taking  of  steps  to  further 
our  chapter  house  plans. 

Missouri  Alpha  had  the  great  pleasure  recently  of  meeting  Father 
Morrison  and  of  having  him  present  at  one  of  our  re^lar  meetings. 
We  wish  that  all  the  chapters  could  have  this  privilege  and  could 
enjoy  one  of  Bro.  Morrison's  interesting  talks  on  the  founding  of  <l>  A  B. 

We  have  not  yet  selected  our  delegate  to  the  Epsilon  province  con- 


THE  SCROLL.  4^9 

vention,  to  be  held  with  Nebraska  Alpha,  May  12-14,  but  is  safe  to 
say  Missouri  Alpha  will  be  represented. 

Our  representation  in  9  N  E  has  been  increased  to  three  by  the  re- 
cent initiation  of  Bro.  White. 

We  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  Bro.  Helphrey,  of  Iowa  Alpha,  dur- 
ing his  recent  brief  visit  to  Columbia. 

In  the  Bond, 

Columbia,  March  27,  1898.  Royai.1.  H.  S\vitzi,p:r. 

MISSOURI  QAMMA.  WASHINGTON  UNIVERSITY. 

The  second  term  began  January  31,  with  no  change  in  our  member- 
ship. Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated,  and  take  pleasure  in  in- 
troducing, Eugene  Towner  Senseney,  '01 ,  college. 

The  new  university  catalogue  shows  an  enrollment  of  1 ,687  students 
in  all  departments,  against  1,(>69  last  year,  an  increase  of  18. 

Allen  P.  Whittemore,  'Uti,  is  to  be  married  next  month  to  Miss 
Louise  Wyman  of  this  city.  Joseph  Dickson.  Jr.,  '1)8,  who  left  college 
in  the  fall  of  189(i  to  attend  the  Harvard  law  school,  has  returned  to 
this  city,  and  has  entered  the  law  department  of  this  university.  Bro. 
M.  L.  Seward,  Cornell^  *gj,  is  now  practicing  law  in  St.  Louis.  We 
have  been  very  glad  to  have  him  with  us  several  times. 

The  annual  banquet  of  the  alumni  chapter,  held  Saturday,  March 
26,  at  the  Southern  Hotel,  proved  a  very  enjoyable  event.  A  full  ac- 
count of  it  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  number. 

We  are  well  represented  on  Studt^ut  Life.  The  editor,  an  assistant 
editor,  and  one  ot  the  local  editors  are  Phis. 

We  expect  to  have  a  delegate  at  the  Epsilon  province  convention  at 
Lincoln. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

St.  Louis,  March  28,  1898.  Chas.  P.  Pkttus. 

KANSAS  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  KAN5A5. 

Preparations  are  being  made  for  our  spring  party.  We  expect  to 
make  it  the  best  given  here  this  year. 

The  university,  through  the  exertions  of  Professor  Penny,  dean  of 
the  music  school,  has  become  the  owner  of  a  ^,()00  pipe  organ.  The 
money  was  raised  by  means  of  entertainments  of  various  kinds.  A 
series  of  recitals  is  being  given  by  the  faculty  and  students  of  the 
school  of  music  to  complete  the  required  sum.  The  proceeds  of  a  lect- 
ure on  Cuba  by  Brother  Funston  went  to  swell  the  fund. 

The  indoor  meet  was  held  March  12,  at  the  armory.  Brother  Lee, 
for  the  third  successive  year,  took  first  place  on  the  horizontal  bar. 
Brother  Hudson  received  second  place  in  the  middle-weight  wrestling, 
and  Brother  Hazen  second  place  in  the  standing  high  kick.  The 
glee  club  concert,  March  18,  promises  to  be  a  social  as  well  as  a  finan- 
cial success. 

At  the  initiation  of  Brother  Melvin  H.  Taylor,  on  the  evening  of 
March  5,  we  brought  into  use  for  the  first  time  some  new  parapherna- 
lia which  added  materially  to  the  effectiveness  of  the  ceremony. 

During  the  past  few  weeks  we  have  had  the  pleasure  of  becoming 
quite  well  acquainted  with  Brother  Addison,  Pennsylvania  Beta,  '92, 
of  U.  S.  S.  Bennington,  who  has  been  spending  a  short  leave  of  ab- 
sence with  his  parents,  who  reside  here.  He  has  been  ordered  to 
Pensacola,  Fla.,  and  has  gone  to  that  place. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lawrence,  March  14,  1898.  H.  W.  McLaughun. 


4IO  THE  SCROLL, 

NEBRASKA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  NEBRASKA. 

Since  the  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroi^i*  several  changes  have  taken 
place  in  the  chapter.  Brothers  Davenport  and  Russell,  of  '118,  having 
completed  their  required  work  at  the  end  of  the  first  semester,  have 
left  college  but  will  return  for  their  degrees  in  June.  Brother  Hay- 
ward,  of  MI*J,  a  law  of  '97,  has  also  left  us.  Brother  Hay  ward  ex|>ects 
to  go  to  Yale  next  fall,  and  Brother  Russell  has  decided  to  enter  the 
Columbia  law  school.  Brother  Davenport  is  in  business  in  Omaha. 
Much  as  we  shall  miss  them  we  feel  in  some  degree  compensated  by 
the  addition  of  two  active  members  on  the  fifteenth  of  February. 
Brothers  Thomas  F.  Roddy,  MJS,  of  Nebraska  City,  and  John  D.  Hastie, 
M)9,  of  Red  Oak,  Iowa,  became  Oreeks  on  this  occasion.  Brother 
Ro<ldy  is  a  captain  in  the  cadet  regiment,  and  brother  Hastie  is  a  ser- 
geant major. 

Ground  has  been  broken  for,  and  some  work  done  upon,  the  new 
building  for  the  school  of  mechanic  arts.  The  work  has  been  some- 
what delayed  on  account  of  a  difficulty  with  a  contractor.  By  the  end 
of  the  school  year,  however,  we  expect  to  see  the  building  completed. 

I/ast  evening  Nebraska  Alpha  celebrated  the  most  successful  alumni 
banquet  in  her  history.  Thirty-seven  Phis  assembled  to  do  honor  to 
the  occasion.  The  chapter  at  present  has  seventeen  active  members, 
so  it  is  readily  seen  that  our  alumni  are  loyal — fourteen  correspondent 
members  being  present.  As  guests  we  were  glad  to  welcome  Brothers 
G.  M.  Lambertson,  Indiana  Delta  ;  ().  F.  Lambertson,  Indiana  Delta ; 
A.  F.  Newell,  Massachusetts  Beta ;  J.  S.  Snoddy,  Missouri  Alpha ; 
Robt.  H.  Wolcott,  Michigan  Alpha ;  Frank  Capell,  Iowa  Beta,  and  J. 
R.  Webster,  Indiana  Beta.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  toasts, 
Brother  Oury  acting  as  toast  master  : 

The  Alumni,  Thos.  Creigh;  The  Old  Hall,  C.  H.  Von  Mansfelde; 
The  House,  A.  C.  Welshans:  Phi  Delta  Theta,  R.  S.  Mueller;  *Phoebe,' 
K.  C.  Randall;  Girls,  Philip  W.  Russell;  The  Phi  Pedagogue,  H.  C. 
Parmelee;  The  Faculty,  Dr.  Wolcott;  'A  Hunting  We  Will  Go,*  R.  W. 
Haggard;  'Psyche,'  H.  A.  Tukey;  'Me  and  Hastie,'  T.  F.  Roddy;  My 
College  Days,  Gen.  J.  R.  Webster;  Phis  in  Public  Life,  Hon.  G.  M. 
I^amberston.  Congratulatory  letters  and  telegrams  were  received 
from  Brothers  Wing,  Churchill,  McMillan  and  Blaisdell. 

In  a  social  way  we  have  lately  instituted  a  series  of  informal  parties 
given  to  the  various  sororities.  Three  weeks  ago  the  chapter  enter- 
tained the  members  of  Delta  Gamma.  The  following  week  we  wel- 
comed those  of  Kappa  Kappa  Ganmia  and  Delta  Delta  Delta.  Next 
vSaturday  we  expect  to  entertain  Kappa  Alpha  Theta  and  Pi  Beta 
Phi.  The  success  of  these  informal  gatherings  is  probably  due  to  the 
novel  program.  Visitors  to  Nebraska  Alpha  must  not  fail  to  ask  for 
Bros.  Mueller  and  Welshans  in  their  celebrated  imitation  of  'The 
Wizard  of  the  Nile.' 

On  March  eleventh  the  annual  oratorical  contest  took  place.  Mr. 
J.  D.  Dennison  took  first  place,  his  subject  was  'The  Evolution  of 
Government.'     He  is  a  non-fraternity  man. 

Prospects  for  a  good  base  ball  team  are  excellent.  Work  in  the 
cage  was  taken  up  very  early,  though  now  the  boys  have  begun  to 
practice  outdoors.  Several  trips  are  contemplated.  Mr.  Barnes,  a 
member  of  one  of  last  year's  league  teams,  has  been  coaching  the 
pitchers,  and  Nebraska  expects  to  be  strong  in  the  box.  Mr.  Bene- 
dict, a  member  of  the  '97  team,  is  now  coach. 

On  charter  day  an  indoor  athletic  meet  was  held  in  the  gymnasium. 


THE  SCROLL.  411 

Several  university  records  were  broken.  On  March  4,  the  girls'  basket 
ball  team  defeated  the  Council  Bluffs  team,  15  to  7.  Considerable  in- 
terest, particularly  among  the  co-eds.  was  manifested. 

Tau  Delta  Omicron  established  a  chapter  here  on  February  1 ').  The 
chapter  has  secured  a  house. 

The  sympathy  of  the  chapter  is  extended  to  Brother  Miller  in  his 
illness. 

Fraternally, 

Lincoln,  March  15,  1898.  Chas.  H.  Truk. 

CALIFORNIA  ALPHA.  UNIVBR3ITY  OP  CALIFORNIA. 

The  commencement  exercises  of  the  University  of  California  will  be 
held  on  May  18.  Unlike  the  practice  of  former  years,  all  of  the  exer- 
cises will  be  observed  on  the  campus  in  Berkeley.  The  board  of  re- 
gents and  the  alumni  association  have  just  completed  arrangements 
for  seating  two  thousand  five  hundred  people,  a  feat  which  can  only 
be  accomplished  by  the  erection  of  a  mammoth  tent,  owing  to  the  lack 
of  a  large  assembly  hall.  The  alumni  banquet,  which  has  annually 
been  held  in  San  Francisco,  will  this  year  take  place  in  Harmon  Gym- 
nasium on  commencement  day.  The  other  events  of  commencement 
week  are  announced  as  follows:  May  12,  senior  ball,  Harmon  Gym- 
nasium; May  13,  President's  reception  at  the  residence  of  President 
Martin  Kellogg;  May  14,  class  day  celebration,  campus  C,  Weed's 
amphitheatre.  In  addition  Mrs.  Phoebe  A.  Hearst,  the  new  regent  of 
the  university,  who  is  standing  as  sponsor  for  the  architectural  plans 
for  California,  has  invited  the  members  of  the  senior  class  to  a  garden 
party  at  her  palatial  home  in  Pleasanton.     It  will  occur  on  May  IB. 

The  present  graduating  class  will  be  the  largest  on  record.  The 
following  is  a  summary  issued  from  the  recorder's  office  (not  includ- 
ing the  candidates  for  graduation  in  the  professional  colleges,  who 
would  materially  increase  the  possible  number  of  graduates)  showing 
the  size  of  the  class  after  its  revision  by  the  study  lists  committee; 
•  candidates  for  the  bachelor's  degree,  May,  1898,  189;  candidates  for 
higher  degrees,  May,  1898,  20;  degrees  already  conferred  this  year, 
22;  probable  total  of  degrees,  Berkeley  colleges,  this  year,  1897-98,  2\\\. 
Total  conferred  last  year,  189H-97,  157.  Total  conferred  two  years  ago, 
1895-96,  12^).'  The  class  of  '98  graduates  about  47  per  cent,  of  its  reg- 
ular freshman  membership.  To  make  up  for  its  losses,  it  has  had 
accessions  from  other  classes  and  institutions,  and  from  students  in 
special  and  limited  status,  amounting  to  forty  members.  The  class  of 
•97  graduated  about  60  per  cent,  of  its  freshman  members,  and  '94,  '95 
and  *96  each  about  70  per  cent.,  so  that  there  seems  to  have  been  a 
falling  ofiF  for  the  past  two  years. 

Charter  day  will  be  celebrated  at  the  university  on  Wednesday, 
March  23.     It  will  be  California's  thirtieth  anniversary. 

As  previous  letters  this  term  have  indicated,  the  movement  toward 
a  chapter  house  owned  by  a  fraternity  stock  company  has  received  a 
new  impetus.  The  last  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation — Phi  Delta 
Thetaof  Berkeley — was  held  in  Berkeley  on  February  8.  A  new  board 
of  directors  was  elected,  consisting  of  Bros.  D.  Edward  Collins,  presi- 
dent of  the  California  Bank,  Oakland;  C.  O.  Perry,  president  of  the 
Columbian  Banking  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Everett  F.  Goodyear,  The 
Macmillan  Company's  representative  on  the  coast;  C.  E.  Holmes,  of 
Renton,  Holmes  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  George  W.  Rodolph,  dentist, 
Oakland;  Louis  Titus,  attorney -at-law,  San  Francisco;  and  Albert  J. 


412  THE  SCROLL, 

Brown,  of  the  active  chapter.  Both  the  alumni  and  undergraduate 
members  are  subscribing  liberally,  and  we  confidently  expect  to  occupy 
our  own  house  at  the  opening  of  the  next  college  year  in  August. 

The  alumni  banquet  was  held  in  San  Francisco  on  the  evening  of 
March  12.     Nearly  all  the  active  chapter  was  present. 

The  athletic  activities  of  the  university  are  fully  under  way.  Cali- 
fornia has  already  won  the  Carnot  debate  with  Stanford,  the  honor 
falling  to  Charles  E.  Fryer,  *9^l,  a  member  of  Delta  Upsilon  and  a  son 
of  Professor  John  Fryer  of  the  university.  The  remaining  inter-col- 
legiate contests  are  the  field  day  on  April  23,  which  is  conceded  to 
California,  the  inter-collegiate  debate  on  the  evening  of  the  same  day, 
which  is  doubtful,  and  the  base  ball  games  on  April  9  and  2i^  and  May 
7,  concerning  which  there  is  even  more  doubt.  Garrett  Cochran,  of 
Princeton,  is  the  California  coach.  He  has  been  entertained  at  a  din- 
ner by  our  chapter. 

California  Alpha  continues  her  activity,  and  it  is  a  conservative 
statement  to  say  that  she  is  held  in  as  great  esteem  as  any  chapter  in 
the  university.  We  will  graduate  only  one  man  this  year,  Bro.  W.  E. 
Creed.  Bro.  Creed  is  editor-in-chief  of  the  Daily  Califomian  and 
chairman  of  the  class  day  committee.  Brothers  Moulthrop,  Hender- 
son, Hanna,  Spencer,  Seyler  and  Taft  have  all  been  advanced  in  the 
military  department.  Bro.  Brown  has  been  added  to  the  athletic  as- 
sociation's executive  committee,  giving  us  two  members  on  a  committee 
of  ten;  Bro.  McDuffie  is  a  member  of  the  *99  Blue  and  Gold sXbR  ;  Bro. 
Henderson  has  been  appointed  to  a  prominent  place  on  the  Daily  Cal- 
ifomian.  These  are  honors  the  chapter  has  received  since  the  last 
letter.  We  have  been  offered  representation  on  the  *00  lUue  and  Gold^ 
but  we  have  taken  no  action  yet. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  announce  that  Fielding  J.  Stilson,  *01,  of  Los  An- 
geles, has  joined  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Bro.  C.  L.  Creed,  *01,  has  taken 
out  a  leave  of  absence  for  six  months,  but  will  return  in  August. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Berkeley,  March  21,  1898.  J.  R.  Moulthrop. 

CALIFORNIA  BETA.  LELAND  3TANPORD  JUNIOR  UNIVBR3ITY. 

This  week  is  the  spring  vacation  at  Stanford,  and  it  is  very  welcome 
after  the  ten  weeks  of  study  since  the  beginning  of  the  present  sem- 
ester. 

The  alumni  of  California  Beta  seem  to  be  taking  a  great  interest  in 
the  prosperity  of  their  chapter.  Since  our  annual  letter  was  sent,  we 
have  received  very  encouraging  answers  from  many  old  members,  for 
which  we  thank  them  heartily. 

On  March  12  the  alumni  of  California  Alpha  and  Beta  held  their 
annual  banquet  in  the  Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco.  Covers  were 
laid  for  forty,  and  many  of  the  active  members  of  the  two  chapters 
were  present. 

On  March  16  we  received  the  sad  news  of  the  death  of  Louis  Allen, 
*95.  Bro.  Allen  died  of  consumption  in  Los  Angeles  and  leaves  a 
wife.  He  was  thought  a  ^eat  deal  of  while  at  Stanford.  He  had 
the  ability  to  make  a  superior  physician,  had  his  life  been  spared. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  two  new  men,  Ralph  Edson 
Oilman  and  Royall  Charles  Victor. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Stanford  University,  March  27,  1898.  Bgnjamin  E.  Pagk. 


THE  SCROLL,  413 

ALUMNL 

MASSACHUSETTS  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  B05T0N. 

An  alumni  chapter  that  can  not  draw  upon  an  active  chapter  in  the 
same  city  or  neighborhood  can  not  expect  to  have  a  large  number 
present  at  the  annual  dinner.  The  need  of  an  active  chapter  in  this 
vicinity  was  never  felt  more  than  last  evening  when  this  alumni  chap- 
ter had  its  annual  dinner.  What  we  lacked  in  numbers,  however,  was 
made  up  in  the  loyalty  and  enthusiasm  of  those  faithful  members 
who  permit  only  two  things— sickness  and  death — to  keep  them  away 
from  a  Phi  meeting. 

The  following  officers  were  elected:  President,  G.  H.  G.  McGrew, 
Indianapolis^  '/y;  Vice-President,  B.  F.  Hurd,  Cornell ^  *p/;  Treas- 
urer, F.  H.  Clapp,  Vermonl,  ^86;  Secretary,  Emerson  Rice,  Darl- 
uwuth^  *Sj;  Historian,  H.  O.  Spaulding,  IVilliams,  '9./;  Warden,  H. 
L.  Warren,  Amherst,  '95/  Reporter,  W.  W.  Case,  Allegheny,  ^84. 

Massachusetts  Beta,  as  is  her  usual  custom,  sent  a  delegate,  Bro. 
H.  H.  Wright,  '98,  whose  presence  added  much  to  the  pleasure  and 
interest  of  the  occasion. 

Bro.  W.  S.  I/ewis,  Tulane,  ^g.f,  introduced  the  speakers  of  the  even- 
ing in  his  usual  happy  manner,  and  we  drank  to  the  health  of  all  Phis 
everywhere.  Besides  toasts  by  the  officers  and  delegates,  remarks  were 
made  by  A.  C.  Griffin,  Amherst,  W/,-  E.  D.  Chadwick,  Williams,  ^go; 
E.  L.  Shinn,  Lombard,  'g6,  and  F.  P.  McNutt,  Wabash,  '9/. 

Bro.  Gallert  was  greatly  missed.  This  was  his  first  'miss'  since  the 
chapter  was  started.  Bro.  Marble  came  in  over  the  long  distance 
wire  from  Pittsburgh.  Bro.  Hurd  made  a  strong  plea  for  a  chapter 
at  Harvard.  He  believes  that  we  ought  to  overcome  our  preju- 
dices against  it  at  once  and  make  a  beginning,  not  with  graauates 
from  other  chapters  but  from  undergraduates  in  the  university. 

Phi  Delta  Theta's  progress  in  the  next  fifty  years  will  depend  greatly 
on  the  interest  taken  by  the  alumni.  Here's  to  that  interest,  with 
apologies  to  an  unknown  poet: 

Alimini  are  wise 

Who  advertise 

Phi  Delta  in  the  fall, 

But  wiser  yet 

Are  they,  you  bet. 

Who  never  let  up  at  all ! 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Boston.  March  19,  1898.  Walter  W.  Cask. 

NBW  YORK  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  NEW  YORK. 

Alumni  day  was  duly  celebrated  in  true  Phi  form  in  New  York,  and 
the  joint  annual  banquet  of  New  York  Alpha  Alumni,  New  York  Delta 
and  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Club  of  New  York,  held  at  the  Hotel 
Marie  Antoinette,  was  well  attended.  Seven  o'clock  was  the  hour 
scheduled  for  the  dinner,  and  from  that  time  on  the  Phis  came  in, 
until  a  goodly  number  were  congregated  in  the  luxuriously  appointed 
main  reception  room  of  the  popular  hostelry,  which  was  given  up  to 
our  exclusive  use.  Little  groups  of  ever-varying  composition  were 
formed,  and  almost  an  hour  was  pleasantly  spent  in  renewing  old  ties, 
exchanging  information  and  '  swapping  '  stories.  When  the  clock 
struck  eight,  all  repaired  to  the  dining-room  adjacent,  where,  on  an 
artistically  decorated  table,  was  served  a  delicious  repast. 


414  THE  SCROLL, 

Flowers  were  in  profusion,  and  the  main  or  center  piece  was  a 
handsome  bed  of  artistic  fragrance,  filled  with  groups  of  incandescent 
lights,  which  served  to  enhance  its  beauty  and  to  bring  into  strong  re- 
lief tlie  many  colors  of  the  roses,  carnations  and  violets  which  com- 
posed it.  From  either  side  of  this  piece  de  resistance  down  the  entire 
length  of  the  table  in  a  continuous  line,  other  flowers  had  been  ar- 
ranged by  a  master  hand. 

After  adjusting  the  carnation  boutonnieres,  which  had  been  pro- 
vided for  each  guest,  a  nine  course  dinner  was  served,  the  market  hav- 
ing been  ransacked  for  delicacies  to  tempt  the  palate.  Champagne 
and  water  touched  elbows  for  an  hour  and  a  half,  and  with  the  cigars 
the  chairman,  Bro.  D.  R.  Horton,  called  the  meeting  to  order,  that 
members  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Club  present  might  elect  their  di- 
rectors and  officers.  This  proceeded  with  expedition,  and  then  Presi- 
dent Drummond,  of  the  alumni  chapter,  declared  the  election  of  that 
body  as  the  next  item  on  the  program.  All  of  these  offices  were  filled 
by  unanimous  vote,  save  that  of  chorister,  for  which  a  spirited  contest 
was  waged  by  Bros.  Young  and  Baskerville.  The  smoke  in  the  atmos- 
phere prevented  a  practical  test  being  made  of  the  candidates*  qualifi- 
cations, but  resort  to  secondary  evidence  being  had,  Bro.  Young  was 
successful,  he  having  a  slight  preponderance  of  qualified  expert  testi- 
mony as  to  former  achievements. 

The  officers  for  the  ensuing  vear  are:  President,  L.  E.  A.  Drummond, 
C.  C.  A\  v.,  '88;  vice-president,  F.  A.  South  worth,  Columbiay  *9o; 
reporter,  Chas.  A.  Winter,  Ohio  State,  '87;  secretary,  Elias  G.  Brown, 
M.  D.,  Columbiay  '95;  treasurer,  E.  Emerson,  Jr.,  Miami y*^9\  chorister, 
Wm.  W.  Young,  Wisconsin,  '92.  These  preliminaries  having  been 
attended  to,  the  diners  settled  themselves  to  listen  to  the  toasts,  which 
were  printed  on  the  menu  card  as  follows:  Our  Fraternity,  Julius 
Marshall  Mayer,  C.  C.  J\\  )'.,  '84;  Phi  Delta  Thete's  Progress  in  Fifty 
Years  and  Her  Prospects  for  Years  to  Come,  Lewis  E.  A.  Drummond, 
C  C.  \.  >'.,  '88;  New  York  Delta,  Oscar  Weeks  Ehrhorn,  ColuMdia^ 
'98;  The  Phi  Delta  Theta  Club  of  New  York  City,  Rev.  John  Balcom 
Shaw,  D.  D.,  Lafayette y  '85.  Bro.  Shaw  having  but  lately  recovered 
from  a  rather  severe  illness,  the  order  of  delivery  was  changed,  and 
the  last  was  made  first.  In  a  twelve  minute  speech,  which  was  the 
undoubted  hit  of  the  evening,  Bro.  Shaw  regaled  those  present  with 
anecdotes  and  witticisms  which  added  point  to  an  address,  a  model  of 
Phi  spirit.  He  was  succeeded  by  Bro.  Mayer,  who  spoke  in  his  usual 
felicitous  manner.  Bro.  Ehrhorn  then  spoke  on  behalf  of  the  under- 
graduate chapter,  the  last  of  the  formal  toasts  being  rendered  by  Bro. 
Drummond.  In  clear,  concise  and  convincing  language  Bro.  Drum- 
mond described  the  founding  of  the  Fraternity,  traced  its  remarkable 
growth  and  development  through  half  a  hundred  years,  until  on  its 
golden  jubilee  it  looked  back  upon  a  record  second  to  none,  and  one 
marked  with  names  that  stand  out,  the  nation  over,  in  statesmanship, 
politics,  letters  and  the  sciences. 

After  short  speeches  by  Bros.  Baskerville,  Winslow,  Hackett  and 
Emerson,  the  meeting  broke  up.  The  following  were  among  those 
present:  Cotunibia-^.  H.  Baskerville,  '80,  J.  M.  Mayer,  '86,  E.  P. 
Callender,  '87,  C.  A.  Bechstein,  '88,  Dr.  J.  T.  Simonson,  '90,  D.  J. 
Greene,  '94,  E.  W.  Lebaire,  '94,  Dr.  E.  G.  Brown,  '95,  Herbert  Pink- 
ham,  '95,  F.  A.  vSouthworth,  '95,  C.  S.  Boardman,  '96,  Harry  Hewitt, 
'9(),  Wm.  S.  Thyng,  '96,  A.  P.  Van  Gelder,  '96,  G.  W.  Reppold.  '97, 
H.  W.  Egner,  Jr.,  '98,  O.  W.  Ehrhorn,  '98,  Stallo  Vinton.  '98,  F.  S. 
Hackett,  '99,  O.  H.  Hinck,  '99,  Fred  Hinrichs,  Jr..  '99.    C  C  A^.  K— 


THE  SCROLL,  415 

F.  A.  Winslow,  '87,  L.  E.  A.  Drunimond,  '88,  F.  I.  Brown,  '89,  Geo. 
L.  Walker,  '90,  L.  E.  Van  Norman,  '91.     CorneU    D.  R.  Horton,  '75, 

G.  A.  Blauvelt,  'iK).  Lafavcttc-K^v.  Dr.  J.  B.  Shaw,  '85,  L.  H.  Allen, 
•94.  J/m;///— Edwin  Emerson,  Jr.,  '89,  W.  C.  Harris,  '91.  Coihv  - 
D.  J.  Gallert,  '93.  IViiiiaws-K.  F.  Denison,  '97.  ///Wtv/— W.  H. 
Hopkins,  '91.  Washitt^ton  and  Jcjfcrson  J.  A.  Matthews,  '9:i.  Ohio 
State— C  A.  Winter,  '87.  Michiirati  R.  M.  Hardy,  '98.  UlsconsiN 
W.  W.  Young,  '92.     J//5.s-<;//;7— Barton  M.  Thompson,  '92. 

Oscar  WeeKvS  Ehrhorn. 
New  York,  April  11,  1898. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  PITTSBUROH. 

The  loyal  members  of  Pennsylvania  Alpha  alumni  to  the  number  of 
thirty-six  held  their  annual  meeting  and  dinner  at  the  Lincoln  Hotel 
on  the  evening  of  March  15.  The  officers  were  re-elected.  They  in- 
clude Arthur  E.  Linhart,  president,  E.  C.  Chalfant,  secretary-treas- 
urer, and  E.  P.  Couse,  reporter.  A  committee  was  arranged  for,  to 
prepare  a  catalogue  of  Phis  living  in  Pittsburgh  and  vicinity. 

There  were  no  formal  toasts,  but  a  number  of  bright,  timely  talks 
were  called  out  by  the  subjects  announced  for  discussion.  Some  top 
ics  related  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  extension  matters  and  were  fully  treated. 
Several  Phis  reported  the  condition  of  chapters  in  their  various  col- 
leges. Bro.  Dwight  N.  Marble,  former  historian  of  the  General  Coun- 
cil, was  instructed  to  forward  chapter  greetings  to  the  Boston  chapter, 
whose  dinner  invitation  had  been  received  by  several  Pittsburghers. 

Rev.  S.  Edward  Young,  Westminster,  '8(»,  and  Princeton,  '87,  was 
one  of  the  honored  guests  of  the  evening.  He  was  recently  called  to 
the  pastorate  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  here,  succeeding  Rev. 
Frank  Tallma^e.  Bro.  Young  came  here  from  New  Jersey,  and  though 
youn^  has  a  wide  reputation  as  an  orator  and  organizer.  His  evan- 
gelistic meetings  have  resulted  in  large  accessions  to  the  church  mem- 
bership. He  is  a  man  of  scholarly  attainment  and  as  modest  and 
pious  as  he  is  profound. 

The  boys  were  especially  glad  to  have  among  their  number  Lieuten- 
ant J.  B.  Patton,  of  the  U.  S.  navy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  class  of 
*87,  University  of  South  Carolina,  and  later  went  to  Annapolis.  He 
was  on  his  first  cruise  abroad  during  the  Chinese  war  and  saw  some  of 
the  noted  battles.  Now  Bro.  Patton  is  inspector  of  light  annor  for  the 
government  at  the  Carnegie  steel  works  at  Homestead.  He  is  an  en- 
gineer officer  who  thoroughly  knows  his  business,  and  in  case  of  hos- 
tilities with  any  foreign  nation  would  give  a  good  account  of  himself. 

The  general  discussion  of  the  fiftieth  fraternity  year  favored  a  con- 
tinuance of  the  conservative  extension  policy  of  the  present  national 
officers. 

The  Phis  present  were  :  Rev.  S.  Edward  Young,  Westminster,  class 
of  '86  and  Princeton,  '87;  J.  A.  Langfitt,  W.  &  J.,  '79;  J.  Robert 
Wright,  W.  &  J.,  '88;  T.  C.  Blaisdell,  Syracuse,  'S8  ;  E.  H.  Beazell, 
Lehigh,  '90 ;  Lieutenant  J.  H.  Patton,  South  Carolina,  '87,  and  Anna- 
polis;  H.  R.  Blickle,  Lehigh,  '9Ji ;  Rev.  George  Grant,  Allegheny, '97; 
R.  B.  Flather,  Purdue,  '95  ;  C.  E.  Howe,  of  Wabash,  Ind.,  Purdue,  '9(>; 
J.  N.  Rule,  of  Colorado  Springs,  W.  &  J.,  '98;  J,  Clarke  Logan,  W.  & 
J.,  '99;  J.  F.  Bell,  W.  &  J.,  '98;  J.  Merrill  Wright,  Allegheny,  '95;  C. 
L.  Goodwin,  of  Dunlo,  Pa.,  Indiana  University,  '8.S;  Prof.  A.  S.  Hunter, 
W.  &  J.,  '80;  D.  S.  Dille,  W\  ^:  J.,  '89;  S.  H.  McKee,  Monmouth, '72; 
W.  K.  Foster,  Lafayette,  '90;  William  Kirker,  Lafayette,  '99;  W.  C. 


4i6  THE  SCROLL. 

Fishburn,  Allegheny,  ex-'87;  E.  P.  Couse,  Allegheny,  '89;  J.  R.  Bell, 
W.  &  J.,  '87;  R.  T.  McCready,  Allegheny,  ex-'87;  H.  II.  Tond,  Alle- 
gheny, '8:^;  J.  A.  Guignon,  Allegheny,  '88;  Frank  T.  Hogg,  Lafayette, 
'84;  Dwight  N.  Marble,  Center,  '82;  Prof.  Rufus  Darr,  of  Rochester, 
Pa.,  I^afayette,  *77;  George  Lehner,  Lafayette,  '9:J;  H.  C.  Chalfant. 
Lafayette,  '95;  A.  K.  Linhart,  W.  &  J.,  'iH);  W.  P.  Beazell,  Allegheny. 
'97,  and  F.  Hartung,  of  Harmony,  Pa.,  Allegheny  College. 

Yours  fraternally, 
Pittsburgh,  March  17,  1898.  E.  P.  CouSE. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA  ALUMNI.  PHILADELPHIA. 

The  annual  dinner  of  the  Pennsylvania  Beta  Alumni  and  Zeta  chap- 
ters was  held  at  the  Hotel  Stenton  on  Tuesday  evening,  March  lo, 
1898.  Covers  were  laid  for  thirty-five.  The  following  toasts  were 
responded  to  :  Our  New  House,  Clifton  Maloney;  Pennsylvania  Zeta, 
Henry  C.  Burr;  Pennsylvania  Zeta,  Frank  Craig;  The  Junior  Order, 
Edward  B.  Wilford.  The  committee  consisted  of  Clifton  Maloney, 
chairman,  Edward  B.  Wilford,  Harry  S.  McKinley,  Wm.  Acker,  H.  S. 
Reade,  and  J.  Chas.  Ziegler. 

I.  W.  HOIJJNGSHEAD. 

Philadelphia,  April  8.  1898. 

TENNESSEE  ALPHA  ALUHNI.  NASHVILLE. 

For  several  years  the  alumni  of  Nashville  had  omitted  to  celebrate 
Alumni  day,  until  a  few  of  them  met  with  the  boys  of  Tennessee  Alpha 
on  the  evening  of  March  15.  We  were  sorry  to  miss  many  who  had 
been  urgently  invited,  but  who  were  prevented  from  being  present. 
Nevertheless,  thfere  was  an  abundance  of  the  true  Phi  spirit.  The  active 
members  of  the  chapter  had  prepared  well  to  refresh  both  body  and 
spirit,  and  it  is  very  certain  that  the  alumni  who  were  present  had 
their  enthusiasm  for  Phi  Delta  Theta  strongly  intensified.  A  few 
earnest,  loyal  speeches  were  made  as  a  prelude  to  the  happy  chats  and 
reminiscences  which  formed  the  principal  feature  of  the  evening.  It 
seemed  a  great  pleasure  to  the  chapter  to  entertain  their  senior  Phis, 
and  such  an  enjoyable  affair  to  the  latter  that  they  will  doubtless  at- 
tend in  even  greater  numbers  and  gladness  when  the  occasion  returns 
again. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Nashville,  March  19,  189S.  John  H.  De  Witt. 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA  ALUHNI,  NEW  ORLEANS. 

Bro.  Grantland  L.  Tebault,  reporter  of  the  chapter,  writes  that  the 
Phis  of  New  Orleans  were  so  stirred  up  on  March  15  over  the  war 
news  and  prospects  that  they  postponed  their  celebration  of  Alumni 
day,  feeling,  doubtless,  that  this  might  seem  somewhat  excusable,  in 
view  of  the  recent  meeting  of  the  chapter  reported  in  the  February 
ScRoij*.  Now  that  the  battleship  purchasea  from  Brazil  has  been 
named  the  New  Orleans,  and  since  Bro.  W.  T.  Cluverius,  Tulanc^  *t)-i, 
one  of  the  survivors  among  the  junior  officers  of  the  Maine,  has  come 
home  for  a  brief  stay,  the  war  spirit  seems  to  be  more  rampant  than 
ever  in  this  chapter. 

Bro.  Tebault,  however,  and  Bro.  Cluverius  claim  to  represent  an- 
other feeling  very  strong  among  New  Orleans  Phis,  when  they  urge 
their  city  as  the  proper  place  to  hold  our  national  convention  in  19(X). 


THE  SCROLL.  417 

To  quote  from  Bro.  Tebault:  'All  PhivS  should  see  the  quaintest  city 
in  the  United  States  before  the  old  Spanish  and  French  landmarks 
disappear  entirely.  We  have  a  battle-ground  of  the  war  of  1812, 
Mardi  Gras  and  other  interesting  sights  without  number.'  Rival 
candidates  for  the  honor  of  convention  city  in  1900  will  have  to  bestir 
themselves,  evidently.  The  Phis  of  the  delta  are  very  much  in  earn- 
est. Alpha  Tau  Omega  is  to  convene  in  New  Orleans  this  year,  by 
the  way. 

OHIO  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  CINCINNATI. 

Twenty-six  notices  were  sent  to  as  many  Phis  living  in  Cincinnati 
and  vicinity,  requesting  them  to  meet  at  the  Grand  Hotel  caf^  on  the 
fifteenth  of  March,  at  12:30  p.  m.,  to  celebrate  Alumni  day  and  the 
seventy -sixth  birthday  of  Father  Morrison. 

There  might  have  been  a  more  generous  response  to  the  call,  but  it 
was  all  that  could  be  expected  for  the  first  meeting  in  years,  and  on 
such  short  notice,  too.  There  was,  however,  enough  loyalty  and  en- 
thusiasm to  make  up  for  the  lack  in  numbers,  and  many  of  the  absent 
ones  have  since  expressed  their  intention  of  being  at  the  next  meet- 
ing, which  will  be  held  at  the  same  place  on  the  second  Tuesday  in 
April,  at  12:30  p.  m. 

Those  present  enjoyed  a  very  pleasant  and  profitable  hour.  A  de- 
licious luncheon  was  served,  and  while  it  was  being  dispatched  many 
topics  of  interest  were  discussed,  among  them  the  question  of  estab- 
lishing a  chapter  at  the  institution  named  in  the  March  Palladium. 
It  was  the  unanimous  opinion  of  the  meeting  that  a  charter  should  be 
granted  and  a  chapter  installed  as  soon  as  possible. 

We  hope  to  be  able  to  report  another  meeting  for  the  June  ScROi^i*. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Cincinnati,  March  2(>,  1898.  J.  G.  Bloom. 

OHIO  BETA  ALUMNI.  AKRON. 

On  Alumni  day,  Ohio  Beta  Alumni  performed  what  has  come  to  be 
her  double  duty,  now  that  Ohio  Epsilon  can  no  longer  join  in  the 
festivities.     We  feel  that  the  task  was  well  done  and  not  grudgingly. 

The  Phis  of  Akron  assembled  in  the  parlors  of  the  Hotel  Buchtel 
and  spent  the  early  part  of  the  evening  recalling  old  college  days. 
Those  old  days  seem  to  grow  dearer  as  time  wrests  year  after  year 
from  our  store  of  life.  Later  in  the  evening  the  partaking  of  a  ban- 
quet heightened,  if  possible,  the  whole-souled  good-fellowship  which 
is  so  characteristic  of  Phi  gatherings.  Bro.  H.  H.  Henry,  Bucntcl,  '.f/, 
of  Cleveland,  presided  as  toast-master  in  the  same  happy  manner 
which  has  always  characterized  him  when  acting  in  this  capacity. 

The  reading  of  letters  from  old  boys  of  Ohio  Epsilon  was  a  most  en- 
joyable part  of  our  evening's  pleasure.  These  letters  told  us  that  dis- 
tance could  not  lessen  the  love  of  the  boys  for  the  old  Phi  home. 
The  responses  of  the  evening  brought  out  the  cheering  fact  that  Buch- 
tel College  is  enjoying  a  most  prosperous  year  and  that  surely  there 
is  a  rift  in  the  clouds.  Not  only  has  the  number  of  students  increased, 
but  a  great  deal  of  enthusiasm  has  characterized  the  work  of  the  fac- 
ulty and  the  student-body.  This  is  indeed  cheering,  for  to  many  of 
us  Buchtel  and  our  fraternity  life  are  inseparable.  May  the  good 
work  go  on  steadily  and  with  certain  step,  was  the  wish  of  each  one 
gathered  about  our  banquet  board. 


4i8  THE  SCROLL. 

The  announcement  that  the  next  national  convention  will  be  held 
in  Ohio  was  most  welcome,  and  we  hope  that  every  Phi  in  Delta  prov- 
ince will  make  it  his  business  to  be  present  and  help  Ohio  Zeta  ex- 
tend a  royal  welcome  to  the  whole  Phi  world. 

We  had  with  us  for  the  first  time  two  new  Akronians,  Brothers 
Shlesinger  and  Morley,  from  Ohio  Eta.  May  she  send  us  more  of 
the  same  kind  ! 

It  was  a  very  late  hour  when  we  drank  the  cold  water  toast  to  the 
health  of  Robert  Morrison  and  reluctantly  gave  each  other  a  farewell 
grasp  of  the  hand. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Akron,  March  16, 1898.  L.  R.  C.  Eberhard. 

OHIO  QAMMA  ALUMNI.  CLBVBLAND. 

On  the  evening  of  Alumni  day  the  Ohio  Gamma  Alumni  met  with 
Ohio  Eta  at  the  chapter  house  of  the  latter  for  the  annual  reunion. 
Our  reunions  have  heretofore  been  held  at  one  of  the  hotels,  but  the 
committee  having  the  matter  in  charge  chose  the  house  this  year,  and 
I  am  sure  all  present  felt  that  the  change  was  a  very  agreeable  one. 
It  also  seemed  to  act  as  an  incentive  to  get  the  men  out,  for  there  was 
a  larger  attendance  of  alumni  than  ever  before.  With  the  members 
of  the  active  chapter,  almost  fifty  were  present,  and  it  is  unnecessary  to 
say  that  every  man  felt  glad  to  be  there. 

Following  the  dinner,  a  number  of  toasts  were  given,  with  Prof. 
Lynch  of  the  Central  high  school  as  toast-master.  The  responses  were 
as  varied  in  nature  as  the  men  from  whom  they  came,  from  sage  ad- 
vice to  the  under^aduate  members  to  the  genial  humor  of  some  of 
our  clergymen,  which  always  gives  an  added  enjoyment  to  our  annual 
gatherings.  Bro.  F.  S.  Brockman,  I'atidt'rhilf,  'g/^  one  of  the  active 
workers  in  the  student  volunteer  movement,  was  present  and  gave 
some  very  interesting  remarks  in  regard  to  the  work  in  which  he  is 
interested. 

Following  the  toasts  came  the  annual  election  of  officers,  resulting 
as  follows:  Howard  O.  Couse,  president;  W.  H.  Merriam,  vice-presi- 
dent and  reporter;  Wilson  A.  Carter,  secretary  and  treasurer;  Rev. 
Carl  F.  Henry,  chaplain;  Prof.  C.  P.  Lynch,  warden. 

After  songs  and  general  good  followship  the  assemblage  gradually 
broke  up  alx>ut  2  a.  m.  The  alumni  have  the  active  men  to  thank 
for  having  made  possible  so  pleasant  a  place  in  which  to  meet.  It  was 
a  meeting  of  good  fellows,  such  as  our  Fraternity  always  has.  May 
there  be  many  more  like  it! 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Cleveland,  March  28,  1898.  W.  H.  Mkrriam. 

CENTRAL  OHIO  ALUHNI,  COLUMBUS. 

The  seventy-sixth  birthday  of  Robert  Morrison  was  appropriately 
celebrated  by  the  Phis  of  central  Ohio  by  a  dinner  at  the  Hotel  Chit- 
tenden on  the  evening  of  March  15.  While  a  semi-official  organiza- 
tion has  existed  here  for  several  years,  and  we  have  usually  celebrated 
Alumni  day.  this  dinner  was  the  first  since  18iM>,  the  event  for  last 
year  having  been  overlooked  among  the  many  things  that  demanded 
the  attention  of  those  who  had  charge  of  the  arrangements.  At  the 
dinner  two  years  ago  a  resolution  was  adopted  organizing  the  Central 
Ohio  alumni  association  and  putting  its  anairs  in  the  hands  of  a  com- 


THE  SCROLL.  419 

mittee  composed  of  Marcus  G.  Evans,  IVoosier,  Woodbury  T.  Morris, 
IViliiafNS,  and  John  Edwin  Brown,  Ohio  Wcsleyau.  This  committee 
had  in  charge  the  arrangements  for  the  dinner  this  year  in  which  the 
alumni  were  joined  by  the  members  of  the  Ohio  Zeta  at  the  State  Uni- 
versity. To  their  co-operation  we  owe  not  a  little  of  the  success  of 
the  dinner,  their  memoership  turning  out  to  a  man. 

At  6:30  thirty  members  of  the  Fraternity  sat  down  at  the  handsome- 
ly decorated  table  in  ordinary  G  of  the  Hotel  Chittenden,  each  mem- 
ber finding  at  his  place  the  fraternity  flower  and  the  menu  card  bear- 
ing the  legend,  'Alumni  Dinner  of  the  Phis  of  Central  Ohio,  celebrat- 
ing the  Alumni  Day  of  the  Fraternity,*  and  the  well  appointed  menu 
which  began  with  *  blue  points '  and  ended  with  *  Roquefort  and 
coffee. ' 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  dinner  Dr.  J.  E.  Brown,  of  the  committee, 
offered  the  following  as  the  basis  of  organization  for  the  association: 

*Nafne.  This  association  shall  be  known  as  the  Central  Ohio  Associ- 
ation of  Phi  Delta  Theta  Alumni. 

*  Membership.  Members  of  the  Fraternity  who  have  been  graduated 
or  who  have  withdrawn  from  college,  living  in  Columbus  or  its  vicin- 
ity, shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in  this  association. 

^Constitution.  The  constitution  of  this  association  shall  be  that  of 
the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity  for  Alumni  chapters. 

*BV-I,A\VS. 

'^  Officers.  The  association  shall  appoint  an  executive  committee  of 
three  (3)  members,  a  chairman,  vice-chairman  and  secretary-treasurer, 
elected  or  appointed  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  association.  Tlie 
members  of  this  committee  shall  serve  until  their  successors  are  elect- 
ed. This  committee  shall  perform  such  duties  as  are  assigned  by  the 
association. 

''Meetings.  The  annual  meeting  and  dinner  of  the  association  shall 
be  held  on  March  15.  If  for  any  reason  it  is  not  feasible  to  hold  this 
meeting  on  that  date,  the  nearest  feasible  date  thereto  shall  be  chosen 
instead.  Other  meetings  shall  be  at  the  call  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee. 

^Dues.  The  annual  dues  of  the  association  shall  be  the  price  of  the 
plate  at  the  annual  dinner,  such  price  including  the  expense  of  noti- 
fjring  the  members  in  regard  to  the  meeting.' 

The  proposed  constitution  and  by-laws  were  unanimously  adopted. 
In  order  to  be  recognized  in  the  roster  of  Alumni  chapters  of  the  Fra- 
ternity, a  regular  application  for  an  alumni  charter  was  filled  out  and 
has  been  since  forwarded  to  the  General  Council.  It  is  signed  by 
twenty  members  of  the  Fraternity. 

The  executive  committee  for  the  coming  year,  which  will  have  in 
charge  the  arrangements  for  the  semi-centennial  convention  to  be 
held  in  Columbus,  is  composed  of  John  Edwin  Brown,  Ohio  Wesleyan, 
Hon.  Emmett  Tompkins,  Ohio,  and  Woodbury  T.  Morris,  Williams. 
The  announcement  that  the  next  convention  was  to  be  held  in  Colum- 
bus created  no  little  enthusiasm,  and  everything  indicated  that  the 
Phis  of  central  Ohio  will  spare  no  pains  to  make  the  occasion  a  mem- 
orable one  in  the  Fraternity.  In  this  effort  they  will  be  joined  by  the 
Phis  of  Ohio  State,  Ohio  Wesleyan  and  Ohio  Universities. 

After  dinner  impromptu  speeches  were  made  by  Brothers  Tomp- 
kins, J.  E.  Brown,  Morris,  A.  V.  F)vans,  J.  F.  Hays,  Fred  L.  Rose- 
mond,  J.  H.  Puntenney,  T.  L.  Chadbourne  and  I.  M.  Foster.  Brother 
M.  G.  Evans  acted  as  toast-master. 


420  THE  SCROLL. 

The  presence  and  remarks  of  Brother  Rosemond  at  the  dinner  added 
greatly  to  its  enjoyment,  he  being  an  old  Phi  of  Ohio  Wesleyan,  class 
of  18S2,  and  having  come  all  the  way  from  Cambridge  to  be  present 
at  the  dinner.  Another  speaker  whose  remarks  were  particularly  en- 
joyed was  Brother  Puntenney  of  the  old  Miami  chapter,  who  told  of 
Its  successes  there  in  18()9  and  1870. 

Letters  of  regret  were  read  from  Hons.  D.  D.  Woodmansee  and 
Scott  Bonham,  of  Cincinnati,  Hon.  C.  E.  McBride,  Mansfield,  and 
others  who  regretted  their  inability  to  be  present.  Among  these  was 
our  founder,  J.  W.  Lindley,  of  Fredericktown,  who  even  now  is  count- 
ing on  the  pleasure  of  being  present  at  the  semi-centennial  in  No- 
vember, 

In  the  Bond, 

Columbus,  March  18,  1898.  J.  E.  Brown. 

INDIANA  BBTA  ALUriNI.  INDIANAPOLIS. 

The  Phis  of  Indianapolis,  to  the  number  of  five  and  twenty,  lunched 
together  informally  on  Alumni  day  at  the  Commercial  Club.  R.  Frank 
Davidson,  as  reporter  of  Indiana  Beta  Alumni,  presided  over  the  feast. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Miami,  '5^,  was  re-elected  president;  Paul  H. 
White,  Sianfoni,  '95,  was  made  treasurer;  W.  A.  Bastian,  De  l\nnk\ 
*9/,  reporter;  James  L.  Mitchell,  Indiana^  W^,  warden;  John  M.  Wall, 
Indiana,  *g2,  historian;  Frank  Martin,  Franklin ,  ^g6^  chaplain.  The 
reporter  has  no  complete  list  of  those  present,  but  remembers  the  fol- 
lowing: F.  A.  Preston,  Dc  Pauw,  ^g^;  Robt.  Moorhead,  Indianap- 
olis, ^g6:  C.  T.  Switzler,  Missouri,  ^g^;  W.  W.  Buchanan,  Indianap- 
olis, \V.s\-  Frank  Martin,  Franklin,  'g6;  W.  S.  Garber,  Hanover^  ^J2; 
F.  R.  Kautz,  Indianapolis,  'Sj;  I.  Feibleman,  Indiana,  *gj(:  W.  A. 
Bastian,  De  Panrc,  *g/;  H.  U.  Brown,  Indianapolis,  'So;  John  M.  Wall, 
Indiana,  ^gj;  RolSert  S.  Foster,  Indianapolis,  '97;  Eman  h.  Beck, 
Franklin,  'g/;  R.  F.  Davidson,  Indianapolis,  *g2;  Paul  H.  Wliite, 
Stanford,  '95;  F.  P.  Robinson,  Indianapolis,  'g^;  James  L.  Mitchell, 
Indiana,  'Sg;  A.  B.  Clarke,  Indianapolis,  'gj, 

W.  A.  Bastian. 

Indianapolis,  April  4,  1898. 

niCHIQAN  ALPHA  ALUMNI.  DETROIT. 

On  the  evening  of  February  3  seven  Phis  of  the  Michigan  Alpha 
Alumni  chapter  gathered  around  the  festive  Ixjard  at  Hotel  Ste.  Claire. 
This  was  the  first  successful  attempt  to  get  a  gathering  for  a  dinner. 
Those  present  were  Bros.  Kessler,  Preston,  McCoUister,  Stringer, 
Steele,  Searle  and  Putnam.  The  affair  was  a  very  pleasant  one  and 
the  beginning  of  a  series  to  be  held  from  time  to  time  as  the  spirit 
moves  us.     Our  next  local  dinner  will  be  held  April  26. 

At  the  meeting  on  February  .S  plans  were  discussed  for  the  regular 
alumni  banquet  for  March  lo.  The  banquet  committee  was  instructed 
to  make  suitable  arrangements  and  to  invite  all  neighboring  Phis  and 
the  chapters  of  the  state.  Our  chapter  at  Ann  Arbor  being  so  near, 
we  had  counted  confidently  on  the  boys  from  Michigan  Alpha.  The 
committee  saw  fit,  after  looking  the  ground  over  thoroughly,  to  change 
the  plans  materially.  The  boys  from  Michigan  Alpha  thought  that 
they  could  not  be  with  us  on  the  fifteenth,  but  cordially  invited  the 
Detroit  Phis  to  banquet  with  them  on  the  eleventh.  Accordingly  the 
committee  attempted  to  change  the  previously  conceived  plans  and 


THE  SCROLL,  421 

proceed  in  a  body  to  Ann  Arbor.  Unfortunately  the  plan  did  not 
work.  But  two  of  our  members  made  the  trip.  Previous  engagements 
and  a  general  confusion  as  to  the  local  banquet  made  our  delegation 
so  small  that  we  are  a  little  ashamed  to  confess  its  minuteness. 

Nevertheless,  nothing  daunted,  we  intend  to  hold  our  next  local 
dinner  on  April  26,  and  hope  to  make  it  as  much  of  a  success  as  our 
first. 

Sending  greeting  to  our  sister  chapters  and  our  honored  founder, 
I  am, 

In  Phi  Delta  Theta, 

Detroit,  March  22,  1898.  W.  P.  Putnam. 

niNNESOTA  ALPHA  ALUHNI.  HINNBAPOLIS  AND  ST.  PAUL. 

Alumni  day  of  this,  the  semi-centennial  year  of  our  fraternity,  was 
appropriately  celebrated  by  the  Twin  City  alumni  association  in  union 
with  the  local  chapter,  by  a  banquet  at  the  Commercial  Club  in  Min- 
neapolis. All  of  the  'Old  Guard,'  whose  faces — and  stories— are  al- 
ways in  evidence,  were  of  course  on  hand,  and  signs  of  growing  inter- 
est on  the  part  of  Phis  long  since  out  of  college  were  shown  by  the 
larpe  number  of  alumni  who  have  hitherto  not  identified  themselves 
with  the  association.  The  local  chapter  turned  out  to  a  man.  Before 
dinner  was  served  an  informal  reception  was  held  in  the  club  parlors; 
the  new  comers  became  acquaintea  and  old  friends  exchanged  greet- 
ings. 

Bro.  I/.  A.  Straight  presided  at  the  feast,  and  served  as  toast-master 
in  his  characteristic  manner.  The  speeches  by  alumni  and  active 
members  were  filled  more  than  usually  with  an  intense  spirit  of  fra- 
ternity enthusiasm.  No  more  enjoyable  or  beneficial  gathering  of 
Phis  has  taken  place  in  the  memory  of  an^  who  participated.  The 
alumni  went  away  imbued  with  a  renewed  interest,  and  an  increased 
loyalty  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  The  younger  members,  still  active  work- 
ers in  the  college  world,  learned  what  it  meant  to  be  a  Phi,  and  car- 
ried away  inspiration  to  make  renewed  efforts  for  their  Fraternity. 

The  speeches  were  very  pleasantly  interspersed  with  songs  by  Bro. 
Smith,  *01,  and  music  by  the  chapter  mandolin  and  guitar  club  of 
eight  pieces. 

In  the  course  of  the  evening  the  alumni  association  elected  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year  as  follows:  L.  A.  Straight,  president;  J.  M.  An- 
derson, vice-president;  Wm.  C.  Covert,  reporter,  and  W.  H.  Sherburne, 
secretary  and  treasurer. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

St.  Paul,  March  29,  1898.  Wm.  C.  Covert. 

niSSOURI  BETA  ALUHNI.  ST.  LOUIS. 

The  annual  banquet  of  the  St.  Louis  alumni  occurred  at  the  South- 
ern Hotel  on  March  twenty-sixth.  In  spite  of  a  stormy  night  over 
thirty  Phis  assembled  to  celebrate  the  semi-centennial  of  the  Frater- 
nity. The  following  were  present:  Wm.  Graham,  Virjrinia^  \^/; 
Richard  McCulloch,  IVashin^ion,  '9//  D.  W.  Roper,  IVashinji^iou  and 
Cornell^  *gj;  E.  C.  Renaud,  Tulane,  '9.?/  Sherman  Leavitt,  Washing' 
ton^  ^00;  H.  W.  Eliot,  Jr.,  Washington,  '00;  E.  T.  Senseney,  Wash- 
ingtofi^  *oi;  Geo.  H.  Boeck,  Washington,  '97/  Albert  B.  Lawver, 
Washington,  *g6:  P.  R.  Flitcraft,  Michigan,  '7/;  Thurston  Wright, 
Washington^  ^01;  Samuel  M.  Piper,  Dc  Pauw,  ^Sj;  Wm.  Simpson,  Jr., 


422  THE  SCROLL. 

Washington,  \x);  S.  B.  Phillips,  IVashitigton,  Vx>/  Thomas  G.  Rut- 
ledge,  Jr.,  IVashitigton,  '9//  A.  C.  Caldwell,  IVashingtoti^  '97;  J.  L. 
Stuart,  IVashitigtoti,  *gS;  R.  Munroe  Wilson,  Washington^  '97,-  James 
Harrison,  Washington,  '95;  Chas.  P.  Pettus,  M^ashingtofi,  *gg;  J.  B. 
Pitman,  Vanderbilt,  '97/  T.  H.  Wright,  Washington,  'gS;  H.  R.  Hall, 
Washington ,  '9^;  Chas.  F.  Krone,  Missouri,  \S^:  Martin  A.  Seward, 
Cornell,  ^gj;  T.  F.  Chaplin,  Washington,  ^g6. 

Brother  Rutledge,  the  president  of  the  alumni  chapter,  was  in  the 
chair,  and  the  following  toasts  were  made:  'Miami,  the  Birthplace  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta,'  Edward  L.  Jacobs,  Miami,  'gj;  'Missouri  Gamma 
and  Washington  University,'  Trescott  F.  Chaplin,  Washington,  'g6; 
•The  Greeks  and  the  Barbarians,'  John  W.  Nute,  Lafayette,  'S6;  'Fifty 
Years  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  P.  R.  Flitcraft,  Michigan,  '7/;  'The  Phi 
Girls,'  Harry  R.  Hall,  Washington,  ^g2. 

At  the  close  of  the  evening  the  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  were 
elected:  H.  R.  Hall,  Washington,  'g2,  president;  Martin  A.  Seward, 
Cornell,  ^gj,  historian  and  vice-president,  and  T.  F.  Chaplin,  Wash- 
ington, ^g6,  secretary. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

St.  Louis,  March  *26,  1898.  T.  F.  Chaplin. 

CALIFORNIA  ALPHA  ALUMNI,  SAN  PRANCI5CO. 

The  annual  Phi  banquet  in  this  city  necessarily  is  for  the  most  part 
simply  a  reunion  of  members,  old  and  young,  of  California  Alpha. 
That  happens  to  have  been  particularly  the  case  this  time,  although, 
especially  since  the  birth  of  her  charming  sister  down  at  Palo  Alto,  it 
is  Decoming  more  and  more  possible  each  year  to  make  it  a  gathering 
of  more  general  character.  The  last  meeting  was  delightful  in  every 
way,  and  was  called  to  order  in  the  maple  room  annex  at  the  Palace 
Hotel,  Saturday  evening,  March  12,  at  7  p.  m  by  toastmaster,  Geo. 
E.  DeGolia,  '77.  A  roll-call  would  have  disclosed  an  even  thirty  pres- 
ent. The  following  were  features  of  the  menu:  Huitres  de  Test  a.  la 
Shell  Mound;  soupe  a  la  tortue  d'AUardt;  caviar grillarde  a  la  Phikeia; 
paupiette  de  bass  ii  la  Berkeley  Band ;  filet  de  boeuf  au  lard  ii  la  Cardi- 
nal; riz  de  veau,  petits  pois,  ^  la  Great  Scott;  punch  ti  la  Perry  de  Bel- 
vedere; salade  de  chicore  ii  la  Rodolph;  gateaux  in  la  Grizzly  Peak. 

The  speeches  throughout  were  of  a  superior  order,  so  that  the  ban- 
quet of  another  fraternity  going  at  the  same  time  across  the  hall,  and 
where  the  members  were  evidently  having  an  awfully  good  time,  could 
scarcely  have  proved  the  feast  of  reason  that  ours  did.  Several  pleasant 
messages  were  exchanged  with  our  friendly  rivals,  however.  The  toasts 
were:  'Building  the  Temple,'  D.  Edw.  Collins;  'The  Legal  Militia,' 
W.  H.  Anderson;  'The  Dream  of  My  Youth,'  Ebenezer  Scott;  'When 
I  Was  a  Freshman.'  C.  O.  Perry;  'Azure  and  Argent,'  Frank  Otis;  'In 
Behalf  of  my  Proxy,'  Ivouis  Titus;  'Cardinal  Victories,'  Caspar  W. 
Hodgson;  'Some  Things  Worth  Knowing,'  F.  M.  Parcells;  'Blue  and 
Gold  Triumphs,'  W.  E.  Creed.  The  splendid  peroration  on  the  build- 
ing of  character  was  an  appropriate  climax  to  the  discourse  on  the 
long  anticipated  *  A  0  temple  in  Berkeley,  and  deserves  more  than  the 
passing  notice  we  are  permitted  to  give  it.  The  place  of  J.  B.  Rein- 
stin,  absent  on  account  of  illness,  was  acceptably  tilled  by  a  classmate 
of  '73,  who  doubtless  had  some  knowledge  during  college  days  of  the 
aerial  castles  of  our  regent  brother  now  soon  to  be  realized  in  the 
greater  University  of  California,  largely  under  his  inspiration  and 
supervision.     A  message  of  regret  was  received  from  him  and  one 


THE  SCROLL.  423 

from  Dr.  Geo.  W.  Rodolph,  who  was  at  that  time  endeavoring  to  obey 
the  injunction  *  Physician,  heal  thyself .  *  The  vacant  chair  of  Professor 
Wm.  Carey  Jones,  another  victim  of  la  grippe^  was  occupied  by  an  ex- 
general  officer  of  the  Fraternity,  somewhat  farther  removed,  to  be 
sure,  from  the  freshman  days  of  which  he  spoke. 

Together  with  the  speakers  the  following  completed  the  festive  cir- 
cle: W.  N.  Friend,  M.  S.  Blanchard,  Chas.  Seyler,  Jr.,  E.  F.  Good- 
year (which  four  brothers  constituted  the  committee  of  which  the  re- 
porter was  an  honorary  member),  C.  F.  AUardt,  C.  Kdw.  Holmes,  E. 
I.  Powell,  G.  J.  McChesney,  J.  E.  McDowell,  F.  S.  Fox,  H.  P.  Hill, 
A.  J.  Brown,  E.  W.  Garrison,  Duncan  McDuffie,  J.  Robert  Moulthrop, 
V.  H.  Henderson,  D.  Spencer,  Homer  Boushey,  Fielding  Stilson,  J. 
Maxwell  Taft.  The  chapters  represented  were  DePauw,  Southwest- 
ern, Stanford  and  California. 

The  reporter  desires  to  acknowledge  the  thoughtfulness  of  each  of 
the  following  chapters  in  sending  him  a  copy  of  its  circular  letter: 
Case,  Dartmouth,  Sewanee,  DePauw,  Allegheny,  Missouri,  Texas, 
Westminster,  Dickinson,  Michigan,  Stanford^  California. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

San  Francisco,  March  30,  1898.  Wii^i^iam  O.  Morgan. 

CALIFORNIA  BETA  ALUHNI,  LOS  ANQELE5. 

The  alumni  of  Los  Angeles  held  their  banquet  on  Alumni  day  at 
the  Maison  Doree^  at  (Ji.'K),  to  perfect  the  organization  of  the  alumni 
chapter  in  this  city.     A  thoroughly  enjoyable  evening  was  spent. 

Bro.  Conger,  our  unanimous  choice  for  president,  opened  the  meet- 
ing with  an  invocation,  after  which  he  introduced  our  affable  and 
able  toast-master,  Bro.  Hewitt.  The  toasts,  which  were  heartily  re- 
sponded to,  were  directed  to  what  may  be  termed  the  'good  01  the 
Order,'  and  it  was  finally  declared  to  be  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that 
our  alumni  chapters  should  endeavor  to  be  efficient  aids  to  the  active 
chapters  in  every  possible  way,  and  that,  particularly,  we  should  as- 
sist them  by  calling  their  attention  to  new  men  who  would  be  desira- 
ble Phis. 

Those  present  were:  Everett  L.  Conger,  Lombard^  president;  Les- 
lie R.  Hewitt,  Califoniiay  vice-president;  Edward  W.  Holmes,  Stan- 
ford^ secretary  and  treasurer;  Robert  J.  Adcock,  Illinois;  Thomas  L. 
Neal,  Virginia;  Frazier  M.  Sallee,  Westminster;  S.  F.  Conley,  Mis- 
souri; John  H.  Simms,  Wooster;  Edward  W.  Forgy,  Uooster;  F.  E. 
Engstrum,  California;  R.  D.  Emery,  Vermont;  Homer  Laughlin,  Jr., 
Stanford;  Russ  Avery,  California;  R.  P.  Rice,  Stanford;  Clark  W. 
Hetherin^on,  Stanford;  Darwin  Gish,  California;  G.  Curtis  DeGarmo, 
California;  Edw.  F.  Wehrle,  loiua  and  Io7t'a  IVesleyan. 

Wishing  all  the  chapters  of  our  good  old  Fraternity  a  very  prosper- 
ous year,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Los  Angeles,  March  18,  1898.  Edward  W.  Holmes. 


434  THE  SCROLL. 


PERSONALS. 

Emory — John  Lovejoy,  '73,  is  at  Newnan,  Ga. 

Emory — Rev.  Clayton  P.  Miller,  '71,  is  in  Atlanta. 

IVooster—l^^v .  Robert  Ballagh,  '76,  is  at  Piano,  Cal. 

Hillsdale — W.  D.  Gurlough,  't^2,  is  in  business  in  Stanford, 
Illinois. 

Ohio   Wvsleyan — L.  A.  Busby,  '04,  is  practicing  law  in 
Chicago. 

Emory — Addison  K.  Barnett,  '74,  a  charter  member,  is  in 
New  Orleans. 

Wisconsin — A.  G.  Paul,  '90,  is  in  the  lumber  business  at 
Lake  City,  Fla. 

Kansas — J.  E.  Dyche,  '92,  is  superintendent  of  schools  at 
Horton,  Kansas. 

Ohio  Weshyan — Rev.  R.  D.  Hollington,  '91,  is  preaching 
at  Montpelier,  O. 

South  Carolina — George  Walker,  'S(),  is  practicing  medi- 
cine in  Baltimore. 

Ohio  Wesleyan — J.  W.  Magruder,  '93,  is  practicing  medi- 
cine at  Peru.  lud. 

Ohio  Wesleyan — W.  I.  Hadley,  '91,  is  engaged  in  business 
at  Waldron,  Mich. 

Nebraska — Karl  C.  Randall,  '97,  was  elected  to  Sigma  Xi 
at  the  last  drawing. 

loiva  Wesleyan — John  W.  Palm,  '7^j,  is  now  postmaster 
at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa. 

South  Carolina — M.  H.  Sandifer,  '80,  is  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness at  Rock  Hill,  S.  C. 

Nebraska — \Vm.   L.  Stephens,   '(S9,  is  superintendent  of 
schools  at  Fairbury,  Neb. 

Iowa  Wesleyan — Ira  Lute,  '97,  is  now  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secre- 
tary at  Independence,  Iowa. 


THE  SCROLL.  425 

South   Carolina — M.  L.  Copeland,  '84,  is  a  cotton  buyer 
and  planter  at  Clinton,  S.  C. 

Nebraska — Thos.  Creigh,  law,  *97,  is  in  the  law  firm  of 
Clarkson  &  Creigh  at  Omaha. 

Miami — Rev.  S.  C.  Baldridge,  *4t),  died  at  his  home  in 
Hanover,  Ind.,  April  15,  1898. 

Nebraska — Clarence  W.  Rhodes,  '70,  is  editing  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Neivs  at  Denver,  Colo. 

Kansas — J.  E.  Smith,  '97,  has  a  position  with  the  Union 
National  Bank,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Lafayette— ^o\^x\.  W.  Givin,  '82,  died  on  January  5, 189S, 
at  Roxborough,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Vermont — Rev.  S.  H.  Wheeler,  '83,  a  charter  member  of 
the  chapter,  is  at  Chehalis,  Wash. 

0%— David  Smith,  '89,  is  with  the  State  Mutual  Life 
Association,  in  their  Boston  office. 

South  Carolina — H.  A.  Brunson,  '89,  is  editor  of  the 
Florence  (S.  C. )  Times-Messenger, 

Kansas — Galen  Nichols,  '91,  is  located  at  Topeka,  Kan- 
sas.    He  is  deputy  county  attorney. 

Washington — John  R.  Fordyce,  *92,  is  to  be  married  soon 
to  a  young  lady  of  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Amherst — Arthur  W.  Stone,  '94,  was  admitted  to  the 
Maine  bar  at  the  recent  examinations. 

Hillsdale — Edward  L.  Powers,  '90,  is  teaching  the  piano 
in  the  Judson  Institute,  at  Marion,  Ala. 

Missouri — W.  E.  Moore,  '9(5,  is  doing  new.spaper  work  in 
Chicago.     His  address  is  321  Ogden  Ave. 

Ohio  IVesleyan—T.  T.  Shaw,  '94,  Q.  W.  U.'s  favorite 
shortstop,  is  practicing  law  at  Defiance,  O. 

Alabama — E.  D.  Smith,  '9(i,  is  president  of  the  graduating 
law  class  at  Georgetown  University  this  year. 

Gettysburg — D.  M.  Addison,  '92,  of  U.  S.  S.  Bennington, 
who  has  been  spending  a  few  weeks  with  his  parents  in  Law- 
rence, Kansas,  has  been  ordered  to  Pensacola,  Fla. 


426  THE  SCROLL. 

Hanover — W.  T.  Williamson,  '87,  is  one  of  the  faculty  of 
the  Episcopal  Male  Academy,  at  Houston,  Va. 

Washington  and  Lee — R.  J.  McBryde,  Jr. ,  *98,  is  principal 
of  the  Episcopal  Male  Academy,  at  Houston,  Va. 

Ohio  Wesleya7i — H.  W.  Pond,  '93,  is  in  the  real  estate 
business  in  the  Blackstone  building,  Cleveland,  O. 

Mississippi — Edmund  Ball  Williams,  *92,  is  now  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law  in  the  city  of  Meridian,  Miss. 

Richmo7id — Horace  Morland  Whaling,  '70,  has  charge  of 
St.  John's  (Presbyterian)  church  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Nebraska — Thos.  E.  Wing,  '93,  is  in  the  law  ofl&ce  of 
Goodrich,  Whitney  &  Hagen,  Wall  St.,  New  York. 

Hillsdale — Charles  E.  Mark,  '90,  is  a  civil  engineer  with 
the  Ohio  Central  railroad,  and  lives  at  Kenton,  Ohio. 

Nebraska — David  A.  Haggard,  '91,  has  recently  taken  a 
place  with  the  West  Publishing  Co.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Syranise — T.  S.  Bell,  '92,  delegate  to  the  Atlanta  con- 
vention, is  superintendent  of  schools  at  Salamanca,  N.  Y. 

Washington  and  Jefferson — Rev.  Geo.  M.  Ryall,  '95,  has 
accepted  a  call  to  the  Allen  town  (Pa.)  Presbyterian  church. 

Vanderbilt — Prof.  R.  W.  Deering,  '85,  has  been  made  dean 
of  the  graduate  department  of  Western  Reserve  University. 

Nebraska — R.  M.  Welch,  '93,  will  shortly  leave  Lincoln 
to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  barrels  at  So.  Omaha,  Neb. 

Colby — George  E.  Googins,  '8(>,  is  rapidly  coming  to  the 
front  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party  in  Maine. 

Kansas — Fred.  H.  Kellogg,  '91,  is  practicing  law  at  South 
McAlister,  I.  T.  His  partner  is  a  Phi,  J.  F.  Craig,  Kansas, 
'91. 

Iowa  Wesleyan — W.  O.  Rogers,  '97,  is  taking  a  theological 
course  in  Chicago,  in  preparation  for  the  Congregational 
ministry. 

De  Paiicif — R.  S.  Henderson,  '96,  is  a  member  of  the 
junior  class  in  the  civil  engineering  course  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology.  His  address  is  101  Apple- 
ton  St.,  Boston. 


THE  SCROLL,  427 

Missouri — Gail  D.  AUee,  '9G,  was  graduated  second  in  his 
class  from  the  Beaumont  Medical  College  at  St.  Louis  on 
March  25. 

Emory — T.  JE.  Means,  '72,  a  charter  member,  is  principal 
of  the  Walker  Street  grammar  school,  Atlanta,  which  has 
800  pupils. 

Union — Walter  L.  Terry,  M)6,  is  now  Captain  Terry  and 
professor  of  English  in  the  Kentucky  Military  Institute  at 
Lyndon,  Ky. 

Washington — N.  Henry  Emmons,  *93,  has  been  appointed 
superintendent  of  some  important  mines  in  Parral,  Chihua- 
hua, Mexico. 

lVashingio7i — James  Harrison,  *95,  has  returned  from 
Pittsburgh,  and  is  in  the  employment  of  the  Kinloch  Tele- 
phone Co.,  St.  Louis. 

Amherst — Edward  J.  Danforth,  *97,  died  in  Chicago,  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1898.  He  was  studying  at  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago theological  seminary. 

C.  C.  A^.  K — Louis  E.  Van  Norman,  '91,  late  editor  of 
The  Voice y  has  now  connected  himself  with  The  Literary 
Digest  in  a  similar  capacity. 

Lombard — R.  E.  Olmstead,  '94,  is  at  the  University  of 
Chicago,  doing  special  work  in  sociology.  His  address  is 
5412  Jackson  avenue,  Chicago. 

Mississippi — Monroe  McClurg,  '78,  formerly  a  member 
of  the  legislature  of  Mississippi,  has  been  elected  alumni 
orator  for  commencement,  1898. 

Illinois — F.  C.  Beem,  '97,  has  removed  from  Ottawa,  111., 
to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  where  he  expects  to  follow  his  chosen 
profession — that  of  an  architect. 

Chicago — Harold  L.  Ickes,  '97,  has  left  the  Chicago  Record, 
with  which  he  was  formerly  identified,  to  become  commer- 
cial editor  on  the  Tribune's  staff. 

Texas — Prof.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett,  '72,  has  recently  refused 
an  offer  of  the  directorship  of  the  American  School  at  Athens 
for  a  term  of  five  years,  at  an  increased  salary.  Amherst  is 
very  fortunate  in  being  able  to  retain  Prof.  Sterrett,  who 
will  continue  to  be  the  head  of  the  Greek  department  there. 


428  THE  SCROLL. 

Ohio  State— ^m,  F.  Hunt,  *87,  is  head  of  the  law  firm  of 
Hunt,  Prendergast  and  Griggs,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Their 
offices  are  in  the  New  York  Life  building. 

Iowa  Wesleya7i,  '^/ — W.  F.  Gilmore  and  W.  H.  Perdew 
are  at  Boston  University;  the  former  preaches  at  Kast  Tem- 
pleton,  Mass.,  and  the  latter  at  Worcester. 

Missouri — Robert  T.  Haines,  *80,  is  leading  man  in  *The 
Cherry  Pickers,'  August  Pitou's  play,  which  is  now  in  the 
west  after  an  extended  tour  of  eastern  cities. 

Missouri. — James  S.  Snoddy,  *83,  the  editor  of  a  volume 
of  poems,  'A  Little  Book  of  Missouri  Verse,*  is  teaching 
fellow  in  English  at  the  University  of  Nebraska. 

Missouri — CliflFord  T.  Switzler,  '94,  is  connected  with  the 
Samuel  Cupples  Woodenware  Companj'^  of  St.  Louis,  and 
represents  that  company  in  Indiana  and  Kentucky. 

Missouri — Charles  G.  Haines,  '93,  is  now  captain  and 
commissary  on  the  staff  of  Col.  Geo.  P.  Gross,  commanding 
the  third  regiment,  N.  G.  M.,  at  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Hillsdale — E.  D.  Palmer,  '89,  who  received  the  degree  of 
A.  M.  from  the  University  of  Michigan  last  commencement, 
is  commissioner  of  the  schools  of  Clare  county,  Mich. 

lo7c'a  Wesley a7i — Ed.  W.  Hearn,  '94,  was  recently  chosen 
state  college  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  still  super- 
intends the  work  of  the  local  association  at  Oskaloosa. 

Missouri — Jouett  H.  Shouse,  ex- '99,  is  now  managing  ed- 
itor of  the  Press- Tra^iscript  at  Lexington,  Ky.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  Lexington  Daily  Herald, 

Nebraska — Lawrence  B.  Pillsbury,  '95,  is  attending  the 
Denver  Medical  College;  Chas.  A.  F;iliott,  '95,  the  North- 
western Medical;  A.  B.  Lindquest,  '97,  the  Omaha  Medical. 

Colby — H.  L.  Pierce,  '92,  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Upton,  Mass.,  has  forsworn  his  bachelor  vows,  as  has  Robert 
N.  Millett,  '93,  who  is  superintendent  of  schools  at  Rock- 
port,  Me. 

Franklin — Dr.  Roscoe  W.  Payne,  '93,  has  gone  to  Wash- 
ington in  answer  to  a  telegram  instructing  him  to  report  for 
duty  as  an  assistant  surgeon  for  the  infantry.  He  will  have 
the  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  and  will  receive  a  salary  of 
$1,800. 


THE  SCROLL.  429 

Mississippi. — Wm.  Alexander  McCain,  '95,  won  the  West 
Point  cadetship  in  the  fourth  congressional  district  of  Mis- 
sissippi, over  thirteen  other  applicants.  He  will  enter  in 
June,  1808. 

Union — Harlow  McMillen,  '87,  has  removed  from  Albany 
to  West  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  where  he  has 
taken  charge  of  the  department  of  mathematics  in  the  West- 
erleigh  Collegiate  Institute. 

Vermont — Robert  E.  Lewis,  '92,  has  sailed  for  China  to 
take  charge  of  work  there  as  a  secretary  of  the  student 
volunteer  movement.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  co-work- 
er, Robert  R.  Gailey,  the  great  Princeton  center  rush. 

Vanderbilt — John  Marshall  Smedes,  '79,  was  chairman 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Episcopal  Church  club, 
in  charge  of  the  arrangements  for  the  annual  national 
conference  of  church  clubs,  held  in  Cincinnati  last  month. 

Io7va  Wcsleyan — During  the  latter  part  of  October  four 
Phis,  formerly  members  of  Iowa  Alpha,  took  upon  them- 
selves the  vows  of  wedded  life.  They  are  Bruce  Young,  '95, 
W.  S.  Shearer,  '95,  Ed.  J.  Smith,  '93,  and  W.  N.  Groome, 
'74. 

Northivestern — Isaac  R.  Hitt,  Jr.,  '88,  has  removed  to 
Washington,  D.  C,  because  of  Mrs.  Hitt's  continued  ill 
health  in  Evanston.  Bro.  Hitt  has  a  rapidly  increasing  law 
practice  before  the  departments.  His  address  is  1419  Q  St., 
N.  W. 

Syracuse — Olin  W.  Wood,  '92,  who  will  be  remembered 
by  all  who  attended  the  Atlanta  convention ,  is  principal  of 
the  Olean  (N.  Y.)  high  school.  He  is  still  enthusiastic  in 
his  memories  of  Atlanta  and  of  the  Nashville  girls  who  came 
to  the  convention. 

Indiana — Thad.  W.  Rodecker,  law,  '97,  who  is  taking  a 
graduate  course  in  the  Chicago  Law  School,  was  one  of  the 
speakers  at  a  banquet  given  by  the  Eureka  College  alumni 
association  of  Chicago,  at  the  Great  Northern  Hotel,  on  the 
evening  of  March  5. 

Columbia — David  J.  Greene,  '95,  was  recently  confirmed  by 
the  Columbia  board  of  trustees  as  an  assistant  in  mechanical 
engineering,  but  a  more  lucrative  and  generally  desirable 
position  with  a  commercial  house  being  offered  him,  he  con- 
cluded to  accept  the  latter. 


430  THE  SCROLL, 

K,  M,  I. — Biscoe  Hindman,  '83,  is  an  enthusiastic  mem- 
ber of  the  order  of  Sons  of  Confederate  Veterans  at  Louis- 
ville. At  a  meeting  of  the  camp  on  April  14,  he  introduced 
a  resolution  which  was  carried,  offering  the  services  of  the 
organization  to  President  McKinley  in  case  of  war. 

Wabash— ^\\\  E.  Willis,  '89,  who  had  been  at  Spokane, 
Wash.,  several  years,  and  who  was  one  of  the  charter  mem- 
bers of  the  alumni  chapter  there,  as  well  as  its  reporter,  is 
now  living  in  Ventura,  Cal.,  where  he  is  joint  proprietor 
and  sole  editor  of  the  Free  Press  and  Veniuriatiy  weekly  and 
daily. 

Missouri — Burton  M.  Thompson,  *^)2,  has  quit  the  real 
estate  business  in  St.  Louis  and  has  gone  to  New  York  as 
eastern  manager  for  the  Medical  Ihief,  a  leading  medical 
publication.  His  headquarters  are  at  150  Nassau  St.,  New 
York,  and  his  time  is  spent  in  that  city,  Philadelphia  and 
Boston. 

Ohio — Col.  W.  E.  Bundy,  *80,  is  slated  for  appointment  as 
United  States  district  attorney  at  Cincinnati.  He  is  related 
by  marriage  to  Senator  Foraker,  and  is  a  leader  among  the 
Foraker  Republicans  of  Hamilton  county,  as  is  Bro.  D.  D. 
Woodmansee,  Ohio  Wesleyan^  '81,  among  the  McKinley  Re- 
publicans. 

Iowa  Wesleyan^  'p6 — C.  P.  Frantz  is  in  the  medical  de- 
partment of  Northwestern  University:  W.  E.  Creath  is  in 
the  Keokuk  Medical  College;  Roy  Corley  is  in  the  dental 
department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania;  K.  C.  Corley 
is  a  life  insurance  agent  at  Grinnell,  Iowa;  J.  W.  Potter  is 
preaching  at  Milton,  Iowa. 

Missouri — The  wedding  of  Clarence  Child,  ex-'97,  is  re- 
ported as  follows  by  the  Richmond  Coyiservator: 

Mr.  Clarence  C.  Child  and  Miss  Bertha  Ringo,  two  of  Richmond's 
popular  young  society  people,  were  married  at  the  home  of  the  bride*s 
cousin,  Mr.  E.  C.  Bullock,  in  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  last  Thursday 
evening,  March  17,  1S98,  at  7  o'clock,  Rev.  Wells,  of  that  city,  per- 
forming the  ceremony  in  the  presence  of  only  a  few  immediate  rela- 
tives and  friends. 

The  groom  is  the  son  of  Col.  Jacob  T.  Child,  the  present  United 
States  consul  at  Hankow,  China,  and  is  a  popular  young  man. 

The  bride  is  the  daughter  of  our  worthy  fellow- townsman,  Wm.  K. 
Ringo,  and  is  beloved  by  all  who  know  her. 

The  young  couple  remained  in  Kansas  City  until  Friday  evening, 
when  they  returned  to  Richmond  and  will  make  their  home  at  the 
residence  of  the  groom's  father  on  North  Main  street. 


^      THE  SCROLL.  431 

Colby — D.  J.  Gallert,  '93,  who  was  graduated  from  Har- 
vard in  1894,  magna  cum  laudCy  and  who  took  his  degree 
from  the  law  school  there  last  June  as  an  honor  man,  is  with 
Root,  Howard,  Winthrop  and  Stimson,  in  the  Mutual  Life 
building,  at  32  Liberty  St.,  New  York.  He  will  be  remem- 
bered by  many  as  Maine  Alpha's  delegate  to  the  Atlanta 
convention. 

Washmgton  and  Jefferson — Rev.  J.  L.  Ewing,  '90,  who 
for  almost  five  years  has  served  the  Presbyterian  churches 
of  Hoboken  and  Aspinwall,  Pa.,  has  been  unanimously 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  James- 
berg,  N.  J.  This  is  a  large  and  important  church.  A  com- 
fortable salary  with  a  handsome  parsonage  is  promised.  It 
is  likely  Mr.  Ewing  will  accept  the  call. 

Ohio  Wesleyaii — Professor  Aquilla  Webb,  *90,  is  meeting 
with  great  success  in  his  work  at  Albion  College.  When 
he  went  there  as  prof essor  of  elocution  and  oratory,  he  found 
many  obstacles  in  his  way,  but  by  untiring  efforts  he  has 
established  that  department  on  a  broad  and  permanent  basis. 
He,  together  with  Prof.  Ingraham,  has  organized  the  Mich- 
igan oratorical  league,  composed  of  seven  colleges  of  that 
state. 

Westminster — Rev.  S.  Edward  Young,  '87,  recently  of 
Newark,  N.  J.,  has  removed  to  take  charge  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  At  the  first  com- 
munion thereafter,  February  13,  1808,  five  weeks  after  his 
arrival,  he  received,  without  any  ministerial  help,  one  hun- 
dred and  one  new  members.  The  church  has  been  in  exist- 
ence one  hundred  years,  and  this  is  the  largest  accession  at 
any  one  time  in  its  history. 

Tulane — Wat  Tyler  Cluverius,  *9o,  was  aboard  the  Maine 
when  she  was  blown  up  in  Havana  harbor.  The  New 
Orleans  Picayune  of  March  30  contains  his  portrait  and  a 
three  column  interview.  He  finished  his  work  at  Annapo- 
lis in  1896,  and  in  May  takes  the  final  examinations  required 
after  two  years  service  at  sea.  He  will  then  receive  his 
commission.  On  the  night  of  the  explosion  he  had  gone 
down  to  the  junior  officers'  mess  room,  and  was  about  to  re- 
tire when  the  shock  came.  Rushing  aft,  he  escaped  to  the 
deck  through  a  hatchway.  During  the  investigation  of  the 
wreck  he  represented  Lieutenant  Commander  Wainright  on 
the  divers'  boat,  remaining  in  Havana  over  a  month.  He 
has  been  at  his  home  in  New  Orleans  during  the  past  fort- 


43^  THE  SCROLL. 

night.  His  first  voyage  was  on  the  Columbia,  and  about  a 
year  ago  he  was  assigned  to  the  Maine.  Bro.  Cluverius's 
father  is  still  remembered  as  one  of  the  most  dashing  officers 
of  the  Confederacy. 

De  Pautu — W.  A.  Bastian,  '91,  as  secretary  of  the  com- 
mittee on  organization  of  the  proposed  university  club  at 
Indianapolis,  has  done  a  large  share  of  the  work  of  securing 
subscriptions  for  shares  in  the  corporation.  The  forty  thou- 
sand dollars  required  for  incorporation  are  now  in  sight,  and 
the  club  is  an  assured  fact.  Besides  Bro.  Bastian  the  follow- 
ing Phis  are  members  of  the  committee  on  organization  : 
Hugh  H.  Hanna,  Wabash,  '69;  Addison  C.  Harris,  Indi- 
ayiapolis,  '()2,  and  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miami,  '52 . 

Indiana — Gen.  John  W.  Foster,  '.■)5,  is  to  give  a  series  of 
lectures  this  spring  on  international  law  at  Indiana  Univer- 
sity. As  Gen.  Foster  is  considered  the  leading  international 
lawyer  of  the  country,  the  announcement  of  the  course  has 
aroused  much  interest  in  Indiana.  One  of  the  Chicago  pa- 
pers last  fall  paid  this  dignified  editorial  tribute  to  Bro. 
Foster's  success: 

Although  the  seal  conference  has  apparently  failed  of  accomplishing 
anything,  it  is  gratifying  to  know  that  John  W.  Foster  has  received 
his  usual  rake-off  as  adviser  in  chief  to  all  parties. 

India fia — When  George  Banta,  'TO,  went  to  Wisconsin 
fifteen  years  ago,  the  insurance  company  of  whose  interests 
he  took  charge  had  on  its  books  $42,00()  in  premiums  per 
annum,  a  dozen  other  companies  having  double  that  amount 
of  business  in  the  state  then.  Two  years  ago  his  company 
had  $232,(XK3  of  premiums,  just  $00,000  more  than  any  other 
company.  Bro.  Banta  was  the  first  president  of  the  general 
council  under  the  present  administrative  system,  from  187>< 
to  1880.  He  has  already  signified  his  intention  of  attending 
the  semi-centennial  convention  at  Columbus. 

Wabash — Hugh  H.  Hanna,  '09,  who  has  gained  a  national 
reputation  in  the  past  year  as  chairman  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Indianapolis  monetary  conference,  has 
been  urged  by  his  friends,  including  the  Indiana  congress- 
men, to  become  a  candidate  for  United  States  senator.  He 
refuses  positively,  however,  to  place  himself  in  a  position 
where  he  may  be  charged  with  having  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  sound  money  campaign  to  further  a  political  ambition. 
His  friends  would  have  made  him  the  Republican  candidate 
for  mayor  of  Indianapolis  last  year  but  for  this  same  reason. 


THE  SCROLL,  433 

Wisconsin,  '61 — W.  E.  Spencer,  journal  clerk  of  the  United 
States  senate,  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  morning  of 
March  12.  Bro.  Spencer  was  a  bachelor  and  was  alone  in  his 
rooms  when  he  expired.  He  was  one  of  the  oldest  employes 
of  the  senate,  having  first  entered  the  service  in  1862.  He 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  parliamentarians  in  the 
United  States.  He  was  constantly  consulted  on  parliament- 
ary questions  by  all  recent  occupants  of  the  vice-presidential 
chair,  and  not  infrequently  by  speakers  of  the  house.  He 
was  a  native  of  Wisconsin  and  was  about  fifty- eight  years 
old.  Bro.  Spencer  was  on  his  way  from  Wisconsin  to  Wash- 
ington in  November,  1896,  when  the  western  delegates  start- 
ed to  Phi  Delta  Theta's  last  convention.  Many  of  them  will 
remember  meeting  him  on  the  train  as  it  left  Pittsburgh 
and  will  remember  how  quickly  he  made  known  the  fact 
that  he  was  a  Phi. 

Missouri,  '7^— The  St.  Louis  Republic  oi  March  11,  181)8, 
has  an  interview  with  a  member  of  the  board  of  curators  of 
the  University  of  Missouri,  w^ho  tells  a  story  in  which 
Eugene  Field  cut  quite  a  figure.  It  was  during  the  time 
that  Dr.  Reed  was  at  the  head  of  the  university  and  Eugene 
Field  was  a  student  there.  For  some  reason  the  students 
did  not  like  the  doctor,  and  the  latter,  it  seems,  reciprocated 
their  feelings.  Every  night  the  young  men  would  raise  a 
racket  of  some  kind  on  the  campus  grounds,  and  Dr.  Reed 
would  come  out  of  his  house,  and,  in  military  terms,  order 
them  to  disperse.  He  would  always  walk  from  his  house 
across  to  the  front  of  the  university,  and  survey  the  situation 
from  the  large  portico.  Mr.  Field  concluded  that  it  was 
time  for  the  doctor  to  change  his  line  of  usual  nightly  prom- 
enade. He  conceived  the  idea  of  giving  the  doctor  a  valu- 
able hint  on  this  score,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  others, 
secured  a  quantity  of  gunpow^der  and  made  windrows  of  it 
over  the  portico.  The  weather  was  warm  at  the  time,  and 
some  one  climbed  to  the  tower  and  attached  a  cord  to  the 
bell,  and  about  midnight  it  commenced  clanging  so  loudly 
that  the  doctor,  as  he  awoke,  thought  there  was  a  fire,  and 
hastened  out  dressed  in  nothing  but  his  nightshirt  and  slip- 
pers. Once  outside  he  realized  what  was  the  matter,  and, 
in  threatening  tones,  ordered  all  the  students  to  their  beds 
instantly.  In  place  of  retiring  himself,  force  of  habit  led  him 
to  the  university  and  to  promenade  the  long  portico.  As  he 
got  fairly  within  the  circle  of  gunpowder  it  was  ignited. 
There  was  a  flash,  a  yell,  a  dense  fog  of  smoke  and  a  smell 


434  THE  SCROLL, 

of  burnt  gunpowder,  and  in  a  second  the  doctor  emerged, 
looking  like  a  singed  rat,  and  hastened  home.  And  strange 
to  say  he  never  mentioned  the  incident,  but  he  ceased  vdsit- 
ing  the  old  portico  at  night. 

Wabash — Gen.  John  C.  Black,  '62,  is  to  retain  his  ofiBce 
of  United  States  district  attorney  at  Chicago  until  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term,  in  December,  1898.  It  is  even  pre- 
dicted that  he  will  be  his  own  successor.  The  Washington 
correspondent  of  the  Chicago  Post  said  of  him  some  time 
since : 

As  a  sound-money  Democrat  who  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions, 
General  Black's  attitude  during  the  campaign  of  18%  is  fully  appre- 
ciated by  the  administration.  It  is  not  forgotten  that  he  declinea  to 
accept  the  nomination  for  governor  of  Illinois  from  the  sound-money 
Democrats  because  he  was  averse  to  becoming  a  stalking  horse  for 
Altgeld.  He  knew  that  thousands  of  votes  would  be  cast  for  him  that 
would  otherwise  go  to  the  Republican  nominee,  thus  making  possible 
the  election  of  the  free- silver  candidate.  His  popularity  among  the  old 
soldiers  of  Illinois,  re^rdless  of  their  politics,  is  also  nnderstood  and 
appreciated.  Financially  General  Black  is  not  well  off,  except  in  the 
sense  of  having  many  loyal  friends,  and  the  statement  that  he  is  to  be 
retained  in  the  oflfice  that  he  so  ably  fills  will  be  welcome  news.  Crip- 
pled in  body  by  honorable  wounds  received  in  gallant  service  for  the 
Union  cause,  the  retention  of  this  brave  veteran  is  an  act  of  peculiar 
grace  on  the  part  of  the  administration,  when  it  is  considered  how 
great  the  pressure  has  been  to  appoiut  a  Republican  in  his  stead. 

Vanderbilt,  'gi — The  following  notice  is  taken  from  a  late 
number  of  Men,  the  national  organ  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. : 

Fletcher  S.  Brockman  is  one  of  the  very  few  secretaries  of  the  inter- 
national committee  who  were  bom  in  the  south.  A  native  Vixvinian, 
he  has  the  pleasant  qualities  of  a  typical  southerner.  His  life  as  a 
student  in  Vanderbilt  University  was  marked  by  leadership  in  the 
class-room  and  Christian  work.  He  was  one  of  the  students  at  the 
first  deputation  conference  held  in  the  south.  Mr.  Obcr  and  Mr.  Mott 
thought  they  saw  in  him  a  future  leader  for  tlie  college  work  of  the 
southern  states.  He  went  the  following  summer  -1891 — to  the  stu- 
dents* conference  at  Northfield.  Here  he  made  a  plea  for  work  among 
the  students  of  his  section  of  the  country.  In  an  informal  way,  as  a 
result  of  his  appeal,  enough  money  was  provided  in  a  special  fund  to 
put  a  secretary  in  that  field.  Mr.  Moody,  in  a  dedicatory  prayer,  set 
Mr.  Brockman  aside  for  this  large  service.  Tlie  results  of  the  work 
have  shown  that  he  has,  indeed,  been  the  leader  of  the  southern  col- 
lege men.     *    *    *    * 

The  college  department  of  the  international  committee  loses  one  of 
the  most  efficient  secretaries  ever  connected  with  it,  as  Mr.  Brockman 
begins  some  special  work  as  one  of  the  traveling  secretaries  of  the 
student  volunteer  movement.  That  he  does  not  sever  his  connection 
with  college  life  and  work  for  the  short  time  he  remains  in  this  coun- 
try will  be  a  great  joy  to  the  college  men  of  the  continent  and  of  per- 
manent good  to  the  college  work. 


THE  SCROLL.  435 


ITEMS  OF  INTEREST- 


COLLEGES. 

Washington  and  Lee  University  will  celebrate  her  sesqui- 
centennial  next  year. 

Purdue  has  given  Racine's  Athalie,  and  Franklin  is  pre- 
paring a  Greek  play. 

Vanderbilt  has  800  students  this  year,  more  than  ever  be- 
fore, and  12f)  more  than  last  year.  There  will  be  138  gradu- 
ates. 

In  the  high  schools  of  California  there  are  this  year  580 
pupils  studying  Greek,  whereas  there  were  but  189  three 
years  ago. 

The  number  of  colored  students  in  American  colleges  is 
constantly  increasing.  Some  are  said  to  be  planning  to  or- 
ganize a  national  fraternity. 

Out  of  1,790  students  in  Cornell  at  the  close  of  the  first 
term,  50  were  dropped  for  'insufl&cient  scholarship.'  But  10 
of  these  came  from  the  tJlO  enrolled  in  the  department  of 
arts. 

Hon.  C.  W.  Kingsley,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  has  recently 
given  $25,000  to  Colby  University.  This,  added  to  the  $H0,- 
000  before  raised,  brings  much  encouragement  to  the  friends 
of  the  institution. 

The  Teachers'  College  of  New  York  city  has  become  a 
department  of  Columbia  University.  The  college  was 
founded  in  1887,  and  its  buildings  represent  gifts  amount- 
ing to  $1,000,000. 

Oberlin  is  seriously  crippled  financially,  and  the  charge 
for  tuition  has  been  increased  ;  the  college  has  been  with- 
out a  president  for  some  time,  and  the  daily  press  has 
several  times  declared  that  its  doors  will  soon  be  closed. 

The  University  of  West  Virginia  is  to  be  surrounded  by  a 
system  of  church  halls.  Episcopal  Hall  was  established  by 
Bishop  Peterkin  some  time  ago,  as  was  also  Baptist  Hall  by 
prominent  workers  of  that  denomination.  The  Methodists 
and  Presbyterians  are  actively  working  toward  the  same  end. 


43^  THE  SCROLL, 

In  the  senior  election  of  class-day  officers  at  Harvard  this 
year  the  Australian  ballot  system  proved  its  efficiency  by 
polling  31)7  out  of  a  possible  429  votes,  over  100  more  than 
in  any  previous  vote  for  class- day  officers. 

The  total  enrollment  at  Ohio  University  in  1896  was  3r»2. 
In  1S97  it  was  437,  divided  as  follows:  graduates,  19;  grad- 
uate students,  8;  Seniors,  12;  juniors,  21;  Sophomores,  36; 
freshmen,  ol;  irregular,  17;  preparatory,  265. 

The  southern  inter  collegiate  athletic  association  will 
hold  its  first  spring  track  meet  at  Atlanta,  May  20-21 .  All 
the  large  southern  colleges  will  be  represented,  and  it  is 
looked  upon  as  a  bright  feature  for  future  college  athletics 
in  the  south. 

Berkeley  physicans  have  been  criticising  Prof.  W.  K. 
McGee,  physical  director  at  the  University  of  California, 
because  he  binds  up  the  wounds  of  his  students  who  are  in- 
jured in  the  gymnasium  or  on  the  field,  instead  of  calling  in 
*  regular  practicioners. ' 

Brown  ITniversity  has  860  students  this  year;  graduates, 
101;  seniors,  112;  juniors,  149;  sophomores,  138;  freshmen, 
168;  irregulars,  43;  women,  149.  Of  these,  449  are  from 
Rhode  Island,  and  277  from  other  New  England  states.  But 
19  come  from  the  west  and  13  from  the  south. 

Of  193  fraternity  men  at  California  107  live  in  the  chap- 
ter houses.  The  cost  of  living  in  the  houses  varies  from 
$22.50  to  $32  per  month.  Of  the  1,565  students  at  Berkeley 
76  live  in  boarding  clubs  and  444  in  boarding  houses;  100 
keep  house,  and  the  rest  live  at  home  or  in  the  chapter  houses. 

President  Harper,  of  Chicago,  is  said  to  have  asked  John 
D.  Rockefeller  for  $5,000,000  in  addition  to  the  $6,000,000 
he  has  already  given,  this  sum  being  necessary  to  complete 
an  endowment  that  will  yield  $750, OCX)  income  annually, 
which  Chicago  requires.  At  present  expenses  exceed  re- 
ceipts by  $200,000  each  year. 

liver  since  Stanford  first  opened,  its  students  have  come 
largely  from  eastern  states.  The  students  from  the  east 
were  once  asked  to  give  the  reasons  that  led  them  to 
come  to  Palo  Alto.  The  main  attractions  proved  to  be  the 
elective  system,  the  Stanford  faculty  and  California.  One 
man  had  heard  the  university  called  a  *  godless  institution,' 
and  had  come  as  a  missionar>'. 


THE  SCROLL.  437 

This  fall  Yale  plays  Princeton  at  foot  ball  in  Princeton  on 
November  12  and  Harvard  at  New  Haven  on  November  19. 
It  will  be  the  first  time  that  the  Yale  eleven  has  played  at 
Princeton.  These  arrangements  are  in  accord  with  faculty  ■ 
rules  against  playing  games  on  other  than  college  grounds, 
as  was  done  each  year  at  Springfield  and  New  York. 

William  J.  Bryan  has  given  to  the  University  of  Alabama 
a  fund  of  $250,  the  interest  on  which  shall  be  expended  for 
the  purchase  of  gold  and  silver  medals  to  be  awarded  an- 
nually as  prizes  to  the  students  writing  the  best  essay  on 
*The  Science  of  Government.'  He  has  ofiFered  to  give  a 
like  sum  for  the  same  purpose  to  Ohio  State  University. 

The  students  of  the  medical  department  of  the  Western 
University  of  Pennsylvania  raised  pandemonium  at  the  com- 
mencement exercises  of  the  dental  department  of  that  insti- 
tution till  they  were  expelled  by  the  police.  President  Ray- 
mond, of  the  University  of  West  Virginia,  was  interrupted 
and  insulted  until  he  had  to  cease  reading  his  address  to 
the  graduates. 

California  commenced  training  for  the  track  team  with 
sixty-five  candidates.  The  captain  of  the  eleven,  however, 
complained  that  but  ten  men  turned  out  the  first  afternoon 
the  new  coach  was  on  the  field.  The  defeat  by  Stanford, 
28-0,  last  Thanksgiving  has  something  to  do  with  this  loss 
of  interest,  doubtless.  California,  however,  continues  to 
win  all  the  debating  laurels,  has  recently  been  victor  in  the 
inter- collegiate  chess  match  and  has  just  won  the  first  base 
ball  game  of  the  series. 

The  young  women  at  the  University  of  Nebraska  have  given 
a  minstrel  show  for  the  benefit  of  the  base  ball  team,  and 
are  now  planning  a  girls*  field  day  for  the  benefit  of  the 
cinder  track.  A  local  minister,  on  the  Sunday  following 
the  minstrel  show,  preached  a  sermon  against  state  univer- 
ties,  using  as  his  arguments  the  boat  race,  the  college  yell 
and  foot  ball,  his  climax  being  the  performance  by  the  girls 
already  referred  to.  Nebraska  girls  are  not  new  comers  at 
athletics,  for  they  sent  out  some  time  since  a  champion  at 
tennis.  The  university  is  not  entirely  given  up  to  athletics, 
however,  and  is  arranging  for  three  intercollegiate  debates, 
with  Kansas,  Colorado  and  Missouri.  The  board  of  regents 
has  just  established  a  school  of  domestic  science,  or  cooking 
school.  The  total  attendance  at  the  university  this  year  is 
1,901,  200  being  in  the  affiliated  schools. 


438  THE  SCROLL. 

At  the  University  of  Oxford  the  progress  of  Dr.  Murray's 
dictionary  has  been  lately  celebrated  in  true  academic  fash- 
ion— that  is,  by  a  dinner,  which  is  said  to  have  been  most 
successful.  There  is  reason  to  hope  that  unless  the  English 
language  should  multiply  words  abnormally,  the  work  may 
be  finished  in  1910.  For  an  Oxford  fnagnum  opus,  this 
seems  almost  indecently  precipitate. 

The  bills  appropriating  to  the  Miami.  Ohio,  Wilberforce 
and  Ohio  State  Universities  the  money  coming  into  the  state 
treasury  for  these  institutions,  under  the  special  levies  for 
each  of  them,  have  been  passed  by  the  Ohio  legislature. 
They  are  drawn  so  as  to  apply  to  both  this  year  and  next 
year.  Ohio  University  gets  $.*)3,0(X)  each  year,  Miami  gets 
$24,000  each  year,  Wilberforce  gets  $11),0(K)  each  year,  and 
the  State  University  gets  $180,000  this  year  and  $185,0(K) 
next  year. 

The  New  York  I  ^oice  continues  its  investigation  of  student 
life  in  the  large  universities.  Chicago  is  given  a  clean  bill 
of  moral  health,  but  Cornell  is  accused  of  about  all  the  crimes 
in  the  calendar.  California  is  said  to  be  prospering  under 
prohibition  influences,  save  as  she  is  'debaucht'  by  the  *sad- 
dling'  of  the  state  wine-growers'  commission  upon  the  uni- 
versity. Yale  and  Princeton  still  receive  much  attention, 
and  scores  of  letters  are  printed  from  parents  who  declare 
they  will  not  or  would  not  send  their  boys  to  such  schools. 
The  \  'oice  professes  to  feel  no  concern  on  the  score  of  libel 
suits  threatened  by  certain  hotel  keepers  at  Cornell. 

Johns  Hopkins  University  received  from  Johns  Hopkins 
by  will  the  Clifton  estate,  S-iO  acres;  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
common  stock,  14,(^)6  shares;  Baltimore  and  Ohio  preferred 
stock,  125  shares;  other  stocks,  bonds,  etc.,  valued  at  $7^0,- 
947.  The  dividends  from  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  common 
stock  were  at  first  10  per  cent.,  and  the  university  laid  by 
out  of  income  more  than  a  million  dollars.  In  1877  the 
dividends  were  first  reduced,  then  became  irregular,  then 
finally  stopped.  In  181)0  the  chief  part  of  the  common 
stock  was  converted  into  preferred  stock  in  the  same  road, 
selling  at  100  and  buying  at  12o.  The  amount  of  this  pre- 
ferred stock  now  held  is  $1  ,(K)0,000,  from  which  no  dividend 
has  been  received  since  January,  189(>.  The  university  is 
now  seeking  an  annual  appropriation  from  the  state  of  Mary- 
land of  $100,000. 


THE  SCROLL,  439 

Joseph  F.  Loubat  has  given  $1,100,000  to  Columbia  Uni- 
versity as  a  permanent  endowment  for  the  library.  The  gift 
is  chargeable  with  an  annuity  of  $60,000  per  annum  during 
the  remainder  of  Mr.  Loubat's  life.  The  following  is  a  list 
of  important  gifts  which  have  come  to  the  university  since 
the  accession  of  President  Seth  Low  in  1890:  Joseph  F. 
Loubat,  $1,100,000;  President  Seth  Low,  $1,100,000;  Van- 
derbilt  and  Sloan  families,  $750,000;  Havemeyer  family, 
$450,000;  W.  C.  Schermerhorn,  $350,000;  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  $200,000;  Fayerweather  estate,  $190,000;  W.  C. 
Schermerhorn,  $1()0,(X)0;  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  $100,000; 
D.  Willis  James,  $100,(KX);  Robert  Center  fund,  $10(),(KK); 
Joseph  Pulitzer  fund,  $100,(XX);  Hamilton  Fish  estate.  $50,- 
000;  total,  $4,690,000.  Columbia's  net  property,  as  shown 
by  the  last  report  of  the  state  commissioner  of  education,  is 
valued  at  $27,905,277. 

The  eight  largest  universities  of  the  world  are  in  Europe 
in  the  following  order:  Paris,  Berlin,  Vienna,  Madrid,  Na- 
ples, Moscow,  Budapest  and  Munich.  Harvard,  in  America, 
takes  the  ninth  place.  The  following  table  shows  the  rela- 
tive position  of  ten  leading  American  universities  during  the 
last  five  years: 

1892-'93             1893-'94.         1894-'9r).         lS9r)-'96.  1896-»J)7. 

1.  Harvard  Harvard  Harvard  Harvard  Harvard 

2.  Michigan  Michigan  Michigan  Michigan  Northwest'rn 

3.  Yale  Yale  PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaMichigan 

4.  PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaYale  Minnesota  Pennsylvania 

5.  Cornell  Columbia  Minnesota  Yale  Minnesota 
0.  Columbia  Cornell  Columbia  California  Yale 

7.  New  York  Wisconsin  California  Columbia  California 

8.  Minnesota  Minnesota  Cornell  Chicago  Chicago 

9.  Wisconsin  California  Chicago  Cornell  Columbia 
10.  California  Boston  Wisconsin  Wisconsin  Cornell. 

It  will  be  noticed  that,  though  Harvard  and  Pennsylvania 
hold  their  positions,  first  and  fourth  respectively,  other  east- 
ern institutions  take  lower  rank  in  the  scale,  Yale  having 
dropped  from  third  to  sixth  place,  Columbia  from  sixth  to 
ninth,  and  Cornell  from  fifth  to  tenth,  while  New  York  and 
Boston  no  longer  appear  among  the  first  ten.  Among  west- 
em  institutions,  the  sudden  jump  of  Northwestern,  which 
was  not  among  the  first  ten  before  1 896-*  97,  to  second  place 
in  that  year,  is  rather  surprising.  This  puts  Michigan  in 
third  place.  Wisconsin,  ninth  in  1 892-* 98,  spurted  to  sev- 
enth place  in  1893-*94,  fell  back  to  tenth  place  in  lS94-'95 
and  '96,  and  disappeared  below  the  line  in  189()-'97.  Min- 
nesota, eighth  at  first,    finished   fifth,    having  once  been 


440  THE  SCROLL. 

fourth.  California,  tenth  at  first,  finished  seventh,  having 
once  been  sixth.  Chicago  did  not  get  in  the  list  until  18^^- 
'95,  when  it  was  ninth,  the  next  two  years  being  eighth. 
Though  the  relative  positions  of  these  institutions,  accord- 
ing to  attendance,  have  changed,  none  of  them  probably 
have  fewer  students  than  in  18i)2-'03;  on  the  contrary,  most 
of  them  undoubtedly  have  a  considerably  larger  attendance 
now  than  then. 

At  the  last  annual  banquet  of  Cornell  freshmen  the  date 
and  place  of  the  event  were  publicly  announced.  It  had 
been  the  custom  to  affect  the  most  pronounced  secrecy  as  to 
both.  Upon  the  advice  of  President  Schurman  the  committee 
decided  to  hold  the  banquet  openly  and  to  make  every  effort 
to  insure  that  it  should  be  a  credit  to  the  university.  For 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of  Cornell  members  of  the  faculty 
sat  with  the  freshmen  at  their  feast,  and  afterward  took  part 
in  the  speeches.  The  plan  resulted  in  the  suspension  of 
certain  convivialities  and  hostilities  which  have  characterized 
such  events  in  the  past.  Speakers  of  well-known  ability 
delivered  addresses,  and  a  hypnotist  provided  amusement. 
The  students  agreed  that  the  new  plan  was  a  pleasant  sub- 
stitute for  the  objectionable  features  of  former  times. 

In  March  Dr.  A.  S.  Draper,  president  since  18*M  of  the 
University  of  Illinois,  was  tendered  the  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  public  schools  of  Greater  New  York,  but, 
fortunately  for  Illinois,  he,  without  hesitation,  decided  to 
decline  this  very  high  honor  and  to  remain  with  the  great 
university  at  Champaign,  whose  phenomenal  growth  has 
been  due,  in  large  measure,  to  his  forceful  individuality. 
The  trustees  paid  a  deserved  tribute  to  his  ability  and  worth 
in  adopting  resolutions,  in  which  they  say: 

We  fully  approve  and  appreciate  the  decision  of  the  president  of  the 
university  to  remain  with  us  and  lead  to  still  higher  ground  and  a 
more  triumphant  future  the  grand  advance  which  has  already  been 
made  under  his  wise  and  efficient  leadership. 

Through  a  typographical  error  the  February  Scroll 
made  the  astounding  statement  that  the  school  of  *  literary 
instruction '  at  the  University  of  Illinois  was  the  only  one 
in  the  west.  This  should  have  read  school  of  ^library  in- 
struction.' The  law  department,  opened  last  fall,  has  done 
wonderfully  well  for  its  first  year. 


THE  SCROLL.  44  ^ 

FRATERNITIES* 

A  T  11  is  reported  to  be  dead  at  Stanford. 

Rumor  tells  us  ^  r  A  may  soon  enter  Nebraska. 

B  0  II  now  has  a  rival  at  Bethany — FT  0  (local). 

A  K  E  may  be  expected  to  enter  Tulane  before  long. 

The  editor  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  is  in  favor  of  instituting 
an  *  alumni  day  '  in  that  fraternity. 

*  K  :S  has  withdrawn  from  Toronto,  which  was  said  to  be 
too  remote  from  her  other  chapters. 

2  A  E  has  had  an  application  from  Kenyon,  according  to 
a  correspondent  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi, 

*  K  ^  is  to  build  soon  at  Stanford.  The  fraternity  now 
owns  9  houses  and  rents  11 — an  excellent  showing. 

ATA  and  B  0  n  have  taken  houses  at  Adelbert  this  year. 
The  other  fraternities  there  are  A  A  <l>,  A  Y  and  A  K  E. 

T  A  O  is  a  local  organization  of  recent  origin  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Nebraska.     It  is  said  to  have  designs  on  A  Y. 

At  Northwestern,  5  X  owns  a  house  and  B  0  n  rents  one. 
Four  chapters  rent  parts  of  houses,  and  three  are  houseless. 

X  4^  held  her  'fifty-seventh'  annual  convention  at  Phila- 
delphia, April  11-13.  The  next  one  goes  to  Washington, 
D.  C. 

The  ATA  chapters  at  Washington  and  Jefferson  and 
Pennsylvania  are  working  hard  for  houses.  ATA  has  a 
house  at  Georgia. 

ATA  has  chosen  an  official  stationer,  who  advertises  in 
The  Rainbow,  and  is  to  turn  over  to  the  fraternity  a  per 
cent,  of  all  receipts  above  a  certain  sum. 

*  K  4^  and  X  4^  own  houses  at  Minnesota.  ATA  has  just 
moved  from  a  flat  into  a  house.  0  A  X  has  'announced  her 
intention'  of  building  next  year,  and  A  Y  may  try  it. 

The  Beta  Theta  Pi's  correspondent  from  Miami  says  that 
the  distribution  of  offices  there  'is  worked  by  a  combine  com- 
posed principally  of  the  A  K  E  and  S  X  chapters,  with  the 
*  A  ©  dancing  attendance,  after  the  manner  of  El  Capitan's 
chamberlain.' 


442  THE  SCROLL. 

<l>  A  <l>  is  considering  a  petition  from  the  Dwight  law  club 
of  the  New  York  L,aw  School.  Ten  of  the  thirteen  applicants 
are  Greeks,  and  they  are  backed  by  several  neighboring  ^  A  * 
chapters. 

<l>  B  K  will  not  charter  an  institution  that  does  not  confer 
the  degree  of  A.  B. ,  but  has  recently  declared  that  it  is  in- 
expedient to  confine  the  members  in  every  chapter  to  A.  B. 
graduates. 

AAA  has  just  established  her  sixteenth  chapter  at  Wis- 
consin. The  fraternity  was  founded  ten  years  ago,  and  but 
eight  of  its  members  are  dead.  The  next  convention  meets 
in  Cincinnati  in  1900. 

Wm.  Raimond  Baird*s  'American  College  Fraternities' 
will  probably  appear  before  commencement.  He  has  made 
rapid  progress  on  it  of  late,  and  the  manuscript  is  now  in 
the  printer's  hands. 

For  over  a  year  the  fraternity  correspondents  and  news 
columns  have  been  declaring  that  0  A  X  is  dead  at  Kenyon. 
The  Shield  cheerfully  continues  to  include  the  Kenyon 
charge  in  its  directory  all  the  while,  however. 

The  only  chapter  house  owned  at  Brown  belongs  to  ^  Y, 
and  it  is  small  and  has  no  living  rooms.  The  fact  that  the 
university  is  surrounded  by  expensive  and  mostly  occupied 
property  is  given  as  the  reason  for  the  scarcity  of  houses. 

ATA  now  has  two  petitions  which  seem  to  meet  with 
favor.  She  expects  two  more  soon  from  two  of  the 
*  renowned  '  institutions  of  the  country.  With  these  granted 
the  editor  of  the  Rainbow  says  that  but  one  institution  would 
remain  where  the  fraternity  would  seek  to  enter. 

Alpha  chapter  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta  at  Washington  and 
Jefferson  has  just  moved  into  a  rented  chapter  house.  The 
active  members  are  looking  forward  to  the  semi-centennial 
of  the  founding  of  the  fraternity,  which  is  to  be  celebrated 
when  the  national  convention  meets  at  Washington  this  fall. 

The  Bucknell  faculty  has  passed  laws  forbidding  the  in- 
itiation or  pledging  of  any  student  by  a  fraternity  until  after 
the  student  has  been  in  college  classes  one  year,  and  placing 
class  secret  societies  under  a  ban.  Chapters  violating  the 
law  will  be  forced  to  become  inactive,  and  the  initiate  must 
leave  college.  This  applies  to  sororities  and  to  local  socie- 
ties, as  well. 


THE  SCROLL.  443 

At  a  meeting  of  the  inter-state  oratorical  association  in 
May,  to  be  held  at  Beloit,  the  orators  from  Illinois  and 
Ohio  will  be  members  of  B  0  11 ;  from  Iowa,  Nebraska  and 
Missouri,  non-fraternity  men  ;  the  Indiana  orator  being  a 
A  K  E.  The  president  of  the  association  is  a  <l>  A  0,  as  are 
the  chairmen  of  the  delegations  from  Iowa  and  Indiana. 

Out  at  the  University  of  Kansas  there  is  a  rumor  at  large 
to  the  effect  that  our  friends  of  A  T  A  will  have  a  chapter 
installed  by  the  beginning  of  the  fall  term.  There  are  three 
Delta  Taus  now  in  the  university.  This  would  be  quite 
in  line  with  the  Raiyibow's  remarks  on  westward  extension. 
Chicago  also  reports  a  local  organization  supposed  to  be  in 
interest  of  A  T  A. 

General  Stewart  ly.  Woodford,  minister  to  Spain,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  A  4^  and  of  A  K  E.  Senator  Proctor,  of  Vermont,  who 
was  President  McKinley's  special  envoy  to  Cuba,  is  claimed 
by  A  Y.  Speaker  Reed  is  a  X  4^.  Chairman  Hitt.  of  the 
House  committee  on  foreign  relations,  is  a  B  0 II.  Congress- 
man J.  R.  Mann,  of  Chicago,  one  of  the  leading  'insurgent' 
Republicans,  is  a  A  T  A. 

For  twelve  or  fifteen  years  the  Kappa  Alpha  Joicrnal  has 
been  published  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  the  last  issue  being 
dated  November,  1897.  Since  then  the  fraternity  has  held 
a  special  convention  at  Washington,  D.  C,  where  a  new 
editor  was  elected,  Mr.  S.  M.  Wilson,  Centre,  '92.  Here- 
after the  Journal  W\\\  be  published  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  the 
next  number  appearing  in  May. 

The  correspondent  of  the  Rainbow  from  Ohio  University 
writes: 

The  fraternities  represented  by  local  chapters  are  all  on  good  foot- 
ing at  Ohio,  although  fraternity  timber  has  not  been  as  good  as  it 
might  have  been  the  present  year.  The  Phi  Delta  Theta  number  six- 
teen men  and  four  pledged;  Beta  Theta  Pi,  eight  men  and  two  pledged; 
Delta  Tau  Delta,  eight  men  and  five  pledged.  In  athletics,  literary 
[society  work],  and  scholarship  Beta  chapter  holds  her  own.  In  soci- 
ety, Beta  Theta  Pi  have  the  advantage.  The  Phi  Delta  Theta  are 
pushing  us  all. 

Kappa  Alpha  has  taken  possession  of  its  chapter  house, 
which  has  been  moved  from  the  Tennessee  Centennial 
grounds,  where  it  was  used  by  some  of  the  exposition  offi- 
cers, to  a  corner  lot  one  square  from  Vanderbilt  University. 
It  contains  four  rooms,  and  like  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  house, 
will  be  used  for  meetings  and  entertainments.  The  Dekes 
at  Vanderbilt  rent  a  two-story  brick  house,  in  which  they 
live. 


444  THE  SCROLL, 

The  Rainboiv  says  that  'two  eastern  institutions,  in  which 
good  fraternities  have  had  chapters  for  years  past,  have 
been  refused  charters  within  the  year.  It  now  seems  that 
the  old-line  fraternities  move  westward  far  more  eagerly 
than  the  new-line  fraternities  plant  their  standards  in  the 
east.'  This  is  'i  propos  of  the  new  ATA  chapter  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  California.  ATA  has  lost  12  chapters  since  1890 
and  gained  12. 

2  A  E  had  three  applications  for  charter  at  her  recent  Beta 
province  convention,  held  with  the  Bucknell  chapter.  They 
were  from  Cornell,  Gettysburg  and  FrankUn  and  Marshall. 
Chapters  of  the  fraternity  existed  formerly  at  Cornell  and 
at  Gettysburg.  2  A  E  has  the  only  chapter  house  at  Buck- 
nell. The  other  fraternities  there  are  2  X,  *  K  4^,  ^  r  A, 
and  K  2.  Five  men  from  each  of  the  rival  chapters  were 
invited  to  the  convention  ball. 

We  are  glad  to  learn  that  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  house  at 
California  has  not  been  lost  to  that  fraternity,  as  was  re- 
ported in  the  February  Scroli^.  Like  the  item  in  regard  to 
Phi  Kappa  Psi's  house  at  Wittenberg,  quoted  so  freely  by 
the  Greek  press  from  a  correspondent  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi^ 
this  report  dissolved  into  mere  town  gossip  when  examined 
closely.  In  justice  to  our  California  chapter,  however,  we 
wish  to  state  that  they  did  not  furnish  the  original  item. 

Several  fraternities  are  unable  to  determine  from  their 
records  the  exact  dates  when  they  were  founded.  The 
'Recollections  of  1839,'  by  John  Reily  Knox,  published  in 
the  Beta  Theta  Pi  for  April,  shows  that  the  idea  of  establish- 
ing B  0  n  first  occurred  to  him  in  January,  1839.  Meetings 
were  held  during  the  spring  and  summer  up  to  commencement 
in  August.  Some  years  ago  the  fraternity  decided  to  take  July 
4,  1839,  as  being  as  near  the  date  when  the  organization  was 
perfected  as  could  be  ascertained.  The  paragraph  published 
in  the  0  A  X  Shield  for  December,  1896  (republished  in  The 
Scroll  for  April,  1897),  shows  that  0  A  X  is  uncertain 
whether  it  was  founded  in  1847  or  1848.  The  ^  K  4^  Shield 
for  January  shows  that  4>  K  ^I'  is  uncertain  whether  it  was 
founded  on  February  8,  February  19,  or  February  20, 1852. 
Referring  to  this,  the  ATA  Rainbow  for  March  says:  '*  K  ^ 
is  not  sure  about  the  date  of  her  birth.  ATA  gives  her 
companionship  in  that  doubt.'  It  seems  that  ATA  has 
adopted  the  date  of  January  1,  1860,  though  it  is  uncertain 
whether  the  fraternity  was  established  late  in  1859  or  early 
in  1860. 


THE  SCROLL.  445 

^  K  ^  held  her  'twentieth'  biennial  convention  at  Phila- 
delphia, April  lH-15.  Though  the  fraternity  claims  500 
alumni  in  the  city,  this  was  the  first  national  convention 
held  there.  All  the  39  chapters  were  represented  save  Mis- 
sissippi and  Kansas.  Six  alumni  chapters  had  delegates. 
An  effort  was  made  to  modify  the  *  unit  rule/  which  requires 
the  consent  of  every  chapter  to  grant  a  new  charter,  but 
this  failed.  A  rule  was  passed  forbidding  members  to  loan 
their  pins  to  non-members.  An  attendance  of  2(50  at  the 
banquet  is  reported.  No  other  items  of  general  interest  were 
given  to  the  press. 

The  March  Rainbow  continues  to  take  A  T  H  to  task  for 
defending  the  initiation  of  honorary  members,  and  tells  of  a 
distinguished  man  initiated  by  that  society,  who  had  forgot- 
ten the  name  of  the  fraternity  that  had  initiated  him.  The 
editor  very  justly  says  : 

The  custom  of  honorary  initiations,  which  has  been  more  or  less 
observed  by  many  of  our  fraternities,  has  been  largely  outgrown.  As 
the  ideal  of  the  collejsfe  fraternities  has  emerged  into  clearer  light  the 
Greek  world  has  very  generally  obeyed  its  call.  It  will  be  heeded 
more  and  more.  Tlie  journals  of  the  fraternities  and  the  sentiments 
of  fraternity  men  are  now  almost  unanimous  on  this  question. 

The  same  thing  may  be  said  of  the  initiation  of  prepara- 
tory students  and  of  lifting.  The  A  K  E  Quarterly  for  Feb- 
ruary touches  upon  this  same  subject  of  honorary  initiations: 

To  take  men  in  after  they  have  gone  out  of  college  is  only  one  step 
from  taking  men  who  were  never  in  college.  It  is  not  only  a  ridicu- 
lous, absurd  practice — and  it  has  actually  become  a  practice  with 
some  societies — but  a  dangerous  one. 

Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Phi  Delta  Theta  were  incorporated  in 

Ohio,  the  state  of  their  birth,  the  former  about  1879  and  the 

latter  in  1881.     The  other  Miami  fraternity,  Sigma  Chi,  is 

being  incorporated  in  Illinois,  headquarters  being  at  Chicago. 

The  Sigma  Chi  Quarterly  for  February  says  : 

While  the  constitution  adopted  by  the  last  grand  chapter  covers  ad- 
mirably the  present  needs  of  the  fraternity  in  a  general  way,  experience 
has  nevertheless  already  revealed  a  number  of  points  which  call  for 
amendment  and  revision  at  once.  When  the  grand  triumvirs  took 
up  the  question  of  incorporation,  after  investigating  the  matter  care- 
fully, it  became  apparent  that  the  fraternity  as  such  could  not  be  in- 
corporated to  advantage  under  the  laws  of  any  state,  and  in  order  to 
carry  out  the  intent  of  the  legislation  enacted  at  Nashville,  a  change 
was  accordingly  recommended  by  the  triumvirs  looking  toward  the 
incorporation  of  the  grand  council,  instead  of  the  fraternity,  in  order 
to  thoroughly  overcome  every  possible  objection  to  incorporation  under 
the  statutes  of  Illinois The  grand  council  consists  of  ex- 
actly fourteen  members,  each  having  the  right  to  vote  on  all  questions. 
.  .  .  .  Under  the  new  plan,  *the  grand  council  shall  be  a  body 
corporate,  under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  Illinois,  known  as  the  grand 


44^  THE  SCROLL, 

council  of  the  Sigma  Chi  fraternity.  As  such  body  corporate  it  shall 
adopt  and  enforce  by-laws  in  accordance  with  the  constitution,  stat- 
utes and  ritual  of  the  fraternity  and  the  statutes  of  Illinois.'  Another 
section  provides  that  the  grand  council  shall  be  a  trustee  to  collect, 
hold  ana  disburse  all  moneys  coming  to  the  endowment  fund.  It  is 
further  provided  that  the  grand  triumvirs  shall  constitute  a  board  of 
directors,  with  the  grand  quaestor  acting  as  treasurer. 

It  is  explained  that  the  *  alumni  endowment  fund'  is  'for 
the  purpose  of  building  chapter  houses  and  carrying  on  other 
schemes  of  general  importance. ' 

2  N  chartered  two  new  chapters  recently;  one  on  January 
21,  at  Northwestern  University,  and  one  on  March  5,  at  the 
University  of  Vermont.  The  Vermont  chapter  was  initiated 
at  New  York  by  the  alumni  there.  This  gives  Vermont 
five  chapters,  besides  two  local  and  three  medical  societies 
and  two  sororities.  It  is  worthy  of  note  that  three  of  the 
five  chapters  are  of  fraternities  of  southern  origin.  The 
new  chapter  is  the  former  local  society  of  A  4>,  mentioned  in 
the  review  of  annuals  in  the  December  Scroll.  It  starts 
off  with  twenty-one  members,  and  our  correspondent  at 
Vermont  says  that  it  bids  fair  to  enjoy  a  successful  career. 
Sigma  Nu  has  but  two  other  chapters  in  the  east,  those  at 
Lehigh  and  at  Pennsylvania.  At  Northwestern,  Sigma  Nu 
is  the  ninth  fraternity  chronologically.  The  date  given  in 
the  Delta  for  the  founding  of  the  chapter  is  that  of  the  local 
society,  r  2  A,  which  was  initiated.  In  this  same  list  the 
editor  of  the  Delta  gives  the  date  of  ^  A  ©'s  establishment 
as  1886,  instead  of  1850,  as  it  should  be.  Fifteen  men  com- 
pose the  new  chapter,  one  of  them  being  Siberts,  North- 
western's  famous  end  rusher.   They  have  a  house  at  the  start. 

The  editor  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  says  in  the  April  issue  : 

The  question  of  chapter  houses  seems  to  us  to  be  the  most  important 
practical  question  before  the  fraternity.  We  own  10  houses  and  rent 
21.  The  total  of  31  seems  to  exceed  that  of  any  other  fraternity.  But 
conditions  are  changing.  The  following  is  apparently  the  number 
of  houses  owned  by  the  stronger  fraternities:  4^  T,  13;  ARE,  10; 
A  A  *,  10;  A  T,  10;  *  K  >!',  9;  X  4^,  8;  2  X,  7;  A  4'  and  <f»  A  9,  6;  X  *, 
K  A  (s)  and  2  4>,  5,  and  the  remainder  less;  and  the  following  to  the 
number  rented:  *  A  0,  18;  A  T  fi,  17;  2  A  E,  10;  *  T  A  and  ATA, 
12;  2  Nand*K  4^,  11;  AT  and  ARE,  10;  0  AXandK2,  9;  K  A  (s), 
8;  X  4^  and  A  *,  5,  and  the  remainder  less.  ...  It  is  fair  to  infer  that 
it  will  not  be  long  before  the  chapters  who  are  renting  to-day  will  be- 
come freeholders.  If  we  would  not  be  left  in  this  race  it  behooves  us 
to  bestir  ourselves. 

Manv  of  our  chapters  who  do  not  rent  houses  say  that  it  is  impossi- 
ble or  inexpedient  for  them  so  to  do.  Otlier  fraternities  own  or  rent 
houses  at  Dartmouth^  Harvard,  Brozvtt^  Yale,  Union,  Columbia,  Wit- 


THE  SCROLL.  447 

tenberg,  Hanover,  Indiana ^  North  CaroUna^  Vanderbilt  and  Texas. 
[Italics  ours,  for  the  benefit  of  Phi  chapters.] 

Also  the  chapters  at  Knox^  loiva^  Wabash  y  Iowa-  Wcsleyan^  West- 
viinster^  Dickinson^  Hanipden-Sidney,  Davidson,  Cumberland  and 
Centre  would  all  seem  to  be  located  at  places  where  house-holding 
could  be  successfully  practiced 

Gentlemen  and  brothers,  get  under  cover  quickly.  The  chapter 
house  has  come  to  stay.  Its  value  has  been  demonstrated.  The  best 
is  good  enough  for  us.     Get  the  best! 

K  :S  has  already  established  four  new  chapters  during  the 
present  college  year.  Last  year  she  established  four,  but 
the  editor  of  the  Caduceus  closed  the  season  with  an  editorial 
in  favor  of  conservatism  in  extension,  which  he  will  proba- 
bly need  to  explain  even  more  fully  in  the  May  Caduceus 
than  he  did  in  the  last  number. 

After  the  Beta- Alpha  chapter  at  Brown,  whose  installa- 
tion was  noted  in  the  February  Scroli^,  came  the  establish- 
ment of  the  Beta -Beta  chapter  at  Richmond  College;  and 
while  The  Scroll  was  being  printed  the  two  latest  comers 
were  announced  from  Washington  and  Jefferson  College 
and  the  University  of  Missouri,  respectively.  A  *scoop'  in 
fraternity  news  is  a  subject  of  pardonable  pride  to  the  editor, 
but  he  must,  in  this  case,  as  in  many  others,  give  the  whole 
credit  to  his  wide-awake  correspondents,  Bros.  D.  Glenn 
Moore  and  Royall  H.  Switzler. 

The  Beta-Delta  chapter  at  W.  and  J.  was  established  on 
Friday  evening,  April  15.  Eight  men  were  initiated  by  a 
K  2  student,  who  came  there  from  Wabash  College.  He 
was  not  assisted  by  any  of  the  general  officers  or  visiting 
delegates.  The  initiation  took  place  in  a  suite  of  rooms  the 
chapter  has  rented.  The  new  chapter  has  four  juniors,  three 
freshmen  and  two  preparatory  students.  These  are  said  to 
be  good  men,  especially  the  juniors,  though  they  have 
always  been  considered  radical  anti-fraternity  men.  They 
stand  well  in  their  classes  and  are  particularly  active  in 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  being  what  W.  and  J.  students  call 
*  Y.  M.  C.  A.  men.  *  The  chapters  at  W.  and  J. ,  as  a  rule,  were 
not  in  favor  of  any  addition  to  their  numbers,  thinking  the 
school  to  be  already  well  supplied.  Efforts  have  been  made 
in  past  years  to  establish  chapters  of  2  A  E  and  5  X,  but 
both  failed.  There  were  last  year  six  chapters  at  W.  and 
J.,  enrolling  68  men  out  of  228  in  the  four  college  classes. 
K  2  now  has  five  chapters  in  Pennsylvania:  Swarthmore, 
Pennsylvania  State,  Pennsylvania,  Bucknell  (established 
last  year)  and  Washington  and  Jefferson. 

The  Beta-Gamma  chapter  was  installed  at  the  University 


448  THE  SCROLL. 

of  Missouri  on  April  16.  Ten  men  were  initiated.  George 
Vaughan,  of  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  of  the  University  of  Arkan- 
sas chapter,  catalogue  editor  of  K  :S,  had  the  installation 
ceremonies  in  charge.  He  was  assisted  by  A.  J.  Myar,  of 
the  Arkansas  chapter,  and  B.  S.  J.  Green,  of  the  Sewanee 
chapter,  both  of  St.  Louis.  Five  of  the  men  initiated  are 
in  the  engineering  school,  two  seniors,  two  juniors  and  one 
freshman;  the  rest  are  academics,  two  juniors  and  three 
freshmen.  All  things  considered,  the  chapter  has  made  an 
auspicious  start.  Some  of  the  positions  held  by  its  mem- 
bers are:  representative  on  Savitar  board,  *98;  business 
manager  5'az/z7ar,  *97;  class  president,  '99;  captain  and  sec- 
ond lieutenant,  battalion  of  cadets;  two  members  tennis 
committee,  '98;  winners  tennis  doubles,  '96.  The  new  chap- 
ter was  warmly  welcomed  by  the  other  fraternities  at  Mis- 
souri, and  the  installation  ceremonies  were  conducted  in  the 
rooms  of  Missouri  Alpha  of  ^  A  ©.  Beta-Gamma  is  the 
second  chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  to  be  established  in  Mis- 
souri, the  first  being  Alpha  Omega  at  William  Jewell  Col- 
lege, Liberty,  founded  about  a  year  ago,  and  is  the  forty- 
ninth  on  K  2's  roll  of  active  chapters.  There  were  already 
six  fraternities  at  Missouri,  besides  a  sorority  and  a  law  so- 
ciety. All  these  enrolled  last  year  108  students  out  of  701 
in  attendance.  

THE  PYX. 

The  date  of  the  semi-centennial  convention^  as  7iow  fixed ^  is 
November  2/ y  22,  2j,  2^  and  2^,  i8g8.  The  session  on  Thurs- 
day may  be  partly  or  ivholly  omitted.  Committees  on  local  ar- 
rangements, program,  railroad  rates  a7id  special  features  have 
been  appointed  and  are  noiv  at  work.  Further  anfioiifucmefits 
may  be  expected  in  the  fwie  Scroll. 


We  are  indebted  to  the  courtesy  of  The  Confederate  Veteran, 
of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  for  the  loan  of  cuts  of  Gen.  A.  P.  Stew- 
art and  Gen.  H.  V.  N.  Boy n ton  which  appear  in  this  issue. 

«  «  «  « 

The  editor  is  pleased  to  acknowledge  an  invitation  from 
Minnesota  Alpha  to  a  dancing  party  at  the  West  Hotel  on 
April  15.  If  the  invitation  may  be  used  as  a  criterion,  this 
was  a  social  event  to  which  our  much  abused  phrase,  *the 
swellest  affair  of  the  year,'  will  apply  with  perfect  propriety. 


THE  SCROLL,  449 

The  Phis  of  New  York,  of  Columbus  and  of  Indianapolis 
have  our  thanks  for  certain  pressing  invitations,  and  we  ex- 
press here  our  regret  that  on  March  lo  the  writing  of  long 
and  enthusiastic  letters  was  yet  a  physical  impossibility.  Oth- 
erwise they  should  have  heard  from  the  editor  a  month  ago. 

%  *  *  * 

Among  honors  won  by  Phis  recently  but  not  reported  in 
chapter  correspondence  we  may  mention  two:  Bro.  T.  H. 
Jenkins  won  the  freshman -sophomore  oratorical  contest  at 
Hanover,  March  4.  Bro.  C.  N.  Pace  took  second  honors 
and  was  consequently  made  chairman  of  the  inter-state  dele- 
gation at  the  Iowa  state  oratorical  contest,  March  24.    Drake 

University  took  first  honors. 

*  *  *  * 

The  following  chapters  are  reported  as  delinquent  with 
their  annual  reports  by  the  Historian  of  the  General  Coun- 
cil: Virginia,  l^afiderbilt,  Georgia,  Tula  fie,  bidiana,  Miek- 
igan  State,  Lombard  and  Westminster.  Members  of  these 
chapters  should  ascertain  why  their  historian  has  not  at- 
tended to  his  duties,  and  should  see  that  he  does  do  so  forth- 
with. 

Student  Life,  from  Washington,  The  Nebraskati  and  the 
Sewanee  Purple  are  new-comers  we  are  very  glad  to  welcome. 
Bro.  Pettus  is  editor-in-chief  of  Student  Life,  with  three 
other  Phis  on  his  staff. 

«  «  «  « 

The  program  for  Alumni  day  at  Wisconsin  was  headed 
with  a  neat  double  medallion  of  the  Phi  of  1848  and  his 
brother  of  1898.  We  are  under  obligations  to  Bro.  C.  F. 
Geilfuss  for  a  copy. 

%  %  %  % 

Bro.  C.  A.  Gleason,  Case,  '90,  has  our  thanks  for  an  in- 
vitation from  the  junior  prom,  committee,  of  which  he  is  a 
member.  We  had  just  received  Minnesota's  cards  for  the 
same  evening,  however,  and  must  regretfully  decline. 

%  %  'k  % 

The  Dickinsonian  informs  us  that  Alumni  day  was  cele- 
brated by  Pennsylvania  Epsilon  at  Hartzell's  cafe  on  the 
evening  of  March  18. 

The  fi[athering  was  honored  with  the  presence  of  Mr.  J.  Clark  Moore, 
Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  president  of  Alpha  province.  The  event  will 
long  be  remembered  as  an  exceptionally  pleasant  one.  Prof.  H.  M. 
Stephens  was  the  toastmaster,  and  the  following  pro^jfratn  was  carried 
out:    Impressions  of  a  Freshman,  M.  J.  Presby ;  Our  Billy  Goat,  Robt. 


450  THE  SCROLL, 

S.  Ivoose;  The  General  Fraternity,  F.  L.  Kriebel;  Song,  Mahlon  F. 
Ivins;  Athletics,  Ira  B.  McNeal;  Why  I  am  a  Phi,  M.  H.  Gottschall; 
The  Outlook,  W.  G.  Souders;  Address,  J.  Clark  Moore,  Esq. 

«  %  %  tt 

April  1  is  the  date  on  which  to  remit  one  dollar  for  a  bound 
volume  of  The  Scroll  for  the  chapter  library. 

*  *  *  * 

The  Phi'keia  annual,  mentioned  in  Wisconsin  Alpha's  let- 
ter in  the  February  Scroll,  was  issued  two,  not  ten,  years 
ago.  It  was  a  written  chronicle,  and  there  was  but  one 
copy.  The  plan  of  printing  the  second  edition  this  year 
was  considered,  but  it  will  probably  be  issued  in  manuscript 

form  only. 

*  *  *  * 

New  York  Beta  promises  an  announcement  in  June  which 
concerns  a  summer  camp.  It  would  be  well  if  our  Ohio  and 
Indiana  and  Iowa  Phis,  and  all  others  who  have  established 
camps,  would  furnish  some  announcement  for  the  next 
Scroll.  The  Omaha  Phis  request  all  visitors  to  the  Trans- 
Mississippi  exposition  this  summer  to  register  at  the  Mer- 
chants' Hotel  and  to  indicate  the  fact  that  they  are  members 

of  the  Fraternity. 

*  *  *  * 

Chapters  that  have  received  more  copies  of  The  Scroll 
than  they  have  active  members  would  do  well  to  return  the 
extra  numbers  at  once,  as  they  will  be  charged  with  them. 
On  the  other  hand  reporters  should  write  at  once  if  addi- 
tional copies  are  required  for  new  men. 

*  *  *  * 

The  typographical  error  referred  to  elsewhere  is  almost  as 
bad  as  another  one  that  was  made  this  winter  at  the  expense 
of  a  member  of  this  same  University  of  Illinois.  The  *  T  A 
Quarterly,  in  trying  to  tell  us  that  Bro.  Rufus  Walker,  Jr., 
responded  to  a  toast  at  the   installation  of  the  new    Phi 

Gam  chapter,  mentioned  him  as  'Reefers  Walked.' 

*  *  *  * 

The  Phi  Delta  Theta  boys  have  positively  saved  the  de- 
butantes and  debut  antes- to-be  from  weeping  their  pretty 
eyes  out  this  season,  for  want  of  something  better  to  do,  by 
frequently  entertaining  in  their  cozy  chapter  house.  A 
dance  in  the  afternoon  in  street  garb  is  so  informal  and  en- 
joyable, and  is  ever  so  much  more  fun — if  those  pretty  girls 
only  knew  it — than  the  big  balls  of  which  they  dream  when 
the  lights  are  flashed  on  and  the  chaperon's  watchful  eye 
is  counting  the  turn  with  this  or  that  eligible  young  man. 


THE  SCROLL.  451 

So  it  was  very  jolly  yesterday  when  the  Phis  entertained. 
Everybody  was  happy,  and  when  Charlie's  band  stopped 
playing  'I  Love  You,  I  Adore  You,'  he  was  requested  to 
play  it  some  more.  The  windows  were  up,  and  the  music  and 
the  laughter  echoed  even  into  the  stately  university  and 
mockingly  re-echoed  down  the  empty  halls.  Howard  Boo- 
gher  was  host  of  the  occasion,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Alfred  E. 
Howell.  The  guests  were  Misses  May  Lindsley,  Mary 
Ready  Weaver,  Frances  Pilcher,  Eleanor  Buford,  Elizabeth 
Thomas,  Louise  Jackson,  Mary  Louise  Bransford,  Clara 
Morris,  Eunice  Fite,  Tommie  Wrenne,  Rebecca  Ward,  Bes- 
sie Baker,  Atkins,  Warren  and  Tigert,  and  Messrs.  Allison 
Buntin,  S.  C.  Pilcher,  A.  W.  Harris,  Jr.,  W.  F.  Bradshaw, 
W.  W.  Brockman,  C.  R.  Baskervill,  Hill  McAlister,  Battle 
McLester,  E.  M.  Underwood,  Campbell  Pilcher,  Moses  Bon- 
ner, N.  S.  Hendricks,  D.  Breard,  J.  H.  Dewitt,  T.  R.  Foster, 
George  Wyeth,  Howard  Boogher,  Fred  Fuller,  J.  C.  Crider 

and  Herbert  Carr. — Nashville  American^  March  12,  1898. 

*  *  *  * 

We  trust  our  friend,  the  reporter,  will  remember  to  se- 
cure a  copy  of  his  college  annual  for  The  Scroll  so  soon 
as  it  appears.  In  one  case  already  the  edition  was  exhausted 
before  this  was  thought  of,  and  we  shall  be  compelled  to 
borrow  and  return  a  copy  instead  of  having  one  to  deposit 

with  the  fraternity  librarian. 

*  *  *  * 

The  following  comes  to  us  indirectly  from  a  Phi  at  Emory: 

At  a  recent  contest  for  commencement  places  we  led,  taking  twelve; 
next  to  us  were  the  Kappa  Alphas,  with  eight.  In  this  feature  of  col- 
lege life  we  have  led  for  the  past  fifteen  years. 

*  *  *  * 

There  is  a  radical  difference  in  the  use  of  the  word  'lodge' 
among  college  men  when  applied  to  a  chapter  house.  In 
many  western  and  southern  institutions  it  means  a  hall  for 
meeting  in  which  none  of  the  members  live.  In  many  other 
places  it  means  exactly  the  opposite.  Our  Wisconsin,  Chi- 
cago, Cornell  and  Williams  chapters  call  the  houses  in  which 
they  live  *lodges.'     There  is  good  authority  for  each  use  of 

the  word,  but  uniformity  would  seem  to  be  desirable. 

*  *  *  * 

The  Phis  seem  to  be  on  hand,  whatever  is  taking  place. 
While  the  Cuban  insurgents  were  active,  Bro.  Funston 
directed  the  artillery;  Bro.  Cluverius  is  one  of  the  surviv- 
ors of  the  wreck  of  the  Maine;  Bros.  Howard,  Brantley 
and  Griggs  were  a  goodly  fraction  of  the  nineteen  members 
of  the  house  of  representatives  who  voted  for  peace;  Bro. 


452  THE  SCROLL, 

Boynton  has  charge  of  the  disposition  of  the  troops  now 
being  massed  at  Chickamauga,  and  the  camp  was  named  in 
his  honor. 

*  Ic  *  % 

Kentucky  Alpha  is  maintaining  the  prominence  in  athlet- 
ics which  it  has  had  for  several  years.  Four  members  of 
the  college  base  ball  team  are  Phis,  including  A.  G.  Sulser, 
'99,  law,  who  is  manager.     G.  W.  Welsh,  Jr.,  '99,  law,  has 

been  elected  manager  of  the  foot  ball  team  for  next  year. 

*  *  *  * 

Some  of  our  reporters  have  been  misled  by  the  lateness  of 
the  last  issue  into  expecting  equal  tardiness  this  time.  They 
will  please  send  new  letters  on  or  before  May  5  for  the  June 

number. 

*  *  *  * 

The  class  of  Gen.  A.  P.  Stewart  is  not  '52,  as  given  un- 
der his  portrait.  He  was  graduated  from  West  Point  in  1842 
and  was  initiated  at  Cumberland  in  1858,  according  to  the 

sixth  edition  of  the  catalogue. 

It  *  *  % 

The  editor  wishes  to  thank  all  his  friends  for  their  solici- 
tude and  good  wishes.  He  is  still  unable  to  resume  college 
work  and  has  been  compelled  to  make  his  editorial  labors 
intermittent,  but  this  is  to  be  expected  for  a  while,  at  least. 


Established  1849. 


OFFICIAL 
JEWELERS 


DETROIT,  Mich. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 

There  is  no  line  of  badges  manufacturtMl  that  can  com- 
pare with  ours  for  h(»auty,  conforming?  to  reflriilation,  qual- 
ity of  jeweling,  variety  and  workmanship. 

Th<^  above  statement  is  a  broad  one,  but  insiiection  of 
the  samples  shown  by  our  travelers  and  'silent  drum- 
mers' (approval  packages),  will  prove  the  assertion. 

Wo  have  l)een  originators  and  leaders  in  fraternity  jew- 
elry for  years,  and  experienc<>  lias  taught  us  the  wants  of 
students.  Wait  till  you  see  our  goo<ls.  You  will  not  bo 
disapix>intod. 


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DICKINSON  COLLEGE. 


One  of  the  distinctive  characteristics  of  this  age  is  the  im- 
portance placed  upon  college  education  ;  a  classical  training 
is  now  thought  to  be  a  good  thing  per  sc.  It  is  not  only  a 
good  preparation  for  those  who  intend  to  enter  the  learned 
professions,  but  in  its  direct  effect  upon  the  individual  en- 
ables him  to  appreciate  and  enjoy  life  more.  A  large  share 
of  credit  and  praise  belongs  to  those  colleges  which  were  the 
pioneers  in  the  movement  for  higher  education.  Dickinson 
justly  claims  and  receives  a  part  of  this  honor  ;  it  is  the  tenth 
oldest  college  in  the  United  States,  being  founded  on  Sep- 
tember 8,  1788. 

Neither  the  time  nor  the  place  were  propitious  for  the  suc- 
cess of  any  extensive  educational  project.  The  colonies  had 
just  finished  a  'long  and  arduous  struggle  for  liberty;'  they 
were  impoverished  and  without  any  assurance  that  a  perma- 
nent government  would  be  established.  The  town  of  Carlisle 
was  very  'west'  in  those  days,  and  could  be  reached  only  by 
stage  coach  from  Philadelphia  or  Baltimore.  Chief  Justice 
Taney  devotes  some  space  in  his  memoirs  to  the  recital  of 
his  very  exciting  journey  from  Baltimore  to  the  town.  And 
yet  many  leading  men  urged  the  legislature  of  Pennsylvania 
to  grant  a  charter  for  'the  erection  of  a  college  in  the  bor- 
ough of  Carlisle  *  *  *  for  the  education  of  youth  in 
the  learned  and  foreign  languages,  the  useful  arts,  science 
and  literature.* 

The  establishment  of  a  college  west  of  the  Susquehanna 
was  not  a  new  idea.  Many  prominent  men  had  agitated  the 
matter  before  the  Revolutionary  war,  plans  had  been  made 
and  some  steps  taken.  These  were  necessarily  interrupted 
during  the  period  of  struggle,  when  all  energies  were  bent 
toward  obtaining  freedom  and  many  educational  institutions 
closed  their  doors.  Naturally,  at  the  close  of  the  war  the 
matter  was  again  taken  up  and  the  college  founded. 


45^^  THE  SCROLL. 

The  college  owes  its  origin  in  large  part  to  Dr.  Benjamin 
Rush,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
whose  efforts  for  the  success  of  the  college  have  never  been 
fully  appreciated  ;  and  to  Hon.  John  Dickinson,  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  and  respected  Americans  of  his  time, 
from  whom  it  derived  its  name.  The  gifts  of  the  latter 
made  possible  the  starting  of  the  college,  and  it  was  thought 
his  name  would  'give  character  to  the  young  institution.* 
Dr.  Rush,  however,  was  more  intimately  connected  with  the 
college  during  its  first  years.  He  was  continually  active  in 
its  interest,  at  one  time  urging  care  that  a  sufficiently  health- 
ful location  be  selected,  suggesting  the  kind  of  apparatus 
that  should  be  secured  for  the  various  departments  ;  at  an- 
other time  recommending  men  for  the  different  professor- 
ships whom  he  thought  would  take  a  lively  interest  in  the 
college  and  who  would  do  good  service.  Indeed,  it  is  very 
doubtful  whether  the  college  would  have  successfully  passed 
through  these  first  years,  when  everything  w^as  unfavorable, 
had  it  not  been  for  the  constant  solicitude  and  unbounded 
confidence  and  labor  of  Dr.  Rush. 

While  these  two  men,  Dickinson  and  Rush,  were  most 
directly  interested  in  the  establishment  of  the  college,  all 
the  public  men  and  educators  of  the  time  had  a  deep  concern 
for  the  success  of  the  project.  Among  those  who  contrib- 
uted funds  were  Hamilton  and  Jefferson,  the  French  ambas- 
sador to  this  government,  Comte  de  la  Luzere,  and  seven- 
teen members  of  congress.  liven  from  Ivngland  contributions 
were  received.  Being  founded  at  the  same  time  as  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  national  government,  it  was  thought  to 
make  it  in  a  peculiar  manner  the  guardian  of  our  liberties. 
In  the  seals  of  Brown  and  Harvard  is  seen  that  education 
was  regarded  as  the  supporter  of  religion  ;  in  the  seal  of 
Dickinson  is  first  seen  what  we  now  regard  as  the  funda- 
mental principle  of  our  existence  as  a  nation,  that  the  safety 
of  liberty  depends  upon  the  intelligence  and  education  of  the 
people.  The  seal  of  the  college  is  an  open  Bible,  a  telescope, 
and  a  liberty  cap.  thus  typifying  the  connection  between  re- 
ligion, culture,  and  liberty.  \Ve  have  the  same  sentiment 
expressed  in  the  motto.  ^ Pirfatr  rt  Ihctnna  Tufa  Liberias.' 

The  first  president  of  the  college  was  Rev.  Charles  Nesbit, 
D.  D.,  of  Montrose,  Scotland.  He  had  been  an  earnest  sym- 
pithizer  with  the  colonies  in  their  struggle,  and  when  ap- 
proached with  the  offer  of  the  principalship  of  an  institution 
of  learning  in  the  new  country,  he  was  willing  to  accept, 
thinking  that  his  work  in  a  country  where  the  'minds  of  its 


^15^  THE  SCROLL, 

citizens  free  from  the  shackles  of  authority  yield  more  easily 
to  reason'  might  do  much  for  them.  It  was  a  great  sacri- 
fice to  accept  the  jxDsition, — it  meant  that  he  must  separate 
himself  from  his  friends  by  whom  he  was  highly  esteemed 
and  take  up  his  home  in  a  foreign  country  and  among 
strangers.  In  Murojx:  he  was  regarded  as  a  very  able  Greek 
scholar,  and,  indeed,  his  attainments  in  all  intellectual  lines 
were  very  distinguished.  He  was  just  the  man  to  take 
charge  of  a  college  :  he  had  the  right  idea  of  culture  and 
was  a  good  disciplinarian.  On  July  4,  ITS'*,  Dr.  Nesbit  ar- 
rived in  Carlisle.  Five  miles  from  town  he  was  met  by  a 
company  of  citizens  and  conducted  to  the  barracks,  which 
were  for  some  time  u.sed  for  the  purpo.ses  of  the  college.  He 
at  once  entered  upon  his  work  and  continued  as  president 
till  his  death  in  l><n.l.  P'or  the  first  nineteen  years  of  Dick- 
inson's life  this  man  was  associated  with  her  as  president. 
He  taught  moral  science  and  systematic  theology  and  was 
in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students.  With  him  in 
the  faculty  were  James  Ross,  professor  of  (ireek  and  Latin, 
Robert  Davidson.  j)rofessor  of  history  and  geography,  and 
Mr.  Tate,  instructor  in  Knglish.  Soon  after  his  arrival.  Dr. 
Nesbit  was  taken  sick  with  a  fever.  During  this  illness  he 
was  very  much  discouraged  and  regretted  that  he  had  ever 
left  Scotland  for  such  a  'fever  stricken  countrv.'  He  re- 
signed  his  position  and  thought  of  returning  to  the  old 
country.  However,  he  regained  his  health  and  was  per- 
suaded to  again  take  up  his  work  as  the  head  of  the  college. 
During  his  term  of  president  he  had  to  meet  many  discour- 
agements ;  the  professors  who  were  a.s.sociated  with  him  at 
the  start  one  by  one  resigned  their  positions  and  new  men 
took  their  places  :  money  was  hard  to  get,  and  it  was  very 
difficult  to  keep  the  college  running:  yet  Dr.  Nesbit  never 
gave  up,  and  his  administration  may  be  said  to  have  been 
very  successful. 

In  17.S7  the  first  class  was  graduated  from  the  college,  the 
degree  uf  Bachelor  of  Arts  being  conferred  on  nine  young 
men.  About  this  time  an  appropriation  for  the  college  was 
made  by  the  state,  and  the  erection  of  a  building  was  begun 
on  the  lot  which  is  now  the  beautiful  campus  of  the  college. 
This  land  was  purchased  directly  from  the  Penn  family  and 
has  some  historic  interest  connected  with  it.  The  hopes  of 
the  college  began  to  rise.  It  was  now  the  object  of  care  of 
the  great  .slate  of  Pennsylvania,  and  began  to  take  a  promi- 
nent place  among  the  institutions  of  learning  of  this  country. 
But  after  Dr.  Xesbit's  death  the  college  Inrgan  to  experience 


4<'>o  THE  SCROLL. 

trouble.  The  faculty  and  trustees  were  joint  administrators 
of  discipline  and,  as  might  naturally  be  expected,  they  did 
not  always  a^ree.  This  went  on  till  in  1832  the  authorities 
began  to  think  of  suspending  operations.  During  this  time, 
however,  several  distinguished  men  filled  positions  as  pro- 
fessors in  the  college.  Dr.  Atwaler,  president  of  Middle- 
bury  College.  \'erniont,  resigned  his  position  to  take  the 
presidency  of  Dickinson.  Dr.  Thomas  Cooper,  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  men  of  the  early  part  of  this  century, 
who  had  been  an  able  presiding  judge  for  eight  years,  when 
he  was  impeached  and  removed  from  office,  was  elected  to 
the  chair  of  mineralogy  and  chemistry.  He  was  born  in 
England,  graduated  at  Oxford,  and  was  on  intimate  terms 
with  Pitt  and  Burke.  His  opinion  on  legal  questions  was 
regarded  as  authority  by  Madison  and  other  Americans  of 
that  day.  Among  his  legal  writings  is  a  translation  of  the 
Institutes  of  Justinian  with  notes.  As  a  scientist  he  was 
the  friend  of  Priestley  and  had  the  use  of  his  laboratory  in 
Northumberland.  There  was  much  opposition  to  his  elec- 
tion to  a  professorship  in  the  college  on  account  of  the 
strong  public  sentiment  against  him.  His  first  lecture  was 
attended  by  the  board  of  trustees  in  a  Ixxiy.  It  was  ordered 
to  be  printed  by  the  board  and  with  the  notes  filled  an  octa\-o 
volume  of  i2.'J<i  pages.  He  revived  and  for  a  number  of  j'ears 
edited  the  Etnporium  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  a  bi-monthly 
magazine  which  had  a  subscription  price  of  seven  dollars 
per  year. 

In  June.  Isi."),  President  Atwaler,  Dr.  Cooper  and  Pro- 
fessor Shaw  resigned  because  of  what  they  considered 
unjust  interference  on  the  part  of  the  trustees.  John  B. 
Mason,  I).  I).,  of  New  York,  was  elected  president  and 
accepted,  lie  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia,  and  had  been 
provost  of  that  institution.  For  the  first  few  years  af- 
ter Dr.  Mason's  taking  office  the  college  prospered,  but 
then,  owing  largely  to  his  declining  health  and  the  jealousy 
between  faculty  and  trustees,  it  began  to  lose  ground.  In 
l^L'  I  Dr.  Mason  resigned.  Between  this  time  and  1832,  when 
the  college  came  into  the  hands  of  the  Methodists,  there 
were  three  presidents  and  two  complete  changes  in  the  fac- 
ulty, all  the  profe.ssors  resigning  in  each  case. 

In  1x82  committees  of  the  Baltimore  and  Philadelphia 
conferences  of  the  Methodist  church  entered  into  negotia- 
tions by  which  the  control  of  the  college  came  into  their 
hands.  Up  to  this  time  Dickinson  had  not  been  a  denom- 
inational school,  though  it  is  generally  supposed  to  have 


462  THE  SCROLL. 

been  Presbyterian.  It  was  specially  stipulated  in  the  char- 
ter that  at  no  time  should  two-thirds  of  the  trustees  be  of 
any  one  denomination.  The  state  had  made  appropriations 
from  time  to  time  amounting  to  over  $40,(XX),  and  when  it 
was  supposed  that  the  college  was  being  controlled  by  the 
Presbyterians,  it  was  made  the  subject  of  legislative  inves- 
tigation. So  Dickinson  begins  her  history  as  a  church  col- 
lege with  the  year  18.^*5,  when  the  Methodists  secured  con- 
trol. 

Dr.  John  Price  Durbin  was  elected  president  and  made  a 
most  excellent  one.  He  surrounded  himself  with  an  able 
facult}',  composed  of  distinguished  men.  An  endowment 
fund  was  raised,  and  the  number  of  students  began  to  in- 
crease. Strong  discipline  was  enforced,  the  charter  having 
been  changed,  placing  this  matter  entirely  in  the  hands  of 
the  faculty.  The  administration  of  Dr.  Durbin  was  the 
most  successful  the  college  had  yet  seen.  The  number  of 
students  was  larger  than  at  any  previous  time  in  its  history, 
and  reached  in  1849  two  hundred  and  forty- four.  The  char- 
acter of  work  done  in  the  college  was  high,  and  many  of  the 
graduates  of  those  days  have  since  become  distinguished. 
The  history  of  colleges  repeats  itself  as  well  as  the  history 
of  nations,  and  the  story  of  Dickinson  from  the  time  of 
Durbin  to  Reed  contains  the  usual  periods  of  success,  finan- 
cial embarrassment  and  lack  of  students  which  are  common 
to  institutions  of  learning.  Perhaps  the  most  discouraging 
period  was  that  of  the  Civil  war,  but  all  other  colleges  ex- 
perienced the  same  troubles  as  did  Dickinson.  Since  the 
war  Dickinson  has  been  constantly  growing  and  improving. 
A  scientific  building,  the  gift  of  Jacob  Tome,  now  accom- 
modates the  scientific  departments,  which  were  but  ill  pro- 
vided for  in  former  days.  Bosler  Hall,  the  gift  of  James 
W.  Bosler,  now  affords  room  for  the  libraries  of  college  and 
literary  societies,  and  has  also  a  large  chapel  room.  Some 
years  ago  ladies  were  admitted  to  the  college,  and  within 
the  past  two  years  a  hall  has  been  secured  for  them.  The 
last  addition  in  the  way  of  buildings  is  Denny  Hall,  given 
up  entirely  to  recitation  purposes.  The  material  equipment 
of  the  college  is  thus  complete.  Within  a  few  years  several 
of  the  chairs  have  been  endowed,  so  the  college  seems  to  be 
at  the  beginning  of  a  prosperous  period. 

The  first  Greek  letter  fraternity  to  establish  a  chapter  in 
Dickinson  was  4>  K  2,  in  1854.  At  that  time  it  was  against 
the  rules  of  the  college  for  a  student  to  belong  to  any  such 
secret  society,  and  the  members  had  to  be  exceedingly  care- 


James  W.  Bi:Kr.F:K  Mkmdkial  Liurarv  Hai 


4^4  THE  SCROLL. 

ful  not  to  make  their  fraternity  affiliations  known.  Every- 
thing is  changed  now,  and  Dickinson  is  distinctively  a  fra- 
ternity college,  *  K  2,  *  K  *,  B  0  n,  *  A  0,  5  A  E,  0  N  E 
and  A  X  being  represented  by  good  chapters  ;  X  <I>,  0  A  X 
and  2  X  had  chapters  until  recently,  when  their  charters 
were  withdrawn  because  of  small  membership.  The  exist- 
ence of  these  Greek-letter  fraternities  has  not  interfered  with 
the  w^orking  of  the  literary  societies  at  Dickinson,  as  has 
been  the  case  in  so  many  colleges.  In  fact  the  Belles- Lett  res 
and  Union  Philosophical  societies  are  getting  stronger  and 
assimiing  a  more  important  place  in  college  life  each  year. 
The  inter-society  debate  is  next  to  commencement  the  larg- 
est attended  of  any  of  the  college  exercises.  Nor  does  fra- 
ternity spirit  suffer.  The  men  in  fraternities  are  loyal 
Greeks,  and  at  present  several  of  the  chapters  are  consider- 
ing plans  for  the  erection  of  lodges.  Because  of  the  rule  of 
the  trustees  compelling  students  to  room  in  the  dormitories, 
if  there  are  any  vacant  rooms,  it  is  practically  impossible 
for  any  fraternity  to  erect  a  house  to  live  in. 

The  college  has  increased  the  enrollment  of  students  very 
materially  since  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Reed,  and  has  now 
420  students  in  attendance.  This  is  the  largest  number  in 
its  history.  The  work  of  the  college  has  been  completely 
reorganized,  and  at  present  there  are  five  distinct  courses  of 
study  offered,  the  classical ,  Latin-scientific,  Greek- scientific, 
modern  language  and  scientific.  During  the  freshman  and 
sophomore  years  the  work  is  prescribed,  but  in  the  junior 
and  senior  years  it  is  largely  elective.  The  faculty  numbers 
20  men  and  with  a  material  equipment  sufficient  for  all 
needs,  Dickinson  claims  rank  with  the  best  of  American 
colleges. 

Frederick  L.  Kriebel,  Dickinson,  'qS. 


PHI  DELTA  THETA  MUSIC 

The  following  pieces  of  sheet  music  inscribed  to  Phi  Delta 
Theta  have  been  published. 

'The  Phi  Delta  Theta  March';  by  J.  N.  E.  Wilson.  Cali- 
fornia Alpha,  '70  ;  pp.  7  ;  price  75  cents  ;  published  by  M. 
Gray,  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  1S74. 

'Phi  Delta  Theta  March'  ;  dedicated  to  Indiana  Epsilon  : 
by  Mrs.  Wells  ;  pp.  4  ;  price  40  cents ;  published  by  John 
Church  &  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio  ;  1>^74. 

'Phi  Delta  Theta  March'  ;  by  A.  M.  Shuey,  Ohio  Alpha, 


THE  SCROLL.  465 

*66  ;  pp.  3  ;  price  20  cents  (originally  40  cents)  ;  published 
by  A.  M.  Shuey,  Minneapolis,  Minn. ;  1875. 

*The  Onondaga  Waltz'  ;  dedicated  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  ; 
by  P.  W.  Search,  Ohio  Dalta,  '7^) ;  pp.  4  ;  price  40  cents  ; 
published  by  P.  W.  vSearch,  Marion,  Ohio;  1875. 

'Grand  March  of  a  Hundred  Years'  ;  dedicated  to  Phi 
Delta  Theta;  by  P.  W.  Search,  Ohio  Delta,  '76;  pp.  4; 
price  50  cents  :  published  bv  P.  W.  Search,  Marion,  Ohio ; 
1870. 

Thi  Delta  Theta  Waltz'  ;  dedicated  to  Michigan  Alpha 
chapter  ;  by  R.  D.  Ewing,  Michigan  Alpha  ;  pp.  5  ;  price 
.50  cents  ;  published  by  R.  D.  Ewing,  Ishpeming,  Mich.  ; 
1895. 

Thi  Delta  Theta  Two-Step'  :    dedicated   to   Phi   Delta 

Theta,  Bloomington,   111.:  by  Alfred  Murray, ; 

pp.   5  ;    price  40  cents  ;   published   by  Clark  E.    Stewart, 
Bloomington,  III.;  189(>. 

Thi  Delta  Theta  Two-Step'  ;  dedicated  to  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  Fraternity  of  Vanderbilt  University  ;  by  Miss  Odie- 
lein  McCarthy  ;  pp.  5  ;  price  50  cents  ;  published  by  H.  A. 
French,  Nashville,  Tenn.;  1806. 

Brother  P.  W.  Search,  author  of  'The  Onondaga  Waltz,' 
and  the  'Grand  March  of  a  Hundred  Years,'  is  now  in 
Holyoke,  Mass.,  but  the  music  is  published  at  Marion,  Ohio, 
and  orders  for  it  may  be  addressed  to  him  there. 

M.  Gray,  publisher  of  'The  Phi  Delta  Theta  March,'  by 
Brother  J.  N.  E.  Wilson,  is  now  out  of  business.  Oliver- 
Ditson  Company,  Boston,  have  a  few  copies  of  the  piece  for 
sale. 

So  far  as  known  the  above  are  all  the  pieces  of  sheet 
music  dedicated  to  Phi  Delta  Theta  that  have  been  published. 
If  any  reader  of  the  Scroll  knows  of  other  pieces  he  will 
confer  a  favor  on  the  undersigned  by  informing  him. 

In  addition  to  the  waltz  by  Brother  R.  D.  Ewing,  a  two- 
step  was  written  by  him  but  never  published.  It  was  called 
the  'Palladium  Two-Step,'  and  was  played  by  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  Banjo  Club  in  1895-96. 

In  the  chapter  letter  of  Indiana  Theta  to  the  Scroll  for 
February,  1895,  it  was  stated  that  Brother  C.  Muller  of 
Pennsylvania  Beta,  a  resident  of  Lafayette,  Ind.,  had  dedi- 
cated two  of  his  compositions,  a  waltz  and  a  schottische,  to 
Indiana  Theta.  These  pieces,  however,  have  never  been 
published.  Walter  B.  Palmer. 

511  South  Spruce  Street,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


466  THE  SCROLL. 


THE  BADGE. 

Not  long  after  the  organization  of  the  Fraternity  was 
completed,  the  badge  question  came  in  for  consideration. 
Indeed  before  the  formal  organization,  it  was  a  matter  of 
some  reflection,  so  as  to  have  motto  and  badge  to  harmon- 
ize. It  was  in  my  business  to  be  often  in  the  city  of  Cin- 
cinnati, where  I  made  most  of  my  book  and  stationery 
purchases.  A  few  months  after  December  26,  1848, 1  made 
arrangements  with  I.  P.  Beggs,  of  the  firm  of  Beggs  & 
Smith,  a  prominent  jew^elry  house  of  that  city,  to  make  a 
badge  according  to  a  plan  and  design  I  furnished  him.  In 
June,  1849,  it  was  completed,  and  I  show-ed  it  to  those  con- 
cerned in  Oxford  and  explained  its  significance. 

The  body  of  the  pin  was  of  solid  gold,  indicating  that  as 
that  was  the  most  precious  of  metals,  we  wished  to  have 
nothing  in  our  work  or  lives  but  the  very  best,  and  that  not 
in  tinsel  or  appearance,  but  in  reality. 

It  was  to  be  shield- shaped,  somewhat  ornamental  in  the 
upper  part,  not  because  any  such  form  for  such  an  object 
had  ever  been  seen  by  any  of  the  founders.  The  key  of  the 
4>  B  K  was  not  our  model,  nor  the  crescent  of  the  A  A  <I>,  nor 
yet  the  then  sharp-cornered  rectangle  of  the  B  ©  II  frater- 
nity. These  were  the  only  badges  known  at  Miami.  It 
was  shield-shaped  because  it  was  meant  that  the  order 
should  be  a  shield  to  each  man  who  wore  it,  but  onl}'  when 
such  brother  was  being  and  doing  what  would  stand  the 
test  of  the  All-seeing  eye  that  is  central  in  the  upper  part 
of  the  shield. 

The  scroll  (partly  the  thought  of  Mr.  J.  M.Wilson)  partially 
unfolded  refers  to  the  roll  containing  the  names  of  our  royal 
brotherhood,  each  man's  name  wTitten  with  his  own  hand. 

The  border  w^as  ornamented  with  a  handsome  chasing  to 
show  that  with  all  the  solidity  of  character,  mental,  moral 
and  social,  that  we  aimed  at,  we  still  desired  to  have  these 
qualities  associated  with  things  elegant  and  beautiful. 

After  some  examination  'the  boys'  were  pleased  wnth  it 


THE  SCROLL.  467 

and  ordered  another  made  like  it.  This  they  kept  in  their 
sacred  box  under  lock  and  key  along  with  the  Bond  and 
minutes. 

The  original  I  retained  and  wore  occasionally  when  away 
from  the  university,  and  where  no  rival  fraternity  eyes 
would  be  disturbed  by  the  sight. 

It  was  the  badge  I  wore  when  I  had  my  first  picture  taken, 
more  than  a  year  before  the  general  badging  out  of  the  class 
of  '52. 

Thus  testifieth 
Robert  Morrison,  Ohio  Alpha,  V^- 


'AMERICAN  COLLEGE  FRATERNITIES/* 

The  new  edition  of  Mr.  Baird's  invaluable  work,  so  long 
and  anxiously  awaited,  has  appeared  at  last,  and  the  frater- 
nity enthusiast  can  now  fairly  revel  in  its  pages,  which  are 
filled  with  the  most  interesting  and  authentic  information 
concerning  the  secret  society  system. 

This  is  the  fifth  edition  of  the  book,  the  previous  editions 
having  been  published  in  1S79,  ISSO,  1883  and  1800.  Old 
fraternity  men  like  myself  can  recall  with  what  pleasure  we 
read  the  first  edition  nearly  twenty  years  ago.  Previous  to 
that  time,  very  few  men  knew  much  about  any  fraternities 
except  their  own,  and  most  of  them  had  a  great  deal  to  learn 
about  their  own  even.  Mr.  Baird's  excellent  work  was  the 
means  of  a  general  dissemination  of  information  about  college 
societies,  and  that  work  more  than  anything  else  gave  a  new 
imj>etus  to  fraternity  development,  which  has  been  so  marked 
during  the  last  two  decades.  Each  succeeding  edition  was 
an  improvement  on  its  predecessor,  and  the  last  edition  is  far 
in  advance  of  previous  issues.  It  can  not  be  criticised  ex- 
cept in  comparison  with  the  earlier  editions,  for  this  book 
occupies  a  field  of  its  own — no  other  like  it  ever  having 
been  published. 

The  general  arrangement  of  the  work  remains  unchanged, 
and  indeed  it  would  be  difficult  to  suggest  an  improvement 
on  its  admirably  convenient  plan.  But  all  the  divisions  of 
the  book  have  been  rewritten,  and  they  embody  the  latest 
information  given  with  all  desirable  fullness.  The  compre- 
hensiveness of  the  work  and  the  completeness  of  the  details 

♦American  College  Fratkrnities  :  A  Descriptive  Analysis  of  the  Frater- 
nity System  in  the  Colleges  of  the  United  States,  with  a  Detailed  Account  of  each 
Fraternity ;  by  William  Raimond  Baird.  Fifth  Edition.  18J»8.  Published  by  the 
Author,  2^1  Broadway,  New  York  City.  Square  12  mo.;  pp. -138;  cloth  ;  illustrated  ; 
price,  S2,  postpaid. 


468  THE  SCROLL. 

furnished  are  astonishing,  when  one  considers  how  much 
labor  was  required  to  collect  all  the  facts  from  many  differ- 
ent sources. 

The  opening  pages  present  a  general  survey  of  the  origin 
and  growth  of  college  fraternities,  their  characteristics,  cus- 
toms, insignia,  publications,  etc.  Following  come  sketches 
of  the  various  fraternities,  taken  in  alphabetical  order.  Each 
sketch  contains  the  facts  about  the  organization  of  a  frater- 
nity, and  gives  the  location  and  year  of  establishment  of  each 
chapter,  the  membership  of  each  chapter,  and  the  year  of  its 
suspension  if  inactive.  The  locations  of  alumni  chapters  also 
are  given.  Notes  tell  of  the  vicissitudes  of  chapters  whose 
careers  have  been  out  of  the  ordinary.  Changes  in  the 
form  of  the  government  of  each  fraternity  are  recorded, 
also  years  and  places  where  conventions  have  been  held. 
The  periodical  publications  and  the  various  editions  of  the 
fraternity's  catalogue  and  song  book  are  noticed.  The  badge 
and  flag  are  described,  and  a  cut  of  the  badge  heads  the 
sketch  of  each  fraternity.  Each  chapter  which  owns  a 
house  or  rents  a  house  is  mentioned. 

Appended  to  each  sketch  is  a  list  of  the  fraternity's  prom- 
inent men,  such  as  national  and  state  officers,  and  noted 
clergymen,  lawyers,  college  professors  and  literary  men. 
These  lists  are  much  longer  than  those  in  previous  editions. 
The  sketches  of  fraternities  include  men's,  women's,  pro- 
fessional, class  and  local  fraternities,  and  are  followed  by  a 
directory  of  colleges  and  chapters,  various  statistical  tables, 
a  discussion  of  fraternities  in  general,  showing  the  benefits 
derived  from  them,  and  a  treatise  on  the  legal  status  of  col- 
lege societies. 

The  great  merit  of  the  book  is  its  absolute  impartiality. 
There  seems  to  be  no  ground  for  complaint  on  this  score. 
The  author  I  know  endeavored  to  secure  the  most  reliable 
data  regarding  each  fraternity  from  ofi&cial  sources,  and  I 
am  convinced  that  this  edition  will  be  received  with  general 
satisfaction,  and  that  members  of  all  fraternities  will  agree 
that  it  is  fair  and  accurate  in  essential  particulars.  Doubt- 
less the  best  method  of  conveying  to  Scroll  readers  some 
idea  as  to  the  entertaining  features  and  instructive  character 
of  this  book  is  by  the  use  of  quotations  therefrom. 

The  first  society  of  American  origin  bearing  a  Greek-letter 
name  was  4>  B  K,  founded  in  177G,  at  the  College  of  William 
and  Mary,  in  Virginia.  It  was  secret  in  its  character,  and 
its  objects  were  social  enjoyment  and  literary  training.  A 
branch  was  established  at  Yale  in  1780,  another  at  Harvard 


THE  SCROLL,  4^9 

in  1781,  and  a  third  at  Dartmouth  in  1787.  Subsequently 
the  society  entered  a  number  of  other  important  educational 
institutions.  In  1831  it  gave  up  its  secrets,  revealing  the 
motto,  which  is  the  Greek  for  '  Philosophy  is  the  Guide  of 
Life.'  Thereafter  the  activity  of  the  society  ceased,  and  it 
became  a  purely  honorary  organization,  membership  being 
conferred  as  a  reward  for  high  scholarship.  It  now  has 
forty  chapters.  The  following  quotations  (some  of  which 
have  been  abbreviated)  show  how  fraternities  originated  at 
Union  and  spread  thence  to  Miami : 

The  K  A  society  is  the  oldest  secret  brotherhood  of  a  social  and  lit- 
erary character  which  has  had  a  continuous  existence  in  American 
colleges,  and,  as  the  parent  of  the  present  vast  system  of  American 
college  fraternities,  a  special  interest  attaches  to  the  circumstances  of 
its  foundation.  In  the  autumn  of  1825,  K  A  was  formed  at  Union  by 
John  Hart  Hunter  and  other  members  of  the  class  of  '26.  This  first 
group  of  K  A  men  at  Union  stamped  a  character  upon  the  society 
whicn  it  has  never  lost.  The  founders  possessed  an  aptitude  for  their 
work  amounting  to  genius,  and  but  slight  additions  have  been  made 

in  seventy  years  to  the  ceremonial  features  of  the  order K  A 

was,  in  its  external  features,  at  least,  an  imitation  of  *  B  K,  which 
had  been  established  at  Union  in  1817.  It  was  secret,  it  had  a  Greek 
name,  it  confined  its  membership  to  upper  classmen,  it  displayed  a 
key  badge,  and  it  named  its  chapters  on  the  same  system.  The  new 
society  met  with  much  opposition,  but  was  secretly  popular  with  the 
students,  who  paid  it  the  sincere  compliment  of  imitation  by  the  foun- 
dation in  the  same  college  of  2  *,  March  4,  1827,  by  ten  seniors,  and 
of  A  *,  November  18,  1827,  by  nine  seniors. 

The  A  A  *  fraternity  was  founded  at  Hamilton  College  in  1832.  A 
chapter  of  S  *  had  been  established  at  Hamilton  in  1831,  and  in  all 
probability  suggested  the  formation  of  a  new  society.  Its  founder  was 
Samuel  Eels,  of  the  class  of  '32.  ...  In  1835,  three  years  after 
A  A  *  was  founded,  its  Miami  chapter  was  established  by  the  personal 
efforts  of  Mr.  Eels,  and  was  the  first  western  chapter  of  any  fraternity. 

It  may  not  be  inappropriate  to  notice  the  extent  of  the  fraternity 
system  at  this  time.  K  A,  the  pioneer  of  the  system,  had  two  chap- 
ters, viz.,  at  Union  and  Williams.  A  *  and  4^  T  were  still  local  socie- 
ties at  Union,  while  2  4>  had  three  chapters,  viz.,  at  Union,  Hamilton 
and  Williams,  and  an  anti-secret  society  had  arisen  at  Williams.  In 
other  words,  the  system  was  confined  to  two  states.  New  York  and 
Massachusetts,  ana  to  three  colleges.  Union,  Hamilton  and  Williams, 
when  the  founder  of  A  A  4>  boldly  planted  its  second  chapter  beyond 
the  Alleghanies,  in  what  was  then  emphatically  the  'west.'  Ohio  was 
therefore  the  third  state  and  Miami  the  fourth  institution  to  serve 
as  a  home  to  the  fraternities.*  The  act  of  A  A  *  in  establishing  its 
second  chapter  at  Miami  was  important  in  its  results,  as  it  led  to  the 
foundation  of  the  three  national  fraternities  of  B  6  II,  <f>  A  6  and  S  X, 
forming  a  *Miami  triad.' 

The  B  O  II  fraternity  was  founded  at  Miami  in  1839.  The  idea  was 
first  suggested  by  John  Reily  Knox,  '40.  A  A  4>  was  then  the  only 
college  society  with  a  chapter  so  far  west  as  Ohio.     The  plan  of  the 

♦Theac  facU  were  presented  in  The  Scroll  for  November,  I881").  by  Dr.  J.  K. 
Brown,  who  was  first  to  use  the  term  'Miami  triad,'  in  The  Scroll  for  February, 
1886. 


470  THE  SCROLL. 

association  was,  doubtless,  suggested  by  that  of  A  A  ^,  and  opposition 
to  this  organization  was  undoubtedly  the  chief  cause  which  led  to  the 
formation  of  the  new  fraternity. 

As  B  9  II  was  the  first  of  the  western  fraternities,  it  is  interesting  to 
see  how  far  the  society  system  had  then  developed.  K  A  was  at  Union 
and  Williams,  where  anti-secret  local  societies  also  existed.  S  *  was 
at  Union,  Williams,  New  York  University  and  Hamilton.  4^  T  was  at 
Union,  New  York  University  and  Brown.  A  4>  was  at  Union  and  Brown, 
and  A  A  *  was  at  Hamilton,  New  York  University  and  Brown,  where 
rival  chapters  existed,  and  was  without  rivals  as  yet  at  Columbia,  Yale, 
Amherst,  Harvard  and  the  law  school  in  Cincinnati.  The  Mystical 
Seven  had  also  originated  at  Wesleyan.  The  fraternity  system,  there- 
fore, when  B  0  11  was  founded,  existed  in  New  York,  New  England 
and  Ohio  only. 

It  is  unnecessary  in  this  review  to  narrate  the  circum- 
stances of  the  foundation  of  *  A  0  at  Miami  in  1848,  as  they 
are  related  in  the  'Manual,'  issued  as  a  supplement  to  The 
Scroll  for  October,  1.^97. 

The  movement  which  resulted  in  the  foundation  of  A  K  E  at  Yale 
in  1844  was  purely  local,  and  it  was  not  intended  that  chapters  should 
be  established  elsewhere.  The  men  who  founded  the  society  had  to- 
gether expected  to  become  members  of  the  junior  society  of  4^  T,  and 
some  of  them  being  chosen  and  others  not  securing  elections,  none  of 
them  joined  4^  T,  but  all  determined  to  found  a  new  society  of  their 
own.  A  K  E  has  always  been  a  'junior'  society  at  Yale,  but  it  rapidly 
extended  to  other  colleges,  where  it  has  invariably  been  established  as 
a  general  fraternity,  though  at  Harvard  it  did  not  remain  so. 

A  K  E  established  a  chapter  at  Miami  in  1852.     Mr.  Baird 

makes  a  slight  mistake  in  the  following  item  : 

The  Miami  chapter  of  A  K  E  was  formed  by  six  members  of  the  chap- 
ter of  *  A  G  who  could  not  agree  with  their  fellow  members,  and  it  in 
turn,  in  18oo,  ^ave  birth  to  the  parent  chapter  of  2  X  under  somewhat 
similar  conditions. 

The  facts  are  that  in  October,  1851,  the  Miami  chapter 
of  *  A  0,  which  then  numbered  twelve,  expelled  two  members, 
for  reasons  which  had  nothing  to  do  with  their  subsequent 
fraternity  connections.  Benjamin  Harrison,  since  President 
of  the  United  States,  presided  at  the  trial.  In  consequence 
of  the  expulsion  of  these  hco  members,  three  of  their  most 
particular  friends  in  the  chapter  presented  their  resigna- 
tions, which  were  accepted.  Seven  members  remained  in 
the  chapter.  Of  the  five  men  whose  connection  with  *  A  0 
thus  ended,  oxAy  four  joined  A  K  E,  while  one  joined  A  A  * 
some  time  later.  On  petition  of  the  two  expelled  members 
in  April,  1852,  the  vote  of  expulsion  was  rescinded,  and 
they  were  permitted  to  withdraw,  so  that  they  might  unite 
with  the  chapter  of  A  K  E,  then  being  organized  at  Miami 
by  a  Yale  Deke.  This  whole  matter  has  been  written  up 
in  The  Scroll  several  times — March,  1882;  November  and 
December,  1885;  January,  1886,  and  April.  1896. 


THE  SCROLL.  47  ^ 

The  S  X  fraternity  was  founded  at  Miami,  June  20,  1855,  by  Thomas 
C.  Bell,  James  P.  Caldwell,  Daniel  W.  Cooper,  Benjamin  P.  Runkle, 
Frank  H.  Scobey,  Isaac  M.  Jordan  and  William  L.  Lock  wood,  who, 
with  the  exception  of  the  last  named,  had  been  members  of  the  Kappa 
chapter  of  A  K  E.  A  disagreement  arose  in  that  chapter  in  reference 
to  the  election  of  one  of  its  members  to  an  office  in  a  certain  literary 
society.  The  above-named  persons  refused  to  cast  their  votes  for 
their  brother,  alleging  as  their  reason  his  incompetency  to  discharge 
the  duties  of  the  situation.  The  chapter  being  evenly  divided  on  the 
subject,  punishment  could  not  be  extened  to  the  recalcitrants,  and 
the  trouble  ended  by  the  final  voluntary  withdrawal  of  the  six  per- 
sons named,  who  immediately  organized  another  society  under  the 
name  of  S  4>.  No  explanation  of  the  adoption  of  that  name  has  ever 
been  oifered,  save  that  no  significance  attaches  because  of  the  identity 
of  title  with  the  fraternity  of  2  4>  which  then  existed  at  Union.  The 
new  fraternity  formulated  a  ritual,  adopted  by-laws,  and  performed 
the  other  preliminaries  necessary  to  a  permanent  institution.  A  se 
cret  organization  was  maintained  for  a  short  time,  but  its  existence 
having  become  known  it  was  not  accorded  a  hearty  welcome,  and 
some  of  its  rivals  entered  into  a  plan  to  steal  its  ritual  and  records, 
which  was  successfully  done  in  January,  185G.  Thereupon  a  new  sys- 
tem of  government,  based  in  a  general  way  on  that  of  A  K  E,  was  pre- 
pared, and  the  name  2  X  adopted. 

Another  fraternity  of  eastern  origin,  Delta  Upsilon,  es- 
tablished a  chapter  at  Miami.  In  1834,  an  anti-secret  so- 
ciety, sometimes  called  the  *  Social  Fraternity,'  and  some- 
times the  *  Equitable  Fraternity,'  was  organized  at  Williams. 
In  1840  negotiations  looking  to  a  union  with  similar  socie- 
ties were  begun,  and  in  1847  the  'Anti-Secret  Confedera- 
tion' was  formed.  A  monogram  of  the  letters  A  and  Y  was 
chosen  as  the  badge  in  1858,  but  the  name  A  Y  was  not  in- 
corporated in  the  constitution  until  1864.  The  convention 
of  1881  eliminated  'anti-secret'  from  the  constitution,  sub- 
stituting the  expression  'non-secret.'  The  chapter  at  Miami 
was  established  in  1868.  Interesting  incidents  connected 
with  the  organization  of  several  other  fraternities  are  related 
in  the  following  paragraphs: 

The  4^  T  society  was  founded  at  Union  in  183:i.  It  grew  out  of  an 
association  formed  among  its  members  for  election  purposes.  The 
letters  4^  T  were  first  chosen,  and  a  suitable  motto  was  then  framed 
for  them. 

The  X  4^  fraternity  was  founded  at  Union  in  1841.  One  of  its  orig- 
inal members  was  Philip  Spencer,  a  son  of  a  cabinet  officer,  and  a 
member  of  a  family  of  high  social  position.  Later,  while  serving  as 
midshipman  on  the  U.  S.  brig  of  war  Somers,  he  was  executed  for  al- 
leged mutiny.  Senator  Benton,  in  his  'Thirty  Years'  View,'  shows 
the  charge  and  arrest  to  have  been  unwarrantable,  and  is  unsparing  in 
his  condemnation  of  the  seizure  and  execution.  James  Fenimore 
Cooper,  Gail  Hamilton  and  others,  have  been  even  more  emphatic  in 
denunciation  of  the  steps  which  led  to  Spencer's  death.  For  man^ 
years  after  this  occurrence,  the  Chi  Psis  were  dubbed  'Pirates'  by  their 
rivals,  in  reference  to  the  ignominious  fate  of  Philip  Spencer. 


472  THE  SCROLL 

The  e  A  X  fraternity  was  founded  at  Union.  The  first  recorded 
meeting  was  held  June  5,  1848.  Andrew  H.  Green  was  the  chief  com- 
piler of  the  constitution  and  ritual.  While  some  changes  have  been 
made  in  the  working  parts  of  the  constitution,  owing  to  the  growth  of 
the  fraternity,  the  ritual  of  initiation  remains  without  change. 

The  X  *  fraternity  is  the  result  of  a  union  of  three  distinct  organ- 
izations bearing  the  same  name  (the  Princeton  order,  founded  in  18o4; 
the  Hobart  order,  founded  in  1860,  and  the  Southern  order,  founded 
at  the  University  of  North  Carolina  in  1808;  the  two  former  of  which 
united  in  1867,  the  latter  joining  the  union  in  1874).  The  origin  of 
the  oldest  of  these  was  as  follows: 

Toward  the  close  of  the  year  1854,  John  Maclean,  Jr.,  then  a  sopho- 
more at  Princeton  College,  discovered  among  some  old  papers  a  docu- 
ment which  proved  to  be  the  constitution  of  a  college  society,  the 
motto  of  which  was  'Xpicrrou  *tXot,'  and  which  had  for  its  object  the 
promotion  of  social  and  religious  intercourse  among  its  members. 
He  proposed  to  two  classmates  to  reorganize  the  society,  and  they 
concluded  to  do  so.  They  revised  the  constitution,  and  completed 
their  organization,  changing  the  purpose  of  the  society,  however,  by 
the  omission  of  its  more  pronounced  religious  features.  They  also 
changed  the  motto  of  the  society,  but  retained  its  initial  letters. 

It  is  proper  to  add  here  that  nothing  is  known  of  any  active  life  on 
the  part  of  the  society  previous  to  this  action  by  John  Maclean  and 
his  associates,  or  who  its  members  were,  or  why  it  became  inactive, 
or  whether  the  number  on  its  constitution,  '1824,'  was  the  date  of  the 
origin  of  the  society,  or  of  the  writing  of  the  particular  document 
upon  which  it  appears,  or  what  was  its  significance.  The  old  consti- 
tution was  entrusted  to  the  custody  of  one  of  the  members,  who  lost 
it.  The  existence  of  the  number  '1824'  upon  this  document  is  the 
slender  basis  upon  which  the  fraternity  rests  its  claim  to  having  been 
founded  in  the  year  18'24. 

In  1865  George  Wyatt  Hollingsworth  and  George  Miles  Arnold, 
two  Americans,  while  pursuing  medical  studies  in  Paris,  learned  of  the 
Kirjath  Sepher,  an  ancient  European  secret  order,  many  years  ex- 
tinct, whicn  was  founded  at  the  University  of  Bologna  between  1895 
and  1400,  and  spreading  later  to  the  Universities  of  Florence,  Mont- 
pelier,  Orleans  and  Paris,  where  it  flourished  many  ^'ears,  finally  be- 
coming extinct.  Having  traced  up  its  origin  and  history,  and  being 
much  impressed  thereby,  they  conceived  the  idea  of  establishing  a 
secret  college  fraternity  in  their  native  land,  based  upon  its  traditions. 
This  they  accordingly  did  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  in  1867,  un- 
der the  name  of  Kappa  Sigma.  The  ritual  of  K  2  embraces  many 
forms  and  ceremonies  formerly  connected  with  this  ancient  order,  and 
many  of  its  symbolic  emblems  are  used  by  the  American  fraternity. 

K  A  (southern  order)  was  founded  at  Washington  College  (now 
Washington  and  Lee  University)  in  1865.  It  was  at  first  intended, 
perhaps,  to  be  a  local  organization  only,  and  bore  a  name  other  than 
that  of  Kappa  Alpha.  During  the  second  session  of  its  existence,  S. 
Z.  Ammen  became  a  member,  and  its  present  name,  ritual  and  plan  of 
organization  are  due  chiefly  to  his  labors,  insomuch  that  he  is  consid- 
ered the  founder  of  the  present  K  A  order.  The  fraternity  has  confined 
itself  to  the  south,  as  being  the  territory  originally  selected  and  best 
suited  for  its  success.  In  number  of  living  chapters  it  is  the  most 
prosperous  in  that  section.  There  have  been  four  editions  of  the  rit- 
ual and  constitution:  in  1870,  1874,  1886,  and  1893. 

The  II  K  A  fraternity  was  founded  at  the  University  of  Virginia  in 


THE  SCROLL,  4tn 

1868.  The  founders  intended  to  restrict  it  to  southern  institutions 
only,  a  principle  which  has  rigidly  been  adhered  to  throughout  its 
history.  The  constitution  of  the  fraternity,  which  is  not  secret,  and 
the  by-laws  of  the  grand  council  have  been  published  from  the  general 
office  of  the  fraternity,  which  is  located  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

The  S  N  fraternity  was  founded  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  in 

1869.  The  immediate  cause  of  the  organization  was  opposition  to  the 
parent  chapter  of  A  T  0,  which  was  founded  in  1865,  and  held  undis- 
puted sway.  This  was  resented  by  the  western  boys,  and  steps  were 
successfully  taken  to  break  down  the  power  of  the  'Blackfeet,*  as  the 
Alpha  Taus  were  familiarly  known.  The  members  of  the  new  order 
were  called  'Whitefeet,'  in  contradistinction  to  their  rivals.  ...  In 
1879  the  parent  chapter  alone  survived.  After  the  establishment  of 
Kappa  chapter,  the  fraternity  exhibited  remarkable  energy  in  improv- 
ing Its  conaition;  and  in  April,  1883,  with  but  three  chapters  in  exist- 
ence, Alpha,  Kappa  and  Lambda  (respectively  at  V.  M.  I.,  North 
Geoi^ia  Agricultural  College,  and  Washington  and  Lee  University), 
it  began  the  publication  of  a  journal  called  the  Sigma  Nu  Dclta^  the 
triangular  name  bein^  suggested  by  the  trio  of  existing  chapters. 

The  foregoing  outline  will  show  how  widespread  the  fraternity  sys- 
tem is.  It  has  become  the  prominent  factor  in  the  social  life  of  Ameri- 
can students,  and  as  such  is  attracting  the  attention  of  publicists  and 
educators.  Its  influence  will  probably  increase.  It  is  not  expected, 
however,  that  many  new  fraternities  will  arise.  Those  that  have  orig- 
inated since  1870  are  comparatively  unimportant  if  living  or  have 
ceased  to  exist. 

The  only  men's  general  fraternities  founded  since  1870 
and  still  alive  are:  *  2  K,  founded  at  Massachusetts  Agri- 
cultural'College,  1873,  eight  chapters  in  five  states;  *  *  *, 
founded  at  Austin  College,  1894,  four  chapters  in  three 
states;  M  IT  A,  founded  at  Washington  and  Lee,  1895,  four 
chapters  in  three  states;  A  X  P,  founded  at  Trinity  College, 
Connecticut,  1895,  three  chapters  in  three  states.  Of  *  *  * 
the  following  particulars  are  given : 

This  fraternity  was  organized  at  Austin  College,  Sherman,  Texas, 
November  22,  1894,  by  L.  J.  Mitchell,  W.  P.  vSlaughter,  O.  S.  Lusk, 
J.  L.  Lockett,  Jr.,  J.  C.  Stinson,  Alva  Hardie,  C.  S.  Roberts  and  Jay 
Stinnett.  The  fraternity  was  started  with  the  idea  of  establishing 
chapters  in  the  west  and  south,  and  more  especially  in  those  colleges 
which  are  small  and  struggling  for  existence,  so  that  the  more  con- 
servative fraternities  will  not  enter  them,  while  at  the  same  time  they 
afford  material  for  one  good  chapter.     The  chapter  roll  is  as  follows: 

1894.    A  A,  Austin  College.  Texas 26 

1894.    A  B,  Southwestern  University,  Texas  (1896) 6 

189H.    B  A,  Presbyterian  College  of  South  Carolina 20 

1896.  T  A,  Centenary  College,  Louisiana 9 

1897.  A  T,  University  of  Texas i:i 

Active  chapters,  4;  inactive,  1;  membership,  74.    The  charter  of  the 

chapter  at  Southwestern  University  was  withdrawn.  The  other  chap- 
ters are  in  good  condition.  The  government  of  the  fraternity  is  vested 
in  a  convention  (called  the  grand  chapter),  which  meets  biennially, 
and  in  an  ad  interim  executive  body,  called  the  grand  cabinet,  com- 
posed of  six  general  officers.  The  first  convention  was  held  at  Sher- 
man, Texas,  in  1896.     The  badge  is  an  open  book  of  white  enamel 


474  THE  SCROLL. 

bearing  a  hand  and  an  anchor  of  gold,  and  resting  upon  two  crossed 
lances  between  the  heads  of  which  extends  a  scroll  bearing  the  letters 
'*  4>  *.  *     The  colors  are  black,  white  and  blue. 

It  may  not  be  amiss  to  state  here  that  L.  J.  Mitchell 
is  a  member  of  the  Westminster  chapter  of  *  A  0.  After 
accepting  a  position  as  professor  at  Austin  College,  he,  with 
several  students  there,  endeavored  unsuccessfully  to  secure 
a  charter  for  a  chapter  of  *  A  0,  to  replace  one  that  existed 
at  Austin  temporarily  before  the  civil  war.  The  following 
items  are  selected  from  the  sketches  of  various  fraternities: 

A  4'  has  been  very  conservative  in  extending  its  ranks,  having  estab- 
lished but  one  chapter  in  the  last  thirty  years. 

As  A  A  4>  sought  students  of  decided  literary  tastes,  it  soon  acquired 
a  distinctive  literary  character.  .  .  .  The  youngest  chapters  at  Johns 
Hopkins,  Minnesota  and  Chicago  indicate  a  change  of  policy  in  re- 
gard to  the  extension  of  the  fraternity,  further  emphasized  by  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  two  chapters  in  Canada. 

It  has  been  the  policy  of  B  6  II  to  keep  the  number  of  members  in 
each  chapter  as  small  as  possible  consistent  with  local  strength;  but 
of  late  years  college  custom  has  more  largely  governed  this  point. 

Down  to  1884  the  chapters  of  B  9  II  were  universally  known  by 
their  Greek  names,  but  at  that  time,  owing  to  the  constantly  increas- 
ing roll  of  the  fraternity,  the  Greek  names  were  relegated  to  a  second 
place,  and  the  chapters  are  now  known  by  the  names  of  the  colleges 
with  which  they  are  connected.  ...  In  6  A  X  the  word  'charges*  is 
used  to  designate  the  chapters.  ...  In  X  4^  parlance  each  chapter  is 
termed  an  'Alpha.' 

In  1894  the  constitution  of  4>  2  K  was  so  revised  that  the  parts  re- 
lating to  the  government,  by  theg^and  chapter,  were  made  non-secret 
and  have  since  been  published. 

A  unique  feature  in  the  history  of  2!  X,  and  one  which  has  no  par- 
allel in  the  records  of  other  fraternities,  was  the  existence,  during  the 
war,  of  a  chapter  in  the  Confederate  army,  composed  of  members  serv- 
ing under  Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  in  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  It 
was  called  the  'Constantine  chapter,' and  was  organized  by  several 
2  X  comrades  for  the  purpose  ot  perpetuating  the  fraternity  in  the 
south  during  the  most  intense  period  of  the  war.  It  made  few  initia- 
tions, was  never  officially  chartered  by  the  fraternity,  and  became  in- 
active upon  the  disbanding  of  the  army. 

The  community  chapters  of  A  T  $2  were  not  attached  to  educational 
institutions  and  were  not  long  continued.  (They  were  located  at 
Knoxville,  Memphis,  Murfreesboro  and  Columbia,  Tenn.;  Alexandria 
and  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  Weston,  W.  Va.;  Rome,  Ga.,  and  Chicago, 
111.,  and  all  of  them  initiated  82  members. ) 

The  chapter  of  X  4>  which  existed  at  the  I.^niversity  of  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  1867-70,  was  composed  of  young  southern  gentlemen  who 
were  pursuing  advanced  studies,  and  it  admitted  no  students  of  foreign 
residence. 

There  are  three  degrees  in  A  A  A  (ladies):  (1)  The  Trident  degree, 
given  to  'pledges'  ;  i2)  the  Stars  and  Crescent  degree,  given  to  col- 
lege students,  and  {'.\)  the  Graduate  degree,  given  to  alumnse  of  the 
society. 

The  most  important  standing  committee  of  II  B  *  (ladies)  is  a  liter- 
ary bureau,  first  organized  in  1890.     Its  work  consists  in  keeping  the 


THE  SCROLL  475 

chapters  informed  concerning  matters  of  general  interest  in  the  fra- 
ternity world,  to  prepare  a  yearly  course  of  instruction  on  such  sub- 
jects, to  suggest  courses  of  reading  upon  matters  of  interest  to  frater- 
nity women,  and  once  a  year  to  prepare  an  examination  on  the  sub- 
jects. 

The  9  N  E  (sophomore )  society  has  taken  a  very  active  part  in  col- 
lege politics  in  some  of  the  colleges  where  it  is  established,  and  has 
been  severely  commented  upon  in  consequence.  Quite  a  number  of 
the  fraternities  forbid  their  members  to  join  this  or^^anization.  There 
is  a  place  for  this  organization  in  the  student  life  if  the  actions  of  its 
members  are  not  too  clearly  an  exponent  of  traditional  sophomorical 
recklessness. 

In  1869,  *  A  4>,  a  legal  fraternity,  was  founded  at  the  University  of 
Michigan,  and  since  then  the  development  of  the  system  has  been  al- 
most entirely  in  the  direction  of  the  organization  of  societies  bearing 
Greek  names  in  the  departments  of  law,  medicine,  dentistry,  phar- 
macy, etc.,  attached  to  educational  institutions  wherein  the  general 
fraternities  have  secured  a  foothold. 

In  the  last  ten  years  there  has  been  a  great  increase  in 
professional  societies.  Not  counting  numerous  local  socie- 
ties, the  number  of  professional  fraternities  is  now  as  follows: 
Law,  2;  medical,  6;  homeopathic,  2;  pharmacy,  2;  dental, 
2;  agricultural-scientific,  2;  engineering-scientific,  1;  musi- 
cal, 1;  woman's  medical,  2. 

As  is  generally  known ,  the  class  society  system  dominates 
student  life  at  Yale.  A  K  E,  A  A  <l>,  ^I'  Y  and  Z  "^  are  junior 
societies  there.  The  senior  societies  are  Skull  and  Bones, 
Scroll  and  Key,  and  Wolf's  Head,  all  local.  B  0  n  has  a 
chapter  in  the  academic  department  (all  classes).  *  r  A 
and  *  S  K  take  men  from  all  departments,  including  profes- 
sional schools.  0  H,  A  4',  X  *  and  0  A  X  have  chapters  in  the 
technological  department,  called  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 
At  Harvard  also  there  are  a  number  of  local  clubs,  but 
these  have  interfered  with  the  general  fraternities  less  than 
at  Yale.  A  A  <l>,  B  0  n,  0  A  X,  2  A  E,  M  n  A,  A  *  and 
A  Y  have  chapters  there,  while  A  K  E,  which  formerly  had 
a  chapter,  now  has  an  alumni  association.  The  Harvard 
chapters  of  *  Y,  Z  4',  X  4>  and  *  K  2  have  suspended. 

Twenty  to  thirty  years  ago  it  was  not  uncommon  for  a 
man  who  attended  two  institutions  to  join  a  different  fra- 
ternity at  each.  In  the  lists  of  prominent  members  in  this 
book,  Hon.  Andrew  D.  White,  ambassador  to  Germany,  is 
credited  to  both  2  <l>  and  *  Y;  Gen.  Stewart  L.  Woodford, 
minister  to  Spain,  to  both  A  ^I'  and  A  K  E;  Gov.  Lloyd 
Lowndes,  of  Maryland,  to  both  ATA  and  *  K  4';  Dr. 
R,  Ogden  Doremus  to  both  A  4>  and  A  K  E,  and  doubt- 
less a  close  examination  would  show  other  instances. 
During  recent  years  general  sentiment  among  fraternities 


476  THE  SCROLL. 

has  become  very  strong  against  double  membership,  and 
when  a  student  joins  a  second  fraternity  his  disloyalty  to 
the  first  is  usually  followed  by  expulsion.  Unfortunately 
there  have  been  instances  of  the  disloyalty  of  whole  chapters, 
the  following  being  mentioned: 

In  1851,  during  a  period  of  depression  in  the  affairs  of  B  O  n,  the 
Brown  and  Williams  chapters  resigned  from  the  fraternity,  and  after- 
wards a  majority'  of  the  active  members  in  each  case  accepted  charters 
from  A  A  *.  The  Michigan  chapter  deserted  to  4^  T  in  IS^io,  after  an 
unsuccessful  attempt  to  form  a  union  between  the  two  fraternities, 
and  the  Western  Reserve  chapter  similarlv  deserted  to  A  K  E  in  1808. 
All  of  these  chapters  have  since  been  revived,  except  the  one  at  Wil- 
liams, and  all  retain  the  interest  of  their  alumni. 

The  Cornell  chapter  of  4>  K  ^  was  broken  up  in  1877  by  internal  dis- 
sensions and  the  traitorous  conduct  of  the  majority  of  its  members, 
who  united  in  forming  a  chapter  of  ^  T.  The  Wisconsin  chapter  of 
4^  T  was  organized  in  ISiMI  from  a  local  society  called  P  K  T,  which  had 
been  formed  from  members  of  *  K  4',  and  a  large  number  of  neutral 
members  of  the  university,  in  all  classes,  from  1856  to  the  date  of  the 
institution  of  the  chapter. 

Phi  chapter  of  4>  T  A  was  at  first  established  at  Baker  University, 
Kansas.  It  was  moved,  with  the  members  who  composed  it,  to  North- 
western, and  the  charter  was  withdrawn  for  disloyalty  in  1872,  as  the 
members  petitioned  4^  T  for  a  charter.  The  Williams  chapter  of  *  P  A, 
though  strong  in  numbers  and  of  high  rank  as  to  scholarship,  became 
dissatisfied,  and  in  1881  deserted  to  Z  4'.  The  Stanford  chapter  of 
*  P  A  resigned  from  the  fraternity  in  18iH)  and  became  a  local  society 
called  2:  PH. 

Soon  after  the  foundation  of  A  T  A  at  Bethany  in  18f)0,  some  of  the 
members  became  charter  members  of  a  chapter  of  B  9  II.  Their  mem- 
bership has  been  considered  legitimate  by  both  fraternities,  in  con- 
sideration of  the  fact  that  ATA  was  then  a  local  society. 

The  Lombard  chapter  of  A  T  A  was  originally  a  local  society  called 
A  9.  After  it  had  ceased  to  be  a  chapter  of  A  T  A  it  resumed  its  old 
local  name,  and  some  few  years  later  became  a  chapter  of  2  N,  retain- 
ing its  local  title  as  a  chapter  designation.  The  charters  of  the  ATA 
chapters  at  Mt.  Union  and  Adrian  were  withdrawn  in  1884,  and  these 
chapters  subsequently  became  chapters  of  2  A  E.  The  Wabash  chap- 
ter, after  its  dismissal  in  1875,  became  a  chapter  of  9  A  X,  but  did  not 
long  survive.  The  Lehigh  chapter  of  ATA  withdrew  in  1885,  became 
a  local  under  the  name  of  B  B,  and  in  18S0  accepted  a  charter  from  2  4>. 

The  Hobart  chapter  of  X  *  became  inactive  in  1880,  when  its  under- 
graduate members  withdrew  from  the  fraternity  and  became  members 
of  the  revived  chapter  of  K  A  at  Hobart.  The  charter  of  the  Brown 
chapter  of  X  *  was  revoked  in  1S<»5,  and  it  has  since  become  a  local 
society,  as  the  members  did  not  acquiesce  in  this  action  of  the  frater- 
nity. The  local  society  retains  the  same  name,  and  its  badge  is  the 
same  as  that  of  the  X  <f>  fraternity,  with  the  addition  of  the  small  let- 
ters '  s.  o. '  signifying  secret  order. 

The  Brown  charge  of  9  A  X  was  formed  in  185:^  by  ex-members  of 
A  4^  who  had  resigned  because  of  a  misunderstanding  with  their  fra- 
ternity. The  Wabash  charge  of  9  A  X  was  composed  largely  of  ex- 
members  of  A  T  A. 

The  Minnesota  chapter  of  A  K  E  was  formed  in  1889  from  a  chapter 
of  *  A  9. 


THE  SCROLL.  477 

The  Pennsylvania  State  chapter  of  y.  T.  V.  resigned  its  charter  and 
became  a  chapter  of  4>  K  2)  in  1890. 

The  local  A  4^  society  at  the  University  of  Vermont  joined  the  Anti- 
Secret  Confederation  in  1851,  but  withdrew  in  18/>4,  retaining  all  of 
its  members,  so  that  it  can  scarcely  be  counted  as  a  chapter  of  A  T. 

It  should  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  women's  fraterni- 
ties (Mr.  Baird  does  not  call  them  sororities)  that  none  of 
their  chapters  seem  to  have  ever  been  disloyal.  The  objec- 
tions to  'lifting'  a  chapter  do  not  hold  against  absorbing  a 
whole  fraternity,  because  in  the  latter  case  the  change  of 
allegiance  is  by  unanimous  agreement,  and  there  is  no  be- 
trayal of  the  confidence  of  associates.  B  0  II  absorbed  A  2  X 
in  1879  and  Mystical  Seven  in  1890.  *  A  0  absorbed  K  2  K 
in  1886,  the  last  chapter  of  <l>  2  in  1878  at  Lombard,  and  the 
last  chapter  of  A  K  in  1>^79  at  Centre. 

The  secret  4>  2  League  was  founded  at  Lombard  by  several  students 
of  the  class  of  1857.  It  established  chapters  at  seven  Illinois  colleges, 
but  none  were  prosperous  except  the  parent  one,  and  they  soon  ceased 
to  exist.  This  chapter  entered  4>  A  B  in  1879,  and  thus  extinguished 
the  society.  There  were  three  degrees  in  the  society.  The  two  lower 
ones  were  for  undergraduates,  and  were  called  the  'Anchor,'  and  'Harp,' 
and  these  emblems  were  worn  as  badges. 

The  Scroll  for  April,  18i^S,  contained  an  account  of  the 
absorption  of  the  W.  W.  W.  or  Rainbow  fraternity  by  ATA 
and  *  A  0  in  1885-80.  P'ollowing  is  Mr.  Baird's  version  of 
the  affair: 

After  a  checkered  career,  negotiations  were  entered  into  between 
W.  W.  W.  and  ATA  with  a  view  to  consolidating  the  two  societies, 
and  the  union  was  effected  in  1880.  The  journal  of  A  T  A,  theretofore 
called  The  Crescent,  was  rechristened  The  Rairihoic,  out  of  compli- 
ment to  the  older  order.  At  the  time  of  the  union  only  two  chapters, 
viz.,  those  at  the  University  of  Mississippi  and  Vanderbilt,  were  actu- 
ally alive.  The  chapters  at  Southwestern  and  the  University  of  Texas 
went  into  4>  A  9.  The  chapter  at  Kmory  and  Henry  disbanded,  most 
of  its  members  joining  2  A  E.  The  chapter  at  Wofford  was  revived 
in  1889  by  an  alumnus,  in  whose  keeping  the  charter  had  been  placed, 
but  it  disbanded  on  learning  of  the  fate  of  the  fraternity  three  years 
before. 

As  stated  in  The  Scroll,  the  W.  W.  W.  chapters  at  the 
University  of  Texas  and  Southwestern  University  refused  to 
enter  into  the  union  with  ATA,  and  instead  they  united 
with  *  A  0.  These  facts  are  shown  by  articles  published 
at  the  time  in  the  journals  of  both  4>  A  0  and  ATA.  The 
Crescent  for  March,  188r>,  and  The  Rahibow  for  March,  1889, 
also  show  that  the  Emory  and  Henry  chapter  did  join  ATA, 
but  died  soon  afterwards. 

There  is  very  little  in  this  latest  edition  of  Mr.  Baird's 
work  that  can  be  criticised  unfavorably.     The  sketches  of 


47^  THE  SCROLL, 

the  various  frateruities  have  an  evenness  of  merit  which 
shows  that  they  have  been  edited  with  good  discretion. 
However,  it  seems  that  a  strict  regard  for  proper  proportion 
would  have  led  to  a  curtailment  of  a  few  passages,  such  as 
the  rather  bombastic  quotation  from  the  catalogue  of  2  X 
about  the  ideals  of  its  founders,  the  statement  about  the 
principles  upon  which  A  T  f2  was  founded,  and  the  explana- 
tion of  the  arrangement  of  each  edition  of  the  catalogue  of 
ATA.  Pertinent  to  the  article  in  the  last  issue  of  The 
Scroll  advocating  a  very  condensed  form  of  a  fraternity 
catalogue,  is  the  following  paragraph: 

In  IHtH)  A  K  FI,  ^fter  long  preparation,  published  a  volume  of  some 
1 ,7(X»  pages,  leaving  nothing  to  be  desirea  in  the  way  of  completeness, 
and  which  probably  marked  the  point  of  extreme  advance  in  this  di- 
rection. Since  then  there  has  been  a  decided  tendency  to  revert  to 
the  simplicity  of  former  times,  and  to  replace  these  bulky  memorabilia 
volumes  with  handy  name-lists  of  the  members.  The  sixth  edition  of 
the  catalogue  of  A  T  A,  printed  in  18'.>7,  is  a  small  octavo,  and  the 
chapter  rcSls  contain  only  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  members, 
with  some  few  statements  as  to  occupations  and  similar  facts.  It  is 
an  improvement  in  the  direction  of  simplicity. 

The  number  of  editions  of  catalogue  and  song  book  issued 
by  each  of  the  men's  general  fraternities  is  as  follows: 

Catalogues. -i:  *,  1(» ;  A  T,  12  ;  A  A*,  11  ;  ^I'  T,  10  ;  K  A,  northern, 
and  A  K  E,  W  each  ;  A  <f>,  8  ;  X  4^,  7  ;  4>  A  O  and  A  T  A,  (i  each  :  B  6  II, 
.')  ;  Z  >!',  e  A  X,  *  r  A,  *  K  ^I'  and  K  A,  southern,  4  each  ;  4>  K  2,  X  *, 
2)  X,  2:  A  P:  and  K  i),  3  each  ;  A  ^  and  2  N,  2  each  ;  A  T  ii  and  II  K  A, 
1  each  ;  *  2  K,  *  4>  *,  A  X  P  and  M  II  A,  none. 

Song  books.— 4^  T,  10  ;  B  B  II,  S  ;  A  A  *  and  *  A  B,  (>  each  ;  A  T, 
A  K  E  and  Z  4^,  \\  each  ;  i)  *,  X  >!'  and  1  X,  2  each  ;  K  A,  northern, 
X  4^,  e  A  X,  *  r  A,  *  K  4^,  A  T  A,  A  T  Ji,  K  2  and  2  X,  1  each  ;  A  *, 
A  4^,  *  K  2,  2  A  E,  K  A,  southern,  II  K  A,  <f>  2  K,  *  *  <t>,  A  X  P  and 
M  II  A  none. 

Two  works  of  a  historical  nature  have  been  issued,  one 
entitled  'The  Psi  Upsilon  Epitome,'  by  Albert  P.  Jacobs, 
1SS4;  the  other  entitled  'Fraternity  Studies,'  1804,  and  re- 
lating to  B  0  II,  by  William  R.  Baird,  author  of  'American 
College  Fraternities.'  Two  editions  of  *  A  Manual  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta,*  containing  a  sketch  of  the  fraternity  and  other 
matter,  have  been  issued  in  lS(Sr>  and  1<S97.  The  catalogues 
of  K  A,  northern,  A  A  *,  A  Y,  4>  K  2.  X  *,  2  X,  2  A  E  and 
K  A,  southern,  contain  a  large  amount  of  historical  informa- 
tion. The  Rochester  chapter  of  4'  Y,  the  Dennison  chapter 
of  B  0  II,  the  Williams  chapter  of  A  4',  the  Northwestern 
chapter  of  2  X,  and  the  Wabash  and  Ohio  Wesleyan  chap- 
ters of  *  K  4'  have  issued  chapter  histories.  The  Franklin 
and  Marshall  chapter  of  X  4>,  the  Williams  chapter  of  K  A, 


THE  SCROLL,  479 

the  Trinity  chapter  of  *  Y,  and  the  Harvard,  Dartmouth, 
C.  C.  N.  Y.  and  De  Pauw  chapters  of  A  K  E  have  issued 
chapter  catalogues.  Neither  of  the  small  eastern  fraterni- 
ties, K  A,  A  4>,  2  *  and  A  "^^  has  ever  attempted  to  issue  a 
journal,  while  the  journals  of  A  A  4>,  4'  Y,  X  4',  Z  4'  and  X  4> 
have  failed. 

This  edition  of  'American  College  Fraternities'  furnishes 
information  as  to  the  colors,  flag  and  flower  of  each  frater- 
nity. The  badge  of  each  fraternity  is  described,  but  not  its 
pledge -button,  except  in  the  cases  of  2  N  and  southern  K  A. 
It  seems  singular  that  fraternity  cheers  are  not  given;  and 
it  is  noticeable  that  college  colors  and  annuals,  which  ap- 
peared in  former  editions,  are  omitted  from  this,  for  the 
reason  that  the  author  considered  that  details  about  colleges 
were  not  necessary  in  a  fraternity  manual. 

Mr.  Baird  might  have  made  an  interesting  addition  to  his 
book  by  showing  which  fraternities  first  began  certain  usages 
that  are  now  common.  However,  from  an  examination  of 
the  sketches  of  the  several  fraternities,  the  following  details 
are  gathered  :  2  4>  issued  the  first  catalogue  in  1834,  and  *  Y 
the  first  song  book  in  184i).  0  A  X  projected  the  first  fra- 
ternity periodical  in  18r>7.  The  oldest  fraternity  journal 
still  in  existence  is  the  Beta  Tlieta  Pt\  established  in  1872, 
suspended  in  1874-7"),  and  published  continuously  since. 
The  first  fraternity  to  issue  a  second  journal,  devoted  to 
private  fraternity  affairs,  was  5  X  in  1887.  The  first  re- 
corded fraternity  convention  was  held  by  A  A  4>  in  1836. 
The  first  state  convention  with  chapter  representation  was 
held  by  <l>  A  0  in  18(>").  The  first  fraternity  to  abolish  the 
powers  of  the  presiding  chapter  and  vest  them  in  an  ex- 
ecutive board  was  0  A  X  in  1807.  The  first  fraternity  to 
divide  chapters  into  districts  was  B  0  II  in  1874.  The  first 
fraternity  to  provide  a  transportation  fund  for  delegates  to 
conventions,  by  per  capita  assessments,  was  4>  A  0  in  1«'^73. 
The  first  fraternity  to  require  members  to  subscribe  for  its 
journal  was  B  0  II  in  187o.  The  first  fraternity  to  require 
chapters  to  send  circular- letters  regularly  to  alumni  was  B0 II . 
The  alumni  club  of  A  ^I'  in  New  York  is  said  to  be  the  oldest 
city  club  of  any  fraternity.  The  fraternity  system  was  in- 
troduced in  the  West  by  A  A  4>  in  183."),  and  in  the  South  by 
A  K  E  in  1847.  The  path-finder  in  crossing  the  continent 
was  Z  4^  in  1870,  and  the  same  fraternity,  in  1870,  was  the 
pioneer  in  Canada.  The  first  fraternity  to  display  a  regula- 
tion flag  was  0  A  X  in  1870.  The  first  fraternity  to  adopt 
colors  is  not  stated.     The  first  fraternity  to  adopt  a  flower 


48o  THE  SCROLL, 

was  B  0  II  in  1889.  The  first  fraternity  to  authorize  a  sys- 
tem of  heraldry  for  all  chapters  was  A  K  E.  The  first  fra- 
ternity to  provide  for  an  'alumni  day'  was  *  A  0  in  1889. 
The  following  clipping  is  from  the  sketch  of  the  A  r  frater- 
nity: 

The  loth  of  March  of  each  year  is  observed  by  all  the  chapters  as 
'Reunion  Day/  at  which  date  the  alumnie  try  to  visit  the  chapters, 
and  where  that  is  not  possible,  to  at  least  send  a  communication  to 
them.     It  is  a  pleasant  custom,  and  has  been  generally  observed. 

It  appears  that  the  ladies  of  A  r  have  not  only  compli- 
mented 4>  A  0  by  adopting  this  custom,  but  have  made  the 
compliment  more  pointed  by  selecting  of  365  days  the  one 
which  <l>  A  0  had  chosen.  The  following  paragraphs  indi- 
cate that  there  is  a  dispute  as  to  which  of  two  fraternities 
can  claim  the  credit  of  priority  in  building  a  chapter  house: 

Epsilon  of  X  4^,  established  at  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1845, 
was  the  first  chapter  of  this  fraternity  placed  in  the  west.  A  log  cabin 
in  the  woods  near  Ann  Arbor,  used  by  this  chapter  soon  after  its 
foundation,  at  a  time  when  the  faculty  was  hostile  to  the  fraternities, 
may  be  considered  the  pioneer  chapter  house  project. 

The  Kenyon  chapter  of  A  K  E,  in  18o4,  built  the  first  fraternity  hall 
that  was  ever  used  exclusively  for  society  purposes  ;  it  was  situated  in 
a  ravine  near  the  college  town,  was  built  of  logs  at  a  total  expenditure 
of  J^")0,  and  was  abandoned  in  1871. 

It  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  2  *  has  eight  chapters,  all  of 
which,  except  the  one  at  the  University  of  Vermont,  own 
chapter  houses  ;  and  A  4'  has  eight  chapters,  all  of  which, 
except  the  one  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  own  chapter 
houses. 

The  development  of  this  form  of  chapter  enterprise  has  been  rela- 
tively rapid  during  the  past  ten  years.  The  number  of  houses  built 
and  owned  by  the  chapters  of  the  fraternities  has  been  considerable, 
and  the  number  rentea  has  been  very  large.  It  is  a  fact  common  in 
human  experience,  that  people  are  more  deeply  interested  in  things 
upon  which  they  have  spent  time,  eifort  or  money,  than  in  things 
which  they  have  acquired  without  either,  and  the  interest  of  alumni 
has  never  been  so  fully  aroused  and  maintained  by  any  feature  of  fra- 
ternity life  as  by  the  efforts  which  have  been  made  to  build  chapter 
lodges  and  houses. 

The  statistical  tables  on  pages  482-3  show  that  in  mem- 
bership A  K  E  leads,  with  B  0  11,  4>  A  0,  4^  Y,  A  A  *,  <l»  K  *, 
4>  r  A,  AY,  S  X  and  ATA  following  in  order;  in  active 
chapters  4>  A  0  leads,*  with  B  0  11.  ^  A  E,  2  X,  K  2,  <l»  r  A, 
A  T  12,  2  N,  4>  K  4^,  A  T  A,  K  A,  southern,  A  K  E,  A  Y,  A  A  *, 
0  A  X,  4'  Y  and  Z  4'  following  in  order;  in  number  of  states 
in  which  chapters  are  established  B0 II  and  *  A  0  lead,  with 

*  Phi  Delta  Theta  also  has  a  larger  number  of  alumni  chapters  than  any  other 
fraternity. 


THE  SCROLL.  481 

2  A  E,  K  2,  2  X,  A  K  E,  A  T  A,  *  r  A,  2  N,  A  T  12,  4>  K  4^, 
K  A,  southern,  Z  4^,  X  ^I',  A  Y,  A  A  <l>,  4^  Y  and  X  *  following 
in  order;  in  chapter  houses  owned  ^  Y  leads,  with  A  A  4>, 
B  0  n,  A  Y,  A  K  E,  *  K  ^I',  X  4^,  2  *,  Z  4^,  A  ^I'  and  4>  A  0 
following  in  order;  in  number  of  chapter  houses  rented 
Ben  leads,  with  *  A  0.  2  A  E,  2  X,  *  r  A,  A  K  E,  A  T  n, 
2  N,  *  K  ^I',  A  T  A,  A  Y  and  K  2  following  in  order.  These 
statistics  and  the  details  in  the  sketches  of  chapters  about 
the  locations  of  chapter  houses  should  be  closely  studied  by 
members  of  *  A  0,  for  in  this  regard  our  Fraternity  does  not 
take  as  prominent  a  position  as  is  to  be  desired. 

During  the  nine  or  ten  years  following  the  publication  of 
the  first  edition  of  ^American  College  Fraternities,'  in  1879, 
there  was  g^eat  activity  among  fraternities,  especially  among 
those  of  western  origin  in  entering  eastern  institutions.  So 
indignant  were  the  slow-going  old  societies  in  the  east  at 
the  audacious  conduct  of  the  incomers,  in  disputing  their 
claims  to  territory  they  had  pre-empted,  that  it  is  wonderful 
they  did  not  seek  protection  from  the  courts  through  the 
process  of  injunction.  During  the  last  nine  or  ten  years 
there  has  been  a  similar  extensive  invasion  of  northern  col- 
leges by  fraternities  from  llie  south.  Mr.  Baird's  comments 
foUow: 

Thirty  years  ago  the  fraternities  were  classified  quite  generally  ac- 
cording to  the  place  of  their  origin,  as  eastern,  western  and  southern. 
Such  classification  no  longer  holds  good,  however.  The  only  classifi- 
cation based  on  the  geographical  distribution  of  the  several  chapters 
of  the  fraternities  which  can  now  properly  be  made,  is  to  divide  the 
fraternities  into  national  fraternities  and  sectional  fraternities. 

The  national  fraternities  include  those  generally  represented  in  all 
sections  of  the  country.  Of  these  B0n,4>AB,  *rA  and  A  K  E  are 
prominent  types.  The  sectional  fraternities  are  eastern  and  southern. 
The  eastern  group  consists  of  A  A  <f>,  A  4>,  8  A  X,  i:  <f>,  4^  T,  K  A,  north- 
ern order,  and  A  4^.  The  vsouthern  K^oup  includes  K  A.  southern  or- 
der, n  K  A,  A  T  «,  and  until  very  recently  i:  A  E  and  K  2. 

In  addition  there  are  a  few  fraternities  like  X  4>,  X  ^  and  Z  4^,  which 
are  difficult  to  classify.  These  originated  in  the  east,  but  all  have  im- 
portant chapters  outside  of  that  region,  while  they  are  not  national  in 
extent. 

The  present  geographical  distribution  of  chapters  is  shown 
by  the  following  summary,  which  is  one  of  several  new 
features  of  the  latest  edition  of  this  book  : 

GENERAI,    KRATKRNITIKS— MEN. 

New  England  (Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts, 
Connecticut  and  Rhodelsland).  A  K  E.  11  ;  A  A  <l>.  9  ;  A  T,  9  ;  O  A  X.  SS\ 
B  e  II,  8  ;  4^  T,  7  ;  *  A  e,  (i ;  Z  ^,  (i  ;  A  T  ii,  :^ ;  X  ^,  ."»  ;  i)  A  E.  .".  ;  A  ^, 
4  ;  K  2,  4  ;  *  r  A,  4  ;  X  <f»,  3  ;  A  T  A,  .S  ;  A  *t>,  8  ;  *  K  4^,  2  ;  *  i)  K,  2  ; 
2  X.  2 ;  2  *,  2  ;  A  X  P,  I  ;  K  A,  1  ;  M  II  A,  1 ;  IS  X,  1. 


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Note. — As  'American  College  Fraternities'  is  a  copyrighted  book, 
special  permission  to  reproduce  these  tables  and  the  geographical  dis- 
tribution of  chapters  was  obtained  from  the  author. 

The  corrections  and  additions  which  appear  at  the  end  of  the  book 
are  incorporated  in  the  tables  as  shown  above. 


484  THE  SCROLL. 

Middle  States  (New  York,  New  Jersey,   Pennsylvania,    Maryland 
and   District  of  Columbia).—*  K  4',  1(>  ;'*  r  A,  15  ;    B  B  n,  14  ;  A  T 
13;  *  AG,  11  ;  i:  X,  10  ;  A  K  E,  ID  ;  4' T,  9  ;  B  A  X,  9  ;  A  4»,  9  ;  K  2,  8 
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*  K  2,  5  ;  *  2  K,  5  ;  2  *,  5  ;  K  A,  4  ;  A  X  P,  2  ;  A  4',  2  ;  K  A,  2  ;  2  X,  1. 
The  South  (Virginia,  West  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  South  Caro- 
lina, Alabama,  Georgia,  Tennessee,  Kentucky,  Mississippi,  Arkansas, 
Louisiana  and   Texas).— K  A,  M  ;    K  2.  28  ;    2  A  E,  25  ;    A  T  fi,  19  ; 

*  A  B,  17  ;  2  N,  17  ;  UK  A.  18  ;  2  X,  12 ;  B  B  II,  10  ;  *  T  A,  8  ;  X  *, 
7  ;  A  T  A,  7  ;  *  K  2,  0  ;  A  K  E,  (> ;  *  K  4',  5  ;  *  4>  4>,  4  ;  M  II  A,  3  ;  X  4^. 
3;  A4',  2;  Z  4^,  2;  *  2  K,    1. 

The  Central  West  (Ohio,  Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Wisconsin). — 
B  B  II,  21  ;    *  A  B.  19 ;    2  X,  18 ;    AT  A.  15  ;    *  T  A,  13  ;    A  T  fi,  11  ; 

*  K  4^,  11  ;  2  A  E,  10  ;  2  X,  10  ;  A  K  E,  (> ;  A  T,  6  ;  K  2.  6  ;  A  A  *,  4  ; 
4'  T,  4  ;  X  4^,  2  ;  B  A  X,  2  ;  Z  4',  2  ;  X  4>,  1  ;  4>  K  2,  1  ;  2  4>.  1. 

Remainder  of  the  Union  (Minnesota,  Iowa,  Missouri,  Kansas,  Ne- 
braska, Colorado,  California  and  Washington). — B  B  II,  10  ;  *  A  B,  10; 
2  N,  10  ;  2  A  E,  8  ;  2  X,  7  ;  A  T  A,  6  ;  4>  T  A,  4  ;  *  K  4^,  4  ;  X  4^,  3  ; 
K  2,  3  ;  A  T,  3  ;  A  K  E,  2 ;  Z  4^,  2  ;  A  A  *,  1  ;  A  T  12,  1  ;  X  *,  1  ;  K  A,  1  ; 
4^  T    1  ■  B  A  X    1 

Canada.— 7^,2;  A  A  *,  2  ;  K  A,  1. 

GENERAL   FRATERNITIES      WOMEN. 
NezL'  England.-  A  A  A,  3  ;    K  A  B,  2 

K  K  r  1 

Middle  States.— K  K  r,  7  ;  K  A  B,  6 
AT,  2;  II  B*,  1. 

TheSonth.—n  B  *.  1. 

Central  West.  K  K  r,  12 ;  II  B  4>,  12 
A  *,  4  ;  r  *  B,  3. 

Remainder  of  the  Union. — K  K  T,  7 
AA  A,  4;  r  *  B,  2;  A4>,  1. 

Of  the  twenty-nine  men's  general  fraternities  three  were 
founded  in  the  '20's,  four  in  the  '30's,  seven  in  the  '40*s, 
five  in  the  '50's,  six  in  the  'GO's,  one  in  the  '70's,  none  in  the 
*80's,  and  three  in  the  '90's.  The  author  makes  the  follow- 
ing comments  : 

The  next  step  in  the  development  of  the  system  will  probably  be 
in  the  direction  of  consolidation  or  the  improvement  of  the  position 
of  the  fraternities.  Most  of  the  colleges  of  good  standing  are  well 
supplied  with  chapters  of  the  older  societies,  and  new  ones  do  not 
readily  gain  the  attention  and  allegiance  of  the  students 

In  the  face  of  such  difficulties  it  will  be  seen  to  be  quite  an  under- 
taking to  organize  a  new  chapter.  The  better  fraternities  move  very 
slowly  in  the  granting  of  charters,  and  petitioners  find  that  they  have 
to  wait,  and  patiently  and  persistently  push  their  claims  until  success 
crowns  their  efforts,  or  they  are  convinced  that  they  will  be  forever 
denied  admission  to  the  fraternity  of  their  choice 

The  constant  rivalry  between  chapters  and  the  multiplication  of 
fraternities  has  led  in  many  cases  to  an  indiscriminate  scramble  for 
members  at  the  beginning  of  each  year,  and  has  in  it  the  germ  of  the 
downfall  of  the  entire  system,  unless  the  fraternities  perceive  the 
danger  and  make  a  united  effort  to  avert  it.  This  has  been  done  at 
some  colleges  by  an  agreement  between  the  chapters,  or  a  regulation 
of  the  college  authorities,  that  no  student  will  be  invited  to  join  a 
fraternity  until  a  certain  time  after  his  matriculation. 

Enough  is  here  shown  in  the  way  of  quotation  and  refer- 


11  B*, 

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5; 

THE  SCROLL,  485 

ence  to  demonstrate  that  the  book  under  review  is  a  com- 
pendium of  fraternity  lore.  Undoubtedly  it  will  give  a  new 
stimulus  to  fraternity  enterprise.  It  should  be  read  atten- 
tively by  all  active  fraternity  men,  especially  those  who  are 
expected  to  do  the  'heavy  work'  in  spiking  new  men  during 
the  rushing  season.  Rushing  committees  that  are  not  fully 
acquainted  with  this  book  will  find  themselves  at  a  serious 
disadvantage  next  fall.  It  would  be  well  for  chapters  here- 
after to  require  members  to  pass  examinations  on  this  book, 
so  that  they  might  better  be  prepared  for  arguments  that 
will  arise  as  to  the  comparative  standing  of  various  frater- 
nities. 

The  1870  edition  of  the  book  contains  20G  pages,  and  the 
1890  edition  360  pages.  The  1808  edition  contains  78 
p^ges  more  than  that  for  1800,  while  the  price  remains 
the  same,  two  dollars.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  prompt  and 
liberal  orders  for  this  useful  volume  will  reward  Mr.  Baird 
for  the  great  benefit  he  has  conferred  on  fraternities  in  gen- 
eral by  its  publication.  Walter  B.  Palmer. 


TWO  NEW  ALUMNI  CHAPTERS, 

The  number  of  alumni  chapters  of  ^  A  0  has  recently 
been  increased  to  37  by  the  chartering  on  April  23,  1898, 
of  Ohio  Delta  Alumni,  at  Columbus,  and  on  May  28,  1898, 
of  Rhode  Island  Alpha  Alumni,  at  Providence.  The  former 
is  to  be  known  locally  as  the  Central  Ohio  Alumni  A.ssocia- 
tion  ;  its  charter  members  are  :  Ohio  IVes/eyan — Cyrus  Rul- 
ing, 78;  F.  L.  Rosemond,  '82;  J.  E.  Brown,  '84;  R.  L. 
Seeds,  '86;  H.  L.  Rownd,  '85;  F.  L.  Brown.  '89;  W.  L. 
Van  Sickle,  '89;  A.  V.  Evans,  '90;  P.  M.  Thomson,  '90; 
J.  M.  Butler,  '92;  E.  T.  Miller,  95;  B.  F.  Mull,  '95.  Ohio 
Sfafe—Wm,  McPherson,  '87;  A.  W.  H.  Jones,  '91;  L.  F. 
Sater,  '95;  A.  D.  Ingram,  '97.  Wooster — M.  G.  Evans, 
'77;  N.  L.  Burner,  '92;  J.  F.  Hays,  'S9.  Michigan— 'T.'L. 
Chadbourne,  '91;  J.  D.  Dunham,  '94.  Ohio—E.  Tomp- 
kins, '74,  Virginia — R.  D.  Bohannan,  '7H.  IViiliams — 
W.  T.  Morris,  '92. 

The  charter  members  at  Providence  are  :  Bnnvn — W.  H. 
Barnard,  '89;  F.  E.  Carpenter,  '89;  A,  Cushing,  '89;  A.  T. 
Swift.  '89;  N.  M.  Wright,  '89;  \V.  T.  Green,  '90;  W.  H. 
Young,  'IK);  F.  A.  Greene, '91;  A.  L-  Barbour,  '92;  H.  G. 
Beede,  '93:  H.  St.  J.  Filener,  '93;  H.  M.  Barry,  '94;  F.  E. 
Horton,  '95;  F.  Slocum,  '95;  E.  E-  Bucklin,  '96;  W.  II. 
Kenerson,  '96;  H.  B.  Brings,  '97;  P.  R.  Bullard,  '97;  A. 
M.  McCrillis,  '97;  T.  J.  Griffin,  Jr..  '99;  II.  F.  Clark,  ex-'99. 
Amherst— Q.  N.  Billings,  '92;  C.  E.  Tilley,  '92;  R.  M, 
Horton,  '98.      Vermont— K.  T.  Stratton,  '89. 


THK  SCROLL.  487 


ANNUAL  REPORT  OF  THE  HISTORIAN  OF  THE  GENERAL 

COUNCIL, 

In  submitting  my  second  annual  report,  I  am  sorry  to  say 
that  it  is  incomplete,  owing  to  the  failure  of  Michigan  Beta 
to  send  in  its  report.  This  case  shows  the  necessity  for  more 
stringent  legislation  in  reference  to  historian's  reports,  which 
I  hope  to  make  still  more  plain  in  my  report  to  the  conven- 
tion next  autumn. 

There  are  a  few  points  in  the  tables  which  I  wish  to  em- 
phasize. At  the  suggestion  of  Bro.  Walter  B.  l^almer,  I 
have  added  another  column  to  table  I.,  giving  the  full 
membership  of  each  active  chapter,  including  this  year's 
initiates — and  at  the  bottom  have  added  the  membership  of 
all  inactive  chapters,  thus  giving  the  total  membership  of 
the  Fraternity,  which  is  *). .">()(),  exclusive  of  this  year's  initi- 
ates of  Michigan  Beta.  If  this  form  is  continued  from  year 
to  year,  the  total  membership  of  chapters  and  Fraternity  can 
be  accurately  kept,  and  can  ])e  seen  at  a  glance. 

While  the  attendance  and  initiates  this  year  are  less  than 
last,  owing  to  the  reduction  in  the  number  of  chapters,  the 
average  is  higher.  There  is  a  decided  increase  in  the  num- 
ber of  badges — in:»  more  than  last  year — three-fourths  of 
the  members  having  them.  In  a  numl)er  of  the  chapters 
every  member  has  a  badge,  which  is  an  indication  of  an 
active,  energetic  and  successful  chapter. 

The  number  of  active  chapters  is  reduced  to  T).'!,  owing  to 
the  temporary  suspension  of  Ohio  Delta  and  the  withdrawal 
of  the  charters  of  Michigan  Beta  and  (lamma.  \\\xi  they  are 
included  in  my  report,  as  they  were  in  operation  for  a  part 
of  the  year. 

The  alumni  chapters  now  num])er  '»•") — an  increase  of  three 
during  the  year.  There  are  a  few  weak  chapters  that  should 
receive  the  fostering  care  of  their  alumni,  as  well  as  the 
active  attention  of  the  members  themselves.  I  trust  that 
these  chapters  will  be  placed  in  good  standing  before  the 
convenlion.  The  Fraternity,  as  a  whole,  is  in  a  most  pros- 
perous condition,  and  .should  celebrate  its  semi-centennial 
with  10/)()0  members  on  its  rolls.  Let  every  chapter,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  college  year,  make  a  determined  effort 
toward  that  end,  and  it  will  undoubtedly  be  reached. 

In  the  Bond, 

McCi.rxKv  R.\i)Ciji  ri:,  H.  (i.  C. 

Philadelphia,  May  21,  Jv.»s. 


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THE  SCROLL.  495 


INITIATES  OF  THE  CHAPTER  GRAND. 


Leon  Keeler  Wis  well,  Vermont  A,  *93, 
Died  July  29,  1897, 
At  Hyde  Park,  Vt. 
In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *     * 

Edward  Joseph  Danforth,  Massachusetts  B,  '97, 

Died  February  1,  1898, 

At  Chicago,  111. 

hi  Coelo  Quies  Esi, 

%     It     It 

Robert  Wallace  Givin,  Pennsylvania  A,  '82, 

Died  January  5,  1898, 

At  Roxborough  (Philadelphia),  Pa. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

It     *     It 

Malcolm  McNeill  Boddie,  Tennessee  A,  '80, 

Died  May  4,  1898, 

At  Waco,  Texas. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

It     *     It 

William  Steele  Holman,  Indiana  A,  '40, 

Died  April  22,  1897, 

At  Washington,  D.  C. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *     * 

Nathaniel  Breading  Hogg,  Pennsylvania  F,  '79, 

Died  November  20,  1897, 

At  Brownsville,  Pa. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

%     It     It 

Eugene  Henry  Lewis  Randolph,  New  York  F,  '85, 

Died  December  17,  1897, 

At  Pasadena,  Cal. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 


49^  THE  SCROLL. 

Lyciirgus  Kailsback,  Indiana  B,  *62, 

Died  August  4.  18^»7, 

At  Shreveport,  La. 

/;/  Coelo  Quies  Jisf. 
«     «     « 

Samuel  Coulter  Baldridge,  Ohio  A,  '49, 

Died  April  15,  189S, 

At  Hanover,  Ind. 

/;/  Coe/o  Quies  list. 

*  *     * 

Gabriel  Monroe  Overstreet,  Jr.,  Indiana  A,  '68, 

Died  November  2,  1S97, 

At  Franklin,  Ind. 

/;/  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
It     *     It 

James  Aiken,  Jr.,  Alabama  B,  '00, 

Died  June  10,  1897, 

At  Gudsden,  Ala. 

Ifi  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
It     It     It 

John  Franklin  Herman,  Pennsylvania  B,  '82, 

Died  November  (>,  1S97, 

At  Olathe,  Kan. 

/;/  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
It     It     It 

Thomas  Pearson  Little  Skinner,  Virginia  F,  '75, 

Died  October  30,  18^)5, 
At  Littleton,  N.  C. 

/?/  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *      * 

Norman  Weaver,  Alabama  B,  *S9, 

Died  Octobers,  1S97, 

At  Selma,  Ala. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est, 

*  *     * 

Robert  Welsted  Beers,  Pennsylvania  A,  '80, 

Died ,  1897, 

At  Waterford,  N.  Y, 
In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 


THE  SCROLL.  497 

William  Hartshorne  Saunders,  Virginia  B,  '93, 

Died ,  1897,- 

At . 

/w  Coelo  Quies  Est, 

*  It     * 

Benton  Harris  Whaley,  Pennsylvania  Z,  *89, 

Died ,  1897, 

At  Whaleysville,  Md, 

///  Coelo  Quies  Est, 
%     *     * 

Wendell  Phillipts  Wallheiser,  Indiana  A,  '87, 

Died  March  12,  1897, 

At  Bedford,  Ind. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est, 

*  *     * 

Benjamin  Franklin  Miller,  Indiana  A,  '99, 

Died  December  8,  1897, 

At  Vermont,  Ind. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  It     % 

Thomas  Abner  vStillwell,  Jr.,  Indiana  B,  *98, 

Died  August  1,  1897, 

At  Crawfordsville,  Ind. 

/;/  Coelo  Quies  Est, 
%     *     It 

Paul  Moffatt  Rhoads,  Indiana  B,  '94, 

Died  April  — ,  1897, 

At  Newport,  Ind. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
It     *     It 

John  Emory  Jenkins,  Indiana  Z,  '85, 

Died  September  25,  1897, 

At  Charleston,  111. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *     * 

George  Richard  Tyler,  Missouri  A,  '91, 

Died  November  10,  1897, 

At  Nevada,  Mo. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est, 


498  THE  SCROLL. 

Francis  Webster  Lake,  California  B,  *97, 

Died  December  16,  1897, 

At  Grand  Island,  Neb. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est, 
%     *     * 

Louis  Allen,  California  B,  *95, 
Died  March  16,  1898, 
At  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

/;/  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  It     It 

William  Ensor  Spencer,  Wisconsin  A,  '61, 

Died  March  12,  1898, 

At  Washington,  D,  C, 

hi  Coelo  Quies  Est, 

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Honestus  Hannibal  Boone,  Texas  A,  '55, 

Died  May  23,  1897, 

At  Navasota,  Texas. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *     * 

Edmond  Shackleford  De  Long,  Jr.,  Kentucky  A,  *97, 

Died  June  11,  1897, 

In  New  York  City. 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
Ik      *      * 

Frank  Foster  Gilchrist,  Illinois  H,  '97, 

Died  May  1,  1897, 

At  Kenosha,  Wis. 

I?i  Coelo  Quies  Est. 
«     «     « 

John  Howard  Wills,  Missouri  B,  '77, 

Died  February  16,  1896, 

At  Asheville.  N.  C. 

I?i  Coelo  Quies  Est. 

*  *     * 

James  Zachary  George,  Mississippi  A,  '44, 

Died  August  14,  1897, 

At  Mississippi  City,  Miss, 

In  Coelo  Quies  Est. 


THE  SCROLL.  499 

Edward  Gary  Walthall,  Mississippi  A,  *48, 

Died  April  21,1  S98, 

At  Washington,  D,  C. 

In  Coelo  ^uies  Est, 
It     It     It 

Joel  Sheldon  Pardee,  Michigan  B,  '78, 

Died  February  27,  189r), 

At  Three  Oaks,  Mich. 

In  Coelo  ^utes  Est. 
It     It     It 

Charles  Baker,  Michigan  B,  *84, 

Died  March  23,  1892, 

At  Owosso,  Mich. 

In  Coelo  ^uies  Est. 
*     It     It 

Arcule  Edouard  Guilmette,  Nebraska  A,  '93, 

Died  June  13,  1897, 
Drowned  in  the  Hudson  near  New  York  City. 

/«  (oelo  ^uies  Est. 

4t        It        It 

John  Ilasson  Carline,  Pennsylvania  F,  *95, 

Died  May  31,  1897, 

At  Braddock,  Pa. 

In  Coelo  ^uies  Est. 
«      «      « 

Charles  Banta,  Indiana  A,  '81, 

Died  August  15,  1897, 

At  Marion,  Ind. 

/;/  i^^oelo  ^uies  Est. 
«     «     « 

James  Livingston  Fletcher,  Indiana  E,  *72, 

Died  June  5,  1893, 

At  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

In  Coelo  ^uies  Est. 
«     «     « 

Edmund  Conde  Lane,  Vermont  A,  '82, 
Died  April  20,  1898, 

At  Omaha,  Neb. 
In  Coelo  ^uies  Est, 


500  THE  SCROLL, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTES    THE  CHAPTER  GRAND, 

The  angel,  Death,  has  come  within  the  precincts  of  our  band, 
And,  choosing  out  his  victim,  he  has  led  him  by  the  hand 
Across  the  deep,  dark  river.     From  off  the  golden  shore, 
Comes  floating  back  upon  the  breeze,  'Our  Brother  is  no  more.' 

Since  the  death  of  Brother  Randolph  this  song  which  he 
wrote  has  additional  pathos.  The  announcement  of  his 
death  has  brought  sorrow  to  many  hearts,  both  in  and  out- 
side the  pale  of  the  Fraternity.  He  was  known  personally 
to  a  large  number  of  Phis,  as  he  attended  every  National 
Convention  from  1884  to  1894,  inclusive.  He  held  official 
positions  in  the  Fraternity  for  ten  years,  and  during  this 
period  he  gave  his  best  energies  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  His 
deep  loyalty  to  the  Fraternity  is  shown  by  a  mere  enumera- 
tion of  the  varied  kinds  of  work  which  he  voluntarily  un- 
dertook, in  order  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  might  be  raised  still 
higher  in  the  general  estimation  of  the  college  world. 

He  was  first  a  member  of  Delta  Beta  Phi,  which  was 
founded  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1878, 
and  disbanded  in  1882,  except  the  C.  C.  N.  Y.  chapter, 
which  continued  as  a  local  society  until  1885,  when  the  last 
member  was  graduated.  Brother  Randolph  was  one  of  the 
twelve  charter  members  of  New  York  Gamma  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  established  in  1884  at  the  C.  C.  N.  Y.,  the  charter 
being  granted  on  February  19  of  that  year.  From  the  time 
of  his  initiation  he  was  an  ardent  Phi.  In  November,  1884, 
he  appeared  as  the  delegate  of  his  chapter  at  the  National 
Convention  held  at  Nashville.  Of  this  convention  he  was 
assistant  and  acting  secretary.  Every  one  present  will  re- 
member what  enthusiasm  was  aroused  by  the  singing  of  his 
popular  song,  to  the  air  of  'Marching  Through  Georgia.' 
It  was  the  song  of  the  convention: 

For  the  cause  of  old  Phi  Delta  we  will  make  the  welkin  ring; 
In  a  chorus  loud  and  hearty  it  is  our  delight  to  sing; 
To  our  dear  Fraternity  we  will  fame  and  honor  bring; 
Onward  Phi  Delta  Theta  marches! 

This  air  causes  painful  reminiscences  which  prevent  it 
from  being  a  favorite  in  the  south,  but  it  was  sung  at  Nash- 
ville with  all  the  vigor  of  young  voices,  and  by  southern  as 
well  as  northern  Phis.  Mrs.  Polk,  widow  of  President 
James  K.  Polk,  received  the  convention  in  a  body  at  her 
mansion,  and  it  was  recalled  that  she  was  mistress  at  the 
White  House  when  Phi  Delta  Theta  w^as  founded,  in  De- 
cember, 1848.  At  this  reception  at  *Polk  Place*  in  Nash- 
ville, this  song  was  sung  by  Kitty  Cheatham,  a  Nashville 


THE  SCROLL.  501 

girl  who  afterwards  made  a  reputation  on  the  stage  both  as 
a  singer  and  actress. 

From  1884  to  1886,  Brother  Randolph  was  business  man- 
ager of  The  SCROI.L,  and,  from  1887  to  1889,  he  was  editor. 
Fraternity  journalism  then  was  making  very  rapid  strides, 
but  the  ability  with  which  The  Scroi.i.  was  conducted  kept 
it  among  the  foremost  of  its  progressive  contemporaries. 
Brother  Randolph  was  one  of  those  rare  fraternity  workers 
who  not  only  was  willing  to  work  for  the  Fraternity,  but 
knew  how  to  work  most  effectually;  he  could  plan  as  well 
as  execute.  In  1886  he  and  Brother  Swope  brought  out 
the  third  edition  of  the  songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,  a  beauti- 
ful book,  containing  original  music,  and  far  ahead  in  every 
way  of  the  two  previous  editions.  But  his  magnum  opus 
for  the  Fraternity  was  the  sixth  edition  of  the  catalogue,  on 
which  he  and  Brother  Swope  were  engaged  six  years,  1888- 
*94.  The  amount  of  labor  involved  in  issuing  this  large 
and  sumptuous  volume  was  enormous.  How  he  found  time, 
while  not  neglecting  his  other  work,  to  collect  and  arrange 
for  publication  the  details  concerning  thousands  of  members 
is  almost  beyond  comprehension.  During  those  years  he 
was  engaged  in  business  in  New  York,  and  the  trip  from 
his  residence  at  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  to  the  city  took  an  hour 
and  a  half  each  way  daily.  He  was  never  robust,  and  only 
the  strongest  attachment  for  the  Fraternity  would  have 
caused  him  to  undergo  all  the  toil  that  was  necessary,  and 
all  the  discouragements  that  were  encountered,  in  bringing 
the  book  to  completion.  Indeed,  during  the  ten  years  of 
his  fraternity  activity,  which  were  really  the  best  years  of 
his  life,  no  other  member  made  such  great  personal  sacrifices 
for  Phi  Delta  Theta  as  did  Brother  Randolph.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  General  Council  for  two  terms,  as  historian 
from  1880  to  1889,  and  as  president  from  1889  to  1891. 
Hi^  administration  of  the  highest  office  in  the  Fraternity 
was  most  successful.  Phi  Delta  Theta  never  had  a  more 
efficient  worker,  and  his  name  will  live  in  the  annals  of  the 
Fraternity  as  long  as  they  are  preserved.  In  1892-'93  he 
was  editor  of  The  College  Fraternity ,  a  magazine  of  very 
high  grade,  and  interesting  alike  to  members  of  all  Greek- 
letter  societies.  His  last  published  article  was  an  account 
of  college  fraternities  in  general,  which  appeared  in  The 
New  England  Magazine  for  September,  1897,  and  which  was 
much  the  best  article  of  the  kind  that  has  appeared  in  any 
periodical. 

Eugene  Henry  Lewis  Randolph  was  born  at  St.  Louis, 


502  THE  SCROLL. 

August  12, 1864.  When  six  years  of  age,  his  parents  moved 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  lived  until  1888,  when  he  moved 
to  Plainfield,  N.  J.  He  was  graduated  at  the  New^  York 
grammar  schools  and  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  at  the  latter  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1885.  In 
1886-'86  he  attended  Columbia  Law  School,  but  a  serious 
illness  prevented  his  graduation  there.  All  his  purposes  in 
life  were  altered  by  the  death  of  his  father  in  1888,  which 
necessitated  his  giving  up  the  law  and  choosing  another 
pursuit.  In  1890  he  entered  the  auditing  department  of 
the  Central  Railroad  of  New  Jersey,  whose  general  offices 
are  in  New  York  city.  He  took  great  interest  in  the  rail- 
road business,  and  on  this  work,  as  well  as  on  everything 
else  he  did,  he  brought  to  bear  the  intense  and  intelligent 
application  of  a  well- trained  mind.  Frequent  promotions 
showed  that  his  services  were  highly  appreciated.  He  was 
about  to  be  made  chief  of  the  department  when,  early  in 
189(>,  his  health,  having  been  under  tremendous  strain,  gave 
way  again.  The  company  first  sent  him  to  the  Cumberland 
mountains  in  Tennessee,  where  his  health  had  been  regained 
before.  Thence  he  returned  to  New  York  to  resume  work, 
but  after  a  short  trial  he  was  forced  to  desist.  His  friends 
urged  him  to  seek  restoration  in  a  more  favorable  climate, 
so  he  was  granted  an  indefinite  leave  of  absence,  and  with  his 
family  he  left  for  California.  The  last  letter  I  ever  received 
from  him,  in  a  correspondence  extending  through  thirteen 
years,  and  to  which,  therefore,  a  peculiar  interest  now  at- 
taches, was  dated  at  Pasadena,  Cal.,  May  24,  1897.  He 
wrote  : 

I  am  going  to  ask  you  to  let  me  write  to  you  with  a  pencil,  because 
it  causes  me  considerable  more  effort  to  use  pen  and  ink.  I  received 
your  letter  some  little  time  ago,  and  meant  to  answer  sooner,  but  kept 
putting  it  off  from  day  to  day,  as  I  do  not  feel  much  like  writing  at 
all.  We  reached  I/OS  Angeles  October  20,  having  left  Plainfield  Octo- 
ber 12,  and  coming  by  New  Orleans  and  the  Southern  Pacific.  I  am 
very  much  disappointed  in  the  climate,  and  have  not  derived  much 
benefit  if  any.  My  weight  has  gotten  down  to  1 12;  it  was  1 18  when  I 
left  Plainfield.  I  feel  pretty  much  isolated  from  all  my  old  associa- 
tions out  here.  I  never  expect  to  see  the  east  again,  which  is  a  source 
of  much  regret  to  me.  California  is  well  enough  for  a  visit,  but  excuse 
me  from  a  life  (or  death)  sentence,  whether  the  banishment  be  to 
California  or  Siberia. 

The  sudden  contraction  of  a  cold  hastened  the  fatal  and 

inevitable  end,  and  he  died  at  Pasadena,  December  17, 1897. 

His  bereaved  widow  writes: 

He  was  only  thirty-three  when  he  died,  and  he  longed  for  life  and 
strength,  but  he  met  all  his  suffering  and  his  death  as  he  had  every 
other  trial,  like  a  hero,  and  so  quietly  that  we  hardly  realized  what  it 


THE  SCROLL,  503 

was.  To  the  last  moment  he  was  conscious,  and  after  all  was  said  and 
done,  it  was  a  peaceful  entering  into  the  Chapter  Grand.  His  only 
re^et  or  fear  concerned  the  welfare  of  those  he  was  leaving.  Our 
minister  says  it  was  a  privilege  and  benediction  to  him  to  have  known 
him  in  his  home,  and  to  have  seen  how  a  good  man  can  meet  the  last 
enemy;  he  hopes  he  can  have  just  such  a  'passing  over'  when  his  time 
comes. 

Brother  Randolph  was  married  October  3,  1888,  to  Miss 
Susie  Demoville  Plummer,  of  Nashville.  His  acquaintance 
with  her  had  begun  at  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  convention  in 
1884.  She  bore  him  four  children,  all  of  whom  survive 
him,  and  all  of  whom  except  the  third  are  boys.  In  his 
family  relations  he  was  most  fortunate  and  happy,  and  to 
those  who  were  dependent  upon  him  he  exhibited  the  great- 
est devotion.  He  possessed  many  noble  traits  of  character. 
Ever  patient  and  gentle,  the  evenness  and  sweetness  of  his 
temper  won  the  admiration  of  all  with  whom  he  was  asso- 
ciated. He  was  a  pure-minded  man  ;  no  profane  or  coarse 
expressions  ever  sullied  his  lips.  He  had  cultivated  tastes 
and  a  great  fondness  for  the  higher  order  of  literature.  He 
was  a  regular  patron  of  the  public  library  at  Plainfield,  and 
nearly  always  carried  a  book  to  read  on  his  daily  trips  to 
New  York.  In  this  interrupted  but  persistent  manner,  the 
amount  of  general  reading  that  he  did  was  astonishing. 
Thoroughly  methodical  in  his  habits,  he  understood  how  to 
utilize  all  of  his  time  to  the  best  advantage.  He  was  always 
in  earnest,  and  his  energy  never  flagged  while  strength  re- 
mained. His  illness  cut  short  many  cherished  plans  of  a 
brave-spirited  man.  We  may  not  understand  the  dispensa- 
tion of  Providence  in  withdrawing  him  from  the  field  of  his 
labor  and  usefulness  on  earth,  but  we  are  assured  that  all 
divine  decrees  are  ordered  in  infinite  wisdom.  He  was  one 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta' s  greatest  benefactors,  and  we  shall  ever 
mourn  our  loss  and  treasure  his  memory. 

Walter  B.  Palmer. 


It  was  the  desire  of  the  parent  chapter,  at  an  early  day, 
to  start  the  order  in  Hanover  College,  Ind.  To  this  end  a 
student  of  Hanover  in  the  senior  class  was  initiated  and  em- 
powered so  to  do.  He  was  a  man  of  very  high  character 
and  seemed  well  fitted  for  such  an  enterprise.  He  was  a 
fi:ood  scholar,  a  lovable  man  and  a  consecrated  Christian, 
but  death  intervened  soon  after.  He  was  John  H.  McRea 
of  Texas.  He  died  much  lamented  by  professors  and  stu- 
dents. His  grave  is  in  the  cemetery  at  Hanover,  and  thus 
ended  for  the  time  our  hope  at  that  college. 


504  THE  SCROLL. 

In  1 852-' 53, 1  was  a  student  of  the  New  Albany  Theolog- 
ical Seminary,  since  the  McCorraick,  of  Chicago.  I  found 
there  a  graduate  of  Hanover  in  '49,  a  bright  good  man, 
every  way  worthy,  as  I  thought,  and  at  my  recommenda- 
tion he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Ohio  Alpha.  Circum- 
stances, however,  prevented  his  establishing  a  chapter  at 
Hanover.     This  was  Samuel  Coulter  Baldridge. 

He  became  a  Presbyterian  minister  in  1853.  His  first 
charge,  which  he  held  from  1853  to  18(>0,  was  at  Wabash, 
111.  From  1860  to  1882  he  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  Friendsville,  111.,  and  at  the  same  time  principal 
of  thie  academy  there,  except  an  interval  in  which  he  was 
chaplain  of  the  11th  Missouri  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  for  about 
one  year,  1862-'68. 

In  1882  his  health  failed  and  he  moved  to  Cobden,  111. 
In  1891  he  went  to  Hanover,  Ind.,  where  he  lived  until  the 
time  of  his  death. 

During  those  years  he  was  intimately  connected  with  the 
college,  contributed  to  the  college  papers,  and  took  great  in- 
terest in  the  students.  While  at  Friendsville,  besides  his 
pastoral  and  teaching  work,  he  wrote  two  books,  one  his- 
torical, the  other  a  volume  of  poetry.  He  was  a  man  of 
excellent  literary  taste  and  generous  culture.  He  was  a 
faithful  minister  and  an  up-to-date  scholar.  He  was  made 
dfa  A.  B.  by  Hanover  in  1849,  A.  M.  in  1852,  and  I  am 
pretty  sure  he  was  honored  with  a  D.  D. ,  though  whether 
bestowed  by  Blackburn  (111.)  University  or  Wabash  Col- 
lege I  am  not  sure.  He  was  born  in  1829  and  died  April 
15,  1898.  He  was  loyal  and  earnest  in  his  devotion  to  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  and  the  members  of  Indiana  Epsilon  acted  as 
pall  bearers  at  his  funeral.  After  the  funeral  services  at  the 
church,  the  G.  A.  R.  post  of  which  he  was  chaplain  took 
charge  of  the  coffin  and  conducted  a  service  according  to  the 
ritual  of  their  order.  The  body  was  taken  to  Wabash,  111., 
for  interment. 

RoBKRT  Morrison. 
♦     *     * 

Malcolm  McNeill  Boddie,  Tennessee  Alpha, '80,  was  born 
in  Mississippi,  March  28,  1H58,  and  while  yet  a  child  moved 
to  Christian  county,  Kentucky.  He  attended  Emory  and 
Henry  College  in  Virginia,  l>>73-'77,  and  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity, 1 877-' 79.  In  both  institutions  his  class  standing 
was  high,  and  he  won  distinctions  in  oratory.  He  was 
gifted  as  a  declaimer,  and  could  recite  long  passages  from 
Shakes|)eare  in  a  manner  that  recalled  the  great  tragedians. 


THE  SCROLL  505 

His  last  year  at  Vanderbilt  was  in  the  law  department.  In 
1879  he  went  to  Chicago,  to  take  charge  of  a  large  estate, 
which  had  been  left  by  his  grandfather,  Major  Malcolm  Mc- 
Neill, one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  cily.  He  soon  attained  a 
splendid  reputation  among  business  men,  and  established  a 
widely  extended  circle  of  friends.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  and  the  Iroquois  and  Wa- 
bansia  clubs. 

About  ten  years  ago  John  T.  Boddie,  Tennessee  Alpha, 
*87,  became  his  partner  in  the  real  estate  business.  The 
hundreds  of  Phis  who  visited  the  4>  A  0  headquarters  at  Chi- 
cago, during  the  World's  Fair  in  1898,  will  remember  ap- 
preciatively the  courteous  attentions  that  they  received  from 
these  brothers,  who  proved  themselves  to  be  princes  of  hos- 
pitality. John  T.  Boddie,  as  well  as  his  brother,  Wiley  P. 
Boddie,  Tennessee  Alpha,  '90,  had  joined  the  Fraternity  at 
Kentucky  Military  Institute,  and  affiliated  at  Vanderbilt. 
The  latter  died  at  Colorado  Springs  in  1898.  Malcolm  M. 
and  John  T.  Boddie  and  J.  C.  McReynolds,  Tennessee  Al- 
pha, '82,  visited  Europe  in  1895.  Malcolm  M.  Boddie  was 
my  classmate  at  Vanderbilt.  He  never  failed  to  greet  an 
old  friend  with  the  greatest  cordiality.  I  remember  calling 
at  his  office  one  day  last  summer,  when  very  unexpectedly 
I  met  E.  T.  Merrick,  Tennessee  Alpha,  '81,  who  also  had 
just  called.  Brother  Boddie  immediately  dismissed  half  a 
dozen  men,  saying  :  '  Gentlemen,  I  shall  have  to  postpone 
this  business  until  to-morrow.  Two  old  schoolmates,  whom 
I  have  not  seen  for  years,  one  from  New  Orleans  and  the 
other  from  Nashville,  have  called  on  me,  and  I  must  request 
you  to  excuse  me. '  Then  he  devoted  the  remainder  of  the 
day  to  our  entertainment,  and  when  he  entertained  anybody 
it  was  in  a  royal  manner. 

For  jieveral  years  his  health  had  been  failing,  and  he  was 
accustomed  to  spend  the  cold  months  with  one  of  his  brothers 
who  had  a  winter  home  at  Waco,  Texas.  He  went  there 
last  November.  Heart  disease  brought  on  death  with  un- 
expected suddenness  May  4,  1S98.  Three  days  later  he 
was  laid  to  rest  at  the  old  homestead  near  Lafayette,  Chris- 
tian county,  Ky.  He  was  never  married.  He  had  been  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church  since  boyhood.  One  of 
nature's  true  noblemen  passed  away  when  he  died.  He  had 
a  most   genial   temperament,  and  was  ever  generous  and 

golden  hearted.  Waltkk  B.  Palmer. 

*     *     * 

Nathaniel  Breading  Hogg,  Pennsylvania  Gamma,  '79,  was 
born  April  23,  1857,  and  died  at  his  home  at  Brownsville, 


5o6  THE  SCROLL. 

Pa.,  November  20,  IS'JT.  He  was  oue  of  uiue  children  of 
George  E.  aud  Sarah  A.  Hogg,  of  whom  six  survive,  and 
one  of  whom  is  Frank  Trevor  Hogg,  Pennsylvania  Alpha, 
'84.  His  early  schooling  was  obtained  at  the  Dunlap  Creek 
Academy.  In  the  autumn  of  1875,  he  attended  Cornell 
University  for  a  month  or  six  weeks,  after  which  time  he 
entered  the  class  of  1879  at  Washington  and  Jefferson  Col- 
lege, where  he  became  a  charter  member  of  Pennsylvania 
Gamma,  the  charter  being  granted  December  4,  1875.  He 
completed  his  freshman  year  at  Washington  and  Jefferson, 
and  in  the  autumn  of  1876,  he  entered  the  class  of  1879  at 
Lehigh,  where  he  was  associated  with  the  ephemeral  chap- 
ter established  there  that  year.  He  was  mairied  June  5, 
1888,  to  Elizabeth  Gilpin,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  who  with  two 
young  daughters  survive  him.  For  a  few  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  Totten  &  Hogg's  iron  and  steel  foundry  at  Pitts- 
burg, then  he  moved  to  Brownsville,  where  he  was  a  part- 
ner in  the  Umpire  Coal  Works.  He  was  fond  of  travel  and 
crossed  the  Atlantic  several  times,  visiting  most  European 
countries.  He  also  visited  Florida  and  California,  partly 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  which  was  delicate  and 
forced  him  to  retire  from  business  a  year  before  his  death. 
Since  1880,  he  had  been  a  communicant  of  Christ  church, 
Brownsville,  the  rector  of  which.  Rev.  W.  E.  Rambo.  writes 
of  him  :  'He  was  quiet  and  thoughtful  by  nature,  and  of  a 
retiring  disposition.  Like  Nathaniel  of  old.  he  was  a  man 
**in  whom  was  no  guile."  He  was  permitted  to  suffer 
awhile,  and  then  "he  was  not,  for  God  took  him."  *  His 
mother  writes  :  '  He  was  witty  and  ready  at  repartee,  and 
the  life  of  our  family  reunions,  so  that  w^e  miss  him  sadly.' 

«         «         4b 

It  is  with  the  deepest  regret  that  we  report  the  death  of 
Arcule  Edouard  Guilmette,  Nebraska  Alpha,  '92.  Through 
the  fact  of  his  unusually  long  active  connection  with  the 
chapter.  Brother  Guilmette  was  known  intimately  by  a 
larger  number  of  members  than  any  other  man  in  Nebraska 
Alpha,  and  to  every  one  of  these  his  sudden  death  has  brought 
keen  personal  sorrow.  Not  one  of  these  failed  instinctively 
to  recognize  in  Guilmette  his  own  ideal  of  the  fraternity 
man  and  of  the  student;  indeed,  of  young  manhood  itself. 
His  student  life  was  marked  by  a  most  versatile  energy, 
which  he  applied  alike  to  intellectual  development,  to  social 
diversion  and  to  good  fellowship  under  the  Bond;  and  his 
native  ability,  his  tact,  his  fine  sense  of  humor,  and  his  keen 
perception  of  the  right  relations  of  things  brought  him  out 


THE  SCROLL.  507 

of  his  university  life  a  scholar  and  a  favorite.  He  was  an 
inspiration  to  the  chapter  while  he  was  in  it, — an  inspiration 
that  not  even  his  death  cuts  off  from  those  who  knew  him 
well  and  loved  him.  The  same  qualities  that  made  him 
succeed  as  a  student  were  bringing  him  speedy  and  honora- 
ble success  in  his  business  career.  His  future  was  most 
promising  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Nebraska  Alpha. 

He         It         It 

Rev.  Lycurgus  Railsback,  Indiana  Beta,  '62,  died  at 
Shreveport,  La.,  August  4,  1807. 

At  the  age  of  twenty  one  he  suddenly  abandoned  what 
promised  to  be  a  brilliantly  successful  business  career  to 
enter  the  ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  worked 
his  way  through  Wabash  College  and  entered  Lane  Semi- 
nary. He  interrupted  his  work  there,  mid  way,  to  become 
an  army  missionary-,  later  enlisting  as  a  chaplain.  His  work 
among  the  soldiers  was  wonderfully  successful,  two  hundred 
men  of  his  regiment  being  converted.  After  the  war  he 
finished  his  course  at  the  .seminary  and  became  a  city  mis- 
sionary in  Cincinnati  and  in  New  York.  At  the  latter  city  he 
set  on  foot  the  first  mission  for  the  Chinese  in  the  country. 
After  successful  pastorates  in  the  seventies  and  early  eight- 
ies in  Juneau,  Wis.,  and  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  he  devoted  him- 
self to  evangelistic  work,  holding  over  seventy  series  of 
meetings,  always  with  striking  success.  The  elements  of 
his  peculiar  power  are  said  to  have  been  his  great  tact  in  per- 
sonal work,  his  peculiar  gift  of  humor  and  his  untiring 
persistence. 

His  home  was  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  his  wife,  two  sons 
and  two  daughters  survive  him.  As  an  early  member  of 
Indiana  Beta  he  was  a  close  associate  and  bosom  friend  of 
Judge  R.  B.  Spilman,  'Ol,  now  of  Manhattan,  Kansas,  Gen. 
J.  C.  Black,  •(')2,  of  Chicago,  and  Hon.  J.  R.  Webster,  '02, 
of  Lincoln,  Neb.  His  nephew,  W.  S.  Fleming,  now  teach- 
ing at  Searcy,  Ark.,  was  a  member  of  Texas  Gamma  in  the 

class  of  189o. 

*     *     * 

Senator  Edward  Cary  Walthall,  of  Mississippi,  who  died 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  April  21,  ISOS,  of  pneumonia,  was 
born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  April  4,  1881.  He  studied  law  at 
Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1852. 
In  1856  he  was  elected  district  attorney  for  the  tenth  judi- 
cial district  of  Mississippi,  and  was  re-elected  in  1859.  In 
1861  he  became  a  Confederate  lieutenant,  and  at  the  close 


5o8  THE  SCROLL. 

of  the  war  was  a  major-general.  He  was  appointed  to  the 
United  States  Senate  as  a  Democrat  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  resignation  of  L.  Q.  C.  Lamar,  and  took  his  seat 
March  12,  1885.  After  several  re  elections  he  resigned,  on 
account  of  ill-health,  in  1894.  He  re-entered  the  Senate  in 
1895. 

Col.  W.  C.  P.  Breckenridge  writes  of  him  in  the  Lexing- 
ton (Ky.)  Morning  Herald  that  he  did  not  win  the  reputa- 
tion in  the  Senate  that  his  friends  confidently  expected,  and 
which  his  lofty  character  and  unusual  gifts  ought  to  have 
secured. 

He  was  a  most  gallant  and  accomplished  soldier,  rising  by  just  pro- 
motion to  the  rank  of  major-general.  After  the  war  he  was  equally 
successful  at  the  bar,  and  was  one  of  the  most  persuasive  and  success- 
ful lawyers  in  the  entire  country.  He  was  a  chivalrous,  courteous, 
noble  gentleman  in  every  relation  of  life;  beloved,  trusted  and  hon- 
ored by  all  who  knew  him.  When  he  accepted  a  seat  in  the  Senate — 
for  he  did  not  seek  it,  and  really  did  not  desire  it — it  was  believed  that 
he  would  win  great  national  fame.  But  somehow  he  seemed  to  be 
reluctant  to  take  part  in  its  debates;  he  rarely  participated  actively  in 
its  proceedings,  and  was  content  to  do  his  part  in  the  committees  and 
to  live  a  quiet,  pleasant,  social  life  with  his  colleagues  and  friends — 
not  even  taking  any  more  part  in  the  social  gaieties  of  the  capital  than 
he  was  compelled  to  do.  It  is  probable  that  this  seeming  reluctance 
to  press  to  tne  front  was  the  result  of  the  fast  approaching  ill-health 
which  caused  him  to  resign  his  seat  under  his  first  election  and  made 
him  anxious  to  resign  his  seat  a  second  time. 

It  is  well  to  pause  to-day,  amid  the  opening  of  this  war,  to  rever- 
ently and  lovingly  lay  this  gallant  gentleman,  this  heroic  soldier  and 
dutiful  citizen  in  an  honored  grave,  and  during  the  approaching  hos- 
tilities no  American  will  ride  further  into  danger  with  more  calmness 
than  he  did  when  his  conscience  demanded  it. 

Senator  Walthall  was  an  honorary  member  of  Mississippi 

Alpha. 

*     *     * 

A  cloud  of  sorrow  now  hangs  over  Alabama  Alpha. 
Brother  George  Tarleton  Bestor  died  at  his  home  in  the 
city  of  Mobile  on  the  sixth  day  of  May,  1898.  He  was  an 
excellent  student,  a  moral  young  man,  and  always  had  the 
good  and  advancement  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  at  heart.  Bro. 
Bestor  would  have  been  graduated  in  June  with  high  hon- 
ors.    The  following  is  taken  from  the  Crimson-  White: 

Young  Bestor  was  prepared  for  college  at  Barton  Academy,  in  Mo- 
bile, and  in  October,  1895,  was  admitted  into  the  sophomore  class  of 
the  University  of  Alabama,  after  an  excellent  examination,  which 
gave  promise  of  his  future  brilliant  college  career.  By  his  brilliancy 
of  intellect,  his  devotion  to  study  and  to  every  other  duty,  and  his 
thirst  for  knowledge,  he  at  once  made  his  way  to  conspicuous  posi- 
tions in  his  classes,  and  won  the  affection  and  esteem  of  his  fellow- 
students  and  his  professors.     His  warm  heart  added  to  the  attractions 


THE  SCROLL.  509 

of  his  rich  mind.  He  held  high  offices  in  his  class  and  honor  after 
honor  was  deservedly  bestowed  upon  him  by  faculty  and  students. 
The  high  distinction  of  being  a  junior  speaker  and  senior  si>eaker  was 
easily  won  by  him.  While  cultivating  the  mind  he  forgot  not  to  seek 
the  graces  of  the  body  ;  he  was  vice-president  of  the  university  ath- 
letic association.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  the  first  vice-pres- 
ident of  the  senior  class.  He  bore  all  of  his  honors  with  a  commend- 
able and  beautiful  modesty  that  was  indeed  most  attractive. 

Mr.  Bestor  was  taken  sick  in  Tuskaloosa,  but  as' skill  and  kind  at- 
tention could  not  avert  his  disease,  his  loving  mother  came  and  carried 
him  to  his  home  in  Mobile.  But  all  that  love  and  medical  skill  could 
do  proved  in  vain.  Beautifully  and  heroically  did  he  bear  all  the 
pains  of  his  protracted  illness,  and  when  his  sorrow  stricken  parents 
told  him  that  his  end  was  near,  he  calmly  bade  his  loved  ones  farewell. 

Faculty  and  students  have  been  plunged  into  sorrow  by  the  death 
of  this  noble  young  man,  and  his  memory  will  ever  be  cherished  by 
them.  The  appropriate  resolutions  adopted  by  the  faculty  and  his 
class  fully  express  the  sense  of  our  loss.  To  his  parents  and  others  of 
his  family  we  extend  our  sincerest  sympathies. 

He  was  called  away  in  the  springtime  of  life,  and  the  springtime  of 
the  year,  and  every  one  of  us  unites  with  nature  in  dropping  flowers 
upon  the  grave  of  George  Tarleton  Bestor. 

Truly  words  are  inadequate  to  express  the  loss  we  feel. 

Frank  C.  Owen. 


INITIATES  AND  AFFILIATES, 
February  J,  J897,  to  February  \,  J898, 


MAINE  ALPHA,  COLBY  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Guy  Wilber  Chipman,  East  Raymond,  Me. 

Wm.  Colmau  McCue,  Berwick,  Me. 

Wm.  Henry  Sturtevant,  Dover,  Me. 

Harry  Albert  Tozier,  Fairfield,  Me. 


t  i 
i  i 
i  ( 


HEW  HAnPSHIRE  ALPHA.  DARTHOUTH  COLLEQE. 

1901.  Bernard  Quincy  Bond,  Littleton,  N.  H. 
Selwyn  Kenson  Dearborn,  Clinton,  Mass. 
Edgar  Hayes  Hunter,  Sumraerville,  Mass. 
Homer  Chandler  Ladd,  Brookfield,  Vt. 
Richard  Edwards  Leach,  Denver,  Colo. 
James  Edward  McCartin,  Lancaster,  N.  H. 
Edward  Neil  McMillan,  Boston,  Mass. 
Leon  Orlando  Merrill,  Gilmanton,  N.  H. 
Guy  Clifton  Ricker,  Acton,  Me. 
Daniel  Ashton  Rollins,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Leon  Alfred  Salinger,  Rochester,  N.  H. 
Simon  Henry  Saloman,  Groveton,  N.  H. 
Royal  Bradford  Thayer,  So.  Braintree,  Mass. 


<< 


5IO  THE  SCROLL. 

1901.  Harry  Osbert  Washburne,  Hartford,  Vt. 

**       Theodore  Newton  Wood,  Middleboro,  Mass. 
1900.  Carl  Maynard  Oweu,  Jacksonville,  111. 

Channing  Tewkesbury  Sanborn,  Concord,  N.  H. 


i  ( 


VERMONT  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  VERMONT. 

1900.  Royden  Eugene  Beebe,  Burlington,  Vt. 

1901.  Vernon  Waterman  Dodge,  Morrisville,  Vt. 
**       Samuel  Sibley  Dennis,  Hardwick,  Mass. 

**       Carroll  Putnam  Marvin,  Montpelier,  Vt. 
'*       Dean  Homer  Perry,  Barre,  Vt. 
'*       Earl  Elkins  Parker,  Barre,  Vt. 

Albert  Frank  Ufford,  Fairfax,  Vt. 
*'       Roy  Sydney  Morse,  Montpelier,  Vt. 
1900.  Glen  Carlos  Gould,  Morrisville,  Vt. 

nAS5ACHU5ETTS  ALPHA.  WILLIAnSCOLLEQE. 

1900.  Charles  McClure  Doland,  843  Hilliard  St.,  Spokane, 

Wash. 

1901.  Harold  Chapman  Brown,  122  Pearl  St.,  Springfield, 

Mass. 
Norman  Peck,  The  Blacherne,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Lewis  Squires,  The  Revere  House,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Harry  Warren  Mead,  135  State  St.,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 


(I 


MASSACHUSETTS  BETA,  AMHERST  COLLEGE. 

1898.  Daniel  Bertrand  Trefethen,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 
1901.  Jesse  Edgar  Baker,  Keokuk,  la. 

**       Arthur  Rockwell  Couch,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Clare  Jay  Crary,  Sheffield,  Pa. 

'*       John  Elliot  Denham,  Westboro,  Mass. 

**       George  Bell  Ennever,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

*'       Harry  Williams  Gladwin,  Westfield,  Mass. 

**       Andrew  Foster  Hamilton,  Athol,  Mass. 

"       John  Allen  Marsh,  New  Milford,  Conn. 

*'       Leonard  Louis  Roden,  Attleboro,  Mass. 

•*       Jay  Humphrey  Stevens,  Hornellsville,  N.  Y. 

RHODE  ISLAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Ernest  Harriman  Boynton,  Sewaren,  N.  J. 
Charles  Kirtland  Stillman,  Mystic,  Ct. 

1901.  Ernest  Granger  Hapgood,  Bryantville,  Mass. 
Wilfred  Clary  Lane,  Hadley,  Mass. 
Jesse  George  Melendy,  Nashua,  N.  H. 

1898.  Smith  Lewis  Multer,  Charlotteville,  N,  Y. 

(Affiliated  from  N.  Y.  BeU.) 


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NEW  YORK  ALPHA.  CORNBLL  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Irving  Clinton  Brower,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

1901.  William  Harrison  Miller,  Pottsville,  Pa. 

1900.  Charles  Winn  Coit,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

1901.  Charles  Edmund  Stevens,  Hornellsville,  N.  Y. 
William  Harper  Morrison,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Archie  Edwards  MacBride,  Deckertown,  N.  J. 
Eugene  Abbott  Kinsey,  La  Salle,  N.  Y. 

1900.  William  Waldo  Pellet,  Watkins,  N.  Y. 

1901.  Clarence  Huntington  Fay,  Bath,  N.  Y. 
*'       Clifton  English,  Greenville,  Pa. 

(Affiliated  from  Pennsylvania  Epsilon.) 

NEW  YORK  BETA.  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  John  Ludden,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Harry  Allen  Barret,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Everett  Theodore  Grout,  Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 

George  Leroy  Shelley,  Amsterdam,  N.  Y. 


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1898.  Oscar  Weeks  Ehrhorn,  215  Ninth  Ave.,  New  York, 

N.  Y. 
1897.  Charles  Adolph  Waldenberger,  155  E.  37th  St.,  New 

York,  N.  Y. 
George  Washington  Rappold,  750  Flatbush  Avenue, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Frederick  Hinrichs,  149  Congress  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 
1900.  George  Edward  Parish,  Denver,  Colo. 

Edward  Belthasar  Gilmary  Baker,  Watervliet,  N.  Y. 
John  Mosely  Holloway,  83  Madison  Ave.,  New  York, 

N.  Y. 

(Affiliated  from  Alabama  Alpha.) 
NEW  YORK  EP5ILON.  SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY. 

1899.  Harry  Blake  Reddick,  Pictou,  Ontario,  Can. 

1900.  Frank  Spencer  Perry,  Deposit,  N.  Y. 
Allen  Duncan  Burnham,  Claverack,  N.  Y. 
Damon  Austin  Hagadorn,  Manorkill,  N.  Y. 

1901.  Claude  Mitchell  Marriott,  Vernon,  N.  Y. 
Harry  Eugene  Anthony,  Grotou,  N.  Y. 
Louis  DeForest  Palmer,  Chenango  Forks,  N.  Y. 
Wesley  Davison  Tisdale,  Rensselaer  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Thomas  Hill  Low,  Lime  Ridge,  Pa. 
Harvey  Orrin  Hutchinson,  Berkshire,  N.  Y, 


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PENNSYLVANIA  ALPHA.  LAFAYETTE  COLLBQE. 

1900.  Bror  Olef  Haltgreii,  Titusville,  Pa. 

1901.  David  Mackey  Hinckle,  Evansville,  Ind. 
Thomas  Campbell  Fassitt,  Easton,  Pa. 
Joseph  Henry  VaiiHorn,  Nickel.  Tex. 
Earl  Hallowel  Saxe,  Lansdale,  Pa. 
George  Barker  Robb,  Newark,  N.  J. 

1900.  Harry  Rhea  Douglass,  Shirleysburg,  Pa. 
**       William  Bruner  Rosenberger,  Colmar,  Pa. 

1899.  George  P.  Williams,  Easton,  Pa. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA.  QETTYSBURQ  COLLEGE. 

1901.  St.  John  McClean,  Gettysburg,  Pa. 
Hiram  Harpel  Keller,  Bedminster,  Pa. 
Melville  Titus  Huber.  Gettysburg,  Pa. 


PENNSYLVANIA  QAHnA,  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

1901.  Thomas  Chalmers  Duff,  Allegheny  City,  Pa. 
Special,  James  Slocum  Craft,  Merrittstown,  Pa. 
William  Everett  Ralston,  Wilkinsburg,  Pa. 

1902.  Robert  White  Lindsay,  Allegheny  City,  Pa. 

PENNSYLVANIA  DELTA, ALLBOHENY  COLLBQE. 

1901.  Robert  Leeman  Sweaver,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

James  Chauncey  Byers,  West  Middlesex,  Pa. 
John  Harvey  Wolstoncraft,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Charles  ICdson  Douglas,  Punxatawney,  Pa. 

1900.  Charles  Church  Couse,  Greenville,  Pa. 

1901.  Paul  Bartlett  Masters,  Warren,  O. 
Oliver  Sharp  Hoffman,  Rochester,  Pa. 
John  Henry  Moore,  Mercer,  Pa. 
Charles  William  Stillson,  Cleveland,  O. 

PENNSYLVANIA  EPSILON.  DICKINSON  COLLEGE. 

1900.  Joseph  Smith,  Frederick,  Md. 

**       Malcolm  Buchanan  Sterrett,  Washington,  Pa. 

1901.  Mahlon  Fowler  Ivins,  Camden,  N.  J. 
Edmund  Janes  Presby,  Enna,  N.  J. 
Jeremiah  F.  Hoover,  Smithsburg,  Md. 
Robert  ShoUenberger  I^oose,  Hamburg,  Pa. 
Norman  ICdgar  Branthaver,  Marks,  Pa. 
Charles  Sharpless  Kline,  Catawissa,  Pa. 
Steward  Flagler  Shiffer,  Stroudsburg,  Pa. 


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PENNSYLVANIA  ZETA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  PENNSYLVANIA. 

181)8.  Joseph  Pollitt  Barker,  1212  W.  Lehigh  Ave.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
1809.  William  Bryant  Cutts,  N.  Anson,  Me. 

Harry  Slocum  McKinley,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Daniel  Stiltz  Dorey,  1716  Spring  Garden  vSt.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
I;ouis  Mulford  Stiler,  1804  N.  29th  St.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

1898.  Wilson  Stilz,  ITXl  Wallace  St..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
1901.  Clement  E.  Paxson,  Radnor,  Pa. 

David  Walker  Jayne,  931  N.  Broad  St.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

John  Henry  Rodney  Acker,  1208  N.  7th  St.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

1900.  Francis  Brinton  Jacobs,  West  Chester,  Pa. 

1899.  Paul  Raymond  vSeigel,  Reading,  Pa. 

1901.  Roscoe  Francis  Fertig,  Titusville,  Pa. 

1900.  William  Thackara  Read,  h\\  Cooper  vSt.,  Camden,  N.J. 

1901.  Thomas  Gucker,  Jr.,  3422  Hamilton  St.,  Philadelphia, 

.  Pa- 
'*       Frank  Alonzo  Poole,  Long  Branch,  N.  J. 

(Affiliated  from  Pennsylvania  Alpha.) 

'*       Charles  McCauley  Doland,  vSpokane,  Wash. 

(Affiliated  from  Massachusetts  Alpha.) 

PENNSYLVANIA  ETA,  LEHIQH  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Herman  Arnold  Straub,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

**       George  William  Welsh,  Hanover,  Pa. 
1900.  John  James  Bird,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Andrew  Thomas  Bird,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

William  Brush  Grubbe,  Pine  Plain,  N.  Y. 


VIRGINIA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VIRGINIA. 

1898.  Timothy  Avery  Paul,  Walla  Walla,  Wash. 
Ernest  Morgan  Watts,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 

No  class 

system  James  Woods  Price,  Mechum  River,  Va. 
dcmk    Roger  Atkinson  Walke,  Staunton,  Va. 

dcp't. 

1899.  Trigant  Burrow,  Norfolk,  Va. 

1898.  Eugene  Davis,  University  of  Virginia. 

(Affiliated  from  Virginia  Beta.)     (Postgraduate.) 

1900.  D.  B.  Frederick.  Marshall ville,Ga. 

(Affiliated  from  Georgia  Beta.) 

1899.  Henry  Dawson  Furniss,  Selma,  Ala. 

(Affiliated  from  Alabama  Alpha.) 

"       John  Palmer  Lea,  Richmond,  Va. 

(Affiliated  from  Virginia  Delta.) 


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lOCH).  Albert  Thomas  Martin,  Marshall ville,  Ga. 

(AfTiliate<l  from  (Georgia  Beta.) 

1890.  James  Somerville  McLester,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

(Affiliated  from  Alabama  Alpha.) 

VIROINIA  OAHMA.  RANDOLPH-MACON  COLLBOB. 

1900.  Warner  Peatross  Carter,  Danville,  Va. 
Hunter  Peatross,  Danville,  Va. 
**       David  Alday  Clements,  Crumpton,  Md. 

VIRGINIA  ZBTA.  WASHINGTON  AND  LEE  UNIVERSITY. 

^•^^^J^s^  William  Marcus  Hutchins,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

NORTH  CAROLINA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

1900.   Isaac  Kaust  Harris,  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 

Alexander  Abel  vShuford,  Jr.,  Hickory,  N.  C. 

Joseph  Jenning  Asbury,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Samuel  RoUand  Buxton,  Jackson,  N.  C. 
1899.   Frederick  Jackson  Coxe,  Lilesville,  N.  C. 

KENTUCKY  ALPHA.  CENTRE  COLLEGE. 

1899.  James  Campbell,  Paducah,  Ky. 

1900.  Flmmette  Bond  Johnson,  Lawrenceburg,  Ky. 

1899.  Walter  Gatewood  Witherspoon,  Lawrenceburg,  Ky. 
Robert  Morris  Mayes,  Mayfield,  Ky. 

William  Robinson  Huguely.  Danville,  Ky. 
189S.  Owsley  Brown,  Louisville,  Ky. 

(Affiliated  from  Virginia  Beta.) 

KENTUCKY  DELTA.  CENTRAL  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Samuel  Kdward  Booker,  Harrod's  Creek,  Ky. 

1900.  Frederick  Pope  Bowles.  Louisville,  Ky. 

1901.  J.  Routt  Clark,  Louisville,  Ky. 
1S99.  George  Keats  Speed,  Louisville,  Ky. 

(Affiliated  from  Virginia  Beta.) 

TBNNE35EE  ALPHA.  VANDBRBILT  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Samuel  Macon  Reed,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Henry  Grantland  Rice,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
William  Bowen  Campbell  Pilcher,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Marvin  Davidson  Beard,  Hardinsburg,  Ky. 
Nathan  Scarritt  Hendrix,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Herbert  Vincent  Jones,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

1899.  Cicero  Nichols,  Asheville,  N.  C. 

1900.  Whitefield  Walton  Brockman,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

1901.  George  Booth  Baskervill,  Jr.,  Somerville,  Tenn. 
1900.  Thomas  Battle  McLester,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

(Affiliated  from  Virginia  '/JtiB..) 


THE  SCROLL.  515 

1899.  Allison  Buntin,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

(Affiliated  from  Tennessee  Beta.) 

1900.  Garnett  Logan  Jackson, ,  Texas. 

(Affiliated  from  Mississippi  Alpha.) 

TENNESSEE  BETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  THE  SOUTH. 

^o cUss pre^jerick  LaGrange  Smith,  I^uisville,  Ky. 
Marion  Porcher  DuBose,  Sewanee,  Tenn. 
Charles  Wilfred  Gaskell,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Douglass  Haggard,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Mark  William  Levert,  West  Baton  Rouge,  La. 
Ralph  Emerson  Brake,  Findlay,  O. 
Robert  Sorsby  Jemison,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

(Affiliated  from  Alabama  Alpha.) 

OBOROIA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  OEORGIA. 

1900.  Colonel  Clifford  Clary.  Americus,  Ga. 

**       Nathaniel  Macon  Dudley,  Americus,  Ga. 
1898.  Richard  Martin  Lester,  Savannah,  Ga. 

1901.  Josiah  Roy  Nunnelly.  Munroe,  Ga. 

1898.  John  Fondrin  Mitchell,  Thomasville,  Ga. 
1901.  Hamilton  McWhorter,  Lexington,  Ga. 

Howard  Martin  Penn,  Monticello,  Ga. 
James  Columbus  Nevvsome,  Washington,  Ga. 
Henry  Burt  Garret,  Augusta,  Ga. 

OEOROIA  BETA,  EMORY  COLLEGE. 

1899.  Alfred  Perry  Griffin,  Oxford,  Ga. 

1900.  Isaac  vStyles  Hopkins,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Jesse  Morgan  Wood,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Houston  Parks  Houser,  Perry,  Ga. 

1901.  Alvin  Harlan  Underwood,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Alfred  Cureton  Broom,  Newnan,  Ga. 
Gray  Quinney,  Waynesboro,  Ga. 
Charles  Abercombie  Wilkins,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

1899.  Howard  Pope  Park,  Lagrange,  Ga. 

OEOROIA  OAMMA.  MERCER  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Eugene  William  Stetson,  Macon,  Ga. 

John  Mulford  Clark,  Augusta,  Ga. 

Terrell  Brooks  Pearson,  Lumpkin,  Ga. 

William  Taylor  Ledbetter,  Rome,  Ga. 
Special.  Charles  Edwin  Murphy,  Hamilton.  Ga. 
"       James  Albert  Kirvin,  Columbus,  Ga. 

1898.  George  Clarence  Price,  Macon,  Ga. 
1901.  Will  Gunn. 

1899.  Newsom  Cooper,  Columbus,  Cia. 
1901.  Walter  Eugene  Pollock,  Rome,  Ga. 


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ALABAMA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  ALABAMA. 

1900.  Alexander  Christian  Garber,  Laneville,  Ala. 
Bruce  Kilpatrick  Craig,  Selma,  Ala. 
Richard  McLester  Snow,  Tuskaloosa,  Ala. 
Jackson  Clay  Burns,  Burnsville,  Ala. 

1901.  James  Browder  Garber,  Laneville,  Ala. 
Robert  Bruce  Robertson,  Fayette,  Ala. 
Frank  Samuel  Milhous,  Martin  Station,  Ala. 
James  Ross  Forman,  Springville,  Ala. 
David  Harrison  Minge,  Faun.sdale,  Ala. 

(Affiliated  from  Alabama  Beta.) 
ALABAMA  BETA,  ALABAMA  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE. 

1899.  Austin  Morgan  Boyd,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
1901.  William  LeGrande  Burnett,  Eufaula,  Ala. 

'*       Henry  Moss  Copeland,  Troy,  Ala. 

1900.  John  Jefferson  Flowers,  Boiling,  Ala. 

"       Rutherford  vSylvanus  Finch,  Montgomery,  Ala. 

1901.  Frank  Pierce  Folmar,  Troy,  Ala. 

1900.  Carlyle  Nesbit,  Macon,  Ga. 
1899.  John  Percy  Reed,  Marion,  Ala. 

**       Lucius  Kelly  Simmons,  Demopolis,  Ala. 

1901.  Emmet  Walton  Thompson,  Tu.skegee,  Ala. 
1899.  James  Alfred  Ward,  Jr.,  Huntsville,  Ala. 

MISSISSIPPI  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OP  MISSISSIPPI. 

1901.  John  May  Broach,  Meridian,  Miss. 

1899.  Herbert  Lynn  McCluskey,  Atlanta,  Miss. 

**       William  Oregon  Pruitt,  Hou.ston,  Miss. 
1901.  Rdward  Shelby  Ranch,  Edwards,  Miss. 

*'       Joe  Augustus  Spann,  Pelchatchie,  Miss. 

1899.  Walter  Weatherby,  Durant,  Miss. 

1901.  Sam  Edward  Witherspoon,  Jr.,  Meridian,  Miss. 

1900.  Richard  Noble  Whitfield,  vSteens  Creek,  Miss. 

LOUISIANA  ALPHA.  TULANE  UNIVERSITY. 

IVlOl.  Thomas  Gilniore,  St.  Charles  and  9th  Sts.,  New  Or- 
leans. 

TEXAS  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEXA5. 

1900.  Charles  Maxwell  Colville,  Dallas,  Tex. 
Roger  Clark  Wells,  Dallas,  Tex. 

1899.  Edmund  Thornton,  Miller,  Weatherford,  Tex. 
1898.  Waddey  Wingfield  Battle,  Waco,  Tex. 

1901.  Harry  Peyton  Steger,  Bonham,  Tex. 
1S99.   Rufus  Lamor  Hardy,  San  Marcos,  Tex. 
19(J0.  lidgar  Earnest  Witt,  Salado.  Tex. 
1901.  Leonard  Marshall  Dumas,  Eddy,  Tex. 


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TEXAS  a AMM A.  SOUTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Ralph  Alexander  Graves,  Georgetown,  Tex. 

William  Gray  Swenson,  Georgetown,  Tex. 

Harry  Obadiah  Knight,  Hillsboro,  Tex. 

John  Wesley  Snyder,  Georgetown,  Tex. 
18im.  Simon  Peter  Ulrich,  Paris,  Tex. 
1900.  James  Walker  Black,  Llano,  Tex. 

OHIO  ALPHA,  MIAMI  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Karl  Harry  Zwick,  Hamilton,  O. 
1897.  Albert  Clarence  Shaw,  Eaton,  O. 
Special.  Horace  Cooper  Shank,  Hamilton,  O. 

1901.  Charles  McChristie  Hendricks,  Gratis,  O. 
'*       Stanley  Farren  VanPelt,  Wilmington,  (). 

1900.  Stanley  Berry  VanDeman,  Washington  C.  H.,  O. 

1901.  Hugh  Daniel  Schell,  Hamilton,  O. 
Carl  Herrman  Mason,  Hamilton,  O. 
Francis  Meade  Bowen,  Logan,  O. 
Paul  James  VanPelt,  Wilmington,  O. 
William  Barnes  Cullen,  Hamilton,  O. 
Earl  Gardner  Beauchamp,  Hamilton,  O. 


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1900.  Ernest  Hurst  Cherington,  Kingston,  O. 
Charles  Ross  Cary,  Millersburg,  O. 
Jesse  Franklin  McAnally,  Carbondale,  111. 

1901.  Arthur  J.  Curren,  Delaware,  O. 

1899.  Frank  Barnes  Cherington,  Delaware,  O. 
1901.  Louis  Britton  Bowker,  Bryan,  O. 

OHIO  OAnnA.  OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Albert  Franklin  Linscott,  Amesville,  O. 

1901.  Dore  Clayton  Casto,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 
Dwight  Newcomb  Witman,  Athens,  O. 
Ralph  Alphonso  O'Bleness,  Athens,  O. 
Helbert  Jefferson  Herold,  Athens,  O. 
James  Perry  Wood,  Athens,  O. 


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No  initiates.     Chapter  suspended. 

OHIO  ZETA.  OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Charles  Fuller  Dowd,  Toledo,  O. 

1898.  Karl  Bertram  Gerke,  Quincy,  111. 

1899.  Charles  Grosvenor  Bond,  Columbus,  O. 
1898.  Robert  Carter  Reed,  Portsmouth,  Va. 

1901.  Herbert  P.  Senter,  Columbus,  O. 


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OHIO  ETA,  CASE  SCHOOL  OF  APPLIED  SCIENCE 

19(K).  Charles  Watson  Fletcher,  Cleveland.  O. 

William  Charles  Rayner,  Cleveland,  O. 
11M)1.  Laurence  Brooks  Bassett,  Cleveland,  O. 
181)8.  David  Weston  Jones,  Cleveland,  O. 
19(K).  Cecil  Bruce  Clyne,  Cleveland,  O. 
19UI.  Bertram  Douglas  Quarrie,  Cleveland,  O. 
1891).  John  Park  Alexander.  Akron,  O. 
1901.  George  Alfred  Yost,  Cleveland,  O. 

Malcolm  Colburn  Cleveland,  Cleveland,  O. 

1898.  Wilber  Jay  Watson.  Berea,  O. 

INDIANA  ALPHA.  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

19(K).  James  vSayre  Dodge,  Klkhart,  Ind. 
1901.  Otto  Case  Klein.  Mount  Vernon,  Ind. 
1<S99.   Benjamin  Franklin  Miller,  Vermont,  Ind. 
1901.  James  Earl  Woodbury,  Union  City.  Ind. 

Charles  Milton  Dickey,  Tipton,  Ind. 

Harry  Spence  Dickey,  Tipton.  Ind. 

1899.  Thomas  Galoway  Karsell,  Bloomington.  Ind. 
19rKJ.  Charles  James  Laval.  Ivvansville.  Ind. 

(Affiliated  frura  Indianu  Beta.) 

INDIANA  BETA,  WABASH  COLLEGE. 

1898.  John  Miles  Mittchell.  Charleston,  III. 

1899.  Michael  Kmmet  P'oley,  Wingate,  Ind. 

1901.  Joseph  Spencer  Bartholomew,  Valparaiso.  Ind. 
Special.  Karl  Courtland  Banks,  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 
William  Wilboro  Willson.  Barnard,  Ind. 

INDIANA  GAHMA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANAPOLIS. 

1901.  John  Milton  Cunningham,  Fincastle,  Ind. 
Special.  Lawreuce  Bowen  Davis,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
1901.  John  Sherman  Williams,  Wabash,  Ind. 

Pierre  Askren  Van  Sickle,  Wanamaker.  Ind. 

Harvey  Joseph  Hadley,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Herbert  Keaton  Wiley,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Carl  Williamson  McGaughey,  Irvington,  Ind. 

Almon  (laliton  Mace,  Blocher,  Ind. 

INDIANA  DELTA.  FRANKLIN  COLLEGE. 

1899.  Frederick  Glendare  Kenny.  Peru.  Ind. 

1900.  Jesse  Lynch  Holman,  Aurora,  Ind. 

1901.  William  ^Vebster  Wilson,  Franklin,  Ind. 
Guy  Hazelrigg  Guthrie,  Greensburg,  Ind. 
Harry  Hanford  Paskins,  Samaria,  Ind. 

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INDIANA  EPSILON,  HANOVER  COLLEOB. 

l^ni.  Joseph  Leverett  Rogers.  Madison,  Ind. 
VV^illiam  Griggs  Rogers,  Madison,  Ind. 
Hugh  Garber,  Madison,  Ind. 
Michael  P^ggleston  Garber,  Madison.  Ind. 
Thomas  Hopkins  Jenkins,  Warren,  Pa. 

INDIANA  ZETA,  DB  PAUW  UNIVERSITY. 

1901.  Krnest  Roller,  Newman,  111. 

Howard  Logan  Hancock,  Newman,  111. 

PVederic  Leon  Sims,  Portland,  Ind. 
"       Forest  Simpson  Cartwright,  Portland,  Ind. 

Xenophon  Henry  Kdwards,  Fairmount,  Ind. 

Lorenzo  Dow  Macy,  Bartonia,  Ind. 
P.HM).   P^arl  Carson  Walker,  New  Alban3^  Ind. 

Charles  Henry  Baird,  Oak  Grove,  Ind. 
1901.  Albert  Nickum  Doyle,  Van  Buren,  Ind. 

Iron  Porter  Smith,  Greencastle,  Ind. 

ICarle  B.  Parker,  Lagrange,  Ind. 

INDIANA  THBTA.  PURDUE  UNIVERSITY. 

11H)0.  Frank  Herbert  Henley,  Wabash,  Ind. 

Miles  William  O'Brien.  New  Britain,  Conn. 

John  J.  O'Brien,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Herbert  Milton  Woolen,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Jay  Byron  Dill,  Jr.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
1^>01.   Almon  Galiton  Mace,  Blocher,  Ind. 

(Affiliated  from  Indiana  Gamma.). 
MICHIOAN  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MICHIGAN. 

1S99.  Joseph  Milton  Barr,  Joliet,  111. 
George  Neil  Blatt,  Klwood,  111. 

1900.  DeForest  Porter,  Lockport,  N.  Y. 

1901.  Frederick  Law  Lawrie.  Detroit,  Mich. 
Pierre  Barbean  Pendill,  Marquette,  Mich. 
Floyd  Byron  Hull,  Adrian,  Mich. 
Arthur  Morse  Potter,  Denver.  Colo. 
Howell  Llewelyn  Begle,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
Ned  Griffith  Begle,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
Benjamin  Edward  Dolphin,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

MICHIGAN  BETA.  MICHIOAN  5TATE  COLLEGE. 

1900.  Homer  Clark,  Hillsdale,  Mich. 
J.  French  Smith,  Petoskey,  Mich. 
Frank  Gunn. 

1901.  Arthur  Lyons. 
Lucian  Kendrick. 


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MICHIGAN  GAMMA,  HILL5DALB  COLLEGE. 

11)00.  Forest  Willis  Baker,  Jerome,  Mich. 

1807.  William  Richard  Wood,  Unadilla  Forks,  N.  Y, 

11)01.  Charles  Adams  Sheldon.  Hillsdale,  Mich. 

ILLINOIS  ALPHA,  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

11)01.  Edward  Hammett,  Jr.,  Wheaton,  111. 
IIKK).  Joseph  Wesley  Brown,  Atlantic,  la. 
11)01.  Cornelius  Devan  Tomy,  Jr.,  Fairfield,  la. 
11)00.  George  Elmer  Moore,  Monticello,  111. 
11)01.  Charles  Center  Case,  Jr.,  Cherry  Valley,  111. 

Claude  Harry  Seek,  Rock  ford.  111. 

Herbert  Thomas  Wheat,  Rockford,  111. 

Frank  Wesley  Phelps,  Rockford,  111. 

ILLINOIS  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  CHICAGO. 

181)1).  Earl  Creighton  Hales,  Chicago,  111. 
11)00.  George  Alembert  Bray  ton,  Chicago,  111. 
181)8.  Robert  Ivlliot  Graves,  Chicago,  111. 

Fred  Harvey  Hall  Calhoun,  Auburn.  X.  Y. 
1000.   William  Everton  Ramsey,  Chicago,  111. 
181)1).  George  Henry  Ganey,  Aurora,  111. 
"       Charles  W^arren  Chase,  Omaha,  111. 

ILLINOIS  DELTA,  KNOX  COLLEGE. 

1901.  Walter  Roy  McCornack,  Galesburg,  111. 

Clyde  \V^ebster  McCornack,  Galesburg,  111. 
181)9.  Thomas  H.  Blodgett,  Detroit,  Mich. 
1901.   Herman  Hubbell  Potter,  Galesburg,  111. 
"       Clifford  Henry  Mead,  Chillicothe,  111. 

ILLINOIS  ZETA,  LOMBARD  UNIVERSITY. 

Guy  Parke  Conger,  Galesburg,  111, 
Harry  S.  Murphy,  Galesburg,  111. 
sysunT  Warren  Alausin  McElvain,  Avon,  111. 
Fred  Harrison  Bell.  Woodhall,  111. 
George  Pratt  Morris,  Whitewater,  Wis. 

ILLINOIS  ETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS. 

1900.  George  Mifflin  Harker,  Carbondale,  111. 
"       Oliver  Albert  Harker,  Carbondale,  111. 

1898.  Henry  Anthony  Goodridge,  Chicago,  111. 

1901.  Carl  Oscar  Bernhardi,  Rock  Island,  111. 
1897.  Ralph  Steele  Shepardson,  Aurora,  111. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

19CX).  Henry  Justice  Blakely,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
1901.  Elldridge  Bacon,  LaCrosse,  Wis. 


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1901.  Eugene  Neely  Pardee,  Wausau,  Wis. 

1900.  William  Mann  Biersach,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

1899.  John  Kelly  Ragland,  Boonville,  Mo. 

1901.  Frank  Rowe  Barnes,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

1900.  Samuel  Bromnler  Robbins,  Carthage,  111, 

'*       George  Patrick  Hardgrove,  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis. 

MINNESOTA  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MINNESOTA. 

1900.  Edwin  Harry  Strong,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1901.  Ralph  Emerson  Weible,  Weible,  N.  D. 
Louis  Roschman  Wright,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

"       Simon  Joseph  Smith,  Minneapolis,  Minn, 
1900.  Alexander  Victor  Ostrom,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

IOWA  ALPH\,  IOWA  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  George  Everett  Rex,  Kahokia,  Mo. 
Special.  Will  Edward  Guylee,  Mt.  Pleasant,  la. 

1899.  Frank  Dwight  Throop,  Mt.  Pleasant,  la. 

1900.  Fred  Edward  Koch,  Burlington,  la. 
Charles  Ralph  Stafford,   Mt.  Pleasant,  la. 
Charles  Frank  Nevins,  Burlington,  la. 
Archie  Loraine  Day,  ^lt.  Pleasant,  la. 

IOWA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  IOWA. 

1899.  Delbert  Clinton  Peet,  Ananiosa,  la. 

1901.  Glen  Van  Doren  MacMillan,  Rock  Rapids,  la. 
•*       Lewis  Burrows  Morton,  Iowa  Falls,  la. 


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MISSOURI  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI. 

1901.  Edward  Livingston  Drum,  Marble  Hill,  Mo. 

1899.  Harry  William  Smith,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

**       George  Forrest  Maitland,  Richmond,  Mo. 
1901.  Dudlev  Thomas  Dunlop,  1881  PennSt,,  Kansas  City, 
Mo. 
Arthur  Wellington  Brent,  Kirk  wood,  Mo. 
William  Neal  Winter,  Greenville,  Miss. 

niSSOURI  BETA.  WESTMINSTER  COLLEGE 

189*.^  Daniel  Stratton,  Nevada,  Mo. 

*'  Alexander  Law  ton  Gordon,  Fulton,  Mo. 

1900.  Robert  Grant  Cousley,  Sedalia,  Mo. 

1901.  George  Anderson  Campbell,  Commerce,  Mo. 
**  Duncan  McGregor,  Fulton,  Mo. 


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MI550URI  OAMMA,  WASHINGTON  UNIVERSITY. 

19(K).  Silas  Bent  Phillips,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
1901,  Thenston  Wright,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Henry  Ware  Eliot,  Jr.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Eugene  Towner  Senseney,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

KANSAS  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS. 

190().  William  Joseph  Rothrock,  Lawrence,  Kan. 
1899.  John  Herbert  Fletcher,  Fort  Scott,  Kan. 
1901.  William  Piatt  Sayre,  Lawrence,  Kan. 
1898.  Thomas  Bravais  Henry,  Independence,  Kan, 
190L  William  Irwin  Henry,  Independence,  Kan. 

Samuel  E.  Jackman,  Minneapolis,  Kan. 

Loyal  Folliard  Crawford,  Girard,  Kan. 


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NEBRASKA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA. 

1898.  Ernest  Owen  Weber,  Valparaiso,  Neb, 

1897.  Karl  Chandler  Randall,  Phi  Delta  Theta  House,  Lin- 
coln, Neb, 
1901.  Horace  Williston Sherman,  111')  H  St,,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Harry  Allen  Tukey,  2541  Chicago  St.,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Arthur  Collins  Welshans,  2412  Cass  St.,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Chas.  Howard  Abbott,  1021  M  St.,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

CALIFORNIA  ALPHA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

1901.  Joshua  Maxwell  Taft,   13()8  Harrison  St.,  Oakland, 

Cal. 
Clarence  La  Vallen  Creed,  57-")  Hobart  St.,  Oakland, 

Cal. 
Homer  Boushey,   18(K>  Mission  St.,   San  Francisco, 

Cal. 

1900.  Frank  L^nderwood  Bugbee,  1214  West  29th  St.,  Los 

Angeles,  Cal. 

1901.  Fielding  Johnson  Stilson,  812  Kensington  Road,  Los 

Angeles,  Cal. 

CALIFORNIA  BETA.  LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY. 

1900.  Francis  St.  Joseph  Fox,  Red  Lodge,  Mont. 
Howard  Oilman  Hill,  Redlands,  Cal. 

1901.  William  Clarence  Day,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal. 
"       Warren  Philo  Elmer,  Lodi,  O. 

1900.  Edward  Thompson  Maples,  Bakersfield,  Cal. 

1901.  Harrison  Wesley  Hill,  Redlands,  Cal. 

1899.  Ralph  Edson  Oilman,  San  Diego,  Cal. 
1901.  Royall  Charles  Victor,  San  Bernardino,  Cal. 


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EDITORIAL. 

Phi  Delta  Thkta  may  well  be  satisfied  with  her  prog- 
ress during  the  college  year  just  closing.  Her  chapter 
roll  is  now  more  compact  and  homogeneous  than  ever  be- 
fore, the  individual  chapters  are  larger  and  uniformly  pros- 
perous, her  members  have  won  a  larger  share  than  ever  of 
honors  in  college  life  and  in  the  wider  world  outside.  Her 
list  of  soldiers  and  sailors,  of  statesmen  and  diplomats,  of 
orators  and  essayists,  of  athletes  and  musicians,  of  collegians 
and  business  men,  honored  with  positions  of  trust  and  re- 
sponsibility, has  grown  apace  this  year.  Any  one  who  has 
read  carefully  The  Scroll's  report  in  chapter  letters  and 
personal  notes  will  be  struck  with  this  fact.  It  does  not 
mean  that  men  win  distinction  simply  because  they  are  Phis 
or  that  Phis  alone  are  fitted  for  the  highest  places,  but  it 
does  show  that  our  chapters  have  been  initiating  and  gradu- 
ating men  with  the  right  stuff  in  them — real  men — men  who 
will  wear  and  stand  the  test.  The  chapter  that  goes  after 
freshmen  of  this  kind  and  gets  them  and  gets  plenty  of  them, 
is  a  chapter  that  will  always  prosper. 


Get  your  eyes  on  men  of  this  stamp  at  once.  Look  them 
up  in  the  schools  and  towns  from  which  your  college  draws 
its  students,  find  out  about  their  families,  their  social  and 
intellectual  possibilities.  If  they  are  musical  and  athletic, 
so  much  the  better  ;  but  while  you  are  inquiring  don't  for- 
get that  a  man  distinguished  in  every  respect  mentioned  is 
often  kicked  out  of  college  in  disgrace  or  later  out  of  good 
society  because  his  moral  sense  is  weak  or  wanting.  The 
one  thing  we  sometimes  ask  last  and  should  always  ask  first 
about  a  new  man  is  whether  he  is  'straight.'  'Good'  is  an 
adjective  somewhat  in  disrepute  among  latter-day  collegians, 
more's  the  pity,  but  'straight'  tells  the  same  story  and  is 
even  yet  held  in  high  esteem.  When  drunkenness  or  dis- 
honesty, foul  vice  or  shocking  crime  make  a  chapter  blush 


524  THE  SCROLL, 

for  an  alumnus  or  an  upper-class  man  gone  wrong,  it  is  a 
just  punishment  of  the  chapter  that  took  the  freshman  who 
was  handsome  or  muscular  or  popular  or  wealthy,  and  never 
stopped  to  see  whether  he  was  at  the  same  time  morally 
weak  or  rotten.  Get  men  who  are  good  in  every  sense  of 
the  word.  If  a  freshman  blushes  or  looks  uncomfortable 
when  some  senior  so  far  forgets  his  manliness  as  to  utter 
words  or  tell  a  story  he  would  be  ashamed  of  before  his  sis- 
ters and  mother,  keep  an  eye  on  that  freshman  and  respect 
him  high  above  your  senior.  There  is  no  reason  why  fra- 
ternity chapters  should  enter  into  active  competition  with 
the  Sunday-school — nobody  thinks  seriously  of  that  or  ap- 
prehends it.  But  there  are  a  good  many  reasons  why  it 
should  be  possible  to  distinguish  a  crowd  of  fraternity  men 
from  an  equal  number  of  saloon  loafers.  Don't  be  in  too 
much  of  a  hurry  to  make  the  new  men  'tough.*  You  may 
be  sorry  for  it  some  day.  The  editor  is  glad  to  know  that 
Phi  chapters  have  but  little  need  for  such  advice  as  this,  but 
he  does  know  that  in  some  institutions  the  'fast  set,'  which 
is  sometimes  unfortunately  made  up  of  fraternity  men  or  of 
fraternity  chapters,  sets  a  pace  it  is  hard  to  keep  from  fall- 
ing into.  It  is  a  somewhat  doubtful  compliment  to  be  known 
as  the  'swiftest'  chapter  in  college.  Such  titles  are  too  of- 
ten bestowed  on  crowds  of  men  who  are  very  much  too  slow 
to  keep  up  with  their  classes  or  their  debts  or  the  princi- 
ples of  their  fathers  and  mothers. 

The  class  of  '98  has  just  been  mustered  out  of  regular 
service.  Among  them  we  have  had  some  of  our  best  work- 
ers— fighters,  we  were  about  to  say,  but  perhaps  it  w^ere 
well  to  drop  the  figure.  As  each  Phi  who  retires  from  ac- 
tive membership  this  mouth  reads  these  lines,  we  ask  him  to 
reflect  how  much  his  chapter  and  his  Fraternity  have  helped 
him,  and  to  try  to  realize  how  possible  it  is  that  he  may  yet 
gain  even  more  delightful  experiences  and  friendships  from 
the  fact  that  he  is  a  Phi.  As  he  goes  up  and  down  the  laud 
on  errands  of  love  or  war,  of  business  or  pleasure,  he  will 
find  that  the  benefits  of  fraternity  membership  have  but  be- 


THE  SCROLL.  525 

gun  on  commencement  day.  Let  him  be  constantly  on  the 
look  out  for  fraternity  men  and  especially  for  Phis.  The 
American  fraternity  man  is  almost  invariably  a  choice  spirit, 
a  man  worth  meeting  and  knowing.  Keep  in  touch  with 
your  chapter  and  your  college  and  your  Fraternity.  Sub- 
scribe for  The  Scroll  and  read  it  and  write  the  editor 
whenever  you  have  an  item  about  yourself  or  any  other  Phi. 
It  is  your  own  fault  if  you  fail  to  get  endless  satisfaction 
from  now  on  in  the  fact  that  you  are  a  Phi. 


Substantial  progress  has  been  made  this  year  in  the  mat- 
ter of  chapter  houses.  Case,  Union,  Nebraska,  Georgia  and 
Purdue  have  taken  houses  for  the  first  time.  Union,  Le- 
high, Syracuse  and  Allegheny  have  moved  into  larger  and 
better  houses  than  they  occupied  early  in  the  year.  California 
and  Pennsylvania  are  about  to  build  on  an  extensive  scale. 
Dickinson  and  Gettysburg  will  lay  corner-stones  at  com- 
mencement. Chicago  and  Columbia  have  rented  flats. 
Missouri,  De  Pauw,  Washington  and  Jefferson  and  North- 
western expect  to  have  good  news  for  us  in  the  fall.  Funds 
for  building  have  been  started  and  are  growing. 

Never  let  this  work  lag  an  instant.  Keep  the  notes  col- 
lected and  get  more  from  every  new  man  and  from  alumni 
who  have  not  yet  subscribed.  There  is  no  better  outlet  for 
a  chapter's  activity  than  this,  and  a  chapter  that  is  not  stag- 
nant must  be  active.  The  next  convention  is  to  call  to  ac- 
count every  chapter  that  is  not  housed  or  working  on  a 
house  or  a  fund  for  one. 


Two  new  alumni  chapters  are  reported  in  this  issue,  and 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  who  had  already  distanced  her  rivals  in 
this  line,  draws  farther  ahead.  At  least  two  more  may  be 
expected  within  the  next  year.  Each  of  the  new  chapters 
begins  with  about  twenty-five  members,  a  full  assurance 
of  a  successful  career,  and  each  has  an  active  chapter  at 
hand  to  help  and  be  helped  by.  With  the  increasing  num- 
ber of  alumni  chapters  and  their  importance  in  relation  to 


526  THE  SCROLL. 

every  phase  of  fraternity  work,  it  is  a  serious  question 
whether  they  should  not  be  assigned  as  the  exclusive  field 
of  work  of  some  member  of  the  General  Council,  as  has 
been  done  already  in  the  ca^e  of  at  least  one  fraternity.  The 
members  of  all  our  alumni  chapters  will  please  note  the  re- 
quests from  active  chapters  for  information  in  regard  to  men 
entering  college  next  fall  whom  Phis  would  do  well  to  culti- 
vate— or  beware  of.  When  there  is  any  doubt  as  to  the  re- 
porter's address,  the  editor  of  The  Scroll  may  be  safely 
trusted  with  the  message. 


The  complete  fraternization  between  the  north  and  the 
south,  which  has  been  so  marked  since  the  beginning  of 
the  war  with  Spain,  is  the  fulfillment  of  a  hope  which  our 
Fraternity  has  cherished  for  many  years.  None  more 
than  members  of  ^  A  0  have  reason  to  rejoice  at  the  re- 
sult. At  the  close  of  the  civil  war  in  ISGo  4>  A  ©  had  three 
active  chapters  in  Indiana,  one  in  Kentucky  and  one  in 
Michigan.  Four  years  later  a  chapter  was  established  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  thence  the  Fraternity  extended  to  all  important 
southern  institutions,  until  it  became  the  strongest  college 
fraternity  in  the  south  that  had  entered  from  the  north. 
4>  A  0  has  emphasized  the  national  idea.  It  is  our  proud 
boast  that  our  chapters  extend  from  the  lakes  to  the  gulf 
and  from  ocean  to  ocean.  So  far  as  lay  within  our  power 
we  have  contributed  to  the  restoration  of  good  feeling  be- 
tween the  once  separated  sections.  Twenty-one  years  ago 
a  southern  man  was  chosen  as  president  of  ^  A  0,  and  since 
then  southern  Phis  have  been  prominent  in  the  councils  of 
the  Fraternity.  In  the  war  of  1861-6.")  northern  Phis  and 
southern  Phis  were  arrayed  against  each  other  on  the  field 
of  battle.  In  the  war  of  181KS  brothers  of  the  north  and  of 
the  south  alike  are  enlisted  against  a  foreign  foe;  and,  thank 
God,  they  fight  under  one  flag — the  old  flag.  *  A  0  hails 
the  return  of  perfect  national  unity.  Long  live  our  country! 
Long  live  our  Fraternity ! 


THE  SCROLL,  527 


Chapter  Correspondence* 

ALPHA  PROVINCE. 

NEW  HAHPSHIRB  ALPHA.  DARTHOUTH  COLLEGE. 

Since  writing  our  last  letter  the  college  has  been  most  profoundly 
moved.  When  the  president's  call  for  volunteers  came  it  found  ready 
response  at  Dartmouth,  and  about  thirty  of  our  undergraduates  have 
begun  service,  most  of  them  in  the  quota  from  New  Hampshire,  with 
a  few  in  Vermont  and  other  states.  About  twenty  have  joined  Com- 
pany E,  Third  New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  and  they  left  on  last  Mon- 
day. College  exercises  were  suspended,  streets  and  buildings  deco- 
rated, and  the  little  company  went  to  the  station  escorted  by  the 
Dartmouth  military  band,  two  military  companies  of  students,  and  the 
remainder  of  the  college,  comprising  in  all  afx)ut  7(K)  students. 
Among  those  who  have  enlisted  are  Bros.  Carr,  Mitchell  and  Turner, 
'98,  and  Bailey,  '97,  who  had  just  been  appointed  instructor  in  miner- 
alogy. New  Hampshire  Alpha  delights  in  honoring  these  brothers, 
and  we  shall  follow  them  with  loving  interest  wherever  duty  may 
call  them.  The  senior  class  has  lost  twelve  men  by  enlistment,  and 
the  trustees  have  recently  voted  to  grant  them  their  degree  with  the 
class  in  June. 

Since  war  was  declared,  two  military  companies  have  been  organ- 
ized in  college,  and  they  are  doing  some  very  hard  work  in  order  to 
be  in  readiness  for  any  further  call  for  men.  Bro.  D.  B.  Rich,  '(X),  is 
captain  of  one  company,  and  Bro.  Barney,  '99,  is  second  lieutenant  of 
the  other. 

College  and  fraternity  work  have  been  much  interrupted  by  the 
excitement  which  pervades  the  country,  and  little  news  concerning 
either  college  or  chapter  can  be  given.  Base  ball  and  athletics  are  re- 
viving slowly,  and  good  results  may  yet  be  obtained.  This  evening 
Dartmouth  meets  Brown  in  debate  for  the  first  time,  at  Hanover.  On 
next  Tuesday  evening  our  third  annual  debate  at  Williamstown  takes 
place.     Bro.  Clare,  '99,  is  alternate  in  the  latter  debate. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis  for  the  summer  vacation  so  near  at 
hand,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Hanover,  May  9,  1H9S.  B.  C.  Roik;krs. 

VERMONT  ALPHA,  UMVER5ITY  OF  VERMONT. 

As  our  base  ball  season  draws  to  a  close  Vermont  has  a  record  of 
games  of  which  to  be  proud.  Among  college  games  we  have  won 
this  year  from  Cornell,  I'nion,  West  Point,  Hobart,  Bates  and  Tufts, 
tied  Syracuse,  and  lost  only  to  Georgetown  and  Harvard.  The  team 
lost  two  players  on  account  of  the  Spanish-American  war,  and  indeed 
has  been  winning  only  under  great  difficulties.  The  season  will  end 
with  a  New  England  trip,  June  W  %.  Bro.  Forbes,  '98,  as  manager, 
and  Bro.  Murray,  '00,  in  left  field,  are  Vermont  Alpha's  representa- 
tives on  the  team.  The  inter-class  series  of  base  ball  games  for  the 
Dyer  cup  is  now  being  played.     The  Phis  on  the  various  class  teams 


528  THE  SCROLL. 

are  Andrews,  *99,  Lincoln  (captain)  and  Beebe,  *00, and  Parker,  UflFord 
and  Perry  (captain),  *01.  Bro.  Marvin  is  manager  of  the  freshman 
team. 

Nineteen  brave  men  have  left  the  university  in  this  hour  of  their 
country's  need  and  gone  to  the  front.  The  present  war  has  also  taken 
from  us  our  genial  and  popular  military  instructor,  Lieutenant  Bailey. 
He  was  given  a  royal  farewell  on  the  eve  of  his  departure  by  the  uni- 
versity battalion  and  will  ever  be  attended  in  his  career  by  the  good 
will  of  the  student  body. 

At  the  coming  commencement  Bro.  Ray  will  deliver  the  president's 
address  and  Bro.  Patrick  the  boulder  oration  on  class  day.  Bros.  Clif- 
ton D.  Howe  and  Ray  have  been  chosen  commencement  speakers. 
At  the  recent  election  for  the  University  Cynic  Bro.  Beebe,  '00,  was 
chosen  assistant  business  manager. 

We  are  pained  to  note  the  death  of  one  of  Vermont  Alpha's  charter 
members,  Edmund  C.  Lane,  '82,  who  died  in  Omaha,  Neb.,  April  20, 
1898.  He  was  graduated  at  the  Albany  Law  School  in  the  class  of  '84 
and  had  practiced  law  in  Omaha  for  many  years. 

Among  the  recently  married  alumni  of  our  chapter  are  Bros.  Avery, 
'94,  and  Wheeler,  ex-'95. 

Before  this  number  of  The  Scroli«  is  published  we  shall  have  added 
one  more  Phi  to  our  '01  delegation,  Charles  Allen  Kern,  of  this  city,  a 
brother  of  Bro.  W.  P.  Kern,  '97.  This  act  will  bring  toward  its  close 
one  of  the  most  prosperous  years  in  the  history  of  our  chapter. 

Wishing  a  happy  summer  to  all  brothers  in  the  Bond,  I  remain 

Yours  fraternally, 

Burlington,  June  3,  1898.  C.  F.  Blair. 

MASSACHUSETTS  BETA.  AMHERST  COLLEQE. 

The  winter  term  closed  with  sorrow  in  the  hearts  of  all  for  the  loss 
we  suffered  in  the  death  of  Prof.  Henry  Allyn  Frink,  who  passed  away 
March  25.  He  was  a  man  of  strength  and  helpfulness  to  all  who  knew 
him,  and  his  death  came  as  a  personal  loss  to  every  member  of  the 
college.  His  department  will  be  carried  on  by  Prof.  George  B. 
Churchill.  President  Gates  is  in  Europe  enjoying  a  year's  leave  of 
absence,  and  Dr.  Hitchcock  is  the  executive  during  the  interim. 

The  heavy  gymnastic  exhibition  was  held  March  23.  Bro.  Wright, 
'98,  led  the  gymnastic  events.  Bro.  Gladwin,  '01,  lowered  the  time  of 
the  15-yard  dash  from  25  to  2?,  seconds.  Our  athletes  have  carried 
themselves  with  credit  in  the  out-door  meets  this  spring,  as  well.  In 
the  dual  meet  with  Technology,  Bro.  Strong,  '98,  took  first  place  in 
the  440-yard  dash;  in  the  880- yard  run,  second  and  third  places  were 
won  by  Bros.  Gladwin,  '01,  and  Klaer,  *00,  respectively;  Bro.  Klaer 
also  took  third  in  the  high  jump,  and  Bros.  Gladwin,  '01,  and  Mac- 
AUister,  '98,  first  and  second  prizes  in  the  broad  jump.  The  Williams 
meet  was  held  on  our  home  grounds  May  14.  Bro.  MacAllister,  '98, 
lowered  the  tri- collegiate  record  for  the  broad  jump  by  ten  inches, 
clearing  21  ft.  4^  inches.  In  the  same  event  Bro.  Gladwin  was  sec- 
ond. Bros.  Klaer,  '00,  and  Strong,  '98,  won  respectively  the  half-mile 
run  and  the  440-yard  dash.  On  the  base  ball  team  we  are  represented 
by  Bro.  Whitney,  '99,  in  the  position  of  catcher. 

Our  success  along  literary  lines  is  as  marked  as  in  athletics.  At 
the  recent  elections  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Bros.  Lyman,  '98,  Brooks,  '9i), 
and  Austin,  '99,  received  the  honor  of  admission.  Bro.  Austin  has 
taken  the  junior  Latin  prize  of  fifteen  dollars.     Bro.  Strong,  '98,  has 


THE  SCROLL.  539 

been  chosen  on  the  'Hardy  sixteen*  competitive  debate;  and  on  the 
*Kellogg  fifteens'  we  have  Bros.  Hurd,  MK),  and  Gladwin,  '01. 

The  Amherst  Student  still  has  a  large  representation  from  Phi  Delta 
Theta.  For  the  coming  year  Bro.  Marriott,  '99,  will  fulfill  the  duties 
of  editor-in-chief,  while  Bros.  RaJ>mond,  '99,  and  King,  '99,  are  asso- 
ciate editors. 

The  annual  reception  of  the  chapter  is  fixed  for  May  25.  It  will  be 
particularly  enjoyable,  since  our  house  and  grounds  have  had  a  large 
amount  of  money  expended  on  them  this  spring  and  are  in  better  con- 
dition than  ever  before.  The  tenth  annual  banquet  comes  May  27,  at 
which  we  hope  to  see  a  large  number  of  alumni  present.  This  first 
decennial  of  ours  marks  an  important  stage  in  our  chapter  life,  and 
we  shall  also  remember  that  it  is  the  semi-centennial  of  the  Fraterni- 
ty's existence. 

We  have  tried  the  experiment  this  year  of  choosing  our  rushing 
chairman  a  year  in  advance,  and  its  excellent  working  is  attested  in 
the  confidence  with  which  we  are  already  enabled  to  look  forward  to 
the  active  season.  And,  bv  the  way,  let  me  introduce  to  the  Frater- 
nity Bro.  Elmer  Wesley  Wiggins,  '01,  of  Warsaw,  New  York,  our  new 
initiate. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Amherst,  May  17,  1H98.  Chester  M.  Grover. 

RHODE  I3LAND  ALPHA.  BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  had  the  pleasure  of  initiating  two  men 
from  the  freshman  class,  Bro.  George  Burdick  and  Bro.  Wm.  Riggs 
Harvey. 

In  this  time  also  the  Liber  Brunensis  has  been  issued,  and  the  next 
year's  board  has  elected  its  officers.  Bro.  Greene,  '98,  was  editor-in- 
chief  this  year,  and  Bro.  Putney,  '99,  has  that  position  on  the  new 
board.  A  large  part  of  the  literary  work  and  most  of  the  sketches 
were  done  by  Phis.  Bros.  Greene  and  Putney  did  a  great  deal  of  the 
former,  and  Bro.  Stillman  most  of  the  latter.  The  '98  A;^^r  is  gen- 
erally considered  about  college  the  best  one  ever  issued,  but  we  hope 
that  Bro.  Putney  will  be  able  to  more  than  equal  it  next  year. 

The  base  ball  team  has  got  down  to  hard  work  and  will,  we  expect, 
make  a  very  creditable  showing,  even  if  first  place  should  be  denied 
us.  May  7,  Princeton  was  defeated  on  Lincoln  Field  in  a  twelve  in- 
ning game  by  a  score  of  7-C.  Up  to  the  ninth  inning  it  looked  like  a 
shut  out  for  Brown,  but  in  that  inning  the  score  was  tied  on  a  combi- 
nation of  hits  and  errors,  and  the  fun  began.  May  14,  Yale  was  com- 
Sletely  outclassed  and  defeated  by  a  score  of  17-2,  after  having  both 
er  pitchers  knocked  out  of  the  box. 

Class  day,  the  great  undergraduate  and  fraternity  day  of  the  year, 
comes  June  10,  and  preparations  are  being  made  at  the  present  time 
for  a  very  successful  event. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Providence,  May  19,  1898.  H.  G.  Wilcox. 

NEW  YORK  ALPHA.  CORNELL  UNIYER5ITY. 

In  university  interests  *  A  B  continues  to  hold  up  her  end  in  a  cred- 
itable manner.  Karly  this  term  Bro.  A.  K.  Whiting  was  elected  cap- 
tain of  the  'varsity  foot  ball  team.  This  year  as  last  'Pop'  Warner 
will  be  head  graduate  coach.     Under  his  able  teaching  and  Bro.  Whit- 


530  THE  SCROLL. 

ing's  leadership,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  several  of  her  best  men 
have  left,  Cornell  will  have  a  foot  ball  team  that  will  be  as  much 
superior  to  last  year's  team  as  last  year's  was  better  than  the  one 
before  it.  We  warn  you.  therefore,  Phi  captains  and  players,  who 
will  meet  Cornell  players  on  the  gridiron  next  fall,  to  look  out  for 
yourselves.  *  A  B  will  have  other  representatives  on  the  field,  among 
them  Bros.  Starbuck  and  Coit  of  the  *00  team,  Bro.  Dempsey,  of  last 
fall's  'varsity,  and  Bro.  Bassford,  of  'varsity,  '96. 

The  students,  as  a  whole,  are  perhaps  most  interested  at  this  season 
of  the  year  in  the  crews  and  their  prospects.  After  a  long  delay — in 
the  minds  of  the  students,  too  long  a  delay — the  athletic  council  has 
finally  sent  to  Harvard  and  Yale  its  ultimatum.  According  to  the 
message  Harvard  and  Yale  will  row  us  on  the  date  originally  agreed 
upon  or  not  at  all.  This  date  is  the  23d  or  24th  of  June.  It  is  abso- 
lutely necessary  that  Cornell  row  this  race  upon  that  date  because  of 
the  necessity  of  her  having  at  least  one  week  to  transport  crews  and 
shells  from  New  London  to  Saratoga,  where  she  will  row  Columbia 
and  Pennsylvania  on  July  1.  New  York  Alpha  has  two  men  rowing 
in  the  freshmen  squad — Bros.  English  and  Fay,  both  of  whom  stand  a 
good  chance  of  making  a  seat  in  their  class  boat.  Bro.  Ihlder,  who 
was  rowing  early  in  the  term  in  the  second  'varsity,  has  been  com- 
pelled to  stop  on  account  of  his  heart.  Bro.  Coit  is  still  at  it  with  a 
chance  of  going  to  New  London  and  Saratoga,  at  least  as  a  sub.,  if  not 
as  a  full  member  of  the  crew. 

Cornell's  base  ball  team  has  made  a  good  showing  this  season.  Bro. 
Haskell,  who  last  year  played  second  base,  has  been  moved  to  short 
stop,  where  he  is  playing  his  usual  errorless  game.  Bros.  White  and 
Brower,  of  the  '00  base  ball  team,  have  been  working  hard  with  the 
second  team.  Next  year  their  prospects  for  a  place  on  the  Varsity 
should  be  very  bright. 

On  the  track  New  York  Alpha  has  had  three  representatives,  each 
of  whom  has  done  her  proud.  Bro.  Thomson  in  the  100  yard  and  2*20 
yard  dashes  and  quarter-mile  run  has  won  many  points  for  Cornell  in 
her  meets  with  Syracuse  and  Columbia  and  Pennsylvania.  On  ac- 
count of  thesis  work  he  has  been  obliged  to  stop  training,  consequent- 
ly he  will  not  go  to  the  inter-collegiate  meet.  Hro.  Zeller  has  been 
walking  in  first-class  shape.  He  will  go  to  the  inter  collegiate,  where 
w-e  hope  he  will  prove  a  dark  horse.  If  his  competitors  do  not  run, 
he  will  come  in  with  the  first  of  them.  Bro.  Kinsey  has  been  doing 
excellent  work  in  the  pole-vault,  making  a  new  Cornell  record  at  the 
spring  meet  here,  winning  several  points  in  the  different  meets  and 
getting  his  *  C  '  at  Columbia.  Unfortunately,  in  his  efforts  to  win 
laurels  for  Cornell  and  4>  A  6,  he  injured  himself  quite  severely,  and  as 
a  consequence  is  in  the  hospital,  on  the  road,  we  hope,  to  a  speedy 
recovery. 

Bro,  Whiting  has  been  elected  president  of  the  musical  clubs.  Bro. 
Wynne,  leader  of  the  glee  club,  is  getting  his  men  into  shape  for  senior 
week,  now  not  far  off. 

Bro.  Morrison  has  an  important  place  in  the  cast  of  the  Masque, 
Cornell's  dramatic  association. 

Bro.  Bassford  was  a  member  of  the  'varsity  fencing  team  this  year. 

New  York  Alpha  expects  to  entertain  several  of  her  alumni,  with 
their  sisters,  mothers  and  sweethearts,  during  senior  week.  The  house 
will  be  turned  over  to  the  entertainment  of  its  guests. 

During  the  term  the  Phis  on  the  several  base  ball  teams  that  have 
been  in  Ithaca  have  been  met  by  the  fellows  on  our  team,  and  if  time 


THE  SCROLL,  531 

allowed  brought  up  to  the  lod^e,  where  we  are  always  glad  to  welcome 
any  and  all  Phis  who  may  be  in  Ithaca. 

We  would  be  very  glad  if  any  Phis  knowing  of  men  who  expect  to 
come  to  Cornell  next  year  and  who,  they  think,  would  make  good 
material  for  *  A  B  to  work  upon,  would  send  word  to  us,  giving  the 
man's  full  name  and,  if  possible,  his  boarding-house  address.  We 
will  thus  be  enabled  to  *  get  into  the  game  '  ahead  of  some  of  tlie  other 
fraternities.  Such  an  attention  would  l>e  greatly  appreciated  by  New 
York  Alpha,  and  I  can  assure  you  that  we  will  be  glad  to  do  a  similar 
favor  for  the  rest  of  you. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  pleasant  summer  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  May  25,  IStKS.  Geo.  Sri,i,krs  Smith. 

NEW  YORK  BETA.  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

Again  New  York  Beta  begs  leave  to  report  progress.  We  have  just 
moved  into  a  new  and  much  more  commodious  house  on  University 
Place,  only  a  short  distance  from  the  college  campus,  where  nearly  all 
our  members  can  he  accommodated  next  year.  This  will  be  of  great 
advantage  to  us  in  next  fall's  rushing  season. 

Commencement  week  begins  June  H>.  At  this  time  Phi  Delta  Theta 
>**ill  be  prominent  in  the  exercises.  We  have  three  men  to  graduate  in 
the  class  of  '98.  Bro.  Fisher  has  received  an  appointment  to  the  com- 
mencement stage,  has  received  special  honors  in  the  department  of 
geology,  and  has  been  elected  to  membership  in  Sigma  Xi.  Bro. 
Griffith  has  received  special  honors  in  the  departments  of  Greek  and 
Latin.  Bro.  Cullen  has  been  elected  by  his  class  to  deliver  the  ivy 
oration. 

Twelve  or  thirteen  of  our  members  will  return  to  college  next  fall, 
and  with  two  men  pledged  out  of  the  class  of  nH)2,  we  will  begin  the 
next  year  in  very  good  condition. 

Our  reporter  for  next  year  will  be  Bro.  John  I).  Edwards,  '00.  His 
summer  address  is  Northville,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y. 

As  I  close  I  would  refer  all  who  are  interested  in  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  camp  to  seek  elsewhere  in  Thk  Scroi.i^  for  notice  of  definite 
arrangements. 

Wishing  all  Phis  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  June  2,  ISIKS,  D.  J.  HoyT. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA.  COLUHBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

Columbia  is  in  the  midst  of  examinations,  and  though  most  of  the 
chapter  men  are  in  consequence  pretty  well  occupied  with  work,  we 
still  find  time  to  do  a  little  hustling,  and  as  a  result  take  great  pleas- 
ure in  introducing  a  new  Greek  in  the  person  of  W.  Brooke  Lessig, 
*i>9.  law.  In  a  few  days  we  shall  initiate  Bernard  M.  L.  Ernst,  '99, 
college,  who  has  already  been  pledged.  Mr.  Ernst  was  one  of  Col- 
umbia's representatives  in  her  joint  debate  with  Chicago  University, 
and  the  success  of  Columbia  was  due  in  no  small  part  to  his  good  and 
effective  work.  A  couple  of  other  good  men  whom  we  have  on  the  string 
will  also  be  taken  in  either  before  the  end  of  this  year  or  early  in  the 
fall. 

With  the  close  of  the  year  the  summer  vacation  problem  again 
stares  us  in  the  face,  but  we  hope  to  be  able  to  keep  our  rooms  over 
the  summer  months,  should  our  present  negotiations  prove  successful. 


532  THE  SCROLL, 

By  graduation  this  year  we  in  all  probability  shall  lose  but  three 
men,  all  from  the  law  contingent — Bros.  A.  W.  Opp,  Henry  W.  Egner, 
A.  B.,  and  O.  W.  Ehrhorn,  A.  M.  Bro.  Stallo  Vinton  is  graduated 
from  the  college  this  year,  but  expects  to  return  next  year  as  a  student 
of  the  law  school. 

Bro.  Otto  Hink,  '99,  college,  recently  elected  secretary  of  the  Philo- 
lexian  Society,  has  been  doing  good  work  as  a  debater  and  has  re- 
ceived high  mention  in  several  inter-society  contests. 

Bros.  Riederer  and  Waldenberger,  '97,  mines,  who  have  been  taking 
graduate  courses  in  chemistry  at  Munich,  Germany,  have  completea 
their  studies,  and  will  return  to  this  country  in  a  few  weeks.  Bro. 
Parish,  who  at  last  reports  had  penetrated  Abyssinia  beyond  the  reach 
of  the  mail,  is  also  expected  to  return  this  year  to  enter  the  school  of 
mines,  where  he  is  needed  to  help  recruit  our  customary  strength  in 
the  lower  classes  of  that  department,  we  at  present  having  but  one 
representative  there,  Bro.  Bell,  '99. 

On  the  whole,  though.  New  York  Delta  ends  an  eminently  success- 
ful year,  the  chapter  closing  the  season  a  stronger  body  than  it 
opened  it. 

In  this  issue  the  reporter  sorrowfully  takes  his  official  leave,  yet 
proudly  thankful  that  he  can  say  to  his  9,000  brother  Greeks  from 
Maine  to  California,  with  all  that  is  implied  in  the  expression — I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond  of  Phi  Delta  Theta, 

New  York,  May  30,  1898.  Oscar  Weeks  Ehrhorn. 

NEW  YORK  BP5ILON,  SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY. 

New  York  Epsilon  is  ending  her  eleventh  year  very  auspiciously. 
To  be  sure,  we  lose  a  number  of  men  by  graduation  ;  but  while  we 
keenly  feel  their  loss,  we  realize  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  will  be  strength- 
ened with  such  men  as  these  as  alumni.  Other  brothers  will  be  una- 
ble to  return  next  year,  but  we  shall  hold  them  as  a  reserve  force  until 
they  do  return.  Their  places  will  be  filled  so  far  as  possible  by  the 
members  who  have  been  out  for  a  year  or  two,  but  whom  we  expect 
to  have  with  us  next  fall.  Since  our  last  communication  we  have  in- 
itiated Brother  Harry  Hoskins  Simpson,  who  we  trust  will  prove  to  be 
all  we  expect  of  him.  Our  '01  delegation  have  shown  themselves  to 
be  earnest,  energetic  men  of  fine  morals,  excellent  scholastic  attain- 
ments and  decided  social  qualifications  ;  New  York  Epsilon  already 
feels  herself  benefited  by  their  influence  and  example.  The  past  year 
has  been  significant  for  the  advance  New  York  Epsilon  has  made.  It 
is  our  wish  that  each  succeeding  year  shall  be  marked  by  the  same 
characteristic. 

Brother  Leonard,  dean  of  the  college  of  liberal  arts,  is  of  great  help 
to  us.  His  position  in  the  high  esteem  of  the  faculty  and  student 
body  is  firmly  established.  Brother  Sibley,  librarian,  or  'Uncle,'  as 
we  call  him,  has  been  seriously  ill  with  rheumatism,  but  is  improving. 

The  university  glee  club,  which  included  two  of  our  number,  re- 
turned a  few  weeks  ago  from  the  most  successful  trip  in  its  history. 
Brother  Dolph,  our  basso  profundo,  contributed  largely  to  the  success 
of  the  club  and  received  the  lion's  share  of  credit  and  attention. 

The  base  ball  team  made  a  successful  trip  at  Easter,  returning  with 
divers  metaphorical  scalps  dangling  from  its  belt,  having  met  with 
but  one  defeat.  \Vc  have  five  Phis  on  the  team.  Brother  Voorhees, 
captain  and  pitcher;  Brother  Gregory,  catcher;  Brothers  Lipes,  Kelly 
and  Low,  short  stop,  left  and  right  field,  respectively. 


THE  SCROLL.  533 

Next  September  we  move  into  a  new  house,  which,  while  it  is  not 
our  own,  is  being  built  for  us.  It  is  desirably  located  on  'Fraternity 
Row '  (long  o  in  Row,  please;,  is  thoroughly  modern  in  all  its  ap- 
pointments, and  will  accommodate  twenty -six  men. 

We  close  the  year  encouraged  by  the  past  to  hope  for  even  better 
things  in  the  future.  When  the  delegates  to  the  '98  Alpha  province 
convention  come  to  Syracuse,  we  want  to  show  them  an  enthusiastic, 
loyal,  progressive,  hospitable  chapter,  and  one  that  can  show  the 
world  how  Phis  love  one  another. 

In  the  Bond, 

Syracuse,  May  2S,  1898.  Ai«i,EX  DrNC.\N  Burnham. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ALPHA.  LAFAYETTE  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroll,  many  changes  have  taken 
place  at  Lafayette.  From  the  smoked  ruins  of  Pardee  Hall,  which 
was  gutted  by  fire  the  eighteenth  of  last  December,  a  new  Pardee  is 
fast  rising.  Great  was  the  loss  which  we  suffered  from  the  burning  of 
this  beautiful  monument  of  American  liberality.  But  kind  and  liberal 
friends  have  come  to  the  rescue,  and  soon  we  will  be  able  to  dedicate 
our  new  Pardee. 

The  college  year,  which  is  fast  drawing  to  a  close,  has  been  one  of 
much  rivalry  among  the  fraternities  of  Lafayette.  Our  chapter  now 
numbers  fourteen,  all  men  of  sterling  worth  and  ever  mindful  of  their 
duty  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  We  have  initiated  since  our  last  report 
Brothers  Fassit,  Hinkle,  Van  Horn  and  Robb,  of  the  class  of  '01,  and 
Brothers  Hagney  and  Williams  of  '9i>.  Edmund  S.  Tillinghast,  of 
East  Hampton,  N.  Y.,  now  wears  ours  pledge  button,  and  we  expect 
to  initiate  him  next  term.  Here,  as  elsewhere.  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  al- 
ways fouu'^  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight  for  new  men,  and  the  blue  and 
white  is  very  seldom,  if  ever,  lower^  in  defeat.  This  is  no  doubt  due 
to  the  excellent  standing  which  the  Fraternity  has  always  enjoyed 
here.  From  the  very  first  its  members  have  been  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  various  phases  of  college  life,  and  of  this  year  more  than 
of  any  other  is  this  true. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  making  a  record  of  which  we  are  all  justly 
proud.  It  has  already  trailed  the  blue  of  Yale  in  the  dust.  Harvard  has 
tallen  a  victim  to  its  prowess,  and  Princeton  has  lowered  her  colors. 
We  are  well  represented  on  it  by  Brothers  Hubley  and  Bray.  Hubley 
is  a  most  brilliant  third  baseman,  and  Bray  is  a  fielder  whom  any 
team  would  be  glad  to  claim. 

We  are  well  represented  in  all  coUegti  organizations.  At  a  recent 
meeting  of  the  athletic  association  Brother  Pierce  was  elected  assist- 
ant manager  of  the  base  ball  team.  Brother  Livingston  is  assistant 
manager  of  the  track  team.  We  are  represented  on  the  banjo  and 
mandolin  clubs  by  Brothers  Hultgren  and  Douglas.  Brother  Hagney, 
who  is  a  sprinter  of  ability,  represents  us  on  the  track.  Brothers  Bray, 
Pierce  and  Sixe  are  our  representatives  on  the  gridiron.  Brother 
Moon  was  rv^cently  elected  Mantle  orator  by  the  class  of  '99.  He  was 
also  on  the  '99  Milau<^c  board,  and  his  work  as  artist  was  most  credit- 
able. Bro.  D3uglas  was  elected  assistant  editor-in-chief  of  the  Mi- 
ia flirt'  to  be  published  by  the  class  of  1999. 

We  lose  by  graduation  this  year  Brother  Myers,  who  is  a  prominent 
man  in  his  class  and  a  staunch  Phi. 

The  chapter  now  occupies  a  handsome  suite  of  rooms  in  a  very 
pleasant  localit}'.     Prominent  among  our  resident  alumni  is  Dr.  O.  M. 


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Richards,  who  is  a  loyal  Phi  and  ever  willing  to  lend  a  helpin?  hand. 
The  chapter  has  had  pleasant  visits  from  Brothers  Smith,  Van  Alen  and 
Sexton,  of  the  class  of  '97,  also  from  Brother  Gillette,  of  Williams, 
and  Brother  Straiib,  of  Lehigh. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Easton,  May  2f),  ISOS.  Geor(;k  P.  Wiixiams. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BBTA.  QETTYSBURQ  COLLEQE. 

The  members  of  Pennsylvania  Beta,  like  most  students  at  this  time, 
are  very  busy  with  examinations  and  other  duties  incident  to  the  clos- 
ing of  college.  June  loth  has  been  chosen  for  commencement  day. 
This  year  we  lose  two  good  men  by  graduation — Bro.  Singmaster,  who 
has  been  appointed  as  one  of  the  ten  commencement  speakers,  and 
Bro.  Krafft,  who  will  deliver  the  ivy  poem  on  class  day. 

Bros.  B.  R.  Lautz,  '94,  and  J.  S.  English,  '94,  graduate  from  the 
theological  seminary  this  year.  Their  commencement  exercises  will 
be  held  on  the  second  of  June.  Bro.  Lautz  is  one  of  the  four  speakers 
on  that  occasion. 

So  far  this  spring  we  have  not  been  quite  up  to  the  standard  of 
former  years  in  athletics.  Gettysburg  was  not  represented  in  the  inter- 
collegiate races  held  at  Philadelphia  this  year,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
several  members  of  the  team  were  sick  or  away  from  college  at  the 
time.  Our  base  ball  team  has  also  been  handicapped  by  the  loss  of  a 
number  of  its  best  players.  One  has  signed  with  the  New  York  league 
team  and  several  have  left  to  shoulder  the  musket  for  Uncle  Sam. 
Notwithstanding  these  losses  we  hope  to  be  successful  in  the  remain- 
ing games  to  be  played. 

Bro.  E.  C.  Gillette,  Williams,  '94,  who  is  now  attending  Hartford 
Seminary,  paid  us  a  short  visit  recently. 

Bro.  George  W.  Welsh,  Lehigh,  '01,  spent  several  days  with  us  a 
short  time  ago. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Gettysburg,  May  17,  1898.  J.  Clyde  Markel. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAHnA.  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  present  term  has  been  an  eventful  one  and  the  war  has  been 
the  chief  subject  of  conversation.  College  work,  as  a  consequence, 
has  been  interfered  with  to  a  certain  extent.  When  the  call  for  vol- 
unteers came  many  students  responded  and  are  now  at  the  front.  A 
large  number  were  members  of  the  national  guard  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  when  it  became  certain  that  the  guard  would  be  called  out  many 
more  joined.  The  majority,  nearly  a  score,  joined  Company  H,  Tenth 
Regiment,  of  this  place,  and  many  their  home  commands.  Two  other 
students  are  members  of  the  state  naval  reserves  and  are  awaiting  or- 
ders to  report  for  duty.  The  day  the  local  company  left  for  Mt.  Gretna, 
the  place  of  mobilization,  the  boys  were  given  a  great  *  send-oif,'  and 
an  immense  parade  was  formed.  The  students  of  the  college  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  proceedings  in  honor  of  their  college  mates, 
who  made  up  nearly  a  third  of  the  company.  Company  H,  being 
composed  largely  of  W.  and  J.  students  and  graduates,  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  in  the  guard,  and  always  ranks  hi^h.  The  patriotism 
of  the  men  composing  it  is  undoubted,  as  since  gomg  into  camp  every 
man  has  joined  the  volunteer  army  of  the  United  States. 


530  THE  SCROLL. 

ing's  leadership,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  several  of  her  best  men 
have  left,  Cornell  will  have  a  foot  ball  team  that  will  be  as  much 
superior  to  last  year's  team  as  last  year's  was  better  than  the  one 
before  it.  We  warn  you,  therefore,  Phi  captains  and  players,  who 
will  meet  Cornell  players  on  the  gridiron  next  fall,  to  look  out  for 
yourselves.  *  A  B  will  have  other  representatives  on  the  field,  among 
them  Bros.  Starbuck  and  Coit  of  the  '(K)  team,  Bro.  Dempsey,  of  last 
fall's  'varsity,  and  Bro,  Bassford,  of  'varsity,  '96. 

The  students,  as  a  whole,  are  perhaps  most  interested  at  this  season 
of  the  year  in  the  crews  and  their  prospects.  After  a  long  delay — in 
the  minds  of  the  students,  too  long  a  delay — the  athletic  council  has 
finally  sent  to  Harvard  and  Yale  its  ultimatum.  According  to  the 
message  Harvard  and  Yale  will  row  us  on  the  date  originally  agreed 
upon  or  not  at  all.  This  date  is  the  23d  or  24th  of  June.  It  is  abso- 
lutely necessary  that  Cornell  row  this  race  upon  that  date  because  of 
the  necessity  of  her  having  at  least  one  week  to  transport  crews  and 
shells  from  New  London  to  Saratoga,  where  she  will  row  Columbia 
and  Pennsylvania  on  July  1.  New  York  Alpha  has  two  men  rowing 
in  the  freshmen  .squad  Bros.  English  and  Fay,  both  of  whom  stand  a 
good  chance  of  making  a  seat  in  their  class  boat.  Bro.  Ihlder,  who 
was  rowing  early  in  the  term  in  the  second  'varsity,  has  been  com- 
pelled to  stop  on  account  of  his  heart.  Bro.  Coit  is  still  at  it  with  a 
chance  of  going  to  New  London  and  Saratoga,  at  least  as  a  sub.,  if  not 
as  a  full  member  of  the  crew. 

Cornell's  base  ball  team  has  made  a  good  showing  this  season.  Bro. 
Haskell,  who  last  year  played  second  base,  has  been  moved  to  short 
stop,  where  he  is  playing  his  usual  errorless  game.  Bros.  White  and 
Brower,  of  the  '00  base  ball  team,  have  been  working  hard  with  the 
second  team.  Next  year  their  prospects  for  a  place  on  the  'varsity 
should  be  very  bright. 

On  the  track  New  York  Alpha  has  had  three  representatives,  each 
of  whom  has  done  her  proud.  Bro.  Thomson  in  the  100  yard  and  220 
yard  dashes  and  quarter-mile  run  has  won  many  points  for  Cornell  in 
her  meets  with  Syracuse  and  Columbia  and  Pennsylvania.  On  ac- 
count of  thesis  work  he  has  been  obliged  to  stop  training,  consequent- 
ly he  will  not  go  to  the  inter-collegiate  meet.  Bro.  Zeller  has  been 
walking  in  first-class  shape.  He  will  go  to  the  inter  collegiate,  where 
we  hope  he  will  prove  a  dark  horse.  If  his  competitors  do  not  run, 
he  will  come  in  with  the  first  of  them.  Bro.  Kinsey  has  been  doing 
excellent  work  in  the  pole-vault,  making  a  new  Cornell  record  at  the 
spring  meet  here,  winning  several  points  in  the  diiferent  meets  and 
getting  his  *  C  '  at  Columbia.  Unfortunately,  in  his  efforts  to  win 
laurels  for  Cornell  and  *  A  B,  he  injured  himself  quite  severely,  and  as 
a  consequence  is  in  the  hospital,  on  the  road,  we  hope,  to  a  speedy 
recoverv. 

Bro.  Whiting  has  been  elected  president  of  the  musical  clubs.  Bro. 
W^ynne,  leader  of  the  glee  club,  is  getting  his  men  into  shape  for  senior 
week,  now  not  far  off. 

Bro.  Morrison  has  an  important  place  in  the  cast  of  the  Masque, 
Cornell's  dramatic  association. 

Bro.  Bassford  was  a  member  of  the  'varsity  fencing  team  this  year. 

New  York  Alpha  expects  to  entertain  several  of  her  alumni,  with 
their  sisters,  mothers  and  sweethearts,  during  senior  week.  The  house 
will  be  turned  over  to  the  entertainment  of  its  guests. 

During  the  term  the  Phis  on  the  several  base  ball  teams  that  have 
been  in  Ithaca  have  been  met  by  the  fellows  on  our  team,  and  if  time 


THE  SCROLL.  531 

allowed  brought  up  to  the  lod^e,  where  we  are  always  glad  to  welcome 
any  and  all  Phis  who  may  be  m  Ithaca. 

We  would  be  very  glad  if  any  Phis  knowing  of  men  who  expect  to 
come  to  Cornell  next  year  and  who,  they  think,  would  make  good 
material  for  *  A  9  to  work  upon,  would  send  word  to  us,  giving  the 
man*s  full  name  and,  if  possible,  his  boarding-house  address.  We 
will  thus  be  enabled  to  '  get  into  the  game  '  ahead  of  some  of  the  other 
fraternities.  Such  an  attention  would  be  greatly  appreciated  by  New 
York  Alpha,  and  I  can  assure  you  that  we  will  be  glad  to  do  a  similar 
favor  for  the  rest  of  you. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  pleasant  summer  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Ithaca,  May  25,  1898.  Geo.  Sei^i.ers  Smith. 

NEW  YORK  BETA,  UNION  UNIVERSITY. 

Again  New  York  Beta  begs  leave  to  report  progress.  We  have  just 
moved  into  a  new  and  much  more  commodious  house  on  University 
Place,  only  a  short  distance  from  the  college  campus,  where  nearly  all 
our  members  can  he  accommodated  next  year.  This  will  be  of  great 
advantage  to  us  in  next  fall's  rushing  season. 

Commencement  week  begins  June  \S).  At  this  time  Phi  Delta  Theta 
will  be  prominent  in  the  exercises.  We  have  three  men  to  graduate  in 
the  class  of  '98.  Bro.  Fisher  has  received  an  appointment  to  the  com- 
mencement stage,  has  received  special  honors  in  the  department  of 
geology,  and  has  been  elected  to  membership  in  Sigma  Xi.  Bro. 
Griffith  has  received  special  honors  in  the  departments  of  Greek  and 
Latin.  Bro.  Cullen  has  been  elected  by  his  class  to  deliver  the  ivy 
oration. 

Twelve  or  thirteen  of  our  members  will  return  to  college  next  fall, 
and  with  two  men  pledged  out  of  the  class  of  1902,  we  will  begin  the 
next  year  in  very  good  condition. 

Our  reporter  for  next  year  will  be  Bro.  John  D.  Edwards,  '00.  His 
summer  address  is  Northville,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y. 

As  I  close  I  would  refer  all  who  are  interested  in  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  camp  to  seek  elsewhere  in  The  Scrom.  for  notice  of  definite 
arrangements. 

Wishing  all  Phis  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Schenectady,  June  2,  1898.  D.  J.  HoyT. 

NEW  YORK  DELTA.  COLUHBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

Columbia  is  in  the  midst  of  examinations,  and  though  most  of  the 
chapter  men  are  in  consequence  pretty  well  occupied  with  work,  we 
still  find  time  to  do  a  little  hustling,  and  as  a  result  take  great  pleas- 
ure in  introducing  a  new  Greek  in  the  person  of  W.  Brooke  Lessig, 
*99.  law.  In  a  few  days  we  shall  initiate  Bernard  M.  L.  Ernst,  '99, 
college,  who  has  already  been  pledged.  Mr.  Ernst  was  one  of  Col- 
umbia's representatives  in  her  joint  debate  with  Chicago  University, 
and  the  success  of  Columbia  was  due  in  no  small  part  to  his  good  and 
effective  work.  A  couple  of  other  good  men  whom  we  have  on  the  string 
will  also  be  taken  in  either  before  the  end  of  this  year  or  early  in  the 
fall. 

With  the  close  of  the  year  the  summer  vacation  problem  again 
stares  us  in  the  face,  but  we  hope  to  be  able  to  keep  our  rooms  over 
the  summer  months,  should  our  present  negotiations  prove  successful. 


532  THE  SCROLL, 

By  graduation  this  year  we  in  all  probability  shall  lose  but  three 
men,  all  from  the  law  contingent — Bros.  A.  W.  Opp,  Henry  W.  Egner, 
A.  B.,  and  O.  W.  Ehrhorn,  A.  M.  Bro.  Stallo  Vinton  is  graduated 
from  the  college  this  year,  but  expects  to  return  next  year  as  a  student 
of  the  law  school. 

Bro.  Otto  Hink,  '99,  college,  recently  elected  secretary  of  the  Philo- 
lexian  Society,  has  been  doing  good  work  as  a  debater  and  has  re- 
ceived high  mention  in  several  inter-society  contests. 

Bros.  Riederer  and  Waldenberger,  '97,  mines,  who  have  been  taking 
graduate  courses  in  chemistry  at  Munich,  Germany,  have  completea 
their  studies,  and  will  return  to  this  country  in  a  few  weeks.  Bro. 
Parish,  who  at  last  reports  had  penetrated  Abyss^inia  beyond  the  reach 
of  the  mail,  is  also  expected  to  return  this  year  to  enter  the  school  of 
mines,  where  he  is  needed  to  help  recruit  our  customary  strength  in 
the  lower  classes  of  that  department,  we  at  present  having  but  one 
representative  there,  Bro.  Bell,  '99. 

On  the  whole,  though.  New  York  Delta  ends  an  eminently  success- 
ful year,  the  chapter  closing  the  season  a  stronger  body  than  it 
opened  it. 

In  this  issue  the  reporter  sorrowfullv  takes  his  official  leave,  yet 
proudly  thankful  that  he  can  say  to  his  9, (MX)  brother  Greeks  from 
Maine  to  California,  with  all  that  is  implied  in  the  expression  —I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond  of  Phi  Delta  Theta, 

New  York,  May  :50,  18V»8.  Oscar  Wkkks  Ehrhorn. 

NEW  YORK  eP5ILON,  SYRACUSE  UNIYERSITY. 

New  York  Epsilon  is  ending  her  eleventh  year  very  auspiciously. 
To  be  sure,  we  lose  a  number  of  men  by  graduation  ;  but  while  we 
keenly  feel  their  loss,  we  realize  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  will  be  strength- 
ened with  such  men  as  these  as  alumni.  Other  brothers  will  be  una- 
ble to  return  next  year,  but  we  shall  hold  them  as  a  reserve  force  until 
they  do  return.  Their  places  will  be  filled  so  far  as  possible  by  the 
members  who  have  been  out  for  a  year  or  two,  but  whom  we  expect 
to  have  with  us  next  fall.  Since  our  last  communication  we  have  in- 
itiated Brother  Harry  Hoskins  Simpson,  who  we  trust  will  prove  to  be 
all  we  expect  of  him.  Our  '01  delegation  have  shown  themselves  to 
be  earnest,  energetic  men  of  fine  morals,  excellent  scholastic  attain- 
ments and  decided  social  qualifications ;  New  York  Epsilon  already 
feels  herself  benefited  by  their  influence  and  example.  The  past  year 
has  been  significant  for  the  advance  New  York  Epsilon  has  made.  It 
is  our  wish  that  each  succeeding  year  shall  be  marked  by  the  same 
characteristic. 

Brother  Leonard,  dean  of  the  college  of  liberal  arts,  is  of  great  help 
to  us.  His  position  in  the  high  esteem  of  the  faculty  and  student 
body  is  firmly  established.  Brother  Sibley,  librarian,  or  *Uncle,*  as 
we  call  him,  has  been  seriously  ill  with  rheumatism,  but  is  improving. 

The  university  glee  club,  which  included  two  of  our  number,  re- 
turned a  few  weeks  ago  from  the  most  successful  trip  in  its  history. 
Brother  Dolph,  our  basso  profundo,  contributed  largely  to  the  success 
of  the  club  and  received  the  lion's  share  of  credit  and  attention. 

The  base  ball  team  made  a  successful  trip  at  Easter,  returning  with 
divers  metaphorical  scalps  dangling  from  its  belt,  having  met  with 
but  one  defeat.  Wc  have  five  Phis  on  the  team,  Brother  Voorhees, 
captain  and  pitcher;  Brother  Gregory,  catcher;  Brothers  Lipes,  Kelly 
and  Low,  short  stop,  left  and  right  field,  respectively. 


THE  SCROLL.  533 

Next  September  we  move  into  a  new  house,  which,  while  it  is  not 
our  own,  is  being  built  for  us.  It  is  desirably  located  on  'Fraternity 
Row'  (long  o  in  Row,  please),  is  thoroughly  modern  in  all  its  ap- 
pointments, and  will  accommodate  twenty-six  men. 

We  close  the  year  encouraged  by  the  past  to  hope  for  even  better 
things  in  the  future.  When  the  delegates  to  the  MW  Alpha  province 
convention  come  to  Syracuse,  we  want  to  show  them  an  enthusiastic, 
loyal,  progressive,  hospitable  chapter,  and  one  that  can  show  the 
world  how  Phis  love  one  another. 

In  the  Bond, 

Syracuse,  May  28,  1898.  Allen  Dincan  Burnham. 

PENNSYLVANIA  ALPHA, LAFAYETTE  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scroll,  many  changes  have  taken 
place  at  Lafayette.  From  the  smoked  ruins  of  Pardee  Hall,  which 
was  gutted  by  fire  the  eighteenth  of  last  December,  a  new  Pardee  is 
fast  rising.  Great  was  the  loss  which  we  suffered  from  the  burning  of 
this  beautiful  monument  of  American  liberality.  But  kind  and  liberal 
friends  have  come  to  the  rescue,  and  soon  we  will  be  able  to  dedicate 
our  new  Pardee. 

The  college  year,  which  is  fast  drawing  to  a  close,  has  been  one  of 
much  rivalry  among  the  fraternities  of  Lafayette.  Our  chapter  now 
numbers  fourteen,  all  men  of  sterling  worth  and  ever  mindful  of  their 
duty  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  We  have  initiated  since  our  last  report 
Brothers  Fassit,  Hinkle,  Van  Horn  and  Robb,  of  the  class  of  '01,  and 
Brothers  Hagney  and  Williams  of  '•.)<.».  Edmund  S.  Tillinghast,  of 
East  Hampton,  N.  Y.,  now  wears  ours  pledge  button,  and  we  expect 
to  initiate  him  next  term.  Here,  as  elsewhere,  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  al- 
ways fouu'i  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight  for  new  men,  and  the  blue  and 
white  is  very  seldom,  if  ever,  lowered  in  defeat.  This  is  no  doubt  due 
to  the  excellent  standing  which  the  Fraternity  has  always  enjoyed 
here.  From  the  very  first  its  members  have  been  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  various  phases  of  college  life,  and  of  this  year  more  than 
of  any  other  is  this  true. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  making  a  record  of  which  we  are  all  justly 
proud.  It  has  already  trailed  the  blue  of  Yale  in  the  dust,  Harvard  has 
fallen  a  victim  to  its  prowess,  and  Princeton  has  lowered  her  colors. 
We  are  well  represented  on  it  by  Brothers  Hubley  and  Bray.  Hubley 
is  a  most  brilliant  third  baseman,  and  Bray  is  a  fielder  whom  any 
team  would  be  glad  to  claim. 

We  are  well  represented  in  all  college  organizations.  At  a  recent 
meeting  of  the  athletic  association  Brother  Fierce  was  elected  assist- 
ant manager  of  the  base  ball  team.  Brother  Livingston  is  assistant 
manager  of  the  track  team.  We  are  represented  on  the  banjo  and 
mandolin  clubs  by  Brothers  Hultgren  and  Djuglas.  Brother  Hagney, 
who  is  a  sprinter  of  ability,  represents  us  on  the  track.  Brothers  Bray, 
Pierce  and  Sixe  are  our  representatives  on  the  gridiron.  Brother 
Moon  was  recently  elected  Mantle  orator  by  the  class  of  '90.  He  was 
also  on  the  '1M>  JA7<///i^<*  board,  and  his  work  as  artist  was  most  credit- 
able. Bro.  Douglas  w.is  elected  assistant  editor-in-chief  of  the  JA- 
iatiire  to  be  published  by  the  class  of  IHOO. 

We  lose  by  graduation  this  year  Brother  Myers,  who  is  a  prominent 
man  in  his  class  and  a  staunch  Phi. 

The  chapter  now  occupies  a  handsome  suite  of  rooms  in  a  very 
pleasant  locality.     Prominent  among  our  resident  alumni  is  Dr.  O.  M. 


538  THE  SCROLL. 

performance.  It  will  have  entire  charge  of  all  the  dramatic  perform- 
ances of  the  students.  Brother  Moore  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  organization. 

Brother  W.  B.  Sterrett,  '95,  will  spend  the  summer  doing  missionary 
work  at  Parkersburg,  W.  Va.  He  is  a  second-year  man  at  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary.  Brother  J.  P.  Linn,  '95,  was  graduated  from 
the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary  last  week. 

Although  I  will  finish  college  work  this  term  I  will  be  in  Washing- 
ton until  October  and  will  continue  to  serve  the  chapter  as  reporter 
until  college  opens  for  the  fall  term.  My  address  throughout  the 
summer  will  be  unchanged,  and  persons  knowing  of  good  men  antici- 
pating attending  W.  and  J.  will  confer  a  favor  by  informing  the  re- 
porter. 

With  kindest  regards  to  all  Phis,  and  wishing  them  all  a  pleasant 
summer  vacation,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Washington,  May  9,  1898.  David  Gi,ENN  Moorb. 

PENNSYLVANIA  DELTA,  ALLBQHBNY  COLLEOe. 

Pennsylvania  Delta  is  at  last  ready  to  announce  to  the  Fraternity  at 
lar^e  that  she  is  comfortably  and  elegantly  settled  in  a  chapter  house 
which  she  considers  an  honor  to  4»  A  8.  The  house  is  well  located  on 
Highland  avenue,  about  three  squares  from  the  campus,  on  a  lot 
about  two  hundred  feet  front  by  three  hundred  deep,  it  stands  back 
about  one  hundred  feet  from  the  street,  and  the  lar^e  lawn  shows  it 
off  to  excellent  advantage.  The  house  itself  is  one  of  the  finest  resi- 
dences in  the  city  and  is  away  ahead  of  any  which  the  other  local 
fraternity  chapters  here  occupy  now  or  are  at  all  likely  to  occupy  in 
the  future.  It  has  twenty  rooms,  all  nicely  furnished,  especially  on  the 
first  floor,  where  all  the  floors  are  of  hard  wood.  Seventeen  of  the 
twenty-one  active  members  live  in  the  house. 

Anxious  to  exhibit  our  new  quarters  to  our  friends,  we  had  a  recep- 
tion on  April  '22,  We  had  never  before  been  able  to  entertain  all  our 
friends  on  account  of  lack  of  space,  and  consequently  we  were  glad  to 
be  able  to  issue  about  five  hundred  invitations.  In  spite  of  inclement 
weather  we  had  a  large  crowd,  and  everything  was  a  grand  success. 
But  perhaps  the  success  of  the  reception  may  be  better  shown  by  quot- 
ing from  the  Meadville  papers  of  the  following  day.  The  Meadville 
Star  printed  the  following  : 

One  of  the  most  successful  social  affairs  of  the  year  in  college  and  city  circles 
was  the  reception  jfiven  last  evening  by  the  members  of  Pennsylvania  Delta,  the 
local  chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  in  Allegheny  College,  to  over  five  hundred  of 
their  friends. 

The  event  was  in  honor  of  the  Fraternity's  recent  removal  from  their  Loomis 
street  house  to  their  present  commodious  house,  formerly  well  known  as  the 
Joshua  Douglass  mansion  on  Highland  avenue. 

Nearly  four  hundred  guests  were  entertained  between  the  hours  of  8:30  and  11:JJ0. 
The  entire  house  of  twenty  rooms,  which  is  now  the  home  of  seventeen  of  the 
twenty -one  active  members,  was  thrown  open.  Potted  plants,  palms  and  cut 
flowers  composed  the  decorations.  The  fraternity  flower,  the  white  carnation, 
with  the  colors,  argent  and  azure,  were  prominent  in  the  decorations. 

Those  on  the  reception  committee  were  Mrs.  William  H.  Crawford,  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Elliott,  Mrs.  J.  O.  Hull,  and  Messrs.  J.  Vernon  Wright,  Will  J.  Lowstuter  and 
Paul  Weyand. 

The  music  was  furnished  by  the  Northwestern  orchestra. 

The  Meadville  Trihuuc  also  says  of  it : 

The  members  of  the  Fraternity  saw  to  it  that  all  enjoyed  the  occasion.  It  was 
a  formal  afl'air.  resplendent  in  rich  costumes  and  eminently  successful  as  an 
evening  reception.  The  Phis  have  the  most  spacious  and  the  nnest  chapterhouse 
i  n  the  city,  and  as  entertainers  they  are  /><i/-  exrclh^u'e. 


THE  SCROLL.  535 

Richards,  who  is  a  loyal  Phi  and  ever  willing  to  lend  a  helping  hand. 
The  chapter  has  had  pleasant  visits  from  Brothers  Smith,  Van  Alen  and 
Sexton,  of  the  class  of  '97,  also  from  Brother  Gillette,  of  Williams, 
and  Brother  Straub,  of  Lehigh. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Easton,  May  2(),  1S9S.  Geor(;k  P.  Williams. 

PENNSYLVANIA  BETA.  QETTYSBURQ  COLLEGE. 

The  members  of  Pennsylvania  Beta,  like  most  students  at  this  time, 
are  very  busy  with  examinations  and  other  duties  incident  to  the  clos- 
ing of  college.  June  loth  has  been  chosen  for  commencement  day. 
This  year  we  lose  two  good  men  by  graduation — Bro.  Singmaster,  who 
has  been  appointed  as  one  of  the  ten  commencement  speakers,  and 
Bro.  Krafft,  who  will  deliver  the  ivy  poem  on  class  day. 

Bros.  B.  R.  Lautz,  'm,  and  J.  S.  English,  M)4,  graduate  from  the 
theological  seminary  this  year.  Their  commencement  exercises  will 
be  held  on  the  second  of  June.  liro.  Lautz  is  one  of  the  four  speakers 
on  that  occasion. 

So  far  this  spring  we  have  not  been  quite  up  to  the  standard  of 
former  years  in  athletics.  Gettysburg  was  not  represented  in  the  inter- 
collegiate races  held  at  Philadelphia  this  year,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
several  members  of  the  team  were  sick  or  away  from  college  at  the 
time.  Our  base  ball  team  has  also  been  handicapped  by  the  loss  of  a 
number  of  its  best  players.  One  has  signed  with  the  New  York  league 
team  and  several  have  left  to  shoulder  the  musket  for  Uncle  Sam. 
Notwithstanding  these  losses  we  hope  to  be  successful  in  the  remain- 
ing games  to  be  played. 

Bro.  E.  C.  Gillette,  111  Hiatus,  '94,  who  is  now  attending  Hartford 
Seminary,  paid  us  a  short  visit  recently. 

Bro.  George  W.  Welsh,  Lehigh,  '01,  spent  several  days  with  us  a 
short  time  ago. 

With  best  wishes  to  the  Fraternity,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Gettysburg,  May  17,  1898.  J.  Ci.vde  Markel. 

PENNSYLVANIA  QAHnA.  WASHINGTON  AND  JEFFERSON  COLLEGE. 

The  present  term  has  been  an  eventful  one  and  the  war  has  been 
the  chief  subject  of  conversation.  College  work,  as  a  consequence, 
has  been  interfered  with  to  a  certain  extent.  When  the  call  for  vol- 
unteers came  many  students  responded  and  are  now  at  the  front.  A 
large  number  were  members  of  the  national  guard  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  when  it  became  certain  that  the  guard  would  be  called  out  many 
more  joined.  The  majority,  nearly  a  score,  joined  Company  H,  Tenth 
Regiment,  of  this  place,  and  many  their  home  commands.  Two  other 
students  are  members  of  the  state  naval  reserves  and  are  awaiting  or- 
ders to  report  for  duty.  The  day  the  local  company  left  for  Mt.  Gretna, 
the  place  of  mobilization,  the  boys  were  given  a  great  '  send-oif,'  and 
an  immense  parade  was  formed.  The  students  of  the  college  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  proceedings  in  honor  of  their  college  mates, 
who  made  up  nearly  a  third  of  the  company.  Company  II,  being 
composed  largely  of  W.  and  J.  students  and  graduates,  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  in  the  guard,  and  always  ranks  hi^h.  The  patriotism 
of  the  men  composing  it  is  undoubted,  as  since  going  into  camp  every 
man  has  joined  the  volunteer  army  of  the  United  States. 


536  THE  SCROLL. 

Pennsylvania  Gamma  is  proud  of  her  record  in  furnishing  men  for 
the  army.  Two  active  memoers,  Brother  Eicher,  '99,  and  Brother  Rals- 
ton, '01,  are  members  of  the  Tenth  Regiment,  the  former  in  Company 
I,  and  the  latter  in  Company  H.  Brother  Frank  B.  Hawkins,  'i>6,  is 
first  lieutenant  of  Company  H,  and  has  been  commissioned  first  lieu- 
tenant of  volunteers  by  Governor  Hastings.  Brother  H.  W.  Weirich, 
ex- '97,  is  a  member  of  company  H,  and  Brother  C.  Ward  Eicher, 
ex- '96,  is  a  corporal  in  company  I.  All  but  one  or  two  of  the  twenty- 
five  or  more  students  now  in  camp  with  the  army  are  members  of  the 
several  fraternities,  the  B  B  II  and  *  K  4^  chapters  losing  nearly  one- 
half  of  their  members. 

The  calling  out  of  the  guard  has  been  a  great  drawback  to  the  col- 
lege along  athletic  lines.  The  one-mile  and  two-mile  relay  teams 
which  were  in  training  for  the  relay  carnival  at  Philadelphia,  April 
30,  were  broken  up,  two  men  being  taken  from  each  team.  This  was 
a  great  disappointment,  since  we  had  the  best  relay  team  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  college,  and  our  prospects  were  very  bright  for  a  good 
showing  at  Philadelphia.  Our  team  for  the  western  Pennsylvania 
inter-collegiate  meet  at  Pittsburgh,  May  21,  will  also  be  weakened  con- 
siderably. The  base  ball  team  suffered  in  the  loss  of  Captain  Nesbit, 
who  played  second  base,  pitcher  Nesbit  and  Brother  Eicher,  short  stop. 
Fortunately,  we  have  three  pitchers  to  fall  back  on  and  a  promising 
lot  of  substitutes,  so  we  will  be  able  to  complete  the  schedule.  The 
manager  of  the  team  is  also  with  the  soldiers  and  the  duties  of  that 
office  have  fallen  on  Brother  Carline,  '(X>,  who  will  see  the  team  through 
the  season  safely.     Thus  far  we  have  lost  no  games. 

If  the  troops  remain  in  the  field  many  months  our  prospects  for  a 
foot  ball  team  of  the  championship  order  are  exceedingly  poor.  Of 
last  year's  team  and  substitutes,  who  were  undergraduates,  nine  men 
are  already  members  of  the  volunteer  army  and  others  expect  to  join. 
Captain  Eicher  is  a  member  and  so  is  H.  C.  Tyler,  of  Princeton,  who 
had  been  secured  as  coach.  The  schedule  for  the  season  has  just  been 
announced  and  is  the  best  one  we  have  ever  had.  It  will  be  a  pity  if 
we  have  to  cancel  it. 

Nearly  every  college  association  sufiFered  in  the  call  for  troops,  and 
should  another  call  be  made  nearly  a  hundred  more  men  would  be 
ready  and  willing  to  go.  Shortly  after  the  guard  left,  a  meeting  of  the 
students  was  called,  and  a  volunteer  company  of  nearly  100  members 
was  formed.  The  company  drills  three  times  a  week  in  the  Company 
H  armory  and  has  offered  its  services  to  the  governor. 

The  inter-class  field  meet  will  be  held  on  Friday,  May  13.  On  Sat- 
urday, May  21,  the  western  Pennsylvania  meet  occurs  in  Pittsburgh. 
We  expect,  though  crippled,  to  make  a  good  showing  at  this  meet. 
The  athletic  association  of  the  college  has  arranged  for  an  inter-schol- 
astic meet  to  be  held  in  Washington  on  May  21.  The  students  of  the 
preparatory  department  and  of  the  several  preparatory  schools  in  this 
section  of  the  state  will  be  represented.  The  idea  is  to  develop  a 
greater  interest  in  field  and  track  athletics  in  the  preparatory  schools 
and  to  brin^  to  notice  good  men  in  these  lines.  The  college  is  also  agi- 
tating the  forming  of  a  tri-state  intercollegiate  athletic  association  to 
take  in  the  principal  colleges  and  universities  of  western  Pennsylvania, 
West  Virginia  and  eastern  Ohio.  Thus  far  the  plan  has  met  with  a 
favorable  reception,  and  the  prospects  for  the  ultimate  formation  of 
such  a  league  are  considered  bright.  It  is  difficult  for  W.  and  J.  to 
arrange  games  and  meets  with  eastern  colleges  both  on  account  of  the 
expense  and  on  account  of  the  disinclination  of  eastern  colleges  to 


THE  SCROLL,  537 

contest  with  us.  For  the  past,  few  years  we  have  been  defeating  the 
neighboring  colleges  in  all  branches  of  athletics  each  season  with 
monotonous  regularity,  so  that  to  make  our  athletics  pay  expenses,  in 
part  at  least,  we  must  seek  new  fields.  The  proposed  league  offers  a 
solution  to  the  vexed  problem  and  would  be  of  mutual  benefit  to  all 
colleges. 

Fraternity  activities  have  been  absorbed  in  the  stirring  events  of 
the  past  few  weeks  and  not  much  work  is  being  done  by  the  various 
chapters  here.  The  spring  term  is  usually  the  slowest  term  in  frater- 
nity life.  Several  chapters  have  initiated  men  from  the  senior  prepar- 
atory class  and  others  have  pledged  new  men.  The  membership  of 
the  chapters  ranges  from  ten  to  fourteen.  Kappa  Sigma,  the  new 
chapter,  has  the  smallest  membership  and  is  not  considered  a  very 
formidable  rival  by  any  of  the  chapters  yet.  Since  our  last  letter  the 
Phi  Kappa  Sigma  men  have  moved  into  a  chapter  house.  This  makes 
the  fourth  fraternity  here  to  occupy  a  house.  Delta  Tau  Delta  expects 
to  have  one  in  the  fall,  and  Pennsylvania  Gamma  is  also  making  an 
effort  to  follow  suit.  Our  boys  are  all  in  favor  of  a  house,  and  the 
only  thing  standing  in  the  way  now  is  a  suitable  one.  We  propose  to 
bend  our  energies  toward  securing  a  home  for  the  chapter  and  hope  to 
report  success  in  our  next  ScRorj.  letter.  Three  of  our  members  will 
be  here  all  summer,  so  we  will  be  able  to  look  out  for  a  suitable  loca- 
tion.    Kappa  Sigma  as  yet  has  no  chapter  house  scheme  on  hand. 

The  senior  examinations  will  commence  on  May  2:?  and  the  grades 
will  be  announced  on  May  25.  Pennsylvania  Gamma  will  lose  four 
men  by  the  graduation  of  '98.  Brother  Hell  will  probably  teach  school 
this  coming  year.  Brother  Baker  will  remain  at  home  in  Washington 
for  awhile,  at  least.  He  may  enter  the  bank  of  which  his  father  is 
cashier.  Brother  Rule  will  read  law  with  his  uncle  at  this  place. 
Brother  Moore  will  spend  the  summer  on  the  staff  of  the  Washington 
Ohst'ti'cr  and  in  the  fall  will  enter  the  United  Presbyterian  Theological 
Seminary  at  Allegheny,  Pa.,  to  prepare  for  missionary  work  in  India. 
Brothers  Baker,  Rule  and  Moore  will  be  in  Washington  all  summer; 
they  may  be  addressed  by  persons  interested  in  our  Fraternity  and  would 
be  glad  to  have  any  Phis,  who  may  be  in  town,  call  on  them. 

A  feature  of  the  commencement  season  will  be  the  celebration  of 
the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the  Philo  and  I'nion 
and  the  Franklin  and  Washington  literary  societies  of  the  college. 
The  principal  speaker  will  be  the  Rev.  Henry  Christopher  McCook, 
D.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  an  alumnus  of  the  college  and  a  member  of  the 
Philo  society.  Dr.  McCook  is  a  famous  naturalist,  author  of  many 
scientific  works  and  also  of  *  The  Latimers,*  one  of  the  best  selling 
books  of  the  year,  which  deals  with  the  whisky  iuMirrection  of  1794 
and  sketches  the  founding  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  college. 
Brother  W.  C.  McClelland,  '82,  will  read  the  history  of  the  societies. 
Brother  Moore  is  a  member  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  arrange- 
ments for  the  celebration,  which  will  occur  on  Tuesday  of  commence- 
ment week. 

The  commencement  exercises  proper  will  occur  on  Wednesday, 
June  22.  This  year's  class  is  the  smallest  for  years  and  numbers  only 
thirty-three  regular  students,  who  will  receive  degrees,  and  tv/o 
special  students.  The  three  members  of  the  class  who  are  at  the 
front  with  the  army  will  be  graduated  with  honor.  The  under-clas 
men  who  are  in  the  army  will  be  given  credit  for  this  term's  work. 

Since  our  last  letter  the  Washington  and  Jefferson  dramatic  associa- 
tion has  been  formed.     The  association  is  now  arranging  for  its  initial 


538  THE  SCROLL, 

performance.  It  will  have  entire  charge  of  all  the  dramatic  perform- 
ances of  the  students.  Brother  Moore  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  organisation. 

Brother  W.  B.  Sterrett,  '9'),  will  spend  the  summer  doing  missionary 
work  at  Parkersburg,  W.  Va.  He  is  a  second-year  man  at  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary.  Brother  J.  P.  Linn,  '95,  was  graduated  from 
the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary  last  week. 

Although  I  will  finish  college  work  this  term  I  will  be  in  Washing- 
ton until  October  and  will  continue  to  serve  the  chapter  as  reporter 
until  college  opens  for  the  fall  term.  My  address  throughout  the 
summer  will  be  unchanged,  and  persons  knowing  of  good  men  antici- 
pating attending  W.  and  J.  will  confer  a  favor  by  informing  the  re- 
porter. 

With  kindest  regards  to  all  Phis,  and  wishing  them  all  a  pleasant 
summer  vacation,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Washington,  May  9,  1898.  David  Gi^enn  Moorb. 

PENNSYLVANIA  DELTA.  ALLEGHENY  COLLEGE. 

Pennsylvania  Delta  is  at  last  ready  to  announce  to  the  Fraternity  at 
lar^e  that  she  is  comfortably  and  elegantly  settled  in  a  chapter  house 
which  she  considers  an  honor  to  *  A  O.  The  house  is  well  located  on 
Highland  avenue,  about  three  squares  from  the  campus,  on  a  lot 
about  two  hundred  feet  front  by  three  hundred  deep.  It  stands  back 
about  one  hundred  feet  from  the  street,  and  the  large  lawn  shows  it 
off  to  excellent  advantage.  The  house  itself  is  one  of  the  finest  resi- 
dences in  the  city  and  is  away  ahead  of  any  which  the  other  local 
fraternity  chapters  here  occupy  now  or  are  at  all  likely  to  occupy  in 
the  future.  It  has  twenty  rooms,  all  nicely  furnished,  especially  on  the 
first  floor,  where  all  the  floors  are  of  hard  wood.  Seventeen  of  the 
twenty-one  active  members  live  in  the  house. 

Anxious  to  exhibit  our  new  quarters  to  our  friends,  we  had  a  recep- 
tion on  April  22.  We  had  never  before  been  able  to  entertain  all  our 
friends  on  account  of  lack  of  space,  and  consequently  we  were  glad  to 
be  able  to  issue  about  five  hundred  invitations.  In  spite  of  inclement 
weather  we  had  a  large  crowd,  and  everything  was  a  grand  success. 
But  perhaps  the  success  of  the  reception  may  be  better  shown  by  quot- 
ing n-om  the  Meadville  papers  of  the  following  day.  The  Meadville 
Star  printed  the  following  : 

One  of  the  most  successful  social  atTairs  of  the  year  in  college  and  city  circles 
was  the  reception  gnven  last  evening  by  the  members  of  Pennsylvania  Delta,  the 
local  chapter  of  I'hi  Delta  Theta  in  Allegheny  College,  to  over  five  hundred  of 
their  friends. 

The  event  was  in  honor  of  the  Fraternity's  recent  removal  from  their  I«oomis 
street  house  to  their  present  commodious  house,  formerly  well  known  as  the 
Joshua  Douglass  mansion  on  Highland  avenue. 

Nearly  four  hundred  guests  were  entertained  between  the  hours  of  8:90  and  11:30. 
The  entire  house  of  twenty  rooms,  which  is  now  the  home  of  seventeen  of  the 
twenty -one  active  members,  was  thrown  open.  Potted  plants,  palms  and  cut 
flowers  composed  the  decorations.  The  fraternity  flower,  the  white  carnation, 
with  the  colors,  argent  and  azure,  were  prominent  in  the  decorations. 

Those  on  the  reception  committee  were  Mrs.  William  H.  Crawford,  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Elliott,  Mrs.  J.  O.  Hull,  and  Messrs.  J.  Vernon  Wright,  Will  J.  I^owstuter  and 
Paul  Weyand. 

The  music  was  furnished  by  the  Northwestern  orchestra. 

The  Meadville  Tribune  also  says  of  it : 

The  members  of  the  Fraternity  saw  to  it  that  all  enjoyed  the  occaMon.  It  was 
a  formal  afl'air.  resplendent  in  rich  costumes  and  eminently  succetsful  as  an 
evening  reception.  The  Phis  have  the  most  spacious  and  the  finest  chapterhouse 
i  n  the  city,  and  as  entertainers  they  are  /*«/•  vxcelleuQ^. 


1^   mf^ 


542  THE  SCROLL, 

for  pole  vaulting  at  10  feet  8^4:  inches,  joined  the  Monticello  Guards, 
of  this  place,  threw  up  his  law  lectures,  and  marched  away  to  Cuba. 

Virginia  Beta's  outlook  for  next  season  is  most  encoura>ding.  We 
shall  lose  by  graduation  Bros.  Siler,  Sutherland  and  (probably)  Davis, 
of  the  medical  department,  and  Bro.  Paul,  of  the  laws.  Bro.  Watts 
will  not  return.  This  will  leave  us  with  three  in  the  law  department, 
three  in  the  academic  department,  and  eight  in  the  medical  depart- 
ment, a  total  of  fourteen  Pnis  on  the  grounds. 

An  earnest  request  is  made  of  all  Phis  to  notify  Bro.  J.  Woods 
Price,  Mechum  River,  Virginia,  who  has  been  elected  chapter  re- 
porter for  next  session,  of  all  students  cOming  to  the  university  who 
may  be  desirable  material  for  4>  A  6. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  June  6,  181)8.  John  Palmer  Lea. 

TENNESSEE  ALPHA.  VANDERBILT  UNIVERSIIY. 

The  most  successful  year  which  Vanderbilt  has  ever  enjoyed  is  now 
drawing  to  a  close.  The  last  catalogue  shows  an  enrollment  of  800 
students  in  all  departments,  this  being  a  slight  increase  over  any 
previous  year.  The  prospects  are  that  next  year  even  this  number  will 
be  exceeded. 

Looking  towards  improvement,  the  law  department  has  been  reor- 
ganized. Two  new  professors  have  been  added  to  the  faculty,  making 
the  number  of  professors  in  this  department  now  five  instead  of  three, 
as  formerly.  The  new  professors  are  Judge  H.  H.  Lunton  and  Mr. 
Charles  U.  Burch.  Hon.  J.  M.  Dickinson,  who  was,  under  Cleveland's 
second  administration,  assistant  attorney-general,  is  also  now  a  mem- 
ber of  this  faculty  in  place  of  Mr.  R.  McPhail  Smith,  who  died  during 
the  year. 

The  annual  debate  between  the  literary  societies  of  Vanderbilt  and 
the  University  of  the  South,  which  took  place  in  Nashville  on  May  14, 
was  this  year  won  by  our  rivals  from  the  mountain. 

As  a  result,  however,  of  the  meeting  of  the  southern  inter-collegiate 
oratorical  association,  which  was  held  in  this  city  on  May  IS,  V'ander- 
bilt  regained  her  lost  prestige  in  oratory,  Mr.  Cheairs.  A  K  E,  winning 
a  splendid  victory  over  representatives  from  Virginia,  Centre,  South 
Carolina  and  Texas. 

The  third  annual  track  meet  of  the  S.  I.  A.  A.  was  this  year  held  in 
Atlanta  on  May  21.  Vanderbilt  succeeded  in  winning  only  second 
place  in  team  work;  however,  three  of  the  five  records  broken  were 
placed  to  our  credit.  Bro.  Beard  succeeded  in  breaking  the  southern 
college  record  for  the  broad  jump.  Bro.  Underwood,  the  captain  of 
the  team,  was  unable  to  compete  on  account  of  injuries  received  dur- 
ing the  winter. 

Since  the  rather  poor  showing  made  against  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania early  in  the  season,  our  base  ball  team  has  been  greatly  im- 
proved, and  has  administered  successive  defeats  to  teams  representing 
the  Universities  of  the  South,  Nashville,  Georgia  and  Cincinnati.  The 
games  against  the  University  of  Virginia,  which  will  be  played  during 
commencement  week,  will  close  the  season.  The  Phison  the  team  are 
Beard,  Carlyle,  Carr  and  Rice. 

It  gives  me  much  pleasure  to  introduce  to  the  fraternity  at  large 
Jacob  Ewing  Crider.  '00,  of  Fredonia,  Ky.,  who  was  initiated  into  the 
mysteries  of  our  Order  on  February  o. 

It  is  the  custom  here  for  the  faculty  in  the  academic  department  to 


THE  SCROLL,  54 1 

was  compelled  to  resign  on  account  of  enlistment  in  the  army.  Bro. 
Souders  lias  also  left  school  to  serve  under  the  Pennsylvania  Bible 
Society  in  the  army.  Bro.  Smith  left  college  early  in  the  term  to  pre- 
pare for  medical  work. 

Bro.  Mallalieu,  '99,  has  been  elected  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  hisiorian  of  his  literary  society.  Bro.  Soper  has  been  elected  state 
secretary  of  the  college  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Bro.  Presby,  '01,  has  been  chosen 
assistant  librarian  of  the  college.  Bro.  Sterrelt,  '00,  won  the  Union 
Philosophical  literary  society  sophomore  oratorical  contest.  In  the 
junior  play,  Bros.  West,  '99,  and  Wertz,  '99,  took  leading  roles. 

We  have  been  exceedingly' fortunate  in  receiving  visits  from  many 
alumni  during  the  year.  Bros.  Weidenhamer,  Cleaver,  Noon,  Zeigler, 
Lindley,  Bucher,  Stein,  Gillette  (now  at  Williams),  Wintersteen  and 
Earp,  having  paid  us  brief  visits. 

Tne  annual  June  banquet  will  be  exceptionally  pleasurable  on  ac- 
count of  the  prospects  for  a  large  number  of  alumni  being  present. 
Bro.  J.  Banks  Hurty,  '9:j,  will  be  toastmaster.  Also  gratifying  will  be 
the  report  we  can  make  of  the  chapter  house.  Final  plans  are  all 
completed  for  the  erection  of  the  house,  and  ground  will  be  broken 
during  commencement  week. 

With  best  wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Carlisle,  May  .SO,  1S9S.  J.  Mii.nor  Dorky. 


BETA  PROVINCE. 

VIRGINIA  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  VIRGINIA. 

In  the  recent  election  of  officers  for  the  general  athletic  association, 
the  ticket  which  Bro.  Eugene  Davis  headed  as  president  was  elected 
solid,  and  this  is  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  this  institution  that 
such  a  result  has  followed  the  election  of  these  officials.  Presidency 
of  the  athletic  association  is  considered  the  highest  honor  in  the  uni- 
versity, and  Bro.  Davis  won  over  an  exceedingly  strong  rival  by  78 
votes.  He  is  the  first  Phi  to  be  thus  honored.  The  success  of  the 
Davis  ticket  may  be  said  to  have  (lepende<l  upon  the  popularity  and 
fitness  of  the  man  who.se  name  headed  it.  An  officer  of  the  G.  A.  A. 
can  not  play  upon  either  the  foot  ball  or  base  ball  team.  Consequently, 
the  foot  ball  team  next  fall  will  greatly  miss  the  magnificent  playing 
of  Bro.  Davis. 

Another  Phi  has  been  recently  honored.  Bro.  Joe  Siler,  who  repre- 
sented us  at  the  last  convention,  in  a  recent  examination  for  .service  in 
the  Post-graduate  Hospital  of  New  York,  won  second  place  over  thiity 
applicants  from  some  of  our  most  prominent  medical  colleges.  Bro. 
Siler  will  take  his  M.  D.  this  June,  and  will  enter  upon  his  hospital 
duties  on  October  first. 

It  is  rumored  that  Bro.  Harrison,  together  with  Mr.  Cleveland  and 
Mr.  McKinley,  will  visit  the  university  at  finals  and  take  part  in  the 
dedicatory  services  of  the  new  buildings.  .Vlthough  many  of  the  Phis 
will  have  gone  to  their  homes  by  that  time,  those  remaining  will  en- 
deavor to  entertain  Mr.  Harrison  and  renew  our  pledges  together. 
Finals  this  year  promise  fair  to  be  the  greatest  in  the  history  of  Vir- 
ginia. 

Bro.  A.  K.  Foot,  of  Louisiana  Alpha,  who  holds  the  southern  record 


542  THE  SCROLL, 

for  pole  vaulting  at  10  feet  8%  inches,  joined  the  Monticello  Guards, 
of  this  place,  threw  up  his  law  lectures,  and  marched  away  to  Cuba. 

Virginia  Beta's  outlook  for  next  season  is  most  encouraj^ing.  We 
shall  lose  by  graduation  Bros.  Siler,  Sutherland  and  (probably)  Davis, 
of  the  medical  department,  and  Bro.  Paul,  of  the  laws.  Bro.  Watts 
will  not  return.  This  will  leave  us  with  three  in  the  law  department, 
three  in  the  academic  department,  and  eight  in  the  medical  depart- 
ment, a  total  of  fourteen  Pnis  on  the  grounds. 

An  earnest  request  is  made  of  all  Phis  to  notify  Bro.  J.  Woods 
Price,  Medium  River,  Virginia,  who  has  been  elected  chapter  re- 
porter for  next  session,  of  all  students  coming  to  the  university  who 
may  be  desirable  material  for  4>  A  B. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University  of  Virginia,  June  (5,  18t»S.  John  Palmer  Lea. 

TEiNNESSEE  ALPHA.  VANDERBILT  UNIVERSIIY. 

The  most  successful  year  which  Vanderbilt  has  ever  enjoj^ed  is  now 
drawing  to  a  close.  The  last  catalogue  shows  an  enrollment  of  800 
students  in  all  departments,  this  being  a  slight  increase  over  any 
previous  year.  The  prospects  are  that  next  year  even  this  number  will 
be  exceeded. 

Looking  towards  improvement,  the  law  department  has  been  reor- 
ganized. Two  new  professors  have  been  added  to  the  faculty,  making 
the  number  of  professors  in  this  department  now  five  instead  of  three, 
as  formerly.  The  new  professors  are  Judge  H.  H.  Lunton  and  Mr. 
Charles  U.  Burch.  Hon.  J.  M.  Dickinson,  who  was,  under  Cleveland's 
second  administration,  assistant  attorney-general,  is  also  now  a  mem- 
ber of  this  faculty  in  place  of  Mr.  R.  McPhail  Smith,  who  died  during 
the  year. 

The  annual  debate  between  the  literary  societies  of  Vanderbilt  and 
the  University  of  the  South,  which  took  place  in  Nashville  on  May  14, 
was  this  year  won  by  our  rivals  from  the  mountain. 

As  a  result,  however,  of  the  meeting  of  the  southern  inter-collegiate 
oratorical  association,  which  was  held  in  this  city  on  May  18,  Vander- 
bilt regained  her  lost  prestige  in  oratory,  Mr.  Cheairs.  A  K  E,  winning 
a  splendid  victory  over  representatives  from  Virginia,  Centre,  South 
Carolina  and  Texas. 

The  third  annual  track  meet  of  the  S.  I.  A.  A.  was  this  year  held  in 
Atlanta  on  May  21.  Vanderbilt  succeeded  in  winning  only  second 
place  in  team  work;  however,  three  of  the  five  records  broken  were 
placed  to  our  credit.  Bro.  Beard  succeeded  in  breaking  the  southern 
college  record  for  the  broad  jump.  Bro.  Underwood,  the  captain  of 
the  team,  was  unable  to  compete  on  account  of  injuries  received  dur- 
ing the  winter. 

Since  the  rather  poor  showing  made  against  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania early  in  the  season,  our  base  ball  team  has  been  greatly  im- 
proved, and  has  administered  successive  defeats  to  teams  representing 
the  Universities  of  the  South,  Nashville,  Georgia  and  Cincinnati.  The 
games  against  the  University  of  Virginia,  which  will  be  played  during 
commencement  week,  will  close  the  season.  The  Phis  on  the  team  are 
Beard,  Carlyle,  Carr  and  Rice. 

It  gives  nie  much  pleasure  to  introduce  to  the  fraternity  at  large 
Jacob  Ewing  Crider.  '00,  of  Fredonia,  Ky.,  who  was  initiated  into  the 
mysteries  of  our  Order  on  February  .'). 

It  is  the  custom  here  for  the  faculty  in  the  academic  department  to 


THE  SCROLL.  543 

select  as  their  representative  to  speak  on  commencement  day  the  stu- 
dent who  will  probably  be  the  first  honor  man  in  his  class.  This 
honor  was  this  year  conferred  on  Bro.  Oscar  Teague,  '98,  of  Mont- 
gomery, Ala. 

Yours  in  *  A  O, 
Nashville,  May  28,  1898.  E.  S.  Jones. 

TENNESSEE  BETA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  THE  SOUTH. 

As  has  always  been  the  custom,  Tennessee  Beta  celebrated  the  an- 
niversary of  the  Fraternity  by  having  a  delightful  banquet,  which  was 
in  every  respect  a  great  success.  Preceding  the  banquet  was  the 
'opening  of  the  Pyx,*  the  contents  being  very  amusing  as  well  as  help- 
ful to  the  treasury  of  the  chapter. 

We  hope  to  find  some  good  material  among  the  matriculates  of  the 
medical  department,  which  opens  in  a  few  days. 

Tennessee  Beta  will  in  August  lose  several  of  her  oldest  members, 
which  fact  awakens  us  to  the  realization  of  the  importance  of  these 
veterans  as  well  as  our  coming  need  for  more  such  men. 

Bro.  Wilder  has  joined  his  company  in  Louisville,  of  which  he  is 
lieutenant,  and  is  now  our  patriotic  representative  in  Uncle  Sam's 
army. 

Bro.  Hodgson  has  been  elected  an  associate  editor  of  the  annual. 

We  are  glad  to  welcome  Bros.  Geo.  and  Joe  Searcy,  of  Alabama 
Alpha,  both  of  whom  will  enter  the  medical  department. 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  state  that  the  brothers  have,  at  every 
meeting  this  term,  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  the  literary  feature 
of  our  meetings. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  is  well  represented  among  the  officers  of  the  ger- 
man  clubs.  Bro.  Wilder  is  vice-president,  and  Bro.  Hodgson  is  sec- 
retary of  the  senior  german  club,  and  of  the  junior  german  club  Bro. 
Laird  is  president  and  Bro.  Williams,  L.  M.,  is  secretary.  With  best 
wishes,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

vSewanee,  May  'i.S,  1H9H.  T.  S.  Parrott. 

GAMMA  PROVINCE. 

QEORQIA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  QEORQIA. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  The  Scrotal  we  have  initiated  and  take  great 
pleasure  in  introducing  Bro.  Henry  Burton  Garret,   '00,  of  Augusta. 

Georgia  Alpha  is  in  every  way  holding  her  own  with  the  other 
chapters  here.  At  a  recent  contest  for  champion  debater's  medal  Bro. 
Karl  Dunham  Sanders,  'IM),  won  the  medal.  Bro.  Hamilton  Mc- 
Whorter  won  freshman  speaker's  place  ;  and  Bro.  Josiah  Roy  Nun- 
nally  won  the  freshman  debater's  medal.  Bro.  Sanders  was  given  a 
junior  speaker's  place  on  class  standing  and  also  won  one  by  oratorical 
competition.  Bros.  Harrold  and  Davenport  are  honor  graduates  of 
'98.  In  college  circles  the  Phis  of  Georgia  Alpha  have  been  constantly 
in  the  front  this  year  as  usual.  Bro.  Blun  is  president  and  instructor 
of  the  Thalian  dramatic  club,  the  college  orchestra  and  the  mandolin 
and  banjo  clubs.  Bro.  D.  V.  Hopps  is  an  honorary  and  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Lucy  Cobb  Institute  orchestra.  Bro.  Dorsey  is  Phi  Delta 
Theta's  representative  on  the  board  of  editors  of  the  Pandora,  the  col- 
lege annual.     He  is  also  exchange  editor  of  the  Red  and  Black. 


544  THE  SCROLL, 

On  May  5  and  0  we  had  the  pleasure  of  having  with  us  the  brothers 
who  were  members  of  the  Vanderbilt  base  ball  team.  On  the  evening 
of  the  fifth  we  gave  an  infonual  dance  in  their  honor,  which  was  pro- 
nounced by  all  present  one  of  the  most  successful  entertainments 
given  this  year.  The  dance  was  led  by  Bro.  Tucker  Dorsey  with  Miss 
Talmadge,  one  of  our  worthy  Phi  sisters. 

Georgia's  recent  brilliant  victory  in  track  athletics  at  Atlanta,  in 
winning  first  place  in  the  southern  inter- collegiate  athletic  associa- 
tion by  a  score  of  47  points,  has  caused  track  athletic  stock  to  rise 
considerably  here. 

With  best  wishes  to  Thk  Scroij^  and  the  Fraternity,  I  am 

Yours  in  4>  A  O, 

Athens,  May  .31.  181^8.  U.  H.  Davenport. 

aeORQIA  QAMMA.  MERCER  UNIVERSITY. 

Finals  are  now  upon  us,  and  all  of  the  boys  are  doing  their  best  to 
make  their  'rise.' 

The  base  ball  season  is  over  with  Mercer  University  for  this  term. 
Out  of  five  games  we  won  four,  and  in  the  other  game  we  tied  the 
score.  Bro.  Whitney  has  made  an  excellent  manager  and  has  done 
much  for  the  upbuilding  of  Mercer's  athletics  by  his  untiring  efforts. 

Our  track  team  will  send  two  of  its  members  as  representatives  of 
the  university  to  Atlanta. 

Brothers  Cooper,  of  Columbus,  and  Clark,  of  Augusta,  will  speak  at 
our  commencement  exercises  for  the  sophomore  and  freshman  medals, 
respectively.  We  sincerely  hope  that  both  of  these  medals  will  be 
won  for  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  pleasant  and  profitable  vacation  for  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Fraternity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Macon,  May  18,  181>8.  John  M.  Clark. 

ALABAMA  BETA.  ALABAMA  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE. 

The  college  year  which  is  now  drawing  to  a  close  has  been  an  event- 
ful one  for  Alabama  Beta  in  many  ways.  The  chapter  has  been  pro- 
fressive  and  full  of  life  throughout  the  entire  year  and  to-day  is  in 
etter  condition  in  every  way  than  it  has  been  for  a  number  of  years. 

Alabama  Beta  will  lose  by  graduation  this  year  Bros.  J.  S.  Paden,  J. 
B.  Shivers,  Jonathan  Haralson,  Jr.,  J.  W.  Williams  and  A.  McB.  Ran- 
som. The  loss  of  these  men  will  be  greatly  felt,  for  they  are  good 
men  and  have  done  much  toward  building  up  our  chapter.  We  wish 
them  much  success  and  hope  to  have  them  with  us  often  in  the  future. 

Bro.  Haralson  has  recently  been  appointed  assistant  instructor  in 
electricity,  and  Bro.  A.  McH.  Ransom  has  been  appointed  assistant  in- 
structor in  chemistry.  From  the  present  indications  it  is  likely  that 
both  will  return  to  fill  these  positions  next  session. 

Bro.  Williams  has  been  promoted  from  first  lieutenant  to  captain  in 
the  military  department.  Bro.  Williams  is  a  good  officer  and  deserves 
the  honor  conferred  upon  him.  Of  the  seven  men  appointed  as  com- 
mencement orators  from  the  junior  class,  Bros.  Feagin  and  Wheeler 
will  represent  4>  A  B. 

The  Glomcrata,  our  college  annual,  will  soon  be  ready  for  distribu- 
tion. The  editors  have  done  good,  conscientious  work  on  the  book, 
and  it  will  compare  favorably  with  any  other  work  of  the  kind  in  the 
south. 


IHE  SCROLL  545 

All  students  are  looking  forward  to  commencement  with  great  pleas- 
ure, as  the  hop  promises  to  be  quite  a  success  this  year.  We  extend 
a  hearty  invitation  to  all  Phis  and  hope  to  have  many  of  them  with  us. 

We  expect  to  return  fourteen  men  next  session.  This  number  will 
place  the  chapter  on  excellent  footing  for  the  rushing  season. 

With  best  wishes  for  our  sister  chapters  and  for  the  welfare  of  4>  A  B 
in  general,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Auburn,  May  19,  1898.  Geo.  M.  Whkkler. 

MISSISSIPPI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSISSIPPI. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroij.  we  have  initiated  no  new  men; 
on  the  contrary,  we  have  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  three  brothers 
from  active  membership.  Brother  Pillow  contemplates  attending 
Eastman's  Business  College.  Brother  Whitfield  was  compelled  to 
leave  us  on  account  of  ill  health.  Brother  Broach  left  us  to  accept  a 
position  in  the  First  National  Bank,  of  Meridian,  Miss.  These  broth- 
ers will  be  greatly  misled. 

Our  base  ball  team  was  very  successful  this  season,  winning  five  out 
of  six  games  as  follows:  vs.  St.  Thomas'  Hall,  T-o;  vs.  Tulane,  14-<>; 
vs.  S.  W.  B.  U.,  8-10;  vs.  St.  Thomas'  Hall,  17-1;  vs.  Tulane,  7-8; 
vs.  S.  W.  B.  U.,  14-(>.  Brother  Hardy  was  our  representative.  Brother 
Henry  is  on  the  junior  prom,  committee.  Brother  Ranch  has  been 
elected  secretary  of  the  freshman  class.  Brother  Ray  is  one  of  the 
senior  debaters  for  commencement  week. 

Ole  Miss  for  '98  has  just  been  gotten  out,  and  reflects  credit  upon 
its  editors.     Brother  Hardy  was  the  business  manager. 

We  have  secured  a  suite  of  rooms  in  Oxford  and  have  furnished 
them  ver^'  nicel}%  so  now  we  have  a  permanent  place  of  meeting.  We 
will  be  pleased  to  see  at  any  time  any  Phis  who  may  chance  to  be  in 
Oxford. 

We  will  return  next  session  eleven  Phis,  and  we  expect  to  receive 
our  full  share  of  the  new  men;  we  hope  by  strong  and  united  efforts 
to  attain  even  higher  results  than  in  the  past. 

With  this  issue  of  Thk  Scroix  your  reporter  closes  his  active  mem- 
bership but  trusts  that  as  he  grows  in  years  he  may  grow  in  interest 
and  love  for  our  grand  Fraternity. 

With  best  wishes  for  all  our  chapters  and  for  the  welfare  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta  everywhere,  I  remain 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

University,  May  25.  1S98.  Ghorgk  L.\tham  Ray. 

DELTA  PROVINCE. 

OHIO  BETA,  OHIO  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

The  year  has  been  a  very  profitable  and  enjoyable  one  to  the  mem- 
bers of  Ohio  Beta.  Though  we  commenced  the  fall  term  with  only 
ten  men,  we  have  steadily  added  to  our  number  from  the  best  men  of 
the  university,  until  we  now  have  seventeen  initiates  and  two  pledged 
men.  With  pleasure  we  introduce  to  the  Fraternity  as  brothers  in  the 
Bond  William  K.  Brown,  '01.  of  Bloomingburg.  ().;  Warren  Hulse,  '01, 
of  Mason,  O. ;  William  R.  Haves,  '01,  ofWauseon,  O. ;  Waid  K.  Car- 
son, '00,  of  Ripley.  W.  Va.,  aiid  Delbert  B.  vSayers,  of  Marits,  O.  We 
are  proud  of  all  of  these  men  and  trust  that  they  will  ever  be  loyal 
wearers  of  the  sword  and  shield. 


54^  THE  SCROLL. 

Our  base  ball  team  is  maintaining  the  high  standing  that  our  past 
teams  have  won  for  the  university  and  promises  to  figure  in  the  state 
championship.  We  have  met  and  defeated  Antioch,  Allegheny  and 
Kenyon.  Our  game  with  Washington  and  Jefferson  was  a  hard  one 
to  lose,  the  score  being  1-0  in  W.  and  J. 's  favor.  The  team  is  work- 
ing faithfully  and  hopes  to  return  from  its  eastern  trip  with  an  un- 
broken string  of  victories.  Bro.  Gates  is  captain  of  the  team,  and 
Bro.  Sayers  is  the  first  pitcher.  Bro.  Sayers  also  plays  tackle  on  the 
foot  ball  team. 

On  May  25  our  annual  field  day  games  were  held,  and  though  no 
records  were  broken,  a  good  showing  was  made.  We  feel  sorely  the 
lack  of  a  good  gymnasium. 

Our  chapter  will  lose  four  men  in  June  by  graduation.  We  will  find 
it  hard  work  to  fill  their  places,  but  are  thankful  that  we  have  a  strong 
number  of  undergraduates  to  commence  next  year. 

On  Friday  evening,  May  27,  the  first  contest  of  the  oratorical  league 
formed  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  University  of  Indiana,  Cornell, 
Ohio  State  University  and  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  will  be  held  at 
Delaware.     These  institutions  will  make  a  very  strong  league. 

The  breaking  out  of  hostilities  between  the  United  States  and  Spain 
will  injure  the  school  very  much.  Many  students  answered  the  first 
call,  and  many  more  will  respond  to  the  next,  if  there  be  another  one. 

Wishing  the  Fraternity  prosperity,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Delaware,  May  25,  1898.  Chas.  P.  Morgan. 

OHIO  QAMMA.  OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 

This  spring  term  has  been  the  most  prosperous  in  the  history  of  this 
institution,  with  the  largest  attendance  that  has  ever  registered  at  old 
O.  U. 

The  comforts  of  college  life  have  been  greatly  added  to  by  the  oc- 
cupation of  L/UX  Hall,  a  very  large  and  beautiful  building  of  modern 
design,  which  was  dedicated  at  the  beginning  of  this  term.  The  fra- 
ternity material  this  term  has  not  been  of  the  best  quality,  and  since 
Ohio  Gamma  has  her  full  quota  of  members,  we  have  no  new  names 
to  offer  for  congratulations. 

Ohio  Gamma  loses  three  members  by  graduation  this  spring:  C. 
G.  O'Rleness,  D.  D.  Tullis  and  W.  K.  Scott.  Bro.  O'Bleness  will 
enter  the  newspaper  business,  Bro.  Tullis  will  pursue  literary  work, 
and  Bro.  Scott  expects  to  continue  the  study  of  medicine. 

As  usual,  *  A  8  will  banquet  at  commencement,  and  no  pains  will 
be  spared  to  make  the  occasion  a  rousing  success.  A  cordial  invita- 
tion is  extended  to  our  alumni  and  brother  Phis  to  be  present  and  par- 
ticipate in  the  festivities. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Athens,  May  :U,  181<S.  W.  K.  ScOTT. 

OHIO  ZBTA.  OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

Prof.  C.  D.  Kellicott,  of  the  zoological  department,  after  a  week's 
suffering  from  pneumonia,  died  on  April  13.  This  is  indeed  quite  a 
loss.  The  student  body  shares  it  more  especially  because  of  his  always 
having  been  so  closely  identified  with  their  interests. 

Our  athletic  association  has,  for  the  past  four  years,  been  under  a 
heavy  debt.  The  faculty  decreed  there  should  be  no  inter-collegiate 
athletics  until  the  entire  debt  was  expunged.  The  students  organized 
a  canvass,  and  at  this  writing  but  one  hundred  dollars  yet  remain  of 


THE  SCROLL.  547 

the  original  fourteen  hundred  dollar  debt.     Prospects  for  base  ball  are 
accordingly  brighter. 

Ohio  Zeta  notes,  with  pleasure,  that  our  semi-centennial  convention 
will  be  held  in  this  city.  We  anticipate  the  personal  acquaintance  of 
so  noble  a  band,  and  confidently  hope  for  a  record-breaker,  in  Ohio, 
the  birth-place  of  our  Order. 

The  entire  chapter  attended  the  Alumni  day  banquet  on  March  1  ">. 
A  committee  from  the  chapter  secured  signatures  for  a  healthy  alumni 
chapter.     About  45  Phis  reside  in  Columbus  alone. 

The  local  chapter  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  has  leased  a  commodious  chapter 
house  on  Fifteenth  avenue,  facing  the  east  entrance  of  the  university 
grounds. 

We  were  kindly  remembered  by  Ohio  Beta  on  the  occasion  of  their 
alumni  banquet,  and  extend  congratulations  on  their  recognized 
strength. 

We  trust  to  fare  well  in  the  inter-fraternity  base  ball  schedule  of 
this  spring. 

Two  willing  victims  now  await  the  onslaught  of  Saturday  night:  B. 
T.  Archer,  of  Cincinnati,  and  E.  C.  Grant,  of  Groomsport,  Ohio. 

S.  K.  Clark  (pledged)  is  recreating  in  and  about  Phoenix,  Arizona. 

Bro.  Erdman  was  promoted  to  regimental  adjutant  recently.  Bro. 
Schlesinger  has  been  elected  manager  of  the  base  ball  team.  Bros. 
Hughes  and  Reeves  are  initiates  of  4>  A  4>.  Bros.  Reed,  Smith,  Knox, 
Bock,  Yerke,  Schlesinger  and  Reeves  are  now  members  of  6  N  E. 

We  have  been  honored  with  visits  from  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  K.  Brown 
and  Bro.  E.  T.  Miller,  of  Columbus;  Bro.  F.  H.  Super,  instructor  in 
Ohio  University;  Bro.  Williams,  of  Kenyon,  who  made  us  a  very 
pleasant  call  upon  his  return  for  the  spring  term. 

Fraternally, 

Columbus,  April  20,  1898.  Israki.  Foster. 

OHIO  ETA.  CASE  5CHOOL  OP  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 

The  'varsity  base  ball  team  has  not  met  with  brilliant  success  thus 
far  but  has  played  some  very  creditable  games.  The  Phis  who  play 
are  Bros.  Diebold  and  Quarrie;  Bro.  Jones  is  the  manager. 

Case  will  hold  a  Joint  field  day  with  Western  Reserve  University 
again  this  year.  This  makes  the  third  meeting  day;  so  far  Case  has 
been  beaten  both  times,  but  this  is  probably  to  be  expected  when  her 
competitors  are  picked  from  all  the  four  colleges  of  the  university. 
Bro.  Jones  has  been  chosen  captain  of  the  track  team. 

The  fourth  volume  of  the  Differential  has  just  made  its  appearance; 
it  is  undoubtedly  the  best  annual  Case  has  ever  published.  Bro.  Ste- 
phan  was  editor-in-chief  and  Bro.  Diebold  business  manager. 

Bros.  Tyler,  '98,  and  Gleason,  '9^),  have  gone;  both  enlisted  promptly 
at  the  declaration  of  war  and  were  accepted.  They  are  now  at  Camp 
Bushnell  in  Columbus;  both  are  in  the  same  company.  Bro.  Tyler 
'would  have  been  graduated  with  his  class  this  year  had  not  war  broken 
out.  Notwithstanding  our  regret  at  their  going  we  are  glad  to  have 
such  a  representation  in  the  army.  May  they  make  as  good  soldiers 
as  they  are  Phis. 

Our  chapter  will  lose  by  graduation  this  June  four  men  :  Bros. 
French,  Jones,  Watson  and  Ilulett.  Commencement  comes  June  2. 
Bro.  Baltzly,  WoosieVy  '96,  has  affiliated  with  us. 

In  conclusion  we  wish  to  invite  all  Phis  who  may  come  to  Cleveland, 
whether  on  business  or  pleasure,  to  come  out  and  stay  with  us. 

In  the  Bond, 

Cleveland,  Mav  6,  1898.  Frank  Hulett. 


548  THE  SCROLL. 

INDIANA  ALPHA,  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

Although  the  increase  in  fraternity  men  has  been  exceedingly  light 
this  spring  I  am  glad  to  introduce  two  new  members  :  Bros.  Lester 
Smith,  '98,  and  Zack  Laughlin,  '01.  Both  are  worthy  men  and  will 
greatly  strengthen  our  ranks.  Bro.  Smith  is  a  senior  but  will  take 
graduate  work  next  year  and  will  be  active  in  the  chapter.  Bro. 
Harry  Laughlin,  who  has  been  teaching  in  Bloomfield,  Ind.,  has 
returned  to  the  university,  and  Bro.  Oren  Province,  of  Indiana  Delta, 
has  recently  affiliated  with  us.  Bros.  Brown  and  Mason,  both  of  the 
class  of  1895,  are  in  the  university  again  this  spring  working  for  their 
master's  decree. 

Renewed  interest  is  being  manifested  this  spring  in  athletics.  Our 
new  athletic  park  is  a  beauty.  Track  athletics  are  receiving  more  at- 
tention than  usual,  and  the  quarter-mile  track  has  greatly  increased 
the  facilities  in  that  direction.  Field  day  will  be  observed  May  10, 
and  we  hope  to  send  some  good  representatives  to  the  state  meet. 
Our  base  ball  team  is  making  a  good  showing  and  we  hope  to  win 
back  the  state  pennant  from  our  old  rival,  DePauw.  Bro.  Alsop  is 
playing  at  third  base. 

The  glee  club,  whose  winter  and  spring  tours  were  so  eminently 
successful,  will  make  a  summer  trip  during  June,  July  and  August. 
Dates  will  be  filled  at  points  in  southern  Indiana,  Cincinnati,  and 
Lexington,  Ky.,  and  Chautauqua  Park.  Prospects  are  flattering  for 
engagements  at  Winona  and  Bay  View,  Michigan.  The  I.  U.  band 
was  re-organized  this  spring  and  is  furnishing  the  music  at  the  ball 
games.     We  are  represented  by  four  Phis. 

We  are  glad  to  say  that  alumni  day  exercises  were  carried  out  to 
the  letter  of  the  ritual  this  year.  Bros.  Simmons,  Bradfute,  Prof. 
Griffith,  and  Dr.  Lyons  were  with  us  and  gave  us  some  interesting 
speeches,  interspersed  with  much  wholesome  advice. 

Bro.  Woods,  '97,  is  in  the  city  at  present  visiting  Phi  brothers.  Bro. 
Thad  W.  Rodecker,  law,  '97,  will  be  here  May  28  and  remain  until 
after  commencement.  We  have  enjoyed  many  pleasant  hours  in  our 
hall  this  winter  in  a  social  way  with  our  Phi  Delta  Theta  girls.  In- 
stead of  the  usual  Friday  night  informals  we  have  introduced  a  new 
plan.  On  Saturday  afternoons,  which  are  generally  times  when  we 
want  to  drive  dull  care  away,  we  have  gone  to  the  hall  and  spent  two 
or  three  hours  very  pleasantly.  Our  final  term  social  will  be  held  on 
June  ?>.  Let  the  Phis  remember  that  our  latch  string  is  always  out 
and  we  shall  gladly  welcome  you  in  should  you  chance  to  pass  this 
way  at  that  time. 

Our  honored  alumnus  and  distinguished  brother,  Gen.  John  W. 
Foster,  '55,  has  been  in  our  city  during  the  past  week.  He  delivered 
a  series  of  lectures  before  the  student  body  on  *  The  Diplomatic  His- 
tory of  the  United  States. '  To  say  they  were  highly  appreciated  by 
the  students  and  faculty  does  not  half  express  it.  One  evening  he 
gave  an  informal  address  on  the  present  crisis — '  The  Causes  and  Jus- 
tice of  the  Cuban  War. ' 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  and  happiness  of  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Rloomington,  May  8,  1898.  Ernkst  P.  WiLES. 

INDIANA  BETA.  WABASH  COLLEGE. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  we  have  initiated  and  beg  to 
introduce  to  brother  Phis  Harry  D.  Alfrey,  special,  of  Crawfordsville. 


THE  SCROLL,  549 

Mr.  Roinine,  pledged,  on  accouut  of  injuries  received  in  the  class 
scrimmage  of  February  "I'l,  was  not  able  to  return  to  college  this  year. 

The  college  glee  club  made  a  very  successful  tour  during  the  spring 
term  under  Bro.  Byers  as  manager.  Bro.  Bartholomew  is  the  comic 
soloist.  Bros.  Todd  and  Bartholomew  are  the  substitutes  on  the  ball 
team,  while  Bro.  Byers  is  manager  and  Bro,  Hays,  assistant.  Bro. 
Foley  has  been  elected  local  and  fraternity  editor  and  Bro.  Griesel 
business  manager  of  the  Wabas/t  for  next  year. 

In  social  circles  we  are  constantly  increasing  our  lead  over  other 
fraternities.  At  the  annual  glee  club  concert  all  the  loges  in  Music 
Hall  were  occupied  by  Phi  Delts  and  their  friends.  After  the  concert 
a  dance  was  given  in  our  hall.  On  May  14  occurred  the  first  fraternity 
drive  in  the  history  of  Wabash,  when  Phis  and  their  friends  drove  to 
the  Shades  of  Death.  On  May  ."30  we  were  delightfully  entertained 
at  dancing  by  some  of  the  most  charming  young  ladies  of  Crawfords- 
ville.  Bro.  Malone,  '1I7,  visited  us  the  first  of  this  week.  Bro.  Mittchell, 
'ys,  has  been  appointed  instructor  of  English  in  the  university  at 
Beyrout,  Syria.  This  is  the  first  time  that  a  man  from  a  western  col- 
lege has  been  offered  this  appointment. 

Since  the  opening  of  the  base  ball  season  we  have  been  visited  by 
Bro.  Fearis,  of  Purdue,  Bro.  Fulton,  of  Illinois,  Bro.  Folsom,  of  Indi- 
ana, and  Bros.  Owen  and  McGaughey,  of  Indianapolis. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  for  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Crawfordsville,  May  :]!,  18?»8.  M.vrshall  V.  Rohb. 


INDIANA  QAMMA,  BUTLER  COLLEQE,  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANAPOLIS, 

On  June  *J.'5  the  class  of  '98  will  end  its  college  days,  and  Indiana 
Gamma  will  lose  two  men.  The  few  short  weeks  that  intervene  be- 
tween now  and  then,  however,  are  the  gayest  in  the  whole  college 
year,  for  then  base  ball,  tennis,  track  athletics,  social  functions  and 
the  college  work  each  strive  to  monopolize  the  student's  time.  Butler 
has  a  good  nine  this  year,  but  all  of  her  opponents  thus  far  have  had 
better.  Bcos.  Cunningham  and  McGaughey,  '01,  represent  *  A  G  on 
the  team  with  credit.  The  Phis,  by  faculty  appointment,  have  again 
secured  the  position  of  editor-in-chief  of  the  lUiiler  Collegian^  in  the 
person  of  Bro.  Hobbs,  '*.M).  Bro.  McGaughey,  as  associate  editor,  will 
have  charge  of  the  department  of  athletics  next  year. 

Our  tennis  court  is  in  fine  condition  and  is  conceded  to  be  the  best 
on  the  campus.  It  has  been  the  scene  of  several  jolly  tennis  parties 
already,  and  many  more  are  anticipated. 

On  the  evening  of  April  '!'>  we  entertained  a  number  of  our  friends 
and  alumni  with  an  informal  reception  at  the  home  of  Bro.  F.  R. 
Kautz.  The  decorations  and  entertainment  were  in  keeping  with  the 
war  spirit  that  is  in  the  air.  So  was  the  music,  and  never  were  dances 
more  delightful  than  those  in  which  we  kept  time  to  our  beloved  na- 
tional airs. 

We  were  pleased  to  have  with  us  for  a  short  time  last  week  our 
brother  and  alumnus,  Prof.  T.  M.  Iden,  who  is  now  professor  of  chem- 
istry at  the  Kansas  State  Normal  School. 

Our  chapter  acknowledges  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  from  Bro.  C. 
A.  Gleason,  of  Ohio  Eta,  to  the  junior  prom,  and  regrets  that  none  of 
the  members  were  able  to  attend. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  pledged  two  men  whom  I  now  take 


550  THE  SCROLL. 

pleasure  in  introducing  to  the  Phi  world :   liradford  Wheatcraft,  Green- 
wood, Ind.,  and  Harry  Heinrichs,  Cumberland,  Ind.,  both  of  '02. 

With  best  wishes  for  a  pleasant  vacation  to  all  brothers  in  the  Bond, 
I  am 

Fraternally, 

Irvington,  May  10,  18J)8.  ViRGii*  Dalrvmpi^. 

INDIANA  DELTA.  FRANKLIN  COLLEQB. 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  our  reporter,  Bro.  Holman, 
has  left  his  college  work  and  joined  a  government  surveying  corps 
with  which  he  has  been  connected  for  several  years.  He  will  return 
next  fall,  however.  About  a  dozen  of  Franklin's  best  men  responded 
to  the  President's  call  for  volunteers,  among  whom  were  our  track 
captain,  physical  director  and  several  of  our  most  promising  athletes. 
Bro.  Kd.  Middleton,  '97,  enlisted  in  the  Indianapolis  light  artillery. 

It  has  been  several  years  since  Franklin  has  had  a  creditable  annual. 
The  junior  class  will  this  year  publish  the  Bine  and  Gold,  which  will 
appear  about  June  1,  and  which  gives  promise  of  being  a  credit  both 
to  the  class  and  to  the  school.  Bro.  Kenny  held  the  arduous  position 
of  business  manager  on  its  staff.  It  will  contain  cuts  of  our  active 
chapter  and  alumni  chapter. 

Our  alumni  chapter  is  making  preparation  to  give  the  annual  Phi 
Delta  Theta  commencement  week  reception.  The  active  chapter,  re- 
lieved of  the  pecuniary  drain  from  that  source,  will  purchase  some 
new  furnishings  for  the  chapter  rooms. 

We  will  lose  by  graduation  tliis  year  Bros.  Moore,  McAlpin  and 
Monroe. 

Yours  fraternally, 

Franklin,  May  1"),  18US.  Parley  W.  Monroe. 

INDIANA  ZETA.  DE  PAUW  UNIVERSITY. 

At  the  inter-state  oratorical  meeting  at  Beloit,  Wis.,  Mr.  Nadal, 
A  K  E,  of  De  Pauw,  who  represented  Indiana,  took  third  place.  Here- 
after our  primary  oratorical  contests  will  be  held  in  May,  in  order  that 
the  successful  contestant  may  have  all  sunmier  to  devote  to  his  oration. 

The  second  inter-collegiate  debate  between  Karl  ham  and  De  Pauw, 
was  won  by  the  former.  De  Pauw  had  the  affirmative  on  the  question: 
'Resolved,  That  an  income  tax  would  be  a  desirable  part  of  a  scheme 
of  taxation  for  the  United  States. ' 

Until  the  call  for  volunteers,  it  seemed  that  our  base  ball  team  would 
duplicate  the  brilliant  record  of  last  year.  Yet  since  we  have  lost  sev- 
eral of  our  best  players,  the  outlook  is  far  from  discouraging.  The 
score  of  games  is  as  follows,  our  score  preceding  in  each  case:  Indi- 
anapolis Training  School,  l.")-4;  University  of  Indianapolis,  7-4;  Pur- 
due, ]ri-<>  and  l'-i»;  Miami,  1()-Ii;  Indiana,  14-4;  University  of  Illinois, 
0-lH;  Beloit,  r>-lL>;  Wisconsin,  ')-7. 

During  the  season  we  have  enjoyed  visits  from  Bros.  Cunningham, 
Owens  and  McCiauKhey,  of  Indianapolis;  Fearis,  of  Purdue;  Van  Pelt, 
of  Miami;  Alsop,  of  Indiana;  Byers,  of  Wabash. 

Since  the  April  Scroll  we  have  initiated  J.  Elmer  Thomas,  '00,  of 
Vevalia,  Ind.,  and  Chas.  Weeks,  M)l,  of  Swayzee,  Ind.  Bro.  Roller  is 
captain  of  the  track  team.  Hro.  vSinis  is  a  new  member  of  the  Skull 
club,  and  Bro.  Hodges  of  Theta  Nu  Rpsilon.  Bro.  Sims  has  been 
elected  editor-in-chief  of  the  MX)  A/irai^t\  and  Bro.  L.  R.  Cartwright, 
vice-president  of  the  oratorical  association. 


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552  THE  SCROLL, 

In  the  field  day  Bro.  Tliomas  won  the  broad  jump;  Rro.  Weeks,  the 
pole  vault  and  Bro.  L.  R.  Cartwright  the  quarter-mile  run.  Bro. 
O'Dell  took  first  place  in  the  half-mile  and  mile  runs  and  Bro.  B.  F. 
Roller  won  the  shot-put  and  hammer-throw.  In  each  of  the  last  three 
events,  the  college  record  was  broken. 

With  best  wishes  to  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  4>t — kcio, 

Greencastle,  May  11,  IStKS.  Charlics  B.  Campbkli.. 

INDIANA  THETA.  PURDUE  UNIVERSITY. 

On  the  evening  of  April  L'o  we  gave  a  smoker,  with  some  concert 
specialists  as  a  novelty,  for  the  purpose  of  showing  our  new  hall  to 
our  friends.  Last  Friday  evening  we  dedicated  it  with  a  dance,  for 
which  one  hundred  and  fifty  invitations  were  sent  out.  It  was  a 
splendid  success  and  fully  equaled  our  anticipations. 

The  war  has  taken  from  us  Bro.  iMwin  Lennox,  who  is  in  the  hos- 
pital corps  of  the  Fourth  Indiana  Regiment,  and  Bro.  Frank  Henley, 
who  is  in  the  same  regiment.  Bro.  Patterson  was  suddenly  summoned 
to  his  home  in  Baltimore,  on  account  of  the  serious  illness  of  his 
mother,  and  has  not  yet  returned 

We  have  initiated  Albert  Reed  Brown,  of  Lafayette;  Hubert  Barton 
Clapp,  of  Chicago;  and  Harry  Rudolph  Wilson,  of  Indianapolis. 

Among  our  fellows  Lennox  was  first  lieutenant  of  artillery;  Peck 
and  Wilson  are  on  the  mandolin  club;  F*earis  is  on  the  base  ball  team; 
Dill  is  captain  of  the  sophomore  base  ball  team;  Wilson  is  on  the 
freshman  base  ball  team;  Peck,  Knight  and  Lennox  will  represent  us 
next  year  in  the  Skulls  of  18. 

Our  chapter  is  in  a  very  goo<l  condition  and  with  a  new  house,  a 
new  hall,  loyal  local  alumni  and  with  all  but  one  man  returning  next 
fall,  the  prospects  seem  very  bright  for  a  successful  year. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lafavette.  Mav  11,  istw.  Percy  H.  Battkn. 


EPSILON  PROVINCE. 

ILLINOIS  ALPHA,  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY* 

Since  our  last  letter  to  Thk  Scroll  two  of  our  men  have  left  col- 
lege. Bro.  Andrew  Cooke,  ''.M),  has  enlisted  in  the  1.  N.  G.  and  is  now 
a  corporal  in  Company  M,  Young's  Cavalry.  Bro.  Claud  Seek,  '01,  is 
at  his  home  in  Rock  Island,  111.,  dangerously  ill;  Bro.  Joe  Brown,  '(M>, 
was  called  to  his  home  last  week  on  account  of  the  death  of  his  mother. 

Bro.  F.  McCasky  is  taking  graduate  work  in  law  this  semester. 
Bros.  Mott  P.  Mitchell  and  Will  Conner  will  be  graduated  with  the 
class  of  M)8.  Bro.  C)nner  will  teach  Greek  in  the  academy  next  year. 
Bro.  Clay  Buntain,  "'U,  has  been  chosen  as  one  of  the  Rogers  club  de- 
bating team  that  will  debate  the  Adelphic  society  in  the  preliminary 
contest,  in  September,  1S*>S.  Bro.  Frank  J.  Webb  is  president  of  the 
Thalian  dramatic  society  in  the  School  of  Oratory.  This  society  puts 
on  an  average  of  fifteen  plays  a  year  in  the  school.  Bro.  Webb  ap- 
peared in  three  this  year.  He  is  also  president  of  the  junior  class  in 
the  Cumnack  School  of  Oratory.  l*ive  students  in  C.  S.  O.  were 
chosen  by  Prof.  Cumnack  to  speak  at  the  'honor  recital,*  which  will 
be  held  in  the  near  future.  Bro.  Webb  is  one  of  the  number.  The 
men  are  selected  on  the  grade  of  work  done  in  elocution. 


THE  SCROLL,  553 

Nine  men  of  the  junior  class  wore  the  Deru  colors  on  May  10,  Bro. 
Buntain  being  one  of  those  honored.     Bro.  Buntain  is  also  a  6  N  E. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  entertained  Bro.  Judge  W.  A.  Woods  last  week. 
We  have  received  visits  from  Bro.  Barr,  Michigati^  *gg^  and  Bro. 
Hutchins,  '96. 

G.  T.  Neswith,  S  X,  won  second  place  for  Northwestern  in  the  an- 
nual contest  of  the  northern  oratorical  league.  Chicago's  athletes  met 
defeat  for  the  second  time  at  the  hands  of  Northwestern 's  track  team 
May  8,  the  score  being  71  to  .i4.  The  university  base  ball  team  has 
been  a  failure  this  season,  having  played  six  games  thus  far  and  lost 
them  all.     Bro.  McCasky,  'tH),  is  captain  of  the  university  tennis  team. 

Ground  has  been  broken  for  the  new  academy  building.  The  work 
will  be  pushed  from  now  on,  in  order  that  the  building  may  be  occu- 
pied next  fall. 

Illinois  Alpha  has  taken  steps  toward  securing  a  chapter  house  for 
next  year. 

Yours  in  *  A  0, 

Hvanston,  May  12,  1898.  Geo.  E.  Moore. 

ILLINOIS  BETA.  UNIVERSI1Y  OF  CHICAGO. 

Affairs  with  Illinois  Beta  are  so  commonplace  that  it  would  require 
a  Eugene  Field  to  write  them  up  in  a  way  to  claim  the  interest  ot  sis- 
ter cliapters.  Things  are  moving  along  calmly  and  sedately  with  us, 
and  we  have  about  closed  up  the  active  work  of  the  year  with  the  as- 
surance that  the  Fraternity  here  is  at  last  on  the  fair  road  to  success. 
We  will  begin  the  next  college  year  with  eleven  men,  seven  more  than 
last  year,  a  condition  that  gives  us  much  hope  for  the  future,  espe- 
cially as  the  men  we  have  secured  during  the  year  are  excellent  mate- 
rial and  are  making  hustling  fraternity  men. 

Bro.  K.  F.  Flanders,  '97,  is  a  member  of  Company  C,  First  Regiment 
Illinois  Volunteers,  at  present  encamped  at  Chickamauga,  waiting  for 
orders  to  move  on  Spain  or  any  other  old  thing.  While  encamped  at 
Springfield,  before  ordered  south.  Brother  Flanders  was  one  day  doing 
guard  duty  when  he  saw  a  number  of  men  bearing  down  on  him,  evi- 
dently without  paying  him  the  least  attention.  They  refused  to  halt 
at  his  command,  and  he  was  proceeding  to  enforce  his  commands  at 
the  point  of  his  bayonet  when  he  recognized  Brother  Sawyer  and  a 
party  of  Illinois  Eta  Phis. 

An  inter-fraternity  base  ball  league  for  a  championship  banner  was 
organized  lately,  and  last  Saturday  the  first  games  were  played.  We 
lined  up  against  Phi  Kappa  Psi  and  wrought  so  valiantly  that  at  the 
end  of  six  innings  we  had  run  up  a  score  of  19  to  (J.  They  had  enough 
of  it  then  and  retired.  The  victory  was  due  for  the  most  part  to  the 
excellent  battery  work  of  Bros.  Mosser  and  Graves,  the  former  strik- 
ing out  ten  men.     We  did  not  think  we  could  do  it. 

Fraternities  here  were  set  to  guessing  lately  by  the  voluntary  sur- 
rendering by  the  local  chapter  of  Sigma  Nu  of  its  charter.  This 
chapter  was  one  of  the  strongest  of  the  fraternity,  and  while  no  reason 
is  given  for  the  action,  it  is  strongly  hinted  the  local  men  did  not 
think  the  general  fraternity  quite  up  to  their  standard.  What  was 
formerly  Sigma  Nu  is  now  the  Q.  V.  club,  and  it  is  said  to  be  trying 
for  a  charter  from  Chi  Psi  [Zeta  Psi  ?  Ed.]  or  some  other  fraternity. 

Almost  coincident  with  the  withdrawal  of  Sigma  Nu,  a  chapter  of 
Delta  Tau  Delta  was  chartered  here  and  twelve  men  initiated.  The 
latest  fraternity  arrival  has  several  good  men,  but  is  not  considered 


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554  THE  SCROLL, 

especially  strong.  It  occupies  a  house,  in  fact  it  did  so  before  it  was 
formally  established.  At  the  present  rate  there  is  danger  overdoing 
the  matter  of  fraternities  here. 

Bro.  Stockey,  who  was  graduated  at  the  beginning  of  last  quarter, 
is  engaged  in  a  work  that  may  give  him  no  small  reputation  in  the 
world  of  letters.  He  is  at  present  at  his  old  home  in  Freeport,  where 
he  is  hard  at  work  upon  a  history  of  Stevenson  county  since  its  con- 
quest from  the  Indians. 

It  is  more  than  likely  an  attempt  will  be  made  to  keep  some  sort  of 
fraternity  quarters  open  during  the  summer  at  the  old  stand,  5738 
Monroe  avenue.  We  will  be  pleased  to  see  all  Phis  who  may  intend 
to  take  work  at  the  University  of  Chicago  during  the  summer  quarter 
or  all  others  who  may  be  in  the  city  from  time  to  time. 

In  the  Bond, 

Chicago,  May  22,  1898.  Harold  Le  Ci,air  Ickes. 

ILLINOIS  DELTA.  KNOX  COLLEOB. 

Since  my  last  letter  the  members  of  Illinois  Delta  have  beeu  very 
active  and  have  gained  more  than  their  share  of  college  honors.  In 
athletic  work  Knox  has  upheld  her  usually  enviable  record.  The  base 
ball  team  was  the  strongest  which  has  represented  the  college  for  a 
number  of  years,  but  owing  to  trouble  with  the  faculty  the  season  was 
cut  short  after  the  Burlington  league  team  and  the  University  of  Mich- 
igan had  been  defeated.  Bro.  Wilson,  M)9,  was  manager  of  the  team 
and  played  first  base.  Bro.  Johnson,  '00,  captained  the  team  and 
played  second.  Bro.  Johnson  is  acknowledged  one  of  the  finest  college 
second  basemen  in  the  west.     Bro.  Ingle,  '01,  pitched. 

On  May  27  the  Illinois  inter-collegiate  field  meet  was  held  in  Gales- 
burg.  Out  of  a  possible  144  points  Knox  took  79,  more  than  all  the 
other  colleges  together.  Nine  records  were  broken  by  Knox  men. 
Bro.  Finley,  '99,  won  first  in  the  low  hurdles,  breaking  the  inter-col- 
legiate record.  Bro.  Green,  '00,  though  in  a  crippled  condition,  ran 
pluckily  in  both  the  hi^h  and  low  hurdles,  winning  second  and  third 
m  these  events,  respectively.  Bro.  Lewis  won  third  in  the  mile  walk. 
On  the  evening  of  the  same  day  Illinois  sophomores  beat  the  Knox 
sophomore  team  in  debate.  Bro.  Parkin  was  one  of  the  Knox  repre- 
sentatives and  made  the  strongest  talk  of  the  evening. 

We  have  given  two  parties  this  term,  the  last  one  being  given  in 
honor  of  Dewey's  victory.  The  hall  was  decorated  in  the  national 
colors,  and  the  programmes  were  of  a  patriotic  order.  Both  parties  were 
very  enjoyable  affairs.  The  chapter  has  a  most  encouraging  outlook 
for  next  year,  as  but  two  men  are  lost  by  graduation.  The  offices  we 
already  have  for  next  year  are  vice-president  of  the  inter-collegiate 
athletic  association,  editor  of  the  year  book,  manager  of  the  foot  ball 
team,  chairmen  of  society  committees,  manager  of  the  base  ball  team 
and  secretary  of  the  athletic  association. 

The  college  itself  was  never  in  a  more  flourishing  condition  and  is 
rapidly  taking  its  place  as  the  leading  minor  college  of  the  west.  The 
faculty  and  student  body  are  again  in  perfect  accord  and  by  next  fall 
Knox  will  be  heard  from  in  an  unmistakable  way. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Galesburg,  May  31,  1898.  Will  Mather  Lewis. 

ILLINOIS  ETA,  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Illinois  Eta  began  the  spring  term  with  21  men,  17  of  whom  will 
return  next  year.     We  have  several  men  in  view  for  next  year,  and 


THE  SCROLL.  555 

will  have  the  strongest  chapter  of  any  of  the  fraternities  represented 
at  the  university. 

The  past  month  has  been  a  very  busy  one  for  the  university.  The 
state  teachers'  association,  Illinois  inter-scholastic  athletic  association, 
inter-scholastic  debate,  Wisconsin-Illinois  debate,  state  architectural 
board,  have  been  occasions  for  meetings  at  the  university. 

Our  chapter  has  exhibited  its  usual  activity  in  politics.  Bro.  W.  J. 
Fulton  is  president  of  the  senior  class  and  delivers  an  oration  at  com- 
mencement. Bro.  K.  T.  Sheean  was  elected  base  ball  manager  in  spite 
of  very  strong  opposition.  Bro.  Hatch  is  on  the  senior  ball  committee. 
There  are  four  Phis  on  the  ball  team.  We  are  represented  in  the 
Shield  and  Trident  (senior  honorary  fraternity)  by  five  men  and  have 
five  in  e  N  E. 

Our  base  ball  team  has  met  with  varied  success.  We  have  shut  out 
twice  our  old  rival  Michigan,  both  times  by  a  score  of  3.-0,  and  were 
beaten  once  by  her  in  a  ten-inning  game,  the  score  of  which  was  4-8. 
We  have  won  our  series  with  Northwestern  but  have  lost  to  Chicago. 
As  Michigan  has  won  her  series  with  Chicago  the  western  champion- 
ship team  is  difficult  to  name.  We  are  represented  by  Bros.  W.  J. 
Fulton,  captain,  Johnston,  R.  B.  Fulton  and  Hazlitt  on  the  nine. 

Our  chapter  has  inaugurated  the  circular  letter,  by  means  of  which 
our  members  are  informed  of  the  movements  of  their  brothers  during 
vacation.  Four  seniors  receive  degrees,  and  Bro.  W.  J.  Fulton  will  re- 
turn and  take  a  course  in  law. 

With  this  letter  closes  the  fourth  year  of  the  reporter's  active  frater- 
nity life.  It  is  needless  to  write,  that  the  benefits  derived  from  mem- 
bership in  *  A  e  can  not  be  overestimated. 

In  the  Bond, 

Champaign,  June  2, 1898.  A.  N.  Hazutt. 

WISCONSIN  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

Bro.  Ragland,  ex-'99,  one  of  our  initiates  last  fall,  has  left  us  to  en- 
list in  the  army.  Bro.  Lawrence  Curtis,  one  of  our  Madison  alumni, 
has  also  enlisted.  On  April  28  the  state  guards  of  Madison  left  for 
Camp  Harvey,  Milwaukee.  The  students  marched  in  a  body  to  the 
train  and  gave  them  a  rousing  send-off.  Recitations  were  forgotten 
and  they  all  marched  back  to  the  hill  and  called  on  the  various  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty,  who  responded  with  short  patriotic  speeches. 

The  '99  Badger  has  at  last  made  its  welcome  appearance  and  is  as 
neat  and  bright  as  ever.  It  contains  stories  by  Bros.  Curtis,  Bacon, 
'98,  and  Pardee,  '01.  The  class  of  '00  recently  elected  iheix  Badger 
board  and  decided  to  increase  the  board  to  twenty-six  members.  Bro. 
Dorset,  '00,  was  chosen  as  one. 

The  fraternity  has  of  late  taken  great  interest  in  base  ball.  A  team 
has  been  organized  and  it  promises  to  be  a  very  good  one.  Thus  far 
we  have  only  played  one  game,  which  was  with  the  A  T  team.  The 
final  score  was  21-14  in  our  favor. 

The  'varsity  base  ball  team  has  returned  from  its  trip,  having  won 
three  of  the  five  games  played. 

The  annual  inter-scholastic  field  meet  occurred  on  May  28,  and  was 
a  great  success  in  every  way.  Nearly  every  high  school  in  the  state 
was  represented,  and  there  were  several  entries  made  from  high  schools 
in  northern  Michigan.  The  Milwaukee  West  Side  high  school  received 
the  highest  number  of  points.  This  is  an  excellent  opportunity  for 
rushing  and  spotting  new  men  who  expect  to  enter  the  university  the 


556  THE  SCROLL. 

coming  fall.  The  Phis  made  preparations  for  entertaining  a  number 
of  guests  and  gave  an  informal  party  for  them  at  Davy's  Hall  on  the 
evening  of  the  meet. 

The  May  festival  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Madison  choral 
union  was  indeed  a  rare  treat.  Three  concerts  were  given  in  the  uni- 
versity gymnasium.  The  Boston  festival  orchestra  was  secured  for 
each  concert. 

Bro.  Mann,  '1>8,  and  Bro.  Caspar,  ex-M)i^  spent  a  few  days  with  us 
last  we^k. 

At  present  Bros.  Turner  and  'Bud'  Hilbert  are  making  us  a  short 
visit. 

We  are  always  glad  to  see  old  Phis,  and  we  wish  that  more  could 
drop  in  on  us. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Madison,  May  29,  1S98.  Bernard  C.  Dorset. 


IOWA  ALPHA,  IOWA  WE5LEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 

Financially  we  are  in  gjood  condition,  due  largely  to  the  energy  of 
our  treasurer,  Bro.  Crawford.  As  delegates  to  the  proposed  province 
convention  we  have  named  George  Smith  and  Frank  Throop.  Bro. 
Helphrey  is  with  us  only  occasionally  this  term,  as  he  is  on  the  road 
as  general  a^ent  for  Underwood  &  Underwood.  We  hear  with  pleas- 
ure the  gratifying  reports  he  brings  us  concerning  our  chapters  at  Mis- 
souri State  University  and  Westminster,  which  he  has  visited.  Bro. 
Ilukill,  after  a  short  absence,  has  returned  to  be  graduated.  He  will 
then  resume  his  work  with  a  music  firm  of  Burlington.  As  leader  of 
our  cadet  band  he  has  been  a  credit  to  the  Fraternit5\  Bro.  Rex,  of 
Kahoka,  Mo.,  has  left  us  permanently.  Bro.  Hearne  is  out  for  the 
term.  Bro.  Guylee  is  in  Chicago  taking  graduate  work.  Bro.  Roth 
has  returned  from  Ann  Arbor  and  is  doing  journalistic  work  on  one 
of  our  city  papers. 

Some  of  our  boys  have  gone  to  serve  their  country.  In  camp  at 
I)es  Moines  are  the  following  members  of  Iowa  Alpha  :  Captain  Jesse 
Clark,  of  Red  Oak  ;  Lieutenant  Kd  Hearne,  of  Oskaioosa  ;  Karl  Cor- 
ley,  Jason  Randall  and  Chas.  Hearne. 

Few  honors  have  been  bestowed  vet  this  term,  but  in  their  distribu- 
tion  *  A  B  plays  an  important  part.  Bro.  Stafford  is  track  manager, 
member  of  the  Wesleyan  publishing  company,  and  representative 
from  his  class  on  the  freshman-sophomore  contest.  In  the  glee  club 
Bros.  Hukill  and  Geo.  and  Fred  Smith  are  prominent  members.  Bro. 
Geo.  Smith  is  president  of  Hamline  literary  society,  in  which  Throop, 
Crawford  and  Pace  hold  responsible  offices.  Bro.  Throop  and  your 
correspondent  present  the  diplomas  to  the  graduating  members  of 
Hamline  and  Philomathean.  Bro.  Pace  is  proving  himself  a  model 
Y.  M.  C.  A,  president.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Iowa  delegation  to 
the  inter-state  oratorical  contest  at  Beloit,  Wis. 

Our  prospects  for  next  year  are  bright.  We  will  lose  but  three  by 
graduation.  In  the  chapter  we  will  have  strong  and  active  men  ready 
to  work  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta.  From  our  alumni  come  words  of 
cheer,  and  a  chapter  house  is  a  vision  that  promises  future  realization. 

Fraternally, 

Mt.  Pleasant,  May  10,  1898.  J.  McF.  BECK. 


THE  SCROLL,  557 

IOWA  BBTA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  IOWA. 

Our  chapter  is  in  very  good  condition,  considering  the  circumstances. 
We  have  been  a  little  pushed  to  pay  off  our  local  expenses;  we  have 
fitted  our  halls  up  ana  furnished  two  parlors  new  throughout,  and  at 

? resent  we  have  the  finest  and  most  neatly  arranged  halls  in  town, 
he  war  threatened  to  take  some  of  our  members,  as  it  has  done  in  all 
similar  organizations.  Bro.  T.  G.  Fee  was  a  member  of  the  national 
guard  at  Centerville,  la. ,  being  first  sergeant  of  Company  E,  2d  Regi- 
ment. He  was  mustered  into  the  U.  S.  service  as  first  sergeant  of  the 
50th  Iowa  Volunteers. 

Bros.  W.  L.  Barker  and  D.  C.  Peet  went  from  here  to  Des  Moines 
to  join  the  light  artillery,  Barker  going  as  second  lieutenant  and  Peet 
as  private.  As  no  artillery  was  taken  from  Iowa,  Barker  has  returned, 
ana  Peet,  being  called  home  on  account  of  his  mother's  sickness,  will 
not  return  this  term. 

We  lose  three  members  this  year,  leaving  us  eight  to  start  with  next 
fall.  Bro.  Reiley,  of  Knox  College,  will  probably  be  with  us  next 
year,  also  Bro.  McBeth,  of  Iowa  Wesleyan.  Bro.  F.  A.  Soleman  gradu- 
ates from  the  collegiate  department  this  year  as  a  Ph.  B.  Bro.  W.  L. 
Barker  also  graduates  from  the  collegiate  department,  l*h.  B.,  but  will 
return  next  fall  to  finish  his  law  course.  Bro.  LeRoy  K.  Young  gradu- 
ates from  the  civil  engineering  course  and  will  not  return.  Bro.  G.  M. 
Price,  who  was  a  graduate  from  the  collegiate  department  last  year, 
will  finish  his  law  course  this  year,  and  he  expects  to  be  practicing 
next  year  by  this  time. 

Since  our  last  letter  we  have  initiated  C.  W.  Roberts,  of  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant, la.     He  became  a  member  of  *  A  9  April  29,  1898. 

Examinations  close  this  term  on  Friday,  June  '^,  and  the  same  even- 
ing the  Phis  give  their  annual  commencement  party  and  banquet. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Iowa  City,  May  28,  1898.  Wm.  G.  Willktt. 

MISSOURI  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI. 

It  is  almost  with  sadness  that  I  write  a  report  from  Missouri  Alpha. 
So  many  of  our  members  that  were  oldest  in  the  chapter  volunteered 
for  the  war  that  we  seem  materially  weakened.  But  those  of  us  who 
remain,  instead  of  being  discouraged,  appreciate  the  more  our  respon- 
sibility, and  are  working  with  even  greater  enthusiasm  than  before. 
We  have  given  up  some  good  men  and  hope  to  have  them  all  back 
with  us  next  September.  Bro.  Geo.  H.  English,  Jr.,  is  captain  of  the 
company  sent  from  the  university — Company  I  of  the  Fifth  Missouri 
Volunteers.  Bro.  R.  S.  Edmunds  is  his  first  lieutenant.  Bro.  R.  H. 
Switzler  is  at  present  sergeant-major  of  the  same  regiment.     Bro.  H. 

B.  Williams  and  Bro.  A.  W.  Brent  are  with  Bro.  English.  Bro.  H.  B. 
Walker,  '93,  is  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Missouri  Volunteers.  Although 
we  have  lost  these  good  men,  we  have  nothing  to  fear  for  Missouri 
Alpha's  welfare.     We  are  still  ahead  of  any  of  our  rivals. 

Bro.  G.  A.  Thompson  has  won  the  prize  for  the  best  thesis  in  the 
law  department — $185  worth  of  law  books. 

The  decision  of  the  judges  in  the  inter-state  oratorical  contest,  held 
here  last  May,  has  been  reversed.  The  Missouri  orator  who  was  given 
first  there  has  been  given  second  place,  and  the  first  place  given  Bro. 

C.  F.  Bell,  Pennsylvania  Delta,  '94,  representing  Colorado. 
With  best  wishes  for  all  Phis,  I  am 

Yours  in  *t-ice/a, 
Columbia,  May  24,  1898.  Chas.  S.  Ruffner. 


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THE  SCROLL,  559 

NEBRASKA  ALPHA.  UNIVERSITY  OP  NEBRASKA. 

It  was  with  the  deepest  regret  that  Nebraska  Alpha  was  obliged  to 
recall  her  invitation  to  Epsilon  province  and  to  postpone  the  province 
convention  till  some  future  time.  We  had  been  looking  forward  to  it 
for  several  years  and  preparing,  but  so  many  of  the  brothers  felt  them- 
selves called  to  enlist,  that  it  was  a  manifest  impossibility  for  us  to  en- 
tertain the  convention  this  year,  at  any  rate.  The  Nebraska  national 
guard  has  been  assembling  here  for  nearly  a  month  and  has  been 
taking  men  every  day  from  the  university.  Nine  Phis  of  the  chapter 
have  enlisted,  and  there  are  several  Phi  alumni  in  the  ranks.  Some 
of  them  ^ot  their  share  of  the  honors.  Brothers  Our>'  and  Hayward 
are  captams;  Bros.  Russell,  Roddy  and  Weber  are  second  lieutenants; 
Bros.  Whedon  and  Haggard  are  sergeants.  If  the  President  makes  a 
second  call,  and  the  report  is  to-day  that  he  will,  the  chapter  will  miss 
more  of  the  brothers.  The  first  Nebraska  regiment  left  for  the  Phil- 
ippines yesterday  morning,  taking  with  it  Brothers  Oury,  Russell, 
Weber  and  Whedon.  Orders  for  the  second  have  not  yet  been  an- 
nounced. The  camp  of  the  militia  here  in  Lincoln  has  been  the  prin- 
cipal excitement  of  the  spring  term  and  overshadows  all  else. 

We  expect  to  graduate  the  following  men  on  June  9  :  Bros.  Weber, 
Russell,  Haggard  (who  will  receive  their  degrees  even  though  they 
have  enlisted),  Mueller,  Stone,  Davenport  and  True.  Three  of  these 
expect  to  return  in  the  fall.  Prospects  for  a  good  start  next  year  are 
excellent.  Since  the  last  letter  we  have  initiated  Paul  L.  Case,  of  Lin- 
coln. He  was  spiked  by  five  fraternities,  and  we  are  naturally  proud 
of  our  victory.  We  also  have  five  others  pledged  for  next  year,  and 
our  first  catch  bids  fair  to  be  a  most  excellent  one. 

The  annual  field  day  took  place  on  the  campus  May  14.  Brother 
Case  represented  us  in  the  mile  run  and  though  not  first  bids  fair  to 
do  more  athletic  work.     Several  university  records  were  broken. 

In  a  social  way  the  senior  promenade  and  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  party 
are  of  most  importance  since  April  1 .  Brother  Haggard  acted  as  mas- 
ter of  ceremonies  for  the  former.  The  latter  was  undoubtedly  one  of 
the  finest  parties  ever  given  in  Lincoln. 

Our  new  building  for  the  school  of  mechanic  arts  goes  on  nicely. 
It  is  expected  to  be  finished  by  fall. 

Yours  in  the  Bond, 

Lincoln,  May  17,  1898.  Chas.  H.  True. 


56o  THE  SCROLL, 


PERSONAL. 

THE  VOLUNTEER  ARMY-OFPICERS. 

A'.  J/.  /. — Gen.  Henry  Van  Ness  Boynton,  '58,  has  been 
appointed  brigadier- general  of  volunteers  by  President  Mc- 
Kinley.  Gen.  Boynton,  as  chairman  of  the  park  commis- 
sion, has  been  in  charge  of  local  arrangements  at  Chicka- 
mauga  during  the  time  troops  have  been  encamped  there. 

Kansas — Col.  Frederick  Funston,  '92,  has  command  of 
the  Kansas  regiment  now  waiting  orders  at  Camp  Alger, 
Va.  On  account  of  his  experience  and  high  rank  in  the 
Cuban  army,  Col.  Funston  has  been  summoned  to  consult 
with  Gen.  Miles  in  regard  to  the  details  of  the  invasion. 

Va7iderbili—Tyr .  Richard  A.  Barr,  '92,  of  Nashville,  is 
surgeon,  with  rank  of  major,  in  the  First  Regiment,  Ten- 
nessee Volunteers,  which  will  sail  for  Manila  with  the 
fourth  expedition. 

Illinois — Frank  H.  Hamilton,  '95,  has  been  appointed 
captain  of  engineers.  He  was  formerly  first  lieutenant  of 
engineers  in  the  Illinois  National  Guard. 

Nebraska — W.  H.  Oury,  '97,  is  captain  of  Company  B, 
First  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  which  sailed  for  the 
Philippines  with  the  second  expedition. 

Washington  aiid  Jefferson — F.  B.  Hawkins,  *96,  is  cap- 
tain of  Company  D,  Tenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers, which  sailed  for  the  Philippines  with  the  second  expe- 
dition, 

Nebraska — W,  H.  Hay  ward,  '97,  is  captain  of  Company 
C,  Second  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  now  in  camp  at 
Chickamauga. 

Missouri — Geo.  H.  English,  Jr.,  '97,  is  captain  of  Com- 
pany I,  Fifth  Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chicka- 
mauga. 

loiva  Wesleyaji — Jesse  Clark,  '91,  of  Red  Oak,  is  captain 
in  one  of  the  regiments  sent  out  by  Iowa. 

Missouri — Harry  B.  Walker,  '98,  is  first  lieutenant  in 
one  of  the  regiments  furnished  by  Missouri.  He  was  his 
chapter's  delegate  to  the  Indianapolis  convention  in  1894, 
being  at  the  same  time  president  of  the  inter- state  oratorical 
association. 


THE  SCROLL,  561 

Iowa  IVesleyan — Ed.  Hearne,  '94,  is  first  lieutenant  in 
one  of  the  re^ments  furnished  by  Iowa. 

Missouri — R.  S.  Edmunds,  '99,  is  first  lieutenant  in  Com- 
pany I,  Fifth  Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chick- 
amauga. 

Nebraska — E.  O.  Weber,  *98,  is  second  lieutenant,  Com- 
pany K,  First  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  which  sailed 
for  the  Philippines  with  the  second  expedition. 

Sewayiee — Oscar  Wilder,  '98,  is  second  lieutenant.  Com- 
pany B,  First  Regiment  of  Kentucky  Volunteers  (Louisville 
Legion).     He  is  now  in  camp  at  Chickamauga. 

Nebraska — Philip  W.  Russell,  '98,  is  second  lieutenant. 
Company  D,  First  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  which 
sailed  for  the  Philippines  with  the  second  expedition.  He 
was  his  chapter's  delegate  to  the  Philadelphia  convention, 
in  1896,  and  was  chosen  for  ^  B  K  this  year  in  the  first 
drawing. 

Nebraska — C.  V.  Nusz,  '95,  is  second  lieutenant.  Com- 
pany M,  Second  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  now  in 
camp  at  Chickamauga. 

Nebraska — Thomas  F.  Roddy,  '98,  is  second  lieutenant 
and  battalion  adjutant  in  Company  A,  Second  Regiment, 
Nebraska  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Missouri — R.  H.  Switzler,  *98,  is  sergeant-major  in  the 
Fifth  Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 
He  was  his  chapter's  delegate  to  the  convention  at  Philadel- 
phia, in  1896,  and  is  now  fraternity  editor  of  the  Western 
College  Magazi7ie, 

Indianapolis — Robert  L.  Moorehead,  '96,  is  sergeant- 
major  in  the  One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth  Regiment,  Indi- 
ana Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga.  He  was  married  on 
April  23,  1898,  to  Miss  Gertrude  McCoUum,  of  Indianapolis. 

Nebraska — B.  D.  Whedon,  '99,  is  sergeant-major  of  the 
second  battalion.  First  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers, 
now  en  route  for  Manila. 

Nebraska — L.  A.  Westerman,  is  a  sergeant  in  Company 
H,  Second  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  now  at  Chicka- 
mauga. 

Iowa — T.  G.  Fee,  '00,  is  first  sergeant  in  Company  E, 
Second  Regiment,  Iowa  Volunteers. 


562  THE  SCROLL. 

Ohio  State— ^.  A.  Kah,  '00,  is  a  sergeant  in  the  Third 
Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers. 

Nebraska — R.  W.  Haggard,  '98,  is  sergeant  in  Company 
K,  Second  Regiment,  Nebraska  Volunteers,  now  at  Chicka- 
mauga. 

Washijigton  and  Jeff ersoji — C.  Ward  Eicher,  '96,  is  ser- 
geant in  Company  I,  Tenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers, now  €71  route  for  Manila. 

Northwestern — Andrew  Cooke,  '99,  is  a  corporal  in  Com- 
pany M,  Young's  (First)  Cavalry,  Illinois  Volunteers. 

Case — C.  A.  Gleason,  '99,  is  a  corporal  in  Company  C, 
Fifth  Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Cornell — Corporal  Wm.  M.  Pur  man,  '95,  of  the  Second 
Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  has  been  transferred  to 
the  First  Regular  Volunteer  Engineering  Corps. 

VOLUNTEERS  IN  THE  RANKS. 

Wash i7ig ton  and  Jefferson — Alex.  Eicher,  '99,  is  with 
Company  I,  Tenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers, 
now  on  the  way  to  the  Philippines.  He  is  captain  of  the 
W.  and  J.  eleven  ;  ten  members  of  the  team  have  enlisted. 

Washington  and  Jefferson — W.  E.  Ralston,  '01,  is  in 
Company  H,  Tenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers, 
now  on  the  way  to  the  Philippines. 

Ohio — Arthur  C.  Johnson,  '97,  is  with  the  Eighth  Regi- 
ment, Ohio  Volunteers,  now  at  Camp  Alger,  Va. 

Frajikliji — Ed.  Middleton,  '97,  is  with  the  Twenty-seventh 
Battery,  Indiana  Volunteer  Artillery,  now  at  Chickamauga. 
He  has  been  seriously  ill. 

Ohio  State— C.  H.  Woods,  '9S,  is  with  Company  H, 
Seventh  Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers. 

Ohio — Howard  L.  Charter,  '98,  is  with  Company  B,  Sev- 
enth Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers. 

Buchiel — Gerald  Brown,  '00,  a  grandson  of  John  Brown, 
is  with  Company  B,  Eighth  Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers,  now 
at  Camp  Alger,  Va. 

Missouri — A.  W.  Brent,  '00,  is  with  Company  F,  Fifth 
Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

lou'a  Wesley a7i — ^Jason  Randall,  '99,  is  with  one  of  the 
regiments  sent  out  by  Iowa. 


THE  SCROLL,  563 

Purdue — Frank  Henley,  '00,  is  with  the  One-hundred- 
and-sixtieth  Regiment,  Indiana  Volunteers,  now  at  Chicka- 
maiiga. 

Iowa  Wesley  an — Chas.  Hearne,  '99,  is  with  one  of  the 
regiments  sent  out  by  Iowa. 

Missouri — H.  B.  Williams,  '98,  is  in  Company  I,  Fifth 
Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Io7va  Wesley  an — Karl  Corley,  '96,  of  Grinnell,  is  with  one 
of  the  regiments  sent  out  by  Iowa. 

Dickinson — Frederick  L.  Kriebel,  '98,  who  wrote  the 
sketch  of  his  alma  mater  for  the  current  issue,  and  whose 
portrait  and  biography  appear  in  the  Pyx,  has  enlisted  with 
the  Eighth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  now  at 
Camp  Alger,  Va. 

Tulane — A.  K.  Foot,  '99,  who  was  a  law  student  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  has  been  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  with  the  Monticello  Guards,  of  Charlottesville. 

Washington  and  Jefferson — H.  W.  Weirich,  '97,  is  with 
the  Tenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  now  en  route 
for  Manila. 

Chicago — K.  F.  Flanders,  '98,  is  with  Company  C,  First 
Regiment,  Illinois  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Dartmouth — E.  P.  Bailey,  '97,  instructor  in  mineralogy 
at  Dartmouth,  is  with  the  regiment  sent  out  by  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Case—^.  D.  Tyler,  '98,  is  with  Company  C,  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, Ohio  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Dartmouth — W.  H.  Mitchell,  '98,  is  with  the  regiment 
sent  out  by  New  Hampshire. 

Wisconsin — Laurence  A.  Curtis,  '94,  is  with  Company  G, 
First  Regiment,  Wisconsin  Volunteers,  now  at  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  with  Fitzhugh  Lee's  division. 

•    Dartmouth — C.   E.   Carr,    '98,  is  with  the  regiment  sent 
out  by  New  Hampshire. 

Wisconsin — John  K.  Ragland,  '99,  is  with  the  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, Missouri  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Dartmouth — W.  D.  Turner,  '98,  is  with  the  regiment 
sent  out  by  New  Hampshire. 

Wisconsin — C.  Seaman,  '94,  is  with  the  Second  Regiment, 
Wisconsin  Volunteers,  now  at  Chickamauga. 


564  THE  SCROLL. 

SURGEONS  AND  DRUMMER  BOY. 

Purdue — Edwin  Lennox,  '^^9,  is  in  the  hospital  corps  of 
the  One-hundred-and-sixtieth  Regiment,  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, now  at  Chickamauga. 

De  Pauw — Dr.  F.  W.  Foxworthy,  '94,  is  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  One-hundred-and-sixtieth  Regiment,  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, now  at  Chickamauga. 

Indianapolis — Dr.  Wm.  M.  Wright,  '86,  was  brigadier- 
surgeon  of  the  Indiana  National  Guard  before  it  was  mustered 
into  service.  He  was  offered  a  position  as  regimental  surgeon 
but  declined  because  he  would  deprive  someone  of  a  place 
by  doing  so. 

Miami — Dr.  J.  H.  Macready,  '«S9,  of  Cincinnati,  is  a 
member  of  the  hospital  corps.  First  Regiment,  Ohio  Volun- 
teers, now  at  Port  Tampa,  Fla. 

Miami — S.  F.  Van  Pelt,  '01,  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Regiment  band,  Ohio  Volunteers. 

REGULARS. 

California — W.  S.  Alexander,  '77,  is  first  lieutenant  in 
the  Fourth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A. 

Auburn — ^J.  B.  McDonald,  '91,  is  captain  in  the  famous 
Tenth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 

Alabama — W.  B.  Bankhead,  '93,  has  been  selected  by 
Adjutant- General  Corbin  as  a  candidate  for  appointment  as 
second  lieutenant  in  the  regular  army.  If  he  passes  the 
examinations  he  wall  be  nominated  by  President  McKinley 
and  confirmed  by  the  senate. 

Wisconsin — Laurence  A.  Curtis,  '94,  has  been  named  as 
one  of  the  candidates  for  the  position  of  second  lieutenant 
in  the  regular  army,  chosen  from  among  the  honor  graduates 
of  military  schools  or  colleges  with  departments  of  military 
instruction. 

Nebraska — W.  H.  Oury,  '97,  now  captain  of  volunteers 
and  C7i  route  for  the  Philippines,  has  just  been  named  as  one 
of  the  candidates  for  the  second  lieutenancies  in  the  regular 
army,  which  have  been  created  by  increasing  the  number  of 
battalions  in  each  regiment  to  three. 

THE  NAVY. 

Gettysburg — Ensign  D.  M.  Addison,  '95,  who  has  been 
successively  attached  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Machias  and  Benning- 
ton, is  now  with  the  North  Atlantic  squadron. 


THE  SCROLL.  565 

Ohio — Louis  R.  de  Steiguer,  '87,  who  was  graduated  from 
Annapolis  in  1891,  is  now  an  ensign  in  the  navy. 

Alabama — Raymond  Stone,  *01,  is  an  ensign  in  the  navy. 

Tulane—^?X  Tyler  Cluverius,  '04,  U.  S.  N.,  one  of  the 
survivors  of  the  wreck  of  the  Maine,  has  been  appointed  en- 
sign by  President  McKinley. 

Gettysburg— Til,  William  H.  Ulsh,  '90,  has  entered  the 
navy  and  been  appointed  assistant  surgeon,  with  the  rank  of 
ensign. 

South  Carolbia,  'Sj — Lieutenant  J.  B.  Patton,  U,  S.  N., 
who  has  been  inspecting  armor  plate  at  the  Carnegie  works, 
is  now  aboard  the  cruiser  Brooklyn. 

WITH  PEN  AND  SWORD, 

hidiayiapolis — John  Randolph  Spears,  '72,  is  with  the 
North  Atlantic  squadron  as  special  correspondent  of  the 
New  York  Sun  and  Harper"  s  Weekly.  He  has  been  dubbed 
commodore  by  the  other  members  of  the  mosquito  fleet,  and 
is  commander  of  the  Kanapaha,  a  seventeen -knot  yacht. 

Ohio  Wesleyan — Ed.  L.  Keen,  '91,  is  one  of  the  war 
correspondents  on  the  staff  of  the  Scripps-McRae  league  of 
newspapers.  He  was  on  duty  in  Cuba  before  the  war  broke 
out,  but  is  now  at  Chickamauga. 

Miami — Edwin  Emerson,  '89,  war  correspondent  with 
the  insurgents,  is  reported  to  have  been  captured  by  the 
Spaniards  in  Cuba. 

Kansas — William  Allen  White,  '90,  has  an  illustrated 
article  in  McClure' s  Magazine  for  June,  entitled  'When 
Johnny  Went  Marching  Out,'  describing  the  enlistment  of 
volunteers  in  western  towns,  and  scenes  along  the  way  to 
points  of  mobilization,  in  April  and  May. 

Indianapolis — John  Randolph  Spears,  '72,  is  the  author 
of  a  four  volume  history  of  the  United  States  Navy,  from  its 
origin  to  the  present  day,  published  recently  by  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons. 

Indiayiapolis — Judge  John  V.  Hadley,  '63,  who  was  first 
lieutenant  and  aide-de-camp  to  General  Rice  during  the 
civil  war,  has  just  had  a  volume  of  his  experiences — *  Seven 
Months  a  Prisoner' — published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

AT  WEST  POINT. 

Washington  and  Jefferson — J.    F.  Bell,  '98,  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  a  cadetship  at  West  Point. 


566  THE  SCROLL. 

Columbia — Fred  Hinrichs,  Jr.,  '99,  sucxressfully  passed 
his  final  entrance  examinations  and  entered  West  Point  this 
month. 

Mississippi — \Vm.  A.  McCain,  *9o,  enters  West  Point 
this  month. 

AT  WASHINGTON. 

Northwestern — Clay  Buntain,  *99,  has  been  appointed  to 
a  clerkship  in  the  war  department,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

Alabama — F.  P.  Gibson,  'SO,  is  a  clerk  in  the  war  depart- 
ment, at  Washington,  D.  C. 

MORE  ON  THE  SAME  SUBJECT. 

Westminster — Rev.  S.  Edward  Young,  *86,of  Pittsburgh, 
has  offered  his  services  to  the  President  during  the  war,  in 
the  life-saving  w^ork  along  the  coast.  His  interest  in  this 
work  comes  from  long  association  with  the  men  engaged  in 
it,  while  he  was  pastor  at  Asbury  Park  and  Newark,  N.  J. 

De  Pauw — Frank  Takasugi,  '9<),  has  tendered  his  services 
to  the  Governor  of  Indiana  for  the  war  with  Spain.  Con- 
siderable interest  attaches  to  the  fact,  since  his  native  coun- 
try is  not  supposed  to  regard  favorably  the  American  con- 
quest of  the  Philippines. 

Vayiderbilt — Dr.  Paul  M.  Jones,  '91,  lived  for  a  number 
of  years  near  Greensboro,  Ala.,  and  was  an  early  acquaint- 
ance and  friend  of  Richmond  P.  Hobson,  the  hero  of  the 
Merriraac.  Lieutenant  Hobson  was  a  member  of  K  A  at 
Southern  University,  and  all  fraternity  men  are  delighted  to 
congratulate  that  chivalric  order  on  the  glorious  deed  of  her 
son.  We  are  proud  of  him  not  only  as  Americans,  but  as 
college  and  fraternity  men  as  well.  We  shall  count  it  no 
more  than  just  if  the  next  number  of  the  K  A  Journal  is 
wholly  devoted  to  the  gallant  lieutenant. 

Wabash— (:^^Vi.  John  C.  Black,  '62,  now  U.  S.  district 
attorney  at  Chicago,  has  been  elected  commander  of  the 
department  of  Illinois,  G.  A.  R. 

Central  {Mo.) — John  H.  Wills,  '77,  who  was  graduated 
at  West  Point  in  1881,  and  whose  death  is  reported  in  the 
Chapter  Grand  this  year,  was  a  resident  of  Abingdon,  Va. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  first  lieutenant  in  the 
Twenty-second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  was  on  sick  leave  of 
absence  at  Asheville,  N.  C.  He  was  born  July  10,  18o7, 
was  at  West  Point  four  years,  was  second  lieutenant,  Twenty- 
second  Infautrv,  U.  S.  A.,  1881-'1M),  and  first  lieutenant  in 


THE  SCROLL.  567 

the  Twelfth  Infantry,  1890-'91,  before  he  was  transferred 
to  his  old  regiment.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  short- 
lived chapter  at  Central  College. 


ITEMS  OF  INTEREST. 


COLLEGES. 

President  Crook,  of  Ohio  University,  retired  at  the  close 
of  this  college  year. 

The  students  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  are  about 
to  erect  a  memorial  tablet  to  six  members  of  the  class  of 
1757,  the  first  to  be  graduated  there. 

Dr.  W.  C.  Roberts,  of  New  York,  has  been  elected  presi- 
dent of  Center  College.  He  was  formerly  president  of  Lake 
Forest  and  lately  secretary  of  the  Presbyterian  Northern 
Board  of  Home  Missions. 

Mrs.  Hearst's  architectural  plans  for  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia include  two  club  houses  for  undergraduates,  in  con- 
nection with  the  gymnasium,  provided  with  all  the  appoint- 
ments of  the  most  modern  club-house. 

President  Canfield,  of  Ohio  State  University,  refused  to 
excuse  the  university  battalion  from  recitations,  that  it 
might  take  part  in  the  farewell  parade  of  the  Seventeenth 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.  The  officers  of  the  battalion  appealed 
to  the  state  senate,  then  in  session,  and  President  Canfield 
was  requested  to  rescind  his  order,  which  he  did. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  Miami 
University,  in  June,  1899,  Whitelaw  Reid  will  present  to 
the  school  his  library,  which  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  finest 
private  collections  of  books  and  manuscripts  in  America. 
Mr.  Reid  who  is  an  alumnus  of  Miami,  has  been  selected  to 
deliver  the  anniversary  oration  at  commencement  next  year. 

Think  of  Harvard  as  a  name  to  fight  under,  when  not  a 
vessel  in  the  service  honors  that  of  William  Bainbridge  or 
Isaac  Hull  or  James  Lawrence  or  John  Paul  Jones  I  Con- 
ceive of  calling  a  great  cruiser  the  Yale  and  a  wretched 
little  torpedo  boat  the  Farragiit  or  the  Decaiur\  Only  one 
step  further  and  we  shall  have  the  United  States  monitor 
Vassar  and  the  United  States  battleship  the  Misses  Jo7i€s' s 
Seminary,  Harvard  and  Yale  and  not  Paul  Jones  or  Hull  ! 
Shades  of  the  mighty  dead  ! — Anpiy  and  Nazy  Journal. 


56S  THE  SCROLL. 

A  three  days'  conference  of  ministers  and  laymen  of  the 
Methodist  church  was  held  in  Indianapolis,  in  April,  to 
devise  ways  and  means  to  cover  the  deficit  in  the  budget  of 
De  Pauw  University,  caused  by  the  failure  of  the  De  Pauw 
estate. 

The  legislature  of  Maryland  has  appropriated  for  the 
uses  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University  the  sum  of  $50,000  a 
year  for  two  years,  without  conditions,  so  that  for  the 
present  the  university  can  continue  its  work  without  con- 
traction of  its  activities  or  reduction  of  its  teaching  force. 

The  gulf  states  inter- collegiate  oratorical  contest  was  held 
at  the  University  of  Mississippi,  April  29.  G.  H.  Terri- 
berry,  K  A,  of  Tulane,  was  the  victor. 

The  Virginia  contest  was  held  at  Richmond,  May  6.  A 
non-fraternity  man  from  the  University  of  Virginia  was 
winner.  Randolph- Macon  was  represented  by  Bro.  S.  M. 
Janney. 

The  southern  association  held  its  contest  at  Vanderbilt, 
May  18.  N.  F.  Cheairs,  A  K  E,  of  Vanderbilt,  won,  though 
the  first  ballot  of  the  judges  showed  one  vote  each  for  Van- 
derbilt, Virginia  and  Sewanee. 

The  inter-state  association  held  its  contest  at  Beloit,  May 
5.  Wm.  Gorsuch,  B  0  11,  of  Knox,  was  first,  and  J.  A. 
Barnett,  B  0  IT,  of  Wooster,  second.  The  decision  of  last 
year  was  revised  and  reversed,  giving  first  prize  for  1897  to 
Bro.  Chauncey  F.  Bell,  Allegheny,  '94,  now  a  member  of 
the  class  of  '90  at  the  University  of  Colorado. 

FRATERNITIES. 

A  K  E  closes  the  year  at  Kenyon  with  three  men:  one 
senior  and  two  freshmen. 

^  K  2  has  established  a  chapter  at  Armour  Institute  of 
Technology,  Chicago.  This  gives  her  thirteen  active  chap- 
ters. 

Mr.  Verner  M.  Jones,  erstwhile  editor  of  the  K  k  Jour- 
nal, is  now  editor  of  the  Cotton  Planters'  Journal^  of  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

B  0  II  has  a  new  alumni  chapter  at  Terre  Haute,  and 
2  X  one  at  Pittsburgh.  K  2  has  organized  one  at  Chihua- 
hua, Mexico, 

Chi  chapter  of  IT  K  A  was  established  at  Sewanee,  May  17, 
with  six  charter  members.  IT  K  A  now  has  fourteen  active 
and  eight  alumni  chapters. 


THE  SCROLL,  569 

Beta  Iota  chapter  of  A  T  A  was  re-established  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  April  30,  with  nine  charter  members. 
A  chapter  was  established  there  in  1888,  dying  in  1893. 

B  0  n  and  X  4^  moved  into  new  houses  this  term  at  Union. 
The  new  K  A  house  at  Sewanee  will  be  completed  by  the 
last  of  July.     2  A  E  has  leased  a  house  at  Purdue. 

The  2  N  chapter  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  a  strong  or- 
ganization, has  surrendered  its  charter  and  become  a  local 
society.     The   Times- Herald  thinks  it  may  have  designs  on 

Gamma  Alpha  chapter  of  A  T  A  was  established  at  the 
University  of  Chicago,  Friday,  May  13  (in  defiance  of 
superstition),  with  eleven  charter  members.  ATA  now 
has  forty  active  chapters. 

The  editor  is  under  many  obligations  to  Mr.  Clay  W. 
Holmes,  editor  of  The  Shield  of  0  A  X,  for  a  copy  of  the 
elaborate  menu  mentioned  elsewhere.  It  contains  the  en- 
graved autographs  of  the  banqueters. 

The  June'  Beta  Theta  Pi  contains  an  article  in  line  with 
Brother  Palmer's  article  in  the  April  Scroll,  advocating  a 
simple  and  condensed  form  of  fraternity  catalogue.  This 
article  has  received  extended  mention  in  nearly  all  our  re- 
cent exchanges. 

K  2,  in  addition  to  the  two  new  chapters  reported  in  the 
last  Scroll,  has  a  chapter  at  the  University  of  Maryland. 
This  gives  her  fifty  active  chapters,  the  charter  of  the 
one  at  U.  S.  Grant  University,  Tenn.,  having  just  been 
withdrawn.  The  chapter  at  the  University  of  Maryland, 
Alpha  Alpha,  has  twice  died  and  been  re-established  twice. 

The  name  Somers,  given  to  the  torpedo  boat  purchased 
in  Germany  in  April,  recalls  the  mutiny  on  the  brig  Somers 
in  1842,  as  a  result  of  which  midshipman  Philip  Spencer, 
one  of  the  founders  of  X  4^,  was  hanged.  Members  of  X  ^ 
were  called  *  Pirates'  by  their  rivals  long  afterward,  as  it 
was  claimed  Spencer  intended  starting  on  a  career  of  piracy. 
His  friends  and  many  others  claim  that  he  was  wholly  in- 
nocent of  the  charge. 

Mr.  Willis  O.  Robb,  reviewing  'American  College  Fra- 
ternities,' in  the  June  Beta  Theta  Pi,  says  that  B  0  n  really 
established  the  first  chapter  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin; 
*  because  *  A  0  was  and  had  been  inactive  for  years,'  when 
the  Beta  chapter  was  organized  there.     By  the  same  reason- 


570  THE  SCROLL. 

ing,  *  A  0  might  claim  to  have  been  the  first  fraternity  at 
Miami,  Indiana  and  Wabash,  for  when  the  Phi  chapters 
were  organized  at  these  three  places,  the  previously  estab- 
lished Beta  chapters  there  had  died  out.  At  Centre  also 
*  A  0  has  had  the  longest  continuous  existence,  the  chapter 
of  B  0  II  there  having  been  suspended  from  1802  to  1871. 

Rev.  Warren  A.  Candler,  D.  D.,  a  member  of  southern 
K  A  and  formerly  a  prominent  officer  in  that  fraternity,  was 
one  of  two  men  elected  bishop,  last  month,  by  the  quad- 
rennial general  conference  of  the  Southern  Methodist 
Church.  He  has  been  president  of  Emory  College  for  ten 
years,  and  during  that  time  the  college  has  received  large 
additions  to  its  endowment,  while  the  number  of  students 
is  greater  than  ever  before.  His  successor  as  president  is 
Rev.  C.  E.  Dowman,  D.  D.,  Kmory,  '7'],  also  a  K  A.  Dr. 
Candler  was  graduated  at  Emory  in  lS7o,  and  is  probably 
the  youngest  man  ever  elected  to  the  episcopate  in  the  M. 
E.  Church,  South, 

K  K  r  holds  her  'fourteenth*  biennial  convention  at  Lin- 
coln, August  2:5-30. 

Z  4^  held  her  annual  convention  this  year  with  the  Lafay- 
ette chapter. 

B  0  II  meets  July  19-22,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio— her  'fifty- 
ninth'  annual  convention. 

II  K  A  meets  at  Atlanta,  July  23-25.  The  convention 
will  attend  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  in  a  body,  July 
24,  to  listen  to  a  sermon  by  a  member  of  the  fraternity. 

^  Y  held  her  'sixty-fifth'  annual  convention  at  Minneapo- 
lis, May  4-(>.  All  the  twenty-one  chapters  were  represented 
save  one.  Two  of  the  founders  were  present.  Revision  of 
the  constitution  was  postponed  one  year. 

The  New  York  I  ^oke  gave  a  sensational  write-up  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  the  issue  of  June  9,  which 
reminds  one  forcibly  of  the  Police  Gazette,  omitting  only  the 
illustrations.  '  All  that  is  foul  in  the  dark  side  of  college 
life  here,'  writes  the  correspondent,  'is  represented  in  the 
secret  fraternities.  All  but  two  or  three  of  the  chapter 
houses  bear  a  most  disreputable  reputation.*  Specific 
charges  of  a  most  serious  nature  follow,  involving  4>  K  4^, 
A  T  A,  S  A  E  and  A  2  A  (dental).  *  Y  and  2  X  alone  are 
credited  with  a  '  good  repute '  and  house  rules  against 
drinking.  The  Voice  for  June  16  claims  that  the  publica- 
tion of  this  article  *  greatly  agitated '  the  fraternity  men, 
who  '  eagerly  took  all  steps  '  to  stop  its  sale  and  circulation. 


THE  SCROLL.  571 

It  states  further  that  '  few  attempted  to  deny  the  truth 
revealed '  and  that  two  of  the  faculty  who  were  *  investi- 
gated* were  so  nervous  on  the  day  the  I'oice  came  out, 
that  they  dismissed  their  classes  after  a  few  minutes'  at- 
tempt to  lecture. 

To  the  list  given  in  the  December  Scroll  of  52  colleges 
and  universities  at  which  0  N  E  has  established  chapters, 
should  be  added  the  University  of  Illinois,  Roanoke  College 
and  Central  University.  The  latter  is  the  only  one  reported 
as  starting  this  year.  Baird  gives  no  chapter  list  for  0  N  E, 
evidently  disapproving  of  it.  He  says  that  there  is  good 
reason  to  believe  that  many  of  the  chapters  of  0  N  E  *have 
been  established  without  the  consent  of  the  organization  as 
such.'  In  fact,  it  is  generally  reported  that  each  new  chap- 
ter is  allowed  to  charter  one  other  of  its  own  selection.  It 
is  said  that  the  five  members  of  B  0  n  who  joined  ©  N  E  at 
Dickinson  this  year,  were  disciplined  by  their  chapter  for 
doing  so.  The  Phi  chapters  at  Case  and  Dickinson  have  by- 
laws against  0  N  E  membership. 

The  March  K  A  Journal  contains  an  unsigned  letter  to  the 
editor  from  'a  member  of  ^  A  0,'  who  comes  out  strongly 
against  0  N  E. 

The  March  Shield  is  devoted  principally  to  the  semi-cen- 
tennial convention  of  0  A  X,  held  at  the  Windsor  Hotel, 
New  York,  Feb.  8-10,  1808.  Each  of  the  twenty- two  ac- 
tive chapters  had  three  accredited  delegates.  The  Shield 
gives  no  details  as  to  legislation,  except  that  'The  0  N  E 
problem  was,  once  and  for  all,  settled,  so  far  as  0  A  X  is 
concerned,'  which  is  not  very  definite  as  to  the  manner  of 
settlement.  The  oration  was  delivered  by  President  E.  H. 
Capen,  of  Tufts  College,  and  the  poem  was  read  by  Rev. 
Cameron  Mann,  of  Kansas  City.  Col.  Wm.  L.  Stone  'read 
the  introduction  to  his  extensive  history  of  the  fraternity, 
which  places  on  record  for  permanent  reference  a  valuable 
mass  of  information  ;'  and  *  Prof.  Duncan  Campbell  Lee, 
the  historian  of  the  second  period,  then  gave  an  extempo- 
raneous synopsis  of  his  history,  which  brings  down  the 
records  to  the  present  day.'  The  great  feature  of  the  con- 
vention was  the  banquet,  at  which  244  were  present,  and 
which  was  a  very  elaborate  affair.  The  menu  alone  cost 
$300.  while  the  dinner  cost  $•">  per  plate.  Bishop  Mahlori 
N.  Gilbert,  of  St.  Paul,  was  toastmaster.  Letters  were 
read  from  Ambassador  John  Hay  and  Attorney-general 
John  W.  Griggs.     Of  the  six  founders  of  0  A  X,  the  two 


572  THE  SCROLL, 

survivors,  Abel  Beach  and  Andrew  H.  Green,  were  present 
at  the  convention  and  spoke  at  the  banquet.  From  their 
remarks  it  is  learned  that  the  cradle  of  0  A  X  was  the  old 
North  College  at  Union  ;  and  that  four  of  the  founders  were 
elected  to  *  B  K,  while  the  real  originator,  William  Hyslop, 
was  valedictorian  of  his  class.  Mr.  Beach  said  that  0  A  X's 
underlying  principle  was  *  love,  geniality  and  good  fellow- 
ship,* and  *  above  all  things  we  design  to  place  it  upon  a 
good  moral  basis.'  The  success  of  the  banquet,  and  of  the 
whole  convention  in  fact,  was  a  great  personal  triumph  for 
Col.  Clay  W.  Holmes,  who  has  been  editor  of  the  Shield 
many  years,  He  was  presented  with  a  silver  loving  cup  by 
his  associates  on  the  semi-centennial  committee.  He  ten- 
dered his  resignation  as  editor,  but  the  grand  lodge  refused 
to  accept  it.  He  has  done  a  great  deal  to  advance  the 
interests  of  0  A  X,  and  the  fraternity  could  ill  afford  to  lose 
so  intelligent,  experienced  and  enthusiastic  a  worker.  A 
memorial  volume  relating  to  the  semi-centennial  will  be 
published  if  300  subscribers  at  $5  each  are  obtained.  So 
far  only  about  one- third  of  the  required  number  has  been 
received. 


THE  PYX. 


Walter  B.  Palmer,  President  of  the  General  Council;  Hu- 
bert H.  Ward,  President  of  Delta  Province;  Dwight  N. 
Marble,  ex-Historian  of  the  General  Council,  and  E.  D.  Soper, 
Pennsylvania  Epsilon,  '98,  met  at  Washington,  Pa.,  on  Sun- 
day, May  29.  They  found  Pennsylvania  Gamma  in  a  flour- 
ishing condition.  Two  undergraduates,  as  well  as  two 
alumni  of  the  chapter,  have  gone  to  Manila,  which  leaves 
ten  active  members.  Of  these  six  will  return  in  the  fall, 
and  they  will  receive  assistance  from  D.  Glenn  Moore,  *98, 
the  reporter  during  the  past  year,  and  other  Phi  residents 
at  Washington.  Several  Washington  and  Jefferson  frater- 
nities rent  houses,  and  the  Phis  are  thinking  of  taking  a 
house  next  year.  It  would  doubtless  be  a  cheaper  arrange- 
ment, as  the  rental  for  their  hall  is  high. 


THE  SCROLL. 


FREDERICK  L.  KRJEBEL. 


Brother  Kriebel 
prepared  for  col- 
lege at  an  acad- 
emy in  his  home 
town,  North 
Wales,  Pa.,  and 
entered  the  Latin - 
scientific  course 
of  Dickinson  Col- 
lege at  the  age  of 
fifteen.  In  his 
freshman  year  he 
won  the  Pat  ton  | 
scholarship  prize; 
he  served  as  an 
editor  of  The  Dick  ■ 
insonian,  holding  I 
this  position  until 
his  senior  year, 
when  he  refused 
election  by  the 
Belles-Lettres  lit- 
erary society:  and 

be  went  as  a  delegate  of  the  college  V,  M.  C.  A.  to  North- 
field.  During  the  sophomore  year  he  divided  the  McDaniel 
scholarship  prize,  which  is  awarded  to  the  leader  of  the 
class  ;  he  also  represented  Belles-Lettres  society  in  inter- 
society  debate,  and  the  college  in  the  inter- collegiate  debate 
with  Bucknell  University.  He  was  again  on  the  inter- 
society  debate  in  both  the  junior  and  senior  years,  and  on 
the  inter -collegiate  debate  with  State  College  in  his  senior 
year.  In  the  latter  contest  Dickinson  was  victorious.  Bro. 
Kriebel  was  president  of  his  chapter  and  of  his  class  in  the 
senior  year.  He  will  study  law  probably  at  Cornell  Univer- 
sity. He  is  now,  however,  in  the  Eighth  Regiment,  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers,  having  enlisted  under  the  first  call. 


The  editor  resumed  his  college  work  about  the  middle  of 
May  and  has  been  compelled  to  make  haste  very  slowly  on 
this  issue  in  consequence.  A  Greek-type  famine  caused  by 
the  review  of  Mr.  Baird's  book,  is  also  responsible  for  part 
of  the  delay.  The  October  number  will  be  out  on  time — if 
nothing  happens  to  prevent. 


574  THE  SCROLL, 

The  war  is  uppermost  in  our  minds  to-day.  *  A  0  may 
well  be  proud  of  her  share  in  it.  Our  chapters  at  Nebraska, 
Missouri,  Washington  and  Jefferson  and  Dartmouth  seem 
to  be  most  strongly  represented,  but  the  reports  are  by  no 
means  complete.  Every  reader  of  The  Scroll  is  urged  to 
send  the  editors  full  particulars  in  regard  to  Phis  who  have 
enlisted  or  gone  as  war  correspondents,  or  who  are  members 
of  the  navy  or  the  regular  army.  Now  is  the  best  time  to 
make  a  record  of  this.  A  fact  worthy  of  note  is  that  nine 
of  Nebraska's  members  were  mustered  in  at  the  same  time 
and  continued  the  chapter  organization  so  long  as  they  were 
in  camp  at  Lincoln.  Another  most  remarkable  fact  is  that 
all  of  these  nine  men  are  officers;  there  are  two  captains, 
four  second  lieutenants,  one  sergeant-major  and  two  ser- 
geants.    Missouri's  men  take  high  rank,  too. 

«      «      « 

Will  all  subscribers  whose  address  is  to  be  changed  in  the 
fall  please  notify  the  editor  of  the  fact  promptly  ? 


Notices  of  several  dances  given  by  Tennessee  Alpha  have 
appeared  in  Thk  Scroll  this  year.  Another  was  given  on 
May  nth,  and  it  was  written  up  in  the  American  as  a 
delightful  social  affair.  On  May  12,  the  chapter  gave  an- 
other afternoon  dance  in  honor  of  two  Nashville  young 
women  who  were  about  to  leave  for  Europe. 

The  Purdue  chapter  gave  an  elaborate  dancing  party,  as 
a  dedication  of  their  new  hall,  on  May  6.  Many  out-of- 
town  guests  were  entertained.  The  La  Fayette  papers 
describe  the  furnishings  and  decorations  of  the  new  hall  as 

exquisitely  effective. 

♦     *     * 

Kentucky  Delta  gave  a  dinner  in  honor  of  the  President 
of  the  General  Council  on  April  19,  while  he  was  in  Rich- 
mond. Those  present  besides  Bro.  Palmer  were  Dr.  A.  W. 
Smith,  J.  J.  Greenleaf,  J.  R.  Clark,  F.  P.  Bowles,  H.  H. 
Huffaker,  H.  A.  Douglas,  T.  H.  Jones,  Jr.,  J.  D.  Allen,  R. 
S.  Taylor,  L.  M.  Smith  and  S.  E.  Booker. 


Readers  of  The  Scroll  are  asked  to  read  carefully  the 
roll  of  the  Chapter  Grand  and  send  the  editor  all  corrections 
or  missing  data  they  may  be  able  to  furnish. 


THE  SCROLL. 


JOHN  P.  HELPHREY. 


John  P.  Helphrey 
has  for  five  years  been 
a  student  at  Iowa 
Wesleyan.  In  this 
time  he  has  distin- 
guished himself  as  a 
thorough  scholar  and 
has  actively  associa- 
ted himself  with  all 
departments  of  col- 
lege life.  Since  be- 
ing identified  with 
the  Prateruity,  he 
has  faithfully  endeav- 
ored to  promote  its 
interests. 

His  honor  as  pres- 
ident of  the  inter- 
state oratorical  asso- 
ciation is  fitting  to 
one  who  has  held  so 
many  responsible  po- 
sitions among  the  stu- 
dents and  who  has 
paid  special  attention 

to  oratory  and  by  his  own  efforts  won  honor  for  himself  and 
the  Fraternity.  Great  emphasis  has  always  been  placed 
upon  oratory  in  Wesleyan,  and  she  has  held  prominent 
places  of  trust  in  the  state  association.  Iowa  Alpha  of  Phi 
Delta  Theta  has  had  her  share  of  these,  Bro.  Perdew  and 
Bro.  Tucker  having  held  the  presidency  and  Bro.  Roth  the 
vice- presidency.  In  18%  Bro.  Potter  was  our  representa- 
tive orator  and  won  the  fourth  place  in  the  state  contest, 
while  in  1898  Bro.  Pace  won  second  honor  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  state  delegation  to  the  inter-state  contest  held  at 
Beloit,  Wisconsin.  Bro.  Helphrey  performed  the  duties  of 
his  office  with  great  credit.  He  is  to  be  graduated  this 
year,  a  well  developed  college  man  and  ready  to  enter  the 
broader  field  of  business  life,  where  we  believe  his  activity 
and  energy  will  wiu  for  him  brighter  laurels  of  success  than 
have  crowned  his  efforts  here.  Iowa  Ali'ha. 


576  THE  SCROLL. 

The  editor  wears  a  badge,  that  of  his  father,  Rev.  John 
C.  Miller,  Indiana,  '55,  which  was  made  in  Cincinnati  in 
the  winter  of  1854-50,  and  which  is  an  exact  counterpart  of 
the  one  described  in  this  issue  by  Dr.  Robert  Morrison.  He 
would  like  to  know  how  many  other  badges  made  in  the 
fifties  are  still  preserved.  The  only  other  one  he  has  seen 
is  that  of  Maj.  J.  L.  Mitchell,  Indiana,  '58,  now  worn  by 
his  son,  James  L.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  Indiana,  '89. 


The  De  Pauw  chapter  is  not  content  with  her  record  of 
seven  firsts  out  of  a  possible  ten  on  field  day.  She  follows 
this  up  with  three  elections  to  *  B  K  from  four  seniors. 
A  K  E  had  three  chosen  from  six  seniors  ;  B  0  11,  one  from 
one  ;  *  K  4^,  two  from  eight ;  *  r  A,  one  from  six  ;  2  N, 
one  from  five.  There  were  two  non- fraternity  men.  Women 
were  chosen  this  year  for  the  first  time. 


We  hear  that  the  Denver  alumni  were  to  have  a  reunion 

on  June    18.     A  report  will  be  expected  for  the  October 

Scroll. 

«     «     « 

We  are  under  obligations  to  the  reporters  who  so  promptly 
sent  us  the  AHel,  the  Differential,  the  Liber  Brunensis,  the 
Blue  and  Gold,  the  Garnet,  the  Gale,  and  the  Mirage,   Next  ! 


The  Scroll  is  pleased  to  acknowledge  invitations  from 
Rhode  Island  Alpha  and  Missouri  Alpha  for  their  com- 
mencement receptions,  and  from  Bro.  W.  K.  Scott  and  Bro. 
F.  R.  Owens  for  their  graduating  exercises,  as  well  as  the 
menu  of  Ohio  Eta's  second  annual  senior  banquet.  All 
these  are  eloquent  of  good  times  and  high  honors. 


The  Secretary  of  the  General  Council  wishes  to  exchange 
old  numbers  of  The  Scroll  for  the  following  :  Vol.  II, 
Nos.  1,  8,  4  ;  III,  1,  2  ;  IV,  2  :  V,  1  ;  VI,  1,  2,  3,5,  9  ;  VII, 
2,  7,  8  ;  VIII,  5,  7  ;  IX,  1,  6  ;  XII,  1,  8,  9  ;  XIII,  1,  2,  4, 
6,  7,  8,  9;  XV,  1.  Address  W.  R.  Brown,  N.Y.  Life  Building, 
Minneapolis,  Minn.  Bro,  C.  B.  K.  Weed  desires  to  secure 
for  his  chapter  the  following  numbers  :  Vol.  VIII,  ^,  7,  8  ; 
IX,  5,  9  ;  XII,  6,  9.     Address  him  at  Sewanee,  Tenn. 


THE  SCROLL. 


BENIAHIN  F.  ROLLER. 


Benjamin      F. 
Roller  was  born 
July  1,  187(5,  near 
Newman,  111.  He 
entered   the  pre- 
paratory school  of  J 
De  Pauw  Univer- 
sity  and   was  at  | 
once  a  member  of  \ 
the  'varsity  foot- 
ball    team ,     on 
which  he  played  1 
almost  every  po- 
sition iu   succes- 
sion until   18ii7, 
when  he  played 
left  guard  as  cap- 
tain.     He     was   | 
university  athlet- 
ic director,  18il7- 
'!I8,  and  captain 
of  the  track  team 
which  won  third 

place  in  the  state  meet  at  Indianapolis  this  year.  He  holds 
the  state  championship  in  throwing  the  sixteen-pound  ham- 
mer. He  has  held  the  championship  of  Indiana  in  putting 
the  sixteen  pound  shot  for  three  years.  In  the  meet  this 
year  he  succeeded  in  raising  the  state  record  at  Indianapolis 
to  40  feet  1  Ji  inch.  His  best  record  in  the  hammer  throw 
is  112  feet;  in  the  shot  put,  41  feet  Ij  inches.  He  won 
second  place  in  the  shot  put  in  181)7,  at  the  W.  I.  A.  A. 
meet,  at  Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic 
Association.  Bro.  Roller  became  a  Phi  in  the  fall  of  1895, 
and  was  graduated  this  year  from  De  Pauw.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Skulls  of  1-S,  the  junior  iuter- fraternity 
society,  and  is  a  first  lieutenant  of  artillery. 


Each  reporter  will  please  attend  to  two  important  matters 
at  once:  send  in  his  summer  address  or  that  of  his  succes- 
sor; mail  or  have  mailed  to  the  editor  a  copy  of  the  college 
annual  for  1897-8. 


57S 


THE  SCROLL. 


FRANK  5.  PALMER. 


Frank  S.  Pal- 
mer, of  Georgia 
Beta,  will  repre- 
sent Emory  Col- 
lege in  the  Geor- 
gia state  oratori- 
cal contest  at  At- 
lanta iu  August. 
He  is  a  member 
of  the  junior  class 
;ind  during  the 
last  three  years 
lias  won  distinc- 
tion as  a  declaim- 
er.  The  contest 
to  select  a  repre- 
sentative for  the 
state  contest  was 
open  to  the  whole 
college,  and  about 
fifteen  of  the  best 
;peakers     among 


the 


sought  the  honor.  The  three  members  of  the  faculty  who 
composed  the  committee  of  selection  gave  first  place  to 
Frank  S.  Palmer,  and  chose  John  S.  Tilley,  a  Phi  of  the 
senior  class,  as  alternate.  Brother  Palmer's  speech  was  en- 
titled'Loveof  Country.'  He  has  also  been  elected  by  the  Few 
literary  society  as  anniversarian  for  next  year.  Since  enter- 
ing college  he  has  been  an  earnest  and  enthusiastic  worker 
for  *  A  ©.  He  attended  the  convention  at  Philadelphia  in 
1896.  This  year  he  is  both  reporter  and  treasurer  of  his 
chapter.  He  is  the  brother  of  Walter  B.  Palmer,  President 
of  the  General  Council,  and  of  I.ouis  M,  Palmer,  Tennessee 
Alpha,  '115,  now  of  St.  Louis. 


Arrangements  for  the  convention  are  progressing,  but  as 
two  more  issues  of  The  Scroll  appear  before  Thanksgiv- 
ing, further  announcements  are  deferred  until  October. 


THE  SCROLL,  579 


OUR  NEW  CHAPTER. 

The  application  for  charter  from  the  University  of  Cin- 
cinnati, which  was  mentioned  in  the  issues  of  The  PaUadmtn 
for  March  and  May,  has  been  granted,  and  the  chapter  will 
be  installed  on  Saturday  evening,  July  2,  when  the  mem- 
bers of  the  local  society,  r  N  2,  will  be  initiated  into  *  A  0. 
This  society  was  formed  last  November  for  the  purpose  of 
obtaining  a  charter  from  4>  A  0,  and  since  then  the  members 
have  been  working  industriously  in  arousing  the  interest  of 
the  alumni,  and  in  placing  their  claims  for  recognition  be- 
fore the  Fraternity. 

All  Phis  who  have  investigated  the  standing  and  equip- 
ment of  the  University  of  Cincinnati  have  been  convinced 
that  *  A  0  will  be  strengthened  materially  by  having  a  chapter 
there.  The  institution  is  growing  rapidly;  its  standard  is 
high,  its  equipment  excellent,  and  it  is  liberally  supported 
by  the  city  of  Cincinnati,  which  levies  a  property  tax  for  its 
benefit.  The  professional  schools  are  among  the  best  in  the 
whole  country,  and  the  new  chapter  will  always  have  a 
number  of  affiliates  from  other  chapters. 

A  special  visit  to  the  institution  was  made  in  April  by  Presi- 
dent Palmer  of  the  General  Council  and  by  Province  Presi- 
dent Guerrant,  and  the  former  has  been  in  Cincinnati  since 
the  first  of  June.  The  application,  like  that  from  Case  two 
years  ago,  is  backed  unanimously  and  enthusiastically  by 
the  local  alumni.  Among  those  who  have  been  most  earnest 
in  endorsement  of  the  application  are  such  experienced  Fra- 
ternity workers  as  Hon.  Scott  Bonham  and  Hon.  Wm.  E. 
Bundy,  both  ex-province  presidents,  and  Dr.  A.  B.  Thrasher, 
ex-editor  of  The  Scroll.  The  Cincinnati  alumni  repre- 
sent many  chapters,  and  occupy  many  important  positions 
of  trust.  An  active  chapter  will  do  much  to  bind  them 
closely  together  in  the  future. 

A  circular  of  information  about  the  University  of  Cincin- 
nati and  the  F  N  2  was  issued  by  that  society  early  in  May, 
and  a  full  description  of  the  institution  by  President  Pal- 
mer appeared  in  the  last  Palladium.  The  charter  members 
number  eleven  members  of  r  N  2,  all  of  the  academic  de- 
partment, and  all  residents  of  Cincinnati,  with  two  members 
of  *  A  0  who  are  professional  students.  Their  names  with 
personal  information  are  given  in  The  Palladium.  The 
secretary  of  F  N  2  is  Guido  Gores,  988  McMillan  avenue. 
The  initiation  followed  with  a  banquet  will  take  place  at  the 
Scottish  Rite  Cathedral  on   the   evening  of    July  2.     All 


580  THE  SCROLL, 

Phis  who  are  near  Cincinnati  should  arrange  to  attend  the 
installation;  address  Bro.  Walter  B.  Palmer,  Dennison  Ho- 
tel, Cincinnati,  for  further  information  and  be  sure  to  notify 
him  at  once  if  you  expect  to  be  present.  The  Scroll  ex- 
tends hearty  greetings  to  the  semi-centennial  chapter,  and 
wishes  for  it  a  most  successful  career. 


New  York  Beta  wishes  to  announce  through  The  Scroll 
the  proposed  camp  which  is  to  be  located  on  Otsego  Lake, 
near  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  next  August.  All  Phis  who  can 
at  any  time  during  the  lencampment  be  present  and  join  in 
a  good  time,  are  requested  to  write  to  Bro.  LeRoy  O.  Rip- 
ley, Cooperstown,  N.  Y.  It  is  expected  that  the  camp  will 
be  established  about  August  15,  ISliS,  and  that  it  will  last 
two  weeks  or  longer.  Let  it  be  understood  that  this  is  not 
a  New  York  Beta  camp,  but  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  camp,  and 
any  and  all  Phis  are  welcome  to  join  the  party  for  a  day, 
week  or  the  entire  time.  Be  sure  to  write  to  the  above 
address.     Let  all  who  can,  come.     In  the  Bond, 

D.  J.  HOYT. 


Established  1849. 


JEWELERS 


Detroit,  Mich. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 

There  is  no  line  of  badjrt's  nianufnctun»d  that  can  com- 
pare with  onrs  for  beauty,  confonninff  to  ref^ulation,  qual- 
ity of  jewelinjr,  variety  and  workmanship. 

The  above  statement  \»  a  broad  one,  but  insp(>ctioD  of 
the  samples  shown  by  our  travelers  and  *  silent  drum- 
mers' (approval  packa^^s),  will  ]>rove  the  as«»rtion. 

We  have  been  oriKiuators  and  leaders  in  fraternity  jew- 
elry for  years,  and  experience  lias  taught  us  the  wants  of 
students.  Wait  till  you  see  our  <ro<Kls.  You  will  not  bo 
disapiMiinted. 

CHASTE  *  AG  NOVELTIES  ^.    c      ,   ,    ,       . 

-    —      _  ...  -       Order  SampteiJOT  impcctton 

LNGRE  AT  VARIETY  2:Xi^u4:"&.. 

Mention  The  S(^roll. 


Songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 


FOURTH  EDITION— 1895 


A  Choice  Collection  of  Fraternity  Lyrics 

Nearly  100  Sons:s  Adapted  to  Familiar  Airs 


SPECIAL  SONGS  FOR  ALUMNI  DAY.  CONVENTIONS. 

REUNIONS.  BANQUETS.  MARCHING, 

SERENADES.  ETC. 


Price  Prepaid— Cloth  bound,  50  cents  a  copy ;  Paper,  25  cents 

Address,  FRANK  D.  SWOPE, 

Kenyon  Building,  LOUISVILLE,  KY. 


THE 


Catalogue  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 

SIXTH  EDITION 

A  complete  list  of  members,  giving  full  biographical  data,  together 
with  table  of  relationships,  state,  city  and  town  directory ;  and  alpha- 
betical arrangement. 

Printed  on  heavy  paper  and  handsomely  bound  in  cloth. 

Price  Reduced  to  Seventy- five  cents  per  copy.  Prepaid 

A  few  copies  have  been  bound  in  half  morocco  at  Two  Dollars, 
and  in  full  morocco  at  Three  Dollars  each. 

Address,  FRED.  S.  BALL,  T.  G.  C, 

16  Court  Square,  MONTGOMERY,  Al  A. 


580  THE  SCROLL. 

Phis  who  are  near  Cincinnati  should  arrange  to  attend  the 
installation;  address  Bro.  Walter  B.  Palmer,  Dennison  Ho- 
tel, Cincinnati,  for  further  information  and  be  sure  to  notify 
him  at  once  if  you  expect  to  be  present.  Thk  Scroix  ex- 
tends hearty  greetings  to  the  semi-centennial  chapter,  and 
wishes  for  it  a  most  successful  career. 


New  York  Beta  wishes  to  announce  through  Thk  Scroll 
the  proposed  camp  which  is  to  be  located  on  Otsego  Lake, 
near  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  next  August.  All  Phis  who  can 
at  any  time  during  the  ^encampment  be  present  and  join  in 
a  good  time,  are  requested  to  write  to  Bro.  LeRoy  O.  Rip- 
ley, Cooperstown,  N.  Y:  It  is  expected  that  the  camp  wUl 
be  established  about  August  15,  1898,  and  that  it  will  last 
two  weeks  or  longer.  I<et  it  be  understood  that  this  is  not 
a  New  York  Beta  camp,  but  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  camp,  and 
any  and  all  Phis  are  welcome  to  join  the  party  for  a  day, 
week  or  the  entire  time.  Be  sure  to  write  to  the  above 
address.     Let  all  who  can,  come.     In  the  Bond, 

D.  J.  HOYT. 


Established  1849. 


OFFICIAL 


•       JEWELERS 


DETROIT,  Mich. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 

There  is  no  line  of  badges  manufactured  that  can  com- 
pare with  ours  for  beauty,  conforming  to  refnilation,  qual- 
ity of  jeweling,  variety  and  workmanship. 

The  above  statement  is  a  broad  one,  but  inspection  of 
the  samplefi  shown  by  our  travelers  and  *  silent  drum* 
mers*  (approval  packages),  will  prove  the  assertion. 

We  have  been  originators  and  leaders  in  fraternity  jew- 
elry for  years,  and  experience  has  taught  us  the  wants  of 
students.  Wait  till  you  see  our  goods.  You  will  not  be 
disappointed. 

CHASTE  *  A  e  NOVELTIES  n,^    <,    .,   f   t  ^  , 

Order  Samples  for  InspecttOH 

IN  GREAT  VARIETY  l^'iSTp^^^B^^.- 

Mention  The  Scroll. 


Songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 


FOURTH  EDITION-1805 


A  Choice  Collection  of  Fraternity  Lyrics 

Nearly  100  Sons:s  Adapted  to  Familiar  Airs 


SPECIAL  SONGS  FOR  ALUMNI  DAY.  CONVENTIONS, 

REUNIONS,  BANQUETS.  MARCHING. 

SERENADES.  ETC. 


Price  Prepaid-  Cloth  bound,  50  cents  a  copy ;  Paper,  25  cents 

Address,  FRANK  D.  SWOPE, 

Kenyon  Building,  LOUISVILLE,  KY. 


THE 


Catalogue  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 

SIXTH  EDITION 

A  complete  list  of  members,  giving  full  biographical  data,  together 
with  table  of  relationships,  state,  city  and  town  directory  ;  and  alpha- 
betical arrangement. 

Printed  on  heavy  paper  and  handsomely  bound  in  cloth. 

Price  Reduced  to  Seventy- five  cents  per  copy.  Prepaid 

A  few  copies  have  been  bound  in  half  morocco  at  Two  Dollars, 
and  in  full  morocco  at  Three  Dollars  each. 

Address,  FRED.  S.  BALL,  T.  G.  C, 

16  Court  Square,  MONTGOMERY,  Al  A. 


PREFACE. 

The  first  edition  of  'A  Manual  of  Phi  Delta  Thela '  was 

published  at  Nashville  in  Hay,  ISSd.  It  was  a  book  of 
something  over  fifty  small  pages,  and  sold  for  fifty  cents  in 
cloth  biiiding,  and  thirtj-  in  paper  covers.  Following  is  a 
quotation  from  the  preface  : 

The  information  coticeniiiig  the  origin,  progress  and  present  stand- 
ing of  Phi  Delta  Theta  which  this  work  presents  is  such  as  memhers 
of  the  Fraternity  by  all  means  sliould  possess,  but  which  heretofore 
has  been  very  difficult  for  tlieni  to  obtain.  The  book  certainly  bas 
the  merit  of  novelty,  being  the  first  of  its  kind  ever  issued,  and  I  am 
of  the  belief  that  it  will  supply  a  long-felt  want,  and  that  the  Fra- 
ternity will  profit  by  its  publication. 

The  author  remembers  with  particular  satisfaction  that 
there  was  a  small  profit  on  the  publication,  the  edition  being 
speedily  exhausted.  On  this  the  second  edition  there  can 
he  no  profit,  as  it  is  given  away  with  TiiE  Scroll,  but  it  is 
believed  that  by  placing  it  in  the  hands  of  all  attendant 
members,  and  all  alumni  subscribers  to  the  magazine,  more 
good  for  the  Fraternity  will  be  accomplished  than  was  the 
result  of  the  first  edition.  The  author  desires  to  return 
thanks  to  Wra.  R.  Baird.  Est]-,  editor  of  Th,  Beta  Thria  Pi.- 
Prof.  Hugh  Th,  Miller,  editor  of  The  Scroll;  and  Dr.  J. 
iv  Brown,  ex-editor  of  Thr  Sckoli.,  for  valuable  assistance: 
and  to  reporters  of  chapters  for  their  kindness  in  fumisbing 
information  concerning  their  respective  institutions.  The 
following  books  have  been  consulted  in  compiling  fraternity 
and  college  statistics : 
American  College  Fraternities,  Fourth  Edition,  1890,  by  Wm. 

Rainiond  Baird,  271  Broadway,  New  York. 
The  College  year  book,  for  the  Academic  Year  1896-97,  edited  by 

Edwin  Emerson,  Jr.     New  York  :     Stone  S:  Kimball. 
The  World  Almanac  and  ENCVcuoi'.tniA,  for  1897.    New  York  : 

Press  Publishing  Company. 
Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Edccation,  for  1894-95.     Wash- 
ington :     United  States  Bureau  of  Education. 

The  sketch  of  the  Fraternity  in  the  first  edition  contained 
some  mistakes  in  chronology  which  have  been  corrected. 
The  writer  requests  readers  who  may  detect  any  errors  in 
this  edition  to  be  kind  enough  to  call  his  attention  to  them. 

Walter  B.  Palmer. 
Nashville,  September,  1897. 


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•    •.•ft'«     .      ,  '      I      1^«<I  l,.^i 


A  MANUAL 


OF 


PHI  DELTA  THETA. 


SKETCH  OF  THE  FRATERNITY. 

The  first  society  of  American  origiu  bearing  a  Greek-let- 
ter name  was  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  founded  in  1770,  at  the  Col- 
lege of  William  and  Mary  in  Virginia.  It  was  secret  in  its 
character,  and  its  objects  were  social  enjoyment  and  literary 
training.  A  branch  was  established  at  Yale  in  1780,  another 
at  Harvard  in  1781,  and  a  third  at  Dartmouth  in  1787.  Sub- 
sequently the  society  entered  a  number  of  other  important 
educational  institutions.  In  18*^1  it  gave  up  its  secrets,  re- 
vealing the  motto,  which  is  the  Greek  for  *  Philosophy  is 
the  Guide  of  Life.'  Thereafter  the  activity  of  the  society 
ceased,  and  it  became  a  purely  honorary  organization,  mem- 
bership being  conferred  as  a  reward  for  high  scholarship. 

The  origin  of  the  Greek-letter  society  system  may  be  at- 
tributed entirely  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  A  chapter  having 
been  establisheJ  at  Union  College  in  1817,  a  new  society 
called  Kappa  Alpha  appeared  there  in  18^").  Kappa  Alpha 
was  the  prototype  of  the  fraternities  now  prominent  in  Amer- 
ican colleges.  It  adopted  some  of  the  most  essential  char- 
acteristics of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  among  them  the  following  : 
It  was  a  secret  social  organization,  its  members  being  re- 
stricted to  upper  classmen,  who  wore  a  key  form  of  badge  ; 
while  it  named  its  chapters  by  states  and  the  Greek  letters 
in  order  (the  same  method  which  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  sev- 
eral other  fraternities  also  have  adopted). 

Kappa  Alpha  has  been  followed  by  the  organization  of 
Sigma  Phi  and  Delta  Phi  at  Union  in  1S27,  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
at  Hamilton  in  1S3l>,  Psi  Upsilon  at  Union  in  1838,  Delta 


PREFACE. 

The  first  edition  of  *A  Manual  of  Phi  Delta  Theta '  was 
published  at  Nashville  in  May,  1S80.  It  was  a  book  of 
something  over  fifty  small  pages,  and  sold  for  fifty  cents  in 
cloth  binding,  and  thirty  in  paper  covers.  Following  is  a 
quotation  from  the  preface  : 

The  information  concerning  the  origin,  progress  and  present  stand- 
ing of  Phi  Delta  Theta  which  this  work  presents  is  such  as  members 
of  the  Fraternity  by  all  means  should  possess,  but  which  heretofore 
has  been  very  difficult  for  them  to  obtain.  The  book  certainly  has 
the  merit  of  novelty,  being  the  first  of  its  kind  ever  issued,  and  I  am 
of  the  belief  that  it  will  supply  a  long- felt  want,  and  that  the  Fra- 
ternity will  profit  by  its  publication. 

The  author  remembers  with  particular  satisfaction  that 
there  was  a  small  profit  on  the  publication,  the  edition  being 
speedily  exhausted.  On  this  the  second  edition  there  can 
be  no  profit,  as  it  is  given  away  with  The  Scroll,  but  it  is 
believed  that  by  placing  it  in  the  hands  of  all  attendant 
members,  and  all  alumni  subscribers  to  the  magazine,  more 
good  for  the  Fraternity  will  be  accomplished  than  was  the 
result  of  the  first  edition.  The  author  desires  to  return 
thanks  to  Wm.  R.  Baird,  Esq.,  editor  of  The  Beta  Theta  Pi; 
Prof.  Hugh  Th.  Miller,  editor  of  The  Scroll:  and  Dr.  J. 
E.  Brown,  ex-editor  of  The  Scroll,  for  valuable  assistance; 
and  to  reporters  of  chapters  for  their  kindness  in  furnishing 
information  concerning  their  respective  institutions.  The 
following  books  have  been  consulted  in  compiling  fraternity 
and  college  statistics : 

Amkrtcan  CoLLK<iK  Fratkrn'itiks,  Fourth  Edition,  1890,  by  Wm. 
Raimond  Baird,  271  Broadway,  New  York. 

The  Collkgr  Year  Book,  for  the  Academic  Year  189G-97,  edited  by 
Edwin  Emerson,  Jr.     New  York  :     Stone  &  Kimball. 

Thk  World  Almanac  and  Encyclop.kdia,  for  1897.  New  York  : 
Press  Publishing  Company. 

Rkport  of  the  Commissioner  oe  Education,  for  1894-95.  Wash- 
ington :     United  States  Bureau  of  Education. 

The  sketch  of  the  Fraternity  in  the  first  edition  contained 
some  mistakes  in  chronology  which  have  been  corrected. 
The  writer  requests  readers  who  may  detect  any  errors  in 
this  edition  to  be  kind  enough  to  call  his  attention  to  them. 

Walter  B.  Palmer. 
Nashville,  September,  1S97. 


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A  MANUAL 


OF 


PHI  DELTA  THETA. 


SKETCH  OF  THE  FRATERNITY. 

The  first  society  of  American  origin  bearing  a  Greek- let- 
ter name  was  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  founded  in  177(),  at  the  Col- 
lege of  William  and  Mary  in  Virginia.  It  was  secret  in  its 
character,  and  its  objects  were  social  enjoyment  and  literary 
training.  A  branch  was  established  at  Yale  in  1780,  another 
at  Harvard  in  1781 ,  and  a  third  at  Dartmouth  in  1787.  Sub- 
sequently the  society  entered  a  number  of  other  important 
educational  institutions.  In  1831  it  gave  up  its  secrets,  re- 
vealing the  motto,  which  is  the  Greek  for  '  Philosophy  is 
the  Guide  of  Life.  *  Thereafter  the  activity  of  the  society 
ceased,  and  it  became  a  purely  honorary  organization,  mem- 
bership being  conferred  as  a  reward  for  high  scholarship. 

The  origin  of  the  Greek-letter  society  system  may  be  at- 
tributed entirely  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  A  chapter  having 
been  establisheJ  at  Union  College  in  1817,  a  new  society 
called  Kappa  Alpha  appeared  there  in  18^").  Kappa  Alpha 
was  the  prototype  of  the  fraternities  now  prominent  in  Amer- 
ican colleges.  It  adopted  some  of  the  most  essential  char- 
acteristics of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  among  them  the  following : 
It  was  a  secret  social  organization,  its  members  being  re- 
stricted to  upper  classmen,  who  wore  a  key  form  of  badge  ; 
while  it  named  its  chapters  by  states  and  the  Greek  letters 
in  order  (the  same  method  which  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  sev- 
eral other  fraternities  also  have  adopted). 

Kappa  Alpha  has  been  followed  by  the  organization  of 
Sigma  Phi  and  Delta  Phi  at  Union  in  is27,  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
at  Hamilton  in  1S82,  Psi  Upsilon  at  Union  in  1833,  Delta 


4  THE  SCROLL. 

Upsilon  at  Williams  in  1S84,*  Beta  Theta  Pi  at  Miami  in 
1889,  Chi  Psi  at  Union  in  1841,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  at  Yale 
in  1S44,  Zeta  Psi  at  New  York  in  1S4(),  Delta  Psi  at  Colum- 
bia in  1S47,  Theta  Delta  Chi  at  Union  in  1847.  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  at  Jefferson  (now  Washington  and  Jefferson)  in  1848, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  at  Miami  in  1848,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma  at 
Pennsylvania  in  1850,  Phi  Kappa  Psi  at  Jefferson  in  1852, 
Chi  Phi  at  Princeton  in  1854,t  Sigma  Chi  at  Miami  in  1855, 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  at  Alabama  in  1850,  Delta  Tau  Delta 
at  Bethany  in  1860,  Alpha  Tau  Omega  at  Virginia  Military 
Institute  in  1805,  Kappa  Alpha  (Southern  Order)  at  Wash- 
ington (now  Washington  and  Lee)  in  18(35,  Kappa  Sigma 
at  Virginia  in  1867,  Pi  Kappa  Alpha  at  Virginia  in  1808, 
Sigma  Nu  at  V.  M.  I.  in  1809,  Phi  Phi  Phi  at  Austin  in 
1892,  and  Mu  Pi  Lambda  at  Washington  and  Lee  in  1895. t 

THE   MIAMI   TRIAD. 

College  secret  societies  formed  on  the  model  of  Kappa 
Alpha  were  still  in  their  infancy  in  1835,  ten  years  after 
that  society  was  founded.  In  that  year  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
took  a  long  stride  westward,  and  planted  a  chapter  at 
Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio.||  It  was  the  second  chap- 
ter of  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  and  was  fostered  by  the  founder  of 
the  fraternity,  who  was  then  living  at  Cincinnati.  The  op- 
position it  developed  culminated  in  the  organization  of  Beta 
Theta  Pi  in  1839.  Two  other  fraternities  were  founded  at 
the  same  place.  Phi  Delta  Theta  in  1848  and  Sigma  Chi  in 
1855.8  Two  other  fraternities  of  eastern  origin  placed  chap- 
ters at  Miami — Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  in  1852,  and  Delta 
Upsilon  in  18()8. 

In  1787,  the  year  of  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  Congress  made  two  valuable  grants  of 

•An  anti-secret  society,  called  sometimes  the  'Social  Fraternity'  and  some- 
times the  'Equitable  Fraternity,'  was  organized  at  Williams  in  lfe4.  Negotia- 
tions looking  to  a  union  with  similar  societies  in  other  collej^es  were  begun  in 
1840,  and  the  'Anti-Secret  Confederation*  was  formed  in  1847.  A  monogram  of 
the  letters  Delta  and  Upsilon  was  chosen  as  the  badge  in  1858,  but  the  name  Delta 
Upsilon  was  not  incorporated  in  the  constitution  until  1864. 

tin  18i>4  a  constitution  for  a  society  was  found  at  Princeton.  It  bore  the  numer- 
als '  18'<24.'  and  Chi  Phi  claims  1824  as  the  year  of  its  establishment,  but  the  names 
of  no  members  initiated  previous  to  18.'>4  are  known. 

\  A  number  of  other  general  college  fraternities  have  died  or  have  been  ab- 
sorbed by  those  here  mentioned.  The  names  of  existing  sororities  and  of  honor- 
ar>'.  professional  and  other  special  societies  will  be  found  under  *  Statistics  of 
Fraternities.' 

Ohio  was  the  third  state  to  shelter  the  Greeks,  and  at  the  time  there  was  a 
total  of  but  eight  chapters  in  existence.  Thus  we  see  that  the  fraternity  system 
is  more  venerable  in  the  Buckeye  than  in  most  ea.stern  states. — Dr.  J.  E-  Brown, 
in  Scroll,  November.  1885. 

*  Thus  early  Miami— the  earliest  western  station  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Delta 
Kappa  Kpsilon,  the  birthplace  of  the  three  great  western  fraternities,  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  I'hi  Delta  Theta,  and  Sigma  Chi— took  the  place  in  Greek  history  of  the  west 
that  Union  had  held  in  the  ea.st.— Editorial  />.  A'.  K.  Quarterlf/,  April,  1885. 


THE  SCROLL,  5 

land  for  the  establishment  of  educational  institutions  within 
the  limits  of  that  portion  of  the  Northwest  Territory  which, 
in  1802,  was  admitted  into  the  Union  as  the  state  of  Ohio. 
With  these  grants  the  state  founded  the  American  Univer- 
sity, since  known  as  Ohio  University,  at  Athens,  and  Mi- 
ami University  at  Oxford.  The  name  and  location  of  the 
latter  were  not  settled  until  1809.  In  1811  an  English 
school  was  opened  in  a  log  building  at  Oxford,  and  in  1824, 
on  the  completion  of  a  substantial  brick  structure,  college 
exercises  were  begun.  At  once  the  institution  became  very 
popular;  in  1825-26  there  was  a  graduating  class  of  twelve, 
and  a  total  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-two  students  from 
fourteen  states.  The  average  yearly  attendance  from  1830 
to  1840  was  about  two  hundred  and  fifty,  always  represent- 
ing a  large  number  of  states.  The  faculty  was  composed 
of  men  of  rare  scholarship,  and  Miami  easily  took  the  posi- 
tion of  the  leading  institution  of  learning  in  the  west.* 

The  university  suffered  during  the  four  years  of  civil  war 
and  the  depression  of  succeeding  years.  The  legislature 
having  failed  to  make  any  appropriations  for  its  benefit,  the 
trustees  decided  to  close  the  institution  in  1873.  In  1885 
an  appropriation  from  the  state,  and  the  accumulation  of 
rents  from  the  original  land  grant,  enabled  the  doors  of 
*  Old  Miami '  to  be  reopened.  The  institution  is  now  fully 
recognized  by  the  state.  By  action  of  the  legislature  in  1896, 
a  state  tax  levy  is  made  annually  for  the  benefit  of  Miami 
University,  Ohio  University  and  Ohio  State  University. 

Miami,  which  has  no  professional  departments,  has  grad- 
uated over  eleven  hundred  students,  besides  giving  a  partial 
education  to  many  more.  Included  among  the  alumni  are 
a  president  of  the  United  States,  United  States  senators, 
many  congressmen,  a  number  of  ministers  to  foreign  coun- 
tries and  governors  of  states,  besides  many  who  occupy 
other  prominent  positions.  The  list  is  indeed  a  remarkable 
one. 


•By  its  thorough  instruction,  its  faithful  drill,  its  wise  discipline  and  high  cur- 
riculum, Miami  took  rank  with  the  best  schools  of  our  country.  It  was  early 
and  not  inappropriately  called  '  the  Yale  of  the  West.'— Rev.  Robert  Morrison,  in 
Scroll,  October,  IHKl. 

The  course  of  instruction  (at  Miami)  was  modeled  after  that  of  Yale,  though 
nothing  was  attempted  outside  of  a  college  curriculum,  the  university  being  a 
university  in  law  rather  than  in  fact.— C.  M.  Hepburn,  in  lirUt  Thrta  Pi,  Septem- 
ber, 1885. 

Miami  University  was  at  that  time  (183.5)  the  mo.st  celebrated  institution  of 
learning  in  the  west.— Alpha  Delta  Phi  Catalogue,  1882. 

Miami  was  then  (1851)  in  her  palmy  days.  Her  halls  were  full  of  choice  men. 
Then  her  praises  fell  fluently  from  every  tongue,  and  they  have  been  justified  by 
the  history  of  her  sons.— Dr.  A.  C.  Kemper,  in  />.  A'.  A'.  Qutfrfrrhf,  April,  1885. 


6  THE  SCROLL. 

THE   SIX    FOUNDERS. 

The  founders  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  were  six  students  at 
Miami,  two  in  each  of  the  three  upper  classes,  viz. :  Robert 
Morrison,  '49  ;  John  McMillan  Wilson,  '49  ;  Robert  Thomp- 
son Drake,  'oO  ;  John  Wolfe  Lindley,  '50  ;  Ardivan  Walker 
Rodgers,  '51  ;  Andrew  Watts  Rogers,  '51. 

At  the  time  of  organization  Morrison  and  Drake  were  in 
their  twenty-seventh  years,  Rodgers  in  his  twenty-fifth,  Wil- 
son and  Rogers  in  their  twenty-fourth,  and  Lindley  in  his 
twenty-third.  All  of  them  were  of  sufficiently  mature  age 
to  recognize  what  should  be  the  objects  of  an  ideal  brother- 
hood, and  to  formulate  well- considered  plans  of  government. 
Morrison  was  matriculated  at  Miami  on  June  IS,  184(),  the 
other  five  on  October  7,  l<S4r».  All  of  them  completed  their 
courses  and  received  the  degree  of  A.  B.  on  graduation  and 
A.  M.  three  years  later.  Morrison,  Lindley  and  Rogers  are 
still  living. 

Robert  Morrison  was  born  near  Carmichaeltown,  Greene  county. 
Pa.,  March  15,  1822.  He  attended  Ohio  University,  1889-41  ;  entered 
Miami  in  1846  and  was  graduated  there  in  1849,  being  the  valedictorian 
of  his  class.  He  attended  Oxford  Associated  Reformed  Theological 
School  in  1849  ;  New  Albany  Theological  Seminary,  1852-53,  and 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  1853.  He  was  licensed  to  preach 
in  April,  1854,  and  ordained  two  years  later.  He  has  since  filled  im- 
portant charges  in  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Kentucky,  Ohio  and 
Missouri.  He  was  a  teacher  in  Tennessee,  1850-52  ;  managing  editor 
of  the  True  Presbyterian^  Louisville,  1862-64  :  a  teacher  in  Ohio, 
1869-7() ;  and  financial  aeent  of  Westminster  College,  1879-81.  His 
alma  mater,  Miami,  conferred  the  degree  of  D.  D.  on  him  in  1897. 
His  family  consists  of  a  wife  and  five  children,  and  their  residence  is 
at  Fulton,  Mo. 

John  McMillan  Wilson  was  bom  in  Union  county,  Indiana,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1825.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  McMillan  Academy, 
Xenia,  Ohio.  He  entered  Miami  in  1846,  and  was  graduated  there  in 
1849.  Until  1860  he  was  a  teacher  in  Tennessee  and  Ohio  schools.  He 
attended  Oxford  Associated  Reformed  Theological  School  in  1852,  and 
was  ordained  a  minister  in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church.  A 
throat  affection  compelled  him  to  abandon  public  speaking.  In  1860- 
r>l  he  was  managing  editor  of  the  llaunerof' the  Covenant,  The  later 
years  of  his  life  were  devoted  to  business  pursuits.  He  died  at  Benton, 
111.,  July  19,  KS74.     He  was  never  married. 

Robert  Thompson  Drake  was  born  at  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio,  March 
6,  1822,  and  was  the  oldest  of  the  six  founders  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  He 
entered  Miami  in  1S4<),  and  was  graduated  in  1850,  standing  third  in 
his  class;  entered  New  Albany  (now  McCormick)  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1851,  and  was  graduated  there  in  1853  ;  and,  during  1853-'54, 
he  took  a  post-graduate  course  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 
From  1S5')  to  1873  he  served  as  pastor  of  Presbyterian  churches  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa  ;  Troy,  Ohio;  Newport,  Ky. ;  Manchester  and  Miami 
City,  Ohio,  and  last  at  New  Castle,  Ind.  He  died  of  heart  disease,  at 
New  Castle,  March  19,  1873.  He  left  a  widow  with  four  children  to 
mourn  his  loss.     Five  other  children  had  died  in  infancy. 


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John  Wolfe  Lindley  was  born  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  August  20, 
182t).  He  attended  the  Fredericktown  Academy  for  two  years;  en- 
tered Miami  in  the  fall  of  1846  and  was  graduated  there  in  1850.  He 
taught  in  the  New  Hagerstown  (Ohio)  Academy  in  1850-52;  succeeded 
Robert  Morrison  as  principal  of  the  Poplar  Grove  (Tenn. )  Academy 
in  1852;  was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Richmond  (Ohio)  College, 
185.S-55  and  lS62-()3;  was  principal  of  the  Charlestown  (Ind. )  Female 
Institute,  1855-()1,  and  of  the  Paducah  (Ky.)  Female  Seminary,  1861- 
62.  Since  1863  he  has  re<iided  at  his  birthplace,  near  Fredericktown, 
Ohio,  where  he  is  a  farmer  and  justice  of  the  peace.  He  was  married  in 
1854  and  has  had  six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of 
whom  are  now  living.     He  is  a  third  cousin  of  Robert  Morrison. 

Ardivan  Walker  Rodgers  was  born  at  Piqua,  Ohio,  October  20,  1824. 
He  entered  Miami  in  1846,  having  previously  taught  a  school  at  Piqua. 
After  graduation  in  1851,  he  began  the  study  of  theology  privately, 
intending  to  enter  the  United  Presbyterian  ministry.  In  order  to  se- 
cure means  for  completing  a  theological  course,  he  resumed  the  work 
of  teaching.  He  taught  a  select  school  at  Piqua,  1851-^54  ;  and  he 
was  superintendent  of  the  Union  School  at  St.  Mary's,  Ohio,  1854-56. 
He  then  moved  to  Iowa,  but,  before  deciding  upon  another  place  of 
residence,  he  died  of  typhoid  fever,  at  his  father's  home,  at  Brighton, 
in  that  state,  December  11,  1856.  His  widow  still  lives  at  Fairfield, 
Iowa.  They  had  three  children,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy  or  child- 
hood. 

Andrew  Watts  Rogers  was  born  at  Greenfield,  Highland  county, 
Ohio,  March  12,  1825.  He  entered  Miami  in  1846  and  was  graduated 
in  1851.  For  two  years  he  was  a  teacher  in  Tennessee.  Admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1853,  he  practiced  law  in  Illinois,  first  at  Bloomington,  then 
at  Carbondale,  until  1862,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  81st  Illinois  In- 
fantry, U.  S.  A.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  in  1865,  having 
risen  from  the  rank  of  major  to  that  of  colonel.  He  then  resumed  the 
practice  of  law,  changing  his  residence  to  Warrensburg,  Mo.,  where  he 
still  lives.  He  was  county  prosecuting  attorney,  1873-74  ;  member  of 
the  Missouri  House  of  Representatives,  1883-84  ;  member  of  the  board 
of  regents  of  the  Missouri  State  Normal  School,  1880-90,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  same,  1889-00  ;  and  editor  of  the  Warrensburg  Journal- 
Democrat y  1890-91.     His  family  consists  of  a  wife  and  four  children. 

TIIK    PARENT   CHAPTER. 

Robert  Morrison  proposed  to  his  classmate,  John  McMillan 
Wilson,  the  organization  of  the  Fraternity,  and  the  latter  en- 
tered heartily  into  the  project.  The  Fraternity  was  founded 
at  a  meeting  of  the  six  founders  held  on  December  26, 1848. 
This  meeting  was  in  the  evening  in  Wilson's  room  in  the 
Northeast  Building, '•-  and  several  subsequent  meetings  were 
held  in  the  same  place. 

Morrison  and  Wilson  were  joint  authors  of  '  The  Bond  of 
the  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  which  is  the  fundamental  law  of  the 
Fraternity.  Morrison  signed  it  first,  Wilson  next.  Between 
them  they  decided  on  the  name  of  the  Fraternity,  and  Mor- 

♦This  buildin{^,  now  called  the  North  Dormitory,  still  stands  at  Miami.  The 
first  window  south  of  the  north  door  on  the  west  side  opened  into  Morrison's 
room,  and  directly  above,  on  the  second  floor,  was  Wilson's. 


8  THE  SCROLL. 

rison  selected  and  arranged  the  secret  Greek  motto.  Morri- 
son designed  the  shield  form  of  badge,  with  the  eye  as  an 
emblem,  while  the  scroll  feature  was  suggested  by  Wilson. 

Though  the  new  Fraternity  had  the  support  of  members 
of  the  Miami  faculty,*  the  early  members  thought  they  could 
best  accomplish  their  objects  by  remaining  stib  rosa.  Meet- 
ings were  usually  held  in  the  rooms  of  members,  but  when 
the  members  numbered  twelve,  all  could  not  assemble  in  any 
room  that  was  available  without  attracting  attention.  Some 
of  them,  therefore,  petitioned  for  a  charter  for  a  second  chap 
ter  in  Miami,  and  the  petition  was  granted  in  April,  18o2. 
At  commencement  in  1852  the  members  decided  to  make  the 
Fraternity's  existence  publicly  known  in  the  university,  and 
began  wearing  badges  openly.  The  charter  of  the  second 
chapter  was  resigned  in  November,  1852,  the  reason  for  a 
separation  no  longer  existing. 

At  the  time  when  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  organized,  the 
Miami  chapters  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Beta  Theta  Pi  were 
suspended,  mainly  because  a  number  of  their  members  had 
been  dismissed  from  college  for  participation  in  *  the  great 
snow  rebellion,'  in  January,  1848,  when  a  body  of  students 
locked  out  the  professors  from  the  college  buildings.  These 
chapters  remained  inactive  until  1852,  so  that  for  over  two 
years  Phi  Delta  Theta  had  the  pick  of  the  university.!  A 
remarkably  large  number  of  the  members  initiated  during 
the  earlier  years  of  its  existence  were  men  whose  careers 
have  reflected  great  honor  on  their  Fraternity  and  their 
alma  mater. 

In  '52  the  following  named  were  included  :  Benjamin 
Harrison,  subsequently  president  of  the  United  Stales  ;  L. 
W.  Ross,  afterwards  chancellor  of  the  law  department  of 
the  University  of  Iowa  ;  David  Swing,  the  noted  pulpit 
orator  of  Chicago  ;  and  J.  K.  Boude,  an  eminent  physician 
in  the  government  service.  Certainly  no  fraternity  can 
boast  of  a  larger  amount  of  talent  in  one  college  class.  In 
'53  were  J.  A.   Anderson,  subsequently  a  member  of  con- 

♦The  Phis  elected  Professors  O,  N.  Stoddard  aud  Charles  KIHott  to  membership* 
and  Rev.  Rot)crt  Morrison  says  (Scroll.  December,  188-3)  that  'both  of  these  pro" 
fessors  accepted  and  signed  the  Bond,  and  often  attended  and  took  part  in  the 
meetingN."  Before  a  public  meeting?  of  the  Fraternity  at  Oxford  in  1855,  Professor 
Elliott  read  a  poem,  which  was  published  in  pamphlet  form. 

+  There  was  but  one  (ireek  fraternity,  so  far  as  we  then  knew,  at  that  time 
(ISol)  in  the  institution  (Miami).  Its  existence  was  unknown  except  to  its  mem- 
bers and  a  ]>ortion  of  the  faculty.  It  was  the  parent  chapter,  ana  therefore  of 
conspicuous  importance.  It  was  understood  to  Decontrolled  by  members  of  the 
faculty,  who  did  not  belong  to  the  fraternity,  through  the  instnimentalitv  of 
certain  of  its  members. — Dr.  A.  C.  Kemper,  in  />.  A'.  K.  Qunrtvrly^  April,  1885. 

To  control  a  force  which  they  could  not  destroy,  the  faculty  encouraged  the  or- 

ganization  of  Phi  Delta  Theta,' to  which  reference  is  above  made. — Memorandum 
y  editor.  Jhi<l. 


THE  SCROLL.  9 

gress,  and  James  Holmes,  who  became  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  church  at  Allegheny,  Pa.  In  '54  was  E.  P. 
Shields,  on  whom  Miami  conferred  the  degree  of  D.  D.  in 
1887.  In  '55  were  B.  K.  Elliott,  subsequently  chief-justice 
of  Indiana  ;  and  Ransford  Smith,  sometime  mayor  of  Ham- 
ilton, Ohio.  In  '57  was  CM.  Hughes,  who  became  judge 
on  the  common  pleas  bench.  There  were  others  who  have 
attained  high  positions  in  the  learned  professions. 

Robert  Morrison,  '49,  was  valedictorian  ;  R.  T.  Drake,  an- 
other founder,  stood  third  in  the  class  of  '50  ;  David  Swing, 
'52,  was  salutatorian  ;  James  Holmes,  '53,  was  valedicto- 
rian ;  J.  M.  Miller,  '56,  was  valedictorian  ;  Ransford  Smith, 
'55,  was  alumni  orator  in  1871. 

The  influence  of  men  of  the  character  of  those  mentioned, 
at  a  time  when  the  development  of  the  Fraternity  was  be- 
ginning, can  not  be  overestimated.  All  of  them  were  zeal- 
ous members  while  in  college,  and  some  have  rendered 
active  assistance  since  graduation.  Rev.  Robert  Morrison, 
particularly,  (who  in  1897  completed  his  seventy-fifth  year, 
an  event  suitably  observed  by  the  Fraternity,)  has  performed 
valuable  work  for  Phi  Delta  Theta  ever  since  it  was  first 
conceived  by  him. 

The  graduation  of  members  in  '57,  and  the  failure  of 
others  to  return  weakened  the  Miami  chapter,  and  it  sus- 
pended in  the  fall.  It  was  revived  in  the  fall  of  1865,  and 
flourished  until  the  spring  of  1873,  when  the  university 
closed.  The  chapter  was  reorganized  on  the  reopening  of 
the  institution  in  1<S85. 

THE   ROLL  OF   CHAPTERS. 

The  founders  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  intended  that  it  should 
be  extended  to  other  institutions  of  high  standing  and  well 
established  reputation.  Before  its  first  anniversary  it  had 
been  established  at  Indiana  University,  and  before  the  ex- 
piration of  the  second  year  at  Centre  College.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  war  the  Fraternity  had  laid  the  foundation 
for  substantial  development,  but  a  check  was  then  placed 
on  its  expansion. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  the  only  chapters  in  active  exist- 
ence were  those  at  Indiana,  Centre,  Wabash,  Indianapolis 
and  Michigan.  The  latter,  chartered  in  1864,  and  the  chap- 
ter at  Chicago,  chartered  in  1865,  were  the  only  chapters  es- 
tablished from  1860  to  1H68.  From  these  the  chapter  roll  of 
to-day  has  developed.  The  decades  from  1870  to  1890  were 
marked  by  unusual  progress.     Since  1883  Phi  Delta  Theta 


lo  THE  SCROLL. 

has  had  a  larger  number  of  active  college  chapters  than  any 
other  fraternity.  In  the  present  decade  fewer  additions  to 
the  roster  have  been  accepted,  and  the  policy  of  the  Frater- 
nity has  been  in  the  direction  of  rendering  old  chapters  more 
secure  in  their  surroundings  and  increasing  their  property 
interests. 

In  the  chapter  roll  which  follows,  the  figures  at  the  left 
indicate  the  years  the  chapters  were  established,  and  the 
figures  in  parentheses  show  the  years  when  chapters  became 
inactive.  The  figures  at  the  right  give  the  number  of  mem- 
bers initiated  by  each  chapter. 

1848.  Ohio  Alpha,  Miami  University,  Oxford 188 

1819.  Indiana  Alpha,  Indiana  University,  Bloomington 283 

1850.  Kentucky  Alpha,  Centre  College,  Danville 286 

1850.  Indiana  Beta,  Wabash  College,  Crawfordsville 230 

1852.  Ohio  Beta,  Miami  University,  Oxford  (1852)  (membership 

included  with  Ohio  Alpha  ) 

1852.  Ohio  Gamma,  Wittenberg  College,  Springfield  ( 1854 ) 8 

1853.  Texas  Alpha,  Austin  College,  Sherman  ( 1857 ) 8 

1854.  Kentucky   Beta,   Kentucky    Military   Institute,    Farmdale 

(1856)   42 

1855.  Kentucky  Gamma,  Centre  College,  Danville  (1855)  (mem- 

bership included  with  Kentucky  Alpha) 

1 857.  Kentucky  Gamma,  Georgetown  College,  Georgetown  ( 1 876 )  1 6 

1857.  Wisconsin  Alpha,  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison 176 

IH59.  Wisconsin  Beta,  Lawrence  University,  Appleton  ( 1860) ....  10 

1859.  Illinois  Alpha,  Northwestern  University,  Evanston 73 

1859.  Indiana  Gamma,  University  of  Indianaf>olis,  Irvington  . . .  195 

1860.  Ohio  Beta,  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  Delaware 161 

1860.  Indiana  Delta,  Franklin  College,  Franklin 199 

1S60.  Indiana  Epsilon,  Hanover  College,  Hanover 138 

1864.  Michigan  Alpha,  University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor 102 

1S65.  Illinois  Beta,  University  of  Chicago,  Chicago 32 

1868.  Indiana  Zeta,  De  Pauw  University,  Greencastle 180 

1868.  Ohio  Gamma,  Ohio  University,  Athens 140 

186i).    Virginia  Alpha,  Roanoke  College,  Salem  (1896 ) 138 

1869.  Indiana   Eta,  Indiana  State  Normal  School,  Terre  Haute 

(1S72) 13 

1870.  Missouri  Alpha,  University  of  Missouri,  Columbia 218 

1871.  Illinois  Gamma,  Monmouth  College,  Monmouth  (1884)...  59 

1H71.    Illinois  Delta,  Knox  College,  Galesburg 143 

1871.    Georgia  Alpha,  Oglethorpe  University,  Atlanta  (1872) 13 

1871.    Georgia  Alpha,  Universitv  of  Georgia,  Athens 234 

1871 .    Georgia  Beta,  Emory  College,  Oxford 234 

1571.  Iowa  Alpha,  Iowa  Wesleyan  University,  Mt.  Pleasant 152 

1572.  Georgia  Gamma,  Mercer  University,  Macon 179 

1572.  Ohio  Delta,  University  of  Wooster,  Wooster 153 

1H72.    New  York  Alpha,  Cornell  University,  Ithaca 1:*»8 

is'o.    Pennsylvania  Alpha,  Lafayette  College,  Easton 149 

1873.  California  Alpha,  University  of  California,  Berkeley 1(»7 

1573.  Michigan  Beta,  Michigan  State  College,  Lansing 161 

1873     Virginia  Beta,  University  of  Virginia,  Charlottesville 156 

1874.  Virginia  Gamma,  Randolph-Macon  College,  Ashland 69 


THE  SCROLL.  ii 

1875.   Ohio  Epsilon,  Buchtel  College,  Akron  ( 1896) 1)4 

1875.    Nebraska  Alpha,  University  of  Nebraska,  Lincoln 71 

1875.    Virginia  Delta,  Richmond  College,  Richmond  ( 1895) 7(> 

1875.    Pennsylvania  Beta,  Gettysburg  College,  Gettysburg. 99 

1875.  Pennsylvania  Gamma,  Washington  and  Jefferson  College, 

Washington 118 

1876.  Tennessee  Alpha,  Vanderbilt  University,  Nashville 242 

1876.    Missouri  Beta,  Central  College,  Fayette  (1878 ) 10 

1876.  Pennsylvania  Eta,  Lehigh  University,  South  Bethlehem ...  58 

1877.  Mississippi  Alpha,  University  of  Mississippi,  Oxford 152 

1877.  Alabama  Alpha,  University  of  Alabama,  Tuskaloosa 189 

1878.  Virginia   Epsilon,   Virginia   Military  Institute,   Lexington 

(18S8) 35 

1878     Te.xas  Alpha,  Trinity  University,  Tehuacana  ( 1883) 41 

1878.  Illinois  Epsilon,  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  Bloomington 

(1897) 103 

1878.  North  Carolina  Alpha,  Trinity  College,  Durham  (1879) ....  24 
1S78.    Illinois  Zeta,  Lombard  University,  Galesburg 204 

1879.  Alabama  Beta,  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute,  Auburn 199 

1879.  South  Carolina  Alpha,  Wofford  College,  Spartanburg  ( 1884 )  25 

1879.    Pennsylvania  Delta,  Allegheny  College,  Meadville 116 

1879.  Vermont  Alpha,  University  of  Vermont,  Burlington 140 

1880.  Pennsylvania  Epsilon,  Dickinson  College,  Carlisle 105 

1880.  Missouri  Beta,  Westminster  College,  Fulton 94 

1881.  Minnesota  Alpha,  University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis. . .  58 

1882.  Iowa  Beta,  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City 118 

1882.  South  Carolina  Beta,  vSouth  Carolina  College.Columbiai  1803 )  38 

1882.    Kansas  Alpha,  University  of  Kansas,  Lawrence 96 

1882.  Michigan  Gamma,  Hillsdale  College,  Hillsdale 89 

1883.  Tennessee  Beta,  University  of  the  South,  Sew^anee 91 

1883.    Ohio  Zeta,  Ohio  Stale  University,  Columbus 83 

1883.   Texas  Beta,  University  of  Texas,  Austin 85 

1883.  Penn.sylvaniaZeta,  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia  120 

1883.  New  York  Beta,  Union  University,  Schenectady 70 

1884.  New  York  Gamma,  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  New- 

York  ( 1891 ) 54 

1884.    Maine  Alpha,  Colby  University,  Walerville 103 

1884.    New  York  Delta,  Columbia  University,  New  York 51 

1884.  New  Hampshire  Alpha,  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover 138 

1885.  North  Carolina  Beta,  Universitv  of  North  Carolina,  Chapel 

Hill ' 50 

1885.  Kentucky  Delta,  Central  University,  Richmond 81 

1886.  Massachusetts  Alpha,  Williams  College,  Williamstown  ....  7() 

1886.  Texas  Gamma,  Southwestern  University,  Georgetown <)4 

1887.  New  York  Epsilon,  Syracuse  I'niversity,  Syracuse 104 

1887.  Virginia  Zeta,  Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington.  33 

1887.  Alabama  Gamma,  Southern  University,  Greensboro  (1896).  122 

1888.  Massachusetts  Beta,  Amherst  College,  Amherst 106 

1889.  Rhode  Island  Alpha,  Brown  I'niversity,  Providence 86 

1889.  Ix>uisiana  Alpha,  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana,  New  Or- 
leans    4r> 

1891.    Missouri  Ganmia,  Washington  University,  St.  Louis 54 

1891.  California  Beta,    Leland  Stanford  Junior  Universitv,   Palo 

Alto \ 31 

1893.  Illinois  Eta,  University  of  Illinois,  Champaign 51 

1894.  Indiana  Theta,  Purdue  University,  Lafayette 36 

1896.    Ohio  Eta,  Case  School  of  Applied  Science,  Cleveland 22 


12  THE  SCROLL, 

Active  chapters.  6G  ;  iuactive,  22  ;  membership,  9,134.* 
Statistics  of  the  present  membership  of  other  fraternities  are 
not  easily  accessible,  but  there  is  no  doubt  that  Phi  Delta 
Theta  ranks  next  after  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Beta  Theta 
Pi  in  number  of  initiates,  and  perhaps  has  the  second  largest 
number  of  living  members,  t  Unquestionably  the  member- 
ship of  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  increasing  more  rapidly  than  that 
of  any  other  fraternity.  +  The  average  number  of  members 
per  chapter  is  103.  Deducting  the  inactive  chapters  and 
their  members,  the  average  membership  of  the  active  chap- 
ters is  123. 

A    NATIONAL    FRATERNITY. 

Phi  Delta  Theta 's  policy  has  been  to  become  a  national 
organization.  It  has  aimed  to  extend  its  influence  that  it 
might  unite  in  one  association  college-bred  men  of  all  sec- 
tions of  our  country. 

The  Fraternity  has  always  had  a  stronghold  in  the  west. 
In  1849  Indiana  was  entered,  in  1857  Wisconsin,  in  1859 
Northwestern,  in  1804  Michigan,  and  in  1870  Missouri.  A 
chapter  was  placed  in  Iowa  Wesleyan  in  1871,  and  in  1873 
the  banner  of  the  Fraternity  was  carried  across  the  continent 
and  planted  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

♦This  was  the  total  membership  to  February  1,  1897.  Beginning:  in  1883,  each 
chapter  has  made  a  statistical  report  every  year  to  the  Historian  of  the  General 
Council.  Reports  from  1883  to  I8WB,  inclusive,  were  made  on  April  I,  the  report  of 
1897  on  February  1,  which  will  be  the  date  hereafter.  The  tabulation  of  the  H.  G. 
C.  shows  that  the  membership  on  February  1.  1897,  was  8,967.  The  total  of  9,184 
was  arrived  at  by  adding  to  the  number  of  members  of  each  chapter,  given  in  the 
sixth  <1894)  edition  of  the  catalogue,  the  number  initiated  bv  the  chapter  each 
year  since  its  list  was  compiled  for  the  catalogue,  as  shown  by  the  annual  sum- 
maries of  the  n.  G.  C.  Persons  who  had  severed  their  connection  with  the  Fra- 
ternity were  deducted,  but  no  account  was  taken  of  membera  transferred  from 
one  chapter  to  another  since  the  catalogue  was  printed.  The  calculation  was 
made  very  carefully  by  the  writer,  who  believes  that  the  total  of  9,134  is  correct, 
or  the  error,  if  any,'  is  very  small.  At  any  rate  the  total  number  (October,  \fSif1)  is 
upwards  of  9.0<N),  a.s  fifty  or  more  members  have  been  initiated  since  Febniar\' 
1,  1897. 

t  If  the  total  number  of  members  admitted  be  taken  as  the  criterion.  Phi  Delta 
Theta  ranks  fourth  among  fraternities,  being  considerably  surpassed  in  this  re- 
spect by  Delta  Kappa  KpsiTon,  and  somewhat  oy  Beta  Theta  Pi,  the  latter  being  a 
we.stern  fraternity  which,  like  Phi  Delta  Theta,  has  of  late  vears  greatly  increased 
in  numbers.  By  reason  of  its  long  life  and  uninterrupted  delegations,  Psi  Tpsi- 
lon,  with  7,980  members  comes  third  in  number  of  initiates,  notwithstanding  the 
brevity  of  its  roll  of  chapters.  But  as  the  proportion  of  deceased  members  in  Phi 
Delta  Tlieta  is  very  small  (less  than  seven  per  cent.),  this  society  undoubtedly 
stands  second  in  respect  to  number  of  living  representatives. — A.  P.  Jacobs,  Psi 
Upsilon.  in  Aiinricnu  I'nirrr.siti/  Maijtizinr,  Aiigu.st,  1894. 

The  total  membership.  7,286,  given  in  the  sixth  (1894)  edition  of  the  catalo^e  of 
Phi  Delta  Theta  was  not  the  real  total  in  that  year,  as  some  of  the  chapter  lists  in 
the  catalogue  were  two  to  three  years  old  when  printed.  The  total  membership 
of  the  Fraternity  in  18JM,  as  .shown  by  the  tabulation  of  the  H.  G.  C,  was  7,683.  Mr. 
Jacobs  says  Psi  I'psilon  had  in  that  year  a  total  of  7,980,  but  the  more  rapid  in- 
crease of  Phi  Delta  Theta  since  1894' certainly  places  it  ahead  of  Psi  Upsilon  in 
this  respect. 

J  The  average  number  of  initiations  by  all  chapters  during  the  last  five  >ears 
wa.s  4.*y>  a  year.  The  largest  average  number  of  initiations  per  chapter  during 
auy  year  from  1883  to  1897  was  7.37  in  18K1,  the  smallest  5.38  in  IftH).  The  largest 
average  number  of  attendant  members  per  chapter  was  15.87  in  1890,  and  the 
smalle.st  14.01  in  1887. 


THE  SCROLL.  13 

The  chapter  at  Centre  was  the  only  one  established  in  the 
south  before  the  war  that  was  permanent.  In  1869  a  char- 
ter was  issued  for  a  chapter  at  Roanoke  College,  in  Virginia. 
From  that  state  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  introduced  into  Georgia, 
and  thence  it  spread  throughout  the  south. 

Until  1883,  the  Fraternity  was  established  in  but  few 
eastern  institutions.  A  chapter  had  been  organized  at  Cor- 
nell in  1872,  and  one  at  Lafayette  in  187o,  from  which  lat- 
ter originated  several  of  the  Pennsylvania  chapters.  A 
petition  for  a  charter  to  establish  a  chapter  at  the  University 
of  Vermont  was  granted  in  1879.  The  entry  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta  at  Union — the  eastern  birthplace  of  fraternities — in 
1888  was  followed  by  the  establishment  of  other  chapters  in 
Pennsylvania,  New  York  and  the  New  England  states,  and 
at  present  the  Fraternity  has  seventeen  active  college  chap- 
ters in  those  states.* 

Phi  Delta  Theta  now  has  sixty-six  active  college  chapters 
in  twenty-seven  states  from  Maine  to  California  and  from 
Minnesota  to  Texas,  f  Any  one  who  is  informed  as  to  edu- 
cational development  can  see  that  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  a 
well  balanced  distribution  of  chapters.  The  Fraternity  is 
established  in  twenty  state  universities,  viz.:  Vermont, 
Pennsylvania,  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  Georgia,  Alabama, 
Mississippi,  Texas,  Ohio  (two),  Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois, 
Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  Iowa,  Missouri,  Kansas,  Nebraska 
and  California.  No  other  fraternity  is  represented  in  so 
many  state  universities.  In  addition,  Cornell,  Miami,  Pur- 
due, Michigan  State  College  and  Alabama  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute receive  either  state  or  federal  support  or  both. 

CAREERS  OF  CHAPTERS. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  was  the  pioneer  fraternity  at  Wisconsin, 
Northwestern,  Indianapolis,  Franklin,  Nebraska,  Vander- 
bilt,  Texas  and  Stanford.  In  point  of  continuous  existence. 
Phi  Delta  Theta  has  the  senior  chapter  at  Miami,  Indiana, 
Missouri,  Knox,  Mercer,  I^mbard,  Washington,  Alabama 
and  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute.  The  average  age  of 
the  sixty-six  active  chapters  is  (in  1897)  twenty-three  years. 

The  chapter  established  at  Indiana  University  in    1849 

♦In  the  same  territory  Delta  Upsilon  has  twenty-one  chapters,  four  more  than 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon  twenty,  three  more  than  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Theta  Delta  Chi  seventeen,  the  same  as  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Every  other  fraternitv 
of  eastern  origrin  has  fewer— Psi  Upsilon  having  sixteen,  Alpha'Delta  Phi  fifteen. 
2^ta  Psi  thirteen.  Delta  Phi  ten.  Chi  Psi  eight,  and  Sigma  Phi,  Delta  Psi  and 
Kappa  Alpha  still  fewer. 

t  While  mo.st  of  her  ea.stern  rivals  have  limited  their  chapter  rolls,  Phi  Delta 
Theta  has  increased  hers,  until  it  has  made  the  Fraternity  national  in  extent. — 
Dr.  J.  B.  Brown,  in  Scroll,  October,  1893. 


14  THE  SCROLL, 

was  for  some  years  without  rivals,  the  chapter  of  Beta  Theta 
Pi  which  preceded  it  there  having  become  inactive.  Though 
not  antagonized  by  the  faculty,  it,  like  the  parent  chapter, 
chose  to  remain  sub  rosa,  and  it  did  not  publicly  announce 
its  existence  until  1854. 

The  chapter  at  Centre  College,  established  in  1850,  fol- 
lowed the  example  of  the  Miami  chapter  and  divided  when 
its  membership  had  reached  nineteen.  A  charter  for  a  sec- 
ond chapter  at  Centre  was  granted  in  February,  1855,  but 
the  experiment  not  being  found  for  the  best,  the  charter 
was  surrendered  five  months  later.  The  members  of  the 
second  chapters  at  Miami  and  Centre  affiliated  again  with 
their  original  chapters.  In  no  other  fraternity  has  there 
been  an  instance  of  bicameral  chapters  in  the  same  institu- 
tion. 

The  Wisconsin  chapter  was  inactive  from  1861  to  18S0, 
the  Northwestern  chapter  from  1860  to  1887,  the  Franklin 
chapter  from  ISfil  to  1869,  the  Michigan  chapter  from  1S69 
to  1887,  the  Wooster  chapter  from  1880  to  1881,  the  Cor- 
nell chapter  from  1876  to  188r),  the  California  chapter  from 
1877  to  1886,  and  the  Columbia  chapter  from  1S90  to  1893. 

The  isolated  chapter  established  in  Texas  in  1853  sus- 
pended in  a  year  or  two.  It  was  reorganized  in  1857,  but 
remained  active  only  a  few  months.  The  Ohio  Wesleyan 
chapter,  organized  in  lsr)0,  suspended  the  next  year,  was 
revived  in  1871,  suspended  again  in  1877,  and  was  revived 
again  two  years  later.  The  Hanover  chapter  existed  prob- 
ably only  a  few  months  after  its  organization  in  1860  ;  it 
was  newly  chartered  in  186S.  The  Lehigh  chapter,  char- 
tered late  in  187^),  suspended  early  in  1877;  it  w^as  newly 
chartered  in  1887.  The  Chicago  chapter  suspended  in  1870, 
and  was  re-established  in  the  new  University  of  Chicago  in 
1897.  The  DePauw  chapter  returned  its  charter  in  1872, 
was  revived  for  a  few  months  only  in  1875,  and  was  reor- 
ganized again  in  1880.  The  Oglethorpe  chapter  died  on 
account  of  the  closing  of  the  institution.  The  Wofford 
chapter  died  in  1884,  and  the  South  Carolina  College  chap- 
ter in  1893. 

The  charters  of  the  chapters  at  Richmond,  Buchtel  and 
Illinois  Wesleyan  were  surrendered  because  of  the  decrease 
in  the  attendance  of  students.  The  charters  of  the  chapters 
at  Indiana  State  Normal  School,  Roanoke,  College  of  the 
City  of  New  York  and  Southern  University  were  withdrawn 
because  the  Fraternity  did  not  desire  to  continue  at  those 
institutions. 


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ANTI-SECRET   SOCIETY   LAWS. 

During  its  history  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  met  with  laws  pro- 
hibiting fraternities  at  various  institutions.  The  Wabash 
chapter  was  compelled  to  find  means  of  circumventing  a 
watchful  faculty  until  1862  or  1868.  The  Wittenberg 
chapter  never  succeeded,  on  account  of  adverse  surround- 
ings. The  chapter  established  at  Kentucky  Military  Insti- 
tute in  18o4,  died  in  1856  because  of  faculty  opposition.  A 
number  of  members  were  initiated  there  between  1882  and 
1884,  but  a  renewal  of  the  charter  was  refused  in  the  latter 
year.  The  charter  of  the  chapter  at  Georgetown  College, 
granted  in  1857,  was  withdrawn  the  same  year  because  of 
the  faculty's  hostile  attitude.  The  chapter  was  re-chartered 
in  1875,  but  suspended  the  next  year  for  the  same  reason. 
The  Lawrence  chapter  and  the  chapter  at  Central  College, 
Missouri,  each  encountered  adverse  legislation  from  the 
first  and  succumbed.  In  1874  anti- fraternity  laws  were 
enacted  at  Ohio  Wesleyan,  and  their  enforcement  was  at- 
tempted for  a  year  or  two.  The  Nebraska  chapter,  chart- 
ered in  1875,  found  neither  faculty  nor  students  favorable 
to  fraternities,  and  suspended  in  1876  ;  it  was  revived  in 
1883.  The  Vanderbilt  chapter,  chartered  in  1876,  was  not 
fairly  organized  until  1877,  on  account  of  anti-fraternity 
laws,  which  rendered  sub  rosa  existence  necessary  until  1888. 
In  1877,  shortly  after  the  organization  of  the  chapter  at  the 
University  of  Alabama,  it  was  forced  by  hostile  legislation 
to  suspend  ;  it  was  revived  in  1883,  and  the  anti -fraternity 
laws  were  repealed  two  years  later. 

Because  of  faculty  opposition,  the  chapter  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Georgia  was  sub  rosa  from  1875  to  1878,  the  chapter 
at  the  University  of  Missouri  from  1881  to  1884,  and  the 
chapter  at  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute  from  1881  to  1883. 
The  Knox  chapter  suspended  in  1878,  on  account  of  anti- 
fraternity  laws ;  these  having  been  repealed,  the  chapter 
was  revived  in  1880  ;  it  suspended  again  in  1881,  and  was 
revived  again  in  1884.  The  chapter  at  Trinity  College, 
North  Carolina,  was  overpowered  by  the  inhibition  placed 
on  fraternities.  The  chapter  at  Trinity  University,  Texas, 
labored  under  the  disadvantages  of  faculty  opposition  two 
years,  and  the  Monmouth  chapter  seven  years,  before  sur- 
rendering. The  charter  of  the  V.  M.  I.  chapter  was  with- 
drawn in  18S9,  the  enactment  of  anti-fraternity  laws  having 
made  its  existence  impossible. 

The  chapters  that  have  not  been  specially  mentioned  have 
held  their  charters  continuously.  Of  the  eighty-eight  chap- 
ters for  which  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  issued  charters,  twenty- 


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two,  or  twenty-five  per  cent.,  are  inactive, a  smaller  percent- 
age of  inactive  chapters  than  most  fraternities  have.  The 
Fraternity  does  not  desire  to  re-establish  these  chapters, 
though  opportunities  for  doing  so  have  been  offered  in  most 
cases. 

LOCAL   SOCIETIES   CHARTERED. 

The  Lombard  chapter  was  formed  in  187S  by  the  initia- 
tion of  the  parent  chapter  of  the  Phi  Sigma  League,  which 
was  the  only  chapter  of  the  League  then  in  existence. 

The  attendant  members  of  the  Centre  chapter  were  all 
graduated  in  '79,  but  the  chapter  was  continued  by  the  ab- 
sorption, in  the  fall,  of  the  Centre  chapter  of  Delta  Kappa, 
which  was  the  last  active  chapter  of  that  fraternity. 

In  1885  the  active  members  of  the  W.  W.  W.,  or  Rain- 
bow chapter,  at  the  University  of  Texas,  were  initiated  into 
the  chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  there,  and  the  Southwestern 
chapter  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  formed  by  initiating  the 
members  of  the  Southwestern  chapter  of  W.  W.  W.  Both 
of  these  Rainbow  chapters  had  refused  to  accept  the  condi- 
tions which  had  been  accepted  by  the  other  chapters  of  their 
fraternity  in  uniting  with  Delta  Tau  Delta. 

During  lSS()-87  the  Grand  Chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  Kappa 
at  Washington  and  Lee  withdrew  the  charter  of  the  chapter 
of  that  fraternity  at  Louisiana  State  University  ;  then  the 
remaining  active  chapters  joined  Phi  Delta  Theta,  estab- 
lishing the  latter  Fraternity  at  Washington  and  Lee,  and 
adding  to  the  membership  of  its  chapters  at  Richmond, 
Randolph- Macon  and  V.  M.  I.  , 

Before  their  entrance  into  Phi  Delta  Theta,  the  Colby 
chapter  existed  as  *  IvOgania,'  the  Syracuse  chapter  as 
Sigma  Rho,  the  Tulane  chapter  as  *  Incognito,'  the  Wash- 
ington chapter  as  *Texta,'  the  Illinois  chapter  as  Alpha 
Nu,  and  the  Case  chapter  as  Phi  Lambda  Omicron. 

PHI    DELTA   THETA   HOMES. 

The  chapter  at  the  University  of  the  South,  in  1884,  the 
next  year  after  its  establishment,  built  the  first  house 
erected  at  a  southern  institution  by  any  fraternity.  Since 
then  the  chapters  at  Vanderbilt,  Amherst,  Cornell,  Lehigh, 
Pennsylvania,  Lombard  and  Wisconsin  have  acquired  homes. 
Houses  are  rented  by  the  chapters  at  Vermont,  Williams. 
Columbia,  Syracuse,  Allegheny,  Ohio  State,  Case,  Michi- 
gan, Hillsdale,  Chicago,  Northwestern.  California  and  Stan- 
ford. The  California,  Stanford,  Dartmouth  and  Emory 
chapters  have  secured  building  lots,  and  a  number  of  chap- 
ters have  started  building  funds. 


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The  Iowa  chapter  established  a  summer  camp  at  the 
Lower  Palisades  on  Cedar  river  in  189"),  and  the  Franklin 
chapter  established  a  summer  camp  on  Driftwood  river  above 
Columbus,  Indiana,  in  1896.  Other  chapters  have  had  sum- 
mer camps  and  camping  parties. 

In  LStSl  the  '  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity '  was  incor- 
porated under  the  laws  of  Ohio.  A  number  of  property 
holding  chapters  have  been  incorporated  in  their  respective 
states. 

SYSTEM  OF  (iOVERNMENT. 

The  general  conventions  (since  1S73  called  national  con- 
ventions) of  the  Fraternity  have  been  held  as  follows  :  1851 , 
Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  18.')6,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  1857,  Danville, 
Ky.;  lsr)S,  Bloomington,  Ind.;  18G0,  Danville,  Ky.;  1864, 
Bloomington,  Ind. ;  186S,  Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  1869,  Chicago, 
111.;  1S70,  Oxford.  Ohio;  1871,  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  1872, 
Danville,  Ky.;  1873,  Athens,  Ohio;  1874,  Crawfordsville, 
Ind.;  1875.  Danville,  Ky.;  1876,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  1878, 
Wooster,  Ohio;  1880,  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  1882,  Richmond, 
Va.;  1884,  Nashville,  Tenn.;  1 8sr,,  New  York,  N.Y.;  1889, 
Bloomington.  111.;  1891,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  1894,  Indianapolis, 
Ind.;  1S*)6,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  The  next  convention  will  be 
held  in  Ohio,  in  189<s,  when  the  semi-centennial  will  be  cel- 
ebrated. 

The  primitive  plan  of  government  provided  that  the  Grand 
Alpha,  or  parent  chapter,  should  have  the  right  to  issue 
charters  to  other  chapters  in  Ohio,  and  to  the  first  chapter 
in  each  other  state,  which  in  turn  became  the  state  Grand 
Chapter,  and  could  charter  other  chapters  in  the  state.  The 
Grand  Alpha  (subsequently  called  the  National  Grand  Chap- 
ter) was  the  Miami  chapter  until  1><58,  the  Indiana  Univer- 
sity chapter  from  1858  to  1860,  the  Centre  Chapter  from 
1860  to  1868,  the  Chicago  chapter  from  1S6S  to  1869,  the 
Miami  chapter  again  from  1>>69  to  1873,  the  Wooster  chap- 
ter from  187:5  to  1.S7S,  and  the  Lafayette  chapter  from  1S78 
to  1880. 

In  187<)  the  powers  of  the  state  Grand  Chapters  were  re- 
voked, and  authority  to  grant  charters  vested  in  the  National 
Grand  Chapter  and  an  executive  committee  consisting  of  a 
grand  banker,  a  secretary,  and  one  member  chosen  by  the 
National  Grand.  In  1878  the  executive  committee  was  en- 
larged to  four  members  by  the  addition  of  a  president. 

In  1880  the  National  Grand  was  abolished  and  the  exec- 
utive committee  was  changed  to  a  General  Council,  com- 
posed of  a  president,  secretary,  treasurer,  and  historian.    At 


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the  same  time  the  Fraternity  was  divided  into  provinces, 
each  to  have  a  president  chosen  by  the  General  Council.  In 
18iM>  a  fifth  member,  called  a  reporter,  was  added  to  the 
General  Council,  and  he  was  made  ex  officio  ^di\sy[  of  the 
fraternity  periodicals.  In  nearly  all  instances  alumni  are 
chosen  as  members  of  the  General  Council  and  as  province 
presidents.     There  are  now  ^v^  provinces. 

The  office  of  fraternity  librarian  was  established  in  1806. 

ALUMNI    CHAPTERS. 

The  history  of  the  interest  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  alumni  in 
their  Fraternity  goes  back  to  the  graduation  of  the  first  Phis 
from  their  colleges.  The  first  convention  in  1851  author- 
ized the  organization  of  a  higher  order  to  be  known  as  *  The 
Society  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  in  distinction  from  *  The 
Phi  Delta  Theta  Society.'  The  former,  composed  of  alumni 
chosen  from  the  latter,  should  meet  annually  with  public 
literary  exercises,  and  should  have  the  power  of  granting 
charters  and  of  general  supervision.  Tw^o  annual  meetings 
were  held  in  Oxford,  Ohio,  where  public  addresses  were 
made  by  distinguished  members,  but  after  1853  the  plan  was 
abandoned,  on  account  of  the  then  scarcity  of  alumni.  This 
preceded  any  attempt  by  any  other  fraternity  to  vest  the 
management  of  fraternity  affairs  in  the  hands  of  graduate 
members. 

In  1865  an  Indiana  state  Phi  Delta  Theta  convention  was 
held  at  Indianapolis.  It  was  the  first  state  convention  wnth 
chapter  representation  held  by  any  fraternity.  In  187>>  the 
Indiana  Phi  Delta  Theta  association  w^as  formed  ;  it  is  the 
oldest  state  association  of  any  fraternity.  Since  then  the 
Phis  in  other  states  have  formed  associations,  and  since  1880 
province  associations  have  been  organized.  These  associa- 
tions meet,  some  annually  and  some  biennially. 

In  187(*)  an  alumni  chapter  was  organized  at  Franklin, 
Ind.,  and  other  alumni  chapters  have  been  organized  as  fol- 
lows :  I'^T-S,  Richmond,  Va  ;  ISTI),  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  issO, 
Louisville,  Kv.:  ISsQ,  Baltimore,  Md.;  ISSQ,  Montgomery, 
Ala.;  ISSl.  Chicago.  III.;  1S81,  Nashville.  Tenn.;  18,Sl, 
(^alesburp:.  111.;  issl ,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  1884,  Washington, 
D.  C;  1S84.  Columbus,  Ga.;  ISS4.  Akron,  Ohio;  ls84, 
New  York,  N.  Y.;  1SS5,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  1S.S5,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn.;  1SN()^  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  1S86,  Atlanta, 
(;a.;  1887.  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  18S7,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  1S87, 
Selma,  Ala.:  18s.s.  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  1888.  Philadelphia, 
Pa.;  18S8,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  ls<M,  SaU  Lake  City.  Utah  ; 
1S9'J,  Cleveland,  Ohio  ;   isiKJ,  Boston,  Mass.;  1803,  Denver, 


THE  SCROLL.  19 

Col.;  1893,  vSpokane,  Wash.;  1895,  Birmingham,  Ala.; 
1895,  Macon,  Ga.;  1895,  Mobile,  Ala.;  1896,  La  Crosse, 
Wis.;  1897,  Detroit.  Mich.;  1897,  New  Orleans,  La.;  1897, 
Milwaukee,  Wis.  Of  alumni  chapters,  as  well  as  college 
chapters.  Phi  Delta  Theta  has  a  larger  number  than  any 
other  fraternity.  Alumni  chapters  have  the  privilege  of 
being  represented  in  conventions,  but  not  of  making  initia- 
tions. 

The  convention  of  18S9  established  Alumni  Day,  which  is 
celebrated  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  March,  the  birthday  of 
Robert  Morrison,  one  of  the  founders.  On  that  day  every 
year,  it  is  customary  for  each  alumni  chapter  to  have  a 
social  and  business  meeting,  a  dinner  and  a  discussion  of 
some  topic  of  fraternity  interest  chosen  by  the  General 
Council.  The  members  of  college  chapters  wear  the  colors 
and  celebrate  the  occasion  by  ritualistic  exercises,  to  which 
all  resident  alumni  are  invited.  Phi  Delta  Theta  was  the 
first  Fraternity  to  establish  such  a  custom. 

FRATERNITY     PUBLICATIONS. 

Six  editions  of  the  Fraternity  catalogue  have  been  issued 
as  follows:  18G0,  Louisville,  Ky.,  8vo,  pp.  15,  292  names; 
1870,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Svo,  pp.  22,  556  names;  1872,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  8vo,  pp.  99,  925  names;  1S7S,  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  Svo,  pp.  172,  1,929  names;  1883,  Nashville,  Tenn., 
royal  8vo,  pp.  2:J0,  3. 400  names;  1894,  New  York,  N.  Y., 
royal  Svo,  pp.  475,  7,28(>  names.  The  first  three  editions 
bear  the  words  'sub  rosa.''  The  last  two  editions  contain 
full  biographical  data  and  other  features  of  the  best  of  such 
publications. 

A  catalogue  of  Phis  in  New  York  city  and  vicinity  was 
published  in  1895,  and  a  catalogue  of  Phis  in  New  England 
was  published  in  l'S97. 

Four  editions  of  the  Fraternity  song  book  have  been  is- 
sued as  follows:  187r),  Marion,  Ohio,  8vo,  pp.  56,  53  songs; 
18S2,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  Svo,  pp.  50,  63  songs;  18S6,  New 
York,  N.  Y.,  royal  Svo,  pp.  64.  108  songs,  of  which  14  are 
set  to  original  music;  1895,  Louisville,  Ky.,  Svo,  pp.  56,  87 
songs. 

Eight  pieces  of  sheet  music  inscribed  to  the  Fraternity 
have  been  published  as  follows  :  'The  Phi  Delta  Theta 
March,'  pp.  7,  1874,  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  'Phi  Delta  Theta 
March,'  pp.  4,  1874,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  'Phi  Delta  Theta 
March,'  pp.  3,  1S75.  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  'The  Onondaga 
Waltz,'  pp.  4,  1875,  Marion,  Ohio;  Grand  March  of  a 
Hundred  Years,'  pp.  4,   1876,   Marion,  Ohio;    'Phi  Delta 


20  THE  SCROLL, 

Theta  Waltz,'  pp.  r,,  189.'),  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.;  *  The  Phi 
Delta  Theta  Two-Step,'  pp.  .'>,  1890,  Bloomington,  111.; 
•Phi  Delta  Theta  Two-vStep,'  pp.  5,  189G,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Among  other  publications  of  the  Fraternity  is  *A  Manual 
of  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  16mo,  pp.  .',6,  188(>,  Nashville,  Tenn., 
this  being  the  second  edition.  A  history  of  the  Fraternity 
is  now  in  MSS. 

The  Fraternity  journal,  called  The  Scroll  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  was  first  issued  in  January,  187-").  During  187'')  and 
187r)  it  was  a  quarterly  magazine  published  at  Indianapolis, 
Ind.  During  187G-8  it  was  suspended.  In  1878  it  was  re- 
vived as  a  monthly  paper  at  Franklin,  Ind.,  and  in  the  same 
year  it  was  removed  to  Gettysburg,  Pa.  In  1880  it  was 
changed  to  magazine  form  again.  In  18'S2  it  was  removed 
to  Maysville,  Ky.;  in  1883  to  Nashville,  Tenn.;  in  1884  to 
New  York,  N.  Y.;  in  1889,  when  it  was  changed  to  a  bi- 
monthly, to  Columbus,  Ohio;  and  in  1897  to  Indianapolis, 
Ind.  Until  1884  The  Scroll  was  a  sub  rosa  periodical. 
Since  1890  it  has  been  liberally  illustrated.  The  numbers 
now  average  over  125  pages  each.  A  valuable  series  of  old 
fraternity  records,  some  dated  as  far  back  as  184S,  appeared 
in  the  magazine,  18S7-92. 

The  Palladium,  a  bi-monthly  bulletin,  devoted  to  the 
private  affairs  of  the  Fraternity,  was  established  in  1N94. 
In  1886  a  review  and  index  of  the  first  ten  volumes  of  The 
Scroll  were  issued,  the  first  publication  of  the  kind  by  any 
fraternity,  and  in  1890  a  review  and  index  of  the  second 
ten  volumes  of  The  Scroll  and  the  first  two  volumes  of 
The  Palladium  were  published. 

In  1880  the  Fraternity  adopted  the  plan  of  each  chapter 
printing  annually  a  circular  letter  containing  fraternity, 
chapter  and  college  news,  and  sending  a  copy  to  each  of  its 
alumni  members,  to  each  other  chapter  and  to  each  general 
officer. 

PHI  delta  theta  insignia. 

The  badge,  consisting  of  a  shield  with  a  scroll  bearing  the 
letters  '  <t  A  0  '  in  the  lower  part  of  the  field,  and  a  radiated 
eye  in  the  upper  part,  was  adopted  in  1S49.*  In  1805  an 
addition  to  it  was  made,  consisting  of  a  sword  attached  to 
the  shield  by  a  chain.     The  combination  of  the  two  weap- 

*The  badge  of  Delta  Kappa  Epstlou  ( fouuded  in  1844)  has  the  scroll  feature,  and 
Theta  nclta  Chi  (lH47i  has  the  shield  pattern  ;  but  the  badge  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 
was  designed  without  a  knowlege  of  either,  as  there  was  no  chapter  of  either  of 
those  fraternities  in  the  west  earlier  than  1K.V2.  No  college  fratemit_y  used  the 
eye  as  an  emblem  previous  to  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Phi  Kappa  Psi  (18'')2)  adopted 
both  the  shield  shape  and  the  eye.  Delta  Tau  Delta  (lS6l.»)  the  eye,  and  Kappa 
Alpha  (18«6»  the  shield. 


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ons  makes  the  badge  even  at  a  distance  entirely  dissimilar 
to  all  others.* 

The  Fraternity's  coat  of  arms,  adopted  at  the  same  time 
the  sword  was  added  to  the  badge,  consists  of  the  badge,  a 
scroll,  a  plumed  helmet  with  closed  visor,  two  heads  of 
wheat,  two  serpents,  two  javelins,  and  a  parchment  partially 
concealed  bearing  *  4>i '  on  one  end  and  *  kcwi  '  on  the  other, 
all  emblazoned  as  seen  in  engravings. 

The  Fraternity  button,  adopted  in  1S91,  is  square  with 
slightly  rounded  corners ;  bearing  on  a  band  of  white 
enamel,  extending  between  two  diagonally  opposite  corners, 
the  letters  '  4>tKcwi, '  the  space  on  either  side  being  covered 
with  blue  enamel. 

Argent  and  azuret  were  selected  as  fraternity  colors  in  1«S71. 

Fraternity  and  chapter  banners  were  adopted  in  1880. 
The  Fraternity  banner  is  triangular  and  bears  across  the 
body  the  word  *  Miami,'  over  the  figures  *  1848,'  above 
at  the  left  '^,'  below  'A,'  and  above  at  the  right  *©'; 
the  body  being  of  blue  material  and  the  lettering  in  gold. 
The  banner  for  each  chapter  is  similar,  except  that  for 
*  Miami '  and  '  1848 '  are  substituted  the  name  or  initials 
of  the  institution  at  which  the  chapter  is  established  and  the 
year  the  chapter  was  chartered. 

A  fraternity  flag  was  adopted  in  1891  ;  it  consists  of  three 
vertical  bars  of  equal  width  ;  the  outer  bars  blue  and  the 
middle  bars  white  ;  each  of  the  outer  bars  charged  with 
three  white  five-pointed  stars  ;  the  middle  bar  charged  with 
*4»A0,*  the  letters  in  blue  reading  downward  ;  the  width 
of  the  whole  being  two-thirds  of  the  length. 

The  Fraternity  flower,  adopted  in  1«S91,  is  the  white  car- 
nation. 

In  1891  Pallas  was  chosen  as  tutelary  deity  of  the  Fra- 
ternity. 

The  Fraternity  has  two  open  mottoes.  One,  adopted  in 
1880,  is  in  Greek  :  *  EU  dv^p  ovhti%  n.vr\p^'  which  is  liberally 
interpreted  :  *  We  enjoy  life  by  the  help  and  society  of 
others.'  The  other,  adopted  in  1896,  is  in  English  :  'All 
for  one  and  one  for  all.' 

The  obituary  epitaph,  adopted  in  1890,  is:  'hi  Coelo 
Oleics  I^si . ' 

The  cheer,  adopted  in  1891 ,  is  :  '  Rah!  Rah!  Rah!  Phi- 
Kei-A!  Phi  Delta  Theta!  Rah!  Rah!  Rah! '  The  Fraternity 
whistle  was  adopted  in  1894. 

♦The  sword  is  totally  difTerent  from  the  pin  attachments  of  other  fraternities, 
which  almost  invariably  consist  of  chapter  letters  only. 

tThe  colors  of  Delta  Phi  are  white  and  blue,  the  colors  of  Sigma  Phi  white  and 
light  blue. 


22  THE  SCROLL, 


TRffiUTES  TO  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  was  organized  with  three  principal  ob- 
jects :  First,  the  cultivation  of  friendship  between  its  mem- 
bers ;  second,  the  acquirement  individually  of  a  high  degree 
of  mental  culture ;  third,  the  attainment  personally  of  a 
high  standard  of  morality.  These  objects  are  declared  in 
*  The  Bond  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  which  every  member 
admitted  to  the  Fraternity  pledges  himself  to  uphold.  The 
same  pledge  has  been  taken  by  every  member  since  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Fraternity  in  1848 ;  and,  so  long  as  Phi 
Delta  Theta  shall  exist,  the  Bond  will  remain  inviolate  and 
unalterable,  without  the  unanimous  consent  of  all  who  have 
accepted  it. 

Primarily  the  Fraternity  is  a  social  organization.  It  is 
the  duty  of  memi)ers  to  render  mutual  assistance  to  one  an- 
other in  all  honorable  undertakings.  The  intimate  inter- 
coursef  between  members  results  in  much  social  enjoyment 
during  college  life,  and  many  enduring  friendships  in  after 
years.  Secrecy  concerning  the  organization  is  perpetually 
and  wisely  enjoined  in  the  Bond,  not  because  secrecy  is  a 
vital  factor,  but  because  it  is  important  where  the  relations 
between  members  are  so  close  and  confidential.  The  Fra- 
ternity seeks  to  throw  around  its  members  the  influences  of 
a  home.  A  proper  degree  of  privacy  concerning  itself  is 
essential  to  the  welfare  of  the  Order.  The  privacy  of  the 
family  home  circle  renders  possible  the  development  of  char- 
acter which  could  not  be  attained  without  it,  and  for  the 
same  end  Phi  Delta  Theta  carries  the  element  of  privacy 
into  the  associations  of  the  young  men  who  have  come  from 
their  homes  and  united  with  this  college  brotherhood. 

Many  members  of  the  Fraternity,  long  years  after  their 
active  connection  with  it,  have  testified  to  the  benefits  which 
they  derived  from  their  fraternity  associations,  and  to  their 
admiration  of  the  sterling  principles  upon  which  the  Order 
was  founded.  At  a  dinner  tendered  to  former  President 
Benjamin  Harrison  by  the  Phis  of  San  Francisco  in  1891, 
he  said  in  concluding  a  speech  : 

My  brothers  in  this  old  society,  I  enjoy  this  moment  very  much  in 
associating  with  you.  I  am  a  member  of  the  first  chapter  of  the  Phi 
Delta  Theta  Fraternity,  founded  at  Miami  University.  I  have  not 
lost  the  impression  of  solemnity  and  reverence  which  I  experienced  at 
the  meetings  in  the  chapter  rooms  in  those  early  times.  I  joined  the 
Order  when  it  was  young ;  and  now  I  find  its  members  scattered  in 
all  states,  where  they  hold  positions  of  trust  and  influence.     I  find 


THE  SCROLL.  23 

that  in  all  its  history  it  has  produced  nothine  discreditable  to  itself, 
but  that  it  has  sustained  a  reputation  of  which  every  one  of  its  mem- 
bers may  well  be  proud.  I  propose  that  we  drink  to  the  Order  to 
which  we  have  given  our  allegiance  and  our  love. 

Former  Vice-president  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  speaking  in 
November,  1892,  to  the  Phis  at  Galesburg,  111.,  who  had 
presented  him  with  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  badge,  said  : 

No  event  in  the  campaign  and  its  long  controversies  will  be  remem- 
bered by  me  with  greater  pleasure  than  this.  I  appreciate  it.  What 
the  Fraternity  taught  me  I  have  tried  not  to  forget  in  the  struggle  of 
this  hurly-burly  life.  I  trust  you  will  never  forget  the  lessons  thus 
inculcated.  I  shall  ever  recall  this  hour  with  masterly  emotions.  I 
can  only  say  that  I  shall  wear  this  pin  continually  unless  it  is  stolen, 
and  I  shall  take  good  care  to  see  that  it  is  not. 

At  a  dinner  tendered  to  him  by  the  Phis  at  Bloomington, 
111.,  in  December,  18^)2,  he  said  : 

How  vividly  this  scene  revives  the  memories  of  long  ago.  The 
years  roll  back  like  a  scroll,  and  again  I  am  in  the  presence  of  brother 
Phi  Delta  Thetas  of  old  Centre  College ;  and  som«  of  those  Phis 
whose  youthful  faces  come  up  before  me,  out  of  the  shadows  of  the 
past,  are  Judges  Dulaney  and  Simrall  and  Senator  Blackburn  of  Ken- 
tucky ;  Rev.  Dr.  McNair,  of  Missouri,  and  James  S.  Ewing,  of  Illi- 
nois. Others  I  recall,  who,  like  these  I  have  named,  have  achieved 
distinction  in  the  pulpit,  at  the  bar  and  in  the  great  halls  of  debate. 
More  than  a  third  of  a  century  has  passed  since  my  active  membership 
in  this  our  college  Fraternity  ceased.  The  rolling  years,  however,  have 
not  weakened  the  ties  that  bind  me  to  my  brothers  of  our  beloved 
Fraternity.  I  count  myself  fortunate  in  the  fact  that  my  name  is  upon 
the  rolls  of  this  society.  We  are  not  far  from  the  true  path  so  long 
as  our  lives  are  squared  by  the  noble  precepts  of  our  Bond. 

Hon.  Byron  K.  Elliott,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana, 
and  who  has  held  the  office  of  chief -justice,  was  the  orator 
at  the  convention  of  the  Fraternity  at  Richmond  in  1882. 
To  the  convention  of  1884  at  Nashville,  he  wrote  : 

I  esteem  it  a  high  honor  to  be  so  kindly  remembered  by  the  noble 
young  men  who  gather  at  our  shrine,  with  pure  hearts  and  lofty  aspi- 
rations, and  who  do  great  honor  to  our  noble  Brotherhood.  I  am 
proud  of  their  friendship,  and  in  all  life's  memories  there  are  none 
more  pleasant  than  those  of  the  hours  spent  at  the  gatherings  of  the 
true  sons  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  I  have  watched  with  pleasure  and 
pride  the  wisdom  which  has  governed  their  counsels,  and  the  true 
nobility  of  character  which  has  ruled  their  actions  in  all  the  paths  of 
life.  It  is  my  fervent  prayer  that  our  Fraternity  may  yet  grow  in 
strength  and  usefulness,  and  that  the  dawn  of  its  life,  yet  young  but 
of  bright  and  glorious  promise,  may  widen  to  a  clear  and  boundless 
day. 

Judge  John  F.  Philips,  of  the  Missouri  Court  of  Appeals, 
and  more  recently  of  the  United  Stales  District  Court,  was 


M  THE  SCROLL. 

the  orator  of  the  ISSi  coavenlioa  al  Nashville,  where  he 
concluded  his  address  thus  ; 

Brother  Phis;  No  words  of  mine  can  express  the  emotions  aivak- 
ened  by  this  reunion.  Twenty-nine  years  have  swept  on  and  by  since, 
as  a  college  boy,  I  sat  in  your  councils  and  shared  in  your  social  and 
literary  feasts.  They  have  been  years  pregnant  with  vicissitude, 
change  and  transformation.  Joy  and  sorrow,  the  prose  and  poetry  of 
life,  have  commingled.  They  have  brought  the  atreakings  of  silver 
to  the  locks  and  slower  motion  to  the  steps.  And  yet.  althougli  time 
has  been  busy  with  his  fste-edged  scythe,  there  are  glowing  memories 
that  age  can  not  dull,  nor  time  dim,  still  clinging  to  the  soul.  Back 
over  the  long  traveled  track,  friendship  and  love  shed  a  mellow  light. 
hallowed  and  inextinguishable.  After  we  have  again,  with  our  hearts 
locked  in  our  hands,  ascended  the  river  of  time,  recounted  the  inci- 
dents of  long  ago,  and  sung  the  old  songs,  we  will  return  to  our  duties 
and  labors,  all  the  vounger  and  stronger  for  this  reunion  with  brollier 
Phis. 

The  foregoing  paragraphs  are  selected  from  some  of  the 
expressions  concerning  the  Fraternity  which  get  into  print. 
Many  such  expressions  are  made  in  various  assemblages  of 
Phis  every  year.  They  demonstrate  that  Phi  Delta  Theta 
lives  in  the  memories  and  affections  of  her  sons,  no  matter 
how  far  college  days  may  be  removed.  Perhaps  no  more 
loyal  or  beautifully  expressed  tribute  to  the  Fraternity  was 
ever  written  than  the  following  written  by  one  who  became 
a  leading  member  of  the  bar  in  Indiana  before  his  death  a 
ievf  years  ago.  Il  is  entered  under  the  niiuutes  of  ludiaua 
Alpha  for  January  U,  1X66  : 

This  day  four  years  ago,  1  joined  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Society,  and 
here  I  have  been  since,  with  the  select  few  who  are  pecniitted  to  seek 
protection  behind  the  golden  shield,  and  no  one  of  whom  I  have  ever 
feared  to  trust.  As  1  grow  in  years,  I  grow  in  interest  and  my  love 
for  the  noble  Fraternity.  May  she  ever  be  as  pure  and  spotless  m  the 
future  as  she  has  been  in  the  past.  With  high  hopes  for  ber  prosper- 
ity, and  many  regrets  at  our  sepamtion,  I  shall,  in  a  few  weeks,  bid 
her  farewell,  and  close  my  active  membership,  though  1  shall  never 
cease  to  pray  for  her  harmony  and  perpetuity.  I  am  her  obliged 
though  imworthy  member,  Sid,  B.  Hatfield. 


THE  SCROLL,  25 


SONGS  OF  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 

The  songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  breathe  a  deep  spirit  of  love 
and  devotion,  and  inspire  the  members  with  a  higher  appre- 
ciation of  the  ideals  of  the  Fraternity.  Four  of  those  which 
follow  were  written  by  Professor  Preston  W.  Search,  who 
was  editor  of  the  first  edition  of  the  song  book.  Sixteen  of 
his  songs  are  preserved  among  the  eighty- seven  included  in 
the  latest  (fourth)  edition  of  the  book.  No  more  noble 
contribution  was  ever  made  to  the  hymnology  of  any  fra- 
ternity than  his  to  Phi  Delta  Theta. 


PHI  DELTA  THETA  ALL  REVERE. 
Air — • . Viiryia fid,  My  . ^/a ryhi nii^     * L a ii ri^er  Mora ii us. ' 

Come,  brothers,  let  us  all  unite, 

Of  Phi  Delta  singing  ; 
We'll  shout  the  chorus  out  to-night, 

Happy  voices  ringing  ; 
We'll  sing  the  songs  we  love  so  dear. 
Of  common  weal  and  brother's  cheer. 
And  laud  the  name  we  all  revere, 

Of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Let  music  fill  the  evening  air, 

Songs  of  praise  be  welling  ; 
There's  joy  for  us,  and  naught  of  care. 

In  our  cliapter  dwelling. 
Then  let  the  chorus  gladly  ring, 
And  hearts  their  joyous  offerings  bring  ; 
We'll  sing  the  songs  we  love  to  sing 

Of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Prrston  Willis  Skarch,  Woostt-r,  'j6. 


THAT  GLORIOUvS  NAME. 

Air     'RiuiT  the  BcU,  Watchman.' 

There  is  a  name  that  is  sweet  to  the  ear. 
Name,  to  the  Phis,  that  is  sacred  and  dear, 
Name  to  the  heart  fraught  with  comfort  and  cheer. 
Phi  Delta  Theta  is  that  glorious  name. 

Chorus. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  !     Hark  to  the  strain, 
Borne  on  the  wind  in  gentle  refrain, 
Echoing  far  over  mountain  and  plain  ; 
Phi  Delta  Theta  is  that  glorious  name. 


26  THE  SCROLL. 

hon^  may  that  name  fill  with  music  the  air, 
Music  whose  solace  shall  banish  all  care, 
Chanted  in  songs  by  the  brave  and  the  fair, 
Songs  that  its  greatness  and  glory  proclaim. 

Guard  well  that  name,  it  is  stainless  and  pure, 
Guard  it  from  evil  and  envy  secure, 
Guard  it,  yes,  guard  it  while  time  shall  endure  ; 
Spotless  it  is,  ever  keep  it  the  same. 

Preston  Wii.us  Search,  IVoosler,  *y6. 

OUR  CAUSE  SPEEDS  ON ! 

Air—  *Au/d  Lang  Syme.  • 

Across  the  plains,  from  distant  hills. 

There  comes  a  shout  of  praise ; 
A  shout  that  in  triumphant  peals 

Phi  Delta  Thetas  raise  ; 
A  shout  that  comes  in  loud  hurrahs, 

And  ever  seems  to  say  : 
*  Cheer  up,  ye  comrades,  for  our  cause 

Speeds  nobly  on  its  way  !  * 

When  gloomy  clouds  o'ercast  the  sky, 

And  tempests  round  us  roar ; 
When  years  of  sorrow  gather  nigh. 

And  foes  oppress  us  sore  ; 
E'en  then  that  stirring  cry  we  hear : 

•  Oh,  brothers,  don't  dismay  ! 
Cheer  up,  ye  comrades,  never  fear, 

Our  cause  speeds  on  its  way  ! ' 

March  on,  march  on,  ye  mighty  host, 

Nor  think  the  journey  done, 
Nor  stop  of  future  deeds  to  boast, 

Till  we've  the  vict'ry  won  ; 
Then  when  we  hear  from  time  to  time  : 

•  Phi  Delts,  what  of  the  day  ? ' 
We'll  thunder  back  along  the  line  : 

•  Our  cause  speeds  on  its  way  ! ' 

Preston  Wilms  Search,  JVoos/rr,  '76. 

A  THOUSAND  YEARS ! 
Air — *.-/  Thousand  Years,  My  Oicn  Columbia.^ 

From  every  vale  of  this  broad  nation, 
Come  forth,  ye  brothers,  without  fears  ; 

From  every  field  and  every  station. 
Come  sing  this  song  a  thousand  years  ! 

Chorus. 

A  thousand  years  !     Phi  Delta  Theta  ! 

High  over  all  that  star  appears  ; 
Oh,  may  the  tidings  ever  greet  us — 

Our  cause  shall  live  a  thousand  years ! 


THE  SCROLL.  27 

Yes.  brothers,  come  with  songs  adorning, 
Greet  this  glad  day  with  ringing  cheers  ; 

For  well  we  know  the  orient  morning 
Will  brighter  grow  a  thousand  years  ! 

Ye  rivals,  gaze  on  that  bright  banner, 

Unfurled  above  your  reach  and  sneers, 
Know  it  will  wave— wave  in  like  manner — 

When  ye  are  dead  a  thousand  years! 

Waft,  waft,  ye  breezes,  waft  the  story, 

Bear  on  your  wings  to  other  spheres. 
Make  known  to  man  Phi  Delta's  glory 

Will  last,  yes,  last  a  thousand  years! 

Preston  Wilus  Skarch,  U'oos/rr,  '76. 


DEAR  CHA1»TER,  HAIL! 

Air     'Those  Evening  Bells.'' 

Dear  Chapter,  hail !     Dear  Chapter,  hail ! 
I/et  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale  ; 

And  as  the  echoes  backward  bring 

The  songs  that  we  so  blithely  sing. 
Dear  Chapter,  hail!     Dear  Chapter,  hail! 
Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale! 

Our  college  days  are  fleeting  fast, 

And  soon  will  be  forever  past ; 
But  when  in  mem'ry  we  return, 
May  hearts  with  old-time  ardor  burn. 

Dear  Chapter,  hail!     Dear  Chapter,  hail! 

Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale! 

As  Phidom's  hosts,  with  soul  aflame. 
Press  onward  to  undying  fame, 

May  our  fair  Chapter  fight  in  front, 

And  bravely  bear  the  battle's  brunt. 
Dear  Chapter,  hail !     Dear  Chapter,  hail  ! 
Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale  ! 

Conway  McMili^an,  Xebraska,  '.S5. 


PHI  DELTA  THKTA  DEAR. 

Air   -' Ainerica.' 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear, 
Before  thee  we  appear, 

And  homage  bring  ; 
Within  our  chapter  hall. 
Thy  virtues  we  extol, 
Thy  glorious  past  recall, 

Thy  praises  sing. 


THE  SCROLL. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear, 
When  we  assemble  here, 

Our  spirits  blend  ; 
Deep  is  our  love  for  thee, 
Stronf;  ia  our  loyalty. 
And  all  will  faithful  be, 

Till  time  shall  end. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear. 
Our  pledge  of  fealty  hear, 

Thee  we  adore  ; 
We  see  thy  growinj;  fame  ; 
Thy  hifih  and  noble  aim 
Shall  all  tliy  sons  proclaim 

Fore  verm  ore. 
Walter  benjamin  Palmkr,  VanderbiU,  ' 


WORKING  FOR  OLD  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 
Ajr~' ffalile  Cry  of  Freedom  '—'Rally  Round  the  Mag. ' 

There  is  a  Band  that  stretches  tar,  from  eastern  land  to  we«i 
Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta, 

From  silver  tops  of  waving  com  to  cotton's  snowy  crest, 
Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta. 


Phi  boys,  forever,  in  sunshine  or  storm! 
In  one  solid  phalanx  tt^elher  we  form; 
So  we  give  a  friendly  hand,  boys,  and  greet  you  brothers  all. 
Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta. 


And  when  from  Alma  Mater's  walls  reluctantly  we've  gone, 
We'll  not  forget  the  Sword  and  Shield,  but  joyfully  keep  on. 
WiLLiAM  Oscar  Bates.  Cornell,  '75. 


THE  SCROLL,  29 


PROMINENT  MEMBERS. 

This  list  of  prominent  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  im- 
perfect, as  in  the  nature  of  the  case  such  a  list  must  be, 
unless  the  compiler  should  have  an  universal  acquaintance 
throughout  the  Fraternity,  and  even  in  such  case  a  proper 
discrimination  would  cause  embarrassment.  It  is  a  difficult 
and  unpleasant  task  to  make  selections  from  the  large  num- 
ber of  professors,  clergymen,  lawyers,  physicians  and  jour- 
nalists, and  notable  omissions  undoubtedly  occur.  How- 
ever, the  list  is  long  enough  to  show  that  many  of  the 
members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  now  occupy  places  of  great 
responsibility  and  trust.  All  who  are  named  received  reg- 
ular initiation  and  not  honorary  or  post-graduate  election. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  ex-President  of  the  Ignited  States,  and  United 
States  Senator  ;  A.  E.  Stevenson,  of  the  International  Bimetallic  Com- 
mission, ex- Vice-president  of  the  United  States,  First  Assistant  Post- 
master-General, and  Congressman  ;  J.  \V.  Foster,  of  the  Bering  Sea 
Commission,  ex-Secretary  of  State,  Minister  to  Mexico,  Russia  and 
Spain,  and  Chinese  Peace  Commissioner ;  W.  F.  Vilas,  ex-Secretary 
of  the  Interior,  Postmaster  General,  and  Ignited  States  Senator ;  G. 
M.  Lambertson,  ex- Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  ;  J.  C.  Black, 
United  States  District  Attorney  at  Chicago,  ex-Commissioner  of  Pen- 
sions and  Congressman  ;  ex-United  States  Senators  J.  C.  S.  Blackburn 
of  Kentucky  and  J.  B.  Allen  of  Washington  ;  Congressmen  W.  M. 
Howard,  W.  G.  Brantley  and  J.  M.  Griggs,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  V.  (jraff 
and  G.  W.  Prince,  of  Illinois ;  F.  M.  Griffith,  of  Indiana  ;  L.  J.  Fen- 
ton,  of  Ohio,  and  S.  J.  Pugh.  of  Kentucky  ;  ex-Congressmen  T.  B. 
Ward  and  W.  H.  Hamilton,  of  Indiana  ;  J.  W.  Lewis,  of  Kentucky  ; 
C.  L.  Moses,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  C.  Sherwin,  of  Illinois ;  T.  M.  Paschal, 
of  Texas,  and  J.  A.  Anderson  (deceased),  of  Kansas;  E.  H.  Conger, 
Minister  to  Brazil,  ex-Congressman,  and  Treasurer  of  Iowa  ;  J.  S. 
Ewin^,  ex-Minister  to  Belgium  ;  W.  II.  Ellerbe,  Governor  of  South 
Carohna  ;  A.  C.  Melette,  ex-Governor  of  vSouth  Dakota  ;  W.  M.  Mc- 
Farland,  ex-Secretary  of  State  of  Iowa  ;  J.  C.  Smith,  ex-Treasurer  of 
Alabama  ;  R.  N.  Ramsay  (deceased),  ex-Treasurer  of  Illinois;  W.  H. 
Venable,  ex-President  Georgia  Senate  ;  J .  C.  Compton,  ex- President 
Alabama  Senate  ;  J.  W.  Feighan,  ex-Speaker  Washington  House  of 
Representatives  ;  G.  B.  vSwift,  ex-Mayor  of  Chicago. 

Jl'DCKS. 

W.  A.  Woods,  of  Indiana.  United  .States  Circuit  Court ;  J.  F.  Philips 
(ex-Congressman),  of  Missouri,  United  States  District  Court;  B.  K. 
Elliott,  ex-Chief-Justice  Indiana  Supreme  Court;  Norman  Buck,  Idaho 
Supreme  Court;  W.  B.  Fleming,  New  Mexico  vSupreme  Court;  A. 
C.  Ayers,  J.  V.  Hadley,  H.  D.  Wilson,  W.  P.  Edson,  J.  C.  Robin- 
son, G.  W.  Gnibbs  and  D.  D.  Banta  (deceased),  Indiana  Circuit  Court; 
Claude  Waller,  Tennessee  Circuit  Court;  W.  M.  Beck,  Georgia  Circuit 
Court;  J.  D.  Hunt,  Kentucky  Circuit  Court;  A.  P.  Humphrey  and  J. 
G.  Simrall,  Kentucky  Chancery  Court;  Elam  Fisher,  W.  Py.  Evans,  H. 
W.  Coultrap  and  J.  M.  Tripp  (deceased ),  Ohio  Common  Pleas  Court; 
W.  H.  Jackson,  Superior  Court,  Cincinnati;   N.  C.  Sears  and  Gwynn 


THE  SCROLL. 

Phi  Delta  Tlieta  litar, 
When  we  assemble  here, 

Our  spirits  blend ; 
Deep  is  our  love  for  thee. 
Stronf;  is  our  loyalty. 
And  all  will  faithful  be, 

Till  time  shall  end. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear. 
Our  pledge  of  fealty  hear, 

Thee  we  adore  ; 
We  see  thy  growinj;  fame  ; 
Thy  hifih  and  noble  aim 
Shall  all  thy  sons  proclaim 

Forevermore. 
WAI.TEK  BSKJAUIN  Pai,MER,   Vandcfbilt,  ' 


WORKING  FOR  OLD  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 
Air — 'Bailie  Cry  of  Freedom  '—'Rally  Round  the  Flag.' 

There  is  a  Band  that  stretches  far,  from  eastern  land  to  wes 
Working  for  old  Fbi  DelU  TheU, 

From  silver  tops  of  waving  corn  to  cotton's  snowy  crest. 
Working  for  old  Phi  DelU  Theta. 


Phi  boys,  forever,  in  sunshine  or  stormi 
In  one  solid  phalanx  together  we  form; 
a  friendly  hand,  boys,  and  greet  you  brothers  all, 
Working  for  old  Plii  Delta  Theta. 


And  when  from  Alma  Mater's  walls  reluctantly  we've  gone. 
We'll  not  forget  the  Sword  and  Shield,  but  joyfully  keep  on. 
Wii,UAM  Oscar  Baths,  Cornell,  '75. 


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PROMINENT  MEMBERS. 

This  list  of  prominent  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  im- 
perfect, as  in  the  nature  of  the  case  such  a  list  must  be, 
unless  the  compiler  should  have  an  universal  acquaintance 
throughout  the  Fraternity,  and  even  in  such  case  a  proper 
discrimination  would  cause  embarrassment.  It  is  a  difficult 
and  unpleasant  task  to  make  selections  from  the  large  num- 
ber of  professors,  clergymen,  lawyers,  physicians  and  jour- 
nalists, and  notable  omissions  undoubtedly  occur.  How- 
ever, the  list  is  long  enough  to  show  that  many  of  the 
members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  now  occupy  places  of  great 
responsibility  and  trust.  All  who  are  named  received  reg- 
ular initiation  and  not  honorary  or  post-graduate  election. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  ex-President  of  the  United  States,  and  United 
States  Senator  ;  A.  E.  Stevenson,  of  the  International  Bimetallic  Com- 
mission, ex- Vice-president  of  the  I'nited  States,  First  Assistant  Post- 
master-General, and  Congressman  ;  J.  W.  Foster,  of  the  Bering  Sea 
Commission,  ex-Secretary  of  State,  Minister  to  Mexico,  Russia  and 
Spain,  and  Chinese  Peace  Commissioner ;  W.  F.  Vilas,  ex-Secretary 
of  the  Interior,  Postmaster  General,  and  United  States  Senator ;  G. 
M.  Lambertson,  ex-Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  ;  J.  C.  Black, 
United  States  District  Attorney  at  Chicago,  ex-Commissioner  of  Pen- 
sions and  Congressman  ;  ex-United  States  Senators  J.  C.  S.  Blackburn 
of  Kentucky  and  J.  B.  Allen  of  Washington  ;  Congressmen  W.  M. 
Howard,  W.  G.  Brantley  and  J.  M.  Griggs,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  V.  Graff 
and  G.  W.  Prince,  of  Illinois ;  K.  M.  Griffith,  of  Indiana  ;  L.  J.  Fen- 
ton,  of  Ohio,  and  S.  J.  Pugh.  of  Kentucky  ;  ex- Congressmen  T.  B. 
Ward  and  W.  H.  Hamilton,  of  Indiana  ;  J.  W.  Lewis,  of  Kentucky  ; 
C.  L.  Moses,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  C.  Sherwin,  of  Illinois ;  T.  M.  Paschal, 
of  Texas,  and  J.  A.  Anderson  (deceased),  of  Kansas;  E.  H.  Conger, 
Minister  to  Brazil,  ex-Congressman,  and  Treasurer  of  Iowa  ;  J.  S. 
Ewin^,  ex-Minister  to  Belgium  ;  W.  H.  Ellerbe,  Governor  of  South 
Carolina  ;  A.  C.  Melette,  ex-Governor  of  South  Dakota  ;  W.  M.  Mc- 
Farland,  ex-Secretary  of  vState  of  Iowa  ;  J.  C.  Smith,  ex-Treasurer  of 
Alabama  ;  R.  N.  Ramsay  (deceased),  ex-Treasurer  of  Illinois  ;  W.  H. 
Venable,  ex-President  Georgia  Senate  ;  J.  C.  Compton,  ex- President 
Alabama  Senate  ;  J.  W.  Feighan,  ex-Speaker  Washington  House  of 
Representatives  ;  G.  B.  Swift,  ex-Mayor  of  Chicago. 

Jl'DCKS. 

W.  A.  Woods,  of  Indiana,  United  States  Circuit  Court ;  J.  F.  Philips 
(ex-Congressman),  of  Missouri,  United  States  District  Court;  B.  K. 
Elliott,  ex-Chief- Justice  Indiana  Supreme  Court;  Norman  Buck,  Idaho 
Supreme  Court;  W.  B.  Fleming.  New  Mexico  Supreme  Court;  A. 
C.  Ayers,  J.  V.  Hadley,  H.  D.  Wilson,  W.  P.  Edson,  J.  C.  Robin- 
son, G.  W.  Grubbs  and  D.  D.  Banta  (deceased),  Indiana  Circuit  Court; 
Claude  Waller,  Tennessee  Circuit  Court;  W.  M.  Beck,  Georgia  Circuit 
Court;  J.  D.  Hunt,  Kentucky  Circuit  Court;  A.  P.  Humphrey  and  J. 
G.  Simrall,  Kentucky  Chancery  Court;  Elam  Usher,  W.  E.  Evans,  H. 
W.  Coultrap  and  J.  M.  Tripp  (deceased),  Ohio  Common  Pleas  Court; 
W.  H.  Jackson,  Superior  Court,  Cincinnati;   N.  C.  Sears  and  Gwynn 


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30  THE  SCROLL. 

Garnett,  Superior  Courl,  Chicago;  S.  P.  McConnell,  Circuit  Court, 
Chicago  ;  C.  C.  Kolilsaat,  Probale  Court,  Cliicago ;  D.  F.  Simpson, 
District  Court,  Minneapolis;  F.  C.  Harvey,  Probate  Court,  Minneapo- 
lis; William  Thomson,  Iowa  District  Court;  R,  B,  Spillman,  Kansas 
District  Court;  L.  B.  Hightower,  Texas  District  Court. 

LAWYKKS. 

W,  A.  Keener,  Dean  Columbia  Law  School;  T.  I,.  Jeffords,  Colum- 
bian Law  School;  A.  C.  Harris,  Indiana  Law  School;  L.  W.  Ross 
( ex -Chancellor  Law  Department,  University  of  Iowa).  Council  R1uff», 
Iowa;  W.  P.  Blaclc,  A.  D.  Baldwin,  W.  S.  Harbert  and  C.  H,  Remy, 
of  Chicago;  D  D.  Woodniansee  ( ex- President  National  Leaene  of  Re- 
publican Clubs),  Scott  Bonham  and  \V.  E.  Bundy,  of  Cincinnati;  St. 
John  Boyle,  T.  W.  Bullitt  and  Thomas  Speed,  of  Louisville;  E-  M, 
Wilson,  J.  N.  E.  Wilson  and  J,  B  Reinstein,  of  San  Francisco;  D.  U. 
Fletcher  (ei-Mayor)  and  J.  M.  Barrs  (ex-Cily  Attorney)  of  Jackson- 
ville, Fla. ;  R.  H.  Mart  |  District  Attorney )  and  E.  T.  Merriclt,  of  New 
Orleans;  M.  R.  Patterson  (Attorney  General)  and  J.  H.  Watlcins,  of 
Memphis  ;  J.  B.  Etam  and  J.  S.  Duncan,  of  Indianapolis ;  Enimett 
Tompkins  and  Cyrus  Huling.  of  Columbus.  Ohio;  A.  A.  Stearns  and 
H.  A,  Keliey,  of  Cleveland;  T.  B.  Felder  and  Morris  Brandon,  of  At- 
lanta ;  A,  G.  Poster  and  F.  E.  Hunter,  of  El  Paso  ;  C.  R.  Sands  and 
George  Bryan,  of  Richmond;  D.  R.  Horton,  of  New  York  ;  Lyman 
Cliaikley,  of  Lexington,  Va.;  W.  L.  Dulaney,  of  Bowling  Green,  Ky.;  J, 
C.  Moore,  of  Owensboro,  Kv.;  A.  J.  Barr,  of  Bloomington,  III.;  P.  R. 
Flitcraft,  of  St.  Louis;  A.'W.  Rogers,  of  Warrensburg,  Mo.;  H,  F. 
Fehr,  of  Milwaukee;  L.  W,  Billingslev,  of  Lincoln,  Neb,;  C.  K.  Halli- 
day,  of  Topeka;  J.  M.  McCoy,  of  Dallas,  Texas;  .\.  T.  McKinoey.  of 
Huntsville.  Texas ;  Ransford  Smith,  of  Ogden  ;  G.  E.  De  Golia,  of 
Oakland,  and  G.  W.  de  Steiguer,  of  Seattle. 


W.  G.  Craig,  of  McCormIck  Theological  Seminary;  J.  W.  Mon- 
crief.  of  Divinity  Department,  University  of  Chicago;  C.  B.  H.  Mar- 
tin, of  Danville  Theological  Seminary  ;  E.  S.  WUson.  of  Seabury 
Divinity  School ;  H.  C.  Mabie,  Secretary  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary 
Society;  T.  J.  Mot^an  (ex-United  States  Commissioner  of  Indian 
Affairs),  .Secretary  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society  ;  M.  F.  Troxell, 
Secretary  Lutheran  Board  of  Education;  H.  H,  Weber,  Secretary 
Lutheraii  Board  of  Church  Extension  ;  David  Utter,  editor  /  iiilariaH 
.IdvoiiUi-.-  J.  F.  Heisse,  editor  nallimoif  Mrlliodht:  F. S.  Brockman, 
College  Secretary  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  E.  1'.  Little,  of  Lancaster,  N.  H.;  I.  C. 
Tomhnaon,  of  Boston;  G.  L.  Richardson,  of  Albany;  J.  T.  McFar- 
land  (ex-President  Iowa  Wesleyan  Universityl  and  J,  B,  Sliaw,  of 
New  York  ;  G  N.  Luccock,  of  Washington  ;  E.  S,  Barkdull,  of  Cleve- 
lanrl  ;  J,  S.  Jenckes  and  R.  V.  Hunter,  of  Indianapolis  ;  C.  H.  Jones 
and  W.  T.  Overstreet.  of  Louisville  ;  E.  O.  Guerrant.  of  Wilmore,  Ky. ; 
k.  W.  Little  and  David  .Swing  (deceased),  of  Chicago ;  A.  W.  Ring- 
land,  of  Evanston  ;  Robert  Morrison,  of  Fulton,  Mo.,  and  C.  M.  Beck- 
with,  of  Houston,  Nearly  every  one  of  these  has  received  the  title  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity, 

C.  E.  Nash.  President  of  Lombard  ;  P.  D.  Pollock,  President  of 
Merci-r  ;  Alston  Ellis,  President  of  Colorado  Stale  College;  H,  L 
Smith,  Yice-presidenl  of  Davidson  ;  W.  T.  Stott,  President,  and  C. 
E.  Gnodell,  C.  H.  Hall  and  D.  A.  Owen,  of  Franklin  ;  Albert   Leon- 


THE  SCROLL.  V 

ard,  Vice-president  and  Dean,  and  H.  O.  Sibley,  of  Syracuse  ;    E. 

B.  Greene,  H.  S.  Piatt  and  B.  V.  Swenson,  of  Illinois ;  Conway 
MacMillan,  G.  B.  Frankforter  and  Harry  Snyder,  of  Minnesota ; 
L.  M.  Hoskins.  V.  L.  Kellogg  and  D.  E.  Spencer,  of  Stanford  ;  T.  C. 
Hopkins  and  I.  h.  Foster,  of  Pennsylvania  State  College ;  W.  A.  El- 
liott and  J.  W.  Perrin,  of  Allegheny  ;  R.  D.  Bohannon  and  Wm.  Mc- 
Pherson,  Jr.,  of  Ohio  State  University  ;  R.  W.  Deering  and  V.  J. 
Emery,  of  Western  Reserve  ;  R.  E.  Lyons  and  E.  E.  Griffith,  of  In- 
diana ;  D.  C.  Brown  and  H.  T.  Miller,  of  Indianapolis  ;  Andrew  Steph- 
enson and  A.  R.  Priest,  of  De  Pauw  :  L.  G.  Weld  and  C.  S.  Magowan, 
of  Iowa  ;  Milton  Updegraff  and  H.  T.  Cory,  of  Missouri  ;  John  Daniel 
and  P.  M.  Jones,  ot  Vanderbilt ;  H.  S.  Bradley  and  W.  B.  Griffin,  of 
Emory;  D.  F.  Houston  and  Morgan  Callaway,  Jr.,  of  Texas;  C.  C. 
Cody  and  W.  C.  Vaden,  of  Southwestern  ;  S.  B.  Christy  and  W.  C. 
Jones,  of  California  ;  A.  J.   Roberts,  Colby  ;  W.  M.   Munson,  Maine  ; 

C.  B.  Wright,  Middlebury  ;  L.  II.  Bailey,  Cornell ;  W.  C.  McClelland, 
Washington  and  Jefferson  ;  W.  W.  Landis,  Dickinson  ;  E.  L.  Stev- 
enson, Rutgers ;  L.  S.  Hurlburt,  Johns  Hopkins ;  Hunter  Pendle- 
ton, V.  M.  I.;  A.  G.  Renibert,  WofFord  ;  L.  W.  Wilkinson,  Tulane  ; 
W.  W.  Clendennin,  Louisiana  State  University  ;  A.  A.  Atkinson,  Ohio; 
T.  J.  J.  See,  Chicago  ;  F.  W.  Adams,  Iowa  Wesleyan  University  ;  E. 
C.  Franklin,  Kansas;  and  L.  I'.  Walker,  President  Oxford  Female 
College. 

PHYSICIANS. 

A.  L.  Clark,  President  Bennett  Medical  College ;  W.  H.  WMtt, 
Larkin  vSmith,  R.  A.  Barr  and  J.  L.  Watkins,  of  Medical  Department, 
Vanderbilt  University  ;  L.  S.  McMurtry  and  J.  E.  Hays,  of  Louisville 
Hospital  College  of  Medicine  ;  C.  F.  Blake,  Baltimore  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons;  J.  E.  Brown,  Ohio  Medical  University; 
J.  B.  Long,  Indianapolis  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons ; 
W.  M.  Wright.  Medical  College  of  Indiana;  H.  T.  Patrick,  Medical 
Department.  Northwestern   University  ;  S.  S.  Crockett,  Medical  De- 


Lee,  Medical  Department,  University  of  Minnesota;  T.  B.  Hartzell, 
Dental  Department,  University  of  Minnesota,  and  J.  K.  Boude,  of  the 
Pension  Office,  Washington. 

JOIRNAMSTS. 

B.  S.  Orcutt,  M.  S.  Sams  and  W.  O.  Bates,  New  York  Trihinit,- 
C.  V.  Van  Anda  and  J.  R.  Spears.  New  York  Situ;  \X .  R.  Worrall, 
New  York  Maii  ami  K.vpn'ss;  J.  L.  Goodwin,  Washington  /\)sf; 
W.  W.  Ball.  Charleston  iS.  C. )  Post;  C.  N.  Bennett,  Atlanta  Jour- 
nal: J.  W.  Tomlinson,  Birmingham  .It^i  HrraUi:  William  Finley, 
Louisville  l*ost:  K.  P.  Couse,  Pittsburg  l.cadrr:  H.  W\  Quinby, 
Detroit  Ftrc  l*rcss;  H.  I'.  Brown,  Indianapolis  AVa'.v;  James  Gray, 
Minneapolis  '/inits:  R.  G.  Mitchell,  Duluth  Trihioic;  M.  N.  Rich- 
ardson, Davenport  Dnnocraf;  G.  H.  Apperson.  St.  Louis  (,lotn'-ni'})i- 
ocrai;  W.  A.  White,  Emporia  (iazctfc;  C.  W.  Baker  and  M.  N.  Baker, 
New  York  /Cnoinrrrim^  AVrt-.v.  All  of  these  are  either  owners,  man- 
agers or  editors  of  their  respective  journals  Among  others  may  be 
mentioned  J.  S.  Phillips,  editor  of  MiCiitn's  Maiiazinc;  S.  J.  Flick- 
inger,  Cincinnati  manager  of  the  .Associated  Press  ;  Eugene  Field 
(deceased),  of  Chicago,  the  poet  and  journalist ;  and  the  well-known 
Washington  correspondents,  S.  D.  Fry  and  H.  V.  N.  Boynton,  the 
latter  being  chairman  of  the  Chickamauga  National  Park  Commission. 


22  THK  SCROLL, 


TRTOUTES  TO  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  was  organized  with  three  principal  ob- 
jects :  First,  the  cultivation  of  friendship  between  its  mem- 
bers ;  second,  the  acquirement  individually  of  a  high  degree 
of  mental  culture ;  third,  the  attainment  personally  of  a 
high  standard  of  morality.  These  objects  are  declared  in 
'  The  Bond  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,'  which  every  member 
admitted  to  the  Fraternity  pledges  himself  to  uphold.  The 
same  pledge  has  been  taken  by  every  member  since  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Fraternity  in  1848  ;  and,  so  long  as  Phi 
Delta  Theta  shall  exist,  the  Bond  will  remain  inviolate  and 
unalterable,  without  the  unanimous  consent  of  all  who  have 
accepted  it. 

Primarily  the  Fraternity  is  a  social  organization.  It  is 
the  duty  of  members  to  render  mutual  assistance  to  one  an- 
other in  all  honorable  undertakings.  The  intimate  inter- 
course' between  members  results  in  much  social  enjoyment 
during  college  life,  and  many  enduring  friendships  in  after 
years.  Secrecy  concerning  the  organization  is  perpetually 
and  wisely  enjoined  in  the  Bond,  not  because  secrecy  is  a 
vital  factor,  but  because  it  is  important  where  the  relations 
between  members  are  so  close  and  confidential.  The  Fra- 
ternity seeks  to  throw  around  its  members  the  influences  of 
a  home.  A  proper  degree  of  privacy  concerning  itself  is 
essential  to  the  welfare  of  the  Order.  The  privacy  of  the 
family  home  circle  renders  possible  the  development  of  char- 
acter which  could  not  be  attained  without  it,  and  for  the 
same  end  Phi  Delta  Theta  carries  the  element  of  privacy 
into  the  associations  of  the  young  men  who  have  come  from 
their  homes  and  united  with  this  college  brotherhood. 

Many  members  of  the  Fraternity,  long  years  after  their 
active  connection  with  it,  have  testified  to  the  benefits  which 
they  derived  from  their  fraternity  associations,  and  to  their 
admiration  of  the  sterling  principles  upon  which  the  Order 
was  founded.  At  a  dinner  tendered  to  former  President 
Benjamin  Harrison  by  the  Phis  of  San  Francisco  in  1801, 
he  said  in  concluding  a  speech  : 

My  brothers  in  this  old  society,  I  enjoy  this  moment  very  much  in 
associating  with  you.  I  am  a  member  of  the  first  chapter  of  the  Phi 
Delta  Theta  I'rateriiity,  founded  at  Miami  University.  I  have  not 
lost  the  impression  of  solemnity  and  reverence  which  I  experienced  at 
the  meetings  in  the  chapter  rooms  in  those  early  times.  I  joined  the 
Order  when  it  was  young  ;  and  now  I  find  its  members  scattered  in 
all  states,  where  they  hold  positions  of  trust  and  influence.     I  find 


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that  in  all  its  history  it  has  produced  nothing  discreditable  to  itself, 
but  that  it  has  sustained  a  reputation  of  which  every  one  of  its  mem- 
bers may  well  be  proud.  I  propose  that  we  drink  to  the  Order  to 
which  we  have  given  our  allegiance  and  our  love. 

Former  Vice-president  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  speaking  in 
November,  1892,  to  the  Phis  at  Galesburg,  111.,  who  had 
presented  him  with  a  Phi  Delta  Theta  badge,  said  : 

No  event  in  the  campaign  and  its  long  controversies  will  be  remem- 
bered by  me  with  greater  pleasure  than  this.  I  appreciate  it.  What 
the  Fraternity  taught  me  I  have  tried  not  to  forget  in  the  struggle  of 
this  hurly-burly  life.  I  trust  you  will  never  forget  the  lessons  thus 
inculcated.  I  shall  ever  recall  this  hour  with  masterly  emotions.  I 
can  only  say  that  I  shall  wear  this  pin  continually  unless  it  is  stolen, 
and  I  shall  take  good  care  to  see  that  it  is  not. 

At  a  dinner  tendered  to  him  by  the  Phis  at  Bloomington, 
111.,  in  December,  18^)2,  he  said  : 

How  vividly  this  scene  revives  the  memories  of  long  ago.  The 
years  roll  back  like  a  scroll,  and  again  I  am  in  the  presence  of  brother 
Plii  Delta  Thetas  of  old  Centre  College ;  and  som«  of  those  Phis 
whose  youthful  faces  come  up  before  me,  out  of  the  shadows  of  the 
past,  are  Judges  Dulaney  and  Simrall  and  Senator  Blackburn  of  Ken- 
tucky ;  Rev.  Dr.  McNair,  of  Missouri,  and  James  S.  Ewing,  of  Illi- 
nois. Others  I  recall,  who,  like  these  I  have  named,  have  achieved 
distinction  in  the  pulpit,  at  the  bar  and  in  the  great  halls  of  debate. 
More  than  a  third  of  a  century  has  passed  since  my  active  membership 
in  this  our  college  Fraternity  ceased.  The  rolling  years,  however,  have 
not  weakened  the  ties  that  bind  me  to  my  brothers  of  our  beloved 
Fraternity.  I  count  myself  fortunate  in  the  fact  that  my  name  is  upon 
the  rolls  of  this  society.  We  are  not  far  from  the  true  path  so  long 
as  our  lives  are  squared  by  the  noble  precepts  of  our  Bond. 

Hon.  Byron  K.  Elliott,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana, 
and  who  has  held  the  office  of  chief- justice,  was  the  orator 
at  the  convention  of  the  Fraternity  at  Richmond  in  1882. 
To  the  convention  of  1884  at  Nashville,  he  wrote  : 

I  esteem  it  a  high  honor  to  be  so  kindly  remembered  by  the  noble 
young  men  who  gather  at  our  shrine,  with  pure  hearts  and  lofty  aspi- 
rations, and  who  do  great  honor  to  our  noble  Brotherhood.  I  am 
proud  of  their  friendship,  and  in  all  life's  memories  there  are  none 
more  pleasant  than  those  of  the  hours  spent  at  the  gatherings  of  the 
true  sons  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  I  have  watched  with  pleasure  and 
pride  the  wisdom  which  has  governed  their  counsels,  and  the  true 
nobility  of  character  which  has  ruled  their  actions  in  all  the  paths  of 
life.  It  is  my  fervent  prayer  that  our  Fraternity  may  yet  grow  in 
strength  and  usefulness,  and  that  the  dawn  of  its  life,  yet  young  but 
of  bright  and  glorious  promise,  may  widen  to  a  clear  and  boundless 
day. 

Judge  John  F.  Philips,  of  the  Missouri  Court  of  Appeals, 
and  more  recently  of  the  United  States  District  Court,  was 


34  THE  SCROLL. 

the  orator  of  the  1SS4  convention  at  Nashville,  where  he 
concluded  his  address  thus  : 

Brother  Phis:  No  words  of  mine  can  express  the  emotions  awak- 
ened by  this  reunion.  Twenty-nine  years  have  swept  on  and  by  since, 
as  a  college  boy,  I  sat  in  your  councils  and  shared  in  your  social  and 
literary  feasts.  They  have  been  years  pregnant  with  vicissitude, 
change  and  transformation.  Joy  and  sorrow,  the  prose  and  poetry  of 
life,  have  commingled.  They  have  brought  the  streakings  of  silver 
to  the  locks  and  slower  motion  to  the  steps.  And  yet,  although  time 
has  been  busy  with  his  fate-edged  scythe,  there  are  glowing  memories 
that  age  can  not  dull,  nor  time  dim,  still  clinging  to  the  soul.  Back 
over  the  long  traveled  track,  friendship  and  love  shed  a  mellow  light, 
hallowed  and  inextinguishable.  After  we  have  again,  with  our  hearts 
locked  in  our  hands,  ascended  the  river  of  time,  recounted  the  inci- 
dents of  long  ago,  and  sung  the  old  songs,  we  will  return  to  our  duties 
and  labors,  all  the  vounger  and  stronger  for  this  reunion  with  brother 
Phis. 

The  foregoing  paragraphs  are  selected  from  some  of  the 
expressions  concerning  the  Fraternity  which  get  into  print. 
Many  such  expressions  are  made  in  various  assemblages  of 
Phis  every  year.  They  demonstrate  that  Phi  Delta  Theta 
lives  in  the  memories  and  affections  of  her  sons,  no  matter 
how  far  college  days  may  be  removed.  Perhaps  no  more 
loyal  or  beautifully  expressed  tribute  to  the  Fraternity  was 
ever  written  than  the  following  written  by  one  who  became 
a  leading  member  of  the  bar  in  Indiana  before  his  death  a 
few  years  ago.  It  is  entered  under  the  minutes  of  Indiana 
Alpha  for  January  11,  ISBO  : 

This  day  four  years  ago,  I  joined  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Society,  and 
here  I  have  been  since,  with  the  select  few  who  are  permitted  to  seek 
protection  behind  the  golden  shield,  and  no  one  of  whom  I  have  ever 
feared  to  trust.  As  I  grow  in  years,  I  grow  in  interest  and  my  love 
for  the  noble  Fraternity.  May  she  ever  he  as  pure  and  spotless  in  the 
future  as  she  has  been  in  the  past.  With  high  hopes  for  her  prosper- 
ity, and  many  regrets  at  our  separation,  I  shall,  in  a  few  weeks,  bid 
her  farewell,  and  close  my  active  membership,  though  I  shall  never 
cease  to  pray  for  her  harmony  and  perpetuity.  I  am  her  obliged 
though  unworthy  member,  Sid.  B.  Hatfield. 


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SONGS  OF  PHI  DELTA  THETA. 

The  songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  breathe  a  deep  spirit  of  love 
and  devotion,  and  inspire  the  members  with  a  higher  appre- 
ciation of  the  ideals  of  the  Fraternity.  Four  of  those  which 
follow  were  written  by  Professor  Preston  W.  Search,  who 
was  editor  of  the  first  edition  of  the  song  book.  Sixteen  of 
his  songs  are  preserved  among  the  eighty- seven  included  in 
the  latest  (fourth)  edition  of  the  book.  No  more  noble 
contribution  was  ever  made  to  the  hymnology  of  any  fra- 
ternity than  his  to  Phi  Delta  Theta. 


PHI  DELTA  THETA  ALL  REVERE. 
Air — 'Maryfand^  My  Maryiand^     'Laufiji^n'  //ora/ius.* 

Come,  brothers,  let  us  all  unite, 

Of  Phi  Delta  singing  ; 
We'll  shout  the  chorus  out  to-night, 

Happy  voices  ringing ; 
We'll  sing  the  songs  we  love  so  dear, 
Of  common  weal  and  brother's  cheer, 
And  laud  the  name  we  all  revere, 

Of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Let  music  fill  the  evening  air, 

Songs  of  praise  be  welling  ; 
There's  joy  for  us,  and  naught  of  care, 

In  our  chapter  dwelling. 
Then  let  the  chorus  gladly  ring. 
And  hearts  their  joyous  offerings  bring  ; 
We'll  sing  the  songs  we  love  to  sing 

Of  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Prkston  Wii^lis  Search,  Woostrr,  '76. 


THAT  GLORIOUS  NAME. 
Air     'AV;/ir  the  /ii-il,  iratchmuu.' 

There  is  a  name  that  is  sweet  to  the  ear. 
Name,  to  the  Phis,  that  is  sacred  and  dear, 
Name  to  the  heart  fraught  with  comfort  and  cheer. 
Phi  Delta  Theta  is  that  glorious  name. 

Chorus. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  I     Hark  to  the  strain, 
Borne  on  the  wind  in  gentle  refrain. 
Echoing  far  over  mountain  and  plain  ; 
Phi  Delta  Theta  is  that  glorious  name. 


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Long  may  that  name  fill  with  music  the  air, 
Music  whose  solace  shall  banish  all  care, 
Chanted  in  songs  by  the  brave  and  the  fair, 
Songs  that  its  greatness  and  glory  proclaim. 

Guard  well  that  name,  it  is  stainless  and  pure. 
Guard  it  from  evil  and  envy  secure. 
Guard  it,  yes,  guard  it  while  time  shall  endure  ; 
Spotless  it  is,  ever  keep  it  the  same. 

Prkston  Wiijjs  Search,  \\\wstn\  'jt>. 

OIR  CAUSE  SPEEDS  ON! 

A T R     *^Auiif  La fi^tr  Svf/t'.  * 

Across  the  plains,  from  distant  hills, 

There  comes  a  shout  of  praise  ; 
A  shout  that  in  triumphant  peals 

Phi  Delta  Thetas  raise  ; 
A  shout  that  comes  in  loud  hurrahs. 

And  ever  seems  to  say  : 
'  Cheer  up,  ye  comrades,  for  our  cause 

Speeds  nobly  on  its  way  ! ' 

When  gloomy  clouds  o'ercast  the  sky, 

And  tempests  round  us  roar  ; 
When  years  of  sorrow  gather  nigh. 

And  foes  oppress  us  sore  ; 
K'en  then  that  stirring  cry  we  hear  : 

*  Oh,  brothers,  don't  dismay  ! 
Cheer  up,  ye  comrades,  never  fear. 

Our  cause  speeds  on  its  way  ! ' 

March  on,  march  on,  ye  mighty  host, 

Nor  think  the  journey  done, 
Nor  stop  of  future  deeds  to  boast. 

Till  we've  the  vict'ry  won  ; 
Then  when  we  hear  from  time  to  time  : 

•  IMii  Delts,  what  of  the  day  ?  ' 
We'll  thunder  back  along  the  line  : 

'  Our  cause  speeds  on  its  way  I  * 

Preston  WiLUS  Ska RCH,  Ji'oos/rr,  '7/^. 

A  THOUSAND  YEARS ! 
Air — •-  /  Thousiifiif  Vrius,  My  Oxcfi  Coiumhia,'' 

From  ever>'  vale  of  this  broad  nation, 
Come  forth,  ye  brothers,  without  fears  ; 

I'rom  every  field  and  every  station. 
Come  sing  this  song  a  thousand  years  ! 

Choris. 

A  thousand  years  I     Phi  Delta  Theta  ! 

High  over  all  that  star  appears  ; 
C)h,  may  the  tidings  ever  greet  us — 

Our  cause  shall  live  a  thousand  vears ! 


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Yes,  brothers,  come  with  songs  adorning, 
Greet  this  glad  day  with  ringing  cheers  ; 

For  well  we  know  the  orient  morning 
Will  brighter  grow  a  thousand  years  ! 

Ye  rivals,  gaze  on  that  bright  banner, 

Unfurled  above  vour  reach  and  sneers. 
Know  it  will  wave --wave  in  like  manner — 

When  ye  are  dead  a  thousand  years! 

Waft,  waft,  ye  breezes,  waft  the  story. 

Bear  on  your  wings  to  other  spheres, 
Make  known  to  man  Phi  Delta's  glory 

Will  last,  yes,  last  a  thousand  years! 

Preston  Wiujs  Skarch,  U'oostcr,  '76. 


DEAR  CHAITER,  HAIL ! 

Air-  'Thosi'  liveuinj^  Ih'lls,^ 

Dear  Chapter,  hail!     I>ear  Chapter,  hail! 
Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale  ; 

And  as  the  echoes  backward  bring 

The  songs  that  we  so  blithely  sing. 
Dear  Chapter,  hail!     Dear  Chapter,  hail! 
Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale! 

Our  college  days  are  fleeting  fast, 

And  soon  will  be  forever  past ; 
Hut  when  in  mem'ry  we  return. 
May  hearts  with  old-time  ardor  burn. 

Dear  Chapter,  hail!     Dear  Chapter,  hail! 

Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale! 

As  Phidom's  hosts,  with  soul  aflame. 
Press  onward  to  undying  fame. 

May  our  fair  Chapter  fight  in  front, 

And  bravely  bear  the  battle's  brunt. 
Dear  Chapter,  hail !     Dear  Chapter,  hail  I 
Let  gladness  float  o'er  hill  and  vale  ! 

Conway  McMillan,  Xthraskix,  'N^-. 


PHI  DELTA  THRTA  DEAR. 

Air     \hnrt'ioi.* 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear, 
Before  thee  we  appear. 

And  homage  bring  ; 
Within  our  chapter  hall, 
Thv  virtues  we  extol, 
Thy  glorious  past  recall. 

Thy  praises  sing. 


28  THE  SCROLL. 

Phi  Delta  Theta  dear. 
When  we  assemble  here, 

Our  spirits  blend  ; 
Deep  is  our  love  for  thee, 
Stron>r  is  our  loyalty. 
And  all  will  faithful  be. 

Till  time  shall  end. 


Phi  Delta  Theta  dear, 
Our  pledge  of  fealty  hear, 

Thee  we  adore  ; 
We  see  thy  growing  fame  ; 
Thy  high  and  noble  aim 
Shall  all  thy  sons  proclaim 
Foreverniore. 
Wai^ter  Benjamin  Palmer,  ]\iiuierbilt,  'So. 


WORKING    FOR   OLD   PHI   DELTA  THETA. 
Air — 'Battle  Cry  of  Frecdojn  '     'Rally  Round  the  Fla^e;.' 

There  is  a  Band  that  stretches  far,  from  eastern  land  to  west, 

Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
From  silver  tops  of  waving  corn  to  cotton's  snowy  crest, 

Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

Chorus. 

Phi  boys,  forever,  in  sunshine  or  storm! 
In  one  solid  phalanx  together  we  form; 
So  we  give  a  friendly  hand,  boys,  and  greet  you  brothers  all, 
Working  for  old  Phi  Delta  Theta. 

From  college  halls  to  business  marts  its  clinging  tendrils  run, 
And  bind  with  bonds  as  true  as  steel  a  thousand  hearts  as  one. 

And  when  from  Alma  Mater's  walls  reluctantly  we've  gone, 
We'll  not  forget  the  Sword  and  Shield,  but  joyfully  keep  on. 

Wiluam  Oscar  Bates,  Contcll,  '75. 


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PROMINENT  MEMBERS. 

This  list  of  prominent  members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  is  im- 
perfect, as  in  the  nature  of  the  case  such  a  list  must  be, 
unless  the  compiler  should  have  an  universal  acquaintance 
throughout  the  Fraternity,  and  even  in  such  case  a  proper 
discrimination  would  cause  embarrassment.  It  is  a  difiBcult 
and  unpleasant  task  to  make  selections  from  the  large  num- 
ber of  professors,  clergymen,  lawyers,  physicians  and  jour- 
nalists, and  notable  omissions  undoubtedly  occur.  How- 
ever, the  list  is  long  enough  to  show  that  many  of  the 
members  of  Phi  Delta  Theta  now  occupy  places  of  great 
responsibility  and  trust.  All  who  are  named  received  reg- 
ular initiation  and  not  honorary  or  post-graduate  election. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  ex-President  of  the  United  States,  and  United 
States  Senator  ;  A.  E.  Stevenson,  of  the  International  Bimetallic  Com- 
mission, ex-Vice-president  of  the  United  States,  First  Assistant  Post- 
master-General, and  Congressman  ;  J.  W.  Foster,  of  the  Bering  Sea 
Commission,  ex-Secretary  of  State,  Minister  to  Mexico,  Russia  and 
Spain,  and  Chinese  Peace  Commissioner ;  W.  F.  Vilas,  ex-Secretary 
ot  the  Interior,  Postmaster  General,  and  United  States  Senator ;  G. 
M.  Lambertson,  ex- Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  ;  J.  C.  Black, 
United  States  District  Attorney  at  Chicago,  ex-Commissioner  of  Pen- 
sions and  Congressman  ;  ex-United  States  Senators  J.  C.  S.  Blackburn 
of  Kentucky  and  J.  B.  Allen  of  Washington  ;  Congressmen  W.  M. 
Howard,  \V.  G.  Brantley  and  J.  M.  Griggs,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  V.  Graff 
and  G.  W.  Prince,  of  Illinois ;  F.  M.  Griffith,  of  Indiana  ;  L.  J.  Fen- 
ton,  of  Ohio,  and  S.  J.  Pugh,  of  Kentucky ;  ex- Congressmen  T.  B. 
Ward  and  W.  H.  Hamilton,  of  Indiana  ;  J.  W.  Lewis,  of  Kentucky  ; 
C.  L.  Moses,  of  Georgia  ;  J.  C.  Sherwin,  of  Illinois ;  T.  M.  Paschal, 
of  Texas,  and  J.  A.  Anderson  (deceased),  of  Kansas;  E.  H.  Conger, 
Minister  to  Brazil,  ex-Congressman,  and  Treasurer  of  Iowa  ;  J.  S. 
Ewin|5,  ex- Minister  to  Belgium  ;  W.  H.  Ellerbe,  Governor  of  South 
Carolina  ;  A.  C.  Melette,  ex-Governor  of  South  Dakota  ;  W.  M.  Mc- 
Farland,  ex-Secretary  of  vState  of  Iowa  ;  J.  C.  vSmith,  ex-Treasurer  of 
Alabama  ;  R.  N.  Ramsay  (deceased),  ex-Treasurer  of  Illinois  ;  W.  H. 
Venable,  ex-President  Georgia  Senate  ;  J .  C.  Compton,  ex- President 
Alabama  Senate  ;  J.  W.  Feighan,  ex-vSpeaker  Washington  House  of 
Representatives  ;  G.  B.  Swift,  ex-Mayor  of  Chicago. 

jud(;hs. 

W.  A.  Woods,  of  Indiana,  United  vStates  Circuit  Court ;  J.  F.  Philips 
(ex-Congressman),  of  Missouri,  United  States  District  Court;  B.  K. 
Elliott,  ex-Chief-Justice  Indiana  Supreme  Court;  Norman  Buck,  Idaho 
Supreme  Court;  W.  B.  Fleming,  Xew  Mexico  Supreme  Court;  A. 
C.  Ayers,  J.  V.  Hadley.  H.  D.  Wilson,  W.  P.  Edson,  J.  C.  Robin- 
son, G.  W.  Grubbs  and  D.  D.  Banta  (deceased ),  Indiana  Circuit  Court; 
Claude  Waller.  Tennessee  Circuit  Court;  W.  M.  Beck,  Georgia  Circuit 
Court;  J.  D.  Hunt,  Kentucky  Circuit  Court;  A.  P.  Humphrey  and  J. 
G.  vSimrall,  Kentucky  Chancery  Court;  Elam  Fisher,  W.  E.  Evans,  H. 
W.  Coultrap  and  J.  M.  Tripp  (deceased  ),  Ohio  Common  Pleas  Court; 
W.  H.  Jackson,  Superior  Court,  Cincinnati;   N.  C.  Sears  and  Gwynn 


30  THE  SCROLL, 

Cxarnett,  Superior  Court,  Chicago ;  S.  P.  McConnell,  Circuit  Court, 
Chicago  ;  C.  C.  Kohlsaat,  Probate  Court,  Chicago  ;  D.  F.  Simpson, 
District  Court,  Minneapolis;  F.  C.  Harvey,  Probate  Court,  Minneapo- 
lis; William  Thomson,  Iowa  District  Court;  R.  B.  Spillman,  Kansas 
District  Court;  L.  B.  Hightower,  Texas  District  Court. 

LAWYKRS. 

W.  A.  Keener,  Dean  Columbia  Law  School;  T.  L.  Jeffords,  Colum- 
bian Law  School;  A.  C.  Harris,  Indiana  Law  School;  L.  W.  Ross 
(ex-Chancellor  Law  Department,  University  of  Iowa).  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa ;  W.  P.  Black,  A.  D.  Baldwin,  W.  S.  Harbert  and  C.  H.  Remy, 
of  Chicago;  D  I).  Woodmansee  ( ex- President  National  League  of  Re- 
publican Clubs),  Scott  Bonham  and  W.  R.  Bundy,  of  Cincinnati;  St. 
John  Boyle,  T.  W.  Bullitt  and  Thomas  Speed,  of  Louisville;  E.  M. 
Wilson,  J.  N.  E.  Wilson  and  J.  B  Reinstein,  of  San  Francisco;  D.  U. 
Fletcher  (ex-Mayor)  and  J.  M.  Barrs  (ex-City  Attorney)  of  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.;  R.  H.  Marr  (District  Attorney)  and  E.  T.  Merrick,  of  New 
Orleans;  M.  R.  Patterson  (Attorney  General)  and  J.  H.  Watkins,  of 
Memphis  ;  J.  B.  Elam  and  J.  S.  Duncan,  of  Indianapolis ;  Emmett 
Tompkins  and  Cyrus  Huling,  of  Columbus,  Ohio;  A.  A.  Stearns  and 
H.  A.  Kelley,  of  Cleveland;  T.  B.  Felder  and  Morris  Brandon,  of  At- 
lanta ;  A.  G.  Foster  and  F.  E.  Hunter,  of  El  Paso  ;  C.  R.  Sands  and 
George  Bryan,  of  Richmond  ;  D.  R.  Horton,  of  New  York  ;  Lyman 
Chalkley,  of  Lexington,  Va. ;  W.  L.  Dulaney,  of  Bowling  Green,  Ky.;  J. 
C.  Moore,  of  Owensboro,  Ky.;  A.  J.  Barr,  of  Bloomington,  111.;  P.  R. 
Flitcraft,  of  St.  Louis;  .\.  W.  Rogers,  of  Warrensburg,  Mo.;  H.  F. 
Fehr,  of  Milwaukee;  L.  W.  Billingsley,  of  Lincoln,  Neb.;  C.  K.  Halli- 
day,  of  Topeka;  J.  M.  McCoy,  of  Dallas,  Texas;  A.  T.  McKinney,  of 
Huntsville,  Texas  ;  Ransford  Smith,  of  Ogden  ;  G.  E.  De  Golia,  of 
Oakland,  and  G.  W.  de  Steiguer,  of  Seattle. 

CI.KRGYMKN. 

W.  G.  Craig,  of  McCormick  Theological  Seminary-  ;  J.  W.  Mon- 
crief,  of  Divinity  Department,  University  of  Chicago;  C.  B.  H.  Mar- 
tin, of  Danville  Theological  Seminary  ;  E.  S.  Wilson,  of  Seabury 
Divinity  School  ;  H.  C.  Mabie,  Secretary  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary 
Society;  T.  J.  Morgan  (cx-l'nited  States  Commissioner  of  Indian 
Affairs),  Secretary  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society;  M.  F.  Troxell, 
Secretary  Lutheran  Board  of  Education  ;  H.  H.  Weber,  Secretary 
Lutheran  Board  of  Church  F^xtension  ;  David  Utter,  editor  I  nit  avian 
Aiii'ihatc:  J.  F.  Heisse,  editor  Haltiniotr  Methodist:  F.  vS.  Brockman, 
College  Secretarv  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  \\.  \\  Little,  of  Lancaster,  N.  H.;  I.  C. 
Tonilinson,  of  Boston  ;  G.  L.  Richardson,  of  Albany  ;  J.  T.  McFar- 
land  (ex-President  Iowa  Wesleyan  University)  and  J.  B.  Shaw%  of 
New  York  ;  G  N.  Luccock,  of  Washington  ;  E.  S.  Barkdull,  of  Cleve- 
land ;  J.  S.  Jenckes  and  R.  V.  Hunter,  of  Indianapolis  ;  C.  H.  Jones 
and  W.  T.  Overstreet.  of  Louisville  ;  E.  O.  Guerrant,  of  Wilmore,  Ky. ; 
A.  W.  Little  and  David  Swing  (deceased),  of  Chicago;  A.  W.  Ring- 
land,  of  Kvanston  ;  Robert  Morrison,  of  Fulton,  Mo.,  and  C.  M.  Beck- 
with,  of  Houston.  Nearly  every  one  of  these  has  received  the  title  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity. 

C()ij.E(.i':  rROi"i:ss()RS. 

C.  Iv.   Nash,   President  of   Lombard  ;    P.    D.   Pollock,  President  of 
Merot-r  ;    Alston  Ellis,    President  of  Colorado  State  College;    H.    L 
Smith.  Vice-president  of   Davidson  ;   W.  T.  Stott,  President,   and  C. 
E.  Goodell,  C.  H.  Hall  and  I).  A.  Owen,  of  Franklin  ;  Albert   Leon- 


THE  SCROLL.  51 

ard,  Vice-president  and  Dean,  and  H.   O.   Sibley,  of  Syracuse  ;    E. 

B.  Greene,  H.  S.  Piatt  and  B.  V.  Swenson,  of  Illinois ;  Conway 
MacMillan,  (t.  B,  Frankforter  and  Harry  Snyder,  of  Minnesota ; 
L.  M.  Hoskins,  V.  L.  Kellogg  and  D.  E.  Spencer,  of  Stanford  ;  T.  C. 
Hopkins  and  I.  L.  Foster,  of  Pennsylvania  State  College ;  \V.  A.  El- 
liott and  J.  W.  Perrin,  of  Allegheny  ;  R.  D.  Bohannon  and  Wm.  Mc- 
pherson, Jr.,  of  Ohio  State  University  ;  R.  W.  Deering  and  V.  J. 
Emery,  of  Western  Reserve;  R.  E.  Lyons  and  E.  E.  Griffith,  of  In- 
diana ;  D.  C.  Brown  and  H.  T.  Miller,  of  Indianapolis  ;  Andrew  Steph- 
enson and  A.  R.  Priest,  of  DePauw  ;  L.  G.  Weld  and  C.  S.  Magowan, 
of  Iowa  :  Milton  Updegraff  and  H.  T.  Cory,  of  Missouri  ;  John  Daniel 
and  P.  M.  Jones,  oi  V'anderbilt ;  H.  S.  Bradley  and  W.  B.  Griffin,  of 
Emory;  D.  F.  Houston  and  Morgan  Callaway,  Jr.,  of  Texas;  C.  C. 
Cody  and  W.  C.  Vaden,  of  Southwestern;  S.  B.  Christy  and  W.  C. 
Jones,  of  California ;  A.  J.   Roberts,  Colby  ;  W.  M.   Munson,  Maine  ; 

C.  B.  Wright,  Middlebury  ;  I..  H.  Bailey,  Cornell  ;  W.  C.  McClelland, 
Washington  and  JeflFerson  ;  W.  W.  Landis,  Dickinson  ;  E.  L.  Stev- 
enson, Rutgers ;  L.  S.  Hurlburt,  Johns  Hopkins ;  Hunter  Pendle- 
ton, V.  M.  I.;  A.  G.  Renibert,  Woiford  ;  L.  W.  Wilkinson,  Tulane  ; 
W.  W.  Clendennin,  Louisiana  State  University  ;  A.  A.  Atkinson,  Ohio; 
T.  J.  J.  See,  Chicago  ;  F.  W.  Adams,  Iowa  Wesleyan  University  ;  E. 
C.  I'ranklin,  Kansas  ;  and  L.  F.  Walker,  President  Oxford  Female 
College. 

PHYSICIANS. 

A.  L.  Clark,  President  Bennett  Medical  College  ;  W.  H.  Witt, 
Larkin  Smith,  R.  A.  Barr  and  J.  L.  Watkins,  of  Medical  Department, 
Vanderbilt  University  ;  L.  vS.  McMurtry  and  J.  E.  Hays,  of  Louisville 
Hospital  College  of  Medicine  ;  C.  F.  Blake,  lialtimore  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons;  J.  E.  Brown,  Ohio  Medical  University; 
J.  B.  Long,  Indianapolis  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons ; 
W.  M.  Wright,  Medical  College  of  Indiana;  H.  T.  Patrick,  Medical 
Department.  Northwestern  University  ;  S.  vS.  Crockett,  Medical  De- 
partment, University  of  Nashville  ;  W.  S.  El  kin.  Southern  Medical 
College ;  F.  W.  Parham,  Medical  Department,  Tulane  University  ; 
W.  W.  Hale,  Des  Moines  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  ;  T.  G. 
Lee,  Medical  Department,  l^niversity  of  Minnesota  ;  T.  B.  Ilartzell, 
Dental  Department,  University  of  Minnesota,  and  J.  K.  Boude,  of  the 
Pension  Office,  Washington. 

JOIRXAMSTS. 

B.  S.  Orcutt,  M.  S.  Sams  and  W.  O.  Hates,  New  York  Trihuuc; 
C.  V.  Van  Anda  and  J.  R.  Spears,  New  York  Sioi;  W.  R.  Worrall, 
New  York  Mail  ami  /C.xpnss;  J.  L.  Goodwin,  Washington  Pos/: 
W.  W.  Ball.  Charleston  (S.  C. )  Pos/;  C.  N.  Bennett,  Atlanta  /o/zr- 
ual;  J.  W.  Tomlinson,  Birmingham  Ai^c  Ifcnild;  William  Finley, 
Louisville  Post;  \\.  P.  Couse,  Pittsburg  f.ciufrr;  II.  \V.  Quinby, 
Detroit  /'irc  Pnss;  H.  U.  Brown,  Indianapolis  AVri.v.-  James  Gray, 
Minneapolis  Vin/rs;  R.  G.  Mitchell,  Duluth  Trihuuc;  M.  N.  Rich- 
ardson, Davenport  Pnuocrat;  i\.  H.  Apperson.  St.  Louis  lilohr-nciu- 
ocrat;  W.  A.  White,  Emporia  (iazcttc;  C.  W.  Baker  and  M.  N.  Baker, 
New  York  JCui^hircriui;^  Xrws.  \\\  of  these  are  either  owners,  man- 
agers or  editors  of  their  respective  journals  Among  others  may  be 
mentioned  J.  S.  Phillips,  editor  of  Mi  C/urc's  Ma^irjiuc;  S.  J.  Flick- 
inger,  Cincinnati  manager  of  the  Associated  Press  ;  Eugene  Field 
(deceased),  of  Chicago,  the  poet  and  journalist;  and  the  well-known 
Washington  correspondents,  S.  I),  F'ry  and  H.  V.  N.  Boynton,  the 
latter  being  chairman  of  the  Chickamauga  National  Park  Commission. 


32  THE  SCROLL, 


STATISTICS  OF  FRATERNITIES. 

In  the  list  below  are  mentioned  all  the  chaptered  frater- 
nities known  to  exist  in  the  colleges  and  universities  of  the 
United  States.^-  Local  societies,  fraternities  reduced  to  a 
single  chapter  each,  and  defunct  fraternities  are  not  in- 
cluded. The  facts  for  each  fraternity  are  mentioned  in  the 
following  order  :  where  and  when  founded,  number  of  active 
college  chapters  and  states  in  which  they  are  established, 
colors,  flower,  tree,  stone,  deity,  publications  and  cheer. 
For  more  information  than  is  here  furnished  reference  is 
made  to  Baird's  'American  College  Fraternities. '  The  num- 
ber of  chapters  has  been  obtained  from  the  chapter  lists  pub- 
lished in  recent  college  annuals,  and  in  the  latest  issues  of 
the  journals  of  various  fraternities.  No  attempt  is  made 
to  give  the  membership  of  the  fraternities,  because  of  the 
great  difiBculty  of  obtaining  authentic  statistics  later  than 
those  given  by  Baird  in  1X90. 


Kappa  Alpha,  founded  at  Union,  182o;  6  chapters  in  4  states;  scarlet. 
Sigma  Phi,  founded  at  Union,  1827;   8  chapters  in  5 


GKNKRAT^  FRATERNITIES. 

rs  in 

states;  white  and 

light  blue. 
Delta  Phi,  founded  at  Union,  1827;   12  chapters  in  7  states;  white  and 

blue. 
Alpha  Delta  Phi,  founded  at  Hamilton,  1882;  23  chapters  in  12  states; 

green;  Star  aft li  Cri'sccut  (suspended). 
Psi  Upsilon,  founded  at  Union,  1838;   20  chapters  in  11  states;  garnet 

and  gold;  Diawotui  (suspended). 
Delta  Upsilon,  founded  at  Williams,  lS;J4t ;   31  chapters  in  14  states; 

sapphire  and  old  gold;  Quarterly. 
Beta  Theta  Pi.  founded  at  Miami,  183^i;  ()2  chapters  in  28  states;  pink 

and  light  blue;   rose;    .Uvs/ic  Mt'sst^nj^rr  (secret),  Brta   Theta  Pi. 

Phi-KaiPhi!  Beta  Theta  Pi!  W-O-O-G-L-I-N  I  Wooglin  !  Wooglin  ! 
Chi  Psi,  founded  at  Union,  1841;    18  chapters  in  12  states;   purple  and 

gold;  Purple  and  i^otd  (suspended?). 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  founded  at  Yale,  1844;   3')  chapters  in  21  states; 

blue,  ^old  and  crimson;  Quarterly. 
Zela  Psi,  founded  at  New  York  University,  1846;    22  chapters  in  13 

states;  white;  (_>//</;'A';/i' (suspended). 
Delta  Psi,  founded  at  Columbia,  1S47;  8  chapters  in  0  states;  light  blue 
Theta  Delta  Chi,  founded  at  Union,   1847;    22  chapters  in  12  states; 

black,  white  and  blue;  Shield. 
Phi  Cxanima  Delta,  founded  at  Jefferson  (now  Washington  and  Jeffer- 
son), 1S48;  43  chapters  in  17  states;  xoyA  purple;  Quarterly. 

*  Kappa  Alpha,  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  /.eta  Psi.  Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  Phi  DelU  Phi 
(law),  and  Delta  Chi  (law)  each  has  chapters  in  the  University  of  Toronto  or 
McGill  Inivcrsity  or  both.    In  this  list  Canada  is  counted  as  one  state. 

+  Sce  fool  note  on  page  4. 


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Phi  Delta  Theta,  founded  at  Miami,  1848  ;  ()G  chapters  in  27  states ; 
white  and  light  blue  ;  white  carnation  ;  Pallas  ;  Palladium  (secret), 
Scroll.  Rah  !  Rah  I  Rah  !  Phi-Kei-A  !  Phi  Delta  Theta  !  Rah  ! 
Rah  :  Rah ! 

Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  founded  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  18-30  ;  14 
chapters  in  7  states  ;  black  and  gold  ;  (Juarlrrly. 

Phi  Kappa  Psi,  founded  at  Jefferson  (now  Washington  and  Jefferson), 
18.>2  ;  .Si)  chapters  in  19  states  ;  lavender  and  pink  ;  laurel  and  ivy  ; 
Shi  till.  High  I  High  I  High  !  Phi  Kappa  Psi  I  Live  ever,  die 
never  I  Phi  Kappa  Psi ! 

Chi  Phi,  founded  at  Princeton,  ls.')4^  ;  21  chapters  in  13  states  ;  scar- 
let and  blue  ;  C  liackvlt  (secret  annual). 

Sigma  Chi,  founded  at  Miami,  18.V> ;  50  chapters  in  23  states ;  blue 
and  gold  ;  white  rose  ;  liullctiu  ( secret ) ,  Quarlcrly.  Who,  who  ? 
Who  am  I  ?  I  am  a  royal  Sigma  Chi  I  Whoop-la-hi  I  Whoop-la-hi ! 
Sigma  Chi  I 

Sigma  Alpha  Hpsilon,  founded  at  University  of  Alabama,  1856  ;  54 
chapters  in  24  states  ;  purple  and  old  gold  ;  violet ;  Phi  Alpha  (se- 
cret), Record.  Phi  Alpha,  Alicazee  !  Phi  Alpha,  Alicazon  I  Sigma 
Alpha  I  Sigma  Alpha  !  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  I 

Delta  Tau  Delta,  founded  at  Bethany,  18(>0  ;  37  chapters  in  20  states ; 
white,  royal  purple  and  old  gold  ;  pansy  ;  Raiuboic.  Rah,  rah, 
Delta  !  Delta  Tau  Delta  !  Rah,  rah,  Delta  Tau  I    Delta  Tau  Delta  ! 

Alpha  Tau  Omega,  founded  at  Virginia  Military  Institute,  1865;  42 
chapters  in  19  states;  sky  blue  and  old  gold;  white  tea  rose;  Palm. 
Hip,  hurrah  I  Hip,  hurrah  !  Three  cheers  for  Alpha  Tau  I  Rah  ! 
Rah  !     Rah ! 

Kappa  Alpha,  founded  at  Washington  (now  Washington  and  Lee), 
1865;  37  chapters  in  16  states;  crimson  and  gold;  magnolia  and  red 
rose;  Special  Mcsscfiircr  {secrei),  /oit  ma  I. 

Kappa  Sigma,  founded  at  University  of  Virginia,  1867;  44  chapters  in 

21  states;  maroon,  old  gold  and  peacock  blue;  lily  of  the  valley; 
Slar  afid  Crcsccnl  (secret),  Caditccus.  Rah  I  Rah!  Rah!  Cres- 
cent and  Star  !     Vive-la  !     Vive-la  !     Kappa  Sigma  ! 

Pi  Kappa  Alpha,  founded  at  University  of  Virginia,  IS68;  13  chapters 
in  5  states;  garnet  and  old  gold;  lily  of  the  valley;  Shield  and  Dia- 
mond. 

Sigma  Nu,  founded  at  Virginia  Military  Institute,  1869;  41  chapters 
in  20  states;  black,  white  and  gold;  white  rose;  /h'lla.  Hi-rickety  ! 
Whoopty-doo  !  What's  the  matter  with  Sigma  Nu?  Hullabaloo! 
Terragahoo  !     Ausgezeichnet !     Sigma  Nu  ! 

Phi  Phi  Phi,  founded  at  Austin  College,  1892;  5  chapters. 

Mu  Pi  Lambda,  founded  at  Washington  and  Lee,  1895;  2  chapters  in 
1  state. 

SORORITIKS. 

Pi  Beta  Phi,  founded  at  Monmouth,   1867;  2S  chapters  in   17   states; 

wine  and  silver-blue;  carnation;  .lrro7c.     Ring-ching-ching!    Ho- 

hippi-hi!     Rah-Rho,  Arrow!     Pi  Beta  Phi! 
Kappa  Alpha  Theta,  founded  at  Indiana  Asbury  (now  De  Pauw  ),  1870; 

22  chapters  in  14  states;  black  and  gold;  black  pansy  with  yellow 
heart;  Kappa  Alpha  Theta. 

Kappa  Kappa  Gamma,  founded  at  ^lonmouth,  1870;  27  chapters  in  14 
states;  dark  and  light  blue;  fleur  de  lis;  sapphire;  Athena;  Key. 
kX  K6pa(  '  kB-i\vj]%  ! 

•  Sec  foot  note  on  pa^^e  4. 


34  THE  SCROLL. 

Alpha  Phi,  founded  at  Syracuse,  1872;  9  chapters  in  8  states;  red  and 

silver-gray;  lily  of  the  valley'  and  forget-me-not;  Quarterly. 
Delta  Gamma,  founded  at  University  of  Mississippi,  1872  ;  13  chapters 

in  11  states;  pink,  blue  and  bronze;  pearl  rose;  Anchora. 
Gamma  Phi  Beta,  founded  at  Syracuse,  1S74;  7  chapters  in  7  states; 

fawn  and  seal  brown;  carnation. 
Delta  Delta  Delta,  founded  at  Boston  University,  1889;  15  chapters  in 

11  states;  gold,   silver  and  blue;   pansy;  pine;  Poseidon;   irident, 

'AXaXd  "AXaXd  'AXaXd  TA  'lepd  WoctiUvia.  I 

HONORARY,  PROFKSSIONAI,   AND  CLASS  SOCIKTIES. 

Phi  Beta  Kappa,  honorary-,  founded  at  William  and  Mary,  1776  ;  40 
chapters  in  18  states. 

Theta  Xi,  engineering-scientific,  founded  at  Rensselaer,  1864  ;  4  chap- 
ters in  4  states. 

Phi  Delta  Phi,  law,  founded  at  University  of  Michigan,  1869  ;  26  chap- 
ters in  17  states;  /)*;7Vy^( suspended). 

Q.  T.  v.,  agricultural-scientific,  founded  at  Massachusetts  Agricul- 
tural College,  1H69  ;  3  chapters  in  3  states ;  white  and  lavender  ; 
white  carnation  ;  Quarterly  (suspended). 

Theta  Nu  Epsilon,  sophomore,  founded  at  Wesleyan,  1870  ;  38  chap- 
ters in  17  states  ;  green  and  black. 

Phi  Sigma  Kappa,  scientific-medical,  founded  at  Massachusetts  Agri- 
cultural College,  1873  ;  7  chapters  in  4  states  ;  silver  and  magenta. 

Nu  Sigma  Nu,  medical -regular,  founded  at  University  of  Michigan, 
1882  ;  14  chapters  in  8  states  ;  garnet  and  white. 

Delta  Sigma  Delta,  dental,  founded  at  University  of  Michigan,  1882  ; 
1 1  chapters  in  8  states. 

Phi  Chi,  pharmacy,  founded  at  University  of  Michigan,  1883 ;  2  chap- 
ters in  2  states. 

Alpha  Chi  Omega,  musical-ladies,  founded  at  DePauw,  188.') ;  4  chap- 
ters in  4  states  ;  scarlet  and  olive. 

Tau  Beta  Pi,  honorary,  founded  at  Lehigh,  188()  ;  3  chapters  in  3  states. 

Sigma  Xi,  honorary-scientific,  founded  at  Cornell,  18H6  ;  6  chapters 
in  4  states. 

Phi  Alpha  Sigma,  medical-regular,  founded  at  Bellevue,  1887  ;  2 
chapters  in  2  states. 

Beta  Delta  Beta,  freshman,  founded  at  vSyracuse,  1887;  (J  chapters  in  3 
states. 

Alpha  Kappa  Kappa,  medical-regular,  founded  at  Dartmouth,  18S8; 
h  chapters  in  o  states. 

Xi  Pvsi  Phi,  dental,  founded  at  T'niversit3'  of  Michigan,  1889;  11  chap- 
ters in  9  states. 

Delta  Chi,  law,  founded  at  Cornell,  1890;  9  chapters  in  7  states. 

Omega  Psi,  sophomore-ladies,  founded  at  Northwestern,  1894;  2 
chapters  in  2  states. 

Alpha  Theta  Phi,  honorary,  founded  at  University  of  North  Carolina, 
1894;  2  chapters  in  2  states. 

Pi  Kappa  Tau,  homeopathic,  founded  at  University  of  Iowa,  1896;  2 
chapters  in  2  states. 

Alpha  Upsilon  Mu,  medical-regular,  3  chapters  in  3  states. 


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STATISTICS  OF  COLLEGES. 

Statistics  relating  to  colleges  and  universities  in  which 
Phi  Delta  Theta  has  active  chapters  have  been  compiled 
from  replies  to  circulars  of  inquiry,  catalogues  of  the  insti- 
tutions, and  the  books  mentioned  in  the  preface.  The  fig- 
ures following  the  name  of  each  institution  indicate  the  year 
when  the  institution  was  opened.  The  figures  following  the 
name  of  the  city  or  town  give  the  population  of  the  city  or 
town,  according  to  the  latest  official  census,  as  shown  in 
Rand-McNally  &  Company's  '  Enlarged  Business  Atlas, '  for 
1S1)7.  The  other  facts  concerning  each  institution  are  pre- 
sented in  the  following  order :  denominational  control  if 
any  ;  number  of  acres  in  the  campus,  and  number  of  college 
buildings  ;  annual  income  ;  number  of  volumes  in  the  libra- 
ries of  the  institution,  not  including  pamphlets  ;  number  of 
instructors  and  of  students  (if  co- educational  the  fact  is 
mentioned);  college  annual  and  other  student  publications  ; 
fraternities ;  college  colors  and  yell.  The  fraternities  are 
mentioned  in  the  order  their  chapters  were  established,  as 
nearly  as  could  be  ascertained.  Sororities  are  designated 
with  asterisks.  Suspended  chapters  are  omitted.  No  note 
is  made  of  any  local  or  *  ribbon  '  society,  Phi  Beta  Kappa  or 
other  honorary  society,  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  or  other  class 
society. 

Ai^ABAMA  PoiA'TECHNic  Instittttk,  1872,  Aubuni,  Ala.;  1,440;  acres 
24(i;  buildings  12;  volumes  lO.iKX);  income  |70,(XX);  instructors  28; 
students,  graduate  1<),  academic,  engineering,  pharmacy,  agriculture 
and  veterinary  .S<M),  preparatory  43,  total  361 ;  co-ed ucational.  (rlotn- 
crata  (annual),  Orauij^c  atid  Uluc.  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Nu,  Pi  Kappa  Al- 
pha. Orange  and  blue.  Je-hah  !  Je-hah  !  Je-hah-hah-hah  I  Au- 
burn !     Auburn  !     Rah !     Rah !     Rah  ! 

Ai.lK(;heny  Coi.r,KOK,  isi.'i,  Meadville,  Pa.;  9,020;  Methodist;  acres 
17;  buildings  <>;  volumes  14,0(M);  income  {22,000;  instructors  17; 
students,  collegiate  182,  preparatory  147,  total  329;  co-educational. 
Kaldron  (annual),  Cunipiis.  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta, 
Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Sigma  Al- 
pha Epsilon,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Alpha  Chi  Omega*  (musical). 
Navy  blue  and  old  gold.  Alleghe  I  Alleghe  !  Rah  !  Boom  !  Alle- 
gheny. 

Amherst  Collf.c.E,  1821,  Amherst,  Mass.;  2,962;  Congregational; 
acres  28;  buildings  1(>;  volumes  <U),O^M);  income  {108,000;  instructors 
38;  students  407,  men  only.  Oiio  (annual).  Literary  Monthly^ 
Student.  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
Delta  Upsilon,  Chi  Psi,  Chi  Phi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Theta  Delta  Chi, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi.  Purple  and 
white.     Rah-rah-rah  !     Rah-rah-rah  !     Amherst ! 


36  THE  SCROLL. 

Brown  Univkrsity,  17()4,  Providence,  R.  I.;  14'),  472 ;  Baptist;  acres 
50;  buildings  IS;  volumes  DO, ()(M)  ;  income  ^1 93,102  ;  instructors  78  ; 
students,  men  751,  women's  college  157,  total  VHKS.  Li  her  Brurt  cri- 
sis (annual),  Ma^azific,  lUiiuoniau,  Daily  Ifcrald,  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  Delta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon, 
Zeta  Psi,  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Delta  Upsilon,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha 
Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta,*  Delta  Tau  Delta.  Brown  and 
white.     Rah-rah  I    Rah-rah  !    Rah-rah  !    Brown  I    Brown  !    Brown  ! 

BrTLER  CoiXKGE,  see  University  of  Indianapolis. 

Cask  School  or  Appukd  Sciknck,  ISSl,  Cleveland,  Ohio  ;  201,:>53  ; 
non-sectarian;  acres  23;  buildings  4;  volumes  35, 0<)0  ;  income  |WiO,. 
000  ;  instructors  20  ;  students  233,  summer  school  15,  total  248,  men 
only.  M7/mv///V// (annual ',  Integral.  Zeta  Psi,  Phi  Delta  Theta. 
Seal  brown  and  white.  Iloo-rah  !  Ki-rah  !  S-C-I-H-N-C-E  !  Hi-hi ! 
Rah-rah  !  Case  I 

Ckntrai,  University,  1874,  Richmond,  Ky.;  4,753;  Presbyterian; 
acres  40  ;  buildings  9  ;  volumes,8,500  ;  income  ;^28, 000  ;  instructors 
16  ;  students  170,  men  only.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  the 
medical  and  dental  departments  at  Louisville  or  to  the  preparatory 
schools  at  Jackson,  Klizabethtown  and  Middlesboro. )  Cream  and 
Crimson  (^annual),  Allantis,  News.  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Sigma 
Nu,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Cream  and  crimson. 
Razzle-dazzle  I  Razzle-dazzle  !  Siss-boom-ah  I  Central  University  ! 
Rah -rah-rah ! 

Centre  Colucge,  1819,  Danville,  Ky. ;  3,760;  Presbyterian;  acres 
80  ;  buildings  9  ;  volumes  15,000  ;  income  12.3,000  ;  instructors  16  ; 
students,  collegiate  184,  preparatory  50,  law  33,  net  total  241,  men 
only.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  Danville  Theological  Semi- 
nary, correlated  with  the  college.)  Recent rie  (annual).  Cento. 
Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Alpha.  Yellow 
and  white.  Rackaty — coax!  Coax — coax!  (twice)  Hoo-ray  !  Hoo- 
ray !     Centre !     Centre !     Rah-rah-rah ! 

Colby  University,  181S,  Waterville,  Me.;  7,107  ;  Baptist;  acres  25  ; 
buildings  10 ;  volumes  32,(K)0;  income  $^^7,689;  instructors  15  ;  stu- 
dents, men's  college  131,  women's  college  80,  total  211;  Oracle 
(annual).  Echo.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Zeta  Psi,  Delta  Upsilon,  Phi 
Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega.  Pearl  gray.  C-O-L-B-Y  !  Rah  ! 
Rah!     Rah!     (three  times). 

COLI'MBIA  UniveRvSITy,  1754,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  1,515,301;  Episcopal; 
acres  18;  buildings  10;  volumes  2^^5,000;  income  1^770,833;  instruct- 
ors 289;  students,  the  college  314,  philosophy  242,  political  science 
302,  pure  science  101,  applied  science  393,  law^  361,  medicine  613, 
total  2,380,  men  only.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  Barnard 
College  for  women,  or  Teachers  College,  correlated  with  Columbia. ) 
Columbian  ( annual  i,  Spectator,  Literary  Monthly ,  Morning  side, 
School  of  Mines  Quarterly,  Medical  Xclcs.  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Psi 
Upsilon,  Delta  Phi,  Delta  Psi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Kappa 
Psi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Zeta  Psi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  DelU  Phi 
(law),  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Upsilon,  Sigma 
Chi,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon.  White  and  light  blue.  H'ray  !  H'ray  ! 
H'ray  !     C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a  ! 

Cornell  University,  1868,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. ;  11,079;  non -sectarian; 
acres  270;  buildings  28;  volumes  186,680;  income $515,412;  instruct- 
ors 178;  students,  graduate  284,  academic  1,397,  law  304,  veterinary 
11,  net  total  1,806;  co-educational.  Cornell ian  (annual),  Magazine, 
Era,  li'idow,  Daily  Sun,  Stblcv  fournal.  Kappa  Alpha,  Zeta  Psi, 
Chi  Phi,  Chi  Psi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,'Delta  Upsilon,  Delta  Kappa  Epsi- 


THE  SCROLL.  37 

Ion,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Psi  Upsi- 
lon,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*, 
Delta  Gamma*,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law),  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  Phi  Si^a  Kappa  (scientific),  Alpha  Phi*,  Delta  Tau  Delta, 
Sigma  Chi,  vSigma  Phi,  Delta  Phi,  Kappa  Sigma,  Delta  Chi  (law). 
Carnation  and  white.     Cornell !     I  yell,  yell,  yell,  Cornell ! 

Dartmouth  College,  17r)9,  Hanover,  N.  H.;  1,817;  Congregational; 
acres  30;  buildings  lo;  volumes  7"),()00;  income  J7o,0()0;  instructors 
48;  students,  collegiate  468,  civil  engineering  11,  medical  14.'),  total 
620,  men  only.  .-Kji^is  (annual),  iJtcrary  Monthl\\  ]\irtmouth, 
Psi  ITpsilon,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Theta  Delta 
Chi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  (medical),  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  Sigma  Chi,  Alpha  Upsilon  Mu  (medical).  Phi  Kappa  Psi. 
Dark  green.  Wah-who-wah  I  Wah-who-wah  !  Da-da-da,  Dartmouth  ! 
Wah-who-wah  !     T-i-g-e-r  I 

DePaov  University,  1S37,  Greencastle,  Ind.;  4,390;  Methodist; 
acres  148  ;  buildings  7  ;  volumes  23,500  ;  income  $55,000  ;  instruct- 
ors 45;  students,  Asbury  College,  421,  preparatory  264,  theology 
41,  music  134,  art  20,  summer  school  65,  net  total  710;  co-educa- 
tional. Minii^e  (annual;,  UWkiy.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Kappa  Kappa 
Gamma*,  Alpha  Chi  Omega*  (musical).  Delta  Upsilon,  Alpha  Phi*, 
Sigma  Nu.  Yellow.  Zip-rah-hoo !  D-P-U. !  Rip-saw!  Boombaw! 
Bully  for  old  DePauw. 

Dickinson  CoLLEC.E,  1783,  Carlisle,  Pa.;  7,220;  Methodist;  acres  15; 
buildings  10  ;  volumes  34,000  ;  income  |42,000.  College,  instructors 
14,  students  2(K> ;  preparatory  school,  instructors  5,  students  100  ; 
law  school,  instructors  7,  students  88  ;  total  instructors  26,  net  total 
students  380;  co-educational.  Miirocosffi  (annual),  U'lrkly, 
Motithlx,  Forum  (law).  Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Sigma 
Chi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon.  Red 
and  white.     Hip-rah-bus-bis  !     Dickinsoniensis  I     Tiger  1 

Emory  Collp:ge,  1837,  Oxford,  Ga.;  791  ;  Methodist ;  acres  35  ;  build- 
ings 11  ;  volumes  20,000;  income  |25,(H)0;  instructors  16;  students 
collegiate  240,  preparatory  39,  total  27!>,  men  only.  Zodiac  (annual) , 
Phani.v.  Chi  Phi.  Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Tau 
Omega,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Sigma  Nu.  Purple 
and  old  gold.  Bim-a-la-mah  !  Bim-a-la-mah  I  Bim-bam-bah  !  Emory! 
Emory  !     Rah  !     Rah  !     Rah  ! 

Franklin  College,  18;»4,  Franklin,  Ind.;  3,781  ;  Baptist  ;  acres  12  ; 
Buildings  3  ;  volumes  10,584;  income  117, (>0(» ;  instructors  12;  stu- 
dents, collegiate  132,  preparatory  96,  music  76,  painting  9,  net  total 
236  ;  co-educational.  Kodak  (semi-monthlv,  the  June  issue  being 
the  students'  annual).  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Sigma  Al- 
pha Epsilon.  Old  gold  and  peacock  blue.  Fr-an-kl-in  !  Hurrah  ! 
Hurrah  !  We  are  her  men  !  Boom-rah-boom  !  Wah-hoo-wah  !  Frank- 
lin !     Franklin  !    Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  ! 

Gettysburg  College,  1832,  Gettysburg,  Pa.;  3,221  ;  Lutheran  ;  acres 
50;  buildings  6;  volumes  23,856;  income  523,(H)0  ;  instructors  16; 
students,  collegiate  175,  preparatory  97,  net  total  270  ;  co-educa- 
tional. None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  Gettysburg  Theological 
Seminary,  correlated  with  the  college.)  S^ir/nuf/  (annual),  J/cr- 
run\  (it'ffyshu?\iiiafi.  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Sigma 
Chi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega.  Orange  and  dark  blue. 
Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  !    Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  !    Rah  !  Gettysburg  ! 


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Hanover  Collkok,  1882,  Hanover,  Ind.;  459  ;  Presbyterian;  acres 
200  ;  buildings  9  ;  volumes  1(),(H)0  ;  income  |:14,000  ;  instructors  12  ; 
students,  collegiate  70,  preparatory  82,  music  25,  net  total  120 ;  co- 
educational. Croii'  (a.nuviSL[),youniij/,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*.  Blue  and 
scarlet.  Rah-rah-rah  I  Whizz-whazz-whirr  I  Sizz-ah,  Han-Han- 
Han-o-ver ! 

HiLi^DAi^E  Cou.p:ge,  1855,  Hillsdale,  Mich.;  4,121;  Free-will  Bap- 
tist; acres  25;  buildings  6;  volumes  9,330;  income  |15, 372;  instruct- 
ors 28;  students,  collegiate  98,  preparatory  103,  pedagogy  27,  total 
223;  co-educational.  IVotirrinc  (annual),  Herald.  Delta  Tau 
Delta,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Pi  Beta  Phi*, 
Alpha  Tau  Omega.  Ultramarine  blue.  Hull-a-bah-loo  !  Wah-hoo! 
(twice)  Hoo-wah,  wah-hoo!    Hillsdale  I 

Indiana  University,  1820,  Bloomington,  Ind.;  4,018;  acres  30; 
buildings  8;  volumes  26,000;  income  ;^110,(M)0;  instructors  55;  stu- 
dents, graduate  (>5,  undergraduate  %'M,  law  45,  total  men  636, 
women  308  --  944.  Arbutus  (annual).  Student.  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  vSigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*, 
Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Sigma 
Nu,  Pi  Beta  Phi*.  Crimson  and  cream.  Gloriana  !  Frangii>ana  ! 
Indiana!  Kazoo-kazah !  Kazoo-kazah  !  I.  U.,  Hurrah!  I.  U., 
Hurrah  !  Hoop4a!  State  University  !    Rah  I  Rah  !  Rah  ! 

Iowa  Wesi^kyan  University,  1844,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa ;  8,920 ; 
Methodist;  acres  20;  buildings  (>;  volumes  4,500;  income  $20,000; 
instructors  22;  students,  collegiate  117,  mechanical  26,  preparatory 
79,  normal  86,  commercial  42,  music  77,  art  26,  net  total  321;  co- 
educational. Wesleyan.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Phi  Delta 
Theta.  White  and  green.  Rah-rah-rah !  Zip-boom-bah !  Razoo, 
razoo  !  Johnnie,  blow  your  bazoo  !  Rip-zi-dy-i-ki  !  Ve  vi !  Wes- 
leyan  ! 

Knox  Coi,i,ege,  1887,  Galesburg,  111.;  15,264;  non-sectarian;  acres 
13;  buildings  6;  volumes  10,000;  income  $.80,756;  instructors  31; 
students,  collegiate  317,  preparatory  152,  music  228,  art  6,  net  total 
650;  co-educational,  inile  [annnsil),  St udeut,  Coup  d'* Rtat.  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Pi  BeU  Phi,*  Delta 
Delta  Delta.*  Old  gold  and  royal  purple.  Zip-rah  !  Boom -rah  ! 
Knox-i-ae  !  Knox-i-a  !     Knox  !  Knox  !  KNOX  ! 

Lafayette  Coixege,  1826,  Kaston,  Pa.;  14,481;  Presbyterian;  acres 
40;  buildings  27;  volumes  82,000;  income  $42,000;  instructors  28; 
students,  graduate  82,  undergraduates  278,  total  805,  men  only. 
J/M/;/^t' (annual;,  AVrtv?,  Touchstone,  La  fa  vette.  Delta  Kappa  Ep- 
silon,  "ZeU  Psi,  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  DelU  Theta, 
Chi  Phi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Delta  Upsilon.  Maroon  and  white. 
Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  !   (three  times)  La-fay-ette  ! 

Lehigh  University,  1S66,  South  Bethlehem,  Pa.;  10,802;  Episcopal; 
acres  115;  buildings  12;  volumes  10(»,0(M);  instructors  89;  students, 
literary  21,  engineering  802,  chemistry  84,  architecture  8,  total  8(.>5, 
men  only.  Epitome  (annual),  lUirr,  /hvTi'n  and  IVhite.  Chi  Phi, 
Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Delta  Phi,  Psi 
Upsilon,  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Delta  T'psilon,  Sigma  Nu,  Sig^a  Phi,  Phi 
Gamma  Delta,  Sigma  Chi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Chi  Psi. 
Brown  and  white.     Hoo-ray-ray  !    Hoo-ray-ray  !    Ray-ray- Lehigh  ! 

Lelani)  vStanford  Junior  University,  1S91,  Palo  Alto  (Stanford 
University  P.  O.),  Cal.;  non-sectarian;  acres  7,500;  buildings  24; 
volumes  85, (XK);  income  ^250,000;  instructors  85;  students,  graduate 
97,  undergraduate  808,  special  186,  total  men  t)91,  women  400=1,091. 


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Quad  (annual),  Daily  Palo  Alto^  Sequoia^  Josh  (jointly  with  Cali- 
fornia). Phi  Delta  Theta,  Zeta  Psi.  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Si^^iiA  Nu, 
Sigma  Chi.  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Beta  Thete 
Pi,  Chi  Psi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Delta  Upsilon,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*, 
Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Delta 
Gamma,*  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law).  Cardinal.  Rah-rah-rah  I  Rah-rah- 
rah  I    Rah-rah-Stanford  ! 

Lombard  rNiVKRSiTY,  1853,  Galesburg,  111.;  15, 2(54 ;  I'niversalist; 
acres  \\\\  buildings  .'?;  volumes  7,oO();  income  ^nJ.OOO;  instructors  18; 
students,  collegiate  62,  preparatory  21>,  divinity  20,  music  40.  art  22, 
net  total  142;  co-educational.  Thr  Lombard  (annual),  Revieu^ 
Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Nu.  Olive  and  gold.  Ra- 
re-ri-ro  !    Ringching-rang  I  Lombard  !    Lombard  !  Zip-boom -bang  ! 

Merckr  Univ^krsity,  18:53,  Macon,  Ga.;  22,740;  Baptist;  acres  9; 
buildings  10;  volumes  25,000;  income  J20,000;  instructors  1(>;  stu- 
dents, collegiate  181,  preparatory  46,  law  16,  net  total  2.S3,  men  only. 
Kinetoscope  (annual),  Mercerian.  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Kappa  Alpha,  Kappa  Sigma,  Alpha  Tau  Ome^a,  Sigma  Nu. 
Orange  and  black.  Razzle-dazzle  !  Hobble-gobble  !  Siss-boom-bah  ! 
Mercer  !    Mercer  !    Rah-rah-rah  ! 

Miami  University,  1824,  Oxford,  Ohio;  1,922;  non-sectarian;  acres 
60;  buildings  5;  volumes  15,500;  income  JC55,(K)0;  instructors  12; 
students,  collegiate  (men  only)  3«i,  irregular  and  preparatory  (co- 
educational) 86,  total  122.  Rccensio  (annual).  Student.  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon,  Sigma  Chi.  Scarlet  and 
white.     Rah-rah-rah  !     M-I-A-M-I  I     Mi-am-I  !    Miami ! 

Michigan  State  CoLLKGK,  1857,  Lansing,  Mich.;  15,847;  acres  676; 
buildings  40;  volumes  21,(H)0;  income  $85,000;  instructors  34;  stu- 
dents, agricultural  20<),  mechanical  120,  women's  course  43,  short 
courses  45,  total  425.  Record.  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Green.  Hip- 
hip-hurrah !     Hurrah!    Hurrah!     Uzz !    Uzz  !    Uzz  !     M-A-C  ! 

NoRTHWEvSTERN  Univp:rsitv,  1855,  Kvanston,  111.;  12,762;  Metho- 
dist; acres  45;  buildings  10;  volumes  41,(M)0;  income  $120,000;  in- 
structors 60;  students,  graduate  23,  collegiate  498,  theolo^cal  159, 
music  101,  total  78] ;  co-educational,  i  None  of  these  statistics  relate 
to  the  law,  medical,  pharmacy  and  dental  departments  or  the  wom- 
en's medical  school  in  Chicago.)  Syllabus  (annual),  Xorthiccstcrn, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Kappa 
Sigma,  Delta  Upsilon.  Alpha  Phi*,  Delta  Gamma*,  Kappa  Kappa 
Gamma*,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Ganmia  Phi  Beta*,  Delta  Tau  Delta, 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Delta  Delta  Delta*,  Delta  Chi  (law).  Royal 
purple.     Rah-rah-rah-rah  !  T.  Northwestern  !  Rah-rah-rah-rah-rah  ! 

Ohio  University,  1809,  Athens,  Ohio;  2,r»20;  acres  10;  buildings  6; 
volumes  21,000;  income  |^12,0<K);  instructors  25;  students,  collegiate 
125,  preparatory  232,  net  total  .'>49;  co-educational.  Athiua  (an- 
nual). Mirror.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Pi  Beta  Phi.*  Olive  green  and  white.  Wah-hoo  !  Wah-hoo  !  Rip- 
rah  !     O.  U. !     O-hi-O  U. !     Whoop  ! 

Ohio  vState  University,  1H73.  Columbus,  Ohio;  8S,  150;  acres  330; 
buildings  23;  volumes  19,307;  income  ^176, 519;  instructors  85;  stud- 
ents, graduate  2!),  arts,  philosophy  and  science  349.  engineering  28r», 
law  ICK),  pharmacy  46,  agriculture  38,  veterinary  14,  special  S3,  sum- 
mer school  65,  net  total  9^)9;  co-educational.  Makio  (annual), 
Lantern,  Student.  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Sigma  Chi, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Chi  Phi,  Beta  Theta  Pi.  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*, 
Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Sigma  Nu,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon,  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law).  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Kappa 


40  THE  SCROLL. 

Sigma,  Delta  Delta  Delta*.  Scarlet  and  gray.  Wahoo-wahoo ! 
Rip-zip-bazoo !     I  yell,  I  yell  for  O.  S.  U.! 

Ohio  WivSLKVAn  Univkrsity,  1S44.  Delaware,  Ohio;  8,224;  Metho- 
dist; acres  40;  buildings  11;  volumes  22,<iS(>;  income  :p90,000;  in- 
structors 53;  students,  graduate  ')7,  collegiate  oT.S,  preparatory  3o2, 
normal  21,  commercal  107,  music  128,  art  20,  elocution  .*>,  total  men 
711,  women  ')51  =^1,262.  liijou  (annual),  Traiimcript.  Beta  Tlieta 
Pi,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Delta  Tau  Delta, 
Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon.  Garnet 
and  jet.  O-we-wi-wow  !  Al-le-ka-ze-zi-zow  !  Ra-ze-zi-zu  I  Vi-va ! 
Vi-va!    O.  W.  U.! 

Pennsylvania  Collicgk,  see  Gettysburg  College. 

PURIME  rNiVERSiTY,  18»)9,  La  Fayette,  Ind.;  ir»,24:{;  state  control; 
acres  180;  buildings  20;  volumes  7,000;  income |1 05,000;  instructors 
02;  students,  graduate  50,  undergraduate  454,  special  72,  pharmacy 
88,  total  ()ti4;  co-educational.  Pehris  (annual),  Expont'iit.  Sigma 
Chi,  Kappa  Sigma,  Sigma  Nu,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Alpha  Kp- 
silon.  Black  and  old  gold.  Purdue  !  Purdue  !  Rah-rah  !  Rah-rah  ! 
(twice)  Hoo-rah  !  Hoo-rah  !    Bully  for  Old  Purdue  ! 

Randolph-Macon  College,  1S;V2,  Ashland.  Va.;  948:  Methodist; 
acres  12;  buildings  14;  volumes  12,500;  income  fl7,(XK);  instructors 
14;  students  1»)0,  men  only.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  the 
woman's  college  at  lA'nchburg,  or  the  boys'  academies  at  Bedford 
City  and  P'ront  Royal,  or  the  girls'  institute  at  Danville.)  Lemon 
and  lUack  (annual).  Monthly.  Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Sigma.  Lemon  and  black. 
Rip-rap-rah  I  Rip-rap-rah  !  Randolph->Iacon,  Virginia  !  Calero  ! 
Calero  !    Yah-yah-yah  I 

SorTHWKSTERN  UNIVERSITY,  187:5,  Georgetown,  Texas;  2,447;  Meth- 
odist; acres  41;  buildings  5;  volumes  5,0(H>;  income  |w24,(X)0;  in- 
structors 20;  students,  collegiate  172,  preparatory  107,  special  7, 
total  men  2X<),  collegiate  78.  preparatory  IJO.  special  Ml.  total  women 
i:^9.  grand  total  425.  Monthly,  An-x.  Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Kappa  Sigma.  Gold  and  black.  Rah-rah-rah !  Vive-la- 
lu!     S.  \V.  U.! 

SvRACrsK  Univhrsitv,  1S70,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.;  88,143;  Methodist; 
acres  50;  buildings  7;  volumes  57,462;  income  J117,56r>;  instructors 
92;  students,  liberal  arts  171,  fine  arts  5l(),  law  55,  medicine  9<>.  net 
total  l.K^5;  co-educational.  Ononilaji^an  (annual),  Henxld,  Forutn, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Alpha  Phi*,  Delta  I'psilon,  Gamma  Phi  Beta*; 
Psi  IJpsilon,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma"'.  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
BetaThela  Pi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta^,  Pi  Beta  Phi^,  Delta  Delta  Delta*, 
Nu  Sigma  Xu  (medical ).  Orange.  S.  U.!  S.  IM  Rah-rah  I  Rah- 
rah  I  I  repeat)  Hoo-rah  I  Hoo-rah  I  Svracuse  I  Syracuse  I  Rah! 
Rah  :   Rah ! 

Tii.ANK  Univkksitv  ok  LOUISIANA,  1878,  New  Orleans,  La.;  242,0.*^9; 
acres  »)20;  buildings  12;  volumes  15,000;  income  $105,000;  instruc- 
tors 09;  students,  arts,  philosophy,  pedagogy,  science  and  technol- 
ogy 241,  law  75.  medical  .'J40.  pharmacy  .'»5,  college  for  women  249, 
total  910.  Jinnhtilaya  (annual),  Daily  Collt\i^e  Spirit,  Colltxiun. 
Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Chi,  Alpha  Tau  Omega.  Sigma  Nu,  Kappa 
Sigma,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Tau  Delta.  Pi  BeU  Phi*.  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon.  Olive  and  blue.  Rah!  Rah!  Siss-boom-ah  !  Rah! 
Rah  !  Tulane ! 

Union  C(>llH(;i:,  1795.  Schenectady,  N.  Y. ;  19,902;  non -sectarian; 
acres  50;  buildings  10;  volumes  lU.OOO;  income  f 75, 229;  instructors 
.'U;  students,  academic  and  engineering  221,  men  only.     (None  of 


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these  statistics  relate  to  the  law,  medical  and  pharmacy  departments 
at  Albany. )  Garnet  (annual),  Concord ien si Sy  Parthenon.  Kappa 
Alpha,  Sigma  Phi,  Delta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Delta  Upsilon,  Chi  Psi, 
Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Phi  Delta  Phi 
(law),  Phi  Sigma  Kappa  (medical).  Garnet.  Rah!  Rah!  Rah! 
U-N-I-O-N  !  Hilkah  !  Hilkah  !  Hilkah  ! 

University  of  Alabama,  18:n,  Tuskaloosa  (University  P.  O.),  Ala.; 
4,215;  acres  300;  buildings  7;  volumes  12,500;  income  $37,000;  in- 
structors 10;  students,  academic  131.  law  36,  pharmacy  S,  net  total 
175;  co-educational.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  the  medical 
department  at  Mobile.)  Corolla  (annual).  Crimson  and  White. 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.  Sigma  Alpha  Kpsilon,  Sigma  Nu,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Alpha.  Crimson  and  white.  Siss- 
boom-ah  !     Ala-bam-a  !   Rah-rah-rah  ! 

University  OF  California,  1H69,  Berkeley,  Cal. ;  5,101;  acres  240; 
buildings  7;  volumes  08, (M)0;  income  |40(),000;  instructors  111;  stu- 
dents, graduate  118,  letters,  sciences,  engineering,  mining  and  agri- 
culture 1,218,  total  men  811,  women  525  =^  1,330.  (None  of  these 
statistics  relate  to  the  art,  law.  medical,  dental,  pharmacy  and  veter- 
inary departments  in  San  Francisco.)  I*lue  and  Hold  (annual). 
Daily  Berkelevan,  Occident,  Magazine,  Josh  (jointly  with  Stanford). 
Zeta'  Psi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Chi  Phi.  Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon,  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Phi 
(law),  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Delta  Sigma  Delta  (dental), 
Sigma  Nu,  Sigma  Alpha  Kpsilon,  Gamma  Phi  Beta*,  Xi  Psi  Phi 
(dental),  Chi  Psi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Delta  Upsilon.  Blue  and  gold. 
Rah-rah-rah  !    Cal-i-forn-i-a  !    U.  C. !    Berkeley  !    Zip-boom-ah  ! 

University  of  Chicago,  1857-8r).  1S92,  Chicago.  111.;  1.438,010; 
Baptist;  acres  25;  buildings  25;  volumes  325,000;  income  #000,000; 
instructors  187;  students,  senior  colleges  138,  junior  colleges  427, 
unclassified  347,  graduate  school  of  literature  422,  graduate  school 
of  science  200,  graduate  school  of  divinity  205,  undergraduate 
divinity,  110,  total  1.801;  co-educational.  Cap  and  (ioii'n  (an- 
nual). Weekly.  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
Delta  Kappa  Kpsilon,  Sigma  Nu.  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  Sigma  Chi. 
Maroon.  Chicago  !  Chicago  !  Chicago-go  !  Go  it  Chica-go  it  Chica- 
go it  Chicago ! 

University  of  Gkorgia,  1785,  Athens,  Ga.;  8,031);  acres  102;  build- 
ings 11;  volumes  27,000;  income  #50,317;  instructors  22;  students, 
literary  135,  science  and  agriculture  50,  elective  07,  law  55,  net 
total  311,  men  only.  (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  the  medi- 
cal department  at  .Augusta  or  to  branches  of  the  university  through- 
out the  state.)  Pandora  (annual),  Geori^ian,  Ped and  /Hack.  Sigma 
Alpha  Kpsilon,  Chi  Phi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha 
Tau  Omega,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  vSigma  Nu,  Chi  Psi.  Red  and  black. 
Hoo-rah-rah  !  Hoo-rah-rah  !    Rail  I  Rah  !  Georgia  I 

University  of  Illinois,  IS()8,  Champaign,  111.;  5,S39;  acres  1,000; 
buildings  17;  volumes  37,(M>0;  income  f  140,000;  instructors  105.  Stu- 
dents :  graduate,  men  50,  women  7;  classical,  literary,  science,  en- 
gineering, architecture,  agriculture  and  music,  men  507,  women 
13();  preparatory,  men  130,  women  13;  winter  school  of  agriculture, 
men  15,  woman  1;  net  total  men  707,  women  187  ^^  81)4.  (None  of 
these  statistics  relate  to  the  departments  of  medicine  and  pharmacy 
at  Chicago.  A  law  department  will  begin  at  Champaign  in  1897- 
98).  ////i?  (annual  ,  Technoij^raph  (engineers*  annual),  ^//w/.  Delta 
Tau  Delta,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Sigma,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Alpha  Tau 
Omega,   Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,    Pi  Beta  Phi*.      Orange  and  navy 


42  THE  SCROLL, 

blue.  Rah-hoo-rah  !  Zip-boom-ah  !  Hip-zoo  !  Rah-zoo  I  Jimmy, 
blow  your  bazoo  !  Ip-zi-dy-i-ki  I  V .  of  I.!  Illinois! 

University  ok  Indiana,  see  Indiana  University. 

University  of  Indianapolis,  Department  of  Liberal  Arts,  Butler 
College,  1855,  Irvington.  In(l.;650;  Christian;  acres  13;  buildings  5; 
volumes  6, 12:^,  income  |23,0(K):  instructors  21;  students,  graduate  11, 
undergraduate  132,  preparatory  96,  total  239;  co-educational.  (None 
of  these  statistics  relate  to  the  law,  medical  and  dental  departments 
at  Indianapolis).  I^rift  (annual),  Collegian.  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Sigma  Chi,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Pi  Beta 
Phi*.  Royal  purple.  Whoop-ee-ki  I  Rippi-ki-rap  !  The  sacred  tribes 
of  Indianap  !  Medico,  Dentico,  Butler  and  Law  !  U.  of  I.!  U.  of  I.! 
Rah!  Rah!  Rah! 

University  ok  Iowa,  1860,  Iowa  City,  Iowa;  7,526;  acres  25;  build- 
ings 13;  volumes  40,000;  income  isl31,384;  instructors  101;  students, 
graduate  101;  collegiate  546,  law  215,  medical  213,  homoepathic  67, 
dental  184,  pharmacy  62,  net  total  1,331;  co-educational.  Ha<vk- 
eye  (annual),  Quill,  I'ideltc- Reporter,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Kappa 
Psi,  Phi  Ciamma  Delta,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma 
Nu,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Delta  Gamma*,  Phi 
Delta  Phi  (law).  Pi  Kappa  Tau  (homeopathic).  Old  gold.  Haw- 
haw-haw  !     Hi-hi-hi !     Hawkeye  !    Hawkeye  !     S.  U.  I. ! 

University  ok  Kansas,  1866,  Lawrence,  Kan.;  10,084;  acres  80; 
buildings  8;  volumes,  27,500;  income  flOO,0(H);  instructors  54;  stu- 
dents, graduate  43,  collegiate  (men  201,  women  224)  515,  engfineer- 
ing  87,  law  150,  pharmacy  58,  fine  arts  172;  net  total  men  629, 
women  375=1,004.  Kikabe  (annual),  Weekly,  Quarlerlv.  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*.  Phi  Gamnia  Delta, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Sigma  Chi, 
Sigma  Nu.     Crimson  and  blue.     Rock-chalk!     Jay-hawk!     K.  U.! 

University  ok  Michigan,  1837,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.;  11,069;  acres  40; 
buildings  20;  volumes  105,047;  income  $445,805;  instructors  183; 
students,  graduate  IIH,  academic  1,183,  engineering  279,  law  573, 
medicine  471,  homci.*opathic  44,  pharmacy  0)5,  dental  189,  summer 
schools  224,  net  total  2,975;  co-educational.  Michiganetisian  (an- 
nual), Res  (iesUc,  Daily,  In  land er,  Oraele,  Wrinkle.  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  Chi  Psi,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Sigma  Phi,  Zeta 
Psi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Psi  Upsilon,  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law),  Sigma  Chi, 
Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Delta  l^psilon,  Kappa  Alpha 
Theta*,  Gamma  Phi  Beta*,  Nu  Sigma  Nu  (medical),  Delta  Sigma 
Delta  (dental).  Phi  Chi  (pharmacy).  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Delta  Gam- 
ma*, Theta  Delta  Chi,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Xi  Psi 
Phi  r dental),  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Alpha  Phi*,  Kappa  Sigma, 
Delta  Chi  ilaw),  Delta  Delta  Delta*.  Yellow  and  blue.  U.  of  M.! 
Rah-rah!  Rah-rah  !  (twice).  I  loo- rah  I  Hoo-rah  !  Michigan!  Rah! 
Rah!    Rah! 

University  of  Minnesota,  180)9,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  192, 83^^;  acres 
416;  buildings  25;  volumes  55, (K)0;  income  |250, 000;  instructors  144. 
Students:  graduate,  men  129,  women  37;  arts,  literature  and  science, 
men  477,  women  432;  engineering,  metallurgy  and  mechanic  arts, 
men  174,  women  7;  law,  men  .*i59,  women  2;  medicine,  men  202,  wo- 
men 10;  honKeopathic,  men  28,  women  4;  pharmacy,  men  94,  women 
2;  dentistry,  men  1»4,  women  3;  agriculture,  men  3(»9,  women  71; 
summer  schools,  men  106,  women  151;  net  total  men  1,919,  women 
728=2,647.  (iopher  (annual;,  .Inel,  Magazine.  Chi  Psi,  Kappa 
Kappa  Gamma*,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  (iamma*.  Delta  Tau  Delta, 
Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Beta  Theta  Pi, 


THE  SCROLL,  43 

Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Delta  Upsilon,  Alpha  Phi*, 
Phi  Delta  Phi  (law),  Nu  Sigma  Nu  (medical),  Psi  Upsilon,  Alpha 
Delta  Phi,  Theta  Delte  Chi.  Delta  Delta  Delta*,  Delta  Sigma  Delta 
(dental).  Pi  Kappa  Tau  (homeopathic).  Maroon  and  old  gold. 
Rah-rah-rah  !  Ski-u-mah  !  Hoo-rah  !  Hoo-rah  !  Varsity -Varsity  ! 
Minne-so-tah ! 

Univkksity  of  Mississippi,  1848,  Oxford  (University  P.  O. ),  Miss.; 
1,546;  acres  40;  buildings  12;  volumes  lo,o()0;  income  J36,243;  in- 
structors 20;  students,  academic  2o4,  law  42,  total  2y();  co-educa- 
tional. Oie  Miss  (annual),  Ma)razifii\  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Delta 
Psi,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Delta  Tau  Delta.  Crimson  and  blue.  Raz- 
zle,  dazzle  !  Gobble-gobble  !  Siss-boom-bah  !  Mississippi !  Missis- 
sippi !     Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  I 

University  of  Missouri,  1S41,  Columbia,  Mo.;  4,0(M);  acres  HOC. 
buildings  16;  volumes  32. (XX);  income  |150,000;  instructors  52;  stu- 
dents, academic  286,  engineering  61,  normal  5;^,  law  183,  medical 
52.  agriculture  03,  horticulture  11,  net  total  men  577,  women  124  := 
701.  (None  of  these  statistics,  except  for  income,  relate  to  the 
School  of  Mines  at  Rolla).  Sai'iiar  (annual),  Ittdependcnt,  Ti^er, 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon, 
Sigma  Nu,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Phi,  (law).  Kappa  Alpha, 
Sigma  Chi.  Black  and  old  gold.  Tiger  !  Tiger  !  M.  S.  U.  !  Tiger  ! 
Tiger!  M.  S.  U.! 

University  of  Nebraska,  1871,  Lincoln,  Neb.;  55,154;  acres  332; 
buildings  10;  volumes  35,(KX) ;  income  f  173,250 ;  instructors  115. 
Students  :  graduate,  men  70,  women  43;  literary,  men  247,  women 
346;  engineering  and  agriculture,  men  274,  women  47;  preparatory, 
men  133,  women  78;  law,  men  74,  women  2;  preparatory  to  law  and 
journalism,  men  17  ;  preparatory  medical,  men  20  ;  art,  men  10, 
women  62;  music,  men  23,  women  132;  summer  school,  men  46, 
women  124;  net  total,  men  892,  women  761  -  1,653.  Sombrero 
(annual),  Hcspcriati,  IJte'rary  Magazine,  Xebraskan.  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  Sigma  Chi,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Kappa 
Alpha  Theta*,  Delta  Gamma*,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Delta  Tau 
Delta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Delta  Delta  Delta*,  Pi  Beta  Phi*,  Kappa 
Sigma,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law).  Scarlet  and 
cream.  U!  U!  U  !-n-i  !  Ver-ver-ver-si-ti !  N!  HI  Brass-ki !  Oh- 
h  h — my  I 

University  of  North  Carolina,  1795,  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C;  1,017; 
acres  48;  buildings  12;  volumes  2t5, 000;  income  J4 1,000;  instructors 
35;  students,  collegiate  307,  law  72,  medical  34,  summer  school  15S, 
net  total  549,  men  only.  (A  school  of  pharmacy  will  begin  in  1897- 
98.)  Hiilcnian  (annual),  Tarhvcl.  Delta  Kappa  ICpsilon,  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Zeta  Psi,  Kappa 
Sigma,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma 
Nu,  Sigma  Chi,  Pi  Kappa  Alpha.  White  and  blue.  Booni-rah-ray  ! 
Boom-rah-ray  I     Carolina  Varsity  I     Siss-boom — Tar-heel  ! 

University  of  Ohio,  see  Ohio  University  and  Ohio  State  University. 

University  of  Pennsylvania,  1740,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  1,046,964; 
acres  48;  buildings  22;  volumes  12.S,751;  income  ^300, 00<);  instruc- 
tors 2.36;  students,  the  college  917,  philosophy  161,  law  35s,  medi- 
cine 968,  hygiene  29,  dentistry  :>73,  veterinary  50,  net  total  2,811; 
co-educational.  AVr^^/v/  (annual),  Jhiiiy  /\'utisyii'aniaji.  Courier, 
Ben  Fratikiin,  A'ed  and  lUiie.  Delta  Phi,  Zeta  Psi.  Phi  Kappa 
Sigma,  Delta  Psi,  Sigma  Chi,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Beta  Theta  Pi,   Phi 


44  THE  SCROLL, 

Gamma  Delta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega.  Phi  Delta  Thete,  Phi  Delta  Phi 
(law).  Delta  Upsilon,  Nu  Sigma  Nu  (medical),  Phi  Alpha  Sigma 
(medical),  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Psi  Upsilon,  Kappa  Sigma, 
Delta  Sigma  Delta  (dental).  Delta  Tau  Delta.  Red  and  blue.  Rah- 
rah-rah  I    Penn-syl-va-ni-a  !    (rapidly  three  times ^. 

University  of  Tkxas,  isSli,  Austin,  Texas;  14,575;  acres  40;  build- 
ings 5;  volumes  50,000;  income  $70,000;  instructors  35;  students, 
arts,  literature,  science  and  engineering  322,  law  143,  total  405;  co- 
educational. (None  of  these  statistics  relate  to  the  department  of 
medicine  and  school  of  pharmacy  and  school  of  nursing  at  Galves- 
ton.) Cactus  {2LXi\\\\^),  AlcixhiCy  Texas  Cuivcrsity.  Phi  Delta Theta, 
Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Chi,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Kappa  Sigma,  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Sigma  Nu,  Chi  Phi,  Phi  Phi  Phi.  White  and  old  gold. 
Hullabaloo!  Hoo-ray  I  Hoo-ray !  (twice)  Hoo-ray  I  Hoo-ray ! 
Varsity!  Varsity!     U.  T.  A.! 

Univkrsity  OF  THE  SouTH,  is^s,  Sewanee,  Tenn.;  428;  Episcopal; 
acres  10,000;  buildings  14;  volumes  37,000;  income  |;25, 000;  instruct- 
ors 20;  students,  collegiate  135,  preparatory  75,  theological  21),  law 
13,  medical  34,  total  28(3,  men  only.  Cap  and  (kncn  (annual),  Pur- 
ple, Literary  Afai^aziue.  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon, 
Kappa  Sigma,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Kappa  Alpha. 
Purple.  Rah-rah-ree  !  Var-si-tee  !  Hey,  hip  !  Hey,  hip !  Se-wa- 
nee !  Sewanee,  Rah  !  Sewanee.  Rah  !  Sewanee,  Tiger !  Siss-s-s, 
Boom,  ah-h-h  ! 

University  of  Vermont,  1701,  Burlington,  Vt.;  14,500;  buildings 
10;  volumes  50,0: >2;  income  5^)2, 5<MI;  instructors  51;  students,  grad- 
uate 3,  clasvsical  S(5,  literary  scientific  5S,  engineering  58,  chemical 
20,  special  20,  medical  221,  agricultural  26,  dairy  45,  total  537;  co- 
educational. .In'et  (annual),  Cyuie.  Sigma  Phi,  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Sigma,  Delta  Delta 
Delta*,  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  (medical).  Alpha  Upsilon  Mu  (medi- 
cal). Old  gold  ana  dark  green.  Rah-rah-rah  !  Rah-rah-rah  !  Ver- 
mont, Vermont!     Rah-rah  !  (twice  rapidly). 

University  of  Virginia,  1S19,  Charlottesville,  Va. ;  5,501;  acres 
4,000;  buildings  13;  volumes53,(MK);  income  1130,000;  instructors 60; 
students,  academic  2  IS,  engineering  0,  law  110,  medical  151,  net 
total  50 1,  men  only,  not  counting  summer  schools.  Corks  and  Curts 
(annual),  Topics,  Mai^aziue.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Phi  Kappa  Psi, 
Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Chi  Phi, 
Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Delta  Psi,  Sigma  Clii,  Kappa  Sigma,  Alpha  Tau 
Omega,  Pi  Kappa  Alpha,  Zeta  Psi,  Sigma  Nu,  Phi  Delta  Theta, 
Kappa  Alpha,  Phi  Delta  Phi  (law),  Mu  Pi  Lambda.  Orange  and 
navy  blue.  Wah-hoo  wah  !  Wah-hoo-wah  !  U-ni-v  !  Vir-gin-i-a  ! 
Hoo-rah-ray  !    Hoo-rah-ray  !    Rah-rah  !    U.   V.  A. ! 

University  OF  Wisconsin,  ls51,  Madi.son,  Wis.;  13,426;  acres  600; 
buildings  16;  volumes  210,000;  income  5400, <MX);  instructors  111; 
students,  graduate  110,  letters  and  science  785,  mechanics  and  en- 
gineering 205,  law  21(),  pharmacy  60,  agriculture  209,  music  145, 
summer  schools  152,  net  total  1,S02;  co-educational.  />adjrer  (an- 
nual), Daity  Card i fiat,  .E^ais.  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma*,  Chi  Psi,  Delta  Gamma*,  Sigma 
Chi,  Delta  Upsilon,  (;amma  Phi  Beta*,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta 
Phi  riaw).  Kappa  Alpha  Theta*,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Pi  Beta  Phi*, 
Theta  Delta  Chi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Alpha  Phi*.  Cardinal.  U-rah-rah! 
Wis-con-sin!  (repeated  three  times  witli  a  tiger). 


THE  SCROLL.  45 

University  OF  WoosTER,  1870,  Wooster,  Ohio,  0,901;  Presbyterian; 
acres  21;  buildings  4;  volumes  19,496;  income  |,34,0<)0;  instructors 
25;  students,  collegiate  445,  preparatory  120,  summer  term  140,  mu- 
sic 216,  art  32,  oratory  69,  net  total  767;  co-educational.  Index  (an- 
nual), \\nct\  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Kappa  Alpha Theta*, 
Kappa  Kappa  Oamma*,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Alpha  Tau  Omega. 
Black  and  old  gold.  Boom-a-lac-a!  Boom-a-lac-a!  Boom-boom-baw! 
Woosterl    Wooster!    Rah-rah-rahl 

Vanderhilt  University,  1875,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  76,168;  Methodist; 
acres  76;  buildings  2^1;  volumes  23, (XK);  income ^1 10, <HK);  instructors 
91;  students,  academic  233,  engineering  25,  biblical  64,  law  36, 
medical  165,  pharmacy  14,  dental  168,  net  total  674;  co-educational; 
Comet  (annual),  Ohser-eer,  Hustler.  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Kappa 
Sigma,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Kappa  Alpha,  Chi  Phi,  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Sigma  Nu,  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  Sigma  Chi,  Pi  Kappa  Alpha.  Black  and  old  gold.  Van- 
derbilt,  rah,  rah  !  Vanderbilt,  rah,  rah  !  Hoo-rah  !  Hoo-rah  !  Var- 
sity !  Varsity  !  Rah  !  Rah  !  Rah  ! 

Wabash  College,  1833,  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  6,089;  Presbyterian; 
acres  40;  buildings  5;  volumes  34,000;  instructors  18;  students,  col- 
legiate 120,  preparatory  72,  total  192,  men  onlv.  Oiiiateuofi  (annual), 
iral)ash.  Beta  Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi 
Kappa  Psi,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Kappa  Sigma.  Scarlet.  Wah-hoo-wah  ! 
Wah-hoo-wah  !  Wah-hoo  !  Wah-hoo  I  Wa-bash  ! 

Washington  AND  Jefferson  College,  1802,Washin^on,  Pa.;  7,063; 
Presbyterian;  acres  14;  buildings!;  volumes  14.000;  income  i^2H. 000; 
instructors  16;  students,  collegiate  229,  preparatory  72,  total  301, 
men  only.  Pandora  {2invi\x?X)/\Vashins:;ton-Jejfersonian.  Beta  Theta 
Pi,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  Delta 
Tau  Delta,  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Red  and  black.  Wich-i-ko-ax  !  Wich- 
i-ko-ax  !    W.  and  J.!    W.  and  J.!    Boom  ! 

Washington  and  Lee  University,  1749,  Lexington,  Va. ;  3,059; 
Presbyterian;  acres  75;  buildings  18;  volumes  35,000;  income  $50,- 
000;  instructors  19;  students,  collegiate  119,  law  53,  total  172,  men 
only.  Calyx  {a.nnuA\),  Soul /tern  Collei^ian.  Phi*Kappa  Psi,  Alpha 
Tau  Omega,  Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Chi,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon,  Phi 
Gamma  Delta,  Kappa  Sigma,  vSigma  Nu,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Pi  Kappa 
Alpha,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma,  Delta  Tau  Delta,  Mu  Pi  Lambda.  White 
and  blue.  Chicago-runk  !  go-runk  !  go-ree  !  Heigh-ho  !  hi-ho  ! 
Washington  and  Lee  !  Washington  and  Lee  !  Washington  and  I^ee  I 
Tiger ! 

Washington  University,  1.S59,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  451,770;  non-sec- 
tarian ;  acres  40;  buildings  13;  volumes  19,(M)0;  income  $180,000. 
Collegiate  and  engineering,  instructors  27.  students  151;  preparatory, 
instructors  52,  students  654;  manual  training,  instructors  15,  stu- 
dents 241;  law.  instructors  15,  students  165;  medical,  instructors  33, 
students  85;  dental,  instructors  17,  students  99;  fine  arts,  instructors 
11,  students  274;  total,  instructors  170,  students  1,669;  co-education- 
al. Student  Life.  Myrtle  and  maroon.  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon,  Phi  Delta  Phi  law).  Sizzle- sazzle  I  Razzle-dazzle  I 
U-ni-v  !    Washington  I    Washington  !    Var-si-ty  I 

Westminster  Coixegk,  1852,  Fulton.  Mo.;  4,311;  Presbyterian; 
acres  22;  buildings  3;  volumes  6,000;  income  513,000;  instructors 
11;  students  113,  men  only.  Search fiir lit  f annual).  Student.  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Kappa  Alpha.  White  and  old  gold. 
Rah-rah-rah  !    Oh  !  yes.  Sir !    Vive-la!    Vive-la!    Westminster! 


46  THE  SCROLL. 

WiLUAMS  College,  1793,  Williamstown,  Mass.;  1,500;  Congrega- 
tional; acres  25;  buildings  21;  volumes  39,250;  income  J83,242; 
instructors  18;  students  385,  men  only.  Guliclmensian  (annual), 
Literary  Monthly ^  Weekly.  Kappa  Alpha,  Sigma  Phi,  Delta  Upsi- 
lon,  Chi  Psi,  Zet'a  Psi,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Delta  Psi,  Delta  Kappa  Ep- 
silon,  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Theta  Delta  Chi.  Royal  purple.  Rah-rah- 
rah  !     Will-yunis,  yams,  yums  I     Williams  ! 

PVom  the  foregoing  it  may  be  learned  that  Phi  Delta  Theta 
meets  Beta  Theta  Pi  in  40  colleges  and  universities,  Sigma 
Chi  in  ;U;,  Delta  Tau  Delta  in  21),  Phi  Kappa  Psi  in  2S,  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon  in  2S,  Alpha  Tau  Omega  in  25,  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  in  24,  Sigma  Nu  in  24,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  in  21, 
Kappa  Alpha  (southern)  in  1*>,  Kappa  Sigma  in  10,  Delta 
Upsilon  in  1«S,  Zeta  Psi  in  IH,  Psi  Upsilon  in  12,  Chi  Psi  in 
1 1 ,  Theta  Delta  Chi  in  1 1 ,  Chi  Phi  in  1 1 ,  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
in  10,  Phi  Kappa  Sigma  in  7,  Sigma  Phi  in  (>,  Delta  Phi  in 
0,  Delta  Psi  in  -3,  Pi  Kappa  Alpha  in  5,  Kappa  Alpha  in  4, 
Mu  Pi  Lambda  in  2,  Phi  Phi  Phi  in  1.  vSo  that  the  (>♦>  chap- 
ters of  Phi  Delta  Theta  meet  4ir)  chapters  of  other  general 
fraternities  ;  ll)t)  of  these  are  older  than  the  Phi  chapter  they 
meet,  21  <>  are  younger. 


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Editorial 30 

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IN  ALL  DESIGNS. 


BADGES.  RINGS.  SCARF  PINS, 
MONOGRAMS  AND   BUTTONS 


All  Work  done  under  Official  Appointment 


D.  L.  AULD, 


76  E/iST  GA  Y STREET  COLUMBUS.  OHIO 


SIMONS  BROTHER  &  CO., 

Fraternity  Canes  and  Jewelry 


A  FEV  SUGGESTIONS^ 

FRATERNITY  Badges,  Scarf  Pins,  Lapel  Buttons,  Sleeve  Buttons,  Rings. 
Charms,  Lockets,  Fob  Chains,  Spoons, 

SOUVENIR  Mustache  Combs,  Book  Marks,  Court  Plaster  Cases,  Match, 
Stamp  and  Scent  Boxes. 

yfft  manufacture  Phi  Delta  Theta  Badges  and  Jewels  in  all  Designsr 
and  would  respectfully  solicit  your  support  and  patronage* 

SIMONS  BRO.  &  CO. 

FACTO  by: 
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Pmtai 


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8CIENTIFI0  IMERICIN, 

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mor  KIgDUfla  toDRUI.  week\  J,  t«niu  13.00  ■  T«tf  1 
niOiU  monfhi.     Hpedmen  oopln uid IUhd 
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Banjo  or  Zither. 


Frora  Sig.iKi  Upward. 

^  The  new  Wi.libum  Mnndultn  Is  ■  ™d 
l^BSTlTndo'll  "imnjilnshlft  nnd  lU  to 


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LcknowlcdKed  atandanl  ol  tl 
d  nclurively  br  the   leaAc 


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"l'th'pn'%^  ai'ciinilnatlo^  dlnW^Imm  tba  ttOatJ- 
A  Washburn  ImprovM  with  m  and  malna  ■ 
It  iareallr  wortb  many  times  Its  coat. 

LVON  &  HEALV, 

COR.  WABA5H  A  VB.  ft  ADAM5  ST. ,  CHICAOa 


INDIANAPOLIS.  INDIANA 

Phi  Delta  Theta  Headgnarters 

Rva  Elacirlc  LInei  leave  the  Union  Sislloa 


Every  Thrw  H 


w  The  Denlion. 


mewman  ^ab^ed 


Have  been  renowned  for  excellence  since  College 
Fraternities  or  Greek  Letter  Societies  have  enjoyed 
their  modern  freedom.  We  have  always  been  the 
most  extensive  and  prominent  manufacturers  of 
these  goods  in  the  United  States,  and  our  interest- 
ing collection  and  files  of  dies  dating  from  old  times 
attest  to  this. 

Our  services  to  the  Fraternities  have  earned  for 
us  appointments  as  Official  Jeweler  to  Phi  Delta 
Theta  as  well  as  to  Twenty-five  other  Fraternities 
and  Sororities  by  special  legislation— entirely  un- 
solicited and  on  the  merits  of  our  work  alone. 

The  opening  of  the  season  finds  us  prepared 
with  New  Goods  and  New  Prices.  Correct  stand- 
ards and  latest  Fraternity  regulations  are  observed, 
as  also  the  finest  jewelry  principles  in  beauty  of 
design,  value  and  construction. 

Three  complete  catalogues  comprise  Badges, 
Alumni  Emblems,  Emblematic  Jewelry,  Novelties, 
Souvenirs,  etc.  Kindly  state  what  particular  ar- 
ticles you  are  interested  in,  together  with  your 
chapter  and  class. 

J.  F.  Newman, 

10  John  9t.,  New  York 

W/anu/aeiur/ny  ^mmmimr, 
S}ffs/yt9«r  ^  Ciass  and  Soo/eiy 
SPins,  ^odais,  Sio. 


December,  1897. 


The  First  Chapter  Bouse  in  the  South, 

Frtyntispiece 
Chapter  Houses  in  Southern  Colleges,     .        9'i 

C.  ^  \'''^y'  College  Annuals 101 

_.  V^^        \™i\  Wilbur  Morse,  Han'ard,  '00,    .  13( 

B^  ^B^         Jlflr^  Sentiment  an  Argument  for  Miami,     .         .  13! 

Official  Communication,    ....       131 

Editorial IS- 

^      fS^^^  j_       //^r  Chapter  Correspondence,  ,       13i 

--^J^9^^Q       dft^  Province  Conventions,  .191 

'x?/     ^      T«>  Personals, 191 

'flft^  Items  of  Interest 191 

Swi       "^"^^  ^^ ^^' 

(far<      y<^|»|**^(         4''  Directors'. 

'          ■"  ft^                                BtSewanee;  The  Kappa  Alpha  House  at  Booth 

\^  western  ;  TenEessee  Alplis's  HoUM  ;  The  Sirni 

^^i,-^^*.  5                                Alpha  Kpsiloo,  Delta  Tan  Delta  and  Eappa  Sig 

y^^f\7*}  nia  Kousea  al  Sewanee :  The  DelU  SA  HoBW  ■ 

/glCy^2^Cy\  MlMiHfppl ;  Wilbur  Motse,  HaTvard.  'OO;  Th. 

I^V^■ltil!^V^V  Allegheny  Chapter:    The  DickiiuoD  Chapter 

•L        .^ffW   -US'  The  Wooater  Chapter. 

PVBLUHCD  BY  THE 

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Eatered  at  the  Post-office  at  Indianapolia  aa  maU  matter  of  the  Second  Claaa. 


D.  L.  KUL-D 


MANUFAOTURKS 


ml  M  Delta  TIiBta  Jewels 


IN  ALL.  DESIGNS 


BADGES,  RINGS.  SCARF  PINS. 
MONOGRAMS  AND   BUTTONS 


All  Work  done  nnder  Official  Appointment 


D.  L.  AULD, 


76  EAST  GAY  STREET  COLUMBUS.  OHIO 


SIMONS  BROTHER  &  CO., 

Fraternity  Canes  and  Jewelry 


A  FEW  SUGGESTIONS*-, 


FRATERNITY  Badf?08,  Scarf  Pins,  Lapol  Buttons,  Sleeve  Battons,  Binfrst. 
CharmH,  Lockots,  Fob  Chains,  Sp>oon8, 

SOUVENIR  Mustache  Combs,  Book  Marks,  Court  Plaster  Cases,  Match, 
Stamp  and  Scent  Boxes. 

We  manufacture  Phi  Delta  Theta  Bads:e8  and  Jewels  in  all  Designs^ 
and  would  respectfully  solicit  your  support  and  patronac;e* 


SIMONS  BRO.  &  CO. 


factory: 
8ALE8E00M8  611  AND  613  Sansom  Street 

616  and  618  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia  Philadelphia 

19  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 
96  State  St..  Chicago,  111.  In  writing  to  advertisort)  mention  The  Scboll. 


Vol.  XXll. 


February,  1898. 


No.  J. 


PVBUfHCD  BY  THE 

fHATCRWlTY 


BnUnd  at  the  Po3t.office  at  liidianapoliN  aa  mail  matter  of  the  .Second  Class. 


Est  ABLisHiD  1849. 


DCTROIT,  MIOH. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 


Therv  in  do  Hoe  ut  hadnea  n 


thO    EL 


EiTflen.  n 


We  have  been  origiiiaton  aod  leiiderH  in 
elr>  for  j-phdi,  Bod  eiperiaDCti  has  tauK)>t  i 
BtndenU.  Wnit  till  yon  gee  oar  fiuHls.  1 
duappointed. 

CHASTE  *  4  e  NOVELTIES 


rN  GREAT  VARIETY 


UeDtlOD  Tbb  Bcboll. 


OrJtT  SmmpUtfor  In 
'■      ifbfaarStcTtU 


MCHMOWl)  STltAIGffT  CUT  Bcy.l 
CIQARETTES 

Clrinlte  imokcn  who  in  wllllnt  W  P*y  ■ 

irt  Ihan  Hi*  prlct  chiqtfd  tar  Uie  Or- 

ary  Trad*  CiEiKtlct,    will  Hud   TbU 


InVin-int 


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'  "bcwb  re'oi'i  si  iiut  looi 


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and  AnnjulW^end  tor  fBtiTinitoe. 


D.  L.  KUL-D 


MANUFAOTURKS 


01 M  Delta  TtiBta  Jewels 


IN  ALL.  DESIGNS 


BADGES.  RINGS.  SCARF  PINS. 
MONOGRAMS  AND   BUTTONS 


All  Work  done  under  Offlclal  Appointment 


D.  L.  AULD, 


76  EAST  GA  Y  STREET  COLUMBUS,  OHIO 


SIMONS  BROTHER  &  CO., 

Fraternity  Canes  and  Jewelry 


A  FEW  SUGGESTIONS^ 


••••• 


rRATERNITY  Bad/?e8,  Scarf  Pius,  La^iel  Battons,  Sleeve  BattooH,  Rinffs. 
CharniH,  Lockets,  Fob  ChainB,  Spoons, 

SOUVENIR  Mnstaclio  Combs,  Book  Marks,  Court  Plaster  Cases,  Match, 
Stamp  and  Scent  Boxes. 

We  manufacture  Phi  Delta  Theta  Badges  and  Jewels  in  all  Designs^ 
and  would  respectfully  solicit  your  support  and  patronage* 


SIMONS  BRO.  &  CO. 


factory: 
BALGHRooMs  611  AND  613  Saxsom  Street 

616  AND  6H<  Chestnut  St.,  PuiLADELPniA  PHILADELPHIA 

19  Maiden  Lane,  New  Yobk  City 
96  State  St..  Chicago,  III.  In  writing  to  advertisers  mention  Thb  Scboll. 


Vol.  XXU. 


February,  1898. 


No.} 


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W" 

The  University  of  Texas— Main  Buildiog, 

Froniisfiiefe 
The  Univeisity  of  Texas,  ...         21 

Old  Fiatemity  Records 23 

Dr.  Albert  E.  Leonard,  OAio.  '88,  .  26 

A  Case  of  Lifting  at  Williams,     .  .    ZS 

Ff  Editorial, ZG 

•  Cliapter  Correspondence,     .  .         .28 

Personals,  ......        28 

Items  of  Interest, 30 

The  Pyx 31 

EKreclory. 

ILLOSTHilloNs  —  The  University  of  Teii»l 
HhodesS.  B«kei,  Tf.fii','118;  R,  WJierky  9miU 
Texui,  -SI :  Tom  J.  Lee.  Teau.  'M  ;  DT.  Albert  1 
Leonard,  Dhfn.  'RB, 


PVBUXHCD  BY  THB 

riLATeiUflTY 


Entered  at  the  Post-office  at  liidianapoliK  as  mail  matter  of  the  .Second  Class. 


EflTABLISHED  1849. 


Dktroit,  Mioh. 

PHI  DELTA  THETA  BADGES 

There  is  ao  IJDenf  badtiea  maDufacturn]  that  can  oom- 
pan  with  ours  for  beanlr.  confoniiiiig  to  legalatiDD,  qnal- 
in  of  Jewell D(i,  variety  and  workmanaliip. 

The  aboTP  utatement  ia  ■  brand  oue,  but  inipectioD  of 
tlie  BBTDiileii  shovn  b;  oar  Imvelers  and  'sileat  dnun- 
men'  (appmial  pnckaiteB).  will  prore  tha  asHrtion. 

We  have  been  ori^DBtore  aad  leaders  in  fraternity  faw- 
elrj  lot  yeatf.  and  experience  baa  tauitbt  na  tbe  wants  of 
Htndentfi.  Wait  till  you  see  our  soods.  Yim  will  not  be 
diaappoinled. 

CHASTE  *  A  e  NOVELTIES  ^    „      ,   ,    ,      ,. 

IN  GREAT  VARIETY 


m  Tub  8oBoi/i_ 


RtfiitiUim  PuJt*  BtlUmt. 


MCHMOHD  STRAIGHT  CDT  H0..1 
CIQARETTES 

wHllKE lo  pava 

Trade  Cieiwtt»r  will  find   TbI* 

bil[hl(i<.  irotf 
at  cost  QoM 
I  lstheold«Dt 
cut  C,K.rene.. 
Ihe  year  i8j(. 


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Esped:!!  atlorui.iu  given  to  Frnterplty  and  College  Mat;az 
anil  Annjials-.^^end  for  t-atiiiiatM. 


A.  W.  Rodgers,  Miami.  '51, 

Ardivan  Wallter  Rodgers,   . 

A  Practical  Fraternity  Cfltfllogue, 

General  Alexander  Peter  Stewart, 

Old  Fraternity  Records, 

General  Henry  Van  Nesa  Boynton, 

The  Fraternity  Library. 

Colonel  Frederick  Fuiiston, 

A  Misunderstanding, 

A  Greek  Vandal, 

Editorial.  .... 

A  Letter  from  Robert  Morrison, 

Chapter  Correspondence, 

Personals,    .... 

Items  of  Interest,     . 

The  Pyi 

Directory. 


.'STRATioNs  — Ardivan  Walker  Rodsera 
i,  <6! :  Alexander  PelcrSlcnrt,  Miami.  'IS 
'  Van  NrsB  Boynton,  K,  M.  I.,  'S8;  Fredei 
initon,  Kantcu.  '93;  On  the  River  Rontl 
aoth  Cave. 


PVBLUHCD  BY  THG 

ruATBRHITY 


Bntercd  at  the  Poat«fl&ce  at  Indianapolia  aa  mail  ttutter  nf  the  Seamd  aaaa. 


^", „:„„,.  PRECIOUS  STONES 
•-^^  ART  WARES 


PHI  DELTA  THETA  liiuW.  m.  Jewelry,  Nov- 
pinil  StiUionery  in  the  Unitt-d  States. 


140  and  142  Woodward  Ave.,  Detroit,  Mich. 


D.  L.  AULD 

MANUPAOTURES 

PHI  Delta  TIiBta  Jewels 


m  ALL  DESIGNS 

BADGES,  RINGS.  SCARF  PINS, 
MONOGRAMS   AND    BUTTONS 

All  Work  done  under  Official  Appointment 


D.  L  AULD, 


76  E/fST G/IY STREET 


COLUMBUS.  OHIO 


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GENERAL  COUNCIL. 

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Beta  Province— M.  H.  Guerrant.  Northern  Bank  Building,  Lexington,  Ky. 

Gamma  Province — Schuyler  Poitevent,  40  East  Lawn,  University  of  Virginia,  Va. 

Delta  Province— Hubert  H.  Ward,  89  Euclid  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

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Editor  of  the  History— Walter  B.  Palmer,  611  S.  Spruce  St.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
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COLLEGE  CHAPTERS. 

Alpha  Provinck. 

Maine  .\lpha— Colby  University,  Waterville,  Me,— W.  B.  Chase. 

New  Hampshire  Alpha— Dartmouth  College,  Hanover.  N.  H. — B.  C.  Rodgers. 

Vermont  Alpha— University  of  Vermont,  Burlington,  Vt. — C.  F.  Blair,  Phi  Delta 
Theta  House. 

Massachusetts  Alph^— Williams  College,  Williamstown,  Mass. — Geo.  H.  Anslcy, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  Lodge. 

Massachusetts  Beta— Amherst  College,  Amherst,  Mass. — Chester  M.  G rover,  Phi 
Delta  Theta  House. 

Rhode    Island  Alpha— Brown  University,  Providence,   R.  I.— Howell  G.  Wilcox. 
r>l:\  N.  Main  St..  Station  B. 

New  York  .Alpha- Cornell   University,  Ithaca,   N.   Y. — Geo.   Sellers  Smith,    Phi 
Delta  Theta  r,od>je,  't  Kdgemoor  Lane. 

New  York  Beta— I'nion   I'niversity,   Schenectady,   N.  Y.— John   D.  Edwards,  Phi 
Delta  Theta  House.  4  University  Place. 

New  York  Delta— Columbia  University,  New  York,  N.  Y.— Oscar  Weeks  Ehrhorn, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  Suite.  81 S  \V.  I16th  St. 


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New  York  Epsilon— Syracuse  University,  Syracuse,   N.  Y.— Allen  D.  Burnham, 
Phi  Delta  Thcta  House,  7«1  Irving  Ave. 

Pennsylvania  Alpha— I^fayette  College,  Haston,  Pa.— Geo.  P.  Williams,  124  Mo- 
Keen  Hall. 

Pennsylvania  Beta— Pennsylvania  College,  (iettysburg.  Pa. — J.  Clyde  Markel,  Box 

118. 

Pennsylvania  Gamma — Washington  and  Jefferson  College.  Washington,  Pa. — D. 
Glenn  Moore,  131  Jeffer.son  Ave. 

Pennsylvania  Delta— Allegheny  College.  Meadville.  Pa.— William  t,.  Wilkenson, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  House. 

Pennsylvania  Bpsilon — Dickinson  College,  Carli.sle,  Pa.— J.  Milnor  Dorey. 

Pennsylvania  Zeta— I'niversity    of    Pennsylvania.    Philadelphia.    Pa. — J.   H.    R. 
Acker.  Phi  Delta  Thcta  House,  214  S.  37th  St. 

Pennsylvania  Kta— Lehigh  I'niversity,  South  Bethlehem.  Pa.— Wm.  B.  Grubbe, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  House.  745  Delaware  .-Vve. 

Beta  Province. 

Virginia  Beta— University  of  Virginia,  Va.— J.  Woods  Price. 

Virginia  (iam ma — Randolph-Macon  College,  Ashland.  Va. — S.  M.  Janney. 

Virginia  Zeta— Wa.shingtou  and  Lee  I'niversity,  Lexington,  Va.— R.  G.  Campbell. 

North  Carolina  Beta— University  of  North   Carolina.  Chapel  Hill,    N.  C,   R.  li. 
Kittrell. 

Kentucky  Alpha — Centre  College,  Danville,  Ky. — Gordon  Sulser. 

Kentucky  Delta — Central  University,  Richmond.  Ky.— IL  A.  Douglas. 

Tennessee    Alpha — Vanderbilt   University,    Nashville.  Tenu.— Ernest    S.  Jones, 
Phi  Delta  Theta  House. 

Tennessee  Beta — University  of  the  South,  Sewanee,  Tenn.— Tom  S.  Parrott,  I'hi 
Delta  Theta  House. 

(Vamma  Provinck. 

Georgia  Alpha — Univerjiity  of  Georgia.  Athens,  Ga. — U.  H.  Davenport.  Phi  Deltti 
Theta  House. 

Georgia  Beta — Kmory  College,  Oxford.  Ga. — Frank  S.  Palmer. 

Georgia  (iamma— Mercer  University,  Macon,  Ga. — T.  U.  Conner,  Jr. 

Alabama  Alpha — University  of  Alal)ama,  Tuskaloosa.  Ala. — Frank  C.  Owen. 

Alabama  Beta — Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute,  Auburn,  Ala. — Geo.  M.  Wheeler. 

Mississippi  Alpha— University  of  Mi.ssissippi,  University  P.  O..  Mi.ss. — G.  L.  Ray. 

Ix>uisiana   Alpha— Tulane  University  of   Louisiana.    New    Orleans,    I<a.— Henry 
Newton  Woods,  1320  Aline  St. 

Texas  Beta — University  of  Texas,  Austin,  Tex, — T.  T.  Connally.  1801  Congress  Ave. 

Texas  (lamma — Southwestern  I'niversity,  Georgetown.  Tex. — John  H.  McLean.  Jr. 

Dklta  Province. 

Ohio  Alpha — Miami  University.  Oxford,  Ohio.— W.  K.  Stokes. 

Ohio  Beta — Ohio  Wesleyan  University.  Delaware.  O. — C.  P.  .Morgan,  22rt  William  St. 

Ohio  Gamma— Ohio  University,  Athens,  Ohio. — W.  K.  Scott.  Box  322. 

Ohio  Zeta— Ohio  State  University,  Columbus.  Ohio.— 1.  M.  Foster.  Phi  Delta  Theta 
House.  V.m  N.  High  .street. 

Ohio  Kta— Case  School  of  Applied  Science.  Cleveland,  Ohio.— R.  C.  Gifford,  Phi 
Delta  Theta  House.  45  Fairchild  St. 

Michigan  Alpha— University  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor.  Mich.— Fred  R.  Hoover,  Phi 
Delta  Theta  House. 

Indiana  Alpha — Indiana  University.  Bloomington,  Ind.— Ernest  P.  Wiles. 

Indiana  Beta— Wabash  College,  Crawfordsville.  I nd.— Marshall  V.  Robb. 

Indiana  Gamma   -Butler  College,   University  of  Indianapolis,  Irvington,  Ind.— 
Virgil  S.  Dalrymple. 

Indiana  Delta— Franklin  College.  Franklin,  Ind.  — Parley  W.  Monroe. 

Indiana  Epsilon   -Hanover  C«)llege,  Hanover.  Ind.— T.  C.  Whallon. 

Indiana  Zeta- DePauw  University,  Greencastle,  Ind.— Chas.  B.  Campbell. 

Indiana  Theta     Purdue  University,    Lafayette,    Ind.— Herbert   M.    Woollen,    Phi 
Delta  Theta  House,  cor.  State  and  Sheetz  Sts.,  West  Lafayette. 


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A  MANUAL  OP- 


Phi  Delta  Theta 


I.  Sketch  of  the  Pntemity. 
II.  Tribotes  to  Phi  Delta  TheU. 

III.  Songs  of  Phi  DelU  TheU. 

IV.  Prominent  Members. 

V.  SUtistics  of  Fraternities. 
VI.  SUtistics  of  Colleges. 

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FOURTH  EDITION 


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A  Fromlnrnt  PhrHlcl»I>- 

A  prominent  New  York  phvsician 
In  diacusHing  the  merits  of  bipoos 
Tabules  witli  a  brotber  M.  D.  said : 
"Several  veary  b>i^>  I  assertod  tliat 
if  one  -winlied  to  l)ecome  a  pliilaa- 
thopiat,  and  do  a  beneticeut  deed- 
one  that  would  help  tlie  wholi-  liu- 
man  race— nothing  could  \ie  Is'tter 
than  to  procure  the  Roo^veli  llim- 
pital  prescription,  -ii-AuA  is  ihi  basis 
eflhe  Ripans  Tahuks,  and  cause  it  to 
be  put  up  in  tbe  form  of  a  Icetcliup 
wia  distributed   amon^  tbe   poor. 


The  largest  retail  druR  store  in 
America  is  that  of  Hegenian  &  Co. 
on  Broadway  in  New  York  City. 
A  reporter  who  went  there  to  leara 
bow  Ripans  Tab- 
mIfs  were  selling 
bought  a  five-cent 
carton  and  asked : 


B?" 


,11    fo 


s  referred 
toagentlemanwho 
proved  to  be  the 
nead  of  the  depart- 
ment.    He  said  : 

"  Tbe  sale  of  Ripans  Tabules  is 
constant  and  is  inri'easing.  clue 
eepecially  to  tbe  influential  character 
of  theteHtimonialu  in  tbe  daily  press, 
and  growing  out  of  these,  through 
the  recommendation  of  friend  to 
friend.  Satisfactipn  with  them  is 
very  general.  When  once  they  are 
b^un  I  notice  that  a  permanent 
customer  for  them  is  made.  This,  1 
believe,  is  through  their  intrinsic 
merit,  which  proves  the  Ixma  fide 
character  of  the  ndvertining.  I  Chink 
them  specially  useful  in  tlie  general 
run  of  stomach  troubles." 


RiPAm 


ONE  GIVES  RELIEF 


An  Rlderlf  L>dr> 

An  elderly  lady  living  at  Fotdham 
Heighte.  a  part  of  New  York  City, 
and  who  was  known  to  be  a  warm 
advocate  of  Ripans  Tabules  for  any 
case  of  liver  trouble  or  indigestion, 
said  to  a  reporter  who  visited  ner  for 
the  purpose  of  learning  the  particu- 
lars of  her  case :  "  I  had  always 
employed  a  physician  and  did  so  on 
the  last  occasion  I  had  for  one.  but 
at  that  time  obtained  no  bene&ciol 
results.  I  liad  never  had  any  faith 
In  patent  medicines,  buthavingseen 
Ripans  Tabulea  recommended  very 
highly  in  the  New  York  Htmldcaa.. 
eluded  to  give  them  a  trial,  and 
found  thev  were  just  what  my  case 
demandeil.  I  have  never  employed 
a  physician  uince,  and  that  means  a 
^^^  saving  of  $3  a  call. 

^^^^  A  dollar's  worth  of 

Ripans  Tabules 
lasts  me  a  month, 
and  I  would  not  be 
without  them  now 
if  it  were  my  last 
dollar."  At  the 
time  of  this  inter- 
present  two  daugh- 
ters who  speciallf 
objected  to  their  mother  giving  a 
tftttimoniai  which  should  parade  her 
name  in  the  newspapers,  but  to  do 
tliis  the  elder  lady  argued  :  ''There 
may  be  other  cases  just  like  mine, 
and  I  am  sure  I  take  great  pleasure 
in  recommending  the  Tabules  to  any 
one  afllicte<l  as  I  was.  It  the  telling 
about  my  cnHO  in  the  papers  enables 
some  other  person  nimilarly  a(Tect«d 
to  be  as  greatly  benefited  as  I  l^ve 
been.  Iseenoobjectkm."  The  daugh- 
ters, knowing  liuw  earnestly  she  felt 
about  the  benefit  bIio  had  received, 
decided  she  was  quite  right. 


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PHI  DELTA  THETA 


L  Sketch  of  the  Fraternity. 

IL  Tributes  to  Phi  Delta  Theta* 

nL  Songs  of  Phi  Delta  Theta< 

IV.  Prominent  Members. 

V.  Statistics  of  Fraternities. 

VI.  Statistics  of  G)IIeges. 


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