1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Scholarship Improves in 1952-1953
By DONALD M. DUSHANE, Wabash '27, Scholarship
IMPRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, but
still short of the AU-Men's Average, is
the Phi Delta Theta scholarship record for
1952-1953. It was our best year since 1948.
We fell short of the AU-Men's Average by
only four chapters.
However, our standing in relation to our
natural competitors is better than in any
recent year. Beta Theta Pi's lead was cut
by 38.5 per cent, and we gained relative to
all but two of the national fraternities with
which we' compete on 35 or more campuses.
(See Chart II.) The Betas still rank in first
place, 16 rather than 26 chapters ahead of
us, A T O gained six cha;pters and is now
seven ahead of us, and we are one chapter
behind ^TA and SAE, instead of two as
in the previous year.
We are one chapter ahead of A T A, top
K A Order by five, are still six above A Y;
and seven ahead of S X. The others trail
ten or more chapters below us in the following
order: T K E, $ K T, A X, A X A, * K *,
S N, ® X, n K A, K S, and S * E.
Our lead in relation to all of these other
Commissioner
large: national fraternities for 1952-1953 is
173 chapters, a gain of 113 over the preceding
year.
We had 46.2 per cent of our reported
chapters above the AU-Men's Average,
against 40.2 per cent the year before. Thirtyfive
chapters, the same number as a year
ago, were above the AU-Men's Average and
in the top third on their campuses, while
the chapters in the lowest third and below
the AU-Men's Average (Chart III) totaled
twenty this year against thirty the year before.
The accompaning charts follow the pattern
established in previous years. Chart I
being constructed in the form established
by Brother Ray Blackwell when he was
Scholarship Commissioner, and Chart II in
the pattern designed by Brother George
Tuttle when he held this office. Chart III
was first devised four years ago.
Chart I indicates the position of each
chapter among the fraternities and in relation
to the AU-Men's Average on its own
campus. Our top chapter, winner of the
WARD SCHOLARSHIP TROPHY
To Texas Delta at
SM.U.
HERRICK IMPROVEMENT TROPHY
'95^-53 — To Florida Gamma at F,S,U.
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