1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930PRESTON W. SEARCH, Wooster, '76The Call to MenPINDARIOFor singing voice.Best read aloud.By PRESTON W. SEARCH,'Honorary Choragus" and "Golden Legionnaire"A Poem read at the General Convention of ihe Phi Delta ThetaSault Ste. Marie, September 3, 1930.OUR ENRICHING INHERITANCEUT of the days when the world was young.O Of strenuous deeds and heroes unsung.When clothes were homespun and tools were brawn.When rocks were unquarried and timbers unsawn.Hard toiled our ancestors.Investors, bequestors.Laid strong our keels, our foundations deep.With sweat, in best blood, in sacrament vow.When dangers were rife and harvest unreaped.Each standing alone, with hand on the plow,Digging from soil the food of each day.Musket at instant, the enemy at bay;Then born was the nation, our homes slow evolved,A new era dawned, the old was dissolved;Then stood forth the stalwarts, the builders, the seers.The foreguards, the safeguards, the brave pioneers.Our fathers, our mothers.Their sisters and brothers;[14]Fraternity,