1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

144 THE SCROLL.eties, holding various offices, and in his senior year representedhis society in one of the oratorical contests in whichhe won the founder's medal, his university's highest honor inoratory. He wrote articles for the college papers, was anactive leader in college politics and in the social life amongthe under-graduates.Neither did he leave out the religious and missionary activitiesof the college. It never occurred to him, as it has tosome popular college fellows, that he would lose caste if hewent in for the religious interests. When Brockman recognizedhis duty, he never stopped to ask what other fellows incollege would think of his course, but he threw himself intothe work which opened before him with all his energy andcontagious enthusiasm. Some fraternity men have held alooffrom the religious interests of their college because they ' didnot like the crowd thatwas running things in the Y. M. C. A."or missionary society. Brockman entered actively into thework and soon had the right sort of a crowd with him. Hewas none the less a good Phi. In fact he brought great honorto the chapter through his connection with the religious workas well as in other departments of college life. All these outsideinterests did not prevent his making a good record as astudent. While never having the very highest marks to hiscredit, he was always in the honor roll and won the * B K key.On graduation, in 1891, Brockman accepted a call tobecome a student secretary of the International Committee ofYoung Men's Christian Associations, with headquarters inNew York City. His work for the six years following wasthat of a traveling secretary among the colleges chiefly in thesouth, developing the religious and missionary life of the colleges.It is interesting to note the growth of the work of theYoung Men's Christian Associations in the colleges of thesouth during the time that he was the secretary. The influenceexerted by a man like Brockman cannot be tabulated.The following table taken from the reports for 1891 (the yearhe began his work) and for 1897 (the year he resigned) showsthe visible results in the field where Brockman labored:No. Student Young Men's Christian Associations 69No. Bible Classes reported 43No. Associations having Missionary Meetings 29No. Mission Study Classes - oNo. Students attending Summer Conferenceso911897loi1375562150