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

THE SCROLL. 205The statement in the June SCROLL that A T O was the firstfraternity of southern origin to establish a chapter in the northwas an error. In that year A T n placed chapters at U. ofPa., Muhlenberg, Columbia, Stevens and Adrian, but K 2organized a chapter at Lake Forest a year earlier. LakeForest is a Presbyterian university about twenty-five milesnorth of Chicago. K 2 is the only fraternity there excepttwo locals. At the professional schools in Chicago there are* A *, A X and * A A.At the convention of Southern K A last June the treasurerof the memorial hall association reported that he had $1,849.66in cash and subscriptions. The hall is to be built at thebirthplace of K A, Washington and Lee University. Theconvention pledged $1000 from the fraternity treasury, to bepaid in five annual installments, to aid in building the hall,conditioned on the trustees of the hall collecting $2,000 priorto the next convention. The trustees of the university haveagreed to establish a K A scholarship upon the erection ofthe hall.According to the K 2 Caduceus, the percentages of fraternitymen to the number of male students in some collegeslast year were as follows: Bowdoin, 85 percent.; Dickinson,62; Brown, 60; New York University, 45; Swarthmore, 43;Hampden-Sidney, 41; Wabash, 33; Randolph-Macon, 30;Davidson, 29; Stanford, 28; Washington State, 27; PennsylvaniaState, 24; North Carolina, 24; Georgia Tech., 24;Texas, 24; Arkansas, 21; Buchnell, 21; Nebraska, 20; Trinity(N. C), 19; Cumberland, 19; Oregon, 19; Washington andLee, 18; Indiana, 18; Wofford, 17; Kentucky State, 15;Denver, 15; Purdue, 14; Wisconsin, 13; Iowa, 13; LouisianaState, 13.It is believed by many that some of the colleges of the oldsouth, adhering strictly to the old classical discipline, andhaving as their students the most intensely thoroughbredAmericans, furnish about as good fraternity material as thereis to be found. Certainly more care is exercised in the selectionof membership by the chapters than in many an overcrowdednorthern college of limited attendance. The resourcesof some of these southern denominational colleges, and of thestate institutions of the south, will grow with the rapid increaseof that section's material prosperity. Their equipmentin buildings, an inheritance from the old days, is first class;