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

THE SCROLL. 215I'o offset this list of inactive chapters, beside the new chapter of K 2 andthe chapter of A A 4i which has already been mentioned, 9 A X, AT andS A E all have succes.sful and well organized chapters. The chapter of A Thas a larger membership than is usual with fraternities, being somewherenear seventy; but it is in cordial relations with the rest of its fraternity.Several of the societies present an annual play or other literary exercises,and practically all of them entertain more or less elaborately on class day.The success of some of these chapters, and the new spirit to which referencehas been made above, gives assurance that there is now no condition toprevent the establishment and maintenance of suitable chapters of generalfraternities at the mother of American colleges. • 'The Massachusetts Institute of Techtiology corporation hasvoted to withdraw every proposal looking to union with HarvardUniversity. The action was the outcome of the supremecourt's recent decision that the institute could not legally sellits property on Boylston street. If the project comes upagain, it will have to be approached in a new way.The following fraternities have entered M. I. T.: X*,1873; 5X, 1882; A TO, 1885-86; *rA, 1889; A*, 1889;0H, 1889; ATA, 1889; ® A X, 1890-92: AY, 1891; 2 A E,1892; « B E (local), 1895; * S K, 1902; * K S, 1903; 0 X,1903; AS*, 1905.THE KENYON TRAGEDY,On Saturday night, October 28, Stuart L. Pierson, eighteenyears old, a freshman at Kenyon College, Gambier,Ohio, was killed by an engine on a bridge of the Cleveland,Akron and Columbus Railroad. He was to be initiated thatnight into the Lambda chapter of A K E. His father, N. L.Pierson, a wealthy lumberman of Cincinnati, and an alumnusof Lambda chapter, had come to Gambier on Friday nightto participate in the initiation.The candidates for initiation on Saturday night were blindfoldedand led by ropes about the town, after which, about 9p. m., they were sent from the college dormitory to variousplaces, to await the arrival of initiation committees who wereto bring them to the chapter lodge. Each of them carried abasket to the rendezvous appointed for him, the basket containinga rope with which his hands were to be tied, and abandage with which he was to be blindfolded. Young Piersonwas sent to the abutment of the railroad bridge south ofGambier. His father was the last man to see him leave thedormitory. He was not in the least afraid, and said to hisfather: "I don't know what's to be done to me, but you do,and I'm not a bit afraid." Upon the departure of the candidates,the active and alumni members of the fraternity.