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

252 THE SCROLL.ternity system, with the dates and places of origin and cutsof the badges of all general college fraternities for men andwomen. The origin and development of fraternity customsand features of government are traced, and credit is given inall instances to those who were the pioneers.The birthplace of Phi Delta Theta, Miami University, ishonored with an illustrated sketch, which gives an accuratepicture of the soil in which Phi Delta Theta was planted.Statistics from publications of the earlier days shed an interestinglight on the attendance of American colleges and universitiesat the time of our beginning. Yale, for instance, onJanuary i, 1849, had 385 students; Columbia boasted of 130and Pennsylvania had 88. Old Union, the alma mater ofeastern fraternities, had 280 students at that time, and JeffersonCollege, the birth-place of * T A and * K *, had 197.BADGES AT DIFFERENTIPERIODS,Specimens of illustrations of badges at different times from ' The History ofPhi Delta Theta."The line of descent of the fraternity chapters at MiamiUniversity is traced from the entry of A A * in 1835, and wehave a complete picture of the circumstances under which"the Miami triad," B © IT, 4> A © and 2 X, took their originin that fraternity source of the west. Brother Palmer quotesat length from the historical and reminiscent literature ofBr® n and 2 X in his account.The six founders of Phi Delta Theta are honored withelaborate biographies, as is their due. Photographs taken atdifferent ages, views of their homes and of their last restingplaces accompany the text. More than ever, in rereadingthese life stories, are we impressed with the good fortunethat is ours in having, as founders of the fraternity that welove, six such manly, far-seeing, high-minded collegians as