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

THE SCROLL. 267for charters were received from New Hampshire AgriculturalCollege and the University of Toronto. The former was refused,but the latter received the enthusiastic and unanimousendorsement of the delegates present. Since that time theaffirmative votes of Pennsylvania Gamma and Delta havebeen given, so the province stands a unit with the petitioningbody. Everyone present felt that the opportunity was onewe could not afford to let pass. The convention also put itselfon record as unalterably opposed to all forms of brutaland injurious practice in the course of an initiation. It wasalso voted that every chapter be requested to appoint a committeeon class standing of the freshman members, that asmaller number may be lost to the fraternity.The finance committee presented a resolution that the limitof the liability of the province for next convention be ^100to be raised by a per capita tax upon the active membershipof the province, and this was unanimously passed after somediscussion. It was the opinion of all that province conventionswere becoming too elaborate affairs and that business,the primary motive for such assemblies, was being lost sightof in the rush of costly social functions. It was also thesentiment of the delegates that a convention was not expectedto exceed in cost the appropriation made for it. Inthis way the entertaining chapter is freed from the necessityof riinning into debt for an elaborate series of festivities forthe visiting delegates. Appropriate resolutions were passedin the case of Bro. Harold Ransom Moore, of New YorkBeta, who died from injuries received in a football game theprevious Saturday. Copies of the same were sent to his familyand the chapter. The invitation of the Dickinson chapterto hold the next convention at Carlisle was accepted. Itwas decided that the railroad fare of the delegates should bemet by the pooling system, each chapter paying its proportionateamount whether represented or not. It was hoped bythis to induce each chapter to send a delegate, as the expensewould be the same.Every evening was filled with the festivities so kindly arrangedby the entertaining chapter. Tuesday evening occurredthe banquet at the Van Ness House and more thansixty delegates and visitors gathered around the well-filledtables. The menu was an elaborate one and served in the mostattractive manner. After the tables were cleared, Bro. T. C.Cheney, Vermont, '91, as toastmaster, introduced severalspeakers, who responded eloquently to the toasts assigned