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

270 THE SCROLL.condition of each chapter and alumni club. The two Tennesseechapters own houses, Kentucky Epsilon lives in arented house and Kentucky Alpha-Delta is working towardthe acquirement of a home. All the chapters were reportedto be in good condition. It was resolved that an endeavorbe made to hold joint annual dinners of the Louisville andNashville alumni clubs. A standing committee was appointedto look carefully after the interests of the fraternity in theprovince. The convention discussed the affairs of the severalchapters with great minuteness and some very useful andpractical recommendations were made.The furious rain during Saturday prevented the hosts fromshowing the handsome city to the visitors, but in the eveninga very enjoyable banquet at the. Duncan Hotel proved theclimax of the occasion. The toastmaster was John H.DeWitt, R. G. C, Vanderbilt, '94. Toasts were respondedto by Bros. R. M. Allen, ^yoVvace-'^re'ii&erA, Kentucky State,'00; Douglas '^•n^t, Vanderbilt, '03; F. G. Wishard, Knox,'94; George W. Martin, Wabash, '87, adjunct professor ofbiology in Vanderbilt University, Alfred E. Howell, Vanderbilt,'82, president of the Nashville alumni club, John M. P.Thatcher, Central, '05, and H. A. Peterson, Chicago, '97,professor of philosophy in the University of Nashville. Themost interesting feature, however, was the brief appearanceof Miss Wilder with her brother, during which she was presentedwith a large bouquet of white carnations and informedthat she had been elected sponsor for the Phis of Kentuckyand Tennessee—all of which she gracefully accepted.DELTA PROVINCE.If province conventions were to be judged solely by thedirect benefits which result to the fraternity or even to thechapters of the province, I am not sure that their continuanceas a fraternity policy would be justified. The indirectbenefits, however, are not so difficult of estimation. Theclose personal contact of the members of the different chapters,the interchange of ideas, the information gained of themethods employed by other chapters in solving the problemscommon to all chapters, in general the meeting of the respectiveproducts of the small college and the great university ona basis of intimate personal relationship, cannot but be of incalculablebenefit to all the participants, as well as to thechapters to which they return.Measured by this standard the Delta province conventionwas one of the most successful of recent province conven-