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

2 74 THE SCROLL.C. H. Oldfather, Hanover. Committees on province legislation,time and place of next convention, subscriptions toThe Scroll, internal improvement, alumni clubs and resolutionswere appointed. The reports of the delegates werethenreceived and fully discussed. They showed a generalprosperity among the chapters, none of them being weak andtwo or three being stronger than they were last year. Someinteresting facts as to new chapter houses were developed.Indiana Alpha has purchased the ground and arranged tobuild a Sio,ooo house by the opening of the next session.The Wabash house which was the first acquired, is beingimproved and fully furnished. Indiana Gamma will probablybuy a lot near the college campus, with the intention tobuild a handsome house for which about one-third of thecost has been subscribed. Indiana Delta will rent a house inFranklin during the spring. Indiana Epsilon has raised halfof the money to build a JI5000 house. Indiana Zeta hasbought a well located lot for ^2000 and hopes to build ahouse within the next two years. Indiana Theta has boughtthree lots valued at S2200. They are free from encumbranceand the chapter hopes ultimately to build a ?2o,ooo house.The second day was consumed in careful consideration ofimportant matters of internal administration and fraternitypolicy. The convention was photographed in the morning.The purely social features of the convention were necessarilyfew on account of the short time devoted to it. On Fridayevening at seven o'clock a banquet was given at the LohrHouse, and at ten o'clock on the same evening a smoker washeld at the chapter house. Altogether about sixty-five PhiDelta Thetas were present during the two days. The minutesof the convention have been issued in pamphlet form.C. STANLEY SALE, Purdue, '06.ETA PROVINCE.The Birmingham alumni were the hosts of a very successfulconvention of the Phi Delta Thetas of Eta province onNovember 17 and 18, 1905. The place of meeting was thecity hall and the convention began on Friday afternoon withan address of welcome by Bro. Frank S. White, Jr., of AlabamaAlpha. After the usual committees were appointed theconvention adjourned and in the evening the visiting brothersenjoyed the hospitality of the local alumni at a theaterparty. On Saturday morning a very profitable business sessionwas held, at which the interests of the fraternity in Ala-