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

THE SCROLL. 339Asterisks indicate suspended chapters.In certain years two or three states were entered and theexact priority of establishment is unknown.Georgia, Mississippi and perhaps Louisiana were enteredby Roman-letter fraternities before they were entered byGreek-letter fraternities, and the year of establishment of thefirst fraternity of each kind in each of these states is given.In several states the oldest fraternity in point of continuousexistence is neither the pioneer chapter nor the chaptergiven as the oldest chapter. These chapters may have beensuspended for a period, and other chapters in the same institutionsmay have existed continuously for a longer time.Among Greek-letter organizations which have been first toenter the various states AHA, which entered South Dakotain 1903, is the only sorority.* B K, which has been non-secret and only an honorarysociety since 1831, is not included in the table. It wasfounded in Virginia (William and Mary), 1776, and enteredConnecticut (Yale), 1780; Massachusetts (Harvard!, 1781;New Hampshire (Dartmouth), 1787; New York (Union),1817; Maine (Bowdoin), 1825; Rhode Island (Brown), 1830;preceding the establishment of other Greek-letter societies inthose states.Of the forty-five states, fraternities have entered forty—allexcept South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah andNevada. They have entered also the District of Columbiaand Oklahoma, the only territory they have entered. Theyhave entered also Ontario and Quebec, not to mention theephemeral chapter of X 4> in Scotland.Local Greek-letter societies are known to exist at the universitiesof South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah,Nevada and Arizona.The Rhodes scholarship men who belong to A Y met,October 24, and organized the "Oxford University A YClub." The secretary writing to the A Y Quarterly says:"The idea was to meet once a year for dinner, and once aterm in the rooms of the various members at the differentcolleges to transact any necessary business." The editor ofthe Quarterly says. "We need have no fear that this willlead to an attempt to form an undergraduate chapter at Oxford,which, as the secretary says, would be as undesirableas it would be impossible." A Y has eleven Rhodes scholarshipmen, and the Journal oi Southern K A says: This is