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

370 THE SCROLL.committee, composed of F. C. Brown and J. P. Hanner, ofthe faculty, and H. P. Benton, James Hinton and J. A.Brown, of the active chapter, was appointed to attend to thematter. The purchase has been made and the chapter hasbeen incorporated and has acquired a desirable home. Thehouse was, for awhile, the Methodist parsonage. It is aframe house of one story, containing ample reception rooms,a reading room, club room, bed room for two students, andone room which will be fitted up for the use of visitingalumni. The lot comprises half of an acre, and is largeenough for tennis courts. Shade trees almost surround thehouse. The location is ideal, being on George street, just asquare and a half from the campus. The property was obtainedat a great bargain, for already, an advance price hasbeen offered for it. The chapter has made the first payment,but will not obtain possession until September i, 1906. Thehouse, built only a few years ago, is in good repair, and canbe made to serve the chapter's needs at a small cost. GeorgiaBeta is the first fraternity here to acquire a house. Severalyears ago, some of the fraternities, including * A ®,rented houses in which the members lived, but, on complaintthat the effect on the chapters was detrimental, the collegetrustees passed a resolution prohibiting fraternities fromoccupying houses. However, there is no objection to achapter having a house accommodating only enough membersto take care of it. FRANK C. BROWN, Illinois Beta, '02.RECOLLECTIONS OF MYSTIC SEVEN AT EMORY,In my day at Oxford, I was as enthusiastic a member ofthe Mystic fraternity as my son, Walter B. Palmer, has beenin his fraternity (* A 0), but that was more than fifty yearsago, and the details have passed away like a pleasant dreamleaving only the delightful memories which come upon me,whenever I visit Oxford, or hear or see the name of the dearold place.I have no records from which to refresh my memory whileI was a student of Emory college, and, therefore, the followingstatements are incomplete and fragmentary, but theymay contain some facts of interest to members of the Greekletterfraternities of the present day. The Mystic Seven wasorganized in 1837, at Middletown, Connecticut, among thestudents of Wesleyan University, and the first southern