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

THE SCROLL. 381the college, the chapter received a new impetus, and duringthe '8o's it became very strong and remarkably successful.Georgia Delta at Mercer University was established in1872 by a member of the Emory chapter, R. S. Saulsbury,who, in 1873, became a charter member of the chapter at theUniversity of Virginia. Oglethorpe University having suspended,the national convention of 1880 decided that the chapter atthe University of Georgia should be called Georgia Alpha,the Emory chapter Georgia Beta, the Mercer chapter GeorgiaGamma. In 1877, when W. B. Palmer was a senior atEmory, be entered into correspondence with students at theUniversity of Mississippi and the University of Alabama,which led to the establishment of Mississippi Alpha andAlabama Alpha in that year. In the same way he establishedNorth Carolina Alpha at Trinity College in 1878, and SouthCarolina Alpha at Wofford College in 1879, and revived WisconsinAlpha at the University of Wisconsin in 1880.In 1902 Georgia Delta was established at Georgia Schoolof Technology at Atlanta. The state now has only five'colleges for men, and * A 0 is established in four of them,the one in which it is not established being the North Georgia-'Agricultural College. All of the chapters are strong. * A 0has many prominent alumni in the state. It may be notedthat of Georgia's delegation of eleven members of the nationalhouse of representatives five are members of * A 0.*This is a record which is unequalled by 4> A 0 in any otherstate and is believed to be unequalled by any fraternity inany state. Indeed Georgia has as many Phi congressmen asall the remaining states combined. WALTER B. PALMER,Georgia Beta, '77; Tennessee Alpha, '80.PHIS AT THE NASHVILLE STUDENT VOLUNTEER CONVENTION,The fifth quadrennial convention of the Student VolunteerMovement, which was held at Nashville, Tennessee, February28 to March 4, 1906, was the largest and most remarkablegathering of college men and women that was ever held. Itsrecords show the attendance of 3,000 students and 286 professorsfrom 700 institutions of higher learning in the UnitedStates and Canada. ."Altogether there were present 4,188* Their names follow: second district. J. M. Griggs. Vanderbilt.'8r: seventh district.J. G. Lee, Emory, 'So: eighth district, W. M. Howard, Georgia, '77; tenth district T. W.Hardwick, Mercer, '93: eleventh district. W. G. Brantley. Georgia, '82. Several yearsago C. L. Mases. Mercer, '76. also represented one of the Georgia districts in congress.