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

396 THE SCROLL.the neglect or indifference of those about whom the errors exist, and in moscases no one is to blame for it but themselves.There has been a constant pressure upon the editors to hurry. Thosewho had kindly consented to revise our lists wanted plenty of time to examinethem, the printer wanted all the time he could have, the first formshad to be printed to release the type for the rest of the book and the resulthas been that the editors have done all of their work under pressure. Thisstatement is made in view of certain inconsistencies and errors to which ourattention will be promptly called by the unappreciative critic.No attempt has been made to secure uniformity of statement of the samefact in different places. Sometimes we have it "1200, 13th St.," and sometimes"1200, Thirteenth Street;" sometimes "The Theological Seminary ofVirginia;" sometimes "Alexandria Theological School;" sometimes '*P. E.Theo. Bern., Va." The substance being there, the form was not regardedas important. We intended to give in general only the higher military ranksecured by a person through successive promotions. If a man arose from aprivate to a brigadier-general, we named the latter rank, but we find onreading the page proof that we have not always cut out the lower rank. Itwould cost us more to cut it out than to leave it in, and in it is. Thenagain, we did not always see matters of this kind when we were hunting forsomething else. We have read the lists many times and with much care,but we are sure that many errors have escaped our attention.Complaints were made to us from many sources by men whose nameswere on the roll of more than one chapter that they had never been properlytransferred to the second chapter, and did not desire to be included in itslist. This was especially the case with persons attendingthe professional departmentsof Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Michigan. Inall cases where a wish of this kind was expressed, it was acceded to. Insome cases, also, names on a chapter roll were said by the chapters not to beentitled to such a place, and, by request, they are omitted; and in a fewcases, a man did not desire a place on the roll of the chapter at which hehad been initiated, but preferred a place on the roll of a chapter to whichhe had been transferred and in whose ranks he had spent his real chapter life.Probably in the future it will be determined that a name can be insertedbut once. Our lengthening roll is demanding severe economy in space.We bespeak a cordial appreciation of the mechanical excellence of thebook. But one thing induced our criticism, the composition being on thelinotype machine, we were obliged to use English type for B and K in theprinting of $ B K.The sketch of the fraternity is similar in character andlength to the sketch of B ® II in "American College Fraternities/'but contains additional matter of interest. It says thatthe constitution and laws, revision of 1897, in printed form,may be obtained from the general secretary. It shows thatbefore a charter is granted the application must be approvedby two out of the three newest chapters, and receive theaffirmative votes of three-fourths of all active chapters. Ofthe (y% chapters, 24 own houses and 31 rent houses. Thefollowing paragraphs are quoted from the sketch:Chapter-house life is a novelty to the Beta alumni of more than fifteenyears' standing. It is a development of fraternity existence which has cometo stay. By going into houses it has been found that the fraternal spirit has