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

THE SCROLL. 33admonished as to the form and general style in which theseletters should appear. He will later be shown exactly whaterrors he has made and just how he can make improvement.We believe that this salutary work will be only appreciatedby all our reporters. The labor of editing these letters forthe printer is sometimes little short of drudgery, but with thisprocess it will become more like pleasure and the letters willafford much more satisfaction to their authors. However,we do not propose to impair the individuality shown in them,and we will still not object to some of the boasting that characterizesthem, although we think that it will never do harmnot to overstate conditions in the colleges and chapters.These letters chronicle the real life of the undergraduate partof the fraternity, and we sincerely trust that they will be preparedwith assiduous care and sent in with perfect promptnessand regularity.A NEW class enters this fall, inheriting the happy blessingsof what has been prepared by the older brothers. With noinsincerity do we welcome these new wearers of the sword andshield. They have entered a brotherhood of the loftiestideals, with an organization complete, systematic, full ofvitality and stability. Its benefits will never leave them, butwill grow with the flight of years and the closer assimilationof the men with the fraternity. Everywhere this autumn aregratifying evidences of wholesome activity and growth. Twonew chapter houses are described in preceeding pages of thismagazine. Others have just been acquired and will be fullydescribed in the December SCROLL. Still others are about tobe acquired. A strong stimulus will soon be suddenly felt asa result of the conventions to be held in nearly all the provinces.The chapter letters in this number show facts justifyingunusual cheerfulness among the chapters. Let us derive alegitimate pleasure from these good things, and with thegreatest kindness and good feeling toward our rivals, we canmodestly rejoice over our general prosperity, and seek tomake strong whatever yet is weak.