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

448 THE SCROLL.Although the university was closed for spring vacation last week, il wasa busy time at *our house.' A number of us denied ourselves the pleasureof going home and spent the time painting the house.Every year the question of repainting the house has been brought up anddiscussed only to be laid on the table. This year it came up as usual. Oneof our enthusiastic alumni offered to buy the paint if we would do the work.So we put on all the old clothes in the basement and proceeded to give thehouse a liberal coat of paint, not slighting ourselves or the lawn. In fact itwould be difficult for a casual passer-by to tell which of the three we reallyintended to paint. We do not want to boast, but we think we really did apretty good job, and that we deserve considerable credit for having the enterpriseand perseverance to carry out the undertaking without the aid of aprofessional painter.I must not forget to say that the Tacoma alumni club have received theircharter, and that we expect that they will prove a great aid to the activechapter here. Bro. Priest presented their charter to them at the alumnibanquet.Seattle, April ii, 1906,FRANK M. ALLYN.ALUMNI CLUBS,BURLINGTON.Alumni Day was celebrated in this city by a banquet given at the chapterhouse to the active chapter of Vermont Alpha by the Vermont alumni clubofPhi Delta Theta. At 7 o'clock P. M. the boys began to arrive and it wassometime after 8 before we sat down to an elaborate repast, which was byfar superior to any such spreads that we have been accustomed to submit to atthe various hotels in this city during the past.After we had finished our cigars and coffee we adjourned to the assemblyroom where the exercises of the evening were begun in the order of a regularmeeting with the addition of the special Alumni Day services.The two speakers on the subject, "What the Alumni Owes to the Chapter,"were Bro. Thompson. '98, for the alumni, and Bro. Edson, '07, forthe active chapter. After this discussion the meeting was closed in due form.The literary exercises were opened by selections from Henry Drummond'sFrench Canadian stories, by Bro. Appleton, and banjo selections by Bro.Chess, both of the active chapter.After the exercises the alumni club held its annual business meeting andelected the following officers: President, Bro. Sinclair; secretary and treasurer,Bro. Sabin; reporter, Bro. Greene.It was voted that the alumni make a special effort to visit the active chapterin a body, on the second Saturday of each month, and warnings will besent out several days before the meeting to remind the Brothers of theirobligation.The evening closed with the singing of fraternity songs, and it is thesentiment of all present that they had never attended a more enjoyable andenthusiastic Alumni Day celebration.H. H. GREENE.March 20, 1906.BOSTONThe members of the Boston and Harvard Phi Delta Theta club had toovercome difficulties much more serious than those of business on the nightof March 15, when they attended the Alumni Day dinner, for such a stormas swept over Boston on that night has not been experienced in New Eng-