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

THE SCROLL. 479western correspondent writes of "Minerva and the beast" onthe 2 A E badge.A Y has entered the university, making the number offraternities at Illinois thirteen. There are two local clubs atIllinois, II H and Aztec petitioning A A * and * Y respectively.—Illinoiscorrespondence of A K E Quarterly.2 N, as soon as it was revived at Virginia last winter, seta good example to older fraternities in renting a home toaccommodate 12 men. A letter in the Delta shows that theuniversity has 741 students and 17 regular fraternities.A Y has thirteen Rhodes scholarship men—two from VermontRhode Island and California, and one each from NovaScotia, Quebec, Toronto, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusettsand New York. * A® has five, the next largest numberof any fraternity.The history of * K *, by C. L. Van Cleve, was publishedin 1902. The Shield for March announces that the entireedition of 2,000 copies has been disposed of. The edition ofthe history ^of 4> A © is not so large, and those who desirecopies should order at once.The 2 X Quarterly says that the following amounts have^been loaned from the endowment fund of that fraternity toaid chapters in building houses: ^,400 to Cornell, j! 1,000to M. I. T., $1,000 to Wisconsin, ji.ooo to Michigan (repaid),S500 to Vanderbilt, $500 to Maine, % 400 to Stanford. ,The A Y Quarterly claims that The Convention Dailypublished during the A Y convention at Chicago, October,1904, was the earliest convention daily published by anyfraternity. It preceded by two months The Convention DailyNews, issued during the 2 A E convention at Memphis,December, 1904.Nine members of 2 A E had a banquet at the HawaiianHotel, Honolulu, January 6. Seven of them are permanentresidents. A letter in the Record shows that they proposeto form an alumni association, and are agitating the question of securing a room for 2 .V E in the University Clubhouse when it is built.An article on "Our Congressman" in the Record showsthat 2 .-V E has had a very good list of national representa-