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

486 THE SCROLL.behind relatively, while the scientific engineering courses areforging to the front; (4) fewer students are attending lawand medical schools in proportion to the total number of students;(5) the number of women students is growing fasterthan the number of men.—2 X Quarterly.Thirteen of our thirty-seven chapters now lie west of thePennsylvania border. Not one new chapter has been establishedin the New England or middle state since Swarthmorein 1894. All have.been Canadian or western chapters—Stanford,California, McGill, Nebraska, Toronto, Chicago, OhioState, Illinois an impressive octet. We have today in thewest more chapters than any other fraternity of easternorigin. This western trend of our growth inspires in thefraternity (and particularly among its eastern members) nofear, no anxiety, nothing but pride. It has too long beenthe common characteristic of eastern fraternities to sneer atwestern petitions and resolve with Pecksniffian solemnitythat the east was the place for them.—A Y Quarterly.The value of a conservative policy in granting charters isargued anew each year. While we would all of us admitthat in this it is perhaps better to err on the side of conservatism,still ultra-conservatism means not aristocratic exclusiveness,but stagnation. The great benefit of fraternity expansioncomes not so much in the acquisition of new chaptersas in the greater vigor and life it puts in the old. Vigorousgrowth means vigorous action along all lines. In decidingon the various petitioners to A V, each chapter shouldseriously investigate the character of the coUege and thecharacter of the petitioners and then vote on the result ofthis investigation without any silly desire to be exclusive.—A r Anchora.Decrease in attendance in some of the departments ofeastern universities is attributed by a Vale professor "to thefact that young men of the west and middle west are nolonger coming east to get their education, but are turningmore and more to their state institutions, among which aretheir technical schools." Score for K 2's policy of expansion.—K2 Caduceus..•\ delegate to the Indianapolis grand arch council conventionof 1904, smiling over the debate on extension, said tothe editor of the Shield that it reminded him of his collegedays when he was a delegate from a Pennsylvania chapter toa grand arch council, in which he led the organized forces ofconservatism against the idea of establishing chapters in the