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

THE SCROLL. 497alumni club has been accepted by the general council. It isdesigned that this shall be one of the most useful as well asenjoyable conventions in our history. The Washington Phis,one hundred and thirty-two in number, have already beguntheir preparation by appointing Bro. George M. Rommel1929 Cincinnati street, as general chairman, aided by a numberof special committees. The details of the arrangementswill be announced in ample time before the convention.A movement is on foot to organize an alumni club at NewHaven, and to this end a preliminary meeting was held onAlumni Day at the Cafe Heublein. There is no reason whythis commendable movement should not be very successful,as at Harvard. There are at least forty-two Phis in thecity, nearly all of whom are attending Yale University. Ifany Phi at Yale has not yet been discovered by the committeehe should immediately send his name and address to Bro.Isaac F, Harris, North Carolina, '00, care Graduates Club.The literature of our recent Alumni Day includes somehandsome invitations and menu cards. The Minneapolis andSt. Paul Phis drew drafts on their members, containing thefollowing: "On sight, pay to the order of Twin City .-\lumniclub of Phi Delta Theta, one and one-half dollars, value receivedat annual banquet, and charge the same to account offraternal friendship. "Signed by W. H. Condit, president,and A. J. Edwards, secretary. We understand that thesedrafts were very generally honored. Illinois Delta andIllinois Zeta issued a joint invitation to their alumni. .-Vmongmenu cards the finest, perhaps came from Columbus, Ohio,but those from Richmond, Seattle and Indianapolis wereespecially pretty and the toasts were planned elaborately andartistically.The Cincinnati Phis, with Bro. Scott Bonham as the leadingspirit, took strong ground in opposition to brutality in initiationsby the adoption of the following resolution:It is the sentiment of the Phi Delta Theta alumni club of Cincinnati thatnothing tending to brutality or any physical or mental danger or risk to thecandidate or the lowering of his self-respect should be permitted in the initiations of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.