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

®lj^ g^rrnll of pi irita Sly^taVol. XXX JUNE, 1906 No, 5THE SCROLL AND THE PALLADIUM,REVIEW AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.The first fraternity to project a journal was A Y, which, inthe spring of 1868, issued, under one cover, a double numberof a semi annual. Our Record, bearing the dates October,1867, and April, 1868. It did not meet with success, butthe same fraternity issued two numbers of the University Review,dated January and May, 1870, when it too ceased toexist. Publication of the A Y Quarterly was not begun until1882. In June, 1869, ® A X issued the Shield, but only onenumber appeared. A periodical under that name was startedby the same fraternity in 1884. Thg Beta Theta Pi beganas a monthly in December, 1872, suspended in July, 1874,was revived in January, 1876, and has been published continuouslyever since. In 1868, i86g and 1873, ^ * issuedan annual called the Chockett. This was changed to the X ^Quarterly, but only one number appeared in 1874 and onein 1875. I' suspended in 1875, was revived in 1877, andsuspended again in 1891. THE SCROLL of * A ® began inJanuary, 1875, suspended in September, 1876, was revivedin September, 1878, and has been published continuously eversince. * K * began publishing a Monthly in October, 1875,but it suspended in 1876. Three issues of a Quarterly appearedin 1877, and the fraternity was without an organ untilSeptember, 1879, when the Shield of * K * was established.ATA began publishing a monthly, the Crescent, in 1877.In the next few years several other fraternity journals wereestablished.At the national convention of 4> A ® in 1873, on motion ofD. B. Floyd, a committee on publishing "a monthly organ"was appointed. The convention of 1874 adopted a resolutionproviding for the publication of "a quarterly paper."A prospectus of The Phi Delta Theta Quarterly was issued.