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

510 THE SCROLL.versity of Chicago, an account of the installation of the newIllinois Beta, a sketch, by W. B. Palmer, of the old IllinoisBet^; and sketches of prominent alumni of the chapter—MayorG. B. Swift of Chicago, Judge C. C. Kohlsaat, and F. A.Smith, a trustee of the new university. There is also a sketchof the astronomer. Dr. T, J. J. See, all these sketches havingaccompanying portraits. There are also notes aboutWilliam Allen White and Frederick Funston, two KansasPhis of growing fame. An article by W. O. Morgan advocatesthat the membership of those going from one college toanother should not be transferred in membership from onechapter to another.Thejunenumbercontains a sketch, by R. H. Switzler, and ahalf-tone portrait of another founder. Colonel A. W. Rogers;a memoir, with portrait, of Judge D. D. Banta, one of theearly members of Indiana Alpha; and a sketch, by W. B.Palmer, with portrait, of C. O. Perry, who had been prominentas a fraternity worker tweaty-five years previous. Anillustrated article, by Schuyler Poitevent, about the Universityof Virginia contains a great deal of local "color" indescribing student life there, and quotes a letter from R. S.Saulsbury about the establishment of Virginia Beta. Asketch of the Saint Louis alumni chapter is given by C. A.Bohn. In previous volumes initiates for the college year hadbeen given in the June SCROLL, but in June, 1897, the initiateswere given as shown by the annual reports to the H. G.C, the date for which the 1896 convention changed fromApril I to February i. Volume XXI contains 694 pages,exclusive of the 69 paged convention supplement, and it ismuch the largest volume ever issued.Volume III of The Palladium contains four numbers and60 pages, the pages for the first time being consecutivelynumbered through the volume. The January issue summarizesconstitutional amendments by the convention. TheMarch issue contains an article by W. B. Palmer, P. G. C,on the ritual, with an illustrated price list of the paraphernaliarequired by the ritual adopted in 1896. This was thefirst time that illustrations appeared in The Palladium. TheMay issue contains an address from Palmer, suggesting variouslines of fraternity work.1897-1898.THE SCROLL, Volume XXII: five bi-monthly numbers—October, 1897,to June, 1898; pp. 580-l-supplement, October, pp. 47 (second editon of the