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

512 THE SCROLL.students, and the desirability of looking especially afterrelatives of Phis among them, and after those residing in collegetowns, were discussed editorially, as also the importanceof issuing annual circular letters, a requirement which somechapters had disregarded. In this issue, as in nearly everysucceeding issue, which H. T. Miller edited, he urged chaptersto install themselves in houses. The second edition of"A Manual of Phi Delta Theta," by W. B. Palmer, containingforty-seven pages, was published as a supplement to theOctober number.The December SCROLL contains sixty-five chapter letters—one from every chapter in the fraternity. The leading articleis about chapter houses of various fraternities in southerncolleges, by C. B. K. Weed, half-tones of a number of housesbeing given. The December issue also contains Editor Miller'sfirst review of college annuals, which his predecessor hadmade an annual feature of the magazine. A suggestiveeditorial shows that fraternity workers should be developedby the older members directing freshmen initiates in variouslines of chapter activity.In an editorial, written by W. B. Palmer, Georgia Phiswere remonstrated with for styling themselves "Thetas".Uniformity in calling members Phis was said to be important.Such designation would not make confusion, as other fraternitieswith * as the initial letter use other designations. Membersof r A, call themselves Deltas or "Fijis;" members of* K * call themselves Phi Psis, and members of * K 2 arecalled Phi Kaps or "Skulls." The misnomer of calling PhisThetas," it was explained, had probably originated at Mercer,where there is a 4> A literary society, as there is a * Kliterary society at the University of Georgia, and a 4> Fliterary society at Emory.THE SCROLL for February, 1898, contains an exceedinglyentertaining article, with illustrations, 'on the University ofTexas, by J. A. Lomax. A sketch, with portrait, of AlbertLeonard, Ohio, '88,. dean of Syracuse University, was given.Instalments of "Old Fraternity Records," collected by W.B. Palmer, were printed in February and April. Owing tothe illness of Editor Miller, the January Palladium was issuedby his predecessor, J. E. Brown, and W. B. Palmer wrote theeditorials for the February SCROLL.The April SCROLL contains a biographical sketch, withportrait, of A. VV. Rodgers, written by Robert Morrison.This completed the series of sketches of the six founders. Short