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

528 THE SCROLL.the Palladium; and R. H. Switzler the April SCROLL andMay Palladium. J. H. De Witt edited chapter correspondencein THE SCROLL for February, and J. E. Brown the"Collegiate" and "Hellenic" departments in THE SCROLL forFebruary and April.The February SCROLL contains an account of the Louisvilleconvention, seventy six pages in length—somewhat thelongest account of a convention of * A ® that has ever beenpublished. It was prepared by W. B. Palmer, and includesthe stenographically reported speeches made at the openingexercises and at the banquet, a resume of convention legislation,letters and telegrams from absent members, extractsfrom the Louisville papers, etc. There were seventeen illustrations,the convention group serving as a frontispiece, ahalf-tone of a flash-light photograph of the members at thebanquet table, three smaller groups, one other half-tone, twowood cuts, one etching, and eight convention cartoons reproducedfrom the Courier-Journal..An article, by W. B. Palmer, about New York Delta calledattention to the remarkably large number of honors won byits members, and especially to the prominence of Phis in the1901 Columbia University comic opera, - Princess Proud,"of which two Phis, G. S. Parsons and A. R. Allen, werethe authors, and in the production of which leading characterswere taken by other members, a half-tone of the cast incostume being given. The Pennsj'lvania letter in the AprilSCROLL mentioned two 4> A ® representatives in the 1901production of the Mask and Wig club.The February SCROLL (issued late in March) also containsa notice of the death, February 26, of Colonel A. W. Rogers,one of the founders of 4> A ®, by R. H. Switeler; and a noticeof the death, March 13, of ex-president Benjamin Harrison,by H. U. Brown. A list of Phis in metropolitan journalismappearing in the February SCROLL (supplemented in the Junenumber) shows that there were nine on Chicago papers andtwenty-three on New York papers.The April SCROLL was largely devoted to memorials ofGeneral Harrison and Colonel Rogers. Articles relating toGeneral Harrison were contributed by J. W. Foster, Indiana,'55, who had been secretary of state in his cabinet; Dr. A.C. Kemper, Miami, '52, who had known him intimatelywhile both were active members of Ohio Alpha, and J. B.Elam, Miami, '70, who had been his law partner. R. H.Switzler prepared an account of his public career, and W B.