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

538 THE SCROLL.tant editor, W. B. Palmer, Nos, 3-5. Printers, The HoUenbeck Press,Indianapolis, Ind., Nos. 1-2; George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha,Wis,, Nos. 3-5. The Palladium, Volume X; five bi-monthly numbers,September, 1903, to May, 1904; pp. 120. Illustrations 3; map l. Editors,R. H. Switzler, Nos. 1-2; J. H. DeWitt, Nos. 3-5; Assistant editor,W. B. Palmer, Nos. 3-5. Printers, Spahr & Glenn, Columbus, Ohio, Nos,1-2; Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn,, Nos. 3-5.The frontispiece of THE SCROLL. October, 1903, is an engravingof the coat-of-arms, from a steel plate executed byThe Dreka Company, completed in August. The numberwas largely devoted to sketches with half-tone portraits ofprominent members: Hon. J. W. Foster, counsel for theUnited States before the Canadian boundary commission;General J. C. Black, commander-in-chief of the Grand Armyof the Republic (a month or two later, president of the UnitedStates civil service commission;) Alston Ellis, Ph. D.. LI^.D., president of Ohio University; J. T. Morrison, governorof Idaho; C. M. Beckwjth, bishop of Alabama; J. C. Mc-Reynolds, assistant attorney-general of the United States.The sketch of McReynolds was written by J. H. DeWitt, thesketch of Bishop Beckwith by C. B. K. Weed, the othersketches by the editor. The October number contains a reportof the meeting of Phis at Northfield during the summer,and a report of the Phis who attended the inter-collegiate regettaat Poughkeepsie (19 Phis connected with the variouscrews).The frontispiece of the December SCROLL is a double-pageoutline map of the United States, on which are located theoctive chapters and alumni clubs, chapters owning housesbeing indicated. The map was prepared by Franklin Sweet.An article about the Wabash chapter house, by the editor,was accompanied by a view of the house (other views of thehouse being given in April). An illustrated article on SyracuseUniversity was contributed by C. T. Robertson. Thefirst review of college annuals in THE SCROLL appeared in1887. The seventeenth annual review of such publicationsappears in the issue for December, 1903. It was written byR. H. Switzler, who in the same number announced hisresignation as a member of the general council and editor ofTHE SCROLL. In conducting the fraternity magazines hehad displayed journalistic abilities of a high order, and histalent for such work was evinced in all issues that he edited.His retirement was a serious loss to the administrative systemof the fraternity.