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

542 THE SCROLL.Annapolis, a group picture of eleven Phi midshipmen beinggiven. Other features of this issue were: Three Bishops"(C. M. Beckwith, M. E. Fawcett and W. L. Gravatt); "TwoWar Correspondents'' (R. H. Little and Edwin Emerson, Jr.)and "A Comedy Played by the Wabash Chapter" (a halftoneof the cast being given).The June SCROLL contains a notable article, "Recollectionsof the Early Years of Phi Delta Theta," by Rev. E. P.Shields, D. D., Miami, '54. .A biographical sketch of Rev.I). B. Floyd was written by W. B. Palmer. R. H. Switzlercontributed an article on Missouri -Alpha's chapter house, apicture of which formed the frontispiece. -A large numberof extracts from other fraternity journals appeared under theheading ' Comments of Contemporaries."The October number contains sketches, by J. H. DeWitt,of two Phis appointed to Rhodes scholarships at Oxford—J.H. Kirkpatrick, Alabama, '03, and J. J. Tigert, Jr., Vanderbilt,'04. The February number contains an article, byW. B. Palmer, about the Rhodes scholarship men, with a fulllist of them showing their respective fraternities. C. W.Jewett contributed to the June number a sketch of J. M.Devers, De Pauw, '05, who had won first place in the westerninter-collegiate oratorical contest.Reviews, by W. B. Palmer, of several fraternity publicationsappeared in this volume—the catalogue of A K E, inDecember; the catalogues of Z * and 2 N, in April; "Patterson'sCollege and School Directory," in April; the catalogueof 2 X, the "Manual" of 2 A E, and "American CollegeFraternities" in June, .A * A 0 stein (with an illustration)was mentioned in October. * A 0 placques were mentionedin October (with illustration), February and April (with illustration).The directory in THE SCROLL for December, 1903,included the year of establishment of each active chapter. Thisfeature, introduced by R. H. Switzler, then Editor, was inadvertentlyomitted from the next issue, but beginning with theissue for October, 1904, the year of establishment of everyactive chapter and of every alumni club was given.llie Palladium for September, 1904, contains the minutesof Zeta province convention, and articles about several universitiesfrom which applications had been received. TheMarch number, containing 109 pages, the proceedings of theIndianapolis convention, is the largest number of The Palladiumever issued.