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

THE SCROLL. 597In oratory and debate Lombard is steadily advancing. Although we lostthe debate to Northwestern College this year we put up a strong fight.The work of the team shows that our department is still young and may bestrengthened in several points, but it brought forth promise of a growingfuture. Bro. Weigel is leader of the team.Bro. Jay C. Hurd, '04, was married April 25, 1906, to Miss, CarrieHitchcock of Chicago. Bro. Hurd is farming at Maquon, Illinois.On May 5, we entertained at our annual party. The Evening Mail sa.ys:One of the most charming society events at Lombard college this year wasthe annual reception and dance given Saturday evening in the gymnasiumby Illinois Zeta chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The gymnasiumwas beautifully decorated, flowing streamers of blue and white, the fraternitycolors, reaching from the center to the sides, and pillows, and rusticseats, adding to the comfort of the dancers. College and fraternity pennantsformed a conspicuous part of the decorative scheme, and on the whitedrape which screened off the platform appeared the handsome fraternityemblem. In the company were several alumni and members of the Knoxchapter. A particularly successful feature of the event were the programs,which were neat and unique. A picture of the fraternity house occupiedone corner of the programs and on each was the inscription, "Phi DeltaTheta, 1906," done in pen and ink by Carter Housh.Galesburg, May 29, 1906.RAY W. JUSTUS.ILLINOIS ETA, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.The college year is rapidly drawing to a close—for some of us, who willsoon bid good-bye to our school life and the many precious associations connectedwith it, far loo rapidly. In this connection one is forcibly remindedof the old saying that one does not fully appreciate the good things whichhe has until he is about to be deprived of them. To the many brothers whowill this spring bid a lingering farewell to dear chapters in all parts of thecountry, the truth of this old maxim must be painfully apparent. Each one,when the time comes lo go, will manfully strive to speak lightly the wordsof parting with a smile upon his lips; but the warm hand-clasps and theearnestly spoken good wishes of the brothers bringing with them a fullrealization of the fact that the graduation exercises will bar them foreverfrom active part in one of the most beneficial, delightful, and satisfying associationsthat can exist among men—an association bound together in theBond with the strength of steel, yet with bonds of truth, friendship and highideals that rest as lightly upon one as a rope of roses. With a full realizationof what dear old Phi Delta Theta has meant to us and of the void thatwill come into the hearts of each in after life for want of a generous, kindheartedfriendship and many little kindnesses of the brothers, the heart willache and a choking lump of sorrow will swell up in the throat.Never will the grandest and greatest of college fraternities seem so dear;never will one realize how puny and insignificant have been his efforts forher betterment and glory; never will one so truly feel his indebtedness to PhiDelta Theta. So let each one of the Phis who pass from the pleasant associationwith the brothers out into the cold, unsympathetic, matter of factworld, show his appreciation of the great good the brotherhood has done forhim and the vast debt he owes her by a tacit solemn resolution to promotethe best interests of Phi Delta Theta whenever opportunity presents itself, toever hold outstretched the hand of friendship to every other Phi and aboveall to cleave fast, and forever, to those cardinal principles of good fellowship,learning and morality set forth in our sacred Bond.Champaign, June I, 1906.W. H. STELLE.