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

6i4 THE SCROLL.The board of trustees of B 0 II have decided to hold thisyear's annual convention on July 23-27 at Denver. This is fartherwest than any college fraternity convention was ever held.The Denver alumni have raised i!2,ooo, to be turned into thefraternity treasury to pay the additional railroad expenses ofthe delegates, which will be incurred in traveling to that cityinstead of a more centrally located place. The Denver Betasalso announce that they will entertain in their homes all delegatesfor a week before the convention meets and as longthereafter as they may choose to remain. The recent biennialconvention of OK* decided that its next conventionshould meet at Denver in 1908. The statement being madethat it would cost the fraternity Si500 more to go to Denverthan to Chicago, the Denver alumni guaranteed to pay halfof that amount into the general treasury and Mr. G.\\'. Dun,of Columbus, Ohio, the other half. There is nothing smallabout the Denver Betas or Phi Psis or Mr. Dun.Mr. W. K. Dart,associate editor of the 2 .\ E J^^TWV/publishesin that journal the names of fraternity men in congress.The summary' shows that of fifty-four collegians in the senate,twenty-five belong to fraternities, as follows: AKE, 6; * Y,4; * r A, 2; B ® n, 2; A *, 2; A T A, i; A A *,i; * A ®, i;* K 2, 1; A T n, I; X *, i; * K *, I; A Y, i; K K K (Dartmouth;local), I. Of 234 collegians in the house of representatives,59 belong to fraternities: O K *, 14; $ A ©, 10;K A (Southern,) 5; 2 X, 5; A T A, 3; 2 A E, 3; * Y, 3; * A-\, 2; B ® n, 2; 2 *, 2; AKE, 2; A T O, 2; 2 X, 1; A *, i:X *, i; A*, i; * K 2, i; K K K (Dartmouth, local), i.The * A 0 senator is J. ('. S. Blackburn, Central '57, fromKentucky. The * A 0 representatives are: From Georgia—J. M. Griggs, Vanderbilt, '81; W. M. Howard, Georgia, '77;W. G. Brantley, Georgia, '82; J. G. Lee, Emory, '80, and T.W. Hardwick, Mercer, '93. From Illinois—J. V. Graff, Wabash,'76; Ci. W. Prince, Knox, '78. From Tennessee—M.R. Patterson, Vanderbilt, '82. From Mississippi—W. S.Hill, Mississippi, '84. From Texas—J. G. Russell,Georgia,'78. Of * K *'s 14 representatives, 7 are from Ohio. Mr.Dart says that of the present governors of states, 10 havebeen ascertained to be fraternity men, one each in 2 A E,A K E, * A 0, A T n, * K 2, * K *, X *, * Y, Z *, and KA (Southern). The $ A ® is S. H. Elrod, DePauw,'82, governorof South Dakota.