1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

io8 THE SCROLL.K A has been granted a site for a chapterhouse on thecampus at Washington and Lee. It will be the first fraternityhouse to be erected there.ATA met in convention in Cleveland, August 26-28.The grand council of K K T held its biennial session atCleveland at the same time, and was gallantly entertainedby the Delta Taus.Non-fraternity men at Randolph-Macon will not be approachedon fraternity matters until December 1, underrecent resolutions signed by * K S, * A ®, K 2 and K A.This agreement is for the present session only, but if theplan proves successful it will be renewed.There is considerable chapterhouse activity at Dartmouth.B © II goes into her newly-erected house the present session,while X * has leased a home. It was announced duringthe spring that A K B alumni had purchased a lot andwould build during the coming year, the house to be presentedto the chapter.The •!> r A convention at Put-in-Bay in August declineda petition from Kentucky State, and revived the chapter atStanford with nine charter members. The former chaptergave up its charter and formed the local society of 2 P H,which was later chartered by A K E. Stanford now hasfifteen men's fraternities.•Volume VII of 'The New International Encyclopedia,'published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1903, containsan article of over two pages on college fraternities, also aplate illustrating in colors the badges of * B K, 2 *, A A *,* Y, A Y, B ® n, X *, A K E, Z *, * r A, * A 0, * K *,2 X, 2 A E, A T A, A T n, Southern K A, K 2, K A ® andK KT.In the last twenty years 2 N has had an extraordinarygrowth. In 1883 it had but three chapters—at V. M. I.,W. & L. and North Georgia Agricultural College. Theorgan of the fraternity, first issued in that year, was calledthe Delia, the name being suggested by the trio of chapters.In 1903 2 N has forty-eight chapters, extending from Vermonton the east to Washington, Oregon and California onthe west. The last convention of the fraternity amended itslaw so that it could grant charters for chapters in-Canada.