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

THE SCROLL.— K —Vol. XXVffl. DECEMBER, 1903. No. 2.THE GEOGRAPHY OF PHI DELTA THETA..\t the convention of Zeta province with Wisconsin Alphachapter at Madison in ilay, 1902, the visiting brothers wereall interested in a certain map, framed and hanging on thewalls of the chapterhouse. It was a map of the UnitedStates, showing the geographical location of the chaptersand alumni clubs of Phi Delta Theta. It had been made andpresented to the chapter by Franklin Sweet, Wisconsin, '93.So taken with the map were the delegates that, by vote ofthe convention, arrangements were made to have the mapduplicated in order that each delegate might have a copy topresent to his own chapter. The editor was present at theconvention aforesaid—although not then the editor—andwas one of those who coveted the map. He has recentlyprevailed upon Brother Sweet to bring his map down todate for the benefit of the readers of THE SCROLL.On looking at the map for the first time one is surprisedto find what erroneous impressions he has all along had ofthe geographical relations between the chapters, and howlittle he knew about the real lay of Phi Delta Theta territory.Analysis brings out a number of interesting facts.The northernmost chapter is McGill; the southernmost, Tulane,with a close second in Texas; the easternmost, Colby,and the westernmost, California. Three distinct groups ofchapters suggest themselves; first, a thickly settled groupin Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, spreading out into Michigan,Kentucky, ilissouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsinand Minnesota; then the group in the Southeast, comprisingGeorgia and Alabama, with outlying cliapters in Tennessee,Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; the third group is theeastern win.g along the Atlantic coast, beginning withNorth Carolina and extending northward through the Easternand New England States into Canada. The four chap-