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

132 THE SCROLL.Among the women's fraternities, two have the parentchapter in Syracuse. They are Alpha Phi and Gamma PhiBeta. The local chapter of Alpha Phi is almost the onlychapter of a women's fraternity in any college to own itschapterhouse. Other women's fraternities are Kappa KappaGamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Delta DeltaDelta, Zeta Phi (medical), Delta Gamma. This yearGamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta as well as PsiUpsilon are trying the plan of not pledging until the secondsemester. They seem to be strictly observing the rule.Taken as a whole, the fraternities in Syracuse are in aflourishing condition and are a credit to the university.Intense rivalry has given way to general harmony and placingof college before fraternity.CLEMENT T. ROBERTSON, '05.COLLEGE ANNUALS OF 1903.*It has been our privilege to see and study the annuals ofseventeen colleges where 4> A © has chapters. A very greatpleasure it was thus to get better acquainted with such anumber of our most important and strongest institutions,and from the standpoint of the books themselves we believewe were most fortunate in the annuals sent us, so kindly sentus. Certain it is that as a whole the books received show remarkablecleverness in the compilation, arrangement, editorialjudgment, and mechanics of this distinctive featureof our American college life—the college annual. To preservethe record of undergraduate days, to catch up andperpetuate the spirit of alma mater, to sum up within thepages of a book the year's doings on campus and in field—these are the achievements of the annual, the souvenir parexcellence oi college.The books received and reviewed in the following pagesare:The Kaldron of Allegheny.The Microcosm of Dickinson.The Syllabus of Northwestern.The Saintar of Missouri,The Cactus of Texas.* Our brothers of Vermont very kindly sent us a copy of the Ariel,but unfortunately it turned out to be the '03 book, which was revrewedin THE SCROLL for December, 1902.