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

1/4 THE SCROLL.men, which is ample for the chapter's average membership.This is a notable achievement for Virginia Gamma, andspeaks more strongly than any other testimony of its careerof usefulness. The addition of Randolph-Macon to thelist, makes the number of our housed chapters forty-seven,of which twenty are owned by the chapters. This, leavesonly twenty-one chapters without houses of any kind.Surely our homeless brothers are stirred to renewed effortsby this latest display of pluck and enterprise.ALPHA province had a rousing convention with Syracusechapter during Thanksgiving week, of which a detailed accountwill be found elsewhere in this number. All chapterswere represented save Allegheny, and a large number ofvisitors were present, including the president of the GeneralCouncil. From the newspaper accounts and others whichhave reached us, the Syracuse brothers provided a high orderof entertainment, and made the convention a swingingsuccess. We commend to the attention of all our provincesthis excellent example. Province conventions are distinctlydifferent affairs from national conventions. Theymake strongly for the upbuilding of inter-chapter relations;more men of more chapters get to know each other well, andby meeting around with each chapter, all chapters get betterknown, and mutual helpfulness gets a better chance to operate.Brotherhood in the Bond of Phi Delta Theta is anintimate relation, and all things that work for a better understandingof the problems besetting our fellow-memberstend to the better realization of our fraternity's aims.AN interesting letter which we publish from a Phi DeltaTheta now attending the United States Naval Academy atAnnapolis, telling of the ten members of the fraternity nowcadets there, suggests the thought that under present conditions,so far as we kno'w, young men of this country who