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

236 THE SCROLL.The first badge made into a sword was presented to Gen.John C. Black, Wabash, '62, by the Chicago chapter whichwas chartered October 14, 1865, and installed January 11and 12, 1866. The badge was given to him by this chapterabout the time of the installation. General Black h^i's recentlysent the badge to Bro. W. B. Palmer, who has hadan accurate wood cut of it made for the history now in press,and has had a replica made of it for his own use.* * * * . -The annual football nlatch between' Missouri and Kansasat Kansas" City on Thanksgiving Day is the occasion formany fraternity banquets. Thanksgiving Day, 1903, wasno exception, and according to the Kansas City Journal ofNovember 26 every hotel in the city housed one or morefraternity dinners the night before the game, includingthose of Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi,Sigma Chi, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Gamma,,Delta, Sigma AlphaEpsilon, and Kappa Alpha. The following was said of thePhi Delta Theta dinner : "Mis—soo—rah—rrah.Mis^soo—rah—rah!Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah!MJST—soo—rah!'Baclcward, turn backward, oh Time in your flight' and*, make uscollege men just for tonight. It was not sung, but it was acted in theiparlors of the Midland hotel last evening by sixty-five rnembers ofPhi Delta Theta as they sat around the festive board. The occasionwas the annual banquet of the fraternity given by the Kansas CityAlumni Association. There were twenty-eight from the chapters atLawrence and Columbia, and the remaining thirty-seven representedcolleges and universities in different states.After partaking of a sumptuous dinner a short time was consumedin social intercourse, cigars and "Turkish cigarettes. The buzz of conversationwas soon interrupted by the yell of Missouri universitygiven above. A m^rry laugh at the familiar sound and. the frat. yeflwas taken up and repeated:. •Rah ! Rah ! Rah!Phi-keia!Phi Delta Theta,Rah ! Rah ! Rah !There were men present with hair as white as snow and youngsterswho, even at the banquet, felt the rush of the gridiron last season.There was a diversity in j;ears"only. The bloom of youth tookon new .life as the frat. yell left the lusty throats of young and oldalike. 'Their dear old alma mater came to mind and, once again on thecampus, just for a moiiient, a Michigan son gave the old-time yell of