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

THB SCROLL. 257The name of C. P. T. Moore appears in the catalogues of* K * and A *. The history of 4> K * says:Eastern extension seeming premature if not impossible,' the attention ofour founder, Moore, was directed to the great University of Virginia. Afterhis graduation at Union, in 1853, he went to the University of Virginia tostudy law. In November, 1853, a charter was granted to a set of petitionersheaded by him, who set forth their desires in rich, diploma Latin. Thecharter was issued, and the second chapter of our fraternity founded at theUniversity of Virginia, December 8, 1853It seems quite worthy of remark that although the efforts at extensionhad been strenuous in the first two years of the fraternity life, three yearswent by with the fraternity consisting of only two chapters, PennsylvaniaAlpha and Virginia Alpha. It is to be supposed that the A $ agitation hadmuch to do with making extension slow, but so soon as coquetting ceased,the work of introducing the mysteries of $ K ^ in new fields went on apace.The year 1855 is still the banner year for extension in ^ K * history, sixchapters having been organized and successfully inaugurated in that year.These six chapters were established at Washington (nowWashington and Lee), Allegheny, Lewisburg (now Bucknell),Washington (now Washington and Jefferson), Pennsylvania(Gettysburg) and Hampden-Sidney. In that year the fraternityheld its first convention; it met at Washington, D. C;from the first conventions were called Grand Arch Councils.Nine other chapters were established before the war—SouthCarolina College, 1857; University of Mississippi, 1857;Bethany, 1858; La Grange (Tennessee), 1859; Dickinson,1859; Franklin and Marshall, i860; Cumberland, i860;Mississippi College, i860; Ohio Wesleyan, 1861.Up to the beginning of the war * K 4' numbered seventeen chapters; ofthis number nine were located in distinctively southern institutions. The lifeof all these (southern) chapters ceased during the struggle of the North andSouth, and with two of them, Tennessee Alpha (La Grange) and MississippiBeta (Mississippi College) the time for renewed activity never came. Ofthe nine suspended chapters, only three had vitality sufficient to reorganizeimmediately upon the reopening of their institutions after the cessation ofhostilities. Of the remaining four chapters, reorganization was delayedeven until as late as 1881.Though * K * was founded over three years after * A ®, itwas much more widely extended than * A ® at the opening ofthe civil war, and it emerged from the war period very muchstronger. Of the seventeen chapters which * K * had established,all of them were alive at the beginning of 1861. * A ®also had established seventeen chapters, but only eight werealive. Of these four—Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio Wesleyanand Franklin—were killed by the war, leaving only fouractive—Indiana, Centre, Wabash and Indianapolis. Michiganwas added in 1864, and at the end of the struggle * A ®had only five active chapters. The * A ® catalogue of 1870