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

2 70 THE SCROLL.and prestige of the Fraternity. Other chapterhouse movementsare in progress. The Sewanee chapter, which built thefirst house of all, is preparing to erect a handsome stone lodgethis spring. Nebraska Alpha is arranging to build. MissouriBeta has bought a fine lot and will build next summer. VirginiaZeta and others have caught the chapterhouse fever.If the record for the next year will equal this, there will beleft but twelve unhoused chapters out of sixty-eight. Andside by side with this material development, the Fraternityhas grown in internal organization, and never were its chaptersstronger in their several colleges than they are to-day.EVERY year the alumni clubs should be also practical intheir discussion. The maintenance of individual friendshipswill easily take care of itself; but how to keep alive an alumniclub and make it as efficient as it ought to be, is an importantand ever difficult problem. In several of the largest citiesthey pursue the delightful method of having weekly alumnilunches, the effects of which are to bring Phis together oftenand recall their common basis of brotherhood. In othercities the local chapterhouse is also adm-irably used as analumni clubhouse. In each of these methods there is a constantrallying point in which the alumni are brought into closerelations with each other. Where neither is feasible, someother ingenious plan must be devised, and this ought to bethis year in such places the subject of earnest consideration.The alumni clubs ought to resolve to meet more often thanonce a year, and to vary the form of entertainments. Localconditions in each case surely ought to suggest feasible meansto realize greater usefulness for the alumni clubs. It is trueof these as of every other social, educational or religiousorganization, that the life and usefulness of each is but theaggregate of the appreciation and effort given to it by its constituentmembers, and the benefits to the individuals are entirelydependent upon their interested and active participation.• THE great Louisiana Purchase Exposition will doubtlessattract many Phi Delta Thetas to St. Louis next summer.