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

3i6 THE SCROLL.According to a new rule of the Allegheny faculty, eachfraternity there may give only one party or reception eachsession, and it must close not later than 10:45 P- -The flag adopted by the A Y Convention last Novemberhas three equal perpendicular bars, the two center bars blue,the middle bar gold, bearing the fraternity badge in blue.The Journal of K A, which has a chapter at Hampden-Sidney, reports that "* T A has gone out of business" there,and "K 2, while tottering, has decided to hold on a littlewhile longer."A charter of A T O has been granted to a crowd in school,making in all nine fraternities, which is about the limit that aschool of this size can support.—Purdue correspondence ofthe Phi Gamma Delta.As noted in the K A Journal, an editorial in the Beta ThetaPi chronicles the coining of a new Greek word, hered," todesignate a new student who by heredity is naturally the propertyof a particular fraternity.* r A is said to be making an effort to enter Stevens Instituteand to have revived her chapter at Mecklenburg, whereshe meets only A T O. Within the past five years this fraternityhas given out fifteen charters.—© A X Shield.A chapter of * T A has recently been re-established here,with about fifteen men, after efforts extending over severalmonths. This makes the fourteenth fraternity representedhere.—Stanford correspondence of Beta Theta Pi.K A, founded at Washington and Lee, 1865, has beengranted permission to build a memorial hall on the campusthere, and is endeavoring to raise the necessary funds. CaptainRichmond Pearson Hobson, is announced to lecture atLexington, Va., this month for that purpose.A writer in the AAA Trident protests against the unusualuses to which many sorority women subject their pins,"and says; The emblems of their respective societies areused upside-down, or rightside-up, in place of a lost shirtwaistbutton; or they are called upon to supply the missinglink in a cuff, to fasten a stock, to pin a belt securely, or evento clasp milady's stray scolding locks; in fact they are put toevery use that woman's marvelous ingenuity can devise."