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

320 THE SCROLL.Within a short time K 2 has entered Dickinson College,North Carolina State College, Washington University, BakerUniversity, University of Denver, Case School of AppliedScience, Missouri State School of Mines and the Universityof Washington. The February Caduceus gives accounts ofinstallation at Case, November 26; University of Washington,December 15; Missouri School of Mines, December 19.When the last (1898) edition of "American College Fraternities"was published, K 2 had 47 active chapters; it nowhas 64.The ATA Rainbow republishes from a Chicago daily thefollowing incident of the Iroquois Theater fire:W. M. McLaughlin, nephew of Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, President of Armour.School of Technology, lay in the rows of dying in Thompson's restaurant.Upon his vest was a jewelled pin of the Delta Tau Delta—his college fraternity—andas the young medical, student who bent over the dying man sawthat his life was fast ebbing away, he thought of the pin, for he, too, wasfresh from college, where fraternity pins are held of much account."I'd better take off your frat pin, old man," said the doctor, "some onemight take it if you go, you know.""No, I guess not," said the dying man weakly, "it's been a pal of minefor quice awhile, and I would'nt like to have it taken off now. Just let itstay to the finish.'' And it stayed.Certain fraternities with only a few chapters, or with considerablyfewer than the larger fraternities, endeavor to makecapital out of the fact they are "conservative," but, if thetrue facts were known, the principal reason why they do ijotextend is that they do not receive applications for charters.They are conservative from necessity rather than by choice.Undoubtedly they improve all of the few good opportunitiesthat are presented to them. On this point the Beta ThetaPi says: "Some of the fraternities which count less than halfthe number of chapters on our roll, and which pride themselveson their alleged conservatism and exclusiveness, havenever rejected any proposition made to them, while B © n atleast has been really conservative, considering its numerousopportunities."A X P was founded at Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., 1895.The movingspirit was an Episcopal rector at Detroit, a memberof * Y, who had a son at Trinity. It now has five chapters—Trinity, Brooklyn Tech., Columbia, Pennsylvania and Lafayette.A chapter established at Iowa died some time ago.Lafayette was entered last December. Though the activechapters may be counted on the fingers of one hand, the