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

THE SCROLL. 355I have written to Bro. .\. M. Shuey, and he answers that hewill have the Minnesota Alpha founded as soon as he gets theBoiid, etc., from you. Good for you for.thus stirring up thealumni. I have also gotten Bro. J. M. McCoy of Dallas,Texas, to work. He wrote to a professor of Trinity Collegein Texas, who was an old friend of his at Bloomington, Ind.The professor sent him the names of two good men, who belongto no fraternity, and recommended them as good men tostart a chapter. I have written to both of the men, and hopeto hear from them by the middle of next week. I feel certainof succeeding in that college sooner or later, and intend stickingto it until I do. I heard from Bro. Phil. Holland ofTrinity College in North Carolina, acknowledging the receiptof the Indiana Delta by-laws. He seemed sanguine and enthusiastic.He said he would write to Bro. Williams, atDavidson College, and urge him to immediate action. TheTennessee Beta reports ten members. Bro. J. M. Barrs, ofthat chapter, says that R. H. Hamilton, of the Missouri Beta,at Central College, and now attending the law school of CumberlandUniversity at Lebanon, Tenn., has visited the TennesseeBeta at Vanderbilt University, and reported that hecould not get any good men to organize a chapter at Lebanon.Barrs says that he is going up to Sewanee, Tenn., thissummer, and that he will try to put in a chapter at the Universityof the South at that place. I immediately answeredhim, urging him to do it. I have also heard from the VirginiaEpsilon, but there was nothing in the letter to indicatethe degree of success they are having. My brother Charleyhas just been home on vacation from Bloomington, andreports the Alpha as doing finely. The Alpha graduates threemen this year. K letter from my man at Bloomington, 111.,received this morning, says that he has a chapter of fourteenmembers at Illinois Wesleyan. They intend sending him(Wakefield) to the convention to look after their interests.Bro. Ransom at Galesburg writes that they are sanguine ofsuccess. By the way, he intends presenting the * 2 constitutionand ritual to the convention. He says that their ritualis very fine. His chapter of * 2 was the Grand Chapter ofthat fraternity, and, all the subordinate chapters being dead,he feels free to expose their secrets. I received word todaythat the catalogues would be entirely finished tonight. Iwill go up to Indianapolis tomorrow and send them out. Ihope to find out definitely what I am to do about THE SCROLL.I want to see Norris and show him your constitution and then