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

3S8 THE SCROLL.there. I have written to W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin Alpha,at Madison, to pu't me on the track to re-establish that chapter.Bro. Banta is working on a fellow named Ed. Palmer,Zanesville, Ohio, who has attended Franklin College, andwho is going to Ann Arbor next fall. Banta says he is asplendid fellow, and is trying to get him to promise to re-establishMichigan Alpha. Tennessee Beta, at Vanderbilt, hasfourteen members and meets at the Maxwell House. I learnthat Kentucky Gamma has about gone up and there is but onePhi there; lack of rivalry the cause. How do Indiana chaptersstand in regard to the removal of the National Grand?I think it is to the best interests of the fraternity for it to goto Lafayette. However, Pennsylvania Alpha ought to showmore enterprise in extending the order in its direction. It isan outpost chapter, and owes a duty to the fraternity in thatway. There is no reason why New York should not be agrand Phi state. It will be easier to get in at Amherst thanany other eastern college, for it is the third largest institutionin New England (Harvard and Yale being inaccessible), andless crowded with fraternities. When I met you at Evansvillein coming out here you told me 3'our chapter had manuscriptcopies of the minutes of several conventions. Bantawrote me that he knew you had the minutes of the 1856 convention.I am extremely anxious to obtain the old minutesfor Georgia Gamma and several other chapters, to preserveas a kind of history of the growth of the fraternity. Cannotyou send these minutes to me and let me take a copy ofthem? I would keep them only a few days, and I would esteemit a as very great favor. I have the minutes of 1873, 1874,1875 and 1876, and I should like to get all others from you.I shall send you my revision of the constitution before theconvention meets. I shall be much disappointed if it is notadopted, for I have spent months of study on it. I hope theconvention will be the most important in the history of thefraternity. One thing sure. THE SCROLL must be revived; itshould be made a monthly, issued on the first of every month,except July, August and September. No catalogue yet; I amlooking for it every day.—W. B. Palmer, University of California,to A. G. Foster, Bloomington, Ind., April 10, 1878.We meet every Saturday night in the best hall in Trinity;it is a brick building, 70 feet long and 40 feet wide. We correspondregularly with Bros. Cone, Banta and Hobbs. Wecannot send a delegate to the convention this time. Thereare three other fraternities at Trinity—X *, A T 12 and K 2.