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

THE SCROLL. 359G. M. Bulla will be pleased to write to you, as he is muchinterested in the order. Please send the charter as soon aspossible. Our commencement will be on June 13 and ourfraternity will be well represented. Bulla is chief marshal,Blair and Pair are sub-marshals and also commencementspeakers. Brown is sub-marshal, Richardson commencementspeaker, and so am I.—W. H. Robbins, Trinity College, N.C, to W. B. Palmer, University of California, .April 10,1878.I sent out the catalogues yesterday. They cost S400.70;only J200 collected; hence we are in debt for them $200.70,with only thirty days time and paying ten per cent. I amnow getting in the money for THE SCROLL. Please get allthe subscriptions you can in Atlanta and send to me; ^1.25is the price. I want to get it out in May, if possible.—George Banta, Franklin, Ind., to C.B. Gaskill, Atlanta, Ga.,April ri, 1878.When Palmer established the Alabama .Alpha, though hegot no men who took honors, he just identically got the rightmen in the right place. A little conceited, no doubt, youthink, but wait—I'll explain. The Alpha Gammas, SigmaChis and Sigma Nus were banded against the Phi GammaDeltas and the "democracy," as the outsiders were called.The fight had grown pretty tight, and so when the offer of$ A ® came, we jumped at it with the greatest alacrity. Itwas just the thing we were thirsting for, and so I {Ego) hadthe pleasure of raising the banner of 4> A 0 on the campus inthe shape of Vi. B. Palmer's badge. The * T As knew whatit meant—a friend who had most opportunely come to theiraid, and they received us right royally. Well, as soon as wegot well up in the workings, we were eager to do somethingto immortalize ourselves, but nothing turned up until thenight of the reception given by the President. There Spencermet a young man from Emory and Henry College, JohnS. Mooring by name, and in the course of conversation Spencerasked him what were the leading fraternities in Virginia.He answered * A 0 and B 0 U. Spencer immediately reportedthe matter to me, and we consulted on the advisabilityof asking him to establish a chapter at Emory and Henry.We finally concluded to do so. He agreed, thanked us, andassured us that as he would have no rivals he would be at noloss for good men. He also assured us the faculty had noobjection to fraternities. All this was after we had ascer-