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

370 THE SCROLL.ments of two years of national life." Subsequent issues, it isannounced, will be smaller.We note that April 17, the anniversary of the birth of A BA, is celebrated as "Founder's Day." ABA certainly didnot get that idea from 2 N.The X n fraternity, founded at .Arkansas, 1895, was mentionedin the 1898 edition of ".American College Fraternity"as a local society for women. It now has 14 chapters—at.Arkansas, Mississippi, Randolph-Macon Woman's College,Tulane, Tennessee, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, California,Kansas, Nebraska, Columbian, Kentucky and SouthwesternBaptist. It publishes a quarterly magazine of 100pages per issue called the Eleusis, edited by Mrs. A. H.Pardue, of Fayetteville, Ark., and printed at Fort Smith.The Z T A fraternity has been founded since the last editionof "American College Fraternities" was issued. It wasfounded October 25, 1898, at the A^rginia State NormalSchool, Farmville, A'a. The parent chapter is Alpha; Betais at the Woman's College, Richmond, Va.; Gamma at HannahMoore College, Baltimore, Md.; Delta at Randolph-MaconWoman's College, Lynchburg, Va.; Epsilon at the Universityof Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.The badge is a golden shield on which is a smaller shield,black enameled; on the upper part of the pin are the lettersZ T A above a gold crown, and on the lower part the word"0€jiiis," Themis being the patron goddess of the fraternity.The colors of the fraternity are turquoise blue and steel gray,and the fraternity flower is the white violet.The fraternity has been incorporated b}^ the Virginia legislature.The fraternity quarterly is the Themis, edited by Mrs.Wm. E. Davis, Jellico, Tenn. The last convention was atFarmville, A'^a., last June; the next will meet at L3'nchburg,Va., next June. The Themis says: "Although we werechartered by the legislature of Virginia as the Zeta Tau .Alphasorority, we shall henceforth be known as the Zeta Tau Alphafraternity,'distinguishing ourselves from the sisterhoods organizedin connection with men's fraternities and called sororities."Since 1898, when the last edition ot "American CollegeFraternities" was issued, A $ has grown from 9 to 12 activechapters, AAA from \^ to 18, A T from 13 to 16, V * Bfrom8 to II, K K r from 27 to 29, II B from 27 to 32 and A .\O (musical) from 6 to 8. K A 0 has 23 active chapters, thesame number that it had in 1898. These facts have beenlearned by consulting recent issues of the .A $ Quarterly, A A