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

444 THE SCROLL.In politics this year we have been fought by most all of theother frats. However, there is a tradition in the chapterthat K A must have at least three out of the nine presidentsof the ^ K literary society each year. We already have one,and will work hard to get two more. Our prospects for agreat career next year are very bright.—Georgia correspondenceof the K A Journal for March.The K A Journal for March has a full page half-tone, displayingthe portraits of twelve young ladies, who are called"sisters" of the chapter at North Carolina Agricultural andMechanical college.Of K A's 47 chapters, 20 occupy houses, 8 owned and 12rented. Those owning houses are Vanderbilt, Sewanee,North Carolina, Auburn, Millsaps, Louisiana State, Texas,Southwestern. The house at Texas is under construction.The Vanderbilt chapter, which owns a small frame house, isdiscussing the erection of a house to cost S8,ooo, and hopesto be in its new home next September. The amount of$1,700 has been raised, for erecting a memorial hall on thecampus of Washington and Lee. The 12 chapters rentinghouses are those at Johns Hopkins, Columbian, Bethany,Kentuck}' State, Kentucky University, Wofford, Georgia,Tennessee, Missouri School of Mines, William Jewell, California,Stanford. The chapters at Virginia and West Virginiaoccupy flats.K A has six chapters in Virginia—at Washington and Lee,where K ,\ was founded, 1865, University of Virginia, Williamand Mary, Randolph-Macon, Hampden-Sidney, andRichmond. K A entered Kentucky twenty-one years ago,when it placed a chapter at Centre, now Central University.It now has five chapters in that state—at Central, KentuckyWesleyan, Kentucky University, Kentucky State College andGeorgetown College. Two or three years ago anti-fraternitylaws were repealed at Georgetown, where $ A ® once had achapter. K .-\ established a chapter there with eleven menFebruary 11, 1904. On January 15, 1904, K A installed achapter of eight men at the College of Charleston, S. C. KA now has 47 active chapters, which, considering its limitedfield, is a remarkably large number. Except chapters atCalifornia and Stanford, all of these chapters are in theSouth, counting John Hopkins, Columbian, Bethany, Missouri,Missouri School of Mines, Westminster and WilliamJewell in the South.