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

42 THE SCROLL.The members of the chapter have been working on theproject for something less than a year, and the culminationof their plans is a distinct achievement. The possessions ofour housed chapters are certainly stirring the impulses ofthose yet without homes of their own. Yesterday certainexcuses were accepted as reasonable; today no chapter,wherever or however located, if it values its own existence,can be excused for not owning a house or being on the highroad toward getting one. It is a question of grit and determination; the obstacles are there, in small towns and inlarge towns, but they can be overcome because they arebeing overcome. The SCROLL hopes to announce at leastone new house in each number this year. Which chapterwill be next ?THE Phi Delta Theta Club of Philadelphia has determinedupon a fuller and more useful existence than is the ordinarylot of the alumni club. A distinctive feature of its plan isthe publication of a bulletin styled the Phi Delta Theta News,to be issued four or five times a year, and by means ofwhich the Phis of Philadelphia will be able the more readilyto keep in touch with each other. This little paper will bedevoted primarily to the affairs of the Phi Delta Theta menof Philadelphia, but it will also give its readers late news ofmatters at the University of Pennsylvania and the fraternityat large. Two numbers have already appeared, and thepaper is a distinct success. Such a publication is an excellentidea, and it will undoubtedly serve a useful purpose.The Philadelphia brothers have set an example of enterpriseworthy of emulation.WITH the advent of the new song-book, which we sayagain is a thing of beauty one has but to see to want, theremust be no diminution in the production of Phi Delta Thetasongs. The present edition of the song-book is the fifth ithas seen ; there will of course be others. This one is a mostartistic book, and the brothers who were the editors deserve