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

THE SCROLL. 571HELLENIC,The latest fraternity to enter Georgia Tech. is II K A.2 N is still the only fraternity at the University of Oregon.Southern K A is distributing revised rituals to its chapters.There are now two fraternities at Baker University, Kansas—K2 and ATA.At Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago there are twofraternities—A T A and * K 2.2 X is preparing to build houses at Dartmouth, Dickinson,Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi.The Kentucky University and Kentucky State Collegechapters of K A jointly rent a house in Lexington.West Virginia University now has eight fraternities—* K *, * 2 K, 2 X, * K 2, K A, A T A, B ® n, 2 N.At Colorado College, Colorado Springs, there is onenational fraternity, K 2, and two locals, B II and * A, seekingnational fraternity affiliations.We observe that the A * Quarterly calls the deceasedmembers of that sorority "the Silent Chapter," as we call thedeceased members of 4> A 0 "the Chapter Grand."A chapter of 2 N was installed at the University of Chicago,April 15. The degrees were conferred by teams fromNorthwestern and Illinois. A banquet at the Auditoriumwas attended by 100.K A, K 2 and 2 N are established at the Missouri Schoolof Mines, Rolla, Mo.; 2 N, 2 A E and the Crucible club(applying to B @ n for a charter) at the Colorado School ofMines, Golden, Col.An editorial in the Phi Gamma Delta refers to "the trueidea of fraternity as exemplified before the present dancingclub tendency prevailed," and says: 'An old boy predictsthe rise soon of an organization for mutual helpfulness amongcollege men which will take the place filled formerly by theGreek letter fraternity now degenerated into a society."