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

THE SCROLL. 573h. census of the fraternities in college, taken a few daysago, shows that of more than 200 students, but thirty-threebelong to fraternities, distributed as follows: K A andn K A, nine each; * T A, eight; K 2, four; * K 2, three.This is the smallest percentage of any college in the state,and considerably lower than the records of any previousyears. —Richmond correspondence of the Phi Gamma Delta.Iv A, with her strong southern affiliation has many advocatesof northern extension. We think K A has almoststretched a point in her constitution already, since, she hastwo chapters in West Virginia, two in California, and one atthe nation's capital. K A we believe once upon a time charteredpetitioners at Marietta College, Ohio, but the petitioncollapsed before an installation Was formally made.—Deltaof 2 N.Following is an enumeration of the members of various fraternitieswho belong to N 2 N, the medical fraternity, asshown by its catalogue issued last December: B © n, 76;* A®, 71; A K E, 44; A Y, 38; *r A, 34; 2 X, 34; $ K *,31; .V A*, 27; * Y, 24; A T A, 23; 2 A E, 18; A T 12, i8;X *, 18; 2N, 13; K 2, 11; Z *, 10;® A .X, 19; K A (bothorders), 8; .X *, 7; A *, 6; * K 2, 5; A *, 4; 2 *, 2; * 2 K,2; n K A, i; *K A, i;*X, i.When il> r A and 2 X made a plain gold pin the only officialbadge of the fraternity, jewelers to the fraternity beingforbidden to make or sell any more jeweled badges, theymight as well have tried to dam the Mississippi river. Therewas never a more arbitrary ruling than the above, and thoughhonestly conceived, it would minimize the sale of badges orelse shorten the days of their use. Give us the richlyjeweledbadge, and let the girls wear them, God bless them.—Delta of S "N'.Of the eight men who founded 2 A B at the University ofAlabama in 1856, only one survives—Col. J. B. Rudolph, ofPleasant Hill, Ala. He was recently visited by the eminentsupreme archon, W. C. Levere, of Evanston, 111., who wasdelighted to find that he had a specimen of the writing ofNoble Leslie DeVotie, the real originator of the fraternity.This writing, a poem of much merit, was a tribute of friendshipfor his comrade Rudolph. It seems that there is noother specimen of his handwriting extant. The poem isprinted in the Record.