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

576 THE SCROLL.as may tend to lead to a better understanding of the matter presented. Inmany chapters when the secretary presents a petition in a perfunctory way,.some one gets up and says, "Of course fellows, we don't want to go to thatplace. I had a friend who visited it four or five years ago, and he said itwas bum." And the rest of the chapter follow like a lot of sheep, and thechapter goes on record against the matter. Then when it comes,up in theConvention, the delegate from that chapter, under a mistaken sense of loyaltyto his chapter and perhaps out of pride of opinipn, fights the matter, tooth'and nail. And all on a valueless bit of second-hand gossip. Some chapters^do patiently examine what material is before them and try to arrive at a correctjudgment; but this is almost futile. The best way is to send a delegatewith an op.en; jnind, in .whose, discretion the chapter has some confidence,and let him aet as his ji,idgraent dictates.FRATERNITY SONGS WANTED,- There'9.re two songs which have been much in vogue among college undergraduatesduring the past year, the melodies of which would seem to bepeculiarly adaptable to college singingi One is "Down Where the Wurz-..burger Flows" and the other is "Under the Bamboo Tree." We wish someof our budding poets would take up this matter and compose fraternity songswhich would fit either or both of these tunes. We haven't enough songs,and here seems a peculiarly fitting opportunity to increase the number.The above paragraph is clipped from the Beta Theta Pi-We make the same suggestion to the poets in our own fraternity,and hope they will act upon it during the coming^summer. We should be very much pleased to print several:^good new songs in THE SCROLL for October.The District of Columbia alumni association of A T n hasoffered ^25 for the best song submitted to the Palm this year,at least ten sets of verses being necessary for said competi--tion. None of our alumni clubs have made such an offer,but, nevertheless, we hope that the poetic spirit of Phis willbe roused, and that we shall be favored with tuneful verses,which will be worthy of publication in the next edition ofthe song book as well as in THE SCROLL.The last issue of the Palm contains four or five new A T Osongs. One of them is to the air of "Down Where the WurzburgerFlows." It mentions A A *, A K E, K *, 2 X,* A 0, © A X, * Y, X * and 2 K. The chorus follows:How I long to enter the shelter of Alpha Tau,I would like to be one of you, would you teach me how.The Phi Delta's shield and their sword are too fierce.The Theta Delt's arrows my heart cannot pierce,Psi U's pin is brightAnd Chi Psi's all right,But Alpha Tau's I'll choose for mine.