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

578 THE SCROLL.K S revived a chapter at Washington and Lee, March ii,and established a chapter at Colorado College, March 12.This gives K 2 sixty-eight active chapters the same numberthat 4> A ® had before it chartered a chapter at PennsylvaniaState. For twenty years $ A ® has had a larger number ofchapters than any other fraternity, but in this respect it willdoubtless soon be eclipsed by K 2. as the latter is grantingcharters very rapidly. Several members of the K 2 chaptersat the University of Missouri and Baker University recentlyvisited the University of Kansas, and made an unsuccessfulattempt to organize a crowd of petitioners there. This actionwas looked upon with disfavor by all the fraternities at Kansas(B ® n, * K *, * A ®, * r A, 2 N, 2 X, 2 A E, A T n)and at a Pan-Hellenic meeting the following preamble andresolutions were unanimously adopted:WHEREAS, it has come before our notice that some fraternities have'inthe past few months contemplated installing chapters in the University ofKansas, andWHEREAS, we wish to maintain the present high standard and type ofmen who belong lo fraternities, believing, as we do, that with the presentenrollment at the university, amounting to only 830 men, of whom 160 areGreek-letter men, it will be impossible long to maintain this standard shouldanother chapter be installed, andWHEREAS, fraternity material is scarce, owing to the nature of thematerial drawn from, coming as it does from smaller towns and schools;therefore, be itResolved, that we, the undersigned representatives of the eight fraternitieslocated at the University of Kansas, voicing the sentiments of our chapters,do hereby wish it to be known that we disfavor the introduction of anew chapter here in the course of the next few years, and hope that for thegood of fraternities in general that such a course will not be pursued; andfurther be itResolved that copies of these resolutions be sent to the official organs ofthe fraternities represented for publication, and that they be sent to theproper authorities of any fraternity now considering entrance at the Universityof Kansas.According to the sketch of K 2 in "American College Fraternities,"a secret order called the Kirjaith Sepher wasfounded at the University of Bologna about 1400; it spreadto the universities of Florence, Montpelier, Orleans and Paris,where, after flourishing many years, it finally became extinct;but two Americans, pursuing medical studies in Paris in 1865,traced the origin, and history of the order, and having returned.toAmerica, established K 2 at the University of Virginia,1867," basing it on the traditions and ceremonies of theKirjaith Sepher. Fraternity men generally have regardedthe story as about as apocryphal as the claim of X 4> to have