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

6 THE HISTORY OF PHI DELTA THETA.embarrassments, it was closed again, 1881. The General .Assemblyhaving begun to make annual appropriations, the college was reopened,1888. Congress, 1893, appropriated S65,000, as an indemnityfor damages sustained by the college during the war betweenthe States. The two-hundredth anniversary of the college wascelebrated, 1893, and at the same time the parent chapter of * B Kwas revived a second time. The Virginia Historical Society deliveredthe records of * B K to the chapter at William and Mary,1895. Edited by L. G. Tyler, President of the college, they werepublished in the Williani and Mary College Quarterly HistoricalMagazine, .\pril, 1896.The minutes of the meeting on December 4, 1779, called the chapterto be established at Harvard ETro-tXof. However, it appears thatthe President, William Short, proposed that a more liberal charterbe granted for this chapter than had been granted for the Virginiachapters, so that the Harvard chapter, instead of being "Eiro-iXov,would be the AX