1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 137the number that rent houses; a list of alumni organizations; a statementof the fraternity's scheme of government, past and present;periodical and other publications; a description of the badge (ofwhich a cut is given) and flag, the color and flower; concluding witha list of prominent members, living and dead.All fraternities now forbid dual membership, although many yearsago it was not uncommon. The following instances of double membershipare shown by the book, and a careful examination' of the listswould doubtless disclose others: Theodore Roosevelt, AKE andA A *; Andrew D, White, formerly United States minister to Germany,2 * and * Y; Stewart L, Woodford, formerly United Statesminister to Spain, A * and AKE; Benjamin B, Odell, formerlygovernor of New York, B @ II and * Y; Lloyd Lowndes, formerlygovernor of Maryland, ATA and * K *; Francis A, March, professorin Lafayette College, AKE and A A *; Rev. Theodore T.Munger, B ® n and * Y,In the sketches of fraternities ft is noticed that in this edition themyth about K 2 being "in a spiritual sense the successor" of .an orderfounded in Europe five hundred years ago entirely disappears; scantmention is made of the fact that X *, founded at Princeton in 1854,claims to be the successor of a society supposed to have originatedthere thirty years earlier; and no mention at all is made of the claimformerly made by 2 II that it was founded at William and Maryyears before $ B K,The sketch of * A ® covers nineteen pages and is as extendedand complete as any in the book. In the sketch of A K E appears astatement to which we take exception. Perhaps we would not beso particular about it if it did not concern the parent chapter andthe fathers of * A ®. The statement is that "The Miami chapter(of A K E) was formed by six members of the chapter of * A © whocould not agree with their fellow members, and it, in turn, in 1855,gave birth to the parent chapter of 2 X under somewhat similarcircumstances."The facts are that, in the fall of 1851, two of the twelve activemembers of * A © at Miami were expelled for drunkenness, afterrepeated admonitions and as frequent promises to reform which werebroken, Benjamin Harrison, president of the chapter presiding at thetrial; that thereupon three members, who were very intimate with thetwo members, resigned on account of these expulsions, and their resignationswere accepted; that of the five members whose membership in* A ® was thus severed, one joined A A 4> some months later, andfour joined with other students in establishing A K E at Miami inthe spring of 1852, which had been proposed to them by a Deke fromYale when he returned to his home near Oxford, Ohio, for theChristmas holidays in 185! ; and that of these four who becamecharter members of A K E, one later in life resigned from that fraternityand was again initiated into * A ©.