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

THE SCROLL 225Keith's rubbed off the map, when "Alice's substitute" came on thestage. Even a McCutcheon could not have portrayed the faces ofmany Phis. There were clever comedians too. Some show! Bythat time everybody was indulging in it. A quartet of brotherlyPhis lined up at one side of the stage as dancing instructors, andattempted to show the Texas Tommy dancers how it should bedone, but they got hit by the guardian angel. Everybody was doingit—turkey trot. The program fittingly wound up with a verse entitled—"WhyPhi Delta Theta Is Different From All The Rest."Evidently the New Year's celebration was the most howling successever pulled off at a Phi convention—for vindication ask BrotherPalmer. "1 declare the smoker was a bear," said practically everyone.An appropriate conclusion is found in Brother Stacy C. Mosser'sadvance notice: "You're going to be so happy you'll wish the old yearwas an hour or two longer. Come prepared to give a royal welcometo 1913—what a lucky little fellow he should be wearing the number.Consider yourself lucky to be invited to his coming out partygiven by Phi Delta Theta. The little fellow will come in wearingthe majestic colors of azure and argent, which give him entree to allPhi functions."Hundreds of good resolutions from many Phis were scrolled byBrother Davis for THE SCROLL. In the tongue of Abe Martin itmight be well to pen here the resolutions of two notables from theHoosier Commonwealth. Brother "Check" Jewett—"Resolved thatI am going to be a power politically for many years in Phidom, andI'm going to get prominent enough to have my speeches garbled."Brother "Polly" Ruick—"Resolved nobuddy has a worse time at aparty than th' feller with a pop'lar wife." Some brothers forgot toresolve to go straight home after the smoker for it was still earlyin the convention city when the La Salle manager issued room checksto the boys and when twelve bells pealed forth the birth of a NewYear, the birth of a New Phideltism, the birth of a new fraternalism.HARRY E. SNYDER^ Pennsylvania, '12.THE BANQUETThe banquet, to my mind, was conducted in the same sane spiritas the rest of the convention. The menu was excellent, the speakerswithout peers. Brother Shaw, the toastmaster, especially distinguishedhimself by his inimitable wit and his sharp repartee.The conduct of the delegates was all that could be desired. Itbeing a "dry" banquet no one became unreasonably happy, yetevery one enjoyed himself. The Indiana delegates, "those of thesaucer-like buttons" started a song. It sounded more like the angryroar of thunder, than the sweet strains of a song. Anyway the orchestraleader, apparently afraid of the effect the efforts of our