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

THE SCROLL 245Total visitors—non-membersloTotal registration 584Total of visiting members not on official register 52Total known attendance 636Note: The editor requests readers to forward to him at once the names, addresses,chapters and classes of any members who were present at the convention but are nothere recorded.The editor also requests that names and addresses of members of petitioningbodies (other than those here listed) who attended the convention be forwarded tohim for proper notice in March Scroll.FOURTH ANNUAL INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCEThe fourth annual meeting of the Interfraternity Conference washeld at the University Club, New York City, November 30, 1912.Delegates were present from all general fraternities for men, exceptinga few that have recently been organized, and excepting PsiUpsilon and Chi Phi, which declined invitations. Applications forrepresentation were granted to Theta Chi, which draws its membershipfrom students in technical institutions or scientific departmentsof universities, and Delta Chi, which was founded as a fraternity forlaw students, but now admits students in college courses who expectto study, law. The propriety of the recognition by a previous conferenceof Acacia being questioned, because its inembers are chosenonly from students who are Masons, and because it had initiatedmembers of Greek-letter fraternities, a representative of it stated thatit no longer admitted members of such fraternities, and that it was,in effect, a general fraternity, although it did not have a Greek-lettername, which statement was accepted as satisfactory.Though Chi Phi declined to send a delegate, one of its prominentmembers. Dr. Edward E. Sparks, President of Pennsylvania StateCollege was present. Among other leading educators in attendancewere Dr. Guy Potter Benton, President of the University of Vermont,one of the delegates of Phi Delta Theta; Dr. John G. Bowman,President of the University of Iowa, one of the delegates ofSigma Chi, and Dr. George Harris, formerly President of AmherstCollege, a representative of Alpha Delta Phi. Telegrams were readfrom Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Alpha Delta Phi, President of theUniversity of California, and Dr. William A. Shanklin, Sigma Phi,President of Wesleyan University, expressing interest in the conference,and a letter from Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie, Alpha Delta Phi,was read, which expressed regret that he could not attend becauseof his absence from the United States.The delegates of Phi Delta Theta, in addition to Doctor Benton,were George Banta and Walter B. Palmer. Dr. Oscar H. Rogers,Sigma Phi, elected Chairman of the conference at its 1911 meeting,presided. A resolution was adopted which limited the representationof each fraternity to three delegates and two alternates, the delegatesto have only one vote between them, and the alternates not to havethe privileges of the floor unless they should become delegates.