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

414 THE SCROLLINTERFRATERNITY JOURNALISTIC AMENITIESThe Journal of Southern K A has a much larger editorial staff than anyother fraternity magazine. It is published at Nashville, and Verner M. Jones,of that city, is the editor. He has no less than ten associate editors. Whysuch a luminary should need such a galaxy of assistants is incomprehensible.Jones himself has enormous literary output capacity, and enough versatility tomake it all interesting without any aid. These assistants probably do not getmuch of a show in the Journal's pages. Jones himself can use all the spaceto good advantage. Not knowing them, but knowing Jones, we are glad of it.If these assistants were allowed to butt in, we suspect it would not be half somuch fun to read the Journal as it is now. The ten names in the official directoryof the magazine are doubtless more for ornamental than for utilitarianpurposes.Jones shows his originality, liberality and journalistic enterprise by beginning,in the January Journal, a new departnient, headed "Our Friend, the OtherFellow," and announcing that: "Hereafter the Journal will maintain a departmentdevoted to members of other fraternities, who are figuring prominentlyand interestingly in the general Greek-letter world." The first sketch, accompaniedwith a half-tone portrait, is. one of George Banta, Past President of theGeneral Council of "^ A 9, and extensive fraternity publisher. We are no littleastonished, however, to see in the same issue, among notices of prominentKappa Alphas, the following item about a well known Phi:Dr. Morgan Calloway, Emory, Professor of English at the University cf Texas,is the author of an elaborate study of "The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon," which willbe issued by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, D. C.It seems by the classificaton of Doctor Calloway among Kappa Alphas thatJones thought he was one also, and that this is a case of Homer nods inNashville. If this surmise be true, it would be well for Jones to study theK A catalogue more closely; he cannot take it for granted that all prominentsoutherners are Kappa Alphas. As K A has plenty of prominent members, itis unbelievable that Jones, when advertising his fraternity, would deem it necessaryto borrow notables from other fraternities. Anyway, * A 9 is highlycomplimented by having one of its leading members first noticed by such anintelligent and discriminating editor in the new department of his magazine,and we return our appreciative acknowledgements.KAPPA BETA PI AND THETA NU EPSILON TABOOEDThe student body of Union University has passed resolutions disapprovingof K B $ ($ B K reversed), a society which is composed of college "flunks,"or conditioned students, which was established several years ago, and whichnow has branches in a number of institutions. The resolutions declared that asociety that ridicules the ancient honorary society, ^ B K should not be allowedto exist at Union, ordered that K B ^ be refused recognition in theGarnet, the students' annual, prohibited the wearing of the K B # key on thecampus, and urged the six men who had been initiated by the Hobart chapterto withdraw from the organization.The board of student representatives of Columbia University has passedresolutions excluding the sophomore society, 9 N E, commonly known asT N E, from recognition as a student organization. The preamble says that"it is the general consensus of the student body that the 9 N E society wouldbe an organization tending towards the control of campus elections and politics,that 9 N E society would encourage excessive drinking, and that in the interpretation,by the board of student representatives, of the nature, objects,business, and ideals of the society, as presented before the board by an authenticrepresentative of the said society, they do not qualify that it be sanctionedas a necessary and essential organization for the betterment of Columbia University."The resolutions declare the "9 N E society to be an unauthentic.