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

430 THE SCROLLprominent position in their respective colleges. Occasionally someold fashioned Phi inquires as to the men themselves. To mynotion that should be the first question. Unless the men are there,unless we can get a chapter up to the Phi Delta Theta standard, wehad best not enter at all. At the first and last analysis the PhiDelta Theta is a great college brotherhood, seeking the best thingsin the college man, and it is with that single idea in mind that Ihave determined on every application for a charter and that hasbeen the determining factor in my personal position in every application.The personal equation at Colorado College and Ames appealsto every man who goes into the new Phi Delta Theta chapter houses.The new Phis at both places have enough of money, their familiesare good and their social position, in their colleges and at home,is unquestioned and unassailable. But it is the men themselves,stripped of money and family and all other appeals to the unthinking,that are worthy of a word of commendation.It was Garfield who said that Mark Hopkins at one end of alog and a student at the other made a university. So would the menat Ames and Colorado College, who have just been made Phis, beworthy of Phi Delta Theta and would sustain a chapter of whichwe would be proud, even if there were no magnificent buildings, nosplendid equipment, no endowment and faculty and material backgroundwhich in the aggregate we call a college or a university.The men of both these new chapters are earnest. They aresincere and high minded. Their conception of the Phi Delta Thetais of the highest and their ambition is to make the two new chaptersthe peers of the older chapters of the Fraternity. They are differentsorts of men, these new Phis. Under the shadow of themountains. Pike's Peak ever in the foreground, the men at Coloradoare high minded, clear brained, liberty loving, as all mountainpeoples are. The air breathes sincerity and high aspirations andclean living and thinking at Colorado Springs. They have theGarden of the Gods at their front door, more beauty than can beconceived by strangers. They are away from the muck and mireof the congested cities, are enthusiastic, persistant, and truth loving.Just the men whom you and I want to see in our own chapter, andjust the men who will make Phi Delta Theta greater everywhereand unassailable in the Centennial State.The men at Ames are older. They have a deliberate purpose.Ames is wrongfully called a "cow college" by some who do iiotknow. Grant that it is—the men who are there in the departmentsof animal husbandry and dairying are men who are preparing theirlife work. One of our men there is the son of a man who importsPerceron and Norman horses by the ship load. Every voyagebrings him a fortune in great stallions and brood mares. Is it notas high purposed to study the conservation and management of live