or X.APPA .D.ILTA RHO Ar:niAL Vn:w OF UNl\'ERSl'IT ot· CALIFOUNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFOnNIA JUNE 1939 & THE QUILL AND SCROLL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF KAPPA DELTA RHO FRATERNITY Volume XXIX June, 1939 Number 4 CONTENTS I' A Gil CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA . ... .. ... .. .... .. ........ .. .... .. .. F1·ont covo1· FRATERNITIES AND THE PUBLIC, Geo1·ge Banta, b., Wabash '16 3 NAT DOUD SPEAKS AT NU'S FOURTH ANNUAL VENISON DINNER . .. ................... .. ....... .. .. .... ... ..... 4 NEIL WILLARD PUTS "HONOR SUPER OMNIA" INTO PRAC- TICE ... .. .... .. .. .. ....... ..... ........ ....... ..... .. ... 4. GETTYSBURG'S "OLD DORM" . 5 CHAPTER NATAL . 6 ANOTHER YEAR PASSES WITH K. D. R . ..................... 7 'lETA ADOPTS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY PLAN . 8 ODD YEAR CONVE TION TO MEET AT McALPIN HOTEL JUNE ~4 . ... .... ... .... ... .. ... ... ... ..... ..... ... .. 8 RUSHING .. .. ........... .. ... .. .. ... .. .... .. .. .. .... 8 CHAPTER ETERNAL . 8 ALUMNI GOSSIP . 9 URBAN PFLUM AND CHARLES BARBE CO-AUTHORS OF K. D. R. SWEETHEART SONG . .. .... .... .. .............. HJ A FEW RECENT SCHOLASTIC HONORS .... .. .. .... .. .. ..... 13 MISTER AND MISSUS .. ...... ... ... .... .. ..... ... ... 13 r EWS FROM OTHER GREEKS . .. .. ... ............ .. .. ...... .. 14 CHAPTER NEWS . 16 Ente red as second class moller at the Burlington, Vermont, post office under the oct of March 3, 1879. The Quill and Scroll of Kappa Delta Rho IS published at 187 College Street, Burlington, Vermont, in January, April, June and November. Only life subscriptions ore available at ten dollars each in the United Stales and Canada Fraternities and the Public By George Bo nta, Jr., Wabash '16 AT RECENT meetings of the National In­ harm will ultimately be done to the sys- · terfraternity Conference, for men, and tern by public opinion. Unquestionably, the National P anhellenic Congress, for college authorities are calling on Greek­ women, there has been considerable letter organizations to prove their need agitation to have the fraternities set up for existence, or else-. Please notice some agency for the dissemination of that I said "their need for existence" information about fraternities to the and not "their right to exist"; because public. It is said that none but the un­ on that ground the question will be de­ complimentary activities ever get into termined. the public press and accordingly the Read the ritual of any fraternity­ public has entirely the wrong opinion they are much the same; you will find about what fraternities are and what no connection between it and the popu­ they are supposed to do. And so, a lar conception of such organizations. bureau of propaganda is proposed, thus How can you associate the Bond of Phi taking a leaf from the book of other or­ Delta Theta and the type of men who ganizations. would sign it in good faith with men Somehow I cannot think of fraterni­ who need constant visits from the ties in that way. I am old-fashioned police? enough to want to feel that fraternities The fraternities do not need any are no particular concern of the public. bureau of propaganda. What they do I dislike to see them mentioned in news­ need to do to change public opinion is papers and magazines, and I shudder to carry out what they profess to stand when they are erroneously depicted on for. the stage or the screen. But, as usual, the minority is the But it does not make any difference noisiest, and the situation is not so bad what I, or any other individual, may as the public is led to believe. No one think : fraternities are definitely asso­ on the outside knows of the hundreds ciated in the public mind with rah-rah of boys who are helped each year to get Joe College and everything that has to an education by the agency of a fra­ do with the frothy side of college life. ternity. No one hears of the personnel That reputation has been built up over work done by chapter officers and elders a period of years, and recent happen­ with the young men under their respon­ ings have done nothing to change it. sibility. Little is said of the alumni as­ Not long ago I saw a clipping from a sistance given each year to help boys newspaper in a college town which said get started in business and professional that the police had been called to a cer­ life. tain fraternity house, and that it was Once, when I was particularly dis­ the twentieth time within recent months couraged about the outlook, I received that the officers of the law had visited a letter from the late Doctor Shepard­ that hou e. son, to whom I had written a tale of the Since fraternities have long been on blues. H e said, " \Vh en a boy comes to the defensive, and their troubles seem to you, looks into your eyes, grasps your be multiplying, I wonder how much (Please tun~ to page 6) 3 Nat Doud Speaks at Nu's Fourth Annual Venison Dinner of the Nu Alumni Association and will receive all ubscriptions from N u Alumni at 111 Grant Street, Greenfield, Indiana. - K t:. P- Neil Willard Puts "Honor Su ­ per Omnia" Into Practice " HoNOR SuPER OMNIA" had a prac­ tical application recently when to read of the splendid honorable act of N eil Willard, Beta '18 former National President of Kappa D elta Rho returned a wallet he found in the City Court of Buffalo. The wallet owned by Joseph 0. L. "NAT" Douo, Eta '22 ON APRIL 16 N u Chapter again met in a real K . D. R. venison fellowship din­ ner with 0 . L. " Nat" Doud, Eta ' 22, secretary-treasurer, Eta Building Cor­ poration and financial adviser as the principal speaker. Nat presented Eta's financing for the past ten years and the part the alumni played in the chapter's fin ances. This was the Fourth Annual EIL WILLARD, B eta '18 Veni on dinner. Fo n ne1· National President Dr. R. J. H a rtman, u '28 spoke on the need of retiring the present mort­ Finkel tein contained $250 and also gage before they could proceed with the some ve ry valuable papers was picked loan on their new remodeled home. up by Brother Willard and turned ove r As a result of the meeting ove r 50 to Louis Shocket, director of the J ewish percent of the old mortgaae was sub­ Community Center for delive ry to its scribed in cash or notes. With this owner. A reward of $50 was accepted fin e response a campaign is now in by Neil only on the condition that it progress to complete collection for the go to the Boys Club, an activity of the entire mortaage on the old hou e. Max Buffalo Rota ry Club, in which Neil is L . Keller, N u '3·1 is secretary-trea urer actively intere ted. 4 II Gettysburg's "Old Dorm THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGI CAL SEMI­ Therefore President Krauth moved into NARY was established at Gettysburg in the west end of the second floor. H e 1826. The next year the seminary was assisted by one or more of the authorities discovered that many young younger members of the faculty. men who had registered as students in In those days the steward was an im­ the seminary lacked the proper train­ portant p ersonage. All the students ing for the study of theology. There­ boarded with him as did the president fore the Gettysburg Classical School and his family. The dining room ancl was founded to supply this training. kitchen were in the western part of the Two y-ea rs later the name of the school first floor. was changed to the Gettysburg Gymna­ "Old Dorm" has undergone many sium. changes since 1837. Internally the hall­ Then in 1832 the institution was ways that ran from end to end except granted a charter as " P ennsylvania on the fourth floor disappeared in 1889, College of Gettysburg." when the building was cut into three Appropriations by the state of $9,000 separate divisions. On the third floor, in 1834 and raising of $3,000 by friends just above the main entrance, was a of the college made possible the begin­ large room, which served as a chapel ning of a building program. In Sep­ until 1889 when Brua Chapel was built. tember of the following year the Board Opposite the chapel on the other side of Directors resolved to build a struc­ of the hall was the college library. ture costing not more than $12,000. Above the college library on the fourth An architect was selected who sub­ floor were the libraries · of the two mitted two plans, the one differing from literary societies. On the same floor the other only in proposing a larger were the society halls: Ph rena at the cupola and a change in certain division west end, and Phila at the east end. In walls within the building. The latter 1889 these large rooms, as well as the was to be of early southern style with large corner rooms on the first and sec­ four Doric columns, and to be con- ond floors were divided into small rooms tructed of white brick. for the students. Bids were submitted. All were high In order to visualize "Old Dorm" as and o the Board asked for bids on the it appeared at first, we must think of it b~ilding leaving the fourth floor and the without the present enclosed stairways east wing internally unfinished. In at either end. However, there were October, 1837 the building was ready originally end stairways on the outside for ser vice. at both ends. Also at each end of the In 1838 the Board decided to com­ second story was a doorway which plete the building, and it was occupied opened onto a small landing, from in e,·ery part by October of that year, which short stairways led down to the when the preparatory school was also ground on either side from the profes­ moYed into the building with a large sors' quarter .