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Rh except during the sessions of the convention is now governed by the three general officers, president, secretary and treasurer, and two others, the five constituting a body called the Archons. Since 1913 the fraternity has employed a field secretary who devotes his entire time to visiting the chapters and the affairs of the fraternity.

The MacMillan Log Cabin, the first Jefferson College building at Canonsburg, is in the perpetual care of the fraternity and bears a bronze tablet in memoriam of the founders. In 1909 the graves of each of the founders of the fraternity were marked by a suitable memorial.

The latest catalogue of the fraternity was published in 1913. Previous to this edition, catalogues were issued in 1856, 1862, 1865, 1870, 1878, 1886, 1895, 1898 and 1907.

The song book was first issued in 1886 (Easton, Pa.) by Walter C. Stier. The second song book was published in 1898 and the last book in 1908. A fourth edition is in the process of compilation. A general history of the fraternity in three volumes of 350 octavo pages each has been written by William F. Chamberlin of the Denison chapter the publication of which is now being prepared.

The journal of the fraternity was first issued as a monthly in 1879, under the auspices of the Ohio Wesleyan chapter, and was called The Phi Gamma Delta. It wasa quarto in form. In 1884 it was removed to Greencastle, Ind., and reduced in size to an octavo. Here it remained for two years, when, in 1886, it was removed to New York, and the name was changed to the Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly. In the spring of 1889 its publication was