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26 Convention addresses and poems, biographies of members, chapter library catalogues, chapter-house rules, and similar publications, complete the list of permanent literature.

The idea of founding a periodical was introduced at an early date in the conventions of ΣΦ, ΑΔΦ, ΒΘΠ and ΔΚΕ, and probably the early records of other fraternity conventions will show similar resolutions. These early schemes were almost always based upon the notion that such a periodical would afford a vehicle for the publication of literary articles written by the members, and all failed to materialize. The convention of ΔΥ, held in 1867, authorized the publication of a semi-annual called Our Record. The two numbers were issued under one cover in the spring of 1868, and bore the double date of October, 1867, and April, 1868. It was a pamphlet of thirty-six pages, and was adorned with a cover in the fraternity colors. It met with no success although two further numbers were issued in October, 1868 and April, 1869. The next convention again authorized the publication of a periodical, and the project was tried under the name of the University Review; two numbers were issued, bearing the dates January and May, 1870, when it, too, ceased to exist. In 1869, ΘΔΧ directed the publication of a fraternity journal, to be known as the Shield, and to be edited by the Grand Lodge. The first number appeared in July, 1869, and bore the legend, "Published in the interest of the Theta Delta Chi." One one num-