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Rh ber was published; it was not adequately supported, and it was merged into the College Review. All of these journal were published in New York City.

The first fraternity journal, however, which has had a continuous existence and possessed the features and aims of the current fraternity periodical, is the Beta Theta Pi. This was founded in December, 1872, by Rev. Charles Duy Walker, professor at the Virginia Military Institute. A member of ΒΘΠ, he had been made its General Secretary at the convention, held the preceding September. He chafed at the amount of time which the duties of his position demanded, and determined to found a journal that should do part of his work for him, and relieve him of much of his writing.

The journal was named after the fraternity. It was a four-page monthly of the size known as "small quarto," and was filled with chapter news, reports, constitutional discussions, and personals. In 1874, it was made the official organ of the fraternity, its size reduced and the number of pages increased. Its subsequent career will be found noted under the article descriptive of ΒΘΠ.

During the years 1868, 1869 and 1873 the Pennsylvania chapters of ΧΦ issued an annual known as the Chi Phi Chacket, containing lists of the members of those chapters. This was succeeded by the Chi Phi Quarterly in 1874, upon the union of the Northern and Southern orders, which was first issued at Carlisle, Pa., and subsequently removed to Trinity College, N. C.

In 1875, ΦΔΘ established the Scroll. It was founded as a monthly, and has always retained the feature of fre-