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58 volume commenced in October of that year. It was a handsomely printed quarterly journal of quarto size, with a cover in the fraternity colors. With the beginning of the fourth volume in November, 1883, it was reduced to an octavo, and continued until the end of Volume V in July, 1885, when it ceased to exist. It was well managed and contained many articles of general interest.

The original badge of the fraternity is an oblong slab with rounded corners, displaying on a field of black enamel a white crescent bearing the letters "ΑΔΦ;" above the crescent is a green star with a gold center, and below is the date "1832" in gold. On the back are engraved a monument with crossed sword and spear. This badge was partly superseded for some years by a jeweled crescent displaying the letters "ΑΔΦ" holding a star between its horns, which was at first used as a graduate symbol only. In 1912 the fraternity adopted a standard slab badge and restricted the wearing of its insignia to the standard badge in the case of undergraduates and to a badge or pendant by graduates.

The colors of the fraternity are emerald green and white with gold and black as subsidiary. Its gems are the emerald and pearl, its flower is the lily-of-the-valley.

Among the alumni of Aipha Delta Phi are the following: Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, Sccretary of State William R. Day, Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Fairchild, Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield.

U. S. Senators: William B. Allison, George E. Pugh,