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Rh The values of the fraternity houses have been checked up and revised from a number of sources. These values do not always agree with the figures furnished by the several fraternities because at times the cost of a house is disproportionate to its value, being sometimes greater and sometimes less, and then infrequently persons who have knowledge of the facts have not stated them with the desired accuracy, but have contented themselves with values in round numbers. Whatever errors there may be in these values will in all probability neutralize each other, and on the average they are as exact as tax values and possibly more so.

There is omitted in this edition all reference to houses rented by different chapters, because practically every fraternity chapter at the present time has a house either to live in or to assemble in, unless the circumstances of the institution at which it is located are such that it is not practical to adopt this modern usual feature of fraternity social life.

It is difficult frequently to determine whether a particular fraternity is honorary or professional. In fact, a number of fraternities partake of both classes and again some of both classes gradually change their character and more or less encroach upon the field of the original undergraduate academic institutions.

In connection with the enumeration of the men's and women's general fraternities, what may properly be called the minor societies and those having peculiar criteria of membership, have been segregated into a second class or division.