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Rh It will be understood that inaccuracies in statements of facts which may be discovered in this edition, as in prior editions, are not intentional and that corrections of such statements will be gladly received and noted for future use.

Statements of opinion, however, are the author's own opinions and readers are requested to believe that he has ample grounds therefor in each instance, and that it is entirely unnecessary to assume that they have been made for the purpose of injuring some person or organization. The editor frequently does not agree with the conclusions drawn by other people from a state of fact about which there is no question, and it does not necessarily follow that he is wrong because of such disagreement. This is peculiarly so with respect to fraternities, which, after years of existence as an organization of one kind or class or character, change their nature and become fraternities of a different class and yet desired to be considered not only as a continuation of the prior different organizations, but as completely and wholly identical with it.

The increase in interfraternity movements of different kinds has broadened the views of many of the fraternity people and they are not quite as narrowly patriotic as they were a few years ago. Nevertheless, many of them have been insistent that the editor should include statements favorable to their several fraternities which, while not necessarily untrue, were nevertheless misleading when not viewed from a proper standpoint or without much tedious explanation, and the editor has therefore felt obliged to exclude many suggestions of this nature.