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12 part of the older fraternities has resulted in a great increase in the number of local societies in institutions having large numbers of students and there is now opportunity for the organization of new fraternities by the formation of chapters at such institutions or in the combination of local fraternities.

In their early days the fraternities were classified quite generally according to the place of their origin, as Eastern, Western and Southern. Such classification no longer holds good, however. The only classification based on the geographical distribution of the several chapters of the fraternities which can now properly be made, is to divide the fraternities into national fraternities and sectional fraternities.

The national fraternities include those generally represented in all sections of the country. Of these ΒΘΠ, ΦΔΘ, ΣΑΕ, ΣΧ, ΚΣ, ΦΚΨ, ΔΤΔ and ΦΓΔ are prominent types. The sectional fraternities are Eastern and Southern. The Eastern group consists of ΑΔΦ, ΔΦ, ΘΔΧ, ΣΦ, ΨΥ, ΚΑ (Northern), ΔΨ and ΑΧΡ. The Southern group includes ΚΑ (Southern order) ΠΚΦ and ΠΚΑ, although this last mentioned fraternity has placed its last chapters in the North. ΔΚΕ, ΖΨ ΧΦ and ΧΨ, originating in the Eastern States, have what might be termed a limited national development. ΑΤΩ, ΚΣ, ΣΝ and ΣΑΕ, originally distinctively Southern, have completely lost that character.