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16 in other colleges, join them freely as class organizations, only to find themselves in after life involved in an endless round of explanations of their double membership. At Harvard, for example, the chapter of ΔΚΕ degenerated into a sophomore society, punningly called the "Dickey" Club. While it was still connected with ΔΚΕ and recognized as a chapter its members (Ex-President Roosevelt, for example) joined ΑΔΦ, ΔΥ or other fraternities later in their college life. The active members of ΔΚΕ and ΑΔΦ at colleges where they are rivals have been somewhat bewildered by this situation. Members of ΣΦ, and other fraternities not represented in the Academic department at Yale have joined the so-called junior societies there (ΑΔΦ, ΨΥ, ΔΚΕ, ΖΨ, ΒΘΠ), and other perplexing double memberships have thus arisen. An odd situation was caused by the metamorphosis of ΑΣΦ, once a sophomore society at Yale (and whose members commonly joined the other societies later), into a general fraternity.

The professional fraternities, such as ΦΔΦ, ΝΣΝ, ΔΣΔ, etc., and the honorary fraternities, draw their membership freely from the other fraternities by common consent.

Previous to the Civil War the fraternities had not attained their full development. We find them at this period comprised of chapters united only by a common name and common principles. Each chapter was independent to the verge of anarchy, and did pretty much as