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Rh tendency to club life, clubs have been formed upon fraternity membership as a basis. ΔΨ seems to have been the pioneer in the development of this form of social life. Their badge consisting of a St. Anthony's cross, they adopted the name "The St. Anthony Club" for their club which was organized in 1879. ΔΦ maintains a club under the name of "The St. Elmo club." ΑΔΦ has a successful club which occupies an imposing building and ΦΓΔ, ΚΣ, ΔΤΔ and ΒΘΠ have prosperous clubs. These occupy houses of some size and furnish the usual club facilities. ΘΔΧ, ΨΥ, ΖΨ, have club rooms. It need scarcely be observed that membership in these organizations is restricted within the limits of the fraternities whose names they bear.

The literature of the fraternities is assuming formidable proportions, and has begun to attract the attention of librarians and bibliophiles. It may conveniently be divided into permanent and periodical literature, the former including catalogues, song books, histories, music and miscellaneous publications, and the latter magazines or journals.

The most necessary publications, and usually the first to be attempted by any fraternity, is a catalogue, or list of members. Previous to 1876 these catalogues bore of a strong resemblance to each other and to the college catalogues, after which they were modeled. The names of the members were usually arranged alphabeti-