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Rh not mentioned in these notes it has enjoyed a fairly prosperous and uneventful career.

Then follows a list of the alumni organizations, a statement of the scheme of government and a list of the conventions which have been held.

The publications of the fraternity are then mentioned, sometimes in full detail, sometimes in general terms.

A description of the badge, colors, flower and flag follows. It was intended to include coats of arms and pledge pins or buttons. But the latter have not assumed a permanent form and descriptions of the former are so technical as frequently to be unintelligible to the ordinary reader.

The statement concerning each fraternity concludes with a list of its prominent alumni. By this is meant alumni prominent in the public eye and not those prominent within the fraternity. In these lists no attempt has been made to distinguish between the dead and the living. An attempt has been made at a classification and federal judges, senators, congressmen and persons holding a high rank in governmental and diplomatic circles have been grouped together. In the case of some fraternities these lists have become formidable, and many names have necessarily been excluded because of lack of space. In the case of some of the younger fraternity names are included under a more liberal interpretation of the word "prominent." An endeavor has been made to show the relative number of really distinguished in the different organizations,

Honorary members have been rigidly excluded where known. At one time or another almost every fraternity