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2 faith, none of the statements in such an article could be used and necessarily resort had to be had to secondary sources of information.

The author is endeavoring to ascertain and state facts. Such are the enthusiasms of youth and the consequent resulting lack of judgment that the fraternity people each desire facts concerning every fraternity except their own, and with regard to that, they each want fulsome praise, idolatrous admiration, and the conclusion that from every point of view their own organization is superior to all others. It might be well for the reader to assume that concerning each fraternity its members deemed themselves to be unfairly treated by the author because it is not said,