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 dangerous proceeding to mortgage the future. No one should be allowed to get behind, for no young fellow ever will have more money next month than he had last.

As to the alumni, perhaps one reason why we have not been more successful in making collections from the alumni than we have been is because the number of letters which our alumni receive in which they are directly asked for money is so much in excess of the number of friendly or newsy letters which they receive from the chapter that they hesitate to open their correspondence for fear of receiving a dun. Some chapters to overcome this situation have begun the publication of a regular monthly or semi-monthly paper which they send to all former members, and others send out a regular series of friendly, newsy letters.

Alumni should be urged regularly to visit the active chapter so that they may not lose interest in it or be ignorant of its affairs. The sooner the chapter gives its underclassmen responsibility and develops their initiative and interest in chapter affairs the sooner these members can be depended upon to have a permanent and vital interest in the upbuilding of the chapter, and the more likely they will be when they are in the chapter to keep up their obligations and pay their just debts, and the more likely also they will be when they leave the active chapter to meet their obligations to it.