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 tellectual honors which have been carried away by individual brothers. Among the numerous things which a man may do that will make him worthy of mention in the chapter letter none seemed to be seized upon with more eagerness nor told with more conscious pride than the fact that one of the brothers has joined something or has been offered a chance to do so. From a recent number of a widely circulated fraternity journal I quote the following from one letter with only the names of the men veiled:

"Blain has just been elected to the Red Headed men's Club; Barlow is an Alpha Delta Sigma; Lane has made Psi Mu; Thompson was recently pledged by Tau Beta Pi. We have at present a representative in almost every club on the campus."

I have wondered if this fraternity ever took the time to compute the amount of energy dissipated by this general scattering of the fraternity's forces.

I have never been opposed to these organizations to which I refer; on the contrary I think I may say with confidence that I have in most instances approved of them, and in some cases have gone so far as to encourage them. The fact that we have so many at the University of Illinois may in a large measure be attributed to this encouragement, since I am placed officially in the strategic position of