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 being able usually to secure the approval or the denial of the request of various groups of men to organize as seems in each case best. I have, however, never been quite sure that many of these organizations are of any positive advantage to the fraternity as an organization, though they may at times help to broaden the individual member and to bring him into more general prominence. Though it may help Smith to join Helmet and Jones to become a member of the Egyptian club by broadening their view point and bringing them into contact with a larger number of fellows, and throwing added responsibility upon them, yet the time which each must give to the outside organization may so divide his interests and take him away from the important duties of his fraternity that his influence and his effectiveness may on the whole be seriously decreased.

I know any number of fellows at the University of Illinois who belong to so many things that they have little time to give to the management and best interests of their fraternities. If there is company at the house Joe can not help entertain them after dinner because he must go to a called meeting of Scabbard and Blade; if a party is being planned or the matter of the house fund being discussed, he must be excused because it is the night when Klu Klux meets or Arcus has its initiation. And so it goes; when he is needed he is not to be found,