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 are so connected. The exclusive fraternity man if he would broaden his associations would be surprised to find how slight the difference is between the two classes of men, if, indeed, there is any difference at all. For this same general reason I have argued in my own case as a member of a college faculty that it was better for me to become a member of a few organizations composed largely of business men and men whose interests are outside of academic life rather than to confine my energies entirely to organizations of faculty men. The fraternity man who knows and associates only with members of the fraternities is likely to be narrow and bigoted, and to have the wrong perspective as to college men in general. He is likely to get the idea that the only men in college, or in the world perhaps, are fraternity men, and that the only fraternity men are those with whom he is personally and intimately acquainted.

In this discussion I have meant to exclude from consideration those organizations of undergraduates whose main object is alleged to be educational rather than social, such as department clubs, dramatic clubs, musical clubs, and clubs or fraternities interested in a special subject or line of work, though many of these are educational in name only, and are of use only as time killers. It is the distinctly social organization which I have had in mind whose only averred object is to pro-