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 mote good-fellowship, to furnish the members an opportunity to buy another pin, and to encourage regular getting together. I have a dozen organizations in mind at the University of Illinois which have no more serious purposes than these.

Besides the dangers, then, which I have detailed there comes with such organizations the danger of a lack of serious purpose. "What is the object of your organization?" I asked a group of young men only a few, weeks ago. "Well, I can't say," their spokesman answered. "We meet every two weeks to smoke, we have a feed every once in a while, we give two dances a year, to get the fellows acquainted." He said this with an assurance that would carry the conviction that young fellows always gave dances with the avowed intention of getting acquainted with each other rather than of paying attention to the young ladies they brought with them. There was nothing serious or worth while that this organization had in mind to accomplish, and so it had degenerated into a smoke fest; there was drinking at initiations and at other times; usually some one got too much; and frequently the talk grew careless. The organization helped no one, injured some, and wasted the time of all.

"Tell us something to do, Dean," an official of an organization composed of upperclass fraternity men said to me only a few days ago. "We have