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 affairs, and these dangers I have attempted to touch upon in the preceding paragraphs.

Under ordinary circumstances as they exist in college the fraternity man is more likely than other men to get into college activities and to control student affairs. At the University of Illinois about twenty-five per cent of the undergraduate men constitute the membership of the social fraternities, a large per cent of these being members of national Greek-letter societies. Sixty-five per cent of all men in student activities come from these fraternities. This means that there are proportionately more than seven fraternity men in college activities to one man not so connected. So far there has been no feeling that fraternity men are exercising undue control over affairs and no especial likelihood that there will be such feeling. Nor has there been any thought that the men belonging to a fraternity have been given preference unjustly or undeservedly by those who select the students who are to have charge of college affairs. It is simply that the fraternity men work harder for these places and are usually better prepared to fill them than are other men. There is a reason for this.

In the first place the fraternities are attracted more strongly to men who have done something in the high school to bring them into public prominence and to make them known before they come