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 these primarily for the development of character and—of scholarship. The early fraternity men were first Of all good students with high moral ideals. We speak now of the Greek-letter fraternities and similar organizations as "social" fraternities, and more and more as time went on this social feature seems to have been emphasized until within the last twenty years at least, most other elements in a fraternity man's life and character were forgotten. The man's social standing—meaning by that that his financial rating and his ability to dress well and to utter polite inanities mellifluously—was the main thing taken into consideration when he was being considered for admission to a fraternity. Second to his social standing his ability to enter successfully into the various activities of student life, especially his skill in athletics, was the main factor in deciding his choice. The good athlete could often get by with a pretty thin veneer of social polish. If his scholastic standing or his ability to do high grade college work was ever taken into account it was not done seriously. He was expected to pass enough work to keep him in college, of course, but further than this, his scholarship was not made a matter of much discussion.

Within the last few years the conditions have been changing. The opposition which has arisen in various quarters against fraternities has caused