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 a gradual change of view point respecting these matters of scholarship. There has been a revival all over the country, of the former interest in the scholastic standing of fraternity men. There has been a general discussion of the subject at fraternity congresses and conventions, and fraternity journals, almost without exception, have been active in stimulating interest in scholarship and in formulating plans for its encouragement. Only a few of the most conservative and self-satisfied organizations have kept out of the movement, and they will come in soon or be dis credited. It has now come to be a pretty well recognized principle that the college fraternity has little cause for being unless it is willing to do its share in promoting the interests for which colleges exist. If it has no desire to make scholars, it has little hope of winning the approval of the general public which it desires. We should get on faster, however, if more thought were given to a man's scholastic ability before he enters the fraternity, and less energy wasted in making it good after he gets in. The fraterity can discover if it wants to do so whether or not the men it wishes to pledge were good students in the high school or otherwise.

Different fraternities and different institutions have employed different means for improving the scholarship of members. Interfraternity associa-