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 tions have taken the matter up, scholarship committees have been appointed by individual chapters to apply the goad to the brother who is lagging intellectually, general secretaries have been sent out by grand officers, letters have been written, prizes have been offered, and in every way conceivable an attempt has been made to stimulate an interest in scholarship. The fraternity that is not now interested in the improvement of its scholarship is dead to progress.

For years at the institution at which I have done my work we have been trying to impress upon the fraternities the necessity of bringing up their college work, and of pledging only such men as are likely to make a decent scholastic record. We have been successful to a gratifying extent, and now, from a difference at the outset of several per cent there is practically no difference between the grades of men who belong to fraternities and the grades of those who do not. We require in October and December of the first semester, and in March of the second semester, a scholarship report on all freshmen and special students and on all other students whose work is less than five points above passing. These reports are made first to the office of the Dean of the College in which the student is registered, and the records of all undergraduate men are within a day or two forwarded to my office. As soon as the reports are