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 in, some officer of the fraternity has a conference with me or my assistant with reference to members of the chapter whose scholarship is unsatisfactory, and we make such suggestions as we can for the improvement of the work of these students. Often I see the students. Students whose work is down in more than one subject are called to the office of the Dean of the College in which they are registered. Other students are simply notified by mail of their low standing.

Since these scholarship reports have been inaugurated, two things have contributed very materially in helping to raise the scholarship of fraternities. The first was the publishing in the college papers of the relative scholastic standings of the various organizations about the campus. At first those organizations whose standing was particularly low rather resented the publicity which was given to them by this method, and protested that it was unfair thus to advertise them. I have frequently had these men come to me at the opening of college and ask that the publication of the grades which have been averaged during the summer be deferred until after the rushing season was over, alleging that a low scholastic standing would serve as a severe handicap in their pledging the best men. It has been our experience, however, that having made a bad intellectual mess of it, the best thing in the long run for these organizations