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 to be considerably above it. Unfortunately this choice of the best men means too often the men with the best social standing and not the men with the best scholastic standing. The fraternity in the past has had too yo many fellows whose only object in coming to college was to get out of work, or to make an athletic team, or to play golf, or to be lead about by a bull dog. I asked a young fraternity man not long ago why he had come away from home to college, and he admitted very frankly that he thought he would not have to work so hard in college as he would have to do if he remained in his father's factory, so he chose college. In his case, however, the surcease from labor was only a brief one.

The fraternity has initiated too many men, also, who are hilariously content when they merely pass a course or do indifferently well in it. They are satisfied with being intellectually commonplace. "I do not see why father kicks," the son of a former Phi Beta Kappa man said to me not long ago. "I failed only one course last semester, and considering all the work I did outside, I think I got by pretty well." He was really elated with three grades which were merely passing, and his highest grade was only five points above the passing point. Students repeatedly say to me, "I want to pass all the work I take up, of course, but I have no desire to get high grades; I have no use for a grind";