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 seem to me more binding—obligations which I feel must be discharged before I meet the previous one." I might perhaps be willing to argue the question with him, but his is a problem which every man sooner or later must meet.

What one owes to the college and what: one owes to his fraternity will continually come up for discussion. Many men feel that when they have met their obligations to their fraternity their duty is done. I have even had men go so far as to say that they cared very little for other fraternity men and they did not consider at all the men outside of fraternities. They can not see that it is the existence of the college that makes the fraternity possible and that far above fraternity spirit and loyalty to one's chapter is college spirit. The fraternity man helping his weak brother dishonestly through an examination may feel that he is imbued with fraternity spirit, but he has not yet had even a glimmering of what true college spirit means. Because the fraternity man is often so closely united to the members of his organization he more than other men sometimes needs to have his attention called to this general principle of loyalty to the college, for it will be strange if the time does not come to him when he will have to decide between showing fraternity spirit and college spirit. If the boy can see it rightly it is