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 them purely on account of what they have heard or of what they have read in the newspapers, there is no difference between fraternities whether they are professional or social, whether they are organized in a high school or are conducted in a university. The college fraternity has been blamed in the past and will be blamed in the future for any and all derelictions of the members of high school fraternities so long as these are in existence. I have no doubt but that it could be shown, if one cared to make the investigation, that most of the sins that have been laid at the doors of college fraternities, had their origin in what some outsider has seen in the conduct of some members of high school fraternities or in what he has read with reference to them. To the layman "pigs is pigs" and a fraternity is a fraternity and as such to be condemned wherever it may be found. Much of the legislation in the various states against Greek letter fraternities is said on very good authority to have had its inspiration in some such episode as I have referred to.

The first criticism which I should make upon the high school fraternity as I have received an impression from a distance, is that the organization subserves little good purpose. One of the main purposes of the college fraternity, as I have said elsewhere, is to develop relationships and associations which form a substitute for home life in the