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 his life in college. Fraternity officers all over the country would not have taken the action they have done ultimately barring him from membership in the Greek-letter fraternity if they had not felt that he was a poor candidate for admission to that organization. The opposition to high school fraternities on the part of the Interfraternity Conference is the result of a considerable experience with high school fraternity men and a study of their fitness for activity in real fraternity life.

The high school fraternity is apparently in little or no sense a real brotherhood. Its purposes are not to bring men closer together, to inculcate in them high ideals of morality and scholarship, or to throw around them the protection and the influences of home. Membership does not demand the sacrifice of each for the good of the whole; there is little thought of the development of the individual through his assuming responsibility for the management and the control of the others. All this responsibility, if it is assumed by any one, is taken by the parents or the guardians of these boys who for the most part at least are living at home and who are supposedly subject to the government of home. The main purpose of the organization seems to be to furnish an opportunity to its members to exercise their social proclivities, to have a good time, and to shirk rather than to develop responsibility. The furnishing of a home