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 and the development of the restraints and the influences of home life, the formation of definite habits and principles of character which seem to me the main object and purpose of the Greek-letter fraternity in college and of other societies organized upon the same general basis is, in the high school fraternity, entirely lacking. This is in my mind the circumstance and the condition which discredits the high school fraternity man and makes him undesirable for consideration for fraternity membership when he comes to college.

My observation of the high school fraternity man after he comes to college is that as a rule he is an indifferent student. At home he has been a somewhat indulged boy, and in the high school he has devoted himself to social activities and to outside things rather than to the development of even good not to say excellent scholarship. He usually comes to college with little scholastic ambition and little respect for the man who wants to be something more than commonplace in his studies. He is often one of those who advocate "getting something more out of college than grades" though what that mythical something is it is frequently difficult to determine. He very frequently is the fellow who because of his indifference and his inability to "get down to work" succeeds in keeping down the scholastic average of the organization to which he may become allied,