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 and he manages frequently to finish up his work in college by the end of the first year.

He is not infrequently an athlete, and if he keeps himself morally clean and physically free from disease—which he does not always do—he may achieve some athletic success when he gets to college and may derive considerable newspaper notoriety and advertising as a result. The college athlete, however, is in many cases a poor fraternity man in so far as his influence within the chapter, and his control of chapter difficulties is concerned. It is true he is frequently sought for because of the prestige which it is thought his achievements will give to the chapter, but his time is usually so taken up with his athletic training and his athletic practice that he has little or no time to devote to really helping run the fraternity. Since the high school fraternity does not demand much control and initiative on the part of its members and officers excepting such as have to do with social matters, when the high school man arrives at college he feels himself familiar with fraternity matters but he has had so little practice in fraternity management that he seldom takes this part of fraternity life with any seriousness.

Society is usually his strong lead. He has some social finesse, he is socially wise and experienced, and he drops easily into the rôle of the fusser.