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 really worthy the name they must be more vital than that; they must be more than intangible, general principles which one may live up to as or when he pleases.

"I know that fraternity men are extravagant, and profane and snobbish and intemperate and dissipated at times," a fraternity man wrote me not long ago, "but the close brotherly relations which the fraternity fosters more than offsets these irregularities." I do not believe it. Unless fraternity men in large measure live up to their ideals, the fraternity has little justification.

Unless I misunderstand the purposes which actuated the high minded men who established the various Greek-letter fraternities of this country and unless I misinterpret the statements of fraternity principles and ideals as I read them in fraternity publications and fraternity literature generally or listen to their presentation at fraternity conventions and gatherings, the fraternity man is under an added obligation to what other men are to be honest and temperate and clean.

There lie on my desk now two letters from local business men which say, "The accompanying bills have been due for more than a year. Do you think that it is possible for us to collect from these men?" And yet both of the men mentioned have had plenty of money to meet all their necessary bills. They have simply run unnecessary accounts for