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 tian Association living in the Association dormitory. The old man had by this time become acquainted with the fraternity and was considerably attracted by the fellows in it. When he looked over his son's surroundings in the Association building, concerning which there was no reasonable ground for legitimate complaint, he became thoughtful for a time and then said very seriously, "You know, Jack, I believe you'd be better off down at the fraternity house."

There are boys in the secondary schools, also, who look upon the fraternity as an organization in which they can have the greatest moral and social freedom. The fraternity house is a place where they can study when they like, sit with their hats on and their feet on the mantel, and engage in rough house until the plaster falls. They know the college man only as they see him on the stage in his most exaggerated forms. A freshman in one of our fraternity houses was being called to account not long ago for his rough and boisterous conduct when he seemed quite astonished that any one should object to his breaking up the furniture and acting like a savage.

"Why, I thought that was what a fraternity was for," he ventured quite apologetically. His view is not an unique one.

"I don't believe I want my son to be a fraternity