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 to sleep. The girls are rushed from one event to another until by the time things break up and they are ready to leave for home they look as jaded and haggard as a colony of convalescents. If I were giving advice to a committee planning the program for a house party, I should say plan to allow the girls twelve hours a day for sleeping and putting on their pretty clothes, and they will bless you for your thoughtfulness and not go home the physical wrecks that they usually are.

The house party has more possibilities for risqué situations than any other social function the fraternity can give. There is social danger in it, if it is not conventionally managed and carefully chaperoned, as many a fraternity has learned to its sorrow when it was too late.

The extravagance of the fraternity almost always leads to emulation on the part of another. "You should have seen the Delt house," one man whom I was advising to be conservative said to me. "They must have spent a heap of money. We are to have some of the same girls at our dance, and how do you suppose we should feel if our party seemed cheap?" There is no logic that can meet an argument of this sort. If you give a party, the undergraduate thinks, it must be a little better than the best, whether you have money to stand for it or not.