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 part of the college curriculum, at least as a very worthy adjunct to it. I think I did not visit a fraternity house during the rushing season last fall without finding that at one time or another during the evening most of the active chapter and all of the prospective pledges formed themselves into a party and raced off to a cheap show of some sort. What else could they do, they asked. It is because of this early start with vaudeville and the "movies" that the fraternity undergraduate is more addicted to these time and money wasters than are other college students.

Even after the rushing season was over when I have been at one or another of the houses for dinner, or when previous to show time I have been down town on the car, I could see crowds of undergraduates starting out for the "Orpheum." "Anyone going to the show?" is as familiar a cry at a fraternity or rooming house almost every evening as "rags and old iron" on a city street. Down town nearly every afternoon and evening when photo-play houses and vaudeville theatres disgorge, the streets are filled with undergraduates. One who gives any attention to it also is impressed with the fact that it is often the same undergraduates whom one can see in these show places every day.

I was speaking only a few days ago with a young