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"We have the best bunch of freshmen this year we have ever had and the best bunch in college," an alumnus of one of our leading fraternities said to me early in the autumn.

"What do you think of Klein?" I asked with a desire to show interest and a willingness to reveal the fact that I knew some of his men.

"I don't know," he replied. "I have not seen any of them; but I read about them in the chapter letter in our quarterly."

A considerable number of fraternity publications come to my table during the year through the courtesy of editors and fraternity men with whom I am acquainted, and as I look them through there is no department of these journals which awakens in me more interest or gives me more pleasure than that one devoted to the letters from the various chapters of the fraternity. I do not think that the most unsophisticated ever believes what he reads in a chapter letter. It contains a variety of fiction which is unique. The facts are often drawm from the imagination, the pathos is generally quite ingenuous, and the humor is more often than otherwise entirely unconscious and unintentional. The following, quoted from a