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 did honor to our noble fraternity by being awarded the medal given by the News, the college paper, for the best short story. Lyons, also, tied for the "Ready Writer's" medal.

"We are represented on the college paper, the News, by George as associate editor and Smith as circulation manager. On the Monthly by Weaver and Lyons as editor-in-chief and business manager. At the last meeting of the athletic association, Lyons was elected president and Smith, treasurer. While we have received these honors, we did not secure them by political schemes, but attained them through merit."

The estimate which the fraternity correspondent places upon his chapter and upon its accomplishments is very seldom a reasonable one, or one which is born out by the facts. I have known but one man who admitted that his own chapter was not the best in college, and I doubt very much if he would have done so had he been making a statement in the chapter letter. I have seldom known a man who could really look at his chapter in a cold-blooded and unemotional way and judge it fairly. Some years ago my office sent out to the various fraternities which have chapters at the University of Illinois a questionnaire asking, among other things, that the thirty or so chapters of Greek-letter fraternities then represented at Illinois be ranked in