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 the Republican party, I am under obligations to have the most intimate social relations with every member of each one of these organizations, and if I give a dinner party, I must ask each one of them to my house.

The number of intimate, close, personal friends which any one man can have is limited by his time, by his tastes, and by his temperament. He has a right to choose who these shall be, with whom he shall live, and with whom he shall associate, and the fact that he does not find it convenient or desirable or pleasing to choose me does not argue against me or against his democracy. With the marriage laws as they are no one is likely to be able to marry all the attractive girls he knows, nor can any fellow in college develop an intimate friendship with every one else. There is no lack of democracy in such a situation nor any sane reason for thinking a man exclusive because of these limitations.

The charges of immorality and extravagance have little foundation. The extravagances and dissipations of an organization are much more evident than are those of an individual, and much more talked about. For that reason, they are more readily corrected. If they are not corrected, then the college authorities who permit these things to continue are to blame quite as much as