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 answer, for it is next to impossible for any one to determine just what series of causes lead to any specific action which he may have taken.

There are a great many people, some of whom belong to fraternities and others of whom do not, who have the feeling that there are only two types of people in the world—those who are elected and those who are damned, those who get in and those who stay out, those who join and those who do not. My experience has led me to the conclusion that there is mighty little difference, and that the man who does not join usually came out of the same dust heap as the man who does.

An acquaintance of mine, herself a member of a college sorority which she considers the best on the market, related to me not long ago the details of a tearful interview through which she had just passed with one of her sisters in the bond. The incident which had been the instigating cause of the lachrymal outburst was the announcement of the engagement of a third sister. Now an engagement is ordinarily no cause for weeping; quite the contrary in fact. In this case, however, the horrible and disgraceful fact had been divulged that the young man in question was not a member of any fraternity. This misguided young woman had somehow absorbed the erroneous impression that