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 have made friends everywhere; they have been leaders in whatever they have undertaken, and no man in the junior class has undertaken more. They are good illustrations of the leader in college who is left out and yet who is in no way discouraged by that fact; neither one I am sure would be willing for a minute to admit that he had been left out.

It is usually the men who are not asked to join fraternities or who are not pleased with the invitation they receive who are responsible for the organization of the local clubs or of groups of men which eventually become Greek-letter fraternities. I have known a dozen such groups of men at my own institution which were organized as church clubs, or as purely local clubs, in most cases with the averred intention and determination never to become more, and yet I have never known one which did not eventually petition a national organization for a charter. This is quite the normal procedure really, for a national organization can make a more careful selection of its men and has a stronger form of government than has a local club, and the fellows soon come to appreciate this fact.

Occasionally there is jealousy and ill feeling among those who would have liked to join and who do not have the chance. Not finding it possible