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 their work and received their degrees. The percentages of graduates varied from 75.3 to 15.2 which is pretty wide, but is partially explained at least on account of the varying conditions in the different organizations.

The internal organization of those fraternities which had the higher percentage of graduates has also been stronger and the unity of feeling more marked than in those fraternities which occupy the lower half. My conclusions are that the fraternity that can keep up its scholarship, that can choose men with a serious definite purpose, and that by a well knit organization can hold its men together will always have a high percentage of graduates.

It will be seen that the average percentage in these twenty-three fraternities of initiates who graduate is approximately fifty. If before I had begun my investigation I had been asked whether the percentage of fraternity initiates who graduate is larger or smaller than that of men in general, I should have been inclined to believe that it is smaller. Even though the figures show that with us the percentage is larger, I am quite sure that it is not so large as it should be nor so large as it will be when the fraternities realize the importance of pledging men whose purpose it is to graduate.

I am not sure that the reasons which keep fra-