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 ternity men from graduating are different excepting in degree, perhaps, from those which are instrumental in keeping other men from continuing in college. The percentage of fraternity men placed on probation for poor scholarship or dropped from the University is practically the same as the percentage of other men. I am sorry to admit that a somewhat larger percentage are dropped for other irregularities, but this fact may be accounted for, I believe, because, it is almost always easier to find out what a man in an organization is doing or has done than it is to find out similar facts concerning the isolated individual.

The social life of the men in the fraternity is on the whole considerably more intense than is that of the men outside, especially in a coeducational institution like a state university. The young man who associates regularly with girls is likely to fall in love, or at least he is likely to think that he has done so, and a young collegian in this state of mind seldom does much with his studies. The experience steadies and stimulates a few men to better work, but the large majority whom I have known can not attend to their books and to their love affairs at the same time. The fact that these young people do not marry—and there is little likelihood that the college man in love in the early years of his college course will marry