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 ties, in point of fact he is dropped only in a small percentage of cases. He is in many cases like a young friend of mine who had changed his occupation rather often during the first five years he was out of college. "What was the matter, Paul?" I asked. "Were you dismissed?" "Never but once," was his reply, "but every other time I saw it was going to happen, and I beat them to it, and resigned." A very large percentage of the loafers in college usually see what is coming to them in the future, and rather than reform they decide to quit college before they must.

I think it is fair to say that although there are in every fraternity with which I am acquainted young fellows who come from families of little means and who must themselves be self-supporting, yet on the whole the man in a fraternity has more money behind him than has the average man in college. I think it can be shown, also, that a larger percentage of fraternity men than other men expect to go back home when they leave college and go into business with their fathers or with some other member of their family. Though many fraternity men must strike out for themselves when they leave college and build up their own business or profession, there is, however, a good percentage who know that a first-rate job is waiting for them when they leave college. Though