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 of these organizations. The new chapters that are going in everywhere are made up of men of character, of purpose and of possibilities. It is not true that there is not cultivation in the agricultural college. Every curriculum in the agricultural colleges of the country gives wide opportunity for elections in science, in language, in literature and in the humanities in general. National fraternity officers recognize more than ever before the necessity of increasing the number of chapters of every fraternity. Our future is dependent upon it.

I believe strongly in expansion,—conservative, intelligent expansion. I believe in fresh new blood. If any fraternity feels the necessity of controlling or reducing the number of its chapters it should begin with the dead ones. It should either resuscitate them or bury them. As they now are, they are an incubus and a handicap to the best interests of fraternity life.

There was a day when only the elect went to college. In those days the fraternities could afford to be exclusive. Conditions have changed completely now, and the group of men who make up the attendance at the average college is the most cosmopolitan in the world. It represents every class of society and almost every nationality extant. If the Greek-letter fraternities are to hold their place they must meet the changing conditions