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 plained to his friends. He knew a lot about a state university.

I believe in expansion because I believe in the fraternity. I have lived with it every day for thirty years or more and few men know more fraternities and fraternity men than I have been privileged to know. I know it has faults as has every organization composed of human beings, and I have not hesitated when occasion gave me opportunity to point these out, but I believe that on the whole the fraternity is a good thing for the men who belong to it and for the colleges where chapters are located. It holds up to young men high ideals. It gives them opportunity for leadership, for taking responsibility, for the development of their characters in the right direction which they are not likely to get otherwise. I know what its enemies have to say about it, but I know, too, that in a very large degree these things are false.