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 tinuance of the fraternity has been the best thing which could have happened to it, for it roused the active members of the organization, and, better still, it stirred the strong alumni who, though they were interested in the organization, had yet allowed that interest to wane and had drifted somewhat out of touch with their own respective chapters. Whatever the Interfraternity Conference may or may not have accomplished, it has at least stimulated the interest of some of the strongest and most forceful fraternity men of the country and has set them to an attempt to solve the problems of their respective fraternities and to help meet the opposition against fraternities in general. The fight against fraternities has caused fraternity men old and young to study the situation, to realize the evil practicies which had crept in and to go at the elimination of these as quickly and as forcefully as possible.

Still another thing which this opposition has done has been to cause fraternity men to realize that, no matter what organization they may belong to, whether it was founded in 1824 or 1902, their interests are similar and each needs the help of the other. Less than ten years ago I heard a prominent fraternity man say that he had no special interest in what other fraternities were doing or what their difficulties might be; he was