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 goes with it following the initiation of today with what was said and done under similar circumstances ten or fifteen years ago. Risque stories, vulgar suggestions, and drinking are almost entirely a thing of the past at such gatherings, and though there is much still that is humorous and enlivening, as there should be, yet the general effect is serious and inspiring to higher ideals. Practically all fraternities have passed regulations forbidding the bringing of intoxicating liquors into chapter houses, and every year the number of fraternity conventions that legislate against intoxicants at fraternity banquets is growing larger. The fraternity of the future will eliminate intoxicants of all sorts from its chapter houses and from its gatherings, and the men who insist upon drinking at such places will have little vogue and little influence. As surely as time is advancing the college fraternity is becoming a temperance organization. Its future depends upon it.

The college fraternity of the future will have no uncertain attitude toward the immoralities which tempt and injure young men. It is interesting to see how frankly and how generally the effects of gambling, loafing, and sexual irregularities are now discussed in fraternity literature and how little these sins are condoned. The alumnus who during his undergraduate days has been used to