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 considerable liberality with reference to these things is now not infrequently surprised when he returns to his chapter to find that the order of things is changing.

"When we pledged our freshmen this fall," a fraternity president said to me not long ago, "we gave them the idea that we are trying to be a moral bunch, and we intend to make good on it. If any of our alumni come back and start irregularities we're going to ask them to move out," and that is what is going to be generally done in the future. I have in mind another fraternity which last fall at the time for the annual return of the old men handed each man a printed slip as he entered the chapter house warning him that no drinking or gambling would be tolerated in the house. Some of the men were irritated for a while, but their good sense prevailed, and they said that the result aimed at by the active chapter was the only one that could be justified if the fraternity was to live up to its principles and if it was to do its part, as I believe the fraternity of the future is going to do, in the strengthening and the development of character.

"I got a vision of the future," a senior just returned from a national fraternity convention said to me. "I had previously looked upon my fraternity as local, circumscribed in its influence: