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 they are, for what they are doing, and for what they are able to do.

In the future the fraternity will need to do something more than merely to look after itself. It will not be enough that it bring up its own scholarship and look after the social welfare and the characters of its own members, or even that it coöperate with similar organizations in the general uplift of fraternity men. It must go farther than this. In the larger institutions of learning like the state universities even if chapters of all the Greek-letter fraternities now in existence were to he found, the number would still be far and awav inadequate to furnish opportunity for membership to more than a small percentage of the undergraduates registered. In my own institution there are already established forty-eight Greek-letter fraternities, which even with unwisely swollen chapter rolls could not take in more than one-fourth of the men enrolled. In such an institution the future safety of the fraternity is in the first place dependent very largely upon so increasing the number of local clubs and fraternities that as large a percentage as possible of those men who would enjoy membership in such an organization may have a chance to do so. I believe, therefore, that in the future for its own protection, if for no other reason, fraternities will take more