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 kindly to expansion than many of them have previously done, but even expansion will not solve the difficulty.

The fraternity in the future must become to far greater extent than it has in the past a real and a vital influence for good to the entire college. It must be possible where fraternities exist, even for the man who does not belong, to realize that through the presence of fraternities and fraternity men he derives some tangible and recognizable good. It is a new America in which we are living. It is an America made up of the contributions from all the various states of Europe. The list of names of students which one may see in the college catalogue of today is suggestive of almost every country and nationality on the globe. Only a few days ago I acted as judge of an intercollegiate debate between the students of two of the great Middle West institutions. The names of the contestants represented five nationalities—Swedish, French, German, Dutch, and English, and the foreigners were the distinctly superior men both as to their thinking and as to their delivery. It is this sort of citizen that the fraternity will have to reckon with, and if it will not take him into its ranks, it will have to do some thing to make college life more enjoyable and more profitable for him. The general public will ask,