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 He was supported on all sides by Greek and independents alike. When it came to the appointment of his committees, instead of selecting a fraternity man for the most important position, as he might very well have done, he chose the strongest and the most influential independent in the institution. The selection was satisfactorv to everyone because it recognized real worth, and put into an important place one of the most respected men in college.

I am, perhaps, for this reason just mentioned, not so well qualified to discuss the relationship between those men who belong to fraternities and those who do not, it may be argued, as someone might be who is familiar with the dissensions that have arisen in various localities or as someone who may have been a part of these disagreements; I am not directly familiar with the petty quarrels that have arisen in too many institutions between the Greeks and the independents, though I have read many of the details in fraternity journals and in the daily newspapers. On the other hand I am not so sure but that I am better qualified than some other man might be who has lived in an atmosphere of dissension and jealously because I know that it is possible for these two classes of undergraduates, conflicting and discordant as they are in some institutions, to get on happily, to recognize each other's merits, to have no ground