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 himself time and opportunity for consideration before risking a second error. A good many interfraternity organizations have recently passed regulations which prohibit a man released from one organization from being pledged by another within six months, and some go so far as to require a year to intervene. Neither the pledge nor the fraternity can suffer by the enactment of such legislation. A fraternity which refuses to abide by the rule is scarcely worthy of respect, and the pledge who is not willing to pay a fair price for his mistakes, is not likely to profit by experience.

Granted, however, that the pledge is satisfied with his choice that he has neither opportunity nor desire to go to another organization, difficulties will arise, disappointment will come, and adjustments will need to be made. It is no easy matter to get on amicably with twenty-five or thirty men, most of whom, very likely, one has never known before. Especially is this true of the boy who, before coming to college has had his own room and exclusive use of his own possessions. Fraternity men are too likely to consider the property of any brother common property, and the freshman who finds his bureau drawers rifled and his favorite studs in another man's shirt has at once something to learn when he moves into a fraternity house.

A young fellow who had been invited to join a