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 done. This business of utilizing his time to the best advantage, I shall leave to another paper.

The man with the right attitude, after his pledging, will do what he can to get into the spirit of the house. He may have no special work assigned to him, and yet if he keeps his eyes open he will see without being told things which he can do, and ways in which he can help to keep things going right; to keep his room and the rest of the house in order, to promote good feeling, and to bring about harmony among the different members of the household. It is a far cry from pledge to president of the chapter, but I am sure that many a freshman has in the first few weeks of his connection with his fraternity settled his claim to that remote and coveted office by the way in which he has got on to the work and into the spirit of the house. He has found happiness by helping those who were in trouble; he has made friends by being friendly, and almost at the outset he has become a standby, a prop upon which even an older man has learned to lean.

I remember a young freshman who was a member of my own chapter only a few years ago. We had been having a gathering of the older alumni, the new men had all been introduced and had been looked over and discussed.