needed is a little effort on the part of those who are able to
give the required information and let us hope that some
positive action will soon be taken in regard to this matter.
ONE of the peculiar outgrowths of the American college
is its system of organized fraternities. Whether their worth
and influence are of such nature as to merit general approval
seems to occupy a good bit of attention. If a fraternity
bases its organization on the principles upon which the idea
of fraternity was founded, there is certainly no question as
to the legitimacy of their existence. There are, however,
some departures from the original notion of such associa
tions. These are exemplified in the manner in which they
take part in some of the work that represents the college,
and it is in reference to these facts that criticism is made.
When such an association cliques together so as to embarrass
other organizations, it certainly deserves exposure. Such a
practice exists here in regard to the support given to our Col
lege monthly. One of the fraternities, whose standing is re
garded as high, has so belittled itself and shown its disloyalty
to the College as to subscribe for a single copy of the FREE
14ANCE—in short, one man is a subscriber and a dozen of
his fellow-members are willing to feed on that one copy.
There is some excuse for a man with extremely limited
means in not supporting his College paper, but when men
whose finances allow them to be members of a fraternity
take such a step, it is time that their actions be ventilated.
It is not for the reading of another man's paper that criti
cism is offered, for everybody knows what the world thinks
of the man who borrows his neighbor's paper, but it is the
disloyalty to the College and the lack of giving their proper
share of financial support to her magazine. This attack is
not made on the fraternities in general, for all of them, with
the exception' of this one, have loyally supported the paper
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