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AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES

And a new committee was appointed to lay before the authorities of Colleges and Universities in the United States where fraternities exist in such facts as it may deem desirable showing the usefulness of the fraternities as important factors in college life and administration.

Since then annual sessions have been held and much of mutual interest has been discussed and some good accomplished. The proceedings of the Conference are too lengthy to be inserted here.

As hereafter described in the prefatory note to the women's fraternities, it will be seen that they have carried the idea of an inter-fraternity organization much further than the men and have formed a more effective body. The professional medical fraternities have formed a similar association and also the junior women's societies.