faith, none of the statements in such an article could be used and necessarily resort had to be had to secondary sources of information.
The author is endeavoring to ascertain and state facts. Such are the enthusiasms of youth and the consequent resulting lack of judgment that the fraternity people each desire facts concerning every fraternity except their own, and with regard to that, they each want fulsome praise, idolatrous admiration, and the conclusion that from every point of view their own organization is superior to all others. It might be well for the reader to assume that concerning each fraternity its members deemed themselves to be unfairly treated by the author because it is not said,
"This fraternity has the highest ideals, has lived up to them better, has made the most rapid progress, has the most loyal alumni, the finest and best administrative system of government, is superior in scholarship, has a better social position, finer chapter houses, and more really prominent members than any other fraternity whatsoever."
A constant effort is being made to induce the author to suppress facts which a fraternity views with discomfort, for instance, a chapter is established and called for example "Phi." It is a lamentable failure. A few years later, another chapter of the same fraternity is established at an entirely different institution, in the same general neighborhood, and given the name of the old inactive chapter. Its fraternity thereupon insists that no mention shall be made of the original chapter, that the fact of its existence should
