quite satisfied with his own and quite contended to give his attention to its problems. No sensible fraternity man feels so today. He realizes that if fraternities rise or fall they will do so together; the interests of one are identical with the interests of another; no organization is so old or so well established, or has such assured standing as to be self-satisfied or immune from danger or from difficulty if such may come to the Greek-letter fraternity in general. We are all in the same boat, each needs the other's help; we shall all sink or land safely together. Opposition has had its difficulties, but it has shown us our weaknesses, it has pointed the way to improvement, it has brought us friends, advocates, and champions, and it has already brought about changes and reforms that would have been undreamed of ten or fifteen years ago. The late war tested the strength of fraternities more than any event within fifty years. It stimulated the indifferent, it threw responsibility upon those who have previously evaded it, and in the end it proved a help to these organizations.
What of the future? I have the greatest faith in the future of the college fraternity. It is founded upon right and noble principles, it has an opportunity to do a great work in the colleges of the country, and I believe it is doing such a work. If it is to realize its greatest possibilities,
