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of disagreement, and in the various political games which are played in the college community to work together harmoniously.

Coming in contact, as I do daily, with all sorts of students and student difficulties, I am most likely to know immediately about all the differences which arise between individual students, between different student organizations, and between Greeks and independents. I am most likely, also, to become entangled unpleasantly in these, and, whether I wish to do so or not, to become a part of them. It often requires a skilful steering between Scylla and Charybdis. I have sometimes been surprised at the relatively small amount of criticism which I, as a college officer, am subjected to because of these relationships. Only this week a rather hot-headed junior said some pretty caustic things to me, because in helping to carry out the details of a quarantine which had been imposed upon a fraternity and a private dormitory, I was somewhat more rigid with the men in the dormitory than I was with the men in the fraternity. His claim was that I trusted the men in the fraternity and put a policeman to watch the comings and goings of the men in the dormitory. I was able to show him that the fraternity was a responsible organization which I had learned to depend upon and which the members themselves