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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 25

seek friendship among each other, and that we consider our members
not as elected to any privilege but rather as dedicated and pledged
to a life of striving for the perfection of our ideals, and

We do further declare that we welcome all sincere criticism of
our lives and conduct and do pledge ourselves to take counsel upon
the same and to remedy all things wherein we may fall short of
these, our ideals and principles;

And, remembering our long and prosperous existence, our oppor-
tunities and hopes for the future, our thousands of great and true
members now in the service of the world, the thousands of our young
men and women in our brotherly care, the sen-ice of many good and
noble men and women given to the perfecting of these principles;

We do pledge ourselves to promote these things in all ways and
to continue our efforts to that end.

I t was felt by the representatives that in many cases the public
had confused the high school fraternities with college fraternities,
and after some discussion the following resolution was adopted:

Be it resolved, That the representatives of the fifty-five fraterni-
ties and sororities here assembled declare their opposition to high
school fraternities and sororities, and express the hope that their
organizations will soon legislate against the initiation of members
of high school fraternities.

INTERESTING STATEMENTS FROM THE CHIGAGO
CONVENTION

MR. JACKMAN (Delta Upsilon)—We believe that the salvation
is not in fighting and restricting fraternities, but in establishing more
fraternities. And I want to say that we advocated that before the
committees and that since the bill has been killed we have had
three groups of students from the University of Wisconsin come to
us and ask us to help them get national fraternities.

M R . H A N N A (Beta Theta Pi)—Every fraternity represented in
this house ought to grant seme more charters. There are places you
could put them with success and advantage to your own fraterni-
ties. There ought to be more fraternities—and i f you and I and
all of us would help bring them into being—you would not hear
of this hostility. I t would cease in a very short time.

MR. PATTERSON (Delta Upsilon)— Fighting—Education and a
reporting system.