Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-20
BARS C1N|NG DOWN
IO SCHOOL "FRAIS"
Greek Letter Fraternities Do
ing Missionary Work Among
Iowa Colleges
SOME ADVANTAGES sHoW
Friends of Plan Declare Fraternities
or Something Worse Are Inevitable
Scholarships in Stock and Corn
Judging Good Investment by State
Fair-small Army Completes.
Special to Times-kepubllcan.

Special to Times-hepublican.
Des Moines, Aug. 20.-College alum
nj and educators are discussing the
question of college fraternities with
some renewed interest because of the
impression that some of the more i'm
portant colleges in Iowa that have
heretofore been closed to fraternities
are about to take down the bars and
admit them. For some time past the
fraternity alumni have been working
quietly on the trustees of the various
important institutions of the state as
west, with the result that there is now
predicted a change of sentiment as to
the fraternities.
| In most of the big eastern universi-
! ties fraternities have been allowed for
many years with the exception OF
| Princeton, where system is in vogue
which is much worse than the worst
condition that ever existed under fra
| ternities. But in the west educators
have been inclined to frown down on
the Greek letter fraternities, with the
| result that they have been kept out of
all the religious schools, tho quite gem
erally admitted to the state institu-
| tions.
| Practically the only educational in
stitutions in Iowa that admit Greek
letter fraternities at this time are the
| state university and the state agricult-
ural college Cornell did at one time
but rules have been adopted barring
| fraternities tho it is. claimed these are
about to be raised.
The general public it is believed has
very little accurate idea of what the
Greek letter fraternities are. Those
| who defend them claim that they are
merely clubs such as every large edu-
cational institution is sure to have with
| the addition that the various societies
have general organizations that have
chapters in many different colleges In
| educational institutions where fratern-
| tiles are barred there are clubs and So
| cieties but they are not connected by
any general organization with other
| similar societies in other educational
| institutions.
| In Institutions of several hundred
students or more it is claimed that all
| can not associate intimately and fur
| thermore there are sure in such cases
| to be students of different tastes who
do not wish to associate. Those of the
same tastes will soon find their con-
genial companions. Fraternities merely
represent these inevitable groupings.
Many fraternities devote their organ
ization entirely to literary work. 9th
ers run to society and the more friv-
olous and the membership of others
composed of rich mems sons who have
never known the pleasure of eating a
| meal that they earned run decidedly to
| the sporty order. 1t is claimed by col
lege men that the bulk of the fratern-
I tiles make scholarship and moral
| character the tests for membership
| The advantages of the fraternity are
partly in the fact that the general or
ganization brings the students of one
college or university into touch with
| those of other institutions and thus
broadens their views.
/! The objections of the educators in
times past have consisted mostly in the
claim that the fraternities lead away
from the studies rather than toward
them and are more often devoted to
the "good time" side of college life
than anything else.
Whatever the arguments, for or
against, it is the claim Of college men
! that there is a steady drift towards
| the fraternities and that two or three
other institutions of the state are go
| ing to throw down the bars either this
fall or next to the fraternties.
| Bright farm boys Of Iowa have an
| opportunity to get free scholarships
at the state agricultural college at
Ames by showing their ability as
judges Of live stock and corn. These
scholarships are about the best move
that the state fair has made in years
and the addition Of scholarships last
| year for girls in cooking and domestic
science was equally good.
The boy who shows himself the best
judge of live stock and corn will get
5000 to be paid in monthly payments
of $25 month during the school year
at Ames 1t will be enough to send
a. boy thru the college. The second
best judge will get s100 to be paid in
monthly payments, and the third s25,
which will be sufficient to give him
the short course.
The rules for the Judging are that
each hoy must judge two rings of
three horses each and two of cattle
and two of swine, ranking the horses
| In the order of their points and giving
written reasons why they should be
so placed Each contestant must also
Judge two varieties of corn and give
written reasons for his decision. The
boys must also each bring an ear of
corn and the boy bringing the best ear
will get an additional 10 points for it,
| On each ring of animals and each
variety of corn the boy will get so
points for the proper placing of the