The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

tracts like and who would set the laws
of nature aside?
IF man be judged by what he has
zone and what he is doing, and if sta
,istics tell the truth, we find that this
might almost be called the age of fra
ternity. Perhaps brotherhood is forgot
ten by some in the contest for existence
but this is all the more reason why 9th
ers should adhere to it, give it more prom
/ inence, give it better POSITION.
| University Life Real Life
"The life of the university student Is
the last step before what we might call
| real life, and in this university life we
have the right to expect education upon
all lines of just and proper living. Just
so soon as the graduate strikes our COM
plieated civilization he comes in contact
with all kinds of fraternities, and surely
no one thinks of prohibiting a man from
Ioining fraternal orders and neither
should be the student in training for such
as he is just about to enter upon the
contest and conflict of life.
If there be any doubt about any ques-
ton, and 1t be desired to have a correct
solution. the greatest court to decide the
question would be the universal judgment
of mankind. AS to the question of fra
ternity or not If such be a question: let
us then take ii to that court, and taxi
ing it there, we find that fraternities ex-
list among all nations, and that such ex-
istence has probably endured for all hu-
man time. Consequently, the verdict has
been brought in and the judgment rem
dered that fraternities are needful insti-
tutions among mankind. Not that every
man is or should be fraternity man, for
the divine handiwork which models man
has a different though noble mould for
EACH and hence each pursues his own
inclination in this regard.
In our own country they are part and
parcel of our every day fife; to mention
them is to have an array pass through
the mind They are almost all founded
upon and patterned after and inspired by
that grandest of all fraternities, Chris
tianity. And we might say that in pro-
portion as they and their members gravi-
tate toward Christianity is the existence
of each justified and perfected
The year 1776 is responsible for many
things of which the citizens of the United
States are justly proud, but 1t is also
responsible for the founding of Phi Beta
Kappa fraternity at Williams and and
Mary college in the state of Virginia, the
first Greek letter fraternity to be Or
ganized in the United States. From that
time on the list has grown and frater-
mites and sororities are now fixed prop
ositions in the growth of college and uni
versity life. Each has field of opera
ton. each should be restricted to it's
proper field of operation, and if so. good
only can result. In the ordinary course
of events. youth will make mistakes, but
these Will be minimized by supervision
from the university itself until such get
to be negligible quantities.
If one of the objections of student life
at the university be the want of home
life, a we'll managed chapter house may
be and should be the best substitute
for it.
AL know and say that man will work
his hands off to build up his fraternity,
and it follows that he cannot upbuild his
fraternity except by building up its men,
bers and himself. Its members are the
youth of today. the men of tomorrow