The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-07-28

do not know any chapter of any fraternity-and |
know hundreds of them-whlch does not contain
men, respected by everyone in the chapter and in
the college, who earning their living in college
through their own efforts but in general, unless
the man concerned has some special talent, this
is not so easy to do unaided when in fraternity
as when out of il.
The man who joins fraternity loses something
of his independence. Being a part of an organ
lied group of men he is not so free to do as he
peases as he would be If he did not have this
relationship. He must submit to regulations, he
must learn to adapt himself to the conditions of
home life, and to the dosyncrases of score or
more of people. He will often have to yield his
desires and his rights perhaps, to the will of the
organization, for those who 90 into an organiza-
ton must be willing to do what will bring the
greatest good to the greatest number. He must
learn to get on with people, to give up. to he I'M
selfish to do that which will be most helpful and
advantageous to his brothers. Many fellows do
not like to do this, and sometimes parents do not
wish them to learn so that such men would make
poor fraternity men, and they would be unhappy
and make their friends unhappy in the making
There Is n tendency when man joins a frater-
nifty for him to be satisfied with the friends he
meets within its membership and to narrow his
interests to restrict his acQuaintances and to un-
dervalue the broader training which comes from
more general contact with men. II Is only the
weak and narrow-mnded man. however who will
fall into this snobbishness and who will restrict
his acquaintance and his friends to the men
whom he meets within his fraternity The nun.
Der of such men is fortunately not large
But there are advantages in fraternity life and
these | believe outweigh these possible evils or
disadvantages which have mentioned The boy
who joins fraternity establishes himself In a
home with many of the same duties and comfortS
of the horne life 10 which he has been accustomed
before going To college, and the fraternity house
remains TO him nome even after he gets ont of
college, lie gathers around him immedio,eIv a
group of friends who have his best interests .,
heart. II has been said by those who onnose rho
fraternity system that his choice of friends is
made too quickly to he satisfactory. thot n :, :
very mechanical choice seldom based uDon rho
principles which undere true friendships or1
that the friendship thus formed is an evorasoa,,,
one. But the fact that fraternity brothsrs =,
every chapter I'm every college where fra,or,,i,, -
exist ARE not only close friends while they are in
college out remain So throughout life tends r.
disprove such statement. fraternity man ,s
seldom dissatisfied with the friends he has chosoa
The Ideals OF life formally set before the fro
ternty man. and these as | have said ora -. 49,"
tcally always based upon Christian nr,nci,,ro "c
the highest possible, The character ~ th -
who were responsible for the foundr, =,
organizations and the character of mo -"
officers who are now in charge II FRATERNITY,
In each organization will suhSturtiots ,t, -
The tnerfra'ernity conference. which for rho Ias
dozen years mas done more To bring frotsrri,t,.
and fraternity men together than any o,har -
and which is constantly sugg,sfir. - "@''''N
fraternity Of developing good S,n1., " '''
strengthening moral principleS npJ 80 'P. 3"
ing Loyalty I" the college and co-oper,-t,-. -,
oUCers Is composed ~ a MOST relrss.,,
group of business and professional mon ,'',''.'
doctors 'n'h's'erS-and the best in the ro,,,,r,