Show JT IT r remains mains to be seen whether President President President dent Eliot's decision with regard to athletics tics will have any more effect than did that of the authorities of the University University University sity of Chicago regarding the fraternal societies Both the spirit which animates animates animates ani ani- mates the fraternities and that which keeps alive the brute element in athletics athletics athletics athle athle- tics are survivals from a past age and andare andare andare are wholly out of place in modern society Indeed it may be said that everything which tends to the growth of class distinctions among college students students students stud stud- or to mark out college men as a 1 class distinct from other citizens is out of harmony with the highest civilization The action of the Chicago faculty as aswell aswell aswell well as that of President Eliot is com commendable commendable com but those who expect Immediate immediate immediate imme Imme- diate and marked results are apt to to to-be to be disappointed Evils of as long standing as those which have haye grown up with the Greek letter societies cannot be eradicated eradicated c ted in a day It involves a reform of the student body and the student body cannot be reformed unless it wants to be The crusade against these evils must be carried on by the st students dents themselves before any marked success can be obtained No community was ever reformed against its will and the colleges will not prove exceptions to the general law Jaw There are hundreds of students independent enough and broadminded broadminded broadminded broad- broad minded enough to appreciate the magnitude magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude of these evils but in most instances a mistaken notion of honor keeps them t silent What ought to be done is for Y T. T every intelligent and progressive college collegeman t man may and woman to protest on all occasions occasions occasions occa occa- against every college institution which tends to foster a spirit of exclusiveness exclusiveness exclusiveness or of brutal rivalry It is a duty which they owe to themselves and andY Y to society at large A concerted movement movement mover move move- movement r ment of this kind would not be long in purifying the colleges and ridding them of all that which is so detrimental to the better class of students The cry for reform in colleges has gone forth and it will not be in vain It remains only to tobe 4 1 be seen whether they J are to take their i natural place in the vanguard of progress f or whether they will prove themselves unworthy of this high position and be beR R relegated to a place in the rear f r |