Show College Societies Defended By Bp Taft Speaking before members of the Acacia fraternity at a banquet given in his honor at San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco former President Taft warmly defended college secret societies characterizing them as democratic stimulating and potential potential potential poten poten- agents of great good He also related an experience in his own college career in which the Yale faculty used the steam roller on ona ona ona a frat that celebrated his elc- elc lc- lc tion so boisterously that he never had a chance to be initiated Fr Fraternities tern ties Are re Us Useful fulI ful I am glad to testify to the usefulness usefulness usefulness use use- of college fraternities the former president s said id I am told that the issue over the desirability of fraternities is not yet dead While it is probably true that fraternities fraternities fraternities fra fra- are subject to abuses and ought to be regulated they usually usually usually ally justify and vindicate them them- selves Along with logarithms calculi and other things we get at college and do not need in after life a fraternity fraternity fraternity fra fra- career is to my mind a apart apart apart part of that culture which every student should acquire To abolish abolish abol abol- ish fraternities would be to destroy destroy destroy de de- stroy character building in our educational educational ed ed- ed- ed uca institutions tu |