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Show p BANISHING THE FRATERNITIES M ill Chicago, May !. lUgh school fra- S?3l tornllles and sororities in Chicago ljf h public schools have been banished. -J The final vote of the board of edu- rHsJ i cation yesterday on the lesolution && . abolishing the secret fraternities was KJjjj x 11 to 3 Under the new rule of the R hoard, no secret society in any city P f high school will be permitted In any tog? ' circumstances. Pupils must cither B : resign from societies or be exjielled mmi-! from their schools. - Dean V T. Sumner, chairman of ' the committee on school manage. P ment, said he had compiled statistics int! Allowing conclusively that secret so- yg ' clcty members were not gooi stu- jg t( lents. In one school in which thero JB ;' vere 121 memlers of sororities and ( mm ' fraternities, the average standing of mM I these members was only 74 5 per j8n cent. |