fraternity came to see me only a few weeks ago to ask my advice. "I think it would help you, Dave," I said. "You have always had your own way, you have always followed your own desires, and though that way has been in the main a good one, and those desires excellent, you have yet to learn the lesson of adjustment to the wishes and the comfort of others. It would do you good to join a fraternity."
"That's just it," he responded, "I'm afraid I don't want to be done good." His better sense controlled him, however, and he is learning the lesson which every young fraternity man must learn if he is to get the best out of the organization, and that is to give up, to submit, to adjust himself to new conditions.
After the pledging a good deal of the glamour of the fraternity life disappears, and the new man finds that he is expected to do a considerable amount of work that is not wholly pleasant or clean or easy. If he has not previously been used to such tasks they may seem galling and they may even strike him as being imposed more for his discipline than because of any real necessity for their accomplishment. If he is a wise young man he will take these duties cheerfully, he will, at least externally, perform them willingly, and he will
