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mit to-morrow," as he always enjoyed thinking of the pleasure and benefit he had received from his chapter—he has been out of K.S.U. for some years. The other was a member of another chapter of my own fraternity, who bluntly remarked, "get to loving the old frat more every day"—he is a graduate too. No one is required to expend any more than he feels able to give. There are as many poor boys in the societies as there are wealthy ones—I don't think any of them find that they have a burden too heavy to bear—none that I know of ever stay out of clolege on account of fraternity expenses. No student, or very few at least, go to college without having some pleasure, and there is certianly no way of investing money to get a greater amount of pleasure and benefit, and good, healthy, innocent, pleasure too, than by joining a Greek society.
As to the statement that it is lowering the students of scholarship, I do not think it necessary to say much. Read the Commencement orations for last year and see if the Greeks did not think as well and write better than any barb—same is true for the past ten, yes fifteen years. Look at the large number of fraternity men honored by the faculty. Look at the rising young men of Kansas and of the West, who hold K. S. U. as Alma Mater and see if on nearly every one of the most prominent you will not see a shield or a diamond or a cross. Where are Scott, Smith, (a dozen of 'em), the Gleeds, The Riffles, Wharton, Stocks, Spangler, Miller, Harlow, Tucker, Hopkins, Sterling, Templin, Douglas, Graham and half a hundred more of the young fellows who are letting the world know they propose to have a good place in it?—They are nowhere! Mrs. Rice says that joining a fraternity degrades a man and lowers the mental standard.
The facts say that K. S. U. is honored by her Greek alumni.
I now wish to say a few words on the most serious charges preferred by Mrs. Rice. In all my experience I never saw any gambling or any drinking in a fraternity hall—nor do I think there ever was any. Furthermore neither Mrs. Rice nor any barb could name any special "jamboree" or party where there was anything of the sort. The inference that there were young ladies present at the meeting in the opera house last spring which is characterized as a "jamboree" (and no one can read the article without drawing that inference) is a libel on every member of a ladies fraternity, is uncalled for and is utterly false. The inference that drunkenness, not simply noise, called the police that night is also false. Mrs. Rice or anyone else is treading on dangerous ground when they try to impute any such scandalous proceedings to any students. I have been fortunate enough to visit twelve of the leading state univers- and denominational colleges of the West and in none can be found a more honorable, orderly or polite class of young men and young women than in K. S. U. It ill befits any one, especially a citizen of Lawrence, to endeavor to cast a slur on the character of a single one of the students. Here is a wholesale charge —implicating dozens of students, implying that mothers in Lawrence are not watching their daughters, declaring that a large part of the students are leading evil lives and teaching all manner of vice and wickedness. I can only say that it is a very careless editor who would publish such a charge, only a very uninformed or a very malicious person who would write such an article. It is time that this nonsense was stopped for no good can ever result from such an attack. This is no time to discuss the merits of fraternities; they are here and can not be driven out. The courts of Indiana decided that
question once, and these organizations, half a century old will not be easily overturned by the pen of any one person, especially of one who talks at random on a subject of which she knows nothing.
Perhaps I have spoken too freely—I think not. The writer of the articles in the *Tribune* laid herself open to the severest criticism, she wrote what was in a great measure untrue, and implied more things than she meant. The honor of the University and common decency requires that the matter be either presented by one who can oppose fraternities in a truthful manner or be severely let alone. Ignorance may cover a multitude of sins, but it will not excuse a scandalous wholesale attack on the character of young men and young ladies of the State of Kansas, an attack which cannot be proven, and which under the circumstances can only injure the University. The faculty is attacked, I say attacked. I "read Mrs. Rice's article straight," and when she speaks of the faculty as having "no part in this trouble except possibly in the way of omission," she attacks the faculty. The whole letter implies that K. S. U. professors are unafraid to their trust and are permitting proceedings which would hardly be tolerated in heathen "society." Mrs. Rice stands forth in the unmistakable role of an enemy of the University. She attacks an organization which has no more to do with the "moral life" of the University than has Mrs. Rice herself—with it she makes sweeping assertions concerning students and faculty, which if published in the State can only harm the institution. The secret fraternity may be wrong in some things, like all organizations, there is much which could be improved, but the question of secret societies has been o'ershadowed by the more important question, whether we are to let our *Alma Mater* be injured and slandered by one who never has done her an iota of good.
I think not, and I believe I voice the sentiments of the majority of alumni.
Yours respectfully,
W M. WEIDEMANN,
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