e." The result was the establishment of the Inter-Fraternity
Conference and the adoption of a constitution just in time to avoid
decisive action by the University authorities, but not without great
opposition from the Palladium group. The most striking provisions of
this constitution are: the abolition of premature pledging through a
provision that all pledging must be done in Ann Arbor and not before the
tenth day previous to the opening of classes; the prohibition of any
freshman living in a fraternity house, a rule since modified; and most
important of all, a provision that no initiate shall have less than
eleven hours of credits of at least C grade, and that no student on
probation or warning shall be initiated. The sororities took similar
action in a provision limiting the amount and character of the rushing
and establishing a fixed day for the extending of "bids" to be sent out
from one central office.

These efforts have all had a most favorable effect on fraternity
scholarship and general deportment, which has been further stimulated by
the publication of a scholarship chart showing the exact relative
standing of all the fraternities and house clubs in the University. This
has revealed a gradual rise in the average of fraternity scholarship,
though few fraternities, it must be acknowledged, have ever exceeded the
average for the whole student body, which is between C and B grades.
There is significant evidence of the success of co-education, too, in
the fact that few sororities have ever fallen below this average. The
publication of this chart has at least had the effect of establishing a
healthy rivalry among the fraternities as regards avoiding the last
place on the list, whatever their attitude may be as regards first
place; while the scholastic standings of the various fraternities proved
their value immediately as an argument with prospective initiates,
something almost inconceivable fifteen years ago. The unequivocal
evidence furnished by these charts has also led to numerous
investigations and subsequent action on the part of the alumni of many
of the fraternities.

Student journalism, though it reflects in the rise and fall of paper
after paper the changing complexion of successive student generations,
is, after all, one of the best mirrors of undergraduate life. It is no
surprising matter, therefore, even though it is to be regretted, that no
student journal has survived from the University's earlier p