Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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-O UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S kept and full of hidden skeletons, one can not live a very happy, or beneficial college life there. The fraternit e refli ts very accurately the ideals, training, and habits of its members, and it is in their power to determine \ lat these shall be. T h e expense of living in a fraternity : usually about a third more than living as a non-fraternity man; though in most cases it need be little more. The nee sary expenditures are usually not much more, but the deman< for more or less unnecessary expenditures are much greater. Fraternity men are not quite so good students as the average, though the majority of them have creditable records. Recently the fraternities have been laying greater stress on scholarship and have raised their average to a point only slightly below the general university average for men. The following table shows the average of fraternit men as compared with the general average: 1909-1910 1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 81.11 81.31 78.91 79.68 1911-1912 1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 81.71 82.34 79.28 80.48 1910-1911 1st. sem. 2nd. sera 80.31 { 42 78.68 79.63 1912*1913 1st. sem. 2nd. sem v 81.47 . 11 80.67 1.23 General average Fraternity average General average Fraternity average Part of the improvement in the fraternity average recently is due to the introduction of the practice of j blisfa ing each sem iter the ranking of the fraternities on a b f scholai hip averages. A part of this improvement also due to the rule, recently introduced, requiring freshmen pa in eleven hours of their work before being intitiat I into a fraternity. In the first | mester of [ Q I O - I Q I I , before the inti luotion Of this rule, the fl <rnit\ freshmen averaged 80 for the first letm-stn f IOI !oi.| the fraternity I hnien avora £ ' 82. In the In > sem t r of ioi ioi.|. the frat< tu
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