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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS average? What is the chapter's financial condition? What IS the national reputation of their fraternity? In seeking answers to these questions, it will be wise to consult unprejudiced persons of some fair degree of familiarity with the points in question. Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities will be found helpful in becoming familiar with the national reputation of the various fraternities. The following fraternities are honorary in their nature, that is, in each case membership is attained only by exceptionally high scholarship and marked Honorary ability. High scholarship alone, however, Fraternities will not always secure a student's election. Phi Beta Kappa (Literary and Classical) Sigma Xi (Scientific) Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) Alpha Zeta (Agricultural) Order of the Coif ( L a w ) Membership in these organizations is prized very highly and is a recognized mark of exceptional ability. Fewer than one-fifth of the graduating class are elected to these honors. Inasmuch as the candidate's scholarship record for the entire term of his college course is considered, the freshman who would set his ambition on attaining to these honors must begin early. Ma-wan-da is the one honorary senior society among men students. Election to membership in it occurs at the end of the junior year. Twenty or more juniors Ma-wan-da considered most worthy of membership in it on the basis of their personality, college activities, and popularity, in the judgment of the retiring senior members are el- ted for active membership during tl. r senior r. There are a number of professional fraternities whose members arc selected Imni special departments oi study. partly On the basis of their ability and Professional Scholarship, and partly on the basis oi their Fraternities per nal qualities, Membership in these ov ganizations i , usually open early in the col b com Some of the! < i mizations maintain their own >
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