Excerpt from The Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, Vol. 7: October 20, 1909 Is It For the Best Interest of the Institution and Student for Colleges and Universities to Forbid First Year Men to Join Fraternities? In. Discussing this question it is first necessary to find the exact status of the fraternity in the colleges and universities of this country, or, rather, what their status ought to be. If the primary object for the existence of the fraternity is to act as a Sunday-school teacher, or to compete with the college Y. M. 'c. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.