SOME FRATERNITY FIGURES

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Most of the figures in the tables following are for the five college years '22 to '26, inclusive, a period far enough removed from The War to be free from its disturbances. There was a certain homogeneity during the period under consideration in that there was freshman pledging each year and the number of organizations was constant (24). At the present time both of these factors have changed; we now have sophomore pledging and there are twenty-six fraternities on the campus.

The data has been gleaned from TheDartmouth> The Aegis, circulars to the fraternities, the annual College Catalog, and the Recorder's minutes of the Faculty meetings.

Table I shows the total membership of the various fraternities for each of the five years. Only undergraduates of the four college classes are counted. The fraternities are arranged in order of their establishment at Dartmouth. For each year the largest and the smallest chapters are indicated by numbers in antique type for the first and numbers in italic type for the second. Particularly interesting as well as significant are the increases from year to year in the averages and in the persentages of the undergraduate student body in fraternities.

A study of the total memberships is well complemented by considering the number of freshmen "bid." Table II shows the number of freshmen pledged by each fraternity for each of the several years. These delegations are almost always added to in sophomore, junior, and senior years as is illustrated in a later table.

Be sure to notice the increase in the total number pledged, the yearly averages, and in the yearly percentage of the freshman class pledged. There are reasons for the increase, and there are results.

Again the largest delegation numbers are in antique type, and the smallest in italic.

Table Ill shows the distribution of un- dergraduate fraternity men in the classes for two years. These figures were compiled from issues of The Aegis. Besides the men listed here there were about thirty more fraternity members in the graduate schools each year. The year 1924-25 was the last year that freshmen were taken into fraternities, and 1925-26 the first year of excluding freshmen. The change from four-delegation to three-delegation chapters is seen to make an increase in the numbers of sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the societies.

A little more detailed study was made of the Class of 1925 to ascertain how many of its men completed the college courses on time. Table IV shows the number of freshmen pledged by each fraternity from the Class of 1925, and the number of these pledges who received their bachelor degrees from Dartmouth College in June, 1925. The arrangement is in order of percentages. The figures are for one class (1925) only, and hence are more striking than significant. Dropbacks into the Class are not counted, nor is there any record of degrees taken by men transferring to other institutions. In this table "non-fraternity men" means men not pledged to fraternities during the freshman year (cf. the following table).

It will be a surprise to some to find that only 43% of the original enrollment of 603 men received their degrees on time; and a still greater surprise that 51% of the men pledged to fraternities their freshman year received their degrees in June, 1925, while only 35% of the men not so pledged graduated with the class.

The preceding table is for men pledged in the freshman year. During the sophomore, junior, and senior years of the Class of 1925 the various fraternities took more men from that class. Table V shows the total number of men of the Class of 1925 pledged by each fraternity, and the number of these pledges who either received their degrees from Dartmouth in June, 1925, or else "as with the Class of 1925" up to the present time (January, 1927), an extended period of eighteen months. Of the forty-three men who have to date received degrees "as with the Class of 1925," twenty-nine were fraternity men. The figures in this table are less reliable than those of the preceding table because the Class of 1925 not only lost men during its four years in College, but during its last three years it received transfers and a few "drop backs." It is difficult to know whether to count or reject some names. In preparing this table it was observed that the men pledged after their fresh man year by the fraternities usually finished for their degrees. The figures bear out this observation.

TABLE ITOTAL MEMBERSHIP (UNDERGRADUATES) Date of Est. Dartmouth 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1924-25 Average 1842 53 66 72 59 64 63 KKK 1842 53 50 68 63 77 62 A 1846 45 48 57 56 59 53 KE 1852 69 54 45 49 49 53 1853, 1920 38 46 55 45 50 47 ©AX 1869 38 44 46 51 66 49 $A© 1884 42 55 47 57 60 52 Ben 1889 43 43 54 53 57 50 x 1893 45 52 57 49 1896 47 56 58 63 58 56 $rA 1901 49 54 49 53 62 53 ATA 1901 45' 46 48 45 54 48 1902 57 53 48 50 50 52 1905 43 48 56 54 66 53 KS 1905 50 61 60 52 53 55 2N 1907 32 36 41 43 54 41 2AE 1908 50 46 44 47 60 49 TAE ( = rs) 1908 (1920) 29 41 42 45 44 40 24>E 1909 39 44 46 44 61 47 AXA 1914 42 47 57 38 47 46 ATO ( = Cosmos) (1915) 1924 35 37 36354037 AXP 1919 36 46 44 47 54 45 AT (=EK) (1920) 1926 2828 42 44 46 38 OX 1921 39 48 51 57 61 51 Totals 1045 1151 1223 1199 1353 Averages 43.5 48— 51 50 56 Total Undergraduates in College 1818 1925 1995 1958 2049 Percent in Fraternities 57+ 60— 61+ 61+ 66%

TABLE II NUMBER OF FRESHMEN PLEDGED 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1924-25 Total Number Average Number 17 18 22 17 15 89 18 KKK 12 9 23 18 24 82 16 AA 13 14 20 15 16 78 16— AKE 13 13 8 16 16 66 13 Z* 8 9 18 11 14 60 12 0AX 6 21 10 14 17 68 17— 4-AO 8 19 11 21 15 71 15 ?en 11 13 19 15 14 72 14 2X 7 14 18 16 17 72 14 K^ 14 15 15 17 15 76 15 rA IS 15 9 19 22 80 16 ATA 9 10 15 16 18 68 14— 14 12 9 16 13 64 13 2K 7 12 10 19 18 66 13 K2 10 14 12 7 17 60 12 2N 4 ' 11 10 13 17 55 11 2AE 11 11 10 14 23 69 14 I'AE (=rs) 5 10 10 11 10 46 9 2$E 8 11 10 " 9 21 59 12 AXA 11 7 19 5 19 61 12 ATO (=Cosmos) 4 *5 6 7 10 32 6 ■4XP 7 15 8 18 19 67 13+ AT ( = EB) 8 4 10 10 11 43 9— ex 7 12 12 13 19 63 13— Totals 229 294 314 337 400 317 Averages 9.5 12.3 13.1 14.0 16.7 13.1 Freshmen in Col. 697 603 551 595 673 Percent pledged 33% 48% 57% 57% 59'%

TABLE IIIDISTRIBUTION OF FRATERNITY MENIN COLLEGE CLASSES Year 1924-25 Year 1925,26 In In Percent in In In Percent in College Fraternities Fraternities College Fraternities Fraternities Seniors 419 303 72% 410 323 79% Juniors 421 309 73% 432 339 78% Sophomores 535 341 64% 593 370 62% Fre^hrtlen 673 400 59% 638 0 0%

TABLE IV1925 Men Completing Course on TimeTABLE V1925 Men Receiving Degrees to Date ~ 5« •a > S -S o > Ctie C '7\ JSi — «-»■ ro | c ° 8 •£, 2 - PL, J= s « £ . £ . rA 15 10 67 X$ 12 8 67 AXP 15 10 67 KZ 14 9 64+ 2N 11 7 64— +T 18 11 61 ATfi (—Cosmos) 5 3 60 ex 12 7 58 4>K* 15 8 53 eAX 21 11 52 A A 14 7 50 ATA 10 5 50 Z* 9 4 44 2X 14 6 43 AXA 7 3 43 AKE 13 5 38 -AE 11 4 36 iiKK 9 3 33 Ben 13 4 31 24>E 11 3 27 AT (=EK) 4 1 25 •f>A9 19 4 21 Totals, Fraternity 294 151 51% "Non-fraternity" 309 108 35% Whole Class 603 259 43% Total Number of Men Pledged from Original Class of 1925 Total No. of these Having Received Degrees from Dartmouth to date Percent 2K 19 17 89% E 19 12 63 AT (=EK*) 16 10 63 2X 18 11 61 *A* 19 11 58 Ben 21 12 57 Ax A 11 6 55 ATfi (—Cosmos) 15 8 53 ctK'I' 17 9 53 2 AE 17 9 53 KKK 15 7 47 z* 15 7 47 4>A© 21 9 43 AKE 17 6 35 Total 417 260 62%