After a hazardous month the roommates fell into the arms of the last "frat" to seek them, and having undergone an evening of outrage which concluded with touching rhetoric and an oath taken at midnight, they proudly wore jewelled symbols on their breasts and were free to turn part of their attention to other affairs, especially the affairs of the Eleven.
However, they were instructed by the older brethren of their Order, whose duty it was to assist in the proper manoeuvring of their young careers, that, although support of the 'varsity teams was important, they must neglect neither the spiritual nor the intellectual by-products of undergraduate doings.

Therefore they became members of the college Y.M.C.A.

and of the "Lumen Society." According to the charter which it had granted itself, the "Lumen Society" was an "Organization of male and female students"-- so "advanced" was this university--"for the development of the powers of debate and oratory, intellectual and sociological progress, and the discussion of all matters relating to philosophy, metaphysics, literature, art, and current events." A statement so formidable was not without a hushing effect upon Messrs.

Milholland and Mitchell; they went to their first "Lumen" meeting in a state of fear and came away little reassured.
"I couldn't get up there," Ramsey declared, "I couldn't stand up there before all that crowd and make a speech, or debate in a debate, to save my soul and gizzard! Why, I'd just keel right over and haf to be carried out." "Well, the way I understand it," said Fred, "we can't get out of it.
The seniors in the 'frat' said we had to join, and they said we couldn't resign, either, after we had joined.

They said we just had to go through it, and after a while we'd get used to it and not mind it much." "_I_ will!" Ramsey insisted.