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is that every citizen shall hold his life, his liberty, property and immunities under 
the protection of the general rules which govern society.* . 
Not long ago the public press contained this ultimatum of the Denver 
School Board to the high-school boys and girls who owe allegiance to 
the fraternities or sororities of the Denver high school: 
All pupils of the Denver high schools who shall become members of a fraternity, 
sorority, or other similar organization, on a date subsequent to November 8, 1907, 
shall be continuously denied all the privileges and activities of these high schools 
except those of the classroom and that of receiving a diploma, immediately after 
such date of membership. 
A similar inhibition according to the same account is put upon those 
pupils whose membership in such organizations dates from a time prior 
to November 8, 1907, and who may enter school after September 1, 1908, 
unless all connection with such organizations shall permanently cease 
on or before September 1, 1908. 
In the State Preparatory School at Boulder (which is ciracticamty 
a high school) yet more drastic action was proposed. In a letter ad- 
dressed to the parents of the State Preparatory School students, under 
date of August 29, 1907, the parents were advised that the school 
board would not admit to the school this year any person who had 
become an active member of a secret social organization since October 
I, 1906, at which time action opposed to secret social organizations was 
first taken; and the board sought in the letter the earnest co-operation 
of all parents and patrons of the school. 
The action of the Boulder school board resulted in an ‘‘understand- 
ing,’ reached September 13, 1907, between the board on the one hand 
and the fraternities on the other; by which the fraternities stipulate 
that they have neither initiated nor pledged any new members since 
September 1, 1907, and that they will not at any time in the future invite, 
initiate, or pledge new members in their respective societies. Theyfurther 
stipulate that as soon as the present members of the respective organiza- 
tions have been graduated from the Preparatory School, the fraternities 
will cease to exist as active organizations in connection with school life 
of the Preparatory School. The board on their part agree to show no 
discrimination against the fraternities so long as the stipulations men- 
t WesstTErR, ‘‘Arguendo, in Dartmouth College Case,” 4 Wheat., p. 518; Black. Const. Law, p. 481. 
