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school; and the appellate court expressed its complete satisfaction with 
the findings. 
It will be perceived that the Washington court did not dismiss the 
case as being not within its jurisdiction but within the jurisdiction of 
the school board alone. It entertained the cause to inquire what 
powers had been legally conferred upon the board and whether the 
board had arbitrarily exceeded its authority. It gave to the student his 
“day in court,” wherein to avail himself of the ‘law of the land.” 
The only other reported case involving Greek-letter fraternities arose 
in Indiana. It was the case of Stallard v. White,t in which the 
right of the trustees and faculty of Purdue University (which is the 
Indiana State Agricultural College) to make membership in a Greek- 
letter fraternity a disqualification for admission as a student to the 
university, was denied by the highest court of that state. The applicant 
who was refused admission because of his refusal to sign a pledge to 
disconnect himself as an active member from the society during his 
connection with the university, was held to be entitled to a mandamus 
to compel his admission. In view of this decision it would seem at 
first blush that the authorities at Boulder were treading upon dangerous 
ground. But the practical force of the decision, it is submitted, is much 
weakened by the language of the judge (which is the language of the 
court) in the course of the opinion. 
The admission of students in a public educational institution is one thing... . 
and the government and control of such students after they are admitted, and have 
become subject to the jurisdiction of the institution, is quite another thing... . . 
It is clearly within the power of the trustees and of the faculty . . . . absolutely to 
prohibit any connection between the Greek fraternities and the university. The 
trustees have also the undoubted authority to prohibit the attendance of students 
upon the meetings of such Greek fraternities, or from having any other active con- 
nection with such organizations, so long as such students remain under control of 
the university, whenever such attendance upon the meetings of, or other active 
connection with, such fraternities tends in any material degree to interfere with the 
proper relations of students to the university. 
There was a dissenting opinion, but the decision of the majority of 
the Indiana court seems to proceed upon the theory that if mere mem- 
t 82 Ind., 278; 42 Am. Rep., 496. 
