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UW’s ‘exuberant cult of fraternity and sorority’ was defended a century ago

This State Journal editorial ran on Dec. 11, 1925:

It is probable that no street the length of Langdon Street in the state has dwelt so many significant people of the earlier period.

The sons and daughters of Langdon Street are known in the world’s affairs, and today are carrying on in many places. The ancestral homes have no special right to complain that, in the march of progress, they have been intruded upon.