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TEP Heiman
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quiet hours have been established
so that students might study bet
ter. libraries in fraternity houses
are available and thousands of
manuscripts and other papers have
become useful to students in their
classroom studies.
What is a fraternity house? It
is a home away from home but
unlike any other home. It is a
fortress and a shelter, a palace and
a hut. a guardian and a protector.
It is where Man can be Man, the
humble can be proud and the weak
can become strong.
Fraternities have acquired and
joined into their ranks many many
thousands of students. They have
instilled into these individuals high
ideals, they have encouraged and
urged their members to raise their
standards, to think along construc
tive lines and above all else to fit
themselves to take their place in
a fast changing world. They have
been given opportunities to exer
cise leadership and have been
taught how to assume positions of
responsibility. Fraternities in the
future will train thousands for
positions of leadership and respon
sibility.
If we weave into the fraternity
system hatred for our competitor,
hypocracy, envy, greed, selfishness,
lack of love for the human race,
low standards of conduct and mor
ality, poor scholarship then our
fraternity system will fail and fall
into disrepute and then we may be
banned and barred everywhere al
ways.
If instead, we weave into the
fraternity system love for each
other, social equality, high stand
ards of scholarship and morality,
high regard for each human being
whether they be a member of a
fraternity or not, if we exercise
our leadership in making this a
better world, if we promote high
ideals of our democratic system
and remembering that we shall al
ways believe in the Fatherhood of
AEPI—HOFFMAN
—Continued from page 28
on two Freshmen members of our
fraternity from the North who are
at Oxford, Mississippi, trying to
make them understand and adjust
to our life here and I am just
about to give up.” His companion
turned to me and said, “They’ll
be all right. We’ll have them
straightened out in another couple
of months.”
The positive, mature college man
of today sees a new potential mem
ber not necessarily from the point
of view of what the man can do
for the fraternity, but from what
the fraternity can do for the man.
God and shall have in our hearts
always the practice of the Brother
hood of Man.
There are, of course, some men
who feel they do not need a fra
ternity. There are some men who
feel they do not need friends or
family and some men even feel
they do not need God. But I am not
such a man and never could be.
The basic unit of our society is
the family. I have always thought
that a fraternity’s healthiest func
tion is as a man’s college family.
The college fraternity, like the
family, has pride, standards, ideals,
and traditions. Like a family, it is
possible to create through a fra
ternity an understanding atmos
phere, a sense of belonging, and
a sense ot cooperation through
which growth in every respect may
be achieved. Like a family, your
fraternity and fraternity brothers
are yours for life. The college fra
ternity was conceived in the atmos
phere of struggle for political in
dependence and come into being
as an expression of self-govern
ment. As such it has endured for
hundreds of years.
Through participation in the fra
ternity form ol self-government,
the experience of a college frater
nity prepares a man to find his
place in God’s vast fraternity of
man.
PHI EP -MACEY
—Continued from page 28
a wider range of mental abilities,
and broader assortment of person
al problems, and a more varied
set of standards and ambitions than
ever before. For the fraternity sys
tem to continue to prosper we
must recognize these changes and
meet them with a positive, mature
approach.
Fraternity leaders realized that
a “New Look” was necessary -
that here in the college fraternity
lay the perfect tool for moulding
our young men into the leaders oi
tomorrow, that the environment of
college life would have a more pro-
found, lasting effect upon our
young men than that of any other
period in their lives.
The term “social fraternity”
took on a new, broad meaning -
a training ground for leaders. It
symbolized a realization by our
college youth that in addition to
fun and parties and lasting friend
ships, all of which are important
in their development, that the fra
ternity is a mechanism through
which a community consciousness
is born both toward the college
community and toward the com
munity at large.
This new consciousness has now
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