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ease up
In this day and age we can spend all our lives defining our terms
and through the inadequacy of language itself concurrence is not
always found. My PhD gave me more questions, not answers.
Why don't we kinda keep our personal religious thoughts to us
ourselves and go to chapter meeting with the idea of something
good, caring, positive, bringing us all together...
Alfred McClung Lee, the author of "Fraternities without Brotherhood" was a pissed off writer who made a splash back
then and finally disappeared. John Robson, once a poobah with
the Bantas, a delightful Sig Ep, wrote a book on Fraternity, and
he authored a Sig Ep pledge manual. Not too many treatises on
fraternities written for several reasons, one satisfaction, two a
certain disdain for anything fraternal by certain professors. I almost had to hide my membership in grad school, but I could whip 'em all, outdrink most, outdance all, and was infinitely ahead
of 'em socially. But, we all tried to get along. There is yet a built
in resistance in the professorial ranks, but, then, how many do you find who are of the hail-fellow-well-met or extroverted kind?
Cooperation is hard to come by, and even living with a spouse is
a task at times. My fraternal experiences recalled today are of the selective sort, and the unpleasant ones repressed.
There have been a goodly number of short articles on Greek life
but how many in your chapter are eager to write anything? That
is for the academician, and he is often not the gregarious kind. I
found the poorest teachers, by far, in grad schools...
So, at my three score and ten, I say my fraternity experiences were the best...and I intend to value them yet....
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