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lambda chi alpha
when speaking on why our ritual is the way it is and how he wrote it, brother jack mason said:
"the first question is, what is the highest aim of a college fraternity? the answer is-i think- to have men of sterling character, who are efficient workes along all lines of human activity; not students with big all around sympathies, who can deliever the goods in whatever activity they take up. In other words we have to preach two doctrines, the doctrine of work and the doctrine of character; or, if you wish to join the two, the doctrine of mighty energy working toward a high ideal. nothing else counts. it makes no difference of how pleasant a chap he is, if he can't do good sincere work he's not good, and we don't want him for a brother. the people we do take for brothers we want to encourage along these lines if we can."
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