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The Ideal Gamma Phi Beta--a model for all of us
I found this on a Gamma Phi chapter website. A Google search showed that some other chapter sites have it, too. Maybe every Gamma Phi knows it. But non Gamma Phis don't. It's lovely, and after 100 years it's still relevant.
I think NPC women could all consider this an ideal.
AGDAlum
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The Ideal Gamma Phi Beta
Alice Higgins, 1904, published in The Crescent
The Ideal Gamma Phi Beta gets a strong hold of specific ideas and works them out in her life. She does not drift. She creates. She stands for something definite. She allows one bit of philosophy to dominate her life, "the only ideal spectator of conduct is the ideal self." She cares more about standing unashamed before her ideal self thanbefore the world. She would rather be at peace with herself and know she is right than seem to be what she is not and stand in a favorable light in the eye of other people. She does not bow to the god of her neighbor's opinion. She has well-defined ideas of her own and quietly stands for them in her life. She has a thoroughly cosmopolitan air. She is at home anywhere and everywhere. She begins to acquire this in college by the coming in touch with other circles than that of her own sorority. She has a refined gentleness, which is evident in her every movement. She is exquisitely careful of her person. She recognizes the fitness of things in dress, manner, and conversation. She finds the special gift with which nature has endowed her and cultivates that gift. She realizes the obligation of giving which is placed upon each member of asocial group, and her presence is at once a delight and a benefit. In her attitude toward men she shows she will not cheapen her sweet womanliness by intimate association with those of mediocre type. The so-called popularity gained by clever scheming so prevalent in college circles she passes over as not worth her while. She is sensible of her own weaknesses and conquers them by constant effort. She "walks amidst the universe its friend, at home with life, acquaint with death, facing her stretch of day, her night, her end - learning new wonders with each rising breath."
Is it not worth our while to grow nearer her image?
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When first to the rose we pledged our faith, we pledged it with jollity.
Mem'ry has now hallowed the love we sacredly pledge to thee.
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