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Originally posted by zntke711
Because they believed in the principles of for not rank, wealth or character. The founders of the Knights of Classic Lore,desired an organization different from that represented by the existing fraternities. Their desire was to establish a fraternity in which the primary requisites for membership would be the personal worth and character of the individual rather than the wealth he possessed, the honors or titles he could display, or the rank he maintained on the social ladder. The snobbery and disdain for persons outside their fraternity- a common characteristic of many fraternities at this time- was regarded with disfavor by the founders of KCL. The knights of classic lore in literature embraced chilavry. The 5 founders wanted to follow the same ideals and seperate themselves from other social organizations.
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Bullshit.
Clarence Mayer said they did not give a rat's ass about Classical Literature or Lore. They formed the group with
the literary name so as to get recognized by Wesleyan and
not to incur the wrath of the Phi Gamma Delta or Sigma Chi chapters on campus. It was much later they decided to go for the restoration of the defunct (1897) Illinois Epsilon charter of Phi Delta Theta.
Founder Mayer, who wrote the Closing Ode, was a very impressive man, and one of the neat things about this well-
dressed, handsome and genial man, was that he was ever
truthful. Wilbur Tuesburg later corroborated what Mayer had
told me.
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