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[QUOTE=KAPital PHINUst;1532844]There are quite a few inconsistencies in Alpha Phi Omega, one of which is yes, the Story of the Founding. Over the years the wording has been altered to become more "politically correct", something I have always disagreed with.

(Yes, I know this is an old thread. But I finally had had access to the Torch and Trefoil image at the same time I was thinking about it.)

I compared the Story Behind the Founding as published in the October 1966 Torch & Trefoil (which is the one describing Frank Reed Horton's Funeral) with the one in the Current (2007-2008) Pledge Manual. I found about 20-25 changes, but none of their, IMO, represent a move toward political correctness.

The most significant of the changes are the deletion of section headings. They were "Post War Activity", "Influence of Scouting", "Organization Steps" and "A Phi O established" and were before the lines "After the War...", "The summer of my Junior...", "As a senior..." and "The Lafayette College faculty..." respectively. The sentence which ended "to worship on their own Sabbath in their own way" is now "to worship on his Sabbath in his own way". "Fourteen undergrads" was changed to "Fourteen undergraduates".

Other than that, all changes are even more minor falling into either the change of capitalization of the initial letter of the word, like Ensign or division, alteration of hyphens (court martial and bylaws for example) or commas. Also, originally, a new paragraph started after "magnetic mines".

Thought you all might find this interesting.