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I am thankful that Delta Gamma's founders laid down the foundation for our fraternity with this first initiation address, that still rings true to this day:
Dear sisters, you are now members of the Delta Gamma Club. Ours is an associate sisterhood based upon sincere desire for mutual improvement; its cementing element is love, its stimulating principle, truth; its WATCHWORD, duty, and we welcome you cordially to the advantages of our club...
You may imagine our duties too laborious, our discipline too exacting, but while we extend to you the encouragement and sympathy of sisters, we would warn you with equal fidelity that nothing good or great has ever been achieved with without toil and attention, and it is because we would have you prepare for an honorable womanhood that here in the morning of life, we would stimulate you to constant and earnest effort.
Be faithful to yourself, act well on your part, and then when life’s young dream is past, the battles of life fought and won, and the mellow light of evening gathers around your pathway, the scenes enacted here will rise upon your memory like the constellations on the evening sky to cheer and comfort you.
Beautiful.
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire
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