"From the outside looking in, you can never understand it. From the
inside looking out, you can never explain it."
Definition of a Fraternity
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college
days by democratic process, because of their adherence to common ideals
and aspirations.Out of their association arises a personal relation
which makes them unselfishly seek t advance one another in the arts of
life and to add, to the formal instruction of the college curriculum,
the culture and character which men acquire by contact with great
personalities, or when admitted to the partnership of great traditions.
A fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left
college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association
with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger
generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves to owe
to the fraternity for what it gave them through their formative years.
By Newton D. Baker
(Johns Hopkins 1892, Washington and Lee 1894)
Secretary of War 1916-21
President of Phi Gamma Delta, 1905-10
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