HOUSE OF ALPHA

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By Bro. Sydney P. Brown

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GOODWILL is the monarch of this house.  

Men, unacquainted, enter, shake hands, exchange greetings, and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all who abide within.

I am the eminent expression of friendship. Character and temperament change under my dominant power.  

Lives once touched by me become tuned and are therefore amiable, kindly, fraternal.

I inspire the musician to play noble sentiments and assist the chemist to convert ungenerous personalities into individuals of great worth.  

I destroy all ignoble impulses.  

I constantly invoke principles which make for common brotherhood, and the echo responds in all communities, and princely men are thereby recognized.  

 

Education, health, music, encouragement, sympathy, laughter - all these are species of interest given on self-invested capital.

Tired moments find me a delightful treat, hours of sorrow, a shrine of understanding - at all times, I am faithful to the creed of companionship.

To a few, I am the castle of dreams - ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams.
To many, I am the poetic palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial motives; to the great majority, I am the treasury of good fellowship.

In fact, I am the college of friendship, the university of brotherly love;
the school for the better making of men.

I AM ALPHA PHI ALPHA!