"We believe that our fraternity exerts a powerful influence for good in national college life.  The thought which lay in the minds of the founders was good.  May our brothers never forget that the foundation for a useful and satisfying life must be thought - thought resulting in the visualization of a high ideal; and the determination to use all of one's strength of body, mind and soul for its realization."

-- Founder Brooks, four years before his death in 1938