To bind men together in a brotherhood
based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right
itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West,
but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together
and contend for the supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but
morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever
found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation
of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost
in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
