Landmarks of Alpha Chi Rho
A society or organization usually has a platform of principles stating more or less in detail its distinctive aims, characteristics, and ideals, which distinguish it from all other societies and organizations. Alpha Chi Rho has such a platform of principles and ideals, called the "LANDMARKS" of the Fraternity. The Landmarks are among the oldest and noblest of the traditions of Alpha Chi Rho, for they represent what our Founders conceived to be the basis for an ideal brotherhood.
The Landmarks are the key to understanding the Fraternity, for without them there could be no Alpha Chi Rho. Four in number, they are summarized as follows:
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Membership from among those who are prepared to realize in word and deed, the Brotherhood of all men.
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The insistence on a high and clean moral standard.
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The paramount duty of Brotherly love among members.
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Judgement not by externals, but by intrinsic worth; no one is denied membership in Alpha Chi Rho because of race, creed, or nationality.
These are the Landmarks of Alpha Chi Rho, its foundation and its heritage. The ideals they express are to be lived out by every member of Alpha Chi Rho, not only during his college days, but throughout his life. They are epitomized in the exoteric motto of the Fraternity which is:
