Ideologies
Members Versus Men
The Greek Letter Societies
among our group appear to have entered upon a period of mad
competition for obtaining members. Pledges are increasing in
number. Scarcely a student on the college campus but wears a
pledge pin or a frat pin. Are the fraternities forgetting their
original high standards? Can it be said that every man who enters
college is of Fraternity material? If in any place, Omega has
entered this mad race for members, pause and consider.
"The value of our
Fraternity is not in numbers, but in men, in real brotherhood.
Eight men thoroughly immersed in the true Omega spirit are far
greater assets than eighty with lukewarm enthusiasm."
Bro. Walter H. Mazyck
If
you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream and not
make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If
you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they have gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which say to them "HOLD ON!"
If
you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count on you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And, which is more, you'll be a MAN, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Invictus
Out
of the night that covers me,
Black as a pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of
circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath
and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It
matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my faith.
I am the captain of my soul.
Ernest Henley
An
old man going a lone highway
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and wide and steep,
With waters rolling cold and deep.
The old man crossed in twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old
man" said a fellow pilgrim near,
You are wasting your strength with building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass- this way.
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
"Why build you this bridge at eventide?"
The
builder lifted his old gray head.
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said.
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
The chasm that was as nought to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim-
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."
W.A. Dromgoole
Am I My Brother's Keeper
If
you were my brother's keeper
Will my best interest be at hand?
Or will you catch an attitude
When I can not meet your demands?
If
you were my brother's keeper
Will you be there in times of need?
Or will you let our golden friendship
Be destroyed by jealousy, envy and greed?
If
you were my brother's keeper
Would you always help me out?
Or would you take me to the green
when I didn't set it out?
If
you were my brother's keeper
Would you put me right on track?
Lay down your life in times of need?
Would you always have my back?
If
you were my brother's keeper
Would you let anything come between us?
Talk to me behind my back?
Would I ever lose your trust?
If
you were my brother's keeper
Would you fight me over a girl?
Would you disrespect my family?
Would you divulge my secret pearl?
But I know you're my keeper
Because we have a common goal
Uplift is important and
FRIENDSHIP IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SOUL
I
know you're my keeper
And our family is large and strong,
Knowledge and manhood is our
infrastructure and
"Omega Dear" is our song
I
know you are my keeper
And our bind is no fascade
You're always willing to die for me,
And our strength comes from God
I
know you're my keeper
Proud, concientious, and bold
I know you will never leave me
Because your blood is royal PURPLE
and your heart Is made of old GOLD!
Author:
UNKNOWN
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious ointment upon the head,
that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard:
that went down to the skirts of his garments;
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion;
for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Life
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble
And never a laugh but the moans come double
And that is life
A crust and a cornet that love makes precious
With the smile to warm and the tears to refresh us
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter
And that is life
Paul Laurence Dunbar
