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"Again,
the Beta is distinguishable and distinguished from all other
kinds of fraternity men whatsoever by just a little warmer
and just a little stronger, just a little tenderer and enduring
fraternity feeling than any of them can attain to, for it
was always so. I do not know in the least how it happened,
nor why it persisted after it happened, but a long time
ago, there came into Beta Theta Pi a fraternity spirit that
was, and is, and apparently will continue to be, unique.
We know it, who are inside, and they see and record it who
are outside the Beta pale. Whether young or old, in college
or out, from the small school or the great university, we
are conscious of a heritage of genuine fraternalism that
has not been vouch safed in like measure - I say it deliberately
- to any other of the great college fraternities. And we
cannot doubt that in this, as in other respects, our future
will copy fair our past, and that in the world of fifty
years from now, as in that of years ago, as in that that
lies around us today - The first mark of a Beta will
be his Beta Spirit."
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