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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 stronger, just a little
tenderer and more enduring fraternity feeling than any of them can
attain to. For it was always so. I do not in the least
know 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, 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 vouchsafed 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.
- Willis O. Robb, Ohio Wesleyan 1879
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