Thoughts on
The Sigma Chi Creed
by George Ade
When I was called upon to write 'The Sigma Chi Creed', I accepted with great reluctance. It didn't seem to me tha I had been ordained to tell the other boys what they should and should not do in order to be good sigs.
I began the job with a determination to be candd and avoid hypocrisy. Consequently our Creed does not pledge any member to orthodox morality of a puritanical variety of private conducts. It seemed to me that the essentials or fudamentals of fraternit brotherhood did not depend upon the outward observances of piety. I tried to write a creed that would not restrain a brother from being a free agent and a lively comrade.
This Creed is not conventional and is not what wuld have been written by sermonizer or pulpiteers, but I think it is a fair working program for the kind of man that we are glad to hail as a brother. It does not lay down any pledges that cannot be kept. It is in harmony with religion but does not impose religious observance or obligations because they are outside the routine of fraternity life. I believe the Creed is one we can endorse and one which, if lived up to, will keep Sigma Chi in its present honored place among Greek-letter societies. |
