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20 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

with the knowledge that your own particular motto is the only thing
that can save the world? Have you measured up to it?"

" I have called the last part of my History plan, The New Idealism.
That is prophecy, I am that sure of you. From this moment on we
must and shall face life in a greater, sweeter, fuller, richer and yet
more truly joyous way, feeling our humility as persons and our tre-
mendous and important responsibilities as forces. Any chapter that
shirks its part in the reconstructive labors for the world's health is
making the great refusal. But no chapter will make it.

"As in the higher, so in the less. Anyone who has seen the whole
earth red with blood from veins of youth and has meditated on the
thought that it is impossible to distinguish, as it floods the trenches,
from whose veins it fell for the universal cause of righteousness, can-
not f a i l to be true to our standards of democracy, to hold fast to
Alpha Omicron Pi's initial declaration that no question of place or
religion or money or any little thing can ever matter to our breadth
of love. No one can judge by inch rules, or any trivial valuations
now, and be worthy to endure.

"We have long held in our hearts the very torch of the future. Let

our light shine."