Excerpt from The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega, 1892-93, Vol. 13The Alumni should be kept in touch with the Fraternity at every point. They should have representation in Congress, just as our active chapters, delegates should be sent and reports made, its representatives should be eligible to office, and the general officers should largely-be taken from their number. They should contribute to the palm by pen and subscriptions. The clubs should be required to take the Magazine of the Fraternity, as the active chapters are required.State Alumni Associations should be held annually, at which the Alumni id'ea should be made more prominent than the chapter. These meetings should be so located and timed as to produce the greatest impression upon the State. Properly managed, as an educational, moral and social power, they would become of such importance that the Alumni would find it worth their time and attention to attend them. Let these associations' once acquire that dignity and importance that they would be sought after by the Alumni, old and young, of a State, and the in¿uence and power of'the Fraternity in that State is finally established.Once more, the Alumni should help to build chapter-houses and furnish the best material for chapters. Men of affairs, they have business knowledge, financial experience and material wealth. Of these they should give freely to the Fraternity, which honored them as college boys and continues to honor them as men. Freely they have received, freely let them give. This should be the motto, for it is a just and reasonable one. Their memories are best preserved by their Fraternity annals, their dearest and most lasting friendships have been formed in their A Fraternity chapters, the sheltering, upholding arm of their older brothers were put around them when they were unknown, un stable, timid college boys. Do they not owe much to the old mother? Now that they are strong and prosperous, should they not support and comfort and advance her?We hope the Alumni question will be a burning one at Con gress, for we verily believe it is the solution of the Fraternity's permanence and progress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.