article_snippet: The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is 'to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed, The True Gentleman.'
article_snippet: For more than half a century, new members are required to memorize and recite the following: . '
article_snippet: A True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of the poor man poverty, the obscure man of the poor man obscurity, or any man of the poor man inferiority or deformity; who is the poor man humbled if necessity compels the poor man to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of the poor man own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows the poor man word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than the poor man own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.'
article_snippet: We teach We members to serve as role models in our members communities and to live up to
article_snippet: When members fail to do so, We will not hesitate to take corrective actions or to impose sanctions.
article_snippet: I am proud of our members because We mean what We say.
highlights_snippet: Members pride Members on being
highlights_snippet: 'True Gentlemen'
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