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.'