SAE True Gentleman
For more than half a century ΣΑΕ's have recited "The True Gentleman," and really no other words can better represent the ideals of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ΣΑΕ is a social organization, but our primary concern is making our brothers better men through friendship, community service, worldly education, and healthy ideals.
The 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 his poverty, the
obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his
inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if
necessity compels him to humble another; who does not
flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own
possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness
but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows
his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others
rather than his own; and who appears well in any company,
a man with whome honor is sacred and virtue safe.
-John Walter Wayland (Virginia 1899)
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 his poverty, the
obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his
inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if
necessity compels him to humble another; who does not
flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own
possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness
but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows
his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others
rather than his own; and who appears well in any company,
a man with whome honor is sacred and virtue safe.
-John Walter Wayland (Virginia 1899)
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