To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity;
To know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man; to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil;
To teach, not politics, but morals;
To foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found;
To have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world:
These were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.