. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 51 Enough of these traditions and legends have grown up aboutthe Order for a dozen more degrees for degree makers. A fewof them, referring to familiar symbols of the Fraternity may behere explained. Lorenzo de Medici, II Magnifico, who was apatron ( the Order in its beginning, adopted the caduceus, an. ^TERIOR OF THEBolognas Westm :ampo SANTO emblem of Mercury, as his private seal. Hence the use of theemblem by Kappa Sigma, and name of the magazine of
. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 51 Enough of these traditions and legends have grown up aboutthe Order for a dozen more degrees for degree makers. A fewof them, referring to familiar symbols of the Fraternity may behere explained. Lorenzo de Medici, II Magnifico, who was apatron ( the Order in its beginning, adopted the caduceus, an. ^TERIOR OF THEBolognas Westm :ampo SANTO emblem of Mercury, as his private seal. Hence the use of theemblem by Kappa Sigma, and name of the magazine of the Fra-ternity. The motto of the University of Bologna was Bononiadocet mundum or Bononia docet. This is the open motto ofKappa Sigma, and suggests the mission which Kappa Sigmahopes to realize in the new world as Bologna did in the old. 52 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK Referring to the traditional origin, Alexander Yerger Scott, ofMississippi, the Conclave orator, at the Grand Conclave at Look-out Mountain, 1906, said: We are here, gathered together from the furthest confines ofour beloved country; from the North, the East, the West and theSouth, actuated by like desires, centered upon a single purpose ... ^ nt§8lx*\\ ii ps ffBlJ^ t: -i Ife ^lkac KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE. MICHIGAN and inspired by identical ideas and ideals; and that which inspiresus, the good we seek, is not selfish but unselfish, not personal, butimpersonal, and is represent
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