THE ACACIA FRATERNITY AND MASONIC RESEARCH
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BY FRANCIS W SHEPARDSON FORMER GRAND PRESIDENT
THE Acacia Fraternity is a society of college men, who are Master Masons. It is not a Masonic body in the ordinary acceptation of that expression. It is not a side degree. It claims no antiquity. It seeks no rec ognition to which its inherent worth does not entitle it. It is exactly like any one of the thirty odd Greek letter fraternities, which flourish in American colleges, except for the fundamental requirement for membership, that one who is considered must be a member in good standing in some regularly authorized lodge of Master Masons. Membership comes from within by invitation. Candidates do not petition. Those students who have the good fortune to be offered membership pride them selves on the triple selection thus indicated. the selection from the great mass of high school students for the privilege of college education, the selection from the citizenship of their home communities for the rights and benefits of Masonry, and the selection for the social and intellectual joys of Acacia fraternity life.
References:
1. The BuiLDER 1915
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