"The aim of Alpha Chi Rho is to secure a membership of the highest standard, thoroughly homogenous in quality, and permanent in its allegiance and effort for the Fraternity, not merely during college days, but throughout life. The Fraternity protests against the type of men who prefer the society of dead books to that of living fellow-beings, but at the same time urges good scholarship and attention to study. It encourages athletic endeavor and literary effort - in fact, all manner of student activity, but at the same time recognizes that it cannot make such activities tests of membership in Alpha Chi Rho.
"The Brothers should think and plan for self-culture, for helpfulness and hospitality, or the exercise of the critical faculty, of reasoning power, of the fine arts and music. The good Chapter joins hearts together by the strong tie of common thoughts and work. Alpha Chi Rho charges its Brothers on the one hand to avoid undue interference in college politics. Such interference has invariably proven detrimental in the end both to the Fraternity and to the institutions in which it is situated. On the other hand, they are by loyalty and participation in college and university activities to promote the interests of their college and to make themselves efficient factors in its life. In its relations to other fraternities Alpha Chi Rho aims to preserve a strict neutrality, neither opposing them, nor seeking entangling alliances, which may cause it to forget its proper mission. It does not compete with other fraternities in numerical or other ostentation…
"'Slow but sure' is the motto of national expansion. The Fraternity feels that the closest tie between all the Brothers can be secured only by conservative and careful growth - instituting Chapters only in colleges or universities of approved standing within easy reach of one another. The result of this policy is that the same general type of man is to be found in all our Chapters.
"The same general policy prevails in local growth. The Fraternity feels that Brotherhood can best be developed in the small Chapter… where each Brother has the opportunity to know every other Brother intimately…
"The aim of Alpha Chi Rho in relation to its members is best understood by a careful study of its Landmarks."