To help develop the highest standards of personal integrity and character; To foster and provide an intellectual, mature environment for its members through individual and group effort and through the mutual companionship of men with similar professional interests and goals; To foster and provide the broadening experience of fraternity living with its social and moral challenges and responsibilities for the individual and the chapter; To recognize and support the objectives and goals of the alma mater and those of the community through responsible participation and action; To help bridge the gap between undergraduate study and the vocation of the individual in industry, the academic world or government; To foster and maintain a bond of fraternal brotherhood through a continuing program of activity for the alumni, and; To bring into focus the elements of planned progress for the betterment of mankind.