The true scholar will acquire the facts, probe the knowledge and experience of the professor, and learn to use the fact and opinions obtained in the pursuit of truth, judgment and wisdom. She accepts the challenge to seek for herself, to look around, beneath, beyong and within the facts and opinions learned in the classroom, toward becoming a truly educated person. Ceres, like FarmHouse fraternity, after which it has been patterned, places emphasis on excellence in scholarship. It is intended that the environment of Ceres will provide a home-base for the scholar as she searches, and researches, that she will be strengthened in her desire to seek the ultimate and that here Ceres relationships will encourage her, in no way deterring her in her goals. In its finest form a fraternity provides a climate and laboratory for practicing the art of interdependent living, for learning to live together well.
Fellowship is intrinsic to a fraternity.
Fellowship never truly grows if it is fed on the forfeited freedoms of honest and earnest individuals. Fellowship has its highest expression in volunteered conformity. It attains its lowest expression in volunteered conformity. Because of its agricultural orientation Ceres selects members with similar backgrounds, but than contributes its utmost to the development, not the containment, of their full potential.