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76 fraternity presents a standard badge to each initiate. The use of jeweled badges is permitted but not encouraged. During the eighties a jeweled monogram was sometimes worn as a badge but its use was not officially sanctioned and the practice has been discontinued. The colors of the fraternity are sky blue and old gold and the fraternity flower is the white tea rose. The fraternity flag has three equal horizontal stripes of gold, blue and gold, respectively, and a blue field extending the width of the hoist and bearing three golden stars, the field and middle stripe taken together forming the letter Tau in blue.

Among the alumni of the fraternity are: Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General; Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to England; Clifton R. Breckenridge, Minister to Russia; Carmi Thompson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior and Treasurer of the United States; Hugh S. Thompson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Federal Judges: Erskine Mayo Ross, Page Morris, and John Paul; Beverly D. Evans, Chief Justice of Georgia; Robert L. Williams, Chief Justice of Oklahoma.

U. S. Senators: Luke Lea, Tennessee; Robert L. Owen, Oklahoma; F. McLindell Simmons, North Carolina; William James Bryan, William H. .Milton, Jr., and Nathan P. Bryan, Florida.

Congressmen: Joseph H. Acklen, Andrew B. Price, Zachary Taylor, Rufas K. Polk, William D. B. Ainey, EdΠardEdward [sic] W. Pou, F. Meck. Simmons, Theodore S. Wilkinson, James Phelan, James W. Marshall, John