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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps he lost his pants to a Tau Kappa Epsilon neophyte, but never to a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. That type of activity in an initiation was never tolerated by the members of D.K.E. We felt that the "boys" might be tired that sort of thing when they graduated from high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: TIME being a progressive mag, you'll be interested in this splendid shot for publicity. You report under "People" in your last issue that a Delta Kappa Epsilon neophyte secured Governor Davey's sig on his own shorts. How so? Delta Kappa Epsilon has no Ohio State chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Kappa Epsilon Fraternity that ordered its neophyte to get the lordly sig-not Delta Kappa Epsilon. It was arranged solely for publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...University of Texas eight years ago, 19-year-old Nolte McElroy bent down to crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected. An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when Pledge McElroy fainted from shock, died 15 minutes later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hell Week | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Iowa born, John D. M. Hamilton prepared at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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