Word: delta
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Only the Flies know what happened there. Last time Franklin Roosevelt attended a dinner of the Fly Club (Harvardese for Alpha Delta Phi of which it was once a chapter*) was in 1929 when as Governor of New York, celebrating his 25th Harvard reunion, he sat down and pounded the piano for his fellow Flies and allowed them to kid him about that great political flop, the Democratic Party. Last week he was there not to be kidded, but to celebrate, to witness the initiation of Son Franklin Jr. into the club...
...Yale last week Alpha Delta Phi, unable to compete with the College Plan, voted to turn in its charter, sell its $175,000 house and disband...
...societies which exist to bestow high accolade on U. S. scholars, most illustrious are Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, which enrolls honor students of all kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...
Sledge, Miss., Jan. 24--Icy flood waters surged through the Mississippi delta tonight adding new devastation by the hour...
Last week what was left of the herd- about 2,100 head-still waited beside the Delta. Gone were the three Lapps, the six Eskimos, the medical attendant, the geographer who had set out from Naboktoolik six years before. But tough old Andy Bahr was there with new drivers, ready any day to begin the end of the greatest man-managed animal trek in history...