Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
Many a homesick or sardonic Northern Negro, writing to Southern friends, says "Ship me a bag of good dirt to eat." Sometimes he means it. Even in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, Negroes and whites send requests to their upcountry friends for a bit of red clay, declaring that black Delta soil is "right bad eating." In certain parts of Mississippi, poor whites will walk miles for a spoonful of dirt from a favorite bank of clay, because it "tastes sour, like a lemon." In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing...
...commercial highway of northwestern Canada. It begins to be navigable at the head of rail north of Edmonton, and flows almost straight in the direction of Japan and China. The Yukon is the third longest river highway of the North American continent, [and] the Mackenzie, 300 miles from its delta, is only 300 miles from the head of navigation of the Yukon." Stern-wheelers have long traveled both rivers, which (claims Stefansson) winter freezes into ice-paved roads for sledge-pulling tractors. During a three or four-week freeze-up in autumn and the breakup in the spring, the rivers...
...Delta Kappa is the No. 1 professional society of U.S. educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
Though some Phi Delta Kappans protested, and the Harvard chapter went so far as to stage a defiant meeting with Negro Philosopher Alain Locke as lecturer, Ohio State remained in Coventry-until Pearl Harbor. Then the fraternity's biggest chapter, at Columbia's Teachers College, led a revolt which forced a national referendum. Result: for keeping the color line: 20 chapters (mostly Southern); for repeal: 67 chapters, more than the necessary two-thirds...