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...course, there are differences in general membership characteristics. For example, a fraternity like DKE is noted for its heavy proportion of athletes, Fence for being the most social, Zeta Psi for its literary tinge...
Amherst College brought a new set of literary influences into his life, especially an eye-opening course in French criticism and the friendship of Professor-Poet David Morton, a fellow DKE. After Amherst-and a summer of football and track coaching with Knute Rockne-Tasker taught English and coached track at Deerfield Academy. While doing graduate work at Columbia University, he began writing book reviews for Outlook and other magazines. After a turn on the Paris Times, he went to Reader's Digest for three years, took time off to edit a weekly newspaper, and spent most...
...discussion was led by Jack Gurveyan '50, an independent and president of the glee club. He suggested a ban on campus drinking. Joe Paterno '50, co-captain of the Bruin football team and a DKE, led the opposition. "We can't turn Brown into a seminary," he said...
...other story concerns a young dean who walked into the DKE house one night to find "a young lady with nothing on but the radio...
...Harvard, where his family name is so illustrious as to be a liability, Robert Hallowell was Lampoon president (1909-10), a member of Hasty Pudding, Signet, Stylus, DKE, and a great friend of rollicking John Reed. When a group including Classmate Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly founded the liberal New Republic in 1914, Radical John Reed encouraged Hallowell of the banking Hallowells to take the post of treasurer. Ten years later he suddenly quit, went to Paris, arranged a divorce, became an artist. At 52, Robert Hallowell died...