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Since 1870 many a U.S. campus has been afflicted with the approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fascism at U. S. C. | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...much honored again this year to announce the annual meeting of that international fraternity, Sigma Epsilon Chi. The boys will hold their sixty-ninth reunion at the Hotel Touraine after a dinner at the Shangri...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/1/1945 | See Source »

Long found time to mix sports and studies being active as a member of both the Varsity basketball and baseball teams. His other school activities included membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta and the Sphinx Club, an upperclassmen's Honorary Society...

Author: By K. H. Seltz, | Title: Midshipmen -- | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...revolution hit China before Mei-ling hit Wellesley, and her only excitement about it was what she caught from her sister Ching-ling (who later married Dr. Sun). At Wellesley her favorite course was Arthurian Romance. She joined Tau Zeta Epsilon, spoke a languid Southern accent, and was sometimes vivacious, sometimes somber, always neat. Professor Annie K. Tuell, with whom she lived, says: "She kept up an awful thinking about everything." She used to speak eloquently of China's contributions to civilization, and regretted Western neglect of them. But she wrote a friend: "The only thing Oriental about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Martius | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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