Word: frats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything is different now. A statue of Caesar Augustus raises a benign hand--to which the Brownies have taped a symbolic dead pigeon--over the central area of the quadrangle, where frat brothers and dormitory men mix constantly in their daily routine...
...weekly campus radio show whose co-director was a pretty sophomore named Iola Marie Whitlock. Dave stomped his feet so hard as he played that the noise almost drowned out the music, so she made him take off his shoes. He hated fraternity life, but did go to one frat dance and took Iola. She wanted to be an actress and writer, was therefore an intellectual. He, on the other hand, was a character, and he lived up to it. "Tell me," he opened the conversation in his jalopy, "tell me about this Plato...
After the officers, sophomores are given the first right to live in the fraternities. Seniors fill up the remaining space, and juniors are left to the College dormitories. A fraternity member may eat at his frat or in the College, dining halls with the neutrals, or non-fraternity...
...Middlebury man's world centers on the frat. If you are a member of one, you are accepted by all. A fraternity party is never closed to members of other brotherhoods. The frat offers its brethren intramural sports, a bar to drink away the academic difference between themselves and the Middlebury women, and a dining hall with a separate chef to provide three meals a day and a ten o'clock snack at night. A student can have breakfast in his frat until ten thirty; he can't get into College breakfast after...
...winners, and the others shook their hands and murmured congratulations. Then, with a final, faded smile in he direction of the pin-stripes, they walked quickly out the door and into the rainy street. They knew they would feel much better as soon as they got back to the Frat, to the Bones, to classes, and to the fencing team...