Word: frats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senior frat-men fondly remember the old freedoms, which if illegal, were freely practiced and rarely condemned. But they are a minority which will graduate this spring. The new generation, which likes the bright lighting and big windows, eats lunch while music blares from Refrectory loud-speakers, and can't picture a decentralized Brown...
...fraternities and ten sororities do in many ways direct undergraduate social life; perhaps the biggest social-event of the year is "Greek Week." The fraternities and sororities join in a big festival which features parades, variety shows, the picking of a queen, and a dance. Since frat men are often known around the camps as "Greeks," for the coronation, they don the costumes of the ancient Greeks and present the various female candidates...
...Because of this, the competition for certain outstanding prospects has been vicious in the past. Now, however, the fraternities have formed a strict honor code which must be observed in dealing with freshmen. Some of the examples: A first semester freshman cannot double date with a frat man or pledge, he can not go on a picnic with frat men, or go to the movies with a frat...
Under no circumstances, though, will the Leverett man be forced, of even encouraged, to mingle with anyone, even tutors. "Organized goodfellowship" has no place in the Hutch. Men stick together in rather tight groups. One beer party a term provides the only manifestation of frat-type spirit...
...compared their shirts. "No," said the fat boy, "they aren't." He started wrestling with the other. The frat man pulled them apart, and went back to the piano. They started wrestling again...