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...Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house." So wrote Editor Chester W. Cleveland of the Magazine of Sigma Chi in an article published last fortnight (TIME, May 14). Editor Cleveland did not conceal the fact that he disapproved of Candidate Hoover because the latter was non-fraternity and anti-fraternity while in college...
...Gamma Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, honor society of the Engineering School, has announced the election of officers for the coming year. These men are all members of the present Junior class of the School, having been recently elected from the highest eighth. Don Swint Greer '29, of Cambridge, was elected president. Malcolm Osborne Gibson '29, of Joplin, Missouri, was chosen vice-president, while George Alfred Sawin '29, of Edgewood, Pa., will be treasurer. The posts of corresponding and recording secretary will be filled respectively by Frank Holton Elberfeld '29, of South Boston, and Philip Ernest Nokes '29, of Lynn...
...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
...well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
...elected." To this prophecy, lame enough in its omission of the two leading candidates for the Presidency (Democrat Smith and Republican Hoover), Editor Cleveland added the following: "Herbert Hoover is non-fraternity and anti-fraternity. Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. There he met and courted Lou Henry, now Mrs. Hoover. It is alleged that her sorority sisters were considerably embarrassed in a social way. Their actions and the attitude of the Stanford fraternity men toward him are responsible, undoubtedly, for his feeling of hostility toward the college fraternity...