Word: garfield
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...matter over for more than a year, students of Williams College voted 509 to 390 against making their fraternities open to all. Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions...
...Presidents before Teddy Roosevelt, nine were generals-Washington, Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Taylor, Pierce, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Benjamin Harrison. Five other generals were the defeated candidates of major parties. The political careers of all 14 were helped more than hurt by their military reputations...
...Hayes, Garfield and Benjamin Harrison were Civil War citizen-generals whose administrations were unmarred by internal authoritarianism and foreign aggression...
...topic of complete membership hit the campus in December when members of the Garfield Club, a non-fraternity group, voted to disband unless the college made it possible for every student to join a Greek-letter fraternity. The Garfield proposal goes before the Williams Board of Trustees this week in New York...
...Franklin Roosevelt, an indifferent student at Harvard, was made an honorary member of PBK in 1929. Other honorary PBKs: Presidents Pierce, Hayes, Garfield, Wilson, Coolidge (who also got their keys as graduates); Presidents Van Buren and Cleveland (who never went to college) and President Truman (who had two years at Kansas City Law School...