Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David E. Lilienthal, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, will be the main speaker at the annual literary exercises of Harvard Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at 11 a.m. Monday, June 20 in Sanders Theater. The exercises are open to the public...
...Beta Kappa at the University of Georgia, Gene Black became a World War I Navy ensign at 19. At war's end he went into investment banking in Atlanta, became manager of the local office of Chase-Harris, Forbes Corp. in 1931, two years later was made assistant vice president. When the firm was dissolved, Gene became a second vice president of Chase, this year rose to senior vice president. (He will now resign from Chase...
Writing in the June issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Alfred Sherwood Romer, Agassiz Professor of Zoology and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, strongly defended the action of Amherst College's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in admitting a Negro to their society...
...Amherst chapter of Phi Kappa Psi was disbanded in December 1948 by order of the fraternity's national organization after a short trial in Chicago for its refusal to depledge the Negro member. Reorganized as Phi Alpha Psi, the society returned to the Amherst campus with the Negro as a member and has retained the prestige of the entire college community for its decision...
...fraternity's relations with its national organization. Though the fraternity charter placed no restrictions on how an individual chapter was to select its members, the entire American fraternity structure rose to protest the Amherst chapter's action. Despite the bitterness of many other fraternities, despite the national Phi Kappa Psi's attempts to hush up the proceedings, the Amherst group persistently defended their right to choose a new member in their own manner...