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...began to change in character. The Pudding gave up much of its attempt at a scholarly tone and Porcellian members began to consider the background of its candidates as well as their wit or agreeable character. This was the beginning of a welter of Greek-letter fraternities. Phi Beta Kappa had been the first in 1776, but when other fraternities appeared they followed the lead of the established local clubs and emphasized the social over the intellectual...
...every undergraduate was forced to live in a college room and pay for all his meals, some club members could not afford the double expense and several clubs had to shut down. The thirties were also an era of merger and expansion. For example, the Phoenix and the Sigma Kappa, this latter a hold over from the fraternity years, combined and went final. And the clubhouse of Spee, a group which 80 years before had been the Harvard chapter of Zeta Phi, was typical of the building and decorating of the 1930s...
...following announcement appeared in the Fall, 1953, issue of the bulletin of Phi Lambda Kappa, a medical fraternity...
...education. He enrolled at Columbia University in February 1922, moved across the country to Leland Stanford as a junior three semesters later. The mature and married White was a different kind of student. He graduated (A.B.) from Stanford in 1924, "with great distinction" and also with a Phi Beta Kappa key. A year later, also at Stanford, he got his master's degree in economics. Despite his excellence as a student, he was never mentioned in any student publication...
...Crimeds, behind the power smashes of Johnny lee, and the humpbacked thrusts of Betty "Pi" Kappa, scored three touchdowns, and then had Mockmouse, until then a quiet little manager, come off the bench to kick a field goal...