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Word: kappas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps he lost his pants to a Tau Kappa Epsilon neophyte, but never to a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. That type of activity in an initiation was never tolerated by the members of D.K.E. We felt that the "boys" might be tired that sort of thing when they graduated from high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...University of Texas eight years ago, 19-year-old Nolte McElroy bent down to crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected. An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when Pledge McElroy fainted from shock, died 15 minutes later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hell Week | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Speakers at the annual dinner of Phi Beta Kappa on Friday evening, December 4 will be Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne professor of Administrative Law; Howard Mumford Jones, Gurney professor of English; Charles A. Coolidge '81, fellow of the college; and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, professor of Banking and Finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANKFURTER TO SPEAK AT INITIATION OF P.B.K. | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...which, however, he regained in time to be the last man tapped for Skull & Bones, Yale's most prized undergraduate honor. In the classroom, Kelley's conduct is characteristic. He has had an average of 84 during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kelley's current plan is to become a prep-school teacher and football coach. Said he last week as he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...very young child, going to grade school. In class, he would anticipate the teacher's question, raise his hand, and read the answer right out of the teacher's mind. Later on in life, Baltimore City College, he would read the mind of the Phi Beta Kappa students during the exams and thereby obtain a high grade without any studying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyant in Keith's Grand Lounge Predicts Abolition of Parietal Ruling | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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