Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large college, W & M is now up to about 1500 students, both men and sweater girls. But it has a record of more distinguished graduates than almost any other college, and is the home of such features of American academic life as the honor system, electives, and Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded there...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
...Actor Cagney's 23-year-old Phi Beta Kappa sister (Hunter College, '38) in her first important cinerole...
...oldest and snootiest U.S. pedagogue's fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, which for 31 years has drawn a sharp color line, manfully erased it last week. Observing that if their country's black-brown-yellow allies were good enough to die for they were good enough to live with, Phi Delta Kappans decided to admit Negroes, Chinese, et al. as fellow members...
...Delta Kappa is the No. 1 professional society of U.S. educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...