Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly approved Sphinx Club may be obliged to change its name if the Phoenix S. K. Club has its way. According to Edward C. Wilson, Jr. '49, president of the Phoenix, the name "Sphinx" is the name of a club already in existence...
Lally also claimed credit for inventing the name of the new society...
Wilson went back in history in an attempt to prove that the new group cannot use the name "Sphinx." In 1914 two College eating clubs--the Sphinx and the Kalumet--merged to form the S. K. Club, Wilson said. In 1927 this club and the Phoenix merged to form the Phoenix S. K., a final club...
Wilson said 294 living members of the old Sphinx Club would object to a new club using the name "Sphinx" because these alumni use the Phoenix as their headquarters when they return to College. Phoenix is objecting to the use of "part of its name...
Yesterday Wilson paid a visit to the office of Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 in an effort to have the name changed by University action. No result of the visit was announced...