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Word: phi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who are not consciously working toward any specific objective, college is more than an empty last resource. The comparatively leisurely life of the undergraduate is a welcome boon to those who are anxious to investigate as many of life's possibilities as they can. Though hundreds of students, Phi Beta Kappa as well as C men, are graduated in unconcerned ignorance of those widely different possibilities, other hundreds profit by the leisure of college to look at their future through more than one lens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE CONQUERED GALAHAD | 2/24/1931 | See Source »

...Detroit at the J-Hop, junior class dance. Michigan takes pride in its social life, fancies itself a cut above the average Big Ten college, and the J-Hop is the gala weekend of the year. Two days before the affair one might have heard the young men of Phi Delta Theta singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drinking | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drinking | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...follows: "1. The men who are working their way through Princeton achieve scholastic standing higher than their classmates, and almost identical with their estimated ability. 2. They do not receive their full share of Freshman flunks. 3. They receive more than their full share of Phi Beta Kappa memberships and departmental honors. 4. Even those men who are giving the most time to student employment stand higher scholastically than their classmates who are not working, though in the case of Senior managers of major agencies, their standing is slightly below other Seniors in student employment." Furthermore, no evidence has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Way Through | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

Last Monday evening the St. Paul's Catholic Club quintet inaugurated the intramural basketball season by defeating the Tau Epsilon Phi team with a score of 18 to 8. Kappa Sigma overcame the Lambda Chi Alpha five by the narrow margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-Fraternity Basketball | 1/14/1931 | See Source »

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