Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring the Amherst chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, one of 12 nationally-affiliated fraternities at that college, pledged a Negro student. The group's national council threatened suspension of the local if they took in the boy. The chapter stuck to its guns, initiated the student last week, and was thrown out by the national council on Monday...
...action of Phi Kappa Psi's national council--in direct opposition to the edict of an overall body known as the National Interfraternity Council, which last week upheld the right of a local chapter to select its own members--was not based on any constitutional provisions. The national just didn't think that a colored boy should be elected to the Amherst chapter...
Last week the national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity (25,000 members) suspended its Amherst chapter for "unfraternal conduct." Reason: the Amherst Phi Psis had pledged Tom Gibbs, who is a good student, a member of the cross-country team, and on Amherst's Student Council-but a Negro...
Five seniors yesterday were elected members of the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...especially bright youngster passed seven school grades in ten months. Under her direction, a Boy Scout took a young buddy through three grades in three months. A 17-year-old "total reading disability" case was learning 73 new words a day within three months. She has also helped Phi Beta Kappa students who think they can't read fast enough (usual diagnosis: they are reading word by word, instead of by groups of words...