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Within the last two weeks, the national council of Sigma Phi Epsilon recognized a new local chapter at the College. Monday night, a pledging ceremony for the chapter's initial members took place under the auspices of the national council...
Three years ago, depressed first-year students who were randomized into Lowell House sang a song called "Lowell's Bells"--to the tune of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells"--to voice their displeasure at their new home. Those were the days of the Phi Beta Kappa quads and a house library open so many hours that it gave Store 24 a run for its money. In those days at Lowell House, every night was a Tuesday night...
Looking back, Seidman believes that probably the most important influence on his life was World War II. Fresh out of Dartmouth with his Phi Beta Kappa key in hand, he joined the Navy in 1943 and was assigned to a squadron of nine destroyers in the South Pacific; only two of the nine survived. "I thought I was really blessed to be alive when so many of my friends didn't come back," says Seidman. "The odds were pretty good that I wasn't coming back, so I thought I'd better enjoy myself and still do something for whoever...
...Harvard College, Souter joined Hasty Pudding and majored in philosophy. He wrote his senior thesis on Justice Holmes' belief that a judge should not be influenced by either politics or ideology. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. For a graduation gift, friends put together a scrapbook of made-up news stories featuring Souter as the lawyer he hoped to be. One headline read, DAVID SOUTER NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...