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...Cornell University, an outlandish crew of more than 1850 costumed celebrants competed in the annual Phi Phi 500 a local fraternity's combination of party and charity walk-a-thon. The 1.1 mile course looped through the center of Ithaca starting at and returning to the fraternity's house...
...They're just trying to help us out," said George Faux, vice president of the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity. Fraternities were concerned by the tone of the report when it was first released, he explained, but now have come to accept...
Pepper entered the University of Alabama in the fall of 1918. To help pay his way, he worked from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hauling coal and ashes at a power plant. He starred on the debating team, ran on the track squad, made Phi Beta Kappa, but lost his first election: for student-body president. When his oratorical skills took him to a contest in Chapel Hill, N.C., "it was the farthest north I had ever been...
...forces the "why" to the surface. It will emerge of itself one fine day from the story of what happened. It will suddenly appear and tap one on the shoulder, but not if one chases after it first, before one knows what happened. Then it will elude one forever." Phi Beta Kappa Address Radcliffe College April...
...magic is her unique style. In a time when history as a discipline is becoming increasingly quantified and scientific, Tuchman has led a single-handed crusade for a humanistic approach "Prefabricated systems make me suspicious and science applied to history makes me wince, "Tuchman told the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1963. Quoting Leon Trotsky, she added "Cause in history refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...