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BOSTON--Upon returning from their Thanksgiving holiday, the 37 members of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will begin to search for new homes...
...Boston Licensing Board suspended the fraternity's housing license on Wednesday for eight months, beginning Jan. 15. The unanimous decision comes in the wake of the Sept. 27 alcohol-related death of Scott Krueger, a first-year Phi Gamma Delta pledge...
...Description Without (a Sense of) Place," given as the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard's 1945 Commencement exercises, serves as a key example in which the context of a collection hinders comprehension. Life has halted around the outcome of the war in Europe. Stevens declines to address the issue at all; he muses on the nature of description. Poetry goes on. "The immense poetry of war and the poetry of a work of imagination are two different things," Stevens had said in 1942, and from this "struggle with fact" hoped to distill some poignant truth. The Collected Poems...
Escaping the confines of Cleveland suburbia, Prentiss went on to Wellesley, where she triple majored in physics, mathematics and philosophy, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1980 after three years...
...teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding is supported by a recent TIME/CNN poll that posed the question that way; support for vouchers was just 40% among whites...