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Word: pi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryouts for the first play, which will be presented at the Pi Eta Club under the direction of Kenneth C. R. White instructor in English, will be held next week. The club, which was organized last Tuesday, now has a membership of fifty Freshmen. Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of public speaking, will act as faculty adviser of the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '38 ACTORS CLAIM HONOR OF YOUNGEST COLLEGE GROUP | 2/8/1935 | See Source »

...societies which exist to bestow high accolade on U. S. scholars, most illustrious are Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, which enrolls honor students of all kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends of God | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...runs a newspaper account of an address delivered Wednesday evening before a meeting of Pi Gamma Nu, national educational organization, by Dr. Howard Wilson, member of the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET'S HAVE THE FACTS | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

...Harnie Johnson, Jr. 2G, of Harlingen, Texas, has been elected president of the Harvard Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering fraternity, it was announced yesterday. Johnson graduated from Harvard in 1932 and has since been doing graduate work in the Engineering School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tau Beta Pi Elects | 6/8/1934 | See Source »

...around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ruin's End | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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