Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities...
Affirmative No. But the ban on "hard" liquor was one rule radio had never broken. In 1939 the 17th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters had even written it into its official standards of practice: "Member stations shall not accept for advertising [any] spiritous or 'hard'...
IN MANHATTAN, on the grounds that four garage mechanics had been fired, the Transport Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the...
At Moore's inauguration, Bunnell sounded an old alarm. The impoverished Territorial Legislature had given its university next to nothing for two years, and the regents have had to borrow $225,000 so far to pay off fuel bills and salaries. To Terris Moore, Charles Bunnell made a pledge...
These two affairs aren't passing by unnoticed and unopposed. Many educators have denounced the House Committee's textbook maneuver, and the California faculty is reported to be "concerned," at least, about its university's proposal to introduce the childish little pledge to the flag.