Word: psi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro fraternities. After fighting to get white frats to drop discriminatory practices, Columbia administrators find that some Negroes do not consider fraternity life with whites worth bothering about. "They just sit around and drink beer and exchange old exams," complains Marvin Kelly, a member of the new Omega Psi Phi Negro fraternity. "Negro social culture is much more sophisticated," argues Thompkins. A Northwestern Negro explains more simply that "instead of trying to buck the tide, we thought we would take a shot at going...
Among the things that Brewster found absurd were Yale's secret societies and fraternities. Rebelliously antiEstablishment, he turned down a tap from Skull and Bones, declined the presidency of Zeta Psi fraternity, and attacked those institutions of privilege in Daily News editorials. He also wrote that Vassar girls are "the world's most deadly bicycle riders" and that girls should not wear slacks: "The women of Wellesley, Smith and Vassar must be deprived of their pants." Foreshadowing his present concerns, he noted that Yale had operated in the red by $133,588 in 1940 and warned: "No institution...
Algernon & Nellie. Eventually, of course, newsmen caught on, but Luci's new steady rated little attention from the press until October. At First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised...
Canon Dewar's own original interpretation of the working of the Holy Spirit is that His field of operation is the unconscious, where He can make Himself felt in terms of what the parapsychologists call "psi phenomena"-clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.-as well as in everyday life, the source of what the Christian calls his "conscience." Nor, in Canon Dewar's thinking, is the Holy Spirit limited to Christians...