Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mysteries in the fraternity system, none is more inexplicable than the complete disappearance of the fraternity man . . . after his graduation from college. No managing editor was ever heard to say, even in a Hollywood film : 'Lead the paper with Himmelfarber's story-he's a Sigma Sigma from the Wingding School of Mines! I understand the Tau Taus were after him too.' And . . . who ever heard of a fraternity man, even with distress signals flying, beating out a son-in-law for a fat job in the family business...
Early Years. He grew up on his father's farm. At the university he rapidly became the biggest man on campus, earned money as a grocery clerk, bakery pan-greaser, sleeping-car conductor. He was an above-average student, president of the student body, senior orator, member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, captain of the rifle team (he once shot tassels off a fellow R.O.T.C. student's uniform in an exhibition...
Helping Hands. If Tom Dewey set a fast pace, Harold Stassen was even faster. On his first day he talked to overflowing crowds at Lincoln's Union College, at Nebraska Wesleyan, at the University of Nebraska. He stopped to visit his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers, hustled out to a veterans' settlement called Huskerville, where he broadcast above the squawling of babies and a yelping dogfight...
...college in return for a promise to become a lawyer. At the university in Berkeley he was a steady but not brilliant student (he flunked second year Greek), was too wild to pitch on the baseball team, became a gregarious member of a club named La Junta (later Sigma Phi). After law school and three years of private practice in Oakland, he jumped into World War I as an infantry private at Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After...
Reported one University of Denver fraternity man: "It's getting like Union Station. You can't tell whether the guy lounging in the living room is an active, a pledge, a rushee, a visitor or somebody who got into the house by mistake." Complained one of 135 Sigma Nus at Northwestern: "I'm pretty good at names, but it took me a full three months to learn everybody's first name...