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...parents died before he was eleven years old. Raised by his grandmother, he depended upon the financial assistance of other relatives to pay for his Harvard education. But at college, at least to his family, Day appeared to find success. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and was interested in track and boxing. In the spring of his freshman year, he finished fourth in the Track Carnival...
...What’s that smell?” he recalls. The beginning brewers, all underage, explained to her that they were making Celtic stew. “She smiled and walked away,” Sullivan says. This time, Sullivan brews in the name of his fraternity, Sigma Chi, and has given his brew a curiously long name, “Three Cowboys and an Indian...
...Kirkland. And cider’s only the beginning. “I’m starting a mead soon,” Morange says. “I’ll be using clover honey.” Morange harkens back to the days, two years ago, when Sigma Chi made mead in their self-proclaimed “mead closet”—which happened to be the same closet space in Pfoho’s Belltower in which Herrera’s Senior Tutor Stout was brewed...
Many Harvard students debate the existence of a supreme being. But one international fraternity which includes 43 Harvard students as active members wants to skip the debate and ensure that its ranks are free of nonbelievers. The Sigma Chi Fraternity requires prospective members to sign a form affirming their belief in the existence of “an ever-living God, the Creator, and Preserver of All Things.” The form warns that pledges will be forced to restate this belief a second time during their probation period. If they refuse either time, they cannot join the fraternity...
Slade recognizes the fraternity’s Christian past. When Sigma Chi was founded in 1855, the cross was immediately adopted as its symbol, with the accompanying motto, In Hoc Signo Vinces—in this sign you will conquer. Both the symbol and the phrase were taken from a legend about Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who supposedly saw a cross in the sky before going to battle...