Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism of his former Klan connection was a "concerted campaign" to fan the flames of religious prejudice. Said he, in a nasal Southern drawl: "If continued, the inevitable result will be the projection of religious beliefs into a position of prime importance in political campaigns and to reinfect our social and business life with the poison of religious bigotry. . . . To contribute my part in averting such a catastrophe in this land dedicated to tolerance and freedom, I break with precedents of the past to talk to you tonight...
...division of the 1,073 college fraternities and sororities in the United States is as follows: miscellaneous fraternities, 156; local fraternities, 390; local sororties, 200; class societies, 67, inactive fraternities, 60; junior college sorocities, 5; junior college fraternities, 1; national social fraternities, 76; national social sororities, 29; professional fraternities, 80; honor societies, 69. Excluding local fraternities and sororities, class societies and inactive fraternities, there are 10,126 fraternity chapters in the U. S. There are approximately 2,729 chapter houses owned by fraternities and sororities...
American's large social fraternity is Sigmy. Alpha Epsilon (109 chapters, 32,500 living members). One of America's most pretentious national fraternity conventions is that staged by GAB's officers and Emincut Supreme Recorder Lauren Foreman. Distinguished by its seriousness of purpose, a prominent place on its program is given to a Leadership School for the training of undergraduate fraternity leaders. Most serious are its general sessions, where discussions of ritual, scholarship, fraternity history and purposes do not let undergraduate delegates forget the great social aims and accomplishments of college fraternalism. Not unlike, other fraternities...
...celebrating the opening of the college year with a smoker and speeches yesterday afternoon, Dudley Hall began its third year as gathering place and social center for those who do not make their residence in the College. At the end of the current year no undergraduates will be left who remember the dark days before Dudley Hall flung wide its doors to receive men who do not live in the Harvard Yard and the Houses. Thus an idea and a hope a few years back has been metamorphosed into a reality, and a group that was long neglected...
Thus, even though Dudley Hall has much hard work ahead in many ways before it can compare to the Houses as an active social unit, nevertheless great strides have been made in the last three years. It is to be hoped that the Hall continues during the coming months to fulfill the dreams of the men who were instrumental in founding...