Search Details

Word: tau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...officer of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, of which President Wriston is a member, reported that the officers did not believe the sorties were against the rules. He did say, however, that sometimes the "scut" masters, those in charge of individual pledges, went overboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruins Break Law on Frats By Travelling | 4/15/1952 | See Source »

...Steal all you can, but don't get caught," were the instructions issued to Delta Tau Delta pledges at Brown Friday night. An autographed brassiere and a beer mug from a Boston department store were among the items requested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Frat Tells Pledges to Steal, Get Signed Bras | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hazing | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

From Alma Ata, in the remote Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakstan, came news last week that mountain-climbing members of the "Lokomotiv" sports club had discovered a new peak in the Zailisky Ala Tau range, near the Chinese frontier. They named it, reported Pravda, after the "prominent Negro singer and progressive public leader, Paul Robeson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mt. Robeson | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Memoirs of an ex-Greek | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next