Word: theta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full of secrets that he whispers most of the time. He likes football and baseball, is an Elk, has a wife who collects Westward Ho glass, three children. He gets along well with reporters, is never seen drinking anything stronger than Coca-Cola, although at college he belonged to Theta Nu Epsilon which was a highly secret order for the reason that it was dedicated to the consumption of keg beer, a practice then and now regarded in Kansas as wildest debauchery. The Governor has so far arranged it that no liquor bill has reached him from the Legislature...
...kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...
...Theta Phi plans to elect men of "a high ethical conception of the ministerial calling, scholarship and a scholarly attitude toward truth, and distinction in service and achievement." Theta Phi's insignia: a gold key bearing Greek letters and three bars shaped and colored to represent the stripes on the sleeve of a doctor's academic robe. Its membership will be of two classes: students and older churchmen. First two institutions to get student chapters are Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N. Y.) and Southern...
Methodist University School of Theology (Dallas, Tex.). Theta Phi already has 85 older members, all of a strongly evangelical stamp and running largely to Southern Methodists and Baptists.* Initiation fee to Theta Phi: $10. Members will receive a monthly bulletin...
President of Theta Phi is Dr. Frederick Bohn Fisher, 52, lately of Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, now of Detroit's First. Long a missionary bishop in India, Dr. Fisher became a good friend of St. Gandhi whom he calls "Boppo" ("Little Father"). An able, vigorous preacher, he arises daily at 4 a. m., gives 20%, of his income to his church, 55% to all causes. Entering his new job with gusto, Dr. Fisher promptly produced a quotation to justify Theta...