Word: theta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject abruptly changed from the Chart to philosophical matters. The United States has a "punishment-drive society," based on a "mere theory which has more Mest than Theta." (Mest, it seems, represents matter in time and space, and Theta represents thought. Most plus Theta equals N-Theta, which in turn has something to do with the formation of engrams, Dianetics for neurosis) "Shut up you little bral that's education," pointed out the tape recorder as an example of the punishment-drive. As a result of this overemphasis on Mest, people do not know themselves; instead, they "give a present...
Trivial but Difficult. Some M.I.T. students disapproved of the show. "I think everything should be useful or instructive," a physics major said impatiently. "This is neither. In mathematical terms, the stuff is trivial. Given certain conditions, theta as a function of T is completely determined. It can all be boiled down to elliptical integrals...
Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...
...Real Service." Last week, when William Todhunter Hall got through his weekly stint, a real-life college president -Frederick L. Hovde, of Purdue University-came to the microphone. On behalf of the national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, Hovde presented the Colmans with a scroll in "appreciation for your accurate and intelligent delineation of campus life ... a real service to education...
DIRT CHEAP: One pair Wellesley's finest handmade argyles, unworn, size 11, $6.50. See Bill Pulley, Phi Delta Theta. Classified advertisement in The Dartmouth, January...