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Away from snow-buried Hanover, N. H. on week-end jaunts last week went eight Dartmouth members of Theta Chi. Nine were left behind in the big, white fraternity house. Uneventful as ever was their Saturday night of bridge, radio, talk. Soon after midnight two friends who had dropped in went home. One by one the students drifted upstairs...
That night the eight Theta Chis who had been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...
...Beta Theta Pi was worse until 1916 when college authorities commissioned Charles Phelps Taft II, son of William Howard Taft, to assemble a group of desirables, join Bet, raise its social status...
...went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort into creating fragile dazzling white figures, with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green, and all the rest. It seems so childish, and so utterly unnecessary; a small, sour-souled thing...
...beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...