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...Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...over allegedly dirty tactics used against Tiger tallback Dick Kazmaier will be discussed by the heads of the two schools next week. Presidents Harold W. Dodds of Princeton and John S. Dickey of Dartmouth plan to discuss the matter when they attend a meeting of the Rockefeller Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia...
...presidential yacht Williamsburg would soon sail for Key West, and Truman expects to follow by air on Nov. 8. It will be the President's first real vacation in almost eight months, and, if he sticks to the present plan for a five-week stay, the longest since he took office...
...John Pomfret was almost too academic for his own good. The things that began to boom loudest on the shady Williamsburg campus were the things he concerned himself with least. For the first time, the football team began to take on such powerhouses as Michigan State and Boston University. The basketball team played in Madison Square Garden...
Last July, the news turned sour. Williamsburg began to hear ugly rumors about the athletic department. Football Coach Rube McCray and Basketball Coach Barney Wilson suddenly resigned. At that point, the Board of Visitors decided to investigate. The board found that, as far back as 1949, the athletic department had been falsifying the high-school transcripts of promising athletes to make sure they would get into the college. And last spring, Dean Nelson Marshall had found that the department had been giving unearned credits in physical education. But it was not until July, just before the two coaches resigned, that...