Word: pi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore out. As a senior he even broke down and joined the pompadoured Betas, but he did not brush his hair...
...Wang Ching-wei the city of Peking must be filled with memories of a rebellious youth. In 1910, when he was 26, he went there to plot the assassination of Prince Chun, Prince Regent of Imperial China. Coplotter was Miss Chen Pi-chun, his fiancee, later to become his wife. She was entraining for Tokyo, and the youth left his hiding place temporarily to see his bride-to-be off at the station. As the train pulled out he politely tipped his hat, and thus revealed to the Regent's vigilant police his false queuetating him, but in the meantime...
...four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror -in -gulping, which was perpetrated at University of Illinois. Pi Kappa Phi's John Poppelreiter, surrounded by admiring fraternity brothers, wrapped in lettuce and swallowed five live baby white mice...
...Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta Club shows are the parlor of Harvard dramatic entertainment, the various House plays are certainly the kitchen sink. In comparison, the House plays are poorly mounted, poorly drilled, and poorly east. But therein lies their beauty, the appeal of the dramatic ugly duckling. Somehow the joy of knowing the actors personally, and of watching them blow their lines makes for entertainment which a more professional show cannot offer...
...Pi Eta Club gave its patrons a lot of laughs and a good time last night with its annual presentation, this year entitled "Give, Baby, Give". The book was written by Richard Door, '36, Charles G. Hutter, Jr., '38, and James H. Legendre, Jr., '40; the lyricists were Hutter and Door, and the music by Robert Gibson and Stanley Shephard, the latter also conducting the orchestra...