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...objective 'to the perfection of which members could give their financial aid and fraternal support, and which would be generally beneficial to the Order," were unanimously in favor of erecting on the campus of each & every large university in the U. S. and Canada a lodge at which Pythians or their sons could live free of charge. Such lodges would be known as "Pythian Student Castles." The plan: if each of the 705,000 Knights of Pythias gives $1 per year, two "castles" accommodating 100 students each can be erected annually. Each "castle" will cost $125,000 and receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Castles for Colleges? | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...order "exists for charitable work and friendship," has 6,500 branches in the U. S. (greatest number of members in Ohio), Canada, Hawaii and the Philippines, is open to "all whites over 18 who believe in a Supreme Being." There are also over 175,000 Pythian sisters (female blood relatives of members). Initiation fee: from $15 (rural districts) to $25 (in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Castles for Colleges? | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...institution to be known as the Pythian University is being erected near Gallatin, Tenn., by the Knights of Pythias of the world, and is the first institution of its kind. The main building is to cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/19/1894 | See Source »

Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 4/22/1892 | See Source »

...FRIDAY.Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 4/16/1892 | See Source »

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