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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, he earned part of his way playing for dances at Wellesley with a band of his own (he played piccolo and piano). He played center on the basketball team, headed Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Harvard's last remaining national fraternity. He majored in economics (B average), neither smoked nor drank (he likes an occasional drink now), but was not above staying up all night playing low-stake bridge and poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: The Cleanup Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...four Columbia fraternities whose constitutions still retain discriminatory clauses are Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, Zeta Beta Tau, and Alpha Sigma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fraternities at Columbia Must End Bans in '60 | 5/13/1953 | See Source »

Under the new plan, this sigma will quickly disappear. For Claverly residents, chosen deliberately to be as capable in the various fields of undergraduate endeavor as the rest of their class, will soon destroy the stereotype. Once the stigma is gone, the main difficulty a Claverly resident finds in participating in the life of his chosen House will disappear. He will stand for House committee election and play House sports without the assumption that he is at the bottom of his class. Grouping Claverly residents by Houses will also aid this adjustment, for they will be bona-fide House members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Nice Guys Finishing Last | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Boston University chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity said last night it had been suspended by the national board of officers for accepting a Negro student into membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BU Fraternity Ousted For Accepting Negro | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

...chapter said that messages of support have been received from Phi Sigma Kappa chapters at Dartmouth, the University of Massachusetts, and Bartwick College, Oneonta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BU Fraternity Ousted For Accepting Negro | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

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