... "a men's student organization formed chiefly for social purposes having secret rites and a name consisting of Greek letters"(409). Fraternities were started as far back as 1750 with the "Flat Hat Club," when only men were allowed to go to college. This tradition is the reason why fraternities only consist of men and not women. The "Flat Hat ... get away from the school's rules and have their own. They belonged to a private college that restricted their freedom. The "Flat Hat Club" was a secret society like the Mason organization. Not until 1776 was there a "Greek letter society called P...

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... won the scholarship prize as freshman; she was elected Sigma Chi Sorority; was a Sophia Smith Scholar in 1939-40; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year and won the Alumni Fellowship. During her sophomore year of college, she was hospitalized because of a collapsed lung ... quot; Is this all?' The book received mixed reviews. Life magazine said the book was "as disruptive of cocktail party conversation and women's club discussions as a tear-gas bomb. Its author has been vilified and praised in about equal quantities."" The New York Times Book Review was ... of the newly develop...

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