The Beta Book

The Beta Book
Author: Francis Wayland Shepardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1927
Genre: Fraternal organizations
ISBN:

The Company He Keeps

The Company He Keeps
Author: Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807888702

Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students.

Beta Letters

Beta Letters
Author: William Raimond Baird
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780332179865

Excerpt from Beta Letters: Being the Correspondence Passing Between Chapters or Members of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, 1839-1884 Beta Theta Pi was organized in August, 1839, by a group of eight young men then students at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. It was the intention of the founders, led by John Reily Knox and Samuel T. Marshall, to found an association of young men of intellectual ability, which should have branches, or chap ters, located at colleges, or in other places where such young men could be found, and who should endeavor to improve themselves by intellectual work and at the same time cultivate a friendly and fraternal sentiment, purposely restricting membership to small numbers and selected persons who would feel able, by reason of the intellectual competency of the men thus secured, and their close association and the cultivation of their fraternal sentiments, to place implicit confidence in each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.