Download Full eBooks in PDF
Zeta Beta Tau Quarterly Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Zeta Beta Tau Quarterly book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : UOM:39015033182034
Author : Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : UOM:39015080241071
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Prohibition
ISBN : MINN:319510020319757
Author : Marianne Rachel Sanua
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0874518792
In the late 1800s an increasingly dominant fixture of student life on college campuses was the fraternity, groups of like-minded individuals who banded together based on "Greek" intellectual and social ideals. One such society was Zeta Beta Tau, founded by Dr. Richard James Horatio Gottheil and fourteen charter members at Columbia University in 1898 as a forum where young Jewish men could discuss their faith, enhance pride in their heritage, and embrace the ideals of the Zionist movement. In this study, Marianne Sanua follows the evolution of the fraternity from its rabbinic roots to its contemporary non-sectarianism and shows how ZBT's social opportunities, hitherto denied its members in the non-Jewish world, were a means of proving "first on the college campus and later to all the world that young Jewish men could be the equal of their best Gentile counterparts in achievement, behavior, and gentlemanly bearing". In chronicling ZBT, however, Sanua also examines broader issues like anti-Semitism, Zionism, assimilation, the presence of Jews in academe, and the changing goals and expectations of generations of the fraternity's members.
Author : Marianne R. Sanua
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814344187
Going Greek offers an unprecedented look at the relationship between American Jewish students and fraternity life during its heyday in the first half of the twentieth century. More than secret social clubs, fraternities and sororities profoundly shaped the lives of members long after they left college—often dictating choices in marriage as well as business alliances. Widely viewed as a key to success, membership in these self-governing, sectarian organizations was desirable but not easily accessible, especially to non-Protestants and nonwhites. In Going Greek Marianne Sanua examines the founding of Jewish fraternities in light of such topics as antisemitism, the unique challenges faced by Jewish students on campuses across the United States, responses to World War II, and questions pertaining to assimilation and/or identity reinforcement.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307808790
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" It would appear that he answered his own question. In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks. The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.
Author : Marcia Synnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351481595
By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken root in elite American colleges—specifically, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant hegemony was endangered by new kinds of student, many of them Catholic and Jewish immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born Americans by raising academic standards and winning a disproportionate share of the scholarships. The Half-Opened Door analyzes the role of these institutions, casting light on their place in class structure and values in the United States. It details the origins, history, and demise of discriminatory admissions processes and depicts how the entrenched position of the upper class was successfully challenged. The educational, and hence economic, mobility of Catholics and Jews has shown other groups—for example, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Spanish-speaking Americans—not only the difficulties that these earlier aspirants had in overcoming class and ethnic barriers, but the fact that it can be done. One of the ironies of the history of higher education in the United States is the use of quotas by admissions committees. Restrictive measures were imposed on Jews because they were so successful, whereas benign quotas are currently used to encourage underrepresented minorities to enter colleges and professional schools. The competing claims of both the older and the newer minorities continue to be the subject of controversy, editorial comments, and court cases—and will be for years to come.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Theta Chi Fraternity Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015086725903
Author : Samuel Proctor,Louis Schmier,Malcolm H. Stern
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0865541027
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082916936
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : UOM:39015076304610
Author : David Singer,Lawrence Grossman
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0874951267
The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current.
Author : John Higham
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813531233
"This book attempts a general history of the anti-foreign spirit that I have defined as nativism. It tries to show how American nativism evolved its own distinctive patterns, how it has ebbed and flowed under the pressure of successive impulses in American history, how it has fared at every social level and in every section where it left a mark, and how it has passed into action. Fundamentally, this remains a study of public opinion, but I have sought to follow the movement of opinion wherever it led, relating it to political pressures, social organization, economic changes, and intellectual interests."--from the Preface, taken from back cover.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307813442
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Author : Thomas F. Gossett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190282684
When Thomas Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared in 1963, it explored the impact of race theory on American letters in a way that anticipated the investigation of race and culture being conducted today. Bold, rigorous, and broad in scope, Gossett's book quickly established itself as a critical resource to younger scholars seeking a candid, theoretically sophisticated treatment of race in American cultural history. Here, reprinted without change, is Gossett's classic study, making available to a new generation of scholars a lucid, accessibly written volume that ranges from colonial race theory and its European antecedents, through eighteenth- and nineteenth- century race pseudoscience, to the racialist dimension of American thought and literature emerging against backgrounds such as Anglo- Saxonism, westward expansion, Social Darwinism, xenophobia, World War I, and modern racial theory. Featuring a new afterword by the author, an introduction by series editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Arnold Rampersad, and a bibliographic essay by Maghan Keita, this indispensable book, whose first edition helped change the way scholars discussed race, will richly reward scholars of American Studies, American Literature, and African-American Studies.