fraternity pin

"Used to be the sign of an electrical engineer-like a fraternity pin.

The constitution and ritual were then written and the fraternity pin was designed.

He was first treasurer of the Alpha chapter and the designer of the fraternity pin.

The fraternity pin and pledge pin were also adopted.

Laid out on five banquet tables was perhaps the largest collection of vintage sorority and fraternity pins in the country.

On the lower edge of it he wore a high-school button, a class button, and a fraternity pin.

It was Rob's fraternity pin.

He also made money by purchasing fraternity pins from local pawn shops and selling them to fraternity members on campus.

Don notices that Moloch is wearing a fraternity pin that he had given to Ann.

The chapter president told him not to go, and when my father said he was going anyway, the president insisted that he not wear his fraternity pin.

Meanwhile, Jane tricks Billy into giving her his fraternity pin and attending that evening's formal dance at Atwater.

IN a basement room at the airport Sheraton here last month, 15 members of the Fraternity Pin Collector Society huddled around a conference table.

Crowns, robes, tridents, orbs, college ties and fraternity pins enhanced the power of those 'entitled' to wear them, in the eyes of those outside the circle.

Cliff sighed and unpinned his fraternity pin from my blouse, handed it over, and Mr Helen Hunt dropped it into the cash register.

For a young Creole man in New Orleans, the giving of his school ring or his fraternity pin was a step below the giving of an engagement ring.

Mr. Lallemand is one of 21 underclassmen trying to join the fraternity in the pledging process, which requires the student to wear a fraternity pin and perform services for members.

"Anybody wearing the fraternity pin," he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye - an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him.

He was a small fat man who wore, for some reason, a fraternity pin, and his teeth were very big and white and separate, like tombstones designed for a much larger cemetery.

"Prominent citizens wore charms to identify their family ancestry, occupation or political prestige, much the way we use sorority and fraternity pins, school emblems, military medals or family crests today," Ms. Hackney writes.

In fact, the new society's fraternity pin, adopted in December 1870, closely resembled a Sigma Phi pin, with the Greek letter zeta replacing the sigma superimposed over the letter phi.

He had come to her room as she was packing her belongings, and through her daze she remembered him giving her his fraternity pin and telling her he would wait for her return and not to worry.

But Wang Ta is dazzled by the charms of Linda, who 'enjoys being a girl', and succeeds in landing a date with her, during which she convinces him to give her his fraternity pin (it symbolizes that they're "going steady").

She describes the most radical member of the class, Dorothy Devine, as "living on the cusp between the age of the feminine mystique and the age of feminism," having "borrowed her politics from her boyfriend, like a letter sweater or a fraternity pin."

No other pin, badge, insignia, such as a fraternity pin, Greek letter indicating the name of a chapter or a symbol denoting an office, may be attached to the badge in any way, whether by a chain or by hanging it on the fastener.

His fraternity pin, which he is constantly trying to give away, has a hectic symbolic life: returned by Pat Gaheris, refused (forgivingly) by a diner waitress, it is finally, tremblingly accepted by the 17-year-old sister of Jerry's best friend and causes a storm in her household.