Fraternity house


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Fraternity house

A building used for social and residential purposes by an association of male students called a fraternity.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

fraternity house

A building used for social and residential purposes by an association of male students called a “fraternity.”
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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For the fraternity house item, and riposte, my thanks to Richard Lederer.
The court concluded that the fraternity house was not used exclusively for school purposes and thus did not qualify for a property tax exemption.
The convention is to represent the presence of a condition with uppercase letters and the absence of the condition with lowercase letters For example in the truth table (Table 1), fraternity house A's conditions relating to receiving the award can be expressed as AbC = 1 or the condition of having a tutorial program and not having a individual award program and being off campus resulted in receiving the scholarship award.
Three students were also charged with drug-related offenses after a search of the fraternity house.
The Herald reported that a 17-year-old female freshman was taken by ambulance from ASU to a local hospital after a night of drinking at the Sigma Chi fraternity house. The minor had been found passed out in a car by two 18-year-old friends who were unable to revive her.
Daniel Reardon, a freshman at the University of Maryland, attended a pledge party known as "Bid Night" at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house in 2002.
"I remember exactly where I was on that Sunday--the University of Kansas in our fraternity house. It changed our lives."
So they buy a house close to a university campus, transform the property into an unofficial fraternity house and encourage students to become members.
Myron Roderick, president of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, says Lewis' tree was planted at his Sigma Chi fraternity house after it outgrew Oklahoma State University's greenhouse.
These elaborately finished basements owe their popularity to the generation of guys who grew up drinking beer in the basement rumpus room, then went on to college to chase the beer with scotch and shoot pool in the shadows of the "secret" wood-paneled world beneath the fraternity house. Pass the cigars.
At a headquarters that could pass for a fraternity house, his shirtless subordinates watch soap operas and play cards.
The ghosts that walk the halls of this fraternity house are spirits from St.