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Old 01-13-2002, 07:54 PM
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And, I think the reason the original founders of Phi Beta Kappa, our first Greek Letter Organization, and others used Greek Letters is that Greece was considered the center of learning and knowledge in it's golden era.

Many of our early universities taught (in) Greek and much of the curriculum of the day was the study of the Greek philosophers.

At least some of our rituals were originally written in Greek.

That must have been amazing since, after all these years, I can hardly remember the Greek Alphabet!

Reminds me of a very old joke I heard in my early youth...

"What was the outstanding accomplishment of the Romans?
.....They understood Latin."

Maybe the same could be said of the Greeks.
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