The oldest and snootiest U.S. pedagogue's fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, which for 31 years has drawn a sharp color line, manfully erased it last week. Observing that if their country's black-brown-yellow allies were good enough to die for they were good enough to live with, Phi Delta Kappans decided to admit Negroes, Chinese, et al. as fellow members.
Phi Delta Kappa is the No. 1 professional society of U.S. educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause....
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