All 21 Uses of
pi
in
Arrowsmith
- Now that most of his Arts classmates had departed to insurance offices, law schools, and banks, he was lonely, and tempted by an invitation from Digamma Pi, the chief medical fraternity.†
Chpt 2
- Digamma Pi was a lively boarding-house with a billiard table and low prices.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was not till Angus Duer accepted election to Digamma Pi that Martin himself came in.†
Chpt 2
- Yet the man stood out so bleakly from a mass of students who could neither complete their experiments nor ponder nor do anything save smoke pipes and watch football-practice that Martin loved him while he hated him, and almost meekly he followed him into Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 2
- Martin, Ira Hinkley, Angus Duer, Clif Clawson, the meaty class jester, and one "Fatty" Pfaff were initiated into Digamma Pi together.†
Chpt 2
- Fatty was of all the new Freshmen candidates the most useful to Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 2
- Digamma Pi was housed in a residence built in the expansive days of 1885.†
Chpt 2
- No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.†
Chpt 3
- V. At examination-time, Digamma Pi fraternity showed its value to urgent seekers after wisdom.†
Chpt 3
- There was a certain fondness for him in Digamma Pi; Fatty was soft, Fatty was superstitious, Fatty was an imbecile, yet they had for him the annoyed affection they might have had for a second-hand motor or a muddy dog.†
Chpt 3
- There's nothing for it," said the president of Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 3
- Digamma Pi was more annoyed by Martin's restless doubtings than by Fatty's idiocy, Clif Clawson's raucousness, Angus Duer's rasping, or the Reverend Ira Hinkley's nagging.†
Chpt 3
- But Martin was alienated from the civilized, industrious, nice young men of Digamma Pi, in whose faces he could already see prescriptions, glossy white sterilizers, smart enclosed motors, and glass office-signs in the best gilt lettering.†
Chpt 3
- By a connection not evident to him he remembered that the Sunday before, in the slummy chapel where he preached during his medical course, he had exalted the sacrifice of the martyrs and they had sung of the blood of the lamb, the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, but this meditation he lost, and he lumbered toward Digamma Pi in a fog of pondering pity.†
Chpt 4
- In the joy of his laboratory work Martin thought rarely of his recent associates in Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 5
- Digamma Pi fraternity was giving a dance.†
Chpt 7
- With none of the profane observations on "medical peddlers" which had annoyed Digamma Pi, Martin studied the catalogue of the New Idea Instrument and Furniture Company, of Jersey City.†
Chpt 15
- Immediately he became as annoying to his patients as he had once been to Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 16
- Dr. Pickerbaugh backed up his injunctions with statistics as impressive as those the Reverend Ira Hinkley had once used at Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 19
- Then he had it: Watters, the appalling normal medical student whose faith in the good, the true, the profitable, had annoyed him at Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 20
- Martin's imaginative dismay at being caught here by Watters was not lessened when Leora and he reluctantly appeared on Sunday at one-thirty and were by a fury of Old Friendship dragged back into the days of Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(pi) mathematics: an important constant representing the circumference of any circle divided by its diameter (about 3.14, but an irrational number; i.e., with infinite decimals providing a closer approximation)