Symbols
The coat of arms as adopted in 1908 has a sable (black) field, but today it is most often seen as shown at the top of this page.
The fraternity's official colors are Cardinal Red and Hunter Green, and its badge is a shield with a textured border: a lamp resting on a tome towards the bottom, and towards the top is an eye surrounded by two gold stars. In the center of the shield, on a black background, are the gold symbols for the Greek letters Phi (Φ) Kappa (Κ) and Psi (Ψ).
The fraternity flag is in the proportions of eight and one-half feet wide by six feet high; the colors are the official fraternity colors; the design is three vertical stripes of equal width, a hunter green in the middle, flanked on either side by a cardinal red stripe. A smaller version is available with proportions roughly three and one-half feet wide by two feet high.
Read more about this topic: Phi Kappa Psi
Famous quotes containing the word symbols:
“As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)
“That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day’s imagery.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)