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...addition to electing 71 male students, Harvard's Alpha branch-founded in 1781 and the oldest continuous Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the nation-extended honorary memberships to Konrad Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology, Ben Zion Gold, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and chaplin for the ceremony; Alexander Duncan Langmuin '31, a former visiting professor of epidemology; and Swenson...
Harvard's Alpha chapter usually accepts up to 10 percent of the males in each class. The 71 new inductees join 36 of their classmates, 12 of whom were selected in their junior year and 24 who were elected earlier this academic year. Nominations for membership in Phi Beta Kappa are based on grade point averages and departmental recommendations, with consideration given to about 20 percent of the class. A student faculty committee pores over the relative merits of each candidate's course load, as well as solicited personal recommendations and eventually narrows the field...
Eight women were elected to the lota and 12 men to the Alpha chapters of the society, which bases election on scholarly achievement...
John T. Bethell '54, corresponding secretary for the Alpha chapter, yesterday expressed concern that in order to obtain the academic records of students being considered for Phi Beta Kappa, those candidates must be informed so they can release their academic records--a provision made necessary by the Buckley Amendment...
Elected to the lota Chapter of Phi Betta Kappa were Janet B. Abrams, Joanne Cohn, Elizabeth Dobell, Noel M. Holbrook, Nancy E. Mills, Sophie I. Pirie, Amy G. Remensnyder, and Wendy A. Weiger. Elected to the Alpha Chapter were Jeremy J. Benstein, Paul A. Engelmayer, Michael J. Folz, Christopher Forman, Wesley R. Gardenswartz, James T. Hamilton, Marco Iansiti, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Frank S. Lee, Timothy W. McGuire, Bruce Tidor, and Christopher S. Wood All are juniors...