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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barry Wood, football star of the class of 1932, is also a Phi Beta Kappa. His wife is a Phi Beta Kappa. But the rumor is spreading that since Saturday's great triumph of Football, his wife is having the two Phi Beta Kappa keys made into earrings...
...Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest, taught in a night school where he got the idea for the twisted-tongue Education...
Irving M. Pinansky '35, 3L, ranking student in his class and holder of a Phi Beta Kappa key was recently awarded the Sears Prize at the Law School...
...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...
Other recent recipients have been Robert C. Hall '36, of Bsenklina a member of the track team, the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and Phi Beta Kappa; Chester K. Litman' '35, of Brookline, a member of the football and track teams and a high ranking student; the late Richard G. Ames '34 of Wayland, president of the Student Council and captain of the wrestling team; and William Barry Wood, Jr. '32, of Milton, captain of the football team...