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Neil Gardner Melone, of Eliot House and Minneapolis, Minn., and Robert Lyle Bishop, Leverett House and Manhasser, Long Island, N. Y. received election as First and Second Marshal of the 1937 Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa last night...
President Richard Spencer Childs of Manhattan's City Club invited William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that...
...Boatmen's National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base my hope for American banking...
...apply to his own class-he could make a good start by comparing myself as the awful example quoted by Mr. Tunis, and the actual facts. Mentally I was good enough to complete the four-years requirements at Harvard in three years with cum laude ranking, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. and only recently I managed to answer TIME'S general information test 97% correctly, so the old faculties seem to be working reasonably well. From the moral aspect, I have never been in jail, am living with the same wife I married 22 years ago, and still...
...University of Kansas, Beta Theta Pi pledged Freshman Dan Hamilton, son of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Junior Peggy Anne Landon (Pi Beta Phi) signed up for English, Psychology, three courses in Modern European History...