Word: beta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beta Kappa will hold its next election on Thursday, November 15 in Dunster House, to elect sixteen members of the senior class. These men are to be chosen from a list of the 32 highest ranking students in the class, excluding the present undergraduate members of the society...
...proud and vigorous pioneer was William & Mary in the days when its sons were building a new nation. In 1776 it founded Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter fraternity. It was the first U. S. college to create Schools of Law (1779), Modern Languages (1779), Political Economy (1784), History...
Start in Life: Invalid. Career: A descendant of Inventor Robert Fulton, he comes from one of New England's oldest and wealthiest families. From fashionable Groton he went to Harvard where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He contracted tuberculosis in his last year (1910), had to be shipped to New Mexico on a stretcher. There he began a study of local archaeology which was to make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly...
...aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha particles (TIME, Feb. 12). Since then their results have been reproduced and extended in dozens of laboratories in a half-dozen countries, notably England, Italy, the U. S. Italy's Professor Enrico Fermi and his aids have coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium, copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, chromium, barium, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, zinc, strontium, antimony, selenium, bromine...
...Beta Kappa has altered its election program to choose 40 instead of 25 of the Senior class after General examinations records...