Word: beta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inter-fraternity handball leagues, the Alpha League and the Beta League, have resumed games which ceased because of the mid-year period. The championship of the Alpha League will be decided when Kappa Nu and Sigma Alpha Mu clash tomorrow evening. The championship of the Beta League will be determined when Alpha Mu Sigma meets St. Paul's Catholic Club tomorrow night. The winners of the Alpha and Beta leagues will play Tuesday evening for the final inter-fraternity championship...
...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...
Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta...
...Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was awarded this year to the Lawrenceville School, of which Dr. Mather Abbott is headmaster...
...clock this afternoon the Harvard Engineering School Chapter of Tau Beta Pi fall initiation ceremony and dinner will be held at the Union...