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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, heavy-set Harvard alumnus with gray hair and a Phi Beta Kappa key has been spoon-feeding me History 32a for a little over a month new. He is a professional tutor...

Author: By David G. Breaten, | Title: Pro Tutor 'Good Deal' for Student Willing to Spend Money, Not Time | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

...impresses some people," he said deprecatingly, when I pointed to the Phi Beta Kappa key attached to the chain of a fancy Swiss pocket watch he kept lying on the desk to time our progress through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled...

Author: By David G. Breaten, | Title: Pro Tutor 'Good Deal' for Student Willing to Spend Money, Not Time | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

...Fellow of the University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former associate editor of the Harvard Law Review, began practicing law in Maryland and served as assistant Attorney General of Maryland before his war-long association with the legal staff of the War Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. L. Marbury Named Fellow Of University | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa added four members of the Class of 1948 to its roster last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe PBK Adds Four | 11/25/1947 | See Source »

...engineering student at Berkeley, Bob made Tau Beta Pi (the engineers' version of Phi Beta Kappa), a feat which he has attributed more to his photographic memory than to any scholarly gifts. He was also a Big Man on Campus: a star two-miler, class president, Y.M.C.A. president, manager of the "Big C Sirkus" carnival, R.O.T.C. regimental captain, drum major of the band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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