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Last week 46-year-old Ed Stettinius returned to the University of Virginia-as its 26th rector, a post whose first occupant was Founder Thomas Jefferson (1819-26). Virginia had long since rewarded its No. 1 alumnus by giving him an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The University of California added an honorary LL.D...
Nuclear chain reactions, explosive or otherwise, produce four types of destructive radiation: 1) alpha rays (streams of high-speed helium nuclei;; 2) beta rays (beams of electrons); 3) gamma rays or X rays (high-frequency electromagnetic waves akin to light); 4) neutrons (subatomic particles with no electric charge...
...youngest men ever appointed as dean in the recent history of the College. In his undergraduate days, he was president of the CRIMSON, editor of the Service News, a member of the Student Council, treasurer of the Class of 1944, as well as a member of Phi Beta Kappa...
Cater, former Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, is secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Student Council and the Liberal Union, and was chosen as Harvard delegate on May 24 after a University-wide competition...
Ivory Tower. In 1922 Herbert Matthews, a bookish youth with a new Phi Beta Kappa key (Columbia University), answered a blind want ad in the New York Times for a secretary. The advertiser turned out to be the Times itself. After three years in the business office, he switched to the news department. A reluctant journalist, who still has a tendency to be ponderous and pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully...