Word: beta
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...very large college, W & M is now up to about 1500 students, both men and sweater girls. But it has a record of more distinguished graduates than almost any other college, and is the home of such features of American academic life as the honor system, electives, and Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded there...
...member of the second group of students who were awarded National Scholarships, Sullivan became President of the Student Council, First Marshal of his class, and a member of Phi Beta Kapps as an undergraduate, besides making the basketball and debating teams...
...Actor Cagney's 23-year-old Phi Beta Kappa sister (Hunter College, '38) in her first important cinerole...
Election of seven honorary members, and 46 Seniors to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society has been announced by its officials. The new 1942 membership brings the total to 70, about one-tenth of the graduating class...
...honorary members elected were: Oscar J. Campbell, professor of English, Columbia University; Walter A. Gropius, professor of Architecture, Harvard; Hugh O'N. Hencken, curator of European Archeology, Harvard; Christopher La-Farge, Phi Beta Kappa poet, June, 1942; Thomas W. Lamont '92, chairman of the Executive Committee of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City; Stephen Luce, associate editor, "American Journal of Archaeology"; and Edward A. Whitney, former associate professor of History and Literature, Harvard and member of the staff of the Huntington Library for research in Renaissance History...