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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elected to the post of chorister with 174 ballots, Stedman, of Takoma Park, D.C., and Kirkland House, is president of the Glee Club in his fourth year on it. Murphy, of Aurora, Ill., and Lowell House, received 178 votes to become orator. A Senior Phi Beta Kappa, he has won the Coolidge Prize twice...
...Made Phi Beta Kappa...
Born in New York, he is the only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...
Result: the judges found that the Progressive students got slightly better marks from their professors (2.52 v. 2.48); won more academic honors (Phi Beta Kappa, et al.); were more precise and systematic in their thinking, more resourceful in meeting practical problems; read more books; did more dancing; went to more concerts; took a keener interest in world affairs; went out for more extracurricular activities; were elected to more student offices. Clinching fact: graduates of the six most progressive schools had the best record, the biggest margin of superiority over their fellows...
...Beta Kappa at Yale, where he made money by advertising "Tutoring Classes de Luxe," Richard became head of the Philadelphia store at the age of 30, boasts that he pulled it out of a $1,700,000 deficit in three years. But he also started quarreling with Bernard. When he fired his merchandise manager, a Bernard appointee, there was a great public row, and the board fired Richard. He then went into business in Florida, and is now a U.S. Army captain (aged 43) in Washington...