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Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...will not be with us next year." Last week Yale's Dean Gulliver was able to say to his first-year class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the men seated on either side of you-for both of them are Phi Beta Kappas." Yale's School, annually besieged by four times as many applicants as it can admit, can pick & choose...
...began preparing for the hearings late in 1938 when SEC Chairman Bill Douglas summoned his Columbia University schoolmate (and brother in Beta Theta Pi) Ernest J. Howe, started him on a preliminary survey of U. S. life insurance. Bald Ernest Howe had had some eight years' investment-buying experience in Wall Street (with Blyth & Co., Inc. and Lehman Bros.), knew as well as any other wide-awake economist what tremendous capital reservoirs the insurance companies have become as holders of mortgages on the U. S., its States and municipalities and on U. S. farms and business...
...news that ten assistant professors had been fired in the course of applying the Committee of Eight's new tenure system precipitated instantaneous student and Faculty protest. The Administration was charged with ruthless undermining of the English, Government, and Biology Departments. This fall the Student Council and Phi Beta Kappa added their voices to the mounting roar of protest, and the Faculty opposition led by the Teachers' Union and a powerful block of conservative rebels belabored the Administration for what they believed to be a blind and mistaken policy of retrenchment. By December, however, the crisis was over...
...increase by about five per cent during the exam period," so the report will go. It is a time like the Reformation, when fundamentals are questioned. And why not, with all the rotogravures turning out pictures of Miami bathing beauties? Or with proctors in the exams dangling their Phi Beta Kappa keys before the eyes of the students...