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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francis H. Burr Scholarship for the senior who combines the qualities of "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability" possessed by Burr, football captain in 1908, was won by track captain Arthur G. Siler '56 of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif. He is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and won a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford next year...
Another Phi Beta Kappa member, E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Lowell House and Dayton, Ohio, received the Palfrey exhibition given annually to the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who also holds a stipendiary scholarship" in honor of John G. Palfrey, Class of 1815. Last year Slaggie was the winner of the Silver debating medal. He is active in the Band and the Mountaineering Club...
...Innocent" though he may have been in college, Schlesinger was apparently not naive, for he avoided the "pink" organizations which snared so many other young liberals. "He always had his feet on the ground," one friend explained. Schlesinger did join the Signet and the Advocate, and Phi Beta Kappa elected him first marshal...
Gabriel Mirkin, another junior, who was hampered by lack of practice due to a bad knee, finished 67th in 3:13.24. "Some of the crowed booed my Harvard shirt," he said, "but a lot of them cheered me. One cop even yelled 'Go! Go! Phi Beta Kappa,' when I passed...
Eight juniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night at a meeting in the Freshman Union...