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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe seniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Thelma Alper, president of the Iota chapter, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe P.B.K. Elects | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Sixteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night. They are Hugh Amory, of Dover and Kirkland, English; Richard J. Barnet 1L, of Brookline and Eliot, Slavic languages; Leo Bersani, of Katonah, N.Y. and Leverett, Romance languages; Donald L. Blackmer, of Andover and Lowell. History and Literature; Gaynor F. Bradish, of Schenectady, N.Y. and Dunster, English; and Melvin W. Brown, of Conotton. Ohio and Lowell, Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Sixteen From Senior Group | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...Ariane Allen Ross asked a Manhattan court for separation and alimony from craggy Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker. His "mental cruelty," charged Mrs. Ross, who graduated from college a Phi Beta Kappa at 17, took several turns. Among them: calling her a "stupid, mediocre, banal bore." Furthermore, he refused to take her on social calls because he said her "stupidity, boring chatter and lack of poise embarrassed him and injured his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Kenneth Fairman, Princeton Director of Athletics, commented, "Were a little short of Phi Beta Kappas this year, but in the past three or four years the football squad was a little above the college average." The 1954 freshman squad was a little below average with three in the first fifth, five in both the second and third fifths, eight in the fourth fifth, and nine in the last fifth. Of these last nine at least three flunked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Varsity Average Students Fifty Percent Hold Scholarships | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...This year, Freeman, an extremely well-qualified candidate, does not have enough money of his own to wage a successful campaign and the CCA has put up the necessary funds to allow Freeman to run. Then too, there is Crane himself, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Amory calls him the "best qualified mayor in the United States...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Cambridge Reform Battle Undergoes...Critical Election | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

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