Word: beta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure its methods, NSSFNS President Richard L. Plaut launched a survey of 1,278 recent proteges. The overall dropout rate turned out to be 33.4%-as against the national rate of 60%.* Of 509 willing to provide complete information, 1% made Phi Beta Kappa and 10% graduated with honors. Southerners topped the Northerners at high-standard campuses...
...makes cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of the Senior Sixteen. They are: Millard H. Alexander, of Quincy House and Brookline, Mass., in, chemistry and physics; David M. Bear, of Quincy House and Akroa, Ohio, social relations; David S. Forman, of Dunster House and Huntington Woods, Mich., psychology; Donald A. Goldmann, of Winthrop House and Trenton, N.J., history; Ronald J. Greene, of Quincy House and Omaha, Neb., government; Richard H. Grossman, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif., English; William D. Hart III, of Kirkland House and Merriam, Kansas, philosophy; and Leslie Lessinger, of Lowell House...
...more than twice as many liberal arts students as regular aggies. Engineering enrollment has jumped 48% in the past year. Like all Cal campuses, Davis takes only the top 12% of California high school students (out-of-staters need a B+ average). One result: a new Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Another: Cal President Clark Kerr's own son attends Davis...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected nine seniors this fall. They are Melanie Adams, of Moors Hall and Lyme, N.H.; Susan Carey, of 124 Walker St. and Washington, D.C.; Katherine Cullinan, of 124 Walker St. and Glenn Ellyn, Ill.; Sondra Gamov, of Jordan J and Teaneck...