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Journalist Anthony Lewis '48 addressed the 168 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa about the freedom of the British press at the society's literary exercises yesterday in Sanders Theater...
...only a third-grade education, was sentenced to the same reform school at nine, went on to commit double murders, and displayed a superior intelligence. The father's goals, however, were different: he studied hard and became the first convict in history to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After his release from prison in 1983, Bosket Sr. found work as a university teaching assistant...
...regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa recently announced its Junior 12 from among the 24 Radcliffe students with the highest cumulative grade-point averages. One newly-nominated student criticized Phi Beta Kappa in The Crimson saying that "an organization like this highlights the bad aspects of grades...
According to Hodder, a Phi Beta Kappa selectioncommittee composed of three professors and thechapter president, secretary and assistantsecretary selected the 12 on the basis of "breadthand depth of scholarship, promise based onprevious work, and general demonstrated academicexcellence...