Word: beta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take her study habits. Every term, she swears to most of her friends and tutors that she is failing, that she cannot possibly finish all her work, that she doesn't understand a thing. And then she aces the final exam and is nominated for Phi Beta Kappa...
...writes books that win prizes, publishes articles in scholarly magazines, lectures on medical ethics, and leads seminars. In between she speaks five languages, earns honorary Phi Beta Kappa degrees, and studies philosophy. And she's sat on the advisory boards of the Amnesty International Medical Committee, the "Encyclopedia of Bioethics," and the Committee on Clinical Investigation of Children's Hospital in Boston...
Before Caldicott spoke, the Phi Beta Kappa members heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz '26 read his unfinished work. "The Wellfleet Whale," and listened to choral music performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
David Riesman, '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Emeritus and president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kapa chapter, also presented the society's first teaching awards to Deborah Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor in Mathematics, and Leonard K. Nash, professor of Chemistry...
...winners, who received small cash prizes and citations for their success as instructors, were chosen by a committee of Faculty members and students. Members of the Phi Beta Kappa chapters had made over 20 nominations for the award, which will be given annually, earlier this year...