Word: betas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate is believed to have focussed on the Administration's application of the new Faculty tenure policy, and to have touched on the issues raised by the Teachers' Union and Phi Beta Kappa last June when it was learned that ten assistant professors had been given terminating appointments...
...enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women and zoological men. The author's nearest approach to liking (not very near) is reserved for: an old barber, a mild, hopeless Phi Beta Kappa, a prostitute, two husbands in love with other women, two wives in love with other...
...past two years undergraduates have become increasingly vocal on the subject of Faculty appointments. Culminating a year in which hundreds of undergraduates petitioned President Conant to reconsider administrative decisions, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last June openly indicted President Conant for the summary dismissal of ten assistant professors...
...well as a conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore out. As a senior he even broke down and joined the pompadoured Betas, but he did not brush his hair...
...Cambridge, Mass., 92 years ago, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter banished liquor from its dinner table, for cause. Last week, saturated with its ice-watery annual banquets, reunioning members unanimously voted to bring liquor back...