Word: betas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...
...Beta Kappa...
...petition was started by members of the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and signed by over half its members. Circulators of the petition call petition call themseles the Emergency Protest Committee and will send it to President Conant and the members of the Committee of Eight when hey have gathered more signatures, they said...
...second successive year the Phi Beta Kappa Society at its final meeting has worried about the state of Harvard education. Last June they merely felt "vital concern for the high academic standards at Harvard" and so thanked the Committee of Eight Prominent Faculty Members for their report on the famous Walsh-Sweezy case. This year the P. B. K.'s brief comment has lengthened into a closely reasoned indictment of University Hall to which the following paragraph is introductory...
...will readily see, the article has a salient weakness. It implies a change in himself, rather than in the type of student who is arbitrarily admitted by the University. The authors have chosen to regard the student body as static, and the presence of Dorchester men in Phi Beta Kappa as a token of what Marx hath wrought...