Word: betas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard worker, stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) Physicist Herb York got his start in science as a small boy in Rochester, N.Y., when his uncle gave him a book on astronomy. He worked his way through the University of Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children to Washington and took on his ARPA job, turned...
...such criticism comes from the 45-year-old Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where professional training comes only to those who already have college degrees. Columbia requires applicants to show some evidence of bona fide professional interest, turns down two out of three applicants, including some Phi Beta Kappas. The student body of about 70 takes broad subjects in the field, e.g., the law of libel, under an excellent faculty (average salary: more than $10,000) backed up by guest lecturers from Manhattan publications...
...second-in-command of Admiral Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, now heads the U.S. Antarctic program for the International Geophysical Year. Other qualifications for informed alarm: Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the National Science Board...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has announced a competition offering Radcliffe undergraduates two prizes of $100 each, one for the best original or creative work, and one for the best piece of research or criticism in any field...
Entries in the annual competition, sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa committee on Encouragement of Scholarship, and directed by Mrs. Gordon B. Hanlon '42, must be mailed to Dean Kerby-Miller by March 1, 1959. Winners will be announced late in March...