Word: betas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl...
...Hubert returned to the University of Minnesota, where he majored in political science and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. When World War II broke out, he tried repeatedly to enlist, but was turned down because of a double hernia and lung calcification. (During the crucial West Virginia presidential primary in 1960, he was unjustly accused of being a draft dodger by John Kennedy's supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor...
...January meeting, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa chapter joins other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its holdings in banks lending money to the South African government. President Bok declines comment...
Collegium Musicum and the Glee Club join Phi Beta Kappa and other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its shares in banks lending money to the South African government. President Bok says, "It's a very complex question...
...seniors graduate from Harvard College, trampling and tearing up the carefully and expensively manicured lawns of Harvard Yard in the process. In his Commencement Address, Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...