Word: bk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Larson W 2-0 5 3 1 1 2 3 Brown 1 1 0 0 0 3 Connecticut Simonoko L. 0-1 2 2/3 2 3 3 5 1 Frager 3 1/2 1 2 2 3 0 WP--Frager, BK--Simonoko...
...spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before it had sent an emissary north to Yale and Harvard. This month in Cambridge, Mass., the Alpha chapter at Harvard, which, more than any other has helped shape Phi Beta Kappa...
There is much to celebrate. Less than ten years ago, on many college campuses, ΦBK was regarded as odiously "elitist." At Cornell in 1973, half of those invited to join turned down the offer. At Duke University in 1968, the student newspaper balked at printing the list of new members. Today everybody is eager to join, partly because undergraduates again think the distinctive gold ΦBK key may help unlock the door to worldly success. Harvard's chapter, which boasts such notable alumni as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Adams, is flourishing. And when...
Since it became a full-fledged honor society in the mid-1800s, ΦBK's commitment to academic excellence has not wavered. Higher education in America is changing. Today the selection of an elite appears to be no easy task. Colleges differ markedly in quality. There are about 2,000 four-year institutions in the U.S. The national ΦBK office in Washington, D.C., has 20 file drawers full of applications for new chapters. But it now limits membership to 228 colleges and universities and will not grant any new chapters without personal visits to assess the quality...