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Albert B. Lord '34, the president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, was misquoted in an article titled "PBK Holds Literary Exercises" in yesterday's Class Day section. He introduced William S. Merwin as someone with "a serious dedication to the mission and knowledge of the Bible...
...exercises were devoted to inducting the final members of the Class of '89 elected to Phi Beta Kappa into the society. The group included 64 men elected to the Alpha chapter and 64 women to the Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...addition, seven men including Erwin Heibert, emeritus professor of Science, William B. Anderson '39, a former University Marshall, and Williams S. Merwin, a poet who was present at the ceremony, became honorary members. And the Iota chapter elected Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, President-elect of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson and educator Deborah Nord as recipients of honorary status...
Merwin, who read his poem, "The Day Itself," was introduced by President of the Alpha chapter Albert B. Lord '34 as having "a serious dedication to a knowledge and omission of the Bible...
...magnate, tried to produce rain at Post City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux chief, and talks himself into a long, marveling chapter on the splendid old warrior's death. It might be expected that a writer accustomed to being funny in magazines would perform too gaudily in a book of this kind, luxuriate too much in the acuteness of his ironies. Frazier's enthusiasms are personal, but he stays...