Word: chapter
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...Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Sliwa founded the red-capped Angels, a volunteer crime-fighting citizens' patrol, back in 1979 in New York City. Since then the nonprofit movement has spread to 32 other cities. Evers and Sliwa grew close this spring after she organized an Angels chapter in Atlanta. Explains the roughedged Sliwa: "I began acting more human in her presence...
...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 into the national honor society it became, celebrates its 200th...
...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, as part of the bicentennial festivities, it recently sponsored a panel discussion on "Literacy and the Search for a Livable Future" at Harvard's cavernous Sanders Theater, there...
...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 of faculty, library, and honors programs. Individual chapters have been advised to require candidates to demonstrate knowledge The key itself of foreign languages and math as part...
...working for certain health care rights for women was a problem for Third World women. While women, primarily white women, were saying that they had a right to be sterilized, sterilization was being pushed on poor women and women of color," Kim DeAndrade, a former member of the Boston chapter of CESA, said...