Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the successful Juniors, who are chosen from the twelve highest ranking members of the Class of 1950, are from Lowell House, two are from Eliot, one from Adams, and one is a Cambridge resident...
...three, an excellent scholastic record bears the most weight, since Phi Beta Kappa is first and foremost "recognition of intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." A student has to be among the top 12 academically, in his class before Phi Beta Kappa will even deign to consider him for election in the Junior year...
Next November, Phi Beta Kappa will add an additional 16 from the senior class to its roster. In the week before each commencement, the top ten percent of the graduating class are admitted to Phi Beta Kappa...
Today in 1949, Phi Beta Kappa elects about 100 men to its ranks from each class. When the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts began at the University of Cambridge in 1781 it had six members and none of the six claimed any particular fame as scholars. Phi Beta Kappa was, as a matter of fact, the first of the social Greek letter organizations which thrive on most college campuses in the United States today...
Railroads. In January and February, the net income of Class 1 U.S. railroads was $17 million, less than half of 1948's $37 million in the same period...