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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter sends letters to students who make the grade cutoff, encouraging them to apply. To apply, students must submit recommendations from two faculty members for review, and they are notified of the committee's decision about a month later...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 24 Juniors Awarded Phi Beta Kappa | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

While we remain concerned about the grade gap and the dearth of vans available to student groups, in pursuit of positions as generous neophyte alumni we put aside our differences with the administration. And so when it came to making spring break plans, with the profoundly worthwhile senior gift in mind, we discarded dreams of Cancun and selflessly pursued a bargain vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Spring Break Saga | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...festivities. "I had never been in the company of those people before. I really started to feel a part of it all as the week progressed. [At the banquet] I just spoke about what Kodak All-American meant to me--going to a WBCA camp in the 10th grade and watching the video and thinking how I would never be on it. Now that's all different...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Feaster Named Kodak All-American; Senior One of the Nation's Ten Best | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Thank you for all those great old articles on Coke and communism, Cadillac fins and atom bombs, on cocaine, the Kennedys and prefab homes. Thank you for not forcing your writers to aim for a third-grade-level audience. Keep your standards wonderfully high. GRANT RAMPY Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...actual collision? With a mile-wide asteroid? It sounded like the stuff of science fiction and grade-B movies. But front-page stories and TV newscasts around the world soon made clear that the possibility of a direct hit and a global catastrophe well within the lifetime of most people on Earth today was all too real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroids: Whew! | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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