Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good works only made it easier for the non-native Americans to exploit her people and the land itself. She may have served as a sign of peace, but Americans were anything but peaceful in forcing hundreds of tribes from their homelands. It is therefore somewhat ridiculous to honor Sacajawea for what Rheta Johnson called "an enormous and personal contribution to this country." Her contribution, willing or not, was to a grand injustice. And if we as a nation didn't care about the plight of the American Indians then, we don't care much today, either...
Earlier this week, the national academic honor society phi Beta Kappa announced that it had elected 48 seniors to its Harvard chapter...
...Beta Kappa bases its selections on GPA and faculty recommendations. No more than 10 percent of any class may receive the honor...
...guess I should check my mail more often," Shalimar A.O. Fojas said. Fojas, of Winthrop House, said she was excited about earning the honor...
...also one of Harvard's four Marshall Scholarship winners. The other three, Daniel J. Benjamin, C. Thomas Brown and Eric M. Nelson, were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the first round. Of Harvard's Rhodes Scholarship winners, Navin Narayan of Adams House also received the Phi Beta Kappa honor in the first round...