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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sullivan is a National Scholar, member of the Varsity basketball squad, business manager of the 1939 Senior Album, and recently elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He graduated from Marietta High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN AWARDED BURR SCHOLARSHIP | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

Fifty-three years old, Clark's formal record sounds very like a geophysicist and very unlike a child story teller: Harvard Ph.D. in 1914 with a record of "A's", Phi Beta Kappa, teacher successively at ten colleges such as Radcliffe, Oberlin, Stanford and Victoria in New Zealand, he feels that children's books are too staid, that his are going to be different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Own Lewis Carroll, Expert in Physics, Writes of a Whale and Spit-Tag | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

James M. Tobin was elected First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa for the class of 1939 at a meeting of the chapter in the Winthrop House Common Room. Second Marshal is Irving M. London. In addition to officers, the Junior Eight elected the Senior Sixteen last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tobin Named PBK First Marshal; Senior Sixteen Added to Chapter | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

...Carolina, was asked to stir up a little golf interest among his pupils to stave off mortgage foreclosure on a local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying her four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Patty's Day | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Definitions | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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