Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...
Other recent recipients have been Robert C. Hall '36, of Bsenklina a member of the track team, the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and Phi Beta Kappa; Chester K. Litman' '35, of Brookline, a member of the football and track teams and a high ranking student; the late Richard G. Ames '34 of Wayland, president of the Student Council and captain of the wrestling team; and William Barry Wood, Jr. '32, of Milton, captain of the football team...
...college Davis is chairman of the Council of Government Concentrators and an editor of the Harvard Guardian, college social science magazine. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Last year he was chairman of a table in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference...
From then on a confirmed and even relentless careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...
...finishing, college president of the student body, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, he gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...