Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital...
Graduated from Harvard in 1907 (a Phi Beta Kappa, he did four years' work in three, edited the Advocate, contributed to the Harvard Monthly, and published a volume of undergraduate verse), the 21-year-old Brooks stopped in New York to ask William Dean Howells how one should set about being a writer. ("He knew as well as I that there was no answer.") After a try at newspaper reporting, he took steerage passage to England...
Election of eight men to the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced today. Four Seniors and four Juniors have been elevated to membership in the national honorary society...
...Beauty" in their haste to get two name bands, hundreds (count 'em) of bathing beauties, and backgrounds full of California sunshine, have decided that the moviegoer who looks for credulity can wait for the newsreels. As it is, its almost impossible to tell Basil Rathbone from a Phi Beta Kappa key without a scorecard...
Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced six honorary memberships on Commencement Day. Elected were Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony; I. A. Richards, co-developer (with C. K. Ogden) of Basic English, and University Lecturer in English; Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan; Judge John F. Perkins '99, of the Boston Juvenile Court; Rudolph Altrocchi '07, Professor of Italian at the University of California and President of the Associated Harvard Clubs; and Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen...