Word: kappa
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...marked contrast to peacetime Junes, when an average of 50 members of the graduating class--often one-tenth of the seniors--were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, only seven of this year's graduates were included in the elections announced on Tuesday. They are John J. Delaney, Jr., of Arlington, Robert H. Drucker, of Wilmette, Ill., Daniel B. Feer, of Brookline, David B. Green, of Brookline, Paul Mandelstam, of Allston, John J. Shea, of Jamaica Plain, and Philip Troen, of Portland, Maine...
...Miles a Year. California-born Bishop Oxnam got his A.B. (and Phi Beta Kappa) at the University of Southern California, later studied at Boston University, Harvard, M.I.T., in Japan, China, India. After eleven years of pastoral work in California, he went back to his alma mater as professor of social ethics, then to Boston University, from which he was elected President of Indiana's DePauw University. He was popular with students (because he permitted dancing), unpopular with the American Legion (because he abolished the R.O.T.C.). At 44 he was elected Bishop - Methodism's youngest...
...House, and book review editor of "The New England Quarterly" has been appointed, with Bennet Cerf, editor for Random House and "The Saturday Review of Literature," and Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of the New York Times, to the Book Committee of "The Key Reporter," membership quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society...
...editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author and member of the Book of the Mouth Club's Committee on Selection. The members of the Book Committee volunteer their services in guiding the reading selections of the more than 90,000 members of Phi Beta Kappa for whom the "Key Reporter" is published...
Annual Commencement exercises of the Harvard Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa will be held in Fogg Art Museum on June 28 at 11 o'clock. The orator will be Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe; the poet, Winfield Scott. Seth T. Gano '07, President of the Harvard Chapter, will preside...