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Election of seven honorary members, and 46 Seniors to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society has been announced by its officials. The new 1942 membership brings the total to 70, about one-tenth of the graduating class...
...honorary members elected were: Oscar J. Campbell, professor of English, Columbia University; Walter A. Gropius, professor of Architecture, Harvard; Hugh O'N. Hencken, curator of European Archeology, Harvard; Christopher La-Farge, Phi Beta Kappa poet, June, 1942; Thomas W. Lamont '92, chairman of the Executive Committee of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City; Stephen Luce, associate editor, "American Journal of Archaeology"; and Edward A. Whitney, former associate professor of History and Literature, Harvard and member of the staff of the Huntington Library for research in Renaissance History...
Seattle-born Mary McCarthy was a Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar (1933). In 1935, in the Nation, she collaborated with Margaret Marshall on a St. Valentine's Massacre of reviewers and critics from which only Edmund Wilson emerged unriddled. In 1938 she married Survivor Wilson, now lives with him and their son in Wellfleet, Mass...
...Beta Kappa Exercises
...annual literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be held on Monday of Commencement Week, June 8. The exercises, open to the public without charge, will be held in Sanders Theatre at 11 o'clock. President James Phinney Baxter 3rd, of Williams College, will be the Orator; and Christopher LaFarge will be the Poet. A luncheon will be held at 12:30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum...