Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were still breaks in the circle. Last week, as bespectacled Dr. Quo Tai-chi (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania '11) arrived in the U.S. from London, where he had been Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, en route to Chungking, where he will be China's new Foreign Minister, the U.S. moved to widen them...
Conspicuous by their absence from the list of the "outstanding students" at Harvard are the various athletic captains, both this year's and next, the athletic managers, most of the members of Phi Beta Kappa, the heads of most of the undergraduate publications, and other student leaders...
...committee will consult with various investigating bodies on education already existing in the University, including the recently established group of Phi Beta Kappa Society. The Council expressed the hope that the departmental heads would in turn consult with the Curriculum and Tenure Committee on changes of vital concern to undergraduates, such as the present budget cut for example...
...years. He came from Exeter to the Harvard of the 1890's, where his pattern coincided with the aesthetic movement of the day. Editor of the Monthly, Pudding, Signet, O. K., and the like--these are the matters of the record. He is supposed to have made Phi Beta Kappa without ever taking a single lecture-note. But what he liked to remember best was the time they entertained Anna Held in Dudley Hall, when the champagne flowed and the marble stairs were covered with rose-petals. Or how one of the Claverly's used to drive to Geology...
...Beta Kappa elected its annual eight members from the Junior Class last night, thereby giving recognition to the most prominent scholars in the Class...