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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kappa is going into the advising business. Freshmen still feeling their way indecisively around the field of concentration maze will be able to ask questions of Harvard's top scholars for three nights next week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK to Give Advice to '52 On Majoring | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...background, and his career at Harvard. "Before entering College he had graduated brilliantly from Roxbury Latin, and had already done the equivalent of freshman and sophomore work in chemistry and physics. At Harvard he completed the four-year course in three years with high honors, making Phi Beta Kappa, holding an Honorary John Harvard Scholarship, and working as an editor of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Begins Conant's Biography, Describes Work on Atomic Bomb | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...fields of concentration are represented in the present Phi Beta Kappa lineup of 16 men. Of the 16 eight are concentrating in the humanities and eight in the physical and natural sciences...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: PBK, College Honor Society, Was Social Club | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa Key, one of the last remaining supports of the pocket watch industry, has undergone some change since 1776. Originally, it was a square silver watch-key with a hand in the lower right corner pointing to three starts in the upper left corner. This symbolized ambition...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: PBK, College Honor Society, Was Social Club | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...beta, and kappa are the initials of a three world Grecian motto that means, "Love of wisdom the Holmsman of Life." On the reverse side of the key the name and college of the member is engraved above the letters SP which stand for Societies Philosophiae...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: PBK, College Honor Society, Was Social Club | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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