Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duration of World War II, Phi Beta Kappa suspended all its functions except electing new members. It remained virtually dormant since then until this year when under the leadership of Teem, Gootenberg, and Haas the membership decided Phi Beta Kappa could do more at Harvard College than twirlkeys on gold watch chains...
Mindful of being a scholarship organization, Phi Beta Kappa proceeded to try to find its place in undergraduate life. Teem who is stumping for a revitalized. Phi Beta Kappa said, "We didn't want to become just another opinion agency. Nor did we think we ought to try sponsoring forums--the Law School Forum and other are doing that quite efficiently...
Besides starting its advising service, Phi Beta Kappa intends to initiate a series of dinners and to revive an old custom of publishing the cream of the theses written by its members...
These theses will be chosen from among Summas and Bowdoin Prize winners. The best will be printed at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa as a prize to the author...
Each year in addition to the undergraduates Phi Beta Kappa elects several alumni whom it thinks merit recognition for scholarly achievement; about once every three years an individual outside the student body or alumni is elected to honorary membership on the same basis a alumni members...