Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main Commencement procession, it is certainly no less distinctive, for it is the procession of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to its annual literary meeting...
...object of this Society," announces the Constitution of Phi Beta Kappa, "is the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars." But the transformation of the society from a social as well as literary organization, which met as often as once a week in the early nineteenth century, to the honor society of today, which meets only three times a year, has delegated this "promotion of literature" mainly to the yearly literary meeting, at which one oration and one work of poetry are presented...
...marks will not necessarily drop if you enter the comp. Indeed, candidates often find that their marks go up as they learn to work more rapidly and more efficiently. A survey taken of editors' grades a few years ago indicated that the CRIMSON ranked second only to Phi Beta Kappa among undergraduate organizations...
...Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, moved on to Yale Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1933. To his father, then traveling in Europe, Meade wired: "I am a lawyer." Replied Alcorn Sr.. who had been Hartford County state's attorney since 1908: "It will be many a year before...
...Erich Gruen, 21, whose father owns a bakery in Arlington, Va., is an ancient history major at Columbia, got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He is a member of the steering committee of the senior class, is director of classical music for the Columbia radio station, heads the Ted Kremer honor society which devotes itself to social service...