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Word: kappa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gabriel Mirkin, another junior, who was hampered by lack of practice due to a bad knee, finished 67th in 3:13.24. "Some of the crowed booed my Harvard shirt," he said, "but a lot of them cheered me. One cop even yelled 'Go! Go! Phi Beta Kappa,' when I passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holmes Wins Silver Medal In Boston Marathon Grind | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

...spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward for high grades, is a perversion of the Honors degree, and can become a too easy escape from a thesis rather than an achievement of true honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cum Laude in General Studies | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

Eight juniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night at a meeting in the Freshman Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Selects Eight From Junior Class | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

When Paul Richer, 21, walked into the dark brick junior high school in little (pop. 962) Riceville, Iowa last fall, he intended to throw everything he had into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Enthusiast | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...College graduates, Sidney F. Arnold '55 and Franklin Nelson '55 and Lorraine Hanlon, the daughter of an officer of the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa are among the troop of amateur and professional skaters that will appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenley Will Star in Skating Club Show | 3/30/1956 | See Source »

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