Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Radcliffe Juniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, it was announced yesterday...
...girls will be initiated Monday at the annual chapter meeting, when the winner of the Phi Beta Kappa essay contest will be announced...
...about 1 a.m. when the car stopped at a deserted spot in Lincoln, Mass., and then sped away, leaving behind a youth of 18. For Freshman Thomas Clark of M.I.T., this was the last part of his initiation into the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Like nine other pledges who had been deposited about the countryside, he was left alone to get back to the M.I.T. campus, 14 miles away, as best he could, by 8 o'clock the next morning. But when morning came, Tom Clark had still not returned from what the Dekes call the "One-way ride...
...told just how its first graduates had done. Of 51 accepted, only eight dropped out, but these did so mostly for emotional reasons. Those who graduated had a 23% higher representation in the top fifth of the class than ordinary students. One out of five became a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Henry Samuel Beers, 57, moved from vice president to president of Hartford's Aetna Life affiliated Companies (second largest full-line insurance group after Travelers). He replaces Morgan B. Brainard, who becomes chairman. A Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (Hartford), Beers was headed for law when he was persuaded to take an actuarial exam, went to work for New York's Home Life. Aetna hired him in 1923, made him vice president in 1936 shortly after he headed the commission that wrote Connecticut's unemployment-insurance laws...