Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backyard Chat. Welch finished at Grinnell with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain and a $600 Harvard scholarship in his pocket. "The night before I was to leave for Harvard Law School," he recalls, "my father and I went out back to attend to our needs before we went to bed, and then he got a drink of water at the pump and sat down stiffly. I knew that meant I was to sit down...
Born in Atlanta, where his father was a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, Black graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia at 19, served in the Navy during World War I, then went into the banking business. He was a senior vice president of the Chase National Bank in New York City when he was named World Bank president five years...
Undergraduate Van Dusen captained the Debating Team, headed the Undergraduate Council, the Bric-a-Brac and the International Polity Club, was valedictorian, Ivy Orator, Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the Student Christian Association. But for all sober purpose about him, Pit Van Dusen, when he graduated in 1919, still did not know what he wanted to do. The law, of course, beckoned, "but something made me hold back from it." He toyed with the idea of being a social worker, "although it was, and is, primarily a woman's field." His approach to the ministry...
Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter last night elected eight juniors to membership. Lowell House, which had completely dominated previous lists, placed two men in the Junior Eight, while Adams House had three, Dunster two, and Eliot...
...scholarly house, with a good percentage of men on Dean's List, but this scholarly bent manifests itself more in the organizations than in Phi Beta Kappa listings. Fully two-thirds of the House members belong to one or more of the House organizations, most of which are at least semi-intellectual...