Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri Baptist preacher, sturdy, bulb-nosed Ernest Wilkins became a brilliant mathematician and a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, wrote a thesis on algebraic numbers theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's law school, became a prosperous lawyer, was president of the Cook County Bar Association in 1941-42. One of the leading U.S. laymen in the Methodist Church, Republican Wilkins has been serving as vice chairman of the presidential committee seeking to eliminate racial discrimination in plants with Government...
Radcliffe's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of five juniors...
...winner in St. Mark's School (Southboro, Mass.) was La-Rue Robbins Lutkins, who went on to graduate from Yale as a Phi Beta Kappa with honors in history. He joined the Foreign Service of the State Department as vice consul in Havana in 1942 (during the war served with the OSS in Africa), was then transferred to Peking, China in 1946. He is now with the American Embassy in Tokyo...
...that point, Katchen père put his foot down on the budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...
Korn, elected to Phi Beta Kappa last fall, is a concentrator in the biochemical sciences and plans to attend the Medical School next year...