Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society's selection of new junior and senior members will not be affected by academic inflation, L. Fred Jewett '57, graduate secretary of the society's Harvard chapter, said yesterday...
...epidemic of high grades at colleges across the country has forced some chapters to add extra criteria to their evaluation procedures. Carl Billman '35, secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, said in an interview last week that the increase in Phi Beta Kappa level scores reflected not an increase in the numbers of those qualified for the academic society, but the tendency of some teachers opposed to grading to give A's to everyone...
According to Dean Whitlock there has been a steady "inflation" of grades at Harvard over the years, increasing the number of students above the cut-off for Phi Beta Kappa, which is an academic average of 13.00, or between B-plus and A-minus...
Over 200 students and faculty at the School of Education have signed a petition supporting the Harvard chapter of the Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) educational fraternity for admitting women members contrary to the rules of the International...
...stands a little over five feet and usually comes wrapped in a clerical black suit and vest that sets off an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The head, or node receptor, as Fuller might call it, carries a hearing aid and glasses so thick they magnify his eyes. This figure has been around so long and has impinged on public awareness so many times, it sometimes seems that Fuller is constantly being discovered and forgotten...