Word: kappa
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When the trustees of Dartmouth College installed David McLaughlin as the school's 14th president in the summer of 1981, he seemed a perfect choice for a scholarly Ivy League bastion steeped in lusty, old-boy fellowship. Indeed, his persona glowed the deepest Dartmouth green: Phi Beta Kappa in the class of '54, wide receiver on the football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin...
...longtime U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Pat grew up in Lexington, Va., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and was a partner in a small business. Then at age 26 he had a conversion experience ("At my desk in my office, I leaned back in my chair and burst out laughing . . . I had passed from death into life") and entered the Biblical Seminary in New York City...
...Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has elected 24 Harvard seniors to its membership...
Jewell said that students are elected to Phi Beta Kappa by a three-stage process: 12 juniors are elected in the spring of their junior year, 24 seniors in the fall of their senior year, and an additional 55-65 seniors just prior to graduation...
...Blob", it is said in East Cambridge, required four years of planning by MIT's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity...