Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twelve Radcliffe juniors have gained election to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, one of the college's highest academic distinctions...
Moynihan-who noted that he has given a Phi Beta Kappa Oration, a Freshman Lecture and a Commencement Address have-took aim specifically at arguments by conservative Charles Murray that federal social programs only increase dependence, encourage the break-down of the family and prolonged poverty...
...FACE IT. Eliot House has a lot of final club members and people who went to prep schools. Currier House has a lot of Black students. Kirkland House is great for intramural football and less-than-hot for average GPA; Lowell House is great for Phi Beta Kappa membership and less-than-hot for parties. Adams House's Westmorcty Court and Senior House are splendid and supremely spacious places to live; Mather's low-rise--at least this year--is not. Living at the Quad and having to take a bus to classes is a pain...
...million graduates, Mario Savio, 41, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, finally earned a physics degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner, 83, was named to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. Foreign-born students, too, went to the head of their classes. New York's City College valedictorian, Chi ("Christopher") Luu, of Viet Nam, entered this country only five years ago, unable to speak English. Commencement speakers, an unprecedented number of whom were women, reflected the notable diversity...
...being alone--was added the rejection of self and future. I remember trying, for the first time, to live with personal failure. I could not get papers finished before the extensions expired or even begin the reading before the final exam. Others were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, awarded scholarships, admitted to graduate school. I did not understand how they did it. I never suspected, of course, that these were social problems. It was a frightening new experience in which I no longer recognized myself. Drugs were only an aid in the conscious cremation of talent and possibility. Many...