Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advantages of a Phi Beta Kappa key [Dec. 28] is its pawn value. In 1935 I hocked mine (Hamilton College, 1930) for $5 to help pay for food and fuel. Thomas C. Grubb Mount Vernon, Ohio
...Beta Kappa still flourishes amid changing standards...
...wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before it had sent an emissary north to Yale and Harvard. This month in Cambridge, Mass., the Alpha chapter at Harvard, which, more than any other has helped shape Phi Beta Kappa into the national honor society it became, celebrates its 200th anniversary...
Thomas Jefferson went here, although he later founded the University of Virginia. Phi Beta Kappa began here and is still going strong. William and Mary has everything any self-respecting Ivy League school could boast of, except inclement weather...
...writes books that win prizes, publishes articles in scholarly magazines, lectures on medical ethics, and leads seminars. In between she speaks five languages, earns honorary Phi Beta Kappa degrees, and studies philosophy. And she's sat on the advisory boards of the Amnesty International Medical Committee, the "Encyclopedia of Bioethics," and the Committee on Clinical Investigation of Children's Hospital in Boston...