Word: kappa
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Earlier this week, the national academic honor society phi Beta Kappa announced that it had elected 48 seniors to its Harvard chapter...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society bears serious consideration by today's Harvard students. The address is an encomium to the title-less man and an attack on the institutional one. It is praise for those famous men who become famous of their own doing, who arrive at their own conclusions, who stand on feet unbuttressed by typical modes of external recognition...
Members of the MIT fraternity Gamma Kappa Sigma requested a license change that would increase the number of members allowed to live in their house from 39 to 47. The fraternity also requested that an undergraduate be able to serve as their resident advisor instead of a graduate student as is currently required by the city...
...mention this? Jaded as we are, we still believe that there are some holidays that defy shoehorning into the Shoebox Greeting Card ethos. Much as we would like to see the paunchy padrones of the North End roll up the sleeves of their Kappa windsuits and go toe to toe with the yuppies of Tremont Street, we'll settle for any sort of remembrance of dear...
Hair parted just so, the Phi Beta Kappa lawyer has the perpetual look of a nice young man--from his gung-ho smile down to his University Shop loafers. But for some, even in his own party, Inglis is a little too much hall monitor and not enough of a pol. At home he chastised conservatives for flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse and for the G.O.P.'s tradition of racially divisive politics. In Washington, where he sleeps on an air mattress in his office, a sign scolds lobbyists who want to buy his vote. He blasted his party...