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...jazz musicians, with a style that is at once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been easy for Redman to reconcile.While he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Redman led a double life. There was Redman the Phi Beta Kappa student who graduated with a summa cum laude degree in Social Studies and a spot at Yale Law School. And then there was Redman the saxophonist, who listened to jazz constantly and supposedly only practiced when he jammed with his friends at the Berklee College of Music...
...noted 19th century jurist Timothy Walker, Class of 1826, devoted his 1851 Phi Beta Kappa speech to mocking abolitionists. And after Daniel Webster, a the legendary Massachusetts senator, gave a speech endorsing the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Harvard President Jared Sparks, Class of 1815, and several professors signed a letter to the editor of the Boston Courier to show their support, according to the book “Veritas,” a history of Harvard by Andrew B. Schlesinger...
...that setting, Anguas—a member of the Phi Beta Kappa “Junior 24”—realized that he could combine law with business...
Sheehan, an economics concentrator and another member of the Phi Beta Kappa Junior 24, wrote her senior thesis on rating agencies and their role in the sub-prime markets. In her spare time, Sheehan was president of the Seneca, a women’s non-profit organization; a Peer Advising Fellow; and a member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business during her freshman and sophomore years...
Twenty-four juniors were elected earlier this month into the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors society in the country. This year, 12 of the “Junior 24” are male and 12 are female, and more than half of the winners in natural sciences are women. “For the first time, I think, the women have achieved equality and some of those women were also in the natural sciences,” said James F. Coakley ’68, the secretary of Harvard’s chapter, Alpha Iota...