Word: kappa
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Franklin speaks quickly, punctuating his sentences with a hearty and unthreatening laugh in between his ironic or hyperbolic one-liners. For example, he says, “you have to be, like, Phi Beta Kappa and God” to get a Harvard-Cambridge scholarship, explaining why one of his friends didn’t receive the fellowship...
...January 2002, Suzanne M. Pomey and Randy J. Gomes were indicted; nine months later they pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny and were sentenced to two and five years of probation, respectively. Pomey, former producer of the Hasty Pudding show and ex-president of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, was said to have spent her $23,000 share of the loot on shopping trips and spa visits. Court records indicate that Gomes’ share paid for his drug habit and a lavish open-bar party he threw for Pomey at T.G.I. Friday’s. Though they...
...when it comes to socializing, she’s often cited as a motivator. Nellwyn A. Thomas ’05 says that for Senior Week, Hendricks founded a tongue-in-cheek “sorority” called Kappa Kappa Steffers, featuring a southern belle ball in her common room. It was only one in a string of whimsical ideas...
Getting the job was a long shot, even for a summa-candidate, Phi Beta Kappa economics concentrator from Harvard. One-hundred twenty applicants competed for two spots...
...exactly the same meal. What we have shared instead is the discovery that you can be anything that you can imagine. That is--you can be anything, but you cannot be everything. Perhaps you can play for HRO and the Water Polo team, be marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and consul of Sigma Chi, as well as love the Garden State. But even the most conscientious overachiever is hard-pressed to do it all at the same exacting level of type-A perfectionism for which we Harvard students are notorious...