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...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 88 seniors earlier this month to join the ranks of academic standouts in the national collegiate honors society...
After receiving notification of their eligibility, the students were asked to submit two faculty letters of recommendation and to release their transcripts to a selection committee, which included Harvard juniors and seniors who had already been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. The committee, which was moderated by faculty members, met from May 10 to 12 and evaluated the intensity, diversity, and integrity of each nominee’s academic record...
Rebecca L. Lambert ’05, a history of science concentrator, said that being selected for Phi Beta Kappa “hadn’t been a goal?...
Levitt himself is a heavyweight—of Sumo-sized proportions—in the world of economics. A one-time resident of Wigglesworth H-entry, he excelled academically as an undergrad here, making Phi Beta Kappa his senior year. In 2003, he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the top American economist under age 40. Past winners include current Harvard faculty members Andrei Shleifer ’82, Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrence H. Summers...
...left to do this. One could, of course, study harder—write a better paper, read even the sourcebook articles that have been overlooked in section and so on—but this seems like an option for saps and people trying to make it into Phi Beta Kappa. Still, I could come up with only one alternative: if I’m not going to be studying more, I have to do my best to ensure that all of you (and particularly those of you in my classes) are studying less...