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Author Crittenden, 29, is a Phi Beta Kappa from Kansas University and has written short stories for The New Yorker and the Atlantic. His literary ancestors range from Nathanael West to Terry Southern to Nichols and May, but he has his own deadpan wit and a wildly antic...
...Beta Kappa graduate of the College, Clark attended Harvard Law School...
...cartons, and his mother had a comfortable income from her family's wholesale tobacco business. Neither of these pursuits entranced young Bennett at all. Nor did a literary career. By the time he graduated from Columbia in 1919 with a B.A. degree in journalism and a Phi Beta Kappa key, his mother had died, leaving him $100,000. With nothing better in mind, "Beans," as Cerf was known in those days, joined his uncle's brokerage house as a clerk...
...present system assigns rank the same way Phi Beta Kappa picks out students for possible election. An "A" is worth 12 points, and the scale goes down from there -- 11 points for an A-minus, 10 points for a B-plus, 9 points...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last week elected 12 seniors to its ranks. They...