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...fault the quality of what are probably the top three schools. Washington, D.C.'s Howard is justifiably called "the world's greatest Negro university" (TIME, July 18, 1960). Nashville's Fisk, the South's first A-rated Negro campus (in 1929), has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, a good library, an endowment of $7,000,000. Atlanta's Morehouse is a highly selective producer of Negro leaders; its President Benjamin Mays is perhaps the best-known Negro educator in the U.S. Not far behind these three are Alabama's Tuskegee, where Botanist George Washington...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced yesterday the election of the following seniors: Nora Browning of Jordan B and Columbus, Ohio, History and Literature, Suzanne G. Davol of Seville House and Greenwich, Conn., Fine Arts, Jane H. Fishburne of Jordan C and Arlington, Va., Anthropology, Barbara J. Friedberg of Comstock Hall and New York City, Mathematics, Julie E. Goldberg of Cabot Hall and Dallas, Texas, History and Literature, Martha B. Heineman of Whitman Hall and Chicago, III., English, and Mrs. Judith Arons Kates of Boston, History and Literature...
...fill a potential political hot spot-controlling domestic gold and silver operations-the Treasury Department turned to a slight, studiously nonpartisan monetary whiz, James Dewey Daane (pronounced Dane), 43. Daane, a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, learned his banking in 21 years with the Federal Reserve, joined the Treasury near the end of the Eisenhower years and smoothed the transition from Republican to Democratic monetary policies. As Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he will need all his neutrality as he copes simultaneously with demands from Western silver producers that the Treasury raise its pegged price...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa today announced the Senior Sixteen for the Class of 1962. The are: Mitchell H. Gail, Leverett and Lexington, Ky., Biochemical Sciences; David I Lieberman, Lowell and South Orange, N. J., Mathematics; Bishop C. Hunt, Jr., Eliot and Boston, History and Literature; Paul R. Chernoff, Lowell and Philadelphia, Mathematics; Matthew D. Edel, Leverett and Jamaica, N.Y., History; Carl D. Elligers, Lowell and Brooklyn, Government; and Rodney H. Merrill, Lowell and Idaho Falls, Idaho, History and Literature...
...crush was bacteriology. Her desire to learn about it drove Polly's marks up to Phi Beta Kappa level, and it was pure interest, not career ambition. "I just had to find out about those little bacteria," she says. Polly went from Vassar to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where the workings of bacteria were being intensively studied...