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...this morning in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its traditional Literary Exercises. After electing new undergraduate and honorary members, the Brethren will march from Harvard Hall to the Theatre, led by the fife and drum. Speaker at the Exercises will be Julian P. Boyd, professor of History at Princeton, and the Poet will be Dudley Fitts '25, instructor in English at Phillips Andover Academy...
Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong...
...many ways Allen Dulles, 68, is an unlikely sort of man to head CIA. The amiable, scholarly younger brother of John Foster Dulles, Allen got his Phi Beta Kappa key at Princeton, taught for a year in India, joined the Foreign Service in 1916. He was in Switzerland when the U.S. entered World War I, leaped straight into intelligence work. In 1926 he took a law degree at George Washington University, joined his brother Foster in law work in New York...
...Call for Brains. Son of a high school teacher, McMurrin worked his way through the University of Utah, made Phi Beta Kappa, took his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. In 1948 he returned to Utah as a philosophy professor, became dean of the liberal arts and sciences college and later vice president. McMurrin showed particular skill in leading summer seminars among businessmen and educators at Aspen, Colo. "Inevitably," says one participant, "the consensus was in accord with McMurrin's views...
Denver's athletic director is Elton E. "Tad" Wieman, a highly respected former coach at Princeton (1932 to 1943) and a member of the Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1921 after election to Phi Beta Kappa and recognition on the All-America football team. He is regarded locally as an arch-conservative who abides by the letter of NCAA law--"an Ivy Leaguer at heart...