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Members of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa met last night to elect this year's Junior Eight. New members were chosen from a wide range of Houses and fields of concentration...
...such a hurry to be on his way that he left the university without bothering to pick up his Phi Beta Kappa key. In 1922, after a bicycling trip through Europe, he went confidently to work as a $15-a-week cub on the Chicago Daily News. When the Teapot Dome scandal broke in 1924, he landed one of his first out-of-town assignments by observing that none of the news stones said what Teapot Dome looked like. In a breathless Inside report from Wyoming that made Best News Stories of 1924 and foreshadowed a familiar Guntheresque ploy...
...practice of allowing a man to be a member of more than one undergraduate social fraternity once existed at Harvard. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities verifies this as it names T.R. as a member of both Deke and Alpha Delt. As a result, Delta Kappa Epsilon honors Roosevelt as one of its greatest members, and we do not feel inclined to allow Alpha Delta Phi exclusive claim...
Theodore Roosevelt was not a member of Alpha Delta Phi at Harvard. Rather a most illustrious member of Delta Kappa Epsilon...
...play" political consciousness. Wrote he: "I have not the slightest sympathy with debating contests in which each side is arbitrarily assigned a given proposition and told to maintain it . . . There is no effort to instill sincerity and intensity of conviction." As he moved out of Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, becoming a college boxer, courting and later marrying a Chestnut Hill belle named Alice Lee, he suffered all the torments of power hunger and high ideals that had no place of power to go. One night at an Alpha Delta Phi committee meeting, T.R. told his fraternity brothers...