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...Innocent" though he may have been in college, Schlesinger was apparently not naive, for he avoided the "pink" organizations which snared so many other young liberals. "He always had his feet on the ground," one friend explained. Schlesinger did join the Signet and the Advocate, and Phi Beta Kappa elected him first marshal...
Gabriel Mirkin, another junior, who was hampered by lack of practice due to a bad knee, finished 67th in 3:13.24. "Some of the crowed booed my Harvard shirt," he said, "but a lot of them cheered me. One cop even yelled 'Go! Go! Phi Beta Kappa,' when I passed...
...spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward for high grades, is a perversion of the Honors degree, and can become a too easy escape from a thesis rather than an achievement of true honor...
Eight juniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night at a meeting in the Freshman Union...
When Paul Richer, 21, walked into the dark brick junior high school in little (pop. 962) Riceville, Iowa last fall, he intended to throw everything he had into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...