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Thomas L. P. O'Donnell, Taunion, '47 Red Book (chairman), Freshman Affairs Committee, Student Council (president), Phi Beta Kappa, Acting First Marshal, Commencement...
This decision allowed him to go into History with an enthusiasm stimulated by childhood readings in the historical novels of Henry. He sailed through graduating in 1919, and making Phi Beta Kappa along with his classmate, Professor Gordon Allport. "The modern era with its closeness of instructor and student was beginning to supplant the old one, in which professors were in the main people apart." Another undoubtedly invigorating circumstance was the fact of having Harold Laski for a tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories...
...students, who never receive a report card until the eighth grade, seem to do well after they leave her. Last year four Shady Hill alumnae were graduated from Radcliffe, and all four were Phi Beta Kappa...
...glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie...
...born in Farmington, Mo., was educated at a Missouri normal school, the University of Chicago, Rush Medical College, made his college wrestling team and Phi Beta Kappa. Like many another successful medico, he is part researcher, part executive, part salesman...