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Five graduates and five undergraduates have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Charles T. Noonan '46, head of the Harvard Undergraduate chapter, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. K. CHOOSES TEN STUDENTS | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...Seniors received the Phi Beta Kappa award, one a civilian and the other from the V-12. Horace C. Davis '46, of the V-12, of Omaha, Nebraska and Eliot House, and William E. Keller '46 of Cleveland and Lowell House were the choices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. K. CHOOSES TEN STUDENTS | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa men among the graduates are Herman J. Engel '45 of Mount Vernon, New York, and Lowell House, Helimut J. Juretschke '46 of Long Island City, New York, and Adams House, George Selden '46 of Queens, New York, and Adams House, Saul Touster '46 of the NROTC, of Brooklyn, New York, and Eliot House, and William H. White '45 of Brookline and Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. K. CHOOSES TEN STUDENTS | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Greek Meets Strange Greek | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Graduated from Harvard in 1907 (a Phi Beta Kappa, he did four years' work in three, edited the Advocate, contributed to the Harvard Monthly, and published a volume of undergraduate verse), the 21-year-old Brooks stopped in New York to ask William Dean Howells how one should set about being a writer. ("He knew as well as I that there was no answer.") After a try at newspaper reporting, he took steerage passage to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of America (1800-40) | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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