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Election of eight men to the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced today. Four Seniors and four Juniors have been elevated to membership in the national honorary society...
...Beauty" in their haste to get two name bands, hundreds (count 'em) of bathing beauties, and backgrounds full of California sunshine, have decided that the moviegoer who looks for credulity can wait for the newsreels. As it is, its almost impossible to tell Basil Rathbone from a Phi Beta Kappa key without a scorecard...
Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced six honorary memberships on Commencement Day. Elected were Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony; I. A. Richards, co-developer (with C. K. Ogden) of Basic English, and University Lecturer in English; Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan; Judge John F. Perkins '99, of the Boston Juvenile Court; Rudolph Altrocchi '07, Professor of Italian at the University of California and President of the Associated Harvard Clubs; and Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen...
...marked contrast to peacetime Junes, when an average of 50 members of the graduating class--often one-tenth of the seniors--were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, only seven of this year's graduates were included in the elections announced on Tuesday. They are John J. Delaney, Jr., of Arlington, Robert H. Drucker, of Wilmette, Ill., Daniel B. Feer, of Brookline, David B. Green, of Brookline, Paul Mandelstam, of Allston, John J. Shea, of Jamaica Plain, and Philip Troen, of Portland, Maine...
...Miles a Year. California-born Bishop Oxnam got his A.B. (and Phi Beta Kappa) at the University of Southern California, later studied at Boston University, Harvard, M.I.T., in Japan, China, India. After eleven years of pastoral work in California, he went back to his alma mater as professor of social ethics, then to Boston University, from which he was elected President of Indiana's DePauw University. He was popular with students (because he permitted dancing), unpopular with the American Legion (because he abolished the R.O.T.C.). At 44 he was elected Bishop - Methodism's youngest...