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After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
...Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa student Setsuko Matsunaga, now at Washington University in St. Louis. Miss Matsunaga studies sociology, has addressed civic and church groups in the St. Louis area...
...from me life in the South Sea Islands is all right." Mr. Block, "Boy, could I have a good time in the South Sea is lands," Mr. Dutton, "Life wasn't like this with Du Pont." Mr. LeVee, "I've got the picture." Mr. Painter, "I asked a Kappa to marry me, but she though it more fun to stay in college...
Fish Market. Son of a wealthy Manhattan family (merchants and philanthropists). Coffin went to Yale ('97, Skull and Bones, Phi Betta Kappa, now a fellow of Yale's Corporation), studied further in Scotland and Germany. Back in the U.S. he went to Union, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. His first parish was a room over a Bronx fish market. There he preached "damnation with the Cross in it," displayed such zeal that his congregation vowed the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish...
...Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual Commencement program on Wednesday, May 26, at 11 o'clock, in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. The meeting will be open to the public, and tickets may be obtained for reserved seats from Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant Dean in charge of records and Corresponding Secretary of the Society...