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...home to others because the names of the fallen were necessarily screened from an unearned public disgrace. But even then the shock was great enough to startle a protesting group of students in English into action, and to elicit a sharp defence of sound undergraduate teaching from Phi Beta Kappa. Now the issue seems to be pressing more heavily on students' minds. They cannot help noticing that many experienced tutors left last year for more serene fields. They know that for several of their teachers in middle group courses between elementary and advanced work, this is the last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERN FOR A CAUSE | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...debate is believed to have focussed on the Administration's application of the new Faculty tenure policy, and to have touched on the issues raised by the Teachers' Union and Phi Beta Kappa last June when it was learned that ten assistant professors had been given terminating appointments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY WILL CONVENE TO DEBATE ON TENURE | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...that called it an ungracious act on the part of Harvard to those who had served it well for many years to that which deduced a trend toward neglect of the College in favor of the University. Strongly supporting the latter view was the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa which condemned the loss of the experienced "middle group" of teachers and tutors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY'S FIRST ROUND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women and zoological men. The author's nearest approach to liking (not very near) is reserved for: an old barber, a mild, hopeless Phi Beta Kappa, a prostitute, two husbands in love with other women, two wives in love with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heeltalk | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...past two years undergraduates have become increasingly vocal on the subject of Faculty appointments. Culminating a year in which hundreds of undergraduates petitioned President Conant to reconsider administrative decisions, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last June openly indicted President Conant for the summary dismissal of ten assistant professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's $200,000,000 Fate Guided By 7 - Man Corporation | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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