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...college Davis is chairman of the Council of Government Concentrators and an editor of the Harvard Guardian, college social science magazine. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Last year he was chairman of a table in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference...
From then on a confirmed and even relentless careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...
...finishing, college president of the student body, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, he gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...
Although small in terms of the "good old days" when a Varsity letter still loomed larger in the undergraduate mind than a Phi Beta Kappa key, this year's turnout was by no means discouraging. For the last four years, the number of candidates has decreased in an alarming progression, starting with 40 for the Class of '37, 25 hopefuls from '38, 16 from '39, and a paltry dozen from '40. Yesterday's 17 may mark the rounding of depression's corner, and the more superstitions members of the managerial staff even heralded it as all omen of major football...
...laude in German, is now studying History in the Graduate School and instructing in both German and History. Last year he was in charge of the non-resident student center in Dudley Hall. While in College, he was editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, first marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Senior Album committee, and the winner of several scholarships and prizes...