Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...societies which exist to bestow high accolade on U. S. scholars, most illustrious are Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, which enrolls honor students of all kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...
...professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, died yesterday at the Baker Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be held in Memorial Church tomorrow at one o'clock. Professor MacKaye was a lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard in 1910 and was elected honorary member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1981. He is survived by his widow, Mary MacKaye, of Hanover, New Hampshire and his brothers, Bonton MacKaye '00, and Percy MacKaye...
...pleasant, stocky young man with dark hair & blue eyes, a fondness for rough sports, no doctor's degree, and a career of only seven years as an educator. At Swarthmore he had won the esteem of President Frank Aydelotte by playing good football, making Phi Beta Kappa, winning a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1928 he was called back to Swarthmore as an assistant professor of English. In 1932 Yale's President James Rowland Angell persuaded him to go to New Haven. Within a year President Angell had made him chairman of the Board of Admissions, full professor, Master...
...graduate of Exeter, Cherington has been a Dean's List student through most of his college career; he has won several academic awards including the present holding of a Lincoln Scholarship, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. One of the founders and editors of the Critic, since its merger with the Advocate he has also been on the heard of the latter publication...
...bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...