Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best debater in the Freshman trials for the triangular debates and receiving a Detour. In the next year he won the Barrette Wendell Prize in History and Literature, and received an honorary John Harvard Scholarship. Last year he was elected in the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa, and he became first marshall of the Society. Last fall he was one of the three Harvard men awarded Rhodes scholarships. He has been a member of the University debating council during his college career...
...Colony Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude...
When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
Right in line with its new policy of taking a more active part in the dissemination of knowledge, the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa yesterday announced the selection of George L. Haskins '35, as chairman of the newly-created Committee "for the publication of an undergraduate essay showing distinctive originality and independent thought...
...neat little cloth-bound book appearing in September will be the honor given by the Phi Beta Kappa to the undergraduate whose essay is considered by the Committee the best piece of work done during this college year. Departmental and Bowdoin Prize essays will constitute the field from which the essay to be published will be chosen. In commenting on the newest activity of the honorary society here, Professor Chase said, "This is an admirable scheme and a very profitable one for Phi Beta Kappa to undertake. I am much in favor...