Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...
...maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After he had made Phi Beta Kappa and had graduated summa cum laude, they went West to educate the heathen...
Well-beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...
When the Phi Beta Kappa Society met this year at Amherst, Phi Beta Kappas heard and applauded Member Bynner's Eden Tree...
...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, a plaque showing a cap-&-gowned student clenching a diploma in his hand and striding stiffly across Harvard Yard toward the famed seated statue of Puritan John Harvard, was won by Boston Latin School from 1925 through 1928 successively, then by Exeter, then by Lawrenceville. This year's award, the final year of a second term of competition,* has not yet been made. No matter who is the 1931 winner, the Trophy goes permanently to Boston Latin for having won it four times out of seven...