Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...
Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta...
...Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was awarded this year to the Lawrenceville School, of which Dr. Mather Abbott is headmaster...
...present the standing of the two groups of teams in the fraternity indoor basebal league is as follows: Group A Won Lost Lambda Chi Alpha 3 0 Kappa Sigma 2 1 Phike Club 2 1 Tau Epsilon Phi 2 1 Phi Epsilon Pi 0 3 Trident Club 0 3 Group B Kappa Nu 2 0 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 0 Sigma Alpha Mu 1 0 Alpha Chi Sigma 0 2 Delta Upsilon...
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...