Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Healey, who led the pack by a wide margin in the Marshal race with 199 votes, comes from Worcester and lives in Winthrop House. A tackle on the 1989 eleven, he will captain the baseball team this spring and is a members of Phi Beta Kappa...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...news that ten assistant professors had been fired in the course of applying the Committee of Eight's new tenure system precipitated instantaneous student and Faculty protest. The Administration was charged with ruthless undermining of the English, Government, and Biology Departments. This fall the Student Council and Phi Beta Kappa added their voices to the mounting roar of protest, and the Faculty opposition led by the Teachers' Union and a powerful block of conservative rebels belabored the Administration for what they believed to be a blind and mistaken policy of retrenchment. By December, however, the crisis was over...
...about five per cent during the exam period," so the report will go. It is a time like the Reformation, when fundamentals are questioned. And why not, with all the rotogravures turning out pictures of Miami bathing beauties? Or with proctors in the exams dangling their Phi Beta Kappa keys before the eyes of the students...
...piercing eyes. His history is as tough as his looks. Born the son of a bartender, he grew up in a tough section of Augusta, Ga., once beat up his school principal. At college (University of Georgia), he was a star tackle and baseball player, also made Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching at three other prep schools, he became Riverside's president in 1913. At first things went badly. By 1917 his school was reduced to two buildings, two pupils. Then Mr. Beaver went to work...