Word: kappas
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Call to the Jungles. The son of a Glens Falls, N.Y. lawyer, Patterson was educated at Union College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School, organized his own law firm in Manhattan in 1922. In 1930, President Hoover made him a district court judge; he presided with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There...
Under Dean Louis M. Hacker, the new "School of General Studies" will have everything a campus should have-short of a football team. It will have its own faculty, its own Phi Beta Kappa elections; its degree will rank with those of both Barnard and Columbia College. Though not all students will try for a degree (which has taken as long as 18 years), all must work for credit, and all must earn passing grades...
...reign of the intellectual brothels ended when Parker-Cramer closed. Lester Cramer '30, a Phi Beta Kappa student, noted in his class record that he had "Abandoned tutoring before it abandoned...
...William Barry Wood '32, Phi Beta Kappa, All-American football star, and Student Council president while in the College, came back to Boston today to assume the role of physician-in-chief protem of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He replaces Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of Medicine, a former instructor of his at Johns Hopllins University Medical School...
Smelser, one of the eight men elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, is a Social Relations major. Two weeks ago, he was given the Palfrey award as the outstanding member of the senior class, and in his freshman year he won the Barrett Wendell Award as the outstanding freshman. He will study political science, economics and philosophy at Oxford...