Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roughly half those eligible attended Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies in the morning; and less than seventy members of the Harvard senior class attended Baccalaureate Service in the afternoon, where President Pusey attacked the tactics of "extremist splinter groups of the New Left" as reminiscent of McCarthy and Hitler...
Eighty-two seniors were initiated into the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national college honors society. Thirty-six seniors had been initiated earlier. Of the 118 eligible, only about 60 turned up for the ceremony at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre-about half without caps and gowns...
Blackmun kept a low profile as an undergraduate. The houses were not in existence, so he lived in a dormitory, where he kept to himself. His only undergraduate organizations were Phi Beta Kappa, and a fraternity called Lambda Chi Alpha, which folded in 1932 and took its records with it. He held four different scholarships, and won a Doctor in 1929. He worked his way through Harvard, running the motorboat for the crew and tutoring, and had very little time left over for activities. As one of his classmates put it: "He wasn't interested in athletics-he couldn...
...member of the Administration last week issued a warning that more violence could only lead to adverse reaction. Radicals, Postmaster General Winton Blount told a national convention of Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity, "offer destruction, but no solution. Perhaps the exalting of ignorance is excusable to a point. But finally the combination of ignorance and rebellion is too explosive to tolerate. Our history shows all too clearly in which direction the middle class moves when it is frightened, angry or threatened. It goes to the right, not to the left. The more frightened it becomes, the angrier it gets, the more...
...majored in mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver of a launch for the freshman crew and a painter of handball courts. He made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1932, he got his Harvard law degree, clerked for Federal Judge John Sanborn, then joined a leading Minneapolis law firm. A lifelong Republican, he was appointed a federal judge by President Eisenhower in 1959. His fellow judges all have high respect for Blackmun...