Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presented it to Agee as hers. As vice president of corporate and public relations, she would assign several writers to do a speech for Agee, choose the best version and, if he liked it, claim that she wrote it. Aside from a brilliant academic record (Wellesley College, Phi Beta Kappa), Cunningham, in Sloan's view, had simply paid no dues and done nothing of substance to deserve the power that Agee bestowed upon...
...results of another unusual Harvard honor were announced yesterday--the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize Lisa Anderson, assistant professor of Government and of Social Studies, and Thomas Parker, assistant professor of Mathematics, were this year's winners...
Pepper entered the University of Alabama in the fall of 1918. To help pay his way, he worked from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hauling coal and ashes at a power plant. He starred on the debating team, ran on the track squad, made Phi Beta Kappa, but lost his first election: for student-body president. When his oratorical skills took him to a contest in Chapel Hill, N.C., "it was the farthest north I had ever been...
...surface. It will emerge of itself one fine day from the story of what happened. It will suddenly appear and tap one on the shoulder, but not if one chases after it first, before one knows what happened. Then it will elude one forever." Phi Beta Kappa Address Radcliffe College April...
...unique style. In a time when history as a discipline is becoming increasingly quantified and scientific, Tuchman has led a single-handed crusade for a humanistic approach "Prefabricated systems make me suspicious and science applied to history makes me wince, "Tuchman told the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1963. Quoting Leon Trotsky, she added "Cause in history refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...