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...Commencement take deserved vacations beginning on or around June 11, one ventable Harvard employee takes a three day break specifically to enjoy the excitement John Shallow, the kindly and talkative gent who has checked bags at the exit of Lamont library for 12 years, says the Tuesday Phi Beta Kappa ceremony annually starts his "three-day program." Shallow plans to hit all the public events and get to each early for a wide range of seat selection. You get to see a lot of the students. I don't know them all, but you see them from coming in here...
Maybe, His educational credentials are not routine. A History major elected to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year, Samkange earlier this year won a Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholarship. He will study at Oxford' Oriel College for at least the next two years (for an M. Phil. in Southern African history) and probably for three (for a D.Phil. in the same subject.) After Oxford, he is already signed up at Stanford Law School...
...Beta Kappa Society Teaching Awards which carry with them a small sum of money, were presented to Judith N Sliklar. Cowles Professor of Government, David K. Prekard, associate professor of Statistics and Peter F. Stevens, associate curator of the Arnold Arboretum...
Harvard's Alpha chapter usually accepts up to 10 percent of the males in each class. The 71 new inductees join 36 of their classmates, 12 of whom were selected in their junior year and 24 who were elected earlier this academic year. Nominations for membership in Phi Beta Kappa are based on grade point averages and departmental recommendations, with consideration given to about 20 percent of the class. A student faculty committee pores over the relative merits of each candidate's course load, as well as solicited personal recommendations and eventually narrows the field...
Many recipient were aware of the award's career value. It's certainly a nice thing to staple to the old resume." Karen Rochin '82 said yesterday. But Rochin sees the whole Phi Beta Kappa proceeding as representing "the best and worst things about Harvard," adding. "It combines both the pretensions with the tradition...