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...Hearing. Until now, crusading was hardly White's style. He was noted more for prudence and hesitancy. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, White, 61, was dean of Kent's College of Education for twelve years before becoming president in 1963. At first he tried to inform Ohioans about the new realities of youthful alienation and black militancy. But the town of Kent (pop. 30,000) grew increasingly impatient with protests. White leaned toward a harder line...
...students who withdrew, 48.2 per cent eventually graduated from Harvard, with 2.8 per cent being elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Undaunted by current fads (his hair is short, his ties 1960 width), Lyman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, a Harvard Ph.D. and an expert on contemporary British history. As provost for 31 years, he increased the admission of minority students and spearheaded curriculum reforms. Skilled in the vanishing art of dialogue, he delivered frequent briefings over the campus radio last spring and has now scheduled a weekly press conference. He seeks reform, but intends to fight disruption. "We have to preserve order," he said last week, "because if we do not, someone else who does not understand...
Kate entered the University of Minnesota at 17, finished in eleven quarters instead of the usual twelve. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude and "went to Oxford to be a scholar." She was scholar enough to earn a coveted first in English literature, specializing in the Victorians...
...spare hours in the public library. "The ethos in our family was not to make money but to conserve it," recalls Bickel, who said that an overdue library book brought his father's sternest reprimand. Bickel breezed through City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa student, then moved to the Harvard Law School, where he became a law review editor...