Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean dynamo broke from obscurity, captured the hearts of Hungarians, Poles, Czechs...
Like the University of Chicago, to which John D. Rockefeller Sr. gave millions, Brown University, which educated John D. ("Phi Beta Kappa") Rockefeller Jr., had a clause in its charter requiring that its president be a Baptist. Last week the Brown Corporation abrogated this clause...
...Stadium exercises this afternoon will come as a prelude to the spreads which will bedeck the lawns of Cambridge this evening. The Hasty Pudding Club, Beck Hall, the CRIMSON, the Phillips Brooks House, Phi Kappa Epsilon, Speakers' Club, K. G. X. Club, St. Paul's Catholic Club, Pi Eta Club, S. A. E. Club, Kappa Sigma Club, and several individuals will hold spreads at various parts of the University. The first three will be held at the Pudding club house, Beck Hall, and the Crimson Building respectively...
...President Frank J. Goodnow of Johns Hopkins, who had brought his university back to its original purpose of dispensing "higher" education in the true sense of the adjective?by cutting freshman and sophomore studies out of the liberal arts school (TIME, March 8). Scholars everywhere had joined in helping Phi Beta Kappa to make its sesquicentennial a revival of scholarship (TIME...
...meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last Saturday, 15 Seniors were elected from the number of those taking degrees magna cum laude. They will receive scrolls and keys at the meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on Friday...