Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: It is something of a luxury to catch TIME a century behind the times, as it certainly is when it refers (Sept. 21 issue) to the Phi Beta Kappa as a secret. The society stopped klu-klukking a long time ago. Phi Beta Kappa (not P. B. K., for the character P is the Greek R) is transliterated Philosophia Biou Kubernetes, meaning "Philosophy is the guide of Me , this is not the Society's name, which I represented by the S. P. (Societas Philosophorum) on the keys...
...four leading hotels and others overflowed with dentists and their wives, their offspring. In addition to the A. D. A. there convened three national dental fraternities?Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Xi Psi Phi, as well as the National Association of Dental Examiners and three female groups: American Dental Assistants Association, American Dental Hygienists, Federation of American Women Dentists...
...possessor of the traditionally incompatible faculties is usually bored by undue reference to them, as was National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...
...possessor of the traditionally incompatible faculties is usually bored by undue reference to them, as was National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...
...then rowing must go by the board. We do not fear for rowing, however, because we know it is easy to do both. Fifty per cent of the men on last year's University and Freshman crews were on the Dean's List, and at least one man was Phi Beta Kappa...