Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard. After graduating from Noble and Greenough School, where he captained the track team, he entered the class of 1910 at the University. He was prominent in athletics, winning the shotput at the Intercollegiates in 1909, and leading the track team in 1910. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and secretary of his class...
...proctorial ranks is H. T. Dunker '25, who will be in charge of Little Hall this year. Dunker, besides being First Marshal of his class, gained highest athletic and scholastic honors while in college. He received 16 A's and a B, and was First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa. In addition he was President of the Student Council, captain of the track team, and a first string guard on the football team for three years...
...Phi Beta Kappa! Initials of the country's hierarchy of intelligence. How many of the distinguished gentlemen, each of whom had been in the top berth of his class at graduation, could have told you the precise title hidden beneath these cryptic characters? "Public Board of Knowledge?" "Profoundity Bringeth Kudos?" No, of course it would be something in Greek, which any one of the gentlemen could have rattled off glibly, had he wished. Only he wouldn't have wished. It is a secret...
...POOR NUT-An undergraduate tale of Phi Beta Kappa keys, track meets and coeds. Impossible but pretty funny...
...must the shades of Dr. Mason's hardy Wisconsin ancestors have rejoiced. They had seen him born, in 1877, at Madison in the state they pioneered, had watched him through the grade schools and into the university, where he studied so well that he was graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key at 21, jumped so high as a stripling Sophomore that he wore a large "W" on his chest for three years, conducted himself so genially that his friends were many, so adroitly that he won a professor's daughter to wife. After some post-graduate work...