Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina, was asked to stir up a little golf interest among his pupils to stave off mortgage foreclosure on a local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying...
Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...
...Affiliated Schools' 3,000 "alumnae," nearly all have gone back to their old trades. There many of them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...
Last year's Pulitzer Prize winner in history, Van Wyck Brooks, '08, will come here during commencement week in June to be orator of the annual exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
Presiding at the exercises will be Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Williston is retiring this year, and this is his last year as the head of the Chapter at the University. David T. W. McCord '21 will be the Phi Beta Kappa poet...