Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest, taught in a night school where he got the idea for the twisted-tongue Education...
Roscoe Pound, dean omeritus of the Law School and a Phi Betta Kappa senator, was one of the main speakers at the installation last week of the Pennsylvania Kappa chapter of the fraternity at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania...
Washington and Jefferson was granted a charter last September at the national convention of the organization in Atlanta, Georgia. The installation exercises were held in conjunction with the annual Founder's Day celebration. Dr. Frank P. Graves, president of Phi Betta Kappa, presided...
...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...
Other recent recipients have been Robert C. Hall '36, of Bsenklina a member of the track team, the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and Phi Beta Kappa; Chester K. Litman' '35, of Brookline, a member of the football and track teams and a high ranking student; the late Richard G. Ames '34 of Wayland, president of the Student Council and captain of the wrestling team; and William Barry Wood, Jr. '32, of Milton, captain of the football team...