Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers at the annual dinner of Phi Beta Kappa on Friday evening, December 4 will be Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne professor of Administrative Law; Howard Mumford Jones, Gurney professor of English; Charles A. Coolidge '81, fellow of the college; and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, professor of Banking and Finance...
...discovered when he was a very young child, going to grade school. In class, he would anticipate the teacher's question, raise his hand, and read the answer right out of the teacher's mind. Later on in life, Baltimore City College, he would read the mind of the Phi Beta Kappa students during the exams and thereby obtain a high grade without any studying...
...Landon against each other fall, have one thing in common. Both are seasoned joiners and good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than his brother Hale, who appears in small movie parts, usually as the smugly successful business executive not adverse...
Iowa born, John D. M. Hamilton prepared at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure...
Advising Governor Landon on agricultural matters is Earl Howard Taylor, a Kansan, who left the University of Nebraska in 1913 to take a newspaper job. Sixteen years an associate editor of The Cattle Gentleman, he is Chi Phi's most distinguished authority on rural life and the farmer...