Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valentine. They saw a pleasant, stocky young man with dark hair & blue eyes, a fondness for rough sports, no doctor's degree, and a career of only seven years as an educator. At Swarthmore he had won the esteem of President Frank Aydelotte by playing good football, making Phi Beta Kappa, winning a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1928 he was called back to Swarthmore as an assistant professor of English. In 1932 Yale's President James Rowland Angell persuaded him to go to New Haven. Within a year President Angell had made him chairman of the Board of Admissions...
...graduate of Exeter, Cherington has been a Dean's List student through most of his college career; he has won several academic awards including the present holding of a Lincoln Scholarship, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. One of the founders and editors of the Critic, since its merger with the Advocate he has also been on the heard of the latter publication...
...flapper bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
Sixteen seniors, elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society in November, were awarded keys by President Conant last night at the annual meeting of the Society, which was held at 6.45 o'clock in Dunster House. The meeting at which Langdon P. Marvin '98, presided, was attended by graduate members, professors, and immediate members of the Society...
Among the speakers at a dinner which followed the meeting were Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, professor of Banking and Finance; Joseph A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics, and Jerome D. Greene, secretary to the Corporation. George L. Haskins '35, discussed the Phi Beta Kappa prize essay by Wilfred Owen '34 and spoke on Harvard as a negative force in education...