Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names. Today most of them come from immigrant homes. Among 25,000 College Board candidates last June, Latin School boys took place in the Latin, English, Greek and mathematics examinations. And a fortnight ago Boston Latin School took permanent possession of that coveted award for preparatory schools, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy...
...when Barney Berlinger won by two votes over Helene Madison year ago. Second on the list, with 648 votes to Bausch's 687, was Pennsylvania's crack quarter-miler Bill Carr, of whom the Sullivan Committee said: "Outstanding in his character and leadership ... a member of Phi Beta Kappa . . . winner of Olympic 400 metre championship in new world's record time...
...each game some of them would assemble with their Captain William Barry Wood Jr. and jab sharp needles into their thumbs or earlobes. Drops of crimson Harvard blood were smeared on slides. During the game and afterwards, the same thing would happen. Most Harvardmen knew that Captain Wood, quarterback. Phi Beta Kappa, student council president, first marshal of the Class of 1932, was plugging away at biochemistry, studying for medical school, working a good part of his time in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. He wrote a thesis which won him summa cum laude honors at graduation and which, when published...
...glad to happen across your editorial, Friday, December 2, on Phi Beta Kappa elections. I should think that if any so-called "old-timers" read it, it will strike a responsive note in their feelings and their hearts...
Something over twenty years ago Phi Beta Kappa held an election one spring morning to elect, as I remember, thirteen out of the first twenty ranking Seniors...