Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes of the people for him-him-to be President. A double row of girls lined the long table in front of him, their pencils flashing over sheets of paper which they passed up for him to scan. He wore a dark blue suit and blue tie. His Phi Beta Kappa key gleamed on his gold watch-chain. John W. Davis was admitted. "Frank, it's wonderful!" said the man who got nowhere eight years ago. Al Smith, the man who got nowhere four years ago, said: "I am delighted...
...first meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa last night, K. W. McMahan '33 and Richard Inglis, Jr. '33 were elected First and Second Marshals respectively for this year...
...room house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, equipped it with a $3,000,000 art collection, a $120,000 gold dinner service. Senator Clark was a mule-skinner before he made his copper fortune. Son William had earlier advantages, took to them more quietly. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, acquired a love for books which has led to one of the most important private collections in the world. Old Senator Clark spent three months each year trying desperately to master French. Son William amuses himself by making French translations, spends much...
...whom is no guile," is the manner in which President Lowell described Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 when Harvard awarded him an honorary degree in 1929. Besides being awarded an honorary L.L.D., Governor Roosevelt was appointed marshal of his class, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration also...
Announcement of a book by W. B. Wood Jr. '33, former Harvard football star and Phi Beta Kappa student, to be published on November 2, under the title of "What Price Football," was made yesterday by J. W. Crickard '33, who will act as distributing agent for the book in the New England area...