Word: phi
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...scientific society, two undergraduates, Garrett Birkhoff '32, of Cambridge, who will go to Cambridge University next fall as one of the two Henry Fellows, and Paul Maurice Zoll '32, of Roxbury, were admitted as associate members at a meeting last night. Both are members of the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa from their class of 1932. Birkhoff is concentrating in Mathematics, while Zoll is specializing in Psychology. Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, Draper medalist in Astronomy this year, was among the new members...
...reply, in the current issue of the Redbook, came from Helen Wills Moody: "The only thing that I know that I really want, is some means of exercising the restlessness which seems to be continually in my heart. . . . It is why I tried so hard to win a Phi Beta Kappa key [and did];. . . . I hope to heaven . . . this constant hope of arriving at some degree of perfection is not a peculiar form of conceit. . . . To me it is Religion. The other people you have written to will have clearly expressed answers. . . . I wish I could see George Bernard Shaw...
...meeting of the Junior Eight of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last night, Richard Inglis '33, of South Euclid, Ohio, was elected secretary-treasurer of the chapter for the coming year. Inglis prepared for Harvard at the Hawken School. He was a member of the Freshman tennis team in 1930, and is now on the second University team...
...Tristram Coffin and the Honorable Charles Warren '89 will be poet and orator, respectively, at the annual spring exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, it was announced yesterday by W. G. Howard '07, professor of German, and secretary of the Harvard chapter of the Society...
...married again, began to lecture at the popular lyceums of his day. In 1837 he delivered the annual oration of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge. "The American Scholar" was his theme. "The older faces grew grimmer with every word, while the younger lighted up with eager approval. This speaker had come to bring not peace but a sword, and the words he uttered today were to mark the birth of another generation." His somewhat startling fame soon attracted disciples, friends. Margaret Fuller came, then Thoreau; between them The Dial was published. For four years it printed their works...