Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, has been awarded one of the Charles and Julia Henry Scholarships for the academic year 1932-33 it was announced last night by the American trustees of the fund. Birkhoff, who prepapred at Browne and Nichols and Northwood School at Lake Placid, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Junior Eight last year and plays on the Lowell House "B" squash team. He and Marshall Hall of Yale will study mathematics at Cambridge...
...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...
...Laying aside its aloofness, Phi Beta Kappa aligns itself with those who are seeking to lead the world out of its slough of despond. For the first time in 150 years this erudite?some even call it snobbish? society of college and university intellectuals faces the world with a declaration...
...Phi Beta Kappa's declaration appeared last week in the form of a neat, handsome quarterly called The American Scholar ($2 the year). Highbrow but spirited, the Scholar will publish no fiction, will seek scholarly but not too technical articles, occasional verse. Its point of view may become as various as that of its board of ten editors, who include Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson of Smith, smart Author John Erskine. popular Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, Editor Will David Howe of Scribners', Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times. Editor-in-chief...
Save for Chairman Alvan Emile Duerr of the Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...