Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various times since his graduation Marvin has held the presidencies of the Harvard Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Harvard Club of New York City, and the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president of Manhattan...
After preparing at Harter-Stanford Township High School in Flora, Illinois, McMahan came to Cambridge on a scholarship given by the Harvard Club of Chicago. His busy undergraduate years, during which he was on the Leverett House Committee and won the Palfrey Exhibition, were climaxed by election to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year, becoming First Marshal the next year, and graduating summa cum laude...
...half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror -in -gulping, which was perpetrated at University of Illinois. Pi Kappa Phi's John Poppelreiter, surrounded by admiring fraternity brothers, wrapped in lettuce and swallowed five live baby white mice...
Mathematician Albert Einstein, Musician José¹ Iturbi and erudite Baseballer Moe Berg (Phi Beta Kappa) saw their first planetarium shows to the accompaniment of Stokley's deep, well-modulated lectures. Baseballer Berg became a frequent visitor, once herded all his Boston Red Sox teammates .into the Philadelphia tabernacle of the stars...