Word: phi
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...never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie á la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that...
Chief of these is Larry Laybourne, one of the most knowing newsmen in the Dominion. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio State University and a veteran of ten years on the St. Louis...
Four newly-elected seniors, Henry A. Frey '44, Rolf W. Landauer '47, Daniel A. S. Paul '46 and Guillermo C. Sanchez '46, were present at Phi Beta Kappa's annual public meeting held a Fogg Museum yesterday morning. Poet at the literary exercises was Wallace Steven '01, who read his "Description Without Place." Summer Welles '14, for Under-Secretary of State, gave the oration. Following are excerpts from Welles' address to the honor society...
...Phi Beta Kappa elected six honorary members of the Harvard Chapter at, its meeting: Robert F. Brad ford, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John H. Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet
Mary Margaret, the Trumans' 21-year-old daughter, was her companion in this quiet life. Blonde, clear-complexioned Mary Margaret is a junior at George Washington University, a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, a serious student of music. At home in Missouri she sang in the choir of Independence's Trinity Episcopal Church, traveled to take part in summer productions of the Denver Opera Company. In Washington, she had much the same sort of dates, interests, enthusiasms as other U.S. college girls...